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Berlin film festival 2023

March 2023

  • Human curiosity … Nicolas Philibert’s documentary On the Adamant.

    On the Adamant review – Nicolas Philibert offers art and soul aboard floating Parisian day-care centre

    Nicolas Philibert’s warm and sympathetic documentary about a boat for mental-health patients on the Seine is a worthy winner of the Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear
  • A scene from Eastern Front, by Vitaly Mansky and Yevhen Titarenko

    Ukrainian volunteer medic’s film aims to ‘wake up the world’ to reality of war

    Eastern Front, shown at the Berlin film festival, offers an uncensored view from the frontline of conflict
  • Closing Ceremony - 73rd Berlin Film Festival<br>epa10491235 French director Nicolas Philibert poses with his Golden Bear he won for 'On the Adamant' during the Closing and Awards Ceremony of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival 'Berlinale' in Berlin, Germany, 25 February 2023. The in-person event ran from 16 to 26 February 2023. EPA/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE

    Etre et Avoir director Nicolas Philibert wins Golden Bear at Berlin film festival

    Philibert’s new film, On the Adamant, follows life at a day care centre in Paris, while eight-year-old Sofia Otero won the acting prize for trans drama 20,000 Species of Bees
  • A different art form entirely … Music.

    Music review – shapeshifting puzzle is an enigmatic mind bender

  • Superb micro-calibrations … Sydney Sweeney in Reality.

    Reality review – word-for-word replay of FBI interrogation is uncannily brilliant

  • Simon Baker and Natasha Wanganeen in Limbo.

    Limbo review – hardbitten outback noir with a compassionate heart

  • Suzume film still showing the title character in front of a magical door.

    Suzume review – Makoto Shinkai’s charming modern Alice in Wonderland

  • Afire

    Afire review – useless-author comedy-drama in saga of angst and lust

    A gloomy writer and his friend are trapped with strangers in a Baltic holiday home in Christian Petzold’s tonally wayward tale
  • Ane (Patricia López Arnaiz) and Cocó/Lucía (Sofía Otero) in 20,000 Species of Bees.

    20,000 Species of Bees review – trans kid struggles to find a place in family eco-system

    A child’s gender identity crisis is mirrored by her mother’s crisis of identity as an artist in this warm, generously performed film
  • Pay attention class … Leonie Benesch in The Teachers’ lounge.

    The Teachers’ Lounge review – a deeply unsettling day at the chalkface unravels

    This uncompromising classroom drama from director Ìlker Çatak initially tackles some insidious and uncomfortable truths, but never quite finds its full dramatic force
  • Naíma Sentíes and Montserrat Marañon in Tótem.

    Tótem review – family tensions feel real in heartfelt Mexican cancer drama

    The family of a young father dying of cancer organise a party for him in this tender story from director Lila Avilés that lacks dramatic weight
  • Israel’s ‘Iron Lady’ … Helen Mirren as Golda Meir.

    Golda review – lifeless Meir biopic hides Helen Mirren’s talent in a cloud of cigarette smoke

    As a drama about the Yom Kippur war, this film is bafflingly dull. As a portrait of Golda Meir, Israel’s prime minister at the time, it’s even worse
  • Willem Dafoe in Inside, directed by Vasilis Katsoupis

    Inside review – Willem Dafoe’s thief suffers for his art

    Dafoe excels as an art thief trapped inside a super-rich art collector’s apartment in this claustrophobic fiction feature debut from Vasilis Katsoupis
    • Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker review – ups and downs of a tennis legend

    • ‘For me, she had the Jewish chops to play Golda’: director of Golda Meir film addresses casting Helen Mirren

    • Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
      Disco Boy review – freaky trip into the heart of imperial darkness

  • BOSNIA-U2 CONCERT-FANS<br>Fans scream as Irish giants U2 performs during an open-air concert in Sarajevo's Kosevo stadium late 23 September. About 40.000 people from all three of Bosnia's former warring factions attended the concert, the first in the city by a top-flight rock group since the war. BOSNIA-U2 CONCERT-FANS

    Kiss the Future review – Bono and U2 keep hope alive in Sarajevo

    Nenad Cicin-Sain’s documentary tells the story of a maverick film-maker who, with extraordinary persistence, induced the Irish rockers to keep the spotlight firmly on the Bosnian war
  • Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything.

    Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything review – erotic obsession in East Germany

    Emily Atef’s drama, following a dreamy teenager into an affair with a middle-aged man, addresses difficult material with a driving narrative force
  • Hussein in The Survival of Kindness.

    The Survival of Kindness actor Mwajemi Hussein: ‘They were about to kill us’

    The magnetic actor’s shattering performance in Rolf de Heer’s race-hate film is rich with emotion – forged through an unthinkable amount of real-life hardship
  • BlackWoman (Mwajemi Hussein) in The Survival of Kindness.

    The Survival of Kindness review – an elegant reverie about violence and stoicism

    A black woman confined to a cage and sinister white figures facing death from some post-apocalyptic illness people writer-director Rolf de Heer’s eerie theatrical film
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