Berlin film festival 2023
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
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
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
Music review – shapeshifting puzzle is an enigmatic mind bender
Reality review – word-for-word replay of FBI interrogation is uncannily brilliant
Limbo review – hardbitten outback noir with a compassionate heart
Suzume review – Makoto Shinkai’s charming modern Alice in Wonderland
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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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