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Alone at dusk in his Brussels apartment, Stefan, a gentle Romanian construction worker, speaks a few words as if to try them on for size. “This is my home,” he says, unconvinced and unconvincing. In Stefan Gota’s subdued and graceful performance, the character’s forlorn ache is unspecified and fully felt. There are sleepless nights, long…
The hallways of the hospital in Claire Simon’s unflinching documentary Our Body are transient realms. Masked receptionists gently urge patients to give them one more minute. Couples curl into each other while sitting in sparsely populated waiting areas. Attending physicians bounce between rooms and floors, ardently tailed by residents. When the providers enter these spaces…
Berlin: ‘20,000 Species of Bees,’ ‘Totem’ Among Independent Jury Winners Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s crowd-pleasing debut, 20,000 Species of Bees, a tender look at a 8-year-old Spaniard who begins to transition and the impact that has on the child’s family, was among the standouts of this year’s Berlinale. The film, which screened in competition at the…
Berlin: ‘Kokomo City,’ ‘Sira’ Win Panorama Audience Awards D. Smith’s Sundance audience award winner Kokomo City has won over Berlin cinemagoers as well, winning the audience award for best documentary in Berlin’s Panorama section. Apolline Traoré’s Sira won the audience prize for best narrative feature. A raw depiction of the lives of four Black trans…
Berlin: ‘The Quiet Migration’ Wins Critics’ Fipresci Award The Quiet Migration, the narrative feature debut of director Malene Choi (The Return), has won the prize for best film at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival awarded by Fipresci, the association of international film critics. The Quiet Migration had its world premiere in Berlin in the…
Berlin: Documentary ‘Hummingbirds,‘ Wins 2023 Generation Sidebar Hummingbirds, the documentary feature debut of directors Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras, has won the Crystal Bear, the top prize for best film, at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival’s Generation 14plus section. In the doc, the two filmmakers examine issue of immigration along the…
Berlin: ‘The Teacher’s Lounge’ Wins Best European Film Prize İlker Çatak’s The Teachers‘ Lounge, a German drama set in a primary school, has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Panorama section of the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. Leonie Benesch (Babylon Berlin, Around the World in 80 Days) stars in…
Berlin: Spanish Drama ‘Ivan & Hadoum’ Wins Euroimages Co-Production Award Iván & Hadoum, a Spanish feature film project, to be directed by Ian de la Rosa, has won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, along with a $21, 000 (€20,000) endowment, beating out the more than 30 pitches at this year’s Berlinale Co-Production Market. Spanish producers…
‘Talk to Me’ Review: Mingling With the Spirit World Brings Bone-Chilling Shocks in Australian Horror Debut There’s a stabbing, a violent suicide and a disturbing accident involving kangaroo roadkill in the opening minutes of Talk to Me, and from there, the adrenaline rush of this nightmarish collision of the living and the dead rarely lets…
‘The Plough’ Review: Director Philippe Garrel’s Very French Family Affair Writer, director and occasional actor Philippe Garrel shot his first full-length movie, Marie pour mémoire, when he was only 19. That was amid the turmoil of May 1968, and since then he has made a new feature every few years, becoming a regular fixture in…