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German writer-director Kai Stänicke (short films Gay Goth Scene, Circle, and Pace) attracted much attention and rave reviews after world premiering his feature film debut Trial of Hein (Der Heimatlose) in the Perspectives section of the 76th edition of the Berlin Film Festival. The movie, which won the Teddy Award jury honor and was widely seen as an example of how…
After drawing social media backlash for suggesting filmmakers should “stay out of politics,” German director Wim Wenders and his fellow jurors at the 76th Berlin Film Festival delivered a pointed rebuttal of sorts, awarding the festival’s top prizes to a number of overtly political films. Top prize, the Golden Bear for best film, went to…
The Red Hangar (Hangar rojo), the fiction feature debut of Chilean director, producer and screenwriter Juan Pablo Sallato, may be set in 1970s Chile as a military coup unfolds, but the themes and human challenges it explores feel very timely. It tells the story of Captain Jorge Silva, a former head of Air Force Intelligence,…
Jamie Bell was just 14 when he made his film debut as a would-be ballet dancer in 2000’s Billy Elliot, so by the time he visited the Berlinale in 2007, he’d already begun to develop an impressive resume — having worked on Peter Jackson’s King Kong and Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers — and…
Michelle Yeoh is wincing at the thought of collecting her honorary Golden Bear here in Berlin. “I hope I don’t trip and fall flat on my face, because we went to the rehearsals and it’s a long walk,” says the actress, eyes widening as she mentally traces her steps toward the Palast stage. She’s talking…
Love may be in the air this Valentine’s Day, but Berlin had better get ready to be consumed by Lust. A prison parole officer faces her past through an unlikely journey of control and intimacy after the death of her long-absent father in Ralitza Petrova’s sophomore feature of that name. The movie will world premiere in…
Get ready to watch some Malambo dancing and to board The River Train (El Tren Fluvial) for a trip from the Argentinian countryside to Buenos Aires, on which you will encounter references to the country’s cinematic history! A visceral and mesmerizing coming-of-age tale awaits you. The River Train, celebrating its world premiere on Monday, Feb….
Iranian auteur Mahnaz Mohammadi had to shoot her second fiction feature, Roya, in secret. After all, she has not been officially allowed to make movies for years. Roya, which receives its world premiere in the Berlin International Film Festival‘s Panorama lineup on Saturday, feels extra timely given all the recent headlines out of Iran, from…
We may often think of islands as places of refuge and peace. But that is not the case in young German writer-director Kai Stänicke’s feature film debut Trial of Hein (Der Heimatlose). But if you have had an experience of returning home to find that both this home and you yourself have changed, you will…
The Philippines meets the Swiss Alps in Enjoy Your Stay, the third feature from Swiss director Dominik Locher (Tempo Girl, Goliath), based on a script that he co-wrote with Honeylyn Joy Alipio. The cinematic exploration of social issues, power imbalances, and moral dilemmas in the world of undocumented Filipino cleaners in a luxury ski resort…