Berlin film festival 2024
German minister says she clapped Israeli film-maker, not his Palestinian colleague, at Berlinale
Call for Green politician to resign amid row over politically charged closing ceremony at film festival
Philip Oltermann European culture editor
27, Feb, 2024 @11:46 AM
Dahomey review – interrogative reverie about looted African sculptures
Mati Diop’s documentary is told partly in the ‘voice’ of one of the looted treasures, in a realist jeu d’esprit about the legacy of plunder
Peter Bradshaw
23, Feb, 2024 @2:27 PM
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger review – Scorsese’s guide to cinema greats
Martin Scorsese, who helped rescue the British film-makers’ work from obscurity, is the perfect person to discuss their unique and now beloved work
Peter Bradshaw
21, Feb, 2024 @2:30 PM
‘How do I know these words?’: philosophical cocaine hippo is star of Berlin film festival
Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’s docudrama Pepe, about Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s megaherbivore, gives the ill-fated creature its own voice
Philip Oltermann
20, Feb, 2024 @4:02 PM
UK film industry may achieve gender parity in 2085, study finds
Report suggests equality set to be reached in United Kingdom in 61 years, compared to 17 in Germany – and almost 200 in Canada
Catherine Shoard
20, Feb, 2024 @3:46 PM
Sasquatch Sunset review – Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg suit up for ingenious Bigfoot comedy
Four mythical hairy creatures, communicating in grunts, inhabit what could be a post-apocalyptic world in the Zellner brothers’ witty and unnerving film
Peter Bradshaw
18, Feb, 2024 @7:30 PM
Sterben (Dying) review – the biggest conductor meltdown since Cate Blanchett’s Tár
Lars Eidinger plays the man embarking on a major orchestral project, but whose professional status is threatened by family turmoil behind the scenes
Peter Bradshaw
18, Feb, 2024 @5:30 PM
Hors du Temps (Suspended Time) review – lockdown memoir revives childhood bliss
Olivier Assayas’ thinly disguised autobiographical study of a film-maker’s Edenic experience during Covid isolation is a civilised pleasure
Peter Bradshaw
17, Feb, 2024 @9:30 PM
A Different Man review – Adam Pearson shines in oddball Doppelganger parable
The Under the Skin actor is a standout in a story starring Sebastian Stan as a man whose appearance is transformed by surgery
Peter Bradshaw
17, Feb, 2024 @2:49 PM
Last Swim review – a London school leaver’s complicated A-level results day
Deba Hekmat is impressively subtle as a British-Iranian teen whose celebrations come unstuck
Peter Bradshaw
16, Feb, 2024 @8:30 PM
My Favourite Cake review – charming portrayal of a 70-year-old Iranian’s appetite for romance
Heroine Mahin (Lily Farhadpour) is fiercely determined to revitalise her mundane existence and taste a better life
Peter Bradshaw
16, Feb, 2024 @4:02 PM
‘Of course I see the parallels to current affairs’: Babylon Berlin’s Liv Lisa Fries on playing an anti-Nazi fighter
Fries’s new role is as a real-life resistance fighter in From Hilde, With Love, opening at the Berlin film festival. She says her job is not to campaign against the AfD but to make people feel
Kate Connolly
16, Feb, 2024 @11:34 AM
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