Berlin Film Festival
‘After This Death’ Review: MÃa Maestro and Lee Pace in a Dud Follow-Up to Lucio Castro’s Transfixing ‘End of the Century’
Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie and Philip Ettinger also star in the Argentinian director’s slow-boil mystery set during the fall in upstate New York.
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‘Late Shift’ Review: Gripping Drama Revolves Around an Extraordinary Leonie Benesch as an Overworked and Tireless Nurse
The ‘Teachers' Lounge’ star toplines Petra Volpe’s day-in-the-life medical procedural set in the surgical ward of a Swiss hospital.
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‘The Message’ Review: A Minimalist, Beautifully Shot Argentine Road Movie That Celebrates Both Nature and the Supernatural
Writer-director Ivan Fund's roving black-and-white feature, which played competition in Berlin, follows a little girl who claims she can read the minds of animals.
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‘Blue Moon’ Review: Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley Mesmerize in Richard Linklater’s Affecting Study of a Gifted Artist on a Downhill Slide
Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott co-star in this real-time account of musical-theater lyricist Lorenz Hart getting pickled at Sardi’s on opening night of his former writing partner’s Broadway triumph, ‘Oklahoma!’
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Benedict Cumberbatch on ‘The Thing With Feathers,’ Being an Advocate: Society Has “a Very Easy Time Sidelining” Those in Need
Cumberbatch got candid about grief, toxic masculinity and being an advocate in Berlin for the press conference of Dylan Southern's 'The Thing With Feathers.'
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Todd Haynes on Resistance, Reinvention and the Art of Letting Go
This year's Berlin Film Fest jury president talks about Donald Trump, the challenges for indie cinema, and what the AIDS crisis taught him about activism: "We have to really be careful about not yielding."
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Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater on ‘Blue Moon,’ Cash vs. Art: “When We Prioritize Money, We Get Generic Material”
Hawke was joined by co-stars Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott and director Richard Linklater for a press conference on their new film, 'Blue Moon', premiering at the Berlinale Tuesday.
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‘What Marielle Knows’ Review: In This Darkly Clever German Comedy, a Teenage Girl Can See Right Through Her Parents
Writer-director Frédéric Hambalek's second feature follows a bourgeois family of three whose life is upended when their daughter suddenly gains telepathic powers.
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‘The Blue Trail’ Review: A Gorgeous Aquatic Road Movie That Turns the Amazon Into a Magical Escape From Exile to Freedom
Gabriel Mascaro’s dystopian fantasy stars Denise Weinberg as a spirited Brazilian senior who refuses to bow to ageist authoritarian dictates while she still has dreams and desires.
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‘Olmo’ Review: Fernando Eimbcke’s Coming-of-Age Story Strikes a Winning Balance Between Melancholy and Gentle Farce
Set in 1979 New Mexico, the comic drama revolves around a teen boy’s attempt to juggle fun with serious family responsibilities.
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‘All I Had Was Nothingness’ Review: A Powerful Behind-the-Scenes Look at Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’
Director Guillaume Ribot revisited outtakes from the nine-hour Holocaust documentary to reveal how it was made and the toll it took on its creator.
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Is Ed Sheeran in a Berlin Film Festival Movie?
No, Wesley Byrne, a street cleaner from Greater Manchester, is. But the Sheeran double couldn't make it to the Berlin world premiere on his girlfriend's birthday because his boss wouldn't let him go.
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