All Festivals articles – Page 3
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Reviews‘The Education Of Jane Cumming’ review: Real-life 19th-century scandal inspires elegant, toothless period drama
Sophie Heldman’s second feature is set in an all-girls Scottish boarding school
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Reviews‘Chronicles From The Seige’ review: Arabic-language debut feature is intense tapestry of life, death and courage
Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah Alkhabtib’s Berlin Perspectives title is fuelled by its performances
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Reviews‘Salvation’ review: Emin Alper weaves timely tale of prophecy, paranoia and blood feuds in rural Turkey
The director’s second Berlin competition title follows two warring clans in the Turkish mountains
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Reviews‘Wax & Gold’ review: Ruth Beckermann explores Addis Ababa’s Hilton Hotel as a microcosm for modern Ethiopia
The Austrian filmmaker’s follow-up to ‘Favoriten’ premieres as a Berlin Special Screening
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NewsGael Garcia Bernal, Alice Diop, Diego Luna among Qumra 2026 Masters
Event will run from March 27 to April 1.
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Reviews‘A Family’ review: Mees Peijnenburg follows ‘Paradise Drifters’ with fractured portrait of messy divorce
Lukas Dhont co-produces the uneven Dutch drama, which stars Carice van Houten
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NewsIsraeli filmmakers at Berlinale express concern over country’s cultural isolation
”We’re getting fewer and fewer people interested in co-operating with Israelis in films,” said one producer.
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NewsBerlinale director Tricia Tuttle responds to festival’s politics controversy
Tuttle releases 686-word statement addressing issue: “Free speech is happening at the Berlinale.”
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Reviews‘Nightborn’ review: Hanna Bergholm follows ‘Hatching’ with audacious motherhood horror
Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint star in the director’s English-language Berlin competition title
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Reviews‘Light Pillar’ review: Xu Zao’s distinctive animated debut finds poetry in digital escape
Berlin Perspectives title is set around a decaying film production facility and utilises immersive hand-drawn visuals
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Reviews‘Safe Exit’ review: Mohammed Hammad follows ‘Withered Green’ with spare Egyptian drama
Marwan Waleed anchors a restrained portrait of alienation in Hammad’s second feature
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Reviews‘Animol’ review: Ashley Walters’ directorial debut burns with raw, claustrophobic intensity
Tut Nyout leads a gritty youth-detention drama with support from Stephen Graham
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Reviews‘Rosebush Pruning’ review: Callum Turner, Elle Fanning and Riley Keogh head stylish, soulless Karim Aïnouz drama
The English-language Berlin Competition title also stars Jamie Bell, Lukas Gage, Tracy Letts and Pamela Anderson
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Reviews‘Heysel 85’ review: Technically astute, narratively laboured dramatisation of 1985 European Cup Final stadium tragedy
Teodora Ana Mihai’s third fiction feature premieres as a Berlin Special Gala
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Reviews‘Allegro Pastell’ review: German drama is precise, emotionless study of millennial malaise
Anna Roller adapts Leif Randt’s book about a shaky long-distance Berlin-Frankfurt romance
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Reviews‘Dao’ review: Alain Gomis returns with sprawling meditation on migration, ritual and memory
The director follows ’Félicité’ with an expansive docu-drama spanning France and Guinea-Bissau
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NewsQueer thriller, EIFF premiere ‘Blue Film’ lands sales agent at EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Kieron Moore and Reed Birney star. US release set for May 8.
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News‘Heysel 85’ director Teodora Ana Mihai to make ‘Two Lives’ for Belgium’s Menuetto
EXCLUSIVE: The dark relationship drama will star the film’s writer, Natali Broods.
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Reviews‘A Prayer For The Dying’ review: Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly fight for survival in American West
Berlin Perspectives title is a striking, if tonally uneven debut from Dara Van Dusen
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Reviews‘Yellow Letters’ review: Ilker Catak follows ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ with powerful Turkish drama
Ozgu Namal and Tansu Bicer star in Catack’s meticulously-calibrated Berlin competition title