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COMPETITION
‘A New Dawn’ review: Slight Japanese debut pairs delicate 2D animation with story of resistance
Yoshitoshi Shinomiya’s Berlin Competition title is set in a legendary fireworks factory scheduled for destruction
‘At The Sea’ review: Amy Adams leads Kornel Mundruczo’s uneven follow-up to ‘Pieces Of A Woman’
‘Dao’ review: Alain Gomis returns with sprawling meditation on migration, ritual and memory
‘Dust’ review: Anke Blonde’s claustrophobic late-90s Belgian drama lacks high-stakes tension
‘Flies’ review: Fernando Eimbcke’s deadpan Mexico City comedy stars a commanding Teresita Sanchez
‘Home Stories’ review: Eva Trobisch weaves an ambitious portrait of a modern German family
‘In A Whisper’ review: Hiam Abbass is magnetic in sensitive Tunisian LGBTQ drama
‘My Wife Cries’ review: A Berlin couple attempt to connect in Angela Schanelec’s typically inscrutable drama
‘Nightborn’ review: Hanna Bergholm follows ‘Hatching’ with audacious motherhood horror
‘Nina Roza’ review: A Bulgarian-Canadian art curator is drawn back to his roots in sombre drama
‘Queen At Sea’ review: Juliette Binoche, Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall stun in fearless dementia drama
‘Resurrection’ review: Jackson Yee stars in Bi Gan’s sprawling cinematic vision
‘Rose’ review: Sandra Hüller is phenomenal in arresting character study set in 17th-century Germany
‘Rosebush Pruning’ review: Callum Turner, Elle Fanning and Riley Keogh head stylish, soulless Karim Aïnouz drama
‘Salvation’ review: Emin Alper weaves timely tale of prophecy, paranoia and blood feuds in rural Turkey
‘Soumsoum, The Night Of The Stars’ review: Gentle magical-realist fable follows a spiritual connection in rural Chad
‘The Loneliest Man In Town’ review: Viennese musician Al Cook stars in slow, meditative drama
‘We Are All Strangers’ review: Anthony Chen’s involving drama charts generational tensions in contemporary Singapore
‘Wolfram’ review: Warwick Thornton’s period Outback thriller is visually stunning, narratively flat
‘Yellow Letters’ review: Ilker Catak follows ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ with powerful Turkish drama
PANORAMA
‘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
‘Arru’ review: A reindeer herder fights to save her ancestral lands in bracing Indigenous debut
‘Ivan & Hadoum’ review: Low-key Spanish LGBTQ+ debut explores issues of class and identity
‘Lali’ review: First all-Pakistani film to play Berlin is heady, tonally disjointed comedy thriller
‘Mouse’ review: Rich, bittersweet US coming-of-age drama from ‘Saint Frances’ filmmakers
‘Only Rebels Win’ review: Hiam Abbass anchors this uneven but impassioned Beirut melodrama
‘Roya’ review: An imprisoned Iranian teacher struggles to hold herself together in vivid, challenging political drama
‘Safe Exit’ review: Mohammed Hammad follows ‘Withered Green’ with spare Egyptian drama
‘The Day She Returns’ review: Hong Sangsoo’s slight, ponderous character study stars Song Sunmi
‘The Education Of Jane Cumming’ review: Real-life 19th-century scandal inspires elegant, toothless period drama
‘The Garden We Dreamed’ review: Mexican migrant drama puts lyrical, affecting spin on a well-worn genre
GENERATION 14PLUS
‘Sad Girlz’ review: Two Mexico City teens cope with the fallout from sexual violence in sensitive, authentic debut
Fernanda Tovar’s assured friendship drama won Berlin’s Generation 14Plus strand
SPECIAL GALAS
‘A Child Of My Own’ review: Intriguing Maite Alberdi Netflix doc on Mexican fake pregnancy case
The Berlinale Special screening follows ‘The Mole Agent’ and ‘Eternal Memory’
‘Sleep No More’ review: A decaying Indonesian wig factory hides a dark secret in Edwin’s outré horror
‘The Blood Countess’ review: Isabelle Huppert sinks her teeth into Ulrike Ottinger’s lavish vampire spoof
‘Tutu’ review: Sam Pollard doc is galvanizing study of South African leader Desmond Tutu
‘Wax & Gold’ review: Ruth Beckermann explores Addis Ababa’s Hilton Hotel as a microcosm for modern Ethiopia
‘Heysel 85’ review: Technically astute, narratively laboured dramatisation of 1985 European Cup Final stadium tragedy
‘No Good Men’ review: Berlin opener is breezy if somewhat conventional Afghan rom-com
‘Who Killed Alex Odeh?’ review: Fascinating doc re-examines 1985 assassination of Palestinian-American activist