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Reviews‘Bitter Christmas’ review: Pedro Almodóvar muses on the creative process in personal, messy drama
The director’s latest work stars several of his regular collaborators including Leonardo Sbaraglia and Aitana Sánchez-Gijon
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Reviews‘Hell’s Army’ review: Slick doc follows Russian journalists on case of alarming new world order
Oscar-nominated director Richard Rowley follows Katya Hakim as she tracks Russia’s Wagner mercenary force
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Reviews‘The Way Elsewhere’ review: Meditative, abstract hybrid doc follows a trio of Athens taxi drivers
Photojournalist turned filmmaker Eirini Vourloumis’s debut documentary premieres at Thessaloniki
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Reviews‘The Cord’ review: Gritty, urgent doc follows one-woman crusade to fix Venezuela’s maternity system
French filmmaker Nolwenn Hervé’s feature follows Carolina as she fights to support the mothers of Maracaibo
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Reviews‘We Are Stardust’ review: Absorbing doc follows Norwegian citizen scientist on hunt for cosmic dust
Filmmaker Elisabeth Rasmussen joins musician Jon Larsen on his 10 year search for valuable micrometeorites
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Reviews‘Mariinka’ review: CPH:Dox opener is arresting but tonally uneven account of life in east Ukraine
Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue filmed his observational documentary over 10 years
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Reviews‘Ivan & Hadoum’ review: Low-key Spanish LGBTQ+ debut explores issues of class and identity
Ian de la Rosa’s accomplished film premiered in Berlin’s Panorama, where it won the Teddy award for Best Feature
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Reviews‘Once Upon A Time In A Cinema’ review: Dublin opener is nostalgic drama set in 1980s Limerick
David Gleeson bases his feature on his own experiences growing up in a family of Irish cinema owners
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Reviews‘Soumsoum, The Night Of The Stars’ review: Gentle magical-realist fable follows a spiritual connection in rural Chad
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s follow-up to Lingui, The Sacred Bonds is a less propulsive, more pensive work
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Reviews‘The Loneliest Man In Town’ review: Viennese musician Al Cook stars in slow, meditative drama
Berlin Competition title will most appeal to Cook’s existing fans
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Reviews‘Roya’ review: An imprisoned Iranian teacher struggles to hold herself together in vivid, challenging political drama
Mahnaz Mohammadi’s follow-up to ’Son-Mother’ features an expressive performance from Melisa Sözen
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Reviews‘Home Stories’ review: Eva Trobisch weaves an ambitious portrait of a modern German family
The director follows ‘Ivo’ and ‘All Is Well’ with meticulously-crafted Berlin Competition title
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Reviews‘My Wife Cries’ review: A Berlin couple attempt to connect in Angela Schanelec’s typically inscrutable drama
The director’s Berlin Competition title should appeal to the filmmaker’s devotees
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Reviews‘Truly Naked’ review: Forthright and unflinching sex industry drama set in a British seaside town
Dutch director Muriel d’Ansembourg bows her feature debut in Berlin Perspectives
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Reviews‘The Blood Countess’ review: Isabelle Huppert sinks her teeth into Ulrike Ottinger’s lavish vampire spoof
Ottinger’s extravagant Berlin Special Gala is pitched for cult and crossover appeal
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Reviews‘Forest High’ review: Quietly assured Belgian debut follows three women working at a remote Alpine refuge
Manon Coubia’s Perspectives title is a restrained meditation on solitude, memory and place
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Reviews‘Arru’ review: A reindeer herder fights to save her ancestral lands in bracing Indigenous debut
Elle Sofe Sara’s Sami Berlin Panorama drama is rooted in land, music and memory
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Reviews‘Dust’ review: Anke Blonde’s claustrophobic late-90s Belgian drama lacks high-stakes tension
The film stars Jan Hammenecker and Arieh Worthalter as successful software developers on the brink of disaster
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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‘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