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Reviews‘Isabel’ review: Brazilian star Marina Person gives a winning performance as an ambitious São Paulo sommelier
Gabe Klinger’s gentle, home-grown Berlin Panorama drama blends earthiness and romance
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Reviews‘Nina Roza’ review: A Bulgarian-Canadian art curator is drawn back to his roots in sombre drama
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles’ Berlin Competition title stars actor/director Galin Stoev
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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‘At The Sea’ review: Amy Adams leads Kornel Mundruczo’s uneven follow-up to ‘Pieces Of A Woman’
Addiction recovery drama also stars Dan Levy, Chloe East and Rainn Wilson, and debuts in Berlin Competition
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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‘We Are All Strangers’ review: Anthony Chen’s involving drama charts generational tensions in contemporary Singapore
Berlin Competition drama follows ‘Ilo Ilo’ and ‘Wet Season’ to close the filmmaker’s ‘Growing Up’ trilogy
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Reviews‘Tutu’ review: Sam Pollard doc is galvanizing study of South African leader Desmond Tutu
Pollard’s incisive work follows ’MLK/FBI’ and ’Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me’
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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‘Chronicles From The Siege’ 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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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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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