Berlin 2023

Limbo

Mar 23, 2023 | Berlin 2023, Festivals, Spotlight

Ruggedly beautiful landscapes and elegant monochrome visuals help make up for a thin plot in Australian director Ivan Sen’s politically charged neo-western crime thriller ‘Limbo’.

Till the End of the Night

Mar 14, 2023 | Berlin 2023, Featured, Festivals

Love is only slightly warmer than death in German director Christoph Hochhäusler’s genre-blending, gender-bending, hit-and-miss crime thriller ‘Till the End of the Night’.

Under the Sky of Damascus

Mar 13, 2023 | Berlin 2023, Festivals, Thessaloniki Docs 2023

A superficial, ethically problematic documentary about gender-based violence in Syria whose “topic-of-the-moment” theme can’t paper over glaring flaws in structure, scope, and treatment of its subjects.

Daughter and Son

Feb 26, 2023 | Berlin 2023, Festivals, Verdict Shorts

Sachiko and Ming share an apartment and predilection for role-play in Cheng Yu’s enigmatic and intriguing exploration of one relationship through the prism of many.

Les Chenilles

Feb 26, 2023 | Berlin 2023, Festivals, Verdict Shorts

Two Levantine immigrants working in a Lyon café bond in this meditation on friendship and the long fingers of history which claimed the Berlinale Shorts top prize.

Berlin 2023: The Verdict

Feb 25, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Featured, Festivals

Despite dark times on the world stage, audiences poured back to Berlin’s first post-COVID festival.

73rd Berlinale Awards

Feb 25, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals

Kristen Stewart’s jury awarded the Golden Bear to the French documentary ‘On the Adamant’, about a floating psychiatric hospital on the Seine.

On the Adamant

Feb 25, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals, Spotlight

French documentarian Nicolas Philibert’s latest feature, competing in Berlin, gives voice to the patients in a psychiatric day care centre floating on the Seine.

The Walls of Bergamo

Feb 24, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals

An outstanding, deeply moving documentary that finally addresses the pandemic not simply as a record of a tragedy but a collective trauma needing to be processed as a community.

Love to Love You, Donna Summer

Feb 24, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals

From early days in Boston to the height of her stardom and sudden crash, this affectionate documentary made with major family involvement doesn’t probe deep enough or contextualize her career, but it reminds us that Donna Summer was a terrific performer whose talents were minimized by the moniker “Queen of Disco.”

Awards Corner

Berlin 2023