Berlinale 2024

Above The Dust

Feb 22, 2024 | Berlinale 2024, Festivals

Wang Xiaoshuai, controversially without an official screening permit, returns to Berlin with another superb picture about Chinese politics (and peasantry) featuring outstanding performances and stellar dialogue.

Who Do I Belong To?

Feb 22, 2024 | Festivals, Berlinale 2024

A misguided narrative full of ill-thought-out atmospheric twists spoils the cinematic attractions of Tunisian-American Meryem Joobeur’s debut feature about a family torn apart when two sons join Daesh.

Tako Tsubo

Feb 22, 2024 | Berlinale 2024, Festivals, Verdict Shorts

A man has his heart removed in an attempt to lessen his existential anguish in Fanny Sorgo and Eva Pedroza’s expressive, lingering animation, Tako Tsubo.

Black Tea

Feb 22, 2024 | Featured, Berlinale 2024, Festivals

The gap between African and Chinese culture proves easier to breach than the perspectives that separate a woman and a man in acclaimed director Abderrahmane Sissako’s ‘Black Tea’, a fascinating love story set in China but one that sadly gets lost in the telling.

The Great Yawn of History

Feb 22, 2024 | Festivals, Berlinale 2024, Featured

Aliyar Rasti’s contemplative fable searches for a better future in the vast Iranian countryside.

In Praise of Slowness

Feb 22, 2024 | Festivals, Berlinale 2024, Verdict Shorts

The outmoded bleach sellers of Tangier offer a window to a simpler time and a resistance against rampant growth in Hicham Gardaf’s tranquil documentary, In Praise of Slowness.

Cu Li Never Cries

Feb 21, 2024 | Festivals, Berlinale 2024

Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Ngoc Lan’s first feature, ‘Cu Li Never Cries’, is an absorbing, beautiful ode about a pensioner’s nostalgia for her past and a young couple’s uncertainty about their future.

The Moon Also Rises

Feb 21, 2024 | Festivals, Berlinale 2024, Verdict Shorts

An elderly couple retreats from the outside world in preparation for the launch of three artificial moons in the strange and meditative experimental documentary, The Moon Also Rises.

Rising Up at Night

Feb 21, 2024 | Berlinale 2024, Festivals

Nelson Makengo’s beautifully shot and observed documentary ‘Rising Up at Night’ captures the darkness of Kinshasa after severe flooding and electricity cuts, along with the resilience of its people.

Intercepted

Feb 21, 2024 | Berlin 2024, Berlinale 2024, Festivals

Ukrainian director Oksana Karpovych’s quietly powerful documentary ‘Intercepted’ combines bleakly beautiful, defiantly hopeful images of her war-ravaged homeland with recordings of phone calls made by invading Russian soldiers.

Awards Corner

Berlinale 2024