Oldenburg 2023

Oldenburg Film Festival 2023: The Verdict

Sep 17, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023, Spotlight, The Festival Verdict

Germany’s premiere festival platform for rule-breaking indie cinema celebrated its 30th edition with audacious acid-punk UFO comedies, bleak kidnap thrillers and a ground-breaking peek into the multiverse.

Oldenburg 2023: The Awards

Sep 17, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023

Turkey’s chilling political thriller ‘In the Blind Spot’ grabs the Best Film prize at Oldenburg.

Beautiful Friend

Sep 16, 2023 | Festivals, Featured, Oldenburg 2023

A sociopathic amateur film-maker kidnaps the woman he wants to play his fantasy girlfriend role in Truman Kewley’s quietly chilling psycho-thriller debut ‘Beautiful Friend’.

Grill

Sep 16, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023, Verdict Shorts

The cruelty of an uncaring welfare state is brought into sharp relief in Jade Hærem Aksnes’s stomach-churning satirical drama about poverty, Grill.

Seaweed

Sep 16, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023, Verdict Shorts

A young boy grieving the loss of his mother forms a bond with a desert drifter in the heart-warming Israeli drama, Seaweed.

The Wait

Sep 16, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023

Spanish director F. Javier Gutiérrez’s atmospheric but underpowered horror western ‘The Wait’ offers a fistful of familiar supernatural tropes.

The Belgian Wave

Sep 16, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Oldenburg 2023

Cult director Jérôme Vandewattyne uses a spate of real UFO sightings as the launchpad for ‘The Belgian Wave’, an incoherent but highly entertaining acid-punk sci-fi road movie about close encounters of the surreal kind.

Charcoal

Sep 16, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023

A dark, absurdist farce of wicked schemes bred of hardship in smalltown Brazil reveals helmer Carolina Markowicz as a bold talent.

Our Males and Females

Sep 15, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023, Verdict Shorts

A mother and father are confronted with an agonising dilemma as they attempt to prepare the body of their young transgender child for burial in Ahmad Alyaseer’s ‘Our Males and Females’.

From Dawn Till Noon on the Sea

Sep 15, 2023 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2023

A kidnapping sees the lives and fates of three troubled youths become entwined in Takayuki Hayashi’s serene and solemn feature debut, From Dawn Till Noon on the Sea.

Awards Corner

Oldenburg 2023