The queer coming-of-age experience is one of great vulnerability: a young person must grapple with the realization they’re becoming different from both past se...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Filmfest Hamburg coverage. Love opens in theaters on May 16.
It takes confidence to name ...
German writer-director Mascha Schilinski’s sophomore feature Sound of Falling is the first competition title to screen at Cannes this year. If it’s anythin...
Frequent festival-goers learn not to expect much from opening films. Quality is but one of many factors that lead to the selection for this symbolic slot. In o...
Note: This interview was originally published as part of our 2024 Filmfest Hamburg coverage. April opens in theaters on April 25.
With only two feature film...
The most significant change introduced by new Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle is the cancellation of the Encounters sidebar which hosted many arthouse gems su...
The fact that only two German films were selected to compete at the 75th Berlinale raised some eyebrows and sparked interest in the pair of sophomore features ...
With just two films to her name (in addition to co-producing the Golden Bear-winning Black Coal, Thin Ice), Vivian Qu has become one of China's most prominent ...
French director Léonor Serraille’s third feature Ari is the portrait of an über-sensitive young man who ponders his place in the world while looking up peo...
The 75th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival opens today and, following the rather unceremonious end of its previous two directors’ respective te...
