There's a melancholy to Tobias Nölle and Loran Bonnardot's Tristan Forever that is comforting. A lingering, existential question hangs over everything: where d...
It’s the last day of junior high for Minnie (Katherine Mallen Kupferer) and her best friend Callie (Chloe Coleman); the veil of adulthood has never felt as thi...
The new film from Anthony Chen takes a minute to find its rhythm. For the first hour or so of its admittedly substantial runtime, I couldn’t help but wonder if...
To belong to the diaspora is to inhabit a paradox: a state of in-betweenness, neither fully inside or outside one’s home and adoptive countries. Films tryi...
Moulding cruel or nihilistic characters into darkly attractive protagonists requires a deceptively delicate touch. We’ve grown so used to seeing it done effort...
Ethiopian director Haile Gerima, a guiding figure in the L.A. Rebellion movement with such films as Bush Mama and Ashes and Embers, is returning with his first...
Noah Segan’s The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is an ode to a past New York City and the films set there. John Turturro plays Harry, an old-school pickpoc...
A pair of legends are uniting for a Berlinale 2026 premiere. Isabelle Huppert stars in the first narrative feature in quite some time from German director Ulri...
A Hong Sangsoo Berlinale premiere is no surprising development, but the first details on his 34th feature, The Day She Returns, are particularly exciting. Not ...
Kicking off next week, the 2026 Berlinale will bring no shortage of new discoveries, and one on our radar is the feature debut from Saša Vajda. The lights, the...
