Fernanda Tovar’s Sad Girlz is a touching tale of female friendship under the shadow of sexual violence — the winner of Berlinale Generation 14Plus.
Sad Girlz Does It Well
Jared Abbott
Editor-at-large Jared loves movies and lives with Kiki in Berlin.
I Want To See You Truly Naked
Muriel d’Ansembourg’s taboo-breaking drama explores the way pornography can change who we are, in often finger-wagging ways.
Prosecution Handsomely Builds Its Case
Faraz Shariat’s Prosecution carefully examines justice both within and without the complex, biased machinery of the German state.
Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest. Unmoored Between Tradition and Liberation.
Naval-gazing documentary Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest is a funny, lacerating look at being caught between two very different cultures.
Iván & Hadoum. Love on The Periphery.
Set in Almería, Panorama entry Iván & Hadoum shows the difficulties of love blooming in the hard ground of labour exploitation.
10 Best Films 2025
From One Battle After Another to Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, Sirāt to Pillion, here’s Redmond Bacon and Jared Abbott’s picks for the best films of the year.
Cult Classic Twin Cheeks: Who Killed The Homecoming King? Finally Reemerges From Its Camcorder Swamp
Kelly Hughes’ long-unavailable and unique queer outsider artwork Twin Cheeks: Who Killed the Homecoming King? finally makes its way back into the public eye.
18 Holes to Paradise Keeps Things Under Par
The absurdities of the privileged in the face of incoming disaster is smartly dissected in João Nuno Pinto’s Tallinn entry 18 Holes to Paradise.
Peeping Trojans, Slivering Sofas
A sleek German answer to Philip Noyce’s Sliver, Interior uses a sexual taboo to interrogate a world where all we do is watch — and rarely intervene.
Forastera. Teenage Grief Under the Mallorcan Sun.
Lucía Aleñar Iglesias’ promising debut finds a unique angle on coming-of-age and haunted house tropes — marking her as a director to watch.