Redmond Bacon - Journey Into Cinema

Kontinental ’25 is Radu Jude’s latest examination of the way we live now that is alternately humorous, terrifying and deeply stimulating.

With a vital focus on Ukraine, this year’s Forum films offer a wide tent of differing visions from the cutting-edge of experimental cinema.

The Generation section of Berlinale is one of the less interesting programmes at the esteemed film festival. Still, we look at its offerings anyway.

The A24 formula works to fine effect in Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, starring the excellent Rose Byrne.

Dark horse black comedy What Marielle Knows is the funniest film in the Berlinale Competition so far. A Hollywood remake can’t be far away.

The queer and political Panorama section of the Berlinale is the true meat and bones of the festival — we go deep into its extensive line-up!

Reflection in a Dead Diamond is a loving and deeply satisfying riff on classic spy tropes with a true and abiding love of the genre.

Florian Pochlatko’s How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World is a long and ungainly look at mental illness that never finds a way to work.

Tricia Tuttle’s Perspectives is a shiny new programme dedicated entirely to first feature films. We have the lowdown on whether they’re any good.

Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower is a forbidding and slow riff on Hans Christian Andersen with a movie star performance from Marion Cotillard.