Redmond Bacon - Journey Into Cinema

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.

By letting trans women speak for themselves, the 1983 classic Dressed In Blue is an essential queer text, playing now in Berlinale Classics.

Before You Fade Away Into Nothing is a truly rare thing: an all-American slow cinema film, tackling grief in a unique and fascinating way.

Bong Joon-Ho’s Mickey 17 is a loud and brash cartoonish science-fiction that has very little to say underneath its deafening bluster.

A 30-year-old woman’s jaunt to Paris yields all sorts of beautiful insights on the nuances of life in Valentine Cadic’s That Summer in Paris.

From oddball animation to Asian coming-of-age stories to big tech’s uncanny valley, we look at ten shorts from the Berlinale Shorts programme.

The second half of the Berlinale Shorts goes deep on the emotions, with stunning love story Close to September easily the standout movie.

in retrospect explores the double-standards of Germany’s immigration policies: inviting people to come then demonising them for coming.