Berlinale - Journey Into Cinema

An unrequited love story powers Dreams, the final installment in Dag Johan Haugerud’s powerful Sex Love trilogy, playing in Competition.

What Does that Nature Say to You, the latest film from Hong Sangsoo, is another poetic slice of life gem about what constitutes a good life.

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 dreamlike Eel is a promising debut from Taiwanese director Chu Chun-Teng that thrives within liminal spaces — live from Perspectives.

Set entirely on the opening night of Oklahoma!, Richard Linklater’s talky film Blue Moon reunites him with Before trilogy star Ethan Hawke.

A trip to a trauma retreat turns increasingly nightmarish in Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s Honey Bunch, playing in Berlinale Special.

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

Vivian Qu’s gritty crime story Girls on Wire is a grim tale about the inevitability of fate that is weighed down by clichéd and stilted storytelling.

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