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.
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Real Fwends. How Many of Us?
The natural ebbs and flows of a friendship floating apart are captured in deeply realistic realistic fashion in Sophie Somerville’s delightful debut.
Spring Night. A Sobering Experience.
Han Ye-ri provides an astonishing portrait of alcoholism in Kang Mi-ja’s deeply affect Spring Night, playing in Forum.
Sirens Call. Mermaids and All.
Sirens Call, Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann’s impassioned look at modern-day merfolk, reinvents ancient myths for an increasinly fascist age.
Berlinale 2024: After Hours
From retrospective to classics to special, here are mini-reviews of everything else Journey into Cinema saw at Berlinale 2024.
Polyphonic Russian Voices, Deftly Intercepted
A rigorous and brutal documentation of Russian brutality in Ukraine, Intercepted’s absences stir the worst recesses of the human imagination.
There’s Plenty of Fake News at The Editorial Office
Roman Bondarchuk takes us to a pre-invasion Southern Ukraine in his Forum satire The Editorial Office, filled with weighty topics while lacking cinematic bite.
Berlinale Forum 2023: An Incomplete Past Treating an Unclear Future
A handful of forum films, including new works by James Benning and Claire Simon, probe the ways history, ever contested, is inscribed onto the future.
Mehran Tamadon Skillfully Recreates Iranian Prison in Where God is Not
The horrors of Iranian prison are horrifyingly revisited in this powerful, draining documentary film, asking if cinema has the power to change the state.