Mala Emde shines as a chaotic music promoter who puts on Keith Jarrett’s iconic concert at the Cologne Philarmonic in Ido Fluk’s Köln 75.
Köln 75. Iconic Chaos.
Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
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.
Dressed in Blue. Trans Lives in Full View.
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. Unhappy in its Own Way.
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.
Mickey 17 Dials It Past 11
Bong Joon-Ho’s Mickey 17 is a loud and brash cartoonish science-fiction that has very little to say underneath its deafening bluster.
That Summer in Paris. A Small Delight.
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.
Deaf Goes Deep on the Isolation of Hearing Loss
The travails of being deaf in a hearing world are viscerally explored in Eva Libertad’s powerful new work — live from Panorama!
Berlinale Shorts 2025 Part One: Dreams and Nightmares
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.
Berlinale Shorts 2025 Part Two: Humanity And the Lack Thereof
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 Expertly Captures German Xenophobia
in retrospect explores the double-standards of Germany’s immigration policies: inviting people to come then demonising them for coming.