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Berlin International Film Festival

6 February – 16 February 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel will open the festival
The Grand Budapest Hotel will open the festival

The 64th edition of the Berlin Film Festival will open on February 6 with Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel. The festival will feature an homage to British filmmaker Ken Loach, who will receive an honorary Golden Bear. The festival will also feature the world premiere of the restored version of The Cabinet of Dr Cagliari and a retrospective - Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting Styles 1915-1950 - which will focus on light in film.

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  • That Demon Within
    Review preview for That Demon Within

    Wu keeps us caring with an intense yet nuanced performance, as if relishing the chance to break out of the romantic hero mould that characterised his early career.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    After a policeman unwittingly saves the life of a notorious gang leader, he sets out to try to dismantle his criminal network.
  • Natural Resistance
    Review preview for Natural Resistance

    Extensive talk about the importance of serendipity in the wine making process suggests that Nossiter is taking a similar approach to his film, hoping the diversity of ingredients will generate something interesting, but he's only partly successful.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A documentary about the artisan wine business in Italy.
  • Futuro Beach
    Review preview for Futuro Beach

    If you're willing to go with the flow, this study of emotion develops and maintains a sensual and sensory intensity.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A lifeguard finds love in an unexpected place.
  • '71
    Review preview for '71

    Burke is interested in people not politics, keeping the focus on the sudden outbreaks of inhumanity and humanity in the madness, expertly crafting his thriller from the swirling fog of war.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A young British soldier is accidentally left behind by his unit on the deadly streets of Belfast in 1971.
  • Black Coal, Thin Ice
    Review preview for Black Coal, Thin Ice

    A painstakingly deliberate neo-noir, heavy on atmosphere and taking its time to build.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A detective falls in love with a woman linked to the murder victims of his current investigation.
  • Love Is Strange
    Review preview for Love Is Strange

    Courageous and uncompromising

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The consequences of a gay marriage on family and friends.
  • Supernova
    Review preview for Supernova

    Gaite Jansen is compelling in the central role, holding the film together with the sort of assurance that's rare in actors twice her age.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Where Meis lives, absolutely nothing ever happens. She loses herself in wistful fantasies about love, sex and a world elsewhere.
  • 52 Tuesdays
    Review preview for 52 Tuesdays

    There is no effort to sanitise characters' lives in order to get a message across, and as a result the film never feels preachy.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Over the course of a year, a teenage girl adjusts to life as a woman while her mother adjusts to life as a man.
  • Aloft
    Review preview for Aloft

    There's no shying away from the fact that the New Age, twig-built mumbo-jumbo peddled here is no match from the otherworldly ancient belief systems of Peru that flow through Llosa's earlier works.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    A son goes in search of his estranged mother.
  • Thou Wast Mild And Lovely
    Review preview for Thou Wast Mild And Lovely

    The plot may be clear and the tonal shifts from comedy to erotica and horror impressively handled but the character motivations are frustratingly fuzzy.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Romance - and trouble - brew on a farm in Kentucky.

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