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Berlin International Film Festival

5 February – 15 January 2015

Nobody Wants The Night will open the festival
Nobody Wants The Night will open the festival

The 65th edition of the festival will run from February 5 to 15. It will open with Isabel Coixet's Nobody Wants The Night. Retrospectives will include a section dedicated to the films of Wim Wenders and a celebration of Technicolor film.

The jury president will be director Darren Aronofsky.

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Latest reviews

  • The Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick
    Review preview for The Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick

    This is toxic masculinity masquerading as boredom, with Wenders' refusal to give it emotional adornment only adding to the sense of existential strangeness of the whole affair.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Following in the footsteps of a goalie after he is sent off in a game.
  • Diary Of A Chambermaid
    Review preview for Diary Of A Chambermaid

    The film, co-written with Hélène Zimmer, functions like exquisite lacework with new patterns emerging at every turn.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    An alert servant works for a wealthy couple in rural France.
  • Ixcanul
    Review preview for Ixcanul

    A sensitively handled female coming-of-age tale.

    Rebecca Naughten · 3 out of 5
    Story of a teenage girl living in the foothills of a volcano, who faces an arranged marriage but is won over by the charms of a plantation worker.
  • Eisenstein In Guanajuato
    Review preview for Eisenstein In Guanajuato

    Eisenstein is embodied by the fabulous Elmer Bäck, who gallops at the role in the way Liberace might have plunged into a haberdashers.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    The 10 days that shook Eisenstein.
  • Nena
    Review preview for Nena

    Saskia Diesing's rapid fire photography captures the pace of Nena's quickly shifting world but isn't afraid to linger when the moment calls for it.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A teenager is faced with a suicide attempt by her disabled dad.
  • Counting
    Review preview for Counting

    We are in Calvino territory, seeking out the invisible all around us.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Fifteen distinct but interconnected chapters, shot in locations from Russia to New York City to Istanbul. Together, these build to a reckoning at the intersection of city symphony, diary, and essay film.
  • Victoria
    Review preview for Victoria

    Perhaps because of the improvisation - although surely they must have rehearsed like crazy - even when the plot threatens to become contrived, the characters remain true to themselves.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Adventures of a woman after she meets a group of young lads, over the course of a night.
  • Chorus
    Review preview for Chorus

    The film is dark. Its message of disconnection has layers of sub plots, barely hinted at yet still damaging

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A marriage torn apart by the disappearance of a child is reconnected as events offer closure, resurrecting emotions and a kind of hope
  • Taxi Tehran
    Review preview for Taxi Tehran

    It’s a wonderfully subversive act...but on its own merits (which I’m sure is how Panahi would want it to be judged) it seemed to me overlong, repetitive and self-indulgent.

    Jeff Robson · 2.5 out of 5
    An Iranian director forbidden to make movies works as a taxi driver, and installs hidden cameras in his cab…
  • Paper Planes
    Review preview for Paper Planes

    Every cliche that sang out of tune at the concert of dreams is here

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Boy from the Australian outishback competes in the world junior paper planes contest in Japan. Frankie should have sung a song.

A–Z of Berlin International Film Festival 2015 reviews

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  • All she surveys
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  • The first resistance
    Oliver Hirschbiegel on 13 Minutes, Nazis and Georg Elser's assassination attempt on Hitler.
  • Blade Runners in Benidorm
    Ion de Sosa and Chema García Ibarra talk about experimental sci-fi Androids Dream.
  • An Alabama Night in New York
    Taking in Selma with Gay Talese and Culpepper Clark.
  • The Restoration of Oz
    As The Wizard of Oz returns to delight a new generation, we explore the real magic of cinema. The film you'll see in cinemas now is clean and bright; but how was this achieved?

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