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Berlin International Film Festival

9 February – 18 January 2017

Sally Potter's The Party
Sally Potter's The Party

The 67th Berlinale will run from Febrary 9 to 18. The programme is currently being announced. Paul Verhoeven will be the jury president. Sally Potter's The Party will be among the films screening in the Official Competition.

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    Review preview for Barry Lyndon

    Kubrick badly misses the mark with this film, not in quality, but by a whole decade. It simply does not fit into the 1970s.

    Donald Munro · 4.5 out of 5
    The rise and fall of an Irish rogue.
  • A Clockwork Orange
    Review preview for A Clockwork Orange

    Kubrick's canvas is best enjoyed large, right at the front.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Long-banned film about a future distopia.
  • The Misandrists
    Review preview for The Misandrists

    Something like a cross between Carry On Solanas! and The Beguiled

    Jane Fae · 4 out of 5
    A radical female ‘army of lovers’ is preparing itself to fight for a world without men.
  • Maurice
    Review preview for Maurice

    What's really revolutionary about this film is the way Ivory photographs male bodies.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A young man has to come to terms with his sexuality.
  • Requiem for Mrs J
    Review preview for Requiem for Mrs J

    Comedy doesn't come in many darker shades than that employed by Serbian director Bojan Vuletic in Requiem For Mrs J, this is truly the vantablack of humour.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Jelena wants to end her life and she’s only got a week to sort things out... a situation that proves difficult.
  • Vazante
    Review preview for Vazante

    Inti Briones's muddy, saturated black and white imagery complements director Daniela Thomas' tight close-ups and lingering landscape shots in conveying both the paradox of the location and the pressure its inhabitants feel.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Drama about slavery in the gemstone mines of Brazil before independence from Portugal.
  • On Body And Soul
    Review preview for On Body And Soul

    There is a fragility and brittleness to this but also an underlying warm sweetness that might just melt your heart.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A slaughterhouse becomes an unlikely setting for romance.
  • A Fantastic Woman
    Review preview for A Fantastic Woman

    Lelio makes no bones about how he wants us to feel, to the point where it sometimes feels as though he is stating the obvious is six-foot neon letters.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A transgender woman fights for the right to grieve after the death of her partner.
  • 1945
    Review preview for 1945

    As stark as its empty landscapes, as measured as the tread of the strangers along the poplar avenue, as compelling as the panic that grows in the village ahead of them.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A Hungarian village becomes a mirror for the failure of an entire society.
  • Strong Island
    Review preview for Strong Island

    Goes against the grain of modern crime documentaries.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The filmmaker investigates the shooting of his brother.

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