Berlin International Film Festival · 2017
21 films · 6 reviews
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, presenting as well as producing, paints a bleak portrait of the impact of pressures on the seal trade.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril; Writer: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril)
The puzzles here are of the sort intended to be enjoyed for their twists and turns rather than their resolution.
(Country: Switzerland, Austria, Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Greg Zglinski; Writer: Jörg Kalt, Greg Zglinski; Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Philipp Hochmair, Mona Petri, Mehdi Nebbou, Michael Ostrowski)
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2016; Director: Gabriel Abrantes)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2016; Director: Mia Spengler; Writer: Stefanie Schmitz, Mia Spengler; Stars: Kim Riedle, Juliane Köhler, Leonie Wesselow, Nicki von Tempelhoff, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Heike Hanold-Lynch, Marko Dyrlich, Robert Gallinowski, Emma Drogunova, Ilir Rexhepi, Anna Oussankina, Lena Thom, Robert Besta, Yasemin Cetinkaya, Stefan Lampadius)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Andres Veiel; Writer: Andres Veiel; Stars: Joseph Beuys)
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2017; Director: Victor Lindgren; Writer: Melker Garay, Victor Lindgren; Stars: Ali Dayah Abdi, Abdi Aziis)
(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Étienne Comar; Writer: Étienne Comar, Alexis Salatko, Alexis Salatko; Stars: Reda Kateb, Cécile De France, Alex Brendemühl, Maximilien Poullein, Ulrich Brandhoff, Aloïse Sauvage, Antoine Laurent, Alexandre Sauty, Gabriel Mireté)
(Country: US, Ireland; Year: 2017; Director: David O'Reilly)
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.
(Country: Chile, Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Sebastián Lelio; Writer: Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza; Stars: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim, Amparo Noguera)
(Country: Germany, Austria; Year: 2017; Director: Lukas Marxt, Marcel Odenbach)
(Country: Georgia; Year: 2016; Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß; Writer: Nana Ekvtimishvili; Stars: Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze, Berta Khapava, Tsisia Qumsishvili, Giorgi Tabidze, Dimitri Oragvelidze)
Though shot on cheap black-and-white film stock, NOTLD was the film that would turn the whole horror genre blood red, with its innovative use of graphically realistic gore effects.
(Country: US; Year: 1968; Director: George A Romero; Writer: John Russo, George A Romero; Stars: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley, Kyra Schon, Russell W. Streiner, Charles Craig, Bill Heinzman, George Kosana, Frank Doak, Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cordille)
There is a fragility and brittleness to this but also an underlying warm sweetness that might just melt your heart.
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2017; Director: Ildikó Enyedi; Writer: Ildikó Enyedi; Stars: Morcsányi Géza, Alexandra Borbély, Zoltán Schneider, Ervin Nagy, Tamás Jordán, Zsuzsa Járó, Réka Tenki, Júlia Nyakó, Itala Békés, Pál Mácsai, Annamária Fodor, Márton Patkós, Gusztáv Molnár, István Dankó, Vivien Rujder)
The director has a flare for encapsulating a world of emotion in a single moment.
(Country: Finland; Year: 2017; Director: Aki Kaurismäki; Writer: Aki Kaurismäki; Stars: Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Simon Al-Bazoon, Janne Hyytiäinen, Nuppu Koivu, Ilkka Koivula, Kaija Pakarinen, Kati Outinen, Tommi Korpela, Ville Virtanen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Taneli Mäkelä, Sulevi Peltola, Maria Järvenhelmi, Antti Virmavirta)
(Year: 2017; Director: Ute von Münchow-Pohl)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Peter Svatek; Writer: Peter Svatek; Stars: Massimo Bottura)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Jakob Lass; Writer: Jakob Lass, Eva-Maria Reimer, Ines Schiller, Nicholas Woche; Stars: Ella Rumpf, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Enno Trebs, Orce Feldschau, Benjamin Lutzke, Franz Rogowski, Ulrik Bruchholz, Lana Cooper, Robert Gwisdek, Robert Maaser, Joshua Grothe, Eskindir Tesfay, Lucas Englander, Kristin Suckow, Franziska Arnold)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël; Writer: Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël, Stephane Rituit, Tanya Tagaq; Stars: Tanya Tagaq)
(Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Josef Hader; Stars: Nora von Waldstätten, Josef Hader, Georg Friedrich, Denis Moschitto, Jörg Hartmann, Crina Semciuc, Pia Hierzegger)
(Country: France, Germany, Belgium; Year: 2016; Director: Raoul Peck; Writer: Pascal Bonitzer, Pascal Bonitzer, Pierre Hodgson, Raoul Peck, Raoul Peck; Stars: August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Olivier Gourmet, Hannah Steele, Eric Godon, Stephen Hogan, Rolf Kanies, Niels-Bruno Schmidt, Ulrich Brandhoff, Aran Bertetto, Denis Lyons, Damien Marchal, Annabelle Lewiston, Wiebke Adam)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2017; Director: Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca)
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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