Berlin International Film Festival · 2020
34 films · 14 reviews
Conversations about internal and external experiences of gender provide structure, but there's much more to Amber as a person.
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2020; Director: Hannah Reinikainen Bergeman, Lia Hietala; Writer: Lia Hietala)
Documentary
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2020; Director: Fernando Segtowick; Writer: Fernando Segtowick)
Green shows the trickle-down effect of toxic masculinity, as Jane's male colleagues - scarcely higher in the pecking order than her - nevertheless chip away at her.
(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Kitty Green; Writer: Kitty Green; Stars: Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, Kristine Froseth, Dagmara Dominczyk, Makenzie Leigh, Noah Robbins, Alexander Chaplin, Clara Wong, Juliana Canfield, Lou Martini Jr., Purva Bedi, Jon Orsini, Daoud Heidami, Bregje Heinen, Nemuna Ceesay)
(Country: Germay, Mongolia; Year: 2020; Director: Uisenma Borchu; Stars: Gunsmaa Tsogzol, Uisenma Borchu, Terbish Demberel, Franz Rogowski, Borchu Bawaa)
While the roaming handheld cameras bring to mind observational documentaries, the aesthetic also evokes Robert Altman through its observational style and rich tapestry of characters.
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross; Stars: Peter Elwell, Michael Martin, Shay Walker, Peter Elwell, Michael Martin, Shay Walker)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2020; Director: Francisco Márquez; Writer: Tomás Downey, Francisco Márquez; Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Mecha Martinez, Eliot Otazo, Ciro Coien Pardo, Cecilia Rainero, Elisa Carricajo, Mecha Martinez, Eliot Otazo, Ciro Coien Pardo, Cecilia Rainero)
(Country: France, Netherlands, South Africa; Year: 2020; Director: Teboho Edkins; Writer: Teboho Edkins)
Documentary
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2020; Director: Daniel Nolasco; Writer: Daniel Nolasco; Stars: Leandro Faria Lelo, Bruno Battaglia, Toti Cardoso, Renata Carvalho, Marcelo Davila, Guilherme Farkas, Mel Gonçalves, Guilhermina Guinle, Conrado Helt, Wilker Rodrigues, Allan Jacinto Santana, Larissa Sisterolli, Rafael Teóphilo, Leandro Faria Lelo, Bruno Battaglia)
Vats has a background in documentary and it shows in his deep realisation of the world Anjani and his family inhabit.
(Country: India; Year: 2019; Director: Prateek Vats; Writer: Shubham; Stars: Naina Sareen, Shashi Bhushan, Shardul Bharadwaj, Nutan Sinha, Nitin Goel, Mahender Nath, Kapil Madaan)
Morina generates a similar atmosphere to that of the films of Ruben Östlund, prying at the cracks in the male psyche.
(Country: Germany, Belgium, Kosovo; Year: 2020; Director: Visar Morina; Writer: Visar Morina; Stars: Misel Maticevic, Sandra Hüller, Rainer Bock, Uwe Preuss, Stephan Grossmann, Thomas Mraz, Flonja Kodheli, Daniel Sträßer, Piet Fuchs, Christian Skibinski, Misel Maticevic, Sandra Hüller, Rainer Bock, Uwe Preuss, Stephan Grossmann)
Golubovic wants us to feel the weight of all this, and we certainly do, as cinematographer Aleksandar Ilic not only captures the countryside of Serbia but also a sense of dilapidation.
(Country: Serbia, France, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Year: 2020; Director: Srdan Golubovic; Writer: Srdan Golubovic, Ognjen Svilicic; Stars: Goran Bogdan, Ajla Santic, Muharem Hamzic, Boris Isakovic, Nada Sargin, Milica Janevski, Vahid Dzankovic, Jovo Maksic, Nikola Rakocevic, Milan Maric, Ljubomir Bandovic, Mirko Vlahovic, Goran Bogdan, Ajla Santic, Muharem Hamzic)
Being hit squarely in the face with the sheer volume of these, often barely watched, entreaties is doubtless part of the point.
(Country: Russia; Year: 2020; Director: Andrei Gryazev; Writer: Andrei Gryazev)
Documentary
Hope is structured around seemingly small jolts that suddenly illuminate the big picture.
(Country: Norway, Sweden; Year: 2019; Director: Maria Sødahl; Writer: Maria Sødahl; Stars: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Stellan Skarsgård, Daniel Storm Forthun Sandbye, Elli Rhiannon Müller Osbourne, Dina Enoksen Elvehaug, Steinar Klouman Hallert, Eirik Hallert, Alfred Vatne, Gjertrud L Jynge, Einar Økland, Johannes Joner, Alexander Mørk Eidem)
(Country: France; Year: 2020; Director: Patric Chiha; Stars: Philip Berlin, Marine Chesnais, Kerstin Daley-Baradel, Sylvain Decloitre, Sophie Demeyer, Vincent Dupuy, Massimo Fusco, Núria Guiu, Rehin Hollant, Georges Labbat, Oskar Landström, Theo Livesey, Louise Perming, Katya Petrowick, Anja Röttgerkamp)
(Country: Singapore; Year: 2019; Director: Yuan Bin Lei; Stars: Feroz Al Mamun, Ethan Guo, Feroz Al Mamun, Ethan Guo)
Documentary
(Year: 2020; Director: Guillaume Brac; Writer: Guillaume Brac, Catherine Paillé; Stars: Salif Cissé, Asma Messaoudene, Soundos Mosbah, Benjamin Natchouang, Édouard Sulpice)
(Country: France; Year: 2020; Director: Sébastien Lifshitz; Writer: Sébastien Lifshitz)
(Country: Switzerland, Croatia; Year: 2020; Director: Andrea Staka; Writer: Andrea Staka; Stars: Marija Skaricic, Goran Navojec, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Mirjana Karanovic, Ivana Roscic, Niksa Butijer, Zdenko Jelcic, Marija Skaricic, Goran Navojec, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Mirjana Karanovic, Ivana Roscic, Niksa Butijer, Zdenko Jelcic)
With a moody jazz score full of languorous clarinets, this is a long cool drink before the unseen war.
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Eric Steel; Writer: David Bezmozgis, Daniel Pearle, Eric Steel; Stars: Brooke Bloom, Ron Rifkin, Alex Hurt, Chinaza Uche, Zane Pais, Richard Topol, Samuel H. Levine, Chris Perfetti, Elizabeth Loyacano, Sacha Seberg, Christopher McCann, Amir Levy, Julie Zanata, Eli Rosen, Margolis Mark)
Rap is a rapid-fire art form, washing you in a torrent of thoughts, the beat carrying you through, and Tariq's film has a similar approach, but there are so many ideas being fired out that it's no wonder it sometimes struggles to retain its rhythm.
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2020; Director: Bassam Tariq; Writer: Riz Ahmed, Bassam Tariq; Stars: Riz Ahmed, Aiysha Hart, Nabhaan Rizwan, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Anjana Vasan, Alyy Khan, Jill Buchanan, Abdul Hakim Joy, Sudha Bhuchar, Jag Patel, Ali Barouti, Jeff Mirza, Eva Von Mitzka, Olivia Brady, Khariis Ubiaro)
While the film may be light on political detail, Aïnouz captures the sense of an old struggle being made young again.
(Country: Algeria, France, Germany, Brazil, Qatar; Year: 2020; Director: Karim Aïnouz)
Documentary
(Country: Austria; Year: 2020; Director: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel; Writer: Rainer Frimmel; Stars: Kurt Girk, Alois Schmutzer, Kurt Girk, Alois Schmutzer)
Documentary
(Country: Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Faraz Shariat; Writer: Paulina Lorenz, Faraz Shariat; Stars: Paul Lux, Banafshe Hourmazdi, Eidin Jalali, Benny Radjaipour, Paul Lux, Banafshe Hourmazdi, Eidin Jalali, Benny Radjaipour)
Following her subjects through the tangled streets, in an out of small concrete houses or under the archways and up the stairwells where they take shelter, Navas observes them almost as if she were filming a documentary, perhaps without permission.
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2020; Director: Clarisa Navas; Writer: Clarisa Navas; Stars: Ana Carolina Garcia, Sofia Cabrera, Ana Carolina Garcia, Sofia Cabrera)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Bastian Günther; Writer: Bastian Günther; Stars: Joe Cole, Callie Hernandez, Carrie Preston, Cullen Moss, Lucy Faust, Jesse C. Boyd, Lara Grice, Billy Slaughter, Chris Gann, Clyde Risley Jones, Jared Bankens, Cory Scott Allen, Ritchie Montgomery, Devyn A. Tyler, Lynne Ashe)
(Country: Greece, France, Netherlands, Bulgaria; Year: 2020; Director: Siamak Etemadi; Writer: Siamak Etemadi; Stars: Melika Foroutan, Shahbaz Noshir, Sofia Kokkali, Argyris Pandazaras, Lena Kitsopoulou, Leyteris Tsatsis, Bijan Daneshmand, Dimitris Xanthopoulos, Melika Foroutan, Shahbaz Noshir, Sofia Kokkali, Argyris Pandazaras, Lena Kitsopoulou, Leyteris Tsatsis, Bijan Daneshmand)
(Country: Austria; Year: 2020; Director: Lisa Weber; Writer: Lisa Weber; Stars: Gerhard, Claudia)
Documentary
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2020; Director: Susanne Regina Meures)
(Country: Brazil, France; Year: 2020; Director: Matias Mariani; Writer: Chika Anadu, Francine Barbosa, Maíra Bühler, Matias Mariani, Júlia Murat, Chioma Thompson, Roberto Winter; Stars: OC Ukeje, Paolo André, Barry Igujie, Chukwudi Iwuji, Indira Nascimento, O.C. Ukeje, Paolo André, Barry Igujie, Chukwudi Iwuji, Indira Nascimento)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2020; Director: Danilo Caputo; Writer: Danilo Caputo; Stars: Yle Vianello, Feliciana Sibilano)
(Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2019; Director: Ray Yeung; Writer: Ray Yeung; Stars: Tai-Bo, Ben Yuen, Patra Au, Lo Chun Yip, Kong To, Yiu-Sing Lam, Hiu Yee Wong, Yixin Hu, Lau Ting Kwan, Wai-Keung Chu, Patrick Lam)
(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Aneil Karia; Writer: Rupert Jones, Rita Kalnejais; Stars: Ben Whishaw, Jasmine Jobson, Ryan McKen, Laurence Spellman, Muna Otaru, Ray Calleja, Paul Blackwell, Abdul Hakim Joy, Jack Pierce, Ranjit Singh Shubh, Yohanna Ephrem, Bradley Taylor, Modupe Adeyeye, Laraine Dix, Haqi Ali)
By pushing us into the day-to-day stress of the organisation, France gives a palpable sense of the desperation many of those fleeing feel.
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: David France)
Well realised and engaging, with impressive production design.
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2020; Director: Jeanette Nordahl; Writer: Ingeborg Topsøe; Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Elliott Crosset Hove, Carla Philip Røder, Sofie Torp, Henrik Vestergaard, Besir Zeciri, Sandra Guldberg Kampp, Joachim Fjelstrup, Rikke Bilde, Omar Shargawi, Benjamin Kitter, Maria Esther Lemvigh, Marie Knudsen Fogh, Frida Sejersen)
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