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The Berlin Film Festival is back for another year with a bumper programme full of films, many of them world premières.
The festival runs from 16 to 26 February
View Films by Strand:
- Berlinale Classics
- Berlinale Special
- Competition
- Encounters
- Generation 14plus
- Generation Kplus
- Homage - Steven Spielberg
- Panorama
- Perspektive Deutches Kino
- Retrospectives
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In this wild reinterpretation of the “Sisi” myth, the focus is on Austrian Empress Elisabeth’s close friendship with her last lady-in-waiting, Irma Countess von Sztáray, who falls in love with the charismatic Sisi and is captivated by her modern ideas.
Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
The destinies of a man who has joined the Foreign Legion and another in the Niger Delta intersect.
Thierno Souleymane Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea.
Iman, an Iranian, lives with his family in Sweden in an ever-changing succession of refugee hostels. To increase his chances of obtaining residence permits for them all, he resumes his career as a wrestler – and is confronted with the reason he had to flee.
Samsara is the Buddhist cycle of death and reincarnation. From the temples of Laos, alongside with teenage monks, we will accompany a soul in its transit from one body to another through the bardo.
A married man cheats on his husband with a woman... then tells him about it.
A man loses his grip on reality after becoming involved in a libertarian masculinity cult.
In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turned into a 12 square kilometer crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel was found in the pilot's body, implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.
Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are separated from each other when Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York where Nora now lives with her American husband.
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