All Competition articles
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NewsTodd Haynes to head Berlin Film Festival 2025 jury
Festival director Tricia Tuttle calls Haynes “a dazzlingly gifted writer and director with an impressive range.”
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FeaturesMichael Hazanavicius on animated Cannes Competition title ‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’
The film will open the upcoming Annecy animation film festival.
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NewsFrance’s rising generation of female directors look for festival buzz despite lack of official selection parity
Emerging filmmakers are looking to hold their own in the male auteur-dominated line-up.
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FeaturesCannes 2024 line-up guide: Competition and Out Of Competition titles
Cannes’ competition strand includes films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold and Francis Ford Coppola.
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NewsBerlinale Competition title ‘La Cocina’ acquired for UK-Ireland (exclusive)
Alonso Ruizpalacios’ film is set in a busy Manhattan restaurant, and stars Rooney Mara and Raul Briones Carmona.
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Reviews‘Shambhala’: Berlin Review
Seductive Himalayan odyssey follows a pregnant Neplaese woman as she tries to find her husband in Llasa
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Reviews‘Sons’: Berlin Review
Gustav Moller follows up ‘The Guilty’ with an intense prison drama starring Sidse Babett Knudsen
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Reviews‘Who Do I Belong To’: Berlin Review
A Tunisian mother struggles to cope when her jihadist son returns from Syria
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Reviews‘Black Tea’: Berlin Review
An African woman seeks a new life, and new connections, in Guangzhou, China
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Reviews‘Gloria!’: Berlin Review
A young woman finds her voice in an Italian musical institute at the turn of the 19th century
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Reviews‘The Devil’s Bath’: Berlin Review
A depressed woman turns to desperate measures in 18th century rural Austria
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News‘A Traveler’s Needs’, ‘Dahomey’, ‘Dying’ land with strong scores on Screen’s Berlin jury grid
’The Empire’, ‘Architecton’ and ’Langue Entrangere’ also scored by critics.
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Reviews‘A Traveler’s Needs’: Berlin Review
Isabelle Huppert is an enigmatic Frenchwoman in Korea in her latest collaboration with Hong Sangsoo
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Reviews‘Langue Etrangere’: Berlin Review
Two penpals from France and Germany navigate an in-person relationship in Claire Berger’s coming-of-age drama
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Reviews‘Architecton’: Berlin Review
Victor Kossakovsky follows up ‘Gunda’ with this exploration of concrete and stone in a throwaway society
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News‘Shambhala’: first trailer for Nepal’s first-ever Berlinale Competition entry (exclusive)
Film is also first South Asian film in Berlinale Competition in over three decades.
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Reviews‘The Empire’: Berlin Review
Northern France plays host to an epic battle of good and evil in Bruno Damont’s outre sci-fi
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Reviews‘Dahomey’: Berlin Review
The repatriation of stolen treasures to Benin provokes this agile, cerebral documentary by Mati Diop
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NewsBerlin Competition title ’Suspended Time’ clocks deals for Playtime (exclusive)
The Covid-era comedy drama has secured deals for Spain, Italy, Sweden, Portugal, Taiwan and Hungary.