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‘Langue Étrangère’ Review: A Tough and Tender Romance Between Two Teen Girls Finding Each Other in Translation
The third feature by writer-director Claire Burger ('Real Love') co-stars Nina Hoss and Chiara Mastroianni as mothers of 17-year-olds on opposite sides of the French-German border.
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‘No Other Land’ Review: A Sobering Doc Chronicles Violent Evictions of Palestinians in the West Bank
A collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers helm a project about the Israeli government's attempts to expel Palestinians in Masafer Yatta.
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‘Ordinary Angels’ Review: Hilary Swank Plucks Heartstrings Expertly in Inspirational Drama
Alan Ritchson also stars in this fact-based film about a hairdresser who makes it her mission to help a family in desperate need.
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‘Red Right Hand’ Review: Orlando Bloom and Andie MacDowell in a Routine Southern-Fried Crime Film
The pair star in Eshom and Ian Helms' actioner about a reformed criminal desperately trying to protect his family from a local mob kingpin.
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‘Pepe’ Review: A Footnote in the Pablo Escobar Saga Is Dreamily Reimagined as a Hippo’s Reflections on Life and Death
Dominican director Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias weaves together documentary and fiction as a megaherbivore looks back on being a stranger in a strange land.
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‘Sex’ Review: Nordic Drama Digging Into Male Sexuality Is Provocative, Insightful and Entertaining
Dag Johan Haugerud’s candid look at constricting gender roles centers on two friends spurred by different experiences to readjust their sense of self.
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‘My New Friends’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Headlines Andre Techine’s Unconvincing Social Drama
The latest feature from the 80-year-old French director (‘Wild Reeds,’ ‘My Favorite Season’) premiered in Berlin’s Panorama sidebar.
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‘Dying’ Review: Lars Eidinger Stars as a Harried Orchestra Conductor in a Moving and Funny German Family Saga
Life, death and everything in between are there in Matthias Glasner’s competitor for the Golden Bear, which also features Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangenberg and Ronald Zehrfeld.
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‘Architecton’ Review: From the Director of ‘Gunda,’ a Visually Mesmerizing Meditation on the Bedrock of Existence
The latest documentary from Victor Kossakovsky premiered in competition at the Berlinale and will be released stateside by A24.
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‘The Empire’ Review: Bruno Dumont’s Artsy Space Spoof Is Beautifully Crafted and Certifiably Insane
The director of 'Humanity' and 'Li'l Quinquin' returns to Berlin's main competition with a sci-fi satire starring Fabrice Luchini and Camille Cottin.
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‘Dahomey’ Review: Mati Diop Tracks the Return of African Treasures Plundered by the French in Powerful Consideration of Reparations
The director of ‘Atlantics’ shifts her gaze from Senegal to Benin in this documentary with fictionalized elements, viewing art as a repository for memory.
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‘Suspended Time’ Review: Olivier Assayas Fails to Find Meaning in the Monotony of Pandemic Lockdown
The French director casts Vincent Macaigne as his alter ego, isolating in the early days of COVID-19 with his brother in their childhood home, together with their respective partners.
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‘Treasure’ Review: Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry Play Daughter and Father in a Misfire of a Holocaust Dramedy
A woman and her Holocaust survivor father go on a trip tracing their family history in Poland in German director Julia von Heinz's film.
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‘Another End’ Review: Gael GarcÃa Bernal Brings Emotional Heat to Otherwise Distancing Mind-Bender About Grief
Following his debut, ‘The Wait,’ Piero Messina’s second feature continues to explore bereavement, with a cast that also includes Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo and Olivia Williams.
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‘From Hilde, With Love’ Review: Stirring German Drama Spotlights a Heroine of the Anti-Nazi Resistance
Liv Lisa Fries stars as Hilde Coppi, a left-wing member of a cell in the German Resistance group the Red Orchestra, in Andreas Dresen's drama.
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‘My Favourite Cake’ Review: From Iran, a Delectable Later-Life Love Story
Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha's Berlinale competitor revolves around the romance between a 70-year-old widow and a same-aged divorced taxi driver.
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