Berlinale Tag Archive

Film Festival

Ten Standout Shorts From Berlinale 2024

From pencil animation to lo-fi romance, playful documentaries to mesmerising metafictions, here are our top 10 films from the Berlinale Shorts 2024 programme.

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Live Action

Christian Avilés ‘Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays’ Elegantly Captures the Tragic Spirit of Brits Abroad

Christian Avilés discusses his use of sun-dappled 16mm images and the mixture of documentary and magic realism to depict the tragic Balconing phenomenon.

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Film Festival, Live Action

Michelle & Noel Keserwany’s Golden-Bear Winning Poetic Short ‘Les Chenilles’ Weaves a Delicate Thread

Berlinale Best Short winners Michelle & Noel Keserwany talk to DN about using both essay and fiction forms to create a touching tale of feminine solidarity.

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Film Festival

Ten Brilliant Films to Catch from Berlinale Shorts 2023

From live action to animation, hybrid documentaries to essayistic forms, this year's Berlinale Shorts is the best one we've covered yet.

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Live Action

A Mother and Daughter Struggle to Part Company in Emma Branderhorst’s Tender Short ‘Ma Mère et Moi’

Emma Branderhorst talks about drawing from personal experience for her short exploring the nuanced balance of love and annoyance between a mother and daughter.

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Film Festival

An Inside Look at Programming Berlinale Shorts 2023 with Head of Shorts Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck

Berlinale Head of Shorts Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck details what she and her team look for in the films they programme and the strengths of the short form.

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Film Festival

10 Great Feature Films at the 72nd Berlinale

Despite a mostly disappointing year, we still found 10 gems worth putting on your radar from the 72nd Berlinale.

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Film Festival

Ten Fantastic Shorts To Watch at Berlinale 2022

Spanning five continents, featuring drama, documentary, satire and animation, the best Berlinale Shorts offer pure cinematic bliss.

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Live Action, Premiere

The Past Never Leaves You in Mahyar Mandegar’s Melancholic Modern Fairytale ‘White Winged Horse’

Mahyar Mandegar discusses colliding fantasy and reality within floating Russian-inspired long takes for his Iranian war childhood fable short.

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Film Festival

The Best Short Films of Berlinale 2021

Spanning both the Berlinale shorts and the Forum Expanded section, here is our round-up of the best short films screened at the Berlinale 2021.

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Film Festival

Best Feature Films of Berlinale 2021

Featuring famous faces as well as up-and-coming directors to put on your radar these ten Berlinale 2021 features show off the diversity of their curation.

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Film Festival

The Best Short Films of Berlinale 2020

Ranging from dazzling animation to video game re-appropriations to unique cine-essays — here our some of our favourite films from Berlinale Shorts.

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