Berlin Film Festival 2019

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Gully Boy: Zoya Akhar's rap musical, starring Ranveer Singh, to release in Japan in October
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Gully Boy: Zoya Akhar's rap musical, starring Ranveer Singh, to release in Japan in October

Gully Boy, which had its world premiere at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, featured Ranveer as an up-and-coming rapper.

Light of My Life trailer: Casey Affleck directs, stars in dystopian drama about a world without women
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Light of My Life trailer: Casey Affleck directs, stars in dystopian drama about a world without women

Light of My Life shows a world where a plague wipes out the entire female population.

The Berlinale, and searching for love amongst the Golden Bear winners down the years
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The Berlinale, and searching for love amongst the Golden Bear winners down the years

The big prize winners at film festivals like the Berlinale have a reputation for being grim and arty, and appealing more to the head than the heart.

Berlinale 2019: The lesser known films to watch out for, from Ghost Town Anthology to Talking About Trees
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Berlinale 2019: The lesser known films to watch out for, from Ghost Town Anthology to Talking About Trees

Ever heard of Sudanese cinema? The fact that you probably have not is the subject of the intriguing documentary Talking About Trees, that won big at the Berlinale.

Berlinale 2019: A First Farewell is a poetic, often disheartening look into the lives of China’s Uyghur minorities
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Berlinale 2019: A First Farewell is a poetic, often disheartening look into the lives of China’s Uyghur minorities

Albeit firmly apolitical, A First Farewell offers rare insights into the rapid homogenisation of a unique culture through imposition of language politics.

Berlinale 2019: 69th edition of film festival ends with dialogue on censorship, Netflix, and gender equality
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Berlinale 2019: 69th edition of film festival ends with dialogue on censorship, Netflix, and gender equality

The 69th Berlinale that ended last weekend also saw the end of tenure of its much-loved director Dieter Kosslick

Berlinale 2019: Fatih Akin's The Golden Glove is a tiresome but stylishly shot serial killer film with little to root for
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Berlinale 2019: Fatih Akin's The Golden Glove is a tiresome but stylishly shot serial killer film with little to root for

If Fatih Akin’s aim was to merely provoke his audience with The Golden Glove, he achieves it with flesh crawling reality.

Berlinale 2019: Öndög is a sublime meditation on life and death in the Mongolian steppe
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Berlinale 2019: Öndög is a sublime meditation on life and death in the Mongolian steppe

Öndög is a visually stunning work of cinema set in a part of the world yet untouched by the brutalities of modern civilisation.

Berlinale 2019: The important collaboration of Francois Ozon and Charlotte Rampling, recipient of Golden Bear
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Berlinale 2019: The important collaboration of Francois Ozon and Charlotte Rampling, recipient of Golden Bear

Under the Sand will be screened in the Homage section at Berlinale 2019, along with another (and more popular) Ozon-Rampling collaboration, Swimming Pool.

Berlinale 2019: From the Juliette Binoche-led jury, to Gully Boy's premiere — all you need to know
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Berlinale 2019: From the Juliette Binoche-led jury, to Gully Boy's premiere — all you need to know

The high woman representation is a shot in the arm for Berlinale, whose contemporaries in Cannes and Venice could only dream of matching this statistic.

Berlinale 2019: The Classics section finds a place for James Cameron as well as Carl Dreyer
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Berlinale 2019: The Classics section finds a place for James Cameron as well as Carl Dreyer

Many of us consider Terminator 2: Judgement Day a classic, but it’s heartening to know the Berlin Film Festival thinks so, too.

Casey Affleck's directorial Light of My Life to have world premiere at Berlin Film Festival 2019
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Casey Affleck's directorial Light of My Life to have world premiere at Berlin Film Festival 2019

Casey Affleck's Light of My Life centres around a father and his young daughter who are trapped in the woods.

French actress Juliette Binoche named head of jury of Berlin Film Festival 2019
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French actress Juliette Binoche named head of jury of Berlin Film Festival 2019

Juliette Binoche made her cinematic debut in 1983 in Liberty Belle by Pascal Kane, has since appeared in more than 70 films.