Berlin Film Festival 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh's Gully Boy to have its world premiere at Berlin Film Festival 2019

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.