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All Stories for Berlin Film Festival 2019
Berlinale 2019: A First Farewell is a poetic, often disheartening look into the lives of China’s Uyghur minorities
Prathap Nair • 6 years agoAlbeit 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
Prathap Nair • 6 years agoThe 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
Prathap Nair • 6 years agoIf 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
Prathap Nair • 6 years agoÖndög 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
Baradwaj Rangan • 6 years agoUnder 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
Prathap Nair • 6 years agoThe 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
Baradwaj Rangan • 6 years agoMany 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
Fp Staff • 6 years agoCasey 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
Fp Staff • 6 years agoFrench actress Juliette Binoche named head of jury of Berlin Film Festival 2019
Fp Staff • 6 years agoJuliette Binoche made her cinematic debut in 1983 in Liberty Belle by Pascal Kane, has since appeared in more than 70 films.