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Berlinale 2012

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104 articles available in total starting from 02/12/2011. Last article published on 16/01/2013.

Una noche arrives in Berlin

The first feature by UK film-maker Lucy Mulloy, Una Noche, had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival at the tail end of the event, which ended this weekend. Part of the Generation 14 Plus...  

18/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Generation/UK

Petersen goes biographical in engaging Avalon

The winner of the Discovery FIPRESCI prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, Axel Petersen’s Avalon is an engaging film about terribly repulsive characters. In a word, as Scandinavian as...  

17/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Forum/Sweden

All the colours of Wilaya

The fourth feature film by the Spanish director Pedro Pérez Rosado (whose previous outings include La Mala and Agua con sal), Wilaya would feel more like an ethnographic documentary than a drama...  

17/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Panorama/Spain

Bel Ami: a great hommage to Maupassant’s boldness and modernity

It’s not by chance that Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami (in English also called The history of a scoundrel: a novel), first published in the magazine Gil Blas as a series of episodes, keeps...  

17/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Out of competition/UK

Buyers’ eyes are on Scandinavia 'and it doesn’t all have to be crime'

“To TrustNordisk, the European Film Market in Berlin has been second to none,” declared Managing Director Rikke Ennis, of Scandinavia’s leading international sales agency. “The buyers’ huge...  

17/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Market/Scandinavia

A Royal Affair: a delightful triangle of love and politics

With his fourth film as director, the Danish Nicolaj Arcel proves once again, with Berlinale’s second-to-last film in competition, A Royal Affair, that he and Rasmus Heisterberg are a brilliant...  

17/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition /Denmark

Mercy: happiness regained in hostile territory

As is often the case with the work of German director Matthias Glasner, Mercy is a film that one has to get into, just like its setting, the town of Hammerfest on the edge of the Arctic Sea, an...  

17/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Germany

Fliegauf goes back to his roots for Just the Wind

Hungarian director Benedek 'Bence' Fliegauf presented his latest film, Just The Wind, in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, which continues through the weekend. After his English-language...  

17/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition/Hungary

The Summit, investigation into an international strategy

Dora, Paolo, Mohamed. The witnesses’ faces scroll by, suffering, perturbed by the memory of the violence of those days. The account of the torture goes into vivid detail. Terrible physical and...  

16/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Panorama Italy

My Brother the Devil hits Berlin

A hard-hitting first feature tackling a lot of prickly themes, My Brother the Devil is a cinematic slap in the face from Swansea-born, Cairo-raised filmmaker Sally El Hosaini. Older brother Rashid...  

16/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 ­ | Panorama/UK

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