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2413 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 06/11/2025.

The flip side of capitalism

A puzzled audience received the latest work by Christian Petzold, Yella, whose (world premiere) screening in competition today at the Berlinale Palast ended with little applause and some...  

14/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

Notes on lost women

"The main characters in this film are complicated, contradictory, full of problems and, in some ways, unpleasant, so we wanted, we hoped that the actresses would make audiences like them": Patrick...  

14/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

There’s something about Irina

In official competition at the Berlinale, Sam Garbarski’s Irina Palm was met with thunderous applause after its press screening yesterday. The delicate and highly entertaining film is currently...  

14/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

El Otro: A moving existential road movie

Today’s competition film, El Otro (The Other) by Argentinean filmmaker Ariel Rotter, is a pleasant existential sonata following the inner journey of a man, played by the charismatic Julio Chavez....  

13/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

Téchiné: Life beyond AIDS

Two years after Changing Times, French filmmaker Andre Téchiné is back in official competition at the Berlinale with Les témoins (The Witnesses), a film depicting the onset of the AIDS epidemic in...  

12/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

August premieres Mandela biopic

Goodbye Bafana, today’s official competition film, is Bille August’s take on the special relationship that existed between Nelson Mandela and James Gregory, the white South African who became his...  

11/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

Costanzo’s Dostoyevsky-like Christ figure charms Berlin

Intrigued by an unusual subject and fascinated by a riveting and by no means typical narrative, the press enthusiastically received Saverio Costanzo’s second feature, In Memory of Myself,...  

11/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

The Counterfeiters: Of swindlers and men

Would Stefan Ruzowitzky have shot The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) ten years ago? The Viennese director of Anatomy and All the Queen’s Men smiles, stressing his desire to turn the taboos of...  

11/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

Official selection

The full list of candidates that will compete for the famous Berlin Bears were disclosed yesterday. Of the 22 titles in competition, 11 are full European (co-)productions and two are mixed...  

23/01/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

Ozon’s Angel to close festival

The official competition of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival (February 8-18) will have a distinctly French feel to it, as François Ozon’s Angel has been announced as the fourth French...  

23/01/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition/France

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