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Berlinale 2012


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

Everybody in Our Family capable of violence

Everybody in Our Family, Radu Jude’s follow-up to The Happiest Girl in the World has many of the characteristics the new Romanian cinema, but wraps them into a more violent story than is usually...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Forum - Romania/Netherlands

Childish Games : Antonio Chavarrías’ “Forbidden Games”

Catalan scripwriter, director, and producer Antonio Chavarrías, who notably co-produced the 2009 Golden Bear laureate with The Milk of Sorrow, this year competes at the festival with Childish...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition/Spain

Sister: a young Sisyphus in the Swiss Alps

Ursula Meier’s second feature film Sister opened the Berlinale’s fifth day, with the image of a 12-year-old boy, bundled up and overloaded, who goes forth in life as if wearing ski boots, with...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Switzerland/France

Spain is too far away for some

Anja Salomonovitz’s second feature film Spain is a road movie that without movement, with multiple storylines and a temporal surprise, in addition to being an immigration story, which is already a...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Forum | Austria

Iron Sky delivers…for the time being

One of the year’s most eagerly expected films for genre aficionados, Timo Vuorensola’s Iron Sky premiered in Berlin and, according to reactions, delivered the goodies. The film does work and is...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Panorama Special - Finland/Australia/Germany

Captive in the heart of darkness

Filipino director Brillante Mendoza is not known for doing anything half-heartedly. We all remember the dread with which we welcomed his film Kinatay (2009) and his award for best director in...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition/ France/Philippines/Germany/UK

Diaz – Don’t Clean up this Blood, the G8 according to Vicari

A room less crowded than the expectations around the film would suggest today (February 12, 2012) hosted the screening of Diaz - Don’t Clean up this Blood in the Berlinale’s Panorama Special...  

12/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Panorama Special/Italy

Monolithic Meteora

Meteora by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, Greece's candidate in competition at the 62nd Berlinale, could have been a stunning liturgical painting, with its two monasteries perched on top of Thessaly's...  

12/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition/Greece-Germany

From Princess to doped skiers, both in fact and fiction for Halonen

The 2001 Lahti World Championships in Finland was supposed to expose the glory of Finnish skiing, a cornerstone in the country’s self-esteem. Instead it turned out as a disaster, when an entire...  

12/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Market/Finland

Strong films for Cannes, but bad timing for the Berlinale

Wallonie Bruxelles Images manager Eric Franssen is the first to admit that the performance of French-speaking Belgian cinema at this year’s Berlinale is ... modest: four films in the European Film...  

12/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Market/Belgium

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