Berlin film festival 2021 roundup: the most impressive selection in years
‘European art cinema at its most irresistibly playful’: Ani Karseladze in Alexandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? Photograph: Faraz Fesharaki/DFFB
‘European art cinema at its most irresistibly playful’: Ani Karseladze in Alexandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? Photograph: Faraz Fesharaki/DFFB
No glitz, no big screens, no cold… in a modest yet triumphant virtual edition of the festival, dazzling debuts vied with the superb, low-key latest from Céline Sciamma
Sat 6 Mar 2021 03.00 EST
There’s something to be said for an online Berlin film festival. You don’t have to endure the winter bleakness of Potsdamer Platz, and you can watch a lot more, since you get a full 24 hours into which to cram each day’s crowded viewing menu. Naturally, everyone felt that Covid restrictions were tough luck for the festival’s directors, Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek, now in their second year; after 2020’s respectable but low-key debut, it seemed that they had been robbed of the chance to consolidate in style.
There’s something to be said for an online Berlin film festival. You don’t have to endure the winter bleakness of Potsdamer Platz, and you can watch a lot more, since you get a full 24 hours into which to cram each day’s crowded viewing menu. Naturally, everyone felt that Covid restrictions were tough luck for the festival’s directors, Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek, now in their second year; after 2020’s respectable but low-key debut,...
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