The Highlights of this Year’s Berlinale Film Festival
The most exciting works of the first online edition of the festival look at strategies of care and ways of refusing neoliberalism
‘I have never seen a hot air balloon I made floating in the sky before,’ says Mien (Khuong Thi Minh Nga), one of the four Vietnamese women with whom Nigerian footballer Bassley (Olegunleko Ezekiel Gbenga) lives in Lê Bảo’s
obliquely-told debut film
2021). There is very little dialogue in this film
, but the emotional longing in these lines almost perfectly encapsulates the complex struggles at the core of it.