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Berlinale 2021: Magic and Reality Collide
The best films at this year s Berlinale traded in fairy tale and fable, but the titles that seemed to get Film Twitter and the Berlinale jury most excited were in-your-face works offering a mirror on the ills of society Article by Jamie Dunn | 10 Mar 2021
There’s much to miss from Berlinale going digital this year. Kebabs from the Mall of Berlin; cheesy käsespätzle from the wee van near the Sony Centre; the weirdly addictive yellow relish on the sandwiches from the bakery at Potsdamer Platz Bahnhof. More than the food, though, I missed those crazy, daring Berliner cineastes who would queue around the block for the kind of weird art films or experimental documentaries that are lucky if they play to audiences of half a dozen at any other festival.
The film, which has just premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, tells the story of an eight-year-old girl who has just lost her grandmother and is attempting to navigate the confusing emotional terrain of family grief
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,.
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
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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 Mariett
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