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This has been bothering me for the past few years, and it's finally time to get this off my chest. I have been attending the Berlin Film Festival (known as "Berlinale" locally) for 10 years, it's one of the oldest film festivals in the world, and I'm bummed out by how this fest has lost
publications described the sean penn documentary as "awkwardly narcissistic" and "fawning," it was overall warmly received. and president zelensky and his team, who viewed it before the festival, liked it. his chief of staff tweeted that it was a great film. germany has been enjoying a very good year in cinema, especially with its anti—war film all quiet on the western front picking up all kinds of accolades internationally. and here in berlin at the festival, there are five german films in competition. emma jones has been talking to one of her favourite film critics about the german offerings and other notable films in the festival line—up. film critic kaleem aftab and i met during this year's berlinale to chat about the films we'd seen, and we started off with the opening movie, rebecca miller's she came to me. what are the critics saying about it, and what's the film about? critics have come out and said it's not one of the best opening films that
good luck to superpower and the ukraine — glory to ukraine. thank you. films dealing with ukraine have certainly been getting attention in berlin. although one or two trade publications described the sean penn documentary as awkwardly narcissistic and fawning, it was overall warmly received. and president zelensky and his team, who viewed it before the festival, liked it. his chief of staff tweeted that it was a great film. germany has been enjoying a very good year in cinema, especially with its anti—war film, all quiet on the western front, picking up all kinds of accolades internationally. and here in berlin at the festival, there are five german films in competition. emma jones has been talking to one of her favorite film critics about the german offerings and other notable films in the festival line—up. film critic kaleem aftab and i met during this year's berlinale to chat about the films we'd seen, and we started off with the opening movie,
Ending on a high note!! What a discovery – I hope this goes on to create conversations around the globe. My final screening of the 2023 Berlin Film Festival was this terrific film - Femme, co-written and co-directed by filmmakers Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping. It's one of the best films of the
and it's also a very interesting film. it's kind of been controversial in a lot of ways, because it's about a young 19—year—old who starts having an affair with a ao—year—old man. dogs bark well, i think also in the book, the girl is actually much younger so quite a few changes have been made. but what is also really interesting about the film is its setting, isn't it? it's in 1990, the year after the berlin wall fell. i mean, that is one of the fascinating... probably one of the best aspects of the film is the backdrop, it's this kind of very weird moment that east germans know they're going to become part of germany. the east is worried that they're seen as the poor neighbours, that they won't be treated as equal. the berlinale�*s been showing a lot of solidarity with ukraine this year, but there's also a lot of special events to support iran.
as awkwardly narcissistic and fawning, it was overall warmly received. and president zelensky and his team, who viewed it before the festival, liked it. his chief of staff tweeted that it was a great film. germany has been enjoying a very good year in cinema, especially with its anti—war film, all quiet on the western front, picking up all kinds of accolades internationally. and here in berlin at the festival, there are five german films in competition. emma jones has been talking to one of her favourite film critics about the german offerings and other notable films in the festival line—up. film critic kaleem aftab and i met during this year's berlinale to chat about the films we'd seen, and we started off with the opening movie, rebecca miller's she came to me. what the critics saying about it, and what's the film about? critics have come out and said it's not one of the best opening films that berlinale have had. it's a romeo and juliet story,
of the moment — that of so—called toxic masculinity. the fact it comes from a queer perspective makes it even more interesting. and indeed, there are several films at this year's berlinale that do explore this subject. do you have people depending on you? queer film—makerjohn trengove�*s film manodrome, starring jesse eisenberg as a new father sucked into a cult of masculinity, is in competition in berlin. the film—maker says he values getting his perspective on why men might run from seeming soft. femme certainly explores preston's visible expression of traditional masculinity, while jules feels most powerful when he's on stage as a drag queen. we always try to avoid binaries in the film. i mean, that's what it's about — femininity, masculinity, it's a spectrum. and i think we always talked about the idea of heroes and villains as being another binary that we don't want to fall into the trap of that. but first and foremost, we set out to make, you know, an exciting neo noir revenge thriller.
yeah, i think one of the beautiful things about animation is you can do really great kind of attack scenes with planes and buildings that you need hundreds of million dollars, a marvel kind of budget, to do as a non—animation movie. and these animated films also have the beauty of animation in a really touchable memory. is there anything really buzzy in the festival this year, would you say, that a lot of people are talking about? i think one of the films that everyone is kind of talking about is reality, which is a whistle—blower film. what is really taking everybody by the horns is the central performance by sydney sweeney, who we know from white lotus. well, thank you, kaleem. enjoy the rest of the berlinale, keep on watching. thank you. # go away from my window...# joan baez has to be one of the most influential figures in american folk.