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Europe's sketchy and problematic relationship towards its Middle Eastern population was a key theme at the festival

Held as a physical event thanks to strict hygiene measures, Berlin's famed film festival kicks off with Francois Ozon's "Peter von Kant," a tribute to the power of cinema.

The Omicron Christmas holiday is upon us, most of us are working from home, but it’s almost time to properly turn off your email notifications, and with advice from a top ‘rom com’ expert, hunker down under your duvet to binge-watch heart-warming seasonal films to your heart’s content.

From the stark horror of Hamsun’s novel to Fassbinder’s commentary on love and racism, our critics choose great cultural works about being alone

The first shots set up the theme: them against us. An older woman, dumpy and plain, walks into an unfamiliar bar and takes a seat at the table inside the door. The barmaid, an insolent blond in a low-cut dress, strolls over. The woman says she will have a Coke. At the bar, a group of customers turns to stare at her, and the camera exaggerates the distance between them. Back at the bar, the blond tauntingly dares one of her customers to ask the woman to dance. He does. And now the camera groups the man and woman together on the dingy dance floor, while the others stare.