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The 75th edition of the Berlinale seemed set on breaking with stereotypes. Perhaps a shock to many, the Competition film that garnered the most laughs from its international audience was the sole German entry, What Marielle Knows. Even the decision to include Frédéric Hambalek’s sophomore feature and bench more established directors into...

The story of Cinderella has been passed down across the world for...

Even with the presence of an underground heroin den, the most intriguing setting in Vivian Qu’s Girls on Wire is a sprawling film studio, where reality and performance blur but never quite merge narratively into a film-within-a-film. Instead, the cool-toned, behind-the-scenes set-up is where the film’s protagonist, Fang Di (Wen Qi), a...

In her Berlinale entry, The Ice Tower (La tour de glace), French writer and...

Unfolding over a single, high-pressure shift in a surgical ward, Petra Volpe’s...

Assassination may seem like a young man’s game, but Hornclaw...

In hopes of filming a special on a viral music clip, a US television crew...

German director Jan-Ole Gerster’s (A Coffee in Berlin) English-language debut is...

Anticipation was already high as to what Korean director extraordinaire Bong...

Beginning with all the force of a courtroom gavel, Burhan Qurbani’s...