Berlinale Berlinale, Berlinale2023, Berlinalereport2023, Competition, Mexico, Movie
When you know that a person’s life is coming to an end due to illness, you certainly want to give that person many special moments and love and that’s what this film is all about. The story revolves around Tona’s Mateo García Elizondo) last days in this world. He has an incurable cancer and only […]
Berlinale Berlinale, Berlinale2023, Berlinalereport2023, Competition, Japan, Movie
When a cat-like animal suddenly appears on social media, being chased by a three-legged chair, you’re in the middle of the story of Suzume. But let’s get to the beginning of director Makoto Shinkai’s animated masterpiece, whose story is so complex that I won’t go into every detail in my review. Suzume is the name […]
Berlinale Berlinale, Berlinale2023, Berlinalereport2023, Competition, Movie
It is sometimes a journey that can change everything and in this film there are even two journeys. One journey begins with a trip from France where a mother (Ane, played by Patricia López Arnaiz) travels with her 3 children to her home in the Basque Country (autonomous region in northern Spain) to spend the […]
Berlinale Berlinale, Encounters, Movie
A small film crew consisting of two people and a translator is in the process of shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. They want to document a story about a young man who disappeared from his village without a trace. Their main contact is a lawyer (Aziz Çapkurt in the role of Eyüp) who seems […]
Berlinale, Generation, Generation Berlinale, Berlinale2023, Berlinalereport2023, Generation, Spielfilm, Switzerland
15-year-old Margaux (Clarisse Moussa) wanders the alleys of Alamon with a fixed gaze, her destination a children’s home where she begins her first day of internship today. After passing through the gate, her eyes meet little Juliette (Esin Demircan), the only child sitting there in the open. A moment of silence passes, then Margaux moves […]
Berlinale Berlinale, Berlinale2023, Berlinalereport2023, Generation, Slovakia, Spielfilm
In the first scene we are in a pet store and meet Rommy (Rozmarína Willems) and her mother. Her mother is in the process of choosing a budgie. In the next scene, they both walk home with a lemon yellow parakeet and its cage. Arriving at the front door, a boy stands there and asks […]