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, Movie, Netherlands
Tomorrow your mother is coming to pick you up, the foster mother tells 10-year-old Lu, while other children scurry around in the background. Another child asks if she’s not looking forward to it, but Lu leaves the house in silence for the time being, and while she’s walking down the street, her anticipation of the […]
Berlinale, Generation, Generation Berlinale, Berlinale2023, Berlinalereport2023, Generation, Movie, Norway
E.D. Win (Viljar Knutsen Bjaadal) enters the schoolyard quite cool, over his shoulders he has swung a large speaker and while almost all the students in the courtyard admire him and philosophize about his likes on Instagram, Mina (Liv Elvira Kippersund Larsson) first has no idea who this boy is, but that will now change. […]
Berlinale, Generation Berlinale2023, Berlinalereport2023, Generation, Movie, People's Republic of China
Shenxiu travels together with her father, her little brother and her stepmother across the big sea. The ship makes a rather adventurous impression, everything seems gray and Shenxiu looks anything but really happy. She only has a brief smile for her brother, otherwise she prefers to hide in an oversized red sweater with a hood. […]