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  1. So Much Water: Berlin Review

    11:15 am PST 2/12/2013
    • David Rooney
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    Uruguayan writer-director team Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge find humor and poignancy in a rained-out family vacation in this coming-of-age story. READ MORE

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    Closed Curtain (Parde): Berlin Review

    Closed Curtain (Parde): Berlin Review

    7:00 am PST 2/12/2013
    • Deborah Young
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    Banned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi co-directs an unauthorized film with Kamboziya Partovi that metaphorically recounts his artistic depression. READ MORE

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    Love Battles: Berlin Review

    Love Battles: Berlin Review

    11:01 am PST 2/11/2013
    • Jordan Mintzer
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    Actors Sara Forestier and James Thierree duke it out in Jacques Doillon's Berlin Panorama premiere, in which a budding couple engages in a bizarre form of physical therapy. READ MORE

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    Lost in Thailand (Ren zai jiongtu zhi tai jiong): Berlin Review

    Lost in Thailand (Ren zai jiongtu zhi tai jiong): Berlin Review

    10:50 am PST 2/11/2013
    • Deborah Young
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    The highest-grossing film in China's history — Xu Zheng's slapstick comedy that pushes sexual-innuendo censorship boundaries — has been called China's answer to "The Hangover." READ MORE

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    The Cold Lands: Berlin Review

    The Cold Lands: Berlin Review

    7:45 am PST 2/11/2013
    • Jordan Mintzer
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    Lili Taylor co-stars in writer-director Tom Gilroy's sophomore feature, which premiered in Berlin's Generation section. READ MORE

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    Maladies: Berlin Review

    Maladies: Berlin Review

    7:10 am PST 2/11/2013
    • David Rooney
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    After their 2008 project "Erased James Franco," the actor again collaborates with multimedia artist-filmmaker Carter on this more narrative-driven feature. READ MORE

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    Child’s Pose (Pozitia Copilului): Berlin Review

    Child’s Pose (Pozitia Copilului): Berlin Review

    6:41 am PST 2/11/2013
    • Deborah Young
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    Luminita Gheorghiu shines as a controlling mother who goes into overdrive when her adult son runs over a child. READ MORE

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    Shirley, Visions of Reality: Berlin Review

    Shirley, Visions of Reality: Berlin Review

    3:44 pm PST 2/10/2013
    • Deborah Young
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    Thirteen works by popular American painter Edward Hopper spring to life in this experimental Austrian tour-de-force. READ MORE

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    Vic + Flo Saw a Bear: Berlin Review

    Vic + Flo Saw a Bear: Berlin Review

    1:00 pm PST 2/10/2013
    • David Rooney
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    Festival circuit darling Denis Cote’s story of doomed lesbian love in the Canadian woods is half oddball melodrama, half grotesque revenge tale.  READ MORE

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    The Nun (La Religieuse): Berlin Review

    The Nun (La Religieuse): Berlin Review

    10:02 am PST 2/10/2013
    • Jordan Mintzer
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    Pauline Etienne, Louise Bourgoin and Isabelle Huppert star in Guillaume Nicloux's update of Denis Diderot's classic novel. READ MORE

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    The Weight of Elephants: Berlin Review

    The Weight of Elephants: Berlin Review

    10:00 am PST 2/10/2013
    • David Rooney
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    New Zealander writer-director Daniel Joseph Borgman's debut feature is an intimate account of an 11-year-old boy's struggle with isolation and abandonment. READ MORE

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    Gloria: Berlin Review

    Gloria: Berlin Review

    8:50 am PST 2/10/2013
    • David Rooney
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    Paulina Garcia plays a divorced woman taking a shot at mid-life love in Chilean director Sebastian Lelio's engaging character study. READ MORE

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    Youth: Berlin Review

    Youth: Berlin Review

    4:43 am PST 2/10/2013
    • Deborah Young
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    An amateur kidnapping plotted by two teenage brothers goes wrong in Tom Shoval’s quirky first feature. READ MORE

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    Gold: Berlin Review

    Gold: Berlin Review

    10:00 am PST 2/9/2013
    • Deborah Young
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    A band of immigrants take off for the Klondike Gold Rush in Thomas Arslan’s German-language Western. READ MORE

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    A Single Shot: Berlin Review

    A Single Shot: Berlin Review

    9:30 am PST 2/9/2013
    • David Rooney
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    Sam Rockwell, Jeffrey Wright, Jason Isaacs and William H. Macy star in David M. Rosenthal's thriller set in a West Virginia backwater simmering with menace. READ MORE

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  16. Lose Your Head: Berlin Review

    4:56 pm PST 2/8/2013
    • Deborah Young
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    A boy's holiday of casual gay sex, drugs and disco turns to horror against the backdrop of swinging Berlin. READ MORE

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    Paradise: Hope: Berlin Review

    Paradise: Hope: Berlin Review

    1:00 pm PST 2/8/2013
    • David Rooney
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    The work of Austria's droll provocateur Ulrich Seidl remains an acquired taste, but this final part of his eccentric "Paradise" trilogy yields unexpected pleasures. READ MORE

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    It's All So Quiet: Berlin Review

    It's All So Quiet: Berlin Review

    10:54 am PST 2/8/2013
    • David Rooney
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    Jeroen Willems stars in Nanouk Leopold's adaptation of the award-winning novel by Gerbrand Bakker, about a middle-aged gay farmer whose ailing father's decline brings him closer to self-knowledge. READ MORE

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    I'm Not Dead: Berlin Review

    I'm Not Dead: Berlin Review

    8:49 am PST 2/8/2013
    • Jordan Mintzer
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    Mehdi Dehbi and Maria de Medeiros star in writer-director Mehdi Ben Attia's sophomore feature. READ MORE

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    Fatal Assistance: Berlin Review

    Fatal Assistance: Berlin Review

    8:02 am PST 2/8/2013
    • Deborah Young
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    The international community that raced to aid Haiti after the January 2010 quake left the country in rubble is put under the magnifying glass by filmmaker Raoul Peck. READ MORE

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