Berlin 2022
Andreas Kleinert’s ‘Dear Thomas’ Sweeps 2022 German Film Awards
Dear Thomas, Andreas Kleinert’s black-and-white artistic biopic of the late poet, writer, and film director Thomas Brasch, has won the Lola for best film at the 2022 German Film Awards. Kleinert also won best director and Albrecht Schuch took the 2022 best acting prize for his starring role as Brasch. It’s the third acting Lola […]
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‘A Piece of Sky’ (‘Drii Winter’): Film Review | Berlin 2022
Swiss writer-director Michael Koch's follow-up to his debut 'Marija' casts non-professional actors in the story of a young couple facing mortality.
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Berlin: Domestic Violence Drama ‘Happiness’ Wins Panorama Audience Award
Happiness, a look at domestic violence through the lens of traditional, misogynistic Kazakh rituals, from director Askar Uzabayev, has won the Panorama Audience Award for best drama at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival. Cem Kaya’s Love, Deutschmarks and Death, an examination of 60 years of Turkish music in Germany, which also serves as an alternative […]
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‘Into My Name’ (‘Nel Mio Nome’): Film Review | Berlin 2022
Executive produced by Elliot Page, Nicolò Bassetti's documentary follows four close friends through their gender transition.
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Berlin: Online Market Wraps With Record Dealmaking
It was all-online (again!) this year, but that didn’t stop business from getting done. Berlin’s European Film Market wrapped its second virtual European Film Market with a “record number of deals” signed during the 2022 event, according to EFM director Dennis Ruh, who pointed to Sony Pictures’ $60 million worldwide prebuy for Tom Hanks project […]
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Berlin Film Festival Faces Future Challenges After In-Person, COVID-Era Edition
The rain came down in a cold drizzle outside the Berlinale Palast on Wednesday night as, inside, Berlin Film Festival jury president M. Night Shyamalan unveiled that Carla Simón’s sun-drenched Spanish drama Alcarràs, had won the 2022 Golden Bear for best film. It was a popular choice — most critics warmed to Simón’s bittersweet tale […]
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Berlin: ‘Rabiye Kurnaz,’ ‘Stay Awake’ Win German Art House Cinema Awards
Andreas Dresen’s political drama Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush and Jamie Sisley’s U.S. feature Stay Awake — which looks at the toll drug addiction takes on a family — have won top honors from the guild of German art house cinema owners as the best movies screening in competition and the Generation 14plus sections […]
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Berlin: ‘Myanmar Diaries’ Wins Amnesty International Film Award
The Myanmar Diaries, a documentary made by a collective of anonymous directors from inside Myanmar that depicts the brutal crackdown by the government since the military coup in the country last year, has won the Amnesty International Film Award for best film at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival. The prize, which comes with a […]
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Berlin Hidden Gem: Dito Tsintsadze’s Genre Mash Up ‘Roxy’
Asked to describe his new film, Roxy, director Dito Tsintsadze compares it to a mashup of two of his favorite Coen Brothers’ films: Fargo and The Man Who Wasn’t There. “We have this sort of faceless man, a taxi driver, like the barber in The Man Who Wasn’t There, a man who doesn’t believe in […]
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Berlin: ‘Alcarras’ Wins Golden Bear for Best Film
Alcarràs, Carla Simón’s moving drama about a family of Catalan peach farmers, has won the Golden Bear for best film at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival. Simón, whose debut feature, Summer 1993, took Berlin’s best first feature award in 2017, made a triumphant return to the Berlinale with this bittersweet drama, which follows the […]
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‘The Novelist’s Film’ (‘So-seol-ga-ui Yeong-hwa’): Film Review | Berlin 2022
Indefatigable South Korean one-man band Hong Sangsoo continues his idiosyncratic exploration of creativity, chance encounters, noodles, booze and small talk in his 27th feature.
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Berlin: ‘Kind Hearts,’ ‘Skhema’ Win Top Prize Crystal Bear in Youth Sidebar Generation 14plus
Kind Hearts, a Belgian documentary from directors Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes and Skhema, a feature from Kazakhstan directed by Farkhat Sharipov, have jointly won the 2022 Berlin Film Festival’s Crystal Bear for best film in Berlin’s Generation 14plus section for youth films. Kind Hearts follows a young Brussels couple, Billie and Lucas, who have […]
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