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Berlinale first look: Light of My Life navigates a world without women
Writer-director-producer Casey Affleck stars in this intimate film as a father guiding his young daughter through a dystopic society from which her gender has been obliterated, writes Ella Kemp.
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Berlinale first look: I Was at Home, But… is an elegantly radical mystery
Classically composed and gorgeously immersive, the new film from Angela Schanelec is a bizarre, mystifying work that is oddly comforting despite its many puzzles, writes Jessica Kiang.
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Berlinale first look: Buoyancy is a harrowing thriller about modern slavery
This assured debut by Australian writer-director Rodd Rathjen focuses on a young teenager put to work on a fishing trawler by a ruthless human trafficker, writes Paul O’Callaghan.
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Berlinale first look: God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya is a vivid feminist satire
Teona Strugar Mitevska’s first film in the main competition has proved a crowd-pleaser and no wonder, with a compelling lead performance from Zorica Nusheva as a young woman standing up to patriarchal church authorities, writes Geoff Andrew.
Wednesday 13 February 2019 -
Berlinale first look: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind takes a fresh look at a familiar crisis
Chiwetel Ejiofor writes, directs and acts in this smart and unpatronising biopic of a young man who came up with an ingenious solution when his village in Malawi was stricken by drought, wries Kambole Campbell.
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Berlinale first look: Out Stealing Horses recounts a golden summer touched with tragedy
Hans Petter Moland merges Buddhist philosophy with postwar nostalgia in this evocative tale of a childhood remembered in old age by a lonely Stellan Skarsgård, writes Caitlin Quinlan.
Wednesday 13 February 2019
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