Berlin International Film Festival

Jîn

A bitter conflict has raged between guerrillas and the army in Turkey's Kurdish regions for over 30 years. Large expanses have now become war zones. C...

Eskil & Trinidad

Eskil accompanies his engineer father from place to place. His dad repairs power stations which means they are always on the move. No sooner does Eski...

Don't Expect Praises

Xiaobo and Yangjin are to spend the school holidays with their families in the countryside. Driving out of the city feels like going back in time. The...

Hide Your Smiling Faces

Tommy and his older brother Eric live in the midst of vast remote forests. The death of their friend pushes them close to the edge. Eric doesn’t know ...

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Capturing Dad

Sawa asks her two daughters, Hazuki and Koharu, to visit their dying father whom she divorced long time ago. She wants them to take a picture of his f...

Cold Rehearsal

Formerly successful director Hans has landed at the low point of his career. He gets caught up in an actors’ revenge fantasy, spun for him by dead act...

Together

Xiao Yang is seventeen years old, likes to eat pork liver soup, and usually rides through his neighbourhood on a scooter. It is striking how many peop...

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Weight of Elephants

Adrian’s isolation manifests itself in his fantasies: He is king of an underwater world, where reflections of crystal glasses on the walls mimic those...

No Man's Land

A neutral setting. No-man’s land. A man sitting on a chair, talking about his life. In his younger years, he was a soldier in an elite Portuguese comm...