Lali ★★½
Making its own little bit of cinematic history as the first fully Pakistani production to be selected for Berlinale’s PanoramaContinue Reading
Author: Lida Bach
Not a Hero ★★½
After Village Rockstars in 2017 and the following year’s Bulbul Can Sing, Rima Das returns to Berlinale’s Generation section—dedicated toContinue Reading
Dao ★★★½
With his third Berlinale competition feature after 2012’s Aujourd’hui and Félicité in 2017, Alain Gomis reaffirms himself as one ofContinue Reading
We Are All Strangers ★★
Concluding his “Growing Up” trilogy that began in 2013 with Ilo Ilo and continued with 2019’s Wet Season, Anthony ChenContinue Reading
Chimney Town: Frozen in Time ★★
After the critical and commercial success of Yusuke Hirota‘s Poupelle of Chimney Town, which took the whimsical characters of AkihiroContinue Reading
Wolfram ★★½
Almost a decade after his highly regarded Sweet Country, Warwick Thornton returns, not only to the genre, but to theContinue Reading
Night Nurse ★★½
On the surface, the premise of Georgia Bernstein‘s deceptive debut feature, premiering at Sundance’s experimental Next section, sounds as seductiveContinue Reading
The Musical ★
Among the usually above-par selection of Sundance titles, films like Giselle Bonilla‘s crude debut feel as if the program coordinatorsContinue Reading
Give Me the Ball! (documentary) ★★★
Last year it was pioneering astronaut Sally Ride, the first US woman and third woman in the world to flyContinue Reading
The Incomer ★★
Last Sundance, it was Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan who met a quirky recluse on a fictional speck of landContinue Reading
