Below you will find our favorite films of the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.
TOP PICKS
Giovanni Marchini Camia
I.
On the Beach at Night Alone
II.
Bright Nights
III.
Ulysses in the Subway, The Other Side of Hope, The Party, El Mar La Mar, Railway Sleepers, Untitled
Yaron Dahan
I.
El Mar La Mar
II.
The Other Side of Hope
Have a Nice Day
III.
On Body and Soul
COVERAGE
Giovanni Marchini Camia
Read | How Political Is the Berlinale?: On Berlin's Critics' Week and Étienne Comar's Django
- Read | Family Dinners and Parisian Hotels: On Oren Moverman's The Dinner and Neïl Beloufa's Occidental
- Read | Getting Better—and Funnier: On Aki Kaurismäki's The Other Side of Hope and Sally Potter's The Party
- Read | Chromesthetic Delirium and Documentary Spontaneity: On Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, Flo Jacobs & Ken Jacobs' Ulysses in the Subway and Michael Glawogger & Monika Willi's Untitled
Yaron Dahan
- Read | Elemental Poetics: On J.P. Sniadeki & Joshua Bonnetta's El Mar La Mar
- Read | Discompassionate Acts of Compassion: On Aki Kaurismäki's The Other Side of Hope
- Read | The Concrete Foundations of Greed: On Liu Jian's Have a Nice Day
Neil Bahadur
- Read | The Space Between Love and Heartbreak: On Hong Sang-soo's On the Beach at Night Alone
Celluloid Liberation Front
- Read | A Cosmogony of Political Cinema: On Fernando Birri's ORG
INTERVIEWS
Look Inside Yourself: Talking to Sompot Chidgasornpongse about Railway Sleepers
by Giovanni Marchini Camia
There Is No Such Thing As Reality: Hong Sang-soo Discusses On the Beach at Night Alone
by Christopher Small
Back in the New York Groove: Alex Ross Perry Discusses Golden Exits
by Calum Marsh
DIALOGUES
Conditions of Uncertainty: Discussing Alexandre Koberidze's Let the Summer Never Come
by Dennis Vetter, Pip Chodorov, Ruth Anderwald, and Alexandre Koberidze