Below you will find our favorite films of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.
TOP PICKS
TOP 10
(1) Transit (Christian Petzold)
(2) Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)
(3) An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
(4) The Waldheim Waltz (Ruth Beckermann)
(5) Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz)
(6) In the Realm of Perfection (Julian Faraut)
(7) Classical Period (Ted Fendt)
(8) Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D'Ambrose)
(9) Inland Sea (Kazuhiro Soda) & Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)
(Contributors: Annabel Ivy Brady-Brown, Giovanni Marchini Camia, Celluloid Liberation Front, Adam Cook, David Hudson, Jordan Cronk, Daniel Kasman, Olaf Möller, Michael Pattison, Richard Porton, Christopher Small, Barbara Wurm)
DANIEL KASMAN
(1) Season of the Devil (2) The Waldheim Waltz (3) Grass (4) Jamila (5) Foreboding (6) Transit (7) An Elephant Sitting Still (8) Infinite Football (9) In the Realm of Perfection (10) Inland Sea
ADAM COOK
(1) Infinite Football (2) The Tree (3) Season of the Devil (4) Transit (5) Grass (6) In the Realm of Perfection (7) Optimism (8) Isle of Dogs (9) The Waldheim Waltz (10) L. Cohen
CHRISTOPHER SMALL
(1) Classical Period (2) Transit (3) The Heiresses (4) Notes on an Appearance (5) Inland Sea (6) Unsane (7) Old Love
COVERAGE
DANIEL KASMAN
Classical Period (Ted Fendt)
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
Foreboding (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Grass (Hong Sang-soo)
The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi)
Inland Sea (Kazuhiro Soda)
In the Realm of Perfection (Julian Faraut)
Jamila (Aminatou Echard)
Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz)
The Waldheim Waltz (Ruth Beckermann)
CHRISTOPHER SMALL
Transmissions from Planet Weimar: People in the Bush (Friedrich Dalsheim, Gulla Pfeffer), Across Two Worlds by Car (Clärenore Stinnes, Carl-Axel Söderström)
Transmissions from Planet Weimar: The Devious Path (G.W. Pabst)
ADAM COOK
Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)
CARLO CHATRIAN
Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz)
INTERVIEWS
Shadows of Sarajevo: An Interview with André Gil Mata
by Adam Cook
A Citizen without Civilization: Christian Petzold Discusses Transit
by Daniel Kasman
Why Read the Classics?: Ted Fendt Discusses Classical Period
by Christopher Small
Not Reconciled: Ruth Beckermann Discusses The Waldheim Waltz
by David Perrin