The Berlinale, the Berlin Film Festival, has just ended. Along with Venice and Cannes, it is one of the three big film festivals in Europe.
Spend some time on their website to get a sense of what goes on there.
Here's a New York Times article outlining some of the big films that were featured there.
To Honors went The Milk of Sorrow, a Peruvian film about a child conceived through rape. It was the first win for a film from Peru. More in the New York Times.
Tom Tykwer, German director of "Run Lola Run," premiered his new thriller, The International.
Friend of mine actually directed the film that won the Audience award, The Yes Men Fix the World.
And just to mention it, I did actually once write a piece called "Morality and German Film" on the Berlinale of 2000 in the journal, Film and History 30.2 (2000) 75-77.
So many interesting global films.
ReplyDeleteThe film based on a Borges story, "Double Take," sounds like it could tie in with some of the themes that have shown up in our screened films. Particularly about double images and the medium of film as a producing a false image in some ways...