Berlinale 2020 – all our coverage

Berlinale 2020 report: a slow turn, with bumps

The winner dialled in from house arrest and some of the bigger names were missing in action, but the 70th Berlinale pulled together enough finds and fresh ideas to seem open to the future, found Jessica Kiang.
Wednesday 4 March 2020

Nine discoveries from the 2020 Berlinale

First word on some of the striking debuts and other strong finds in the notoriously wide-ranging Berlin Film Festival.
Wednesday 4 March 2020

Fifty years of feminist cinema at the Berlinale: still waiting for a revolution

This year’s Berlin Film Festival offered an opportunity to reflect upon a half-century of highlighting women’s voices in cinema, of solidarity and slow progress, writes Ela Bittencourt.
Tuesday 10 March 2020

Pinocchio review: Matteo Garrone carves a classic tale into something new

Geppetto and his put-upon puppet explore their father-son dynamic in this revitalised telling of the Italian favourite, enhanced by magical social realism and seriously impressive prosthetics, writes John Bleasdale.
Tuesday 14 January 2020

Malmkrog review: Cristi Puiu convenes a big-house philosophical pile-on

The Romanian director’s latest adapts a philosophical novel by Russian mystic Vladimir Solovyov as a three-and-a-half hour roundelay of high-minded debate amongst six characters in a wintry mansion. It’s intellectually rich and rigorous, but undeniably arduous cinema, finds Nick James.
Sunday 23 February 2020

Uppercase Print review: a graffiti hero exposes the systemic rot of communist Romania

Radu Jude weaves archive footage and historical rage into the story of a young man who defied dictatorship to tell urgent truths about the Ceaușescu regime, writes Carmen Gray.
Tuesday 25 February 2020

Onward review: Pixar’s fantasy quest uncovers brotherly love

Two mismatched suburban elf brothers seek to reconjure their late father in Dan Scanlon’s rollicking emotional adventure, finds Lou Thomas.
Saturday 29 February 2020

The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror review: Rául Ruiz torments a professor from beyond the grave

Finally rediscovered and reconstructed by his widow and now co-author Valeria Sarmiento, what would have been the unstoppable Chilean master’s first feature instead becomes his second posthumous work: a headlong Dadaist puzzle film about the haunting of a guilty widower, writes Ela Bittencourt.
Thursday 5 March 2020