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The Shadow Play
The Shadow Play
After a property boss falls to his death, a rookie cop investigates.
Buoyancy
Buoyancy
Story of a 14-year-old who is enslaved on a fishing trawler.
Piranhas
Piranhas
Criminal children seize power in a world without a future.
We Are Little Zombies
We Are Little Zombies
Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
House Of Hummingbird
House Of Hummingbird
She roams the neighbourhood with her best friend, attempts to fall in love, is sent to the hospital with an unclear diagnosis. Untethered from the wider world, 14-year-old Eun-hee floats through Seoul.
Ghost Town Anthology
Ghost Town Anthology
After a man dies in a car accident, time seems to lose all meaning for the residents of a small town... and then strangers begin to appear.
System Crasher
System Crasher
Nine-year-old Benni radically defies every rule. But this feared ‘system crasher’s’ only desire is to stop living in a residential home and go back to her mother.
Driveways
Driveways
Eight-year-old Cody is spending the summer in an unfamiliar setting with his mom Kathy. Though he can’t relate to the neighbourhood kids, things take an unexpected turn when he develops an unusual friendship with grouchy old Del from next door.
Out Stealing Horses
Out Stealing Horses
Trond Sander, 67, recalls the summer of 1948. When this blissful time came to an end, nothing was the same as before.
Jessica Forever
Jessica Forever
A group of orphan rebels are fortified in a villa with heavy arms to brace for a drone war with a faceless enemy in a dystopian future.
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Berlin International Film Festival Features

Complexity of the characters
François Ozon on flashbacks and character complexity in By The Grace Of God
Coming from reality
François Ozon on discovering testimonies and making By The Grace Of God
Storytelling childhood
Anna Pniowsky on Casey Affleck, storytelling, the script and the haircut for Light Of My Life
Different for girls
Jennifer Reeder on teenage lives, adult epiphanies, #MeToo and Knives And Skin
Making a discovery
Michela Occhipinti on Cristiano Travaglioli, body image, Flesh Out and Ring Of Fire
Marked contradictions
Claudio Giovannesi on Olivia Bellini, the screenplay, Piranhas and Giorgio Armani
Following a family's flight
Emelie Mahdavian and Su Kim talk about the challenges of editing and producing Midnight Traveler
Mirroring image
Michela Occhipinti on Flesh Out and Open Roads: New Italian Cinema
Dressing up
Joanna Hogg, Tilda Swinton and Honor Swinton Byrne on the costumes in The Souvenir
Capturing a life behind the camera
Kim Longinotto and Ollie Huddleston on Shooting The Mafia
Timing is everything
Charlotte Rampling on the vertiginous experience of 45 Years.

Berlin International Film Festival News

Synonyms wins Golden Bear
Israeli drama takes top prize in Berlin
Berlin announces first competition titles
Cote, Ozon and Akin join line-up.
Aisling Franciosi named as European Shooting Star
Irish-Italian actress branded 'one to watch'
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