Berlinale 2025: Jan-Ole Gerster’s ‘Islands’ Film Set on Fuerteventura
Berlinale 2025: Jan-Ole Gerster’s ‘Islands’ Film Set on Fuerteventura by Alex Billington February 19, 2025 Time to take another trip out to an island to escape from the world as we know it. One of my favorite films of the 2025 Berlin Film Festival is this fantastic indie creation called
Nativity Plays to Two Berlinale Films
Having a movie at the Berlin Film Festival is widely seen as a major success, a dream come true even. Julia Franz Richter (Rubikon, Peacock, Ghost Trail) first had that experience in 2020 as part of the cast of Christian Petzold’s romantic fantasy drama Undine. This year, the 34-year-old Austrian
The Berlinale Shines a Light on Forgotten German Genre Films of the ’70s
German movies of the 1970s will forever be linked with the New German Cinema movement, the auteur directors — led by the likes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff — who shook the country out of its postwar stupor. “Papa’s Kino ist