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The Berlin Film Festival is back for another year with a bumper programme full of films, many of them world premières.
The festival runs from 16 to 26 February
View Films by Strand:
- Berlinale Classics
- Berlinale Special
- Competition
- Encounters
- Generation 14plus
- Generation Kplus
- Homage - Steven Spielberg
- Panorama
- Perspektive Deutches Kino
- Retrospectives
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BIFF Latest Reviews

A married man cheats on his husband with a woman... then tells him about it.

A man loses his grip on reality after becoming involved in a libertarian masculinity cult.

In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turned into a 12 square kilometer crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel was found in the pilot's body, implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.

Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are separated from each other when Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York where Nora now lives with her American husband.

On her 18th birthday, tough-girl Jonny eats a cake baked by her aunt according to a magical family recipe and undergoes a radical metamorphosis.

Jules is a drag artist in London. After a performance, he is brutally attacked and, traumatised, withdraws into himself. Months later, he recognises his assailant in a gay sauna and begins an affair with him, incognito. A revenge thriller.

Four Black transgender sex workers explore the dichotomy between the Black community and themselves, while confronting issues long avoided.

A real estate worker who is about to marry his boss' daughter falls down a deep manhole and can't work out how to escape.

Tensions and desire bloom among five people at a holiday home by the Baltic Sea.

An eight-year-old explores her identity over a summer in the Basque country.
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