And then I saw a film!

And it’s a wrap!

The Berlinale otherwise known as – the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival is done!

And what a wonderful time we all had!

We had a long, fantastic fortnight of films, films, and yes more films!

And let me tell you.

It was interesting stuff!

So let’s get on with it shall we?

Berlin has been hobnobbing (safely) with the best.

I mean, if it’s good enough for M. Night Shyamalan, Emma Thompson, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sigourney Weaver, and Juliette Binoche. It’s surely good enough for you!

In the flurry of excitement and talented art, I managed to watch forty-one (41) films in just ten (10) days.

Forty-One!

I admit.

It was a little exhausting, but some films were long, and some weren’t!

I must be bonkers!

Here are the films that I watched:

• Alle reden übers Wetter | Talking About the Weather
• Amintiri de pe Frontul de Est | Memories from the Eastern Front
• Ampangabagat Nin Talakba Ha Likol | It’s Raining Frogs Outside
• Bird in the Peninsula
• Call Jane
• Chhngai Dach Alai | Further and Further Away
• Concerned Citizen
• Der Passfälscher | The Forger
• El sembrador de estrellas | The Sower of Stars
• Ellas vagt | The Shift
• Europe
• Four Nights
• Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
• Haulout
• Heroínas | Heroines
• Heroji radničke klase | Working Class Heroes
• Jon-Jae-Ui Jib | House of Existence
• Kumbuka
• Le temps des framboises | Last Summers of the Raspberries
• Miền ký ức | Memoryland
• Millie Lies Low
• Mis dos voces | My Two Voices
• My Small Land | Mein kleines Land
• Myanmar Diaries
• Nelly & Nadine
• No Simple Way Home
• Nous, étudiants! | We, Students!
• Occhiali neri | Dark Glasses
• Produkty 24 | Convenience Store
• Retreat
• Rooz-e sib | The Apple Day | A wie Apfel
• Shabu
• Sonne
• Sorry Genosse | Sorry Comrade
• Terykony – Boney Piles | Taubes Gestein
• The Outfit
• Trap
• Três tigres tristes | Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter
• Will My Parents Come to See Me
• Viens je t’emmène | Nobody’s Hero
• Yin Ru Chen Yan | Return to Dust

In my opinion, every film was brilliant, and none were duds!

FILMS I REALLY, REALLY LIKED!

I’m very into British / Irish, Asian and East European films, as they’re all quite gritty, weird and obscure.

If you’re really into independent or international films, then the following list will please you, and whet your appetite, for good quality film-making.

Films that don’t need to worry about whether the audience will “get it” or appeal to 12-year-old boys.

In short, intelligent films!

Here goes:

FILMS THAT I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE SEEN, BUT DIDN’T!

• An Cailín Ciúin | The Quiet Girl | Das stille Mädchen
• Allons enfants | Rookies
• Casting a New Light: A Proletarian Film of the Weimar Republic
• Cinco lobitos | Lullaby
• Coma
• Die allerlangweiligste Oma auf der ganzen Welt | The Most Boring Granny in the Whole World
• Die leere Mitte | The Empty Center
• Dilim dönmüyor | Meine Zunge dreht sich nicht – Dilim dönmüyor | My Tongue Does Not Turn
• Diva
• Dreckfresser | Dirt for Dinner
• Dreaming Walls
• Everything Will Be OK
• Funkele
• Für die Vielen – Die Arbeiterkammer Wien | For the Many – The Vienna Chamber of Labour
• Gangubai Kathiawadi
• Gavazn | Deer | Hirsch
• Gong ji | Rooster | Gockel
• If Revolution Is a Sickness
• In der Wüste
• It Began as a Holiday: Modelmaking for The French Dispatch
• Jet Lag
• Juunt Pastaza entsari | Waters of Pastaza | Die Kinder vom Río Pastaza
• Kalle Kosmonaut
• Knor | Oink
• Ladies Only
• Louis I., König der Schafe | Louis I., King of the Sheep
• Merry Christmas Deutschland oder Vorlesung zur Geschichtstheorie II
• Moune Ô
• Nada para ver aqui | Nothing to See Here
• Najeneun deopgo bameneun chupgo | Hot in Day, Cold at Night
• Nana – Before, Now & Then
• Nel mio nome | Into My Name
• No U-Turn
• Rabiye Kurnaz gegen George W. Bush | Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush
• Sab changa si | All Was Good
• Scala
• Skřivánci na niti | Larks on a String | Lerchen am Faden
• Ta farda | Until Tomorrow
• Taurus
• Terra que marca | Striking Land
• The Maji-Maji Readings
• The Rising
• This Makes Me Want to Predict the Past
• Unrueh | Unrest
• Vlekkeloos | Spotless | Fleckenlos
• Wheels on the Bus | Die Räder

In watching a festival film, you get to see a large variety of international locations and settings, and a better intimate view with acting and scenes, that are much more realistic than in films with a Hollywood budget!

The Berlin International Film Festival, otherwise known as the Berlinale, is a special treat for the public.

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