Berlin Film Festival 2022 Archives

★★★, Berlin Film Festival 2022, coming of age, debut director, Drama, London Film Festival 2022, Reviews, Turkey, TurkeyJuly 21, 2024

BFI LFF 2021: Brother’s Keeper (2021) (Okul tirasi)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆

Brother’s Keeper: Ferit Karaha’s tragic tale of boarding school brutality to Kurdish boys in snowy eastern Turkey.

★★★, Berlin Film Festival 2022, documentary, France, Icon, On Demand, out now, Reviews, VoDJune 9, 2024

Heart of an Oak (2022) (Le Chêne)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
The Heart of an Oak, directed by Laurent Charbonnier and Michel Seydoux, edited by Sylvie Lager, is a year of magnificent photography in the life of the creatures – animals, birds and insects – that live in or around a huge 200-year-old oak tree in a forest in France.

★★★, Austria, Berlin Film Festival 2022, Berlinale, Curzon Home Cinema, Germany, out now, queer, ReviewsDecember 20, 2022

Peter von Kant (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Peter von Kant is a gender-flipped re-imagining by François Ozon of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1972 classic power play of sexual obsession The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.