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BERLIN & BEYOND begins today in San Francisco TRAILER Still not too late to get tickets. GO HERE. MARCG 27-31, 2025.

WINNER! ACADEMY AWARD® BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE NEWS UPDATE: On Monday, March 24, NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal was attacked and beaten...

Maybe my favorites are LESSON LEARNED, the Hungarian school docu-drama, and NO SLEEP TILL, lexandra Simpson's poetic meditation/diary/weather study...

THE NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS series at Lincoln Center April 2-13, 2025: LINKS TO REVIEWS

THE TRAITOR/LANDESVERRÄTER(Michael Krummenacher 2024) Newcomer Dmitri Krebs stars in the story of the first Swiss executed for treason in WWI, at...

THE MARIANA TRENCH/MARIANENGRABEN (Eileen Byrne 2024) Based on a German instant covid bestseller, this is a road movier and a buddy picture of an...

JOHN CRANKO (Joachim A. Lang 2024) Sam Riley (who became famous playing Ian Curtis of Joy Division) takes control in the early sixties as John...

DIMITRI KREBS IN THE TRAITOR MICHAEL KRUMMENACHER: THE TRAITOR/LANDESVERRÄTER(2024) A tale of Ernst Schrämli, first Swiss executed for treason...

EDGAR SELGE, LUNA WEDLER EILEEN BYRNE: THE MARIANA TRENCH/MARIANENGRABEN (2024) A buddy trip that's a meditation on death and illness Based...

SAM RILEY IN JOHN CRANKO JOACHIM A. LANG: JOHN CRANKO (2024) A gifted gay choreographer exiled from London, triumphs in Stuttgart and earns...

DROWNING DRY/SESES (Laurynas Bareiša 2024) Well shot and well acted as an ensemble, this depicts, in scenes out of chronological order, the lives...

TWO TIMES JOÃO LIBERADA (Paula Marques 2025) Paula Tomás Marques uses a fictional history to critique modern filmmaking conventions and show trans...

FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE/IN LIEBE, EURE HILDE (Andreas Dresen 2024) Impressive and involving tale of Hans and Hilde Coppi, who were part of the "Red...

LAURYNAS BAREIŠA: DROWNING DRY/SESES Watching and pondering "Engaging," wrote Alissa Simon in Variety, "yet tantalizingly withholding." As she...

JOHANNES HEGEMANN, LIV LISA FRIES ANDREAS DRESEN: FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE/IN LIEBE, EURE HILDE (2024) TRAILER An unselconscious,...

JUNE JOÃO PAULA MARQUES: TWO TIMES JOÃO LIBERADA (2024) Gendered exorcism: Paula Tomás Marques uses a fictional history to critique modern...

STRANGER (Zhengfan Yang 2024) Chinese The Chinese filmmaker Zhengfan Yang presents a sequence of seven vignettes, motly confined to hotel rooms,...

ZHENGFAN YANG: STRANGER (2024) People come, people go This film, focused on a series of hotel rooms, made me think, perhaps illogically, of...

SAD JOKES (Fabian Stumm 2024 A gay German director makes a film about a gay German director in which he plays the lead, experimenting with a mix...

KYUKA. BEFORE SUMMER'S END (Kostis Charamountanis 2024) A young Greek provocateur, takes us to a father and his two adult children spending summer...

FABIAN STAMM, JONAS DASSLER IN SAD JOKES FABIAN STUMM: SAD JOKES (2024) A film about a screenplay nobody likes, which might be this one The...

KOSTIS CHARMOUNTANIS: KYUKA. BEFORE SUMMER'S END (2024) Playful squabbling by a Greek island The yacht, the vomiting, the view of spoiled...

NO SLEEP TILL (Alexandra Simpson 2024) In this poetic, fiction and real, portrait of Florida as it rolls into a hurricane, Simpson uses her...