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Asian cinema
10 of the best movies from the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival
Controversy overshadowed an engaging selection at this year’s Berlinale, the best of which included Rose, Josephine and Queen at Sea.
24 Feb 2026 - 5:12PM
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Asian cinema: Chinese films
How Anthony Chen’s We Are All Strangers captures the beauty of Singapore
21 Feb 2026 - 12:45PM
Asian cinema: Japanese films
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A New Dawn: climate crisis meets fireworks in confusing Japanese anime
19 Feb 2026 - 12:15PM
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Asian cinema: Chinese films
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We Are All Strangers: Anthony Chen’s epic look at fatherhood in Singapore
A beautiful conclusion to Anthony Chen’s ‘Growing Up’ trilogy, We Are All Strangers is a study of family and love in all its forms.
16 Feb 2026 - 10:15PM
Malaysia
‘I carry him with me’: Michelle Yeoh’s tearful tribute to parents at Berlinale
The Malaysian actress received the Honorary Golden Bear award during the opening gala of the event in Germany.
19 Feb 2026 - 1:32PM
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Asian cinema
Move over Bollywood, Indian art-house cinema is on the rise
Films such as All We Imagine as Light, Sister Midnight and Santosh are showing a different side to Indian cinema and attracting global fans.
29 Apr 2025 - 9:25PM
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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
10 of the best movies from the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival
Sex, love, spies, fame, family, trauma and plenty of politics were on the menu at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.
25 Feb 2025 - 11:15AM
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European cinema
Coming-of-age drama, Chinese director win Berlin film festival awards
Dreams (Sex Love) by Norway’s Dag Johan Haugerud awarded Golden Bear, while Living the Land earns China’s Huo Meng director prize in Berlin.
23 Feb 2025 - 9:50AM
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Asian cinema: Korean films
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What Does that Nature Say to You: Hong Sang-soo finds humour in domesticity
Korean director’s film examines, with humour, the difficulties of artistic life through the lens of a man meeting his girlfriend’s family.
21 Feb 2025 - 9:44AM
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American cinema
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Blue Moon: tender drama starring Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley
Richard Linklater’s new film sees long-time collaborator Ethan Hawke play the American lyricist Lorenz Hart as he struggles with fading fame.
19 Feb 2025 - 12:14PM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
In Queerpanorama, Hong Kong’s Jun Li has made his boldest film yet
Director drew from his own experiences for Queerpanorama, about a man meeting foreign men for sex in Hong Kong. It’s got Berlin buzzing.
20 Feb 2025 - 11:14AM
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Asian cinema: Chinese films
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Girls on Wire: Wen Qi shines in Vivian Qu’s uneven genre blender
Taiwanese actress shows her versatility as a soap star turned stuntwoman in a film marred by narrative confusion and a sudden tonal change.
6 May 2025 - 4:32PM
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Asian cinema: Korean films
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Mickey 17, wild sci-fi satire from Parasite’s Bong Joon-ho
Robert Pattinson plays the titular Mickey, a loser sent into space, where he is cloned with hilarious results in this cult-novel adaptation.
17 Feb 2025 - 8:29AM
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American cinema
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Dreams, chilling film with Jessica Chastain about US-Mexico ties
Jessica Chastain plays the rich lover of an illegal immigrant in Michel Franco’s exploration of America’s relationship with poorer neighbour.
17 Feb 2025 - 12:51AM
Asian cinema: Chinese films
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Living the Land a captivating tale of upheaval in 1990s rural China
Non-professional actors and stunning camerawork lift this engrossing story of the drastic changes experienced in rural China.
23 Feb 2025 - 9:54AM
Hong Kong celebrities and icons
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From child star to activist, Hong Kong actress Josephine Siao’s career
Josephine Siao began her acting career aged 6 and made over 100 films before becoming deaf. She is an activist against child sexual abuse.
8 Nov 2024 - 7:52AM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
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All Shall Be Well: Hong Kong LGBTQ drama highlights legal loophole
Starring Patra Au, Tai Bo and Leung Chung-hang, director Ray Yeung’s LGBTQ drama All Shall Be Well sees an elderly Hong Kong lesbian at risk of losing everything after her partner suddenly dies.
1 May 2024 - 12:20AM
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10 of the best movies at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival
Kristen Stewart in lesbian crime flick Love Lies Bleeding, trans tale I Saw the TV Glow, and Min Bahadur Bham’s Himalayan film Shambhala all feature in our picks of the best movies at Berlin 2024.
27 Feb 2024 - 10:56AM
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Asian cinema: Korean films
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The Roundup: Punishment – Ma Dong-seok returns as po-faced punching machine
The Roundup: Punishment, which premiered at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, sees Korean hard man Ma Dong-seok return as a no-nonsense cop who punches his way through a gang of internet scammers.
27 Feb 2024 - 11:55AM
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Asian cinema: Chinese films
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Above the Dust: Wang Xiaoshuai evokes Christopher Nolan in rural drama
Above the Dust follows a 10-year-old boy in China who dreams of owning a water pistol, and who goes on a journey through his grandfather’s memories of the 1950s and his terrible misdeeds at the time.
23 Feb 2024 - 7:15PM
Asian cinema
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Shambhala: first Nepalese movie ever to compete in Berlin is a masterpiece
Shambala, the first Nepalese film selected for the Berlin Film Festival’s main competition, is an unhurried masterpiece about a Nepalese woman searching for her husband in the Himalayas.
16 Jul 2025 - 10:17PM
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European cinema
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Spaceman: Netflix sci-fi drama starring Adam Sandler squanders its potential
Starring Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano, Netflix sci-fi Spaceman – which premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival – has its moments, but director Johan Renck struggles to sustain interest.
22 Feb 2024 - 1:15PM
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Asian cinema
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Black Tea: film about African life in China massively disappoints
Debuting at Berlin 2024, Black Tea, the first film about Africans in China made by an African filmmaker, exhibits a tone-deaf understanding of what the diaspora’s experience is like in the country.
22 Feb 2024 - 5:30AM
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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
‘Shocking’ true stories on Hong Kong gay couples’ rights inspire new film
Ray Yeung’s film All Shall Be Well, about the struggles of a gay woman after her partner dies, is based on ‘shocking’ true events. The Hong Kong director talks about rights for same-sex couples.
21 Feb 2024 - 6:29PM
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Asian cinema: Korean films
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A Traveler’s Needs: Isabelle Huppert leads Hong Sang-soo’s latest enigma
Korean director Hong Sang-soo returns to the Berlin International Film Festival with another typically opaque drama – in A Traveler’s Needs, Isabelle Huppert plays a mystery woman teaching French in Korea.
20 Feb 2024 - 10:42AM
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Asian cinema: Chinese films
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Some Rain Must Fall: Chinese drama exposes cracks in a middle-class family
Director Qiu Yang’s Some Rain Must Fall centres on a well-off woman whose family fragments after an accident, in a critique on damaging dysfunctions present in the lives of China’s middle class.
19 Feb 2024 - 11:30PM
European cinema
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Another End: Gael Garcia Bernal lights up a derivative sci-fi tale
Gael Garcia Bernal plays a widower whose wife is reanimated in the body of another woman (Renate Reinsve). Piero Messina’s film is hackneyed and gets bogged down in jargon, but is visually appealing.
19 Feb 2024 - 10:52AM
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Asian cinema: Chinese films
Like a Chinese Michael Crichton, Lin Jianjie went from science to filmmaking
Brief History of a Family made a splash at Sundance and is about to screen at the Berlin film festival. Its Chinese director, Lin Jianjie, reflects on its subject – China’s middle class – and dreamlike ending.
31 Jan 2024 - 4:15PM
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