75th Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival

COMPETITION:

“For the film that shows the power of storytelling, knits in different perspectives, intergenerational dialogue, questions of talent, and breaks the boundaries of queer cinema. The FIPRESCI award winner is Dreams (Sex Love) by Dag Johan Haugerud”.

PERSPECTIVES: 

“Secrets, intimate desires, deception, confessions: this Perspectives film explores a kaleidoscope of emergent awakenings as driven by an evocative sensory experience and epitomised by its exceptional opening scene. The filmmaker beautifully portrays the struggles of a teenage girl stepping into adolescence—the push and pull of sexuality and societal restrictions—through excellent cinematic expression. For this portrait of the eponymous “little girls in trouble” crafted in an imaginative and oneiric way, the FIPRESCI Jury award for the inaugural Perspectives section goes to Little Trouble Girls by Urška Djukić.” 

PANORAMA:

“The FIPRESCI jury of the Panorama section decided to give its prize to an archival film about a dictator who was in power in Paraguay for over 30 years. Under the Flags, the Sun, by Juanjo Pereira, is a subtle and mature work, both in its approach to history and in its aesthetic. It has the courage to look back into history by using a contemporary language through which it manages to deconstruct, employing irony, the official representation of this regime”.

FORUM:

“From the transportive spell of its mysterious soundscape, and with its innovative use of photochemical textures and evocatively deployed archival materials to enhance our gaze and state of unknowing, which the director mimics in her own respectful distance, and for opening us to the lives of Omarino and Aredomi, two indigenous men trafficked to London for public display, we award our jury prize for the Forum section to Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski’s The Memory of Butterflies“. 

Find the results of the Berlinale Critic’s Poll