The French documentary “Sur l’Adamant” (On the Adamant) about mental patients aboard a floating clinic in the Seine river in Paris won the prestigious Golden Bear top prize at the Berlinale film festival on Saturday night. Two films with transgender themes also won top awards. Spanish child actress Sofia Otero, who plays an eight-year-old boy…Read more Update-Documentary “Sur l’Adamant” takes top Berlinale prize
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Nuclear “nomads”, mental health, Ukraine in Berlinale spotlight
The boundaries of what documentary filmmakers can do seem to expand all the time and this year the 45 or so documentaries shown at the Berlinale gave a taste of where the format is going. As might be expected of this most political of major European film festivals, documentaries about the war in Ukraine loomed…Read more Nuclear “nomads”, mental health, Ukraine in Berlinale spotlight
Ukraine wins — at the Berlinale film festival in Berlin
The world constantly sees videos of the carnage and suffering Russia is inflicting on neighbouring Ukraine, so what more could the Berlinale film festival have to offer to the understanding of the biggest war in Europe since World War Two? The answer, on the evidence of films and events at the 73rd edition of the…Read more Ukraine wins — at the Berlinale film festival in Berlin
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