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Reviews by Peter Paul Huth of the competition films by Todd Haynes and Aki Kaurismäki

Peter Paul Huth looks at the female leads in "Anatomie d'une chute" and "Club Zero".

Peter Paul Huth on films by Jonathan Glazer and Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

In his films, the Japanese filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu repeatedly addresses the question: What makes a family? In his new film "Monster", it is a single mother who no longer understands her 11-year-old son Minato.

Die Corona Einschränkungen sind Geschichte und das Festival de Cannes ist back to normal. Die Liste der Stars, die auf dem Roten Teppich erwartet werden, ist eindrucksvoll: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Leonardo di Caprio, Robert de Niro, Julianne Moore, Rachel Portmann. Den Anfang machte Michael Douglas.

The Tampere Film Festival (March 8-13) was organized for the 53rd in 2023. It is one of the three largest short film festivals in Europe, alongside Clermont-Ferrand (France) and Oberhausen (Germany).

Film about a young boy who gets caught up in the war between two local gangs wins church film prize at BUFF Malmö 2023.

Director Markus Toivo has been presented with the Church Media Foundation Award at the Tampere Film Festival 2023 for his documentary film "Under Construction". The prize is endowed with 1.500 euros.

"I have forgotten the feeling of seeing," says Viera ?ákanyová at the beginning of "Poznámky z Eremocénu" (Notes from the Eremocene). In the cinema, a sentence like that can send a shudder through your limbs. Karsten Visarius reports about the Forum section of the Berlinale.

After two years of Corona restrictions, the 73rd Berlinale took place again able to take place as a presence festival.According to its own claim, the Berlinale sees itself as a festival of solidarity with the disenfranchised and oppressed of the world. Accordingly, there have been demonstrations of solidarity with women in Iran and Ukraine.