This event was held on the 29th of October | »Don’t Worry Darling« scored 5,45 Genusspunkte | @Filmpalast
Flurry hat gesagt, die Kostüme seien dope.
Festivalkorrespondent Il presidente

This event was held on the 29th of October | »Don’t Worry Darling« scored 5,45 Genusspunkte | @Filmpalast
Flurry hat gesagt, die Kostüme seien dope.
Festivalkorrespondent Il presidente

This event was held on the 15th of September | »Moonage Daydream« scored 8,12 Genusspunkte | @Scala
It’s a glorious celebratory montage of archive material, live performance footage, Bowie’s own experimental video art and paintings, movie and stage work and interviews with various normcore TV personalities with whom Bowie is unfailingly polite, open and charming.
Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian

This event was held 18th of September 2022 | »Das Glücksrad« scored 7,69 Genusspunkte | @Scala
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is a love letter to the art of spinning a good yarn, but it’s also a sharply observed paean to the lies and truths we tell ourselves so that we may function from day to day. […] A week after I saw this movie, I was still thinking about its characters.
Odie Henderson in RogerEbert.com

This event was hold on the 11th of September 2022 | »Three Thousand Years Of Longing« scored 7,9 Genusspunkte | @Scala
A bittersweet modern fairy tale from one of cinema’s most bombastic virtuosos, George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” might have some reservations about the 21st century — the movie often wrestles with the impact that science and technology might have on our ancient sense of wonder — but at the bottom of this tightly bottled epic sits a question that should resonate especially hard with people who have spent too many of the last 3,000 days stuck inside their homes with nothing but “content” to keep them company: Are stories enough to satisfy our lives?
David Ehrlich in IndieWire

This event was held on the 28th of September | »Thirteen Lives« scored 7 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza
Thirteen Lives is a film that truly orients itself around a grounded cinematic approach to story, one largely told without big, grandstanding emotional speeches but instead focused on visually capturing subjectivity, demonstrating tension, and highlighting the life-or-death weight of the characters‘ choices.
Jeff Ewing in Slashfilm

This event was held on the 28th of September | »The Humans« scored 7,28 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza
There’s something both reassuring and terrifying about it all, the family’s resilient warmth and togetherness providing comfort as the existential horror of what it all amounts to chills us simultaneously.
Benjamin Lee in The Guardian

This event was held on the 24th of October 2022 | »Babysitter« scored 6,875 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza
Monia Chokri’s “Babysitter” is a riotous comedy in the body of a Technicolor nightmare. The story of middle-aged sex pest Cédric (Patrick Hivon), his over-compensating feminist brother Jean-Michel (Steve Laplante), his depressed wife Nadine — a new mother, played by Chokri herself — and their mysterious, youthful nanny Amy (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) who seems intent on spicing up their love life, the film arrives with thunderous, uncompromising energy that only lets up when Chorkri decides to veer into the phantasmagorical.
Siddhant Adlakha in IndieWire

This event was held on the 30th of August 2022 | »Not Okay« scored 5,6 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza
Shephard’s steady direction and clever script allow things to hit exactly the right note. Deutch, O’Brien, and Isaac are all terrific, and „Not Okay“ is one of the most pleasant surprises of 2022
Barry Levitt in Slashfilm

This event was held on the 14th of August 2022 | »Alcarràs« scored 6,5 Genusspunkte | @Scala
In its expert blend of vivid cinematography and naturalistic performances, Alcarràs creates a refined study of heritage that understands life’s permanent absence of resolution – with every hard-earned answer comes a new riddle.
Rafaela Sales Ross in The Playlist

This event was held on the 9th of August 2022 | »Aloners« scored 7,06 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza
Eine junge Frau arbeitet in einem Call Center einer Kreditkartenfirma in Seoul; abgesehen von den Kundenkontakten per Telefon, die sie routiniert abarbeitet, pflegt sie kaum soziale Beziehungen, sondern bleibt für sich und in den engen Grenzen eines routinierten Alltags. Selbst der Tod ihrer Mutter scheint sie kaum zu berühren; um ihren Vater kümmert sie sich danach auf kühl-distanzierte Weise, indem sie ihn durch eine in seiner Wohnung versteckte Webcam im Auge behält. Durch den Tod eines Nachbarn und eine neue Aufgabe im Job, die sie zwingt, eine junge Frau einzuarbeiten, bekommt der Panzer ihrer Isolation schließlich Risse. Eine stille, von einer starken Hauptdarstellerin und einer präzise beobachtenden Inszenierung getragende Milieustudie über großstädtische Einsamkeit.
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