The race for the bears is still wide open. Although everyone has their personal favourites, there is not yet one bear candidate that everyone loves. But that could change over the next few days ... The voting for the Panorama Audience Award will also be exciting when the biggest film jury in the world, the audience, chooses its film. A number of strong films have already entered the race.
Today there will definitely be some real star power when Benedict Cumberbatch presents his film The Thing with Feathers in the evening in the Uber Eats Music Hall. Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley are expected at the Berlinale Palast for the premiere of Richard Linklater's new film Blue Moon. With Boyhood and the Before trilogy, Linklater has already had some of the absolute favourite films among fans and critics. Maybe it will work again ...
Begyndelser
Like Linklater and Tilda Swinton, Trine Dyrholm is one of the filmmakers who always enjoy coming to the Berlinale. In 2016, she won the Silver Bear for her role in The Commune, and two years earlier she was also on the jury. Now she plays Ane, a marine biologist who is in the middle of preparing for her divorce, in the Danish panorama film Begyndelser by Jeanette Nordahl . But when she suddenly suffers a stroke, she is forced to rethink her life, her family and her marriage. Trine Dyrholm paints an impressive portrait of a woman who, full of defiant energy, struggles for her autonomy and refuses to be reduced to her illness.
The supporting characters are also harmoniously drawn, from the husband, who wants to move in with his mistress and yet cannot renounce family life, to the daughters, whose lives are also turned upside down.
Space Cadet
And that's also part of the Berlinale: the surprises you weren't expecting. A children's film that slipped into the meticulous Berlinale planning by sheer chance turns out to be a magical work that moves us to tears. Robot is an elderly robot model who looks after and raises children. He accompanied the childhood of Celeste, whose mother is lost in space. When Celeste herself goes on a space mission, his term slowly runs out. While Celeste explores space and has to fight nasty space monsters, his days seem to be numbered.
The lovingly designed animated film manages without dialogue, telling its story with the power of images and music alone, creating a wonderful fairy tale that will touch the hearts of both children and adults.
