This year’s Berlin Film Festival starts this week, and it heralds the potential arrival of a whole bunch of cinematic treats.
Now in it’s the 76th edition the festival is one of the big festivals of every cinematic year. I know that most people look to Cannes as the big European festival but the truth is that Berlin has just as many films that become contenders and big releases down the road, however where Cannes has films that PR people push the films that come out of Berlin get noticed because of their quality. Berlin is one of the few festivals that cross my desk where I instantly take anything that is thrown my way because odds are it won’t be bad.
One day when, I actually am making money writing on films, I am planning on going in person.
My advice is that if you can go- do so. If you can’t go watch the coverage at Unseen and other outlets and make notes because there is a great chance that anything that is well reviewed will end up in a theater near you.
As this posts I’ve seen a few films, and I am waiting on more to hit my in box. The best of what I’ve seen is as follows:
PARADISE- it begins with an arresting opening and then goes into all sorts of unexpected directions in a tale of connected lives -this is a hell of a tale you need to see for too many reasons.
I UNDERSTAND YOUR DISPLEASURE-A slice of life with what is one of the great performances of 2026. Its the story of a woman trying to keep her life and company together.
A FAMILY- this is moving tale about a family moving across Europe which reveals the true cost of migration on families and connections.
CHIMEY TOWN:FROZEN IN TIME is one of the best films of 2026
And now, time to go back to the darkness and watc more films.
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