Berlinale 69
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1. 37 Seconds (2019)
115 min | Drama
Yuma is a young Japanese woman with cerebral palsy. Torn between her obligations towards her family and her dream to become a manga artist, she struggles to lead a self-determined life.
Director: Hikari | Stars: Makiko Watanabe, Nanami Kawakami, Eita Okuno, Yuka Itaya
Votes: 3,112
2. 100 Things (2018)
111 min | Comedy, Drama
Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, taking back one item per day. During this challenge, the two realize that the only thing they cannot be... See full summary »
Director: Florian David Fitz | Stars: Florian David Fitz, Matthias Schweighöfer, Miriam Stein, Hannelore Elsner
Votes: 6,929
3. 25 km/h (2018)
116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two very different brothers reunite and start on a very special journey: a road trip on their motorbikes which they imagined in their childhood.
Director: Markus Goller | Stars: Lars Eidinger, Bjarne Mädel, Sandra Hüller, Franka Potente
Votes: 5,913
4. 2040 (2019)
92 min | Documentary
Practical solutions to environmental concerns are addressed with the hope that the filmmaker's daughter, 21 years old in the year 2040, will face a hopeful future.
Director: Damon Gameau | Stars: Damon Gameau, Eva Lazzaro, Zoë Gameau, Davini Malcolm
Votes: 1,407
5. 303 (2018)
145 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two university students, Jule and Jan, leave Berlin together in an old camper on a road trip south, but for different reasons.
Director: Hans Weingartner | Stars: Mala Emde, Anton Spieker, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Thomas Schmuckert
Votes: 8,884
6. 6Minuten66 (2019)
62 min | Documentary
About the challenge is to reach an audience that is being flooded with images and stories. Should cinema adapt to the aesthetics of small screens and serial storytelling, deliberately ignore these formats, or play around with them?
Directors: Julius Feldmeier, Katja Feldmeier | Stars: Thomas Stuber, Mia Spengler, Katrin Gebbe, Axel Ranisch
Votes: 7
7. Farewell to the Night (2019)
104 min | Drama
Muriel farms horses and owns an almond plantation. When her grandson comes to visit her for one last time before he leaves for Canada. She learns that he has dark secrets.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Kacey Mottet Klein, Oulaya Amamra, Stéphane Bak
Votes: 861
8. Belonging (2019)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man recounts the murder of his future mother-in-law, how he met his lover, and what led up to the deadly crime.
Director: Burak Cevik | Stars: Eylül Su Sapan, Çaglar Yalçinkaya
Votes: 977
9. All Is Well (2018)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama
Janne's new boss's brother-in-law rapes her, but she doesn't report the incident and continues her way of life as usual. But her silence has consequences, not only for her but also for the love that she feels for her friend Piet.
Director: Eva Trobisch | Stars: Aenne Schwarz, Andreas Döhler, Hans Löw, Tilo Nest
Votes: 1,619
10. Amazing Grace (2018)
G | 89 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.
Directors: Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack | Stars: Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland, Alexander Hamilton, Cornell Dupree
Votes: 5,146 | Gross: $4.45M
11. All My Loving (1986)
85 min | Drama
Director: Yohanan Weller | Stars: Alon Aboutboul, Dorit Adi, Dalia Beger, Dov Navon
Votes: 9
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12. Anbessa (2019)
85 min | Documentary, Drama
The simple life in his mother's hut off the grid set against the huge TVs in the apartment blocks where the other children live. Asalif adapts to the changes to his familiar surroundings with growing autonomy. He becomes Anbessa, the lion.
Director: Mo Scarpelli | Stars: Asalif Tewold, Alem Sebisibe Ayitenfsu, Abinet, Aster Biruk Aderi
Votes: 171
13. Aren't You Happy? (2019)
80 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A girl roams through the city looking for a place to sleep, but between yoga studios, art galleries and the beds of strangers there is no space for her. A post-modern comedy in pink and blue.
Director: Susanne Heinrich | Stars: Marie Rathscheck, Nicolai Borger, Malte Bündgen, Dax Constantine
Votes: 513
14. On the Starting Line (2019)
63 min | Documentary
Jenniffer is a young athlete who questions her commitment to the Cuban national athletics team. Her mother Marbelis rules a health care facility in Havana with an iron fist. When her ... See full summary »
Director: Aldemar Matias
Votes: 124
15. Aruna & Her Palate (2018)
TV-MA | 106 min | Drama, Romance
An epidemiologist tried to satisfy her obsession with food when she was assigned to investigate a bird flu case.
Director: Edwin | Stars: Dian Sastrowardoyo, Nicholas Saputra, Hannah Al Rashid, Oka Antara
Votes: 880
16. Atlas (2018)
99 min | Drama, Thriller
Walter is a 60-year-old removal man for forced evictions. He recognizes in one of the tenants about to be evicted his estranged son, Jan. In order to help Jan, Walter has to confront not only his crooked boss but also his own past.
Director: David Nawrath | Stars: Rainer Bock, Albrecht Schuch, Thorsten Merten, Uwe Preuss
Votes: 617
17. House of Hummingbird (2018)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
Seoul 1994, in the year the Seongsu Bridge collapsed, 14-year-old Eunhee wanders the city searching for love.
Director: Bora Kim | Stars: Park Ji-hu, Kim Sae-byeok, Jeong In-gi, Soo-Yeon Park
Votes: 3,776
18. The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.
Director: Marie Kreutzer | Stars: Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hörbiger, Michelle Barthel
Votes: 1,390 | Gross: $0.02M
19. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
TV-PG | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History
Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Felix Lemburo, Robert Agengo
Votes: 44,356
20. Brecht (2019)
187 min | Biography, Drama, History
Starting from the year 1956, Brecht's year of death, the film looks back on the time of the First World War and the life Bertolt Brecht in a mixture of fiction and documentary.
Director: Heinrich Breloer | Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Tom Schilling, Adele Neuhauser, Lou Strenger
Votes: 392
21. Bulbul Can Sing (2018)
95 min | Drama
Exploring their sexual identities in the face of the patriarchal rules of their Assamese village, a teenager and her two friends are rocked by tragedy.
Director: Rima Das | Stars: Pakija Begam, Arnali Das, Manoranjan Das, Bonita Thakuriya
Votes: 461
22. Buoyancy (2019)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama
14-year-old Chakra is sold as a slave labourer to the captain of a Thai fishing vessel. The captain's rule on board is cruel and arbitrary.
Director: Rodd Rathjen | Stars: Sarm Heng, Chan Visal, Chheung Vakhim, Terb Sophon
Votes: 1,494
23. Who You Think I Am (2019)
101 min | Drama, Romance
Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to catfish Alex, the roommate of her former lover, Ludo.
Director: Safy Nebbou | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Nicole Garcia, François Civil, Marie-Ange Casta
Votes: 7,492
24. A Colony (2018)
102 min | Drama
Between high school pressure and family disorganisation, Mylia is trying to find her bearings. Meeting Jacinthe and Jimmy will lead her to outline a new life.
Director: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles | Stars: Robin Aubert, Josée Beaulieu, Emilie Bierre, Émilie Bierre
Votes: 1,068
25. Dafne (2019)
94 min | Drama
Dafne is a self-aware and bright young woman with Down syndrome. When her mother dies, she has to attend to her father too, on top of attempting to process her own grief.
Director: Federico Bondi | Stars: Stefania Casini, Betty Pedrazzi, Ignacio Paurici, Bruno Cariello
Votes: 298
26. The Day After I'm Gone (2019)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
A middle aged single father copes with his teenage daughter's wish to end her life.
Director: Nimrod Eldar | Stars: Menashe Noy, Zohar Meidan, Alon Neuman, Sarit Vino-Elad
Votes: 586
27. The Awakening of the Ants (2019)
94 min | Drama
Isa has more than enough on her plate with two children and the household, which she manages on her own. When her husband persists with his wish for a third child, she realizes that something must change.
Director: Antonella Sudasassi | Stars: Daniela Valenciano, Leynar Gomez, Isabella Moscoso, Adriana Alvarez
Votes: 648
28. So Long, My Son (2019)
185 min | Drama
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Jingchun Wang, Mei Yong, Xi Qi, Roy Wang
Votes: 5,275
29. Divine Love (2019)
101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together and is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.
Director: Gabriel Mascaro | Stars: Dira Paes, Julio Machado, Antonio Pastich, Rubens Santos
Votes: 2,229
30. A Dog Barking at the Moon (2019)
107 min | Drama
A Chinese family saga, told in different periods of time, commencing with the wife's discovery of her husband's homosexuality. When her adult daughter comes to visit, other secrets slowly come to light.
Director: Lisa Zi Xiang | Stars: Renhua Na, Gaowa Siqin, Zhang Yinyue, Jiang Bing
Votes: 257
31. Easy Love (2019)
89 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Shifting between documentary and fiction, Easy Love follows seven men and women from Cologne on their search for a balance between emotional security and sensual fulfilment.
Director: Tamer Jandali | Stars: Stella Vivien Dhingra, Niclas Jüngermann, Sönke Andersen, Sophia Seidenfaden
Votes: 157
32. The Components of Love (2019)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Sophie and Georg once loved each other, but they are now split up. A laconic portrait of a modern patchwork family that plays out before a front door in Berlin. A serious comedy about separation, interspersed with Schlager music.
Director: Miriam Bliese | Stars: Birte Schnöink, Ole Lagerpusch, Andreas Döhler, Justus Fischer
Votes: 84
33. By the Grace of God (2018)
137 min | Crime, Drama
Three men, abused by the same priest during their childhood, engage in a fight for justice that will expose their personal experiences and question their life with their wife, family, and colleagues.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud, Éric Caravaca
Votes: 8,201
34. Egg (2019)
100 min | Drama
A murder case in the Mongolian steppe. A herder is asked to guard the crime scene - a woman who resolutely scares off both wolves and her neighbor. She has her own plans for the future, ... See full summary »
Director: Quan'an Wang | Stars: Aorigeletu, Gangtemuer Arild, Dulamjav Enkhtaivan, Norovsambuu
Votes: 754
35. Gospod postoi, imeto i' e Petrunija (2019)
100 min | Drama
A Macedonian woman throws herself into a traditionally men-only ceremony, kicking up a ruckus and standing her ground.
Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska | Stars: Zorica Nusheva, Labina Mitevska, Stefan Vujisic, Suad Begovski
Votes: 2,544
36. System Crasher (2019)
125 min | Drama
9-year-old Benni is a toss-up between institutions that cannot tackle her outbursts. She wants to move in with her mother, but she can not handle her wild daughter. After Micha is hired Benni slowly opens up and attaches herself to him.
Director: Nora Fingscheidt | Stars: Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Lisa Hagmeister
Votes: 14,767
37. Mr. Jones (2019)
119 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle
Votes: 16,235
38. The Golden Glove (2019)
Not Rated | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Jonas Dassler, Vasiliki Georgina Pseimada, Christine Jensen, Greta Sophie Schmidt
Votes: 18,238
39. Synonyms (2019)
Unrated | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.
Director: Nadav Lapid | Stars: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte, Uria Hayik
Votes: 6,291
40. I Was at Home, But... (2019)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
Director: Angela Schanelec | Stars: Thorbjörn Björnsson, Esther Buss, Martin Clausen, Lucas Confurius
Votes: 1,199
41. Midnight Traveler (2019)
88 min | Documentary, War
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Hassan Fazili's head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two daughters. Capturing the journey, Fazili shows the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
Director: Hassan Fazili | Stars: Hassan Fazili, Nargis Fazili, Zahra Fazili, Fatima Hossaini
Votes: 626
42. Oray (2019)
100 min | Drama
Oray speaks in a quarrel with his wife Burcu three times 'talaq', the islamic formula for repudiation. The imam informs him about the consequences: he has to divorce his wife. Now Oray is ... See full summary »
Director: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay | Stars: Zejhun Demirov, Deniz Orta, Günfer Cölgecen, Ebubekir Öztürk
Votes: 245
43. A First Farewell (2018)
86 min | Drama
When Isa is not at school or working on his parents' farmyard, he spends carefree days with his friends - until the outside world starts forcing him to say one goodbye after another.
Director: Lina Wang | Stars: Tajigul Heilmeier, Yasan Kamisu, Kuramu Kasimu, Rahmati Kuramu
Votes: 243
44. Monsters. (2019)
116 min | Drama, Romance
A long time married couple comes to decide within 24 hours, through encounters with strangers, that letting go might be their biggest proof of love.
Director: Marius Olteanu | Stars: Judith State, Cristian Popa, Alexandru Potocean, Serban Pavlu
Votes: 632
45. Stitches (2019)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
Ana is convinced that she and other Serbian women had their newborn babies stolen, to be given up for illegal adoption for money. Her obsession to find the truth will risk her relationship with her husband and her daughter.
Director: Miroslav Terzic | Stars: Snezana Bogdanovic, Jovana Stojiljkovic, Marko Bacovic, Vesna Trivalic
Votes: 1,241
46. Varda by Agnès (2019)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary, Biography
Agnès Varda, photographer, installation artist and pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, is an institution of French cinema. Taking a seat on a theatre stage, she uses photos and film excerpts to provide an insight into her unorthodox oeuvre.
Stars: Agnès Varda, Sandrine Bonnaire, Hervé Chandès, Nurith Aviv
Votes: 2,550
47. Bait (I) (2019)
89 min | Drama
Martin is a fisherman without a boat, his brother Steven having re-purposed it as a tourist tripper. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the harbour.
Director: Mark Jenkin | Stars: Edward Rowe, Giles King, Chloe Endean, Janet Thirlaway
Votes: 5,314
48. Photograph (I) (2019)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A struggling street photographer in Mumbai, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develop a connection that transforms them in ways they could not expect.
Director: Ritesh Batra | Stars: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Sachin Khedekar, Denzil Smith
Votes: 5,861 | Gross: $0.34M
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