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FF
Every month, the four films that stayed with me in Munich's cinemas.
September brought the first German releases of some films from this year's Cannes Film Festival, including one of my favourites from the Official Selection. Other films had already appeared at festivals such as Toronto or San Sebastián last year and took some time to arrive in German cinemas, but they were worth the wait.
Vaterland · Bad Apples · Jim Queen · Maspalomas
Four Films · 10 min read
August was not the best moment for new releases in Germany. Some blockbusters still occupied most of the cinema screens, but I still found four movies that are worth mentioning.
Hen · Strange River · Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma · Exit 8
Four Films · 10 min read
July is always a complicated month for cinephiles. Most distributors reserve the summer for blockbusters that dominate cinema schedules, while many independent and international films wait until autumn for their release. Even so, there were still a few titles that made going to the cinema worthwhile this month.
Resurrection · Dreams · Amarga Navidad · Ingeborg Bachmann – Jemand, der einmal ich war
Four Films · 8 min read
FE
Previews and reports from Filmfest München, Cannes and Venice.
The Venice Film Festival is considered one of the most important film festivals in the world, especially because of the quality of its Official Selection.
Wild Horse Nine · Primetime · Possible Love · Look Back · Bunker · The Echo Chamber
Festivals · 10 min read
I left this year's FILMFEST MÜNCHEN with much more than a list of films I enjoyed.
Nuestra Tierra · Fatherland · All of a Sudden · The Man I Love · Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Festivals · 10 min read
The complete program for FILMFEST MÜNCHEN 2026 is finally available and, as every year, my first recommendation is not to follow anyone else's list blindly, including this one.
Nuestra Tierra · The Man I Love · Vaterland · Maspalomas · Sheep in the Box · Siempre Seré Tu Animal Materno · +2
Festivals · 10 min read
WF
One upcoming film, and the director's earlier work that made me wait for it.
I always look forward to seeing LGBTQ+ stories represented within the Official Selection at Cannes. Beyond questions of representation itself, there is something important about seeing directors openly explore themes of identity, intimacy and social pressure within one of the most visible spaces in world cinema. It becomes even more exciting when the filmmaker has already demonstrated a distinctive and emotionally sensitive voice.
Coward
Waiting For · 5 min read
Few directors make me question the morality of their characters’ decisions the way Cristian Mungiu does. I still remember the first time I watched 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. At eighteen years old, it felt completely different from the kind of cinema I was used to.
Fjord
Waiting For · 5 min read
Paweł Pawlikowski has spent his career making films about people displaced from the places that shaped them — and no one has made that feeling look quite like this. Ida gave me a kind of cinematic silence I hadn't experienced before. Cold War gave me the most honest portrait of love I've seen on screen. Now he returns with Fatherland, shot in German, starring Sandra Hüller, and once again photographed by Łukasz Żal. I've been waiting for this one.
Vaterland
Waiting For
AS
Following the Oscar race, as I have since I was a child.
ES
Longer personal pieces about directors and the festival I call home.
I remember when I first started following the Oscar season and saw a Spanish name nominated for Best Director: Pedro Almodóvar for Talk to Her. I was curious about him.
Volver · All About My Mother · Talk to Her · Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown · Broken Embraces · Bad Education
Essays · 10 min read
It has been eight years since I arrived in Munich. One of my first memories of the city is searching for the Gasteig ticket office and buying five tickets for the Munich Film Festival.
43. FILMFEST MÜNCHEN festival trailer · Vaterland · Parasite · Sentimental Value · Ida
Essays · 8 min read
As Pride Month arrives, I always find myself reflecting on the queer films that have stayed with me throughout the year. What I appreciate most about contemporary queer cinema is that it increasingly moves beyond stereotypes and simplified coming-out narratives. Queer characters are now allowed to be contradictory, flawed, ambitious, insecure and complex, just like anyone else.
Plainclothes · Viet and Nam · Pillion · Hedda · Peter Hujar's Day
Essays · 8 min read