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18 posts since 2026.
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
FF 05 · Four Films · 10 min
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Four Films
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Summer is gone, and so are some of the most important film festivals that distributors and producers use to show their cards for the awards season.
Woman Unknown · Possible Love · La Bola Negra · Club Kid · Tender Loving Care · The Debut
AS 01 · Awards Season · 12 min
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Awards Season
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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
FE 05 · Festivals · 10 min
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Festivals
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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
ES 03 · Essays · 10 min
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Essays
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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
FF 03 · Four Films · 8 min
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Four Films
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Summer is usually dominated by blockbusters and horror releases, leaving less room for independent and international cinema. I watched some of the major releases this month hoping to understand the enthusiasm surrounding them, but unfortunately none of them really worked for me.
I Only Rest in the Storm · Meine Frau Weint · Little Amélie or the Character of Rain · The Love That Remains
FF 02 · Four Films · 8 min
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Four Films
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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
FE 03 · Festivals · 10 min
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Festivals
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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
ES 02 · Essays · 8 min
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Essays
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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
ES 01 · Essays · 8 min
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Essays
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One of the motivations behind this blog is to reflect not only on upcoming releases and film festivals, but also on the films I have the opportunity to watch in German cinemas.
Rose · Wild Foxes · Eagles of the Republic · I Swear
FF 01 · Four Films · 8 min
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Four Films
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Latin American cinema continues to have a complicated relationship with Cannes. In recent years, representation from the region in the Official Competition has been limited.
El Deshielo · La Perra · El Partido · Siempre soy tu animal materno · La Muerte no Tiene Dueño
FE 02 · Festivals · 8 min
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Festivals
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Now that the festival is over, the prizes have been awarded and the first critical reactions are out, I can finally make a list of the films I most want to see from this year’s edition.
All of a Sudden · La Gradiva · I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning · La Bola Negra · Hope · Le Corset · +4
FE 01 · Festivals · 10 min
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Festivals
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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
WF 04 · Waiting For · 5 min
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Waiting For
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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
WF 03 · Waiting For · 5 min
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Waiting For
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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
WF 02 · Waiting For
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Waiting For
Few directors have built a career as quietly devastating as Andrey Zvyagintsev's. Golden Lion. Cannes. An Oscar nomination. Then silence, a near-fatal illness, a war, and a country he chose not to return to. Now, almost a decade after Loveless, he is back with Minotaur, filmed in Riga but set in the Russia he left behind. This is the film I am most eager to watch in 2026.
Minotaur
WF 01 · Waiting For · 6 min
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Waiting For
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