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Dreams (Drømmer) – the second installment in Dag Johan Haugerud's Oslo Trilogy – quite rightly won the 2025 Golden Bear. The film is the antithesis of popcorn cinema: There's no action or spectacle, but instead characters, dialogue, and emotion, and it's incredibly exciting, clever, and sensitive. It's a film that touches, provokes thought, and is memorable, while also entertaining. The audience follows the protagonist's love frenzy and is at the mercy of an unreliable narrator – a…

Fantasy Film Fest Nights Berlin, 10.05.2025

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The best current film about Trump's America: In his video introduction, filmmaker Eli Craig described his new film "Clown in a Cornfield" as a documentary about contemporary America. It's fitting: A horror clown is at war with the next generation, an obvious Elon Musk lookalike salutes the clown, and the rule of law is undermined by antagonistic forces. What initially sounds absurd works wonderfully: "Clown in a Cornfield" is an intelligent…

Fantasy Film Fest Nights Berlin, 10.05.2025

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Social housing noir meets haunted house: Motifs familiar from Polanski's "The Tenant" or from J-horror classics like Korusawa's "Pulse" or Nakata's "Ringu" find a new form in "Noise." With an incredibly dense atmosphere, impressive sound design (the acoustics and sound system at the Zoopalast are simply ideal for this), and powerful images that linger in the memory, the film ratchets up the tension level from creepy to scary at a rapid…