The theaters below show films in their original language; click on the links for showtimes and ticket information.
 
Interviews with the stars, general film articles, and reports on press conferences and film festivals.
 
Subscribe to the free KinoCritics monthly email newsletter here.
 
 

Films Viewed at Berlinale Film Festival 2013
by the KinoCritics

Competition
Camille Claudel 1915 (MN**)
Child’s Pose (Pozitia Copilului) (SRS ****) (RF***)
Closed Curtain (Parde)  (MN**)(SRS ****) (RF****)
Gloria (SRS ****)
Harmony Lessons (Uroki Garmonii)  (RF**)
Layla Fourie (RF **)
Prince Avalanche (MN***)
Promised Land (SRS 0*)
Side Effects (MN***) (RF**)
The Nun (La Religieuse) (SRS **1/2)

Out of Competition
Dark Blood (RF*) (MN**)
Before Midnight (RF ***) (MN***)
Night Train to Lisbon (MN***) (RF***)

Berlinale Special
The Best Offer (RF***) (MN**1/2)

Panorama
Don Jon‘s Addiction (RF****)
Exposed (SRS ****)
Lose Your Head (RF****)
The Broken Circle Breakdown (SRS ***)
Concussion (MN**)

Forum/Forum Expanded
Die 727 Tage Ohne Karamo
(The 727 Days without Karamo) (SRS****) (RF*****)

Generation K-plus
The Rocket (SRS*****)

Generation 14 plus
Touch of the Light (SRS***)

Culinary Cinema
Red Obsession (MN****)

NATIVe Short Films
The Ballad of Crowfoot (SRS***)
Circle of the Sun (SRS**1/2)
Ebony Society (SRS****)
Nana (SRS *****)
Payback (SRS***)
A Mother’s Dream (SRS**)
A Place to Stand (SRS***)
Two Cars, One Night (SRS***)

NATIVe Feature Film
Samson & Delilah (SRS***)

FILMS ALSO SEEN AT THE BERLINALE:

Competition
A Long and Happy Life (Dolgaya Schastlivoya Zhizn) (SRS***)
Gold (SRS **)
Out of Competition
The Grandmaster (Yi dai zong shi) (RF ***)
Berlinale Special
Top of the Lake (SRS ***½)
Panorama
Boven is het stil (It‘s all so Quiet) (RF**)
Forum/Forum Expanded
I Used to be Darker (RF*)
Halbschatten (RF*)
Helio Oiticica (RF**)
I am not Dead (Je Ne Suis Pas Mort) (SRS***½)
The Town of Whales (Kujira no Machi) (SRS **)
The Weight of Elephants (SRS*****)
Perspektive Deutsches Kino
Chiralia (RF****)
Kalifornia (RF***)
Die Wiedergänger (The  Revenants) (RF1/2 Star)
= No stars is better, but I guess 1/2 for somehow managing to get funding
Berlinale Classics
Dial M for Murder (3D) (RF)
Generation 14 plus
Princesas Rojas (Red Princesses) (RF***)
Berlinale Shorts II (RF saw half of them before walking out)
               -2011 12 30 (RF****)
               -Ja kada sam bila klinac, bila sam klinka (RF**)
               -A coup de couteau dente (RF**)

MOVIE RATING SYSTEM
  ***** Excellent flick! Don’t miss it!
  ****    Good movie, worth going to see
  ***      Not a bad way to spend a few hours
  **         OK, but read the review to understand our reservations
•             Bad, but we’ve got to give them credit for making a movie