Film Festivals

• Reviews

Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Death For Sale’ is Wasted Youth in a Desperate Moroccan Metro

In Death For Sale, the three best friends that anyone could ever have falter under the weight of their petty… Read More

• Reviews

Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears’ is a Revenge Film Disguised as…

Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears’ is a Revenge Film Disguised as an Arthouse StapleBased on… Read More

• Reviews

Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Headshot’ is Confused But Not Concussive

Based on Win Lyovarin’s novel, Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah) is a noir assassin story that features a killer who… Read More

• Reviews

Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Reluctant Revolutionary’ Captures the Bloody Cost of Freedom

After last year’s Arab Spring, there will undoubtedly be a host of documentaries and narrative projects with Middle Eastern revolution… Read More

• Reviews

Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Iron Sky’ is a Blitzkrieg of Boring Bad

The promise of Iron Sky is a great and wondrous one. It’s Moon Nazis. Moon Nazis, people. Swirl it around… Read More

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Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Mai-wei’ is Brutal, Bombastic But Too Broad

On a hillside overlooking the beaches of Normandy, American soldiers surround a Korean and a Japanese man wearing Nazi uniforms.… Read More

• Movies

We’re Bringing the Berlin Film Festival To You

So you can’t afford the plane ticket (or you’re afraid they’ll show Mr. Popper’s Penguins on your cross-Atlantic flight). So… Read More

• Essays

Amazonas Film Festival: Sunday, or Heading to the Jungle with the Man in the Communal Pants

*FSR traveled to Manaus, Brazil to attend and cover the 8th Amazonas Film Festival. See all our coverage here.*Not every day… Read More

Advisory: We’re Opening An Office in Germany (und was das bedeutet für Sie)

Germany! The home of beer and brats! The stomping grounds of Beethoven and Bach! The only economically viable country in… Read More