The personal and the collective lyrically entwine in Alice Diop’s Berlinale prizewinner, lending an ear to the underrepresented voices of Paris’s maligned outskirts. A lattice of experiences where filming is akin to remembering, these everyday vignettes evoke the rich cultural tapestry of the city.

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Helke Misselwitz followed the success of WINTER ADÉ with this rich portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin. Vividly capturing the last gasps of the GDR, WHO’S ARRAID OF THE BOGEYMAN transcends anthropological snapshot by virtue of Misselwitz’s boundless curiosity and piercing empathy.

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Directed by Radu Muntean, one of the most exciting voices of the Romanian New Wave, this tightly-wound satire of middle-class altruism is a mischievous delight. Testing the limits of its do-gooders’ capacity for charity, the wickedly funny ÎNTREGALDE pairs scabrous wit with claustrophobic suspense.

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The rage and loneliness of adolescence take a pulpy turn in Claudio Giovannesi’s gripping drama, where schoolbooks are swapped for guns. With his angelic face, first-time actor Francesco Di Napoli stands for a generation of Neapolitan youth for whom coming of age constitutes a fall from grace.

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