Berlinale 2018. Top Picks & Coverage Roundup

Below you will find our favorite films of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.

TOP PICKS

TOP 10

(1) Transit (Christian Petzold)

(2) Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)

(3) An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)

(4) The Waldheim Waltz (Ruth Beckermann)

(5) Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz)

(6) In the Realm of Perfection (Julian Faraut)

(7) Classical Period (Ted Fendt)

(8) Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D'Ambrose)

(9) Inland Sea (Kazuhiro Soda) & Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)

(Contributors: Annabel Ivy Brady-Brown, Giovanni Marchini Camia, Celluloid Liberation Front, Adam Cook, David Hudson, Jordan Cronk, Daniel Kasman, Olaf Möller, Michael Pattison, Richard Porton, Christopher Small, Barbara Wurm)

DANIEL KASMAN

(1) Season of the Devil (2) The Waldheim Waltz (3) Grass (4) Jamila (5) Foreboding (6) Transit (7) An Elephant Sitting Still (8) Infinite Football (9) In the Realm of Perfection (10) Inland Sea

ADAM COOK

(1) Infinite Football (2) The Tree (3) Season of the Devil (4) Transit (5) Grass (6) In the Realm of Perfection (7) Optimism (8) Isle of Dogs (9) The Waldheim Waltz (10) L. Cohen

CHRISTOPHER SMALL

(1) Classical Period (2) Transit (3) The Heiresses (4) Notes on an Appearance (5) Inland Sea (6) Unsane (7) Old Love

COVERAGE

DANIEL KASMAN

Classical Period (Ted Fendt)

An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)

Foreboding (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

Grass (Hong Sang-soo)

The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi)

Inland Sea (Kazuhiro Soda)

In the Realm of Perfection (Julian Faraut)

Jamila (Aminatou Echard)

Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz)

The Waldheim Waltz (Ruth Beckermann)

CHRISTOPHER SMALL

Transmissions from Planet Weimar: People in the Bush (Friedrich Dalsheim, Gulla Pfeffer), Across Two Worlds by Car (Clärenore Stinnes, Carl-Axel Söderström)

Transmissions from Planet Weimar: The Devious Path (G.W. Pabst)

ADAM COOK

Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)

Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)

CARLO CHATRIAN

Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz)

INTERVIEWS

Shadows of Sarajevo: An Interview with André Gil Mata

by Adam Cook

A Citizen without Civilization: Christian Petzold Discusses Transit

by Daniel Kasman

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