(Luigi Noera from Berlin in collaboration with Marina fearful – Photos are published courtesy of the Berlinale)
As always in our report of the edition 2017 Berlinale, Festivals along with Cannes, Locarno and Venice is the world's film production and new trends, we limit ourselves to the works of the main section and the representative where the Panorama documentary section is substantial. The works are presented in order of rating.
In the official selection Competition we put in first place I hope there
Party(The Other Side of Hope) di Aki Kaurismäki (Finland / Germany) – Although he did not win the Golden Bear this is the picture that excited us most for empathy between two characters appear together in cotraddizione, which in fact have the same suction: a better life. The door-to-door salesman puts his life at stake and all spring and starts with catering. Syrian refugee knows what are the steps to take to obtain refugee status. It's obvious, and here the script has a few drawbacks, that the two meet. But this meeting was born an extraordinary solidarity. In short, a political phamplet the Finnish filmmaker who ironically describes our times where the work is precarious, but life is 
precarious. It follows the film's multi Body and soul(On Body and Soul) Ildikó Enyedi di (Hungary) – Jurors have preferred the, perhaps because of the unusual language to talk about emotions, of dreams, mankind. But one accustomed mankind to be indifferent to the suffering of other beings, in this case animals brought to the slaughter. The script wavers between one animal spirit scuarci trash to the slaughter of animals and moments with twists of human beings with their sentimental impulses. In third place a gem: Mr. Long in Sabu (Japan
/ Hong Kong, China / Taiwan / Germany) – A redemptive tale that begins with a gang story to land nell'onirica fantasy of a new man. Almost Felliniana composite and imaginative team of characters that help the protagonist to find himself. A film that does not let up and goes from one style to another with a naturally talented. Too bad it was not appreciated, and has received awards, we'll see when it comes out in the hall. The Party Sally Potter (UK) – The director skilfully uses the wonderful actors in this theater piece, and although winning the public, does not find allies among the jurors. A woman 
fantastic (A Fantastic Woman)Sebastián Lelio (Chile / USA / Germany / Spain) – Against the background of a thriller unfold human rights The social issue is commendable and the story is well built, pity that the main character is a cliché in caged and unable to make the most of its potential.
Let the films out of Competition of which we enjoyed 
Quality also spectacular. AT first place The bar (The Bar)di Alex de la Iglesia (Spain) – Only the Spaniards could invent a tragicomedy like this but is inspired by much more spectacular films such as A train to Busan. A pandemic invades a Spanish national and the patrons of a bar remain prisoners of fate. Then there is the heroine in the end in both films will be the only one to come out alive from a nightmare that has the flavor of the happy ending and this destroys the woven work for
120 minute film. In second place Final Portrait Stanley Tucci (UK / France) – A lovely portrait, and excuse the pun, the sculptor and painter of Italian origin, It is told by a reporter improvised model for the teacher. The protagonist, Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush Award, He describes very well the talent but also the characteristics of a genius of the sculpture and painting forgotten how Alberto Giacometti, thanks also to the eye of the camera that identifies herself as a careful look to grasp what ordinary mortals can not steal from a retail. T2 Trainspotting Danny Boyle (UK) – It was to be the event, but we let us down. Of course comparisons are lethal, but the 20 years in most of the characters you see all and if the director wanted to bring back a disruptive films of those years did not succeed. It's been too many years, and the characters are not abreast of the times. Sin. midwife (Midwife) Martin Provost (France / Belgium) – A small movie where the good Catherine Frot defies a Catherine Denuve you start on the road to sunset. of misunderstandings intimate story between two women, one o'clock daughter, the other step-mother and wife of a man who hovers with its controversial nature of the whole movie without ever appear. The finish is granted, but it is noticeable the bill from New Wave wisely used by the direction. Logan James Mangold (USA) – Here we go again with the sequel to the most famous original movie series xman. Between chases and fights without quarter it unfolds a bad movie but it will be successful at the box office for its exhilarating characters.
The most interesting films were those of the section Berlinale Special 
especially the documentaries presented for their courage complaint. Our ranking to first place The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov di Askold Kurov (Estonia / Poland / Czech Republic) – doc – shattering a gash on the annexation of the Crimea to Putin's Russia which recognizes the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov a potential enemy to silence by any means. Oleg is serving a prison sentence of twenty years in the Gulag in Siberia that still exist although the USSR no longer exists. Follow Maudie Aisling Walsh (Canada / Ireland) - From an authentic story of the young Maud, a severe disabling disease, the protagonist English actress Sally Hawkins, nominated for an Oscar, gives us a gem of films. But thanks to Ethan Awke in the shoes of her future husband grumpy, it's tender. The rest is done by the landscape of the Atlantic Canadian coast where stand out the silhouettes of the protagonists. In third place Devil freedom(Devil’s Freedom) of 
Everardo González (Mexico) - Doc - The director deals without mincing words, the burning issue of the numbers of murders in the creeping war of the drug cartels on the border between Mexico and the US in Ciudad Juarez in the state of Chihuahua. Already addressed by Gianfranco Rosi in her Doc El Sicario Room 164, that this time is extended by the story of the victims also. Their emotions and feelings are boulders for our conscience. The shooting method is identical with the face of the protagonists of so much barbarity hidden behind a mask, and only after we discover the face of the victims. The director talks about the dark side of each of us who then is the title of the documentary. It exits the room with a lump in the throat. Among the doc a mention goes to the restored edition of Acht Stunden sind kein Tag (Eight Hours Don’t Make A Day) Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Federal Republic of Germany 1972) – TV series in 5 episodes. The director takes us into a peaceful world and a bit 'naive, in fact, what is missing - thinking, just, much of the production of Fassbinder - is precisely that of pessimism, that kind of mal de vivre that will bring the filmmaker in a few years to take his life. And it is the tone of the TV series that has raised in his time - in 1972 - Many criticisms, especially as it regards the subplot on workers' movements, considered, time, as represented in an almost unreal and a little 'too simplistic. To the point of pushing Fassbinder himself to stop precisely on the fifth episode. sure, to think that initially there had been the idea of shooting more than five episodes, a bit 'of anger is all right. If only for the fact that you will never tire of this sort of story out of this world. And finally
The section on the fringes Panorama we propose between those seen the quintet of films that deserve attention. Let's start with the opening film The Wound 
South African John Trengove - The complaint of tribal rites of initiation into adulthood in the mountainous areas of Eastern South Africa. The protagonist has long Xolani works in a factory, but when asked to return in the village finds himself coming to terms with a reality from which he fled. Even the director turkish Ceylan Özgün Özçelik with Anxiety (Inflame) expose the authoritarian climate that reigns in Turkey, inspired by intellectual honesty feelings that inflame a young editor of a TV which is faced with the daily manipulation of news to cross over into paranoia.
The third film picks up the devastating trend of slavery period of the Portuguese slave traders who deported from the African continent in Latin America natives in an epochal forced migration. Daniela Thomas in his film ebb It offers us the story of a Portuguese family of farmers and farm sciavi settled in Brazil. The author through the intimate story of various characters highlights a part of world history forgot. Shot in black and white takes us back in time but with the same current issues: the oppression of man on man Other historical film, also in black and white is 1945 Ferenc Török dell'ungherese. In a small town at the end of World War II the arrival of two Jewish Holocaust survivors set in motion a series of tragic reactions in people. Are the guilt to reemerge forcefully. Finally in Mandarin language Bye Bye di Song Chuan. Beautiful landscapes stunning of the Chinese countryside where you consume yet another clash between rural society and the new company subway of a China with double-digit growth. In the section of Panorama documents, the first 
place goes to I Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck that in addition get the latest Oscar nomination and won the Berlinale. Told entirely in the words of James Baldwin, through the text of his last unfinished literary project, the film touches on the lives and assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. Medgar Evers, and to shed light on how the image of Blacks in America is built and strengthened today. James Baldwin has never terminated Remember this House and the film's ambition is to fill part of this void. It follows a Brazilian doc made both with amateur clips and vintage. Follow In Intense Now (In the Intense Now) of 
João Moreira Salles. Set in the mythic '68 seen from various angles and landmarks: the Chinese Revolution Mao, the Prague Spring muffled by the invasion of the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries, May sessantottino of Parisian students, but also the coup in Brazil. All woven from amateur films of the director's mother. The third doc that deserves a mention is the life of Mexican singer openly homosexual orientation. Let's talk about Chavela directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi. The life of this singer who after a first heyday at home back to the splendor of the stages in Spain and Europe when goaded by a great director then giovanissimodi world famous Pedro Almodóvar. He amazed Erase and Forget Andrea Luka Zimmerman who enlightens us on the American phenomenon of the veterans of the wars that have a large following and are like a parallel armed force. Thanks to the story of one of them Bo Gritz a kind of real Rambo. finally Belinda Marie Dumora, Movie Opening,gives us the intimate story of two sisters behind a difficult birth family who nonetheless manage to find their way. A film that gives hope to many children, adolescents who then become adults with great difficulty. As regards the selection Forum, we saw only two: Barrage Laura Schroeder The sea the sea Joshua Bonnetta, J. P. Sniadecki who incidentally won a special mention of the Ecumenical Jury. The first is feminine film, the other experimental documentary films and for this tough alternating unusual landscapes of the Earth with short poems.
What has been the focus of this issue, however, are the Talents with two Master Class seguitissime with the President of the International Jury director and screenwriter Paul Verhoeven and US actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and the second with the artist Christo that told the birth, the development and creation of its facilities assisted by teams of architects and engineers. He stressed that for him there are no preferences for one over another as there are no preferences for a parent to the children. Besides the award for best first he went to a veteran of the Talents. Carla Simón has views to reward the Jury of Jayro Bustamante, Clotilde Courau and Mahmoud Sabbagh PRIZE best GWFF debut with summer 1993 presented in the selection Generation KPLUS.