SBS TV's film website has been giving extensive coverage of the festival, with
full-length reviews of eight of the titles screening; interviews with new festival and Goethe-Institut Australia head,
Dr Arpad Soelter and SUMMER WINDOW's Berlin-based director,
Hendrik Handloegten; and a guide to five of the best films.
For his
top five picks, former Edinburgh film festival director Shane Danielsen lists Ulrich Köhler's SLEEPING SICKNESS ("a gripping and profoundly unsettling journey into the heart of darkness"; Tom Tykwer's THREE ("his strongest movie in over a decade"); Corrina Belz's documentary portrait, GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING ("as a study of a great artist at work, it’s probably the finest filmed record since Henri-Georges Clouzot made The Mystery of Picasso back in 1955"); Andreas Dresen's cancer drama, STOPPED ON TRACK ("remarkably honest, compassionate and moving"); and SUMMER IN ORANGE, Marcus H. Rosenmüller's comedy about orange people moving into a conservative Bavarian community ("the cast is uniformly strong, the laughs not infrequent, and its final shot – an unlikely image of reconciliation – little short of perfect").
Note: Lynden Barber is a contributor to SBS Film website.
