Christian Petzold returns to the Berlinale this year with Afire, the second installment of his elemental trilogy following 2020’s water-inspired Undine and preceding a forthcoming film about earth.

Wincingly well-observed and acidly funny, the German auteur's latest sees a young writer taking out his creative insecurities on everyone in his path — and that's before the fires begin. And then ...

Leon (Thomas Schubert), the exasperated — and exasperating — young writer at the heart of the superb German drama “Afire,” has a mesmerizingly punchable scowl. It’s a scowl that rarely leaves your ...

Marco Vito Oddo is a writer, journalist, and amateur game designer. Passionate about superhero comic books, horror films, and indie games, he formally worked as a Senior Writer for Collider. When he's ...

Petzold finds himself in Éric Rohmer territory in a quasi-comedy about bed-swapping, forest fires, and the pretensions of fiction writing. Christian Petzold finds himself somewhere between the lands ...

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights for German director Christian Petzold’s new film Afire, following its award-winning world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film ...

German filmmaker Christian Petzold has made a career trading on big ideas – cinematic dialogues with history and culture that are long and winding and heavy and masterful. Think of 2018′s Transit, ...

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