Women put sex, sensuality and gender politics on screen in Berlin

As Fifty Shades of Grey hits cinema screens, we look at the movies on show at Germany’s premier celebration of film

A date night at the movies in Berlin this Valentine’s Day promises an alternative perspective on love. As the city’s film festival reaches its climax next weekend, the desires of the female audience will have come into sharp focus. And it is erotica, rather than traditional romance, that is taking centre stage, as a succession of directors unveil films that offer a woman’s viewpoint.

The festival’s opening film, Nobody Wants the Night , starring Juliette Binoche, set the scene last week for a lineup saucily laced with a revisionist approach to the conventions of presenting physical love and lust on screen. Binoche trudges through Greenland’s frozen wastes and befriends her husband’s Inuit mistress in an unsentimental film loosely based on the true story of Josephine Peary, wife of the American polar adventurer Robert Peary, played by Gabriel Byrne.

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