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Over three decades since the critic Rüdiger Suchsland first identified an upstart group of graduates of the German film school Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb) as “The Berlin School,” the most exciting new wave of German filmmakers since the days of Fassbinder, Schlöndorff, and Wenders are still producing some of the most vital and interesting work on the world stage.

Christian Petzold and Angela Schanelec have always been the two prodigious halves of the heart of the Berlin School, even as that taxonomy has expanded to include younger filmmakers, those who didn’t study at dffb, those who work outside of Germany, and even those who reject it as a label. Luminaries from this second generation include Maren Ade, Fatih Akin, Christopher Hochhäusler, and Maria Speth…

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