Berlinale Review: Foreign Travel is a Rousing Ode to the Transformative Powers of Reading
The Film Stage [Unofficial]
February 24, 2026
No one moves abroad in Ted Fendt’s Foreign Travel; people walk plenty—mostly around Kreuzberg, Berlin—but the kind of wandering this erudite film is concerned with is chiefly of the mental variety. It is triggered by books, those of Italian writer Anna Maria Ortese, who rose to fame after her death but is yet to find […]
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