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How soon is too soon? It’s the meta question posed by Fisher Stevens’ and Rebecca Chaiklin’s documentary “Another World,” which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this week, and which, despite its thoroughgoing nature, unrivalled access and exuberant, pacy vibe, feels strangely out of focus. It doesn’t appear to be the fault of the filmmaking, although Stevens did mention in an introduction that the film was so hot off the presses that the Berlin screening we attended was pretty much the first time the directors had watched it in its finished entirety. Nor can the intention be faulted, because while it’s clearly delivered from a point of view sympathetic to the movement it documents, it makes no bones about that, and doesn’t shy away from covering the dissolution and disillusion that characterized its later stages. Really, it simply feels like the Occupy movement in its...

★★☆☆☆Fisher Stevens' Occupy Wall Street documentary Another World (2014) - which premièred in the Panorama sidebar in Berlin - is as scatterbrained as the protest itself, attempting too much and delivering too little. Yet it also remains an earnest view of a movement that has created the modern Western notion of direct action. Stevens, who won an Oscar as producer of The Cove, alongside Rebecca Chaiklin, went onto the streets of downtown Manhattan in the days after the protest's inception in order to follow the lives of six personalities up until the activists were eventually moved out by NYPD police two months later.

Toh! has scored an exclusive clip to documentary “Another World,” which premieres in Berlin February 8 in the fest's Panorama section. Co-directed by Fisher Stevens (producer of "The Cove") and Rebecca Chaiclin, and written by Mark Monroe (“The Cove”), the film looks at the tumultuous journey of the individuals behind the Occupy Wall Street movement. Watch below.Here’s the official synopsis:Another World is an intimate portrait of a group of remarkable young people, who gave up everything, to tackle economic inequality, create Occupy Wall Street and attempt to change the world. The film chronicles the personal narratives that brought these young people together and their wild ride through the rise and fall of one of the most explosive movements in Us history.