The 72nd Berlin film festival opens Thursday, bucking a trend of pandemic on-the-couch streaming with a packed programme of live premieres featuring a stable of European screen legends.
To celebrate the works of women in the German film industry, and at the conclusion of this year's special outdoor Berlinale, we have compiled a list of seven must-watch German films directed by women.
Organisers of the Berlin film festival said Monday that pandemic conditions in the German capital had improved enough for them to hold a planned outdoor edition in June.
The 71st Berlin Film Festival wraps up on Friday after a pandemic-era edition unlike any before, with the awarding of its Golden Bear best picture prize and its first "gender neutral" acting gongs.
German-Spanish actor Daniel Brühl called on some of his more "humiliating" Hollywood experiences for the black comedy "Next Door", his directorial debut premiering in competition at this week's Berlinale film
festival.
Berlin's international film festival next
month will feature 15 movies made under the pandemic in competition for its Golden Bear top prize, organisers said Thursday.
The Berlin film festival, one of Europe's top cinema showcases, released a study Wednesday showing the deep entrenchment of its founding director in the Nazi propaganda apparatus, which he actively covered up.
There will be no more separate Silver Bear
awards for best actor and best actress at the Berlin film festival in future,
organisers announced Monday, saying they want to eliminate forms of hierarchy
between men and women.
As the Berlinale reels from revelations that its founding director Alfred Bauer was a high-ranking Nazi, the issue of
memory politics looms large over the film festival's 70th anniversary.
Diversity, politics and revelations from the Nazi era will dominate the agenda when the Berlin film festival launches its 70th edition in the heart of the German capital this Thursday.
Organizers of the Berlinale film festival have withdrawn its prestigious Alfred-Bauer prize after revelations that Bauer, its
founding director, was a high-ranking Nazi.
With crisp commentary on class, love, and the power of pursuing dreams, 'Gully Boy' is a film that will woo viewers from Germany to its filming location of Mumbai. Its production team gave The Local an exclusive interview in Berlin at the Berlinale.
The first Netflix movie in competition at the Berlin film festival, telling the extraordinary true story of a gay marriage in Spain a century ago, premiered Wednesday amid a protest by German cinema operators.
True to its nature as a socially conscious
film festival, this month's Berlinale showcases a string of unflinching
climate change documentaries raising the alarm about mankind's destructive behaviour while proposing some solutions.
Polish director Agnieszka Holland premiered a film at Berinale about the cover-up of Stalin's mass famine in Ukraine with the complicity of the West, arguing this early example of "fake news" was still toxic today.
Europe's first major film festival of the year, the Berlinale, kicked off Thursday making a statement against entertainment industry sexism by welcoming an unprecedented line-up of female directors.
Women directors and the rise of streaming services will take the spotlight at the Berlin film festival starting Thursday, with a star-studded lineup making the case for big-screen diversity.
New movies starring Diane Kruger, Martin Freeman and Catherine Deneuve and features directed by Hollywood actors Jonah Hill and Casey Affleck will take the spotlight at next month's Berlin film festival.
Oscar winner and one of France's most recognized actresses, Juliette Binoche, will head the jury of next year's Berlin film festival, organizers said Tuesday.
Berlin authorities on Friday named a duo, including the director of the Locarno film festival, to jointly lead the Berlinale from 2020, taking over from long-time chief Dieter Kosslick.
Steven Soderbergh premiered his new thriller shot on an iPhone at the Berlin film festival Wednesday, showing what little gadgets can do to push the limits of style on the big screen.
A coalition of more than 100 South Korean civic groups on Thursday condemned the Berlin film festival for inviting director Kim Ki-duk, who assaulted an actress, despite its support for the #MeToo campaign against abuse of women.
The Berlin film festival, Europe's first major cinema showcase since the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal roiled the industry, starts Thursday with 400 new movies slated and a controversy of its own brewing.
