New movies starring Ben Stiller, Julianne Moore, Gerard Depardieu, Jessica Alba and James Franco will headline the 60th Berlin film festival next month, organisers said this week.
The restored lost cut of Fritz Lang’s legendary 1927 silent film “Metropolis” will be beamed onto the Brandenburg Gate for the public as it premieres at the Berlinale, the film festival's organisers said on Thursday.
The 2010 Berlinale film festival will premiere the latest film by director Roman Polanski, who is under house arrest in Switzerland awaiting deportation to the United States on unlawful sex charges.
A film on women's survival after two decades of guerrilla war in Peru, "The Milk of Sorrow," has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday.
<b>Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a team of Germany's top directors have turned their cameras on their own country, producing short, sharp vignettes sizing up the reunited nation, writes AFP's Deborah Cole.</b>
The remarkable true story of a German who helped save the lives of more than 200,000 Chinese during the Japanese invasion of Nanjing during World War II came to the Berlin Film Festival this week.
<b>The Berlin International Film Festival might have several entries tackling the foibles of the corporate world this year, but as Daniel Miller reports, the Berlinale itself is also all about business.</b>
Michelle Pfeiffer said she has fewer role choices now that she is 50 but the upside is that her on-screen lovers keep getting younger, as she unveiled her new Stephen Frears drama "Cheri" Tuesday at the Berlin Film Festival.
Award-winning British director Michael Winterbottom unveiled "The Shock Doctrine" Monday, one of a raft of Berlin Film Festival entries looking at what set off the chaos ravaging the global economy.
The 59th annual Berlinale kicked off on February 5, promising 11 days packed full of films, parties and red carpet star sightings. There’s no better way to while away the post-holiday winter blues in Germany than losing yourself in velvety cinema darkness.
Just in time to boost the Berlin International Film Festival’s profile this week, new statistics showed on Wednesday that more Germans are going to the movie theatre – to see German films – than ever before.
Two of Hollywood’s biggest leading men are due in Berlin over the next two days, with Brad Pitt in the capital to promote his new film, quickly followed by Tom Cruise for the premier of his own flick.
British acting heavyweights Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Naomi Watts will headline the next Berlin Film Festival with a clutch of new pictures, organisers said Friday.
Coming closer to the German film-event of the year, Berlinale organizers have announced their pick of who will lead the international jury at the 59th Berlin Film Festival in February.
Violent Brazilian cop drama “Tropa De Elite” won the Golden Bear at the 58th International Berlin Film Festival. The UK’s Sally Hawkins took home the Silver Bear for best actress for her role in Mike Leigh’s latest movie “Happy-Go-Lucky” and US filmmaker Paul Thomas Anders was awarded a Silver Bear for best direction.
Berlin is going crazy for Madonna after the American singer arrived to promote her new movie. Madonna arrived at Tempelhof airport on Tuesday evening and went to the French Brasserie “Entrecote” in the Mitte district of Berlin. The American singer dined there for two hours as photographers stood there waiting.
The Berlinale international film festival opened on Thursday with the film Shine a Light, a Martin Scorsese documentary movie about the Rolling Stones. Scorsese was joined by band members at the star-studded opening at the Berlinale Palast.
