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30 years after her first festival job — working for the guest department at the Berlinale — and after more than two decades as a sales agent and acquisitions exec for French indies Celluloid Dreams and Memento Films, Tanja Meissner returns to Berlin this year as the new director of Berlinale Pro, overseeing all the…
The 75th edition of the Berlin Film Festival promises a mix of star vehicles and fresh independent movies from around the world in its competition program and beyond. Sprinkled throughout the Berlinale’s various strands, film buffs can also find some particularly offbeat, edgy-seeming offerings. Below is a selection of some of the more unusual-sounding films…
“A widow who cares for stray cats, a boy who loves the sea, a philosopher marked by life … Eva Neymann (Song of Songs, The House With a Turret) shows the inhabitants of Odesa with gentleness and care, trying to find out what they dream of when the war has destroyed all certainty.” Thus reads…
“Traveling solo across Greenland, camping on an ice floe, single-handedly wrestling a bear. Not much daunts Coline Morel – except, perhaps, confronting her own existence when it starts to spiral out of control.” Thus reads a synopsis of French writer-director Sébastien Betbeder’s film The Incredible Snow Woman (L’ Incroyable femme des neiges) with French comedian…
The Berlin International Film Festival has added a trio of last-minute additions to its sidebar sections ahead of the 75th-anniversary event. Two Berlinale veterans, German directors Rosa von Praunheim and Gerd Kroske, will return to the festival with their latest works, while Chinese director Jing Yi will attend for the first time with her debut…
The Berlin Film Festival got some good news on Monday after the German Culture Ministry approved an additional $2 million (€1.9 million) for its budget this year. German Culture Minister Claudia Roth unveiled the budget boost in the film trade publication Blickpunkt Film. The additional cash means the Berlinale will have $13.2 million (€12.8 million)…
A “typically dysfunctional German family” gets a spiritual makeover in Das Licht (The Light), the new film from Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run, Cloud Atlas), which will open the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival. The first (German) trailer for the film dropped on Thursday, via local distributor X Verleih and Warner Bros. Germany (see below)….
Crossing several borders at once, the coming-of-age romance Langue Étrangère leaps over state lines, overcomes language barriers and defies heteronormative boundaries to tell the story of two 17-year-old pen pals who fall for one another while visiting their mutual homes to brush up on their German and French, respectively. Directed by Claire Burger — herself…
At a time when movies are made to be watched on smaller and smaller screens, one director whose work still demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible is Victor Kossakovsky. The Russian auteur has been roving the planet for two decades now, employing state-of-the-art equipment and the best cameramen around to capture life…
Out of the many movies you could imagine emerging from the mind of French auteur Bruno Dumont, a Star Wars parody was probably somewhere at the bottom of the list. And yet it’s been some time since the Cannes Grand Jury Prize laureate, who broke out in the late 90s with viscerally stylized, hard-hitting works…