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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…
The Indigenous Cinema Alliance (ICA) returns to the Berlin Film Festival and European Film Market (EFM), marking its 10th anniversary showcasing native and Indigenous filmmakers worldwide. Established in 2015 as the NATIVe Indigenous Cinema Stand, the ICA has served as a platform for Indigenous filmmakers to showcase market-ready projects to the international market. An official…
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)….
John Magaro, Kate Dickie and Jason Isaacs will be heading to the chilly streets of Berlin. The Berlin Film Festival unveiled the first gala screenings for its 2025 edition, which runs Feb. 13-23. Islands, the new feature from German director Jan-Ole Gerster (Lara, A Coffee in Berlin), is among the gala highlights. The thriller stars…
To note that Gloria!, the directing debut of Italian actor-singer-songwriter Margherita Vicario, is vapid, pseudo-feminist, sentimental piffle would be entirely accurate. And yet, one must also admit that it is at least mildly entertaining piffle, absorbing in the same way that pop videos with lots of dancing and catchy tunes playing in the corner of…
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…
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…
It was when Alonso Ruizpalacios was in London working as a dishwasher at the (now-extinct) Rainforest Cafe that he came up with the idea for La Cocina. “I was a drama student and I’d just read the [1957] play The Kitchen by Arnold Wesker and to make the work — which is tough, monotonous and very, very hard —…