Berlin: ‘The Teacher’s Lounge’ Wins Best European Film Prize
İlker Çatak’s The Teachers‘ Lounge, a German drama set in a primary school, has won the Europa Cinemas Label as...
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Berlin: Spanish Drama ‘Ivan & Hadoum’ Wins Euroimages Co-Production Award
Iván & Hadoum, a Spanish feature film project, to be directed by Ian de la Rosa, has won the Eurimages...
Berlin: Eritrea Filmmaker Nahom Abraham Wins Berlinale NEFTI Award for Short ‘Home’
Nahom Abraham from Eritrea has won the top prize for best film, and $5,000, in the Berlinale’s 2023 NEFTI award...
Berlin: Rolf de Heer on How COVID and BLM Shaped ‘The Survival of Kindness’
Questions of authenticity and authorship in cinema – who gets to tell what stories — are thorny ones. With his...
Berlin: Simon Rex Joins Heaven’s Gate Cult Drama ‘The Leader’ (Exclusive)
The Leader, the upcoming biopic about the Heaven’s Gate cult set to star Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga, has...
Building a Better Backlot in the Baltics
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the three nations that stretch along the Baltic Sea coast, jammed in between Poland to the...
Kristen Stewart Joins Iran Protest in Berlin as Politics Seizes the Spotlight at 2023 Festival
At this year’s Berlin Film Festival, politics and protests, not cinema and celebrities, have gotten top billing. The activist uproar,...
Berlin: StudioCanal Takes Mike Leigh’s Untitled Next Feature for U.K.
StudioCanal has acquired U.K. rights to Mike Leigh’s secretive and untitled next project, marking the first time the distributor has...
Berlin: Sean Penn Makes Plea for Greater Arms Support for Ukraine
For those paying attention to his year-long campaigning in support of Ukraine, Sean Penn covered a lot of familiar ground...
Berlin According to Brightlight Pictures’ Emily Alden
Emily Alden is back in Berlin this year, heading to its market in her role as vp of originals at...
