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2024 European Shooting Stars Unveiled
European Film Promotion has announced the 10 up-and-coming European acting talents for its 2024 European Shooting Stars list. The actors, which include performers from this year’s award-season contenders Poor Things, Ferrari, and The Peasants, among others, will be lauded at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, next year. The Shooting Stars class of 2024 […]
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Berlinale Forum Unveils First Films for 2024 Festival
The Berlinale Forum, the Berlin Film Festival’s avant-garde sidebar, has announced the first 8 films confirmed for its 2024 line-up. The 8 films come from 8 different countries, reflecting the Forum’s global reach and a broader push towards greater diversity in it’s line-up. New Forum head Barbara Wurm, who took over running the Forum section […]
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Berlin Film Festival Names Tricia Tuttle New Director
The German culture ministry has unveiled the new head of the Berlin International Film Festival, who will take over from co-directors Carlo Chatrian and Mariëtte Rissenbeek, who are stepping down after next year’s Berlinale. Tricia Tuttle, formerly director of the BFI London Film Festival, will take over as the sole director of the Berlinale from […]
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‘In Flames’ Supernatural Horror Pic Lands at Game Theory Films (Exclusive)
In Flames, the feature debut of Pakistani-Canadian director Zarrar Kahn, has been picked up for the U.S. market by Game Theory Films. The Urdu-language horror movie, which premiered as part of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight lineup, follows a young woman and her mother tormented by real and fantastic forces following the death of the family patriarch. The […]
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Berlin Film Festival Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian to Step Down After 2024 Edition
Berlinale co-head Carlo Chatrian has decided to step down as artistic director after the 2024 edition of the festival. The Berlin festival made the announcement Saturday morning, confirming rumors that Chatrain would be following his co-director, executive director Mariëtte Rissenbeek out the door after their contracts expire next year. Chatrain and Rissenbeek took over as […]
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Lux Award Shortlist Includes Cannes, Berlin Winners
The Lux Award, a film prize awarded by the European Parliament, unveiled the five finalists for its 2024 honor at the Venice Film Festival on Friday. The shortlist includes already-lauded favorites from the Berlin, Cannes and Sundance film festivals. On the Adamant, Nicolas Philibert’s French documentary about a unique psychiatric treatment center based on a […]
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Berlin Film Festival to Axe Sections Amid Budget Cuts
The Berlinale, the world’s largest public film festival, unveiled Tuesday that it is facing major budget cuts and plans to chop entire sections from its program to avoid a financial crisis. Starting next year, the Berlin Festival will drop its Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar, which highlights up-and-coming German directors, as a separate section. In the […]
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Ira Sachs’ ‘Passages’ to Open Toronto’s Inside Out Film Festival
The Ira Sachs film Passages is set to open the Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival after screening at Sundance. The French romantic drama, which stars Ben Whishaw, Franz Rogowski and Adèle Exarchopoulos, will receive a gala treatment in Toronto. And the 33rd edition of Inside Out will close with Tom Gustafson’s Glitter & Doom, a […]
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Berlinale Co-Head Mariëtte Rissenbeek to Step Down After 2024 Fest
Mariëtte Rissenbeek, the executive director of the Berlin International Film Festival, will step down after next year’s Berlinale. The German culture ministry, which finances the festival, announced Thursday that Rissenbeek will not be renewing her current contract, which expires in March 2024. German Culture Minister Claudia Roth said she accepted the resignation “with great regret” […]
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Berlin: Steven Spielberg Says He Won’t Tell Young Filmmakers to Get Out of His Office
A reflective Steven Spielberg talked about how he would advise young filmmakers when receiving an honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday, and he decided to not follow the lead of his childhood hero John Ford. “I’m not going to say, ‘Get the fuck out of my office.’ That’s a big difference […]
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Berlin: Filmmaker Johnnie To’s Remarks About Totalitarianism Strike Chord in Hong Kong
The Berlin International Film Festival’s jury press conference, headed by Hollywood star Kristen Stewart, concluded on Thursday, but remarks made by legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To at the event are still reverberating a world away. When the festival jurors were asked by a journalist in the crowd to share their views on why cinema […]
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Makoto Shinkai on How Anime Blockbuster ‘Suzume’ Reflects the Current State of Japan: “The Most Honest Expression I Could Put on Screen”
The 2023 Berlin International Film Festival is screening its first Japanese anime film in competition in over two decades. The previous occasion was the international premiere of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away in 2002, so it’s perhaps fitting that the latest selection is Suzume, the newest release from Makoto Shinkai, the director most often hailed as […]
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