Berlin International Film Festival
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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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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‘Klondike’ Review: A Harrowing Ukrainian Drama Set at the Start of the War
Maryna Er Gorbach’s fourth feature won the World Cinema directing award at last year's Sundance Film Festival, while also scooping up prizes in Berlin and Sarajevo.
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‘Our Body’ Review: Claire Simon’s Intimate and Unflinching Look Inside a French Gynecology Ward
The director's latest documentary chronicles the experiences of patients in the gynecology department of a Parisian public hospital.
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Sydney Sweeney Faces Consequences as a Whistleblower in ‘Reality’ Trailer
Sydney Sweeney stars as a real-life whistleblower in director Tina Satter’s forthcoming drama Reality. Sweeney stars in the film as Reality Winner, who pleaded guilty following her June 2017 arrest for leaking a U.S. intelligence report that detailed Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The HBO Films project hits streaming service Max on May […]
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Berlinale Winner ‘Tótem’ Bought for North America by Sideshow and Janus Films
Tótem, the 2023 Berlinale competition title that amassed solid reviews and eventually won the festival’s Ecumenical Jury Prize, has found a home in North America. Frequent art house distribution bedfellows Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the feature, from Mexican filmmaker Lila Avilés and the follow-up to The Chambermaid. A theatrical release later this year […]
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Berlin: French Documentary ‘On the Adamant’ Wins Golden Bear for Best Film
On the Adamant, a documentary by French director Nicolas Philibert that gives an intimate look at the patients and caregivers in a mental health center located on the Seine River in the heart of Paris, has won the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear for best film. For his 11th feature, the 72-year-old Philibert […]
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Berlin: ‘20,000 Species of Bees,’ ‘Totem’ Among Independent Jury Winners
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s crowd-pleasing debut, 20,000 Species of Bees, a tender look at a 8-year-old Spaniard who begins to transition and the impact that has on the child’s family, was among the standouts of this year’s Berlinale. The film, which screened in competition at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival, won the prize for best film […]
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Berlin: LGBTQ+ Teddy Award for Nigerian Drama ‘All The Colors in the World Are Between Black and White’
All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White, the debut feature from director Babatunde Apalow, has won the 2023 Berlin Film Festival’s Teddy Award for best LGBTQIA+ film at this year’s Berlinale. Apalow’s drama follows the story of two men, Bambino and Bawa, who meet in Lagos and immediately hit it off […]
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Berlin: ‘Kokomo City,’ ‘Sira’ Win Panorama Audience Awards
D. Smith’s Sundance audience award winner Kokomo City has won over Berlin cinemagoers as well, winning the audience award for best documentary in Berlin’s Panorama section. Apolline Traoré’s Sira won the audience prize for best narrative feature. A raw depiction of the lives of four Black trans sex workers fro New York and Georgia, Kokomo […]
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Berlin: ‘The Survival of Kindness,‘ ‘Here’ Win Critics’ Fipresci Awards
Rolf de Heer’s The Survival of Kindness, a stark, and dialog-free dystopian fable about racism and the legacy of colonialism, has won over international film critics at this year’s Berlinale, taking the top prize for best film as picked by the Fipresci jury. Produced by Vertigo Productions and Triptych Pictures, The Survival of Kindness is […]
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Berlin: ‘Adolfo’, ‘Hummingbirds’ Win 2023 Generation 14Plus Sidebar
Sofía Auza’s Mexican drama Adolfo, won the Crystal Bear for best film in the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus sidebar for youth films, as picked by Generation’s youth jury. The bittersweet drama, adapted from Auza’s 2019 short, stars Juan Daniel García Treviño and Rocío de la Mañana as two strangers who meet at a deserted bus stop […]
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