Latest in Berlin Film Festival

EXCLUSIVE: Arthouse streamer and theatrical distributor Mubi has acquired all rights to Alice Diop's We (Nous) in the United States and SVOD rights for the film in multiple territories across Europe, Latin America and Asia. Winner of the Encounters Section at the 2021 Berlinale, We on June 22 also was an official…

The Berlin International Film Festival has joined fellow events including Cannes and Venice in saying it will not ban Russian movies at the next edition of its fest, but will block official Russian delegates. In a statement, organizers wrote, "Even in face of the criminal Russian war of aggression, therefore, it…

The Berlin Film Festival's industry wing, the European Film Market (EFM), has confirmed that 600 exhibitors from 62 countries took part in this year's virtual edition, up from last year's figure of 504. A total of 1,300 market screenings of 827 films took place, including 600 premieres. That was down from last year's…

The Berlin International Film Festival confirmed today it has recorded 128 positive Covid cases from 10,938 tests taken at testing stations around fest hub Potsdamer Platz. That’s 1.5% of tests returning positive for the event, lower than the average percentage being recorded around the city of Berlin, according to…

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani directed films together from the early 1950s until Vittorio died in 2018, leaving his now 90-year-old brother to carry on alone. Leonora Addio, the second film Paolo has made without Vittorio, is not only dedicated to him but picks up many of the themes that ran through their earlier work…

The Sole family grows peaches. Round white peaches ripen first; then the flat white peaches that supermarkets like; then yellow cling peaches. Their farmhouse is surrounded by the plantation they have tended for three generations, promised to them in perpetuity by the current owner's great-grandparents during the…

Winners have been announced at the 72nd Berlin Film Festival, with Carla Simon’s Alcarràs scooping the coveted Golden Bear prize as the best film of the festival's International Competition. Scroll down for the full list of winners, which were revealed Wednesday night at the Berlinale Palast. Alcarràs follows the life…

EXCLUSIVE: German actor Saralisa Volm makes her directorial debut with mystery thriller The Silent Forest, which is premiering tonight at the Berlin Film Festival in the Perspektive Deutsches section. Here's an exclusive clip from the film. The film is based on Wolfram Fleischhauer's novel The Forest Stands Silent…

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns) is in advanced talks and Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Lin Shaye (Insidious) are attached to star in action director Renny Harlin's (Cliffhanger) horror-thriller Carrier, scripted by the 10 Cloverfield Lane writing team of Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken. In Carrier, when a…

Here's another walking-and-talking film from festival favorite Hong Sang-soo, encapsulating a sliver of Korean life with his customary elusive delicacy. Shot largely in creamy black and white, Berlin competition entry The Novelist's Film centers on the meeting between two artists who, for different reasons, have…

Brother in Every Inch definitely offers the world something it's never seen before — the training of Russian air force pilots on an actual Russian air base — but guess what: It looks exactly flight training in any other country. All the same, this second feature from director Alexander Zolotukhin (after his debut…

Fêted and eternally fabulous, Isabelle Huppert is this year’s Berlin Film Festival honorary Golden Bear laureate for her life's work so far, with an accompanying program of some of her most celebrated films. About Joan is her newest, screened out of competition as a Berlinale Special gala (though Huppert was unable to…