Debts and guilt. At the end of the war all of Ufa’s assets became the property of the occupying powers. While the Soviet leadership by in large continued to operate a centralized film industry under a ...

Philip Hofman, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus Philip Hofman showed his experimental documentary All Fall Down in the Forum expanded programme.In the background host and Forum expanded curator Stefanie ...

„Eigentlich muss er sich nur genau konzentrieren, dann stirbt man nicht.“ – „Mach ich ja auch die ganze Zeit. Sonst wär ich schon tausend Mal tot.“ Der Haushalt, in dem Josse aufwächst, entspricht ...

The 55th Forum main programme comprises 30 films from five continents – including seven feature debuts – and encounters a world and its people that are in a bad state. “Sounding out a diverse range of ...

In 1980, two biographies cross paths in a Paris cinema: those of young cinema-goer Alexander Horwath and the actor Henry Fonda. Horwath recognised early on that the popular view of Fonda as a “typical ...

15 cinemas will be part of the regular venues for the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. The Berlinale Palast with the Competition and Berlinale Special Gala films, the Red Carpet and the fan ...

Film festivals provide a space for artistic expression and enable peaceful dialogue. They are places of encounter and exchange and contribute to international understanding. We believe that through ...

Born in Mongolia in 1971, she first studied international law in Ulaanbaatar and worked as a presenter for Mongolian state television. After completing a degree in film directing, she went to the ...

The World Cinema Fund (WCF) was founded in 2004 on the initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Berlinale to fund high-quality filmmaking in countries with a weak film ...

Over the past few days, there has been an intense discussion in the cultural sector, in the press and on social media as well as within the Berlinale team about the invitations of AfD politicians, a ...

In 1970, the German entry to the Competition split the Berlinale: the black-and-white film O.K., directed by Michael Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer.Most of the members of the jury perceived it ...

Once again a multitalented International Jury will decide who will take home the Golden and the Silver Bears at the Berlinale 2023. 19 films are competing for the awards in this year’s Competition.