With the passing of Moritz de Hadeln, the international film community has lost one of its most influential and respected ...

Heleen Gerritsen has been Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek since June 2025. The role means she is also responsible for the Retrospective and Berlinale Classics sections of the Berlin ...

A “Heimatfilm” with a difference: Kristina Mikhailova asks women and girls to imagine themselves as a river. Village girls, young female city dwellers, LGBT and gender positivity activists, a ...

His guitar is out of tune and Fedor (25) isn’t in the best of moods. At the end of the year, the threat of World War III is constantly on the news, which he listens to hungover. While his sister Nina ...

The programme WCF Europe is aimed at providing production funding and extends WCF support to European companies from the member states of the Creative Europe MEDIA sub-programme (433 KB). Special ...

Factory owner Maryati exploits her employees with excessively long shifts, luring them with incentives to make them prioritise productivity and greed over sleep. Putri is convinced that, because of ...

In the northern Alps, Anne, Hélène and Suzanne take turns looking after a mountain hut. Through the seasons, hikers come and go; stories bloom and fade, leaving each of them facing the silence. Forêt ...

With this year's theme of “Listen Courageously – Cinematic Narratives in Times of Dissonance” Berlinale Talents extends an invitation to its audiences not only to visit the exciting programme, but to ...

Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many people in Russia face a weighty choice: military service, prison or exile. Margarita, Yuri and their friends refuse to comply with the regime ...

Keeping the schools open in Ukraine is an attempt to salvage at least some of the normal life people had before the war broke out on February 24, 2022 (or in some regions even earlier, in 2014).

“Welcome to Hell” we hear early on in this documentary, uttered by the goth actor at the entrance to the dark ride at Wildwood Beach. But that, of course, is meant as a joke. In fact, the Wildwood ...

New York, June 1961. Legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bass player Scott LaFaro, his musical soulmate. A residency at New York’s ...