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Freshly created as the festival’s new platform for emerging filmmakers, the competitive section <em class="mark_section">Perspectives</em> will unveil fourteen ...

At the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, film expert and Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek Rainer Rother will be honoured with the Berlinale Camera. Unlike retrospectives of, perhaps ...

Ob atmosphärische Horror-Shorts oder bissige Komödien, Vampirfilme erleben derzeit eine spannende Renaissance. Doch die Frage bleibt: Wer beißt hier eigentlich wen ...

“Wild, Weird, Bloody. German Genre Films of the 70s” is the topic of the 2025 Retrospective. In this interview, section head Rainer Rother and Annika Haupts, member of the selection committee and ...

For the competitive <em class="mark_section">Perspectives</em> section, a three-person jury presents the Best First Feature Award – funded by der GWFF.

In conversation with the director and screenwriter Jan Ole Gerster. The trained paramedic had a huge hit with <em class="tit2">Oh Boy </em>in 2012. His third feature ...

Ina Weisse established herself as an idiosyncratic storyteller with her films <em class="tit2">Der Architekt</em> and <em class="tit2">The Audition</em>. Now the ...

75 years of the Berlinale – that’s 75 years full of stories, minor and major scandals, unforgettable moments and, above all, a long and passionate tale of unwavering love for the cinema. For 75 years, ...

The new Perspectives section is launching in 2025 and is dedicated to discovering and supporting exceptional feature film debutants from around the world. In its 75-year history, the Berlinale has ...

For the 75th anniversary of the Berlin International Film Festival, a new centrepiece is being built at Potsdamer Platz, right next to the red carpet of the Berlinale Palast: the HUB75. This Festival ...

Resolut werden Alina und ihr Sohn Serik vom Schuldirektor durch die Räume seiner „besten Militärschule“ Kasachstans geführt. Alina soll ausgerechnet hier Geschichte unterrichten, Serik als Kadett zur ...