Berlin 2025
Berlin Hidden Gem: China’s Jing Yi Taps Memories of Xinjiang for Enigmatic Feature Debut ‘The Botanist’
The young filmmaker had little access to cinema growing up in remote rural China, but thanks to a friend's cache of classics and mentorship from art-house star Bi Gan, he's making his debut at Berlin.
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‘Kontinental ’25’ Review: Romanian Auteur Radu Jude Delivers Another Caustic Modern Morality Tale
The latest feature from the director of 'Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World' follows a woman dealing with her guilt after her actions drive a homeless man to suicide.
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‘After This Death’ Review: Mía Maestro and Lee Pace in a Dud Follow-Up to Lucio Castro’s Transfixing ‘End of the Century’
Rupert Friend, Gwendoline Christie and Philip Ettinger also star in the Argentinian director’s slow-boil mystery set during the fall in upstate New York.
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‘Late Shift’ Review: Gripping Drama Revolves Around an Extraordinary Leonie Benesch as an Overworked and Tireless Nurse
The ‘Teachers' Lounge’ star toplines Petra Volpe’s day-in-the-life medical procedural set in the surgical ward of a Swiss hospital.
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Ethan Hawke on Shedding Hair and Height to Play Lorenz Hart in ‘Blue Moon’
Hawke is unrecognizable as the 5-foot balding Broadway genius in Richard Linklater’s new film. "It was demolishing to my vanity," he says from Berlin.
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Quiet Berlin Market Wraps With Few Big Deals But Some Optimism
A handful of domestic deals and a studio bidding war for a Natalie Portman rom-com helped light up an otherwise uneventful European Film Market. "Movies that sell are selling at pre-pandemic prices."
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‘Khartoum’ Review: Experimental Doc Poignantly Captures the Crisis in Sudan
A collective of Sudanese and British filmmakers collaborate with five residents from Khartoum to construct a kaleidoscopic document of identity, survival and hope.
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‘The Message’ Review: A Minimalist, Beautifully Shot Argentine Road Movie That Celebrates Both Nature and the Supernatural
Writer-director Ivan Fund's roving black-and-white feature, which played competition in Berlin, follows a little girl who claims she can read the minds of animals.
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‘Blue Moon’ Review: Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley Mesmerize in Richard Linklater’s Affecting Study of a Gifted Artist on a Downhill Slide
Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott co-star in this real-time account of musical-theater lyricist Lorenz Hart getting pickled at Sardi’s on opening night of his former writing partner’s Broadway triumph, ‘Oklahoma!’
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Benedict Cumberbatch on ‘The Thing With Feathers,’ Being an Advocate: Society Has “a Very Easy Time Sidelining” Those in Need
Cumberbatch got candid about grief, toxic masculinity and being an advocate in Berlin for the press conference of Dylan Southern's 'The Thing With Feathers.'
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Todd Haynes on Resistance, Reinvention and the Art of Letting Go
This year's Berlin Film Fest jury president talks about Donald Trump, the challenges for indie cinema, and what the AIDS crisis taught him about activism: "We have to really be careful about not yielding."
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Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater on ‘Blue Moon,’ Cash vs. Art: “When We Prioritize Money, We Get Generic Material”
Hawke was joined by co-stars Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott and director Richard Linklater for a press conference on their new film, 'Blue Moon', premiering at the Berlinale Tuesday.
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