Berlin International Film Festival
‘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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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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‘All I Had Was Nothingness’ Review: A Powerful Behind-the-Scenes Look at Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’
Director Guillaume Ribot revisited outtakes from the nine-hour Holocaust documentary to reveal how it was made and the toll it took on its creator.
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Shop Talk: 6 Berlin Boutiques You Don’t Want to Miss
The city’s fashion and design scene threads together innovative, progressive and countercultural elements into a style all its own.Â
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Berlin: Bong Joon Ho Says ‘Mickey 17’ Villain Was Modeled on Past Dictators But May Remind Viewers of Present-Day Political Leaders
The Oscar-winning director of 'Parasite' touched down at the Berlin Film Festival to unveil his new sci-fi feature, which stars Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo.
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‘Ari’ Review: An Intensely Performed if Loose-Limbed Portrait of an Emotionally Unstable French Man Trying to Fix His Life
Director Léonor Serraille ('Mother and Son') worked with both seasoned and amateur actors in a partially improvised drama that explores the lives of wayward 20somethings.
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Chinese Director Vivian Qu on Crafting Her Female-Led Neo-Noir ‘Girls on Wire’
The indie filmmaking veteran behind 2014’s Golden Bear-winning 'Black Coal, Thin Ice' discusses returning to Berlin with a new thriller and the recent steep ups and downs at China's theatrical box office.
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‘A Letter to David’ Review: An Israeli Filmmaker Considers the Fate of an Actor Turned Hostage in a Harrowing Film Essay
Nancy Spielberg (Steven Spielberg's sister) produced writer-director Tom Shoval's portrait of David Cunio, who starred in his 2013 film 'Youth' and was taken hostage on October 7th, 2023.
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Berlin Flashback: When Timothée Chalamet Was a Complete Unknown at the Berlinale
When the actor walked the red carpet in 2015 for the little-seen 'One & Two,' the media was more interested in his co-star, 'Mad Men' star Kiernan Shipka. This year he is an Oscar nominee.
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Tilda Swinton Says She’s Taking a Break From Making Movies
The Oscar-winning Scottish screen legend discussed her remarkable 40-year career and offered advice to aspiring artists after receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Berlin Hidden Gem: ‘Evidence’ Examines the Insidious Power of Institutional Money
By turns personal and political, director Lee Anne Schmitt’s doc uses the history of the powerful, conservative John M. Olin Foundation to explore the concept of societal control.
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Wild, Weird and Bloody: The Berlinale Shines a Light on Forgotten German Genre Films of the ’70s
A Berlin retrospective salutes a handful of B-movie masters and grindhouse auteurs in all their gritty glory: "These were outsider filmmakers making outsider, maverick movies."
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