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Berlinale co-head Carlo Chatrian has decided to step down as artistic director after the 2024 edition of the festival. The announcement was made this morning with a statement shared on the Berlinale website, where the fest head pointed to the German Ministry for Culture and Media’s decision to scrap…

German Culture Minister Claudia Roth has announced she wants the Berlinale to be placed back under the control of a single director. The festival has been led by the joint team of Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian and Executive Director Mariette Rissenbeek since 2019, in a dual management structure…

EXCLUSIVE: Big World Pictures has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights from Paris-based sales firm Charades to Giacomo Abbruzzese's debut feature, Disco Boy. Winner of the Berlinale's Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution earlier this year, the largely French-language film stars rising…

EXCLUSIVE: Outgoing Berlinale co-director Mariette Rissenbeek shared a surprising statement during an industry keynote this week at Locarno.  She said the festival, one of the calendar's biggest European film events, had to increase its operating budget by 10-15%. In cash figures, this would mean an…

Editors note: This review was originally published February 17, 2023 after the film’s world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. It releases in theaters Friday. Who knew a Canadian biopic of an infamous smartphone could be this entertaining, even…

A collective of Afro-German filmmakers and industry professionals have published an open letter raising concerns about what they have described as the selection of “anti-Black” films at the recent Berlin Film Festival. The group, represented under the title Schwarze Filmschaffende, which loosely…

IFC Films on Wednesday dropped its trailer for BlackBerry, the Matt Johnson-directed movie that had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. It hits U.S. theaters May 12. The comedic drama, which scored strong reviews at Berlin, tells the story of Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and Jim…

With the delicacy of a bee probing a flower for pollen, Basque director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren picks her way through the tensions and dilemmas within a family where the youngest member, an 8-year-old boy called Aitor, is feeling his way toward a new identity as a girl. Sofia Otero, who deservedly won…

Folk music icon Joan Baez, who's now 82, came of age just as musicians' live gigs were often recorded and thereby preserved for the record, virtues that are used to advantage in Joan Baez I Am A Noise. An up-close, intimate and mostly frank account of a career that arched across more than 60 years of…

Christoph Hochhäusler's slow-burn urban noir Till the End of the Night starts with time-lapse footage of the film's first set, a well-to-do and apparently lived-in apartment flat, being built from scratch out of an empty room. Sadly, what looks to be challenging piece of Brechtian deconstruction is…

Nicholas Philibert, whose film On the Adamant won the Golden Bear at the 73rd Berlinale on Saturday, has made a lifetime commitment to observational documentary, moving between interviews and long, patient takes of his subjects pursuing what it is that they do. The best known of these is Etre et Avoir…

Winners have been announced at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival, with On the Adamant by Nicolas Philibert scooping the coveted Golden Bear prize as the best film of the festival's International Competition. Scroll down for the full list of winners, which were revealed Saturday evening at the Berlinale…