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Mubi has snapped up rights across multiple territories on Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger, the Martin Scorsese-narrated doc set to debut this week at the Berlin Film Festival.  Under the deal, the global film distributor, production company, and streaming service will retain all…

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese is returning to the Berlin Film Festival tomorrow for the first time in a decade. The cinema legend, currently on the awards circuit with latest epic Killers Of The Flower Moon, will be feted with the Berlinale’s highest honor, its lifetime achievement Golden Bear. Ahead of…

With the indie film business in buoyant mood here in Berlin, it's the TV industry's turn to take stock today and tomorrow, and it's safe to say the drama crowd are navigating some choppy waters. Analysts, producers and distributors broke down the state of play for the scripted TV business on the…

A group of pro-Palestinian supporters staged a protest against Israel’s ongoing military action in the Gaza Strip in the main Gropius Bau venue of the Berlin Film Festival’s European Film Market on Sunday. About 50 people entered the ground floor of the main atrium shouting, “Stop the genocide&#8221…

Somebody — or something — is speaking from inside a timber crate. "It's so dark in here… a night so deep and opaque" read the subtitles; the voice is speaking in Fon, the local language of the West African country that was once called Dahomey and is now Benin. As the slats are nailed down, the voice is…

The 74th Berlin International Film Festival rolled out the red carpet on Thursday, for the opening film and the world premiere of Small Things Like These, directed by Tim Mielants starring Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson.  The film is based on the book by the award-winning Irish writer…

The first-ever edition of AfroBerlin put Africa in the spotlight at the Berlin Film Festival and in one key session asked how festivals, streamers, and the wider industry can — and should — support films and filmmakers from the continent. AfroBerlin took over the conference center next to the…

Kristen Stewart is in Berlin this weekend for the international premiere of her lesbian crime-thriller Love Lies Bleeding. Stewart plays a down-on-her luck gym manager, Lou, who falls for the muscular girl and competitive amateur bodybuilder, Jackie (Katy O'Brian) in the gym. However, Jackie works…

"The first shape I had in mind for this film was fiction," filmmaker Mati Diop told a Berlin Film Festival presser this morning when quizzed on the structure of her inventive documentary Dahomey.  The doc — which screens in the Berlinale competition this afternoon — borrows its name from the former…

Having championed the cause of animals in farmyard doc Gunda, Victor Kossakovsky is making a fresh appeal to the world through new work Architecton: stop using concrete. The visually arresting documentary, world premiering in Competition at the Berlinale, explores how unsustainable modern building…

The Berlin Film Festival kicks off its 74th edition Thursday with the opening-night world premiere screening of Small Things Like These, the Irish drama starring Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy. It kicks of 10 days of movie debuts including for ones starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert…

There is a sense of a running gag in Hors du Temps (renamed Suspended Time for the English-language market). In his complex, autofictional 2022 TV series Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas cast as the director of a film called Irma Vep — a film he had, in fact, made in real life 20 years earlier — the actor…