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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 youthful crowd of industry professionals filed into a bustling room at the Gropius Bau Saturday afternoon for the inaugural AfroBerlin symposium here at the Berlin Film Festival.  Among the speakers were outgoing Berlinale co-head Mariette Rissenbeek, NEOM's Wayne Borg, and Yolonda Ncokotwana, Head…

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…

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…

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…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Urban Sales has unveiled key deals for Mascha Halberstad’s CGI animation Fox And Hare Save The Forest ahead of its world premiere in the Berlin Film Festival's young audience-focused Generation Kplus sidebar this weekend. The company has sold the movie into more than 50 territories…

Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry joined filmmaker Julia von Heinz for a press conference for new tragic comedy Treasure, which debuts this weekend in the Special Gala section at the Berlin Film Festival. As well as Dunham and Fry, the drama stars Zbigniew Zamachowski and is based on the bestselling book To…

EXCLUSIVE: Australia's Odin’s Eye Animation (OEA) has boarded sales on caveman comedy Rock Bottom, starring the voices of top comedy actors Rob Schneider and Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias. The movie is the latest production from Mexican animation powerhouse Huevocartoon Studios, for which OEA previously…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Myriam El Hajj’s documentary Diaries From Lebanon, capturing the political, economic and social tumult in her country from 2018 to 2021, world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival this weekend. Deadline can reveal the first clip for the immersive work which takes the viewer into…