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Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights for German director Christian Petzold's new film Afire, following its award-winning world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. The work was feted with Berlin’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize on Sunday evening (Feb 25) by an…

EXCLUSIVE: The Match Factory has unveiled a slew of deals for German director Christian Petzold's Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winner Afire. The summertime comedy-drama, which world premiered in Berlin’s main competition, revolves around a disparate group of people thrown together in a holiday…

A cottage in the woods: isolated, idyllic and unavoidably reminiscent of some half-forgotten fairy tale. Unfortunately, Leon (Thomas Schubert) is not a country person. When his friend Felix's car breaks down on the forest road on the way to the family holiday house where they both plan to work in peace…

EXCLUSIVE: German director Christian Petzold returns to the Berlinale’s Competition this year with ensemble drama Afire about a group of four loosely connected, young people who come together in a small holiday home on Germany's Baltic coast. Amid a sweltering hot, rainless summer, an emotional…

Christian Petzold has arguably been Germany's most consistently impressive filmmaker over the past decade, but he comes up more than a bit wet with Undine, a kind of arty variation on Splash. Paula Beer, who made her mark in the director's stunningly controlled drama Transit two years ago and in March won the Berlin…

With the Berlin Film Festival kicking off one month from today, organizers are firming up the Competition and Special sections, adding another 13 titles. Among them are David and Nathan Zellner’s Sundance entry Damsel with Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska. The comedy/western will make its international premiere in…

The German Film Academy has announced nominations for its Lola awards, the country’s equivalent to the Oscar. Christian Petzold’s Barbara, the story of an East German doctor transferred to the countryside in 1980, scored eight nods, while Roland Emmerich’s controversial Shakespeare film Anonymous and Andreas Dresen’s…

Adopt Films is continuing its spending spree at the Berlin International Film Festival, landing U.S. rights to Christian Petzold’s drama Barbara just before the film won the runner-up Silver Bear at the festival’s awards ceremony yesterday. The latest deal, announced today, comes after Adopt picked up the festival’s…