Audiences in Berlin will have the opportunity to revisit a selection of award-winning films and favourites of the 75th Berlinale before their theatrical release. Screenings will run from July 8 to 11, ...

The audience shows its unflagging enthusiasm. The shirt-sleeved treatment of stars, which is evident in many photos from the time, gave the Berlinale the image of the “festival of the man in the ...

And so it was of considerable significance when the main prize of the Berlinale went to a German film for the first time: Robert Siodmak`s adaption of Hauptmann Die Ratten | The Rats starring the ...

The beginning of an era: Berlin and the Nouvelle Vague. Claude Chabrol’s Les Cousins | The Cousins is in 1959 the first Nouvelle Vague film at the Berlinale and the International Jury awards it the ...

A festival for the critics. On the other hand, a cause for optimism is seen in the fact that the international critic’s association FIPRESCI holds its annual convention in Berlin and for the first ...

If they had been watching closely, they would have been able to catch the socio-critical medium of film red-handed doing its job. The very same publications that rallied against Goddard’s social ...

Debts and guilt. At the end of the war all of Ufa’s assets became the property of the occupying powers. While the Soviet leadership by in large continued to operate a centralized film industry under a ...

No sooner has the bedtime story has come to and end and the light been turned off, than a boy decides to take his revenge on his older brother. “What are you afraid of?” asks the brother, and begins ...

Philip Hofman, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus Philip Hofman showed his experimental documentary All Fall Down in the Forum expanded programme.In the background host and Forum expanded curator Stefanie ...

Years ago, when he was virtually still a child, Jack committed a terrible crime. He has spent almost all his life in different institutions. Now he is released from prison. He is twenty-four. Equipped ...

A portrait of a fifth-grade class at a rural school in East Germany, shot in January 1966. This is the third film in director Winfried Junge’s long-term documentary series Die Kinder von Golzow (The ...