With the passing of Moritz de Hadeln, the international film community has lost one of its most influential and respected ...

A “Heimatfilm” with a difference: Kristina Mikhailova asks women and girls to imagine themselves as a river. Village girls, young female city dwellers, LGBT and gender positivity activists, a ...

As a child, Tamara Stepanyan came across Armenian cinema on television in the living room with the whole family. Her mother was a virtuoso cellist, her father a famous actor from the 1970s onwards: ...

A psychological thriller following Samaan, a young security guard who belongs to a generation whose parents were murdered by religious violence in the Arab region over the past decade. Then children, ...

Keeping the schools open in Ukraine is an attempt to salvage at least some of the normal life people had before the war broke out on February 24, 2022 (or in some regions even earlier, in 2014).

Dr. Barbara Wurm has been section head of the Forum since August 2023. Born in 1973, she studied comparative literature and Slavonic and German studies in Vienna, Moscow, Innsbruck, Munich and Leipzig ...

New York, June 1961. Legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bass player Scott LaFaro, his musical soulmate. A residency at New York’s ...

“Sarmatische Zeit” (Sarmatian Time) is the name of a poetry collection by Johannes Bobrowski, which becomes a personal, lyrical leitmotif for Volker Koepp in this visually striking, far-reaching ...

The “new generation” is present at the Berlinale and shows what it’s capable of: films by Satyajit Ray, Jean-Luc Godard, Carlos Saura and Roman Polanski are shown and a new love of debate is ...

A kind but grieving widower volunteers at a school and meets a quiet third-grade boy who has not spoken all year. Together, they discover a magical pen and a diary, and the boy slowly begins to trust ...

Factory owner Maryati exploits her employees with excessively long shifts, luring them with incentives to make them prioritise productivity and greed over sleep. Putri is convinced that, because of ...

"Lieschen Müller, that invention, that scapegoat of the film industry, had her greatest hour and then, to her great surprise, found herself faced with the future criticism in what wasn’t exactly an ...