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Feb 5, 2024 · The 74th Berlinale has begun! Berlin’s legendary film festival – one of the “big three of Europe”, along with Cannes and Venice. Hundreds of films will be shown for 10 days – from February 15 to 25 – attracting film lovers and stars from around the world.
The Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale for short, is one of the most important film festivals worldwide. Every year, it attracts the elite of the film industry as well as the largest audience of any film festival in the world. Up to 400 films are shown in different sections and genres.
Feb 15, 2024 · 10 Films We Can't Wait to See at Berlin 2024. It’s just around the corner: the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. Over the next week plus, RogerEbert.com will be hitting Berlinale to provide coverage of a plethora of new titles. Because between the stacked retrospective lineup, a busy European Film Market, and major premieres by a long ...
- Past Lives
- Disco Boy
- Manodrome
- Roter Himmel
- Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey Into The Desert
- Suzume
- Sidebar Standouts and Special Screenings
- El Eco
- Hello Dankness
- Iron Butterflies
This is the one we can’t wait for… Playwright-turned-director Celine Song makes her debut with this A24 drama which already wowed audiences in Sundance last month. Past Lives is a tale of two childhood friends who reconnect later in life, having been separated when one of their families emigrated from South Korea. Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) and Nora (Greta...
Giacomo Abbruzzese writes and directs this French / Italian / Belgian / Polish co-production, his debut feature about the intertwining stories of a Belarusian man, Aleksei (Franz Rogowski), who is on the run and joins the French Foerign Legion in exchange for French citizenship, and activist Jomo (newcomer Morr Ndiaye) trying to save his village in...
Jesse Eisenberg, Odessa Young and Adrien Brody star in South African director Trengove’s English-language debut, following his fantastic Xhosa-language film The Wound, which was shown at the Berlinale in 2017 and shortlisted for the International Feature Oscar. Manodrome sees a young man questioning his relationship and career choices decide to joi...
Berlinale regular Christian Petzold (Barbara, Transit, Undine) returns to the festival with Afire, which reunites him with Paula Beer, who won the best actress Silver Bear for Undine. His new film follows a group of friends taking a break in a holiday house by the Baltic sea as emotions ignite. Billed the second part of Petzold’s trilogy begun in 2...
Another eagerly-anticipated entry in the Competition line-up is Margarethe von Trotta’s Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey Into The Desert, her first film to play in Berlinale Competition since Heller Wahn in 1983. A leading figure of New German Cinema, her films include Rosa Luxemburg (1986) and Hannah Arendt (2012). With Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey Into...
Following his international hit Your Name, writer-director Makoto Shinkai returns with an animated feature about the titular 17-year-old girl, who travels around Japan closing mysterious doors / Pandoras boxes to prevent disasters. The visuals look gorgeous and it’s rare that anime films make it into the Competition selection, making Suzume somethi...
The Berlinale’s sprawling program can be tough to get through. Labyrinthine even. Only this year, there are 287 selected films across the festival’s various sections. But diving into these sidebar selections is always a rewarding experience and yields gems. Whether it’s Panorama and their edgy and often provocative curation, Forum’s platform for av...
One of the greatest films to come out of the Berlinale in the last decade is Tatiana Huezo’s 2016 sophomore full-length film, Tempestad. Shortlisted as Mexico’s Oscar entry, Huezo masterfully alternated two narratives in a textured film that examined the consequences of organised crime in Mexico and what mothers will sacrifice in order to protect t...
Another title we can’t wait to see is Soda Jerk’s Hello Dankness. Behind the name Soda Jerk are Dan and Dominique Angeloro, the Australian directing duo behind the brilliant Terror Nullius (2018). Their new film assembles scenes from various films and puts them in new context, echoing some of the editing experimentation achieved by Guy Maddin, Evan...
Ukrainian director Roman Liubyi presents the truth of what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, which was shot down by Russian forces on 17 July 2014. All 298 people on board were killed. Liubyi’s documentary explores the reality of this attack, the evidence - including physical artifacts like the butterfly-shaped...
Feb 14, 2023 · More than 200 films from around the world will premiere at the festival this week, many of which are potential discoveries. Berlin premieres sometimes creep into awards consider (this year’s...
Number of films in the public programme: 243: Total amount of screenings: 884 : European Film Market : Film industry participants: 9,245: Number of films: 639: Number of screenings: 998: Stands / Offices: 234: Number of exhibitors: 614 : Berlinale Co-Production Market : Participants: 751: Countries of origin: 70 : Berlinale Talents ...
Feb 16, 2022 · Our top learnings from the 2022 Berlin Film Festival and European Film Market. ... This year’s competition lineup boasted seven movies directed by women out of 18 films, up from 2020 and 2021 ...
