Today is the day that - for anyone with a brain cell, any shred of moral sense or just generally left of Attila the Hun - is the day we hope beyond hope that the USA will throw off its clinging orange monocell pseudo-leader and get the place back to being where good...
This Thursday will see the beginning of a week-long short film extravaganza where the best of new British short films will be showcased to Berlin audiences at the 13th British Shorts Film Festival. It is perhaps fitting that 2020, the year of Brexit, marks the 13th...
The Berlin Music Video Awards (BMVAs) are an annual festival that puts filmmakers and the art behind music videos in the spotlight. Supporting both unknown and famous artists, it is a primary networking event for the video and music industries in Europe. Filled with a...
The Lift-Off Film Festival had a highly successful run in Berlin earlier in February, celebrating independent film from Germany and the rest of the world. 2018’s eleven-city-wide festival circuit kicked off with a bang at the cool and alternative UNION Filmtheater....
From 11 until 17 January 2018 the 11th edition of the Lichtspielklub short film festival will be celebrated. Nearly 200 films, 7 days, 5 venues! For the first time the opening will take place at HAU Hebbel am Ufer and besides the home base Sputnik Kino, screenings and...
I've got a vivid image of a student clad in corduroy and spectacles, sitting in the university canteen at midday, wondering how to bring inspiration to Berlin cinema. Then suddenly the answer is there, right between the beans and the tofu con carne. 'You see, Berlin...
“I wanted to kiss like they do in the movies”, says a Palestinian woman to her girlfriend in In Between. They amble through her home town, passing the spot where, aged 11, she kissed a boy. The women’s budding relationship is beautiful but naiveté brings them down:...
Forget fiction: this was an evening about real women, women and reality. The film directors, the characters they create, and the people they inspire, more than numbers in quotas and names low down on credits. Feminist Cinema Berlin - Tel Aviv was a night of short-form...
Imagine an art film that pretends to be a B-movie. Now imagine if the execution is as hilarious as the concept. Then add a live ritual performance and an art exhibition devoted to daring and you have Witching Fridays, 10th March 2017. What does ‘witching’ mean to you?...
One of the Berlinale's most sought-after retrospectives is in it for the long run: Kamikaze '89 takes the Friday night billing at Filmkunst 66. Wolf Gremm's 1982 cult classic was revived and restored last year, causing the crowds to swell at the 2017 Berlinale...
The camera zooms in on a hushed culture and lifestyle that manages to blossom under a shroud of secrecy. This is Discreet, a bittersweet ballad to gay Texans. There's a man, and he's driving. In a car, on a road; between some place and another place. He has a...
Berlinale is a German showcase, and here is a prime German exhibit: Back for good is a dramatic yet tender exposé of celebrity high life. She's fresh out of rehab, she's just split up with her manager and ex; she's the talk of the town. Now Angie needs a place to stay...
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