A time for desperate measures? The 1963 Berlinale also showed no way out of the crisis surrounding the content of the festival. Not a single film was found to be inspiring. Alain Robbe-Grillet’s ...

The International Jury is selected every year by the Festival Director and presents the following awards: Golden Bear for Best Film (awarded to the film’s producers) Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websiteBasel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community by Israel's ...

A farm on the German-German border that recently stopped being a border, in the summer of 1990. Family members from the West visit and everyone is feeling their way through these uncertain new times ...

The Forum and Forum Expanded stand for reflections on the medium of film, socio-artistic discourse and a particular sense for the aesthetic. The two sections are independently curated and run by ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websiteThe films of Berlinale Shorts radiate the full range of colours, stretch the boundaries and lay down new tracks in the vast field of cinematic ...

Hitting rock bottom 1964 was a low point, but was also the first step towards a newly orientated Berlinale. Not a single film managed to convince the audience and critics and the Golden Bear awarded ...

Darkness falls over Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and its 17 million inhabitants. It is just before Christmas and people are struggling to gain access to electric ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websiteBorn in Hilden, Germany in 1960, he studied German and drama at Freie Universität Berlin and then, from 1988 to 1994, directing at the German Film ...

While In-young and her classmates at the Seoul International Arts Company are performing overseas, In-young’s mother tragically dies at home in Korea. In-young remains bravely resilient during the ...

Born in Mariupol in 1970, she worked for over 25 years for the leading television channels in Ukraine. In 2014, she opened a new chapter in her life by leaving television and immersing herself in ...

The 55th Forum main programme comprises 30 films from five continents – including seven feature debuts – and encounters a world and its people that are in a bad state. “Sounding out a diverse range of ...