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Seriesly Berlin, Germany’s latest TV fest, has unveiled first conference lineup. Big international TV names including American Honey producer Lucas Ochoa, beetz brothers’ Christian Beetz and Becoming Karl Lagerfeld creator Isaure Pisani-Ferry will take part in a series of panels from September 16 to…

German-French international sales veteran Tanja Meissner has been appointed as the new director of Berlinale Pro, the department overseeing all of the Berlin Film Festival’s professional activities, in a role that encompasses director of the European Film Market (EFM). The Berlinale said Meissner’s…

EXCLUSIVE: A new series-focused festival is set to hit the calendar this fall.  Described as an "international festival for series culture," Seriesly Berlin will launch in the German capital this September and run across two days (Sept 26-27) at Fotografiska Berlin.  Medienboard…

The Berlin Film Festival's parent org the KBB, which oversees state-backed cultural events in the German capital, has posted job ads for four key executive roles ahead of the arrival of the event's new director Tricia Tuttle in April. They include a new Chief of Staff role which is described as a key…

Morgan Matthews' upcoming road movie 500 Miles, starring Academy Award nominee Bill Nighy and buzzy teen actor Roman Griffin Davis, has sold to multiple territories for Beta Cinema, following its launch at the Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) last month. The film has been acquired for Australia…

The Match Factory has locked multi-territory deals on Berlinale titles Architecton by Victor Kossakovsky and Dying by Matthias Glasner, which picked up the festival's Silver Bear for Best Screenplay. Alongside the Silver Bear, Dying also picked up the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas Prize and the…

A high-politicized edition of the Berlin Film Festival ended Saturday, but divisions surrounding political messaging during the festival appear to be ongoing.  Sunday afternoon, the official Berlinale shared a statement on its social media account announcing that it plans to "file criminal charges…

The 74th Berlin International Film Festival announced the winners of the fest at the awards ceremony held at the Berlinale Palast on February 24. 20 films competed for the awards in this year's competition with Lupita Nyong'o heading the International Jury alongside Ann Hui, Christian Petzold, Albert Serra, Jasmine…

Winners have been announced at the 74th Berlin Film Festival, with Dahomey by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop scooping the coveted Golden Bear for best film. Scroll down for the full list of winners, which were revealed Saturday evening at the Berlinale Palast. The doc borrows its name from the…

The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 74th edition February 15 with the opening-night world premiere screening of Small Things Like These, the Irish drama starring Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy. It started 10 days of debuts including for movies starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert…

Don’t get too hot and bothered over the title of the new Norwegian film Sex. The act itself in this first entry in a new trilogy from writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud is really only just talked about in this intriguing movie mostly dependent on leaning…

It's very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky's latest documentary as "Architection," since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is very easy to figure out whodunit (spoiler: we did it to…