Berlinale reaches out In its fifth year, the festival’s advertising expenditure jumps to 60,000 deutschmarks, equalling 15% of the festival budget. Alfred Bauer places highly visible outdoor posters ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official website"Lieschen Müller, that invention, that scapegoat of the film industry, had her greatest hour and then, to her great surprise, found herself faced ...

A festival for the critics On the other hand, a cause for optimism is seen in the fact that the international critic’s association FIPRESCI holds its annual convention in Berlin and for the first time ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websiteIf they had been watching closely, they would have been able to catch the socio-critical medium of film red-handed doing its job. The very same ...

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 1958 Berlinale was marked by the attempt to present itself as more mature both politically and with regards to its content. Already at the opening ceremony in the new Congress Hall in Tiergarten, ...

No sooner has the bedtime story has come to and end and the light been turned off, than a boy decides to take his revenge on his older brother. “What are you afraid of?” asks the brother, and begins ...

Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin - Offizielle WebsiteSommer Berlinale 2025 Zuschauer*innen in Berlin haben vom 8. bis 11. Juli die Gelegenheit, eine Auswahl an Filmen der 75. Berlinale vor ihrem ...

Juliette Binoche: Trois couleurs: Bleu To me, Trois couleurs: Bleu is a film about growing up. For it is about saying farewell, and we evolve through renunciation. Maturity is not about reaching a ...

Born in Vienna in 1964, author, curator and film historian. He was director of the Viennale (1992–97) and the Austrian Film Museum (2002–17) as well as curator of the documenta 12 film programme (2007 ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websiteFilm festivals provide a space for artistic expression and enable peaceful dialogue. They are places of encounter and exchange and contribute to ...

The first 18 films confirmed so far hint at a programme that embraces both perceptive assessments of the state of the world as well as fantastical assertions of personal truths – in both themes and ...