Berlin Catholic Archbishop To Appoint Minister For LGBT Community

When it debuted at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival, critics were raving about the horror-thriller, “Luz.” Apparently, the folks at NEON were particularly impressed, as the studio has announced a new horror film, “Cuckoo,” from “Luz” filmmaker, Tilman Singer. And it appears the studio has already lined up one hell of a cast for the film.

Euphoria‘s Hunter Schafer, John Malkovich, Gemma Chan and Sofia Boutella are headlining the Neon horror feature Cuckoo, which Tilman Singer will write and direct. Neon is also financing the project with an eye to shoot in April.

Heidi Klum was one very proud mother as her 17-year-old daughter Leni walked the runway at a star-studded Dolce&Gabbana event in Venice.

BERLIN -- A new show examining how some of the Nazis' favorite visual artists were able to successfully continue their work in postwar Germany is set to open in Berlin this week.“Divinely Gifted. National Socialism's favored artists in the Federal Republic” opens Friday at the German Historical Museum.

BERLIN -- Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie, an iconic modern art museum designed by Bauhaus pioneer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, reopened to the public Sunday after a six-year refurbishment of the glass-fronted building.Germany's culture minister, Monika Gruetters, said during a celebration ceremony held Saturday that the occasion marked the museum's “brilliant comeback as a pilgrimage site for lovers of modern art and as a stage for contemporary artists.”British architect David Chipperfield oversaw

Alexander Durie After a stellar year picking up awards at Berlin, South by Southwest, Edinburgh and Melbourne, “Ninjababy” continued its prize-winning streak at Norway’s top plaudits for national movies, the Amanda Awards.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentStarring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” will receive its European premiere at late September’s San Sebastian Festival.The biggest film event in the Spanish-speaking world will open with the anticipated “One Second” from China’s Xhang Yimou, which was dramatically pulled from competition at the 69th Berlin Film Festival.Both titles play in competition, vying for San Sebastian’s top film plaudit, its Golden Shell,

Jamie Lang Netflix has unveiled that actors Miguel Ángel Silvestre (“Sky Rojo”), Patrick Criado (“Riot Police”) and José Manuel Seda (“23-F: la película”) will appear in the fifth and final season of its hit Spanish series “Money Heist,” (“La Casa de Papel”) launching globally on Sept.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentHulu has acquired U.S.

It's been three years since Lotic, a Berlin-based producer of experimental electronics, unleashed her album Power. After returning last year with a single called "Cocky," Lotic is back once more with a new song called "Come Unto Me," a new song from her upcoming project Water.

Trigger warning: The story has details of a murder and cannibalism that might be disturbing to some readers.Stefan R, who was arrested in November 2020,  had met the victim, Stefan Trogisch (43) through the popular German online gay dating site PlanetRomeo.

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Leo Barraclough International Features EditorSerbian director Srdjan Dragojevic, best known for Thessaloniki awarded “Pretty Village, Pretty Flame” and Berlin prize-winner “The Parade,” is at the Locarno Film Festival with dark comedy “Heavens Above,” which is in the International Competition lineup.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNadav Lapid’s thought-provoking film “Ahed’s Knee,” which just world premiered at Cannes and won the jury prize, has been acquired by Kino Lorber for North American distribution.“Ahed’s Knee” will have its North American premiere in the Special Presentations section at Toronto.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentFew phenomena in Spanish film have proved so striking in recent years as the emergence last decade of a new generation of Catalan filmmakers, very often women, making resonant movies grounded in highly specific local realities.Think Clara Simon’s “Summer 1993,” a Berlin First Feature Award winner, or Pilar Palomero’s “Schoolgirls,” which walked off with best picture at this year’s Spanish Academy Goyas.For years, prominent Catalan auteurs – José

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentHBO Europe and Berlin-based Dreamer Joint Venture Filmproduction have boarded “Trust Me,” Joanna Ratajczak’s probing doc feature on a real life couple’s experimentation with an open relationship.“Trust Me” will be presented at Locarno’s Match Me networking event by Stanislaw Zaborowski, at Warsaw’s Silver Frame, the project’s lead producer.