Berlin Film Festival 2022 Edition Set as In-Person Event, Dates Revealed

JD Linville Few facets of Chile’s Sanfic Industria are as keenly tracked as its Works in Progress.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIf Hans Landa and Danny Ocean had a son, he might have turned out something like Sebastian (Matthias Schweighöfer), the talky, insanely gifted, but insecure hero of “Army of Thieves.” A Berlin office teller who hides his mojo behind an earnestly chirpy German accent, he’s an obsessive amateur safecracker — not a crook but a kind of savant hobbyist who dreams of unlocking metal fortress vaults the way a young theater bug in the Midwest might fantasize about

PVRIS have announced details of a UK and European headline run, set to take place in early 2022.The string of shows kicks off in Hamburg on April 24 before hitting the likes of Berlin, Hamburg and Milan. The 13-date run will finish off with a show at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on May 10.“Get ready for a brand new show,” said the band alongside the announcement.

Almost 80 years after the end of World War 2 Hitler’s final order from his Berlin bunker has been found.

Coldplay have added extra London and Paris shows to their 2022 world tour.Chris Martin and co. will head out on the road next March in support of their new album ‘Music Of The Spheres’, which came out last Friday (October 15).The European leg of their eco-friendly tour is due to begin in July, with concerts scheduled in Frankfurt, Warsaw, Berlin, Paris and Brussels.

Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn, which scooped this year’s Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, has been selected by Romania as its entry for the 2022 International Oscar race.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Commitment Hasan,” a Turkish drama by Semih Kaplanoglu which world premiered at Cannes’s Un Certain Regard, has been sold by Films Boutique to several key markets.The movie is part of a trilogy which began with “Commitment Asli,” Turkey’s official entry for the Oscar’s international feature film race in 2020.

M. Night Shyamalan will serve as jury president at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival.

Jamie Lang Expanding on their already fruitful non-fiction partnership, ZDF Enterprises and Studio Hamburg Production Group have agreed to a closer working relationship in fiction production starting in January of next year, when ZDF Enterprises will acquire a 49% stake in Real Film Berlin, a Studio Hamburg subsidiary.

 In addition to Logan and his kids, the returning “Succession” cast also includes Nicholas Braun, Matthew Macfadyen, Peter Friedman, J. Smith-Cameron, Dagmara Dominczyk, Justine Lupe, David Rasche, Fisher Stevens, Hiam Abbass, Arian Moayed, Harriet Walter, James Cromwell, Natalie Gold, Juliana Canfield, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Zoë Winters and Jeannie Berlin.

Kanye West has always been known for pushing boundries, doing things that nobody else would ever think of--and now that we’re all wearing masks every single day we go outside, he had to find a way to put his own spin on things.

For those who may have speculated that the Critics Choice Association will move their long planned Critics Choice Awards 2022 date of Sunday January 9 after the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced on Friday their intention to present their 79th Golden Globe Awards on the same night, well, think again.

“This is a petty and vindictive move. It is actually an insult to the industry,” said Critics Choice Awards President Joey Berlin of the Hollywood Foreign Press’s rescheduled January 9 date for its show. That happens to be the same night of the annual Critics Choice event which, unlike the Globes this year, will be telecast (on the CW).

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer“The Beta Test,” the critically-acclaimed indie about intersection of toxicity in Hollywood and digital culture, has unveiled an anxiety-ridden first trailer.The IFC Films releasee, which played the Berlin International Film Festival this year and sits at 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, stars Jim Cummings (“The Wolf of Snow Hollow,” “Thunder Road”), who wrote and directed the film with PJ McCabe.The satire follows an engaged talent rep who accepts a mysterious

To suggest that France had an abundance of quality candidates for its International Film Oscar submission this year is beyond an understatement.

Rebecca Souw International film market organizers may collaborate more in the future as they attempt to bring back in-person events by next year.Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market, which was operated online only for the second year, hosted a high-powered panel on Monday involving Oh Seok Geun, co-director of Busan’s ACFM, Jerome Paillard, executive director of Cannes’ Marché du Film, Dennis Ruh, director of Berlin’s European Film Market and Jacob Wong, director of Hong Kong’s HKIFF Industry

Was Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (director of the , which won best screenplay at Cannes) referencing the tarot when he wrote his Berlinale Silver Berlin Bear winning, and 2021 New York Film Festival selection, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy?

Organizers of the Berlin Film Festival have confirmed that they are planning a fully in-person event for 2022, following the pandemic-disrupted hybrid edition of 2021.