Berlin's European Film Market Unveils Digital Plans

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic means international film buyers won't be able to travel to Berlin this year for the European Film Market —the 2021 EFM will be a virtual affair—but select distributors will get a chance to watch Berlin titles at their local cinema.

With international buyers unable to travel to Germany to scout movies at year’s Berlin International Film Festival, the event will instead bring a selection of titles from its program to them through new initiative ‘EFM goes global’.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentThe European Film Market, which is being staged as a virtual event from March 1-5, is to arrange screenings of films selected as part of the Berlin Film Festival lineup in movie theaters in four cities around the world.The initiative, running under the banner “EFM Goes Global,” will see physical screenings for distributors in Tokyo for the Asian market, Melbourne for Oceania, São Paulo for South America, and Mexico City for Central America.

Six former winners of the Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear for best film will make up the jury for this year's event.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentThe Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the International Jury for its 71st edition.The jury will comprise Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, Israeli director Nadav Lapid, Romania director Adina Pintilie, Hungary director Ildikó Enyedi, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi and Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić.As previously announced, the festival will take place in two stages this year, due to the pandemic.

Heidi Klum's daughter is following in her footsteps! The 47-year-old model's oldest child, 16-year-old Leni, wowed at Berlin Fashion Week earlier this month.Leni presented looks from more than 35 German design labels on Jan.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThis year’s Berlinale Series Market and Conference program has announced the section’s lineup of six titles.The TV arm of the festival, which is being held online this year due to coronavirus, said the shows reflect “unconventional and surprising topics, narratives and visual style [that] comprise a mirror of our time.”Latin American content is represented for the first time with the Argentinian HBO production “Entre hombres” (Amongst Men) and “Os

The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the six titles that will take part in the latest edition of Berlinale Series. The shows will screen online during the first week of March when the European Film Market runs, and the team are currently discussing plans for presenting some of the shows during the festival’s planned summer event.

European Film Promotion (EFP) and the Sundance Film Festival have announced their first-ever collaboration, which will see European films and talent in the spotlight at the 2021 festival, set for January 28 —February 3.

Naman Ramachandran Sovereign Film Distribution has acquired U.K.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNordic production and distribution powerhouse SF Studios and sales agency REinvent International Sales have revealed a sneak peek of Charlotte Sieling’s epic period drama “Margrete – Queen of the North,” starring Trine Dyrholm, a Berlin Silver Bear winner for best actress with Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Commune.”Dyrholm, whose credits also include Susanne Bier’s Oscar winner “In a Better World” and May el-Toukhy’s “Queen of Hearts,” toplines as Margrete

She's been enjoying an extended trip to her homeland as she shoots the latest season of her show Germany's Next Top Model. And Heidi Klum was seen pressing on with her duties on Monday, as she joined the cast and crew at the Mall Of Berlin in Berlin-Mitte.

Safety guidelines were stringently adhered to on Friday as an unrecognisable Heidi Klum returned to work on the set of Germany's Next Top Model.  The Los Angeles based supermodel is back in her home country to work as a judge on the new series, with the production continuing in capital city Berlin despite the ongoing threat of COVID-19.

Emilio Mayorga Catalan auteur Carla Simón, a 2017 Berlinale Generation Kplus winner with “Summer 1993,” is preparing her third feature, “Romería,” which has been selected among 17 new feature projects to be offered at Rotterdam Film Festival’s CineMart co-production market, to be held Feb.

The first night that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert beat The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in total viewers after his opening night, the bespectacled host sprung for pizza for his crew.

The Berlin International Film Festival’s European Film Market (EFM) has confirmed details for how its online incarnation will work March 1-5.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Berlin Film Festival’s European Film Market (EFM) is gearing up for its upcoming online edition, for which it has announced 35 promising feature film projects from 25 countries selected for its co-production market.The EFM on Friday also unveiled details of the digital platform on which business will be done.The Berlinale Co-Production Market selection comprises works in various stages from global helmers, most of whom are known on the fest circuit

Ben Croll Speaking at a panel organized as part of UniFrance’s Rendezvous With French Cinema market on Tuesday, festival directors Vanja Kaludjercic of Rotterdam, Carlo Chatrian of Berlin, and Mickaël Marin of Annecy made clear that in order to survive this challenging moment their events needed to adapt.For one thing, they needed to separate their identities from a calendar constantly subject to upheaval.“Festivals aren’t a date anymore,” summarized panel moderator Michael Gubbins.

Christian Bale and Margot Robbie will be starring in an upcoming movie from five-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker David O. Russell and now 12 exciting stars have joined the cast as well.

The European Shooting Stars, an annual list of the top 10 new acting talents coming out of Europe, unveiled its 2021 roster on Tuesday.