Doc Project Spotlighting the Disappearance of Black Women Unveiled by Berlin Fipresci Winner Rama Thiaw

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorThe producers of this year’s International Feature Film Oscar winner “Another Round” and Berlin Silver Bear winner “Natural Light” have been selected for European Film Promotion’s Producers on the Move program, which promotes promising producers and fosters international co-productions. The 20 participants for the program, which runs online from May 17-21, will be presenting their latest projects in speed meetings and during roundtable sessions.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSpecialist sales agency Good Move Media has picked up international rights to “Ancient Soul,” which had its world premiere in March at the Berlin Film Festival.The film, aka “Mbah Jhiwo,” is a Spanish-produced docu-drama about life in the Sulphur mines of Java, Indonesia.

BERLIN -- The prominent German philosopher Juergen Habermas said Sunday he will not accept a high-priced literary award from the United Arab Emirates, reversing an earlier decision.The 91-year-old, who is considered Germany's most eminent contemporary philosopher, told the German news site Spiegel Online that “I declared my willingness to accept this year's Sheikh Zayed Book Award.

It was almost exactly a year ago, in March 2020, atStudio Babelsberg Germany's largest film studio, located just outside Berlin.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFilm Movement has acquired North American rights to Alexandre Rockwell’s “Sweet Thing,” which won the Berlin Film Festival’s Crystal Bear in 2020.The movie is slated for a theatrical release this summer, followed by a rollout on all digital and home entertainment platforms.

Netflix has revealed plans to open a new office in Stockholm that will function as a hub for the region.

The Berlin Film Festival's planned in-person event this summer is in doubt amid new coronavirus pandemic restrictions set out in Germany's recently updated Infection Protection Act. The changes "now make the planning of the Berlinale Summer Special a bigger challenge," organizers said in a statement on Wednesday.

Manori Ravindran International EditorBerlin Film Festival organizers have said that staging their planned “Summer Special” in-person event in June is proving to be a “bigger challenge” given a recent update to the country’s Infection Protection Act following the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.A statement from the festival on Wednesday said that Berlin directors are currently speaking with German authorities to “determine the next steps for an all-outdoor event.”“The Berlinale also wants to explore the

The Berlin Film Festival’s planned summer event is in doubt due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions in Germany.

third time to flush out the “Beethoven” traitor and to deal with a slew of other problems at hand.As “Spy City” chugs along, we meet Eliza (Leonie Beschas), Scott’s secretary in Berlin who’s spying on him for the East Germans and trying to protect her aggressively political musician boyfriend Reinhardt (Ben Munchow); Scott’s lover, Severine Bloch (Romane Portail), a French agent who’s hunting a former SS officer who (she says) killed her husband in 1944; and Ulrike Faber (Johanna Wokalek), an

Hilary Duff is an old pro at motherhood now, and she’s not afraid to open up about her experiences.

Hilary Duff is opening up about breastfeeding.

Ed Meza @edmezavarBerlin-based Flare Film is ramping up series production with two new high-concept projects in development while currently producing the eight-part “Paradiso” for Sky Deutschland, the first project from the company’s recently launched Flare Entertainment division.Flare Entertainment is partnering with Beta Film and Deutsche Telekom streaming platform MagentaTV on “The Daughter,” created by Pola Beck (“Breaking Horizons,” “The Last Word”) and co-developed with Daniel Hendler.

EXCLUSIVE: Following its Oscar nomination, Elvira Lind’s short film The Letter Room has been racking up the sales. The movie, which stars Oscar Isaac and Alia Shawkat, has sold to France and Germany (ARTE France), Spain (Telefonica), Denmark (TV2), Russia (Shot TV), Poland (New Europe Film Sales), Airlines (JetBlue) as well as an international deal with Kanopy for the educational circuit.

Bottega Veneta, after leaked footage of the event inside private members club Soho House caused outrage in a city whose cherished nightlife has been on hold for ordinary clubbers for over a year. A presentation of the Italian fashion house’s latest collection at Berlin’s famous and exclusive Berghain nightclub last Friday was attended by a host of celebrity guests including Nigerian singer Burna Boy.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorPhilipp Kadelbach, director and co-creator of the series “We Children From Bahnhof Zoo,” says his initial impulse when approached to helm the series was to steer well clear of what he saw as a fool’s errand, given the iconic status in Germany and elsewhere of Uli Edel’s 1981 feature film “Christiane F.,” which – like the series – is based on the book “Christiane F.: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo.”“I said, ‘I’m not going to do this.