Pluto Film Swoops on Berlin Panorama’s ‘One in a Thousand’ (EXCLUSIVE)

By Andreas Wiseman

The Berlin Film Festival is unveiling its main competition line-up this morning, alongside additional galas.

Reel Suspects has acquired international sales rights to Caru Alves de Souza’s coming-of-age tale “My Name is Baghdad,” which will world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Generation 14 section.

By Andreas Wiseman

A big year for the Berlin Film Festival, the 70th edition of the Berlinale will open with Philippe Falardeau’s anticipated “My Salinger Year,” headlined by a powerful female duo, Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley.

By Andreas Wiseman

By Tom Grater

Vision Distribution, the Italian theatrical distributor jointly operated by pay-TV operator Sky Italia and five prominent Italian production companies, is expanding into international film sales with a new company called Vision Distribution International, to be headed by veteran sales agent Catia Rossi.

By Tom Grater

Julianne Moore has left CAA for WME, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.The Oscar winner (for 2014's Still Alice; she also received nominations for 2002'sFar From Heaven, 1999's The End of the Affair and 1997's Boogie Nights) is one of only two women to have won the "triple crown" at the European film festivals: earning Best Actress for 2014's Maps to the Stars at Cannes, sharing the award with Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep for 2003's The Hours at Berlin and winning Best Actress

Netflix has hired director Nils Boekamp to oversee documentary for the German-speaking market out of Berlin, as the streaming giant’s German ambitions gather pace.

A new documentary association for Europe is looking to serve as a political lobby group and support network for the next generation of filmmakers and non-fiction communities across the continent.

By Amanda N'Duka

Berlin's co-production market, where producers look for partners to finance their new projects, will feature more than 50 percent female-directed films for the first time in its 17-year history.Overall, 11 of the 21 feature film projects on offer at this year's Berlinale Co-Production Market, which runs Feb. 22-26, are from women filmmakers.

By Tom Grater