Watch The Strokes kick off intimate European tour in Berlin

A Jewish prisoner pretends to be Iranian to escape being shot and is then forced to teach Farsi, a language he doesn’t speak, to a Nazi superior inPersian Lessons, the new film from Ukrainian-born, Canada-based director Vadim Perelman (The House of Sand and Fog).

An impoverished laborer returns home one day to find that social services have taken his children, after the family’s increasingly dire circumstances push his wife to commit a desperate act. With a corrupt local administrator blocking the way to a fair hearing to get them back, the man decides to cross the country on foot in order to plead his case to the government in Belgrade.

Overshadowed by a grisly, racially motivated shooting in western Germany and the growing pains of new festival leadership, this year’s Berlinale served to illuminate the market dynamics and global issues set to impact the international film and television industry in the run-up to Cannes — provided coronavirus stays away from the Croisette.

Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof, whose sixth feature “There is no Evil” won the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear on Saturday, is one of his country’s most prominent directors even though none of his films have screened in Iran where they are banned. In 2011, the year he won two prizes at Cannes with his censorship-themed “Goodbye,” Rasoulof was sentenced with fellow director Jafar Panahi to six years in prison and a 20-year ban on filmmaking for alleged anti-regime propaganda.

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s drama “There Is No Evil” took home the top Golden Bear prize at the 2020  Berlin Film Festival.

It’s a brave young director who has the gumption to revisit Alfred Doblin’s 1929 Weimar Republic classic Berlin Alexanderplatz. A 1931 film version directed by Piel Jutzi was notably followed by Rainer W.

Rodolphe Buet may be one of the few EFM attendees who would miss snowy Berlin in February. The newly appointed head of distribution at Newen, controlled by French media giant TF1 Group, is heading into his 15th Berlin market.

Berlin’s European Film Market has gotten off to a slow start — but there are signs of life. Leonine, the new German studio formed last year by KKR’s acquisition and merger of German indies Tele Munchen Group and Universum, picked up German-speaking rights for the Gerard Butler action thriller Remote Control from STXinternational in a mid-seven-figure deal, the largest reported pact of the EFM so far.

Lana Del Rey has canceled her upcoming European tour, one day before it was set to begin.

For 25 years, from 1992’s “La Frontera” through 2017’s ”A Fantastic Woman,” a subsequent Oscar winner, the Berlinale has prized a rich trove of Chilean movies.

Lana Del Rey has cancelled her entire Norman F**king Rockwell UK and European tour.

Defiant Dedryck Boyata insists Scottish football's snipers have got it all wrong because Celtic helped make him a Belgium star.

"There's no bloody way The Strokes gig sold out in 20sec. Bollocks"

BERLIN — BMG announced today a new global recordings partnership with platinum-selling artist, Aloe Blacc. The singer, whose distinctive vocals can be heard on the late Avicii's soaring hit "Wake Me Up," paired the announcement with the release of a Valentine's Day single, "I Do." Inspired by his decade-long marriage with Australian recording artist Maya Jupiter, 'I Do' is the first single from Blacc's upcoming fourth album, to be released later this year via BMG.

By Andreas Wiseman

Tom Goss, the gay songwriter who taps into the complicated ups and downs he expereinces in love as fodder for his art, is back with a new video for his next single, “Quebec” (premiering below).The video acts as a follow up to the first installation of a narrative arch that Goss began with “Berlin.” An S&M and cabaret-inspired music video, “Berlin” showed Goss dealing with the fallout after a fling he had in the German city — played by real life friend (and Mean Girls and Looking star) Daniel

Tom Goss, the gay songwriter who taps into the complicated ups and downs he expereinces in love as fodder for his art, is back with a new video for his next single, “Quebec” (premiering below).

Thanks to a quirk in scheduling, Berlin's European Film Market was expected to see a record year of business activity from China's vast film industry in 2020.

Picture Tree Intl. has secured global sales rights of Berlin comedy “Nightlife,” directed by Simon Verhoeven, following his last film “Welcome to Germany,” which was Germany’s comic relief to the refugee crisis. The film sold to more than 60 territories and screened at more than 50 festivals worldwide, while being the No.1 box office hit in Germany in 2016.

Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland’s “Charlatan,” which premieres in the Berlinale Special Gala section of the Berlin Film Festival.