Cinema

For decades, Vicco von Bülow – better known as Loriot – made people in Germany laugh, many quotes from his sketches becoming popular sayings. This year he would have turned 100.

The audience is back, Steven Spielberg does a dance, and the Golden Bear goes to a French documentary film. What else has been happening at the Berlinale?

Hollywood stars will be there, the competition includes 19 films from 19 countries, and Kristen Stewart is president of the International Jury – what more do you need to pique your interest in the Berlinale?

The Berlinale is set to go ahead as an in-presence event in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, despite rising infection rates. That casts a shadow over the anticipation of a promising festival programme.

The Berlinale's first online competition features powerful contemporary cinema, with the winning film resonating with our current state of mind.

A digital industry event in March, an audience event in June – this year's Berlinale has to tread unconventional paths due to the pandemic. It is all the more important that it is being held nonetheless. 

Some big changes are coming to Germany's biggest and biggest-name film festival this year. Here’s the lowdown on what’s new at the Berlinale 2020.
 

The last Berlinale under Dieter Kosslick has come to an end: with an unusually meticulously-conceived competition – and heated debates.

Spectacular, forgotten, memorable and utopian: Why the Berlinale is what it is.

A German picture picked up four gold statuettes at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony. And with that, Edward Berger’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Im Westen nichts Neues) has made film history.

To grasp all of Tucké Royale’s artistic work, take a deep breath. Sascha Ehlert gives it a try.

Monika Treut is considered to be one of the pioneers of Queer Cinema. In this interview the film director and producer talks about positive developments in western societies, repressive trends and things that aren’t quite running as they should. 

Most people only know Werner Herzog as the crazy director who worked with the insane and highly controversial actor Klaus Kinski. On September 5, 2022, he turned 80 years old. The Goethe-Institut honors him with a film series on Goethe on Demand.

While the public can recite the names of famous German actresses, the women behind the camera often go unrecognised. We introduce ten women from the German film scene everyone should know. 

Many films and documentaries explore environmental issues or call for a more sustainable lifestyle. Is the industry living up to its own values though, and just how green is German film?

More and more German filmmakers are exploring new avenues – off the beaten track of traditional fundraising and conventional cinema  – and with success.

As a cameraman Michael Ballhaus made cinema history. At the 2016 Berlinale he is going to be awarded an Honorary Golden Bear. An interview with the born-and-bred Berliner about his career.

The first films in Germany were screened 120 years ago – in the ballroom of a restaurant in Berlin. Since then, the venues in which we view films have changed constantly.

Many young Germans find the idea of becoming a film actor very appealing. Movie stars, it would appear, live glamorous lives. Yet success in this business depends not only on talent and personality.