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Audiences in Berlin will have the opportunity to revisit a selection of award-winning films and favourites of the 75th Berlinale before their theatrical release. Screenings will run from July 8 to 11, ...
Berlinale reaches out In its fifth year, the festival’s advertising expenditure jumps to 60,000 deutschmarks, equalling 15% of the festival budget. Alfred Bauer places highly visible outdoor posters ...
The audience shows its unflagging enthusiasm. The shirt-sleeved treatment of stars, which is evident in many photos from the time, gave the Berlinale the image of the “festival of the man in the ...
“The cinematic kidney-shaped table.” – Rolf Becker in the “Der Monat” magazine on Ottomar Domnick’s film Jonas, the subject of much controversy at this year's Berlinale. The Berlinale’s credibility is ...
At the 1961 Berlinale, the fundamental conflicts over content that had been sparked the year before were aggravated and therefore once again reflected the era. With films by Jean-Luc Godard, ...
Berlin International Film Festival - official website"In our opinion the critics could certainly be won over for collaboration, especially as they must be interested in gathering practical experience ...
Alfred Bauer was apparently making an effort to find a middle road between the attacks that were coming from all sides. “In the utmost emergency, the middle road brings death,” – here one is tempted ...
The 1958 Berlinale was marked by the attempt to present itself as more mature both politically and with regards to its content. Already at the opening ceremony in the new Congress Hall in Tiergarten, ...
In 1959 the Berlinale enjoys not just a record number of professional visitors and celebrity guests, but with films from a total of 53 countries, the programme is more international than ever before.
No sooner has the bedtime story has come to and end and the light been turned off, than a boy decides to take his revenge on his older brother. “What are you afraid of?” asks the brother, and begins ...
Years ago, when he was virtually still a child, Jack committed a terrible crime. He has spent almost all his life in different institutions. Now he is released from prison. He is twenty-four. Equipped ...
Berlinale dankt WCF-Leiter Vincenzo Bugno für sein langjähriges Engagement Nach 21 erfolgreichen Jahren wird Vincenzo Bugno Ende 2025 sein Engagement als Leiter des World Cinema Fund (WCF) der ...