At the 24th jury session of the World Cinema Fund (WCF), the juries recommended contributing to the funding of nine film projects.   Four film projects - from Argentina, Turkey and Paraguay -...

    In 2017, Mexico will be the very first “Country in Focus” at the European Film Market (EFM) of the Berlin International Film Festival. The EFM’s new “Country in Focus” programme is conceived to...

The Dutch director and screenwriter Paul Verhoeven will serve as jury president of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival, held February 9 - 19 2017. The rest of the jury will be announced...

The Berlin film festival is the first major European film festival  kicking off the new year on the festival circuit. Always bustling with new talents and films Berlinale also hosts The European Film...

VR at Berlinale - The elephant in the room - EFM Startup Programme       The elephant is in the room. The elephant is as real as the Bear in Berlin. You can see it, smell it, hear...

One sparkling, One Lame  By Alex Deleon <filmfestivals.com> "Indignation" (Panorama, sparkling) and "Alone in Berlin" (Competition, lame) The first of these, indignation, is a very close...

By Alex Deleon, <filmfestivals.com> Gérard Depardieu in Berlin To promote new film and generally raise hell.   Die Russen Kommen, DDR, 1976 -- An unknown masterpiece from beyond The Wall....

    Brian Knappenberger’s “Truth and Power” is a 10-part investigative docu-series narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal for Pivot, Participant Media’s Pivot television network. Truth and Power centers...

Alex for <filmfestivals.com> Early Summer (麦秋 Bakushū) is a 1951 film by Yasujiro Ozu.  One of the most interesting minibars at the 2016 Berlinale was a slate of six digitally restored classics...

In recent years there has been a lot of talk about change of pace in the film marketplace with many sales agents and distributors complaining of heavy losses and a dim outlook on future business. The...