Mike Etienne and D’Johé Kouadio in Dao by Alain Gomis. © 2026 – Les Films du Worso – Srab Films – Yennenga Productions – Nafi Films – Telecine…
Read more Screening at the Berlin Film Festival: Alain Gomis’s ‘Dao’An experienced cinematographer before he turned to directing, Warwick Thornton has a feel for the Central Australian desert and the craggy MacDonnell Ranges that’s both epic and intimate.…
Read more ‘Wolfram’ Review: Warwick Thornton Deftly Reframes Painful Indigenous Australian Experience Through the Lens of Classic Western ArchetypesSpanish streaming platform Filmin and Belgium’s Boucan Film Production have boarded the series “Robbery, Beating & Death” (“El pitjor atracament de la historia”) from “This is Not Sweden”…
Read more Spanish Streamer Filmin and Belgium’s Boucan Board ‘Robbery, Beating & Death’ from ‘This is Not Sweden’ Producer Funicular Films (EXCLUSIVE)Even Pope Francis has a hardback copy of his graphic novel. He has a loving relationship with his glamorous wife, who travels the world. As a globally renown…
Read more ‘Lost Embrace’ Creator Daniel Burman on ‘So Far, So Good,’ Male Crisis, Butterflies and What We Leave BehindThe Pet Shop Boys’ synth-pop banger “Paninaro” is a tongue-in-cheek anthem to hedonistic Italian youth culture of the 1980s, its label-whore obsessions and its blithe superficiality. Fittingly, the…
Read more ‘Rosebush Pruning’ Review: Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning Serve up Shallowness With Style in Mixed-Bag SatireMoroccan talent will step into the spotlight at this year’s EFM, crowning a generational growth spurt for the country’s film industry. Long prized for its stability, infrastructure and…
Read more As Hollywood Shoots Like ‘The Odyssey’ Sail to Morocco, Local Films Venture Into International Waters: ‘We Are a Country of Stories’Ask any Spaniard you know, and they’ll tell you the same thing: The country has its own version of the Oscars, and they’re called the Goya Awards. Consider…
Read more Basque Cinema Gets Its Goyas MomentFor those gray, dreary Berlin February days, the Berlinale this year is offering a colorful fever dream of a cinematic antidote courtesy of Pakistan. After all, writer-director Sarmad…
Read more ‘Lali’ Is a Proudly Pakistani and Colorful Film at Berlin, But Dissects a Universal Institution, MarriageBlack Mandala Films and Red Owl Films are loading up for Berlin’s European Film Market with eight genre titles spanning Lovecraftian horror, queer mockumentary and an award-winning Ecuadorian…
Read more Black Mandala, Red Owl Set Eight Genre Titles for EFM (EXCLUSIVE)For her latest drama Only Rebels Win, Lebanese-French writer-director Danielle Arbid (Simple Passion, Parisienne, A Lost Man) dusts off an old filmmaking technique, rear projection, in order to…
Read more ‘Only Rebels Win’ Review: Hiam Abbass Brings Her Trademark Elegance to a Familiar May-December RomanceInternational independent production company and financier Gold Rush Pictures (GRP) is ramping up its European presence with the opening of a new office in Germany, and has appointed…
Read more ‘Rosebush Pruning’ Producer Gold Rush Pictures Opens German Office, Taps Feo Aladag as Director (Exclusive)German sales agent and distributor Rise and Shine has picked up international sales rights and German-speaking territories’ distribution rights to “10s Across the Borders,” a documentary from first-time…
Read more Queer Southeast Asian Ballroom Doc ’10s Across the Borders’ Boarded by Germany’s Rise and Shine (EXCLUSIVE)MetFilm Sales has acquired international sales rights to Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić’s feature documentary “To Hold a Mountain,” which recently received its world premiere at the Sundance…
Read more MetFilm Boards Sundance Awards Winner ‘To Hold a Mountain’ for International Sales (EXCLUSIVE)Vienna-based sales agency Square Eyes has secured international rights to Sebastian Brameshuber’s “London,” which will have its world premiere in the Panorama strand of the Berlin Film Festival,…
Read more Sebastian Brameshuber’s ‘London’ Boarded by Square Eyes Ahead of World Premiere at Berlin Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE)The revamped Berlin International Film Festival continues to take shape, with new festival director Tricia Tuttle on Thursday unveiling a new four-member selection committee and expanding the festival’s…
Read more Berlinale Unveils New Selection CommitteeBerlinale Forum entry “Shahid,” the debut feature of Iranian-German filmmaker Narges Kalhor, has been picked up by Prague-based doc specialist Filmotor ahead of its premiere at Swiss documentary…
Read more Filmotor Nabs World Sales for Berlinale Title ‘Shahid’ Ahead of Visions du Réel Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)“Paradises of Diane,” which premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival, came out of an exploration of the “dark side of maternity” and the role…
Read more In Berlinale Film ‘Paradises of Diane,’ a Woman Abandons Her Baby but Finds Herself: ‘We Don’t Want to Judge Her’It is any parent’s hope that their children won’t inherit their battles, or at the very least, that they can pass the generational baton with some ground gained.…
Read more ‘No Other Land’ Review: A Frank, Devastating Protest Against Israel’s West Bank Occupation“This might sound very irresponsible, but I don’t know what I’m doing,” South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo told a Berlinale presser this afternoon when quizzed on his unique…
Read more Isabelle Huppert On The “Unique Experience” Of Working Without A Script On Hong Sangsoo Berlin Title ‘A Traveler’s Needs’Highland Film Group has sold the horror film Rosario to a slew of international territories as the Berlin Film Festival and its market kicked into gear. Felipe Vargas’…
Read more Emeraude Toubia’s Horror Film ‘Rosario’ Sells to Key World Markets (Exclusive)
