Category Archives: Variety

Turkish writer/director Emin Alper - who was at the Berlinale in 2019 with "A Tale of Three Sisters," followed by his incendiary 2022 Cannes entry "Burning Days" - is back in Berlin with timely drama ...

The first image from “The Idiot(s),” directed by Magorzata Szumowska, who has twice won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear, and Micha Englert, has been released. “The Idiot(s)” ...

Johnny Knoxville and Jason Flemying are starring in two new thrillers from Vienna-based Pont Pictures that are slated to film in Serbia this year. Knoxville is toplining the psychological thriller "Ni...

Austria continues to entice international film, TV and streaming productions with targeted funding, diverse locations and impressive infrastructure, despite the slashing of a key incentive that has ra...

The Doha Film Institute has recruited Mexican multi-hyphenates Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, Venice prizewinner Alice Diop, Moroccan auteur Faouzi Bensadi, and Oscar-winning composer and producer...

Variety is exclusively unveiling a new clip from “Light Pillar,” the feature debut from Chinese writer-director Xu Zao, which is in the Berlin Film Festival’s Perspectives section. D...

Taiwanese prison drama “Sunshine Women’s Choir” has become the highest-grossing local film in Taiwan’s box-office history, surpassing NT$545 million ($17.3 million) on Feb. 14 ...

Berlin's EFM Animation Days industry showcase presented a selection of eight German animation projects on Friday in a lively pitching session that offered a wide range of family-friendly and darker, a...

Spain's muscular presence at this year's Berlinale and European Film Market was bolstered on Saturday with an inaugural presentation and networking event organized by the Madrid Audiovisual Cluster in...

Hanna Bergholm's Finnish chiller "Nightborn" shook up Berlinale's competition, with some viewers laughing during its violent scenes. But its star, Seidi Haarla, isn't laughing.  "We were dead ser...