Category Archives: Variety

Black 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 fa...

lker atak, who was born in Berlin to Turkish parents, is back at the Berlinale with "Yellow Letters," which unlike his last film - the Oscar-nominated Germany-set "The Teachers' Lounge" - takes place ...

There aren't many movies merrily described by their writer/director as the “most naughty, feral, fucking crazy ensemble film about a group of kids in remission who go to a summer camp and all th...

New works from name auteurs including "Tropical Malady" helmer Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Romania's Corneliu Porumboiu, and Mexico's Tatiana Huezo are among the 14-title first batch of features select...

Director Grant Gee shifted his focus from rockers to a jazzman, and Berlin took notice. Gee is noted as a documentarian covering music acts; his 1998 doc "Meeting People Is Easy," for which he followe...

Despite its setting in 1870s Wisconsin, Dara Van Dusen's feature debut, "A Prayer for the Dying," is an eerily timely story touching on deadly epidemics and wildfires. The film bows in Berlin's Perspe...

Japan is mounting its strongest presence at the Berlin Film Festival in years, with seven films spanning competition, Forum, Panorama and Classics sections. It's a range that mirrors the country’...

While Taiwan has just one official selection in the 2026 Berlinale lineup - Zhuang Rong Zuo’s short “Tutti” in the Generation Kplus strand - the island nation sports a significant pr...

Gabe Klinger is celebrating two very different homecomings with the Berlinale world premiere of his sophomore fiction feature, "Isabel." The film marks his first work in his home country of Brazil, a ...

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to Italian director Virgilio Villoresi's directorial debut, "Orfeo," a dreamlike drama that premiered out of competition at the 2025 Venice Film Fest...