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Morgan Matthews' upcoming road movie 500 Miles, starring Academy Award nominee Bill Nighy and buzzy teen actor Roman Griffin Davis, has sold to multiple territories for Beta Cinema, following its launch at the Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) last month. The film has been acquired for Australia…

The Match Factory has locked multi-territory deals on Berlinale titles Architecton by Victor Kossakovsky and Dying by Matthias Glasner, which picked up the festival's Silver Bear for Best Screenplay. Alongside the Silver Bear, Dying also picked up the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas Prize and the…

A high-politicized edition of the Berlin Film Festival ended Saturday, but divisions surrounding political messaging during the festival appear to be ongoing.  Sunday afternoon, the official Berlinale shared a statement on its social media account announcing that it plans to "file criminal charges…

The 74th Berlin International Film Festival announced the winners of the fest at the awards ceremony held at the Berlinale Palast on February 24. 20 films competed for the awards in this year's competition with Lupita Nyong'o heading the International Jury alongside Ann Hui, Christian Petzold, Albert Serra, Jasmine…

Winners have been announced at the 74th Berlin Film Festival, with Dahomey by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop scooping the coveted Golden Bear for best film. Scroll down for the full list of winners, which were revealed Saturday evening at the Berlinale Palast. The doc borrows its name from the…

The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 74th edition February 15 with the opening-night world premiere screening of Small Things Like These, the Irish drama starring Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy. It started 10 days of debuts including for movies starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert…

Don’t get too hot and bothered over the title of the new Norwegian film Sex. The act itself in this first entry in a new trilogy from writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud is really only just talked about in this intriguing movie mostly dependent on leaning…

It's very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky's latest documentary as "Architection," since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is very easy to figure out whodunit (spoiler: we did it to…

The feelgood component of the action-packed Roundup franchise, says its originator, producer and star Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok), is that you know from the start that the bad guys are totally going to get rammed. As beefy detective Ma Seok-do, Lee has certain skills and dubious methods, both of which come…

With his debut feature Last Swim, an ambitious and quietly radical portrait of young life in London, Sasha Nathwani has achieved one of the most difficult tasks for a new filmmaker: cutting through with a festival audience.  Last Swim debuted last week at the Berlin Film Festival, where it opened the…

Martin Scorsese was at the Berlinale this week for the first time in a decade. His presence to collect an honorary Golden Bear was a reminder of the festival’s glories of yesteryear. In decades past, Scorsese touched down in Berlin with major works such as Raging Bull (1981), Cape Fear (1992); Gangs o…

Anatomy of a Fall French producer Marie-Ange Luciani put in a flying appearance at the Berlinale this week with Claire Burger's coming-of-age drama Langue Étrangère which received a warm reception in competition. With the Berlin premiere taking place the day after the Baftas in London (where Anatomy o…