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Berlin film festival

Filmmakers defend Berlin festival chief in Gaza row

Published 26 Feb, 2026 07:07pm

Angry rows over Israel-Palestinian conflict have repeatedly rocked the Berlinale, held every February as Europe’s first major film festival of the year

Marriage drama “Yellow Letters” wins Berlin Film Festival’s top prize

Published 22 Feb, 2026 01:27pm

“Yellow Letters,” a drama about what happens to a marriage under extraordinary political pressure

‘Stormy seas’ of Gaza row overshadow Berlin film fest finale

Published 21 Feb, 2026 09:08pm

More than 17,000 kids have been killed in Gaza in the last two years, Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke says

Berlin film festival contender ‘Flies’ explores loneliness and unlikely bonds in Mexico City

Published 20 Feb, 2026 12:00pm

“It’s a story about loneliness, about grief, about how to connect with other people”

Iranian director Mohammadi confronts Evin Prison’s horrors with Berlinale entry ‘Roya’

Published 16 Feb, 2026 05:42pm

'If I wanted to make my personal story, it couldn’t be showable,' Mahnaz Mohammadi said

Berlinale filmmakers make creative leaps over location obstacles

Published 15 Feb, 2026 12:11pm

At this year’s edition of the festival several productions have found creative solutions to the problem

Arundhati Roy pulls out of Berlin Film Festival

Published 14 Feb, 2026 02:23am

BERLIN: Award-winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy said Friday she was withdrawing from the Berlin Film Festival over...

Shahrbanoo Sadat counters sad narratives about Afghanistan with Berlin opening film

Published 12 Feb, 2026 08:48pm

'When international filmmakers make films about Afghanistan, these films are often very sad,' Sadat

Movies can change the world, but not politically, says Berlin Film Festival juror Wim Wenders

Published 12 Feb, 2026 06:16pm

'We have to stay out of politics because if we made movies that are dedicatedly political,' Wenders

Berlin Film Festival favours new talent and political heft over Hollywood glitz

Published 12 Feb, 2026 01:41pm

Of the 22 films in competition, only about a third feature names familiar to general audiences

Berlin Film Festival to feature anime and family sagas in diverse competition line-up

Published 20 Jan, 2026 06:19pm

We are in a battle for this art form that we love so dearly

Berlin filmfest competitor ‘Yunan’ born of director’s experience of exile from Syria

Published 20 Feb, 2025 11:27am

BERLIN: Director and screenwriter Ameer Fakher Eldin, whose family is from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, said...

Jacob Elordi says team work helped weight-loss for POW drama ‘Narrow Road’

Published 16 Feb, 2025 11:26am

BERLIN: Australian actor Jacob Elordi, known for “Euphoria,” said the drastic weight loss he endured for his role in...

Politics and glamour mark Berlin Film Festival’s opening night

Published 16 Feb, 2024 01:36pm

BERLIN: Even the red carpet at the Berlin Film Festival’s opening ceremony was not free of politics on Thursday...

Iran freedom struggle stars at Berlin film fest

Published 19 Feb, 2023 10:59am

BERLIN: The Berlin film festival, long a champion of Iran’s embattled independent directors, is spotlighting its...

Dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi arrested

Published 11 Jul, 2022 08:24pm

TEHRAN: Award-winning dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has been arrested, the third director to be detained...

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