
Berlin International Film Festival has disinvited politicians from Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a far-right party, from the opening event of the festival.

Berlin International Film Festival has disinvited politicians from Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a far-right party, from the opening event of the festival.

Berlin International Film Festival unveiled the 2024 jury who decides who will take home the Golden and the Silver Bears. The International Jury presided over by actor, director, producer and writer Lupita Nyong’o includes actor and director Brady Corbet (USA), director Ann Hui (Hong Kong, China), director Christian Petzold (Germany), director Albert Serra (Spain), actor and director Jasmine Trinca (Italy) and writer Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine). 20 films are competing for the awards in this year’s Competition.

Three more films – Chime, August My Heaven and The Strangers’ Case have been added to the Berlinale Special program of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival taking place February 15 to 25, 2024

The world premiere of Small Things Like These, directed by Tim Mielants will open the 74th Berlin International Film Festival on February 15, 2024. Starring in the film are Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson. Small Things Like These will screen in Competition.

Berlin International Film Festival today confirmed another twelve titles in the Berlinale Special along with 20 short films in the Berlinale Shorts competition. This year’s Berlinale Classics presents ten films in digitally-restored versions and will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Japanese monster movie classic Gojira (Godzilla), and the return of Golden Bear winner Deprisa, deprisa to the big screen.

Director, producer and screenwriter Martin Scorsese will be given the Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. He will be honored at an award ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 20, 2024.

Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o will be the President of the International Jury of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.

The French documentary On the Adamant (Sur l’Adamant) by Nicolas Philibert was awarded the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival. The film profiles The Adamant, a unique floating day-care centre located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, that services adults suffering from mental disorders.

Directed by Liu Jian, a professor at China Academy of Art’s School of Animation and Games, and produced by a team of teachers and students over a span of five years, the Chinese animated film Art College 1994 will world premiere in Competition section in the 73rd Berlinale.

The Berlinale announced the competition jury and has added the world premiere of Art College 1994 by Chinese director Liu Jian in the Competition that will now comprise 19 films.