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Norwegian drama 'Dreams (Sex Love)' takes top prize at the Berlin Film Festival

A Norwegian film about love, desire and self-discovery won top honors at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday

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Franco-Senegalese documentary 'Dahomey' wins Berlin's Golden Bear

Dahomey, a documentary by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop probing the thorny issues surrounding Europe's return of looted antiquities to Africa, won the Berlin Film Festival's top prize Saturday.

Radio France Internationale

Berlin film festival 2024 roundup – tasty treats and the odd potboiler

A careworn Cillian Murphy excelled, Atlantics director Mati Diop returned, astronaut Adam Sandler had us drifting off, and kitchen dramas continued to sizzle

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Norwegian Film 'Sex' Wins Europa Cinemas Label At Berlinale

Sex, a thought-provoking film by Dag Johan Haugerud, wins Europa Cinemas Label at Berlin Film Festival for its exploration of gender identities and male dy...

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Italian Singer Margherita Vicario's Film 'Gloria!' Gains International Acclaim

Margherita Vicario's Gloria! musical comedy set in a Venetian orphanage challenges classical norms. International buzz ahead of Berlin Film Festival premiere.

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Japanese Idol Matsumura Hokuto To Premiere Film In Berlin

Matsumura Hokuto of SixTONES transitions to acting with 'All the Long Nights' at Berlin Film Festival, showcasing mental health themes and small-town Japan...

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‘How do I know these words?’: philosophical cocaine hippo is star of Berlin film festival

Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’s docudrama Pepe, about Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s megaherbivore, gives the ill-fated creature its own voice

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Iranian director Aliyar Rasti premieres debut film at Berlin Festival

Discover the intricate journey of The Great Yawn of History, a film premiering at the Berlin Film Festival, exploring faith and human connection.

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Stephen Fry to premiere in Treasure at Berlin Film Festival

Discover Stephen Fry's latest role in the upcoming film Treasure where he plays a Polish Holocaust survivor opposite Lena Dunham, premiering at the Berlin ...

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Berlin film festival announces eclectic lineup including Rooney Mara, Stephen Fry and Gael García Bernal

Films include a sci-fi about a man who rents out his dead wife’s body and a documentary about a hippo owned by Pablo Escobar

The Guardian - UK

74th Berlin Film Festival unveils highly anticipated competition lineup

Discover the exciting lineup of films at the 74th Berlin Film Festival, including the powerful drama Small Things Like These and special galas featuring st...

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Marvel's cosmic mercenaries return in 'Guardians of the Galaxy volume 3'

The interplanetary gang of lovable rogues are back for the final instalment of the "Guardians of the Galaxy" trilogy, with Chris Pratt leading his bickering band of aliens. Film critic Ben Croll tells us why the superhero saga is unlikely to be entirely over, despite director James Gunn's move to…

France 24

Ukrainian volunteer medic’s film aims to ‘wake up the world’ to reality of war

Eastern Front, shown at the Berlin film festival, offers an uncensored view from the frontline of conflict

The Guardian - UK

Berlin film fest to award prizes as stars return

BERLIN: The Berlin film festival awards its top prizes on Saturday, including the Golden Bear for best picture, after a star-studded run that highlighted freedom struggles in Iran and Ukraine.

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Bono presents iconic Hollywood director Steven Spielberg with special award at Berlin Film Festival

The U2 frontman honoured Spielberg for his work

The Independent UK

Superpower review, Berlin Film Festival: Sean Penn’s Zelensky documentary is heartfelt and inspiring

Despite some uneven moments, Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s film about the Ukraine leader has an immediacy and inspirational feel which is rarely found in traditional news reports

Reuters

Zelenskiy urges film stars at Berlinale to take sides and support Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged filmmakers to take sides in what he termed a battle between freedom and tyranny, drawing a parallel in his speech opening the Berlin Film Festival between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Berlin Wall.

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Watch as Hollywood stars walk red carpet at Berlin Film Festival

Watch as Hollywood stars walk the red carpet at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival.

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Argentine documentary about junta trial set for Berlin bow

An Argentine documentary based on hundreds of hours of audiovisual recordings of a seminal 1985 trial of leaders of the country's bloody military junta will make its international debut on Sunday at the Berlin Film Festival.

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Ukraine, Iran's quests for freedom to dominate Berlin Film Festival

Sean Penn's documentary portrait of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, filmed as Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, will be among headliners at next month's Berlin Film Festival, where a life achievement award will go to Steven Spielberg.

The Guardian - UK

Berlin film festival 2022 roundup – earnestness, joy, and the best film won

At an unusually quiet, Covid-strict festival, it was a good year for the French, and female directors – and we got to see Jean-Luc Godard do his ironing

France 24

Movie filmed in FRANCE 24 buildings wins top director prize at Berlin

French filmmaker Claire Denis has won best director at the Berlin Film Festival for a film partly filmed in FRANCE 24's buildings. "Both Sides of the Blade" stars Juliette Binoche as a woman torn between two lovers in pandemic-era Paris. She plays Sara, a journalist who works at FRANCE 24's…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Two Asian Films Explore Burden of past Violence at Berlin Film Festival

Two southeast Asian films competing at this year's Berlin Film Festival explore what violence does to human beings, one through painful historical narrative and one through fantasy. Indonesian director Kamila Andini's "Nana" shows the impact of years of war on the life of a woman in the Javan town of…

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Horror Legend Argento, 81, Brings Gory Swan Song to Berlin Film Festival

A period of pandemic-enforced solitude and his actress daughter's enthusiasm led Italian horror legend Dario Argento, 81, to snap open his director's chair after a decade's absence to make one more of his signature gorefests. "Dark Glasses," the director's latest film, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, reprising…

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