At the Berlinale in February, she was one of the ten European “Shooting Stars” honored at the festival. Leonie Benesch (“Der Schwarm”, “Dasweiße Band”) was also celebrated in Berlin for her new film “Das Lehrerzimmer”, in which she plays a young teacher who wants to do something against a wave of theft at her school … Read more
Status: 02/28/2023 07:38 a.m The music drama “Tár” celebrated its German premiere at the Berlinale and is coming to cinemas this week. Actress Nina Hoss described her work with the Dresden Philharmonic as the highlight of her career. von Patricia Batlle The drama by US director and screenwriter Todd Field tells the story of the … Read more
Berlin (dpa) – With his Berlinale-winning film “Sur l’Adamant”, the French director Nicolas Philibert wants to help people with mental disabilities to be seen in a different light. The documentary, which won Saturday’s Golden Bear, tells the story of a center for people with mental health problems in Paris. “There’s still a lot of stereotyping, … Read more
Karina (Frieda Barnhard) would rather not have a mother than a bad one, but her daughter Lu sees it differently. Photo: © Studio Ruba The relationship between children and their parents offers an almost endless expanse of cinematic storytelling. Sometimes it pushes the limits of what is bearable (“Mommy” by Xavier Dolan or “We need … Read more
The sequence of awards for the German-Turkish actress and comic Meltem Kaptan proceeds. The 42-yr-previous acquired the German Performing Award in Berlin on Friday. She gained the award for her function in the film “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush”. In it, Kaptan plays the mother of longtime Guantánamo prisoner Murat Kurnaz. In the movie, … Read more
MThe Bremen Film Festival was opened with the award-winning film “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush”. Andreas Dresen’s strip received two awards at the Berlinale. The film tells the story of Murat Kurnaz from Bremen, who was held for years in the US prison camp in Guantánamo, Cuba, from his mother’s perspective. The film’s main … Read more
At an event as part of the Berlinale, directors Sharhbanoo Sadat, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami and Zamarin Wahdat discussed how Afghan cinema could be supported. They called for Afghan women filmmakers, who are now living in exile, to be included in existing networks and to enable them to finance projects. The great importance of networks was … Read more
Berlin – Alma and Tom are a lovely couple. If they turn up somewhere together, nobody notices that the scientist is out and about with a robot. “Ich bin dein Mensch” by Maria Schrader, celebrated at the Summer Berlinale, tells of our relationship to artificial intelligence in such a way that we no longer ask … Read more
The main thing is the setting: if you want to help the cinema, you buy tickets for the cinema, not the Berlinale. Before we land in the delta wave – Cinema Moralia, diary of a cinema-goer, 250th episode From Rüdiger Suchsland “You want to tell us / you have a soulThey want us to believe … Read more
Beach chairs and open-air cinema on Museum Island – the Summer Berlinale has started in Berlin. Films that were awarded prizes at the online Berlinale in March will be shown in 16 locations in the capital until June 20. The falling number of new coronavirus infections gives hope, but international stars have hardly come to … Read more