Review: Wildland

Review: Wildland

BERLINALE 2020: In her first feature, Jeanette Nordahl cranks the tension up to 11 as Sidse Babett Knudsen steals the show  

22/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Teboho Edkins • Director of Days of Cannibalism

Interview: Teboho Edkins • Director of Days of Cannibalism

"I try to become a part of the community - that’s the only way I can tell the stories"

BERLINALE 2020: We met up with Teboho Edkins to discuss his documentary Days of Cannibalism, screening in Panorama, which delves deep into the contradictions of today’s Lesotho  

22/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Giedrė Burokaitė • Producer, Meno Avilys

Interview: Giedrė Burokaitė • Producer, Meno Avilys

“Documentary is a dangerous form of storytelling”

Interview with Giedrė Burokaitė, producer for Lithuanian company Meno Avilys and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

22/02 | Emerging Producers 2020

Review: Always Amber

Review: Always Amber

BERLINALE 2020: Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikainen are among the first filmmakers to explore the world of transgender teens without focusing on their gender identity or sexual orientation  

22/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

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Film Reviews

Malmkrog - by Cristi Puiu - BERLINALE 2020: Cristi Puiu opens the Berlinale's new competitive section Encounters with what might be his least accessible and most cerebral film
Malmkrog
by Cristi Puiu
BERLINALE 2020: Cristi Puiu opens the Berlinale's new competitive section Encounters with what might be his least accessible and most cerebral film
One in a Thousand - by Clarisa Navas - BERLINALE 2020: The expression “growing pains” was coined for a reason, as proven by Clarisa Navas’ sophomore feature, which has opened the Panorama section of the Berlinale
One in a Thousand
by Clarisa Navas
BERLINALE 2020: The expression “growing pains” was coined for a reason, as proven by Clarisa Navas’ sophomore feature, which has opened the Panorama section of the Berlinale
Always Amber - by Hannah Reinikainen, Lia Hietala - BERLINALE 2020: Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikainen are among the first filmmakers to explore the world of transgender teens without focusing on their gender identity or sexual orientation
Always Amber
by Hannah Reinikainen, Lia Hietala
BERLINALE 2020: Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikainen are among the first filmmakers to explore the world of transgender teens without focusing on their gender identity or sexual orientation
Cocoon - by Leonie Krippendorff - BERLINALE 2020: Leonie Krippendorff's Generation opener is a tasteful and creative urban coming-of-age drama appropriately set during a hot summer in Kottbusser Tor
Cocoon
by Leonie Krippendorff
BERLINALE 2020: Leonie Krippendorff's Generation opener is a tasteful and creative urban coming-of-age drama appropriately set during a hot summer in Kottbusser Tor
Hope - by Maria Sødahl - Norwegian writer-director Maria Sødahl delivers an autobiographical and emotionally fragile love story through the powerful duo of Andrea Bræin Hovig and Stellan Skarsgård
Hope
by Maria Sødahl
Norwegian writer-director Maria Sødahl delivers an autobiographical and emotionally fragile love story through the powerful duo of Andrea Bræin Hovig and Stellan Skarsgård
Exile - by Visar Morina - Heaps of dead rats and a burning stroller: office bullying takes on a severe dimension in Visar Morina's sophomore film
Exile
by Visar Morina
Heaps of dead rats and a burning stroller: office bullying takes on a severe dimension in Visar Morina's sophomore film
Pinocchio - by Matteo Garrone - Matteo Garrone preserves the original spirit of the famous puppet and isn’t influenced by current tendencies in fantasy storytelling. In Italian cinemas from 19 December
Pinocchio
by Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone preserves the original spirit of the famous puppet and isn’t influenced by current tendencies in fantasy storytelling. In Italian cinemas from 19 December
Pompei - by John Shank, Anna Falguères - John Shank and Anna Falguères deliver a crepuscular tale of unconditional love, starring Garance Marillier and Aliocha Schneider
Pompei
by John Shank, Anna Falguères
John Shank and Anna Falguères deliver a crepuscular tale of unconditional love, starring Garance Marillier and Aliocha Schneider
Louis Henderson • Director of Ouvertures

Interview: Louis Henderson • Director of Ouvertures

"This film is an hybrid production between art and cinema"

BERLINALE 2020: British filmmaker Louis Henderson, member of The Living and the Dead Ensemble, talks about their Forum-screened documentary Ouvertures, which plunges into the Haitian revolution  

22/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Forum

Review: Mogul Mowgli

Review: Mogul Mowgli

BERLINALE 2020: Riz Ahmed puts in an exceptional performance in Bassam Tariq's cautionary musical tale dealing with double consciousness  

22/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Review: Cocoon

Review: Cocoon

BERLINALE 2020: Leonie Krippendorff's Generation opener is a tasteful and creative urban coming-of-age drama appropriately set during a hot summer in Kottbusser Tor  

22/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

Review: Minamata

Review: Minamata

BERLINALE 2020: Even Johnny Depp’s beret can’t save Andrew Levitas’ clunky movie  

22/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Special

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Interviews

Young Belgian director Zoé Wittock returns with her first feature film Jumbo, a fairy tale-teen movie crossover, screened in the Berlinale’s Generation line-up
Young Belgian director Zoé Wittock returns with her first feature film Jumbo, a fairy tale-teen movie crossover, screened in the Berlinale’s Generation line-up
BERLINALE 2020: We spoke to the head of the Berlinale Co-Production Market, Martina Bleis, to find out what’s in store at this year’s edition of the industry event
BERLINALE 2020: We spoke to the head of the Berlinale Co-Production Market, Martina Bleis, to find out what’s in store at this year’s edition of the industry event
BERLINALE 2020: We met up with Teboho Edkins to discuss his documentary Days of Cannibalism, screening in Panorama, which delves deep into the contradictions of today’s Lesotho
BERLINALE 2020: We met up with Teboho Edkins to discuss his documentary Days of Cannibalism, screening in Panorama, which delves deep into the contradictions of today’s Lesotho
Interview with Giedrė Burokaitė, producer for Lithuanian company Meno Avilys and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Interview with Giedrė Burokaitė, producer for Lithuanian company Meno Avilys and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
BERLINALE 2020: British filmmaker Louis Henderson, member of The Living and the Dead Ensemble, talks about their Forum-screened documentary Ouvertures, which plunges into the Haitian revolution
BERLINALE 2020: British filmmaker Louis Henderson, member of The Living and the Dead Ensemble, talks about their Forum-screened documentary Ouvertures, which plunges into the Haitian revolution
BERLINALE 2020: We talked to Brigid O'Shea, one of the founders of the Documentary Association of Europe, which is having its official launch at the Berlinale on Saturday 22 February
BERLINALE 2020: We talked to Brigid O'Shea, one of the founders of the Documentary Association of Europe, which is having its official launch at the Berlinale on Saturday 22 February
BERLINALE 2020: German director Lin Sternal talks to us about her documentary Perro, which revolves around a threatened indigenous community in Nicaragua and is screening in Generation Kplus
BERLINALE 2020: German director Lin Sternal talks to us about her documentary Perro, which revolves around a threatened indigenous community in Nicaragua and is screening in Generation Kplus
BERLINALE 2020: Cineuropa talked to Jon Holmberg, the director behind the Sune franchise, just before he headed off to Berlin for the second time
BERLINALE 2020: Cineuropa talked to Jon Holmberg, the director behind the Sune franchise, just before he headed off to Berlin for the second time
CineRegio members back 39 titles at the Berlinale

CineRegio members back 39 titles at the Berlinale

The network of regional film funds is taking the opportunity to call for the von der Leyen Commission (2019-2024) to respect “the cultural exception" in Europe  

22/02 | Berlinale 2020

Review: Malmkrog

Review: Malmkrog

BERLINALE 2020: Cristi Puiu opens the Berlinale's new competitive section Encounters with what might be his least accessible and most cerebral film  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Encounters

Brigid O'Shea • Founder, Documentary Association of Europe

Interview: Brigid O'Shea • Founder, Documentary Association of Europe

"DAE is all about closing the gaps"

BERLINALE 2020: We talked to Brigid O'Shea, one of the founders of the Documentary Association of Europe, which is having its official launch at the Berlinale on Saturday 22 February  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

Shooting Stars 2020

Trailers/Teasers/Clips

The Salt of Tears - by Philippe Garrel - Berlinale 2020 - Competition
The Salt of Tears
by Philippe Garrel
Berlinale 2020 - Competition
Undine - by Christian Petzold - Berlinale 2020 - Competition
Undine
by Christian Petzold
Berlinale 2020 - Competition
Kill It and Leave This Town - by Mariusz Wilczynski - Berlinale 2020 - Encounters
Kill It and Leave This Town
by Mariusz Wilczynski
Berlinale 2020 - Encounters
Sow the Wind - by Danilo Caputo - Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
Sow the Wind
by Danilo Caputo
Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
No Hard Feelings - by Faraz Shariat - Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
No Hard Feelings
by Faraz Shariat
Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
Tantalizing announcements made in Berlin by French firms

Tantalizing announcements made in Berlin by French firms

Wild Bunch, Memento, Mk2, Charades, The Party Film Sales and Elle Driver get off to a flying start, jettisoning new titles into the European Film Market showcase  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

Lin Sternal • Director of Perro

Interview: Lin Sternal • Director of Perro

"The lives of indigenous people are constantly threatened by higher forces, controlled by power and greed"

BERLINALE 2020: German director Lin Sternal talks to us about her documentary Perro, which revolves around a threatened indigenous community in Nicaragua and is screening in Generation Kplus  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

Jon Holmberg • Director of Sune – Best Man

Interview: Jon Holmberg • Director of Sune – Best Man

“My ambition was just to make a good film”

BERLINALE 2020: Cineuropa talked to Jon Holmberg, the director behind the Sune franchise, just before he headed off to Berlin for the second time  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

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Film Reviews

My Salinger Year - by Philippe Falardeau - BERLINALE 2020: Philippe Falardeau's Margaret Qualley- and Sigourney Weaver-starrer is a disappointing and bland start to the 70th edition of the Berlin Film Festival
My Salinger Year
by Philippe Falardeau
BERLINALE 2020: Philippe Falardeau's Margaret Qualley- and Sigourney Weaver-starrer is a disappointing and bland start to the 70th edition of the Berlin Film Festival
Cuties - by Maïmouna Doucouré - Maïmouna Doucouré has won the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival for her feature debut, a multi-faceted coming-of-age drama
Cuties
by Maïmouna Doucouré
Maïmouna Doucouré has won the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival for her feature debut, a multi-faceted coming-of-age drama
Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness - by Massoud Bakhshi - In his second feature, a largely European majority production, Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi creates a redoubtable and thrilling TV procedural with a female touch
Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness
by Massoud Bakhshi
In his second feature, a largely European majority production, Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi creates a redoubtable and thrilling TV procedural with a female touch
Our Lady of the Nile - by Atiq Rahimi - Atiq Rahimi explores the bonds between violence and the sacred through the roots of the Rwandan genocide in 1973, in the world of seemingly innocent privileged young women
Our Lady of the Nile
by Atiq Rahimi
Atiq Rahimi explores the bonds between violence and the sacred through the roots of the Rwandan genocide in 1973, in the world of seemingly innocent privileged young women
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange - by Iryna Tsilyk - The documentary by Ukraine's Iryna Tsilyk, winner of the Best Director award in Sundance's World Cinema Documentary Competition, is an affectionate homage to subjects who are hungry for life
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
by Iryna Tsilyk
The documentary by Ukraine's Iryna Tsilyk, winner of the Best Director award in Sundance's World Cinema Documentary Competition, is an affectionate homage to subjects who are hungry for life
Jumbo - by Zoé Wittock - Belgium’s Zoé Wittock sticks her neck out with a screwball, metaphorical first feature film, a highly original yet unfulfilling offering in which Noémie Merlant shines bright
Jumbo
by Zoé Wittock
Belgium’s Zoé Wittock sticks her neck out with a screwball, metaphorical first feature film, a highly original yet unfulfilling offering in which Noémie Merlant shines bright
The Plan - by Polo Menárguez - Polo Menárguez brings to the big screen all of the tension, scathing humour and harsh criticism from the stage play on which his first feature, starring Raúl Arévalo and Antonio de la Torre, is based
The Plan
by Polo Menárguez
Polo Menárguez brings to the big screen all of the tension, scathing humour and harsh criticism from the stage play on which his first feature, starring Raúl Arévalo and Antonio de la Torre, is based
Wildland - by Jeanette Nordahl - BERLINALE 2020: In her first feature, Jeanette Nordahl cranks the tension up to 11 as Sidse Babett Knudsen steals the show
Wildland
by Jeanette Nordahl
BERLINALE 2020: In her first feature, Jeanette Nordahl cranks the tension up to 11 as Sidse Babett Knudsen steals the show
Polo Menárguez • Director of The Plan

Interview: Polo Menárguez • Director of The Plan

"There are some very dangerous ways of understanding masculinity "

With his feature debut, The Plan, which is released today in Spanish cinemas, Polo Menárguez has brought Ignasi Vidal’s successful stage play of the same name to the big screen  

21/02 | Spain

Learn from award-winning experts and network with peers at the 9th Visegrad Film Forum

Learn from award-winning experts and network with peers at the 9th Visegrad Film Forum

The networking and workshop event, which unspools from 10-14 March in Bratislava, will welcome Costa-Gavras, Eddy Joseph, Paweł Edelman, Jim Stark and Molly Malene Stensgaard as guest lecturers  

21/02 | Industry | Market | Slovakia

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for Petit Samedi

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for Petit Samedi

Belgian writer-director Paloma Sermon-Daï’s debut feature-length documentary is premiering in the Berlinale Forum  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Forum

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Interviews

Interview with Jean-Baptiste Fribourg, producer for French company La Société des Apaches and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Interview with Jean-Baptiste Fribourg, producer for French company La Société des Apaches and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
With his feature debut, The Plan, which is released today in Spanish cinemas, Polo Menárguez has brought Ignasi Vidal’s successful stage play of the same name to the big screen
With his feature debut, The Plan, which is released today in Spanish cinemas, Polo Menárguez has brought Ignasi Vidal’s successful stage play of the same name to the big screen
Interview with Roberto Cavallini, producer for Italian company Altrove Films and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Interview with Roberto Cavallini, producer for Italian company Altrove Films and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
BERLINALE 2020: We met with Anna Falguères and John Shank whose first feature film Pompéi is screening within the Generation 14plus line-up
BERLINALE 2020: We met with Anna Falguères and John Shank whose first feature film Pompéi is screening within the Generation 14plus line-up
Interview with Angelos Rallis, producer for Greek company AR Productions and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Interview with Angelos Rallis, producer for Greek company AR Productions and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Interview with Tomáš Krupa, producer for Slovakian company Hailstone and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Interview with Tomáš Krupa, producer for Slovakian company Hailstone and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
We met with Alexis Juncosa who heads up programming for the Luxembourg City Film Festival, the 10th edition of which is unspooling between 5-15 March
We met with Alexis Juncosa who heads up programming for the Luxembourg City Film Festival, the 10th edition of which is unspooling between 5-15 March
BERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Austrian director Sandra Wollner about The Trouble with Being Born, in which she finally puts the Pinocchio myth to rest
BERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Austrian director Sandra Wollner about The Trouble with Being Born, in which she finally puts the Pinocchio myth to rest
Martina Bleis • Director, Berlinale Co-Production Market

Interview: Martina Bleis • Director, Berlinale Co-Production Market

“We always try to be on top of what producers and their projects need”

BERLINALE 2020: We spoke to the head of the Berlinale Co-Production Market, Martina Bleis, to find out what’s in store at this year’s edition of the industry event  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

Jean-Baptiste Fribourg • Producer, La Société des Apaches

Interview: Jean-Baptiste Fribourg • Producer, La Société des Apaches

“Influence on social and political debates should not be the only purpose of documentaries”

Interview with Jean-Baptiste Fribourg, producer for French company La Société des Apaches and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

21/02 | Emerging Producers 2020

Review: One in a Thousand

Review: One in a Thousand

BERLINALE 2020: The expression “growing pains” was coined for a reason, as proven by Clarisa Navas’ sophomore feature, which has opened the Panorama section of the Berlinale  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

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Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Los Conductos - by Camilo Restrepo - Berlinale 2020 - Encounters
Los Conductos
by Camilo Restrepo
Berlinale 2020 - Encounters
Days of Cannibalism - by Teboho Edkins - Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
Days of Cannibalism
by Teboho Edkins
Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
Mare - by Andrea Staka - Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
Mare
by Andrea Staka
Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
Victoria - by Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer and Isabelle Tollenaere - Berlinale 2020 - Forum
Victoria
by Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer and Isabelle Tollenaere
Berlinale 2020 - Forum
Hidden Away - by Giorgio Diritti - Berlinale 2020 - Competition
Hidden Away
by Giorgio Diritti
Berlinale 2020 - Competition

Industry Reports

11/02/2020

EDN introduces its 2020 Financing Guide

For the first time published as a digital edition, the guide provides filmmakers with all the industry contacts they need to finance their documentaries

13/12/2019

Europa Distribution brings Solo to IDFA's Industry Talk

For the second year in a row, the distributors network co-organised various events at IDFA focused on the distribution of documentary films

13/12/2019

A focus on Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria by Europa Distribution

The European distributors network sheds some light on the situation of independent film distribution in the countries

Film Reviews

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