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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

Strickland’s Katalin Varga a pastoral tragedy

Katalin Varga, by Greek-born UK director Peter Strickland, was presented in competition before the press this morning in Berlin. Recounting a tragedy of universal significance about revenge and...  

12/02/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition/Romania

Bouchareb’s London River chokes up audiences

If the titles presented so far in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival have on the whole perplexed festival-goers, journalists’ emotion at this morning’s screening of Rachid...  

10/02/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition/France

Frears’ dangerous liaisons in Chéri

Warm applause followed the official Competition screening at the Berlinale of the latest film by Stephen Frears, Chéri, an adaptation of the Colette novel of 1920. Twenty years after working...  

10/02/2009 | Berlinale | Competition/UK

Lazy summer days in Everyone Else

Everyone Else, the second feature by 32-year-old director Maren Ade, following her multiple award-winning The Forest for the Trees, received an unenthusiastic press response at its competition...  

09/02/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition/Germany

Longing for more with Mammoth

Ten years after introducing world and Berlin audiences to his powerful voice with Fucking Amål, Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson is back at the Berlinale, miles away in budget size from his debut...  

09/02/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition/Sweden

Sally Potter rages against the fashion machine

Iconoclast director Sally Potter presents her latest feature, Rage, in Berlin as part of the Competition line-up. The film, a UK/US co-production, is an audacious talking-heads extravaganza set in...  

08/02/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition/UK

Storm looks at war crimes in the heart of Europe

One of the most highly anticipated titles of the Berlinale screened in Competition today: Storm by German director Hans-Christian Schmid. The film is the first on The Hague’s ICTY (the...  

07/02/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition/Germany

Final films announced

The organisers of the forthcoming 59th Berlin Film Festival (February 5-15) held a press conference yesterday to announce the final additions to the enticing programme (see news and article),...  

28/01/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition

Festival regulars Ozon and Tavernier to vie for Golden Bear

François Ozon’s Ricky and Bertrand Tavernier’s In the Electric Mist join Rachid Bouchareb’s London River (see news) on the list of French productions selected in competition at the 59th Berlinale...  

16/01/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | France/Competition

Official selection almost complete

After the announcement, in mid-December, of the first 11 titles in official selection (including five out of competition - see news) at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival (February 5-15),...  

15/01/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition

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