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2628 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 25/09/2026.

The Berlinale unveils its Competition and Encounters titles

The Berlinale unveils its Competition and Encounters titles

New efforts by Mati Diop, Viktor Kossakovsky, Bruno Dumont, Olivier Assayas and Andreas Dresen are just some of this year’s Golden Bear contenders  

22/01/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition/Encounters

Tim Mielants’ Small Things Like These to open the Berlinale

Tim Mielants’ Small Things Like These to open the Berlinale

The Irish-Belgian co-production, taking part in the main competition, stars Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson in the leading roles  

18/01/2024 | Berlinale 2024

Review: White Flag

Review: White Flag

With his sophomore feature, Swiss-Mongolian filmmaker Batbayar Chogsom sheds light on the marginalisation of queerness in Mongolia  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Natasha’s Dance

Review: Natasha’s Dance

The latest feature by veteran filmmaker Jos Stelling is an uneven movie that tells the tragicomic love story of two outcasts – a Dutch man and a Russian woman  

20/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Gust Van den Berghe  • Director of The Magnet Man

Interview: Gust Van den Berghe • Director of The Magnet Man

"I thought it would be interesting, in the era of superhero movies, to create a superhero who is actually not useful"

The director of the Best Original Score winner at Tallinn breaks down his film about a human magnet who struggles to find his place as an artist  

19/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Batbayar Chogsom  • Director of White Flag

Interview: Batbayar Chogsom • Director of White Flag

"In this film, nobody loses anything, but they do find something - their real selves"

The Mongolian director delves into his Tallinn Competition entry, which hinges on two young women trying to start a new life in the steppe as nomads  

19/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Ivan Tymchenko  • Director of Oxygen Station

Interview: Ivan Tymchenko • Director of Oxygen Station

"The main message of the film is still relevant, regardless of the war"

The Ukrainian helmer discusses his Tallinn Competition entry, which follows a Crimean Tatar political activist who is now a people’s deputy of the Ukrainian parliament  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Călin Peter Netzer • Director of Familiar

Interview: Călin Peter Netzer • Director of Familiar

"This is a personal story, but with fictional elements"

The Romanian Golden Bear winner discusses his latest work, which follows a filmmaker trying to make a film about the lives of his parents in the most dangerous years of Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Familiar

Review: Familiar

The new family drama by Romanian filmmaker Călin Peter Netzer shows how harsh communist realities still poison the present  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: The Magnet Man

Review: The Magnet Man

Gust Van den Berghe’s latest feature is a melancholic fairytale paying homage to circus and cinema  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

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