Audiences in Berlin will have the opportunity to revisit a selection of award-winning films and favourites of the 75th Berlinale before their theatrical release. Screenings will run from July 8 to 11, ...

A time for desperate measures? The 1963 Berlinale also showed no way out of the crisis surrounding the content of the festival. Not a single film was found to be inspiring. Alain Robbe-Grillet’s ...

Hitting rock bottom 1964 was a low point, but was also the first step towards a newly orientated Berlinale. Not a single film managed to convince the audience and critics and the Golden Bear awarded ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official website"Lieschen Müller, that invention, that scapegoat of the film industry, had her greatest hour and then, to her great surprise, found herself faced ...

Berlinale reaches out In its fifth year, the festival’s advertising expenditure jumps to 60,000 deutschmarks, equalling 15% of the festival budget. Alfred Bauer places highly visible outdoor posters ...

A festival for the critics On the other hand, a cause for optimism is seen in the fact that the international critic’s association FIPRESCI holds its annual convention in Berlin and for the first time ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websiteIf they had been watching closely, they would have been able to catch the socio-critical medium of film red-handed doing its job. The very same ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websiteA portrait of a fifth-grade class at a rural school in East Germany, shot in January 1966. This is the third film in director Winfried Junge’s long ...

No sooner has the bedtime story has come to and end and the light been turned off, than a boy decides to take his revenge on his older brother. “What are you afraid of?” asks the brother, and begins ...

Years ago, when he was virtually still a child, Jack committed a terrible crime. He has spent almost all his life in different institutions. Now he is released from prison. He is twenty-four. Equipped ...

The 55th Forum main programme comprises 30 films from five continents – including seven feature debuts – and encounters a world and its people that are in a bad state. “Sounding out a diverse range of ...