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A New Direction for the Berlinale at 75th Edition

This was a significant year for the Berlinale, the nickname for the Berlin International Film Festival. Not only is 2025 the 75th anniversary of the event, but it was also the first edition with Tricia Tuttle as festival director. The festival returned to its former organisational structure, with a…

EFM Industry Sessions - Surfing the Waves: Audience Building in a New Period of Changes (credit: Davide Abbatescianni)

EFM Panel Surveys Exhibition and Distribution in the Current Post-pandemic Phase

On 19 February, the event hall of the Berlin’s Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation hosted a panel titled “Surfing the Waves: Audience Building in a New Period of Changes,” organized by the European Film Market (EFM) in partnership with Europa Distribution and moderated b…

EFM Got Down to IRL Business in Berlin

The European Film Market’s online editions for 2021 and 2022 did surprisingly good business, but it was with hugs and handshakes that the EFM came back to IRL action, celebrated this year with a rather spiffy grey fabric tote. In hindsight, the real work of the EFM this year might be said to be more…

Berlin Film Festival Hesitantly Embraces Glitz and Glamour

The first of the year’s big European film festivals, the Berlinale attracts lovers of art house and European cinema as well as those enamoured with film history, politics and documentaries. Those with a taste for serious cinema – the kind that points to problems, highlights emotions and shines…

Berlin Film Festival 2023 - Berlinale

Berlin Film Festival Is Ready to Roar in 2023

Running from 16th to the 26th of February, The Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale for short) is jumping back to its rightful place as one of the big five (or six, as some insist) on the festival circuit. Kicking off this Thursday in the German capital, it follows hot on the heels of a suc…