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European Film Market 2025 - Eyes on the Audience - Smart Thinking in Distribution & Exhibition

Berlinale’s European Film Market Panel Dissects State of Exhibition Sector in Greece, Denmark, Austria and UK

The Berlinale’s European Film Market (EFM) hosted a panel discussion in February titled “Eyes on the Audience: Smart Thinking in Distribution & Exhibition,” which brought together key European industry professionals from across the region to address one of the most pressing concerns in independe…

Tricia Tuttle - Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale

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…

Berlinale - Mariëtte Rissenbeek, Executive Director and Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director

Berlinale 2024 Highlights the Divide Between Art and Commerce at International Film Festivals

The 74th Berlinale ended last month, and what remains is to look back and ruminate about what the future might bring. It is the first significant European festival of 2024, but this edition was the last one led by its Artistic Director, Carlo Chatrian, and Executive Director, Mariëtte Rissenbeek, th…

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…

The Future Comes Into Focus at Cinema Vision 2030

Europe has a new cinema conference well worth paying attention to. The second annual Cinema Vision 2030 was held in Berlin on 15 February, on the eve of the city’s Berlinale film festival. The one-day event boasted a wealth of international speakers, topics and sessions that tackled the challenges b…

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…

Berlin Film Festival 2022 – The Luckiest Festival of Them All?

The Berlin Film Festival might be the luckiest festival in the world. The very last major international film festival outside the pandemic, Berlinale 2020, ended one day before the city’s first official Covid-19 case was recorded. Before then, it had sold 330,000 tickets, hosted over 18,500 fi…

Zoo Palast in Berlin, Germany

Cinema of the Month: Zoo Palast Kino – Berlin, Germany

Celluloid Junkie is proud to have partnered with Vista Cinema for the Cinema of the Month series. Vista is the world’s leading cinema management software solutions company. We won’t just be featuring cinemas whose operators use Vista, but we will surely mention when that is the case. CJ would like t…