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The Light by Tom Tykwer is the opening film of the 75th Berlin International film festival.  Screening in Berlinale Special, the film sees Lars Eidinger and Nicolette Krebitz as a couple and parents of teenagers struggling as a dysfunctional family with their contradictions.  Lars Eidinger confesses that he knew before starting to work on the film that his character  was actually inspired by Tom T...

"Mad Bills To Pay" by Joel Alfonso Vargas is a realist social drama on a Latino family in the Bronx. there is a lot of personal memories in the film, as the director comes form Bronx and inevitably the neighbourhood becomes another lead character of the movie. We met with the director on the day of the film's premiere in the Perspective programme in the Berlin International Film Festival. The choi...

Florian Pochaktlo's surprising first feature film "How To Be Normal and The Oddness of The Other World" had its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, in the Perspective section. The definitely personal and multi-layered take on mental health is narrated through the character of Pia, a young woman just released from a mental care facilities who tries to enter the "normal" world , the...

Rafaela Camelo's feature " The Nature of Invisible Things" narrates an unforgettable summer two young girls lived, a summer where they learned a lot about life and the world of grown-ups. The film has been selected as the Opening one for the Generation K Plus section of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. 3 generations, where the middle one is the most complicated "The Nature of Invisible...

Director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay brings to the Berlin International Film Festival his new feature film "Hysteria", an intense thriller set within a film crew on the set, where an accident becomes a fuel for dangerous misunderstanding. We talk with the director on the various issue the film brings to surface, from vulnerability and the fear of strangers, to racism and xenofobia. The Inspiration cam...

"The Heart Is A Muscle" selected in the Panorama section of the Berlinale 2025, is a South African film directed by Imran Hamdulay, that tells the story of man struggling to become the best version of himself. the film starts from a real fact happened to the director, almost completely reconstructed for the film, that serves as starting point in a reflection on adulthood and masculinity, trying to...

"Paternal leave" is the first feature film of Alissa Jung , who after a seres of short films decides to jump into the world fo features with a story about the responsibilities  of paternity and a man who tried to scape them. For this first film she decided to cast her own life partner, the actor Luca Marinelli,  a daring and potential risky choice, that she is glad to have made, as she explains in...

Ten years after “Boyhood”, Richard Linklater has brought back to Berlin a new collaboration with long-time friend and collaborator Ethan Hawke: “Blue Moon” In competition at the 75th edition of the Berlinale, the film follows a very important and pivotal night in the life of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart where he had to participate in his former collaborator Richard Rodgers success for his round-...

Jeanette Nordahl and actress Trine Dyrholm on Beginnings, a story about daring to face and accept the things we cannot control. At the Berlinale, the 75th edition, director Jeanette Nordahl is back with her second feature film, “Beginnings“. With Trine Dyrholm as her protagonist, Nordahl brought on a bg screen a story inspired by her parents’ relationship. The film follows Ane (Dyrholm), who, in a...

Tricia Tuttle is at her first edition as Director of the Berlin International Film Festival, which 2025 edition of runs from February 13 to February 22. In our chat, she tackles all the fundamental issues that a film festival must face and address, pointing out how her festival, and all festivals, are in this historical moment an act of resistance. A window on contemporary world, from every corner...

On the tenth year’s anniversary of "Boyhood", Richard Linklater s back in Berlin to present his new film, "Blue Moon", with his old partner in crime Ethan Hawke. The project, following the night  legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart had to “celebrate” his former collaborator Richard Rodgers for his ground-breaking hit Oklahoma! , had been in Linklater and Hawke’s plans for almost 12 years. Brought to th...

At the 75th Berlinale, visionary filmmaker Michel Gondry and his daughter Maya Gondry present "Maya, Give Me a Title", a unique and whimsical cinematic experiment. What started as a private father-daughter ritual—Maya providing titles, Michel creating stop-motion animations—evolved into a poetic and playful journey that now reaches audiences worldwide. Blurring the Line Between Reality and Imagina...

"Night Stage" is the third feature film written and directed by Felipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon, two queer film directors from Brazil, here at  the Berlinale for their third time. The film has been included on the Panorama section, and runs for the Teddy Awards as best feature film. Going back to more daring and unapologetic filmaking Faelipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon made some daring c...

"Lesbian Space Princess" is a queer animation film, from Australia written, animated and directed by Leela Varghese and Emma Hound Hobbs. we are in a fantastic world of princess, spaceships that talk, queerness and fun, on a quest to save her lover that  Princess Saira undertake with help from some friends. There is a lot to talk about and to laugh about with the two directors we met on the day of...

After presenting "Boyhood" at the Berlinale in 2014 with Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke is back in Berlin to present their new collaboration "Blue Moon". Narrating one night in the life of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart, the project had been in Linklater and Hawke’s plans for almost 12 years but they had to wait until Ethan Hawke could be and look old enough to play the artist.  As he leads the wh...

"Sandbag Dam" is a Croatian drama by Čejen Černić Čanak included in the Generation 14plus section of the Berlinale 2025. The film is a rare example of lgbtqi+ film coming out of Croatia and it starred two young and promising actors who embodies the two longtime lost young friends and hidden lovers who meet again, in a village that is always under the risk of flooding. The insecurity of the village...

Lucile Hadžihalilović  comes to the Berlinale 2025 , in competition, with her new film "The Ice Tower" starring Marion Cotillard. the film is a personal take on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen, that was a favourite of the director when she was a kid. With extreme aesthetics and a dark sense of beauty, the film is daring and intriguing. We talked with the director on it and with...

"Peter Hujar's Day" is the last title directed  by Ira Scahs, the acclaimed American director who was in Berlinale last year with "Passages". Starring Ben Whishaw who is again the lead in this new film. A day in the life of the famous photographer of  the underground and intellectual New York of the 70's, the most creative and rebellious moment of American culture, told directly by him in a record...

Chinese writer, director and producer, Vivian Qu is back at the Berlinale to present in competition, "Girls on Wire".  Renowned producer, she won the Golden Bear for her production "Black Coal Thin Ice" and at this 75th edition, as a director, she brings a women story.  After "Angels wear white", presented in Venice competition in 2017, the director is again portraying two women, in particular two...

Romanian director Radu Jude is back in the Berlinale competition with "Kontinental ’25".  After winning the Golden Bear in 2021 with "Bad Luck Banging" or "Loony Porn", the director is again depicting social and political issues in present-day Romania but with a different angle.  The film blends a sense of tragedy with elements of comedy while exploring also ethical issues like the feeling of guil...

Michel Franco is back at the Berlinale with his new film "Dreams."  The film marks the second collaboration with actress and producer Jessica Chastain with whom he realized his previous movie, Memory.  By depicting a love story between a Mexican young dancer (ballet dancer and first time actor Isaac Hernández) and a philanthrope rich American woman played by Chastain, Franco shows his vision on th...

Danish actor Claes Bang is at the 75th Berlinale in the cast of the competition film by Johanna Moder: "Mother’s Baby".  The actor who gained international recognition for his leading roles in Ruben Östlund's film "The Square" and Robert Eggers' film "The Northmann", plays Dr. Villefort, a gynecologist specialized in couples with fertility issues.  A man who keeps his promises As the film is delib...

Swiss director Lionel Baier is at the 75th Berlinale with his new film "La Cache - The Safe house" in competition.  The film is inspired by a small but poignant paragraph of Christophe Boltanski’s "La Cache", set in Paris, May ’68.  The secret to managing this apparent impossible challenge of adapting Boltanski’s text, was focusing on this very short period of time, mixing the words of the book’s...

At the 75th Berlinale, director Lemohang Mosese presents his latest film, "Ancestral Visions of the Future", a deeply personal and poetic meditation on memory, loss, and displacement. In this exclusive interview, Mosese reflects on his creative process, the interplay between text and image, and the emotional core of his work. A Lamentation of Memory and Identity Described by Mosese as a lamentatio...

Austrian screenwriter and director Johanna Moder presents her 3rd feature film, "Mother’s Baby", in competition at the 75th Berlinale.  The film, described as very personal from the director herself, is a story about the hidden side of motherhood. Moder follows the story of this woman, Julia, a successful conductor finally having the baby she has always dreamed of and feeling distanced from her so...