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In the press conference for Stereo, one of the Berlin Film Festival’s German films, the cast was asked why their film had already sold out its large, Zoo-Palast premiere whereas George Clooney’s The Monuments M...

Hito Steyerl’s 1998 film The Empty Centre follows the transformation of downtown Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz from a no-man’s land, once split in half by the Berlin Wall, to a central European Times Square, thick w...

Writing in 1926, Virginia Woolf expressed a certain suspicion that, if anywhere, "the past could be unrolled, distances annihilated in the chaos of the streets", (1) as represented via the new medium of film. ...

It was in the sad month of February, When the days had become dreary, And when the wind whipped at the trees, That I made my way to Germany.  And when I to the border came, I felt a mighty hammering In my...

7–12 February 2009 On a wintery Sunday morning, in the hundred-year old HAU1 theatre in Berlin, British screenwriter Sir David Hare is in conversation with Brazilian writer/director Daniela Thomas (Foreign L...

  5-15 February 2009 As if out of spite, just as banks fail and states teeter towards insolvency, German cinema could not be better. In a year of crisis, the Berlin International Film Festival booked...