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The Berlin Film Festival celebrates its 62nd edition this year. Running from February 9 to 19.
Films in the festival's Competition section vie for the Golden and Silver Bear Awards, where elsewhere there are sections dedicated to arthouse film, movies aimed at younger viewers, experimental work, the latest in home-grown talent and short film. The Festival is rounded out by a Retrospective - for classic "rediscovery" and a Homage which is dedicated to the work of Meryl Streep, who will also receive an Honorary Golden Bear.
View Films by Strand:
- Berlinale Special
- Berlinale Special Tribute
- Competition
- Culinary Cinema
- Forum
- Generation
- German Cinema - LOLA@Berlinale
- Happy Birthday, Studio Babelsberg
- Homage
- Panorama
- Panorama Documentary
- Panorama Special
- Perspektive Deutsches Kino
- Retrospective - The Red Dream Factory
- Short Films
Berlin International Film Festival Latest Reviews
Can a freak accident help a washed-up ad executive help to care for his family?
A documentary charting the life of the famous reggae star.
A criminal undertakes a surreal and supernatural journey through his own house.
The early days of the French Revolution as seen through the eyes of the servants at Versailles.
An ambitious young man seeks to attain power in 1890s Paris by seducing and manipulating the bored wives of important men.
A look at the day to day life of an unremarkable man who is keeping a ten year old boy prisoner in his basement.
Past and present consideration of a woman with a privileged colonial past.
A boy trying to come to terms with the death of his father on 9/11 finds a mysterious key.
Short film collection themed around the "unique attributes of Taiwan".
Documentary exploring the science behind the development of digital cinema technology and its effects.
Berlin International Film Festival News
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New York Film Festival: Photo Gallery Three Steve McQueen, Michael Fassbender, Sean Durkin and Elizabeth Olsen all attend press conferences.
New York Film Festival: Gallery Two Fassbender, Cronenberg and the Dardennes feature in our latest batch of photos from the festival.
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