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Producer Aanand L Rai's 'Aatmapamphlet' receives praises at Berlin Film Festival
"It's a proud feeling when a global audience witnesses your work & praises it. It's a proud moment to see regional cinema pinned on the global map. Gratitude only for all the love.", says the producer.
Sonakshi Sinha, Vijay Varma & team Dahaad strike a pose on the Red Carpet at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival
Produced by Excel Media & Entertainment and Tiger Baby, Dahaad is directed by Reema Kagti and Ruchika Oberoi and stars Sonakshi Sinha, Vijay Varma, Gulshan Devaiah and Sohum Shah.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali on completing 25 years in Bollywood: I'm much more in control of my craft now
Sanjay Leela Bhansali says Alia Bhatt's Gangubai Kathiawadi is his most personal film yet. "I spent the first 30 years of my living just one lane away from Kamathipura. Every flavour, colour, and texture that I remembered from my childhood has gone into this film."
Berlinale 2022: Klondike, set against the Russia-Ukraine conflict, paints a bleak, harrowing picture of life during wartime
Klondike is speckled with vignettes on how the violence on the Russia–Ukraine border has reached the outside world and sucked people from other parts of the world, while costing lives
Gangubai Kathiawadi first impression: Sanjay Leela Bhansali directorial is worth every pandemic-fatigued film lover's salt
Alia as Gangubai soaks it all in with so much conviction, lugging this tremendous burden of portraying a brothel madam turned gangster placed on her back with consummate grace.
Berlinale 2022: Anonymous filmmakers document oppressed life under military regime in Myanmar Diaries
Myanmar Diaries is a heartbreaking portrayal of a country and its population slowly being brutalised to death by the military junta and usurped by the prison system in the country
Sanjay Leela Bhansali on Gangubai Kathiawadi going to Berlinale: Never felt this enthusiasm since Devdas went to Cannes
"I don’t know why our mainstream films are not sent to international film festivals. Gangubai Kathiawadi is a celebration of mainstream cinema. It is dark yet flamboyant. It is my most restrained work to date," says Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
M Night Shyamalan to serve as jury head at 2022 Berlin Film Festival
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian said he is "pleased and honoured" that Shyamalan accepted the festival's invitation to head the jury
Berlin Film Festival will return to in-person edition in 2022 after going virtual for a year due to COVID-19
"The experiences of the last months have shown that on-location events can take place safely and successfully, and how important they are for dialogue and exchange," said directors of the Berlin Film Festival.
Berlin Film Festival confirms all-outdoor edition in June, organisers say 'received positive signals' from govt
The event will comprise of movies shown online at the March edition, including the winners of its Golden and Silver Bear prizes, which will be awarded at a gala ceremony on 13 June.
Berlinale 2021: The so-near-yet-so-far stark contrast between theatrical and home viewing experience
I’ve never felt more removed from the real Berlinale, as the yearly festival is known, or sensed more acutely the strange sterility of pandemic-era online movie watching.
Berlinale 2021: Romanian director Radu Jude's Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn wins Golden Bear
Radu Jude's Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, about a teacher facing scrutiny over a sex tape, has the “rare and essential quality of a lasting art work, the Berlinale jury said.
Tina Turner bids 'goodbye' to legions of fans with Berlin Film Festival documentary
Tina includes emotional interviews with the singer in which she recounts her childhood of grinding poverty picking cotton in the Tennessee fields, her singing debut with violent husband Ike Turner and her lonely years even as the world's top female rock star.
Berlinale 2021: Daniel Bruehl's 'humiliating' Hollywood experience shaped his directorial debut Next Door
"It was a very purging, cleansing experience for me to show this humiliating aspect finally in a movie," says Daniel Bruehl on Next Door, premiering in competition at the film festival.
Berlinale 2021: Memory Box directors discuss wading through Beirut blast and the pandemic
The first Lebanese contender in the Berlinale competition in four decades, Memory Box is one of 15 films vying for the Golden Bear top prize.
Berlin Film Festival 2021 competition lineup includes Daniel Bruhl's directorial debut Next Door, Celine Sciamma's Petite Maman
The Competition lineup unveiled 15 titles including from filmmakers Celine Sciamma, Daniel Bruhl and Xavier Beauvois among others
Shardul Bhardwaj on picking characters that celebrate human dignity, from Eeb Allay Ooo! to Unpaused
In two films one year apart (Eeb Allay Ooo! to Chand Mubarak in Amazon anthology Unpaused), 28-year-old Shardul Bhardwaj has given a face to the Indian migrant crisis.
Berlin Film Festival 2021 likely to go virtual as Germany enters into new lockdown
Berlin Film Festival, initially scheduled as an in-person event from 11 to 21 February 2021, will now reportedly announce some major changes for the 71st festival this week
Berlin International Film Festival announces they'll adopt gender-neutral awards from 2021
The organisers at Berlin Film Festival said the Silver Bears, which until this year included the best actor and best actress honours, will be replaced with a Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance and a Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance.
Coronavirus Outbreak: MAMI, Cannes, major film festivals unite for 10-day global virtual movie event
Tribeca Enterprises, the company behind the Tribeca Film Festival, and YouTube announced the online festival Monday. Other festivals will also contribute curated programming, including the Sundance Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival and those in Berlin, Tokyo and New York.