EXCLUSIVE: Belgian director Anke Blondé's drama Dust world premieres in competition at the Berlin Film Festival in February and Deadline can reveal the first trailer. Jan Hammenecker and Arieh Worthalter star as Belgian tech visionaries Luc and Geert, who learn that the long-running fraud…

No Good Men, the latest feature from Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat, will open the 2026 Berlin Film Festival.  The film follows Naru, the only camerawoman at Kabul TV, who is convinced that there are no good men in Afghanistan. But when the reporter Qodrat takes her on assignment just before…

Filmmaker Haile Gerima, best known as one of the leading filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion movement, is officially making his return to feature filmmaking with Black Lions – Roman Wolves, a documentary set to screen in competition at this year's Berlin Film Festival.  Black Lions – Roman Wolves…

Netflix's blockbuster deal to acquire Warner Bros. raises intriguing questions across the value chain and across different sectors of the global business. One realm not front of mind today, but that might feel the impact is the competitive circuit of A-list European film festivals. Netflix and…

"I think we're in the middle of a big sea change," said Toronto International Film Festival chief Cameron Bailey during a Zurich Summit panel about the role of film festivals. "Certainly, there's much more media coverage on the business of film and the screen industry generally than there used…

The Berlinale has announced that its 76th edition will take place from February 12 to 22, 2026, confirming dates that were widely expected by the film industry. The 2026 edition will see Tricia Tuttle return as the festival's director after a successful inaugural first year at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Bankside has inked a slew of sales on Ido Fluk's Köln 75 following its Special Gala premiere at the Berlinale this month. The largely well-received film has sold to Bulgaria (Beta), Canada (Level Film), Czech/Slovak (AQS), Eastern Europe excluding Poland (HBO), Former Yugoslavia…

The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 75th anniversary edition February 13 with the opening-night world premiere screening of The Light, Tom Tykwer’s politically charged film that takes stock of German society in the first quarter of the 21st century. It starts 11 days of debuts including for…

Refreshingly unexpected, Dag Johan Haugerud's Dreams (Sex Love) — the first Norwegian film to win the Berlinale’s Golden Bear — breathes new life into the often oversimplified genre of sexual awakening that seems to draw on his twinned career in both cinema and books. This headlong, hyper-nuanced…

Working in the Korean film industry for more than 30 years, veteran actor Kwon Hae-hyo has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the scene and witnessed Korean cinema’s rise as a global cultural powerhouse. Throughout those three decades, Kwon has also developed a formidable pairing…

The 75th Berlin International Film Festival announced the winners of the fest at the awards ceremony held at the Berlinale Palast on February 22. 19 films competed for the awards in this year's competition with director Todd Haynes heading the International Jury alongside director Nabil Ayouch, costume designer…

Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud’s latest Dreams (Sex Love) has won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. Scroll down for the full list of winners. The film is the third entry in a trilogy from Haugerud. The other films in the trology are Sex and Love, both released in…