Review: Malmkrog

Review: Malmkrog

BERLINALE 2020: Cristi Puiu opens the Berlinale's new competitive section Encounters with what might be his least accessible and most cerebral film  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Encounters

Brigid O'Shea • Founder, Documentary Association of Europe

Interview: Brigid O'Shea • Founder, Documentary Association of Europe

"DAE is all about closing the gaps"

BERLINALE 2020: We talked to Brigid O'Shea, one of the founders of the Documentary Association of Europe, which is having its official launch at the Berlinale on Saturday 22 February  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

Tantalizing announcements made in Berlin by French firms

Tantalizing announcements made in Berlin by French firms

Wild Bunch, Memento, Mk2, Charades, The Party Film Sales and Elle Driver get off to a flying start, jettisoning new titles into the European Film Market showcase  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

Lin Sternal • Director of Perro

Interview: Lin Sternal • Director of Perro

"The lives of indigenous people are constantly threatened by higher forces, controlled by power and greed"

BERLINALE 2020: German director Lin Sternal talks to us about her documentary Perro, which revolves around a threatened indigenous community in Nicaragua and is screening in Generation Kplus  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

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Malmkrog - by Cristi Puiu - BERLINALE 2020: Cristi Puiu opens the Berlinale's new competitive section Encounters with what might be his least accessible and most cerebral film
Malmkrog
by Cristi Puiu
BERLINALE 2020: Cristi Puiu opens the Berlinale's new competitive section Encounters with what might be his least accessible and most cerebral film
One in a Thousand - by Clarisa Navas - BERLINALE 2020: The expression “growing pains” was coined for a reason, as proven by Clarisa Navas’ sophomore feature, which has opened the Panorama section of the Berlinale
One in a Thousand
by Clarisa Navas
BERLINALE 2020: The expression “growing pains” was coined for a reason, as proven by Clarisa Navas’ sophomore feature, which has opened the Panorama section of the Berlinale
My Salinger Year - by Philippe Falardeau - BERLINALE 2020: Philippe Falardeau's Margaret Qualley- and Sigourney Weaver-starrer is a disappointing and bland start to the 70th edition of the Berlin Film Festival
My Salinger Year
by Philippe Falardeau
BERLINALE 2020: Philippe Falardeau's Margaret Qualley- and Sigourney Weaver-starrer is a disappointing and bland start to the 70th edition of the Berlin Film Festival
Exile - by Visar Morina - Heaps of dead rats and a burning stroller: office bullying takes on a severe dimension in Visar Morina's sophomore film
Exile
by Visar Morina
Heaps of dead rats and a burning stroller: office bullying takes on a severe dimension in Visar Morina's sophomore film
Pinocchio - by Matteo Garrone - Matteo Garrone preserves the original spirit of the famous puppet and isn’t influenced by current tendencies in fantasy storytelling. In Italian cinemas from 19 December
Pinocchio
by Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone preserves the original spirit of the famous puppet and isn’t influenced by current tendencies in fantasy storytelling. In Italian cinemas from 19 December
Pompei - by John Shank, Anna Falguères - John Shank and Anna Falguères deliver a crepuscular tale of unconditional love, starring Garance Marillier and Aliocha Schneider
Pompei
by John Shank, Anna Falguères
John Shank and Anna Falguères deliver a crepuscular tale of unconditional love, starring Garance Marillier and Aliocha Schneider
Cuties - by Maïmouna Doucouré - Maïmouna Doucouré has won the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival for her feature debut, a multi-faceted coming-of-age drama
Cuties
by Maïmouna Doucouré
Maïmouna Doucouré has won the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival for her feature debut, a multi-faceted coming-of-age drama
Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness - by Massoud Bakhshi - In his second feature, a largely European majority production, Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi creates a redoubtable and thrilling TV procedural with a female touch
Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness
by Massoud Bakhshi
In his second feature, a largely European majority production, Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi creates a redoubtable and thrilling TV procedural with a female touch
Jon Holmberg • Director of Sune – Best Man

Interview: Jon Holmberg • Director of Sune – Best Man

“My ambition was just to make a good film”

BERLINALE 2020: Cineuropa talked to Jon Holmberg, the director behind the Sune franchise, just before he headed off to Berlin for the second time  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

Polo Menárguez • Director of The Plan

Interview: Polo Menárguez • Director of The Plan

"There are some very dangerous ways of understanding masculinity "

With his feature debut, The Plan, which is released today in Spanish cinemas, Polo Menárguez has brought Ignasi Vidal’s successful stage play of the same name to the big screen  

21/02 | Spain

Learn from award-winning experts and network with peers at the 9th Visegrad Film Forum

Learn from award-winning experts and network with peers at the 9th Visegrad Film Forum

The networking and workshop event, which unspools from 10-14 March in Bratislava, will welcome Costa-Gavras, Eddy Joseph, Paweł Edelman, Jim Stark and Molly Malene Stensgaard as guest lecturers  

21/02 | Industry | Market | Slovakia

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for Petit Samedi

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for Petit Samedi

Belgian writer-director Paloma Sermon-Daï’s debut feature-length documentary is premiering in the Berlinale Forum  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Forum

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Young Belgian director Zoé Wittock returns with her first feature film Jumbo, a fairy tale-teen movie crossover, screened in the Berlinale’s Generation line-up
Young Belgian director Zoé Wittock returns with her first feature film Jumbo, a fairy tale-teen movie crossover, screened in the Berlinale’s Generation line-up
BERLINALE 2020: We spoke to the head of the Berlinale Co-Production Market, Martina Bleis, to find out what’s in store at this year’s edition of the industry event
BERLINALE 2020: We spoke to the head of the Berlinale Co-Production Market, Martina Bleis, to find out what’s in store at this year’s edition of the industry event
BERLINALE 2020: We talked to Brigid O'Shea, one of the founders of the Documentary Association of Europe, which is having its official launch at the Berlinale on Saturday 22 February
BERLINALE 2020: We talked to Brigid O'Shea, one of the founders of the Documentary Association of Europe, which is having its official launch at the Berlinale on Saturday 22 February
BERLINALE 2020: German director Lin Sternal talks to us about her documentary Perro, which revolves around a threatened indigenous community in Nicaragua and is screening in Generation Kplus
BERLINALE 2020: German director Lin Sternal talks to us about her documentary Perro, which revolves around a threatened indigenous community in Nicaragua and is screening in Generation Kplus
BERLINALE 2020: Cineuropa talked to Jon Holmberg, the director behind the Sune franchise, just before he headed off to Berlin for the second time
BERLINALE 2020: Cineuropa talked to Jon Holmberg, the director behind the Sune franchise, just before he headed off to Berlin for the second time
Interview with Jean-Baptiste Fribourg, producer for French company La Société des Apaches and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Interview with Jean-Baptiste Fribourg, producer for French company La Société des Apaches and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
With his feature debut, The Plan, which is released today in Spanish cinemas, Polo Menárguez has brought Ignasi Vidal’s successful stage play of the same name to the big screen
With his feature debut, The Plan, which is released today in Spanish cinemas, Polo Menárguez has brought Ignasi Vidal’s successful stage play of the same name to the big screen
Interview with Roberto Cavallini, producer for Italian company Altrove Films and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Interview with Roberto Cavallini, producer for Italian company Altrove Films and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Martina Bleis • Director, Berlinale Co-Production Market

Interview: Martina Bleis • Director, Berlinale Co-Production Market

“We always try to be on top of what producers and their projects need”

BERLINALE 2020: We spoke to the head of the Berlinale Co-Production Market, Martina Bleis, to find out what’s in store at this year’s edition of the industry event  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

Jean-Baptiste Fribourg • Producer, La Société des Apaches

Interview: Jean-Baptiste Fribourg • Producer, La Société des Apaches

“Influence on social and political debates should not be the only purpose of documentaries”

Interview with Jean-Baptiste Fribourg, producer for French company La Société des Apaches and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

21/02 | Emerging Producers 2020

Review: One in a Thousand

Review: One in a Thousand

BERLINALE 2020: The expression “growing pains” was coined for a reason, as proven by Clarisa Navas’ sophomore feature, which has opened the Panorama section of the Berlinale  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Panorama

Shooting Stars 2020

Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Hidden Away - by Giorgio Diritti - Berlinale 2020 - Competition
Hidden Away
by Giorgio Diritti
Berlinale 2020 - Competition
The Salt of Tears - by Philippe Garrel - Berlinale 2020 - Competition
The Salt of Tears
by Philippe Garrel
Berlinale 2020 - Competition
Kill It and Leave This Town - by Mariusz Wilczynski - Berlinale 2020 - Encounters
Kill It and Leave This Town
by Mariusz Wilczynski
Berlinale 2020 - Encounters
Los Conductos - by Camilo Restrepo - Berlinale 2020 - Encounters
Los Conductos
by Camilo Restrepo
Berlinale 2020 - Encounters
Days of Cannibalism - by Teboho Edkins - Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
Days of Cannibalism
by Teboho Edkins
Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and clip for Berlinale title Schoolgirls

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and clip for Berlinale title Schoolgirls

The debut feature by Spain's Pilar Palomero is world-premiering in the Generation Kplus section of the 70th Berlinale  

21/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

Roberto Cavallini • Producer, Altrove Films

Interview: Roberto Cavallini • Producer, Altrove Films

“The most important thing though is to fall in love with a story and its universe”

Interview with Roberto Cavallini, producer for Italian company Altrove Films and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

21/02 | Emerging Producers 2020

Review: My Salinger Year

Review: My Salinger Year

BERLINALE 2020: Philippe Falardeau's Margaret Qualley- and Sigourney Weaver-starrer is a disappointing and bland start to the 70th edition of the Berlin Film Festival  

20/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Special

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Our Lady of the Nile - by Atiq Rahimi - Atiq Rahimi explores the bonds between violence and the sacred through the roots of the Rwandan genocide in 1973, in the world of seemingly innocent privileged young women
Our Lady of the Nile
by Atiq Rahimi
Atiq Rahimi explores the bonds between violence and the sacred through the roots of the Rwandan genocide in 1973, in the world of seemingly innocent privileged young women
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange - by Iryna Tsilyk - The documentary by Ukraine's Iryna Tsilyk, winner of the Best Director award in Sundance's World Cinema Documentary Competition, is an affectionate homage to subjects who are hungry for life
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
by Iryna Tsilyk
The documentary by Ukraine's Iryna Tsilyk, winner of the Best Director award in Sundance's World Cinema Documentary Competition, is an affectionate homage to subjects who are hungry for life
Jumbo - by Zoé Wittock - Belgium’s Zoé Wittock sticks her neck out with a screwball, metaphorical first feature film, a highly original yet unfulfilling offering in which Noémie Merlant shines bright
Jumbo
by Zoé Wittock
Belgium’s Zoé Wittock sticks her neck out with a screwball, metaphorical first feature film, a highly original yet unfulfilling offering in which Noémie Merlant shines bright
The Plan - by Polo Menárguez - Polo Menárguez brings to the big screen all of the tension, scathing humour and harsh criticism from the stage play on which his first feature, starring Raúl Arévalo and Antonio de la Torre, is based
The Plan
by Polo Menárguez
Polo Menárguez brings to the big screen all of the tension, scathing humour and harsh criticism from the stage play on which his first feature, starring Raúl Arévalo and Antonio de la Torre, is based
The Best Years - by Gabriele Muccino - Gabriele Muccino homes in once again on his beloved middle-class characters, confirming his filmmaking skill and directorial prowess with a story about love and friendship over the course of 40 years
The Best Years
by Gabriele Muccino
Gabriele Muccino homes in once again on his beloved middle-class characters, confirming his filmmaking skill and directorial prowess with a story about love and friendship over the course of 40 years
The Painter and the Thief - by Benjamin Ree - Benjamin Ree has crafted a deceptive heist movie that paints a portrait of an unlikely friendship in Norway
The Painter and the Thief
by Benjamin Ree
Benjamin Ree has crafted a deceptive heist movie that paints a portrait of an unlikely friendship in Norway
There Was a Little Ship - by Marion Hänsel - From her hospital bed, Belgian filmmaker Marion Hänsel creates an intimate portrait of the cities, events and people that have shaped her life
There Was a Little Ship
by Marion Hänsel
From her hospital bed, Belgian filmmaker Marion Hänsel creates an intimate portrait of the cities, events and people that have shaped her life
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela - by Anabel Rodríguez Ríos - Against a backdrop of a politically divided Venezuela, Anabel Rodríguez Ríos shows two local titans making waves in the floating and forgotten village of Congo Mirador
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
by Anabel Rodríguez Ríos
Against a backdrop of a politically divided Venezuela, Anabel Rodríguez Ríos shows two local titans making waves in the floating and forgotten village of Congo Mirador
Anna Falguères and John Shank • Directors of Pompei

Interview: Anna Falguères and John Shank • Directors of Pompei

"We wanted to free ourselves from a modern-day form of realism so as to broaden the film’s scope"

BERLINALE 2020: We met with Anna Falguères and John Shank whose first feature film Pompéi is screening within the Generation 14plus line-up  

20/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

Review: The Plan

Review: The Plan

Polo Menárguez brings to the big screen all of the tension, scathing humour and harsh criticism from the stage play on which his first feature, starring Raúl Arévalo and Antonio de la Torre, is based  

20/02 | Films | Reviews | Spain

Zoé Wittock • Director of Jumbo

Interview: Zoé Wittock • Director of Jumbo

"The difficult thing was maintaining the right balance between reality and fantasy"

Young Belgian director Zoé Wittock returns with her first feature film Jumbo, a fairy tale-teen movie crossover, screened in the Berlinale’s Generation line-up  

20/02 | Berlinale 2020 | Generation

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BERLINALE 2020: We met with Anna Falguères and John Shank whose first feature film Pompéi is screening within the Generation 14plus line-up
BERLINALE 2020: We met with Anna Falguères and John Shank whose first feature film Pompéi is screening within the Generation 14plus line-up
Interview with Angelos Rallis, producer for Greek company AR Productions and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Interview with Angelos Rallis, producer for Greek company AR Productions and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Interview with Tomáš Krupa, producer for Slovakian company Hailstone and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Interview with Tomáš Krupa, producer for Slovakian company Hailstone and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
We met with Alexis Juncosa who heads up programming for the Luxembourg City Film Festival, the 10th edition of which is unspooling between 5-15 March
We met with Alexis Juncosa who heads up programming for the Luxembourg City Film Festival, the 10th edition of which is unspooling between 5-15 March
BERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Austrian director Sandra Wollner about The Trouble with Being Born, in which she finally puts the Pinocchio myth to rest
BERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Austrian director Sandra Wollner about The Trouble with Being Born, in which she finally puts the Pinocchio myth to rest
Interview with Yulia Serdyukova, producer for Ukrainian company yutopia films and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
Interview with Yulia Serdyukova, producer for Ukrainian company yutopia films and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme
BERLINALE 2020: We talked to Jeanette Nordahl, the debuting director behind the Panorama title Wildland
BERLINALE 2020: We talked to Jeanette Nordahl, the debuting director behind the Panorama title Wildland
We sat down with Grainne Humphreys and Si Edwards, VMDIFF’s director and shorts programmer, to talk about this year’s programme and industry initiatives
We sat down with Grainne Humphreys and Si Edwards, VMDIFF’s director and shorts programmer, to talk about this year’s programme and industry initiatives
Angelos Rallis • Producer, AR Productions

Interview: Angelos Rallis • Producer, AR Productions

”The best documentaries are the ones that use strong creative language and form”

Interview with Angelos Rallis, producer for Greek company AR Productions and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

20/02 | Emerging Producers 2020

Simon West to direct the ambitious historical series Sin límites

Simon West to direct the ambitious historical series Sin límites

The show will be a recreation of the epic feat undertaken 500 years ago by Portugal’s Magellan and Elcano, a Spaniard who became the first to sail around the world  

20/02 | Television | Spain/USA

Charades to the power of 20 in Berlin

Charades to the power of 20 in Berlin

The agent's line-up includes Panorama title Mogul Mowgli and 11 films in post-production, directed by, among others, Kirill Serebrennikov, Emma Dante, Chloé Mazlo and the duo Rana Kazkaz - Anas Khalaf  

20/02 | Berlinale 2020 | EFM

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Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Victoria - by Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer and Isabelle Tollenaere - Berlinale 2020 - Forum
Victoria
by Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer and Isabelle Tollenaere
Berlinale 2020 - Forum
Always Amber - by Hannah Reinikainen and Lia Hietala - Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
Always Amber
by Hannah Reinikainen and Lia Hietala
Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
Naked Animals - by Melanie Waelde - Berlinale 2020 - Encounters
Naked Animals
by Melanie Waelde
Berlinale 2020 - Encounters
Malmkrog - by Cristi Puiu - Berlinale 2020 - Encounters
Malmkrog
by Cristi Puiu
Berlinale 2020 - Encounters
One in a Thousand - by Clarisa Navas - Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
One in a Thousand
by Clarisa Navas
Berlinale 2020 - Panorama

Industry Reports

11/02/2020

EDN introduces its 2020 Financing Guide

For the first time published as a digital edition, the guide provides filmmakers with all the industry contacts they need to finance their documentaries

13/12/2019

Europa Distribution brings Solo to IDFA's Industry Talk

For the second year in a row, the distributors network co-organised various events at IDFA focused on the distribution of documentary films

13/12/2019

A focus on Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria by Europa Distribution

The European distributors network sheds some light on the situation of independent film distribution in the countries

Film Reviews

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