Film

Peter Horgan’s holiday thriller also stars Lance A. Williams, Katie Silverman and Josh Koopman.

In an open letter, signed by Berlinale alumni including Tatiana Maslany, Peter Mullan, Mike Leigh, Nan Goldin and Adam McKay, the group accused the festival of “censoring artists who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide.”

Mayumi Yoshida’s Japanese language drama has sold to Canadian indie KinoSmith and Japan’s Rabbit House after a weekend screening at the European Film Market.

German writer-director Angela Schalenec, who won the Silver Bear in 2019 for ‘I Was at Home, But…,’ returns to the Berlinale with a new feature.

In front of an audience at Chapman University, the co-writer/performer of the first K-pop song to ever win a Grammy reflects on how it emerged after she was told she would never become a K-pop idol: “I wasn’t a good enough singer, I wasn’t a good enough dancer, I was way too old, and I was also too tall.”

“Targets are being put on our backs,” added Bassett, who was honored at the 9th annual ABFF Honors ceremony along with Dwayne Johnson, Jennifer Hudson, Damson Idris, Salli Richardson-Whitfield and the creative team of ‘Sinners.’

The ‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ filmmaker is being given a Writers Guild lifetime achievement award after writing decades of box office hits.

The new action thriller from ‘Taken’ director Pierre Morel is being shopped to buyers in Berlin by Highlight Film Group.

‘The Weight’ star at a Berlinale presser discussed the role of film artists in battling against the rise of the far right in Europe and the U.S.

Competing for the top Berlin prize, writer-director Lance Hammer’s first film since ‘Ballast’ also features Tom Courtenay, Anna Calder-Marshall and Florence Hunt.