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21/02/2024 - BERLINALE 2024: During a press conference, the national information and advisory centre for the promotion of German films provided an overview of its anniversary plans

BERLINALE 2024: During a press conference, the national information and advisory centre for the promotion of German films provided an overview of its anniversary plans

The Jewish Communist partisan Angel Wagenstein was sentenced to death in 1944 — but he lived until 2023. From his Bulgarian homeland to postwar East Berlin, the filmmaker and novelist devoted his century of life to telling the stories of the persecuted.

We sat down with founder of the Berlin Animation Festival, Pia Djukic, to talk curiosity, transformation and the importance of collaborative thinking.

Iris Gusner, German director and screenwriter, speaks about her time studying at the film school Gerasimow Institute for Cinematography (WGIK) in Moscow, film activities and about the time after leaving the country GDR/East Germany. She was among the first East German filmmakers to focus on the role and emancipation of women in the GDR. In 1970 she took a job in Berlin with DEFA, the East German state-owned film studio. Her first assignment involved working as a production assistant on Konrad Wo...

One of Germanys most famous actresses, Krößner has been celebrated with a Google Doodle. The star, who died in 2020, scooped Best Actress at The Berlin International Film Festival in 1980 for Solo Sunny.

SOFIA: The eminent writer, director and screenwriter Angel Wagenstein, who turned 100 years old on 17 October 2022, was celebrated during the 8th edit...

29/09/2022 - German director and author Laura Laabs directs a crime story interweaving different eras in Germany's history

29/09/2022 - German director and author Laura Laabs directs a crime story interweaving different eras in Germany's history

The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Their Descendants