Tom Tykwer is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009). He collaborated with The Wachowskis as co-director for the science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012) and the Netflix series Sense8 (2015–2018), and worked on the score for Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Tykwer is also well known as the co-creator of the internationally acclaimed German television series Babylon Berlin (2017–).
Wolfgang Becker was a German film director and screenwriter, best known to international audiences for his work Good Bye, Lenin! (2003). He was a co-founder of the production company X Filme Creative Pool, which produced his first successful feature film, Das Leben ist eine Baustelle, in 1997.
Nicolette Krebitz is a German director, actress, model, and singer. She is often credited as Coco in her creative works.
Birgit Minichmayr is an Austrian actress born in Linz, Austria. She studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. For her work in Maren Ade's film Everyone Else she won Silver Bear for Best Actress at 59th Berlin International Film Festival. She is the only Austrian actress to win this award in history of the festival and the first Austrian actress to win best actress award at a major European film festival since 1956. She worked with several major European directors including Michael Haneke, Tom Tykwer and Jessica Hausner.
The 66th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 11 to 21 February 2016, with American actress Meryl Streep as the president of the jury. The Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement was presented to German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.
Lars Eidinger is a German actor and rapper, based in Berlin. He has appeared in German and international film and television productions, including the 2020 film My Little Sister, the German series Babylon Berlin (2017–2022), the 2023 American miniseries All the Light We Cannot See, and the 2024 film Dying.
X Filme Creative Pool is a German television and film production company based in Berlin.
In Times of Fading Light is a 2017 German drama film directed by Matti Geschonneck. The film shows a day in the life of a family in the GDR. It was screened in the Berlinale Special section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. It is based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Eugen Ruge.
The 68th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 15 to 25 February 2018. German filmmaker Tom Tykwer served as Jury President.
Grace Glowicki is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta.
About Joan is a 2022 drama film directed by Laurent Larivière. The film stars Isabelle Huppert, Lars Eidinger and Swann Arlaud. It is a French-German-Irish co-production.
L'Animale is a 2018 Austrian coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Katharina Mückstein, starring Sophie Stockinger. The film made its world premiere at the 68th Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section on 18 February 2018. It was released in theaters in Austria by Polyfilm Verleih on 16 March 2018. The film received six nominations at the 2019 Austrian Film Award, including Best Film and Best Actress.
Elbow is a 2024 coming-of-age drama film co-written and directed by Aslı Özarslan in her directorial debut. The film, an adaptation of the Franz-Hessel-Preis and Klaus-Michael Kühne prize-winning German novel Ellbogen by Fatma Aydemir, is a story about 17-year-old Hazal, who lives in Berlin. Her biggest wish for her 18th birthday is to escape the everyday grind and party with her friends. But a fatal incident changes everything and she is forced to flee.
Islands is an upcoming German film directed by Jan-Ole Gerster from a script he wrote with Lawrie Doran and Blaž Kutin. It stars Sam Riley, Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing. The film will premiere at 75th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlinale Special in February 2025.
The 75th annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale, will take place between 13 and 23 February 2025 in Berlin, Germany. American filmmaker Todd Haynes was named the Jury President for the main competition. It will mark the first edition of Tricia Tuttle as the festival's artistic director following Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek's dismissal in 2024.
Maya, Give Me a Title is a 2024 French adventure animated comedy film directed by Michel Gondry. It uses the technique of paper cut-out animation and stop motion and also features short live-action sequences. The film was released in the French theatres on 2 October 2024.
Welcome Home Baby is an upcoming Austrian-German horror film directed and co-written by Andreas Prochaska. Starring Julia Franz Richter as Judith, an emergency doctor from Berlin, who inherits a villa in Austria. The film opens floodgates of her origins and questions everything she thought about her life. The film selected in Panorama 2025 will have its premiere at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2025.
The Ugly Stepsister is an upcoming comedy horror film co-written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt in her directorial debut. The film, starring Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, and Flo Fagerli, making use of the motif of the fairy tale Cinderella, retells a twisted story of Elvira who competes against her beautiful stepsister in a bloody battle for beauty. It is scheduled to premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on 23 January 2025, where it opens the Midnight Section.
Honey Bunch is an upcoming Canadian thriller film directed and written by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli. The film stars Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Jason Isaacs, Kate Dickie and India Brown. The film follows Diana, who wakes from a coma with fragmented memories, her husband takes her to an experimental trauma center hidden in the remote wilderness, yet the reason eludes her... As fragments of her memory start to return, so do disturbing and sinister revelations about her marriage.
