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Berlin Film Festival: Director Defends Eight-Hour Movie That Features Hour-Long Lunch Break

‘It’s not slow cinema, it’s cinema,” says Lav Diaz, director of historical drama A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, shown at the Berlin film festiv...

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Berlinale Film Festival: Recounting The Horrors And Scars Left By Wars

Can any nation ever put behind the memories of a war? The scars that are engraved on the soul, and the soil, are perhaps the hardest to get rid of.
In Germany, it is n...

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Berlin: Meryl Streep On Director Gender GapBerlin: Meryl Streep On Director Gender Gap: "We Need 40- To 50-Year-Old White Males To Be Interested"

Meryl Streep said Hollywood is giving female directors more opportunities to tell their own stories — and the green light is coming from younger decision-makers, not ...

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PREVIEW-Berlin Film Fest Opens With Clooney - And Eye On Refugees

George Clooney will be in town on Thursday when "Hail, Caesar!" opens the annual Festival, and Meryl Streep is the competition jury president, but the politically attuned s...

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Europe's Migrant Crisis Has A Starring Role At The Berlin Film Festival

BERLIN — Europe's migrant crisis will play a starring role at the Berlin International Film Festival that opens this week, a reflection of Germany's own leading perfo...

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Film Festivals Can Compete With Smartphones: Berlinale Chief

Film festivals still have a bright future in a world in which more audiences watch movies and television series on smaller and smaller devices, the veteran head of Germany'...

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Refugees To Star At 66th Berlinale Film Festival

Refugees will be at the heart of the next Berlin film festival, with hundreds of free tickets for asylum seekers and new movies spotlighting Europe’s historic influx,...

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Berlin Film Festival Adds Midnight Special And Genius To Lineup

Drama starring Michael Shannon drama as a dad on the run from extremists joins biopic of legendary editor Max Perkins, played by Colin Firth The Berlin film festival has re...

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Filipino Auteur Brillante Mendoza To Receive Tribute At Sarajevo Film Festival

The Sarajevo Film Festival is set to pay tribute to Filipino auteur Brillante Mendoza, who won the director prize at Cannes with his ultra-violent “The Execution of P...

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Your Guide To This Year's Jerusalem Film Festival.

Founded in 1984, the Jerusalem Film Festival is a baby compared to its European counterparts Venice (1932), Cannes (1946), and Berlin (1951). Israel’s second-oldest f...

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