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2/24/2025 1:43:04 PM
Têtes brûlées (Hotheads) by Belgian-Tunisian-Danish director and screenwriter Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama scooped two Special Mentions at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).
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2/22/2025 12:26:41 PM
The Berlin film festival is set to hand out its awards on Saturday, with a selection of 19 films and documentaries competing for the top Golden Bear prize. After 10 days of premieres and screenings, AFP looks back on the highlights and talking points of the 75th edition of the Berlinale.
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2/21/2025 7:12:44 PM
The 75th edition of Berlinale features 198 films from around the world, including a powerful presence of Arab cinema in more than one section. Four films from Egypt are screened in the festival.
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2/21/2025 2:13:00 PM
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival (13-23 February) is underway.
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2/13/2025 9:57:04 PM
German director Tom Tykwer will open the Berlin film festival Thursday with a drama about a Syrian housekeeper, in the midst of a national election campaign that has been dominated by a bitter migration debate.
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2/3/2025 2:01:33 PM
Nabil Ayouch, a Moroccan-French filmmaker and screenwriter, will sit at the International Jury panel of the upcoming 75th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival (13-23 February 2025)
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12/24/2024 11:53:30 AM
East of Noon, a film by Egyptian director Hala Elkoussy, will open the Critics' Week at the 75th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) from 13 to 23 February 2025.
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2/22/2024 6:33:41 PM
African cinema has seized the spotlight at this week's Berlin film festival, probing contemporary realities while demanding attention to historical crimes.
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2/8/2024 2:28:06 PM
A few titles by Arab filmmakers made their way to the variety of segments of the upcoming Berlinale (15-25 February 2024). Sitting on jury panels are Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala and Iraqi director and screenwriter Abbas Fahdel.
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2/1/2024 10:59:21 PM
The Berlin film festival, which has long championed Iran's embattled directors, urged Tehran Thursday to allow two filmmakers who have reportedly been slapped with a travel ban to attend this month's event.
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2/26/2023 2:40:03 PM
Yemeni film Al Murhaqoon (The Burdened), from director Amr Gamal, won two awards at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) that concluded Saturday.
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2/26/2023 11:02:39 AM
The Berlin film festival on Saturday awarded its Golden Bear top prize to a documentary by French director Nicolas Philibert and its best acting award to an eight-year-old girl in what jury chief Kristen Stewart described as a "boundary-pushing" event.
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2/25/2023 10:04:12 PM
The French documentary “On the Adamant” (Sur l'Adamant) directed by Nicolas Philibert was named best film Saturday at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.
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2/25/2023 9:45:14 AM
Director Amr Gamal said Friday he wanted to "open a window" to Yemen with "The Burdened", the first film from the country ever to show at the Berlinale festival.
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2/17/2023 11:51:02 AM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky joined Hollywood actor Sean Penn by video link on Thursday at the opening of the Berlinale, Europe's first major film festival of the year, calling for the entertainment world to maintain its "solidarity" with his besieged country.
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2/13/2023 3:15:26 PM
The 73rd Berlinale, Europe's first major film festival of the year, starts on Thursday with new movies from around the world screening in the main showcase.
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2/13/2023 3:14:40 PM
The Berlin film festival, Europe's first major cinema showcase of the year, opens on Thursday with a focus on the fight for freedom in Ukraine and Iran and the starriest line-up since the pandemic.
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2/10/2023 2:16:41 PM
Egyptian artist Assem Hendawi and filmmaker Tamer El-Said will present their works in the Forum Expanded section of the upcoming 73rd edition of the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) set to take place between 16 and 26 February.
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1/23/2023 6:56:22 PM
US actor and director Sean Penn will premiere a documentary he filmed in Kyiv featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at next month's Berlin film festival, organisers said when they unveiled the full programme on Monday.
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12/22/2022 12:51:39 PM
Adolf El-Assal, Sameh Alaa and Kesmat El-sayed were chosen to participate in the Berlinale development programme during the festival’s 2023 edition.
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