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Berlinale Logo at Potsdamer Platz. (Photo: AP Photo/Franka Bruns)

Culture calendar

From film to fashion, check out DW's culture tips for February 2014.
January 31, 2014
"Før Snøen Faller – Before Snowfall" - movie still. (Photo: Iffmh, delivered by Marie Todeskino)

November 2013: DW's culture calendar

DW previews some of November's most interesting culture picks.
October 29, 2013
A bookshelf stacked full of books. Photo: Fotolia/PANORAMO #19772558

October 2013: DW's culture calendar

If you're into international books, thought-provoking films or experimental sound, you're in for a treat. DW has compiled a list of October's best culture picks.
September 27, 2013
U-Bahn Station Alexanderplatz in Berlin

'Underground cinema'

Stay tuned for a short-film festival in Berlin's subway.
September 20, 2013
Director Gianfranco Rosi kisses the Golden Lion for his film Sacro Gra, during the awards photo call at the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. Photo: AP/Andrew Medichini

Italy film wins Venice Lion

Italian director Gianfranco Rosi has taken the top prize at the Venice Film Festival for his documentary which portrays the lives of real people living in Rome. The world's oldest film festival featured 20 films.
September 7, 2013
A group of young musucians from the Turkish National Youth Orchestra playing instruments during a concert at Beethovenfest Bonn. Copyright: Meike Böschemeyer via: DW/ Başak Özay, Türkisch

Culture calendar

From Beethoven to beer, Germany has a lot going on in September.
August 30, 2013
US actor George Clooney and US actress Sandra Bullock pose during the photocall of the movie "Gravity", which opened the 70th Venice Film Festival on Wednesday. PHOTO: TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images

Venice Film Festival opens

The Venice Film Festival has opened with the new space thriller “Gravity”, starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. Organizers told cinemagoers to expect a “dark and violent” theme at the 70th run of the festival.
August 28, 2013

Roche's 'Wetlands' in Locarno

Germany's contribution to this year's Locarno Film Festival is a daring approach to bodily fluids.
August 9, 20138 images
Still from the film "Tron"

Gaming and cinema converge

The "ancient" medium of cinema has met its match in the form of video and computer games.
July 11, 2013
Director Abdellatif Kechiche (C), actresses Lea Seydoux (L) and Adele Exarchopoulos (R) react on stage after he received the Palme d'Or award for the film "La Vie D'Adele" during the closing ceremony of the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 26, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE

Lesbian drama claims Palme d'or

A French film portraying a lesbian love story "Blue is the Warmest Color" has won the Palme d’Or for best film at Cannes. Director Abdellatif Kechiche dedicated the award to the youth of Tunisia, where he was born.
May 26, 2013
AFP PHOTO / VALERY HACHE (Photo credit should read VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images)

Bollywood dazzles Cannes

Bollywood celebrates its 100-year anniversary at the Cannes Film Festival.
May 22, 20137 images
The Festival Palace in Cannes. Photo: REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Cannes jewel heist

French police say that jewelry to be loaned to stars at the Cannes Film Festival has been stolen from a hotel room. The festival had shown a film with a similar story line just hours before.
May 17, 2013
Steven Spielberg opening the Cannes Film Festival. Photo: VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images.

Cannes Film Festival underway

American director Steven Spielberg heads the jury at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival which has opened on the French Riviera. There are 20 films vying for the top prize of the Palme d'Or.
May 15, 2013
US actor Leonardo DiCaprio holds an umbrella on May 15, 2013 as he arrives for the screening of 'The Great Gatsby' ahead of the opening of the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. Cannes, one of the world's top film festivals, opens on May 15 and will climax on May 26 with awards selected by a jury headed this year by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg. AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT (Photo credit should read ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images)

Glitzy opening for Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival
May 15, 201311 images

Cannes Film Festival 2013

Cannes Film Festival 2013
May 14, 201315 images
Babylon cinema entrance - at the opening of the 11mm 2013 Fotograf: Daniel Schröter / 11mm Pressefoto vom 11mm Filmfestival

Berlin's football film festival

Maradona, Cantona, Henry - films on some of the most famous football stars of all times are being screened at the “Babylon” movie theater in Berlin. A jury is set to select the best football movie of all times.
March 18, 2013
Festival director Dieter Kosslick presents the Golden Bear award for Best Film to director Calin Peter Netzer (R) for the movie "Pozitia Copilului" (Child's Pose) during the awards ceremony at the 63rd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 16, 2013. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Golden Bear to 'Child's Pose'

The Romanian film "Child’s Pose" has won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlinale film festival. Other big winners were the American film "Prince Avalanche" and Bosnia’s "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker."
February 16, 2013
Poster for the 2013 Berlinale Talent Camp

Fresh talent

The Berlinale Talent Campus links up-and-coming filmmakers with old hands from the business.
February 15, 2013
Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann reacts after he was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear award for lifetime achievement during a ceremony at the 63rd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch / Eingestellt von wa

Golden Bear for Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann has accepted a Golden Bear lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival. The French filmmaker and producer is known around the world for his groundbreaking documentary "Shoah."
February 15, 2013
I kóri | The Daughter Forum 2013 GRC/ITA 2012 REGIE: Thanos Anastopoulos Savina Alimani, Yorgos Symeonidis ***Die Nutzungsrechte der aktuellen Filmfotos gelten ausschließlich für die Festivalberichterstattung*** ***Für eine Verwendung nach dem 15. März des jeweiligen Festivaljahrgangs müssen die Rechte vom jeweiligen Rechteinhaber eingeholt werden*** ***Bei der Verwendung von Fotos in Sozialen Netzwerken ist darauf zu achten, ob das entsprechende Material vom Rechteinhaber für diesen Verwendungszweck freigegeben wurde***

Past wars and future hopes

At Berlin's International Film Festival, young directors focus on Europe, past, present and future.
February 13, 2013
Chinese director and Berlinale jury president Wong Kar Wai and his wife Esther arrive for the premiere of the movie 'The Grandmaster' ('Yi dai zong shi') during the 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival, in Berlin, Germany, 07 February 2013. Photo: Britta Pedersen dpa +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++

Berlinale kicks off

The 63rd edition of the Berlin Film Festival has kicked off with a red-carpet gala event and the premiere of a martial arts movie. It is one of 19 films that will compete for the Berlinale’s top prize, the Golden Bear.
February 7, 2013
Berlinale Bear at the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin

Culture calendar

From international film to crazy costumes, February is bound to blast the winter blues away.
January 28, 2013
In the film Cloud Atlas, a man looks through old documents. (Photo: © Cloud Atlas Production GmbH)

November 2012: DW's Culture Calendar

Smartphone art, famous ateliers and undiscovered films provide the November's cultural highlights.
October 31, 2012
Chairman, Yash Raj Films, Yash Chopra, looks on during a press conference in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, June 12, 2007. Photo: ddp images/AP Photo/Gautam Singh

Obituary

Legendary Bollywood director, screenwriter and producer, Yash Chopra, is dead at the age of 80.
October 22, 2012
A poster of the African Film Festival in Cologne Photo by Pia Salz

Africa Film Festival in Cologne

This year's Africa Film festival in Cologne, Germany, is seeking to present the 'real Africa'.
September 28, 2012
A scene from "Cloud Atlas"

Cloud Atlas

Tom Tykwer has turned an 'unfilmable' book into a boundary-breaking film.
September 18, 2012
South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk

And the award goes to ...

The South Korean film 'Pieta' wins the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival.
September 10, 2012
A scene from the film from Ibrahim Batout, "Winter of Discontent," starring Amr Waked, Salah al Hanafy and Farah Youssef, which was created during the revolution in Egypt.

Egyptian revolution film

Ibrahim Batout's new film "Winter of Discontent" is celebrating its premiere in Venice.
August 31, 2012
A scene from the film "Wadjda" by Haifaa Al Mansour

Venice Biennale

The Toronto Film Festival is a bigger draw for German movie makers than the Venice Biennale.
August 30, 2012
A scene from the Russian film "Pisto goes away" to be shown at the LUCAS International Children's Film Festival in 2012.

Culture calendar

Animated adventures and avant-garde sights and sounds are September's cultural highlights.
August 29, 2012
epa02856523 Spectators wait under the rain for a movie on the Piazza Grande during the 64th Locarno International Film Festival, 05 August 2011, in Locarno, Switzerland. The film festival runs until 13 August. EPA/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Crybabies in Locarno

With crying babies, Nazi history and experimental film, German cinema is a highlight in Locarno.
August 10, 2012

Culture calendar

Superstition, budding musicians and the Locarno Film Festival are all on in August.
July 30, 2012
MOTHER INDIA [IND 1957] NARGIS Date: 1957 (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Cinema on farmers' issues

A 'farmer film festival' plans to attract international attention to the plight of farmers in India.
July 5, 2012
Fridericianum in Kassel

Culture calendar

A number of exciting events in theater, music and film are on offer in Germany in June.
May 31, 2012
The official poster of the 65th Cannes Film Festival features U.S. actress Marilyn Monroe as women directors write a protest.

65th edition of Cannes

The 65th edition of the Cannes Film Festival started Wednesday with the first film in competition "Moonrise Kingdom" starring Bruce Willis.
May 16, 2012
Actress Fan Bing Bing arrives for the screening of Midnight in Paris and the opening ceremony, at the 64th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool)

Cannes Film Festival

Preview the movies at the world's most prestigious film festival, taking place later this month.
May 12, 2012
A scene from the film "17 Filles" by Muriel & Delphine Coulin

Women in film

Despite the wealth of budding female film talent, the film industry needs more women.
April 23, 2012
Vittorio Taviani (left) and Paolo Taviani

Italians triumph at Berlinale

Italian directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have won the coveted Golden Bear prize at the Berlinale, for their documentary "Caesar must die." Germany's Christian Petzold scooped the award for best director.
February 18, 2012
EFM banner

Berlinale business

The European Film Market in Berlin is one of the world's biggest movie fairs.
February 16, 2012
US director and actress Angelina Jolie arrives for the premiere of the movie 'In The Land Of Blood And Honey' during the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, in Berlin, Germany, 11 February 2012. The movie is presented in the section Panorama Special at the 62nd Berlinale running from 09 to 19 February. Photo: Jens Kalaene dpa +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++

Get real

A typical day doesn't include five orgasms, 17 murders and a revolution, except at the Berlinale.
February 13, 2012
Meryl Streep in "The Iron Lady"

Lifetime of achievement

The Berlin International Film Festival honors Meryl Streep's career with an Honorary Golden Bear.
February 12, 2012

It's showtime

Berlin's Film Festival opened with a period drama set at the dawn of the French Revolution.
February 10, 2012
Berlinale 2012 opening

Lights, camera, action

The Berlin Film Festival gives film students a chance to see where their dreams could take them.
February 10, 2012
Actress Diane Kruger arrives on the red carpet for the opening ceremony of the Berlinale

Berlin's red carpet

Berlin's 62nd Film Festival started Thursday with a host of international movie titles making their world premier. Attracting record audiences, the competition will screen 400 titles over the next 10 days.
February 9, 2012
Still from Farewell My Queen FRA/ESP 2011 Regie: Benoït Jacquot Xavier Beauvois, Diane Kruger © Carole Bethuel

Lights, camera, action

The Bear awards are just a small part of the Berlinale, which shows some 400 films.
February 8, 2012
The festival press conference

In the frame

Organizers of the Berlinale announce this year's line-up for Germany's biggest film festival.
January 31, 2012
Posters for Berlinale 2012

February happenings

From film to Carnival, find out what's on deck this month in Germany.
January 30, 2012
Egyptians show their shoes to defy President Hosni Mubarak

No more fear

Cinema-goers look for explanations for the Arab World uprisings at Berlin's Arab film festival.
November 10, 2011
The Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival T-shirt

Human rights cinema

A dozen Asian films were shown at the 7. Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival.
October 7, 2011
Director Aleksandr Sokurov holds the Golden Lion for best film for Faust, during the award ceremony of the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. (Foto:Andrew Medichini/AP/dapd)

'Faust' wins

A film retelling the German tale of Faust has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
September 11, 2011