Berlinale

Berlin kicks off international film festival in person as virus wave peaks

Big-name filmmakers and stars are awaited in Berlin for one of Europe's largest film festivals, as Germany posts more than 150,000 new Covid-19 cases per day.

#MeToo movement front and centre at Berlin film fest

Only six of 18 competition films are directed by women, yet according to Delphyne Besse from the pro-parity "50/50 for 2020" collective, Berlin is the film festival "which does the most" to ensure female representation.

The Silence of Others: “The past is never the past”

For the filmmakers, this 95-minute documentary is an attempt to be able to deal with the ghosts of the past, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain with an iron fist, engaging in violence and crimes against humanity.

South Korean actress once kidnapped to North dies at 91

Choi Eun-hee was the South's most famous actress for decades before being brazenly abducted in 1978 by North Korean spies in Hong Kong at the request of the North's then leader-in-waiting Kim Jong Il, an avid film fan.