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Juliette Binoche, Pedro Almodovar sign petition supporting ‘My Favourite Cake’ filmmakers facing trial in Iran
Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha are accused of “propaganda against the regime”.
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Go2Films acquires sales rights to Tom Shoval’s Israeli hostage documentary ‘A Letter To David’ (exclusive)
Doc is a “multi-layered cinematic letter” to Shoval’s friend David Cunio who was taken hostage by Hamas with his brother Ariel.
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Hong Sangsoo’s ‘What Does That Nature Say To You’ lands distribution deals including France
The film, which played in Competition at Berlin, also sold to Italy, Spain, Taiwan and Greece.
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‘Sandbag Dam’ scores US and European deals after Berlinale Generation 14plus premiere (exclusive)
Sold by Open Reel, Croatian director Čejen Černić Čanak’s film is a story of forbidden love.
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WestEnd secures back catalogue titles including ‘The Childhood Of A Leader’ (exclusive)
WestEnd will represent the titles for re-issue and new licenses in all languages and territories.
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Cinema Guild buys Hong Sangsoo’s Berlin premiere ‘What Does That Nature Say To You’
Filmmaker’s 33rd feature scored 2.7 on Screen’s Berlin jury grid.
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Berlinale 2025 breaks all-time ticket sales record
“The spirit was high and with this energy we are already planning for 2026,” says Tricia Tuttle.
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‘The Blue Trail’ tops Berlin jury grid; solid scores for Sangsoo latest, ‘Timestamp’ doc
Lionel Baier’s ‘The Safe House’ rounded off the final scores on the grid.
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‘Dreams (Sex Love)’ wins Golden Bear at Berlinale
Other winners included Gabriel Mascaro’s ’The Blue Trail’ and Ivan Fund’s ’The Message’.
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European buyers snap up Radu Jude’s ‘Kontinental ’25’ after Berlin competition premiere (exclusive)
Sales for Romanian writer-director’s social satire are handled by Paris-based Luxbox.
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‘Kontinental ‘25’ makes strong debut on Berlin jury grid; decent showing for ‘Dreams (Sex Love)’
There were also middling scores for ‘Mother’s baby’ and ‘Yunan’.
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Mind-reading comedy ‘What Marielle Knows’ sells widely after Berlin competition bow (exclusive)
Frédéric Hambalek’s dark comedy is sold by recently-launched Paris-based sales company Lucky Number.
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Sibling drama ‘The Good Sister’ scores key sales following Berlinale Panorama premiere (exclusive)
Sarah Miro Fischer’s debut feature sells to buyers including Memento Distribution for France.
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Ukrainian soldier in Berlin competition doc ‘Timestamp’ responds to Trump remarks: “Only way is to win this war”
Boris Khovriak is a protagonist of Competition title ‘Timestamp’.
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Berlinale 2025 ticket sales up 5% at midway point; EFM attendees remain level
Timothee Chalamet, Robert Pattinson, Jacob Elordi among stars to have attended.
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Italy’s Minerva Pictures unveils raft of EFM deals
Italian sales agent scored a raft of sales at this year’s market on titles including Finnish survival thriller Ice Skater.
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Hanna Schygulla takes aim at nationalism, AfD: “It has always brought misery”
“We have the worst people in charge of the world,” says Schygulla.
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‘Blue Moon’, ‘If I Had Legs…’, ‘The Message’ divide critics on Berlin jury grid
‘Girls On Wire’ and ‘What Marielle Knows’ also landed on the grid.
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Germany’s One Two Films takes a leap forward with Berlin titles ‘Köln 75’ and ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’
One Two’s Sol Bondy and Fred Burle on building a world cinema-focused production company.
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Benedict Cumberbatch on producing plans, going against “alpha male machismo” in ‘The Thing With Feathers’
The UK drama screens at Berlin as a Special Gala.