A spoof advert featuring Hitler being run over by a Mercedes, which went viral online, has won a German film award. The car firm distanced itself from the piece, yet is a leading sponsor of the award it won.
The gravel-voiced German actor Otto Sander who appeared in international arthouse hits such as "Das Boot" and "Wings of Desire" died on Thursday aged 72, his agent said.
Berlin's answer to Hollywood's Walk of Fame is a sorry sight. No more stars will be added for now to the fading, chipped and sad-looking boulevard, while councillors scramble for a way to tart it up.
Austria Unchained? The Alpine nation is proudly independent, but that's not stopping Germany from claiming a two-time Oscar winner as one of its own. And that is enough to make the actor Christoph Waltz The Local's German of the Week.
Iran has protested against the awarding of a Silver Bear to Jafar Panahi for his film "Closed Curtain" (<i>Parde</i>) at the 63rd Berlin film festival, the ISNA news agency reported.
The late River Phoenix made a haunting reappearance on the big screen this week, as the last movie to feature the acclaimed US star was presented at the Berlin film festival two decades after he made the picture. AFP's Deborah Cole reports.
French film-maker and producer Claude Lanzmann, renowned for his groundbreaking 1985 documentary on the Holocaust "Shoah", will accept a lifetime achievement award at the 63rd Berlin film festival Thursday.
The Berlinale this week premiered the latest film by banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi, a haunting lament about crushing state oppression and a tribute to the resilience of the creative drive. AFP's Deborah Cole reports.
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy said they feel like they've grown up with their slow-burn romantic trilogy after the latest instalment, "Before Midnight", charmed the Berlinale Monday, and that they're mulling a fourth film. AFP's Deborah Cole reports.
Matt Damon has defended his new anti-fracking feature "Promised Land," after Friday's Berlinale premiere drew poor reviews, crushing hopes that the film, which bombed in the US, would find a better reception in Europe.
One of the most anticipated documentaries set to debut at this year's Berlinale looks at the notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay. The Local's David Landes spoke with Swedish director Simon Klose.
The 63rd Berlin film festival got off to a fists-flying start Thursday with Chinese director Wong Kar Wai's lush martial arts epic about the mentor of kung fu superstar Bruce Lee.
Steven Soderbergh's "last" movie, a battle of French screen icons and daring looks at homosexuality in the Catholic Church will vie for gold at the Berlin film festival starting on Thursday.
Next month's 63rd Berlin film festival will comb through the 'collateral damage' of the global economic crisis with Hollywood movies and independent releases vying for prizes, organisers said on Monday.
Around 3,500 men queued up in the wintry weather outside Berlin this weekend for the chance to appear as a soldier in George Clooney's latest movie The Monuments Men.
German-Austrian actor Christoph Waltz won a Golden Globe award on Sunday evening, walking away with honour of best supporting actor for his role in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.
New releases starring Jude Law and Catherine Deneuve and the world premiere of a picture by embattled Iranian director Jafar Panahi joined the line-up Friday for next month's 63rd Berlin film festival.
German-born actress Nastassja Kinski said Friday she was proud of her half-sister Pola for coming forward with allegations that she had been repeatedly raped by their father, the late film icon Klaus Kinski.
A Berlin museum will on Thursday open what it called the first exhibition worldwide dedicated to the work of veteran US film-maker Martin Scorsese, who opened his vast archive for the show.
Pola Kinski, daughter of legendary German actor Klaus Kinski, has told a German magazine that she was sexually abused by her father over 14 years from the age of five.
After starring in a hugely popular cinematic dance number, Claudia Ciesla has become India's newest sex symbol. But how did a German model steal the show in Bollywood? She talks to The Local's Sonia Phalnikar in Mumbai.
A German amateur mountain climber and J.R.R. Tolkien fan was killed climbing a New Zealand mountain used as a set in Peter Jackson's new hit film The Hobbit, it was reported Thursday.
Legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog is taking a rare turn in front of the camera as a cold-blooded murderer in a new Tom Cruise thriller, portraying a character he calls "the epicentre of evil."
An anti-fracking drama by US director Gus Van Sant starring Matt Damon is to be among the films entered in the competition at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival, organisers revealed on Thursday.
