Festivals: Berlin / EFM
Berlinale 2026 Review: MOSCAS, Outsiders Search for Connection in Mexico City
Director Fernando Eimbcke's new film stars Teresita Sánchez, Bastian Escobar, and Hugo Ramírez.
Berlinale 2026 Review: SLEEP NO MORE, Horror in an Indonesian Sweatshop
Director Edwin's film stars Rachel Amanda, Lutesha, Iqbaal Ramadhan, Didik Nini Thowok, and Sal Priadi.
Berlinale 2026 Review: WE ARE ALL STRANGERS, Winning Generational Drama Set in Singapore
Writer/director Anthony Chen's film stars Yeo Yann Yann, Koh Jia Ler, Andi Lim, and Regene Lim.
Berlinale 2026 Interview: IN A WHISPER Director-Writer Leyla Bouzid on Queerness and Her Narrative Approach as a Tunisian Filmmaker
As a Tunisian queer filmmaker, one must exercise particular care when addressing an issue that remains deeply taboo in society to this day. Yet this does not prevent Leyla Bouzid from boldly portraying the increasingly precarious reality faced by homosexual...
Berlinale 2026 Review: LIGHT PILLAR Casts a Melancholic Glow on Disconnection
In his animated feature debut, Zao Xu applies a production designer's precision to a near future fable that examines precarious labor, mediated intimacy and the fragile architectures, both physical and digital, that shape contemporary isolation.
Berlinale 2026 Interview: QUEEN AT SEA Director Lance Hammer on the Ethical Dilemma of Alzheimer's
After an 18-year hiatus, Lance Hammer makes a remarkable return to the director’s chair following his Sundance Award–winning debut Ballast. For this long-awaited project, he assembled what he describes as his dream cast, led by Juliette Binoche and the outstanding...
Berlinale 2026 Review: IN A WHISPER (À VOIX BASSE) Unearths the Queer Stigma in a Tunisian Family and Beyond
Eya Bouteraa, Hiam Abbass, and Salma Baccar form a familial portrait across three generations confronted with an unspoken secret.
Berlinale 2026 Review: FOREST HIGH (FORÊT IVRE), Life in an Alpine Hut
Forest High (orig. Forêt Ivre) takes place almost entirely in and around a hut in the Swiss mountains. Subtitled Three Stories, director Manon Coubia's film follows three volunteers who work there over four seasons. Officially the Refuge d'Ubine des Amis...
Berlinale 2026 Review: A CHILD OF MY OWN (UN HIJO PROPIO), Documentary Reenacts a Kidnapping
Based on a notorious crime in Mexico, A Child of My Own (Orig. Un hijo propio) examines how and why a nurse kidnapped a baby for her own. As she did in The Mole Agent, director Maite Alberdi mixes fact and fiction...
Berlinale 2026 Review: SOUMSOUM, THE NIGHT OF THE STARS, Romanticised Fable for the Tainted Dead in Chad's Immense Desert
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun tells a poetic yet haunting story of life and death driven by female agency.
Berlinale 2026 Review: LALI, Newlyweds Confront Demons in Pakistani Drama
The lavish wedding ceremony keeps hitting snags, especially when future mother-in-law Sohni Ammi (Farazeh Syed) is accidentally shot in the leg during a fireworks celebration. It's just another sign of the bad luck that dogs bride Zeba (Mamya Shajaffar), an...
Berlinale 2026 Review: YELLOW LETTERS, Golden Bear Winner Traces an Artist Couple Caught in Political Turmoil
Özgü Namal and Tansu Biçer star in İlker Çatak's portrait of a pair ensnared in political turmoil in Turkey.
Berlinale 2026 Review: FOUR MINUS THREE, Grief Drama Navigates Loss and Mourning Through Clowning
Valerie Pachner stars, as Austrian filmmaker Adrian Goiginger continues his cycle of true story adaptations with an emotional rollercoaster of a grief drama.
BLIND COP 2 Exclusive: Chroma Picks up North American Rights to Indie Action-Comedy
When an influx of illegal weapons trafficking explodes onto the scene, a grieving blind police officer must purge the city streets or risk mass chaos breaking loose.
IZZI: ORPHAN's Isabelle Fuhrman And GotG's Michael Rooker to Star in Possession Thriller
Here is another one to place on your radar, an upcoming possession thriller called Izzi. Deadline is reporting that sales have launched at EFM for the flick that is set to star Isabelle Fuhrman, from the Orphan franchise, and Michael...
Berlinale 2026: Exclusive IVAN & HADOUM Poster Premiere
Spanish filmmaker Ian de la Rosa will unveil his debut feature Iván & Hadoum in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival. Set against the stark, plastic-covered greenhouses of Almería, the film traces a love story that unfolds...
ASCENDANT: Uncharted Boards Sales For Cult Horror Thriller Starring Richard Brake
With Berlin/EFM only days away announcements of sales partnerships are coming in hot and fast. News comes from Uncharted Entertainment as they have joined cult horror thriller Ascendant as their intenational sales agent. This new flick is currently is...
IN A VIOLENT NATURE 2: Paris Sales Group Charades to Take Slasher Horror Sequel to EFM
Variety has reported this morning that French sales outfit Charades has come on board the slasher horror sequel, In A Violent Nature 2, and will present it to buyers during EFM in Berlin. The sequel ... brings back Ry...
Berlinale 2026: Exclusive THE RIVER TRAIN Poster Premiere
An austere yet intuitive debut, the film observes childhood not as innocence lost but as a state of restless transit, where movement, solitude, and imagination quietly collide.
PSYCHONAUT Trailer: Fizz-e-Motion Boards Sci-fi Thriller For Sales at Berlinale/EFM
Fizz-e-Motion has come on board as the sales agent for science-fiction thriller Psychonaut, starring Fiona Dourif (Chucky, "The Pitt").
