The Oldenburg International Film Festival, often dubbed Germany’s Sundance, will this year pay tribute to one of the country’s most revered filmmakers, Dominik Graf, with a special retrospective. The 31st edition of the festival, running from Sept. 11 to 15, will spotlight Graf’s prolific career, as one of Germany’s few masters in genre filmmaking. Graf, …
For U.S. fans of Babylon Berlin the wait is finally over. The epic, ground-breaking German series, a noirish crime drama set during the Weimar Republic, was unceremoniously dropped by Netflix, which had been streaming the show stateside, after three seasons. Season 4 premiered in Europe in late 2022 but American viewers had to wait until …
The 30th Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg (JFFB), Germany’s largest Jewish film fest, unveiled this year’s award winners at a gala ceremony in Berlin on Thursday night. The top prize, the Gershon-Klein award for best feature film went to Salty Water (Südsee), an Israel-set drama by German filmmaker Henrika Kull. Vishniac from U.S. director Laura …