75th Berlin International Film Festival
The 75th annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale, took place between 13 and 23 February 2025 in Berlin, Germany. American filmmaker Todd Haynes was named the Jury President for the main competition. It marked the first edition of Tricia Tuttle as the festival's artistic director after Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek stepped down after the 2024 edition. ''Dreams (Sex Love)'' directed by Dag Johan Haugerud won the Golden Bear. The Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize was awarded to ''The Blue Trail'' by Gabriel Mascaro. While the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance was awarded to Rose Byrne for ''If I Had Legs I'd Kick You.'' The festival opened with German drama film ''The Light (2025 film), The Light'' by Tom Tykwer. During the opening ceremony, British actress Tilda Swinton was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear. Juries Main Competition * Todd Haynes, American filmmaker – Jury President * Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress * Maria Schrader, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Light (2025 Film)
''The Light'' () is a 2025 drama film written, directed by Tom Tykwer, and starring Lars Eidinger and Nicolette Krebitz depicts everyday life of a middle-class family in a world that has become unstable. The German-French co-production also have Elke Biesendorfer, Julius Gause and Elyas Eldridge in pivotal roles. The film premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival in Special Gala section on 13 February 2025. It will be released on 20 March 2025 in German theatres by X Verleih. Synopsis Tim and Milena share a household with their twins, Frieda and Jon, along with Milena's son, Dio. Living under one roof, the family exists more as individuals than as a family, bound by little more than circumstance. Their fragile life is disrupted when Farrah, a mysterious housekeeper from Syria, enters their lives. Her presence challenges the Engels in unexpected ways, uncovering long-buried emotions and hidden truths. However, Farrah has her own secret agenda, one that promises to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rose Byrne
Mary Rose Byrne (born 24 July 1979) is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut in the film ''Dallas Doll'' (1994), and continued to act in Australian film and television throughout the 1990s. She obtained her first leading film role in ''The Goddess of 1967'' (2000), which brought her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and made the transition to Hollywood in the small role of Dormé in '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' (2002), followed by larger parts in ''Troy'' (2004), '' 28 Weeks Later'' (2007), and '' Knowing'' (2009). Byrne appeared as Ellen Parsons in the legal thriller series ''Damages'' (2007–2012), which earned her two Golden Globe Awards nominations and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. ''Get Him to the Greek'' (2010) and ''Bridesmaids'' (2011) established her as a comedic actress, in addition to the dramas and thrillers in which she continues to appear. She has since starred in a number of commercially successful comedies and dramas, i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. The site is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. Finke was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times'' as being worth "millions of dollars", as well as p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Meryam Joobeur
Meryam Joobeur is a Tunisian Canadian film director."Portrait de Regard: Meryam Joobeur" '''', March 16, 2019. She is most noted for her 2018 short film '' (Ikhwène)'', which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amy Nicholson
Amy is a female given name, sometimes short for Amanda, Amelia, Amélie, or Amita. In French, the name is spelled ''"Aimée"''. People A–E * Amy Acker (born 1976), American actress * Amy Vera Ackman, also known as Mother Giovanni (1886–1966), Australian hospital administrator * Amy Adams (born 1974), American actress * Amy Alcott (born 1956) – American Hall of Fame golfer * Amy Archer-Gilligan, (1873–1962), American serial killer * Amy Beach (1867–1944), American composer and pianist * Amy Birnbaum (born 1975), American voice actress * Amy Bishop (born 1965), American professor and mass shooter * Amy Braverman, American statistician * Amy Brenneman (born 1964), American actress * Amy Bruckner (born 1991), American actress and singer * Amy Callaghan (born 1992), British politician * Amy Carmichael (1867–1951), British missionary to India * Amy Castle (born 1990), American actress and internet personality * Amy Cimorelli (born 1995), American singer * Amy Carter (born 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bina Daigeler
Bina Daigeler is a German costume designer. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Costume Design for ''Mulan''. Selected filmography * ''All About My Mother'' (1999) * ''Volver'' (2006) * ''Only Lovers Left Alive'' (2013) * ''Out of the Dark'' (2014) * '' Hitman: Agent 47'' (2015) * ''Manifesto'' (2015) * ''Hands of Stone'' (2016) * ''Snowden'' (2016) * ''The Zookeeper's Wife'' (2017) * '' Submergence'' (2017) * ''Entebbe'' (2018) * '' Dumplin''' (2018) * ''Mulan'' (2020) * ''Tár'' (2022) * '' The Mother'' (2023) * ''Fingernails'' (2023) * ''Mother Mary Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother o ...'' (TBA) References External links * Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) German co ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nabil Ayouch
Nabil Ayouch (born 1 April 1969) is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival. Early life He was born in 1969 in Paris, to a Moroccan father, and a French mother of Tunisian-Jewish descent. His brother is fellow director Hicham Ayouch. After the divorce of his parents, he spent a large part of his childhood in the suburb of Sarcelles, visiting Casablanca in the summers. Ayouch cites discovering international cinema at the local cultural centre, Forum des Cholettes, as inspiring his filmmaking career. Film career Ayouch started his career as a scriptwriter and director with the advertising agency Euro-RSCG. In 1992, he directed ''Les Pierres bleues du désert'', a first short film with Jamel Debbouze which tells the history of a young man convinced that there are large blue stones in the desert. In 1993, he ended up settlin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rodrigo Moreno
Rodrigo Moreno (born October 1972 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director and screenplay writer. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina. According to Joel Poblete, who writes for ''Mabuse,'' a cinema magazine, Rodrigo Moreno is one of the members of the so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c. 1998. Biography Moreno studied cinema and graduated from the directing program at the ''Universidad del Cine'', Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has been teaching directing and screenplay writing since 1996. Many of his films have been critically hailed at various international film festivals. In 1993, he wrote and directed his first short film, ''Nosotros,'' which won best film at the Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films.Poblete, Joel. Ibid. His 2006 film, his first film feature he directs alone, is ''The Minder'' ( es, El Custodio). His 2011 film ''A Mysterious World'' premiered In Competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maria Schrader
Maria Schrader (born 27 September 1965) is a German actress, screenwriter, and director. She directed the award-winning 2007 film ''Love Life'' and the 2020 Netflix miniseries '' Unorthodox'', for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. She also starred in the German international hit TV series ''Deutschland 83'' (2015), known for being the first German-language series broadcast on US television. Early life and career Schrader was born in Hanover and studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Austria. She is especially well known from the film '' Aimée & Jaguar'', as well as the acclaimed ''Liebesleben'' ("Love life") that she wrote, produced, and in which she acted. She has also written other films: ''RobbyKallePaul''; ''I Was on Mars''; ''Stille Nacht'' and '' Meschugge''. She co-directed ''I Was on Mars'' with Dani Levy, whom she dated until 1999. Schrader was part of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fan Bingbing
Fan Bingbing (, born 16 September 1981) is a Chinese actress. From 2013 to 2017, she was included as the highest-paid celebrity in the '' Forbes'' China Celebrity 100 list after ranking in the top 10 every year since 2006. She appeared on ''Time'' magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in 2017. Fan's early work was in East Asian cinema and television, notably appearing in drama series '' My Fair Princess'' (1998–1999). Her breakthrough came with the film ''Cell Phone'' (2003) which was China's highest-grossing film of the year. She went on to star in several Chinese films, which include '' Lost in Beijing'' (2007), '' Buddha Mountain'' (2011) and '' Double Xposure'' (2012). For headlining the film '' I Am Not Madame Bovary'' (2016), Fan won awards from the Golden Horse Film Festival, the Tokyo International Film Festival, the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Golden Rooster Awards. Her foreign film roles include the French film '' Stretch'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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International Jury Of Berlinale 2025
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Todd Haynes MFF 2023
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