Berlin honours S Korean director
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South Korean film director Im Kwon-Taek receives an honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
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A newly restored and uncut version of Michael Cimino's epic 1980 western, the financially disastrous "Heaven's Gate," will screen at the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb. 10-20), organizers said Thursday.
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Paruthiveeran, by Ameer Sulthan, was honoured with a "special mention" from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) at the 58th Berlin International film festival.
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Madonna's debut movie as a director will have its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
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COLOGNE, Germany  - The Oscar-winning director of the German film "The Lives of Others" has supported Tom Cruise's bid to play a would-be Hitler assassin in the movie "Valkyrie."
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SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain - Chinese director Xu Jinglei on Saturday took the Best Director prize at the 52nd San Sebastian Film Festival for her touching movie, Letters From An Unknown Woman.
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Berlin won the right to host the 2009  world athletics championships on Saturday.
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COLOGNE, Germany  - Organizers of the  Berlin International Film Festival and the world's largest  publishing mart, the Frankfurt Book Fair, said Thursday they  will host an industry gathering at next year's festival aimed  at bringing together filmmakers with authors, literary agents  and publishers.
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Martin Scorsese's documentary on veteran British rock band the Rolling Stones will open the Berlin Film Festival this year, organizers said on Tuesday, with the Oscar-winning director and the band making an appearance.
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The top German envoy to Seoul on Sunday said the Frankfurt Book Fair in October this year will serve as an important opportunity for South Korea to present itself to Germany and Europe, noting that it is the ...
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The two most overtly political movies in  competition at this year's Berlin Film Festival won the top  prizes, surprising some critics who had questioned their  message and methods.
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The Elite Squad, the story of corrupt police in Brazil, wins the main prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Willy Tsao, the artistic director of the Beijing LDTX Modern Dance Company, has started or directed no fewer than four dance companies in his native Hong Kong and China.
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A 31-year-old South Korean, Shi-Yeon Sung, has become the first woman to win the prestigious Sir Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition, held here every two years.
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A film about the prisoner abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq will become the first documentary to enter the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival when it is shown next month, Agence France-Presse reported. Made by the Oscar-winning director Errol Morris (âThe Fog of Warâ), above, the documentary, âStandard Operating Procedure,â uses film, re-enactments and photographs that were published around the world to shed light on the treatment of inmates. Twenty-one films will vie for awards during the 58th Berlin film festival, running Feb. 7-17.
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Chinese movie "Tuya's Marriage", which explores the environmental and human cost of the country's rapid economic growth through the lives of Mongolian herders, won the Berlin film festival's top honor on Saturday.
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Chinese entry "Tuya's Marriage," about a  woman who struggles to support her family on the wind-swept  steppes of Inner Mongolia, won the Berlin film festival's top  honor on Saturday.