European Cinema

15/02/2026 – BERLINALE 2026: Anke Blondé follows the last 36 hours of freedom of two Flemish tech entrepreneurs on the verge of being arrested at the dawn of the 21st century Thibaud Dooms and Arieh Worthalter in Dust Discovered in 2019 with her first feature film The Best of Dorien B [+see also: film reviewtrailerinterview: Anke Blondéfilm profile]. [+see […]

Society has a lot to say about motherhood and chances are that if you’re a new mother, everyone around you will make their opinions known, assessing your small successes and big failures with discomforting ease. This is the kind of scenario Filiz (Bige Önal), the protagonist of Turkish director Emine Emel Balcı’s sophomore feature I’m

This weekend brings us two different blood-soaked horror movies with anti-capitalist themes, minimal casts, and claustrophobic settings. Buckle up, gentle readers — it’s time for a double feature! Iron Lung comes to us from Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach, a YouTuber known for playing and reacting to various video games. (He was one of many YouTube personalities

There is a particular kind of weight that comes with the name Paul McCartney. For many of us, his melodies are not just songs; they are the architectural blueprints of our musical understanding. As an avid singer-songwriter myself, I have spent countless hours hunched over an acoustic guitar, trying to deconstruct the effortless genius of

Day 3 of the Valladolid Lab centred on smart use of AI as well addressing concerns around the ethical. Following several presentations on how AI can help with efficiency to enhance the creative and strategic work cinemas do, participants worked in groups with AI to test drive its utility and limitations. And while technology may

Entertainment Film Distributors (EFD Films)next month will take us into the magical world of Enid Blyton with The Magic Faraway Tree. Today we have another look at the film with a new UK Trailer and the countryside beckons… This family fantasy is based around Blyton’s book of the same name starring Andrew Garfield and Claire

In this week’s episode of The Screen Podcast, film financiers Alexandra Lebret of the Together Fund and Andrea Scarso of IPR.VC share their insights on investing in projects, slates and production companies. Watch above or listen below. To download or subscribe to future episodes, search for ‘The Screen Podcast’, which is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud and YouTube.

BERLIN: Ştefan Bradea and Monica Felea of Bad Unicorn (Romania) will be presented with the European Film Market Distribution Award at the EFM kick-off event on 11 February 2026. Based in Bucharest, Bad Unicorn is a nine years old distribution outlet with a portfolio of over 60 titles and 900,000 admissions to date. „Nine years

10/02/2026 – We preview what is sure to be another starry and political edition of the festival, and recommend our own highlights from the line-up Rosebush Pruning by Karim Aïnouz It’s another year around the sun for the Berlinale, just as the German capital has recorded its coldest January in over 15 years, so wrap

In Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, editing is used to make Batman (Christian Bale) vanish on command. In The Dark Knight (2008), Batman talks with Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) and Police Commissioner James Gordon (Gary Oldman) on a rooftop; the camera stays on Dent as he turns his head mid-conversation, and the next cut shows him facing