One of the strengths of German cinema is its diversity, says Simone Baumann, managing director of the national film promotion agency German Films. As well as the three films at Toronto directed by ...

Beyond a story as such (as the title suggests), this is a sensitive portrait of refusal — refusal of otherness by a predominantly white heteronormative society; refusal of the state’s normalizing, ...

Cinemas in a number of German states are set to reopen in May after being shuttered since mid-March due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but the decision has led to complications for theater ...

Cinemas in Germany attracted fewer people to the big screen in the first half of the year, according to ticket sale figures released on Thursday by the German Federal Film Board (FFA). Around 41.9 ...

The Nazis knew the power of cinema beyond blunt-edged propaganda. Incongruous as it seems, a kind of Third Reich dream factory produced scores of frothy musicals and comedies among more than 1,000 ...

Germany will close cinemas, along with restaurants, bars, clubs, and concert halls, to fight rising rates of coronavirus infection. The measures, announced by Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, ...

Germany’s culture minister Wolfram Weimer has launched a new fund for German cinemas that give prominence to German, European and artistically ambitious films. Called “Liebling Kino”, the funding ...

Efficiency is thought to be one of the core German values so perhaps it was no surprise that the press conference to omnibus film “Germany 09” was the most efficient of this year’s Berlinale. By Scott ...

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HDF Kino, Germany’s largest cinema association, has called for a reduction to the 1.5M social distancing measures in cinemas to ensure that exhibitors “survive” the COVID crisis. The organization, ...

Germany’s largest organization of cinema operators, HDF Kino, has issued a statement weighing in on the controversy swirling around Disney’s decision to put Mulan directing onto Disney+ in major ...