All articles by Martin Blaney
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NewsThessaloniki’s Agora industry programme unveils documentary winners
Debut feature docs dominated the prizes.
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NewsInternational Documentary Association opens pilot programme to assist filmmakers at risk
The aim is to assist filmmakers whose work puts them in imminent physical danger.
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NewsFlorian Hoffmeister, Gözde Kural projects among 2026 Sofia Meetings selection
Projects in development and works in progress will be showcased at the Bulgarian event.
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NewsTaskovski Films picks up sales for CPH:DOX and Thessaloniki premieres
UK-based sales company boards Jens Schanze’s Materia Prima and Tomáš Krupa’s We Have To Survive.
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News“We have a clear decision, clear guidelines and clear guardrails,” says culture minister of Berlinale decision
Wolfram Weimer has given details of the conditions of the agreement reached with Tricia Tuttle to stay at the Berlinale.
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News‘Yellow Letters’ wins Berlinale’s Golden Bear as politics dominate closing ceremony
Other winners included Salvation by Emin Alper, Lance Hammer’s Queen At Sea and Sandra Huller for Rose.
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NewsGerman-Israeli Co-Production Fund launched in Berlin
It will be open to “established and emerging talents” from both countries.
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NewsThessaloniki’s Agora market, European Film Academy launch documentary think tank
The festival’s industry programme is collaborating with the Basque Audiovisual Office.
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NewsBulgaria boosts project cap on tax rebate
Productions can receive a 25% cash rebate on eligible expenses up to €5m.
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News“Chips” Hardy to write ‘The English Warrior’ for Swiss-UK outfit Jovera Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: “Chips” Hardy is the screenwriter father of Tom Hardy.
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NewsBartosz Bielenia to star in Belarus political drama ‘Legacy’ for German outfit Tamtam Films
Tamtam is also the German minority partner on Danish historical drama ‘The Closed Book’.
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NewsZentropa appoints new managing director to lead German operations
Producer Solmaz Azizi will succeed Fabian Gasmia from September 1
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NewsGermany to introduce 8% streaming levy to boost local content
The investment obligation could take effect as early as April.
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NewsSiddiq Barmak’s ‘The Postman’ begins shoot in Kurdistan
Set in Kabul in 1992, Barmak’s screenplay tells the story of an ordinary man, postman Amir, played by the Iraqi-Kurdish actor-director Hussein Hassan Ali.
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NewsBerlinale looking for new partners to beat funding shortfall in 2027 and 2028, says festival director
“We are not sitting back and waiting for you to hand us money,” Tricia Tuttle told the Berlin senate committee.
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NewsDorota Lech named festival director of Poland’s New Horizons
The experienced Lech joins from the Toronto film festival, where she has been a programmer since 2013.
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NewsBerlinale’s Tricia Tuttle tells German government the festival has responsibility to “not shut down debate”
Tuttle was talking to the German Bundestag’s Culture Committee on January 14.
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NewsGerman government launches €7.5m production fund for up-and-coming filmmakers
It will provide up to €500,000 for individual projects with production costs not exceeding €2m.
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NewsGermany’s €15bn voluntary investment from streamers faces industry scepticism
The German industry has been pushing for a legally binding investment obligation.
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NewsGerman film industry pushes for local content quotas on streamers to be made compulsory
The government has plans to make the quotas voluntary, which the industry says will not benefit the local sector.