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“They gave up on me a long time ago,” filmmaker Richard Linklater joked this afternoon during a press conference in Berlin for his latest flick, Blue Moon.

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‘The Blue Trail’ Review: Warm Self-Realization And Dystopian Portent Collide In A Road Movie With A Twist – Berlin Film Festival

One of the many peculiarities of recent U.S. cultural trends is the “over-55 community,” gated havens for well-off retirees who embrace the idea of mono-generational living as an all-comforts interlude before Thanatos comes knocking. In Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail, a gentle blend of delayed self-realization fantasy and dystopian portent, the cut-off age is 77, which in a way is progress (think of Logan’s Run) and the move is involuntary, but resistance is not futile. Mascaro’s fourth feature can be considered a pair with his previous Divine Love, which also imagined a near-future controlled by a repressive state disguised as a caring Big Brother, but his latest is less deliciously elliptical than earlier films, privileging sensorial rewards that come from the natural world rather than the human body. Set aglow by the earthy force of Denise Weinberg as Tereza, a woman determined not to be put away, The Blue Trail posits a river trip as a path to freedom, and its unpreachy warmth, despite occasional lags in momentum, offers refreshing rewards.

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Alfredo Castro Starring ‘After Elena,’ by Shawn Garry, Boarded by Colombia’s Doc:Co (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Colombia’s Doc:Co is set to co-produce “After Elena,” headed by one of Latin America’s foremost of actors, Alfredo Castro, whose turns in Tony Manero, ‘No’ and ‘The Club’ helped Pablo Larraín lift off as an international filmmaker. Moved at Berlin by Gabriela Sandoval, who produced out of her label Cine Matriz and Storyboard Media, where she teams with Carlos Nuñez, “After Elena” also marks the the awaited sophomore feature of Chilean director-producer Shawn Garry after he impressed with his debut, festival hit “Desierto Sur.” Garry’s own label Creative Content also produces along with Italian co-producer Zoe Films, which was at Venice Days in 2024 with “Vittoria,” from directing duo Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman and co-produced by Nanni Moretti’s Sacher Film.

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Berlin’s Co-Pro Series Welcomes Skateboarders, Drug Kingpins and Fernando Meirelles

Marta Balaga Female-led shows, crime dramas and politically charged stories are still making their mark. “Anne of Green Gables” author Lucy Maud Montgomery will finally get the starry treatment worthy of her iconic characters in “Lucy. Maud.” Produced by Girls Productions, it’s created by Susan Coyne and presented at Berlinale’s Co-Pro Series.

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French Actor Ludivine Sagnier Welcomes Shooting Stars on Stage at Berlinale Palast

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor French actor Ludivine Sagnier, best known for “Swimming Pool” and “8 Women,” welcomed the European Shooting Stars – 10 up-and-coming European actors – on stage at the Berlinale Palast Monday. Sagnier was one of the jury members that selected the Shooting Stars, alongside Romanian director Radu Muntean, Swiss producer Amel Soudani, Swedish casting director Pauline Hansson and journalist Vuk Perović from Montenegro.

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‘Billionaire Island’’s Norwegian Location Frøya Voted Best European Filming Spot at the EUFCN Location Awards in Berlin

Annika Pham For the first time, Norway has scooped the coveted Jury Prize for Best Film Location at the European Film Commissions Network (EUFCN) Location Awards 2024, which was handed out in Berlin Feb. 17. The award was given out to the location Frøya and the Midgard Film Commission in central Norway, for the filming location of Netflix’s “Billionaire Island” produced by Rubicon.

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Berlinale Chief Tricia Tuttle on Reinvigorating the Festival, Getting Timothée Chalamet and Keeping Standing Ovations Very Demure: ‘Everyone I Know Cannot Stand the Clap-O-Meter’

Tricia Tuttle has already put her stamp on one of Europe’s biggest film festivals. When we meet in the middle of the 75th annual Berlin Film Festival, which so far has seen Robert Pattinson, Timothée Chalamet, Jessica Chastain and Jacob Elordi touch down in Germany, Tuttle shows no signs of sleep deprivation or slowing down.

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‘Anne of Green Gables’ Star Megan Follows to Play Its Author Lucy Maud Montgomery in Series ‘Lucy. Maud’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Marta Balaga Megan Follows is coming full circle: After breaking out as Anne Shirley in “Anne of Green Gables,” she will now play its author Lucy Maud Montgomery in upcoming series “Lucy. Maud.” “I’ve always been incredibly grateful to be introduced, as a young woman, to the power of a character who was a central figure in her own story. One thing I share with the writers [of the show] is that our lives were greatly influenced by Anne.

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Morrissey adds 22 dates to 2025 European tour

Morrissey has extended his upcoming 2025 solo tour, announcing 22 new dates across Europe. Find information and ticket details below.News of the first run of dates was shared earlier this month, when the former Smiths frontman and soloist began teasing fans, saying big news was on the way.

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Marion Cotillard Picture ‘The Ice Tower’ Heads To North America With Yellow Veil Pictures – Berlinale

EXCLUSIVE: Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired all North American rights for Lucile Hadžihalilović’s dark fairy tale The Ice Tower, following its buzzy world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.

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Brazil Builds on ‘Under Pressure’ Procedural Fever With ‘Suture’ Even if Exec Laments Gone Days of Long-Running Seasons

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor The raving success of Globoplay’s medical drama “Under Pressure” — which ran for five heavily acclaimed seasons between 2017 and 2022 — was bound to see Brazil firmly step into procedurals, and Amazon Prime Video’s “Suture” is proof of just that. The eight-episode series, selected as part of the Berlinale Series Market Selects, follows gifted medical student Ícaro (Humberto Morais) and surgeon Mancini (Claudia Abreu) as the duo is forced to work for a criminal organization as their underground medical support team.

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Marcelo Gomes Steps Into Television to Tackle HIV Epidemic in Brazil With HBO’s ‘Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically’

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Three decades into his career, lauded Brazilian director Marcelo Gomes (“Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures”) is finally stepping into television with the HBO/Max series “Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically.” The five-episode drama, based on the true story of a group of Brazilian flight attendants who set up a scheme to smuggle HIV treatment from the US in the 1980s, will have its first bow as part of this year’s Berlinale Series Market Selects. Set in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1980s, “Oxygen Masks Will (not) Drop Automatically” stars Johnny Massaro (“Hidden Truths”) as Nando, a gay flight attendant who, after being diagnosed with HIV at the height of the epidemic, begins smuggling the groundbreaking treatment AZT into his home country despite the drug not being yet approved by local health authorities.

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Brazil’s Gullane Steps Firmly Into Distribution With Gullane+, Lines Up Julio Andrade for Cao Hamburger’s ‘School Without Borders’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Top Brazilian production company Gullane Entretenimento is ramping up efforts to widen its scope through Gullane+, the company’s fast-growing distribution arm. Partners Fabiano and Caio Gullane will now focus on production, with Débora Ivanov taking over the distribution operation.

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Shout! Studios, Plaion Collar Family Mystery ‘Pet Investigators’ at EFM (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran Shout! Studios has acquired North American distribution rights to family adventure feature “Pet Investigators” from indie European distributor Plaion Pictures. The deal was negotiated by Shout! Studios’ executive VP Melissa Boag, Mark Balsam, Bruce Eisen of Eisen Law, and Steven Katz, Shout’s VP of business affairs, and film writer and producer Werner Kienberger of Plaion. Sola Media is selling remaining territories at Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM).

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‘Girls on Wire’ Review: Two Cousins Reunited on a Chinese Film Set Are Trapped in a Melodrama of Their Own Making

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Flying high in one of the world’s most male-dominated film industries, Chinese writer-director Vivian Qu follows up her acclaimed 2017 drama “Angels Wear White” with the Berlin-competing “Girls on Wires.” Focused on the uneasy reunion between two estranged cousins who team up to beat the cycle of drug abuse and debt that’s been dragging their family down for decades, this is ambitious, moral-minded cinema for a mainstream Chinese audience, and as such, it seems only fair to forgive the kind of hammy acting and manipulative melodrama Americans accept from Clint Eastwood and Tyler Perry movies. There’s something charmingly old-fashioned in the way this movie tries to move viewers, using flashbacks to memories between cutie-pie kiddos Fang Di and Tian Tian — who were raised almost like sisters in Chongqing — to ensure the adversity they face as adults produces the expected quantity of tears.

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‘Late Shift’ Review: Leonie Benesch Is Simply Marvelous As A Nurse On The Edge In Petra Volpe’s Urgent Medical Drama – Berlin Film Festival

An elderly woman dies, and her three adult sons cling to each other, weeping, before turning on the duty nurse. She hadn’t seen their mother once, they blurt to the doctor. It wouldn’t have made any difference; there is nothing Nurse Floria (Leonie Benesch) could have done to prevent a pulmonary embolism. But the nurse flinches. It’s true. There are just two of them on the late shift and a full ward of 26 patients: Even in Switzerland, which has arguably the best health service in the world, there are serious staff shortages. The dead woman was designated last on her round. Floria failed her.

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‘What Marielle Knows’ Review: A Young Girl Suddenly Acquires Telepathy In Frédéric Hambalek’s Amiable Comedy – Berlin Film Festival

It turns out Marielle knows a whole lot, far too much for her parents’ comfort. In fact, after suddenly developing telepathic abilities, Marielle knows everything her parents do and say, which needless to say isn’t exactly a welcome development, either for her or her mom and dad. In his sophomore feature What Marielle Knows, Frédéric Hambalek imagines just how awkward it would be for a “normal” middle-class couple whose lives are built upon little daily lies to cope with a child who calls them out on every hidden action and fib.

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Todd Haynes Talks Mark Ruffalo Collaboration, Making ‘Carol’ & Banned Film ‘Superstar’ — Berlin

During a talk held in Berlin‘s Hebbel am Ufer theater, Berlinale jury president Todd Haynes shed light on how his filmmaking craft evolved from Superstar and Safe to Carol, as well as how Mark Ruffalo brought him a career-changing script.

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‘What Marielle Knew’ Review: What Would You Do If Your Daughter Could Suddenly Read Your Mind?

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic It all starts with a slap. After getting into a fight at school, Marielle (Laeni Geiseler) spontaneously develops the capacity to eavesdrop on her parents’ lives.

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Berlin Film Festival Day 5 Recap: SPC Snags Jodie Foster Starrer ‘Vie Privée,’ Plan B’s Dede Gardner on Living in L.A., Making ‘Mickey 17’ and ‘Nickel Boys’

William Earl Sales activity at the Berlin Film Festival and European Film Market revved up on Saturday as Sony Pictures Classics struck a deal for North American rights to Rebecca Zlotowski’s murder mystery “Vie Privée,” starring Jodie Foster. Variety‘s Elsa Keslassy had the scoop on SPC’s deal for the film, which also covers key territories in Latin America.

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New German Series at Berlin Explore Nazi Drug Cartel Connection, Parallel Lives, Teen Angst, Alter Egos

Ed Meza @edmezavar Upcoming German series previewed at the EFM’s Berlinale Series Market on Tuesday offered a range of genres and challenging subject matter, from Nazi drug runners and quirky fantasy to teen angst and alter egos. The Berlinale Series Market’s Up Next: Germany showcase presented four new series projects that look certain to entice international audiences.

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