Berlin 2019

Canada made big waves at this year’s Berlinale (February 7 to 17, 2019), with awards, screenings, premieres, and more. Here’s your recap of the festival’s highlights, complete with video reports featuring the filmmakers themselves. And the award goes to… Canadians are flying home with awards tucked in their suitcases this year, with two Crystal Bears…

Director Genevieve Dulude-De Celles drew on her own experiences as an awkward teen in small-town Canada for her feature debut.

Screen previews the Competition and Out of Competition titles from this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.

Michael Melski’s Canadian horror film — starring Canadian actor Suzanne Clement and set in a haunted maternity home — has won 16 best feature prizes on the festival circuit and found a home in North America with Uncork’d Entertainment.

Christa Dickenson discusses facilitating international co-productions, investing in local talent and the significance of backing ‘The Kindness of Strangers’: “It’s great for our culture and for the growth and the sustainability of the cinematic industry.”

Big news! Opening the Berlin International Film Festival will be: Lone Scherfig’s The Kindness of Strangers: a Canadian coproduction with Denmark-Sweden, Germany, and France. On February 7, 2019, the ensemble drama will make its world premiere by opening the 69th annual Berlinale, which takes place from February 7 to 17, 2019. Directed by renowned Danish…

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open and Genevieve Dulude-De Celles’ debut feature Une colonie (“A Colony”) have been added to Berlin International Film Festival’s 2018 Generation program.