https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The Berlin film festival on Saturday awarded its best acting award to nine-year-old Spanish girl Sofía Otero for her performance in "20,000 Species of Bees", the youngest person ever to win the prize. https://www.thelocal.de/20230226/french-documentary-spanish-girl-clinch-top-prizes-at-berlinale Sun, 26 Feb 2023 10:30:04 +0100 french-documentary-spanish-girl-clinch-top-prizes-at-berlinale The directors of Netflix documentary "Two Catalonias" said Tuesday they had returned a German award because the involvement of Catalonia's former president Carles Puigdemont in the ceremony had "politicized" the "neutral" spirit of their work. https://www.thelocal.de/20190213/directors-of-netflix-catalonia-documentary-return-award Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:36:54 +0100 directors-of-netflix-catalonia-documentary-return-award British cinema group Vue International this week announced the acquisition of Cinestar’s 57 premium multiplex sites in Germany, adding 449 cinema screens to its European portfolio. The purchase is part of a broader pattern of increased pre-Brexit British investment in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20181026/vue-internationals-purchase-of-german-cinemas-group-cinestar-part-of-increased-british-investment-in-germany Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:45:53 +0200 vue-internationals-purchase-of-german-cinemas-group-cinestar-part-of-increased-british-investment-in-germany Tucked behind 10-storey tower blocks in the heart of Berlin stands an imposing metal gate marked "Border zone, restricted area", guarded by a stern-looking Stasi officer. https://www.thelocal.de/20170503/berlin-good-bye-lenin-showing-brings-gdr-back-to-life Wed, 03 May 2017 11:17:56 +0200 berlin-good-bye-lenin-showing-brings-gdr-back-to-life German Films has chosen Toni Erdmann, a beefy comedy about a father's struggle to save his daughter from her isolating career, as its 2017 Oscars choice. https://www.thelocal.de/20160825/germany-picks-father-daughter-comdey-for-oscars-toni-erdmann Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:41:35 +0200 germany-picks-father-daughter-comdey-for-oscars-toni-erdmann The 19-year-old German man who took over a dozen people hostage in a cinema in western Germany on Thursday was carrying replica weapons, prosecutors have confirmed. https://www.thelocal.de/20160624/viernheim-hostage-taker-wasnt-carrying-lethal-weapon Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:55:35 +0200 viernheim-hostage-taker-wasnt-carrying-lethal-weapon "24 Weeks", a harrowing German drama about a couple struggling to decide whether to have a late-term abortion, moved the audience to tears at its Berlin film festival premiere Sunday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160215/german-late-term-abortion-brings-berlinale-to-tears Mon, 15 Feb 2016 09:31:37 +0100 german-late-term-abortion-brings-berlinale-to-tears Fans across Germany stayed up into the early hours on Wednesday night for the first midnight showings of the latest instalment in the Star Wars saga. https://www.thelocal.de/20151217/star-wars-fans-feel-force-awaken-in-germany Thu, 17 Dec 2015 09:57:40 +0100 star-wars-fans-feel-force-awaken-in-germany Ministers have agreed on plans to ban all outdoor tobacco advertising by 2020, a leaked report showed on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20151105/tobacco-advertising-could-disappear-by-2020 Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:22:16 +0100 tobacco-advertising-could-disappear-by-2020 As stars and fans of The Hunger Games series flock to Berlin for the European premiere of its finale on Wednesday, The Local looks at what the city brought to the film - and how exactly Berlin became Panem. https://www.thelocal.de/20151104/how-berlin-became-panem-mockingjay-part-2 Wed, 04 Nov 2015 18:24:42 +0100 how-berlin-became-panem-mockingjay-part-2 When a 16-year-old girl invited a couple of friends round for a quiet movie, the last thing she expected was for it to escalate into a brawl involving pepper spray and guard dogs. But exactly that happened on Saturday night in North Rhine-Westphalia. https://www.thelocal.de/20150713/teen-girls-video-evening-turns-into-police-brawl Mon, 13 Jul 2015 19:53:01 +0200 teen-girls-video-evening-turns-into-police-brawl On Sunday May 31st, Rainer Weiner Fassbinder, one of the most influential German film directors, would have turned 70 - had it not been for his death at the age of 37 in 1982. The Local takes a look back at the life and work of the enfant terrible of New German Cinema. https://www.thelocal.de/20150528/fassbinder-new-german-cinemas-enfant-terrible Thu, 28 May 2015 17:01:08 +0200 fassbinder-new-german-cinemas-enfant-terrible Fascinating everyone from Adolf Hitler to Whitney Houston, with themes of social injustice and a voluptuous robot-temptress, the German science-fiction movie Metropolis carved an extraordinary niche in film history after its release on January 10th, 1927. https://www.thelocal.de/20150108/metropolis-sci-fi-oldie-aged-like-a-champ Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:30:00 +0100 metropolis-sci-fi-oldie-aged-like-a-champ A new exhibition in the German capital celebrates the set-building prowess of 93-year-old Sir Ken Adam, the Berlin-born designer who made volcanoes slide open and Fort Knox surrender its gold bullion. https://www.thelocal.de/20141210/expo-fetes-berliner-who-put-007-in-space Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:16:00 +0100 expo-fetes-berliner-who-put-007-in-space Stromberg, Germany's answer to hit comedy series The Office, has made over €2.2 million since the movie adaptation was released in cinemas on Thursday. It has surpassed the US and UK versions which never made it to the silver screen. https://www.thelocal.de/20140225/movie-version-of-german-the-office-funds-success-at-the-box-office Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:41:00 +0100 movie-version-of-german-the-office-funds-success-at-the-box-office Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local’s cinema guide. https://www.thelocal.de/20130828/51653 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:38:00 +0200 51653 Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local’s cinema guide. https://www.thelocal.de/20130821/51525 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:57:00 +0200 51525 Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local’s cinema guide. https://www.thelocal.de/20130814/51409 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:51:00 +0200 51409 Berlin's answer to Hollywood's Walk of Fame is a sorry sight. No more stars will be added for now to the fading, chipped and sad-looking boulevard, while councillors scramble for a way to tart it up. https://www.thelocal.de/20130809/51317 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:56:00 +0200 51317 Find movies playing in English in Germany with The Local’s cinema guide. https://www.thelocal.de/20130808/51295 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 18:24:00 +0200 51295