The 80-year-old German director Wim Wenders has been announced as the recipient of this year's honorary award from the German Film Academy (DFA).

Mit der Ausstellung „W.I.M. Im Lauf der Zeit“ zeigt das Deutsche Filminstitut und Filmmuseum die vielen Facetten von Wim Wenders.

Nick Cave has penned a response to veteran director Wim Wenders' remarks about the role of politics in art, made at the Berlin Film Festival.

Wim Wenders addressed his tumultuous term as president of the jury at the 76th Berlinale at its closing ceremony on Saturday, suggesting filmmakers and activists need to work together rather than be a

The Berlin International Film Festival, known as the Berlinale, continues its tradition of highlighting political themes in cinema, featuring discussions and films that address current global issues.

Asked if the Berlin International Film Festival should take a stand on Gaza, jury president Wim Wenders said it must "stay out of politics." Not everyone agrees.

Renowned director Wim Wenders will be presented with an honorary award by the German Film Academy at a ceremony in Berlin on May 29.

‘I’m grateful to Taylor Swift, and others who have covered it, for introducing it to a new generation. Three billion streams on Spotify is astonishing!’ I was going through a divorce and living in a hotel in West Hollywood when my manager said Warner Brothers were seeking songs for the movie City of Angels. They already had U2, Peter Gabriel and Alanis Morissette, so I thought getting a track on there would draw attention to us. Warners showed me the film and it was like Wim Wenders’ Wings of...

Musician Nick Cave offered his perspective on the role of art, stating it exists purely for its own sake, in response to German director Wim Wenders' comments on politics at the Berlin Film Festival.

Berlin Film Festival jury president Wim Wenders delivered a prepared statement at the awards ceremony, speaking out on the controversy that has affected the festival since its opening day.

MK2 Films has announced a partnership with Salaud Morisset for the distribution of Wim Wenders' 1997 feature 'The End of Violence'.

The Berlinale head defended Wim Wenders after Arundhati Roy criticized his comments, stating that artists should not be pressured into soundbites.

Renowned filmmaker Wim Wenders, celebrated as an 'icon of world cinema for over five decades,' is set to receive a lifetime achievement award from the German Film Academy, a sign of solidarity following recent criticism.

The last Berlinale film festival caused a media storm because, according to jury head Wim Wenders, cinema should distance itself from politics.

At the Berlinale opening press conference, jury members declined to comment on the situation in Palestine, with president Wim Wenders stating that film should remain 'apolitical'.

Master director Zhang Yimou’s latest features eye-popping stunts and futuristic tech as spies hunt a mole providing the West with intelligence Back in the 1980s and 90s, Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern) was acclaimed as one of the most talented directors to emerge from China’s “fifth generation”, film-makers whose work broke with the socialist realist style of their predecessors. While still working within the establishment industry, the fifth generation – including Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang – were considered to varying degrees if not quite dissident, at least somewhat heterodox and anti-authoritarian. Either way, having started out as a cinematographer, Zhang quickly became an arthouse darling abroad, feted for his lush visual style, his command of highly kinetic action sequences (as seen in wuxia extravaganzas like Hero and House of Flying Daggers) and eye for spotting and showcasing great female actors, such as Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi. Today, in a very different political and national landscape, Zhang doesn’t have the same heroic, darling-of-the-west aura anymore. He’s become an establishment figure and chief engineer of state-sponsored spectacles like the opening and closing ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics and Winter Olympics. If, unlike Wim Wenders, you can’t entirely separate politics from art, then Zhang’s latest, Scare Out, looks like pro-state propaganda, given it is about spies trying to flush out a mole among their ranks who is smuggling super-secret tech to nefarious western rivals. Continue reading...

Berlinale head says artists should not be pushed into soundbites after author quit over president’s remarks that film-makers should ‘stay out of politics’ The Berlin film festival has issued a lengthy statement “in defence of our film-makers, and especially our jury and jury president”, after what it described as a “media storm that has swept over the Berlinale” in its first few days. The defence follows criticism levelled at the jury, in particular president, Wim Wenders, for comments made when fielding questions about the war in Gaza. Asked during the opening press conference if films can effect political change, the German film-maker said that “movies can change the world” but “not in a political way”, adding that film-makers “have to stay out of politics”. Continue reading...