The Berlinale, Berlin’s international film festival, is over for this year – and the world premiere of the digitally restored version of Fassbinder’s EIGHT HOURS DON’T MAKE A DAY was an unqualified success. Berliners who did not make it to the screenings still have a chance to see the series on 31 March and 1 (…)

The Berlinale, Berlin’s renowned film festival, is just around the corner. From 9 to 19 February, Potsdamer Platz will once become a Mecca of the film world. This year as in other years the festival program includes a number of screenings we think our readers will be particularly interested in – above all the restored (…)

One of the highpoints of 2016 for the Fassbinder Foundation has been the euphoric reception of the RWF retrospective presented in November by the Goethe Institute in Beijing as part of the 4th Festival of German Film. The Fassbinder section of the festival comprised Annekatrin Hendel’s documentary FASSBINDER, a number of the director’s own films (…)

The long wait is almost over. Eva Mattes’ spectacular farewell to her long-running role as police superintendent Klara Blum in the series Tatort is finally coming to German TV screens. The episode, titled WOFÜR ES SICH ZU LEBEN LOHNT (What is worth living for), is like a class reunion for great Fassbinder actresses. Hanna Schygulla, (…)

September this year was overshadowed by the sad news of the death of actor Hilmar Thate at the age of 85. Thate grew up in Halle, where he began his training as an actor at the age of 16. He embarked on his professional theatre career in 1949 and subsequently also appeared in numerous films (…)