Germany’s Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Wolfram Weimer, has intervened to halt the translation of works by Palestinian authors, including Mahmoud Darwish and...
Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania has refused to accept an award for her film The Voice of Hind Rajab at an event in Berlin, accusing festival...
More than 80 current and former participants of the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) have issued a scathing open letter denouncing the festival’s “institutional silence” regarding...