The show opened with an old woman sitting and singing softly as she strummed her guitar. One by one, the cast eased in around her, layering banjo, tambourines, and egg shakers, until the whole room ...

While jumping through the hoops of her first U.S. awards season two years ago for “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of ...

In our ancient past, kings had jesters in their court to provide wisdom, and sometimes even bring down a notch or two the king’s vanity.

Other buzz titles take in ‘Acorn’s Adventures,’ with its quirky forest characters, and ‘Fifteen Dogs,’ whose mutts are given ...

Markus Schleinzer's fine-grained portrait depicts a fictionalized composite character who passes herself off as a hardy male farmer, drawn from hundreds of comparable cases throughout history.

Anatomy Of A Fall star Sandra Hüller is wowing critics at the Berlin Film Festival with her latest turn as a woman in the early 17th century who is disguised as a male soldier. The Yellow Letters and ...

The murder ballad, though not a sub-genre we commonly reference, has never entirely died out. It seems to have about as many ...

Rose is probably the first film of the Berlinale to really pop. From the outset it looked like being one of the most interesting in the Competition.

The feature debut of actor Lorenzo Ferro and Lucas A. Vignale, premiering in Berlin's Perspectives section, brings us a ...

To Walker, folk is “storytelling of communal and/or cultural struggle.” Or cultural experience. He looked back at Black ...

In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present ...

People typically seek help from doctors when they experience trouble sleeping and have an unsettled mind. But when the same problem occurred to Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) ...