Michael Long Brings Liverpool to Oldenburg With ‘Baby Brother’: “My City Has Never Been Shown the Way It Should”

The director speaks to The Hollywood Reporter about generational trauma, how no one is born evil, and bringing the Scouse accent to German audiences at the festival.

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‘One-Way Ticket to the Other Side’: Pornographie Exclusive Music Inspires Oldenburg Anthology Film

Two masked characters wander through a world "suspended between end and beginning, dream and reality" in the movie with contributions from 10 directors who could each only use a budget of 100 Euros.

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5 Films to Watch From Oldenburg Honoree Dominik Graf, “Germany’s John Carpenter”

The Oldenburg Film Festival's 2024 retrospective is devoted to the best German genre director you've never heard of.

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Hala Matar’s ‘Electra’ Is Where ‘Mr. Ripley’ and ‘Saltburn’ Meet — And the Director Is Delighted

Matar explains why she can't share who inspired her characters (spoiler: we all know them, apparently) in the film, premiering at Oldenburg, and what it's like being the first female Bahraini feature director.

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How AI Helped Create a Key Dream Sequence for “Shoestring Budget” Oldenburg Film ‘Traumnovelle’

And how director Florian Frerichs and star Nikolai Kinski feel about its use in the movie that is opening the 31st edition of the German festival.

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Tim Blake Nelson on Playing an Aging Boxer in ‘Bang Bang,’ Marvel and Why He Loves Oldenburg

The indie cinema icon adds to his "rogues gallery of dysfunctional weirdos," playing a boxer looking for redemption in Vincent Grashaw's drama, which screens at "the jewel box of European film festivals."

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The Myanmar Filmmakers Fighting the Junta From Abroad

Director Na Gyi and actress Paing Phyo Thu, being honored at this year's Oldenburg Film Festival, fled their country following the 2021 military coup but continue to support liberation efforts from abroad.

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Oldenburg Festival Unveils Competition Lineup, Tribute to Exiled Filmmakers

Germany's leading indie film fest will pay tribute to filmmakers Na Gyi and Paing Phyo Thu, who went into hiding following the military coup in Myanmar.

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‘Traumnovelle’ to Open Oldenburg Film Festival

Florian Frerichs' adaptation of the Arthur Schnitzler novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut' stars Nikolai Kinski and Laurine Price.

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