Christian Petzold is no stranger to the Berlin International Film Festival. Over the years, several of the German director’s movies have unspooled at the prestigious international gala, to great ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with German filmmaker Christian Petzold about his latest movie, "Afire," a love story set in a country house while a forest fire rages nearby.

Director Christian Petzold at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in 2012. (Andreas Rentz / Getty Images) Christian Petzold is no stranger to the Berlin International Film Festival.

Christian Petzold’s “Afire” took the runner-up award at this year’s Berlinale, where geopolitical crises in Europe and Iran loomed large. By Thomas Rogers Feb. 25, 2023 Critic’s Pick ...

With His ‘Afire,’ Christian Petzold Attempts Something New: Make a Sexy Summer Comedy But, as the perfectionist German auteur, tells IndieWire, he still couldn't totally escape his dark side.

For years, Petzold talked with Farocki about adapting “Transit” (2018) from the Anna Seghers Marseilles classic. “For us, this was the cinematographic novel of our life,” said Petzold.

Christian Petzold’s “Miroirs No. 3,” which screens in Directors’ Fortnight, is set in present-day Germany but it evokes a gothic fairytale.

Mirrors No. 3 (Miroirs No. 3), the new feature from German director Christian Petzold that world premieres in the Directors’ Fortnight, an independent sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival, on ...

Few movies this year will be as quietly sizzling as German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s “Afire,” a novelistic and sophisticated character study that kindles inside a chamber piece, as ...

Christian Petzold's "Transit" is an audacious adaptation of Anna Seghers' 1944 novel, with echoes of "Casablanca." ...