Following its Toronto world premiere, director Christian Petzold’s “Phoenix” immediately garnered raves, as well as some sidelong glances. But this anticipated followup to 2012’s much ...

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 latest feature, “Afire,” takes a blacklight to the artistic ego and to the trope of the manic pixie dream girls who supposedly enshrine it.

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 ...

Transit is written and directed by acclaimed German filmmaker Christian Petzold, of the films The State I Am In, Wolfsburg, Gespenster, Yella, Jerichow, Barbara, and Phoenix previously.

“You want short answers?” asks Christian Petzold, after a long haul on a hypermodern vape pen in the upper-level lounge of the Berlin International Film Festival’s luxurious Filmpalast.