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 ...

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 ...

Christian Petzold May Be the Best German Filmmaker You’ve Never Heard Of. After becoming known for movies distanced from his country’s history, culture and memory, he has drawn from them in ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Few auteurs today have as consistent a track record as German director Christian Petzold, whose enviable output is on display on Mubi this month, hooked to the national release on over 50 screens ...

Early on in “Transit,” the quietly extraordinary new movie from the German writer-director Christian Petzold, a man named Georg (Franz Rogowski) arrives at a hotel to deliver two letters, only ...

After completing his “Love in the Times of Oppressive Systems” thematic trilogy with Barbara, Phoenix, and Transit, Christian Petzold is embarking on a new trio of films inspired by German myths and ...

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 new film, about a sour young writer and the woman he desires, generates both cruel comedy and heartbreak. By Manohla Dargis After becoming known for movies distanced from his ...