Director Doris Doerrie's latest film, "Cherry Blossoms -- Hanami," had its world premiere at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival last month and won the Bavarian Film Prize as best picture. But ...

Doris Dörrie’s Cherry Blossoms, from her own screenplay (in German and Japanese with English subtitles and a smattering of heavily accented English dialogue by German and Japanese characters), is ...

Was there a specific event that sparked this project? For years, I'd increasingly heard about recurring conflicts in outdoor swimming pools involving different visitors and the rules there. Then in ...

There have been many male directors famous for their insights into women. But few if any woman filmmakers have created as many pointedly accurate portraits of men as German writer-director Doris ...

German director Doris Dörrie is at the 2002 Venice Film Festival to present her film Naked selected as a competing film. In the interview the director talks about her love for "those films you can ...

“A radiation vacation” — as the protagonist who survived 3/11 calls her brief encounter with a German volunteer — sums up the gallows humor of Doris Doerrie‘s post-disaster traumedy, shot right in the ...

A quiet, moving tale of love and loss, Doris Dörrie’s “Cherry Blossoms” takes us from the German countryside to the bustle of Tokyo and the serenity of Mount Fuji. The journey is a pilgrimage, taken ...

THE TITLE OF DORIS Dörrie’s new exploration of midlife crisis asks the semi-rhetorical question, Where Do We Go From Here? Answer? To Bookman’s, to unload this bad boy as soon as possible. Not a ...

German director Doris Doerrie has begun shooting “Greetings From Fukushima,” a Japan-set drama about life, love and loss. It is set in the aftermath of the triple disaster – earthquake, tsunami and ...

There have been numerous responses by Japanese artists and filmmakers to the earthquake that hit Japan in 2011 and the subsequent tsunami. By contrast, Greetings from Fukushima, a 2016 feature by ...

Doris Dörrie returned to Japan for her new film "Greetings from Fukushima," shooting just a few kilometers from the nuclear reactor. The German filmmaker tells DW about the location, losses and new ...