Books at Berlinale 2025: Ten Current, International Books with Great Screen Potential Selected 154i5
On Monday, February 17, 2025, Books at Berlinale will present ten novelties by international authors with high potential for film adaptation as part of the Berlinale Co-Production Market. Since 2006, new releases and bestsellers from the European and international book market have been presented annually in cooperation with the Frankfurter Buchmesse in a moderated pitch event where film producers meet renowned rights holders from publishers and agencies to identify new and promising I...
Open Wounds, Open Words: The 2025 Forum Special 38215d
The Long Road to the Director’s Chair by Vibeke Løkkeberg © Georg Helgevold Sagen | Shinagani gazapkhulebis q'vaviloba (Inner Blooming Springs) by Tiku Kobiashvili © Tiku Kobiashvili | Das falsche Wort (The Lie) by Katrin Seybold © Filmmuseum München In the second year headed by Barbara Wurm, the Forum Special is once again showing a programme of historical and current films, curated around a set of related themes. ...
Forum Expanded 2025: Methods of Translucence 3u6u26
In its 20th edition, Forum Expanded brings together 24 works from 21 countries. Employing practices that span installation, film, video and sculpture, the selected artists and filmmakers employ translucence as a means of engaging with the cataclysmic realities of the present. Whether dealing with personal or collective histories, ongoing wars, extractivism, legacies of colonialism or social inequalities, their approaches frequently hinge on intervention rather than observation. B...
Berlinale Co-Production Market: Kick-off for 35 International Feature Film Co-Productions 2z675i
35 film projects from 27 countries have been selected for the 22nd Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 15-19). Their producers will meet potential co-producers and financiers at the event, which this year will take place primarily at the Octogon, a new event location at Leipziger Platz, in order to realise the feature films as international co-productions in the coming years. Women are directing 19 of the 35 projects. There were 351 submissions for the official project selection, ...
The 2025 Berlinale Key Design 1k3b2l
The Berlinale 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the Berlin International Film Festival. The 75th Berlinale is also the first edition under the direction of Tricia Tuttle. For the first time, an animated key visual is at the centre of the design alongside the classic poster. This reflects the media shift towards digital channels and the importance of moving graphics in communication. The design places the Berlinale at the centre of a glowing visual interpretation of the theme...
Todd Haynes to be Jury President of the Berlinale 2025 5w485e
Todd Haynes © Samir Hussein / Wire Image The US-American director, screenwriter and producer Todd Haynes will be President of the International Jury of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. “Todd Haynes is a dazzlingly gifted writer and director with an impressive range; his body of work is at once stylistically versatile but also unmistakably his. Ever since his debut feature Poison won the TEDDY AWARD in 1991, the Berlinale has followed and loved his fil...
Berlinale Talents 2025: Listen Courageously – Cinematic Narratives in Times of Dissonance 1m1n4w
Berlinale Talents Key Visual and Theme for 2025: "Listen Courageously – Cinematic Narratives in Times of Dissonance" © Ada Favaron and Imad Gebrael The art of listening will be the overarching theme for the 23rd edition of Berlinale Talents, the vibrant talent hub of the Berlin International Film Festival. Listening intently, considerately, carefully, and most importantly, courageously, builds upon the foundation o...
Berlinale appoints Co-Directors of Film Programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz 4h4r50
Co-Directors of Film Programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz Tricia Tuttle Appoints Michael Stütz and Jacqueline Lyanga as Co-Directors of Film Programming and Announces Other New Executive Director Positions Berlinale Director Tricia Tuttle has appointed two internationally respected programmers to share responsibilities as Co-Directors of Film Programming. Former US-delegate to the Berlinale, Jacqueline Lyanga, and Panorama section head Michael Stütz will ass...
Berlinale Launches Perspectives, a New International Competition for Feature-Length Fiction Debuts, 293t5l
With the creation of an international competitive strand for fiction feature debuts, the Berlinale will shine a brighter spotlight on new filmmakers within the festival. This new stand-alone competition, Perspectives, will include up to 14 fiction debuts from all over the world, with a jury of three deciding on the Best First Feature Award. The award is endowed with 50,000 euros, funded by GWFF (Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrechten), a society dedicated to s...
Berlinale World Cinema Fund: Current Funding Recommendations for Production and Distribution 1b1w28
Goodbye Julia von / by Mohamed Kordofani © Pierre de Villiers / Rushlake Media GmbH At the 40th jury session of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), the juries made ten funding recommendations for projects from Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, Egypt, Iran, Lesotho, Nepal and Sudan. The current funding pot of eight production and two distribution grants amounts to a total of 260,000 euros. “At a time when the complexity of the world is ...
Spain will be the European Film Market’s “Country in Focus” at the 75th Berlinale in 2025 451a27
Spain will be the “Country in Focus” at the edition of the European Film Market. Its many filmmakers make Spain a dynamic and strong European film location with international appeal, as well as a long-standing and successful tradition of numerous films in the festival programme as well as at the EFM and in the Berlinale’s industry initiatives. Continuing an initiative that started in 2017, the EFM annually places a major film...
Berlinale Appoints Tobias Pausinger as New Programme Manager of Berlinale Talents 73125f
Tobias Pausinger, der neue Programmleiter von Berlinale Talents / Tobias Pausinger, the new Programme Manager of Berlinale Talents © Steffen Junghans On October 1, Tobias Pausinger will take over the programme management of Berlinale Talents, completing the dual leadership team of the talent development initiative alongside Project Manager Nikola Joetze. Tobias, a seasoned, interdisciplinary creative executive, has made a...
Series at the Berlinale 2025 6w556z
Fotos: Berlinale Series Market: © Juliane Eirich / Co-Pro Series: © Carlos Collado Serialised filmmaking has long been an integral part of the Berlinale, as both a cultural showcase in the public programme and as an important creative and business exchange within the Berlinale Pro* industry programmes. In 2025, the Berlinale reaffirms its commitment with exciting new series due to be presented in the public programme, at the Berlinale Series...
BLACK TEA Review: Berlin Film Festival Competition Film from Mauritania 3y3c2s
(Black Tea by Abderrahmane Sissako © Olivier Marceny / Ciné Studios / Archipel 35 / Dune Vision) By M.R. D’Amico Even before its world premiere at Berlinale 2024, Black Tea had generated strong interest among major international distributors, a promising start for the film’s journey into the global market. Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, after the amazing success of his first Oscar-nominated film Timbuktu in 2014, embarks here...
SHAMBHALA Review: Berlin Film Festival Competition Film from Nepal 6m6nk
(Thinley Lhamo from Shambhala by Min Bahadur Bham, © Aditya Basnet / Shooney Films) By M.R. D’Amico It is the first Nepalese film to be in competition at Berlinale and one of the best surprises of the festival. In a Nepalese Himalayan village a young beautiful woman, Pema, starts her adult life with a polyandrous marriage to Tashi and his two younger brothe...
Berlinale Files Criminal Charges Over the Spreading of Anti-Semitic Posts / Criticism of Statements Made by Artists at the Berli 2818o
Social Media Channel Hacked On Sunday, February 25, the Instagram channel of the Berlinale Panorama section was briefly hacked and anti-Semitic image-text posts about the Middle East war with the Berlinale logo were posted on the channel. These statements do not originate from the festival and do not represent the festival's stance. The posts were deleted immediately and an investigation was launched into how this incident could have occurred. The Berlinale condemns this crimin...
Berlinale 2024: Prizes at Generation Kplus 3i5p73
Berlinale 2024: Prizes at Generation Kplus Clockwise from top left: It's Okay! (Es ist okay!); Young Hearts (Junge Herzen) © Thomas Nolf; Sukoun (Amplified / In die Stille) © Baha’ Slieman, Madd Moshawas; Papillon (Butterfly / Schmetterling) Berlinale 2024: Crystal Bears at Generation Kplus Crystal Bears The of the Children’s Jury Generation Kplus – Elisabeth Christenfeldt, Frederik Hammer, Kali Marsh, Roza Papastefanou, Paula...
VIDEO : Berlinale Awards of the Independent Juries 4i2p2w
PRIZES OF THE INDEPENDENT JURIES PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY of the Jury: Karin Becker, Jacques Champeaux, Anita Nemes, Brent Rodriguez-Plate, Marta Romanova-Jēkabsone, Sr. sca Šimuniová Competition Keyke mahboobe man (My Favourite Cake) by Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeha Panorama endowed with €2,500 Sex by Dag Johan Haugerud Forum endowed with €2,500 Marijas klusums (Maria‘s Silence) by Dāvis Sīmanis Sp...
Berlinale Awards revealed 2483n
PRIZES OF OFFICIAL JURIES PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY of the Jury: Lupita Nyong‘o (Jury President), Brady Corbet, Ann Hui, Christian Petzold, Albert Serra, Jasmine Trinca, Oksana Zabuzhko GOLDEN BEAR FOR BEST FILM (awarded to the film‘s producers) Dahomey by Mati Diop produced by Eve Robin, Judith Lou Lévy, Mati Diop SILVER BEAR GRAND JURY PRIZE Yeohaengjaui pilyo (A Traveler‘s Needs) by Hong Sangsoo SILVER BEAR JURY PRIZE L’ Empire (The E...
VIDEO Interview with Min Bahadur Bham, director of SHAMBHALA my pick for this year's Golden Bear 4l3zx
(A still of Thinley Lhamo from Shambhala by Min Bahadur Bham, © Aditya Basnet / Shooney Films) By Lindsay R. ''Lulu'' Bellinger Shambhala is a glorious exploration of womanhood, being true to one's self and determination. Thinley Lhamo's riveting and subtle portrayal of Pema is so gentle yet strong. I would not be at all disappointed if she won the Silver Bear for best leading performance. Pema becomes the wife of Tashi and his two ...
The Panorama Audience Awards Go to Memorias de un cuerpo que arde and No Other Land 336b5b
Memorias de un cuerpo que arde (Memories of a Burning Body) © Substance Films; No Other Land © PSE, NOR 2024, Panorama Berlinale 2024: The Panorama Audience Awards Go to Memorias de un cuerpo que arde (Memories of a Burning Body) by Antonella Sudasassi Furniss and No Other Land by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor The audience has voted: The 26th Panorama Audience Award for the best feature film goes to Memor...
Crystal Bears and Prizes of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) at Generation 14plus 571x1m
Clockwise from top left: Last swim © Caviar, Pablo & Zeus; Kai Shi De Qiang (She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones) © CHN 2024, Generation; Cura sana © ESCAC Films; Lapso (Lapse) © Nathalia Cordeiro. Crystal Bears and Prizes of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) at Generation 14plus Crystal Bears The of the Youth Jury Generation 14plus – E...
VIDEO: The Tanzanian film director Cece Mlay commenting on her new documentary "The empty grave" 726w5q
The Tanzanian film director Cece Mlay commenting on her new documentary "The empty grave" she coproduced with Agnes Lisa Wegner about the bloody history of German collonial killing in Tanzania. The film team of “The Emoty Grave” at the @berlinale world premiere! Priscilla Mlay (better known as Cece by her creative family) is a ionate storyteller who has been a part of creative teams that bring stories to life on various media platform...
Katja Riemann on her role in the new film by German director Kilian Riedhof : "Stella. One Life" 2h1q4c
Katja Riemann talks about her role in the new film by German director Kilian Riedhof. In "Stella.a life" by Alice Kanterian Riemann plays the mother of Stella Goldschlag and the action is based in the 40 in Nazi . It is the true story of Jewish jazz enthusiast Stella Goldschlag (Paula Beer) who is denouncing other Jews in order to save her parents who are also musicians from deportation to Auschwitz. The film is based on researches and is also questioning says Rie...
The MFG Baden-Württemberg and the German film industry celebrating new talents at the Thomas Strittmatter Award ceremony 3c194j
By Alice Kanterian: On the occasion of the Berlinale the MFG Baden-Württemberg is organising one of the most wanted events, the Thomas Strittmatter Award Ceremony at their impressive "embassy" in Berlin the Baden-Württemberg State Representation. This is an event not to miss, as who is who of the German film industry gets together. MFG is short for Medien and Filmgesellschaft, which translates as Media and Film Society. PHOTO...
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