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06.03.2007: The Berlinale in Turin

The Berlinale is going on tour: Turin and the Piedmont Region are presenting a selection of this year’s festival programme from March 9 to 11 [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

22.02.2007: Another successful European Film Market

The European Film Market (EFM) of the Berlin International Film Festival had another strong year in 2007 [...]

Awards, Competition, Berlinale Shorts, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale Talents, Panorama, Forum & Forum Expanded, Generation

17.02.2007: The Awards of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival

Download (PDF): The Awards of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Awards, Perspektive Deutsches Kino

17.02.2007: Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Documentary Pool Of Princesses from Bettina Blümner wins “Dialogue en perspective”

As part of the award ceremony of the independent jury prizes of the Berlinale, a young French-German jury today presented the “Dialogue en perspective” to the film Pool Of Princesses from Bettina Blümner [...]

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17.02.2007: Berlinale – a festival of stars, audiences and the film business – The 57th Berlin International Film Festival comes to a successful close

With the Award Ceremony the Berlinale 2007 reaches its climax on Saturday, February 17. 1.600 guests are invited to the ceremony in the Berlinale Palast [...]

Generation

17.02.2007: Berlinale Generation Kplus: The Crystal Bears and the Prizes of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk

The Generation’s eleven-member Children’s Jury of the Kplus competition programme of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival awards the Crystal Bear for Best Feature Film as well as the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film and Special Mentions to the following films [...]

Berlinale Talents

16.02.2007: The Berlinale Talent Campus #5 Comes to a Successful Close – Press Release No 6

The Farewell Ceremony and bestowal of the Volkswagen Score Competition final award on Thursday marked the successful close of the Berlinale Talent Campus #5 [...]

Awards, Generation

16.02.2007: Generation: A Crystal Bear for the Best Film in the 14plus Competition

The Youth Jury of 14plus, the youth film competition of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival, awards a Crystal Bear for Best Feature Film and a Special Mention to the following films [...]

World Cinema Fund

15.02.2007: World Cinema Fund (WCF) expands focus regions: South East Asia and the Caucasus

During the World Cinema Fund Day on February 14 the WCF announced an expansion of the focus regions [...]

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14.02.2007: Successful Premiere for Berlinale Keynotes – Industry Gurus and over 300 international professionals

The Berlinale Keynotes got off to a successful start. Over 300 distinguished international industry representatives, invited by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Awards, Berlinale Shorts

13.02.2007: Short Film Awards

The members of the international short film jury Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima (Nigeria) Riina Sildos (Estonia) Ning Ying (China) award the following prizes: [...]

Berlinale Talents

12.02.2007: The Berlinale Talent Campus #5 to be opened by Festival Director Dieter Kosslick and Campus Director Dorothee Wenner – Press Release No 5

This evening Festival Director Dieter Kosslick and Campus Director Dorothee Wenner will officially open the Berlinale Talent Campus #5 in front of ca. 600 invited guests in the Theater Hebbel am Ufer [...]

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07.02.2007: Berlinale Keynotes: New Berlinale format for the future of the film industry in the digital age

On Tuesday February 13, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, the Director of the Berlinale Dieter Kosslick and Medienboard Managing Director Petra Müller will open the first edition of Berlinale Keynotes [...]

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07.02.2007: “McWitz” to mark the finale of Eat, Drink, See Movies – Celebrating Culinary Cinema

Top German chefs to serve food to go for young cinema goers [...]

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07.02.2007: Glitz and Glamour at the Opening of the 57th Berlinale

The Opening Gala of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival will be held on February 8 in the Berlinale Palast at Potsdamer Platz. Again, the event will be broadcast live on television (ZDF/3sat) [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

06.02.2007: EFM 2007: Arts Alliance Media to present Digital Film Debate Series

The successful collaboration between Arts Alliance Media (AAM) and the European Film Market (EFM) continues. For 2007 and 2008, AAM will be the exclusive main partner of the EFM [...]

Awards

30.01.2007: Berlinale Cameras for Gianni Minà, Márta Mészáros, Dorothea Moritz and Ron Holloway

The Berlin International Film Festival has been presenting the Berlinale Camera since 1986 to film personalities or institutions to whom they feel particularly indebted – and to whom they wish to express their appreciation in the form of this special honour [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

30.01.2007: European Film Market 2007: Dynamic Growth and Special Highlights

The European Film Market (EFM), the main event for the film industry at the Berlin International Film Festival, continues to expand – in quantity and in quality [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

30.01.2007: Seven young film fans from Germany and France award the independent jury prize “Dialogue en perspective”

The jury members have been selected: Seven young film fans from Germany and France will award the independent jury prize “Dialogue en perspective” to a film in the category Perspektive Deutsches Kino at this year’s 57th Berlinale [...]

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30.01.2007: Press file for the 57th Berlin International Filmfestival

The Berlinale 2007 press file for download (only in German) [...]

Panorama

26.01.2007: 50 films in the Panorama – the programme is now complete

This year’s Panorama will present 17 feature films in its main programme, 16 in the Panorama Special and 17 in its Panorama Dokumente series [...]

Awards

26.01.2007: Berlinale 2007: Support for Debut Films increased further

The Berlinale has been even more committed to supporting the next generation of film makers since 2006, when it introduced the award for the best debut film. This year, a dedicated, three-man international jury will decide on the best debut film. [...]

Additional Information, Berlinale Special

25.01.2007: Berlinale Special 2007: Remembrance and Experiment

The Berlinale Special is part of the festival’s official programme and presents recent works by contemporary filmmakers whose films the Berlinale wants to honour. [...]

Berlinale Talents

25.01.2007: “Virtual Cinema” at the Berlinale Talent Campus #5 – Press Release No. 4

These days, no other stories do as well in the cinemas as stories set in fantastical worlds or that take audiences on a journey into the past [...]

Berlinale Shorts

24.01.2007: Berlinale 2007: New Dynamics for the Short Film

All around the world and across the infinite universe of emotions: in two programmes, each just under 90 minutes, the Short Film Competition presents the most widely diverse range of cinematic ideas, styles and feelings [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

24.01.2007: Cinema Beyond its Boundaries: For the second time, Forum expanded presents video art, experimental and underground films

The area where film and art intersect finds its place at the Berlinale once again. Called into being by the Forum of the Berlinale in 2006, Forum expanded serves the critical commentary and expansion of cinematography [...]

Panorama

23.01.2007: Panorama announces opening films and Panorama Dokumente

The Panorama main programme will open with The Tracey Fragments by Bruce McDonald [...]

Competition

22.01.2007: The Competition Section is Complete

The selection for the Competition section of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival has been finalised [...]

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22.01.2007: Berlinale Keynotes: New format at the International Film Festival Berlin

The Berlin International Film Festival and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg are inviting participants to the very first, exclusive, international Berlinale Keynotes [...]

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19.01.2007: Berlinale 2007: Festival has four main sponsors for the first time

“The Berlinale is growing continuously. Without the financial and creative contributions of our partners from commerce and industry, we would not be able to meet the challenge [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

18.01.2007: Ordinary people, extraordinary films – the programme of the Perspektive Deutsches Kino is now complete

The unusual challenges encountered by children and youths on the streets of our big cities are themes in three of the four documentaries which make this year’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme so exciting [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

17.01.2007: Berlinale 2007: Special Events of the Retrospective and Homage

The Berlinale and the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen are pleased to present a number of outstanding film restoration projects from Germany and abroad during this year’s Retrospective and Homage [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

17.01.2007: World cinematography of sharp contrasts and astonishing parallels:

This year’s programme of the Berlinale Forum comprises films from 30 countries including 25 world premieres and 15 debut films [...]

Additional Information, Berlinale Special

16.01.2007: World premiere in the series Berlinale Special: Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz: Remastered

Berlin Alexanderplatz was the finest of his artistic accomplishments: the tragic story of Franz Biberkopf, based on an Alfred Döblin novel, is considered Fassbinder’s most radical and personal work [...]

Competition

15.01.2007: New films by Ruzowitzky, Rivette, Téchiné, Nava, Eastwood, Schrader, Costanzo and Menzel nominated for the Berlinale Competition

The selection for the Competition of the 57th Berlin International Film Festival is nearly complete. “We have succeeded”, summarizes festival director Dieter Kosslick, “in getting films by important directors of international cinema to come to Berlin [...]

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12.01.2007: Berlinale 2007: Eat, Drink, See Movies- Celebrating Culinary Cinema

With Eat, Drink, See Movies – Celebrating Culinary Cinema, the 57th Berlin International Film Festival will present a new series of movies and events revolving around the topic of film, food and enjoyment [...]

Generation

12.01.2007: Generation presents 30th Anniversary Programme

The programme for the children and young people’s film section, Generation, has been finalised. The selection comprises 25 feature films, including three world premieres and ten international premieres from 22 countries In addition, 21 short films from 13 countries [...]

Panorama

11.01.2007: 22nd Panorama of the Berlinale announces first films

With works directed by actress Julie Delpy, actors Antonio Banderas, Steve Buscemi, and Mitchell Lichtenstein, who starred in Ang Lee’s Golden Bear winning film Hsi Yen (The Wedding Banquet) from 1993, as well as new films by Hal Hartley, E J-Yong, Hong Sangsoo, Eytan Fox and Thomas Arslan, the Panorama 2007 is presenting a large number of renowned filmmakers [...]

Competition

11.01.2007: 57th Berlinale: International Cinema Stars on the Jury

This year, seven international stars and film experts will decide who is to take home the Golden Bear and the Silver Bears [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

10.01.2007: Berlinale Co-Production Market 2007 presents new film projects

A total of 37 projects from 25 countries will be presented during the fourth Berlinale Co-Production Market (Feb. 11-13, 2007) [...]