WCF DAY 2024 in cooperation with Berlinale Talents

Der World Cinema Fund Day ist die Denkfabrik des WCF. In Panels und Diskussionsrunden geht es um Filmkultur, Produktionsverhältnisse in den Förderregionen und um strukturelle Veränderungen. Außerdem geht es um neue Schwerpunkte der WCF-Förderstrategie und die Vorstellung neuer geförderter WCF-Projekte.

21. Februar 2024
HAU2, Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin
(Freier Eintritt / Begrenzte Kapazität. RSVP unter )

14:30 Uhr Introduction(s)
Vincenzo Bugno, Head of the World Cinema Fund and Florian Weghorn Programme Manager Berlinale Talents
Dr. Lutz Nitsche, Officer to the Executive Board, German Federal Cultural Foundation
Keynote Speech by Elisabeth Mansfeld, Senior Strategic Advisor: “World Cinema Fund: Cinema & Beyond”

15:00 Uhr Director’s Talk / About Pepe (Competition)
Pepe: A Hippopotamus as Main Character. Encounters, misunderstandings, improvisations
Vincenzo Bugno, head of WCF, in conversation with director Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias

16:15 Uhr Talk 1 / The Charm of the Minority
How to deal with minority co-productions. State of things, financing, prospectives
with Christoph Friedel (Producer, Germany), Giovanni Pompili (Producer, Italy), Marion Wagner (Hessen Film & Medien, Germany) and Carlotta Guerrero (ICEC; Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals, Spain)
Moderated by Marjorie Bendeck, director of Connecting Cottbus Co-Production Market

17:10 Uhr Presentation:
“TUI Care Foundation Award of the World Cinema Fund”
Alexander Panczuk, Executive Director, TUI Care Foundation

17:15 Uhr Talk 2 / Dealing with Africa(s)
Is time on our side? New voices, new stories, new realities in African Cinema
with the directors Mamadou Dia (Senegal), Inadelso Cossa (Mozambique), Luck Razanajaona (Madagascar), Nelson Makengo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Moderated by Dorothee Wenner, filmmaker and curator