Mar 10, 2020
Berlinale Spotlight: Berlinale Shorts in Berlin

Due to the current situation regarding COVID-19, both events are cancelled. We hope they will take place at a later date.

For many years, the Berlinale has been present worldwide with specially curated programmes, even outside of the actual festival period. These activities are known as the Berlinale Spotlight.
In cooperation with the Junge Akademie, the first Berlinale Spotlights: Berlinale Shorts will take place this year in Berlin as part of the shorts/salon.

The short film programmes on the topics of “censorship” and “self-efficacy” feature films which premiered at Berlinale Shorts in recent years. The films lay the foundations for a dialogue with a panel of academics invited by the Junge Akademie.

“We unite short films and scientists from various disciplines with one another for the purpose of opening up new perspectives on a chosen topic and bringing different expertise into conversation. In this regard, the short film resembles a speech. Listening full of curiosity and engaging in the non-biased exchange of ideas, that’s all very important to us,” says Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck, head of Berlinale Shorts.

Both events are part of the activities celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Junge Akademie. Entry is free. Prior registration is nevertheless requested: anmeldung.diejungeakademie.de

“Censorship in Art and in Everyday Life” – Short Films in Discussion
March 18, 2020, 7 pm, City Kino Wedding

Due to the current situation regarding COVID-19, the event "Censorship in Art and in Everyday Life" has to be cancelled. We hope the event will take place at a later date.

Films:
The Men Behind the Wall, Director: Ines Moldavsky
(Israel 2018), 28 min.
– Golden Bear for Best Short Film 2018

Kaputt, Director: Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl
(Germany 2016), 7 min.

Symbolic Threats, Director: Matthias Wermke, Mischa Leinkauf, Lutz Henke
(Germany 2015), 17 min.

Panelists:
Nausikaä El-Mecky (Die Junge Akademie, Pompeu Fabra University)
Ömer Alkın (Media and Cultural Scientist)
Mischa Leinkauf (Filmmaker, Artist)
Annette Schuhmann (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History)
Moderated by: Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (Berlinale Shorts)

“Self-Efficacy – My Body as a Weapon” – Short Films in Discussion
May 3, 2020, 6 pm, BrotfabrikKino

Due to the current situation regarding COVID-19, the event "Self-Efficacy – My Body as a Weapon" has to be cancelled. We hope the event will take place at a later date.

Films:
Veitstanz/Feixtanz, Director: Gabriele Stötzer
(German Democratic Republic 1988), 25 min.

How to Disappear, Director: Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel, Michael Stumpf
(Austria 2020), 21 min.

Panelists:
Isabel Schellinger (Die Junge Akademie, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig)
Gabriele Stötzer (Artist, Filmmaker, Author)
among others
Moderated by: Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (Berlinale Shorts)

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March 10, 2020