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Berlinale Talents

21.02.2003: First Berlinale Talent Campus – a great success

Established film professionals and public eager to join young filmmakers at House of World Cultures.
From February 10 to 14, 476 filmmakers from 61 countries came together for the first Berlinale Talent Campus in Berlin’s House of World Cultures. Master School Drehbuch organised this week of exchange between established film professionals and aspiring young filmmakers in co-operation with Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg and UK Film Council [...]

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

15.02.2003: The Awards 53. Berlin International Film Festival

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Awards, Panorama

15.02.2003: Panorama Audience Prize Presentation 2003

It’s that time again: the winner of this year’s Panorama Audience Prize will be presented with its award, a bronze sculpture by the Berlin sculptor Hubertus Brandt [...]

Awards

13.02.2003: Berlinale Kamera to be awarded to the television station – Sender Freies Berlin

The Berlinale Kamera is presented to film personalities and institutions that the Berlin International Film Festival feels especially indebted to. The Berlinale expresses its thanks and acknowledgement by bestowing this honour [...]

Awards

12.02.2003: Berlinale Kamera to be awarded to Erika Richter

The Berlinale Kamera is presented to film personalities that the Berlin International Film Festival feels especially indebted to. The Berlinale expresses its thanks and acknowledgement by bestowing this honour [...]

Awards

12.02.2003: Berlinale Kamera to be awarded to Peer Raben

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11.02.2003: -Freedom2speak- Press Release Correction

The Berlin International Film Festival have given ‘freedom2speak’ the opportunity to set up a ‘Speakers Corner’ in the movie theatre CinemaxX. At the ‘Speakers Corner’ festival visitors may express their opinions about the imminent war on Iraq [...]

Awards, Berlinale Shorts

11.02.2003: Short Film Awards 2003

This year’s newly established International Short Film Jury awards prizes for short films screened in the Competition and Panorama sections [...]

Awards

10.02.2003: Berlinale Kamera to be awarded to Artur Brauner

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07.02.2003: Premieres on the Red Carpet at the CineStar

This year, for the first time at the Berlinale, there will be three Red Carpets for the stars, guests and audiences of the Festival [...]

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31.01.2003: New Member of the Jury 2003

Director Idrissa Ouédraogo from Burkina Faso very much regrets that he is unable to attend the 53rd Berlinale as a member of the International Jury, due to post-production problems on his latest film La Colère de Dieu.
Fortunately, African director Abderrahmane Sissako will take Ouédraogo’s place on the Jury [...]

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30.01.2003: Press file for the 53rd Berlin International Filmfestival

The Berlinale 2003 press file for download (only in German) [...]

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28.01.2003: Retrospective to Yasujiro Ozu

The 53rd Berlin International Film Festival 2003 is dedicating a retrospective to the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu marking the 100th anniversary of this great master’s birthday [...]

Additional Information, Berlinale Shorts

28.01.2003: Short films have received their own slot in the programme

The Berlinale has reorganized its short film programme. For the first time there will be a separate short film series and a Short Film Night. A newly established international short film jury will award the first Golden Bear of this year’s festival on February 11 in the Berlinale-Palast. At least two sets of short films are to screen daily in the CinemaxX 6 [...]

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28.01.2003: Special Events

For the second consecutive year, the Official Programme of the Berlin International Film Festival will be enhanced by a series of discussions and other events aimed at industry professionals and the general public. Special Events invites you to interdisciplinary discussions on film and cinema where aesthetic and philosophical questions will play an important role alongside business and industry topics [...]

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28.01.2003: From the Caucasus to Moscow

In New Russian Cinema the Berlinale is presenting a number of newcomers in Eastern European filmmaking [...]

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28.01.2003: Business enterprises support the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival. The Berlinale as a big economic factor for both Germany and the City State of Berlin

This year’s Berlinale has succeeded in securing contributions amounting to more than 1 million Euros in direct financial support as well as many significant benefits in kind from its sponsors. Without such generous assistance, it would not be possible for the Berlinale to be held in its present form [...]

Panorama

24.01.2003: The Panorama Programme 2003 is complete

With 34 feature films, 12 documentaries and 23 short films, the selection for the 18th International Panorama has been concluded. 26 of the full-length films are world premieres, nine are debut works. For the first time the short films will be screened in sets and, together with the short films from the Competition, they will have their own theater, the CinemaxX 6 [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

23.01.2003: 33rd International Forum of New Cinema, Feb. 7 – 16, 2003

The selection of films for the 33rd International Forum of New Cinema has now been completed. With 52 films from 24 countries, the Forum programme once again provides an overview of contemporary independent filmmaking. Directorial debuts by young filmmakers from Argentina, China, Japan, Mozambique, Hungary, the United States and Thailand together make up almost a third of the entire programme. Twenty-six of the films – half of the programme – are world premieres [...]

Competition

22.01.2003: 10 world premieres, stars and new talents – the Competition selection for the Berlinale 2003 is complete

The selection for the Competition programme of the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival has been concluded. A total of 22 films will compete in the Berlinale-Palast for the Golden and Silver Bears. Alongside five films to be shown out of competition, a number of special screenings will complement the Official Programme [...]

Additional Information, Competition

21.01.2003: International Jury of the Berlinale 2003

Festival Director Dieter Kosslick has appointed seven members to the International Jury of the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival 2003. Headed by Canadian director Atom Egoyan, this international group of film experts will select the winners for the Golden and Silver Bears in the Competition [...]

Berlinale Talents

20.01.2003: First Berlinale Talent Campus unites 500 filmmakers from all around the world

Industry and public invited to screenings and discussions with international filmmakers. 500 filmmakers from 61 countries will join the Berlinale Talent Campus, a winter academy of filmmaking, from February 10 to 14, 2003 [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

17.01.2003: Perspektive Deutsches Kino – The selection is complete

Once again eleven films have been chosen for the ten programme slots in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section. This year’s programme also promises to present an attractive mixture of full-length feature and documentary films, and to give an overview of young innovative cinema in Germany [...]

Panorama

17.01.2003: Panorama Dokumente: History and location

The selection for the celebrated Panorama Dokumente series in 2003 is complete. [...]

Generation

16.01.2003: Kinderfilmfest 2003

With 14 full-length feature films und 16 short films, the programme of the 26th Kinderfilmfest of the Berlin International Film Festival will rank among the largest in its history. Four world premieres and six debut features will again substantiate the festival’s national and international appeal [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

13.01.2003: Perspektive Deutsches Kino – it’s the mix that matters

German cinema will again play an important role at the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival. Alongside its renewed strong presence in the Competition, and exciting German film discoveries in the Panorama and Forum sections, the Perspektive Deutsches Kino series will once again offer an attractive programme [...]

Competition

10.01.2003: World premieres, stars, master directors and new discoveries in the Berlinale Competition

19 films from Europe Asia, USA and Africa have already been confirmed for the Competition programme of the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Competition

06.01.2003: Gangs of New York to be final film of the Berlinale 2003

Martin Scorsese’s epic film Gangs of New York will screen on February 15, 2003 at the closing gala of the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival. Its presentation will follow the official award ceremony in the Berlinale-Palast at the Potsdamer Platz [...]

Panorama

20.12.2002: The Panorama of the Berlinale 2003 announces its first films

It has always been the mission of the Panorama section of the Berlinale to discover and inspire films for the coming art house season in Europe. This year's main program will include 18 films, complemented by 16 Panorama Specials and 10 Panorama Dokumente films, as well as 20 Panorama short films [...]

Berlinale Talents

18.12.2002: More than 2.000 young filmmakers from 70 countries want to join Berlinale Talent Campus

Over 2.000 international filmmakers have applied for the first Berlinale Talent Campus (February 10 – 14, 2003), which will take place during the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival. Up to 500 of them will be invited to Berlin [...]

Generation

18.12.2002: A Powerful Kinderfilmfest at the Berlinale 2003

The Kinderfilmfest programme for the Berlinale 2003, according to its new director Thomas Hailer, promises to be both diversified and extraordinary. Beginning this year, the films are again to be selected by a committee whose members include Thomas Hailer, assistant director Maryanne Redpath, actress Beate Jensen and script consultant Beate Völcker [...]

Awards

17.12.2002: Homage and a Golden Bear for Anouk Aimée

The Homage of the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival will be dedicated to the international star of French cinema Anouk Aimée [...]

Competition

13.12.2002: Chicago by Rob Marhall opens Berlinale on February 6, 2003

The 53rd Berlin International Film Festival will open with the Miramax Films Production of the famous Broadway musical Chicago on February 6, 2003 [...]

Awards

11.12.2002: A retrospective for Yasujiro Ozu at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival

December 12, 2003 will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of film director Yasujiro Ozu. On this occasion, the Berlin International Film Festival will devote a retrospective to this master of Japanese cinema. [...]

Berlinale Talents

20.11.2002: Lia van Leer, Wim Wenders and Ken Adam host Berlinale Talent Campus

The renowned film director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, The Million Dollar Hotel) and the production designer Ken Adam (James Bond – Goldfinger, The Madness of King George) will be among the hosts of the Berlinale Talent Campus, the new platform for young filmmakers at the Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Berlinale Talents

16.10.2002: Berlinale Talent Campus – New platform for up-and-coming film talent

“You always remember the first time” is the motto of the first Berlinale Talent Campus which will take place during the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival at the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) [...]

Generation

14.10.2002: Berlinale appoints new Kinderfilmfest director

Thomas Hailer (43) is the new director of the Kinderfilmfest (children's film festival) of the Berlin International Film Festival. Long-time Kinderfilmfest collaborator Maryanne Redpath is deputy director [...]

Additional Information

19.08.2002: Reconception of the Berlinale 2003 and an Initiative for the Public

The 53rd Berlin International Film Festival will be held from February 6 to16, 2003. By deciding to present the Berlinale for 11 days, Festival Director Dieter Kosslick wants to bring out the distinctive profile of this major film event [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

02.08.2002: Berlinale 2003: Retrospective Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

The Retrospective of the Berlinale in February 2003 will be dedicated to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931), the great German director of the silent film era [...]

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05.07.2002: Berlinale at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

On the occasion of the upcoming Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Dieter Kosslick, Director of the Berlin International Film Festival, will be pleased to present the festival’s new representatives for the Central and Eastern European Countries, Ms. Cristina Hoffman and Mr. Nikolaj Nikitin [...]