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27.02.2004: “Berlin in Rome” – The Berlin International Film Festival in the Italian capital

Under the title “Berlino a Roma” a selection of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival films will be screened in Rome. This event, presented by the city of Rome and the capital city cultural centre Auditorium – Parco della Musica will be held between 7 and 9 March 2004 at the Rome’s Auditorium [...]

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

14.02.2004: The Prizes are awarded

Here you find a list of all the prize winners of the 54th Berlin International Filmfestival [...]

Berlinale Talents

14.02.2004: Berlinale Talent Campus Press Release #12

“This is one of the most important initiatives for the future of the Berlinale“ – commented Director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain) about the second Berlinale Talent Campus [...]

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13.02.2004: Berlin in Rome

Under the title “Berlino a Roma” a selection of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival films will be screened in Rome, for the first time, following their premiere at the Festival [...]

Awards

12.02.2004: The Independent Juries Award Ceremony

State Secretary Monika Beck, the official federal representative of Saarland, invites guests and the press to the 54th Berlin International Film Festival Independent Juries Award Ceremony at the Saarland State Offices in Berlin. Both the hostess and Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick will say a few words of welcome [...]

Awards, Competition, Panorama, Forum & Forum Expanded

12.02.2004: FIPRESCI Jury Award Ceremony on February 13, 2004 Fédération Internationale

Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique (FIPRESCI). The International Film Critics Association awards its prize to a film screened in each section of the Official Programme (Competition, Panorama) as well as in Forum. [...]

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10.02.2004: International Short Film Jury

The International Short Film Jury awards prizes for short films screened in the Competition and Panorama sections [...]

Awards

09.02.2004: Berlinale Camera Award to Rolf Bähr February 11, 2004

The Berlinale Camera is awarded to film personalities to whom the Berlin International Film Festival feels particularly indebted. By bestowing this honor, the Berlinale wishes to express its gratitude and appreciation. The Berlinale Camera has been awarded since 1986. This year, for the first time, it will be donated by the jeweler Georg Hornemann from Düsseldorf. At the 54th Berlinal the film commissioner and patron Rolf Bähr is to be honored with this award [...]

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09.02.2004: Dieter Kosslick hosts FIAPF lunch with international film festivals’ directors

Global film producers body FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) today held a lunch with the directors of thirty five of the world’s leading international film festivals [...]

Awards

08.02.2004: Berlinale Camera Award to Erika Rabau – February 10, 2004

The Berlinale Camera is awarded to film personalities to whom the Berlin International Film Festival feels particularly indebted. By bestowing this honor, the Berlinale wishes to express its gratitude and appreciation. The Berlinale Camera has been awarded since 1986. This year, for the first time, it will be donated by the jeweler Georg Hornemann from Düsseldorf. At the 54th Berlinale the photographer Erika Rabau is to be honored with this award [...]

Berlinale Special

07.02.2004: Selling Democracy – Welcome Mr. Marshall

The programme series Selling Democracy – Welcome Mr. Marshall will be opened on Sunday, 8 February at 10:30 am by the curators Sandra Schulberg and Dr. Rainer Rother in CinemaxX 6. There will be a Q&A session about the series following the opening speeches [...]

Awards

06.02.2004: Berlinale Camera Award to Regina Ziegler February 8, 2004

The Berlinale Camera is awarded to film personalities to whom the Berlin International Film Festival feels particularly indebted. By bestowing this honor, the Berlinale wishes to express its gratitude and appreciation. The Berlinale Camera has been awarded since 1986. This year it will be donated for the first time by the jeweler Georg Hornemann from Düsseldorf. At the 54th Berlinale the producer Regina Ziegler is to be honored with a Berlinale Kamera [...]

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06.02.2004: Digital Cinema at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival

Worldwide digitalization has also brought changes to the cinema. Not only are more and more films digitally processed but they are also digitally produced and projected. With the advancement of digital cinema, the Berlin International Film Festival has increasingly turned to using digital projection for its movies. Ten festival cinemas are now equipped with digital projectors [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

05.02.2004: Last-minute entry: Forum to show Jehane Noujaim’s Control Room

The Forum has decided to include Control Room by Jehane Noujaim in its programme as another documentary focussing on the year’s main political topic [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

05.02.2004: New Hollywood 1967–1976. Trouble in Wonderland – Events and Guests at the Retrospective

This year’s Retrospective is expecting five outstanding protagonists from “New Hollywood Cinema” each of whom were heavily involved in this period in their own way: Peter Davis, Peter Fonda, William Greaves, Monte Hellman and Melvin Van Peebles [...]

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05.02.2004: Impressive line up of stars to walk the 54th Berlinale red carpet

Stars from around the world are set to attend the gala opening of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Awards

04.02.2004: Berlinale Camera Award to Willy Sommerfeld / February 6, 2004

The Berlinale Camera is awarded to film personalities to whom the Berlin International Film Festival feels particularly indebted. By bestowing this honor, the Berlinale wants to express its gratitude and appreciation. The Berlinale Camera has been awarded since 1986. This year it will be donated for the first time by the jeweler Georg Hornemann from Düsseldorf. At the 54th Berlinale the pianist Willy Sommerfeld is to be honored with this award [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

04.02.2004: Pre-festival Laurels: Two Perspektive Deutsches Kino Films Win Prestigious Awards

Just one week before the beginning of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival, two films from the series Perspektive Deutsches Kino made a big splash in Saarbrücken und Rotterdam: Muxmäuschenstill, actor Marcus Mittermeier's directing debut, and Unterwegs – a production from Berlin by director Jan Krüger, who comes from Cologne [...]

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30.01.2004: Berlinale Opening Gala to be Broadcast – Live in 5 Cinemas across Germany

Everyone coming to the Berlin International Film Festival has every reason to be as happy as a “bear”. Even Berlinale fans who are unable to make it to the capital now have cause to rejoice: the 54th Berlin International Film Festival opening ceremony on February 5 will be broadcast live for the first time in the history of the Berlinale in selected cinemas in Munich, Nuremberg, Cologne, Dettelbach and Hamburg [...]

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30.01.2004: Press file for the 54th Berlin International Filmfestival

The Berlinale 2004 press file for download (only in German) [...]

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29.01.2004: Berlinale 2004 Live on the Internet

Good news for all Berlinale fans: for the first time you will be able to keep up with many of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival events live or in our archive via video streaming at www.berlinale.de [...]

Panorama

28.01.2004: Berlinale 2004: Panorama Dokumente

Panorama would like to confirm another – final – documentary, one which will contribute further to shaping the festival’s special focus on Latin America. The Panorama now comprises 17 documentaries, alongside 17 fiction films in the Panorama’s main program as well as 17 in the Special series [...]

Additional Information, Berlinale Special

27.01.2004: Berlinale Special

The International Film Festival has created a new series in its Official Programme: the Berlinale Special. In it the latest works of great filmmakers will be screened as well as reshowings of important film works, and productions related to the Festival’s special focuses or to particularly explosive political topics [...]

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26.01.2004: Berlinale Film Talk – Art, Glamour and the Industry

Watching and talking about films: not only the actual screenings, but also opinions, conversations and – some pretty hot – disputes about the cinema are part of every festival [...]

Awards

26.01.2004: Berlinale Camera Awards

Berlinale Special

26.01.2004: Berlinale 2004: Selling Democracy – Welcome Mr. Marshall

After World War II, western European countries received not only economic but also cultural and psychological aid from the USA. June 1947 marked the start of the Marshall Plan – officially entitled the “European Recovery Program“ – which gave 16 European states financial and economic support, including food, raw materials and machines [...]

Panorama

23.01.2004: Panorama Selection Concluded

In its main program and the series Special, Dokumente and Short Films, the Panorama is presenting 34 features, 16 documentaries and 26 short films. 32 countries were distinctly involved in their production. Twelve works are directing debuts. 14 films are to be digitally projected, two of them in High Definition. The works are screening as world premieres (25), international premieres or as European premieres outside their countries of origin [...]

Berlinale Shorts

22.01.2004: Giving All for a Genre: The Short Film Competition Is Complete

Due to its form, the short film constitutes a perfect place for experimentation, for forging new talents and innovation. Alongside young filmmakers who are able to evolve their styles in short films, established feature film directors also enjoy returning to this genre [...]

Panorama

22.01.2004: Panorama Dokumente 2004: Politics Alert

Woody Harrelson and a political satire on the WTO, Latin America, Karmakar, Palestinian children, Iranian women, the homeless in Hollywood, women on the different sides of wars and conflicts, Europe's center, young actors, Bruce Weber, Klaus Nomi, The Ramones - the Dokumente program of the 19th Panorama will offer a dense profusion of possibilities for exploration and debate during the festival [...]

Competition

21.01.2004: Berlinale 2004: Competition Selection Now Complete

The selection of films for the Competition of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival is now complete. 23 of the 26 films screening in the Competition will compete for the Bears. The other three will be shown out of competition. The films are from eighteen countries; nineteen are world premieres, two are directing debuts [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

20.01.2004: International Forum of New Cinema 2004: Looking ahead

The selection of films for the 34th International Forum of New Cinema has now been completed. An extensive programme of works from 23 countries presents new focuses, little-known filmmaking countries and many debuts from around the globe [...]

Competition

20.01.2004: Berlinale Confirms a Second Competition Entry from Germany

The Berlinale has now confirmed a second Competition entry from Germany: director Fatih Akin will present the world premiere of his latest film Gegen die Wand (Head-On) [...]

Awards

20.01.2004: Berlinale 2004: An Honorary Golden Bear for Fernando Solanas

This year the 54th Berlin International Film Festival will award the world-renown Argentinean filmmaker Fernando Solanas an Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement [...]

Generation

20.01.2004: Berlinale: Kinderfilmfest and 14plus Confirm Programme for 2004

The programme of the 27th Kinderfilmfest is now complete, more than two weeks before the festival begins. This year’s Kinderfilmfest competition and the new 14plus competition will include a total of 20 feature films and 19 short film productions from 24 countries [...]

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19.01.2004: The Berlinale Confirms the International Jury

Which competition film or participant will take home a Golden or Silver Berlin Bear at the end of the Berlinale 2004 is decided by the International Jury. In 2004 this committee will again consist of seven international film experts from a variety of disciplines. This year’s President of the Jury is Frances McDormand, an Academy Award winner and star of independent film [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

17.01.2004: Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Young, Innovative Cinema

In its third year the focus of Perspektive Deutsches Kino on young, innovative cinema “Made in Germany” has become even broader. “This series also allows us to show films which – due to their unusual formats – would not fit into other festivals’ programmes [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

16.01.2004: Dialogue en perspective - A New Initiative at the Berlinale

At the 54th Berlin International Film Festival a further component has been established for promoting cultural understanding between Germany and France [...]

Berlinale Talents

16.01.2004: Berlinale Talent Campus Press Release #9

An explosive, creative mixture: 520 film talents from 84 countries were able to qualify for the Berlinale Talent Campus 2004 with the samples of their work (films, scripts and sound) they submitted. They will now meet internationally acclaimed professional filmmakers, for example Eleanor Bergstein, Anthony Minghella, Walter Murch, Nicolas Philibert, Zbigniew Preisner, Alan Parker and Wim Wenders [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

16.01.2004: Rotterdam-Berlinale Express 2004: Rotterdam’s CineMart and the new Berlinale Co-Production Market collaborate

The Berlin International Film Festival and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR, January 21 – February 1, 2004) will continue with the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express. Five CineMart 2004 projects will be presented during the Berlinale Co-Production Market, which will take place on Sunday, February 8, and Monday, February 9, 2004 [...]

Competition

15.01.2004: A Universe of World Premieres Minghella’s Cold Mountain Will Open the Festival

Love and war are the eternal themes of the cinema, and they will also usher in the Berlinale on February 5: Cold Mountain – an epos about the American Civil War by Anthony Minghella which is already being treated as a hot contender for the Oscar – is to be the first highlight of the festival [...]