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25.02.2008: Five Oscars for Berlinale Stars and Films

“We are delighted and warmly congratulate Marion Cotillard, Daniel Day-Lewis and director Stefan Ruzowitzky to their Oscars,” says Festival Director Dieter Kosslick to the presentation of the prestigious trophies Sunday night [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

19.02.2008: 2008 European Film Market: Record Turnout and Bountiful Deals

The European Film Market (EFM) can report upbeat results at the conclusion of the first major business event of the year. In 2008, the EFM hosted a record number of exhibitors, sales agents and industry professionals at two venues, the Martin Gropius Bau and the EFM Exhibitor Offices, as well as presented close to 1,100 screenings in cinemas around Potsdamer Platz [...]

Awards, Perspektive Deutsches Kino

16.02.2008: Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Drifter from Sebastian Heidinger wins “Dialogue en perspective”

A young German-French jury from TV5MONDE and the German-French Youth Office (GFYO) will award the independent prize for the fifth time at this year’s 58th Berlin International Film Festival. This year, the film Drifter from Sebastian Heidinger received the prize [...]

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16.02.2008: The 58th Berlin International Film Festival comes to a successful close: Music, Stars and Grand Emotions

The 58th Berlin International Film Festival comes to a glamorous close with the Award Ceremony on Saturday, February 16. 1.600 guests are invited to the ceremony in the Berlinale Palast where, from 7 pm onwards, the International Jury, presided by jury president Costa-Gavras, will announce the winners of the Golden and the Silver Bears, as well as the Best First Feature Award [...]

Generation

16.02.2008: Berlinale 2008: Crystal Bears and Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Awards in Generation Kplus

The members of the Kinderjury Generation Kplus Justus Paul Bauch, Jana Marie Bussmann, Jesper Ole Ebbert, Tita-Antonia Hagen, Carl-Ludwig Hausl, Ntozake Iglesias, Max Kressner, Lisa Frederike Lassen, Joelle Marianek, Lino Steinwärder und Nina-Liliht Völsch give the following awards: [...]

Awards, Panorama

16.02.2008: PanoramaAudienceAward 2008

The audience has decided: the 10th PanoramaAudienceAward, sponsored by Radioeins of RBB, Berlin-Brandenburg’s public radio and television broadcasting station, and Berlin’s city magazine tip in collaboration with the Berlinale’s Panorama section – goes to Lemon Tree (Israel/Germany/France 2008) directed by Eran Riklis [...]

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

16.02.2008: The Awards of the 58th Berlin International Film Festival

All the awards – official and independent juries – of the 58th Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Awards, Generation

15.02.2008: Berlinale 2008: Crystal Bears in the Generation14plus

The members of the Youth Jury in the Generation 14plus Roman Akbar, Zadora Enste, Hans Hirsch, Nora Kubach, Zoe Martin, Linda Moog and Lavan Vasuthevan give the following awards: [...]

Berlinale Talents

15.02.2008: The Campus wins hearts The Berlinale Talent Campus #6 comes to a successful close

On Thursday, the Berlinale Talent Campus #6 marked the end of another successful edition with a closing ceremony and announcement of the winner of this year’s Volkswagen Score Competition [...]

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14.02.2008: Film 2.0 – The Future of the Film Industry in the Age of Wikinomics and Games

More than 350 international media experts attended the second Berlinale Keynotes organized by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Berlin International Film Festival and held in the Palmenhof at Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz on Tuesday [...]

Awards, Berlinale Shorts

12.02.2008: Award Winners of the Berlinale Shorts

The members of the International Short Film Jury Marc Barbé (France), Ada Solomon (Romania), Laura Tonke (Germany) award the following prizes: [...]

Berlinale Talents

10.02.2008: Opening of the Berlinale Talent Campus #6 with Dieter Kosslick, Dorothee Wenner, Stephen Daldry and Gustavo Santaolalla -Match Factor by Maheen Zia from Pakistan winner of the Berlin Today Award 2008

Yesterday evening (Saturday, Feb 9) festival director Dieter Kosslick and Campus director Dorothee Wenner opened the Berlinale Talent Campus 2008 before a crowd of ca. 600 invited guests in the Hebbel am Ufer theatre, HAU 1. Until Feb 14, 350 Talents from about 100 countries will meet with international experts to learn from their experience in workshops and discussion-based events [...]

Competition

07.02.2008: International Jury

With profound regret, Susanne Bier and Sandrine Bonnaire have announced at the last moment they will be unable to participate on the jury [...]

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06.02.2008: A Dazzling Opening Night for the 58th Berlinale

With the world premiere of the Rolling Stones concert film, Shine a Light by Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese, the 58th Berlin International Film Festival will open tomorrow, February 7, 2008. Director Martin Scorsese, and Stones Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood are all coming to Berlin to attend this big event [...]

World Cinema Fund

04.02.2008: Berlinale 2008 – World Cinema Fund: We Can Do More!

On February 13, 2008, the World Cinema Fund (WCF) of the Berlinale invites WCF directors and producers as well as international representatives of the film branch and the press to a panel event. Under the heading “How to Optimize Our Potential / New Strategies for Cooperation und Funding”, the WCF’s strategic goals and current measures, as well as its experiences and results so far will be discussed [...]

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31.01.2008: Berlinale Keynotes 2008: The Age of Collaboration?

At this year’s Berlinale Keynotes, members of the digital media avant-garde – including top producers from the international games industry, Wikinomics pioneers and Open Movie directors – will discuss some of the most challenging questions facing the film industry [...]

Competition

29.01.2008: Berlinale 2008: International Jury

This year, eight international film experts and stars will decide who is to take home the Golden Bear and the Silver Bears. Jury President Costa-Gavras (France) is one of the most renowned figures of dedicated, political filmmaking. His international breakthrough came in 1969 with the political thriller Z, which won him two Academy Awards [...]

Awards

29.01.2008: Berlinale Camera for Karlheinz Böhm and Otto Sander

Since 1986, the Berlin International Film Festival has presented the Berlinale Camera to film personalities or institutions to which it feels particularly indebted and wishes to express its thanks with this award [...]

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29.01.2008: Press file for the 58th Berlin International Filmfestival

The Berlinale 2008 press dossier, detailed film lists of all sections and the programme of the Berlinale Talent Campus can be downloaded here (only in German) [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

29.01.2008: Berlinale 2008: Seven young German and French film fans will award the independent prize “Dialogue en perspective”

For the fifth time the international Francophone TV channel TV5MONDE, official partner of the Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale and the German-French Youth Office (FGYO) have asked German and French film fans to apply for the jury to award the prize “Dialogue en perspective” [...]

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25.01.2008: Berlinale 2008: Prize for Best First Feature Award

The Berlinale has been even more committed to supporting the next generation of film makers since 2006, when it introduced the Best First Feature Award. This year again, a dedicated, three-person international jury will decide on the best debut film. The award is endowed with 50,000 Euros, donated by the GWFF (Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrecht), a society dedicated to safeguarding film and television rights [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

24.01.2008: The Special Screenings of the 38th Forum: extraordinary documents, cinematic excavations, and intoxicating film

The long-term reportage Obcan Havel (Citizen Havel) follows the term of office of former Czech President Václav Havel in an unprecedented intimacy with the private side of political activity. In 1993, at the start of Havel’s first presidency, filmmaker Pavel Koutecký began the project that would accompany him and Havel for more than a decade [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

24.01.2008: Berlinale Co-Production Market: “Books at Berlinale” – Film Rights for Ten International Book Titles

Ten book titles have been selected for presentation on February 12 during the Berlinale Co-Production Market. Producers interested in the film rights can discuss matters on location with right holders [...]

Panorama

23.01.2008: Berlinale 2008: With 50 Films, the Panorama is Now Complete

This year’s Panorama will present 17 feature films in its main programme, 15 in Panorama Special and 18 in its Panorama Dokumente series. 31 of these films are world premieres and 17 directorial debuts [...]

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21.01.2008: Special Berlinale Series to Mark the 40th Anniversary of Berlin’s Vietnam Congress: “War at Home” – The Vietnam War in U.S. Cinema

In February 1968 the Socialist German Student Association (SDS) staged the ‘Vietnam Congress’ in Berlin. This event marked the beginning of the student protest movement which went down in history as ‘May 1968’. The congress triggered the German student movement which gradually switched its main focus from the war in the Middle East to concentrate on the young Federal Republic and its own post-war history [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

21.01.2008: Film and video experiments, exhibitions and performances: Forum expanded continues to probe the boundaries of cinema

For the third time, Forum expanded will accompany the Forum with exhibitions, films and video programs, performances, and discussions. More than fifty artists, filmmakers, musicians and performers are represented from over ten countries [...]

Additional Information, Berlinale Special

18.01.2008: Berlinale Special 2008

The Berlinale Special is a part of the Festival’s official programme and presents recent works by contemporary filmmakers whose films the Berlinale would like to honour. This blend of remembrance, information and experiment will screen at two main venues: the Filmpalast on Kurfürstendamm and the International on the Karl-Marx-Allee [...]

Competition

18.01.2008: Berlinale Competition 2008 Complete: Eight More Films

The Competition programme of the 58th Berlin International Film Festival is complete. In addition to the 18 titles already announced (press releases: Dec. 10, 2007, Jan. 9 and 15, 2008), the final eight Competition titles have been confirmed. The selection now includes the following production countries: Belgium, Germany, Finland, France, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Poland, Israel, Canada, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Iran, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the People’s Republic of China, as well as Hong Kong, China [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

17.01.2008: World-spanning young cinema: The programme of the 38th Forum comprises films from 33 countries, including 32 world and international premieres

The 38th Forum of the Berlinale is showing a truly world-spanning and diverse programme with films from 33 countries and all continents. One emphasis again this year is the experimental, unconventional, imaginative work of young filmmakers; the programme presents a total of 16 directorial debuts. A conspicuous number of films adopt the perspective of children and young people – in a world where often there is no more childhood [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

17.01.2008: EFM Industry Debates 2008 – Drive Your Business Into The Future

The European Film Market (EFM) and its official main partner and sponsor Arts Alliance Media (AAM), are presenting the EFM Industry Debates. Building on the success of last year’s collaboration, this year’s debates will deal with the opportunities and challenges of digital film distribution and sales [...]

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16.01.2008: Berlinale 2008: Creative Sponsors and Loyal Partners

“The Berlinale’s positive development in recent years would have been inconceivable without the continued financial and creative support of our sponsors. We are particularly pleased to be celebrating the tenth anniversary of our partnership with L’ORÉAL PARiS in 2008. Volkswagen, ZDF and Hugo Boss have also supported the Festival for many years now. And as new and competent co-partner, we are delighted to welcome Vanity Fair, with its knowledge of film and the industry, on board.” Dieter Kosslick [...]

Panorama

16.01.2008: Genre Formats Dominate the Panorama Programme

The selection for the Panorama is almost complete. Some 50 films will be screening in the Panorama Special, Panorama main programme and Panorama Dokumente. Alongside the strong showing of auteur films typical for the Panorama, the return of more classic narrative forms can be observed in 2008 and thus the clear presence of films whose stories are conveyed by a variety of genre formats [...]

Berlinale Talents

15.01.2008: Together with the Federal Foreign Office: Africa in Focus of the Campus 2008 – Berlinale Talent Campus #6, February 9 – 14, 2008

The Berlinale Talent Campus together with the Federal Foreign Office will launch a new initiative. “FOCUS AFRICA“ will take an in-depth look at contemporary filmmaking in Africa [...]

Berlinale Shorts

15.01.2008: Berlinale 2008: Berlinale Shorts Presents Programme and Jury – 29 short films, including 11 Competition entries

The award ceremony for the Berlinale Shorts section will be held on February 12. By then the jury, with Romanian producer Ada Solomon, French actor-director Marc Barbé and Germany’s talented young actress Laura Tonke, will have seen and evaluated 29 films [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

15.01.2008: Programme of Perspektive Deutsches Kino Complete

With the invitation of three more feature-length films and two documentaries, as well as a medium-length work from a film academy, the programme of Perspektive Deutsches Kino of the 58th Berlin International Film Festival is complete [...]

Competition

15.01.2008: World Premiere of Martin Scorsese’s Shine A Light to open the 58th Berlin International Film Festival

The Rolling Stones concert film Shine A Light from Oscar® winning director Martin Scorsese will open the festival on February 7, 2008 with the director and band in attendance [...]

Generation

14.01.2008: Berlinale 2008: Generation Programme Complete

The selection for Generation – the Berlinale section for children and youth – has been finalised. 24 feature and 31 short films from 20 countries will be screening this year. This includes eight world and seven international feature film premieres [...]

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14.01.2008: Berlinale-Kindergarten 2008 now also open for the public

For two years now the Berlinale has been offering child-care services for accredited festival guests in the Berlinale Kindergarten, at the Gemäldegalerie (Old Master Paintings) at Potsdamer Platz. This service has been enthusiastically received and will for the first time be available for the Berlinale public in 2008 [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

11.01.2008: European Film Market 2008 Expands Rapidly – More than 400 Companies from 50 Countries

Just a few weeks before the Berlinale begins, the European Film Market (EFM) 2008 can report a positive trend: companies from 50 countries will participate in the first big industry event of the year (February 7 to 17, 2008) and present themselves at the exhibition venues in the Martin-Gropius-Bau and the “EFM Exhibitor Offices” [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

11.01.2008: Berlinale Co-Production Market: Exciting New Projects for Co-Producers and Investors – and Another Film in the Competition

At the fifth Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 10-12, 2008), a selection of 35 film projects from 25 countries will be presented. Their producers are looking for international investors and co-production partners [...]