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Berlinale Shorts

14.01.2019: Berlinale Shorts: Programme Complete for 2019

At the 2019 edition of Berlinale Shorts, 24 films from 17 countries will be competing for the Golden and Silver Bear, the Audi Short Film Award (endowed with 20,000 euros) and a nomination as “Berlin Short Film Candidate for the European Film Awards 2019” [...]

Generation

11.01.2019: Generation 2019: Giving the Oppressed a Voice

Selected from a pool of nearly 2,500 submissions, a total of 62 short and feature-length films from 36 production and co-production countries will be presented in the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus programmes [...]

Competition, Berlinale Special

10.01.2019: Competition and Berlinale Special: Agnès Varda, Agnieszka Holland, Hans Petter Moland, Isabel Coixet and Wang Quan'an in the Competition Programme / Feature Film Debut of Chiwetel Ejiofor in the Berlinale Special

Another 11 films have now been invited to the Competition of the 69th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival. Six more have also been selected for the programme of the Berlinale Special [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

10.01.2019: Berlinale Co-Production Market: Bringing Together Partners for 37 New Feature Film Projects

From February 9 to 13, 2019, the 16th edition of Berlinale Co-Production Market invites 600 international producers and financiers to come together to explore new partnerships [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

09.01.2019: Berlinale Classics – Final Line-Up of Six Films

A total of six Berlinale Classics will be screening as part of the Retrospective at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Berlinale Talents

08.01.2019: Sustainably Good: These Are the 250 Participants

Make a statement, take a position: From February 9 to 14, 2019, 250 up-and-coming film professionals from 77 countries will gather at Berlinale Talents to share ideas, network, and further develop their latest projects [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

08.01.2019: Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2019: Coming of Age

Perspektive Deutsches Kino is coming of age. For the past 18 years, the Berlinale has dedicated itself with this section to supporting promising German filmmakers and talents who are self-confidently searching for their own form of artistic expression [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

20.12.2018: “Easy Love Is No Easy Love”— Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2019 to Open With easy love By Tamer Jandali

The first six films have now been invited to participate in Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2019. And this time everything revolves around love: love of another person, love of a special place, love of the cinema, love of one’s faith, and love of life [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

20.12.2018: The 14th Forum Expanded: New spaces, more time

The 14th Forum Expanded is moving to a new location: The silent green Kulturquartier will open a new Berlin exhibition venue and the Forum Expanded group exhibition, which has been taking place annually since 2006, will be the inaugural event [...]

Generation

19.12.2018: Generation 2019: Hell-bent Women – On Both Sides of the Camera

In the run-up to the 42nd edition of Generation, so far 16 feature-length films from a total of 16 production and co-production countries have been invited to screen in the section’s two competitions, Kplus and 14plus [...]

Additional Information

19.12.2018: Berlinale Poster 2019

After years of mystery, the current series of motifs will reveal the secret behind the Berlinale’s heraldic animal [...]

Panorama

18.12.2018: First Half of the Programme for Panorama 2019 Complete: Joanna Hogg, Jenna Bass, Jonah Hill, Syllas Tzoumerkas and PJ Harvey Among the Highlights

Section head Paz Lázaro and co-curator and programme manager Michael Stütz are delighted to announce the first 22 titles of the 2019 Panorama programme. 17 feature and five documentary films, representing a total of 21 production countries, have already been invited to screen at the festival [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

17.12.2018: An Established Forum for Innovation and Transformation: European Film Market (EFM) Already Fully Booked for 2019 Edition

The European Film Market (EFM) of the 69th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival is scheduled to take place from February 7 to 15 [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

17.12.2018: Homage and Honorary Golden Bear for Charlotte Rampling

The 69th Berlin International Film Festival will award the Honorary Golden Bear to British film and stage actress Charlotte Rampling for her lifetime achievement, as well as dedicating the Homage to a selection of her films [...]

Competition, Berlinale Special

13.12.2018: Berlinale 2019: François Ozon, Marie Kreutzer, Denis Côté, Fatih Akin, Angela Schanelec, and Emin Alper in the Competition / Heinrich Breloer, Zoya Akhtar and Charles Ferguson in the Berlinale Special

The first nine films have been selected for the Competition and the Berlinale Special of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Berlinale Shorts

12.12.2018: Berlinale Shorts Introduces the 2019 International Short Film Jury: Jeffrey Bowers, Vanja Kaludjercic und Koyo Kouoh

Senior Curator and Vimeo programmer from the USA, Jeffrey Bowers; MUBI’s Director of Acquisitions, Vanja Kaludjercic from Croatia; and Koyo Kouoh, founding artistic director of RAW Material Company from Senegal, make up the International Short Film Jury in 2019 [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

12.12.2018: Berlinale Classics — First Films Announced, Directed by Dominik Graf, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Márta Mészáros

The Berlinale Classics section of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival will present six premieres of digitally restored films. Three of those classics have already been chosen [...]

Competition

11.12.2018: Juliette Binoche will head the 2019 Berlinale International Jury

The French actress and Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche will serve as president of the International Jury at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. [...]

Competition

06.12.2018: The Kindness of Strangers by Lone Scherfig will open the 69th Berlinale

The 69th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 7, 2019 with the world premiere of Lone Scherfig’s newest film The Kindness of Strangers. [...]

Berlinale Talents

29.11.2018: Berlinale Talents: No Talent’s Perfect

How to fail better: In its 17th year, Berlinale Talents is looking for mistakes [...]

World Cinema Fund

16.11.2018: Berlinale World Cinema Fund: Funding Recommendations for Projects from Lebanon, Paraguay, Turkey, Costa Rica, Venezuela, the Philippines, Tunisia, Burkina Faso and Kenya

At the 29th jury session of the World Cinema Fund (WCF), the juries recommended contributing to the funding of 13 film projects [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

13.11.2018: Retrospective 2019 – “Self-determined. Perspectives of women filmmakers”

The Retrospective of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival takes as its subject women filmmakers between 1968 and 1999 [...]

Additional Information, Berlinale Shorts

07.11.2018: Berlinale Spotlight: Shorts

In November and December 2018, Berlinale short films will be travelling to India for the sixth year running [...]

World Cinema Fund

25.10.2018: Berlinale Spotlight: World Cinema Fund at the “Around the World in 14 Films” Festival

For many years now, the Berlinale has extended its presence beyond the festival season with specially curated programmes. These activities are known as Berlinale Spotlight. On November 25, the World Cinema Fund (WCF) - the Berlinale’s funding initiative - will be a guest at Berlin’s “Around the World in 14 Films” festival [...]

Competition

15.10.2018: Berlinale 2019: Series at the Zoo Palast: The collaboration continues

After successfully bringing together the Berlinale Series programme and the EFM industry event “Drama Series Days” at the Zoo Palast in 2018, preparations are now underway for 2019. [...]

Generation

10.09.2018: Berlinale Spotlight: Generation in Japan

Together with the Nara International Film Festival, which is headed by film director Naomi Kawase, the Berlinale Generation section is presenting five feature films from previous Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus competition programmes [...]

Additional Information

04.09.2018: Dieter Kosslick Honoured With Special Medallion in Telluride

Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick was honoured with the Special Medallion on September 2, 2018 at the 45th Telluride Film Festival [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

27.08.2018: Until October 10, experienced producers from around the world may submit new feature-length film projects in need of co-producers and financiers to the 16th Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 9 - 13, 2019). 2019: Submit Feature Film Projects and Series Projects Now and Find International Partners

Until October 10, experienced producers from around the world may submit new feature-length film projects in need of co-producers and financiers to the 16th Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 9 - 13, 2019). [...]

Additional Information

22.08.2018: Berlinale Spotlight in Dhaka

On the occasion of the Dhaka DocLab (August 31 - September 5, 2018) the Berlin International Film Festival will present a Berlinale Spotlight in Bangladesh [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

06.08.2018: Berlinale Spotlight: Perspektive Deutsches Kino

In Berlin, from late August to mid-December 2018, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, the Berlinale’s section for new young talents, will present five films and their directors from this year’s programme [...]

World Cinema Fund

18.07.2018: Berlinale World Cinema Fund: Latest Funding Recommendations

At the 28th jury session of the World Cinema Fund (WCF), the juries recommended contributing to the funding of 13 film projects [...]

Additional Information

05.07.2018: Berlinale Mourns the Loss of Claude Lanzmann

French director and author Claude Lanzmann has passed away [...]

Additional Information

04.07.2018: Dieter Kosslick to Be First Recipient of Force-of-Nature Filmmaking Award

In 2018 the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab in Jerusalem — a programme to promote filmmakers’ projects launched by the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in 2011 — is presenting the Force-of-Nature Filmmaking Award for the first time [...]

Additional Information

03.07.2018: Berlinale Summer Spotlight: Open-Air Screenings of Prize-Winning Films

It’s becoming a tradition: if you missed the highlights of the Berlinale in February, you’ll have a chance to see the films before they open in cinemas at radioeins Freiluftkino Friedrichshain in Berlin from July 19 to 22, 2018 [...]

Additional Information

22.06.2018: Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek appointed as new directors of the Berlinale

Grütters: New leadership team will keep the Berlinale in the Champions League of film festivals beyond 2020 [...]

Additional Information

22.06.2018: Dieter Kosslick welcomes the newly appointed directors of the Berlinale

A very hearty welcome to the new Berlinale directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

15.06.2018: The Arsenal Board of Directors to Take On the Interim Leadership of the 2019 Berlinale Forum

Joint press release by the Berlin International Film Festival and Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art e.V.The board of directors of Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art e.V., which consists of Milena Gregor, Birgit Kohler and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, is to take on the interim leadership of the 2019 Forum [...]

Additional Information

07.06.2018: The Berlinale Mourns the Loss of Kira Muratova

Russian-Ukrainian director Kira Muratova passed away on June 6, 2018 at the age of 83 in Odessa, Ukraine [...]

Additional Information

08.05.2018: The Berlinale Mourns the Loss of Ermanno Olmi

After a long battle with illness, Italian film director and screenwriter Ermanno Olmi passed away on May 7, 2018, at the age of 86 [...]

Additional Information

27.04.2018: The Berlinale Congratulates the Winners of the German Film Awards

“Congratulations to all the winners of the German Film Awards! We are especially pleased that so many films that premiered at the Berlinale have won awards,” says Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick. [...]