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16.03.2022: Solidarity with Ukraine

The Berlinale staunchly condemns Russia’s war of aggression, which violates international law, and expresses its solidarity with the people in Ukraine and all those who are campaigning against this war [...]

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24.02.2022: Berlinale Statement on the Invasion of Ukraine

We - festival workers, artists, filmmakers … - think fondly of our friends in Ukraine and we are by their side in a call for peace [...]

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22.02.2022: Successful Berlinale 2022: Flying the Flag for Cinema

On Sunday, February 20, the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival rounded off successfully with numerous audience screenings [...]

Berlinale Talents

22.02.2022: Taking Responsibility and Handing It Over: Berlinale Talents Breaks New Ground for More Sustainable Communication

The 20th anniversary edition of Berlinale Talents ends on a high with alumna and Golden Bear winner Carla Simón (Alcarràs), and having established a clear mission for the future [...]

Awards, Panorama

19.02.2022: Panorama Audience Awards

The audience has voted: The 24th Panorama Audience Award for the best feature film goes to Baqyt (Happiness) by Askar Uzabayev. Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm (Love, Deutschmarks and Death) by Cem Kaya wins in the category Panorama Dokumente [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

18.02.2022: Exceptional Edition of European Film Market Comes to a Successful Conclusion

Results of “EFM Industry Sessions” on Participation and Active Shaping of Industry Change Published [...]

Awards

16.02.2022: The Awards of the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival

All awards of the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Awards, Generation

16.02.2022: Crystal Bears and Prizes of the Juries Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus Awarded

Section prizes awarded [...]

Awards, Perspektive Deutsches Kino

16.02.2022: Heiner Carow Prize Awarded

The Heiner Carow Prize 2022 for the promotion of german cinematic art goes to the Perspektive talent Rafael Starman (cinematography) for Gewalten [...]

Awards, Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage, Berlinale Special

14.02.2022: Isabelle Huppert, Recipient of this Year’s Honorary Golden Bear Unable to Attend the Berlin International Film Festival in Person

The Homage of the Berlinale 2022 is dedicated to French film and stage actor Isabelle Huppert, who is also the recipient of the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement.Unfortunately, today Isabelle Huppert has been tested positive for the coronavirus in Paris and therefore she will not be able to attend the Berlin International Film Festival [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market, Awards

14.02.2022: Projects on the Rise:
Three Cash Prizes and 1,400 Partner Meetings at the Berlinale Co-Production Market

On Monday, three cash prizes were awarded to new feature film projects at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 12 to 16). [...]

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09.02.2022: Festive Opening of the Berlinale 2022

On February 10, the start of the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival will be celebrated in the Berlinale Palast [...]

Artistic Director's Blog

08.02.2022: On Carole Lombard

"Carole Lombard and her colleagues made their way into a hostile, male-dominated territory" [...]

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08.02.2022: The Official Partners of the 72nd Berlinale

The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival is sponsored by principal partners L’Oréal Paris, MagentaTV and ZDF, as well as co-partners Mastercard and rbb and around 20 other national and international companies [...]

Artistic Director's Blog

07.02.2022: "Rosalind Russell embodies an ideal of the modern woman"

On the US American actor, who is part of the 2022 Retrospective "No Angels" [...]

World Cinema Fund

04.02.2022: World Cinema Fund Day on February 16, 2022: Further Developing Decolonising and Funding Strategies in Film

Since its foundation in 2004, the WCF has pledged to play a constructive part in the democratisation of international filmmaking [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

02.02.2022: Embrace Change, Shape the Future: “EFM Industry Sessions” 2022

This year, the European Film Market’s conference programme is entitled SHAPING CHANGE [...]

Berlinale Talents

01.02.2022: Let’s Get to Work – Public Talks with Adam Stockhausen, Ari Wegner, Zazie Beetz, Isabelle Huppert, Jutta Allmendinger, and Many More!

Berlinale Talents opens its doors for the 20th time to celebrate filmmakers and explore new avenues of creativity with the always-welcome involvement of the cinema-loving public [...]

Artistic Director's Blog

01.02.2022: On Mae West

Carlo Chatrian on Mae West's unique and revolutionary art of acting [...]

Encounters, Awards

26.01.2022: Berlinale 2022: Encounters Jury

A three-member jury will choose the winners for Best Film, Best Director and the Special Jury Award. The following were appointed as members of the jury: Chiara Marañón, Ben Rivers und Silvan Zürcher [...]

Generation, Awards

26.01.2022: Jury and Opening Films of Generation

Both competition openings will take place in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, to which Generation is returning again this festival year [...]

Awards, Additional Information

26.01.2022: The 2022 GWFF Best First Feature Award Jury

In total, 18 directorial feature film debuts from the sections Competition, Encounters, Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino are nominated for the GWFF Best First Feature Award [...]

Awards, Additional Information

26.01.2022: Berlinale 2022: Berlinale Documentary Award – Funded by rbb

In total, 18 documentary forms from the sections Berlinale Special, Encounters, Panorama, Forum and Generation are nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award [...]

Competition, Awards

26.01.2022: Berlinale 2022: International Jury

Once again a multitalented International Jury will decide who will take home the Golden and the Silver Bears at the Berlinale 2022. 18 films are competing for the awards in this year’s Competition [...]

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24.01.2022: Berlinale Back Again with Kino im Kiez

From February 12 to 18, 2022, Berlinale Goes Kiez will once again bring selected festival films to arthouse cinemas in and around the region of the capital [...]

Competition

19.01.2022: Berlinale 2022: The Films of the Competition

18 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears [...]

Berlinale Special

19.01.2022: The Berlinale Special Programme 2022

Berlinale Special comprises 15 films from twelve countries, among them six documentary forms and nine feature films as well as two short films. Twelve are world premieres [...]

Encounters

19.01.2022: Encounters 2022

The competitive section Encounters 2022 comprises 15 films, all of which are world premieres. There is one first feature [...]

19.01.2022: Press Dossier for the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival

The press dossier comprises the film selection of the 72nd Berlinale [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

18.01.2022: “Co-Pro Series” 2022 – Ten Extraordinary Series Projects in Search of International Partners

For the eighth time, the Berlinale Co-Production Market is inviting producers, editors, distributors and other series financiers to pitches and meetings at “Co-Pro Series” on February 15 and 16 [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

18.01.2022: Complete New Season of “Berlinale Series Market” Online: Current Trends and Developments in Talks, Screenings and Showcases.

This year, the programme will take place online and will include talk formats, showcases by international production companies, streaming platforms and series events, online screenings and, under the label “Berlinale Series Market Selects”, a curated selection of high-quality series being traded on the market [...]

Panorama

18.01.2022: The 2022 Panorama: Caution! High Voltage!

Some directors in this year’s programme tackle social turmoil with visual verve and an appetite for dramatic gestures, setting a clear example for combative genre cinema that turns social codes upside down [...]

Berlinale Talents

18.01.2022: The Talents of 2022: Filmmakers, Artists and Creatives Form the Community of the 20th Edition of Berlinale Talents

From 12 to 17 February 2022, a new cohort of 200 talents from over 70 countries joins the fold [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

17.01.2022: The Pull of Precisely Observed Matter. The Films of the 52nd Berlinale Forum

The selection process for the 52nd Berlinale Forum made one thing very clear: however much the pandemic may have paralysed life in our societies, filmmakers worldwide have lost none of their inventiveness and artistic desire [...]

Artistic Director's Blog

17.01.2022: Exercises in Resistance

On the uncertainty in times of Corona, the necessity for an in-person festival and the films of the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

17.01.2022: Berlinale Classics: The Programme Will Show Seven World Premieres of Digitally Restored Film Classics and Re-discovered Archive Films

The section celebrates the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s birth with a screening of his Mamma Roma [...]

Artistic Director's Blog

16.01.2022: Meeting Jeanne Dielman

Carlo Chatrian on Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles [...]

Berlinale Series

14.01.2022: Un-familiar Spaces: Berlinale Series 2022

Disillusioned heroes, crime investigations too close to home and that unique humbling experience strictly reserved for human relationships - seven titles comprise the eighth year of Berlinale Series [...]

Generation

14.01.2022: Let‘s Dance

The focus of the overall Generation selection is on young people: how they perceive the world, how they appropriate it or how they oppose it [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

14.01.2022: A Boost for 34 attractive Feature Film Projects: Berlinale Co-Production Market Finds International Partners and Financiers for the Film Hits of Tomorrow

34 selected feature film projects from 32 countries will be presented at the 19th Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 12 to 16) [...]