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14.01.2022: Between Image and Reality

On the 2022 guest of the Homage Isabelle Huppert [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

13.01.2022: Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2022: An Echo of the Past

For the first time in 2022, the programme will feature in addition to six female directors and a male director, Perspektive talents from the fields of documentary filmmaking, camera, editing, production and production design [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

13.01.2022: An Awareness of History. Nine Film Programmes Showing as a Forum Special

This year, a Forum Special consisting of nine film programmes complements the main programme of the independent section of the Berlinale [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

13.01.2022: Forum Expanded: Closer to the Ground

Moving closer to the ground, getting to the bottom of things, looking and hearing with precision, perceiving what’s happening close by, oft-unnoticed: these are the ideas that inform the 17th edition of Forum Expanded [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

13.01.2022: “Books at Berlinale” at Berlinale Co-Production Market – Ten Chosen Books to Be Pitched For Film or Series Adaptation

On February 14, the Berlinale Co-Production Market, in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse, will present ten exceptional books particularly suitable for literary adaptation in "Books at Berlinale" [...]

Berlinale Shorts

13.01.2022: 2022 Berlinale Shorts: Close-Ups of the Bigger Picture

With their fearless subjectivity, the filmmakers of the Berlinale Shorts invite us to see the world through their eyes [...]

Competition, Additional Information

12.01.2022: Peter von Kant by François Ozon Opens the 2022 Berlinale

The film which stars Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla is part of the international Competition and will celebrate its world premiere on February 10, 2022, at the Berlinale Palast [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market, World Cinema Fund, Berlinale Talents, Additional Information

12.01.2022: Berlinale 2022: Festival With New Concept for In-Person Event / European Film Market, Berlinale Co-Production Market, Berlinale Talents and World Cinema Fund digital

The Berlinale is still planning an in-person festival. But due to the current pandemic conditions, the European Film Market 2022 will be realised purely digitally [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

17.12.2021: European Film Market 2022: Exhibition Spaces Largely Booked Out / SHAPING CHANGE: “EFM Industry Sessions” Call on the Film and Media Industry to Jointly Shape the Future

The central platform for trading in rights to films and audiovisual content makes Berlin the meeting place for producers, distributors, and sales agents from all around the world [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

17.12.2021: Berlinale Classics 2022 Will Present the World Premiere of the Digitally Restored Version of Werner Hochbaum’s Silent Film Classic Brüder (Brothers)

Berlin composer Martin Grütter created the new music for the film, which will be played by the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Raphael Haeger [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

17.12.2021: Berlinale 2022: Retrospective “No Angels – Mae West, Rosalind Russell & Carole Lombard” shows the world premiere of a 4K restoration

The Berlinale Retrospective “No Angels – Mae West, Rosalind Russell & Carole Lombard” was postponed due to the pandemic and will now be presented at the 72nd Berlinale in February [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

16.12.2021: Homage and Honorary Golden Bear for Isabelle Huppert at the 2022 Berlinale

The Homage section of the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival will be dedicated to French film and stage actor Isabelle Huppert, who will be awarded an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement [...]

Panorama

15.12.2021: Panorama 2022: The First 13 Titles Confirmed

“The films confirmed so far herald a contemporary, unsparing but also conciliatory cinema in the 2022 Panorama,” observes section head Michael Stütz [...]

Berlinale Special

15.12.2021: First Films Confirmed for the Berlinale Special

So far, seven films have been invited [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

15.12.2021: Forum Expanded: First Works Confirmed

The first works selected for the film programme give an impression of the wide range of cinematic approaches indicative of the section [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

15.12.2021: Spaces for Experimentation: The First Ten Titles of the Forum 2022

“Various films from this year’s programme explore questions relating to post-pandemic art, at times in playful fashion and at others in more observational, analytical style. And it is possible to see in various ways how pandemic conditions intervene in the filmmaking process itself or even shape it from the very beginning,” comments Cristina Nord [...]

Generation

15.12.2021: Generation 2022: Words Don't Come Easy

The ten feature-length films and seven short films that have been selected for the programme thus far stand out for the unconventionality and willpower of their protagonists [...]

Additional Information

10.12.2021: The 2022 Berlinale Key Design

The key design was once again created by the Berlin-based graphic designer Claudia Schramke [...]

Berlinale Talents

06.12.2021: “Labours of Cinema” – The Theme of the 20th Berlinale Talents

20 editions, 10,000 alumni, seven hubs from Beirut to Buenos Aires and a yearly tally of more than 100 former participants with films in the festival: the Berlinale’s talent development initiative has a lot to celebrate [...]

World Cinema Fund

12.11.2021: Berlinale World Cinema Fund: Eleven New Funding Recommendations

In the 35th jury session of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), the juries made eleven funding recommendations for projects from Afghanistan, Argentina, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Lebanon, Mongolia, Paraguay, Peru and Vietnam [...]

World Cinema Fund

12.11.2021: Berlinale Spotlight: World Cinema Fund at “Around the World in 14 Films”

Since 2018, the Berlinale funding initiative World Cinema Fund (WCF) has presented a Berlinale Spotlight every year at the Berlin film festival “Around the World in 14 Films” (December 2-11, 2021) [...]

Competition

19.10.2021: M. Night Shyamalan to Become Jury President of the Berlinale 2022

Screenwriter, director and producer M. Night Shyamalan will serve as president of the International Jury at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Additional Information, European Film Market & Co-Production Market, Berlinale Talents, World Cinema Fund

07.10.2021: Berlinale 2022 To Be an In-Person Event

The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 10 to 20, 2022 as an in-person event. The European Film Market (February 10-17, 2022), the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 12-16, 2022), Berlinale Talents (February 12-17, 2022) and the World Cinema Fund will focus on on-site offerings. They will furthermore provide online formats [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale Talents

07.10.2021: Berlinale and Deutsche Filmakademie Are Realigning Their Cooperation: ”Perspektive Match”

The Berlinale section Perspektive Deutsches Kino has been devoting itself to the new generation of filmmakers for 20 years. Every year, its programme presents directors with their first films. In 2022, the Perspektive will broaden its focus and simultaneously become even more contemporary [...]

Generation

01.10.2021: Berlinale Spotlight: Generation in Rome

Under the title Berlinale Spotlight: Generation, the Berlinale, in cooperation with the festival Alice nella città, is presenting a programme composed of films from the Generation 14plus 2021 edition [...]

Generation

30.08.2021: Berlinale Spotlight: Generation in Japan 2021

Under the banner of Berlinale Spotlight: Generation and for the fourth time already, the Berlinale section Generation will present a programme of films from the last festival edition, jointly curated with the Nara International Film Festival [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

26.08.2021: Berlinale Co-Production Market: Call for Feature Film and Series Project Submissions

Until September 30, 2021, experienced producers from all over the world can submit new feature-length film projects in need of co-producers and financiers [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

19.08.2021: New Team at Forum Expanded

After 16 editions as head of Forum Expanded, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus will pass the mantle onto new hands in September [...]

World Cinema Fund

16.07.2021: Berlinale World Cinema Fund: Ten New Funding Recommendations and WCF Europe – TFL Audience Design Award

In the 34th jury session of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), the juries made ten funding recommendations [...]

Additional Information

22.06.2021: Berlinale Summer Special: A Fantastic New Beginning for Cinema

The 71st Berlin International Film Festival was brought to a successful close on June 20 [...]

Awards, Competition, Panorama

20.06.2021: The Award-Winning Films of the Audience Awards

New this year, is the addition of the 2021 Berlinale Competition Audience Award to the traditional Panorama Audience Award [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

18.06.2021: Winner of the Compass-Perspektive-Award

The Berlinale congratulates Yana Ugrekhelidze on winning the Compass-Perspektive-Award for her film: [...]

Additional Information

08.06.2021: The Sponsors and Partners of the Berlinale Summer Special Are Set

The Berlinale Summer Special will receive support from the BKM and NEUSTART KULTUR, as well as from L’Oréal Paris, ZDF, rbb media, GWFF, ARRI and Colt [...]

Awards

08.06.2021: Awards Ceremony on June 13 with the Winning Films of the Berlinale Documentary Award and the GWFF Best First Feature Award

The winning films of the Berlinale Documentary Award - sponsored by rbb - and the GWFF Best First Feature Award have been selected [...]

Additional Information

08.06.2021: Opening of the Berlinale Summer Special

The 71st Berlin International Film Festival Summer Special will begin on June 9, 2021 at 9.30 pm [...]

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

27.05.2021: Berlinale Documentary Award – Funded by rbb

In total, 16 documentary forms from the sections Competition, Berlinale Special, Encounters, Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino are nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award [...]

Awards, Competition, Encounters, Panorama, Forum & Forum Expanded, Generation, Perspektive Deutsches Kino

27.05.2021: GWFF Best First Feature Award

The award will be presented during the official Award Ceremony at the Freiluftkino Museumsinsel on June 13, 2021 at 9.00 pm [...]

Competition, Panorama, Awards

27.05.2021: Summer Special Will Feature the 2021 Berlinale Competition Audience Award

The International Jury already made their Competition award selections in March of this year, and now at the Summer Special (June 9 - 20), the festival audience will have the opportunity to vote on those same 15 films for the 2021 Berlinale Competition Audience Award [...]

Generation

26.05.2021: Award-winning Films for a Young Audience as Part of the Berlinale Summer Special

The Berlinale is the only major international film festival that also offers a programme for cinephiles under the age of 18: international cinema at the cutting edge which reflects the realities, fantasies and desires of young people [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

17.05.2021: Forum Special Programme: “Fiktionsbescheinigung. 16 Cinematic Perspectives on Germany”

The connections between culture in general, cinema in particular, society and racism are currently the subject of controversial discussion. The Berlinale Forum steps into the debate by presenting the film and discussion series “Fiktionsbescheinigung. 16 Cinematic Perspectives on Germany” [...]