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10.05.2021: Berlinale: Summer Special to Take Place as an Outdoor Event

The Berlinale is pleased to be able to give audiences the enjoyment of an open-air cinema experience at 16 venues in total [...]

Competition, Panorama, Berlinale Shorts, Forum & Forum Expanded, Generation, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage, Additional Information, Encounters, Berlinale Special, Berlinale Series

28.04.2021: Berlinale: Altered Infection Protection Act Limits Summer Special Options

The festival directors are currently in contact with the authorities to determine the next steps for an all-outdoor event [...]

Additional Information

12.03.2021: The Berlinale Celebrates a Successful First Stage, Looks Forward to the Summer Special With Berlin Audiences, and Sets the Date for the 2022 Festival

Happy winners, good sales at the film market, interesting panel discussions and ample film coverage by the press - the Industry Event of the 71st Berlinale exceeded expectations [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

09.03.2021: European Film Market Reports a Successful Online Edition

On five market days from March 1 - 5, up to 12,000 market participants from 131 countries took part daily in numerous activities at the EFM [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

09.03.2021: A Successful Online Edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market / Golden Bear Goes to a Former Project

At the 2021 Berlinale Co-Production Market, 1,363 pre-scheduled individual meetings with interested co-producers and financiers took place for the selected fiction film and series projects [...]

Competition, Awards

05.03.2021: Berlinale 2021: The Award Winners of the Competition

The members of the International Jury have decided on the prizes in the Competition at the 71st Berlinale [...]

Awards

05.03.2021: The Awards of the 71th Berlin International Film Festival

All awards - official and independent juries - of the 71st Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Encounters, Awards

05.03.2021: Berlinale 2021: Awards in the Encounters Section

The Encounters jury has decided on the prizes [...]

Generation, Awards

04.03.2021: Generation Kplus and 14plus: The Awards of the Generation International Jury

From a selection of a total of 15 feature films, and due to the pandemic with one jury for both competitions, the members of the International Jury of Generation have announced the winners [...]

Berlinale Shorts, Awards

04.03.2021: The Award Winners of Berlinale Shorts 2021

The International Short Film Jury announces the prizes for the following films [...]

Additional Information

03.03.2021: Gender Evaluation

The 2021 Gender Evaluation for download [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale Talents, Awards

03.03.2021: The Kompagnon-Fellowships 2021 by Perspektive Deutsches Kino and Berlinale Talents

The two Kompagnon-Fellowships, Perspektive Deutsches Kino and Berlinale Talents, go to Eliza Petkova as well as Jonas Matauschek and his co-director Christian Johannes Koch [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market, Awards

03.03.2021: Projects on the Road to Success: Three Awards and 1,300 Meetings at the Berlinale Co-Production Market

At the Berlinale Co-Production Market (March 1 to 5), three monetary awards were presented to selected feature film projects: The Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, the VFF Talent Highlight Award and the ARTEKino International Prize [...]

Competition, Berlinale Shorts, Generation, Encounters, Awards

26.02.2021: Schedule for the Jury Decisions 2021

During the Industry Event (March 1 to 5) of the 71st Berlinale, the Juries of the Competition and the sections Berlinale Shorts, Encounters and Generation will announce their award decisions [...]

World Cinema Fund

25.02.2021: WCF Day on March 5 With a Focus on "Decolonising Cinema"

The WCF Day is offered online due to the pandemic and can be accessed free of charge [...]

Encounters, Awards

18.02.2021: Encounters Jury

A three-member jury will choose the winners for Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award, and will announce them during the Berlinale Industry Event on March 5 [...]

Generation, Awards

18.02.2021: Generation Juries 2021

The actress Jella Haase, the director Mees Peijnenburg and the director / writer Melanie Waelde form the International Jury of the 44th Generation [...]

Berlinale Shorts, Awards

18.02.2021: The 2021 International Short Film Jury

The three members of the International Short Film Jury will decide on the award winners, which will be announced during the Industry Event on March 4, 2021 [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

17.02.2021: The Stage is Set for the 2021 European Film Market: The Comprehensive Conference and Film Programme is Going Online

On February 17, the European Film Market is rolling out the red carpet for the international film industry [...]

Berlinale Talents

17.02.2021: Conquering Dreamlands: The Berlinale Talents Programme is Public!

Berlinale Talents’ dreamy programme is complete. Within the scope of the industry-led first part of the festival, Berlinale Talents continues to be a home for encounters between outstanding artists and the film-loving public [...]

Competition

11.02.2021: Competition - Reshaping Cinematic Forms

In total there are 15 films, two of which are first features, which will compete for the Golden Bear and the Silver Bears [...]

11.02.2021: Press Dossier for the 71st Berlin International Film Festival

The press dossier comprises the film selection of the 71st Berlinale [...]

Berlinale Special

11.02.2021: Berlinale Special – Engaging Stories, Current Topics, Personal Journeys

This year’s line-up comprises eleven titles from ten countries, among them are three first features [...]

Panorama

10.02.2021: Panorama 2021: Between Doubt and Revolt – A Critical Look at Power Relations

“2021 is characterised by combative, political cinema. The cinematic gazes of strong female directors, critical new cinema from the Middle East, as well as Indigenous and queer narratives are setting clear focal points in the Panorama,” comments section head Michael Stütz [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

10.02.2021: Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2021: Stay or Go? How and Where Do We Want to - or Can We - Live?

From a total of 225 submitted films, a selection representative of this year was created for the 2021 Perspektive Deutsches Kino [...]

Encounters

10.02.2021: Encounters – Regaining a Sense of Discovery

The competitive section Encounters was introduced in 2020. Its goal is to support new voices in cinema and to give more room to diverse narrative and documentary forms in the official film selection [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

09.02.2021: Slaloming Between Fiction and Documentary: the Films of the 51st Berlinale Forum

Work, love, friendship, cinema: today, all these things have to be managed very differently than a year ago. The certainties we were still able to rely on in autumn 2019 have become porous [...]

Berlinale Shorts

09.02.2021: Berlinale Shorts 2021: Tell Me about Yourself so that I Can Understand the World

“Art, and film in particular, allows us to see the world through different eyes. It helps us to experience reality through someone else’s perception, to rethink it and to find our place within it,” says Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck, section head of Berlinale Shorts [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

09.02.2021: 16th Forum Expanded - The Days Float Through My Eyes

The Forum Expanded film selection consists of four short film selections, one medium-length film and two feature-length films, with a total of 18 films to be shown in March [...]

Generation

08.02.2021: Berlinale Generation 2021: Whispering Softly, Shouting Loudly

With seven world premieres and six debuts among the 15 selected films, Generation offers significant artistic diversity in the two competitions Kplus and 14plus, even with this year’s reduced selection [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

08.02.2021: Berlinale 2021 – Retrospective “No Angels – Mae West, Rosalind Russell & Carole Lombard”

For the Retrospective, the selection committee led by Rainer Rother has put together a programme of 27 comedies featuring three different American actresses [...]

Additional Information

05.02.2021: The Berlinale Motif of the 2021 Festival Edition

The 71st Berlin International Film Festival will take place in two stages. The key design has now been set [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

03.02.2021: “Books at Berlinale” 2021: From Page to Screen

On March 4, the Berlinale Co-Production Market will present ten high quality books especially well-suited to screen adaptation at “Books at Berlinale” [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

03.02.2021: “EFM Goes Global”: Global Market Screening Initiative Kicks Off

The initiative allows market participants in key film distribution territories outside Europe to view films from the official Berlinale selection in cinemas [...]

Competition, Panorama, Berlinale Shorts, Forum & Forum Expanded, Generation, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage, Awards

01.02.2021: Golden Bear Winners Form the International Jury of the 71st Berlinale

With the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale is entering into new territory. The festival will take place in two stages. As already announced, the Industry Event kicks off from March 1 to 5, 2021. From June 9 to 20, the Berlinale will invite the audience to the Summer Special [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

26.01.2021: Series Marathon at the EFM: Current Trends, Themes and Showcases at “Berlinale Series Market & Conference”

From March 2 to 5, 2021, the seventh edition of “Berlinale Series Market & Conference” will present a top-notch programme [...]

Berlinale Series

26.01.2021: Berlinale Series 2021: Toxic Antiheroes, Utopias of Freedom

In an unusual year, the selection of the Berlinale Series consists of six titles which, with unconventional and surprising topics, narratives and visual style, comprise a mirror of our time [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

26.01.2021: Berlinale Co-Production Market: “Co-Pro Series” 2021 – Ten Outstanding Series Projects in Search of International Partners

For the seventh year running, the Berlinale Co-Production Market invites producers, editors, distributors and other series financiers to pitches and meetings at “Co-Pro Series” from March 2 to 5 [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

15.01.2021: Berlinale Co-Production Market Brings Together 35 Feature Film Projects Online with International Partners

The well-proven concept of the Berlinale Co-Production Market - carefully planned meetings for a highly selective portfolio of projects - this time will be implemented in an online version [...]

World Cinema Fund

15.01.2021: World Cinema Fund: WCF Days with “Director’s Talk”, “Decolonising Cinema” and “Can We Write Cinema? Script and Visual Language”

Since 2004, the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF) has successfully supported film production in regions with poor film infrastructure with its increasingly differentiated funding programme (WCF, WCF Europe, WCF Africa, WCF ACP) and embarked on cultural diversity in German cinemas [...]