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11.12.2023: Academy Award Winner Lupita Nyong'o to Be Jury President of the Berlinale 2024
“I am deeply honored to serve as the President of the International Jury of the Berlin International Film Festival. I look forward to celebrating and recognising the outstanding work of filmmakers from around the world,” states actor, director, producer and New York Times bestselling author Nyong'o [...]World Cinema Fund
07.08.2023: Berlinale World Cinema Fund: Current Funding Recommendations for Production and Distribution
At the 38th jury session of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), the juries made 13 recommendations of funding to projects or films from Bhutan, Brazil, Indonesia, Israel, Madagascar, Nepal, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela [...]Berlinale Series, Awards
01.02.2023: Berlinale Series 2023: Berlinale Series Award Jury
For the first time, the Berlinale Series Award in cooperation with “Deadline” will be given to the best series [...]Competition, Awards
01.02.2023: Berlinale 2023: International Jury
Once again a multitalented International Jury will decide who will take home the Golden and the Silver Bears at the Berlinale 2023 [...]Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Awards
01.02.2023: Juries for Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2023
From the ten feature films and documentaries of Perspektive Deutsches Kino, two juries will determine the winner of the Compass-Perspektive-Award, endowed with 5,000 Euros, and the Heiner Carow Prize for the Promotion of German Cinematic Art, endowed with 5,000 Euros, which is awarded by the DEFA Foundation to a specialist talent from Perspektive Deutsches Kino [...]Awards
01.02.2023: Berlinale 2023: Berlinale Documentary Award – Funded by rbb
The Berlin International Film Festival has long been committed to the diversity of documentary forms [...]Berlinale Shorts, Awards
01.02.2023: 2023 Berlinale Shorts – International Short Film Jury
The 2023 International Short Film Jury for Berlinale Shorts comprises the editor Cătălin Cristuțiu, the US-american artist Sky Hopinka and the German director Isabelle Stever [...]Encounters, Awards
01.02.2023: Berlinale 2023: Encounters Jury
Since 2020 the competitive section Encounters has been a part of the Berlinale. A three-member jury chooses the winners for Best Film, Best Director and the Special Jury Award [...]Berlinale Special
11.01.2023: She Came to Me by Rebecca Miller Will Open the 2023 Berlinale
The 73rd Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 16, 2023 with the world premiere of the US production She Came to Me [...]World Cinema Fund
25.11.2022: New Funding Recommendations / WCF Europe – TFL Audience Design Award / Mentoring Project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In the 37th jury session of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), the juries made eleven funding recommendations for projects from Argentina, Bangladesh, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Iran, Peru, Tunisia and Venezuela [...]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 [...]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 [...]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 [...]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 [...]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 [...]World Cinema Fund
21.07.2020: Berlinale World Cinema Fund: 14 New Funding Recommendations, Start of WCF ACP and First WCF Europe - TFL Audience Design Award
In the 32nd jury meeting of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), the juries made a total of 14 funding recommendations [...]Berlinale Special
24.01.2020: The 70th Berlinale Opens With Philippe Falardeau’s My Salinger Year
In launching the 70th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale Special Gala My Salinger Year by writer/director Philippe Falardeau will celebrate its world premiere on February 20, 2020 at the Berlinale Palast [...]Generation
16.12.2019: Should I Stay or Should I Go – Young People on the Move
20 films have so far been confirmed by Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus. The multi-faceted stories tell of young people on the move, exploring themselves and new worlds [...]Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage
04.12.2019: Berlinale 2020 – Homage and Honorary Golden Bear for Helen Mirren
The 70th Berlin International Film Festival will honour Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren with its Homage and award her the Honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievement [...]World Cinema Fund
25.11.2019: The Berlinale World Cinema Fund Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary and Announces Newest Funding Selections
The World Cinema Fund (WCF) looks back on 15 years of successful film funding. Since its founding, funding has gone to 232 film projects [...]World Cinema Fund, Additional Information
29.10.2019: Berlinale Spotlight: World Cinema Fund at the Berlin film festival “Around the World in 14 Films”
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 [...]Perspektive Deutsches Kino
27.01.2011: Berlinale: Stuttgart 21 – Denk mal! As Guest of Perspektive Deutsches Kino
“Were you at Monday’s demo?” Since January 2009, that’s been the question of all questions. Clever, inquisitive, open and creative, Stuttgart’s citizens have made themselves heard: the old and the young, whether manager, artist, housewife or shop assistant [...]European Film Market & Co-Production Market
16.02.2010: The Market’s Hot in Wintry Berlin – EFM off to Great Start
The EFM reports almost 40,000 visits during the first half of the European Film Market. At peak times on Sunday, more than 2,400 international industry attendees poured into the Martin-Gropius-Bau. This is a new record compared with 2009, which registered 1,738 trade professionals [...]Competition
20.01.2010: More Titles for the Competition of the 60th Berlinale Confirmed
26 films will participate in the Competition programme of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. In addition to the seven titles announced earlier (see press releases from December 15, 2009), a further 18 films have now been confirmed [...]Additional Information
01.10.2009: Building a bridge between books and film: the fifth Berlinale Day at the Frankfurt Book Fair
The fifth Berlinale Day at the Frankfurt Book Fair (October 14-18, 2009) will take place on October 15. Book Fair visitors will be presented with three selected screen adaptations from the 2009 Berlinale programme. Additionally, producers, publishers and literary agents will have the opportunity to exchange ideas at a case study cooperatively organized by the Berlinale and the Book Fair [...]European Film Market & Co-Production Market
14.09.2009: Berlinale Co-Production Market Again Launches Search for Co-Production Partners
Deadline for Submissions: 29 October 2009With immediate effect, the Berlinale Co-Production Market is again seeking promising feature film projects that it would like to assist to find co-production and co-financing partners at the Berlinale 2010 [...]
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29.04.2009: World Cinema Fund with Four Films in Cannes
The World Cinema Fund (WCF) is pleased to report that four of the films it helped support have been invited to the Festival de Cannes (13 to 24 May 2009) [...]Berlinale Talents
28.04.2009: Berlin Today Award 2010: Short film projects from Georgia, Australia, Spain, Ireland and Columbia are headed "Straight to Cinema"
While the five Berlin Today Award 2009 short films on the theme "My Wall" successfully travel to festivals around the world, the new round of the Berlinale Talent Campus' short film competition is underway. 250 young filmmakers from 65 countries responded to the call for project ideas on the motto "Straight to Cinema" [...]European Film Market & Co-Production Market
20.02.2009: European Film Market 2009 Comes to a Successful Close
The European Film Market 2009 is pleased to report that business was good despite the difficult global economic situation. For Market Director Beki Probst, 2009 “was an EFM of mixed emotions, yet market activity remained stable” [...]Awards, Perspektive Deutsches Kino
14.02.2009: Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Gitti by Anna Deutsch wins „Dialogue en perspective“
A young German-French jury from TV5MONDE and the German-French Youth Office (GFYO) awarded today the independent prize for the sixth time at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival. This year, the film Gitti from Anna Deutsch received the prize [...]Additional Information
14.02.2009: Berlinale 2009 Comes to a Successful Close: A Fantastic Atmosphere and Enthusiastic Audiences
Today, on Saturday, February 14, the 59th Berlin International Film Festival comes to a close with the Award Ceremony. 1600 guests are expected at the glamorous gala in the Berlinale Palast, where from 7:30 pm onwards, the winners of the Golden Bear and the Silver Bears, the Alfred Bauer Prize, and the Best First Feature Award will be announced [...]Awards, Panorama
14.02.2009: Berlinale 2009: Panorama Audience Award
The audience has decided: the 11th Panorama Audience Award – organized by “radioeins” of rbb (Berlin-Brandenburg’s public radio and television station), Berlin’s city magazine “tip”, and the Berlinale’s Panorama section – goes to The Yes Men Fix The World [...]Awards, Competition, Panorama, Berlinale Shorts, Forum & Forum Expanded, Generation, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale Talents
14.02.2009: The Awards of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival
All the awards – official and independent juries – of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival [...]Awards, Generation
14.02.2009: Berlinale 2009: Crystal Bears and Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Awards in Generation Kplus
The members of the Kinderjury Generation Kplus Aaron Altaras, Merve Avdiç, Cara Beume, Karoline Gugisch, Jan Hensel, Luca-Els Mauritz, Judith Rinklebe, Tilli Ripp, Jannik Szwaczka, Lara Torp, Daniel Zimmermann give the following awards: [...]Awards, Generation
13.02.2009: Berlinale 2009: Crystal Bears in the Generation 14plus
The members of the Youth Jury in the Generation 14plus Leo Bruckmann, Lulu Grimm, Frida Grubba, Moritz Kleine, Isabelle Moog, Maurits Schön, Joëlle Weber give the following awards: [...]Berlinale Talents
12.02.2009: A Turning Point for 350 Filmmakers. The Seventh Berlinale Talent Campus an Inspiration for Talents, Experts and Public. Atanas Valkov is the winner of the Volkswagen Score Competition
On Thursday, 12.2., the seventh Berlinale Talent Campus celebrated the end of another successful edition with a Closing Ceremony and the awarding of this year's Volkswagen Score Competition winner. For nearly a week, the Theater "Hebbel am Ufer" was converted into a living and lively meeting space for 350 up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world [...]Additional Information
11.02.2009: Impressive visitor numbers at the Berlinale
Halfway through this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, 270,000 tickets have already been sold – a sensational record in the Berlinale’s 59-year history. By comparison, last year’s total ticket sales numbered 240,000 [...]Awards, Berlinale Shorts
11.02.2009: Award winners of the Berlinale Shorts 2009
The members of the International Short Film Jury Khavn de la Cruz (Philippines), Arta Dobroshi (Kosovo) and Lars Henrik Gass (Germany) award the following prizes [...]Berlinale Talents
09.02.2009: Opening of the Berlinale Talent Campus & Award Ceremony for the Berlin Today Award
Wagah by Supriyo Sen from India wins the Berlin Today Award 2009Special Mention goes to My Super Sea Wall by Gina Abatemarco from the USA
On Saturday evening (7.2.) Festival Director Dieter Kosslick and Campus Programme Manager Matthijs Wouter Knol opened the 2009 edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus before approx. 600 invited guests at the Theater Hebbel am Ufer, HAU 1 [...]