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21.03.2014: The Berlin International Film Festival mourns Mareike Carrière

German actress Mareike Carrière, well-known for countless appearances in film and television, has died. Before the Berlinale moved to Potsdamer Platz, she had, among other things, hosted the festival’s Opening Gala in the Zoo Palast [...]

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19.03.2014: The Berlin International Film Festival mourns Karl Baumgartner

Karl Baumgartner, one of Germany's most important independent producers and distributors, died on March 18 [...]

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03.03.2014: The Berlin International Film Festival mourns the loss of Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais, one of European cinema's most noted auteurs and a founding father of French New Wave, died this weekend at the age of 91 after a long battle with illness [...]

Awards, Perspektive Deutsches Kino

15.02.2014: Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Ester Amrami’s Anderswo (Anywhere Else) Wins “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective”

Today, on Saturday February 15, at the award ceremony of the independent juries, the young French-German-Israeli jury will present the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective” [...]

Awards, Competition, Panorama, Berlinale Shorts, Forum & Forum Expanded, Generation, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale Talents

15.02.2014: The Awards of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival

All the awards – official and independent juries – of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Awards, Generation

15.02.2014: Berlinale 2014: Crystal Bears and Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Prizes in Generation Kplus

The members of the Children’s Jury Generation Kplus Charlotte Dammasch, Lara Kläffling, Fabian Krüger, Fiona Lukas, Daria Rabes, Zoe Rentmeister, Lilly Rinklebe, Quinten Samrotzki, Jan-Hendrik Schmahl, Cosmo Schüppel and Janek Sommerfeldt give the following awards: [...]

Awards, Panorama

15.02.2014: Berlinale 2014: Panorama Audience Awards for Difret and Der Kreis

The public has cast its votes: the 16th Panorama Audience Awards – presented by the Berlinale’s Panorama section in collaboration with radioeins, Berlin-Brandenburg’s public radio and television station (rbb), and tip Berlin, Berlin’s city magazine – go to Difret for best fiction film and Der Kreis (The Circle) for best documentary [...]

Competition

15.02.2014: Berlinale 2014: Record Attendance and a Splendid Close

Over the past ten days, the Berlinale has presented cinema’s creative power and diversity, as well as welcomed guests and the public to many discussions and talks about “the seventh art”. With 330,000 tickets sold, attendance set a new record in the history of the Festival [...]

Awards, Generation

14.02.2014: Berlinale 2014: Crystal Bears and the Awards by the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) in Generation 14plus

The members of the Youth Jury in Generation 14plus, Simon Kalmbach, Luca Kokol, Karla Laitko, Leonie Mo Munder, Paula Noack, Nicola Scholz and Florian Stündel give the following awards: [...]

Berlinale Talents

14.02.2014: Berlinale Talents 2014: The Art of Telling Stories Differently

Guided by the theme "Ready to Play? Breaking the rules", Berlinale Talents took place for the twelfth time from February 8 to 13, with 300 selected Talents and 150 experts, at the HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin [...]

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11.02.2014: Berlinale 2014: An Exuberant Start for the Festival and European Film Market

After getting off to an exuberant start with the opening film, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, the days that followed saw a superb line-up of stars [...]

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11.02.2014: Digital Cinema at the 64th Berlinale

As in recent years, the Berlinale has again faced enormous technical and logistical tasks that have arisen from the film industry’s digitisation [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

07.02.2014: Minister of State Monika Grütters Visits the EFM 2014

Monika Grütters, Germany’s new Minister of State for Culture and the Media, paid the European Film Market (EFM) of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival an official visit this Friday morning [...]

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05.02.2014: Berlinale 2014: Star-studded Opening Gala

Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grütters, Jury President James Schamus, and Festival Director Dieter Kosslick will open the 64th Berlin International Film Festival at the Berlinale Palast at 7.30 pm on February 6 [...]

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04.02.2014: The Berlinale mourns the loss of Miklós Jancsó

The Berlin International Film Festival mourns the master filmmaker Miklós Jancsó, one of Hungary's most noted and influential directors and screenwriters [...]

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03.02.2014: The Berlinale mourns the loss of Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Berlin International Film Festival mourns the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. In 2006 the Berlinale Competition presented Capote, the film directed by Bennett Miller which won Philip Seymour Hoffman a Golden Globe and later an Oscar as Best Actor [...]

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03.02.2014: The Berlinale mourns the loss of Maximilian Schell

The Berlin International Film Festival mourns Maximilian Schell, one of the greatest German-speaking personalities in the field of art in the post-war era [...]

World Cinema Fund

03.02.2014: After a Successful 2013, World Cinema Fund Gets Off to a Smashing Start in 2014

For the World Cinema Fund (WCF), 2013 proved to be an exceedingly successful year [...]

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30.01.2014: Supporters, Promoters & Hosts: Sponsors of the 64th Berlinale

For the first time since 2007, the Berlinale is again being sponsored by four principal partners [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

29.01.2014: EFM Industry Debates 2014: Talks on Recent Artistic Forms of Documentaries, Experiences of Renowned Producers, New Sales Strategies in Asia, and Changing Mediascapes in the Age of Digitisation

In 2014, the EFM Industry Debates will again discuss topical issues related to the film and media industry [...]

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28.01.2014: Untitled New York Review Of Books Documentary in Berlinale Special, Presented as Work in Progress

Untitled New York Review Of Books Documentary directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi is the newest addition to the 64th Berlinale Special, where it will be shown as a work in progress, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and key contributors [...]

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28.01.2014: “Berlinale Goes Kiez” – The Cinema as Local Culture Provider

In 2014, the Berlinale’s “Flying Red Carpet” will again travel through the city and stopover for an evening at each of the following seven arthouse cinemas: Eva Lichtspiele (Wilmersdorf), Toni & Tonino (Weißensee), Adria (Steglitz), filmkunst 66 (Charlottenburg), Passage (Neukölln), Thalia Programm Kino (Potsdam-Babelsberg), and Eiszeit Kino (Kreuzberg) [...]

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28.01.2014: Press file for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlinale 2014 press dossier, detailed film lists of all sections can be downloaded here (in German only) [...]

Awards

28.01.2014: Berlinale Camera 2014 to Honour Karl Baumgartner

Since 1986, the Berlin International Film Festival has presented the Berlinale Camera to film personalities or institutions to which it feels particularly indebted and wishes to express its thanks [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

28.01.2014: Berlinale Classics

Die Berlinale Classics, erst seit einem Jahr im Programm der Retrospektive, genießen bereits einen hohen Stellenwert bei vielen langjährigen Filmpartnern der Berlinale [...]

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28.01.2014: Documentaries at the Berlinale 2014

In Focus: Diverse Documentary Forms and Events [...]

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23.01.2014: Jury for the Best First Feature Award

The Berlinale has been even more committed to supporting the next generation of film makers since 2006, when it introduced the Best First Feature Award [...]

Berlinale Talents

23.01.2014: Storytelling that expands your senses: Ade, Al Mansour, Begić, Côté, De Laurentiis, Gearty, Gerwig, Gondry, Grisoni, Heisenberg, Hoss, Jordan, Llosa, Luna, Navarro, Petzold, Porumboiu, Rădulescu, Schamus, Solomon, Stockhausen, Strickland, Thornton, and Vesth are among confirmed industry experts to share their experience with the world’s 300 most promising new film professionals

Focusing on how to successfully push storytelling and create compelling films, over 120 experts will join the 300 film professionals selected for the upcoming edition of Berlinale Talents, taking place from February 8-13, 2014 at the HAU Hebbel am Ufer Theater [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

23.01.2014: Forum 2014: Special Screenings

The Forum has now finalized its 2014 programme with a series of special screenings dedicated to historical films and re-discoveries as well as current works of special formal and thematic interest [...]

Panorama

22.01.2014: Final Selection for Panorama Dokumente Completes Panorama 2014

This year’s Panorama Dokumente is presenting 16 films, including ten world premieres. All first screenings will be presented at Cinestar 7 in the Sony Center and at Kino International [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

21.01.2014: 9th Forum Expanded: What Do We Know When We Know Where Something Is? – The Complete Programme

52 works from 20 countries have been selected for the 9th Forum Expanded. The exhibition at ST. AGNES, the former parish hall whose church space is one of the key venues for this year’s Forum Expanded, is already being set up for the opening on February 5 [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

21.01.2014: “Books at Berlinale”: Eleven New Books for the Screen

On February 11, at “Books at Berlinale”, film producers will have a chance to discover eleven new literary works that would make good movies. The selected novels will be presented and pitched at the Berlinale Co-Production Market [...]

Generation

20.01.2014: Generation 2014: Opening Films and Juries – The Crystal Bear Turns 20

The competition of Generation 14plus will open with the British musical feature God Help the Girl by Stuart Murdoch [...]

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20.01.2014: Culinary Cinema 2014: “We like it hot… but don’t let it burn”

“We like it hot… but don’t let it burn” is the motto of the Culinary Cinema of the 64th Berlinale, which will be held from February 9 to 14, 2014 [...]

Additional Information, Berlinale Special

17.01.2014: Berlinale Special 2014

Berlinale Special is part of the official programme and presents recent works by contemporary filmmakers, as well as film portraits of renowned personalities and extraordinary formats [...]

Panorama

17.01.2014: Panorama 2014: Selection of Fictional Features for Main Programme and Panorama Special Now Complete

With 24 of them world premieres, 36 films from 29 countries will give an overview of current international fictional-feature production. Most recently invited are works from Norway, Ethiopia, Mexico, India, Iran, Georgia, Greece, Hungary and Austria – with returning filmmakers Elfi Mikesch and Umut Dağ, who opened Panorama 2012 with Kuma, his directorial debut [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

16.01.2014: Merciless Working Environments and the Absurdities of the Cultural Establishment: The Films of the 44th Berlinale Forum

The 44th edition of the Berlinale Forum once again provides an overview of independent, artistic filmmaking with a disregard for convention, screening 28 world and eight international premieres from every single continent [...]

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16.01.2014: Berlinale NATIVe – The Journey Continues

“NATIVe – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema” is devoted to diverse historical, cultural, political, ethical, artistic and economic aspects of indigenous cinema. In 2014, two feature films will be imbedded in the multifaceted sidebar and so form a bridge between the regions already highlighted in 2013 (Australia, New Zealand, North American and the Arctic) and those to be highlighted in 2015 (Latin and South America) [...]

Competition

15.01.2014: Berlinale 2014: Competition Complete

The Competition of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival is now complete. 20 of the 23 films in the Competition programme will be vying for the Golden Bear and Silver Bears [...]

Competition

14.01.2014: Berlinale 2014: International Jury

With James Schamus serving as Jury President, the International Jury will decide who will receive the Golden Bear and Silver Bears of the 2014 Berlinale Competition.
The other members of the International Jury will be Barbara Broccoli, Trine Dyrholm, Mitra Faharani, Greta Gerwig, Michel Gondry, Tony Leung and Christoph Waltz [...]