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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” [...]
Additional Information
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 [...]
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