WCF DAY 2024 in cooperation with Berlinale Talents

WCF Day is the World Cinema Fund’s public think-tank. The panels and discussions focus on film culture, production conditions in the funded regions, structural changes and funding strategies, as well as on new key aspects of the WCF funding strategies and the presentation of new WCF-funded projects and films.

February 21, 2024
HAU2, Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin
(Free Entrance / Limited capacity. RSVP to )

2.30 pm Introduction(s)
Vincenzo Bugno, Head of the World Cinema Fund and Florian Weghorn Programme Manager Berlinale Talents
Dr. Lutz Nitsche, Officer to the Executive Board, German Federal Cultural Foundation
Keynote Speech by Elisabeth Mansfeld, Senior Strategic Advisor: “World Cinema Fund: Cinema & Beyond”

3.00 pm Director’s Talk / About Pepe (Competition)
Pepe: A Hippopotamus as Main Character. Encounters, misunderstandings, improvisations
Vincenzo Bugno, head of WCF, in conversation with director Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias

4.15 pm Talk 1 / The Charm of the Minority
How to deal with minority co-productions. State of things, financing, prospectives
with Christoph Friedel (Producer, Germany), Giovanni Pompili (Producer, Italy), Marion Wagner (Hessen Film & Medien, Germany) and Carlotta Guerrero (ICEC; Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals, Spain)
Moderated by Marjorie Bendeck, director of Connecting Cottbus Co-Production Market

5.10 pm Presentation:
“TUI Care Foundation Award of the World Cinema Fund”
Alexander Panczuk, Executive Director, TUI Care Foundation

5:15 pm Talk 2 / Dealing with Africa(s)
Is time on our side? New voices, new stories, new realities in African Cinema
with the directors Mamadou Dia (Senegal), Inadelso Cossa (Mozambique), Luck Razanajaona (Madagascar), Nelson Makengo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Moderated by Dorothee Wenner, filmmaker and curator