A renowned auteur of European cinema is launching the 2022 Panorama: Alain Guiraudie will open the section with his political satire Viens je t’emmène (Nobody’s Hero), his first film to be presented at the Berlinale. Guiraudie’s love-struck band of middle-class citizens race through the streets of Clermont-Ferrand following a terrorist attack. Love, paranoia and distrust propel his cast of characters through this satire ...
The Talents of 2022: Filmmakers, Artists and Creatives Form the Community of the 20th Edition of Berlinale Talents
The Talents around the Globe
Berlinale Talents is celebrating its 20th birthday. Since 2003, the Berlinale’s multidisciplinary talent initiative has grown to nearly 10,000 alumni and has actively shaped the industry with this community of ...
The Pull of Precisely Observed Matter.
The selection process for the 52nd Berlinale Forum made one thing very clear: however much the pandemic may have paralysed life in our societies, filmmakers worldwide have lost none of their inventiveness and artistic desire. The works selected - 27 feature-length works in the main programme, 14 feature-length works and shorts ...
Berlinale Classics: The Programme Will Show Seven World Premieres of Digitally Restored Film Classics and Re-discovered Archive Films
We celebrate the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s birth with a screening of his Mamma Roma, while another old master of European cinema is represented with Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre Musique (Our Music). With Kawaita hana (Pale Flower...
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, the festival programme dedicated to exceptional serial narratives celebrating their world or international premiere in Berlin.
Three titles from Iceland, Sweden and Denmark mark a strong Scandinavian year, including the first series by ...
The focus of the overall Generation selection is on young people: how they perceive the world, how they appropriate it or how they oppose it. The films tell of the power to move mountains that is inherent in them. A boulder is blocking the community space? The only child in the village befriends the rock and lures it back to its mountain (Luce and the Rock). A father c...
A Boost for 34 attractive Feature Film Projects: Berlinale Co-Production Market Finds International Partners and Financiers for the Film Hits of Tomorrow
As in 2021, this year’s event will take place online. The aim is to limit physical contacts in the current situation, while still creating an efficient and relaxed setting for meetings.
The producers of the projects will meet potential inte...
With their fearless subjectivity, the filmmakers of the Berlinale Shorts invite us to see the world through their eyes: “As different as the films may be, they all deal with our present and are aesthetically highly interesting. They are sincere in attitude and playfully free in form. I believe that dealing with complex issues in the darkened cinema also makes it easier for us – the audience – to face the complexity of the world outsi...
This year, a Forum Special consisting of nine film programmes complements the main programme of the independent section of the Berlinale. A significant part of these programmes are dedicated to the eleven short films and feature-length works which continue the “Fiktionsbescheingung” series, which was originally launched online during the Berlinale Summer Special and was later shown on the big screen at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA...
Moving closer to the ground, getting to the bottom of things, looking and hearing with precision, perceiving what’s happening close by, oft-unnoticed: these are the ideas that inform the 17th edition of Forum Expanded and the selection of films, installations and performances that will be presented as part of the Berlinale at the Arsenal cinema, silent green Kulturquartier, the Embassy of Canada, SAVVY Contemporary as well as at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium for t...
Seven feature films and documentaries have been invited to Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2022. From this year onwards, the section also wishes to draw attention to other skills that shape the creative process of filmmaking. In addition to the traditional appreciation of directing and production, in the future, there will also be a special talent in every Perspektive film presented from another discipline.
For the first time in 2022, the programme ...
Berlinale Shorts
Close-Ups of the Bigger Picture
With their fearless subjectivity, the filmmakers of the Berlinale Shorts invite us to see the world through their eyes. Competing for the Golden and Silver Bears are 21 films from 19 countries, including new works by Deepak Rauniyar, Sky Hopinka and Berlinale Bear winners Atsushi Wada and Radu Jude. The International Short Film Jury comprises Rosa Barba, Reinhard W. Wolf and Payal Kapadia. More information
Forum
An Awareness...
European Film Market, Berlinale Co-Production Market, Berlinale Talents and World Cinema Fund digital
The Berlinale has developed a new concept so that it can fly the flag for culture emphatically, even in these times of pandemic. The focus this year, therefore, will be on cinema screenings in the Berlinale venues. The health and safety of the audience at all events and strict...
Ten Chosen Books to Be Pitched For Film or Series Adaptation
Moderator Syd Atlas at “Books at Berlinale” 2021
On February 14, the Berlinale Co-Production Market, in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse, will present ten exceptional books particularly suitable for literary adaptation in "Books at Berlinale". At the pitching event, which has been presenting new publications, bestsellers and award winners every year since 2006, film p...
FILM.UA Group
FILM.UA Group will participate in the upcoming European Film Market 2022 Online and as much as we wanted to meet with you in person in Berlin we’re looking forward to the opportunity to arrange an online meeting via Zoom, Skype, FaceTime.
Please send us your convenient time/dates for a meeting with the FILM.UA team.
For reference, our time zone is Kyiv (Ukraine) - EEST.
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Over 40 premieres - films, series, and animation - will be presented by Russian content makers and distributors at the European Film Market (EFM) from February 10 to 17. Under the Russian Content Worldwide (RCW) brand, 39 participating companies will unite at a virtual stand organized by ROSKINO, a Russian film promotion body, with the support of the Russian Cinema Fund. In total, Russian companies will present more than 130 projects.
Evgenia Markova, CEO of ROSKINO:
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The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 10th until the 16th. The feature film BROTHER IN EVERY INCH by Russian director Alexander Zolotukhin will celebrate its world premiere in the section Encounters.
This is the story of the painful separation of twin brothers, whose deep and sincere affection for each other hinders them from attaining their shared dream - becoming air force pilots.
One of the most famous Russian filmmakers, Alexander Sokurov, was the crea...
The panel, in cooperation with European Film Market, explores the marketing opportunities available through international film festivals with, among others, representatives of notable world sales companies.
Strengthening Your PR & Publicity: How Sales Agents Spark International Distribution
What does the sales agent do once a film is invited to an international film festival? What is the present-day promotional strategy for a film? Who do the sales agents prioritize, target and r...
Trailer has now been released for Berlinale World Premiere 1341 FRAMES OF LOVE AND WAR (World Premiere, Berlinale Special Section), a documentary portrait of one of the world’s most important living war photographers, Micha Bar-Am.
Festival Trailer (JUST RELEASED):
Born in Berlin in 1930, Israeli photojournalist Bar-Am became an internationally recognized photographer in the 1960’s. Today, at the age of 91, he looks at his ph...
GLOBAL SCREEN SELLS THE CONFERENCE TO NORTH AMERICA, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, ITALY AMONG MANY OTHERS
Global Screen, a TELEPOOL brand, announces a raft of sales for haunting feature film The Conference, an historically accurate and emotive drama produced for the 80th commemoration day in 2022 of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: the organization of the systematic mass murder of 11 million European Jews.
The Conference has b...
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SYNOPSIS: A YOUNG REFUGEE EMBARKS ON A QUEST FOR BMX GLORY AND THE PURSUIT OF IDENTITY, SAFETY, HAPPINESS, AND LOVE.
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Iuvit Media Sales will launch international sales at this month’s EFM
Benacus Entertainment in association with RNF Productions announced today that Eliza Taylor (The 100, Thumper) and Bob Morley (The 100, Love Me, Lost in the White City) will star in the sci-fi thriller I’ll Be Watching. Erik Bernard (Free Dead or Alive, The Place We Hide) is onboard to direct.
The script was penned by Sara Sometti Michaels (St. Agatha) and Elisa Manzini (Angel Baby). Eliza Taylor and Davi...
WORLDWIDE RIGHTS ARE AVAILABLE
Evil Dead 2 meets The Blair Witch Project
After a public controversy left him disgraced and demonetized, a washed up internet personality tries to win back his followers by livestreaming himself spending one night alone in an abandoned haunted house. When he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event become...
To celebrate their 7th annual FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS campaign, German Films would like you to join us for a panel event during the Berlinale, spotlighting this year’s seven filmmakers: Documentary writer-director SARAH NOA BOZENHARDT, actor-producer-writer SARA FAZILAT, actor-director JERRY HOFFMANN, film editor JULIA KOVALENKO, writer-director MATTHIAS LUTHARDT, cinematographer and director ZAMARIN WAHDAT and actor ANNE ZANDER. Since its first edition in 2016, the an...
AVANT PREMIÈRE 2022 14-17 FEBRUARY ONLINE
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