Berlinale Goes Kiez im City Kino Wedding © Peter Kreibich 2020
Hardly any other city has as many arthouse cinemas as Berlin does. In their diversity, they provide a unique bounty of film programming and a wide range of events treating film-cultural and socio-political subject matter. The individual cinemas are also as different from one another as their programmes are. As spaces for community and discourse, they not only serve as special meeting places for film l...
Ivan Peric in Through the Graves the Wind is Blowing by Travis Wilkerson © Travis Wilkerson
Encounters
The competitive section Encounters comprises 15 films, all of which are world premieres. There are two first features plus one debut of a documentary form.17 countries are represented. Six films were directed by women.
“Each film selected in Encounters challenges the predetermined categories with which we evaluate ...
The Siren von Sepideh Farsi © Grandfilm
Berlinale Spotlight: Panorama
With its specially curated programmes, the Berlinale has been present around the world for many years. The Berlinale Spotlight format extends the festival period.
Shortly before the start of the 74th Berlinale, the next Berlinale Spotlight will take place on Tuesday, 13 February 2024, at the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation in Berlin. La Sirène b...
European Film Market
The EFM Industry Sessions, the European Film Market’s industry programme, will again broach a wide range of topics and formats in 2024, and aim to discuss key developments in the film and media landscape that are expected to shape the coming year. From February 16 to 20, 2024, more than 100 international guests will be welcomed to the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation close to the Gropius Bau. Hailing f...
Pepe by Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias © Monte & Culebra
World Cinema Fund with Twelve Films in the Berlinale Programme / WCF Day 2024 / German Federal Cultural Foundation Extends and Increases Funding
The World Cinema Fund (WCF) was founded in 2004 on the initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Berlinale to fund high-quality filmmaking in countries with a weak film infrastructure and at the same time to promote cultural di...
Three Films Have Been Added to the Berlinale Special Programme.
Omar Sy in The Strangers’ Case by Brandt Andersen © Philistine Films
Three more films have been invited to the Berlinale Special programme: two mid-length films Chime by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and August My Heaven by Riho Kudo as Berlinale Special and The Strangers’ Case by Brandt Andersen as a Berlinale Special Gala.
In Chime, Tashiro, a student at...
TomCat Films will be in Berlin this year for EFM from February 16 to Feb. 20. Please contact Ted Chalmers to set up a meeting or click below:
Check out some exciting new releases for international and Non-U.S. territories from TomCat Films!
FEATURED RELEASES:
(NO U.S., CANADA or U.K.) U.S. THEATRICAL! Hannah Blair tells people stories, predicts their future and even dabbles in communi...
The 74th Berlin International Film Festival will again be offering the audiences and the film industry a varied film line-up, inspiring encounters and lively exchanges from 15 to 25 February, 2024. More than 50 German productions and co-productions can be seen in the sections of what is one of the three leading international film festivals. The European Film Market will also be opening its doors for business alongside the screenings in the cinemas.
FROM HILDE WITH LOVE ©...
TomCat Films will be in Berlin this year for EFM from February 16 to Feb. 20. Stand Number 137, on the 1st floor of the MGB. Please contact Ted Chalmers to set up a meeting or click below:
Check out some exciting new releases for international and Non-U.S. territories from TomCat Films!
FEATURED RELEASES:
COMPLETED. A fame-seeking televangelist and his film crew team set out to find the fabled Noah's A...
The 74th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 15, 2024 with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, an Irish-Belgian production. Directed by Tim Mielants from a screenplay by Enda Walsh, the international cast includes Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson. Small Things Like These will screen in Competition.
The film is based on the book by the award-winning Irish writer Claire Keegan (who also wrote...
20 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears, among them two first features as well as two documentary forms. Productions from 30 countries are represented. 19 films are world premieres. Six films were directed or co-directed by women. Nine filmmakers have been at the festival before, six in Competition.
“We are particularly proud of this year’s selection which achieves the best possible balance between auteurs we cherish and admire and powerful ...
Berlinale Shorts
Berlinale Shorts 2024 – Forms of Us
Delicate pencil drawings meet unconventional fictions, personal essays encounter hyper-realistic computer animations, the personal reacts to the political. In the Berlinale Shorts competition, 20 short films of the most diverse kind enter into dialogue with one another, observing how we live together in society and family. The magical finds its way in and animals quite frequently take over the terrain.
Ple...
For the Berlinale Classics section of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, Rainer Rother and his team have gathered a spectrum of film genres with stunning visuals and audio. The selection ranges from early sound film experiment to a sober and distanced black-and-white drama, to colourful, artful exploitation. All the restorations will be world premieres.
In its 70th anniversary year, Ishirō Honda’s Gojira (Godzilla) will return to the big screen. The new 4K...
Don Lee in Beom-Joe-do-si 4 (The Roundup: Punishment) by Heo Myeong-haeng © ABO Entertainment & Bigpunch Pictures & Hong Film & B.A. Entertainment
Berlinale Special
Circle © Joung Yumi
Genre films at their best and acclaimed masters. Great performances and politically relevant documentaries. Berlinale Special offers a rich line up. After announcing an initial batch of Gala and Berlinale Special presentations, the&...
In the 4th meeting of 2023, German Films „Distribution Support" awards committee decided to support 32 foreign theatrical releases of German films. In total 288,000 Euro were allocated.
The committee decided to support the following films:
AFIRE in Ukraine (Distributor: Traffic Films, World Sales: The Match Factory, Theatrical Release: March 20, 2024, Grant: 1.750€)
ANSELM in Portugal (Distributor: Alambique, World Sales: Hanway, Theatrical Release: January 4, ...
Experiments from India intertwined with dreamlike love triangles. Female anger is heard in duet with the macho slogans of career-obsessed businessmen. Buildings and political systems collapse – and then the gate to the afterlife bursts open in a police station. Little monkeys meet a giant fish and a horse girl, then join forces to imitate the world. Activist cinema makes an appearance, showing itself to be eloquent and polyphonic in the face of global crises. The film...
Filmfestivals.com will be covering live!
Avant Première Music + Media Market Berlin is the international trade fair, marketplace, conference and networking event for music + dance films. As the preeminent gathering for a specialised industry, it unites around 600 key international experts + decision makers from major public + private broadcasting stations, streaming + VOD platforms, distribution + film production companies and performing arts institutions.
Taking place in Berlin from ...
Berlinale World Cinema Fund: Current Funding Recommendations for Production and Distribution / WCF Europe–TFL Audience Design Award
In the 39th jury session of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), the juries made 14 funding recommendations for projects from Argentina, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Republic of Belarus, Rwanda, Senegal and Thailand. The current funding pot of eleven production and three dist...
Edgar Reitz © Julia Stipsits
The 2024 Berlinale Camera will be awarded to director and author Edgar Reitz, one of the most influential filmmakers of his generation.
The awarding of the Berlinale Camera to Edgar Reitz will take placeon Thursday, February 22, at 3.00 pm in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. This will be followed by the film premiere of his latest work, Filmstunde_23.
Since 1986, the Berlinale has awarded the Berlinale Camera to honour personalities and institut...
Books at Berlinale 2023 © Carlos Collado
Berlinale Co-Production Market
On February 18, the Berlinale Co-Production Market will again bring together the publishing and film industries. Ten books from around the world selected as being particularly suitable for screen adaptation will be presented at Books at Berlinale, held in cooperation with the Frankfurter Buchmesse, and the rights holders will meet interested producers.
On Sunday, February 18, the Berlinale Co-Prod...
Mark your calendars for: Friday, February 16th, 2024
The Event Hall, Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation
Stresemannstr. 90, 10963 Berlin.
https://www.efm-berlinale.de/en/industry-sessions-ms/about/venue/venue.html
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EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS 2024 - THE JURY: Barbara Albert, Moe Dunford, Aisha Bywaters, Živilė Gallego and Vassilis Economou
European Film Promotion (EFP) is delighted to announce this year’s jury: Five highly renowned experts are waiting in the wings to pick up Europe’s ten most promising acting talents from the nominees for the 27th edition of EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS (16-19 February, 2024) at the Berlin International Film Festival.
With their combined expertise in vario...
Conference at the Akademie der Künste on Wednesday, February 14th, starting 7pm
Film program and discussion at Hackesche Höfe Kino on Friday, February 16, starting 8pm
In the face of man-made climate change, today’s societies urgently need to transform themselves – and the world of film and festivals is no exception. To open Berlin Critics’ Week 2024, we will be debating what sort of influence filmmakers, critics and activists can (or shoul...
European Film Promotion (EFP) is delighted to announce the ten emerging European talents for the 27th edition of EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS. From 16 - 19 February 2024, seven actresses and three actors will be presented to the international press, industry, and public in an exclusive four-day programme during the 74th Berlinale (15 - 25 February 2024), with major support by Creative Europe - the MEDIA Programme of the European Union. One of the programme's many highlights will be the European...
