Cinando is proud to announce the extension of its partnership with Germany’s Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kino – Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater eV (AG Kino - Gilde) for the second year in a row. The AG Kino - Gilde video library is hosted twice a year on a custom platform, powered by Cinando, notably during the AG Kino screening event coinciding with the Berlinale, allowing exhibitors that represent the arthouse cinemas in the AG Kino - Gilde network to watch films seeking distrib...
101 FILMS INTERNATIONAL ACQUIRES ACTION CRIME FEATURE FILM MIA AND THE DRAGON PRINCESS FOR WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION
101 Films International, an Amcomri Entertainment company, has secured worldwide distribution rights for live-action movie Mia and the Dragon Princess (80 minutes) produced by Dead Pixel Productions. Launching at EFM in Berlin.
Starring Paul McGann (The Three Musketeers, Withnail & I), Brian McCardie (The Ghost and the Darkness, Speed 2: Cruise...
The European Film Market has started. It includes several events organized by the Odesa International Film Festival, as well as events with the participation of the Ukrainian delegation.
In particular, on February 17, the Ukrainian booth will open, which will present a catalog of Ukrainian production companies (Production Guide of Ukraine) and present opportunities for cooperation with Ukraine in the field of cinema.
The following events will take place according to the following sc...
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For the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival German Films produced a showreel that presents the German films and co-productions as well as VR projects at the Warsaw International Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Berlin International Film Festival with short film clips and statements by the directors.
The showreel also provides an insight to the campaign FACE TO FA...
MEET THE PÖFF TEAM AT BERLINALE
The members of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) and its sub-festival, children's and youth film festival Just Film, and Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event will attend the 73th Berlin Film Festival and EFM.
Let's catch up and make plans for the upcoming year!
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The director Elke Lehrenkrauss and the founder of the Berlin Pornfilmfestival, Jürgen Brüning, will dissect topics of autofiction and identity and body politics. Caroline Kirberg (pong Film) will discuss the ethics and aesthetics of care with two directors from our programme, Leonor Noivo and Brieuc Schieb. The musician and founder of the feminist horror film festival Final Girls, Sara Neidorf, will discuss cult and underground film with two of our directors and the ...
The current Belarusian government has triggered a socio-political and human rights crisis in their country and has been instrumental in attacking and eradicating contemporary Belarusian culture for a long time.
In response to the constant threat of persecution, imprisonment and torture of independent artists living in Belarus, as well as a need to leave the country in order to continue working without state repression and in accordance with freedom of expression, a group of independen...
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Summer Hill Entertainment so ready for EFM with new titles: "A w...
The full version of the EFM Event Schedule is displayed here if you are registered for the EFM with an (Online) Market Badge and logged into your account.
Events are constantly added and updated up until and during the market
Consultation / 17
Happy Hour / 9
Networking / 1
One-on-One / 6
Pitch / 4
Podcast / 6
Presentation / 21
Revive / 1
Rough Cut Presentation / 1...
Conference at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin
Wednesday, February 15 from 7pm
Film programme and debate at Hackesche Höfe Kino
Friday, February 17 from 8pm
Debates about the relationship between care work, society and art have intensified in recent years. We take that conversation and apply it to the particularly industrial art form that is cinema. Who gets burned out by the film industry? What responsibilities do the institutions and filmmakers of to...
A panel discussion on the possibilities of financing Ukrainian audiovisual content will be held within the European Film Market
During the European Film Market at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, a panel discussion “Moving on: Ways to (co-)fund Ukrainian Audiovisual Content” will be held. The joint event was organized with funding from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as part of an initiative to support the Ukrainian film industry at the European Film Market.
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For the first time at Berlin Critics’ Week, we will be showing a series of films as Special Screenings, which will complement the official film selection and our debates. These programs will expand our discussions; they also underscore the openness towards historical films of the curatorial approach at this year’s festival. Additionally, from February 24 to 26, the official programs of Berlin Critics’ Week can be viewed as re-runs. With the exception of those re-r...
FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS: The 2023 talents
FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS – THE FILMMAKERS presents this year's selection of impressive talents from the German film industry at the Berlinale.
German Films, the national information and advisory centre for the promotion of German films abroad, will be presenting outstanding talents from the German film landscape to the international film industry for the eighth time during the Berlinale. This year will see the ...
At the forthcoming Berlin Film Festival, FIPRESCI will present four prizes: for a film from the international competition; from the Panorama section; from the Forum section; and from the Encounters competition.
Jury members: Gena Teodosievska, North Macedonia, president; Marcelo Janot, Brazil; Nirmal Dhar, India; Inge Coolsaet, Belgium; Andreea Patru, Romania; Jiong Chen, Germany; Elena Rubashevska, Ukraine; Hosam Mostafa, Egypt; Susanne Gietl, Germany; Diana Martirosyan, Arme...
Iranian filmmaker ‘Negin Ahmadi’ travels to the war zone of Northern Syria to follow the lives of the women in the YPJ – an all-female Kurdish militia. Armed only with her camera, she captures the struggles, hopes, and joys of these incredible women, for whom the fight against ISIS is also their way to escape the restraints of a patriarchal society. Weaving together candid moments between the female soldiers with the brutality of combat, Negin creates a personal, visual diary t...
Key Visual der / of the Berlinale 2023 © Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin / Claudia Schramke, Berlin
The Berlinale values transparency regarding gender distribution in the programme. The proportion of female directors in the Berlinale programme has been published since 2004. A comprehensive gender evaluation has been carried out yearly since 2018. The Gender Evaluation 2023 is now available
Gender Statistics 2023
Submissions at the Berlinale 2023...
WCF at the Berlinale 2023
Since 2004, the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF) has successfully supported film production in regions with weak film infrastructures, while also promoting cultural diversity. The World Cinema Fund Day on February 22, 2023 will focus on the realities of making films in Iran today, and the struggles that Iranian filmmakers face inside and out of the country. Furthermore, it focuses on crucial and essential questions of funding cinema and culture during increasing cri...
German Films, the national and advisory centre for the promotion of German films abroad, is proud to present this year's outstanding talents form the German film landscape to you and welcome you to a panel & interview event at one of Berlin's beautiful historical sites, the salon Kaisersaal at Frederick's near the Berlinale Palace.
Doors open at 2:30pm CE on Sunday 19th February.
At app. 3pm you will learn more about the FACES 2023 in a panel talk, mod...
Dear Berlinale/EFM Journalist –
We invite you and welcome your coverage at the NEFTI Awards presentation at the Berlinale/European Film Mart on Monday, 20 February 2023 where the final three (3-5 minute) films in the Third Annual N.E.F.T.I. (NEFT Emerging Film Talent International) competition will be screened and the winner announced. All the guests present at the event will also be able to cast a vote for the Viewer...
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VIDEO Berlinale Programme Presentation | Berlinale 2023
The selection this year shows a strong ...
Festival planning can start: The whole 2023 Berlinale schedule is set. Details for premieres, press screenings, and press conferences are available at berlinale.de from today. Press conferences will take place daily at the Press Centre at the Grand Hyatt. Admission is with a press accreditation badge; tickets are not required. In addition, the press conferences will be shown on a live stream at berlinale.de. Tickets for press screenings can be booked at the ticket shop for accredite...
Berlinale Goes Kiez im Thalia – Das Programmkino (2012 und 2014) © Peter Kreibich / Berlinale 2014
From February 18 to 24, Berlinale Goes Kiez will be dotted around the city with a sample of the festival programme, in celebration of the region's vibrant cinema landscape. The audience is invited to take in select festival films in a familiar atmosphere and interact directly with the visiting film teams.
This year, the series will open with a presentation o...
European Film Market
From February 16 to 22, under the heading “Shift Happens”, the EFM Industry Sessions – the film industry programme of the European Film Market – will be providing impulses for reconsideration, innovative ideas, and involvement in the creation of the film and media industry’s future. Key themes of the discussions, talks, think tanks and various workshop formats are Sustainability, Audience & Distribution, and Diversity & Inclusion....
The German Producers Alliance- Film & Fernsehen eV ( Alliance of Producers ) and the city Laupheim bestowed the producer award to Thomas Kufus for his life 's work .
Thomas Kufus becomes at the Friday May 26, 2023 at Carl Laemmles city of birth Laupheim in the Frame one solemn award as outstanding producer personality with the Carl Lammle Producer Award 2023 awarded . The award appreciates his previous , impressive total creation as socio-political more ...
Jafar Panahi © Ali Ghandtschi / Berlinale 2017
Solidarity with Jafar Panahi
The Berlinale continues to stand in solidarity (see press release from 11.07.2023) with the arrested filmmakers in Iran and the people in Iran fighting for their rights.
“We were very concerned for the health of Jafar Panahi and are now very glad that he has finally been released,” say the Berlinale directors Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian. &nbs...
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