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Berlinale Talents 2014: 300 Talents from 79 Countries / Cinematographers Agnès Godard, Franz Lustig and Christopher Doyle to Mentor Talents / New Initiative “Berlinale Talents Market Hub” Powered by Canon
From a pool of 4167 applicants, an international jury selected 300 Talents from 79 countries and across the board of filmmaking disciplines. The Talents are invited to the HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin from February 8th to 13th, 2014 for the twelfth editi...
“Berlinale Bites" provides journalists with sporadic, compact information about our programme, as well as notes on various events, guests and service offers at the Berlinale.
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64th Berlinale Programme Press Conference
The pres...
Gregor (Sebastian Zimmler) in Hüter meines Bruders von/by Maximilian Leo © Matteo Cocco
With 14 films, including nine full-length fictional features, and five medium-long fictional and documentary films (20 to 60 minutes), the selection for the Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2014 has been completed. (See also the first press release from Dec. 18, 2013.) The programme will open with the fictional feature Hüter meines Bruders made, with the support of Sixpack, a project to promote ta...
Diandra Forrest in Afronauts von/by Frances Bodomo © Joshua James Richards
Berlinale Shorts 2014: Noah Is a Woman; and the Darkroom, a Cinema
In 2014, 25 films from 21 countries will be competing for the Golden Bear for Best Short Film and the Silver Bear Jury Prize: fictional, documentary, experimental, essayistic and animated films all have an equal chance. Almost a third of these productions is not digital but was shot on film or focuses on the medium of film as a vehicle. A...
The 64th Berlin International Film Festival European Film Market (EFM) is set to go for 2014, with exhibit spaces fully booked at Martin-Gropius-Bau and the Marriott Hotel on Potsdamer Platz. The EFM is one of the most important platforms for international trade in film distribution rights and audiovisual content. Taking place from February 6 - 14, the first annual industry meeting, the EFM opens the international film year. A new initiative with Berlinale Talents, and new features like the Ca...
With today’s launch of the TEDDY poster, the countdown has begun towards the 28th TEDDY AWARD taking place in the framework of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival from 6 to 16 February 2014. The 28th TEDDY AWARD will climax on 14 February 2014 with a glittering awards ceremony at the Komische Oper Berlin. The Franco-German TV station ARTE will broadcast the TEDDY Gala for a 9th successive year.
The artwork for the 28th TEDDY AWARD is taken – as it was last year – from ...
The 64th Berlin International Film Festival will present the world premiere of Volume I of the long uncut version of Nymphomaniac, out of competition.
Alongside starring actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, numerous other international stars are part of the Nymphomaniac ensemble: Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier and many others. British actress Stacy Martin celebrates her big screen debut with Nymphomania...
Starting in mid January, the Berlinale poster will be displayed at the Potsdamer Platz and across the city, and so set the mood for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, which will take place from February 6th to 16th, 2014.
“The Berlinale Bear is and remains an extremely popular mascot – not only with our movie-loving Berlin audiences but also our international guests. This year an entire parade of bears will colourfully brighten Berlin’s cityscape and light ...
Since 2007 the Berlinale’s Culinary Cinema has shown films focussing on food and ecological topics. After screenings from the main programme, chefs make meals inspired by the films and prepared according to the Slow Food motto “good, clean and fair”.
For the 64th Berlinale, this year’s Culinary Cinema will be taking food to the street. In collaboration with Markthalle Neun and Slow Food Berlin, it will provide Street Food. During the Festival, six trucks will off...
Now that scouting trips for the Panorama 2014 are over, viewings in Berlin are in full swing. 50 fictional and documentary films will be chosen to give the programme its distinctive profile between innovative mainstream and radical alternative. So far 19 films have been invited.
Confirmed to date are new works by Michel Gondry, Kutluğ Ataman, Robert Lepage, Sophie Fillières, Benjamin Heisenberg, Maximilian Erlenwein, John Michael McDonagh, and Tsai Ming-liang. Di...
Cinema is being rethought, with the mid-length format in particular seeming to offer new artistic freedoms with a true disregard for uniformity. A striking number of films in this year’s programme, whether shot digitally or on 16mm, 35mm, or even 70mm, are somewhere between 20 and 60 minutes in length. As such, they leave categories like feature, documentary, experimental or art film behind them to develop a contemporary film language able to take account of the complexit...
Spacemen
Age of Cannibals
Lamento
The Innocents
Amma & papa
The first six films for the 2014 Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme have been invited: four feature films and two documentaries. "This year, I paid special attention to variety in content and cinematic aesthetics," says section head Linda Söffker in describing her selections. "Directors who tell familiar stories using new images, with an interesting script, or filmmakers who ta...
The first seven films for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival Competition programme have been selected. Joining opening film Grand Budapest Hotel, and Monuments Men, both announced in November, productions and co-productions from Canada, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, United Kingdom and the US are the newest additions to the Competition programme.
As part of the official programme, Berlinale Special will feature current works by contemporary filmmakers, documentaries an...
Under the motto “Ready to Play? Breaking the Rules”, Berlinale Talents 2014 will encourage its 300 budding filmmakers to experiment with new and unusual ways of bringing their stories and characters to life on screen. The focus in 2014 will be on storytelling and successful scriptwriting. Berlinale Talents will assist the filmmakers in playfully approaching character development.
“For us, Breaking the Rules means introducing filmmakers with daring and new methods, it...
The Film Museum begins the new year with political thrillers from the 1970s, the oeuvre of Gillo Pontecorvo, and an impressive new film from Egypt. Concurrently, January will see the launch of various activities to commemorate a very special anniversary:
In 2014, the Austrian Film Museum celebrates 50 years of existence. Throughout the year, roughly 20 “Special Projects” will relate to this anniversary: in-house programs; large and small "co-productions" with ren...
The Ten Best Young European Actors Are Announced
DENMARK
Danica Curcic
(On The Edge)
GERMANY
Maria Dragus
(Summer Outside)
ITALY
Miriam Karlkvist
(South Is Nothing)
THE NETHERLANDS
Marwan Kenzari
(Wolf)...
Already twelve films produced and co-produced in ten countries have been invited to the Berlinale Generation section. The complete Generation programme will be announced in mid January.
Generation will be returning to the recently reopened Zoo Palast cinema. Here, as well as at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, it will celebrate film premieres and repetition screenings. The section’s short film competition has been given a new home in the CinemaxX at Potsdamer Platz.
Genera...
As previously announced (see press release from April 9, 2013), at the Berliner Philharmonie on Sunday, February 9, 2014, the 64th Berlin International Film Festival will present a special Berlinale Classics highlight: the world premiere of the digitally restored version of Robert Wiene’s masterpiece Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920).
For the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung’s restoration in 4K resolution, for the first time all relevant mat...
Watch manufacturer Glashütte Original is extending its co-partnership with the Berlinale until 2016, and continuing its support of a talented young director from the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section with the “Made in Germany – Perspektive Fellowship”. Conceived for the development of a project, material and screenplay, the €15,000 fellowship is funded by Glashütte Original. “We are very pleased that for the third time now we will be able to awar...
For the eleventh year running, the Berlin International Film Festival and official partner the French-German Youth Office (FGYO) are giving young film lovers the opportunity to participate in the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective” as jury members.
Seven cineastes – three German, three French and one Israeli - have been selected to view and evaluate the films in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section of the 64th Berlinale. They will present the...
The 64th Berlin International Film Festival will be held from February 6 to 16, 2014.
Film fans can get ready for an exceptional highlight: Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which premiered in 1920, will be screened 94 years later in a new, completely digitally restored version within the scope of Berlinale Classics. Not only is the expressionist silent film classic of great significance in the history of film, but it has also influenced many filmmakers of later generations.
Th...
Business administrator Andrea Kaul took up her position as the co-director of the European Film Market (EFM) on September 1, 2013. Together, she and EFM director Beki Probst will continue to develop the European Film Market.
“Her expertise will reinforce the EFM in its coverage of new business fields on the ever-changing audiovisual landscape, including new television formats. I welcome her warmly to our team,” says Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick.
Andrea Kaul ...
At the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, British director Ken Loach will be honoured with an Homage, and awarded the Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievements.
“Ken Loach is one of Europe’s great directors. Over his almost 50-year career, he has shown an extraordinary degree of continuity, while remaining innovative at all times. His profound interest in people and their individual fates, as well as his critical commitment to society have found expression i...
At the 19th session of the World Cinema Fund (WCF) jury, five new film projects were recommended for production funding as well as three for distribution funding.
Since its establishment in October 2004, the WCF has awarded production and distribution funding to a total of 119 projects chosen from 2,135 submissions from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Central and Southeast Asia, and the Caucasus. All of the WCF films completed to date have screened at cinemas and/or in the progr...
The Berlin International Film Festival and Audi have agreed on a partnership for the next three years. As principal partner, Audi provides the car fleet for the festival from 2014. Besides, both parties will be presenting a multifaceted partnership programme.
Audi is providing a car fleet that includes a diverse range of RS and hybrid models along with famous movie cars. Audi will be transporting movie stars to the official opening ceremony on February 6, 2014, as well as to the award c...
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