Representatives forms MIFF are still working in the Berlinale discussing agreements. One of the latest news which has been revealed concerns the tribute prize to Marco Müller. The festival director Hisham Abdel Khalek has met Mr Müller to decide the details of his participation to the Malta International Film Festival.  Marco Müller will be rewarded for his career as a producer and film festival director and one of his films will be screened in the section dedicated to tributes. Marco Müller was Born in Rome in 1953. Since 1980, film critic and scholar (books, newspapers and periodicals in Italy, France, etc.). Through 1980-2000, director of the Turin "Electric Shadows", Pesaro, Rotterdam and Locarno Festivals. He has created two of the most important European film-funds for Asian, African and South American films, the Hubert Bals Fund (in the Netherlands) and Fondazione Montecinemaverità (in Switzerland). He started producing films in 1997 (for the three companies he has established, Fabrica Cinema and Downtown Pictures in Italy, Riforma Film in Switzerland): among the 14 feature films he produced, 8 won top honors at Cannes and Venice (and an Oscar for Best Foreign Film). In 2005 he has produced Aleksandr Sokurov's "The Sun". He teaches Film Form at Mario Botta's Academy of Arcitecture. Since 2004, he took up his new position as Director of the Mostra Interazionale d'Arte Cinematografica (Venice Film Festival).