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The Berlin Beat N°1 Berlinale and EFM in focus
DO NOT MISS A BIT from BERLINALE AND EFM 2024
ATTEND EFM WITH SUMMER HILL! Contact Us: Ted Chalmers President of Summer Hill Films ted@summerhillfilms.com www.summerhillfilms.com 10645 N. Tatum Blvd., #200-130, Phoenix, AZ 85028 USA +1-480-535-8711 Check out some exciting films from Summer Hill at AFM! We will be represented by Ted Chalmers at MGB 1st Floor, Stand #137 from Feb. 16 to 19. Ted can be contacted by clicking the meeting link below. We look forward to meeting with you! ...
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Still: Brandon Vlieghe in L’Empire (The Empire) by Bruno Dumont © Tessalit Productions
20 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears, among them two first features as well as two documentaries. 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. &ldquo...
In just three weeks, Berlin's Avant Première 2024 will showcase over 500 music and dance films. Attendees can expect exclusive screenings, star-studded events, and unique networking opportunities at the global performing arts fair. Every year in mid-February, Berlin rolls out its red carpets, and transforms into the capital of media and film. A significant contributor to the city's cinematic fervour is Avant Première, the international marketplace and networking ...
German Films is proud to present this year’s selection of outstanding talents from the German film landscape to the international film industry at the Berlinale. © Marcus Höhn / The Dream Factory FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS 2024 – THE FILMMAKERS features seven unique, impressive, and diverse personalities, each of whom has found a very personal and interesting path into the film industry. In a multifaceted way, they all illustrate how colourful and ...
The complete film programme and a large cast of guests for Berlin Critics’ Week 2024 are now online, with the final list of attendees as well as a detailed schedule for the opening conference on February 14 to be announced in the coming days. This year, our film screenings and debates will take place from February 15–22. Tickets are now on sale for all film and debate programmes of the Berlin Critics’ Week. Find our ticket presales on the website of ...
Mzia Arabuli in Levan Akin’s Crossing © Haydar Tastan Panorama The 2024 Panorama: Bridges Between Lived Experiences and Cinematic Possibilities Levan Akin’s film Crossing is opening the 2024 Panorama. The programme comprises 31 titles from 36 countries featuring, among other things, a flourishing documentary cinema, alternative filmic realities and sex as liberation from heteronormativity. It includes new works by André Téchiné, Thomas Arslan...
Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon in The Departed (Departed - Unter Feinden) by Martin Scorsese © 2024 Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved At the Award Ceremony of the Honorary Golden Bear to Martin Scorsese on February 20, 2024, his thriller The Departed will be screened. Since the 1970s, the Oscar-winning director has been one of the most influential filmmakers in the world of cinema. The directorial works of the Italian American with Sicilian roots alone comprise mo...
Co-Pro Series Pitch 2023 © Carlos Collado On February 20 and 21, the Berlinale Co-Production Market will be organising its tenth Co-Pro Series, consisting of a pitch event, meetings and networking around ten promising international series projects selected for presentation to interested partners. The pitches will take place at CinemaxX on the morning of February 20, followed by a networking event and several hundred pre-planned one-on-one meetings between the producers and cre...
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...
The awards ceremony of the Belarusian Film Critics Award ’Red Heather’ will take place on February 17, 2024 at 7:00 PM during this year’s 74th Berlin International Film Festival at the European Film Market (EFM). The ’Red Heather’ award celebrates the achievements of independent Belarusian cinema which after 2020 exits either underground or in exile. The best Belarusian films of 2021 and 2022 will be celebrated at the ’Red Hea...
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...
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...
Techqua Ikachi, Land - mein Leben © Mano Film, Selfportrait © Maria Lassnig Stiftung / Courtesy sixpackfilm, Deda-Shvili an rame ar aris arasodes bolomde bneli © 3003 Film Production Forum Relations & Resistance: The 2024 Forum Special This year’s Forum Special is dedicated to films that show a stance – whether in the 1970s or 2023. Programmed around a documentary core,...
ATTEND EFM WITH SUMMER HILL! Check out some exciting films from Summer Hill at AFM! We will be represented by Ted Chalmers at MGB 1st Floor, Stand #137 from Feb. 16 to 19. Ted can be contacted by clicking the meeting link below. We look forward to meeting with you! Be sure to check out our website at www.summerhillfilms.com to see all our other available films. We look forward to working with you throughout the rest of 2024 and beyond! If you...
BELLA THORNE TO DIRECT FIRST FEATURE COLOR YOUR HURT PRODUCED BY LATIGO FILMS Actress and entrepreneur Bella Thorne is set to direct COLOR YOUR HURT and has started casting based on her original screenplay. Thorne wrote and directed two short films, UNSETTLED, currently in post-production and award-winning PAINT HER RED which premiered at the 2023 Taormina Film Festival. COLOR YOUR HURT expands her short film UNSETTLED into a feature film. The short was filmed in June 2023 and produced ...
Techqua Ikachi, Land - mein Leben © Mano Film, Selfportrait © Maria Lassnig Stiftung / Courtesy sixpackfilm, Deda-Shvili an rame ar aris arasodes bolomde bneli © 3003 Film Production Forum Relations & Resistance: The 2024 Forum Special This year’s Forum Special is dedicated to films that show a stance – whether in the 1970s or 2023. Programmed around a documentary core,...
Martin Scorsese © Brigitte Lacombe The 74th Berlin International Film Festival will award US-director, producer and screenwriter Martin Scorsese the Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement in an award ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 20, 2024. “For anyone who considers cinema as the art of shaping a story in such a way that is both completely personal and universal, Martin Scorsese is an unmatched role model. His films have accompanied our his...
left to right Berlinale Carlo Chatrian, UEFA EURO 2024 Celia Šašić, UEFA EURO 2024, Berlinale Mariëtte Rissenbeek © Richard Hübner / Berlinale 2024 The Berlinale is taking part in the cultural programme for the 2024 European Football Championship with Berlinale Meets Fußball. “Football is a community game underlining team spirit and capable of promoting exchange, understanding and social cohesion. This makes...
Key Visual der / of the Berlinale 2024 © Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin / Claudia Schramke, Berlin Starting in late January, at Potsdamer Platz and across the city, the Berlinale poster will build anticipation for the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, taking place from February 15 to 25, 2024. “The attentive, open and approachable bear stands as a symbol for the intended focus of the 74th Berlinale: the festival as an open place for our audience and the film i...
Saoirse Ronan © The Outrun Panorama First Films in Panorama Confirmed: Counter Movements ...
Gropius Bau © Juliane Eirich 2023 The European Film Market (EFM) at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival will open its doors for seven days from February 15 to 21, 2024. Two months before the start of the festival, the stands at the two market venues Gropius Bau and Marriott Hotel are almost already fully booked. Once again, the EFM is expecting more than 11,500 market participants, exhibitors, rights holders, producers, buyers and investors to visit B...
Berlinale Talents Key Visual und Thema für 2024: „COMMON TONGUES - Speaking Out in the Language of Cinema” © Ada Favaron und Imad Gebrael Language, common language, film language is the theme of the 22nd edition of the talent development initiative Berlinale Talents. It was long unheard of, and yet it is taken for granted today: since the 1920s, there has been sound an thus the spoken word in film alongside visual language. This opened up...
Lupita Nyong'o © Nick Barose The Kenyan-Mexican actor, director, producer and New York Times bestselling author Lupita Nyong'o will be President of the International Jury of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. Ever since her 2014 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 12 Years a Slave (director: Steve McQueen), Lupita Nyong'o has been one of the most high-profile international actors, inspiring audiences and film critics alike....
Tricia Tuttle appointed as new director of the Berlin International Film Festival. Chaired by the Minister of State for Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, the Board of Supervisors of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH (KBB) today approved the selection committee's proposal to appoint Tricia Tuttle as director of the Berlin International Film Festival from April 2024. Tricia is "The right choice to lead the Berlinale successfully into the future ...
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