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...
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...
Welcome to the 1st annual B!TCHFEST: An International Women’s & LGBTQIA+ Film Festival & Screenplay Contest with a groundbreaking in-person event for both Filmmakers and Screenwriters in the heart of Los Angeles. At B!tchFest we’re not just breaking glass ceilings; we’re shattering them into a million pieces by unleashing the Power of Female and LGBTQIA+ Voices in Film and Television!
Get ready for a cinematic celebration that&rsqu...
Animated shorts of all kind and techniques are eligible for Fantoche’s 2024 competitions if they’ve been completed after 31 December 2022 and last no longer than 40 minutes. Submission is free of charge and will close on 12 May 2024. You can submit via FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/Fantoche
The international show of animation film has become one of the world’s most prominent animation festivals and is the largest cultural event in Switzerland that is devoted exclu...
SFFLA, 2024 (The Scandinavian Film Festival LA with BalticFilmExpo@SFFLA)
Some of my favorite films at SFFLA 2024
TITINA- Award-winning animation writer/director Kajsa Næss's first feature “Titina” is an adult feature animation, based on the almost true facts of the first and second expedition to The North Pole by a lighter than air ship.
The charming animation, containing archival footage mixed with flat animation is a Belgia...
SFFLA (The Scandinavian Film Festival LA with BalticFilmExpo@SFFLA) celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Launched by opera singer, arts advocate, teacher & writer James Koenig, SFFLA has shown the Scandinavian (and now Baltic) Oscar submissions alongside emerging Scandinavian talent. Historically SFFLA’s list of guest filmmaker and actors represent the cream of Nordic filmmakers and it's shorts filmmakers graduated to become new leading lights of the region.
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La Luna by M. Raihan Halim will close the festival, as the first Talks lineup is unveiled featuring Marco Bellocchio and Anne Fontaine
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) revealed the films selected for the Tiger, Big Screen and Tiger Short competitions at the festival’s 53rd edition.
Head South by Jonathan Oglivie opened the festival on Thursday 25 January. The film bringing the festival to a close is now a...
Lineup of special guests confirmed for the IFFR Talks programme, and more as part of RTM and IFFR Pro
Clockwise: Sandra Hüller, Alexander Kluge, Anne Fontaine by Matias Indjic © Unifrance, Marco Bellocchio by Anna Camerlingo
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) presents a Talks programme at its 2024 edition that aims to provide fresh perspectives and profound insights into the world of filmmaking. The s...
It’s awards day! We’re here at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah, for the much-anticipated 2024 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony. We’re so excited to share the results as voted by our illustrious jurors, as well as the winners of the audience awards. Join us in congratulating these exceptional artists on their amazing contributions to independent film!
Watch this space; we’re updating this list live as we learn the results.
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Alexander David's project A Mão is the winner of the €10,000 Ventura Prize
Filmmakers Athina Rachel Tsangari, Valérie Massadian, Óscar Vincentelli and Eloy Enciso won the distribution and service awards offered by the partners and collaborators of VENTURA, the new training, development and co-production platform based in Tui, Galicia
The jury, which was made up of the Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues, the Spanish director and producer Llu...
SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD directed by Anna Hints wins FIPADOC GRAND PRIX INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
WINNERS' LIST FIPADOC 2024
GRAND PRIX
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD
Anna Hints
(Estonia, France, Iceland)
The Grand Prix International Documentary crowns the best international film as yet unreleased in France. The 5,000€ prize...
The "Early Bird Deadline" for film submissions in the 2024 season ends on February 1st! We urge all filmmakers to submit their work as early as possible—just a few days left until the deadline. Every film that wins an award at our film festival receives a jury statement, gets screened in front of the audience at the cinema, and their interview is printed in our catalog alongside the jury statement, ensuring visibility for posterity! Join us for this exciting and beautiful event a...
RSIFF, 23, 13: Get Lodged in the Red Sea Labs, interact with agents and reagents and MAKE YOUR FILM!
The Red Sea Labs announced the open call for the 5th edition of The Lodge program. A long-term residency programme, in collaboration with Torino FilmLab, and sponsored by Film AlUla, offering an intensive creative and professional film development experience. AlUla is a happening city. Hollywood productions shot in AlUla include the Gerard Butler-led action-thriller Kandahar, directed by Ric R...
The outstanding documentary Inheritance had its world premiere in January at the 2024 edition of Slamdance Film Festival. Produced and directed by Matt Moyer and Ann Toensing Set, Inheritance set itself apart from many issue oriented documentaries on middle and upper middle-class problems with frequent academic elucidations. Inheritance has no implicit appeals for funds to take on the problems depicted nor do producers call for political action. Inheritance takes a refresh...
The short film jury awards of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival were announced during the Shorts Awards Party in Park City.
The Festival, which kicked off on January 18 and runs through January 28 in person and across the country online, has long been known as the premiere showcase of short filmmaking talent. The Short Film Grand Jury Prize, awarded to one film in the program of 53 shorts selected from 12,098 submissions, went to The Masterpiece, directed and written by Alex...
Gerald Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh, Mimi Kim, Kenny Griswold, Jeff Friedl, Mark Mothersbaugh and Josh Hager
At the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, DEVO Celebrated 50 Years of De-Evolution with a special dinner at ChefDance Social, presented by Space Perspective and hosted by Mimi Kim and Kenny Griswold. Guests such as Paul Oakenfeld and Joel Michaely joined the band for a four course meal prior to their performance at The Marquis Park City in honor of thei...
