Of the 7,000 short films entered to this year’s festival from all over the world, only the best will make it to the big screen from 15 - 20 November 2011! Over six days, the short film festival will show 450 shorts in 50 programmes, 6 competitions and 7 cinemas. Prizes amounting to 40,000 euro will be conferred in the International Competitions, Confrontations programme, Documentary Competition, German Competition, Viral Video Award and Eject. The Opening Night of the festival will be...

  EUROPEAN FILM MARKET OPENS WITH HIGH HOPES The European Film Market, the professional parallel event to the Berlin Film Festival, opened yesterday with anticipation of a busy buying session that signal the reemergence of the market after three disasterous years of economic recession. Market registration has increased by 15% from last year and offices are filled to capacity at the Martin Gropius Bau, the Market’s main venue, and the Marriot Hotel. Unofficial offices have also been s...

The Festival of the New German Cinemas of Berlin is entering its 8th year!   achtung berlin – new berlin film award will again present within its different programme sections around 70 contemporary feature and documentary films of numerous running times from April 18th – 25st 2012, which were either partially or completely involved with a film production, producer or director in Berlin or Brandenburg - among these are numerous premieres, which are presented at t...

The members of the Youth Jury in the Generation 14plus Leo BruckmannLulu GrimmFrida GrubbaMoritz KleineIsabelle MoogMaurits SchönJoëlle Webergave the following awards: Crystal Bear for the Best Feature FilmMy Suicide by David Lee Miller A rare theme which is both current and extremely tragic for young people has been persuasively tackled in this film. We were not only fascinated by the film’s gripping content also the highly original way in which it was made. The protagonist’s loneliness a...