Berlinale 2024: Diversity and Inclusion
The Berlinale is constantly working to remove existing barriers and to develop more inclusive services. All offers on diversity and accessibility at the 74th Berlinale can be found online.
Furthermore, the Berlinale has an Anti-Discrimination Code of Conduct that sets out the rules of social interaction for all areas of the festival.
The Berlinale is committed to diversity, inclusion and accessibility, and is constantly working to further develop inclusive events.
The guidelines for social togetherness are set out in the Anti-Discrimination Code of Conduct. An Awareness Team of formally educated anti-discrimination consultants will be available again to ensure its implementation.
Detailed information on the respective offerings related to inclusion during the 74th Berlinale is published on the Berlinale Inclusion page. Information on accessibility at the EFM are online as well.
The festival programme undergoes a Gender Evaluation annually. The TEDDY Award, the festival’s queer film award, makes LGBTIQ+ topics visible at the festival. Generation offers educational cinema events for school classes as well as for youth projects outside of school.
Public Events
Panorama & TEDDY AWARD
TEDDY Programme Introduction
Friday, February 2, 7.30 pm
TEDDY Jury Reception
Friday, February 16, 10.30 pm
Generation Kplus
Sieger sein (Winners) with Syrian Arabic live voice-over
Friday, February 18, 12.30 pm
Panorama & TEDDY AWARDS
Directors Exchange: (Re)claiming Power
Monday, February 19, 2.00 – 3.30 pm
Directors Exchange: Family Ties, the Inherited and the Chosen
Monday, February 19, 4.00 – 5.30 pm
TEDDY Talents Talks: What’s Seen But Not Said
Tuesday, February 20, 2.30 – 4.00 pm
Berlinale Talents
Speaking Out: Film as a Culture of Memory
Tuesday, February 20, 5.00 – 6.30 pm
World Cinema Fund
WCF Day - Diversity as a Self-Evidence – 20 Years World Cinema Fund
Wednesday, February 21, 2.30 – 6.30 pm
Generation Kplus
Raìz with Ukrainian live voice-over
Friday, February 24, 9.30 pm
Festival Events That Are Accessible for Accredited Industry Guests and Press Only
EFM
Working with AI: the Human Factor
Friday, February 16, 3.15 – 4.00 pm
EFM
Friend or Foe: AI and Equity
Saturday, February 17, 10.00 – 11.00 am
EFM
Follow the Money: Transparency Towards Fair Remuneration
Sunday, February 18, 10.00 – 11.00 am
EFM
Unlocking Audiences and Authentic Representations Accessibility
Sunday, February 18, 11.30 am – 12.45 pm
EFM
DAE-Roundtable: #DocSafe Initiative
Sunday, February 18, 4.30 – 6.00 pm, with registration
Berlinale Series Market
Social Responsibility Sells – Matching Impact and Entertainment
Monday, February 19, 5.00 – 6.00 pm
EFM
Equity & Inclusion Pathways Seminar
Tuesday, February 20, 9.00 am – 2.00 pm (invitation only)
Co-funded by Creative Europe MEDIA and taking place yearly at the EFM 2023, 2024 and 2025, the Equity & Inclusion Pathways Seminar is an industry-wide consultation forum that brings together European decision-makers, advocacy groups, stakeholders and change-makers with the aim of shifting the needle regarding equity, inclusion and accessibility in terms of policymaking, strategy, measures and actions.
The change and advances that this Seminar aims to bring about for the European film industry are resolutely structural, and involves not only creating sustainable pathways for equity-seeking professionals into the European film sector, but also dismantling discrimination, biases, barriers and exclusions as well as valuing the unrealised potential of the contributions of marginalised film professionals to the industry. Ultimately, the Seminar whose focus is race and ethnicity applies an intersectional lens to all the subjects it unpacks and calls for a more equitable redistribution of redistribution of resources and decision-making power, greater accessibility and safeguards against structural racism and other forms of discrimination.
The seminar's partner this year is OMNI Inclusion Data, an initiative by MOIN Film Fund in collaboration with Australia's The Everyone Project. OMNI aims to support diversity in the German film industry by collecting factual data from cast and crew on a voluntary basis, ensuring compliance with EU Data Protection laws. The platform provides the industry with the most up-to-date analysis on inclusion statistics, contributing to a more diverse film and media landscape.
EFM / Panorama & TEDDY AWARDS
TEDDY Talks: Queer Creations Part 2
Wednesday, February 21, 3.00 – 4.30 pm
EFM / Panorama & TEDDY AWARDS
Queer Your Program: Speedy Film Pitches
Wednesday, February 21, 5.00 – 6.00 pm
EFM / Panorama & TEDDY AWARDS
Thursday, February 22, 6.00 pm
The Berlinale Also Supports the Following External Events
Power to Transform! In cooperation with the Embassy of Canada to Germany
Global forum for women film organizations @Berlinale
Friday, February 16, 3.00 – 4.30 pm (invitation only) 5.00 – 6.30 pm (public event)
Sinema Transtopia
Wan Pipel by Pim de la Parra, Film screening with introduction by Jonathan Ali
Friday, February 16, 8.00 pm
Sinema Transtopia
Friday, February 18, 11.00 am
Sinema Transtopia
Tiger Stripes, film screening followed by a talk with Amanda Nell Eu
Wednesday, February 21, 8.00 pm & February 28, 8.00 pm
Sinema Transtopia
Panel talk: Talking about Cinema - Practices of Alternative Screens
Sunday, February 18, 4.00 pm, 6.00 pm Get Together
ProQuote Film
10th anniversary congress of Pro Quote Film e.V.: EMPOWERED FOR EQUALITY
Monday, February 19, 10.30 am – 7.00 pm, public event from 1.00 pm
Press Conference by Culture Change Hub
Re-Framing the Picture: Gender Equity Policy in Film Industries
Tuesday, February 20, 3.00 – 4.00 pm, with registration
Internationales Frauenfilmfest Dortmund + Köln
Framing The Archive - A Past that Leads to Us
Tuesday, February 20, 4.00 – 7.00 pm, with registration
NATIVe Indigenous Cinema Stand, in collaboration with The Embassy of Canada and Isuma Distribution International
Public Screening of Tautuktavuk (What We See)
Tuesday, February 20, 2.00 pm (entry from 1.30 pm), with registration
Sinema Transtopia
Friday, February 23, 8.00 pm
