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The 74th Berlin International Film Festival will take place from Feb 15 - 25, 2024 / EFM : Feb 15-21
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...
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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...
Mark your calendars for: Friday, February 16th, 2024
The Event Hall, Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation
Stresemannstr. 90, 10963 Berlin.
https://www.efm-berlinale.de/en/industry-sessions-ms/about/venue/venue.html
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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
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Saoirse Ronan © The Outrun
Panorama
First Films in Panorama Confirmed: Counter Movements
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