 After Sundance, two major film festivals: Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale, Cannes International Film Festival and Oscars are coming soon. Today let's talk about Berlinale:
Berlinale counts 68th of its edition this year. It was founded in 1951 in West Berlin, the first film shown on Berlinale was Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca. From May, 2001, amazing Dieter Kosslick is a director of the festival and hosts up to 400 films in seven sections: Competition, Panorama, Forum, Generation, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale Shorts, Retrospective. The main prizes of Berlinale are Golden and Silver Bears. Bear is a symbol of Berlin. This year we have a very tough competition. In the section of "Competition" takes place: "7 Days in Entebbe" by José Padilha (director of "Narcos"), "Ága" by Milko Lazarov (director of "Otchuzhdenie"), "Ang Panahon ng Halimaw" by Lav Diaz (director of "The Woman Who Left"), "Museo" (Museum) by Alonso Ruizpalacios (director of "Güeros"), "Unsane" by Steven Soderbergh (director of "Traffic", "The Good German") and etc. Other sections are also in high competition, it's a very hot year for cold Berlin. Berlinale is very famous of its EFM - European Film Market. Thousands of films are brought from various countries and are promoted to sales agents, producers and other distributors. Berlinale has also youth section, where up to 250 young talents are selected from various countries. It is a winter film school campus, which was collaborated to Berlinale from 2003. Author: Tsiako Abesadze |