International film experts and young cineastes comprise the official juries. Two international juries present further prizes in the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus competition. Each will award the Grand Prix for the Best Film (endowed with €7,500) and the Special Prize for the Best Short Film (endowed with €2,500)
English actor Jeremy Irons will head the jury of the main competition
The Golden Bear, the top award at the Berlin International Film Festival (BIFF), went to the Israeli-French-German co-production Synonyms by director Nadav Lapid. It was given to the producers of the film SaĂŻd Ben SaĂŻd, Michel Merkt. It follows the story of Yoav, a former soldier in the Israeli army. In Paris, things do not …
The 69th Berlin International Film Festival will see four worthy individuals honoured with the Berlinale Camera including US producer and IFP founder Sandra Schulberg, Wieland Speck, who headed the Berlinale’s Panorama section for many years, French filmmaker Agnès Varda, and German director and screenwriter Herrmann Zschoche. Since 1986, the Berlinale Camera has been awarded to worthy individuals …
Event will take place on sidelines of Berlin Film Festival
French actress and Oscar winner Juliette Binoche was named president of the international jury of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). Berlinale Director, Dieter Kosslick, said “I am very pleased that Juliette is 2019 jury president. The festival is especially connected to her and I am delighted that they are now coming back in …
The retrospective, dubbed “Self-determined”, will focus on German women filmmakers between 1968 and 1999
Poverty is not a defect. This is a foregone conclusion but the resistance to social problems caused by poverty is a matter of reflection. This is what happened with the Lebanese-Egyptian director Reem Saleh in her first long documentary film, “Al Jam’aia” (The Money Pool), which was first screened in the Panorama section at the …
