Berlinale Special program of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival finalized its lineup with 2 new titles – the documentary Love to Love You, Donna Summer, and 100 Years of Disney Animation – a Shorts Celebration. Additionally, cinematographer Caroline Champetier will be honored at the festival with the Berlinale Camera.
Berlinale revealed the 18 films competing for the Golden and Silver Bears; and 16 films, all of which are world premieres, competing in Encounters section, at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival.
Berlin International Film Festival 2023 confirms more titles for Berlinale Special, Panorama, Generation, Berlinale Co-Production Market, and Berlinale Goes Kiez.
Berlinale confirms more films for the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival, including eight more films with guests such as Jeon Do-yeon, Pierfrancesco Favino, Felix Lobrecht, Mario Martone, Helen Mirren, Peter Simonischek and David Wnendt for Berlinale Special; 20 short films from 15 countries competing in Berlinale Shorts; and a Forum Special exploring different aspects of Black culture.
The 73rd Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 16, 2023 with the world premiere of Rebecca Miller’s romantic comedy She Came to Me starring Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig, Brian d’Arcy James and Anne Hathaway.
Berlinale revealed the films showcased in Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale Classics and Retrospective programs of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Berlin Film Festival unveiled titles selected for Berlinale Special, Berlinale Series, Forum and Forum Expanded; along wit the official poster of the upcoming 73rd edition of the festival. “The key visual for the 73rd Berlinale directs our attention to the indispensable core of a metropolitan film festival: the audience. We’re very pleased that with this year’s poster, we can honor those whose curiosity, enthusiasm and applause makes the Berlinale a vibrant, inspiring and joyful event,” comments Mariëtte Rissenbeek, Executive Director of the Berlinale.
Films by Sepideh Farsi, Jennifer Reeder, Tina Satter, Sacha Polak, Malene Choi and Ira Sachs are among the first 14 films selected for the Panorama line-up of the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. In the Generation program, the first 18 films confirmed so far include feature film debuts of Antonio Bigni, Domien Huyghe, Jenna Hasse, Sofia Auza, Zeno Graton, Carla Subirana and Jhi Wei Jow.
Kristen Stewart will be the president of the International Jury at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Director Steven Spielberg will be presented with an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement and celebrated with the Homage at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival. During the Award Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast, the festival will screen his most recent work, The Fabelmans.
Berlin International Film Festival issued a statement today, calling for the acquittal of filmmaker and 2022 festival juror Tsitsi Dangarembga who was apprehended in July 2020 at a protest in Harare, Zimbabwe. She has since been released on bail, but in a trial, now taking place before the Anti-Corruption Court in Harare, the decision will be made on whether to drop the case or seek a verdict.
The audience of the Berlin International Film Festival voted Happiness (Baqyt) by Askar Uzabayev, the winner of the 24th Panorama Audience Award for the best feature film. Love, Deutschmarks and Death (Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm) by Cem Kaya wins in the category Panorama Dokumente.