Berlin International Film Festival 2021 announced the 15 films, two of which are first features, which will compete for the Golden Bear and the Silver Bears. Productions from 16 countries are represented in the Competition.
Berlin International Film Festival
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Berlin Film Festival 2021 Announces Competition and Berlinale Special Lineup Featuring Tina Turner, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch
“The Mauritanian” starring Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, Shailene Woodley, Benedict Cumberbatch
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Berlin Film Festival 2021 Announces Encounters, Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino Lineups
Eve Duranceau, G.A. Roy, Maxim Gaudette in Hygiène sociale (Social Hygiene) Berlin International Film Festival 2021 revealed the films selected for Encounters, Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino programs. In the 2021 Perspektive Deutsches Kino, three documentary and three fiction films take us on journeys to places in Denmark, Nigeria, Canada, the USA, Georgia, Hong Kong and Germany – from the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, to Berlin and Brandenburg, to the Baltic Sea.
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Berlin Film Festival 2021 Reveals Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded Lineup
Aurielle Akerele in The Inheritance 17 films makes up the 51st Berlinale Forum program and the Forum Expanded film selection consists of four short film selections, one medium-length film and two feature-length films, with a total of 18 films to be shown in March at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival. Eight installations will also be shown in June.
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Berlin Film Festival 2021 Unveils Short Film Lineup
Diana Neves Silva in Luz de Presença (A Present Light) Berlinale Shorts 2021 program of the Berlin International Film Festival will showcase 20 short films from 16 countries featuring different languages and ranging from fictional formats to experimental films, animations, hybrid and documentary forms
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Berlin Film Festival Reveals 15 Films in Generation 2021 Program
Kristine Kujath Thorp, Nader Khademi in Ninjababy Berlinale revealed the 15 films including seven world premieres and six debuts for the Generation program in the two competitions Kplus and 14plus.
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Berlinale 2021 Retrospective ‘No Angels – Mae West, Rosalind Russell and Carole Lombard’ to Showcase Classic Comedies
Mae West in I’m No Angel | Wesley Ruggles, USA, 1933 Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC For the Retrospective of the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival, the festival will showcase a program of 27 comedies featuring three different American actresses under the title “No Angels – Mae West, Rosalind Russell & Carole Lombard”. The films were chosen with a focus on the strict morality rules of the Motion Picture Production Code, which were increasingly enforced after 1934. Officially adopted in 1930 and dubbed the “Hays Code”, it was a voluntary system by which the Hollywood Studios agreed to uphold moral standards in filmmaking to avoid the censors’ knife. But the Hays Office soon became an even stricter arbiter than the actual censorship office of what could and couldn’t be shown on screen. The code prohibited explicit depictions of sex and promiscuity, as well as the use of profanity. Yet during that period, these three women succeeded in shaping their own film roles, finding their own style, and subtly subverting the Hays Code rules.
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71st Berlin International Film Festival Unveils Official Poster
71st Berlin International Film Festival Poster Berlin International Film Festival unveiled the official poster for the upcoming 71st edition of the festival taking place in two stages – Industry event and the Summer Special.
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Directors of Golden Bear Winning Films to Serve as Jury of Berlin International Film Festival 2021
International Jury of the 71st Berlinale (from t. l. to b. l. clockwise): Adina Pintilie, Nadav Lapid, Mohammad Rasoulof, Jasmila Žbanić, Gianfranco Rosi, Ildikó Enyedi. As part of the festival format in 2021, the directors of six Golden Bear winning films will decide on the prizes in the International Competition at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival and will view the films on the big screen in Berlin. A jury presidency is not planned for this year.
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Berlin Film Festival Unveils 2021 ‘Two Stages’ Format
Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival Due to the current COVID-19 situation, the 71st Berlin International Film Festival has developed a new festival format for 2021. The industry platforms European Film Market, Berlinale Co-Production Market, Berlinale Talents and the World Cinema Fund will kick off the 71st Berlinale in March with an online offer. In June, there will be a summer event with numerous film screenings for the public audiences – in cinemas as well as open air.
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Berlin Film Festival Confirms Founding Director Alfred Bauer DID Play a Role in Nazi Regime
Alfred Bauer with Sophia Loren Berlin Film Festival today confirmed that founding director Alfred Bauer, after whom the Silver Bear – Alfred Bauer Prize award was named, did play a role in the Reichsfilmintendanz which was more significant than previously known and was systematically covered up by him after 1945. Reichsfilmintendanz was the central institution for controlling film production in the Nazi regime.
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Toronto Film Festival and International Film Organizations Call for Release of Sudanese Filmmaker Hajooj Kuka
Hajooj Kuka Toronto International Film Festival and the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR*) and its founding institutions, the European Film Academy, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and International Film Festival Rotterdam have issued calls for the Sudanese authorities to release filmmaker Hajooj Kuka and the four artists imprisoned with him.
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European Film Academy and Berlin Film Festival Calls for Release of Iranian Nasrin Sotoudeh
Nasrin Sotoudeh The European Film Academy and the Berlin International Film Festival issued a statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of writer, human rights lawyer, and activist Nasrin Sotoudeh.