CAN I GO HOME NOW?
A film by Pritan Ambroase
Directed by Pritan Ambroase
The Hollywood Insider is announcing the completion of the shooting of their new long feature documentary film CAN I GO HOME NOW ? recording the testimony of Ukrainian children amongst ongoing war, utterly cruel violence and complete devastation.
CAN I GO HOME NOW? is a heartbreaking, moving, and powerful documentary film that gives a voice to Children suffering from the ongoing...
As if the encounter between an opera composer in a creative crisis and an exuberant tugboat captain with a penchant for love stories was not enough for an eccentric plot, Rebecca Miller throws an obsessively tidy psychiatrist in the throes of a religious episode and an ultra-conservative court stenographer-cum-self-appointed-prosecutor with a thing for historical re-enactments into the mix of her sixth feature film as writer and director. Bringing balance and sense to these adults riddled with...
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EFP's programme PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE is split between a three-day online session prior to this year's Cannes Film Festival and on-site networking events during the festival (18 - 22 May 2023).
The programme is open to 20 producers from 20 different European countries. The nomination of each national participant is made by the respective national EFP member organisation. The final selection of the 20 participants is based on a point system which considers these criteria.
The produce...
Shooting Star & Director Nikolai Lee Kaas with Alumni Shooting Star Esben Smed in AGENT, produced by Danish Producer on the Move Louise Vesth / Photo: TrustNordisk
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photo credit Ralphie Taylor Allen
first look photo from Rod Blackhurst’s action thriller Blood for Dust starring Scoot McNairy, Kit Harington and Josh Lucas. Highland Film Group is handling international sales on the film which wrapped production in December in Montana.
BLOOD FOR DUST
Status: Post-Production
Genre: Action-thriller
Director: Rod Blackhurst (Netflix’s Amanda Knox, Peacock’s “John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise”)
Writer: Dav...
Cinando is proud to announce the extension of its partnership with Germany’s Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kino – Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater eV (AG Kino - Gilde) for the second year in a row. The AG Kino - Gilde video library is hosted twice a year on a custom platform, powered by Cinando, notably during the AG Kino screening event coinciding with the Berlinale, allowing exhibitors that represent the arthouse cinemas in the AG Kino - Gilde network to watch films seeking distrib...
101 FILMS INTERNATIONAL ACQUIRES ACTION CRIME FEATURE FILM MIA AND THE DRAGON PRINCESS FOR WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION
101 Films International, an Amcomri Entertainment company, has secured worldwide distribution rights for live-action movie Mia and the Dragon Princess (80 minutes) produced by Dead Pixel Productions. Launching at EFM in Berlin.
Starring Paul McGann (The Three Musketeers, Withnail & I), Brian McCardie (The Ghost and the Darkness, Speed 2: Cruise...
The European Film Market has started. It includes several events organized by the Odesa International Film Festival, as well as events with the participation of the Ukrainian delegation.
In particular, on February 17, the Ukrainian booth will open, which will present a catalog of Ukrainian production companies (Production Guide of Ukraine) and present opportunities for cooperation with Ukraine in the field of cinema.
The following events will take place according to the following sc...
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For the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival German Films produced a showreel that presents the German films and co-productions as well as VR projects at the Warsaw International Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Berlin International Film Festival with short film clips and statements by the directors.
The showreel also provides an insight to the campaign FACE TO FA...
MEET THE PÖFF TEAM AT BERLINALE
The members of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) and its sub-festival, children's and youth film festival Just Film, and Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event will attend the 73th Berlin Film Festival and EFM.
Let's catch up and make plans for the upcoming year!
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The director Elke Lehrenkrauss and the founder of the Berlin Pornfilmfestival, Jürgen Brüning, will dissect topics of autofiction and identity and body politics. Caroline Kirberg (pong Film) will discuss the ethics and aesthetics of care with two directors from our programme, Leonor Noivo and Brieuc Schieb. The musician and founder of the feminist horror film festival Final Girls, Sara Neidorf, will discuss cult and underground film with two of our directors and the ...
The current Belarusian government has triggered a socio-political and human rights crisis in their country and has been instrumental in attacking and eradicating contemporary Belarusian culture for a long time.
In response to the constant threat of persecution, imprisonment and torture of independent artists living in Belarus, as well as a need to leave the country in order to continue working without state repression and in accordance with freedom of expression, a group of independen...
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The full version of the EFM Event Schedule is displayed here if you are registered for the EFM with an (Online) Market Badge and logged into your account.
Events are constantly added and updated up until and during the market
Consultation / 17
Happy Hour / 9
Networking / 1
One-on-One / 6
Pitch / 4
Podcast / 6
Presentation / 21
Revive / 1
Rough Cut Presentation / 1...
Conference at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin
Wednesday, February 15 from 7pm
Film programme and debate at Hackesche Höfe Kino
Friday, February 17 from 8pm
Debates about the relationship between care work, society and art have intensified in recent years. We take that conversation and apply it to the particularly industrial art form that is cinema. Who gets burned out by the film industry? What responsibilities do the institutions and filmmakers of to...
A panel discussion on the possibilities of financing Ukrainian audiovisual content will be held within the European Film Market
During the European Film Market at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, a panel discussion “Moving on: Ways to (co-)fund Ukrainian Audiovisual Content” will be held. The joint event was organized with funding from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as part of an initiative to support the Ukrainian film industry at the European Film Market.
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For the first time at Berlin Critics’ Week, we will be showing a series of films as Special Screenings, which will complement the official film selection and our debates. These programs will expand our discussions; they also underscore the openness towards historical films of the curatorial approach at this year’s festival. Additionally, from February 24 to 26, the official programs of Berlin Critics’ Week can be viewed as re-runs. With the exception of those re-r...
FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS: The 2023 talents
FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS – THE FILMMAKERS presents this year's selection of impressive talents from the German film industry at the Berlinale.
German Films, the national information and advisory centre for the promotion of German films abroad, will be presenting outstanding talents from the German film landscape to the international film industry for the eighth time during the Berlinale. This year will see the ...
At the forthcoming Berlin Film Festival, FIPRESCI will present four prizes: for a film from the international competition; from the Panorama section; from the Forum section; and from the Encounters competition.
Jury members: Gena Teodosievska, North Macedonia, president; Marcelo Janot, Brazil; Nirmal Dhar, India; Inge Coolsaet, Belgium; Andreea Patru, Romania; Jiong Chen, Germany; Elena Rubashevska, Ukraine; Hosam Mostafa, Egypt; Susanne Gietl, Germany; Diana Martirosyan, Arme...
Iranian filmmaker ‘Negin Ahmadi’ travels to the war zone of Northern Syria to follow the lives of the women in the YPJ – an all-female Kurdish militia. Armed only with her camera, she captures the struggles, hopes, and joys of these incredible women, for whom the fight against ISIS is also their way to escape the restraints of a patriarchal society. Weaving together candid moments between the female soldiers with the brutality of combat, Negin creates a personal, visual diary t...
Key Visual der / of the Berlinale 2023 © Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin / Claudia Schramke, Berlin
The Berlinale values transparency regarding gender distribution in the programme. The proportion of female directors in the Berlinale programme has been published since 2004. A comprehensive gender evaluation has been carried out yearly since 2018. The Gender Evaluation 2023 is now available
Gender Statistics 2023
Submissions at the Berlinale 2023...
WCF at the Berlinale 2023
Since 2004, the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF) has successfully supported film production in regions with weak film infrastructures, while also promoting cultural diversity. The World Cinema Fund Day on February 22, 2023 will focus on the realities of making films in Iran today, and the struggles that Iranian filmmakers face inside and out of the country. Furthermore, it focuses on crucial and essential questions of funding cinema and culture during increasing cri...
German Films, the national and advisory centre for the promotion of German films abroad, is proud to present this year's outstanding talents form the German film landscape to you and welcome you to a panel & interview event at one of Berlin's beautiful historical sites, the salon Kaisersaal at Frederick's near the Berlinale Palace.
Doors open at 2:30pm CE on Sunday 19th February.
At app. 3pm you will learn more about the FACES 2023 in a panel talk, mod...
Dear Berlinale/EFM Journalist –
We invite you and welcome your coverage at the NEFTI Awards presentation at the Berlinale/European Film Mart on Monday, 20 February 2023 where the final three (3-5 minute) films in the Third Annual N.E.F.T.I. (NEFT Emerging Film Talent International) competition will be screened and the winner announced. All the guests present at the event will also be able to cast a vote for the Viewer...
