Director of the Perspektive Deutsches Kinosection Alfred Holighaus will be taking on new tasks this coming year: inJanuary he will join the management of the Deutsche Filmakademie e.V., though he will still carry out his curatorial duties at the Berlinale 2010.

In summer2001, Holighaus was appointed the Berlin International Film Festival'scommissioner for German film by Festival Director Dieter Kosslick. In autumn of the same year, he became the curator ofPerspektive Deutsches Kino, that newBerlinale section launched by Dieter Kosslick.

AlfredHolighaus has made this section for new, relevant and forward-looking Germancinema a popular, integral part of the festival, appreciated by both theindustry at home and abroad.

"It has been a pleasure working with Alfred Holighaus to give German film a strongposition at the Berlinale. He has done a fantastic job. We are all lookingforward to collaborating with him in his new position at the Filmakademie," saysBerlinale Director Dieter Ko sslick.