In Focus: Diverse Documentary Forms and Events
The Berlin International Film Festival has long been committed to documentaries in their diverse forms. This is reflected in the programmes of the Berlinale’s different sections and initiatives, as well in the European Film Market (EFM), Berlinale Co-Production Market, and Berlinale Talents.
In 2014, a total of 64 documentaries will be screening in a variety of forms. In addition, discussion of a wide range of different aspects related to documentaries will be intensified – at workshops, panels and presentations.
Here is a list of the films and events in 2014:
European Film Market (EFM)
“Meet the Docs”
The EFM programme “Meet the Docs” will take place for the sixth time in 2014. This initiative, a co-operation with the European Documentary Network (EDN), gives the international documentary film trade a meeting point at Martin-Gropius-Bau. Accredited festival and market visitors can participate here in various panel discussions, individual meetings with international documentary film festivals, documentary film project consulting talks, and networking events.
As a central networking platform, “Meet the Docs” aims to promote exchange among buyers, sellers, directors and producers of documentaries.
“Meet the Docs” - Panel
Under the roof of “Meet the Docs”, the “Docs Spotlights” series by IDFA and DOK Leipzig present a selection of the previous documentary festival programmes at the CinemaxX.
Inside Out: The People's Art Project
Alastair Siddons
The Special Need
Carlo Zoratti | Wide House
Alphabet
Erwin Wagenhofer | The Match Factory
Everyday Rebellion
Arash & Arman T. Riahi | Rise and Shine World Sales
InRealLife
Beeban Kirdron | Dogwoof
Journey to Jah
Noël Dernesch, Moritz Springer | Rise and Shine World Sales
Song from the Forest
Michael Obert | Deckert Distribution
Supermensch
Mike Myers | Dogwoof
The Unknown Known
Errol Morris | HanWay Films
Ukraine is not a Brothel
Kitty Green | Cinephil
Meet the Distributors
February 8 - 11, 2.00 – 3.00 pm, EFM Lounge
Leading documentary distributors will briefly introduce themselves, their company profiles and what kind of documentaries they are looking for.
Meet the Festivals
February 8 - 11, 11.00 am – 12.00 pm at the stand #201 (MGB 2nd floor)
This session series introduces documentary film festivals, which will share their insights and insides and answer questions in one-on-one meetings directly at the Meet the Docs Stand (MGB, 2nd floor, stand#201).
Meet the Docs Talks
February 8 - 11, 5.30 – 6.00 pm at stands #200+201(MGB 2nd floor)
In collaboration with IFP & the Sundance Institute
Topics 2014:
Mapping the documentary landscapes in North America and Europe
Documentary broadcasters in North America and Europe
Documentary funds in North America and Europe
Documentary festival strategies in North America and Europe
Meet the Docs Conversations
Tuesday, February 11, 4.00 - 4.30 pm, EFM Lounge (MGB 2nd floor)
In collaboration with Visions du Réel
Creative Documentary Filmmaking in Germany
A conversation between Luciano Barisone, Director of Visions du Réel, and Sebastian Mez, German filmmaker (in English)
Wednesday, Febuary 12, 11.00 am - 12.00 pm, EFM Lounge (MGB 2nd floor)
Presence and Future of ARTE G.E.I.E
A one-on-one talk with Florian Hager - Deputy Director of Programme and Director of Programming Web + TV, ARTE G.E.I.E, hosted by Daniel Saltzwedel, Funding Consultant for Documentary Film at Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
EFM Industry Debate
Friday, February 7, 4.30 – 5.30 pm
In collaboration with The Hollywood Reporter
The Act (and Art) of the Doc
Documentaries and non-fiction material are at a crucial point: while documentary budgets are being cut back by television broadcasters, documentaries for the big screen are enjoying success with both audiences and the critics. Yet despite the fact that audiences are interested in non-fiction material, it has rarely been more difficult to bridge the financial gap between the idea for a film and the finished product. At the same time documentary works have never been artistically stronger. New docs – from the Oscar-nominated The Act of Killing to the 3D-project Cathedrals of Culture, as well as big US-studio efforts such as Chimpanzee – expand the artistic dimensions of non-fiction storytelling. Such films have broken out of the documentary niche and appeal to larger audiences.
The event will be hosted by Scott Roxborough (The Hollywood Reporter).
Berlinale Co-Production Market
„Theme Talk“
Monday, February 10, 2.30 – 3.30 pm, Berlin House of Representatives
Distribution, sales and production aspects in documentary
Berlinale Talents
Doc Station 2014
Ten documentary directors from four continents receive mentoring to develop their projects further during an intense week.
In cooperation with German Federal Film Board (FFA), Sources 2 and ZDF/ARTE.
Directors Doc Station 2014
Frederik Arens Grandin, The Power Of Fish Is Water, France / Germany
Universe Baldoza, Audio Perpetua, Philippines
Benoit Felici, The Real Thing, France / Italy
Salomé Lamas, El Dorado – La Rinconada, Portugal
Emanuel Licha, Hotel Machine, Germany / Canada / France
Marcelo Martinessi, Stolen Images, Paraguay / Italy
Drifa Mezenner, Drifa And The Lonely Whale, Algeria
Bao Nguyen, The Betel Begins The Conversation, Vietnam / USA
Clara Wieck, Inbetween Trees And Perspectives, Germany
Hyoe Yamamoto, Samurai And Idiots – The Olympus Affair, Japan
Mentors Doc Station 2014
Kathrin Brinkmann, ZDF/ARTE, Germany
Jakob Kirstein Høgel, New Danish Screen, Denmark
Meike Martens, Blinker Filmproduktion, Germany
Ulla Simonen, Sources 2, MADE & DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland
Denis Vaslin, Volya Films, Netherlands
The Doc Station projects will be presented by their creators at the Berlin House of Representatives on Wednesday, Febuary 12, 2014, 11.00 am – 12.30 pm.
Berlinale Special (8 films)
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq - USA
By Nancy Buirski
Cathedrals of Culture - Germany / Denmark / Austria / Norway (3D filmproject)
By Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford, Margreth Olin, Karim Aïnouz
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden - USA
By Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller
Night Will Fall (work in progress) – United Kingdom / USA / Israel
By André Singer
The Unknown Known - USA
By Errol Morris
Untitled New York Review of Books Documentary (work in progress) - USA
By Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi
Watermark - Canada
By Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky
We Come as Friends – France / Austria
By Hubert Sauper
Panorama (16 films)
20,000 Days on Earth – United Kingdom
By Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
With Nick Cave
Anderson - Germany
By Annekatrin Hendel
With Sascha Anderson
Another World - USA
By Rebecca Chaiklin, Fisher Stevens
With Emilie Jackson
Concerning Violence - Sweden / USA / Denmark
By Göran Hugo Olsson
With Lauryn Hill
Der Anständige (The Decent One) – Israel / Austria / Germany
By Vanessa Lapa
With Tobias Moretti, Sophie Rois, Antonia Moretti, Lenz Moretti, Pauline Knof
Der Kreis (The Circle) - Switzerland
By Stefan Haupt
With Marianne Sägebrecht, Anatole Taubman, Matthias Hungerbühler
Felice chi è diverso (Happy to Be Different) - Italy
By Gianni Amelio
Finding Vivian Maier - USA
By John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
With Steve Lynch, Martin Fuchs
Fucking different XXY - Germany
By Kristian Petersen
Is the Man Who is Tall Happy? - France
By Michel Gondry
With Noam Chomsky
Last Hijack – Netherlands / Germany / Ireland / Belgium
By Tommy Pallotta, Femke Wolting
Meine Mutter, ein Krieg und ich (Nobody knows what really happend) - Germany
By Tamara Trampe, Johann Feindt
With Vera Herr, Ivan Strelschenko, Raissa Portlova, Galina Serschantina, Alexandra Mochij
Natural Resistance - Italy
By Jonathan Nossiter
With Stefano Bellotti, Elena Pantaleoni, Giovanna Tiezzi, Corrado Dottori, Gianluca Farinelli
The Dog - USA
By Frank Keraudren, Allison Berg
With John Wojtowicz, Liz Eden, Carmen Bifulco, George Heath, Randy Wicker
Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People - USA
By Thomas Allen Harris
With Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Hank Willis Thomas, Lyle Ashton Harris, Glenn Ligon
Vulva 3.0 - Germany
By Claudia Richarz, Ulrike Zimmermann
With Mithu Sanyal, Claudia Gehrke, Laura Méritt, Wilfried Scheider, Marion Hulverscheidt
Forum (22 films)
The Airstrip – Aufbruch der Moderne, Teil III - Germany
By Heinz Emigholz
Al doilea joc (The Second Game) – Romania
By Corneliu Porumboiu
Al midan (The Square) – USA / Egypt
By Jehane Noujaim
Arij (Scent of Revolution) – Egypt / Germany
By Viola Shafik
Casse (Scrap Yard) – France
By Nadège Trebal
Cheol-ae-kum (A Dream of Iron) – Republic of Korea / USA
By Kelvin Kyung Kun Park
Das große Museum (The Great Museum) - Austria
By Johannes Holzhausen
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey – United Kingdom
Iranien – France / Switzerland
By Mehran Tamadon
La marche à suivre (Guidelines) - Canada
By Jean-François Caissy
Le beau danger – Germany
By René Frölke
Non-fiction Diary – Republic of Korea
By Jung Yoon-suk
N - The Madness of Reason – Belgium / Germany / Netherlands
By Peter Krüger
With Michael Lonsdale, Wendyam Sawadogo
Pădurea e ca muntele, vezi? (The Forest is Like the Mountains) –
Romania / Germany
By Christiane Schmidt, Didier Guillain
Prabhat pheri (Journey with Prabhat) – India
By Jessica Sadana, Samarth Dixit
Que ta joie demeure (Joy of Man’s Desiring) – Canada
By Denis Côté
With Guillaume Tremblay, Emilie Sigouin, Hamidou Savadogo, Ted Pluviose
Schamanen im Blinden Land (Shamans of the Blind Country) – Nepal / Germany / USA
By Michael Oppitz
Souvenir – Germany
By André Siegers
The Darkside - Australia
By Warwick Thornton
To Singapore, with Love – Singapore
By Tan Pin Pin
Und in der Mitte, da sind wir (And There We are, in the Middle) – Austria
By Sebastian Brameshuber
Zamatoví teroristi (Velvet Terrorists) – Slovak Republic / Czech Republic / Croatia
By Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík, Peter Kerekes
Berlinale Shorts (7 films)
La Casona (Das große Haus) – Cuba
By Juliette Touin
Im Tekhayekh, Ha’Olam Yekhayekh Elekha (Smile, and the World Will Smile Back) - Israel / Palestinian Territories
By Familie al-Haddad, Ehab Tarabieh, Yoav Gross
Om Amira – Egypt / Germany
By Naji Ismail
Solo te puedo mostrar el color (I Can Only Show You the Color) - Peru
By Fernando Vílchez Rodríguez
Three Stones for Jean Genet – Germany
By Frieder Schlaich
Un Paraíso (A Paradise) – Cuba
By Jayisha Patel
Xenos - Denmark / United Kingdom
By Mahdi Fleifel
Event:
Violence Produces Counter-Violence
Thursday, Feb. 12, 3.30 – 4.30 pm, Audi Berlinale Lounge
A talk with director Fernando Vílchez Rodríguez (Berlinale Shorts), regional leader of the Awajún indigenous people Santiago Manunin Valera from Peru, and director Fabian Daub (Rosia Montana, tbc) on the political, social and ecological impacts of depleting resources, in particular gold in the Peruvian jungle by the Canadian mining firm Candente Copper.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino (5 films)
Amma & Appa
By Franziska Schönenberger, Jayakrishnan Subramanian
nebel (fog)
By Nicole Vögele
Flowers of Freedom
By Mirjam Leuze
Bosteri unterm Rad (Bosteri Beneath the Wheel)
By Levin Hübner
Raumfahrer (Spacemen)
By Georg Nonnenmacher
Culinary Cinema (6 films)
El Somni – Spain
By Frank Aleu
Natural Resistance – Italy / France
By Jonathan Nossiter
Mission Blue – USA
By Fisher Stevens
Food Chains – USA
By Sanjay Rawal
Le Semeur (The Sower) - Canada
By Julie Perron
I Cavalieri della Laguna (The Knights of the Lagoon) - Italy
By Walter Bencini
Events:
„Tea Time“ in the “Gropius Mirror” tent
Reality and Culinary Dreams
February 10, 5.00 pm
Guests: Roca brothers, Host: Madeleine Jakits
The Human Factor
February 11, 5.00 pm
Guests: Eric Schlosser, Diego Luna, Host: Michael Naumann
30.01.2014 | Berlin's blog