Following Victoire Terminus, Kinshasa and Tatil Kitabı Forum entry Divizionz by Yes! That's Us has been picked by Wide Management before festival start. The world sales company is already handling El camino.
The sixth edition of Talent Campus is presenting a panel with Dušan Makavejev (Feb. 11, 2 p.m.), whose W. R. – Misterije Organizma is shown as a Special Screening in the Forum, and Peter Cowie. There are several more Forum participants involved in this year's Talent Campus.
Exhibitions, films, performances, talks: The third edition of Forum expanded opens on February 8, at 10 p.m. at Filmhaus Potsdamer Platz with, among others, the Green Porno installation by Isabella Rossellini, Jody Shapiro, Rick Gilbert and Andy Byers and the CHEAP Gossip Studio.
Ahead of the official opening on Friday, works in the framework of Forum expanded can already be seen at the Canadian Embassy and the Wilde Gallery. Hamburger Bahnhof presents the solo exhibition of Heinz Emigholz.
Again this year netloungeDV gives an overview of films shot on digital video that are shown in the Forum and Panorama sections, added on with articles, trailers, and interviews – and for the first time a blog.
This year already for the fifth time, the HomeBase Independent Lounge will be the meeting place for all guests and friends of independent cinema of all Berlinale sections.
For the fifth time TV and filmfestival professionals are visiting the Berlinale on invitation of the DW Academy. This year the ten participants come from Benin, Burkina Faso, Mosambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia as well as from Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.
At the International Film Festival Rotterdam Wonderful Town by Aditya Assarat was honored with a Tiger Award. Assarat is a member of this year's NETPAC Jury at the Berlinale. His film will be presented on this occasion as a Special screening in the Forum.
