LA CASA LOBO by Cristóbal León und Joaquín Cociña receives this year's Caligari Award. The jury members were Margarete Wach (film-dienst), Vanessa Elges (Kommunales Kino Saarbrücken) and Peter Link (Kommunales Kino Lingen)

Here is what they said: A venture into the unknown is always an adventure and requires courage. Associated e-motions are moving, let dreams come alive and traumata digest. Permanence opens

up everlasting metamorphoses rich in detail. Impermanence even takes place in alleged stops.

Layers of abstraction offer another kind of historical and political occurrences. Lullabies such as „Sleep Child’s Sleep“ supplementary inspire rumination. A fascination initiated by the variation of Castilian- and German-speaking storylines, a mingling of fairy tales and 10,000ends of individual frames in breathtaking stop-trick with various materials develops a pulling effect for the view in: : LA CASA LOBO.

For the first time this year the Berlinale offers a selection of films from different sections of the festival online. The cooperation with the streaming platform Festival Scope is intended to reach those interested in the Berlinale who are unable to attend the festival in person.

From the Forum programme FOTBAL INFINIT (INFINITE FOOTBALL) by Corneliu Porumboiu, TEATRO DE GUERRA (THEATRE OF WAR) by Lola Arias and 14 APPLES by Midi Z can be seen.

The festival rerun provided by Festival Scope is limited to Germany. Each of the films is available for viewing from the day after their respective Berlinale premieres until February 28.

The GESCHICHTEN VOM KÜBELKIND (STORIES OF THE DUMPSTER KID) premiered at the very first International Forum of New Cinema in 1971 and have now been digitally restored. The series revolves around a rebellious “Dumpster Kid” played by Kristine Deloup, who always appears in a red dress and has various anarchic struggles with society. Ula Stöckl and Edgar Reitz shot Geschichten vom Kübelkind in 1969 with only their friends. Their series of 25 16mm short films of different lengths was a way of positioning themselves outside of the standard cinema system, with guests at a sort of pub-cum-cinema in Munich able to “order” individual episodes from a menu. Together with the documentary DER FILM VERLÄSST DAS KINO: VOM KÜBELKIND EXPERIMENT UND ANDEREN UTOPIEN (FILM BEYOND CINEMA: THE DUMPSTER KID EXPERIMENT AND OTHER UTOPIAS by Robert Fischer, a selection of the unique films is now to be screened again.

In addition, a “pub cinema” much the same as the original screening set-up will be installed at silent green on February 19th, with these special screenings attended by Stöckl and Reitz.