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Berlinale Talents is the Berlin International Film Festival’s talent development programme for the world’s top 250 emerging filmmakers and series creators.
Next edition: February 13-18, 2021. Details at www.berlinale-talents.de
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Bemerkungen
We are still reeling from the 20th edition of Berlinale Talents and recovery has now transformed into reliving the highlights of some of our public sessions!
From model making for “The French Dispatch” with Adam Stockhausen, Simon Weisse and the team from his atelier, to our Insta Live Q&A with Hollywood actor Zazie Beetz (Joker), our all-female cinematography session including Oscar-nominated alumna Ari Wegner, and the grand finale with Golden Bear winner and Talents alumna Carla Simón, what a celebration of twenty years of Berlinale Talents!
Don’t forget you can still watch all our public sessions and see all our photo highlights on our website:
www.berlinale-talents.de
Cameroonian born Ellie Foumbi moved to New York when she was very young, an experience which richly influenced the themes in her work; race, identity, trying to find your place, outsiders, generational trauma in African-American families. Starting out as an actress, she became frustrated with the lack of roles for her, so decided to tell her own stories. "Once I started writing and directing, it was the most natural thing in the world to me", she tells DW Culture .
Looking for some quality viewing? Then head to MUBI where you can catch three shorts from Talents alumna and Short Form Station mentor Akosua Adoma Owusu!
"Ghanaian-American filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu’s electrifying trilogy on Black hair culture weaves together multiple source materials and distinct narratives to unpick the tangled knots of capitalism, race, Western beauty ideals, and colonialism."
"As a filmmaker I am interested in social justice, women's empowerment, the female experience", Indian filmmaker Payal Sethi tells DW Culture. Coming from a long line of female storytellers, she has been on a journey to find her own style, often focusing on women who rebel against the circumstances forced on them. She feels that Indian alternative cinema must be nurtured and allowed to flourish in order to preserve the art in film, so uses local, less-represented dialects in her work. Payal was selected as this year's Talent recipient of the Kompagnon fellowship, providing funding and mentoring for her work.
Exactly the news we needed on this post-festival hump day! We are already looking forward to our 21st edition and the Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival 2023! 🥳
Berlinale Talents 2022 may be over but the year is young and there are still plenty of opportunities for filmmakers! If you feel like you're looking for inspiration and need a change of scenery, then Berlin Film Residencies and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg have the perfect residency for you: Berlin AiR (artist-in-residency). From Rome to Paris, Tel Aviv to Thessaloniki and beyond, take a leaf out of Borbála Nagy's (BT 2020) book and apply before 2 March, 2022 ⏰
All details.:
https://www.medienboard.de/en/film-funding/berlin-artist-in-residency-berlin-air
Berlinale Talents 20th edition ended on a high with Talents alumna and Golden Bear winner Carla Simón (Alcarràs) joining us in the studio. The six-day summit, with talks for online viewers as well as workshops and our new daily Talents Tanks for the 200 participants, emphasised the desire to create more sustainable communication channels and established a clear mission for the future. Read all about it here: bit.ly/BT2022_WrapUp
Animation, live-action or music videos - director, screenwriter and this year’s Talent Kai Stänicke does not limit himself to a certain genre or technique. For him there is a story and after that the search for the right way of telling it. Stänicke's last short and first computer animated film “Pace” (2019), explores our relationship with time - a man living on a clock face, the clock hand slowly but surely catching up from behind, as he tries to win the unwinnable, the race against time. Talking to DW Culture, Stänicke explains why his films often circle around finding your place in the world and discovering identity and sexuality beyond heteronormative narratives.
https://vimeo.com/677922383
Assel Aushakimova made the first ever Kazahkstani feature film with an LGBTQ+ protagonist, “Welcome to the USA” (2019). In her portrait by DW Culture the director and producer takes us to the places where she shot her first films. “I think that these locations are a good reflection of our patriarchal, post-soviet society”, she says while the camera films old monuments of Lenin and former country leaders. With her films, Aushakimova wants to uncover the homophobic, conservative side of her home country's society, but also give q***r people there who are struggling to be accepted a voice.
https://vimeo.com/678694207
Not ready to say goodbye just yet? Check out this interview with the heads of Berlinale Talents, Christine Tröstrum and Florian Weghorn, where they spoke to the Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival team to look back at the last twenty years of Talents and, perhaps more importantly, look ahead to the what the future has in store!
www.berlinale.de/en/news-topics/berlinale-topics/talents-interview-2022.html
