Berlin Film Festival slashes nearly a third of lineup, including Berlinale series amid budget struggles
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July 12, 2023 05:56
The Berlin Film Festival has announced its intention to reduce the size of its 2024 program and eliminate two strands of the competition as part of a large-scale restructuring to fix a serious budget hole.
Starting next year, the festival will screen around 200 films, up from 287 in 2023. The festival has declared all the sections, except Official Competition, will present less films. Elsewhere in the announced plans, the Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar, which spotlights new German filmmakers, will be disbanded. In future, films by German newcomers will be presented in the existing sections Competition, Encounters, Panorama, Generation or Forum.
The festival has also cut the Berlinale Series strand as an independent program. The television-focused component will instead be integrated into the screenings of the special Berlinale gala. The artistic director of the Berlinale, Carlo Chatrian, will now program the section following the departure of Julia Fidel, who left in May after four years in office. Fidel had worked with the Berlinale for almost two decades. Under his leadership, the Berlinale series - the television sister of the Berlin Film Festival - grew rapidly. The Berlinale Series awarded its first prize last year in collaboration with Deadline.
Shows that have played competitively in recent years include HBO Max's Lust , Netflix's The Eddy and Jason Segel's AMC series Dispatches From Elsewhere, while Frank Doelger's The Swarm played out of competition earlier This year. The inaugural Berlinale Series Award, meanwhile, was won by Disney+ Italy's The Good Mothers, beating competition from HBO Max's Spy/Master and Chinese drama Why try changing me now. The Berlinale series market will continue unchanged.
"Like many other sectors of society, cultural institutions and festivals are affected by significant cost increases but unchanged budgets,” executive director Mariëtte Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian said in a joint statement.
“With this in mind, we need to introduce structural adjustments to create a stable fiscal base for the organization and implementation of the Berlinale in the future. This process offers the possibility of optimizing the presentation and perception of guest films through more targeted programming. »
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July 12, 2023 05:56
The Berlin Film Festival has announced its intention to reduce the size of its 2024 program and eliminate two strands of the competition as part of a large-scale restructuring to fix a serious budget hole.
Starting next year, the festival will screen around 200 films, up from 287 in 2023. The festival has declared all the sections, except Official Competition, will present less films. Elsewhere in the announced plans, the Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar, which spotlights new German filmmakers, will be disbanded. In future, films by German newcomers will be presented in the existing sections Competition, Encounters, Panorama, Generation or Forum.
The festival has also cut the Berlinale Series strand as an independent program. The television-focused component will instead be integrated into the screenings of the special Berlinale gala. The artistic director of the Berlinale, Carlo Chatrian, will now program the section following the departure of Julia Fidel, who left in May after four years in office. Fidel had worked with the Berlinale for almost two decades. Under his leadership, the Berlinale series - the television sister of the Berlin Film Festival - grew rapidly. The Berlinale Series awarded its first prize last year in collaboration with Deadline.
Shows that have played competitively in recent years include HBO Max's Lust , Netflix's The Eddy and Jason Segel's AMC series Dispatches From Elsewhere, while Frank Doelger's The Swarm played out of competition earlier This year. The inaugural Berlinale Series Award, meanwhile, was won by Disney+ Italy's The Good Mothers, beating competition from HBO Max's Spy/Master and Chinese drama Why try changing me now. The Berlinale series market will continue unchanged.
"Like many other sectors of society, cultural institutions and festivals are affected by significant cost increases but unchanged budgets,” executive director Mariëtte Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian said in a joint statement.
“With this in mind, we need to introduce structural adjustments to create a stable fiscal base for the organization and implementation of the Berlinale in the future. This process offers the possibility of optimizing the presentation and perception of guest films through more targeted programming. »
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