Die Berlinale
An extraordinary book about an extraordinary festival. The Book on Film. Published by Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen and Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin.
On the occasion of the anniversary, an illustrated book, published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition, surprises both due to its abundance of material and its design. In eighteen 
elaborately researched and dramaturgically composed chapters, this book recollects six decades of the Berlin Film Festival. It shows many fascinating aspects of one of the world’s most important film festivals – the arrival of the stars and the fans' fascination, celebrities on the red carpet, the parties and the award of the coveted Golden Bears. It pictures the glamorous highlights as well as an abundance of charming details. 
With more than 400 illustrations, it is a vivid history of the Berlin International Film Festival and a dazzling contribution to the history of film since 1951. It is also a history of Berlin itself, the divided city with its Wall that was a symbol of the Cold War. And finally, it is a chronicle of the changing art and style of photography which changed fundamentally together with the films and the stars.
Format 21 x 22,5 cm
240 pages
More than 400 images
Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition
Available from January 9th 2010
ISBN 978-3-86615-765-1
24,90 €
The Book accompanying the 60 Years of Berlinale Retrospective in 2010 ("FilmHeft" book series)
PLAY IT AGAIN...! 60 years of Berlinale
All films of the Retrospektive at a glance, including detailed filmographic info and contemporary reviews. A film-historical foray through six decades of festival history, rounded up by an introductory essay by the renowned film critic David Thomson, who also put together the programme.
Definitely an indispensable companion - during the Berlinale, and, as a more than reliable reference work, beyond as well.
PLAY IT AGAIN...!
60 Jahre Berlinale
FilmHeft 12
German / English
approx. 96 pages / approx. 45 photos
Sold by Bertz + Fischer
9,00 €
In bookshops, M-Shop at Potsdamer Platz Arkaden and bookstall CinemaxX
Peter Cowie
The Berlinale. The Festival
With a Foreword by Michel Ciment
No international author knows the Berlinale quite like British journalist Peter Cowie. In this book, released on the occasion of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2010, he looks back to the past while shining a spotlight on the extraordinary present-day vitality of the festival. Starting with the first Berlinale in 1951 at the Titania Palast in Steglitz, which opened with Hitchcock's Rebecca; through the first appointed international jury in 1956, the heated political discussions of the early 70s, the establishment of the International Forum of New Cinema and the Berlinale's transfer from summer to February (1978); all the way to the festival's relocation to Potsdamer Platz in 2000 and the innovations that came under the direction of Dieter Kosslick since 2001... Peter Cowie looks back on six decades of film and festival history that were also the six most eventful decades in the history of a divided Berlin, the front of the Cold War and ultimately the capital of a reunited Germany. Peter Cowie also explains how the festival works. He presents a thorough and entertaining look into the individual sections and initiatives of the Berlinale, a festival that is much more than just one of the world's most important film competitions. And he wonders what the film festival of the future will look like.
Peter Cowie attended the Berlinale for the first time in 1967. In 2002 he was a member of the International Jury. He's the author of over thirty books on film, and has written about Ingmar Bergmann, Orson Welles and Francis Ford Coppola. He has taught film studies in over four continents and was the International Publishing Director of Variety magazine for over ten years.
The internationally renowned film critic Michel Ciment is the editor of the film magazine Positif. He is the author of the foreword to this book.
Two Editions: German, English
Approx. 144 pages, 50 photos, softbound, 12x20cm
Published by Bertz+Fischer
Available from February 2010
ISBN 978-3-86505-202-5 (German Edition)
ISBN 978-3-86505-203-2 (English Edition)
12,90 [D] / 13,30 [A] / SFr 22,90
Dialogues with Films
- 4 Decades of the Forum
As the Berlinale celebrates its 60th anniversary, the Forum will also be looking back on four decades of film and festival work. The stories of the two events are inextricably linked, with their shared paths yielding a fascinating piece of (film) history.
The "Dialogues with Films" symposium was held at Kino Arsenal from July 1st - 5th 2009 in order to commemorate the original inaugural event. Twelve filmmakers who had already shown their work at the Forum were asked to present their favourite films from four decades of the Forum. Their selection was supposed to be subjective, unexpected, perhaps even random. The only restriction was the decade which each of the 'curators' was allocated. Four groups of three directors thus each chose films shown at the Forum in the 1970's, 80's, 90's and, finally, in the 2000's. Each of them was still more than spoilt for choice however, having to make their selection from around 500 films.
The curators were Aditya Assarat, Bradley Rust Gray & So Yong Kim, Jia Zhangke, Ulrich Köhler, Sharon Lockhart, Avi Mograbi, Ulrike Ottinger, Sabu, Anja Salomonowitz, Angela Schanelec, Jean-Marie Téno and Jasmila Zbanic. They chose films by: Chantal Akerman, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Souleymane Cissé, Claire Denis, Bill Douglas, Jean-Luc Godard, David Gordon Green, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Anastasia Lapsui & Markku Lehmuskallio, Sharon Lockhart, Helke Sander and Michael Snow.
The publication "Dialogues with Films – 4 Decades of the Forum" will now be appearing for the festival. In addition to a foreword by Mark Peranson and texts written by the guest curators about the films they selected, it also includes a DVD with excerpts from the discussions held in the summer as well as from the films themselves.
Dialogues with Films - 4 Decades of the Forum
A5-format
German / English
Approx. 106 pages, softcover
Published prior to the festival
5,00 €
In Potsdamer Platz Arkaden, bookstall CinemaxX, b_books bookstall in the atrium of the Filmhaus
