“In 2010 we are not only celebrating the Berlinale’s 60th anniversary, but also our partners’ continuing commitment. The Festival would not be possible without the support of the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and our sponsors. And this year we have a new main partner: BMW 

With a flying red carpet from February 12 to 21, the Berlinale is bringing its films and their film teams to arthouse cinemas in Berlin’s neighbourhoods – from Weißensee to Zehlendorf 

In three special out-of-competition events, Generation is networking with other Festival sections, reflecting on its own history, and intensifying the Berlinale experience for young visitors 

On February 17, 2010, the WCF Day will once again provide an opportunity to learn more about the programme, successes, funding strategies, films, initiatives, and partners of the World Cinema Fund  

For the seventh time the Berlin International Film Festival and its official partner the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO) will be presenting young German and French film fans with the opportunity to join the jury for the “Dialogue en perspective” award 

The Berlinale congratulates directors Claudia Llosa, Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti on the Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film 2010 

Starting now, visitors to the festival, film market and Campus can access three mobile websites that have been optimized for comfortable use on mobiles and smartphones 

For the Berlinale’s 60th anniversary, the Retrospective is focusing on the history of the Festival. This filmic excursion into the past is a perfect occasion for us to celebrate with old friends and acquaintances, and to re-screen in Berlin the films with which they have fascinated festival audiences over the past decades 

Since 1986, the Berlin International Film Festival has presented the Berlinale Camera to film personalities or institutions to which it feels particularly indebted and it wishes to express its thanks 

Competition: The documentary feature Exit Through the Gift Shop (Great Britain) by British street artist Banksy completes the Competition programme of the 60th Berlinale. His debut film, says the artist, is “a film about a man who tried to make a film about me”  

The Berlinale 2010 press dossier, detailed film lists of all sections and the programme of the Berlinale Talent Campus can be downloaded here (only in German) 

Within the scope of the European Film Market 2010, the EFM Industry Debates are being held for the fourth time. This industry event is being presented in collaboration with our partner Commerzbank and in cooperation with three major international trade magazines: Screen International, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety 

For the Berlinale’s 60th anniversary, a panel discussion with top experts will focus on the future of cinemas. Architects, urbanists, trend forecasters and filmmakers will present their ideas on the future of the movie theatre, and its architecture, sociological function and urban environment 

On February 16, international producers will again have the opportunity to discover new literary material for screen adaptations at the Berlinale Co-Production Market. Ten selected books will be presented in pitching sessions at “Breakfast & Books”, the market for literary adaptations 

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 Berlinale has been even more committed to supporting the next generation of film makers since 2006, when it introduced the Best First Feature Award 

The International Jury, presided over by Werner Herzog, will decide who is to take home the Golden Bear and the Silver Bears as well as the Alfred Bauer Prize in the Competition of the Berlinale 2010 

This year’s Panorama will present 18 feature films in its main programme, 16 will screen in Panorama Special and 20, in its Panorama Dokumente series. Of these films from 29 countries, 32 are world premieres, and 17 are directorial debuts 

This year, the program of the 5th Forum Expanded extends beyond film installations and curated film and video screenings, turning its attention in addition to the relationship between screen and stage in a series of nine performances 

The Berlinale Special is part of the festival’s official programme and presents recent works by contemporary filmmakers and re-screens historical works. The filmmakers of the movies in the Berlinale Special will attend the premieres and present their films 

“Cinema Unlimited – Intercontinental Connections”: One of the Berlinale Talent Campus' most fundamental goals is to support collaborative filmmaking that goes beyond national and cultural boundaries 

26 films will participate in the Competition programme of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. In addition to the seven titles announced earlier (see press releases from December 15, 2009), a further 18 films have now been confirmed 

In its 40th year, the Berlinale Forum features a selection of films that capture the mood of the times in a sensitive way. Rarely have there been, in feature films and documentaries alike, as many people caught in insolvable conflicts, faced with essential decisions or staring into the abyss as in this year’s selection of films 

The 60th Berlin International Film Festival will kick off with the world premiere of the Chinese Competition film Tuan Yuan (Apart Together) in the Berlinale Palast on February 11, 2010 

The seventh Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 14-16, 2010) will bring the producers and directors of 37 selected film projects from 22 countries together with 450 potential co-production and financial partners 

With a total of 14 films, the Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme is now complete. In addition to the six films previously announced, another eight works have been added, films that once again embody the thematic and formal wealth of new German film 

“In The Food For Love” is the motto of the Berlinale’s 4th Culinary Cinema, which will be held from February 14 to 19, 2010. Eleven films revolving around the relationship between food and love, nature, and the environment will be presented in the movie theatre at the Martin-Gropius-Bau 

From melodrama to science fiction and musical – in the 33rd year of its existence, Generation has a broad cinematic range. “There’s not just one experience of childhood or adolescence and there are many ways to make a film about it,” says section director Maryanne Redpath in view of the 56 short and feature films in the Generation programme 

Selected from over 2600 short film entries, 25 films from 15 countries will be presented in five programmes, and compete for a Golden Bear, a Nomination for the European Film Academy Short Film 2010, and a DAAD grant 

The Berlinale’s European Film Market (EFM) traditionally opens its doors as the first international film market of the year. EFM Director Beki Probst has expressed her satisfaction with the current number of registrations for 2010: “We believe the stability of the EFM stems from our responding with great flexibility to current developments. The upcoming EFM reflects the new tendencies of the film industry” 

In this anniversary year, old and new masters as well as newcomers define the programme of the Panorama section. Back with new works are not only Lothar Lambert and Peter Kern, but also directorial duo Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel, as well as Isao Yukisada, E J-Yong and Sébastien Lifshitz 

The Berlinale will celebrate its 60th anniversary with an art installation and a public screening at the Brandenburg Gate, an exhibition of star portraits around town, and a wide variety of online services 

For the anniversary poster, graphic artists from “Büro Otto Sauhaus” have assembled all the films screened since the beginning of the Berlinale in 1951: some 15,000 international film titles have been used to create the new poster 

Forum Expanded, which explores the intersections between film and other arts, remains a programme on the move. Looking at the selection of more than 40 films, installations and performances from 20 countries reveals that this year’s Forum Expanded will be making room for new perspectives, both artistically and geopolitically 

For this year's anniversary Berlinale, Generation has invited five award-winning and renowned individuals into its International Jury 

The first seven titles for the Competition of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival have been confirmed. The films selected so far are from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Turkey, the UK and the USA 

The ninth edition of Perspektive Deutsches Kino begins with good news: Drama can be done differently. The section will open with the film Renn, wenn du kannst (Run if you can). Director Dietrich Brüggemann (graduate of the HFF “Konrad Wolf” in Babelsberg) participated in the section in 2006 with his superb exercise in style, Neun Szenen (Nine Takes) 

What would the Berlinale be without its fantastic audiences? On June 6, 1951 the International Film Festival celebrated its debut and ever since, the visitors’ enthusiasm for film has determined the festival’s atmosphere 

In 2010, the festival’s 60th anniversary, the Berlinale is dedicating its Homage to two film artists who have decisively shaped post-war German cinema in different ways 

From February 11 to 21, 2010, the Berlin International Film Festival will be held for the 60th time. This anniversary will be accompanied by two book publications and a DVD edition that look back at the history of one of the world’s most important film festivals 

As the festival’s new main partner, BMW will accompany the glamorous arrival of the stars to the 60th Berlinale’s festive opening, its award ceremony, and many gala premieres. The BMW Group will be making its versatile fleet of vehicles available to the Berlinale and the Talent Campus 

The Berlinale Talent Campus (February 13-18, 2010) has secured its financing thanks to the project funding of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) 

The Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO), official partner of the Berlinale, is calling for applications to enter the jury for the “Dialogue en perspective” award in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section 

Werner Herzog, one of the most important filmmakers of Auteur Cinema, will be the President of the International Jury at the Berlinale 2010. As one of the most significant personalities of New German Cinema, he has influenced an entire generation of filmmakers 

Director of the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section Alfred Holighaus will be taking on new tasks this coming year: in January he will join the management of the Deutsche Filmakademie e.V., though he will still carry out his curatorial duties at the Berlinale 2010 

60 Years of Berlinale – A Retrospective

In 1960, a film was screened in the Competition of the Berlin International Film Festival that defied all filmic conventions and dumbfounded the critics 

At the 11th session of the World Cinema Fund (WCF) jury on November 7, three new film projects were selected for production funding, and four films for distribution funding 

"Cinema Needs Talent: Looking for the Right People" is the theme for the upcoming Berlinale Talent Campus. The Campus itself is far from lacking talent 

Fritz Lang’s original cut of Metropolis from 1927 will return to the screen at the 60th Berlin International Festival in 2010. At a gala presentation in the Friedrichstadtpalast on February 12, 2010, the classic silent film - reconstructed and restored by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation – will celebrate its premiere 83 years after the original version had its world premiere 

This autumn, the Berlinale World Cinema Fund turns five and is celebrating with a presentation of selected WCF films from November 4 to 7 in the "Hackesche Höfe Kino" in Berlin 

The fifth Berlinale Day at the Frankfurt Book Fair (October 14-18, 2009) will take place on October 15. Book Fair visitors will be presented with three selected screen adaptations from the 2009 Berlinale programme. Additionally, producers, publishers and literary agents will have the opportunity to exchange ideas at a case study cooperatively organized by the Berlinale and the Book Fair 

Deadline for Submissions: 29 October 2009

With immediate effect, the Berlinale Co-Production Market is again seeking promising feature film projects that it would like to assist to find co-production and co-financing partners at the Berlinale 2010 

From February 13-18, 2010, the Berlinale Talent Campus will open its doors at the Theater Hebbel am Ufer and welcome 350 young filmmakers from all over the world during the Berlin International Film Festival 

The Astronaut on the Roof by Spanish director Sergi Portabella starts off the next round of the Campus short film competition 

At the 10th session of the World Cinema Fund (WCF) jury on June 26 and 27, five new film projects were selected for production funding; and two films, for distribution funding 

My Most Unforgettable Festival Memories - Berlinale Flashback

The Berlinale will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2010 – and the public is invited to play a special role on this occasion 

By now it’s almost a tradition: for the seventh season in a row, the Friedrichshain Open-Air Cinema, in cooperation with radio eins, will be showing some of the highlights of this year’s Berlin International Film Festival in the Summer Berlinale from July 16 to 19 

The Berlinale is pleased that the German Federal Cultural Foundation will continue to support the World Cinema Fund (WCF) of the Berlinale until the end of 2011 

The World Cinema Fund (WCF) is pleased to report that four of the films it helped support have been invited to the Festival de Cannes (13 to 24 May 2009) 

While the five Berlin Today Award 2009 short films on the theme "My Wall" successfully travel to festivals around the world, the new round of the Berlinale Talent Campus' short film competition is underway. 250 young filmmakers from 65 countries responded to the call for project ideas on the motto "Straight to Cinema" 

Now that this year’s Festival has closed successfully, the Berlin International Film Festival is looking forward to celebrating a special event: next year the Berlinale will be 60!