Archives des Berlin International Film Festival

Berlinale 2026 — Competition: Witnessing Violence — Josephine and the Moral Tension of Berlinale

21 février 2026 Majid Movasseghi 5 min read Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale, Berlinale 2026, Beth de Araújo, Channing Tatum, compétition, Gemma Chan, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Josephine, Mason Reeves

The 76th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) unfolded this year with a sense of recalibration. After several editions that many critics described as uneven, the festival—now under the leadership of Tricia Tuttle, formerly the director of the BFI London Film Festival — seemed to regain a clearer curatorial direction. The competition program brought together a wide range of cinematic voices, perspectives, and aesthetic approaches. While the Berlinale has always maintained a strong commitment to politically engaged cinema, this year’s selection appeared to strive for a better balance between political themes and cinematic craft. (…)

Culture / Kultur Forum citoyen / Bürgerforum Littérature / Literatur

Call for a Worldwide Reading for the democracy movement in Hong Kong on 9 September 2020

25 mai 2020 Malik Berkati 4 min read a worldwide reading, and human rights, Berlin International Film Festival, Call, censorship, Covid-19, freedom of expression and assembly, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong protests, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, ilb, one country two systems principle, self-censorship, Studio Incendo, the international literature festival berlin, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Umbrella Movement, What matters

In its tradition of engagement for and with artists in civil society (a few examples here, here or there), The international literature festival berlin calls for a wave of solidarity with the Hong Kong democracy movement.
j:mag endorses this call.
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Institutions and persons who would like to participate with a reading on 9 September 2020 are asked to inform ilb and send information like: Name of the organizer, place, and date of the event, participants, language of the event, and, if you have, website link. The e-mail address is: worldwidereading@literaturfestival.com. The ilb will announce the events on the website https://www.literaturfestival.com and on social media.
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Cinéma / Kino Culture / Kultur Forum citoyen / Bürgerforum

Urgent call for the freedom of filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof facing incarceration in Iran

9 mars 2020 Malik Berkati 2 min read Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale, Berlinale 2020, Call, Covid-19, Golden Bear, Goldener Bär-Gewinner, incarceration, Iran, Mohammad Rasoulof, Sheytan vojud nadarad, the Accademia del cinema italiano-Premi David di Donatello, The Cannes Film Festival, the Deutsche Filmakademie, The European Film Academy, the Filmfest Hamburg, the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, the IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the Netherlands Film Fund, There Is No Evil, travel ban, Ulrich Matthes, Wim Wenders

j:mag endorses this call.
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Berlin, March 9, 2020

The European Film Academy, The Cannes Film Festival, the Deutsche Filmakademie, the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, the Filmfest Hamburg, the IDFA – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the Netherlands Film Fund and the Accademia del cinema italiano-Premi David di Donatello wish to express their deepest concern about the imminent incarceration of the Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof.
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