Berlinale Talents

Berlinale Talents (previously Berlinale Talent Campus), is the annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival (also called Berlinale) for 250 outstanding creatives from the fields of film and drama series, with the events taking place in February at the three venues of HAU Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

The initiative was founded in 2003 under the title Berlinale Talent Campus after the director of the Berlin International Film Festival Dieter Kosslick announced his plans to create a platform to support newcomers in film within the festival. The new title Berlinale Talents has been in place since October 2013. The platform is realised with the support of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Creative Europe - MEDIA programme of the European Union, Robert Bosch Stiftung and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and is coordinated by a project team under the supervision of Christine Tröstrum and Florian Weghorn.

Each year up to 3000 filmmakers from appromimately 130 countries apply to the programme. An international committee selects 250 talents, inviting them to Berlin. Berlinale Talents supports the participants, who are generally in the first ten years of their career, in positioning themselves in the filmmaking industry. With experts and renowned filmmakers they can then discuss innovations and trends in the business, develop their own projects in the project labs and present them to a diverse festival public.

Consisting of a Summit, Project labs, Studios and a programme for film critics, i.e. Talent Press, the participants can choose from up to 100 individual events to attend, many of which are open to the public.

The Summit programme of Berlinale Talents offers a range of master classes and interactive panel discussions. Approximately 35 sessions focus on an annually changing topic featuring a variety of formats and set-ups: In the ‘grand format’ sessions at the main theatre (HAU1), experts of international reputation give insights into their work. During the mid-scale ‘atelier’ sessions in HAU2 and HAU3 experienced filmmakers and the audience are invited to enter into a dialogue.

Talent Press, an initiative of Berlinale Talents in collaboration with FIPRESCI and the Goethe-Institut, is a platform for young film critics and journalists from around the world to acquaint themselves with current trends in world cinema and to review films and events throughout the entire festival. Under the tutelage of prominent film critics they share their impressions and insights through their articles for the Berlinale Talents website and those of its partners - FIPRESCI and Goethe-Institut.

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