Tromanale

Tromanale was a free independent and underground Film Festival in Berlin operating alongside the Berlinale Film Festival in 2005 and 2006. There was no-entry-fee and the whole festival was open for everybody. The Film Festival offered a lot of filmmaking workshops, live-act-shows, live-music-bands, many short movies and feature movies for the awards show on the last day of the festival. The idea of the Tromanale based on the TromaDance Film Festival which also operated concurrently alongside the Sundance Film Festival. The co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio Lloyd Kaufman took also part and gave a lecture about filmmaking.

The Tromanale Film Festival was founded by Störfan Sander. It took 10 days non-stop from the first day till the last day of the Berlinale. During the Film Festival several little parades were organized on the place of the Berlinale Film Festival trying to attract attention for the Underground film culture and promote the Tromanale Film Festival as well. These parades were inspired by the Troma parades during the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. The Festival Award was the Tromanale Bear that can be seen as a counterpart of the Golden Bear. Because of the length of the Festival every submitted movie was screened. Additionally some Troma Movies were also screened in order to fill the 10 days.

In 2005, the Tromanale took place in the c-base location from 2005-02-10 till 2005-02-20. The winner of the Best Feature Film Award 2005 was "Die You Zombie Bastards!" by Caleb Emerson. In 2006 the Tromanale took place on the top floor of the Kunsthaus Tacheles from 2006-02-09 till 2006-02-19. As the Kunsthaus Tacheles had more space available the Tromanale was composed of two areas - the cinema and the party floor for the live acts. Therefore, the movies were screened whereas the music bands played simultaneously. In 2006, all guests could taste vegan food for free. The winner of the Best Feature Film Award 2006 was the movie "Confederate Zombie Massacre" by Devi Snively. The Festival, the movies, the live acts and also the food were free of charge whereby the costs for the Tromanale became too expensive the following years.

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