Women and the Berlinale 2019, fits: More than 40 percent of this year’s competition films were shot by female Directors. And the men get on the film festival competition.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Lone Scherfig
The latest Film from the Danish Director, “The Kindness of Strangers” opened the Berlin film festival. With “Italian for beginners” (2000) has Scherfig contributed a light-hearted Comedy of the most grim films of the dogme 95 movement. Her Coming-of-Age Drama “an Education” – the screenplay was written by cult author Nick Hornby was nominated for three Academy awards and has won 25 awards.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Charlotte Rampling
The Golden Ehrenbär for Charlotte Rampling celebrates a career that spans five decades. The actress gets him for her life’s work. She played more than 100 roles, for “45 Years” (2015) and “Hannah” (2017) was playing at the film festival in Berlin and Venice awards.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Juliette Binoche
Binoche is outside of France, probably the most for her Oscar-nominated performance in the romantic Comedy “Chocolat”. The current Jury President of the Berlinale, preferably rollers, to go on such a sugar-sweet movies. She refused, for example, a role in Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” to take the lead role in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Three Colors: Blue”.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Diane Kruger
In Cannes, she was awarded as the best actress for her main role in the Film “Out of Nothing”. Now, the German native, who lives in the United States and France, with a new Film at the Berlinale: in the main role in the espionage-Thriller “The Operative” directed by the Israeli filmmaker Yuval Adler. The Film runs out of competition.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Agnieszka Holland
In seven of the 17 nominated films in this year, women the Director. Among them: the Polish film-maker Agnieszka Holland with “Mr. Jones”. The movie tells the story of a journalist who reported on the famine in Stalinist Ukraine. For her acclaimed Holocaust Drama, “Europa Europa” (1991) won Holland the Golden Globe for Best Film.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Isabel Coixet
The Spanish Director is a regular guest of the Berlinale, since her Drama “was nominated for the My life without me” in 2003 for a Golden bear. In 2015, they opened the Festival with “Nobody Wants the Night”, in which this year’s Jury President, Juliette Binoche, at the time, played the main role. Now Coixet with “Eliza & Marcela” in the competition.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Angela Schanelec
Schanelec has started her career on the stage, and later its reputation as one of the most respected film of the Berlin school filmmakers. At the Berlin Festival to occur in 2019 with “I was at home, but” – a Film about the Disappearance of a teenager. Her movie “The happiness of my sister” from 1995 will be shown in the retrospective of the German Director.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Agnes Varda
In the 50s and 60s, she was one of the key figures of the Nouvelle Vague, one of the most influential movements in cinema history. Despite their age, the Director (90) is still incredibly active. Their documentary, “Varda par Agnès” is shown for the first Time, and gives insight into her remarkable oeuvre. Varda will be honored with the Berlinale camera.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Mariette Rissenbeek
According to Dieter kosslick’s last Berlinale-issue in 2019, will be the managing Director of German Films, Mariette Rissenbeek, the first woman in charge of the Berlinale. Rissenbeek was appointed managing Director of the festival and will share kosslick’s Position with Carlo Chatrian, the new artistic Director. He has for many years headed the Locarno film festival.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Tilda Swinton
As another regular guest in Berlin, Tilda Swinton is again the Standards for Coolness on the red carpet. She plays in two films from the Festival program: Joanna Hogg’s “The gift” has just won an award at the Sundance Festival, will be shown in the Panorama category; the Film “The Garden” (1990) will be on view in the experimental Forum section.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Lone Scherfig
The latest Film from the Danish Director, “The Kindness of Strangers” opened the Berlin film festival. With “Italian for beginners” (2000) has Scherfig contributed a light-hearted Comedy of the most grim films of the dogme 95 movement. Her Coming-of-Age Drama “an Education” – the screenplay was written by cult author Nick Hornby was nominated for three Academy awards and has won 25 awards.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Charlotte Rampling
The Golden Ehrenbär for Charlotte Rampling celebrates a career that spans five decades. The actress gets him for her life’s work. She played more than 100 roles, for “45 Years” (2015) and “Hannah” (2017) was playing at the film festival in Berlin and Venice awards.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Juliette Binoche
Binoche is outside of France, probably the most for her Oscar-nominated performance in the romantic Comedy “Chocolat”. The current Jury President of the Berlinale, preferably rollers, to go on such a sugar-sweet movies. She refused, for example, a role in Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” to take the lead role in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Three Colors: Blue”.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Diane Kruger
In Cannes, she was awarded as the best actress for her main role in the Film “Out of Nothing”. Now, the German native, who lives in the United States and France, with a new Film at the Berlinale: in the main role in the espionage-Thriller “The Operative” directed by the Israeli filmmaker Yuval Adler. The Film runs out of competition.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Agnieszka Holland
In seven of the 17 nominated films in this year, women the Director. Among them: the Polish film-maker Agnieszka Holland with “Mr. Jones”. The movie tells the story of a journalist who reported on the famine in Stalinist Ukraine. For her acclaimed Holocaust Drama, “Europa Europa” (1991) won Holland the Golden Globe for Best Film.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Isabel Coixet
The Spanish Director is a regular guest of the Berlinale, since her Drama “was nominated for the My life without me” in 2003 for a Golden bear. In 2015, they opened the Festival with “Nobody Wants the Night”, in which this year’s Jury President, Juliette Binoche, at the time, played the main role. Now Coixet with “Eliza & Marcela” in the competition.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Angela Schanelec
Schanelec has started her career on the stage, and later its reputation as one of the most respected film of the Berlin school filmmakers. At the Berlin Festival to occur in 2019 with “I was at home, but” – a Film about the Disappearance of a teenager. Her movie “The happiness of my sister” from 1995 will be shown in the retrospective of the German Director.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Agnes Varda
In the 50s and 60s, she was one of the key figures of the Nouvelle Vague, one of the most influential movements in cinema history. Despite their age, the Director (90) is still incredibly active. Their documentary, “Varda par Agnès” is shown for the first Time, and gives insight into her remarkable oeuvre. Varda will be honored with the Berlinale camera.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Mariette Rissenbeek
According to Dieter kosslick’s last Berlinale-issue in 2019, will be the managing Director of German Films, Mariette Rissenbeek, the first woman in charge of the Berlinale. Rissenbeek was appointed managing Director of the festival and will share kosslick’s Position with Carlo Chatrian, the new artistic Director. He has for many years headed the Locarno film festival.
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10 women that rock the Berlinale
Tilda Swinton
As another regular guest in Berlin, Tilda Swinton is again the Standards for Coolness on the red carpet. She plays in two films from the Festival program: Joanna Hogg’s “The gift” has just won an award at the Sundance Festival, will be shown in the Panorama category; the Film “The Garden” (1990) will be on view in the experimental Forum section.
The record for one of the leading film festival: Seven of the 17 films in this year in the race for the Golden bear were turned off by women (article image: “Elisa y Marcela” by Isabel Coixet). For comparison: last year in Cannes, of which three, in Venice. And for this year’s Oscars, not a single Film of a Director is nominated.
At the Berlin film festival to 2019, however, the work of women on different levels in focus. So Lone scherfig’s “The Kindness of Strangers opened on Thursday” the Festival. The Danish filmmaker, founding member of the “Dogma 95″movement, also directed the award-winning “an Education” (2009).
50/50 in the Jury
Chairman of the six-member Jury which decides on the award of the bear in Gold and silver, is the French actress Juliette Binoche, apart from her, actress Sandra Hüller (“Toni Erdmann yet”), and the British producer Trudie Styler for gender balance among the judges.
The retrospective revolves around women: it shows under the title “self-determined. Perspectives of filmmakers” feature films and documentaries from filmmakers from East and West from 1968 to 1999.
He (Werner Enke) has the gun, but she (Uschi glass) sits at the wheel scene from “The thing, honey” (1968)
In addition, in 2019, will be also honored two female icons of film: the Ehrenbär goes to the British Film and theatre actress Charlotte Rampling and the French Nouvelle-Vague Director Agnès Varda will receive the Berlinale camera for personalities that have made the film especially deserves.
Women and the Berlinale, that doesn’t work, it is only since this year. The two last of the Golden bears also won, women: Adina Pintilie for “Touch Me Not” (2018) and Ildiko Enyedi for “body and soul” (2017). For comparison: The Golden palm of Cannes was only able to win a single female Director – Jane Campion in 1993 for “The Piano”.
Equality Promise
The film festival, for its engagement with current political issues known, will be standing in this year also officially a promise to connect, the other Festivals such as Cannes and Venice have already committed to. The promise, last year in Cannes by the French Initiative “5050 by 2020” started, no quotas are binding, calls on the Festivals but to undertake the management for gender equality, and calls for data transparency in the submission of films and their selection.
Helena Zengel in the competition film “systems busters” by Nora Fingscheidt
In fact, the German Festival will not need to change its current organization in order to meet these requirements. Festival Director Dieter Kosslick revealed in the run-up to the Berlinale, 2019, 81% of the to the selection of the competition films participating individuals were women, and that the selection committees for most of the sections of the festival were already a female majority.
Berlin will also be the first big Festival with a woman at the top. The place of Kosslick, who is stepping down after 18 years as Director of the Berlinale, a Duo Mariette Rissenbeek was appointed managing Director, while Carlo Chatrian directs as Artistic Director of the curatorial decisions of the festival. You are supposed to guide Dieter Kosslick already on the Red carpet, when he on 7. February opened its last Berlinale.