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21/02/2024 - BERLINALE 2024: During a press conference, the national information and advisory centre for the promotion of German films provided an overview of its anniversary plans
BERLINALE 2024: During a press conference, the national information and advisory centre for the promotion of German films provided an overview of its anniversary plans
The Jewish Communist partisan Angel Wagenstein was sentenced to death in 1944 — but he lived until 2023. From his Bulgarian homeland to postwar East Berlin, the filmmaker and novelist devoted his century of life to telling the stories of the persecuted.
We sat down with founder of the Berlin Animation Festival, Pia Djukic, to talk curiosity, transformation and the importance of collaborative thinking.
Iris Gusner, German director and screenwriter, speaks about her time studying at the film school Gerasimow Institute for Cinematography (WGIK) in Moscow, film activities and about the time after leaving the country GDR/East Germany. She was among the first East German filmmakers to focus on the role and emancipation of women in the GDR. In 1970 she took a job in Berlin with DEFA, the East German state-owned film studio. Her first assignment involved working as a production assistant on Konrad Wolf's film, "Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment" (1971). In 1972, Gusner began dire...