While the Bears will invade Berlin tell the many curiosities festivaliere
(Luigi Noera from Berlin in collaboration with Marina fearful – Photos are published courtesy of the Berlinale)
Less than two weeks into the Berlinale these curious animals by nature (bears) already they roam Berlin to draw the attention of passers.
“It's that time of year when bears are around! On this year's poster they will appear in the famous 
monuments of Berlin to make us want to fantastic day festival “, says festival director Dieter Kosslick at the launch of the new series of posters that once again were designed by the Swiss advertising agency Velvet and will be visible throughout the city from mid-January 2017. They will also be on sale at the Berlinale online shop from 22 January.
Then from 15 al 25 February, the Berlinale with the Street Food Market will offer once again the visitors of international delicacies festival. In collaboration with the BITE CLUB, the Culinary Cinema will present five food truck in the heart of the festival, near Palast Berlin.
“It's nice that in Berlin the Slow Food offers new regional and sustainable products. It is the second time that we work with BITE CLUB on the food market Street Berlinale. Five “BITE CLUB Winter Warmers” They will be set up in the alley Joseph-von-Eichendorff-Gasse, at the corner of Alte Potsdamer Straße: The organic cheese Allgäu will again scratched with spaetzle just done at “hot” slicer ” which it is the favorite by viewers. Visitors to the festival will find traditional Mexican dishes at “Eddielicious”, while “Miss Kimchi” prepare a tasty international food Korean soul. “Tommi’s Burger Joint” prepare its meat balls and organic vegetables to burgers on homemade buns. And the “sins”, visitors can enjoy the classic empanadas Uruguay.
The Berlinale as well as being a film festival, It is aimed at an audience that loves food and in fact 
from 2014, the Berlinale Street Food Market is part of the Berlinale. “We are excited to participate in the lively dining scene in Berlin and provide excellent food that is a genuine alternative to the starred restaurants”, commenta Thomas Struck, curator of the Culinary Cinema.
This year the 12th Culinary Cinema will be held under the motto “Life Is Delicate” from 18 al 23 February and it will present nine documentaries and a feature film focusing on the relationship between food, culture and politics.
“When it comes to cultural and political issues, sensitive decisions need to be taken continuously. It's like in a kitchen, where it is also difficult to create, at least, something edible and, to the best, something delicate “, Dieter Kosslick says the director of the festival in explaining the motto.
The main program of the Culinary Cinema will present three world premieres, a first and a German international. Following these projections, i migliori chef Thomas Bühner, Sonja Frühsammer, Michael Kempf, Flynn McGarry and The Duc Ngo will take turns to serve menu inspired to film inside the Gropius Mirror Restaurant.
Lo chef Flynn, an American documentary by Cameron Yates, open the program. The protagonist of the film, Flynn McGarry, He was born in 1998 and is already a famous chef. In the film we see how, age of ten, It transforms the living room of his parents to Los Angeles in a pop-up restaurant called Eureka and serves multi-course menu. The culinary superstars are impressed by his cuisine. The New York press celebrates it as a “culinary prodigy”. Do not wait to attend the premiere of his film and cook in the kitchen of the Culinary Cinema. Also during the day “Youth Food Cinema”, Flynn McGarry will cook together with school children. Then talk with experts on how to prepare tasty food with good products, clean and fair, and the positive impact that their use has on the living conditions, climate and sustainable development around the world.
In quest of Alain Ducasse di Gilles de Maistre, the visionary chef Ducasse defines his task: “We create memories that last”. To achieve tirelessly travels the world, inspects her 23 restaurants on three continents and maintains its 18 stelle Michelin. In honor of Alain Ducasse, lo chef Thomas Bühner (three Michelin stars, “life”, Osnabrück) It will compete at the stove.
The vines are grown in Georgia for about 8000 years, but during the Soviet regime, the ancient winemaking methods were almost lost. In Our Blood Is Wine Emily Railsback try as the tradition is revived. Michael Kempf (two Michelin stars, “Easy”, Berlin) We will interpret the culinary heritage of Georgia.
To Cuba, Also culinary traditions have been neglected for a long time. But now they say “the taste is back” on the island. The road movie Cuban Food Stories of Asori Soto takes us to remote places where outdoor delicacies are prepared. Sonja Frühsammer (Michelin star, “Frühsammers Restaurant”, Berlin) make a culinary tribute to Cuba.
After participating in the 2016, director Eric Khoo will return to the Culinary Cinema with his new feature film, Tea Ramen, set in the multi-ethnic city and nation of Singapore. Here the food is used as a means not only to retain painful memories, but also to achieve reconciliation. For the occasion, the Duc Ngo (“Culinary Innovator 2017” al Berlin Master Chefs), which it has several popular restaurants in Kantstrasse Berlin, prepare an Asian menu.
Other screenings exploring opposite aspects of the culinary universe. The Green Lie Werner Boote exposes the methods, sometimes subtle and 
often coarse, of “greenwashing” with which companies deceive consumers. Mentre in The Game Changers del premio Oscar Louie Psihoyos, athletes show how to maintain a healthy weight and stay in shape without eating meat.
Even equity Lisa F. Jackson and Sarah Teale is encouraging: in this film, Mexicans are able to protect their village from the acquisition of a US construction company. But also bodes well for the story of how a group of women 
in a Lebanese refugee camp manages to organize a food truck that is told by Soufra Thomas Morgan. Going back to our home, in Tuscany, The landscape views are magnificent, but there is no future in sight for farmers in Lorello and Brunello di Jacopo Quadri. “The delicate pattern of remembering and forgetting, to reflect on the past and a new beginning, is typical of the food can be found in the arguments of the 12th Culinary Cinema”, says the curator Thomas Struck.
In detail 10 films at the 12th Culinary Cinema – Life Is Delicate:
Chef Flynn USA Cameron Yates Documentary IP
Cuban Food Stories USA / Cuba Asori Soto Documentary WP
The Game Changers USA Louie Psihoyos Documentary IP
The Green Lie Austria Werner Boote Documentary WP
The quest Alain Ducasse (The Quest of Alain Ducasse) France Gilles de Maistre First Documentary in Germany
Lorello and Brunello Italian Jacopo Quadri First Documentary in Germany
Our Blood Is Wine USA Emily Railsback Documentary WP
Heritage USA Lisa F. Jackson, Sarah Teale Documentary WP
Tea Ramen Singapore / Japan / France Eric Khoo WP
Soufra USA Thomas Morgan Documentary First European
Another popular aspect of the Berlinale is the manifestation Berlinale Goes Kiez that puts the spotlight some arthouse cinemas. from 17 al 23 February, The Berlinale moved in arthouse cinemas in Berlin and suburbs. With the red carpet rolled out in another district and the spotlight on a committed cinema throughout the year to keep alive the culture of cinema. It kicks off 17 Toni February to the room & Tonino. The projection will be both an opening that a farewell, since this film, so rich in tradition, will continue under new management. The visit of the Berlinale will be an opportunity to symbolically hand over the key. In the next days, The Red Carpet will move – in line with the concept of trust Series – from one end: Berlin city center in Kleinmachnow, the edge of town; e, for the first time, ad Adlershof dove, for more than 20 years, Kino Casablanca has maintained its position as the only cinema 
test has Treptow. Here in detail the following seven local cinema that will host the screenings in chronological order: Toni & Tonino (Weißensee), New Kammerspiele (Kleinmachnow), Tilsiter Lichtspiele (Friedrichshain), ACUDkino (not), filmkunst 66 (Charlottenburg), Neues Off (Neukölln), Kino Casablanca (Adlershof). The novelty of the 2018 It is that it will include a presentation of a selection of Berlinale Special film Das schweigende Klassenzimmer (The Silent Revolution ) Lars Kraume to prisoners in the auditorium of a’ penal institution Tegel to the present director for Q&In the film with the audience. The comment Kosslick: “Berlinale Goes Kiez celebrates local cinema as a communication sites and diversity of our local cinema. With special screening JVA Tegel, the series will do even more to live up to its goal of breaking the barriers and facilitate cultural participation “.
It must be said that as it is in its tradition, the Berlinale is not only popular in Berlin, but also had this year a global presence with specially taken care programs at festivals and other cultural events around the world. These activities take place under the name of Spotlight Berlinale. So last summer, the Festival has been in the spotlight in Berlin with the Summer Berlinale to Radio Eins Open-Air Cinema in Friedrichshain with a review of premieres in July and the chance to see the favorite movie by the public and those awarded to previous edition before distribution in cinemas. In particular, the film won the Golden Bear for Best Film On Body and Soul by Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi, ma anche God’s Own Country di Francis Lee, that both succcesso has enjoyed in the Panorama section. From the Forum section instead Starring Nicolas Wackerbarth, while the Generation section Weirdos Bruce McDonald.
The Berlinale Spotlight has also traveled to Iraq with Berlinale Shorts, thanks to the collaboration between the Goethe-Institut Iraq and Duhok International Film Festival (9 – 16 September 2017) presentando Berlinale Spotlight: Berlinale Shorts. Two short films programs have been the curator of the Berlinale Shorts.
I present the program of the Berlinale Shorts competition films 2017 tra cui Town (Small town) Diogo Costa Amarante (Golden Bear for Best Short Film), Centaur (Centaur) di Nicolas Suarez (Honorable mention), Martin Cry (Martin Cries) di Jonathan Vinel e Everything di David OReilly.
The short film has always been considered especially at the Berlinale. The short film format captivates audiences for unconventionality and complexity in both content and form. The works shown exceed limits, genre conventions and mature paradigms. The Berlinale spotlight in Iraq invites the public to discover the diversity and artistic innovation of the Berlin Shorts section.
The Spotlight with Berlinale Short Film was well in Asia later this year and extends the festival and makes visible its activities throughout the year. “Berlinale Spotlight gives us the opportunity to make our concrete and tangible work for the public, even outside the festival. The movies on the screen exemplify what makes sections of the Berlinale Berlinale so distinctive and unique in its complexity “, says the director Dieter Kosslick Berlinale.
The long and successful collaboration with the Berlin Goethe Institutes in Kolkata and Hong Kong continued in autumn and winter 2017. A total of six short film programs presented film by Berlinale Shorts, Generation, Perspektive Deutsches Kino and Panorama selection, as well as the feature film Ein Weg (Paths) Chris Miera (Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2017). The short film programs were supervised by Maike Mia Höhne, responsible for selecting Shorts. “The films reflect the great diversity of the short format: boldness, playful, politico, narrative. The short film is an essential sector of the film industry, but also storytelling and culture. As such, will travel around the world “, afferma Maike Mia Höhne.
The Spotlight Berlinale programs in East Asia have been screened at the Cine Moko Hong Kong, the Cinematheque Passion Macau, the Goethe-Institut in Shanghai and Beijing, in China. Also Berlinale Spotlight was invited to India for the International Festival of short films Kalpanirjhar, DIAL: Calcutta International LGBT Film & Video Festival and the International Festival TENT Little Cinema at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata. Among the Berlinale film credits include Spotlight Cidade Pequena (Small Town), Diogo Costa Amarante (Portugal), 19 me. – Golden Bear for Best Short Film 2017 and Reverie on the Prairie (Reverie in the Meadow), Julien di Stephen Arrangoiz (Mexico), 17 me. – Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) 2017, Min Homosyster (My Gay Sister), Lia Hietala (Sweden / Norway), 15 me. – Generation 2017, TEDDY Award 2017, The Moods Artificial (The Artificial Humors), di Gabriel Abrantes (Portugal), 30 me. – Berlin Short Film canddato a European Film Awards 2017 e Street of Death, Karam Ghossein (Lebanon / Germany), 22 me. – Audi Short Film Award 2017.
Then there is to remember that three films of the last edition of the Berlinale entered in
fives nominations for next OSCAR. In particular, as best foreign films are candidates 
winner of the Golden Bear, On Ildikó Enyedi di Body and Soul (Hungary) e A fantastic woman Sebastián Lelio (Chile), who took home the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay;
But the unexpected success Luca Guadagnino with Call With Your Name 
presented in the Panorama selection 2017 He got four nominations including over one as Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet including those for best film, Best Original Song (Mystery Of Love from di Sufjan Stevens) and best adapted screenplay.,
Let us now examine the selections on the fringes of that official who give so much prestige to the Berlinale.
New this year is that the Berlinale Special Series, introduced just three years ago, 
now she will have its headquarters for screenings at the Zoo Palast. In 2015 The Berlinale was the first festival in the world to create a special program dedicated exclusively to the series within the official program. In tal modo, The Berlin International Film Festival has kicked off a new trend and offered to the narrative format of high quality serial an important presentation platform.
The exceptional series premieres such as Top of the Lake (D: Jane Campion) e In the Face
of Crime (D: Dominik Graf) They were presented as early as 2010, and 2015 It began the Berlinale Special section that included national and international series. since then, acclaimed titles like Better Call Saul, The Night Manager, False Flag e 4 Blocks have been successful and their international premieres in Berlin.
The new headquarters Zoo Palast Berlinale Series offers the opportunity to bring the international world of the series to the public Berlinale. The head of the program Solmaz Azizi is the traite d'union between the Berlinale Series and the 'European Film Market (EFM). In this context, participants “Drama Series Days”, EFM as well as participate in activities that you do indeed carry the Zoo Palast, You will now see the series and live the live previews on the Red Carpet.
Dieter Kosslick which is favorable combination of public and the EFM in the new headquarters Zoo Palast adds: “From the beginning, the inclusion in the series was an enrichment of the festival. The public can enjoy high-quality series as much as the movie “.
The EFM director Matthijs Wouter Knol comments: “I ‘Drama Series Days’ They have shown interesting expansion of the market and the close collaboration with the Berlinale Co-Production Market Berlinale Talents and has given many talents projects and new opportunities. To be able to further develop the platform of the series with the Series Berlinale Palast at the Zoo is a great opportunity for us to strengthen the program. ”
The program 2018 the Berlinale Special Series provides seven series from
Australia, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, Israel, Norway and the United States that will surprise the audience with a variety of content and production.
The series describe reactionary political systems, but also turbulence and disruption in society, as well as the characters that could not be more different as they follow their routes safely. All series show that the structures of power are continually repeated in different forms in recent decades. And that resistance is not only possible, but necessary.
The Series Berlinale opens with the visually electrifying television adaptation of the cult classic Australian Picnic at Hanging Rock. Even the heroine of the Israeli TV series Sleeping Bears He is forced to face his past. The German series Bad Banks closely observes a young woman, talented and very ambitious. The viewer is led deep into the world of finance ruthless thirst for profit. Even the female lead of the Norwegian series Heimebane (Home Ground) ventures into a male domain where he plays a coach who leaves his successful female football team to become the first female coach of a Norwegian Premier League team men. Instead the television adaptation of the bestseller The Looming Tower brings viewers inside the CIA and FBI in the late '90s. Of all other kinds The Terror chepresenta an epic spectacle in the best sense of the word, It is based on the fictional story of Dan Simmons 
Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin. The Liberty Tanzania is held instead in the 80s in the environment of humanitarian workers and expatriates with a critical examination of the lasting effects of colonialism and is based on the novel “Liberty” di Jakob Ejersbo.
In detail these are the Berlinale Series 2018 presented at the Zoo Palast:
Bad Banks – direction: Christian Schwochow – sneggiatura: Oliver Kienle, based on an idea by Lisa Blumenberg (Germany / Luxembourg )
Home Court (Home Ground) – ideato da Johan Fasting – direction: Arild Andresen (Norway)
Liberty – designed by Asger Leth – direction: Mikael Marcimain (Denmark)
The Looming Tower – conceived by Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright - directed by Alex Gibney - written by Dan Futterman, based on a book by Lawrence Wright (USA)
Picnic at Hanging Rock – direction: Larysa Kondracki (episodes 1-3 ) – written by Beatrix Christian, Alice Addison (Australia)
Sleeping Bears – conceived and directed: Keren Margalit (Israel)
The Terror - executive producers: David Kajganich e Soo Hugh – direction: Edward Berger (episodes 1-3), (USA).
Another interesting program is native sidelines this year is aimed at a new focus: From the Arctic to the Pacific. This year, The special presentation of the Berlinale Native – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema will review and at the same time throw a glance at the future. The Arctic Circle, last year's regional focus, It will give way to the newly selected region for the indigenous film production: countries and islands linked together by the vast Pacific Ocean. Climate change is the most obvious connection between the two seemingly very different regions: the ice masses in cast are among the main causes of the increase in sea level, that threatens the entire Pacific region, including island nations and regions of Polynesia, Melanesia and New Guinea and Micronesia, along with their mostly indigenous people. But climate change is not the only regional commonality. industrialization, the repression of indigenous languages and cultures, forced relocation and other long-term effects of the colonizing practices still have consequences for the peoples of the Arctic and for the cultural areas in and around the Pacific.
The documentary film ma'ohi NUI, in the heart of the ocean my country clearly delineates a form of colonial aggression 
specification for the Pacific Region: from 1966 al 1996, France has carried out an intense program of nuclear tests in French Polynesia. The film shows the catastrophic effects on the environment of the region and on the health and social structures of the people ma'ohi. The destructive effects of centuries of colonial repression are also illustrated in the poetic films and activist Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio, Morgana girl, and 
short film Three Thousand in Asinnajaq. In an impact scene Fata Morgana, Chukchi children explain how they should choose new Russian names for themselves in school so that their Russian teacher can pronounce them better. And the narrator in Three Thousand, a 
picturesque tapestry of animated images and archival material, comments: “My father was born in a spring igloo – half of snow and half leather. I was born in a hospital, with jaundice and two teeth. ”
The curator Maryanne Redpath stresses: “Native shows films that illustrate, more and more that colonialism is not a phenomenon of the distant past. Indigenous peoples are still suffering the disastrous effects of remaining colonizing practices. But the indigenous film also bears witness to the constantly immense resilience and search for independence “.
Among the many started connected with the film program an event for the second time, NATIVe ospiterà insieme all’Helmholtz Climate Initiative Regional Climate Change (REKLIM) at the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research and the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin entitled DEKRA “Life indigenous and global climate change – From polar regions to the Pacific islands. Da Melting Sea Ice a Sea Level Rise “scientists and filmmakers examine closely the dramatic consequences of global warming and its regional effects in scientific debates, film screenings and panel discussions.
Furthermore, The Berlinale Special will present the international premiere of the Australian documentary Gurrumul. The screening will take place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in collaboration with Native. Gurrumul is an intimate portrait of the life and musical career of the late Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.
Here are the details of the submitted films:
Morgana girl Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio, Finland 2005
Through a fascinating mix of cinematic and narrative styles, the legendary team of cinematographers Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio tell thousands of years of history of the Chukchi people, from their mythology to the Russian colonization and the modern survival of this culture.
Polynesian NUI, in the heart of the ocean my country (Polynesian NUI, in the heart of the ocean my country lies) di Annick Ghijzelings, Belgium 2018 Documentary WP
A poetic testimony over adversity that ma'ohi have suffered in the times of contemporary colonization, depicting the consequences of nuclear testing in French Polynesia and the desire of a people to assert their identity.
Three Thousand in Asinnajaq, Canada 2017 Short Film Documentario
Combining historical footage with original animation in a poetic tapestry, Asinnajaq explores his Inuit heritage throughout his entire audiovisual history and beyond, projecting a future full of hope.
To end this trip in the Berlinale curiosity will talk about the piece that ties the written form of the polyphonic narrative forms of cinema in the panel "Books at Berlinale" - Twelve international novels potentially adaptable to the big screen.
In “Books at Berlinale”, selected books on almost 150 presented from 30 countries, This year includeono works from Germany, France, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Norway, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Besides “In the Midst of Winter”, the latest book by Isabel Allende, will also present recent works of French authors Bestsellers Véronique Olmi and Mazarine Pingeot. Pingeot has become a literary event as a writer in 2005 with “Mum”, an autobiographical work about his life as a secret and illegitimate daughter of former French President François Mitterrand. From Germany comes the new, not yet published, novel “#egoland” di Michael Nast. Georgia, that will be the guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, presents “The Other Amsterdam” Dato Turashvili, which explores the fate of Georgian immigrants in the Netherlands during World War II.
Many of the selected books discuss topical issues such as the upheaval in Turkish society, “false” or a mother who takes care of the terrorist activities of his daughter. But there is also entertainment for the whole family, come “Captain Horror’s Island” from Greece (Rodoula Pappa), with a plot that could, without much exaggeration, It is described as “Pippi Longstocking” meets Pirates of the Caribbean. There is also an Italian historical novel based on real facts, “The party of Hitler” Rosella Postorino, which tells the harrowing story of ten women during the Second World War that put at risk their lives each day as tasters in the Wolf's Lair bunker of Adolf Hitler.
The following books have been selected for “Books at Berlinale” 2018:
“In the Midst of Winter” (Isabel Allende) Spain
“Fake Metal Jacket” (Sven Recker), Germany
“The Other Amsterdam” (since Turashvili), Georgia
“The Million Kroner Kindness Competition” (arnfinn kolerud), Norway
"#egoland" (Michael Nast), Germany
“Bakhita” (Véronique Olmi), France
“Magda” (Mazarine Pingeot), France
“The Girl in the Tree” (Sebnem İşigüzel), Turkey
“Where the Missing Go” (Emma Rowley), UK
"If Martha dances" / “Martha’s Dance” (Tom Saller), Germany
“Hitler’s Feast” (Rosella Postorino), Italy
“Captain Horror’s Island” (Rodoula Pappa), Greece
The Berlinale does not end here for its size both in official competition than in other sections Panorama, Forum e Perspektive Deutsches Kino, just to mention the main, of which we will tell you in future articles, with a special interest in our representation.
Finally a curiosity about the future of the Berlinale for which festival director Dieter Kosslick in response to a letter signed by a group of German directors on the subject in November has so stated: “I can understand that these filmmakers want transparency when it comes to the Berlinale reform process. Its future is a matter of great importance to us all. The Commissioner for Culture and Media Minister of the Federal Government Prof. Monika Grütters will be responsible for any procedure.
What to say? Even in Berlin politics plays a part in a prestigious international event which opens the festival's film season 2018, Good Berlinale!