House of Talents

Our podcast series is a deep dive into our world, plunging you into the making of the magic we call cinema. Join us as we guide you through the Talents-sphere, featuring stimulating conversations with internationally acclaimed filmmakers and artists from our archives.

Berlinale’s House of Talents is brought to you in cooperation with Goethe-Institut. Please also check out the European Film Market's podcast series Industry Insights. The podcast is available on all major platforms, e.g. Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Episode 3
Coming of Age with Céline Sciamma

With: Céline Sciamma & Anas Sareen

In this episode, we sit down with one of French cinema’s most prominent voices: Céline Sciamma. Drawing on Anglo-Saxon and French filmmaking traditions, the writer and director (Water Lilies, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Petite Maman) portrays characters caught up in new desires, bridging childhood and adulthood. At Berlinale Talents 2021, we got the chance to ask Céline about her artistic coming-of-age before we turned to her “delicate machines”: that is to say, her films.

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Episode 2
The Nature of Collaborations
With: Josephine Decker, Agnès Godard, Uli Hanisch & more
In this episode, we take a closer look at some of the different stations involved in movie-making. Cinematographers, screenwriters, and production designers pitch in as we travel through the Berlinale Talents archive to understand what it takes to carry a director’s vision to the big screen. The pros we talked to – visionaries like Josephine Decker, Agnès Godard or Uli Hanisch – are clear on one aspect of filmmaking: the virtue of collaboration.
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Good Bye, Film Prize! Dream On: Uli Hanisch Dream Team: Intercontinental Co-Production Play It by Ear: Hildur's Musical Intuitions Blind Trust: Dialogues in Image and Space Ctrl Alt Del: Leaving the System
Episode 1
Cinema on the Verge - A Conversation with Kleber Mendonça Filho
with: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Vincenzo Bugno

Our journey through the Berlinale Talents archive begins with the award-winning Brazilian screenwriter, director, critic and festival organiser Kleber Mendonça Filho (Aquarius; Bacurau). The precarious political situtuation in Brazil means filmmakers are on the verge of a crisis, yet find themselves in one of the best moments of Brazilian cinema. Within the frame of ‘Collectives’ during Berlinale Talents 2020, Kleber Mendonça Filho reflects on the artistic responces to the societal tensions and inequalities in conversation with Vincenzo Bugno, Head of the World Cinema Fund, and discusses a desire within the film industry to support dissident creative voices and challenge established hierarchies.

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In Contact: The Politics of Moving Bodies Dream On: New Cinema, New Voices! Censored: Limits on our Dreams Pictures From the Revolutions Requiem for the city of Cairo, by Tamer El Said Timely Lessons on Feminist Dissidence