Name: Censored: Limits on our Dreams
Start: 2021-03-05 14:00:00
Location: Top Floor

In a Berlinale Talents edition where dreaming is invitation to freedom of expression, we need to consider the limits sometimes placed on our imagination and the nightmare this constitutes for those concerned. As populist governments keen to engage in culture wars harden their stances, censorship too is on the rise and takes on many forms, intervening throughout the entire chain of production. And filmmakers: if censorship is a state-based or institutionally-led practise, how does it affect artistic decisions or even lead to self-censorship in the worst case? Based on live interventions from our 2021 Talents from South East Asia, and mirrored by an expert of the situation in nowadays' Brazil, this bold session invites everyone to dream harder on both local and global scales, until the nightmare ends.

Tathagata Ghosh

Director and Screenwriter Tathagata Ghosh is a participant of Berlinale Talents 2021. For more details please check his profile.

Hyash Tanmoy

Producer and director Hyash Tanmoy is a participant of Berlinale Talents 2021. For more details please check his profile.

Eduardo Valente

Has been a programmer for many festivals in Brazil and currently works for Olhar de Cinema - Curitiba IFF and as the Berlinale delegate for Brazil. Graduated from film school at UFF (Niteroi-BR), and was a film critic and editor for web revues Contracampo and Cinética (98-2011). Was the head of international affairs at Ancine (2011-2016). Has directed three shorts and a feature, all of which were selected for different sections of the Cannes FF.

Anas Sareen

Born in Dubai in 1992 to an Iraqi-Turkish mother and an Indian father, Anas studied literature and film history at the universities of Lausanne and Oxford, then collaborated as a screenwriter before moving onto directing. He is a feature-film programmer for the Berlinale (Generation) and co-editor of the magazine Talking Shorts. Anas will be shooting his second short film, "The Gods," this summer, and is beginning to think about a first feature, provisionally titled "Swansong."