World Cinema Fund Day
- Time
- Feb 22nd 2023
- Location
- HAU2
The World Cinema Fund is an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Berlin International Film Festival, in cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office, Creative Europe MEDIA and with further support by the Goethe-Institut.
For the last 15 years, the World Cinema Fund has been championing cultural diversity, cooperations, sustainable development, and the promotion of cinema in regions where film infrastructure is underdeveloped. For the first time in partnership with Berlinale Talents, the World Cinema Fund Day invites Talents and film lovers at large all to reflect on new strategies, projects and the artists behind. This year, the event will feature a special focus on Iranian cinema, a round with funding experts on their latest and strongest support schemes for filmmakers in times of crisis, and more from recently supported WCF films selected for this year's Berlinale.
Limited capacity. RSVP to worldcinemafund@berlinale.de
Funding Cinema Cultures During Crises and War Time
Welcome and Introduction / 2.00 pm
Focus on Iran / The State of Things
Cultural-political, artistic, empathetic point of views
Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and the Media
Mariette Rissenbeek, Executive Director Berlinale
Florian Weghorn, Programme Manager Berlinale Talents
Vincenzo Bugno, Head of the World Cinema Fund
Talk 1 / 2.20 pm
Focus on Iran / The Spirit of The Age
Filming in Iran, telling Iranian stories
A conversation with female directors from inside and outside of Iran who have recently been supported by the WCF (and other funding institutions).
With: Farahnaz Sharifi (Director, WCF-funded project Letters from Iran), Steffi Niederzoll (Director, Sieben Winter in Teheran, Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2023), Dornaz Hajiha (Director, Berlinale Talents 2023), Sahand Sarhaddi (Director, Berlinale Talents 2023)
Host: Vincenzo Bugno, Head of the World Cinema Fund
Talk 2 / 3.45 pm
Funding in Good and Bad Times / The Challenge
The role of funding institutions and how to develop sustainable strategies during times of crises and war.
With: Enrico Chiesa (Responsible for Cinema, Organisation international de la Francophonie, OIF), Olga Sievers (Goethe-Institut im Exil), Ziad Khaltoum (Director, Syria/Germany), Afsun Moshiri (Director, Producer, Iran/Germany), Vincenzo Bugno (Head of the World Cinema Fund)
Host: Viola Shafik (Filmmaker, Filmscholar)
Talk 3 / 4.45 pm
Contextualising Cinema / WCF Directors
Klezmer & More: A presentation of Adentro mío estoy bailando (Argentina/Austria), a WCF-supported film made in 2022 and selected for Berlinale Encounters 2023.
With: Paloma Schachmann and Leandro Koch (Directors)
Host: Vincenzo Bugno, Head of the World Cinema Fund
The WCF Day will be followed by a Get-Together
with the support of Locarno Open Doors