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Talents Circles I

Time
Feb 17th 2025
Location
HAU2
Guests
moderated by AC Coppens

Hosted by Arte.

Proudly hosted by ARTE, the Talents Circles unfold as small discussion groups designed to help our filmmakers connect with leading film professionals and funding institutions. All groups will be led by industry experts appointed in tandem with our partners; Talents will pick one and rotate to the next every thirteen minutes, for a total of four circles. The whole activity will stretch across two days; the second session is scheduled for 10:00 am on Tuesday, February 18.

Holger Stern | ZDF | Head of Subcoordination Fiction / ARTE
Urte Fink | ZDF | Comissioning Editor Subcoordination Fiction / ARTE
Julie Savary | ARTE France Cinema | Head of Projects
Burhan Qurbani | Director | BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (Competition 2020), NO BEAST. SO FIERCE. (Berlinale Special 2025)
Zar Amir Ebrahimi | Actor & Director | MON PIRE ENNEMI (Encounters 2023), Seven Winters in Tehran (Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2023), Tehran Taboo (Perpektive Match 2023)
Christopher Aoun | Director of Photography | CAPERNAUM, ZEIT VERBRECHEN: DEINE BRÜDER (Panorama 2024) | Berlinale Talents Alumnus 2019
Jan Krüger | Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion | Producer & Distributor | DYING (Competition 2024), NO BEAST. SO FIERCE. (Berlinale Special 2025)

AC Coppens

AC Coppens is a strategist, conference curator, speaker and the founder of The Catalysts, a boutique agency for innovative and creative players working at the intersection of digital technologies, film, immersive media, design, music and sound. They advise and mentor teams on marketing and strategic planning, business and audience development. The multidisciplinary agency also turns conferences into sites of knowledge exchange and co-creation.