World Cinema Fund Day
- Time
- Feb 19th 2025
- 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 and with further support by the Goethe-Institut.
The WCF Day is the World Cinema Fund’s (WCF) public think-tank. Panels and discussions focus on film culture, production conditions in the funded regions, structural changes and new key aspects of the WCF funding strategies. The WCF DAY is organised in cooperation with Berlinale Talents.
Poetry and Politics, Production and Visibility
Concrete Resilience Strategies in Challenging Times
What about international film funding?
Bridges building to missing links and other dream destinations
Keynote Speaker: Dorothee Wenner (curator, filmmaker)
DIRECTOR'S TALK
Chronicle of a Humanist and Transcendental Road Movie
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Argentina / Spain 2025
TALK 1
Region(s) in Focus: The Arab World
With Rabih El-Khoury (programmer, Lebanon / Germany), Alaa Karkouti (CEO MAD Solutions and Co-founder of the Arab Cinema Center, Egypt), Rana Eid (Sound Designer / Director, Lebanon), Talal Afifi (Producer, Sudan), Kesmat El Sayed (Producer, Egypt / Germany)
TALK 2
Distribution: Not Only a Priority, But a Profession
With Torsten Frehse (Distributor, Germany), Semagngeta Aychiluhem (Distributor, Ethiopia), Priscilla Miranda do Rosario (Distributor, Brasil), other guests tbc