Berlinale Film Festival 2018 - UK filmmakers come to Berlin

The British Council in Germany

February 23rd, 2018

Berlin Global, News from Berlin

Michaela Coel: UK's Shooting Star

We’re thrilled that actress/writer Michaela Coel (whose credits include Chewing Gum, Black Mirror, and the forthcoming feature musical Been So Long), will be representing the UK as one of European Film Promotion’s Shooting Stars in Berlin.

UK Film Centre at the European Film Market

British Council is proud to be a partner in the UK Film Centre , stand 39 at the European Film Market’s Martin Gropius Bau. The stand is organised by Film Export UK and this year the partners include the BFI, British Council, British Film Commission (BFC), Creative Scotland, Film London and Northern Ireland Screen. The We Are UK Film reception will be held on 16 February, by invitation only.

Of course, sales activity is another crucial part of British activity in Berlin, as dozens of UK-based film sales companies will be selling the next wave of buzzy titles.

UK filmmakers come to Berlin

British Council Film, working with the BFI, has supported a number of shorts filmmakers to go to Berlin via our Short Film Travel Grant Fund.
We will also be hosting two of the Berlinale Talents, Georgia Oakley and Manon Ardisson for:

an exclusive workshop for filmmakers that will focus on technical aspects of directing and producing
an evening of film and discussion, involving a screening of two shorts, a Q&A and a closing networking reception with food and drink
a film screening of films directed and produced by Georgia and Manon respectively, followed by a Q&A
The UK films and co-productions selected for Berlinale 2018 are:
Berlinale Talents - supporting 22 UK talents headed to Berlin this year

The UK films and co-productions selected for Berlinale 2018 are:
The UK films and co-productions selected for Berlinale 2018 are listed below.

Some of these films were selected after British Council welcomed three Berlinale programmers to London in November for our selector screenings programme .

Competition

Isle of Dogs (Germany/UK), Wes Anderson
The Real Estate (Sweden/UK), Mans Mansson and Axel Petersen
Entebbe (US/UK), José Padilha

Berlinale Special Gala

The Bookshop (Spain/UK/Germany) Isabel Coixet
The Happy Prince (Germany/Belgium/Italy/UK) Rupert Everett
Songwriter (UK), Murray Cummings

Panorama

Profile (US/UK/Cyprus) Timur Bekmambetov
Yardie (UK) Idris Elba
Shut Up and Play The Piano (Germany/France/UK), Philipp Jedicke
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (US/UK/Sri Lanka) Steven Loveridge

Forum Expanded

Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033 (USA/UK), Zach Blas
The Rare Event (Switzerland/France/UK), Ben Rivers and Ben Russell
Song For Europe (UK), John Smith

Berlinale Shorts

Circle (UK/India/Canada), Jayisha Patel

Generation Shorts

Fry-Up (UK), Charlotte Regan
Three Centimetres (UK), Lara Zeidan
Snow for Water, Christopher Villiers

Group Exhibition at Akademie Der Kunste Am Hanseatenweg

Bläue (Germany/UK) Kerstin Schroedinger
The Third Part of the Third Measure by (UK/UAE/USA) The Otolith Group

Berlinale Talents - supporting 22 UK talents headed to Berlin this year

British Council Film is a founding partner of Berlinale Talents and so we’re proud to support the 22 UK talents headed to Berlin this year:

Shalini Adnani, production designer/art director
Ahmed Al Daradji, director
Manon Ardisson, producer
Chiara Armentano, editor
Michal Babinec, cinematographer
Prano Bailey-Bond, director
Fiona Brands, editor
Grba Singh Marko, director
Rebecca Dale, compsoer
Enos Desjardins, sound designer
Grant Gulczynski, director
James Heath, producer
Laura Hypponen, director
Ella Jones-Keller, director
Charlie Lyne, director
Zadoc Nava, director
Georgia Oakley, director
Rebecca Peniston-Bird
Maria Pirkkalainen, distributor
Mihaela Popescu, director
Harry Silverlock, distributor
The UK films and co-productions selected for Berlinale 2018 are:
Berlinale Talents - supporting 22 UK talents headed to Berlin this year

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