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Generation 2011: Opening Films and Programme Highlights

Generation’s new premiere venue in the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) provides a perfect setting for the section’s opening celebrations: seating almost 1.000, it is one of Berlin’s biggest and most beautiful cinemas.

Generation 14 plus will open with the Australian film Griff The Invisible. Director Leon and his leading actor Ryan Kwanten (Red Hill, True Blood) and Maeve Dermody (Beautiful Kate) will arrive on the red carpet on February 11 at 7:30 pm. Kwanten plays a quite ordinary outsider with very extraordinary fantasies, whose superhero-like alter ego has yet to be discovered…more

Berlinale 2011: Ingmar Bergman Retrospective and Homage for Armin Mueller-Stahl

The Retrospective of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival will honour Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who died in 2007. The cinematic oeuvre of this legendary filmmaker includes more than 60 works…more

Jafar Panahi – Filmmaker of the World

Shortly after the Berlinale invited Jafar Panahi to be on this year’s International Jury, he was sentenced to six years in prison and banned from filmmaking for the next 20 years. Ever since, people have been protesting worldwide against this verdict as it violates the right to freedom of opinion and expression in the arts…more