Ms Thuillier points out that the Berlin festival is still the third biggest film marketplace in the world.
At the Venice Film Festival, we received the Ecumenical Award, which is given by a commission of priests which sees films at the Cannes festival, the Venice festival and the Berlin festival, and they give the award to the most inspiring story.
The film was shown at the Berlin film festival and opens in French cinemas on 27 February.
The Romanian film Child's Pose has picked up the coveted Golden Bear prize for best film at the 63rd Berlin film festival.
Once frequented by German literary icon Thomas Mann, the bar is now a hotspot hangout for filmmakers at the annual Berlin Film Festival.
Mr Kaurismaki plans to premiere the film (he has yet to give it an English title) with a full orchestra at the Berlin Film Festival.
Strange won a Crystal Bear award at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival for a short film called "Aphrodite's Farm, " a magical tale set on a dairy farm in the 1930s.
Actors are first nominated by an EFP member group -- for instance, the British Film Council in the UK. An international jury of industry experts then selects 10 actors to be presented as Shooting Stars at the Berlin Film Festival.
His final thesis was meant to be a short film, but in true Emmerich style, Roland went one further and wrote a longer script, raised extra money to finance it and then watched as The Noah's Ark Principle opened the 1984 Berlin Film Festival.
Meanwhile, there was some good news for Minghella's Cold Mountain, which has been chosen as the opening film for the 54th Berlin International Film Festival.
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When it was first released in 1982, "Himala" was picked for the official selection at Berlin International Film Festival, as well as a number of other festivals, and Nora Aunor was nominated for Best Actress.
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It has been picking up awards since winning the Golden Bear at its world premiere at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival and is one of the front-runners for best foreign language film at the upcoming Academy Awards.
Jurors said the film, which picked up the best first feature award at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, "offers us a transcendent tale of hope and perseverance in a world that few Westerners ever have the chance to see".
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At one end of the spectrum the archly alternative, quintessentially Berlin venue of Kater Holzig played host to the Tech Open Air festival.
Festival Republic also organises festivals at Leeds, Reading, Hove and Berlin.
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