Dame Helen Mirren will also be honoured this year by the European Film Academy.
She will be a guest at the European Film Awards on 1 December in Malta.
The Berlinale is considered one of the top three European film festivals behind Cannes and alongside Venice.
The actress was speaking at the European Film Awards in Malta, where she received an honorary award.
Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or-winning French drama Amour (Love) leads the nominations at this year's European Film Awards with six nods.
Presented annually by the European Film Academy, the awards are decided by its 2, 300 members and were first staged in 1988.
Oscar-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren is to receive an honorary award for achievement in world cinema from the European Film Academy.
European film-making, driven to the verge of extinction by government subsidies and distribution monopolies, is now showing cheering signs of revival.
"It was discovering the immense diversity of European film-making that gave me an enduring love and respect for the artform, " Dame Helen said.
Both he and Dame Helen are expected to attend the 25th European Film Awards, the nominations for which will be announced in early November.
Bernardo Bertolucci, director of Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, is to receive a lifetime achievement prize at the 2012 European Film Awards.
Mendik, who is the director of Cine Excess, the only European film festival dedicated to cult movies, says zombies are the perfect motif for economic depression.
Her screen portrayal of Elizabeth II in 2006 also won her a slew of prizes, among them a best actress prize at the European Film Awards.
It aims to promote new projects from young European filmmakers and new films from Bulgaria and the Balkan region and to establish professional links with other European film festivals, sales agents and distributors.
The prize for European animated feature film went to The Illusionist, a UK-French co-production about a French conjuror on tour in Scotland.
Dad has tangled web of European TV and film programming, production and licensing firms, including SAT1, DSF (sports TV), Premier (pay TV), and 40% of Axel Springer Verlag, one of Europe's largest newspaper chains.
In its early days, the U.S. film capital embraced European directors such as Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir.
Prior to London, The Deep Blue Sea will have its European premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival in northern Spain in September.
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African Women Takin' Care of Business will invite women from Africa and the diaspora working in film and television to meet European-based producers and industry professionals.
This year's London Film Festival will close with the European premiere of new Charles Dickens adaptation Great Expectations, directed by Mike Newell.
We start with In Bruges at number 5 , a film about hit-men on a European holiday.
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Each film in the trilogy was shot in a gorgeous European setting, and all are talkfests though the dialogue is emotionally bare and highly literate.
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Australians now are just as likely to go to a good Australian film as they are to stay away from a mediocre American or European one.
The list of celebrities who came into contact with Ali and his large entourage during the week included actor Peter O'Toole, film director John Huston and even, Ronald Reagan who was in Dublin on the last leg of a European tour.
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