Berlinale's House of Talents

Seeing the world through Wes Anderson’s films triggers a child-like feeling of wonderment. In this episode, we take you closer to the people and crafts behind Wes’ visionary cinema. With Jay Clarke, Simon Weisse and Tristan Oliver, we delve into his live-action and animated features to explore questions of storyboarding, prop making and animation cinematography.

From the impossibility of nothingness to the seeming nothingness of death. In this episode, we sit down with renowned Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. True to Apichatpong’s unconventional narrative work, this talk draws us into meditative spaces, inviting us to slowly question filmmaking habits and the rat-race of expectations we are all involved in.

Time to break with old habits. In this episode, we hear from film professionals who are committed to challenging norms and promoting alternative ways of thinking about filmmaking. They boldly engage in discussions on representation in the industry and although change doesn’t happen overnight, what these African and indigenous filmmakers, curators, queer collectives and people behind community cinemas sketch out are the many paths that lead to it.

In this episode, we sit down with one of French cinema’s most prominent voices: Céline Sciamma. Drawing on Anglo-Saxon and French filmmaking traditions, the writer and director (Water Lilies, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Petite Maman) portrays characters caught up in new desires, bridging childhood and adulthood. At Berlinale Talents 2021, we got the chance to ask Céline about her artistic coming-of-age before we turned to her “delicate machines”: that is to say, her films.

In this episode, we take a closer look at some of the different stations involved in the making of a movie. Cinematographers, screenwriters, and production designers pitch in as we travel through the Berlinale Talents archive to understand what it takes to carry a director’s vision to the big screen. The pros we talked to – visionaries like Josephine Decker, Agnès Godard or Uli Hanisch – are clear on one aspect of filmmaking: the virtue of collaboration.

To find out more about Berlinale Talents’ programme and its international Talents initiatives, if you want to apply for upcoming editions or dive headlong into the whole archive of talks and panels, go to www.berlinale-talents.de

The Goethe-Institut is one of the most active ambassadors of German film worldwide. As a partner institution, the Goethe-Institut cooperates with Berlinale Talents on “Berlinale’s House of Talents”. You will find more information on www.goethe.de/film...

Every February, Berlinale Talents becomes home to the world’s most promising filmmakers. Nested within the Berlin International Film Festival, it’s a one-of-a-kind forum for film professionals and cinema lovers alike, where a global vision for the cinema of the future is built and shared. Now, we’re reaching out to plunge you into this world on a monthly basis, introducing the brand new podcast Berlinale’s House of Talents. Starting march 5, 2021.