Michel Ciment
Critic and chief editor of the French film magazine “Positif“ and honorary president of FIPRESCI, he was Berlinale delegate for many years and has worked in juries at the world’s most prominent film festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Locarno.
Programme events at the Berlinale Talent Campus:
Michel Ciment, Peter Cowie, Dai Jinhua
Presented by FIPRESCI and Goethe-Institut.
The critics know best . or do they? There are certainly a multitude of opinions,but sooner or later everyone working creatively must at some point deal with criticism.Where there is an audience,there are positions, views, taste and . where the ideal film critic is concerned . a special knowledge resulting from the experience of watching numerous films.So maybe they know best,but are they always right?
Peter Cowie, film historian and former international publisher of Variety, will moderate this programme and will welcome Chinese film theorist and critic Dai Jinhua,the president of the international film critics federation (FIPRESCI), Michel Ciment,and filmmaking guests from the Berlinale.Together they will discuss the meaning of their profession and their impact for the film business.
Michel Ciment, Peter Cowie, Margret Köhler, Derek Malcom
In co-operation with FIPRESCI and Goethe-Institut
Some filmmakers may feel as if they have been eaten alive when they read the reviews in the morning
after a premiere. But do critics really pleasurably
feast on directors? Isn\'t a review just a written-down opinion about a piece of art? The relationship between critics and filmmakers traditionally suffers from a two-way distrust: one party doesnt believe in the others attitude towards their art and crafts. On the other hand: one couldn\'t exist without the other the classical Catch-22 of a love-hate relationship.
But we want to help! Moderated by Peter Cowie, film historian and former international publisher
of Variety, critics Margret Köhler (Germany), Michel Ciment (France) and Derek Malcolm (UK) will meet a filmmaking guest from the Berlinale. Together they will work it out, once and for all.
Hans-Christoph Blumenberg, Michel Ciment, Dieter Kosslick, Hanna Schygulla, Gesine Strempel, moderated by Peter Cowie
In cooperation with Berlinale Special and Berlinale Retrospective.
The Berlin International Film Festival was launched on June 6, 1951 and celebrates its 60th edition this year. Over the past decades, the Berlinale has become one of the most important film festivals in the world. Festival director Dieter Kosslick introduces this panel of prominent filmmakers and critics Hans-Christoph Blumenberg, Michel Ciment, and Gesine Strempel, and legendary actress Hanna Schygulla. The panel not merely relives the rich history of the Berlinale, but also discusses the role the festival has played and continues to play for filmmakers – that of connecting cultures and international cinema, the North to the South, and bringing closer the East to the West. The festival remains a home base for the emerging and the established, today and in the future. Film historian and critic Peter Cowie, whose reflections on the history of the festival and the Berlinale today are presented in the book “The Berlinale. The Festival”, will explore together with the experts questions about how a festival like the Berlinale can enrich the métier of filmmaking and enhance the joy of watching films, and how cinema will continue to bring people together in the future.