Panel Talk: Casting Compass

Tina Rinderspacher (UFA), Tina Thiele (casting-network.de) and Iris Baumüller (Die Besetzer) take part in this years Casting Panel, moderated by Christof Laubisch from the “Spielplatz” Podcast. They will sit down with director xy, xy and xy to discuss the current state casting is in and if things are fine the way they are.

Take part in this Panel by getting a Ticket.

Award Ceremony 2022

The award ceremony of the IFFC 2022 is going to be hosted at the Rex am Ring cinema and will begin at 20:15. The evening will be moderated by the Festival Director and the Awards will be presented by Jury Members and spezial guests. Accessible via accreditation or invitation.

ACCREDITATIONS open May 12th

Submit your accreditation from May 12th 7pm (gmt+2). You can access all 30 films, artist talks and panels free of charge. In addition you will be able to access the opening night and award ceremony of the IFFC via guest list.

BERGFEST at
FILMHAUS KÖLN

We invite you to attend our Bergfest at Filmhaus Köln, where CINEGATE and the IFFC Team will award an aspiring filmmaker with the cinegate price, worth 7.500€ in rental equipment. Enjoy our free champagne reception and find some time to connect with others. The cinegate price will go to a filmmaker from this years selection residing in Germany. The purpose of the price being to support the upcoming filmmaker with their next project.

3rd of June, 21:00
Maybachstraße 111, 50670 Köln

OPENING NIGHT of the IFFC 2022 at HOTEL STADTPALAIS

Like in recent years the Hotel Stadtpalais will be host to the IFFCs opening Night. Doors open at 19:30 with the event starting at 20:30. Access by accreditation or invitation.

1st of June, 19:30

Berlinale Winner Myanmar Diaries at the IFFC 2022

Hidden from the world’s TV cameras, life under Myanmar’s junta of terror in the aftermath of last year’s military coup has been largely invisible. As an act of creative resistance, the anonymous Myanmar Film Collective composed this feature-length film by blurring reality and fiction, all segments from their first-person perspective, woven together with blood-chilling eye-witness footage in the form of citizen journalism. Berlinale’s artistic director Carlo Chatrian highlighted the film in recent interviews as being “very politically relevant.”

By THE MYANMAR FILM COLLECTIVE Myanmar, 2022

documentary, 70 min