An ongoing series of mini profiles on the blog German Film @ Canada on the movers and shakers that make the Berlinale one of the most important events in the international film calendar: the filmmakers, programmers, curators, industry promoters and fans, from rookies to veterans.Name & role: Cristina Nord, head of Berlinale Forum. Between 2002 and 2015, film editor for the German “taz. die tageszeitung” newspaper. At the same time, she taught film criticism at the Freie Universität Berlin, wrote numerous essays, including for catalogues, as well as the book “True Blood”. From 2015 until 2019, she worked at the Goethe-Institut as head of programming for south-west Europe in Brussels.
This is my 1st Berlinale as head of the Berlinale Forum. From the late 90s onwards, I covered the festival as a film critic.
What & when was your first encounter with the Berlinale?
I have very vivid memories of a screening of Romuald Karmakar’s “Warheads” in the early nineties. Continue reading "Berlinale People: Cristina Nord, Berlinale Forum" »
Part of an ongoing series of mini profiles on the blog German Film @ Canada on the movers and shakers that make the Berlinale one of the most important events in the international film calendar: the filmmakers, programmers, curators, industry promoters and visitors.
2017 does not shape up to have a record German showing at the Berlinale. While 2016 was a great overall Berlinale year with Meryl Streep as opinionated jury president, a George Clooney-starring new Coen brothers film as opener, and Fassbinder-cum-Hollywood cinematographer Michael Ballhaus as the homage honouree --an outstanding German festival year it wasn’t by any stretch. One German debut feature was in Competition last year and did not make it abroad. (Of course, TONI ERDMANN later made up for any perceived weakness in perpetuity.) But as in previous years, if you dig deeper this February, the German gems start to shine through, among the 399 films seen by 300000 visitors.
