
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" »