Berlinale Talents

Since 2003, it has grown to become a one-of-a-kind forum for film professionals and cinema lovers alike, featuring public talks, discipline-specific workshops, project development Labs and networking events. While the Berlinale sections showcase films in all their facets and the European Film Market is the festival's most vibrant business hub, our focus is creative people and how they see the world through a different lens.

Berlinale Talents is aimed at emerging film actors, audience designers (i.e. curators, cinema or festival makers), composers, cinematographers, directors, distributors, editors, film critics, producers, production designers, sales agents, screenwriters, sound designers and, new for 2023, digital set designers with an existing portfolio of work.

Under the umbrella term of Berlinale Pro*, the European Film Market, the Berlinale Co-Production Market and the Berlinale Talents and World Cinema Fund initiatives offer filmmakers and industry representatives a comprehensive service for talent promotion, network building, project development, consulting, co-production, financing, audience development, marketing, distribution and discourse. In all its specific events, Berlinale Pro* is setting the agenda in its commitment to the common cause of fostering greater participation and a more inclusive and sustainable film industry. Berlinale Pro* is funded by the new MEDIA 360° funding of Creative Europe.