Criticism Week
The Critic's Week (Engl. Berlin Critics' Week) is a since 2015 yearly no contributions Berlin Film Festival with the framework program. On seven consecutive days, an internationally unpublished main film will be shown that is linked to an aesthetic or cultural-political topic and gives rise to subsequent discussion.
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history
A “Week of Criticism” parallel to the Berlinale had already taken place as a counter-event in 1964. It was initiated by film critics around Erika Gregor and Ulrich Gregor on the basis of the “Semaine de la critique” at the Cannes Film Festival and is now considered the forerunner of the Berlinale Forum.
The organizer of the Week of Criticism is the Association of German Film Critics . V. (VdFk) based in Berlin. The artistic director is the film critic Frédéric Jaeger, who is the managing director of the Association of German Film Critics. Michael Hack is the managing director. The selection committee for the films consists of five film critics: Dunja Bialas , Joseph Fahim, Carmen Gray, Frédéric Jaeger and Dennis Vetter.
The Week of Criticism begins at the same time as the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). The first week of criticism took place from February 5th to 12th, 2015. In 2016 it will be from February 11th to 18th. The venue has been the Hackesche Höfe Kino in Berlin-Mitte since 2015.
Film program (2015-2016)
Film program 2016 (main films)
| Film title (original title) | Country of production | Year of production | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue dress | WP / FR | 2015 | Igor Minaev |
| COMA | SY / LB | 2015 | Sara Fattahi |
| Cosmos | FR / PT | 2015 | Andrzej Żuławski |
| Despite the night (Malgré la nuit) | FR / CA | 2015 | Philippe Grandrieux |
| Eva doesn't sleep (Eva no duerme) | AR | 2015 | Pablo Aguero |
| Disorientation is not a crime | DE | 2015 | Marita Neher / Tatjana Turanskyj |
| Sixty Six | US | 2015 | Lewis Klahr |
Film program 2015 (main films)
| Film title (original title) | Country of production | Year of production | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brûle la mer | FR | 2014 | Nathalie Nambot |
| On the job | PH | 2013 | Erik Matti |
| Le journal d'un vieil homme | CA | 2015 | Bernard Émond |
| Don't go breaking my heart 2 (Daan gyun naam yu 2) | HK / CA | 2014 | Johnnie To |
| Un jeune poète | FR | 2014 | Damien Manivel |
| Revivre (Hwajang) | KR | 2014 | In the Kwon-taek |
| The victors' lies | DE | 2014 | Christoph Hochhäusler |
Media coverage / criticism / reactions (selection)
"Criticism is confronted with an immobile apparatus that no longer depicts what is currently happening in world cinema, but submits to market mechanisms, albeit with audience appeal. The Association of German Film Critics has now decided to convert displeasure into creativity: Finally has Berlin also has its week of criticism "(Gerhard Midding - Die Welt )
"The critics must be crazy." (Katharina Dockhorn - New Germany )
"Only the cinephile view of the cinema is still really interesting, surprising. Only thinking and seeing the cinema from its history and from the knowledge of its possibilities confirms and promotes a vital filmmaking that is clever, experimental, joyful, is realistic. " (Director Dominik Graf on Critique Week)
"In this context, it is nice that young film critics have come together to leave complaining and helplessness behind; they have launched a counter-event with the Week of Criticism, which will take place in a cinema from February 5 to 12 presents a program that takes cinephile interests into account. Who knows, maybe this is a way out of arbitrariness. " (Thomas Groh - The Daily Newspaper )
International trade journals such as Screen Daily, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety also reported on the first week of criticism.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.berlinale.de/de/archiv/jahresarchive/1964/01_jahresblatt_1964/01_jahresblatt_1964.html
- ↑ Gerhard Midding: Make it your project! In: Welt Online . February 7, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed February 9, 2016]).
- ↑ Katharina Dockhorn: Die spinnen, die Kritiker (new Germany). In: www.neues-deutschland.de. Retrieved February 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Heinrich Böll Foundation: Week of Criticism Berlin / Berlin Critic's Week 2016. (No longer available online.) Heinrich Böll Foundation, archived from the original on January 19, 2016 ; Retrieved February 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ taz, the daily newspaper: - taz.de. (No longer available online.) In: www.taz.de. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016 ; accessed on February 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Critics' Week Berlin to be launched. In: www.screendaily.com. Retrieved February 9, 2016 .
- ^ Berlin: German Critics Launch Own Critics' Week Sidebar. In: The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 9, 2016 .
- ^ Leo Barraclough: Berlin Film Festival to Get its Own Critics' Week. In: Variety. Retrieved February 9, 2016 (American English).
