Berlinale 2020

Berlinale Compass-Perspektive-Award to Walchensee Forever (Janna Ji Wonders) and Heiner Carow Prize to Natalija Yefimkina for Garagenvolk (Garage People).

Garage People is the Russian equivalent of Ulrich Seidl’s In the Basement, drenched in vodka and melancholy.

The Finnish short film Akiya lacks humanity, but that’s kind of the point. Director Jonna Kina explains why.

In total, 189 feature-length documentaries and 74 short documentaries from around the world will play throughout the festival’s 11-day duration (5-15 March 2020)

From the idyllic German lake of Walchansee to Mexico, the Greek islands and San Francisco for the Summer of Love, Janna Ji Wonders tells the complex and at times tragic story of her family.

Magnolia Pictures International revealed sales of four documentary features including The Fight and Assassins and Once Were Brothers.

Knoxville/Tennessee filmmaker Douglas McDaniel was at Berlinale DocSalon to raise finance on a number of projects, including Löttken: Rising Nationalism Then and Now about a woman who, as a 15-year-old girl acted a courier for the German Resistance during WW2.

Selina Murat and Polina Teif spoke at the end of the 4-day pilot DocSalon Toolbox Programme, designed to deliver doc business know-how and connections to creatives from underrepresented groups.

Director Carol Dysinger will attend the leading Greek doc event for the March 15 conclusion

National Geographic Documentary Films picks up Sundance selection entry Saudi Runaway from Berlin-based Rise and Shine.