Seasons Greetings
TEDDY AWARD goes Oscar®
From 2025, the Winners of Three Berlinale Awards Qualify for the Oscars®
From next year, the winner of the TEDDY AWARD – BEST DOCUMENTARY/ESSAY FILM will also be entitled to enter the competition for an Oscar®. This is the third award presented at the Berlinale to qualify the winning film to be submitted for the Academy Award®/Oscar® longlist alongside the Golden Bear for Best Short Film and the Berlinale Documentary Award.
The TEDDY AWARD, the first queer prize at an A festival, has been presented during the Berlinale since 1987. It is awarded in different categories to films from all sections that address LGBTQIA* topics as part of a broader social context and thus contribute to greater tolerance, acceptance, solidarity and equality in society.
The Golden Bear for Best Short Film has been awarded since 1956 to works that create new focal points in the cinema landscape. A three-person jury selects the winner from around 20 films in the competition.
With the Berlinale Documentary Award, the festival has been emphasising its strong commitment to the documentary form since 2017. Each year, a total of 18 productions compete for the prize.
Feature-length films can be submitted for the 75th Berlin International Film Festival until October 30 and short films until November 13, 2024.
Film entry 2025
In order to submit a film to the 75h Berlinale and 39th TEDDY AWARD please send the film and the completed film entry form to the festival before the given deadline.
Deadline for receipt of entry forms and films:
Feature-length films: Oct. 30, 2024
Short films: November 13, 2024
Filmspotting Lothar Lambert “Fräulein Berlin”
Lothar Lambert celebrates his 80th birthday in July. In 1982, the Toronto Festival dedicated a retrospective to him, who had become known as an underground filmmaker in the 1970s. He used the invitation to shoot his next film during the trip – improvised as usual, with the simplest of means and a resulting rough aesthetic as well as a (partly self-ironic) mixture of reality and fiction: his regular leading actress at the time, Ulrike S., played a woman who struggles with the fact that she is mainly known for her revealing appearances with a West Berlin underground filmmaker and receives no other role offers. So she tries her luck in Toronto and New York.
Current events such as the short-term ban on the screening of the Lambert film 1 Berlin-Harlem in Toronto were incorporated into FRÄULEIN BERLIN. And various fellow directors agreed to appear in front of the camera: from Norman Jewison to Bette Gordon and Jim Jarmusch to Helke Sander. The film had its world premiere at the 1984 Berlinale (Jan Gympel).
Fräulein Berlin will be screened on July 29, 2024 at 07pm at Arsenal 1, followed by a film discussion with Lothar Lambert, moderated by Jan Gympel.
- Regie: Lothar Lambert
- BRD / 1983 91 Min. / 16 mm / OF mit Ulrike S., Alan Rosenthal, Hans-Dieter Frankenberg
- KinoArsenal 1
- Tickets
LoLa DaBei – The great Lothar Lambert/Dagmar Beiersdorf retrospective
LoLa DaBei – A summer of queer West Berlin underground cinema starts on July 07, 2024.
ACUDkino, BrotfabrikKino, Bundesplatz-Kino and Klick will be showing 30 films in 35 screenings from July 7 to September 1, 2024, with a focus on the seventies, eighties and nineties. Each film will be accompanied by an introduction and/or a discussion.
The small cinema museum at Schönleinstraße 33 in Kreuzberg also offers the opportunity to view its collection (which focuses on Lambert films) and to meet Lothar Lambert on four Saturdays, supplemented by a surprise program.
Download the flyer with all the information.
