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31 TEDDY AWARD film entry

Submit your film to 31th TEDDY AWARD and 67th Berlinale.

Deadline for receipt of entry forms and films:
Feature-length films: October 31, 2016
Short films: November 15, 2016

In order to submit a film to the Berlinale you have to send the film and the completed film entry form to the festival before the given deadline.

In any case, we ask you to carefully read the Festival’sGeneral Guidelines for Submission and Participationas well as the “How to Berlinale” short guide to film submission.

The additional special requirements of the individual sections – regarding premiere status, running time, subtitling etc. – can be found on the corresponding webpages of the Competition, Berlinale Shorts,Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino sections.

Queer Academy Conference Panel 2: Queer Film Festivals in Practice

Today, the Queer Academy Conference with more than 300 participants from all parts of the world takes place in the STATION-Berlin. The second panel of the day will be about “Queer Film Festivals in Practice”. Here you find the question that we asked the participants before hand as well as an introduction to our panelists. Continue reading Queer Academy Conference Panel 2: Queer Film Festivals in Practice

Day 5: Strike a Pose!

No one in the world does not know the pop-icon Madonna. She is everywhere and in the showbiz since forever. The famous and wonderful documentary “Truth or Dare” followed the Popstar during her “Blond Ambition Tour” in 1990. For her tour, Madonna casted dancer from the voguing scene, which evolved out of the New Yorker gay subculture. The documentary is looking behind the scenes of the tour and shows Madonna in intimate moments with her dancers. They sit in bed, cuddle, talk, making fun. Madonna also wanted to take a political stance; the homosexuality of her dancers is in focus. Aids is also a subject. “Truth or Dare” happened in 1991, now we have 2016 and another documentary about the “Blond Ambition Tour” is coming, only 25 years later. Continue reading Day 5: Strike a Pose!