Berlinale Talents Key Visual and Theme for 2025: “Listen Courageously – Cinematic Narratives in Times of Dissonance” © Ada Favaron and Imad Gebrael
The artwork of listening would be the overarching theme for the 23rd version of Berlinale Talents, the colourful expertise hub of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Listening intently, considerately, fastidiously, and most significantly, courageously, builds upon the muse of final yr’s “Common Tongues – Speaking Out in the Language of Cinema”, and can enable Berlinale Talents to proceed its exploration of communication by means of movie, taking it to a brand new stage with “Listen Courageously – Cinematic Narratives in Times of Dissonance”.
Listening creates empathy, deconstructs the echo chambers that we regularly discover ourselves in and invitations new narratives into our orbit. A prerequisite for glorious storytelling, it challenges preconceived notions and lengthy held beliefs, breaks down bias and ignorance, and thru this, it will definitely stimulates, intrigues and entertains audiences.
“In a world filled with media noise and constant audio-visual presence, we are faced with so much spectacle and opinion screaming for our attention, that it’s easy to fall into a pattern of simply absorbing what we see and hear, rather than considering, investigating and understanding. The power of good filmmaking lies in empathy which again enables creativity. Through this, film shapes worldviews, morals, and narratives, both consciously and subconsciously, creating a limitless space for diverse storytelling. We want Berlinale Talents to be a brave space to listen in, to discover the new and exciting, to embrace the existence of ambiguity, and come out stronger for it,” says Berlinale Talents administration duo, Nikola Joetze and Tobias Pausinger.
In 2025, Berlinale Talents will convey 200 distinctive rising filmmakers from everywhere in the world to Berlin, every with their distinctive backgrounds, cultures and experiences. Over the course of 5 days, they participate in an thrilling programme of inner workshops, suppose tanks, panel talks, discussions and extra, all of which run alongside the roughly 16 occasions that are open to public audiences. Topics across the focus theme “Listen Courageously” might be mirrored in the programme. Usually famend pageant visitors – the jury president, awardees or filmmakers from the pageant programme – amongst others are invited to the Berlinale Talents occasions. In latest years, Cate Blanchett, İlker Çatak, Geraldine Chaplin, Tsai Ming-liang, Lupita Nyong’o, Ruben Östlund, Euzhan Palcy, Martin Scorsese, Kristen Stewart, and lots of extra participated.
Designing this yr’s theme is Berlin-based graphic design duo Ada Favaron and Imad Gebrael, whose key visible portrays brave listening as a course of that have to be nurtured, cultivated, and harvested. The depicted flowers embody assertiveness, with daring traces mixing ears and petals, juxtaposing onerous and comfortable parts to mirror our typically conflicting emotions.
Berlinale Talents will happen from February 15 to twenty, 2025 at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. More data on Berlinale Talents might be discovered at www.berlinale-talents.de.
