Martin Scorsese, Radu June, Joanna Hogg Among 100 Signatories of Open Letter Urging for Prolongation of Carlo Chatrian’s Berlinale Leadership
variety.comCarlo Chatrian whose mandate as artistic director of the Berlinale will come to an end next year. As we reported last week, Chatrian had been expected to stay on beyond 2024, and was surprised to learn that the German body which oversees the festival, Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (KBB), announced that it would no extend his contract.
The org had previously said it would abandon the model of having an executive director and an artistic director and return instead to having a single director, following the next edition.
The festival’s executive director Mariëtte Rissenbeek will also be leaving her post after the next edition. Chatrian and Rissenbeek were appointed to their respective roles in June 2018 and led their first edition in 2020 after Dieter Kosslick’s tenure as festival director came to an end with the 2019 Berlinale.
Speaking to Variety last Saturday, Chatrian made it clear the culture ministry decision last week came as a complete surprise. “In March, I had a meeting with [Roth] where we agreed to renew my contract as artistic director.
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