Tricia Tuttle: Last News

Ellise Shafer The Berlin Film Festival has added a new screening venue and hub ahead of its 75th edition in February. In a press release on Tuesday, it was announced that the festival would be “revitalizing” its Potsdamer Platz location with two new additions, the Stage Bluemax Theater and the Berlinale Hub75. Located at Marlene-Dietrich-Platz, the Stage Bluemax Theater will be a new premiere screening venue with 500 seats.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Documentary filmmakers and industry leaders gathered at this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam to discuss “independence and resistance in times of repressive populism” at the festival’s yearly Europe Conference in partnership with French public broadcaster Arte. IDFA’s artistic director Orwa Nyrabia introduced the conference by highlighting the “rising success” of populist movements in Europe and across the world and how they recognise filmmakers “as their enemy.” “They very quickly realize that culture is not their friend and that documentary people are their main enemy because we tend to criticize immediately.

Veteran filmmaker Todd Haynes will head the competition jury at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Todd Haynes will preside over the jury of the upcoming 75th Berlin International Film Festival. It will mark the first edition headed by Tricia Tuttle, the former head of the BFI London Film Festival, The American director, screenwriter and producer has a long-established close rapport with the Berlinale given that his feature film debut “Poison” received the fest’s Teddy Award, the queer film prize at the event, in 1991, after winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

Jamie Lang Spain has been named the Country in Focus for the upcoming European Film Market at the 75th Berlinale. The EFM will run Feb.

Berlinale Festival Director Tricia Tuttle has unveiled the selection committee that will help her shape her inaugural Competition and Berlinale Special line-ups for the 2025 edition.

Jacqueline Lyanga, former US delegate to the Berlinale, and Panorama section head Michael Stütz have been hired as Co-Directors Of Film Programming at the German festival. 

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent New Berlin Film Festival director Tricia Tuttle has appointed two in-house programmers as co-directors of film programming as she puts a new executive team in place. Jacqueline Lyanga, a former U.S.

German-French international sales veteran Tanja Meissner has been appointed as the new director of the Berlinale Pro, the department overseeing all of the Berlin Film Festival’s professional activities, in a role that encompasses director of the European Film Market (EFM).

The Berlin Film Festival’s parent org the KBB, which oversees state-backed cultural events in the German capital, has posted job ads for four key executive roles ahead of the arrival of the event’s new director Tricia Tuttle in April.

Berlin Film Festival 2025 Dates 

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Kirsten Niehuus, head of German film fund Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, is confident that the changes to film funding proposed by the German government recently will have a “very positive effect on the production scene in Berlin-Brandenburg.” The proposed changes to the funding system were presented last week to German lawmakers in the Bundestag by commissioner for culture and media Claudia Roth (see here). Speaking to Variety Saturday at a party Medienboard hosted at Berlin’s Holzmarkt, Niehuus said the changes “will mean that we would have a tax system in place that could compete, for instance, with Budapest or Prague, so that not so many German productions would go and shoot somewhere else, and more foreign productions would come and shoot in Germany.” Looking at the media landscape across Germany she notes that one major challenge is the decision by high-end outlets such as Paramount+, HBO and Sky to cancel local productions, and she noted “the streamers are not such reliable partners anymore.” She added: “So I think producers are having a really hard time at the moment.” On a happier note, the Berlin government raised Medienboard’s budget by Euros 6 million over the next two years, which will be targeted at the exhibition sector in the region, allowing for the upgrading of facilities at movie theaters.

A youthful crowd of industry professionals filed into a bustling room at the Gropius Bau Saturday afternoon for the inaugural AfroBerlin symposium here at the Berlin Film Festival. 

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent For decades, the Berlin Film Festival has been forging its own iconoclastic path, known for screening the best of world cinema and edgy underground discoveries as well as its cold February temperatures, while the starrier and warmer Cannes and Venice fests have been in fierce competition to grab the limelight (aka Oscar movies). But the Berlinale — a public institution created at the beginning of the Cold War in 1951 — could be changing course next year with the appointment of Tricia Tuttle, a progressive American film journalist and curator who led the BFI London Film Festival during a fast-growing five-year chapter, and has been indirectly tasked by Germany’s culture minister Claudia Roth to turn the Berlinale into a proper rival to Cannes and Venice, while maintaining its political edge and flare for arthouse cinema.

Berlinale Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian announced his final Competition and Encounters line-ups on Monday ahead of bowing out of the festival alongside Managing Director Mariette Rissenbeek at the end of the upcoming 74th edition in February.

Dennis Ruh, whose departure as head of the Berlinale‘s European Film Market after the 2024 edition was announced today, has expressed surprise that his contract has not been renewed and also questioned the festival’s new hiring protocols.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Dennis Ruh, the head of the European Film Market, has issued a statement saying that he will step down from his position after the 2024 edition of the Berlin Film Festival. Ruh unveiled the news of his upcoming departure in a letter sent to journalists shortly after Tricia Tuttle, the former head of the BFI London Film Festival, was announced as the new director of the Berlinale starting in 2025.

Berlin Film Festival has appointed Tricia Tuttle, the former director of the BFI London Film Festival, to become the new director of the international film event starting in 2024. Tuttle will succeed Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek who have co-led the Berlinale as artistic and executive directors since 2020 and will step down after this year’s edition when their respective mandates end. The Berlin Film Festival is the world’s second biggest international film festival after Cannes.

Tricia Tuttle has been named director of the Berlin Film Festival. 

Jennifer Lee, Chief Creative Officer at Disney Animation, confirmed this afternoon that work has quietly begun on a third edition in the company’s Frozen film franchise during a keynote session at the London Film Festival (LFF). 

Ellise Shafer Though the third “Frozen” installment is in early stages, Disney Animation chief creative officer Jennifer Lee — who co-directed the first two frosty films alongside Chris Buck — told BFI London Film Festival attendees on Thursday that she is “blown away” by what she’s seen so far. “Every morning last week they carved out space for me to work with the creative team on it, and I am blown away and I am so excited,” Lee said during a Spotlight conversation with Tricia Tuttle, head of directing fiction at the National Film and Television School.