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Berlin Film FestivalThe Berlin International Film Festival is the most popular film festival in the whole world. The Berlin Film Festival is held every February annually. The first ever Berlin Film Festival was held on 1951. The Berlin Film Festival is also one of the most important film festivals all over Europe. As a matter of fact, it is the most visited film festival of the world.
Although the Berlin Film Festival is held every February of the year, the first ever Berlin International Film Festival was held in the Titania-Palast cinema on the 6th of June in the year 1951. Joan Fontaine was the most celebrated guest of the film
festival at that time, which starred the in the film festival's opening film by the film industry icon "Alfred Hitchcock" entitled "Rebecca". At that time, Berlin has been craving for attention and recognition of the international community. It was more than half a decade after the Second World War and a great part of the city of Berlin is still in ruins.
These days, the city of Berlin is the cosmopolitan center for culture. And the Berlin Film Festival is one of the most essential dates of the international film festival industry. The Berlin Film Festival is also considered as the largest cultural event of the city of Berlin. The Berlin International Film Festival has recognized more than sixteen thousand film professionals and over 3,600 journalists from more than eighty countries all over the globe each year. The Berlin International Film Festival sells more than a hundred and fifty thousand tickets each year and also has the largest number of audience on a film festival all over the world.
The Berlin International Film Festival shows an estimated 350 films annually on its public programme. Majority of those films are either world premieres or European premieres. The films that the Berlin International Film Festival features are divided into sections; each section has its own distinctive profile. The following are the six sections of the Berlin International Film Festival:
* Competition - major international films or big international films are featured under this section. These kinds of films attract large audiences.
* Panorama - independent films or art house movies belong under this section. Films that attract the demanding and passionate audience or films that are made with personal styles are also included.
* International Forum of New Cinema - this section is the experimental section of the Berlin Film Festival. Films from distant countries and films that are have experimental forms belong in this section.
* Kinderfilmfest - films that are made and aimed for the young audience belong in this section.
* Perspektive Deutsches Kino - features German cinema productions that are exciting, thematic and has stylistic trends belong on this section.
* Retrospective - this section puts all the film festival's contemporary films on its historical context.
* Homage - this section has the same aim as the retrospective section. The only difference is that this section is devoted to great actors and actresses and presents the actors or actresses' works.
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