Europa Cinemas at the Berlinale 2018
Meet this year's Europa Cinemas jury members
In the framework of the 68th Berlinale, a Jury made of 4 Network exhibitors will award the Europa Cinemas Label to a European film from the Panorama section. The 4 Jury members from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Russia will announce the Award winning film on Friday, February 23, 2018. This year, 11 films will compete for the Label.
In the framework of the 68th Berlinale, a Jury made of 4 Network exhibitors will award the Europa Cinemas Label to a European film from the Panorama section. The 4 Jury members from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Russia will announce the Award winning film on Friday, February 23, 2018. This year, 11 films will compete for the Label.
L'Animale by Katharina Mückstein (AT)
Sunday’s Illness (La Enfermedad del Domingo) by Ramon Salazar (ES)
Genesis (Genezis) by Árpad Bogdán (HU)
Jibril by Henrika Kull (DE)
Land by Babak Jalali (IT, FR, NL, MX)
Lemonade by Ioana Uricaru (RO, DE, SE, CA)
A Paris Education (Mes Provinciales) by Jean Paul Civeyrac (FR)
Boys Cry (La Terra dell'Abbastanza) by Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo (IT)
Styx by Wolfgang Fischer (AT, DE)
Thirty Souls (Trinta Lumes) by Diana Toucedo (ES)
Yardie by Idris Elba (GB)
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The 4 Jury members are: Frédéric Cornet (Cinema Galeries, Brussels, Belgium), Mustafa El Mesaoudi (Cinema and Rex Filmtheater, Wuppertal, Germany), Nóra Kasza (Art+ Cinema, Budapest, Hungary) and Stanislav Ershov (Angleterre Cinema Lounge, St.Petersburg, Russia).
Frédéric Cornet
Cinema Galeries, Brussels
Frederic Cornet joined the Cinema Galeries' team in 2013 as coordinator of the festivals "Heure d'été" and "Heure d'hiver". In September 2016, he became the managing and artistic director of the cinema. Cinema Galeries is a place for moving images with three screens and a 1000 m2 exhibition space.
Mustafa El Mesaoudi
Cinema and Rex Filmtheater, Wuppertal
After holding a general manager position at the multiplex company Kinopolis in Leverkusen and Bonn, Germany, from 1999 to 2003, Mustafa El Mesaoudi founded the distribution company Die Telepaten Filmverleih in 2004 and was its general manager until 2012. Since 2003 he has been owning and managing a small multiplex cinema in Grevenbroich, Germany, through the exhibition company Grevenbroicher Lichtspielhaus GmbH. He also owns and manages the Cinema and the Rex Filmtheater in Wuppertal, respectively since 2007 and 2014.
Nóra Kasza
Art+ Cinema, Budapest
Nora Kasza gained her experience in film-making while living in London for 5 years. Since 2017 she works at the Hungarian distribution and theatre owner company Vertigo Media ltd. as a distribution and cinema manager. Vertigo Media runs an art cinema in the heart of Budapest. Nora's duties include organizing films and posters, and doing statistics.
Stanislav Ershov
Angleterre Cinema Lounge, St.Petersburg
Member of the NIKA Russian Academy of the Cinematic Arts, Stanislav Ershov co-founded and became Executive Director of the Interregional Charitable Fund for the Development of the Marinsky Theatre in 2000, before becoming its CEO in 2001. Between 2001 and 2003 he was the acting director of the Gorky Central Film Studio for Children and Youth, and then the General Director of the Gorky Film Studio until 2010. Since 2006 he has been the President of the "Cinema and Theatre" Foundation (St Petersburg). He has also produced several films, such as "The House of the Sun" by Garik Sukachev, "Generation P" by Victor Ginzburg, "Arie" by Roman Kachanov, "The Best of Times" by Svetlana Proskurina, “Greek Holiday" by Vera Storozheva, etc..
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Contacts Label
Fatima Djoumer, Head of International Relations & Events / fatim at djoumer.de
Charles McDonald, Press officer / charles at charlesmcdonald.co.uk
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