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Autumn Showcase 2023: Press Releases

November 28, 2023: Autumn Showcase Wrap Release: The Teachers’ Lounge Wins Audience Award

October 20, 2023: Announcing the 2023 Berlin & Beyond Autumn Showcase: İlker Çatak’s The Teachers’ Lounge is Opening Night Film

Autumn 2023: In the News

Read – Berliner Zeitung: “Warming Up for the Oscars – Çatak in the USA” by Barbara Munker

Read – SF Gate: “Pass the Remote: Factual, fictional films in DocStories, Berlin & Beyond” by Randy Myers

Read – 48hills.org: “Screen Grabs” by Dennis Harvey

Read – The Mercury News: “A fountain of fests await Bay Area film fans this week” by Randy Myers

Read – Local News Matters: “Pass the Remote: Factual, fictional films in DocStories, Berlin & Beyond” by Randy Myers

Spring 2023: In the News

Listen – KPOO-FM 89.5 “Let Me Touch Your Mind”: DJ Marilynn interviews Berlin & Beyond President Noémie Njangiru

Listen – KALW Public Media / 91.7 FM Bay Area – “On the Arts“: Host David Latulippe speaks to Berlin & Beyond Director Sophoan Sorn and “Golden Years” Screenwriter Petra Volpe

Read – San Francisco Chronicle Datebook: “27th Berlin & Beyond celebrates new Bay Area home base” by G. Allen Johnson, including interview with Sophoan Sorn

Read – 48hills.org: “At Berlin & Beyond, a rare vision of Oscars’ sleeper favorite on big screen” by Dennis Harvey + Capsule Reviews of Select Films

Read – 48hills.org: A trip to “Werner world” with filmmaker Thomas von Steinaecker by by Joshua Rotter

Read – Frankfurter Allgemeine (in German): “Noah Saavedra bei größtem deutschsprachigen US-Filmfest” by Barbara Munker

Read – Local News Matter: Pass the Remote by Randy Myers feat. “Everything Will Change”, “Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer”, “The Forger”, and “Rhinegold”.

Spring 2023: Press Releases

Mar. 13, 2023: Four-time Academy Award® winner “All Quiet on the Western Front” is Closing Film of the 27th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival

Feb. 24, 2023: 2023 Official Selections

Feb. 7, 2023: Youth 4 German Cinema 2023 Announces Winning Film “The Ordinaries”