29/11/2023
The Berlinale is taking part in the cultural programme for the 2024 European Football Championship with Berlinale Meets Fußball.
“Football is a community game underlining team spirit and capable of promoting exchange, understanding and social cohesion. This makes football and cinema a good match – films are created collectively and cinemas are also places of encounter and exchange, places that help awaken empathy and understanding. Berlinale Meets Fußball is a project by and with young people. We are very much looking forward to this very special project,” say the Berlinale directors Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian.
As part of a seminar at the University of Television and Film (HFF) in Munich, eleven teams, each consisting of two HFF students, produced eleven short films conveying diversity, sustainability and inclusion as important aspects of football’s identity.
Together with the Philipp Lahm-Stiftung and Benedetta Films, the Berlinale has selected eleven clubs with very diverse backgrounds for Berlinale Meets Fußball:
Türkiyemspor Berlin 1978 e.V. – Females under 17s
FC Internationale Berlin 1980 e.V. – Females under 13s
ISC Al Hilal Bonn – Females under 15s
SG Crostwitz 1981 e.V. – Males under 17s
Athletic Sonnenberg e.V. – Males under 19s/under 17s
KS Polonia Hamburg e.V. 1988 – Males under 13s
SV 67 Weinberg e.V. – Females under 17s
FC Ingolstadt 04 – Inclusion team (football for the blind)
FC Español München e.V. – Inclusion team
TSV Maccabi München e.V. – Males under 17s
FFC Wacker München 99 e.V. – Females under 15s
The shorts will celebrate their world premiere as a compilation film, the Berlinale acting as producer, as part of the Berlinale Special at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele (HBFS) on February 21, 2024. The young people involved will be invited to the Berlinale to attend the film premiere and take part in workshops along with experts from the fields of football and film, examining issues of community, diversity and inclusion.
UEFA EURO 2024 tournament director Philipp Lahm and UEFA EURO 2024 ambassador and DFB vice-president Celia Šašić will be the patrons of Berlinale Meets Fußball.
Germany is hosting the UEFA EURO 2024 and is using this as an opportunity to offer additional cultural events. Thanks to funding from the Stiftung Fußball & Kultur Euro2024 this cultural programme can be realised before and during the European Championship.
Read the full press release: bit.ly/BerlinaleMeetsFußball24
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UEFA EURO 2024 Berliner Festspiele HFF München Philipp Lahm Celia Šašić