A new cycle begins for the Berlinale, one of the world's most popular film festivals, whose 75th edition will take place from February 13 to 23, in the four corners of the German capital and around its nerve center on Potsdamer Platz. The August festival has appointed a new artistic director, 55-year-old American Tricia Tuttle, who has worked for a number of London-based organizations, including the BFI London Film Festival and the National Film and Television School's directing department, and who is preparing to steer its first edition.
Taking up her post in April 2024, succeeding the duo of Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian, she puts an end to the co-directorship model introduced between 2020 and 2024, in favor of a return to the single management that long prevailed, at the instigation of Germany's minister of culture, the environmentalist Claudia Roth. "We are both a festival open to the public and one of the biggest markets in the world," said the new director from the outset. "We sold 324,000 tickets last year, and I want the Berlinale to function like two hemispheres of the same brain: industry on one side, editorial on the other. I have two hats: the business function and the programming function."
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