Carlo Chatrian is to step down as Berlin Film Festival artistic director after the next edition of the event when his contract expires. As previously announced, the festival’s executive direc…
Chatrian had been expected to stay on beyond 2024, but on Thursday the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin , which oversees the festival, announced it would abandon the model of having an executive director and an artistic director and return instead to having a single director, following the next edition.
“The necessary decisions for modernizing the Berlinale, for securing its future and sustainability should now once again be in the hands of one person, in order to further develop the Berlinale as an audience festival in the federal capital and to strengthen it in [its] position in the league of international A-film festivals.”
In a personal statement posted on the festival website Saturday, Chatrian wrote: “For the past four years at the Berlinale, I have been fortunate enough to work along with extraordinary people, as in love with movies as I am, who are totally dedicated to revitalizing one of the world’s great film festivals. Together we have helped so many talents and great stories reach out to the world. And I am grateful to all the people who have supported and believed in me.
“I thought that continuity could be facilitated if I remained part of the festival, but, in the new structure as it has been presented, it is quite clear that the conditions for me to continue as artistic director no longer exist. The next edition of the festival will be therefore the end of this rewarding journey.”
Rissenbeek and Chatrian were appointed to their respective roles in June 2018 and led their first edition in 2020 after Dieter Kosslick’s tenure as festival director came to an end with the 2019 Berlinale.This year’s edition attracted around 20,000 accredited professionals from 132 countries, including 2,800 media representatives. In total, 320,000 tickets were sold to the public.
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