Berlinale Talent Campus, Goethe-Institut and FIPRESCI organize at this year's Berlinale again the "Talent Press". This initiative allows young critics to attend the festival (with a press badge), and to win experience in writing, on a daily basis, on one of the biggest film festivals of the world. Supported by renowned film-journalists, they write reviews on films presented in various sections of the festival, compose features and reports about the atmosphere of the Campus and interview both talents and experts. Articles of the participants are published daily — between February 11 and 15 — on the website of the Berlinale Talent Campus and on the homepages of the Goethe-Institut and FIPRESCI as well as on the Talent Press website.

The Talents Present Themselves:
Donal Foreman (Ireland): "An Extension of Filmmaking"
Malwina Grochowska (Poland): "Waiting for a New Legend"
Taran N Khan (India): "Vital Connections Between the Story and the Audience"
Nil Kural (Turkey): "The Widening Gap Between Critics and Mainstream Cinema"
Lim Lung Chieh (Singapore): "Exposing Cinematic Germs"
Leonardo Mecchi (Brazil): "Internet as a Space for New Film Criticism"
Sarah Stähli (Switzerland): "Why Do I Want to Be a Film Critic?"
Alice Wang (China): "Light of My Heart"

Saturday, February 10
Speed Warm-up. Global Speed Matching Opens a Door For Talents to Achieve Potential Co-operation.
By Alice Wang
Cinema Crossing the Border of Blindness. By Malwina Grochowska
Anthropological Inventories. By Leonardo Mecchi
Confusion Turning to Expectation. By Nil Kural
Life is a Soap Opera. By Sarah Stähli
Old Form, New Story. By Donal Foreman
Mind Games. By Taran Khan

Sunday, February 11
Life In Exile. By Alice Wang
Wising up with the Foxbar Gurus. By Taran Khan
The Delicate Balance Between Money and Art. By Leonardo Mecchi
Not so Talented with a Camera? By Malwina Grochowska
Politics Are Inescapable. By Donal Foreman
Stuck in the Middle of Games and Films. By Nil Kural
Neon-Orange Cows and Anarchistic Grandmothers. By Sarah Stähli

Monday, February 12
Radical Way to Go in the Film Industry. By Nil Kural
The Importance of Capturing Social History Through Cinema. By Lim Lung Chieh
It's About Us. By Sarah Stähli
Take Up Your Camera and Just Do It. By Alice Wang
A Legacy in Images. By Donal Foreman
How to Become a Berliner and Make a Film of it. By Leonardo Mecchi
For the Love of the Cinema. By Malwina Grochowska
Of Beeps and Bears. By Taran Khan

Tuesday, February 13
Telling Stories Through Furniture. An Interview with Production Designer Uli Hanisch After his Lecture "Building Homes for Films". By Lim Lung Chieh
Walking John Waters' Path. By Nil Kural
Easy Rider. By Taran Khan
Vodka- and Rakia-based Movies Hitting the Global Market. By Malwina Grochowska
Home is Best. By Alice Wang
Cinema, Criticism and Filmmaking. By Leonardo Mecchi

Wednesday, February 14
Tough Experience for the Viewers. By Nil Kural
The Future Does Not Exist. By Donal Foreman
Talents On My Space. By Alice Wang
Short Films — Big Impact. By Sarah Stähli
To the Attention of Children, By Nil Kural
Focused On Inconspicuous Female Characters. By Malwina Grochowska
Observation on the Current and Future State of Filmmaking. By Lim Ling Chieh
Surviving the Artifice. By Leonardo Mecchi
On a Quest With the Filmmaker. By Taran Khan

Thursday, February 15
Somewhat Forgettable. By Taran Khan
Film Industry Has to Be Reinvented. By Malwina Grochowska
Music and Cinema: A Never-Ending Love Affair. By Leonardo Mecchi
Battle of the Sexes. By Sarah Stähli
Fighting Censorship in India. By Sarah Stähli
The Last Moment of Withdrawal. By Alice Wang
We Make Reality. By Donal Foreman
Vagina Dentata. By Lim Ling Chieh

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