Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht - Berlin - International Festival Signs of the Night |
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8. Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht / Berlin Edition
21th International Festival Signs of the Night / Worldwide
November 1 - 5, 2023
Kino in der Königstadt - - Space : movie members GmbH - Saarbrücker Straße 24 - Berlin Prenzlauer Berg
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Malik Berkati |
Switzerland - Germany |

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Malik Berkati is a Swiss journalist, film critic and political scientist, based in Berlin, ermany. He has worked for several years at festivals in Western Switzerland (PR and program adviser).
He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of an international multilingual online magazine focusing on culture and civic awareness (j:mag), and a correspondent in Berlin for various newspapers and magazines from the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
He has served on numerous international juries in Europe and Asia for FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics), as well as on the German Film Critics Jury for Best German Documentary (2017, 2022 and 2023), the Best German Short Film (2019-2021), and since 2020 Jury Member of The Critics Award for Arab Films of the Arab Cinema Center (ACC).
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Steven Yates |
Great Britaim - Germany |

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Steven Yates is a British film critic and journalist based in Berlin.
He writes for a variety of websites and hard copy publications globally and has been a member of FIPRESCI since 2001, attending numerous film festivals as a jury member in Europe and globally. He has worked for film festivals in the past, including London and Edinburgh, as well as being an assistant programmer for National Schools Film Week in the UK.
Presently he is part of the selection team for the Kendal Mountain Film Festival, also in the UK.
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Ben Knight |
Great Britain - Germany |

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Ben Knight is a UK-German journalist, film-maker, and translator in Berlin.
He is specialized in writing on German politics in English, but his features have also covered late Holocaust trials, German arms makers in the Black Forest, Scientology in Berlin, zoophilia in Essen, pagan cults in Brandenburg, illegal fishing in Sierra Leone, Oktoberfest in Palestine, the mystery of the Stalin statue in Georgia, and other things up to and including colonic irrigation. His monthly politics column came out under the name Konrad Werner in Exberliner magazine for 16 years, and he co-hosts a podcast called Megan's Megacan, which is about the German news and canned cocktails.
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Competition Short Film, Cinema in Transgression, Documentary - Focus and Thematic programs |
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