The Berlin Film Festival hosted the 10 young European actors selected for the Shooting Stars program, run by European Film Promotion, at a gala event Monday.
The presentation of the Shooting Stars took place prior to the screening of Claire Burger’s “Langue Étrangère,” which plays in competition.
They were welcomed on stage at the Berlinale Palast by German actor Corinna Harfouch, who stars in the competition entry “Dying,” directed by Matthias Glasner.
The ceremony, hosted by Jenny Augusta, is the festive highlight and the closing event of the four-day program, where the talented young actors meet up with casting directors and are presented to the international press.
The Shooting Stars are Thibaud Dooms from Belgium, Margarita Stoykova from Bulgaria, Suzy Bemba from France, Salome Demuria from Georgia, Katharina Stark from Germany, Éanna Hardwicke from Ireland, Valentina Bellè from Italy, Džiugas Grinys from Lithuania, Kamila Urzędowska from Poland and Asta Kamma August from Sweden.
The program is made possible thanks to the support of Creative Europe – the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the German Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media, the Berlin Film Festival, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Spotlight.
It also relies on the backing by the national film promotion institutes and film centers from the Shooting Stars’ home countries who are EFP’s member organizations.
This year that included German Films, Bulgarian National Film Center, Cinecittà in Italy, Flanders Image, Georgian National Film Center, Lithuanian Film Center, Polish Film Institute, Unifrance, Screen Ireland and Swedish Film Institute.
The program’s industry partner is the International Casting Directors Association.
Shooting Stars’ main media partner is Variety.
