Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick on the red carpet of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.
A feature movie which has to be unique, creative and impressive is much highly evaluated as it contends to win the grand golden bear prize of the ongoing 62th Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale director said on Friday.
In an exclusive interview with Xinhua a day before the final outcomes to be announced in Berlin, the Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick saw much chances for a movie which distinguished itself in being distinctive, original, and awe-inspiring, referring to the most fundamental characteristics and features the prize-winning movie must have.
"It must tell you a story which is very unique, and a story which you have never seen before, and you have be to impressed by the way how it is narrated, by the image, by the sound, by the costumes, by everything," Kosslick said.
He called this year's Berlin Film Festival a great successful one both in terms of its unprecedented number of visitors and big market expansion.
He said that some 250,000 tickets were sold out during the very first 3 days of its opening, and a record 300,000 tickets will be sold out on Saturday, when the gold and silver prizes are to be conferred.
"Our market is bigger than ever," Kosslick said, referring to one of the Berlin Film Festival's most important function in market promotion.
"As we have a lot of new Asian clients, and many Chinese new clients, the films have been sold worldwide, so this has been very successful," Kosslick said, adding that it embodies people's need to go into the cinema to see the films, which are also sold.
Noting the new characteristics of this year's Berlinale in comparison with those of previous years, Kosslick mentioned several young film directors from Vietnam, Canada and Hungary by names, calling them as refreshing elements to the 62nd Berlin Film Festival.
"This year we have introduced very new film makers, they have done their self-shot films, and we are very happy with this because this brought in fresh young people, and this is the big difference from last year," according to the perennial Berlinale director, who has held this post since May 1, 2001.
He particularly recounted a number of Chinese new and young film makers, saying they are very much active in the panorama program of Berlinale, who remain comparatively less well known only because they are not in competition.
In drawing a comparison between Chinese movies and the western blockbuster movies, the Berlinale director said there existed actually no really a big difference in terms of film-making, but some nuances in the real big image and very special effect in the mean time.
Noting the Berlin Film Festival carries a tradition for discovering talents with great potentials but was confined to less-popularity, including some of the previous golden bear winners for the films from China, Latin America and ex-Yugoslavia film, Kosslick reaffirmed that the winner of golden bear should a very special film.
"It should be a very special film which also have a special meaning, which tells a story very unique, which you never heard of before, this film shall win," he stressed, but left the final decision for prize-winner to the jury.
Looking ahead into the future trend of film industry, Kosslick expressed his belief in digital films to grow up with more and more kinds of special effect on one side, and independent film-making on the other.
"As you can see that along with the big blockbuster or pothunter film, there is new independent movement in the world of film making, much tiny, younger people are shooting this new technology," Kosslick said, predicting there will come up with real independent cinema.
As an international film stage that converge the movies with diversified cultural backgrounds, the Berlinale director highlighted the necessity for the intercultural communions entail "sometimes technical, sometimes practical, that is reason by doing this to get use of film and as a way to talk and as a way to tell stories."
"Sometimes you don't understand films from other countries, because you don't know what it means, When I see Chinese film, I see your history, but when you see it, you have completely different understanding because you know the history much better than I know what does it meaning," he said.