Festival Fever
Berlinale: The Berlin International Film Festival
Every year since 1952, over 300,000 filmmakers and cinephiles flock to Germany for Berlin’s International Film Festival a/k/a Berlinale. The festival emerged in the midst of a Cold War at its de facto ground zero - West Berlin.
American Officer Oscar Martay started the festival while stationed in West Berlin after World War II. The first movie shown at B…