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will take over after the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, set for Feb.
15-25, which will be the last held under the co-director
structure that was ushered by the Dutch Mariette Rissenbeek and
the Italian Carlo Chatrian in June 2019.
Tuttle, another non-German, starts the job on April 1, 2024, and
promised that by then she would have sufficient German language
skills "for you to laugh at me".
"The last few years have been a challenge for every festival,
every festival is struggling with the same challenges around
public funding," Tuttle told journalists on Tuesday.
The festival said in July that it was slimming down the number
of films shown across its various segments and dissolving its
showcase for up-and-coming German cinema as part of efforts to
stabilize its budget after an additional 2.2-million-euro ($2.38
million) in federal funding expires this year.
Culture Minister Claudia Roth said efforts were underway to
ensure additional funding for the festival was included in the
2024 federal budget, which is still being negotiated after a
court decision blew a 60-billion-euro hole in government
spending plans.
"Concerns that the Berlinale will be cut to the bone is not
based in reality," the minister said at a news conference,
adding that provisional plans envisaged a 1.5 million euro
budget increase, which would amount to an inflation-busting 14%
boost.
Tuttle, 53, who is from North Carolina, has held senior roles at
the British Film Institute (BFI), BAFTA and the National Film
and Television School (NFTS).
($1 = 0.9258 euros)
(Reporting by Miranda Murray and Thomas Escritt; Editing by
Frances Kerry)
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