who we are

britspotting, the British independent film festival was founded in the year 2000 in Berlin in order to screen innovative recent British film productions unknown to German movie-goers. The idea behind the festival is to show films that have not yet found a distributor in Germany. In collaboration with the British Council britspotting has established itself as one of the leading film events dedicated to showing films that represent all parts of the British Isles, and work from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will continue to feature strongly in our programme.

As we introduced an Irish Focus as a regular segment of the festival in 2004 britspotting now stands for British and Irish film festival.

what we want

britspotting is dedicated to promote and support new talent, and to find German distributors and audiences for outstanding new British and Irish films. However, we have also shown films by renowned directors such as Michael Winterbottom, Mike Hodges, Conor McPherson, Thaddeus OSullivan, Ken Loach, Danny Boyle or Shane Meadows to name a few.
britspotting is an independent project run by a not-for-profit organisation. The festival team is made up of a regular staff of about 50 volunteers, many of whom work in the film industry: cinema owners, distributors, producers, editors, graphic artists, designers.

For more information on the festival download our pressinformation here.