ABOUT US
INVASION was born in 2014 as the first festival in Germany focused exclusively on contemporary Argentine cinema. Since then it has established itself as the one and only Argentine film festival in Berlin.
The first year we decided to “invade” the mythical Babylon cinema in the center of Berlin and program 10 films over a month, which were associated with other Argentine cultural events and exhibitions: concerts, performances, art shows, readings and even food and wine tastings took place within the framework of the 20th. anniversary of the city partnership Buenos Aires – Berlin.
In the following years, we established ourselves as a benchmark for the best of Argentine cinema, programming in original language emerging films that despite the prestige earned at international festivals, do not usually reach German cinema screens.
In recent years we have also expanded our horizons, giving the public of other cities in Germany the opportunity to access our programmes. We were at the Munich Film Museum, the Karlsruhe Cinematheque, the Caligari cinema in Wiesbaden and Orfeos Erben in Frankfurt. As part of this exchange movement, we are also taking German cinema to Buenos Aires: in 2016 we organized Angela Schanelec’s first retrospective at the renowned Sala Lugones and in 2019 we programmed 3 Berlin Filmmakers: Heise, Schanelec, Hartmann, in collaboration with the Mar del Plata Film Festival, the Goethe Institute, the Fundación Cinemateca Argentina and the Sala Lugones.
On our 10th Anniversary, we look back and find that in total we have already shown 76 feature films and 18 short films, directed by, among others, Hugo Santiago, Santiago Mitre, María Alché, Benjamín Naishtat, Nestor Frenkel, Sofía Mora, José Celestino Campusano, Teddy Williams, Agustina Comedi, Constanza Novick, Martín Shanly, Manuel Abramovich, Matías Piñeiro, Melisa Libenthal, Gastón Solnicki, Romina Paula, Santiago Loza, Nele Wohlatz, Lisandro Alonso, Martín Farina, Ana Katz, Ezequiel Radusky and Clarisa Navas. We celebrate them, and hope that the list continues to grow.
We are INVASION
Julieta Zarankin
She was born in Buenos Aires and has been living in Berlin since 2009. After completing her studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, she worked in various areas of film promotion, distribution, and production — including festivals such as BAFICI and Mar del Plata, production companies like Black Forest Films and Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, distributors such as Santa Cine, as well as the cinema Wolf Kino, where she was part of the founding team. In 2021, she became a member of the Berlinale Co-Production Market team, where she continues to work. In 2014, she founded INVASION, the first Argentine film and culture festival in Berlin, which she has directed ever since. In 2023, she joined Dorothee Wenner to curate the Argentine section of Box Office Around the World at the Humboldt Forum.
Martín Sacán
He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1984. He studied Communication Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires and Journalism at TEA. He did journalistic work for different graphic and online media in Latin America and Europe. He lived in Berlin since 2019 and currently is head of INVASION communications.
Jana Daedelow
She has been working in film and TV industry for more than 25 years. At Berlinale, she has worked in different programme and guest related roles, most of these years she worked at Berlinale Talents. She also lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina for several years where she worked at BAFICI and for German Film Festival. She has collaborated with key European film organizations like European Film Promotion (EFP) and the European Film Academy (EFA). Jana also worked in the production of numerous films and as an Art Department Coordinator in films and series. Since 2020, she has been in her current role as the Coordinator of Berlinale Series Market where she is also a member of the selection commitee for Berlinale Series Market Selects.
Lucía Tebaldi
She was born in 1978 in Argentina. She holds a degree in Arts from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the University of Buenos Aires. Always interested in film language, she joined the artistic production of the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival in 2006 and continues her work in film distribution with FiGa Films and Cinetren, responsible for distribution. She is the founder of SANTA Cine, a distribution company specializing in author cinema based in Buenos Aires. She has presented more than 40 Argentine film titles in the last three years.
