1st Taxifilmfest 2024 - A look back

The great success of the first Taxifilmfest has prompted us to present our view of the world in taxis in film again in February 2025.

What remains of the first Taxifilmfest? We fondly remember our guests, an appearance at the Berlin House of Representatives and the many conversations with friends, the press, radio and television.
Today, in February 2025, before the start of the second Taxi Film Festival, many things have ‘disappeared’, and many publications from last year have already been replaced by new publications in the indexes of search engines.

What remains - memories of 2024

International

A Film Festival in the Back of a Taxi - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/movies/taxi-film-festival-berlinale.html

Suzanne’s Mom’s Blog quotes the New York Times
https://suzannesmomsblog.com/2024/04/24/berlins-taxi-filmfest/

The Turkish agency actualnewsagency.com openly imitates the blogger.
https://actualnewsagency.com/a-sinema-senlik-in-the-back-of-a-taxi/

And so have dozens of other sites. It’s too easy, just copy the NYT link and your new ‘own’ post is ready.

The World has published an interview with us as a sound file
https://theworld.org/segments/2024/04/04/taxifilmfest-shows-taxi-themed-movies-to-protest-ubers-sponsorship-of-berlins-film-festival

German film industry, taxi drivers protest on Berlinale’s opening day
https://www.screendaily.com/news/german-film-industry-taxi-drivers-protest-on-berlinales-opening-day/5190563.article

Germany

Taxifilmfestval: Berlinale addition and anti-Berlinale in one
https://taxi-times.com/taxi-film-festival-berlinale-ergaenzung-und-anti-berlinale-in-einem/

Taxifilmfest – artistic protest against Uber as main sponsor of the Berlinale

Taxi Times has also made a video.

taxi heute has also reported.
TaxiFilmFest as a counterpoint to Uber’s sponsorship of the Berlinale
https://www.taxi-heute.de/de/news/unternehmens-wirtschaft-und-branchen-nachrichten-sonst-bvtm-bundesverband-taxi-und-mietwagen-e-v_taxifilmfest-als-gegenpol-zum-uber-sponsoring-der-berlinale-25805.html

The SPD faction in the Berlin House of Representatives likes us.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/7471250549593170
Facebook
The most beautiful cinema at the @berlinale? Of course, the Großraumtaxi, where the #taxifilmfest is currently taking place!

RBB: Film festival in a large taxi - ‘Taxifilmfest’ protests against Berlinale sponsor Uber
https://www.rbb24.de/kultur/berlinale/beitraege/2024/taxifilmfest-protest-gegen-berlinale-sponsor-uber.html
And they have a funny photo with lots of participants.
<https://www.rbb24.de/content/dam/rb...>

The Taxifilmfest is also and first and foremost a demonstration in defence of the taxi as part of public transport. That is why the event appears in the unofficial directory of demonstrations demonstrations.org
https://demonstrations.org/events/17024--das-taxi-als-teil-des--ffentlichen-nahverkehrs---pnv--und-der-stadtkultur-ist-bedroht--die-leitung-d

The paywalls of many newspapers are partly to blame for the disappearance of the entries.

Berlin: Taxi drivers organise anti-Berlinale protest against Uber with their own film festival
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/berlin-taxifahrer-veranstalten-anti-berlinale-protest-gegen-uber-mit-eigenem-filmfestival-li.2187765

Taxi drivers demonstrate against Berlinale sponsor Uber
https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article241696598/Taxifahrer-demonstrieren-gegen-Berlinale-Sponsor-Uber.html

Conclusion

We learn that even a tiny team like the one from the taxi film festival has to archive material immediately for later evaluation. The internet is simply too forgetful.