Since 2002 he has worked at the Berlinale in various capacities, as Member of the Selection Committee and Festival Delegate. From 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the Programming Committee at the Locarno Film Festival and Head of its Open Doors section. He is the Head, one of the initiators and a jury member of the World Cinema Fund, founded in 2004 and started by the Berlinale and the German Federal Cultural Foundation with the objective of supporting film production in regions lacking a structurally strong film industry. He is also curator of the FeatureLab at the Torino Film Lab.