MUMBAI: The 61st Berlin International Film Festival will present a retrospective of the renowned Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.

The Retrospective will present all the films directed by Bergman as well as the ones penned by him. Besides, it will present the documentaries made by Swedish filmmaker and Bergman-connoisseur Stig Björkman who portrayed Bergman both before and behind the camera.

"Bergman is one of the few who liberated cinema, freed it from conventions and brought it to a new artistic form, which opened a new world for many cineastes", said, the director of the Retrospective Rainer Rotherin.

Bergman is one of the few directors who‘s credited to have worked with the same team over decades. Three of the actresses who have worked with Bergman like Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom and Liv Ullmann will present his films at the Berlinale. They will also converse in detail publicly about life and work with Bergman for both the screen and the stage.

Bergman, who died in 2007, is well known for his films like The Silence, Scenes from a Marriage and Fanny and Alexander, all Oscar winners.

The 2011 edition of the festival will be held from 10 to 20 February.