The Berlin Film Festival announced this morning the titles selected for the official competition, as well as the ‘Competition Encounters’ section in the sidebar. Scroll down for the full series.
18 films were selected for the international competition, with the latest film by Christian Petzold as the highlight red sky (on fire)Directed by Margarethe von Trotta ghost wire Star Vicky Krieps Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey through the desert, and Philippe Garrel returns with a new feature titled The group.
Today, the festival also unveiled a very special show. Actor and filmmaker Sean Penn will direct a documentary with the title super power. The film was shot at the outbreak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year and follows President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The festival takes place from 16 to 26 February.
The organizers have already announced more than 100 titles in the sidebars of Panorama, Forum, Berlinale Special, Berlinale Series and the youth-oriented generation.
As previously announced, Kristen Stewart will preside over this year’s International Jury and Rebecca Miller’s latest film she came to me, starring Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig, Brian d’Arcy James and Anne Hathaway, will open the festival. The film will be screened as a Berlinale Special Gala in the Berlinale Palast.
Other major premieres in Berlin include the latest film by Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv Gouda cheese, with Helen Mirren, Camille Cottin and Liev Schreiber. The film follows the extremely dramatic and important responsibilities and decisions faced by Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Mirren plays Meir. Jane Hooks and Michael Kuhn are the producers in the picture. Embankment handles the sale.
Steven Spielberg will be the guest star this year as he travels to Berlin to be honored with the festival’s Honorary Golden Bear for Life. He will also present his latest nominated award, The Fables.
Check out the full lineup below:
special show
Superpower, Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufmann
International match
20,000 species of bees, Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
The Shadowless Tower, Zhang Lu
Until the end of the night, Christoph Hochhäusler
Blackberry, Matt Johnson
Discoboy, Giacomo Abbruzzese
The team, Philippe Garrel
Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey through the desert, Margarethe von Trotta
One day we will tell each other everything, Emily Atef
Schwebe, Ivan Sen
Bad life, Joao Canijo
Manodrome, John Trengove
Music, Angela Schanelec
Past Lives, Celine Song
Red Sky, Christian Petzold
On the Adamant, Nicolas Philibert
The persistence of kindness, Rolf de Heer
Suzume, Makoto Shinkai
Totem, Lilia Ayiles
meetings
The Klezmer Project, Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann
The Adults, Dustin Guy Defa
The Echo, Tatiana Huezo
This is Bas Devos
In the blind spot, Ayse Polat
The cage is looking for a bird, Malika Musaeva
My greatest enemy, Mehran Tamadon
White Plastic Sky, Tibor Banoczki, and Sarolta Szabo
In the water, Hong Sangsoo
Family Time, Tia Kouvo
The Walls of Bergamo, Stefano Savona
Orlando, My Political Biography, Paul B. Preciado
Samsara, Lois Patino
Eastern Front, Vitaly Manisky, Yevhen Titarenko
Bad life, Joao Canijo
Absence, Wu Lang
Author: Zac Ntim
Source: Deadline
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