The Berlin Film Festival presents the first panorama titles with Sydney Sweeney, Willem Dafoe and Alicia Silverstone

The Berlin Film Festival has announced the first titles selected for the Panorama section at its upcoming in-person edition from February 16-26. (Scroll down for full list)

One of the highlights is Tina Satter’s feature film debut reality With euphoria and The White LotusSydney Sweeney and attention to the arrest of American whistleblower Reality Winner.

Jennifer Reeder is also there Offender, described as subversive Film that throws conventions overboard. With Kiah McKirnan and Alicia Silverstone.

Willem Dafoe appears as an art thief in Vasilis Katsoupis’ Within. And Ira Sachs is back partswith Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulous.

Eleven of the fourteen films selected are world premieres.

Here is the full list announced today

Al Murhaqun (The Burden One)
by Amr Gamal | with Khaled Hamdan, Abeer Mohammed, Samah Alamrani, Awsam Abdulrahman, Shahd Algonfedy
Yemen / Sudan / Saudi Arabia 2023
panoramic view | world premiere
When Isra’a finds out she is expecting another baby during Yemen’s civil war, she and her husband decide she should have an abortion. But this creates enormous problems – in their relationship and elsewhere. A moving story from an all too often forgotten crisis area.

On the cimetière of the cuticle (The Cemetery of Cinema)
by Thierno Souleymane Diallo
France/Senegal/Guinea/Saudi Arabia 2023
Panorama Documentation | world premiere | debut film | documentary form
Thierno Souleymane Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea. Charming and determined, he traces the film heritage and history of his country and shows the importance of film archives.

El Castillo (The castle)
by Martin Benchimol | with Justina Olivo, Alexia Olivo
Argentina vs France 2023
panoramic view | world premiere
Her former boss’s legacy is a poisoned chalice for local housekeeper Justina: a sprawling, dilapidated mansion in the woods. Justina’s daughter Alexia would much rather return to Buenos Aires and work as a car mechanic. A dark fairy tale.

hi thank you

by SodaJerk
Australia 2022
panoramic view | International premiere | debut film
Collecting hundreds of film clips and media images, artist duo Soda Jerk creates a startling narrative of the changes American society has undergone since Trump, while lovingly reflecting on contemporary cultural values.

Within

by Vasilis Katsoupis | with Willem Dafoe
Greece / Germany / Belgium 2023
panoramic view | world premiere
After a criminal heist, the art thief Nemo finds himself in a fancy penthouse in New York. Trapped by the advanced security system and surrounded by nothing but precious works of art, he must fight to survive.

Iron Butterflies

by Roman Lubyi
Ukraine / Germany 2023
Panorama Documentation | European premiere | documentary form
This lesson in political exposure focuses on the downing of Malaysian airliner MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. A meticulous, investigative exposure that exposes the mechanics of Russian warfare.

parts

by Ira Sachs | with Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulous
France 2023
panoramic view | European premiere
On the last day of his shooting in Paris, film director Tomas sleeps with a woman and proudly tells his husband. A passionate, jealous and narcissistic relationship develops between Tomas, Agathe and Martin.

Offender

by Jennifer Reeder With Kiah McKirnan, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Lowell, Melanie Liburd, Ireon Roach
United States 2023
panoramic view | world premiere
At the age of 18, tough Jonny eats a cake made by her aunt using a magical family recipe and undergoes a radical transformation. When several classmates go missing, a bloody coming-of-age story unfolds.

reality

by Tina Satter | With Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchant Davis
United States 2023
panoramic view | world premiere | debut film
Presenting a snapshot of recent American history, director Tina Satter uses unedited original dialogue from an FBI interview to stage the search for the home of whistleblower Reality Winner from 2017 as a thrilling chamber piece.

Silver Haze

by Sacha Polak | With Vicky Knight, Esme Creed-Miles, Charlotte Knight, Archie Bridgen, Angela Bruce
Netherlands / United Kingdom 2023
panoramic view | world premiere
Franky comes from a rough area of ​​East London and works as a nurse. When she falls head over heels in love with her patient Florence, her life changes dramatically. A film that deals with the past, social backgrounds and the need to belong somewhere.

The siren (The Siren)
by Sepide Farsi
France / Germany / Luxembourg / Belgium 2023
panoramic view | world premiere | animation
Iran, 1980. After an Iraqi missile attack, the oil metropolis of Abadan descends into chaos. 14-year-old Omid, who works as a food delivery boy, is looking for his missing brother – and for an escape route from the besieged city.

tribe

by Bernhard Braunstein | with Sophia Waldauf, Martina Ambrosi, Eva-Maria Kofler, Pascal Mair, Kevin Kirchebner
Austria 2023
Panorama Documentation | world premiere | documentary form
The ski school in Stams in the Tyrolean Alps is a training ground for the best. The goal: the Olympics. For a year as a student, Bernhard Braunstein watches the young ski elite very focused during their carefully timed daily training.

still life (The silent migration)
by Malene Choi | with Cornelius Won Riedel-Clausen, Bjarne Henriksen, Bodil Jørgensen, Clara Thi Thanh Heilmann Jensen, Dawid Ściupidro
Denmark 2023
panoramic view | world premiere
One day, Carl is supposed to take over his parents’ farm business in a rural outback in Denmark. But as an adopted child, he also longs to learn more about his South Korean origins. A film about being different and finding your own place in life.

Transfarian

by Joris Lachaise
France/Colombia 2023
Panorama Documentation | world premiere | documentary form
An unexpected love story between a transgender ex-sex worker and a FARC rebel begins in a Colombian prison, igniting a bond of solidarity between trans activists and FARC fighters who have laid down their arms.