Artistic director Tricia Tuttle’s second Berlinale lineup features a cavalcade of world and international premieres — including several films arriving fresh from their premieres at Sundance. The festival runs February 12-22.
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22 films are set to play in the main Competition section, including new films from Kornel Mundruczo, Ilker Catak, Emin Alper, Angela Schanelec, Karim Ainouz, Warwick Thornton, Anthony Chen and Hanna Bergholm.
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Nine of the competition films are directed or co-directed by women, up from eight last year and six two years ago.
There are 13 titles in Perspectives, 11 of which are world premieres including two UK titles; Ashley Walters’ directorial debut Animol, and Dara Van Dusen’s A Prayer For The Dying, starring Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly.
Screen International profiles the titles set to launch in Competition, Perspectives, Special and Panorama, and picks out highlights from the Generation, Forum and Panorama Documentary strands.
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Competition
- At The Sea (Kornel Mundruczo)
- Dao (Alain Gomis)
- Dust (Anke Blondé)
- Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Grant Gee)
- Flies (Fernando Eimbcke)
- Home Stories (Eva Trobisch)
- In A Whisper (Leyla Bouzid)
- Josephine (Beth de Araujo)
- The Loneliest Man In Town (Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel)
- My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec)
- A New Dawn (Yoshitoshi Shinomiya)
- Nightborn (Hanna Bergholm)
- Nina Roza (Genevieve Dulude-de Celles)
- Queen At Sea (Lance Hammer)
- Rose (Markus Schleinzer)
- Rosebush Pruning (Karim Aïnouz)
- Salvation (Emin Alper)
- Soumsoum, The Night Of The Stars (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
- We Are All Strangers (Anthony Chen)
- Wolfram (Warwick Thornton)
- Yellow Letters (Ilker Catak)
- YO Love Is A Rebellious Bird (Anna Fitch, Banker White)
Perspectives
- 17 (Kosara Mitic)
- Animol (Ashley Walters)
- Chronicles From The Siege (Abdallah Alkhatib)
- Filipiñana (Rafael Manuel)
- Forest High (Manon Coubia)
- Light Pillar (Xu Zao)
- Our Secret (Grace Passo)
- A Prayer For The Dying (Dara Van Dusen)
- The Red Hangar (Juan Pablo Sallato)
- The River Train (Lorenzo Ferro, Lucas A Vignale)
- Take Me Home (Liz Sargent)
- Trial Of Hein (Kai Stänicke)
- Truly Naked (Muriel d’Ansembourg)
- Where To? (Assaf Machnes)
Special Presentation
- A Child Of My Own (Maite Alberdi)
- Tutu (Sam Pollard)
- Wax & Gold (Ruth Beckermann)
- Who Killed Alex Odeh? (Jason Osder, William Lafi Youmans)
Special Galas
- The Blood Countess (Ulrike Ottinger)
- Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (Gore Verbinski)
- Heysel 85 (Teodora Ana Mihai)
- No Good Men (Shahrbanoo Sadat)
- The Only Living Pickpocket In New York (Noah Segan)
- The Testament Of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold)
- The Weight (Padraic McKinley)
Special Midnight
- The Ballad Of Judas Priest (Sam Dunn, Tom Morello)
- Saccharine (Natalie Erika James)
- Sleep No More (Edwin)
Panorama
- Allegro Pastell (Anna Roller)
- Arru (Elle Sofe Sara)
- The Day She Returns (Hong Sangsoo)
- The Education Of Jane Cumming (Sophie Heldman)
- Enjoy Your Stay (Dominik Locher, Honeylyn Joy Alipio)
- Four Minus Three (Adrian Goiginger)
- The Garden We Dreamed (Joaquin del Paso)
- I Understand Your Displeasure (Kilian Armando Friedrich)
- If I Were Alive (Andre Novais Oliveira)
- Isabel (Gabe Klinger)
- Iván & Hadoum (Ian de la Rosa)
- Lady (Olive Nwosu)
- Lali (Sarmad Sultan Khoosat)
- London (Sebastian Brameshuber)
- The Moment (Aidan Zamiri)
- Mouse (Kelly O’Sullivan, Alex Thompson)
- Narciso (Marcelo Martinessi)
- Numb (Takuya Uchiyama)
- Only Rebels Win (Danielle Arbid)
- Paradise (Jérémy Comte)
- Prosecution (Faraz Shariat)
- Raging (Ryan Machado)
- Roya (Mahnaz Mohammadi)
- Safe Exit (Mohammed Hammad)
- Shanghai Daughter (Agnis Shen Zhongmin)
Panorama Documentary Highlights
Generation Highlights
Forum Highlights
Profiles by Ellie Calnan, Ben Dalton, Tim Dams, Elaine Guerini, Jeremy Kay, Rebecca Leffler, Michael Rosser, Matt Schley, Mona Tabbara, Silvia Wong
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