The Berlin Film Festival on Wednesday morning local time started unveiling the competition lineup for its 70th edition, announcing the films that will compete for the coveted Gold and Silver Bears.of artistic director Carlo Chatrian and executive director Mariette Rissenbeek. The duo replaced Dieter Kosslick, the much-loved, if sometimes controversial, festival director who ran Berlin 2001-2019.
The Dutch-born Rissenbeek opened the press conference in German, a language that the Italian Chatrain doesn't speak fluently, though he made a heroic effort with a heavily-accented, and heavily applauded, introduction in German before continuing in English, unveiling the 18 films in this year's competition., the new Pixar animated tentpole from director Dan Scanlon, which will screen out of competition in Berlin.
Of the competition titles, the lineup featured a very Berlin-esque mixture of European arthouse and U.S. indie titles with a smattering of titles from Asia and Latin America., will screen in competition in its world premiere. The drama, from German director Burhan Qurbani stars Guinean actor Welket Bungué and Germany's Jella Hasse. Döblin's book was famously adapted as a TV mini-series in 1980 by the late German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
by Berlin veteran Sally Potter, starring Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Salma Hayek will be one of the few star-studded entries in Berlin competition this year. Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo returns to Berlin with his latest,, a new take on the Greek myth with a modern-day story, starring Paula Beer, Jacob Matschenz and Franz Rogowski.
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Mhhhh...wish they published the whole program as it sucks to plan a trip at such a short notice. Waiting for the date of the High Ground premiere :(
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