BERLIN, Feb 3, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – The 69th Berlinale, Europe’s first major
film festival of the year, opens Thursday with 23 new movies from around the
world screening in the main showcase.
Seventeen pictures will vie for the Golden and Silver Bear prizes at the
11-day event, with a jury led by French Oscar winner Juliette Binoche.
Twenty of the 23 features in the main showcase are world premieres and two
are directors’ feature debuts. Seven of the movies in competition are by
women.
The Berlinale Special section features other notable films that will have
gala screenings.
Here are the their titles, directors and production countries.
– Main showcase –
“L’adieu … la nuit” (Farewell to the Night), Andre Techine and starring
Catherine Deneuve (France/Germany) (out of competition)
“Amazing Grace”, Alan Elliott, US (documentary about an iconic 1972
concert by Aretha Franklin, out of competition)
“Der Boden unter den Fuessen” (The Ground beneath My Feet), Marie Kreutzer,
Austria
“Di jiu tian chang” (So Long, My Son), Wang Xiaoshuai, China
“Elisa y Marcela” (Elisa and Marcela), Isabel Coixet, Spain
“Der Goldene Handschuh” (The Golden Glove), Fatih Akin, Germany/France
“Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija” (God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya),
Teona Strugar Mitevska, Macedonia/Belgium/Slovenia/Croatia/ France
“Grace a Dieu” (By the Grace of God), Francois Ozon, France
“Ich war zuhause, aber” (I Was at Home, But), Angela Schanelec,
Germany/Serbia
“The Kindness of Strangers”, Lone Scherfig and starring Zoe Kazan, Tahar
Rahim, Andrea Riseborough and Bill Nighy,
Denmark/Canada/Sweden/Germany/France (opening film) “Kiz Kardesler” (A Tale
of Three Sisters), Emin Alper, Turkey/Germany/Netherlands/Greece
“Marighella”, Wagner Moura, Brazil (out of competition)
“Mr Jones”, Agnieszka Holland and starring James Norton and Peter
Sarsgaard, Poland/Britain/Ukraine
“Ondog”, Wang Quan’an, Mongolia
“The Operative”, Yuval Adler and starring Diane Kruger and Martin Freeman,
Germany/Israel/France/US (out of competition)
“La paranza dei bambini” (Piranhas), Claudio Giovannesi, Italy
“Repertoire des villes disparues” (Ghost Town Anthology), Denis Cote,
Canada
“Synonymes” (Synonyms), Nadav Lapid, France/Israel/Germany
“Systemsprenger” (System Crasher), Nora Fingscheidt, Germany
“Ut og staeler hester (Out Stealing Horses), Hans Petter Moland and
starring Stellan Skarsgard, Norway/Sweden/Denmark
“Varda par Agnes” (Varda by Agnes), Agnes Varda, France (documentary, out
of competition)
“Vice”, Adam McKay and starring Christian Bale and Amy Adams, US (out of
competition)
“Yi miao zhong” (One Second), Zhang Yimou and starring Zhang Yi and Fan
Wei, China
– Berlinale Special –
“ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch”, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier
and Edward Burtynsky, Canada (documentary)
“The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind,” Chiwetel Ejiofor, Britain
“Brecht”, Heinrich Breloer, Germany/Austria
“Celle que vous croyez” (Who You Think I Am), Safy Nebbou and starring
Juliette Binoche, France
“El Norte” (The North), Gregory Nava, US
Es haette schlimmer kommen koennen – Mario Adorf” (It Could Have Been
Worse – Mario Adorf), Dominik Wessely, Germany (documentary)
“Gully Boy”, Zoya Akhtar and starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt, India
“Lampenfieber” (Kids in the Spotlight), Alice Agneskirchner, Germany
(documentary)
“Peter Lindbergh – Women Stories”, Jean Michel Vecchiet, Germany
(documentary)
“Photograph”, Ritesh Batra, India/Germany/US
“Watergate – Or: How We Learned to Stop an Out of Control President” by
Charles Ferguson, US (documentary)
“Weil du nur einmal lebst – Die Toten Hosen auf Tour” (You Only Live Once
– Die Toten Hosen on Tour), Cordula Kablitz-Post, Germany (documentary)