Opening this year with Lone Scherfig’s The Kindness of Strangers, the 69th Berlinale Film Festival (7-17 February) has announced the first competition films which include the latest from regulars François Ozon, Denis Côté and Fatih Akin.
Serbian director Angela Schanelec will present her latest film I Was at Home, but, and Emin Alper will be there with A Tale of Three Sisters, a follow up to his dazzling drama Beyond the Hill
Also competing is The Ground Beneath my Feet from Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer.
In the Berlinale Special Gala Section there is Gully Boy from Zoya Aktar (India), Heinrich Breloer’s drama Brecht which stars Trina Dyrholm and Tom Schilling and Charles Ferguson’s documentary on the Watergate scandal
COMPETITION
Der Boden unter den Füßen (The Ground Beneath My Feet) Austria/World Premiere
by Marie Kreutzer (The Fatherless, We Used to be Cool)
with Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hörbiger, Michelle Barthel, Marc Benjamin, Axel Sichrovsky, Dominic Marcus Singer, Meo Wulf
Der Goldene Handschuh (The Golden Glove) Germany/France/World Premiere
by Fatih Akin (Head On, In the Fade)
with Jonas Dassler, Margarethe Tiesel, Hark Bohm
Grâce à dieu (By the Grace of God) France/International Premiere
by François Ozon (8 Women, In the House)
with Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud, Éric Caravaca, François Marthouret, Bernard Verley, Martine Erhel, Josiane Balasko, Hélène Vincent, François Chattot, Frédéric Pierrot
Ich war zuhause, aber (I Was at Home, but) Germany / Serbia/World Premiere
by Angela Schanelec (The Dreamed Path, Marseille)
with Maren Eggert, Franz Rogowski, Lilith Stangenberg, Jakob Lassalle, Clara Möller
Kız Kardeşler (A Tale of Three Sisters) Turkey / Ger/ Neth/ Greece/World Premiere
by Emin Alper (Beyond the Hill, Frenzy)
with Cemre Ebüzziya, Ece Yüksel, Helin Kandemir, Kayhan Açikgöz, Müfit Kayacan, Kubilay Tunçe
Répertoire des villes disparues (Ghost Town Anthology) Canada/World Premiere
by Denis Côté (A Skin So Soft, Bestiaire)
with Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Larissa Corriveau, Rémi Goulet, Diane Lavallée, Hubert Proulx, Rachel Graton, Normand Carrière, Jocelyne Zucco
Berlinale Special Gala at the Friedrichstadt-Palast
Gully Boy /India/ World Premiere
by Zoya Akhtar (You Won’t Get This Life Again, Lust Stories)
with Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Kalki Koechlin, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Vijay Raaz, Amruta Subhash, Vijay Verma
Berlinale Special at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Brecht /Germany / Austria/World Premiere
by Heinrich Breloer (The Manns – Novel of a Century, Buddenbrooks – The Decline of a Family)
with Burghart Klaußner, Tom Schilling, Adele Neuhauser, Trine Dyrholm, Mala Emde, Franz Hartwig, Friederike Becht, Ernst Stötzner, Lou Strenger
Watergate – Documentary/USA/Euro Premiere
by Charles Ferguson (No End in Sight, Inside Job)
with Douglas Hodge, Jill Wine-Banks, Dan Rather, Lesley Stahl, Richard Ben-Veniste
MORE FILMS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN THE COMING WEEKS