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The Berlinale Films in competition

The Berlinale, will start on Thursday, February 6th and ends on February 16th. The opening film is “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, directed by Wes Anderson and with Ralp Finnes and Adrien Brody.

This year it is the American Producer James Schamus who will preside the 64th Berlin International Film competition.

The program is now online.

The competition program includes 18 World Premieres and three feature debuts.

 

Wu Ren Qu - No Man's Land Copyright CHINA FILM

Wu Ren Qu – No Man’s Land – Berlinale 2014-Copyright CHINA FILM

The films competing for the Berlinale Bears are:

 

Bai Ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice): CHINA

World Premiere

DIRECTOR: Yinan Diao (Night  Train, Uniform)

With Fan Liao, Lun  Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang

 

Boyhood: USA

International Premiere

DIRECTOR:  Richard Linklater (Before Midnight, Me & Orson Welles)

With Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater

 

 Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House): JAPAN

International Premiere

DIRECTOR: Yoji Yamada (Tokyo  Family, About Her  Brother)

With Takako Matsu, Haru Kuroki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chieko Baisho

 

Historia del miedo (History of Fear): FRANCE, ARGENTINA, URUGUAY

DIRECTOR: Benjamin Naishtat – feature debut

With Jonathan Da Rosa, Claudia Cantero, Mirella Pascual, Cesar  Bordon, Tatiana Gimenez

 

 Jack: GERMANY

World  Première

DIRECTOR: Edward  Berger

With Ivo Pietzcker, Georg Arms, Luise Heyer, Vincent Redetzki, Jacob Matschenz, Nele  Mueller-Stöfen

 

 Kraftidioten (In Order of  Disappearance): NORWAY, SWEDEN, DENMARK

World Premiere

DIRECTOR: Hans  Petter Moland (A Somewhat Gentle Man, The Beautiful  Country)

With Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Jakob  Oftebro, Anders Baasmo Christiansen

 

 Kreuzweg  (Stations of the Cross): GERMANY

World Premiere

DIRECTOR: Dietrich Brüggemann (Move; Renn, wenn du kannst)

With Lea van Acken, Franziska Weisz, Florian Stetter

 

La tercera orilla (The Third Side of the River): ARGENTINA, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS

World Premiere

DIRECTOR: Celina Murga (A Week Alone, Ana and the Others, Normal School)

With Alian Devetac, Daniel Veronese, Gaby Ferrero, Irina Wetzel,  Dylan Agostini van del Boch

 

 La voie de  l‘ennemi (Two Men in Town): FRANCE, ALGERIA, USA, BELGIUM

World  premiere

DIRECTOR: Rachid  Bouchareb (London River, Little Senegal)

With  Forest Whitaker, Harvey Keitel, Brenda Blethyn, Luis Guzmán, Dolores Heredia

 

Macondo: AUSTRIA

World Première

DIRECTOR: Sudabeh Mortezai – feature debut

With Ramasan Minkailov, Aslan Elbiev, Kheda  Gazieva

 

Praia do Futuro: BRAZIL, GERMANY

World  Premiere

DIRECTOR: Karim  Aïnouz (Suely in the Sky, Madame Satã)

With Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Jesuita Barbosa

 

 Tui Na (Blind Massage): CHINA, FRANCE

World  Premiere

DIRECTOR: Ye Lou (Mistery, Suzhou River)

With Hao Qin, Xiaodong Guo, Lei Zhang

 

 Wu Ren Qu  (No Man’s Land): CHINA

International  Premiere

DIRECTOR: Hao  Ning (Crazy Stone, Mongolian Ping  Pong)

With Zheng  Xu, Nan Yu, Bo Huang, Bujie Duo

 

 Zwischen Welten  (Inbetween  Worlds): GERMANY

World  Premiere

DIRECTOR: Feo Aladag (When We  Leave)

With Ronald Zehrfeld

 

****International premiere – Out of competition

La belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast): FRANCE, GERMANY

 

DIRECTOR: Christophe Gans (Silent  Hill, Brotherhood of the Wolf)

 

With Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux, André Dussollier

 

You may be interested in our features: Three Days in Berlin , The Hotel Adlon , Julia Jentsch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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