Art
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 – 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
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