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Today will start the always VERY LONG annual post with (almost) ALL movies in the current edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, better-known as Berlinale.
This is the third year festival organizers release info drop-by-drop, so there are several sections that have completed their selection and most interesting, they released a date when the full program will be "released", afternoon of Tuesday February 6th. So that becomes the date when this post will have the before-last update.
As every year, post will be in-progress until fest uploads films to their official site, so if you wish check as will have constant updates with whatever new info becomes available. It's only when films are in official site when this post becomes final.
Lately, there is not much talk about the almost coup-d'etat that happened a few months ago, when a group of 79 German directors called for an overhaul of the festival after Dieter Kosslicks departs as he will step down when his contract ends in May 2019. There are many interesting things directors talk about, but what I absolutely do not agree is in saying that Berlinale is inferior to Cannes and Venice; perhaps is a tad below Cannes but is surely above Venice. I'm Koslick's fan, love his personality and recognize his great work to make -and keep- Berlinale one of the three major film festivals in the world as we can't ignore what he has done to young filmmakers and many more achievements. When -and if- he goes I'll miss him perhaps even more than what I could miss Thierry Fremaux and surely what I missed Marco Mueller. Sigh.
Talking about departure, most surprising was Wieland Speck departure from Panorama section where he was the head; now will take new responsibilities as Consultant of the Official Program (???!!!). The new Panorama team is headed by Paz Lazaro who will work together with Michael Stutz and Andreas Struck. If you do not know who Speck is then you probably have to learn about how the Teddy Award became to be what is today, the most prestigious festival award for LGTB films. Sigh.
CompetitionOpening Film:
Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson, Germany and USA (animation)
3 Tage in Quiberon (3 Days in Quiberon), Emily Atef, Germany, Austria and France
Damsel, David Zellner and Nathan Zellner, USA
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, Gus Van Sant, USA
Dvlatov, Alexey German Jr., Russia, Poland Serbia
Eva, Benoit Jacquot, France and Belgium
Figlia mia (Daughter of Mine), Laura Bispuri, Italy, Germany and Switzerland
In den Gängen (In the Aisles), Thomas Stuber, Germany
Khook (Pig), Mani Haghighi, Iran
La prière (The Prayer), Cédric Kahn, France
(*) Las Herederas (The Heiresses), Marcelo Martinessi, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Germany, Norway and France
Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot, Philip Gröning, Germany, France and Switzerland
Museo (Museum), Alonso Ruizplalacios, Mexico
Toppen av ingenting (The Real Estate), Måns Månsson and Axel Petersén, Sweden and UK
(*) Touch Me Not, Adina Pintille, Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria and France
Transit, Christian Petzold, Germany and France
Twarz (mug), Malgorzata Szumowska, Poland
Out of Competition7 Days in Entebbe, Jose Padilha, USA and UK
Ága, Milko Lazarov, Bulgaria, Germany and France
Ang Panahon ng Halimaw (Season of the Devil), Lav Diaz, Philippines
Black 47, Lance Daly, Ireland and Luxembourg
Eldorado, Markus Imhoof, Switzerland and Germany (documentary)
Unsane, Steven Soderbergh, USA
International JuryPresident: Tom Tykwer, director, screenwriter, film composer, and producer Germany
Berlinale SpecialBerlinale Special Gala
AMERICA Land of FreeKS, Ulli Lommel, Germany (documentary)
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer (The Silent Revolution), Lars Kraume, Germany
Gurrumul, Paul Williams, Australia (documentary)
Monster Hunt 2, Raman Hui, China and Hong Kong
Ryuichi Sakamoto: async At The Park Avenue Armonry, Stephen Nomura Schible, USA and Japan
The Bookshop, Isabel Coixet, Spain, UK and Germany
(*) The Happy Prince, Ruppert Everett, Germany, Belgium and Italy
The Interpreter, Martin Sulik, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic and Austria
Viaje a los Pueblos Fumigados, Fernando Solanas, Argentina (documentary)
Unga Astrid (Becoming Astrid), Pernille Fischer Christensen, Sweden, Germany and Denmark
Usedom - Der freie Blick aufs Meer, Heiz Brinkmann, Germany (documentary)
Berlinale SeriesOpening Series:
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Larysa Kondracki, Australia; Broadcaster: Foxtel
Bad Banks, Christian Schwochow, Germany and Luxemburg; Broadcaster: ZDF and Arte
Heimebane (Home Ground), Arild Andresen, Norway; Broadcaster: NRK
Liberty, Mikael Marcimain, Denmark; Broadcaster: DR
The Looming Tower, Alex Gibney, USA; Broadcaster: Amazon and Hulu
Sleeping Bears, Keren Margalit, Israel; Broadcaster: Keshet
The Terror, Edward Berger, USA; Broadcaster: AMC, Amazon
PanoramaThe first program curated by new section head Paz Lazaro, which seems has a "strong showing from Latin America" perhaps because this headline: Disobedience - "Body Politics", Resistance to Machismo. Unfortunately after checking the final program it's clear that has a strong Brazilian presence and that's all. The program for the 2018 edition has been finalized and features a total of 47 films from 40 countries with 37 world premieres and 16 directorial debuts. 20 films will be screened in the scope of Panorama Dokumente, while 27 fiction features are shown in Panorama Special as well as the main program.
Can't separate feature films into Main Program and Panorama Special, so until it's possible to id the section of each film, all feature films are in Main program and ALL documentaries in Panorama Dokumente.
Main ProgramGarbage, Q, India
Genezis (Genesis), Arpad Bogdan, Hungary
Hojoom (Invasion), Shahram Mokri, Iran
Horizonti (Horizon), Tinatin Kajrishvill, Georgia and Sweden
Inkan, gongkan, sikan grigo inkan (Human, Space, Time and Human), Kim ki-duk, Korea
Jibril, Henrika Kull, Germany
Koly padayut dereva (When the Trees Fall), Marysia Mikitiuk, Ukraine, Poland and Macedonia
L'Animale, Katharina Muckstein, Austria
La Enfermedad del Domingo (Sunday's Illness), Ramon Salazar, Spain
La Omision (The Omission), Sebastian Schjaer, Argentina, Netherlands and Switzerland
La terra dell'abbastanza (Boys Cry), Damiano D'Innocenzo and Fabio D'Innocenzo, Italy
Lemonade, Ioana Uricaru, Romania, Canada, Germany and Sweden
Malambo, El Hombre Bueno (Malambo, The Good Man), Santiago Loza, Argentina
Marilyn, Martin Rodriguez Redondo, Argentina and Chile
Mes provinciales (A Paris Education), Jean Paul Civeyrac, France
Ondes de choc - Journal de ma tete (Shock Waves-Diary of My Mind), Ursula Meier, Switzerland
Ondes de choc - Prenom: Mathieu (Shock Waves-First Name: Mathieu), Lionel Baier, Switzerland
Profile, Timur Bekmambetov, USA, UK and Cyprus
River's Edge, Isao Yukisada, Japan
Rou qing shi (Girls Always Happy), Yang Mingming, China
Tinta Bruta (Hard Paint), Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher, Brazil
Trinta Lumes (Thirty Souls), Diana Toucedo, Spain
Xiao Mei, Maren Hwang, Taiwan
Yardle, Idris Elba, UK
Yocho (Foreboding), Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan
Panorama SpecialOpening Film: Styx, Wolfang Fischer, Germany and Austria
Panorama Dokumente (documentaries)
Opening Film:
Až přijde válka (When the War Comes), Jan Gebert, Czech Republic and Croatia
Al Gami'ya (What Comes Around), Reem Saleh, Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, Qatar and Slovenia
Bixa Travesty (Tranny Fag), Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman, Brazil
Ex Paje (Ex Shaman), Luiz Bolognesi, Brazil
Famillenleben (Family Life), Rosa Hannah Ziegler, Germany
Game Girls, Alina Skrzeszewska, France and Germany
Generation Wealth, Lauren Greenfield, USA
Hotel Jugoslavija, Nicolas Wagnieres, Swtizerland
Je vois rouge (I See Red People), Bojina Panyotova, France and Bulgaria
Kinshasa Makambo, Dieudo Hamadi, Congo, France, Switzerland, Germany, Qatar and Norway
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., Steve Loveridge, USA, UK, and Sri Lanka
O processo (The Trial), Maria Ramos, Brazil, Germany and Netherlands
Obscuro Barroco, Evangelia Kranioti, France and Greece
Partisan, Lutz Pehnert, Matthias Ehlert and Adama Ulrich, Germany
Shakedonw, Leilah Weinraub, USA
Shut Up and Play the Piano, Philipp Jedicke, Germany, France and UK
That Summer, Goran Hugo Olsson, Sweden, Denmark and USA
The Silence of Others, Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, USA and Spain
The Silk and the Flame, Jordan Schiele, USA
Zentralflughafen THF (Central Airport THF), Karim Ainouz, Germany, Brazil and France
Forum
Generation
Generation Kplus
Generation 14plus
Perspektive Deutsches Kino
(*) First Feature
Berlinale Shorts22 films from 18 countries will be competing for the Golden and Silver Bear, as well as the Audi Short Film Award and a nomination for the European Film Awards. The short films in this year's international competition look reality in the eye and actively contribute to the current socio-political discourse. Different strategies of empowerment are brought to bear. Self-determinedly, the filmmakers capture small moments, local stories and topics, and connect them to events of great impact. Whether the films are animated, documentary or fiction – experimentation is the order of the day. The performative element is part of the strategy. Gender relations and power structures are still far from being equal or balanced, but they are the subject of these works.
Films screening in
Berlinale Shorts 2018After/Life, Puck Lo, USA, 15'
Alma Bandida, Marco Antônio Pereira, Brazil, 15’
And What Is the Summer Saying, Payal Kapadia, India, 23’
Babylon, Keith Deligero, Philippines, 20
Blau, David Jansen, Germany, 15’
Burkina Brandenburg Komplex, Ulu Braun, Germany, 19’
Circle, Jayisha Patel, UK, India and Canada, 14’
City of Tales, Arash Nassiri, France, 21’
Coyote, Lorenz Wunderle, Switzerland, 10’
Imfura, Samuel Ishimwe, Switzerland and Rwanda, 36’
Imperial Valley (Cultivated Run-Off), Lukas Marxt, Germany and Austria, 14’
Des jeunes filles disparaissent, Clément Pinteaux, France, 16
Madness, João Viana, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Qatar, Portugal and France, 13‘
The Men Behind the Wall, Ines Moldavsky, Israel, 28’
Onde o Verão Vai (episódios da juventude), David Pinheiro Vicente, Portugal, 20’
Russa, João Salaviza & Ricardo Alves Jr., Portugal and Brazil, 20’
Solar Walk, Réka Bucsi, Denmark, 21’
Terremoto Santo, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, Brazil, 20’
Le Tigre de Tasmanie, Vergine Keaton, France, 14’
T.R.A.P, Manque La Banca, Argentina, 16’
While I Yet Live, Maris Curran, USA, 15’
Wishing Well, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany, 13‘
Out of CompetitionBesida, Chuko Esiri, Nigeria, 12’
The Shadow of Utopia, Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Austria, 23’
50 years since 1968: The Berlinale Shorts special program “
1968 – Red Flags for Everyone” will present aesthetic strategies that are still relevant to this day. “Without raising the question of social unrest, it would be impossible to examine 1968 – the subjective gaze in its aesthetic diversity is the kaleidoscope that makes the conditions then accessible today. By radically reducing everything to the material itself, the artists free film from any sort of narrative and allow a new reality to become apparent,” states Berlinale Shorts curator Maike Mia Höhne.
Berlinale Shorts Special Program - 1968-Red Flags for EveryoneAlaska, Dore O., Federal Republic of Germany, 18‘, 1968
Antigone, Ula Stöckl, Federal Republic of Germany, 9‘, 1964
Farbtest Rote Fahne, Gerd Conradt, Federal Republic of Germany, 12‘, 1968
Fundevogel, Claudia von Alemann, Federal Republic of Germany, 22‘, 1967
I Ruhrområdet, Peter Nestler, Sweden, 34‘, 1967
Ja/Nein, Ernst Schmidt jr., Austria, 3‘, 1968
Kunst & Revolution, Ernst Schmidt jr., Austria, 2‘, 1968
My Name is Oona, Gunvor Nelson, USA, 10‘, 1969
Na und…?, Marquard Bohm and Helmut Herbst, Federal Republic of Germany, 33‘, 1966
Programmhinweise, Christiane Gehner, Federal Republic of Germany, 10‘, 1970
Rohfilm, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein, Federal Republic of Germany, 20‘, 1968
Tapp und Tastkino, VALIE EXPORT, Austria, 2‘, 1968
Berlinale Shorts JuryDiogo Costa Amarante, filmmaker, Portugal
Jyoti Mistry, filmmaker and academic, South Africa
Mark Toscano, filmmaker and curator, USA
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NATIVeThis year, the Berlinale special presentation
NATIVe − A Journey into Indigenous Cinema will pass review and at the same time turn its glance towards the future.
12th Culinary CinemaThe 12th
Culinary Cinema will be held under the motto “
Life Is Delicate” from February 18 to 23, 2018. Nine documentaries and a fictional film focusing on the relationship between food, culture, and politics are being presented this year.
Books At BerlinaleTwelve International Novels with screen potential. Producers can once again discover twelve new, unusual literary works that could be turned into films. The selected books will be showcased at the popular presentation, which has been a part of the
Berlinale Co-Production Market since 2006, in cooperation with the Frankfurt Book Fair.
16th Berlinale Talent Campus250 filmmakers from 81 countries in Berlin, including 128 women and 122 men. 40 film projects.
European Film Market & Co-Production Market36 new feature film projects that are looking for co-producers from 28 countries.
Honorary Golden Bear and Homage
The Berlinale Camera
A few minutes ago Olivia Munn and Niecy Nash revealed the nominees from the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. The nominations for the 2018 edition of these awards are given to performances in films released in 2017. Two nominating panels -one for television and one for film- each composed of 2,500 randomly selected union members from across the United States, chose this year's nominees.
