Post will be In Progress first, until January 29, 2019 when the entire public program will be publish online a few minutes after the press conference is over; and second, until festival uploads all movie info, trailers, etc to the official site, which usually happens about a week after the press conference. For the record the festival runs from February 7 to 17, 2019.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. The best news from today, January 10, is learning Dieter Kosslick is still mentioned as Festival Director in an official press release! Yes, seems this will be his last festival as his contract expires May 31, 2019, so we have one last edition to enjoy a great personality with exactly my kind of humor, darkish. Next year seems will be the turn to Italian-born Carlo Chatrian, who has been the artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival since 2013. I'm going to miss Kosslick and hope Chatrian improves his image as didn't precisely enjoyed him with whatever he was doing in Locarno.
Post will be updated constantly as soon as there is new information available.
Competition
Opening Film: The Kindness of Strangers, Lone Scherfig, Denmark, Canada, Sweden, Germany and Fance
Beginning of Festival: Grâce à Dieu (By the Grace of God), François Ozon, France
Der Boden unter den Füßen (The Ground beneath My Feet), Marie Kreutzer, Austria
Der Goldene Handschuh (The Golden Glove), Fatih Akin, Germany and France
Di jiu tian chang (So Long, My Song), Wang Xiaoshuai, China
Elisa y Marcela (Elisa & Marcela), Isabel Coixet, Spain
Gospod postoi, imeto i' e Petrunija (God Exists, Her Name is Petrunija), Teona Stugar Mitevska, Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia and France
Ich war zuhause, aber (I Was at Home, but), Angela Schanelec, Germany and Serbia
Kız Kardeşler (A Tale of Three Sisters), Emin Alper, Turkey, Germany, Netherlands and Greece
La Paranza dei bambini (Piranhas), Claudio Giovannesi, Italy
Marighella, Wagner Moura, Brazil
Mr. Jones, Agnieszka Holland, Poland, UK and Ukraine
Öndög, Wang Quan'an, Mongolia
Répertoire des villes disparues (Ghost Town Anthology), Denis Côté, Canada
Systemsprenger (System Crasher), Nora Fingscheidt, Germany
The Operative, Yuval Adler, Germany, Israel, France and USA
Ut og stjæle hester (Out Stealing Horses), Hans Petter Moland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark
Varda par Agnès (Varda by Agnès), Agnès Varda, France (documentary)
International Jury
President: Juliette Binoche, actress, France
Berlinale Special
Berlinale Special at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Anthropocene: the Human Epoch, Jennifer Baichwal, Canada (documentary)
Brecht, Heinrich Breloer, Germany and Austria
El Norte (The North), Gregory Nava, USA, 1984 - restored in 2017
Es hätte schlimmer kommen können - Mario Adorf (It Could Have Been Worse - Mario Adorf), Dominik Wesserly, Germany (documentary)
Watergate, Charles Ferguson, USA (documentary)
Berlinale Special Gala at the Friedrichstadt-Palast
Gully Boy, Zoya Akhtar, India
Lampenfieber (Kids in the Spotlight), Alice Agneskirchner, Germany (documentary)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Chiwetel Ejiofor, UK (first feature film)
Berlinale Special Gala at the Zoo Palast
Celle que vous croyez (Who You Think I Am), Safy Nebbou, France
Panorama
37 Seconds, Hikari, Japan (debut film)
A Dog Called Money, Seamus Murphy, Ireland and UK
Dafne, Federico Bondi, Italy
Estou Me Guardando Para Quando Carnaval Chegar (Waiting for the Carnival), Marcelo Gomes, Brazil (documentary)
Eynayim Sheli (Chained), Yaron Shani, Israel and Germany
Flatland, Jenna Bass, South Africa, Germany and Luxembourg
Greta, Armando Praça, Brazil (debut film)
Hellhole, Bas Devos, Belgium and Netherlands
Jessica Forever, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, France
Kislota (Acid), Alexander Gorchilin, Russia (debut film)
Los Miembros de la Familia (Family Members), Mateo Bendesky, Argentina
Mid90s, Jonah Hill, USA (debut film)
Monos, Alejandro Landes, Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Uruguay and USA
O Beautiful Night, Xaver Böhm, Germany (debut film)
Selfie, Agostino Ferrente, France and Italy (documentary)
Shooting the Mafia, Kim Longinotto, Ireland and USA
Skin, Guy Nattiv, USA
Temblores (Tremors), Jayro Bustamante, Guatemala, France and Luxembourg
The Day After I'm Gone, Nimrod Eldar, Israel (debut film)
The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg, UK
To thávma tis thálassas ton Sargassón (The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea), Syllas Tzoumerkas, Netherlands and Sweden
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael, Rob Garver, USA (documentary) (debut film)
Panorama 40
2019 markes the 40th edition of the Panorama section, on the occasion a special program from its 40-year history
To check the feature and short films go here, where there is a great article to read
Forum
Generation
Generation Kplus
Feature Films
Short Films
Generation Kplus International Jury
Generation 14plus
Feature Films
Short Films
Generation 14plus International Jury
Perspektive Deutsches Kino
First Feature Award Jury
Documentary Award Jury
Berlinale Shorts
Berlinale Shorts Jury
Jeffrey Bowers, Senior Curator at Vimeo, USA
Vanja Kaludjercic, MUBI Director fo Acquisitions, Croatia
Koyo Kouoh, artistic director, Senegal
NATIVe
13th Culinary Cinema
Retrospective
Berlinale Classics
A total of six Berlinale Classics will be screening as part of the Retrospective at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. Check line up here.
Retrospective 2019
The Retrospective of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival takes as its subject women filmmakers between 1968 and 1999. The programme encompasses 26 narrative and documentary features from the former East and West Germany, as well as German films after re-unification in 1990. In addition, the Retrospective will show some 20 shorter films on their own, or as lead-ins to the features. To check more info plus films to be screened go here.
Berlinale Goes Kiez
Books At Berlinale
17th Berlinale Talent Campus
From February 9 to 14, 2019, 250 up-and-coming film professionals from 77 countries will gather at Berlinale Talents to share ideas, network, and further develop their latest projects. This year’s group of 141 women and 109 men is socially, culturally, and artistically extremely diverse. Check lots of info at official site here.
European Film Market & Co-Production Market
From February 9 to 13, 2019, the 16th edition of Berlinale Co-Production Market invites 600 international producers and financiers to come together to explore new partnerships. This time out, 37 new feature film projects whose producers are looking to team up with co-production partners from other countries have been chosen to participate. In addition, five exceptional production companies will be presented in the scope of the Berlinale Co-Production Market’s “Company Matching” program.
Homage
The 69th Berlin International Film Festival will award the Honorary Golden Bear to British film and stage actress Charlotte Rampling for her lifetime achievement, as well as dedicating the Homage to a selection of her films. To check info and the Homage films go here.
The Berlinale Camera
5th Berlin Critics' Week