This year the Berlin Film Festival selected among its 18 applicants for the official section to “20,000 species of bees”, from Solaguren, and to “Tótem” from Avilés.
“Independent cinema would disappear if it weren’t for the festivals,” said the director of the Berlinale, after noting that three of the films in competition are by new directors, while the rest are mostly outside the blockbuster circuit.”, explained Carlo Chatrian artistic director of the Berlinale.
Among the other Bear contenders is “Music”, from the German Angela Schanelec.
Also the German film Margaret von Trotta will fight for the Golden Bears with will compete with “ingeborg bachman”; Likewise Christian Petzold with “Roter Himmel”.
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For his part, the Canadian matt johnsonan exponent of independent cinema, is going to premiere “blackberry”, which is about the rise and fall of these smartphones.
The general director of the Berlinale film festival, Mariette Rissenbeek (i), and the artistic director of the Berlinale film festival, Carlo Chatrian (r).
The British filmmanodrome“, directed by john trengove will bring to the Berlinale the presence of Adrien Brody and Jesse Eisenberg.
It also stands out in the list of selected films “Sur l’Adamant”of Nicolas Philiberty “the grand chariot” by Philippe Garrel.
This year, the American actress Kristen Stewart chairs the jury.
The Berlinale will start next February 16 with the romantic comedy, “She came to me“, of Rebecca Miller starring Anne Hathaway.
A few weeks ago it was announced that the American director Steven Spielberg will receive the Golden Bear of Honor for his film career.
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Today it was also announced that films from Spain, Argentina and Mexico will compete in the section Meetings of the Berlinale.
Being so that “samsara“, from Spanish Lois Patinothe documentary “Orlando, my political biographiee” debut of the Spanish philosopher Paul B. Preciado, “Inside me I’m dancing“, of Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann.
The documentary “the echo“, of Tatiana Huezoare among those who will fight in this section.
“The 16 films in the program come together to form a larger story that captures the present, bears witness to the past and imagines the future, each in its own way. The political dimension is this year a little more prominent than usualChatrian explained.
List of films aspiring to the Bear of the 73rd edition of the Berlinale
These titles of the 18 films selected for the official section of the Berlinale:.
official competition:
– “20,000 species of bees”by Estíbaliz Urresola Solaguren (Spain)
-“Bai ta Zhi Guang” -”The shadowless Tower”by Zhang Lu (China)
– “Bis ans Ende der Nacht” – “Till the End of the night”by Christopher Hochhäusler (Germany)
– “Blackberry”by Matt Johnson (Canada)
– “Disco Boy”by Giacomo Abbruzzese (France, Italy, Poland, Belgium)
– “The great chariot”by Philippe Garrel (France, Switzerland)
– “Ingeborg Bachman”by Margarethe von Trotta (Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Luxemburg)
– “Irgendwann werden wir uns alles erzählen” (“Someday we’ll tell each other Everithing”) by Emily Atef (Germany)
– “Limbo”by Ivan Sen (Australia
– “Mal viver” -”Bad Living”-by Joao Canijo (Portugal, France)
– “Manodrome”by John Trengove (UK)
– “Music”by Angela Schanelec (Germany, France, Serbia)
– “Past Lives”, by Celine Song (United States)
– “Roter Himmel”by Christian Petzold (Germany)
– “Sur l’Adamant”by Nicholas Philibert (France, Japan)
– “The survival of Kindness”by Rolf de Heer (Australia)
– “Suzume”by Makoto Shinkai (Japan)
Representatives of Spanish or Latin American cinema in the Encounters section:
– “Inside me I am dancing”by Leandro Koch (Argentina, Austria)
– “The Echo”by Tatiana Huezo (Mexico, Germany)
– “Orlando, my political biographie”by Paul B. Preciado (France)
– “Samsara”, by Lois Patiño (Spain).
With information from the EFE Agency.
