The Berlin International Film Festival announced its 2023 competition line-up on Tuesday morning, listing 18 films vying for the coveted Gold and Silver Bears at the 73rd Berlinale.
The Berlinale Executive Director Mariette Lissenbeek and Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian unveiled on Monday a highly international and arthouse-heavy line-up, with an emphasis on politically charged films.
German author Christian Petzold is entering the Berlin competition for the sixth time. Aphia (Lothar Himmel).
Petzold’s last feature, Undinewon the FIPRESCI Critics Award in Berlin 2020 and the Silver Bear for best director in 2012 BarbaraHis latest team is Petzold and his Undine When transit Paula Bia plays the leading role in an intimate drama about four young people vacationing together in a Baltic villa. But all around them, a wildfire is raging and it’s getting closer as emotions in the house threaten to explode as well. Enno Trebs, Thomas Schubert, Jonas Dassler and Langston Uibel co-star.
Pioneering German director Margaret von Trotta (Hannah Arendt, Rosen Street) brings another extraordinary female portrait to this year’s festival. Ingeborg Bachmann – Reise in die Wüsteto see her relationship with the famous Austrian poet (played by Vicky Kriebs) homo farber Writer Max Frisch (Ronald Zellfeld) premieres in competition in Berlin.
Another veteran German director, Christoph Hochhausler, presents his latest film noir. until the end of the night, to the Berlin Games. Another established filmmaker, French director Philippe Garrel (Liberté, la nuit), premiering his new family-focused feature plow at the Berlin Games.
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US director John Trengave makes his debut in the Berlin competition. manodrome Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Adrien Brody.The biographical comedy of Matt Johnson blackberriesa Canadian smartphone company, in the drama disco boy Directed by Giacomo Abubulzese, by Angela Chaneliek musicand Ivan Sen’s Limbo Australian star Simon Baker (mentalist) was also selected for the Berlin competition.
Dutch-Australian director Rolf De Geer (ten canoe, Charlie’s country), bowing to his latest, survival of kindness, at a competition in Berlin. The drama, which premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival last October, follows a Black Woman (Mwajemi Hussain), an Aboriginal woman who is left to die in a cage in the middle of the desert.
From Japan, Your name A new movie directed by Makoto Shinkai Sparrow, will have its international premiere in Berlin. Distributed outside of Asia by Crunchyroll in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Wild Bunch International and Eurozoom, the film will be the first anime since Hayao Miyazaki to screen in competition in Berlin. spirited away In 2001, it won the Golden Bear award here.
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Chinese director Zhang Lu returns to competition in Berlin with his latest film. shadowless tower. Zhang last competed in the Berlin Games desert dream 2007, 2019 drama screenings Fukuoka Berlin’s forum sidebar, and his features Duman River In 2010, it won the Best Film Award in the Generation category in Berlin.
Spanish director Estivalis Ulresola Solagren and Mexican director Lila Aviles (maid) are both her Berlin competition debuts. 20,000 species of bees When totem Respectively.
In later versions, superpower, a documentary by Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia’s aggression against the country and the ongoing war, will have its world premiere in Berlin’s competition-free special Berlin section. Created for Vice Studios, Aldamisa Entertainment, and Fifth Season, this document is distributed internationally by Fifth Season.
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Berlin will focus heavily on Ukraine this year. Even the festival’s official pin will be in the Ukrainian colors of blue and yellow.
On Monday, Chatrian also announced films from its Encounters section, a competition lineup of more avant-garde and experimental films.Among the highlights: Dustin Guy DeFa’s grown ups Starring Michael Cera, Abi Jacobson and Tavi Gevinson.Hungarian characteristics white plastic sky, an animated drama set in post-apocalyptic Budapest in 2121, directed by Tibor Banotki and Salorta Szabo.When echothe new documentary from South American filmmaker Tatiana Huezo. prayer for the thief It won a special prize in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes in 2021 and was named Mexico’s best international feature nominee at last year’s Oscar race.
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family timethe first full-length feature from Finnish director Tia Kouvo is also joining the 2023 Encounters program, while prolific South Korean director Hong Sangsoo is a back-to-back Silver Bear winner. novelist movie (Jury Grand Prize 2022) and prologue (Best Screenplay 2021) returns to Berlin with his latest film. underwatereven encounters.
The 73rd Berlinale, taking place February 16-26, will kick off with an out-of-competition world premiere. she came to mea romantic comedy by director and writer Rebecca Miller (Maggie’s plan) starring Peter Dinklage as a composer with writer’s block and Anne Hathaway as his wife and former therapist. Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kourig and Brian D’Arcy James co-star at Protagonist Pictures.
After last year’s triumphant Cannes and Venice festivals, all eyes will be on Berlin to see if German festivals can successfully bounce back from COVID-era restrictions.
The festival’s performances and their accompanying industry event, the European Film Market (EFM), are seen as a barometer of the overall health of the independent industry. More than Cannes or Venice, Berlin is an arthouse-focused festival that often lacks support from major studios and relies on a mosaic of indies from his distributors around the world for success. There is a program to celebrate the films that have been made.
