Berlin adds Snowpiercer to line-up

The Forum strand of the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16) has completed its 2014 programme with a series of special screenings.

These include Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho’s adaptation of a French comic by Jean-Marc Rochette, starring Chris Evans, John Hurt and Tilda Swinton.

The Korean production, known there as Seolguk-yeolcha, is set during an impending ice age, whose last survivors are left circling the earth in a non-stop express train.

Producer Park Chan-wook, director Bong Joon-ho, actors Song Kang-ho, Ko Asung, John Hurt and Tilda Swinton and author Rochette will attend the screening.

• Interview: Bong Joon-ho, Snowpiercer

Other new additions to the Forum special screenings include two documentaries about the recent upheavals in Egypt. These include the world premiere of Viola Shafik’s Arij (Scent of Revolution) and Jehane Noujaim’s recently Oscar-nominated documentary Al midan (The Square).

Forum Special Screenings

WP = World Premieres

Al midan (The Square) by Jehane Noujaim, USA / Egypt

Arij (Scent of Revolution) by Viola Shafik, Egpyt / Germany - WP

Ché phawa daw nu nu (Tender are the Feet) by Maung Wunna, Burma

DMD KIU LIDT by Georg Tiller, Austria / Germany – WP

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey, UK

Ghashiram Kotwal by K. Hariharan, Mani Kaul, India

Prabhat pheri (Journey with Prabhat) by Jessica Sadana, Samarth Dixit, India - WP

Schamanen im Blinden Land (Shamans of the Blind Country) by Michael Oppitz, Nepal / Germany / USA

Seolguk-yeolcha (Snowpiercer) by Bong Joon-ho, Republic of Korea

Wa ga ya ha tanoshi (Home Sweet Home) by Noboru Nakamura, Japan

Doshaburi (When It Rains, It Pours) by Noboru Nakamura, Japan

Yoru no henrin (The Shape of Night) by Noboru Nakamura, Japan