Richard Linklater’s Boyhood to compete for the Golden Bear; Beauty and the Beast, starring Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux, to play out of competition.

The 64th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16) has added 15 titles to its Competition programme, completing the line-up of 23 films - of which 20 will vye for the Golden Bear and Silver Bears.

The programme includes 18 world premieres and three feature debuts.

The line-up includes the international premiere of Boyhood, from Before Midnight director Richard Linklater. The film, which will premiere at Sundance, was shot over short periods from 2002 to 2013 and covers 12 years in the life of a family, featuring Mason and his sister Samantha. Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater star.

World premieres include In Order of Disappearance, directed by Hans Petter Moland, which stars Stellan Skarsgård as a snow plough driver whose son’s sudden death puts him in the middle of a drug war between theNorwegian mafia and the Serbians

Playing out of competition will be the international premiere of fantasy romance Beauty and the Beast, directed by Christophe Gans and starring Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux (Blue is the Warmest Colour) in the title roles.

Other world premieres include Two Men in Town, from London River director Rachid Bouchareb, about a Muslim ex-con who forms a friendship with his parole officer. The cast includes Forest Whitaker, Harvey Keitel and Brenda Blethyn.

They will go up against previously announced titles such as Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, which will open the festival, and Yann Demange’s soldier drama ‘71.

Other previously announced titles playing out of competition includes George Clooney’s The Monuments Men and the world premiere of the uncut version of Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Vol 1.

The award ceremony will take place at the Berlinale Palast on Feb 15. The event will close with a screening of the winner of the Golden Bear.

Berlin 2014: Competition programme

WP = World premiere / IP = International premiere

Bai Ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice) WP
dir. Yinan Diao (China)
With Fan Liao, Lun Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang

Boyhood IP
dir. Richard Linklater (US)
With Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater

Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House) IP
Yojdir. i Yamada (Japan)
With Takako Matsu, Haru Kuroki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chieko Baisho

Historia del miedo (History of Fear) WP
dir. Benjamin Naishtat (Argentina-Uruguay-Germany-France) debut
With Jonathan Da Rosa, Claudia Cantero, Mirella Pascual, Cesar Bordon, Tatiana Gimenez

Jack WP
dir. Edward Berger (Germany)
With Ivo Pietzcker, Georg Arms, Luise Heyer, Vincent Redetzki, Jacob Matschenz, Nele Mueller-Stöfen

Kraftidioten (In Order of Disappearance) WP
dir. Hans Petter Moland (Norway-Sweden-Denmark)
With Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Jakob Oftebro, Anders Baasmo Christiansen

Kreuzweg (Stations of the Cross) WP
dir. Dietrich Brüggemann (Germany)
With Lea van Acken, Franziska Weisz, Florian Stetter

La belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast) IP (out of comp)
dir. Christophe Gans (France-Germany)
With Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux, André Dussollier

La tercera orilla (The Third Side of the River) WP
dir. Celina Murga (Argentina-Germany-Netherlands)
With Alian Devetac, Daniel Veronese, Gaby Ferrero, Irina Wetzel, Dylan Agostini van del Boch 

La voie de l‘ennemi (Two Men in Town) WP
dir. Rachid Bouchareb (France-Algeria-US-Belgium)
With Forest Whitaker, Harvey Keitel, Brenda Blethyn, Luis Guzmán, Dolores Heredia

Macondo WP
dir. Sudabeh Mortezai (Austria) debut
With Ramasan Minkailov, Aslan Elbiev, Kheda Gazieva

Praia do Futuro 
dir. Karim Aïnouz (Brazil-Germany)
With Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Jesuita Barbosa

Tui Na (Blind Massage) WP
dir. Ye Lou (China-France)
With Hao Qin, Xiaodong Guo, Lei Zhang

Wu Ren Qu (No Man’s Land) IP
dir. Hao Ning (China)
With Zheng Xu, Nan Yu, Bo Huang, Bujie Duo

Zwischen Welten (Inbetween Worlds) WP
dir. Feo Aladag (Germany)
With Ronald Zehrfeld

Previously announced titles include:

‘71 WP
dir. Yann Demange (UK)
With Jack O’Connell, Sean Harris, Richard Dormer

Life of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter) WP
dir. Alain Resnais (France)
With Sabine Azéma, Sandrine Kiberlain, Caroline Silhol, André Dussolier, Hippolyte Giradot, Michel Vuillermoz

Aloft WP
dir. Claudia Llosa (Spain/Canada/France)
With Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, Mélanie Laurent

Die geliebten Schwestern WP
dir. Dominik Graf (Germany)
With Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius

Stratos WP
dir. Yannis Economides (Greece / Germany / Cyprus)
With Vangelis Mourikis, Vicky Papadopoulou, Petros Zervos

The Grand Budapest Hotel WP (opening film)
dir. Wes Anderson (UK-Germany)
With Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody

The Monuments Men IP (out of comp)
dir. George Clooney (Germany-US)
With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, Cate Blanchett

Nymphomaniac Vol 1 WP (out of comp)
dir. Lars von Trier
With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stacy Martin, Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier

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