The first films have been announced for the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlinale Special sections.
The Competition line-up includes new films by Fatih Akin (The Golden Glove), François Ozon (By the Grace of God) and Denis Côté (Ghost Town Anthology).
The other three films in the strand are Marie Kreutzer’s The Ground Beneath My Feet, Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, but and Emin Alper’s A Tale of Three Sisters. All are world premieres except By the Grace Of God which is an international premiere.
The Berlinale Special section includes German/Austrian series Brecht, documentary Watergate and India’s Gully Boy.
It was announced last week that Lone Scherfig’s The Kindness Of Strangers will open the festival, which runs Feb 7-17.
2019 is Dieter Kosslick’s last edition as director of the Berlinale. Further films will be added to the line-up in the coming weeks.
Competition
Der Boden unter den Füßen (The Ground Beneath My Feet), Austria - World premiere
Dir. Marie Kreutzer (The Fatherless, We Used to be Cool)
Starring Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hörbiger, Michelle Barthel, Marc Benjamin, Axel Sichrovsky, Dominic Marcus Singer, Meo Wulf
Der Goldene Handschuh (The Golden Glove), Germany / France - World premiere
Dir. Fatih Akin (Head On, In the Fade)
Starring Jonas Dassler, Margarethe Tiesel, Hark Bohm
Grâce à dieu (By the Grace of God), France - International premiere
Dir. François Ozon (8 Women, In the House)
Starring Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud, Éric Caravaca, François Marthouret, Bernard Verley, Martine Erhel, Josiane Balasko, Hélène Vincent, François Chattot, Frédéric Pierrot
Ich war zuhause, aber (I Was at Home, but), Germany / Serbia - World premiere
Dir. Angela Schanelec (The Dreamed Path, Marseille)
Starring Maren Eggert, Franz Rogowski, Lilith Stangenberg, Jakob Lassalle, Clara Möller
Kız Kardeşler (A Tale of Three Sisters), Turkey / Germany / Netherlands / Greece - World premiere
Dir. Emin Alper (Beyond the Hill, Frenzy)
Starring Cemre Ebüzziya, Ece Yüksel, Helin Kandemir, Kayhan Açikgöz, Müfit Kayacan, Kubilay Tunçer
Répertoire des villes disparues (Ghost Town Anthology), Canada - World premiere
Dir. Denis Côté (Vic + Flo Saw a Bear, Bestiaire)
Starring Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Larissa Corriveau, Rémi Goulet, Diane Lavallée, Hubert Proulx, Rachel Graton, Normand Carrière, Jocelyne Zucco
Berlinale Special Gala at the Friedrichstadt-Palast
Gully Boy, India - World premiere
Dir. Zoya Akhtar (You Won’t Get This Life Again, Lust Stories)
Starring Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Kalki Koechlin, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Vijay Raaz, Amruta Subhash, Vijay Verma
Berlinale Special at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Brecht (Series), Germany / Austria - World premiere
Dir. Heinrich Breloer (The Manns – Novel of a Century, Buddenbrooks – The Decline of a Family)
Starring Burghart Klaußner, Tom Schilling, Adele Neuhauser, Trine Dyrholm, Mala Emde, Franz Hartwig, Friederike Becht, Ernst Stötzner, Lou Strenger
Watergate (Documentary), USA - European premiere
Dir. Charles Ferguson (No End in Sight, Inside Job)
WIth Douglas Hodge, Jill Wine-Banks, Dan Rather, Lesley Stahl, Richard Ben-Veniste
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