BERLINALE 2015

65th Berlinale: THE Competition LINE-UP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Competition line-up of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival is now complete. 19 of the 23 films in the Competition program will be vying for the Golden and Silver Bears. 21 of them are world premieres. The opening film is Nobody Wants the Night by Isabel Coixet.

The Award Ceremony will take place at the Berlinale Palast on Saturday, February 14th, 2015. The event will close with a screening of the winner of the Golden Bear.

The following films are in the Competition program:

Aferim!
Romania / Bulgaria / Czech Republic
By Radu Jude (Everybody in Our Family)
World premiere

El botón de nácar (The Pearl Button) - documentary
France / Chile / Spain
By Patricio Guzmán (Nostalgia for the Light)
World premiere

El Club (The Club)
Chile
By Pablo Larraín (Tony Manero, No)
World premiere

Elser (13 Minutes)
Germany
By Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall)
World premiere – Out of competition

Every Thing Will Be Fine
Germany / Canada / France / Sweden / Norway
By Wim Wenders (PINA, Wings of Desire, The American Friend)
World premiere – Out of competition

Ten no chasuke (Chasuke's Journey)
Japan
By Sabu (Kanikosen, Dead Run)
World premiere

Vergine giurata (Sworn Virgin)
Italy / Switzerland / Germany / Albania / Kosovo
By Laura Bispuri - Feature debut
World premiere

45 Years by Andrew Haigh
United Kingdom

Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming) by Andreas Dresen
Germany / France

Body by Malgorzata Szumowska
Poland

Cha và con và (Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories) by Di Phan Dang
Vietnam / France / Germany / Netherlands

Cinderella by Kenneth Branagh
USA – Out of competition

Eisenstein in Guanajuato by Peter Greenaway
Netherlands / Mexico / Belgium / Finland

Ixcanul (Ixcanul Volcano) by Jayro Bustamante
Guatemala / France – Feature debut

Journal d'une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid) by Benoit Jacquot
France / Belgium

Knight of Cups by Terrence Malick
USA

Mr. Holmes by Bill Condon
United Kingdom – Out of competition

Nobody Wants the Night by Isabel Coixet – Opening film
Spain / France / Bulgaria

Pod electricheskimi oblakami (Under Electric Clouds) by Alexey German
Russian Federation / Ukraine / Poland

Queen of the Desert by Werner Herzog
USA

Taxi by Jafar Panahi
Iran

Victoria by Sebastian Schipper
Germany

Yi bu zhi yao (Gone with the Bullets) by Wen Jiang
People’s Republic of China / USA / Hong Kong, China

 

The Panorama Section includes 34 Features from 29 Countries

The main program of the Panorama will open with the Brazilian production Sangue azul (Blue Blood) by Lirio Ferreira at the CinemaxX 7 on February 5. In the magnificent visuals of a fairy tale, the film tells of a family torn by strife and how, bit by bit, its members find their way back to each other. In doing so they disclose secrets whose consequences only become evident as things unfold.

600 Millas (600 Miles) - Mexico
By Gabriel Ripstein
World premiere

Al bahr min ouaraikoum (The Sea Is Behind) - Morocco
By Hicham Lasri
European premiere

Al-Hob wa Al-Sariqa wa Mashakel Ukhra (Love, Theft and Other Entanglements) – Palestine
By Muayad Alayan
World premiere

 

Angelica - USA
By Mitchell Lichtenstein
World premiere

 

 

 

Ausência (Absence) – Brazil / Chile / France
By Chico Teixeira
International premiere

Bizarre – France / USA
By Étienne Faure
World premiere

De ce eu? (Why me?) – Romania / Bulgaria / Hungary
By Tudor Giurgiu
World premiere

El incendio (The Fire) - Argentina
By Juan Schnitman
World premiere

Härte (Tough Love) - Germany
By Rosa von Praunheim
World premiere

How To Win At Checkers (Every Time) – Thailand / USA / Indonesia
By Josh Kim
World premiere

Mariposa (Butterfly) - Argentina
By Marco Berger
World premiere

Nasty Baby - USA
By Sebastián Silva
International Premiere

Necktie Youth – South Africa
By Sibs Shongwe-La Mer
World premiere

Onthakan (The Blue Hour) - Thailand
By Anucha Boonyawatana
World premiere

Out of My Hand - USA
By Takeshi Fukunaga
World premiere

Paridan az Ertefa Kam (A Minor Leap Down) – Iran / France
By Hamed Rajabi
World premiere

Petting Zoo – Germany / Greece / USA
By Micah Magee
World premiere

Pionery-geroi (Pioneer Heroes) – Russian Federation
By Natalia Kudryashova
World premiere

Que Horas Ela Volta? (The Second Mother) - Brazil
By Anna Muylaert
European premiere

Sangailė (The Summer of Sangailé) – Lithuania / France / Netherlands
By Alanté Kavaïté
European premiere

Sangue azul (Blue Blood) - Brazil
By Lirio Ferreira
International premiere

Zui Sheng Meng Si (Thanatos, Drunk)
- Taiwan
By Chang Tso-Chi
World premiere

54: The Director's Cut
USA
By Mark Christopher
World premiere

Chorus
Canada
By François Delisle
European premiere

Der letzte Sommer der Reichen (The Last Summer of the Rich)
Austria
By Peter Kern
World premiere

Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents)
Switzerland / Germany
By Stina Werenfels
International premiere

Dyke Hard
Sweden
By Bitte Andersson
International premiere

Gukje Shijang (Ode to My Father)
Republic of Korea
By JK Youn
International premiere

I Am Michael
USA
By Justin Kelly
International premiere

Jun Zhong Le Yuan (Paradise in Service)
Taiwan
By Doze Niu Chen-Zer
European premiere

Meurtre à Pacot (Murder in Pacot)
France / Haiti / Norway
By Raoul Peck
European premiere

Mot Naturen (Out of Nature)
Norway
By Ole Giæver, Marte Vold
European premiere

Ned Rifle (Ned Rifle)
USA
By Hal Hartley
European premiere

Panorama Dokumente

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin
Germany
By Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange
World premiere

Danieluv svet (Daniel’s World)
Czeck Republic
International premiere

El hombre nuevo (The New Man)
Uruguay / Chile
By Aldo Garay
World premiere

Fassbinder – lieben ohne zu fordern (Fassbinder – To Love without Demands)
Denmark
By Christian Braad Thomsen
World premiere

Iraqi Odyssey
Switzerland / Germany / Iraq / United Arab Emirates
By Samir
European premiere

Stories of Our Lives
Kenya
By Jim Chuchu
European premiere

The Yes Men Are Revolting
USA
By Laura Nix, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno
European premiere

Censored Voices – Israel / Germany
By Mor Loushy
European premiere

Cobain: Montage of Heck – USA
By Brett Morgen
International premiere

Die Widerständigen „also machen wir das weiter ...” (The Resistors “their spirit prevails ...”) - Germany
By Ula Stöckl, Katrin Seybold
World premiere

Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer - USA
By Jack Walsh
World premiere

Haftanlage 4614 (Prison System 4614) - Germany
By Jan Soldat
World premiere

Je suis Annemarie Schwarzenbach (My Name is Annemarie Schwarzenbach) - France
By Véronique Aubouy
World premiere

Jia Zhang-ke, um homem de Fenyang (Jia Zhang-ke, a Guy from Fenyang) - Brazil
By Walter Salles
European Premiere

Misfits – Denmark / Sweden
By Jannik Splidsboel
World premiere

Sume - Mumisitsinerup Nipaa (Sumé - The Sound of a Revolution) – Greenland / Denmark / Norway
By Inuk Silis Høegh
European premiere

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year – Great Britain
By Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy
World premiere

Une jeunesse allemande (A German Youth) - France / Switzerland / Germany
By Jean-Gabriel Périot
World premiere

What Happened, Miss Simone? - USA
By Liz Garbus
International premiere