It is located in the full time of prices, which every year seems bigger and more attractive, as disciplines While critics may point to the facts beneath some of their films a while back, the Berlin Film Festival hasn’t achieved much Hollywood glamor in its new edition.
Only many with name tags appear in the official section Amy Adams, Channing Tatum, Juliette Binoche y Ella Fanningalthough none of them come exactly sa blockbuster arm debajo.
Adams takes center stage By the seanew Hungarian drama Kornél Mundruczó tras el éxito de Fragments of a woman (2020), a Netflix movie where Vanessa Kirby was nominated for an Oscar.
From his side, Tatum s Josephinenew movie by Beth de Araujo transla impactante The Hate Club (2022), a single shot film about femininity and white supremacy in deep America.
This new work, a psychological drama about a traumatized little girl with a brutal attack on her Gemma Chan along with Tatum, it triumphs at Sundance with the Special Film Award and the Audience Award.
Gemma Chan and Channing Tatum in ‘Joshepine’
Juliette Binoche stars in a drama that deals with dementia in adulthood Queen at seafrom the state of London Lance Hammer. Y Elle Fanning participates in the choir Pruning a rose busha work by Brazilian Karim Aïnouz set in Spain about secrets born in a family, with other friends known as Callum Tatum, Riley Keough or Elena Anaya.
Outside the competition, in the Berlinale Special, we encountered some super production with commercial ambitions, as a return in cases ten years after Gore Verbinski, director Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) or A lonely llanero (2014), which features a sci-fi comedy about AI criminals, Good luck, eat well and don’t diewith Sam Rockwell the main character.
A unique sea quiz Weightadventure film set in 1930s Oregon, featuring a more attractive department commanded by Ethan Hawke y Russell Crowe.
Spanish cinema also saw many representatives, just after five years with great films at the Berlinale, such as the Golden Bear in Alcarràs (Carla Simón, 2022) about el Oso de Plata a mejor interpretación and Sofía Otero por 20,000 species of trees (Estibaliz Urresola, 2023).
This year, Spanish representation is limited to co-productions Ivan & Hadoum (España, Alemania, Bélgica), debut de Ian de la Rosa y Narcissus (Paraguay, Germany, Uruguay, Brazil, Portugal, Spain and France), dir Marcelo Martinez.
En Berlinale Shorts appears Christian Aviles with Stallion and crystal ball and in the 14Plus generation, Sad chicas (Mexico, Spain, France), de Fernanda Tovarová.
Picture ‘Iván & Hadoum’
What the official Berlinale section distills is particularly suitable for a film by a prestigious auteur from any corner of the world. Ahí están, por ejemplo, los trabajos de los Australians Markus Schleinzer y Warwick Thornton.
The first outsider Rosesa transgender drama set in the 17th century, in black and white, starring Germany’s Sandra Hüller, which was nominated for an Oscar for Caída anatomy (2023). second, Tungstenabout the pickers who have caused a wave of terror in Australia over the past 30 years.
He will also fight for the Golden Bear of the French Senegalese Alain Gomiswith He gavean ambitious family saga set between France and Guinea-Bissau; and the competition will include the animated title Japonský pás On New Dawnde Yoshitoshi Shinomiya.
It is the first solo work of this creator, who participated in the title as Your name (2016) or The movie Pokemon: Secret of the Forest (2020). It tells the story of a group of young people who are struggling with climate change issues.
First, mexicana Flya comedy about a life crisis directed by Fernando Eimbckeit will be the only film written in Spanish.
Likewise, proposed German films could win the golden plant. On the one hand, a classic of cinematography from the author from Como Angela Schanelecwhich transmits masterfully Music (2023), which took top honors at the festival, returned with My wife is crying.
on the other hand Ilker Çatakwhich received an Oscar nomination International s Professor’s room (2023), estren el drama family Yellow letters.
In the center of the film is the character of the legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans Everyone kicks Bill Evansde Grant Geein which the musician is interpreted Anders Danielsen Lee and what counts in your department Laurie Metcalf y Bill Pullman.
Y en Nightbornfrom the Finnish director Hanna Bergholmif you can see it Rupert Grint, recorded by Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter saga, as a man walking with his parents in his childhood home in the Finnish forest.
The Berlinale Special also stands out Haysel 85a film about the tragedy of the Heysel stadium, in which 39 fans were killed by an avalanche during the European Cup final, which pitted Juventus against Liverpool. OR Isabelle Huppert interpretation of the version of Conde Dracula en Blood Countessde Ulrike Ottinger.
You also need to pay attention to the end of the series, with a new project Isaki Lacuesta y Paul Rodriguez trance Second prize (2024), Ravalear. This HBO production is set in a popular restaurant in the heart of the Raval de Barcelona and, as it follows, subjects such as real estate speculation, immigration and generational growth.
They also highlight the television adaptations of two famous novels. For one side, House of ghostsby Isabel Allende, which will be connected to Prime Video, and on the other hand El señor de las moscasby William Golding, recorded by the BBC.
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