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BERLINALE 2010 Forum

40th Forum selects 17 European films

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The 40th Forum section at the Berlinale is marked by the low-key presence of major European filmmaking countries, which have this year made way for an impressive selection of Asian titles.

Focusing on the uncertainties and dilemmas of our time, this year’s main programme includes 34 titles, 17 of which are European. However, these include only one Italian and one Spanish film, while the UK and Scandinavia (with the exception of a co-production) are conspicuously absent. France is only represented by co-productions, most with third countries.

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The selection does, however, comprise one Romanian film and the latest work by Lithuanian director Sharunas Bartas.

Germany is the only exception to the rule, with three entirely domestic productions, including Thomas Arslan’s latest; as well as Angela Schanelec’s French co-production Orly; two German/Hungarian co-productions; and two co-productions with third countries.

Among its special screenings, the Forum will present three shorts by Belgian filmmaker Boris Lehman; Nicolas Philibert’s French film Nénette; and Munich-born Dominik Graf’s Im Angesicht des Verbrechens .

European films in the main line-up:

The Mouth of the Wolf [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Pietro Marcello
film profile
]
by Pietro Marcello (Italy)
End by Luis Sampieri (Spain)
Orly by Angela Schanelec (Germany/France)
In the Shadows by Thomas Arslan (Germany)
The Drifter by Tatjana Turanskyj (Germany)
The Day of the Sparrow by Philip Scheffner (Germany)
Native of Eurasia by Sharunas Bartas (France/Lithuania/Russia)
Bibliotheque Pascal [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Szabolcs Hajdu - director
interview: Szabolcs Hajdu
film profile
]
by Szabolcs Hajdu (Hungary/Germany)
Head Cold by Gamma Bak (Germany/Hungary)
Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man by Constantin Popescu (Romania)
Haze by Tayfun Pirselimoglu (Turkey/Greece)
Au Revoir Taipei by Arvin Chen (Taiwan/US/Germany)
Sunny Land by Aljoscha Weskott and Marietta Kesting (Germany/South Africa)
Double Tide by Sharon Lockhart (US/Austria)
Crab Trap by Oscar Ruíz Navia (Colombia/France)
Still Alive in Gaza by Nicolas Wadimoff (Switzerland/Qatar/France)
Imani by Caroline Kamya (Uganda/Sweden/Canada)

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(Translated from French)

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