Berlinale’s German section first to unveil line-up
While the organisers of the 60th Berlin Film Festival (February 11-21, 2010) continue to offer glimpses of the festivities in store for this anniversary edition of the important German festival, the first section to unveil its programme is the German section, German Cinema Perspectives.
This relatively recent sidebar (now in its ninth edition) will this year look at the dramatic genre from a different, liberating angle, with films like Run If You Can by Dietrich Brüggemann (previously selected in 2006 with the stylistically-focused Nine Takes). Here, the director places his sister Anna, an actress, at the centre of a love triangle, with some unexpected moments.
Meanwhile, Saara Waasner’s documentary Frauenzimmer examines the daily life of three prostitutes and distances itself from the sordid depictions that the subject often inspires. Jan Raiber’s All My Fathers also has lots of surprises in store for both the viewers and the director, who is also the protagonist of his film over which he doesn’t have full control.
Three medium-length films complete this provisional line-up, looking at cinema itself: Christian Hornung’s Gleb’s Movie, about a film which so far exists only in the mind of a Hamburg-based hairdresser; Linus de Paoli’s The Boy Who Wouldn't Kill, a variation on the western theme; and young actor-director Sergei Moya’s Hollywood Drama, a satire on the aspirations of today’s young filmmakers.
The section’s director, Alfred Holighaus, believes that these initial selections illustrate both the serious and fun-loving side of this young generation of auteurs.
(Translated from French)
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