Berlin’s Panorama selection is two-thirds complete
- With 30 films, including 25 fictions and five titles intended for the Panorama Documentaries sidebar, the programme is now nearly complete
With 30 films, including 24 fictions and six titles set to screen in the documentaries sidebar, the Panorama programme is now nearly complete, and the organisers of the 66th Berlin Film Festival (11-21 February 2016) have assured us that we will find out the identity of the rest of the titles in the coming days.
The new films added to the second most prestigious section of the German festival include the new movie by Argentinian director Daniel Burman, The Tenth Man, which has been chosen as the opening title alongside John Michael McDonagh's War on Everyone [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], as already announced. Also of note among the new arrivals is Germany’s Doris Dörrie (with Fukushima, mon Amour [+see also:
trailer
film profile]), whose colourful films turn up regularly at the Berlinale, and who already presented a Japanese tale there eight years ago (namely, Cherry Blossoms [+see also:
trailer
film profile]). The Panorama will also welcome a young director who already won in competition at Berlin two years ago (with Harmony Lessons [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile]): Emir Baigazin, who will be presenting the German-French-Kazakh co-production The Wounded Angel [+see also:
trailer
film profile], the second instalment in his trilogy about adolescence, which won the Arte International Prize when it was presented at the Berlin Co-Production Market in 2014. The other Europeans in the Panorama section will be Tobias Nölle (with Aloys [+see also:
film review
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interview: Tobias Nölle
film profile]), Piotr J Lewandowski (with Jonathan [+see also:
trailer
film profile]), Händl Klaus (with Tomcat [+see also:
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trailer
film profile]), Jochen Hick (with The GDR Complex [+see also:
trailer
film profile]) and Mantas Kvedaravicius (with Mariupolis [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mantas Kvedaravicius
film profile]).
Panorama (new films selected)
Aloys [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Tobias Nölle
film profile] - Tobias Nölle (Switzerland, France)
Fukushima, mon Amour [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Doris Dörrie (Germany)
Jonathan [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Piotr J Lewandowski (Germany)
Tomcat [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Händl Klaus (Austria)
The Wounded Angel [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Emir Baigazin (Kazakhstan, France, Germany)
The Tenth Man - Daniel Burman (Argentina)
The Black Frost - Maximiliano Schonfeld (Argentina)
Lantouri - Reza Dormishian (Iran)
Goat - Andrew Neel (USA)
Indignation - James Schamus (USA)
While the Women Are Sleeping - Wayne Wang (Japan)
Little Men - Ira Sachs (USA), split between Panorama and the Generation section
Panorama Documentaries (new films selected)
The GDR Complex [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Jochen Hick (Germany)
Mariupolis [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mantas Kvedaravicius
film profile] - Mantas Kvedaravicius (Lithuania, Germany, France, Ukraine)
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (USA, Germany)
Uncle Howard [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Aaron Brookner (UK, USA)
(Translated from French)
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