14/12/2023 - New works by Aslı Özge, Jérémy Clapin, Nora Fingscheidt, Anja Salomonowitz and Georgian veteran Lana Gogoberidze are among the 19 films announced so far

The Berlinale has started rolling out the announcements for its 74th edition (15-25 February) with a selection of titles set to screen in the Panorama and Forum sections.

The first batch of Panorama entries includes 11 films, seven of which will have their world premieres at the festival. Among them, Turkish-German director Aslı Özge returns to the section where she premiered her earlier films All of a Sudden [+see also:
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interview: Asli Özge
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French director Jérémy Clapin, whose animated feature I Lost My Body [+see also:
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In Paradises of Diane [+see also:
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German director Nora Fingscheidt (System Crasher [+see also:
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film profile], in which Saoirse Ronan plays a woman who attempts to come to terms with her troubled past, returning from London to her home on the Orkney Islands in Scotland.

Meanwhile, in Forum, which is now headed by Barbara Wurm, of the eight announced titles, three are biopics. The synopsis-length title of Abdenour Zahzah’s True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956 [+see also:
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Finally, the 2024 Forum Special will be dedicated to questions of relations and resistance from a feminist perspective, and will include, among other titles, a new documentary by a living legend of Georgian cinema 93-year-old Lana Gogoberidze, Mother and Daughter, or the Night Is Never Complete [+see also:
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Here is the full list of titles announced so far:

Panorama

All Shall Be Well - Ray Yeung (Hong Kong/China)
Andrea Gets a Divorce [+see also:
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Betânia - Marcelo Botta (Brazil)
Faruk [+see also:
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interview: Asli Özge
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I Saw the TV Glow - Jane Schoenbrun (USA)
I’m Not Everything I Want to Be [+see also:
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interview: Klára Tasovská
film profile] - Klára Tasovská (Czech Republic/Slovakia/Austria)
Brief History of a Family [+see also:
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film profile] - Lin Jianjie (China/Denmark)
The Outrun [+see also:
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interview: Nora Fingscheidt
film profile] - Nora Fingscheidt (Germany/UK)
Paradises of Diane [+see also:
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interview: Carmen Jaquier & Jan Gassmann
film profile] - Carmen Jaquier, Jan Gassmann (Switzerland)
Meanwhile on Earth [+see also:
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I Saw Three Black Lights [+see also:
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Forum

True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956 [+see also:
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film profile] - Abdenour Zahzah (Algeria/France)
The Undergrowth [+see also:
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interview: Macu Machín
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The Adamant Girl – Vinothraj PS (India)
Maria's Silence [+see also:
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interview: Dāvis Sīmanis
film profile] - Dāvis Sīmanis (Latvia/Lithuania)
Sleeping with a Tiger [+see also:
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interview: Anja Salomonowitz
film profile] - Anja Salomonowitz (Austria)
Reas [+see also:
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interview: Lola Arias
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Republic - Jin Jiang (China)

Forum Special

Mother and Daughter, or the Night Is Never Complete [+see also:
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