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 [+lire aussi :
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interview : Asli Özge
fiche film], a story about gentrification and a complex father-daughter relationship.

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French director Jérémy Clapin, whose animated feature I Lost My Body [+lire aussi :
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In Paradises of Diane [+lire aussi :
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German director Nora Fingscheidt (System Crasher [+lire aussi :
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interview : Nora Fingscheidt
fiche film], 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 [+lire aussi :
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interview : Anja Salomonowitz
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interview : Dāvis Sīmanis
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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 [+lire aussi :
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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 [+lire aussi :
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bande-annonce
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Betânia - Marcelo Botta (Brazil)
Faruk [+lire aussi :
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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 [+lire aussi :
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interview : Klára Tasovská
fiche film] - Klára Tasovská (Czech Republic/Slovakia/Austria)
Brief History of a Family [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Lin Jianjie (China/Denmark)
The Outrun [+lire aussi :
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interview : Nora Fingscheidt
fiche film] - Nora Fingscheidt (Germany/UK)
Paradises of Diane [+lire aussi :
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interview : Carmen Jaquier & Jan Gassm…
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Meanwhile on Earth [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Jérémy Clapin (France)
I Saw Three Black Lights [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Santiago Lozano Álvarez (Colombia/Mexico/France/Germany)

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 [+lire aussi :
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The Undergrowth [+lire aussi :
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interview : Macu Machín
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The Adamant Girl – Vinothraj PS (India)
Maria's Silence [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dāvis Sīmanis
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Sleeping with a Tiger [+lire aussi :
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interview : Anja Salomonowitz
fiche film] - Anja Salomonowitz (Austria)
Reas [+lire aussi :
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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 [+lire aussi :
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