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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Asli Özge
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French director Jérémy Clapin, whose animated feature I Lost My Body [+leggi anche:
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In Paradises of Diane [+leggi anche:
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German director Nora Fingscheidt (System Crasher [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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Betânia - Marcelo Botta (Brazil)
Faruk [+leggi anche:
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I Saw the TV Glow - Jane Schoenbrun (USA)
I’m Not Everything I Want to Be [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Klára Tasovská
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Brief History of a Family [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Lin Jianjie (China/Denmark)
The Outrun [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nora Fingscheidt
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Paradises of Diane [+leggi anche:
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Meanwhile on Earth [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Jérémy Clapin (France)
I Saw Three Black Lights [+leggi anche:
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scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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The Undergrowth [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Macu Machín
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The Adamant Girl – Vinothraj PS (India)
Maria's Silence [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Dāvis Sīmanis
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Sleeping with a Tiger [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Anja Salomonowitz
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Reas [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lola Arias
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Republic - Jin Jiang (China)

Forum Special

Mother and Daughter, or the Night Is Never Complete [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Lana Gogoberidze (Georgia/France)