All ready for the Berlin Film Festival!
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Big names in the competition
The jury, led by Lupita Nyong’o, will be called upon to evaluate various titles by well-known directors. Among these, great expectations are for the Frenchmen Bruno Dumont (“L’empire”) and Olivier Assayas (“Hors du temps”), but also for the transalpine director of Senegalese origins Mati Diop with the documentary “Dahomey”. Also very high expectations for “Black Tea”, a film that marks the return of the Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako, finally behind the camera again ten years after “Timbuktu”, but we await with equal attention “The Devil’s Bath”, the new feature film by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, authors of the terrifying “Goodnight Mommy” in 2014.
Of note is the return to the Berlinale of the Mexican Alonso Ruizpalacios with “La cocina” and the South Korean Hong Sang-soo with “A Traveler’s Needs”, in which the Asian director returns to work with Isabelle Huppert. The opening film of the event will also be in competition: “Small Things Like These” by Tim Mielants starring Cillian Murphy.
The other sections
Last year he won the Golden Bear with “Sur l’Adamant”, while in this edition Nicolas Philibert will be part of the Berlinale Special with his new documentary “At Averroes et Rosa Park”. In the same, very rich section we also find “Love Lies Bleeding” by Rose Glass with Kristen Stewart, “Sasquatch Sunset” by the Zeller brothers, “Shikun” by Amos Gitai, “Seven veils” by Atom Egoyan and “Spaceman” by Johan Renck with Adam Sandler.
Within the Berlinale Special, there will also be space for the new documentary by Abel Ferrara, “Turn in the Wound”, and for the new experimentation by Tsai Ming-liang with “Abiding Nowhere”. In the Panorama group, pay attention to “Between the Temples” by Nathan Silver with Jason Schwartzman, “My New Friends” by André Téchiné with Isabelle Huppert, “Scorched Earth” by Thomas Arslan and “The Visitor” by Bruce LaBruce. The retrospective of this edition is “An Alternate Cinema – From the Deutsche Kinemathek Archives” and will be dedicated to films and documentaries produced in Germany between 1960 and 2000. Finally, it should be remembered that during the festival Martin Scorsese will receive the gold for lifetime achievement and the award ceremony will certainly be one of the most exciting moments of the entire event.
Berlinale 2024, 15-25 February