Incrementally, the 71st Berlin International Film Festival continues to announce selected titles within its programs. Recently, the Berlin fest announced the selections belonging to the categories: Berlinale Series, Shorts, Forum/Forum Extended, Generation and Retrospective. The German held festival states on its official website that its programs will be publicized in increments, with programs entitled Encounters, Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino (Perspectives on German Cinema) to be unveiled on February 10th. On the 11th, the festival selections will be announced in their entirety during a video presentation held by festival management with an introduction by executive director Mariette Rissenbeek. Artistic director Carlo Chatrian will then present the entries for the Competition and the Berlinale Special.
The programs within the festival are as follows: Competition (centerpiece films), Berlinale Special (panel/discussions), Series, Encounters (new cinematic visions), Berlinale Shorts, Panorama (contemporary film that’s explicitly queer, feminist, and political (Berlin)), Forum and Forum Expanded (“socio-artistic discourse” (Berlin)), Generation (“contemporary films exploring the lives and worlds of children and teenagers”), Perspectives on German Cinema, and Retrospective (Berlinale Classics and Homage).
Berlin International 2020 was one of the last and only film festivals to be held in-person before COVID-19 lockdown took effect in mid-March, but this year things will look a little different. The festival will be held in two stages. The first will be an entirely virtual event (mainly for international viewing) held March 1-5, 2021. The second stage will be an in-person festival in Berlin between June 9-20th. This stage will include red-carpet and gala events. The 2021 competition will be judged by a six-person jury made up of past recipients of Berlinale’s Golden Bear for best film.
So far, the lineup looks to be a well-rounded and diverse selection of international films. Like many other world-famous film festivals, including Sundance, Berlin is looking to expand on representation and diversity. The festival is known to include both well and lesser known filmmakers from all over the world in pursuit of showcasing truly innovative content from a multitude of backgrounds and cultures.
Berlin Film Festival Programs and Entries (announced thus far):
Berlin Series
Entre hombres (Amongst Men) by Pablo Fendrik ARG 2020
Ich und die Anderen (Me and the Others) by David Schalko AUT, DEU 2021
It’s a Sin by Peter Hoar GBR 2020
Os últimos dias de Gilda (The Last Days of Gilda) by Gustavo Pizzi BRA 2020
Philly D.A. by Ted Passon, Yoni Brook USA 2020
Snöänglar (Snow Angels) by Anna Zackrisson SWE, DNK 2021
Berlin Shorts
Al motociclista no le cabe la felicidad en el traje (Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won’t Fit Into His Suit) by Gabriel Herrera MEX 2021
Les Attendants (The Men Who Wait) by Truong Minh Quý FRA, IDN, SGP 2020
Blastogenese X (Blastogenesis X) by Conrad Veit, Charlotte Maria Kätzl DEU 2020
Deine Strasse (Your Street) by Güzin Kar CHE 2020
Easter Eggs by Nicholas Keppens BEL, FRA, NLD 2020
Das Glitzern im Barbieblut (Glittering Barbieblood) by Ulu Braun DEU 2021
International Dawn Chorus Day by John Greyson CAN 2021
A Love Song in Spanish by Ana Elena Tejera FRA, PAN 2020
Luz de Presença (A Present Light) by Diogo Costa Amarante PRT 2021
More Happiness by Livia Huang USA 2021
Nanu Tudor (My Uncle Tudor) by Olga Lucovnicova BEL, PRT, HUN 2020
One Hundred Steps by Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca DEU, FRA 2021
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean by Wang Yuyan FRA 2020
Rehearsal by Michael Omonua NGA 2021
Si t’as un coeur (Young Hearts) by Émilie Vandenameele FRA 2021
Strange Object by Miranda Pennell GBR 2020
Vadim na progulke (Vadim on a Walk) by Sasha Svirsky RUS 2021
Ventana (Window) by Edgar Jorge Baralt USA 2021
Xia Wu Guo Qu Le Yi Ban (Day Is Done) by Zhang Dalei CHN 2021
Zonder Meer by Meltse Van Coillie BEL 2020
Generation
Beans by Tracey Deer CAN 2020
Cryptozoo by Dash Shaw USA 2021
Ensilumi (Any Day Now) by Erster Schnee by Hamy Ramezan FIN 2020
Una escuela en Cerro Hueso (A School in Cerro Hueso) by Betania Cappato ARG 2021
Fighter by Jéro Yun KOR 2020
From the Wild Sea by Robin Petré DNK 2021
Han Nan Xia Ri (Summer Blur) by Han Shuai CHN 2020
Jong chak yeok (Short Vacation) by Kwon Min-pyo, Seo Hansol KOR 2020
Last Days at Sea by Venice Atienza PHL, TWN 2021
La Mif (The Fam) by Fred Baillif CHE 2021
Mission Ulja Funk by Barbara Kronenberg DEU, LUX, POL 2021
Nelly Rapp – Monsteragentin (Nelly Rapp – Monster Agent) by Amanda Adolfsson SWE 2020
Ninjababy by Yngvild Sve Flikke NOR 2021
Stop-Zemlia by Kateryna Gornostai UKR 2021
Tabija (The White Fortress) by Igor Drljača CAN, BIH 2021
Forum
À pas aveugles (From Where They Stood) by Christophe Cognet FRA, DEU 2021
Anmaßung (Anamnesis) by Chris Wright, Stefan Kolbe DEU 2021
Doch rybaka Tzarevna (Scaling) by Uldus Bakhtiozina RUS 2020
Esquí (Ski) by Manque La Banca ARG, BRA 2021
The First 54 Years – An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation by Avi Mograbi FRA, FIN, ISR, DEU 2021
Garderie nocturne (Night Nursery) by Moumouni Sanou BFA, FRA, DEU 2021
The Inheritance by Ephraim Asili USA 2020
Jai jumlong (Come Here) by Anocha Suwichakornpong THA 2021
Juste un mouvement (Just A Movement) by Vincent Meessen BEL, FRA 2021
Mbah Jhiwo Mbah Jhiwo (Ancient Soul) by Alvaro Gurrea ESP 2021
No táxi do Jack (Jack’s Ride) by Susana Nobre PRT 2021
Qué será del verano (What Will Summer Bring) by Ignacio Ceroi ARG 2021
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces by Shengze Zhu USA 2021
Sichuan hao nuren (The Good Woman of Sichuan) by Sabrina Zhao CAN 2021
Ste. Anne by Rhayne Vermette CAN 2021
Taming the Garden by Salomé Jashi CHE, DEU, GEO 2021
La veduta luminosa (The Luminous View) by Fabrizio Ferraro ITA, ESP 2021
Forum Expanded
13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Ana Vaz PRT 2020
After Life followed by Red Impasto Jar by Jonna Kina FIN 2021
Ahorita (Frames) by Angelika Levi DEU 2021
All of Your Stars are But Dust on my Shoes by Haig Aivazian LBN 2021
Autotrofia by Anton Vidokle ITA 2020
Bicentenario by Pablo Alvarez Mesa CAN, COL 2020
Black Bach Artsakh by Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri Republic of Artsakh 2021
Black Beauty: For a Shamanic Cinema by Grace Ndiritu GBR, ESP, BEL 2021
Böse zu sein ist auch ein Beweis von Gefühl (Fury is a Feeling Too) by Cynthia Beatt DEU 1983
The Coast by Sohrab Hura IND 2020
Jole dobe na (Those Who Do Not Drown) by Naeem Mohaiemen IND, JPN, SWE 2020
Kapita by Petna Ndaliko Katondolo USA 2020
“Le-deu-pil-teo-ga Cheol-hoe-doeb-ni-da.” (“The red filter is withdrawn.”) by Minjung Kim KOR 2020
Lost on Arrival by PolakVanBekkum NLD 2020
May June July by Kevin Jerome Everson USA 2021
Medicine and Magic by Thirza Cuthand CAN 2020
Mudança (Upheaval) by Welket Bungué DEU, PRT 2020
Night for Day by Emily Wardill PRT, AUT 2020
Ploy by Prapat Jiwarangsan THA, SGP 2020
Saba’ sanawat hawl delta al-neel (Seven Years Around the Nile Delta) by Sharief Zohairy EGY 2020
Se hace camino al andar (The Path is made by Walking) by Paula Gaitán BRA 2021
The Song of the Shirt by Kerstin Schroedinger DEU 2020
Songs of the Shirt by Kerstin Schroedinger DEU 2020
Sous le masque blanc: le film qu’Haesaerts aurait pu réaliser (Under the White Mask: The Film That Haesaerts Could Have Made) by Matthias De Groof BEL 2020
Voices and Shells by Maya Schweizer DEU 2020
The Wake by The Living and the Dead Ensemble HTI, FRA, GBR 2021
Zahlvaterschaft (Fatherland) by Moritz Siebert DEU 2021
The Zama Zama Project by Rosalind Morris USA, ZAF, CAN 2020
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