The lineups are coming hard and fast now from the Berlin International Film Festival, whose 64th edition runs from February 6 through 16. Yesterday, it was the Forum; the day before, the Competition. See all the announcements here. Today: the Berlinale Special, featuring high profile titles screening around the city—including, for the first time, the newly renovated Zoo Palast, the grand movie palace that, back in the day, hosted premieres of Fritz Lang‘s Metropolis (1927) and many other landmark works.
Berlinale Special Galas at the Friedrichstadt-Palast
A Long Way Down
United Kingdom / Germany
By Pascal Chaumeil (HeartBreaker)
With Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots
World premiere
American Hustle
USA
By David O. Russell (Silver Linings, Three Kings)
With Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence
German premiere
Cesar Chavez
USA
By Diego Luna (Abel)
With Michael Peña, America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson, John Malkovich
World premiere
Dans la cour (In the Courtyard)
France
By Pierre Salvadori (Beautiful Lies, The Apprentices)
With Catherine Deneuve, Gustave Kervern
World premiere
Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared)
Sweden
By Felix Herngren (Every Other Week, Adult Behaviour)
With Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, Mia Skäringer, Alan Ford, David Wiberg
German premiere
The Turning – anthology film
Australia
By Marieka Walsh, Warwick Thornton, Jub Clerc, Robert Connolly, Anthony Lucas, Rhys Graham, Ashlee Page, Tony Ayres, Claire McCarthy, Stephen Page, Shaun Gladwell, Mia Wasikowska, Simon Stone, David Wenham, Jonathan auf der Heide, Justin Kurzel, Yaron Lifschitz, Ian Meadows
With Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, Hugo Weaving
International premiere
Berlinale Special Galas at the Zoo Palast
Das finstere Tal (The Dark Valley)
Austria / Germany
By Andreas Prochaska (Dead In 3 Days, The Unintentional Kidnapping of Mrs. Elfriede Ott)
With Sam Riley, Tobias Moretti, Paula Beer, Thomas Schubert, Carmen Gratl
World premiere
Diplomatie (Diplomacy)
France / Germany
By Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum, The Ninth Day)
With André Dussollier, Niels Arestrup, Robert Stadlober, Burghart Klaussner
World premiere
The Two Faces of January
United Kingdom / USA / France
By Hossein Amini – feature debut
With Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac
World premiere
Berlinale Special at the Kino International
En du Elsker (Someone You Love)
Denmark
By Pernille Fischer Christensen (A Family, A Soap)
With Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Sofus Rønnov, Eve Best
World premiere
Berlinale Special at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq – documentary
USA
By Nancy Buirski (The Loving Story)
International premiere
Baal (1969)
Germany
By Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum, The Ninth Day)
With Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta
Festival premiere
Kathedralen der Kultur – 3D film project
Germany / Denmark / Austria / Norway / France
By Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford, Margreth Olin, Karim Aïnouz
World premiere
Night Will Fall – documentary (work in progress)
United Kingdom
By André Singer (Forbidden Rites, World in Action)
World premiere
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden – documentary
USA
By Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller (Ballets Russes)
European premiere
The Unknown Known – documentary
USA
By Errol Morris (Standard Operation Procedure, Tabloid)
German premiere
Watermark – documentary
Canada
By Jennifer Baichwal (Manufactured Landscapes), Edward Burtynsky
European premiere
We Come As Friends – documentary
France / Austria
By Hubert Sauper (Darwin‘s Nightmare)
European premiere
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