Berlin Film Festival announces competition titles December 18, 2013 - 15:58 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The new films from Berlin Golden Bear winner Claudia Llosa, French director Alain Resnais, German helmer Dominik Graf, Greece's Yannis Economides and Britain's Yann Demange have joined George Clooney's Monuments Men and The Grand Budapest Hotel from Wes Anderson in the official selection of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, running Feb. 6-16, 2014, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Grand Budapest Hotel will open the festival. Monuments Men will run in an out of competition slot. Llosa's Aloft, her English-language debut, will have its world premiere in Berlin. The drama stars Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy and Melanie Laurent. The Peruvian-born Llosa won the Golden Bear with her second feature, The Milk of Sorrow, in 2009. Renais' Life of Riley, Demange's '71, Stratos from Economides and Graf's Die Geliebten Schwestern will all be Berlinale world premieres. Also making its world premiere in Berlin will be A Long Way Down, Pascal Chaumeil's ensemble drama featuring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots, which will receive a special, out of competition screening. Other special screenings include Australian omnibus film The Turning -- which features short films by, among others, David Wenham, Mia Wasikowska and Ashlee Page -- and two documentaries: We Come As Friends from Austrian director Hubert Sauper and The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden from American directors Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller. Related links:   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan  A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia.U.S. welcomes efforts to define Armenia-Azerbaijan border The United States welcomes efforts to define the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, says Vedant Patel.Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. |
