Filmes
HUNT SEASON STARTS
The 58th BERLINALE (February 7 to 17) starts the intelligent cinema shows season. Some of the films in its selection will hunt down spectators all year round and will get to the next Oscar award competition, the most wanted in all cinema industry. Like what happened to the young and excellent French actress Marion Cotillard in LA MÔME – LA VIE EN ROSE (THE PASSIONATE LIFE OF EDITH PIAF). The film opened the Berlin Festival in 2007 and she has now been nominated for the best actress Oscar. Another film in the Berlin selection last year, BEAUFORT, by Israeli Joseph Cedar, was nominated for the best foreign film award one year later.
The Berlin Festival breaks the ice of the German winter (less and less strong) and fills the city with news, every seat of its big and comfortable theaters being well disputed. The broadness of the program goes from films for audiences such as children, to the most extravagant groups in town.
The awarded American director Martin Scorsese opens the festival with its documentary SHINE A LIGHT, on the Rolling Stones’ concert during the American tour in October and November 2006.
The selection of films in competition follows:
Kirschblüten – Hanami , by Doris Dörrie, Germany.
There Will Be Blood, by Paul Thomas Anderson, USA.
Zuo You (In Love We Trust), by Wang Xiaoshuai, China.
Lake Tahoe, by Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico
Gardens of the Night, by Damian Harris, Great Britain/USA.
Tropa de Elite, by José Padilha, Brazil.
S.O.P. Standard Operating Procedure, by Errol Morris, USA
Ballast ,by Lance Hammer, USA
Bam gua Nat (Night and Day), by Hong Sangsoo, Corean Republic.
Be Kind Rewind, by Michel Gondry, USA
Fireflies in the Garden, by Dennis Lee, USA
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, by Philippe Claudel, France/ Germany
Musta Jaä (Black Ice), by Petri Kotwica, Finland/ Germany
The Other Boleyn Girl, by Jistin Chadwick, USA/ Great Britain
Avaze Gonjeshk-ha (The Song Of Sparrows), by Majid Majidi, Iran
Feuerherz (Heart of Fire), by Senait Mehari, Germany/ Italy/ Austria
Julia, by Erick Zonca, France
Lady Jane , by Robert Guédiguian, France
Caos calmo (Quiet Chaos) , by Antonello Grimaldi, Italy
Happy-Go-Lucky , by Mike Leigh, United Kingdom
Restless , by Amos Kollek, Israel/Germany/ Canada/ France/ Belgium
Elegy , by Isabel Coixet , USA
Sparrow , by Johnnie To, Hong Kong, China
Kabei (Kabei – Our Mother), by Yoji Yamada, Japan
Katyń, by Polish veteran Andrzej Wajda (nominated to the best foreign film Oscar) will be presented out of competition.
More Berlin Festival at http://www.berlinale.de
English version: Laura Rebessi