The 64th annual Berlin International Film Festival: A Synopsis

Berlinale 2014: Festival Coverage

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The 64^th annual Berlin International Film Festival—the first of the three most prestigious international film festivals held every year with the other two being Cannes Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival—is currently being held in Berlin, Germany from the 6^th to 16^th of February 2014.

The festival jury is being presided over by American film producer and screenwriter James Schamus. Wes Anderson’s film The Grand Budapest Hotel opened the festival. 

For the list of winners at Berlinale 2014, please click here

  

Festival Jury

• James Schamus, American film producer and screenwriter (Jury president)
• Barbara Broccoli, American film producer
• Trine Dyrholm, Danish actress
• Mitra Farahani, Iranian film director
• Greta Gerwig, American actress and film director
• Michel Gondry, French film director, screenwriter, and producer
• Tony Leung, Chinese actor
• Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor

Festival Jury (Best First Feature)

• Nancy Buirski, American, founder of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
• Valeria Golino, Italian actress and director
• Hernán Musaluppi, Argentine film producer

Films screened in competition

English title	Director(s)	Country
‘71	Yann Demange	United Kingdom
Life of Riley	Alain Resnais	France
Aloft	Claudia Llosa	Spain, Canada, France
Beloved Sisters	Dominik Graf	Germany
Stratos	Yannis Economides	Greece, Germany, Cyprus
The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson	United Kingdom, Germany
Black Coal, Thin Ice	Diao Yinan	China
Boyhood	Richard Linklater	United States
The Little House	Yoji Yamada	Japan
History of Fear	Benjamín Naishtat	Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, France
Jack	Edward Berger	Germany
In Order of Disappearance	Hans Petter Moland	Norway
Stations of the Cross	Dietrich Brüggemann	Germany
The Third Side of the River	Celina Murga	Argentina, Germany, Netherlands
Two Men in Town	Rachid Bouchareb	France, Algeria, United States, Belgium
Macondo	Sudabeh Mortezai	Austria
Praia do Futuro	Karim Aïnouz	Brazil, Germany
Blind Massage	Lou Ye	China, France
No Man's Land	Ning Hao	China
Inbetween Worlds	Feo Aladag	Germany

Films screened out of competition

English title	Director(s)	Country
The Monuments Men	George Clooney	United States
Nymphomaniac	Lars von Trier	Denmark, Germany, France
Beauty and the Beast	Christophe Gans	France, Germany

Films screened in the Panorama Section

English title	Director(s)	Country
If You Don't, I Will	Sophie Fillières	France
The Rice Bomber	Cho Li	Taiwan
Ice Poison	Midi Z	Taiwan, Myanmar
Calvary	John Michael McDonagh	Ireland, United Kingdom
The Way He Looks	Daniel Ribeiro	Brazil
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?	Michel Gondry	France
The Man of the Crowd	Marcelo Gomes, Cao Guimarães	Brazil
Papilio Buddha	Jayan Cherian	India, United States
Quick Change	Eduardo Roy Jr.	Philippines
Stereo	Maximilian Erlenwein	Germany
Test	Chris Mason Johnson	United States
The Better Angels	A. J. Edwards	United States
The Lamb	Kutluğ Ataman	Germany, Turkey
Things People Do *	Saar Klein	United States
Triptych	Robert Lepage, Pedro Pires	Canada
Superegos	Benjamin Heisenberg	Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Unfriend	Joselito Altarejos	Philippines
Journey to the West	Tsai Ming-liang	France, Taiwan
Yves Saint Laurent	Jalil Lespert	France
I'm Not Angry!	Reza Dormishian	Iran
Blind	Eskil Vogt	Norway, Netherlands
Difret	Zeresenay Berhane Mehari	Ethiopia
Fever	Elfi Mikesch	Luxembourg, Austria
Güeros	Alonso Ruízpalacios	Mexico
Highway	Imtiaz Ali	India
Homeland	Nao Kubota	Japan
Quiet Bliss	Edoardo Winspeare	Italy
Love Is Strange	Ira Sachs	United States
That Demon Within	Dante Lam	Hong Kong, China
Standing Aside, Watching	Yorgos Servetas	Greece
Night Flight	Leesong Hee-il	South Korea
2030	Nghiêm-Minh Nguyễn-Võ	Vietnam
Brides	Tinatin Kajrishvili	Georgia, France
Cracks in Concrete	Umut Dağ	Austria
The Midnight After	Fruit Chan	Hong Kong, China
Land of Storms	Adam Császi	Hungary
The Night	Hao Zhou	China

Berlinale Special Galas

English title	Director(s)	Country
A Long Way Down	Pascal Chaumeil	United Kingdom, Germany
American Hustle	David O. Russell	United States
Cesar Chavez	Diego Luna	United States
In the Courtyard	Pierre Salvadori	France
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared	Felix Herngren	Sweden
The Turning	Anthology with 20 different directors	Australia
The Dark Valley	Andreas Prochaska	Austria, Germany
Diplomacy	Volker Schlöndorff	France, Germany
The Two Faces of January	Hossein Amini	United Kingdom, United States, France
Someone You Love	Pernille Fischer Christensen	Denmark

Berlinale Classics

English title	Director(s)	Country & Year
Late Autumn	Yasujirō Ozu	Japan (1960)
Caravaggio	Derek Jarman	United Kingdom (1986)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	Robert Wiene	Germany (1920)
Germany, Pale Mother	Helma Sanders-Brahms	East Germany (1980)
The Hero	Satyajit Ray	India (1966)
Rebel Without a Cause	Nicholas Ray	United States (1955)

List of Awards scheduled

• Golden Bear
• Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear)
• Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear)
• Silver Bear for Best Director
• Silver Bear for Best Actress
• Silver Bear for Best Actor
• Silver Bear for Best Script
• Silver Bear for Outstanding artistic contribution
• Best First Feature Award

Readers, please feel free to share your opinion by leaving your comments. As always your feedback is highly appreciated!  

— Murtaza Ali

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References

Wikipedia

Berlinale Official Website

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