74th Berlin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

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The lineup for the 74th Berlin Film Festival has been announced, which will run from February 15-24.

After making its world premiere at Sundance this week is U.S. director Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man starring Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve and Adam Pearson a comic body horror story about actor who has facial reconstruction surgery only to find out that the role in the story of his life has been given to another actor. Kristen Stewart, who presided over last year’s Berlin jury, returns with Rose Glass’s queer road thriller Love Lies Bleeding, also a Sundance get.

Also in the lineup we’ll see La Cocina with Rooney Mara from Alonso Ruizpalacious, Another End with Gael García Bernal and Reinsve and the opening film Small Things Like These starring Oppenheimer‘s Cillian Murphy. Films set for the Berlinale Special strand section include Amanda Seyfried in Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils, which premiered in Toronto last fall, German filmmaker Julia von Heinz’s Treasure (formerly titled Iron Box) with Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, and Nathan Zellner’s Sasquatch Sunset starring Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg, which premiered at Sundance.

As previously announced, Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano will be there for the world premiere of Netflix’s Spaceman, directed by Johan Renck plus Euphoria and The Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes star Hunter Schafer will be in the lineup with the horror film Cuckoo from German-American director Tilman Singer.

Lupita Nyong’o will preside over the main jury. See full lineup below.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Small Things Like These by Tim Mielants

Another End by Piero Messina

Architecton by Victor Kossakovsky

Black Tea by Abderrahmane Sissako

La Cocina by Alonso Ruizpalacios

Dahomey by Mati Diop

A Different Man by Aaron Schimberg

L’Empire (The Empire) by Bruno Dumont

Gloria! by Margherita Vicario

Hors du temps (Suspended Time) by Olivier Assayas

In Liebe, Eure Hilde (From Hilde, With Love) by Andreas Dresen

Keyke mahboobe man (My Favourite Cake) by Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam

Langue Etrangere by Claire Burger

Me el Ain (Who Do I Belong to) by Meryam Joobeur

Pepe by Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias

Shambhala by Min Bahadur Bham

Sterben” by Matthias Glasner

Des Teufels Bad (The Devil’s Bath) by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz

Vogter (Sons) by Gustav Moller

Yeohaengjaui pilyo (A Traveler’s Needs) by Hong Sangsoo

ENCOUNTERS

Arcadia by Yorgos Zois

Cidade; Campo by Juliana Rojas

Demba by Mamadou Dia

Direct Action by Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell

Dormir de olhos abertos (Sleep With Your Eyes Open)” by Nele Wohlatz

The Fable by Raam Reddy

Une famille (A Family) by Christine Angot

Favoriten by Ruth Beckermann

Ivo by Eva Trobisch

Khamyazeye bozorg (The Great Yawn)” by Aliyar Rasti

Kong fang jian li de nv ren (Some Rain Must Fall) by Qiu Yang

Maos no fogo (Hands in the Fire) by Margarida Gil

Matt and Mara by Kazik Radwanski

Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing by Travis Wilkerson

Tu me abrasas (You Burn Me) by Matias Pineiro

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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