Joining the likes of the already-announced #MeToo drama The Assistant with Julia Garner and Matthew Macfadyen, and a new Stellan Skarsgård starrer, Hope [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], which have all found their way into the Berlinale’s Panorama (20 February-1 March 2020), new titles added to the section continue to widen the scope. They include Guillaume Brac’s À L'abordage [+lire aussi :
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interview : Guillaume Brac
fiche film], which will show the adventure born of one summer night in Paris; Surge [+lire aussi :
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interview : Aneil Karia
fiche film], with Ben Whishaw as a young man living a life of unbearable monotony until one day he embarks on a trip through Central London; and Father, described by the festival as “a moving tale about inequality”, focusing on a man whose children are taken away by social services.

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Protagonists experiencing dramatic changes will also appear in Minyan, all about New York in the 1980s, with a young boy looking for happiness outside of his rigid Jewish community, as well as Mogul Mowgli, with comedian Riz Ahmed (who also co-wrote the script) starring as a British rapper, whose big break is undercut by an illness that brings him back to something he tried his best to escape – his family and its Pakistani traditions. Poland’s Mateusz Kościukiewicz will flex his foreign acting muscles again after 2019’s The Informer [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andrea Di Stefano
fiche film], this time in Mare – showing a woman resignedly dedicated to her family, until a sudden encounter awakens the needs she had already considered dormant.

In the documentary field, the Swedish title Always Amber by Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikainen will spotlight a new generation no longer interested in being constrained by fixed gender roles, while Teboho Edkins’ Days of Cannibalism [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] will show Chinese merchants fighting for supremacy with Basotho cattle breeders, trying their best to preserve their traditions. The Brazilian – and black-and-white – movie Amazon Mirror will bring us closer to those living next to the world’s largest hydroelectric plants in Amazonia, struggling to make ends meet, and thanks to some never-before-seen footage, Bettina Böhler will tell the story of artist Christoph Schlingensief in Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence [+lire aussi :
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interview : Bettina Böhler
fiche film], inviting the one and only Udo Kier along for the ride.

I Dream of Singapore promises an unflinching look at the life of migrant workers in Southeast Asia, and The Foundation Pit by Andrey Gryazev gives found footage a brand-new spin – by compiling YouTube videos of people addressing president Putin, angrily or adoringly, reflecting various moods felt all over the country. Finally, Karim Aïnouz, who not so long ago made quite an impact with The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] and is no stranger to the Berlinale – most recently winning the 2018 Amnesty International Film Prize for Central Airport THF [+lire aussi :
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interview : Karim Aïnouz
fiche film] – now turns his attention to a young Algerian female activist in Nardjes A [+lire aussi :
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fiche film].

Back to fiction, albeit in this case inspired by a real-life phenomenon, in One of These Days [+lire aussi :
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interview : Bastian Günther
fiche film], Carrie Preston and Joe Cole will be joining in with the Texan “Hands on a Hardbody” competition, with contestants standing around a pickup truck for days, touching it with one hand. Sow the Wind [+lire aussi :
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interview : Danilo Caputo
fiche film] will show an uneasy return to a place that was once called home, as a woman fights for her grandmother’s olive grove, even if it means standing up to her father, and Francisco Márquez’s A Common Crime [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] will point out social injustice through the story of a woman whose refusal to let her housekeeper’s son into the house has tragic consequences. Last but not least, Dry Wind will riff on the unforgettable Tom of Finland, as a man who looks exactly like the character from the sexually charged drawings suddenly shows up in a small town.

“The Panorama programme is emblematic of the urgent need for political action and civil disobedience. Filmmakers and protagonists are standing up against the authorities,” said Michael Stütz, chosen as the new section head. “Russian citizens who have been left behind socially stagger between neo-imperialist subservience and making angry accusations against their president. A young woman whacks patriarchal dominance in the face with a shovel. And, in Sweden, self-determined young people are defining their own gender. They are all engaged in a search, stimulating change and breaking out. The films display the power of resistance and the scope of what is possible.”

Berlinale Special has also advertised some brand-new things on offer, embracing genre filmmaking with High Ground, a western developed in close collaboration with Australia’s indigenous communities, and Time to Hunt – a South Korean thriller boasting the participation of Parasite’s Choi Woo-shik. Oleh Sentsov himself will present Numbers [+lire aussi :
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interview : Oleg Sentsov
fiche film], based on his eponymous 2011 play, and Golda Maria [+lire aussi :
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interview : Patrick Sobelman et Hugo S…
fiche film], a documentary about the titular Holocaust survivor, directed by both her grandson and great-grandson, Patrick and Hugo Sobelman, will take an intimate look at the past. Finally, Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez will come along clutching The American Sector, recounting the odd journey of the fragments of the Berlin Wall scattered across the USA.

Here is the full list of the Panorama section and the new additions to Berlinale Special:

Panorama

À l'abordage [+lire aussi :
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interview : Guillaume Brac
fiche film] – Guillaume Brac (France)
Always Amber – Lia Hietala, Hannah Reinikainen (Sweden)
The Assistant - Kitty Green (USA)
Notes from the Underworld [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tizza Covi et Rainer Frimmel
fiche film] - Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel (Austria) (documentary)
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets - Bill Ross, Turner Ross (USA)
Shine Your Eyes [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Matias Mariani (Brazil/France)
Days of Cannibalism [+lire aussi :
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interview : Teboho Edkins
fiche film] – Teboho Edkins (France/South Africa/Netherlands)
Digger [+lire aussi :
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interview : Georgis Grigorakis
fiche film] - Georgis Grigorakis (Greece/France)
Eeb Allay Ooo! - Prateek Vats (India)
Exile [+lire aussi :
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interview : Visar Morina
fiche film] - Visar Morina (Germany/Belgium/Kosovo)
No Hard Feelings [+lire aussi :
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interview : Faraz Shariat
fiche film] - Faraz Shariat (Germany)
Hope [+lire aussi :
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interview : Maria Sødahl
fiche film] - Maria Sødahl (Norway/Sweden)
I Dream of Singapore – Lei Yuan Bin (Singapore)
Running on Empty [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lisa Weber
fiche film] - Lisa Weber (Austria) (documentary)
Wildland [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jeanette Nordahl
fiche film] - Jeanette Nordahl (Denmark)
The Foundation Pit – Andrey Gryazev (Russia)
One in a Thousand [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Clarisa Navas (Argentina/Germany)
Mare [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andrea Staka
fiche film] – Andrea Štaka (Switzerland/Croatia)
Minyan – Eric Steel (USA)
Mogul Mowgli [+lire aussi :
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interview : Bassam Tariq
fiche film] ­­– Bassam Tariq (UK)
Nardjes A [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Karim Aïnouz (Algeria/France/Germany/Brazil/Qatar)
One of These Days [+lire aussi :
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interview : Bastian Günther
fiche film] – Bastian Günther (Germany/USA)
Father [+lire aussi :
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interview : Srdan Golubović
fiche film] – Srdan Golubović (Serbia/France/Germany/Croatia/Slovenia/Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Pari [+lire aussi :
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interview : Siamak Etemadi
fiche film] - Siamak Etemadi (Greece/France/Netherlands/Bulgaria)
Little Girl [+lire aussi :
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interview : Sébastien Lifshitz
fiche film] - Sébastien Lifshitz (France) (documentary)
Amazon Mirror ­– Fernando Segtowick (Brazil)
Saudi Runaway [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Susanne Regina Meures (Switzerland)
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence [+lire aussi :
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interview : Bettina Böhler
fiche film] – Bettina Böhler (Germany)
Black Milk [+lire aussi :
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interview : Uisenma Borchu
fiche film] - Uisenma Borchu (Germany/Mongolia)
Sow the Wind [+lire aussi :
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interview : Danilo Caputo
fiche film] – Danilo Caputo (Italy/France/Greece)
If It Were Love [+lire aussi :
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interview : Patric Chiha
fiche film] - Patric Chiha (France) (documentary)
Suk Suk - Ray Yeung (Hong Kong/China)
Surge [+lire aussi :
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interview : Aneil Karia
fiche film] – Aneil Karia (UK)
A Common Crime [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Francisco Márquez (Argentina/Brazil/Switzerland)
Dry Wind – Daniel Nolasco (Brazil)
Welcome to Chechnya - David France (USA) (documentary)

Berlinale Special

The American Sector – Courtney Stephens, Pacho Velez (USA)
Golda Maria [+lire aussi :
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interview : Patrick Sobelman et Hugo S…
fiche film] – Patrick Sobelman, Hugo Sobelman (France)
High Ground – Stephen Maxwell Johnson (Australia)
Numbers [+lire aussi :
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interview : Oleg Sentsov
fiche film] – Oleh Sentsov in collaboration with Akhtem Seitablaiev (Ukraine/Poland/Czech Republic/France)
Time to Hunt – Yoon Sung-hyun (South Korea)