Yesterday, 20 December, the Berlin International Film Festival announced a raft of new titles which will take part in its 73^rd edition, set to unspool from 16-26 February 2023. In detail, the gathering announced some of the films and series which will be showcased in the Berlinale Special, Series, Forum and Forum Expanded strands.

According to the programmers, this years' Berlinale Special will “captivate audiences with its variety of formats and a multifaceted programme,” whilst the Berlinale Series “will once again offer an exclusive first look at new series productions from around the world.”

On this occasion, Berlinale Series will open with The Swarm [+lire aussi :
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fiche série] (Germany), a show based on the bestseller of the same name penned by Frank Schätzing. The ZDF/Beta Film-produced series follows an international group of scientists who do their research on mysterious ocean phenomena that become a global threat. The festival will premiere the first three episodes of the eco-thriller series directed by Barbara Eder, Luke Watson and Philipp Stölzl. Among the cast members is Leonie Benesch, one of this year’s European Shooting Stars.

Among the highlights of the Berlinale Special is Robert Schwentke’s Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Germany/Morocco), starring John Malkovich in the lead role along with Geraldine Chaplin and emerging German actors such as Louis Hofmann, Alexander Fehling, Lilith Stangenberg and Tom Xander. Another buzzy title on many festival attendees' watchlist will be Alex Gibney's “multilayered” documentary feature about Boris Becker Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (UK/USA), “the young talent who conquered Wimbledon and, after having inflamed a country, has fallen with same grandness.”

Meanwhile, the first eight films of the Forum programme will aim to “explore the possibilities of the voice-over, dare to let text and image diverge or work with a deliberately restricted stock of images to allow their soundtracks to reverberate all the more.” Among this year’s European picks are Fiona Tan’s father-daughter epistolary tale Dearest Fiona [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Romania/Poland/Germany) and Vincent Dieutre’s “tender auto-fictional piece” This is the End [+lire aussi :
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Finally, the German festival also announced the 204 participants of this year’s Berlinale Talents. The finalists, coming from 68 different countries, were chosen out of 3,000 applications. Moreover, Todd Field, Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss and Hildur Guðnadóttir will speak about their creative collaboration on TÁR in a public talk.

Here is the full list of the new titles announced by the festival:

Berlinale Special

Infinity Pool [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Brandon Cronenberg (Canada/Hungary/Croatia/France)
Loriot's Great Cartoon Revue [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Loriot and Peter Geyer (Germany)
#Manhole – Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Japan)
Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes [+lire aussi :
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TÁR – Todd Field (USA)
Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Alex Gibney (UK/USA)

Berlinale Series

The Swarm [+lire aussi :
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fiche série] – Barbara Eder, Luke Watson and Philipp Stölzl (Germany/Belgium) (series)

Forum

Concrete Valley – Antoine Bourges (Canada)
Dearest Fiona [+lire aussi :
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Horse Opera – Moyra Davey (USA)
The Trial [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Ulises de la Orden (Argentina/Italy/France/Norway)
Calls from Moscow [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Luís Alejandro Yero (Cuba/Germany/Norway)
Mammalia [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Sebastian Mihăilescu (Romania/Poland/Germany)
Notes from Eremocene [+lire aussi :
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interview : Viera Čákanyová
fiche film] – Viera Čákanyová (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
This Is the End [+lire aussi :
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