A host of French co-productions will be showcased at the Berlinale, which celebrates its 65th anniversary this year, with French director Benoit Jacquot, a veteran of the festival, in attendance.
The upcoming Berlin International Film Festival, which will be held February 5 through 15, 2015, will welcome a large number of French productions and co-productions this year.
Audrey Tautou has been invited to join this year's official jury, which is led by the American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky. She will be accompanied by the German actor Daniel Brühl, the South-Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, the American producer Martha de Laurentiis, the Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa, and the American screenwriter Matthew Weiner.
Here are the French films presented this year, category by category:
OFFICIAL SELECTION
- Diary of a Chambermaid by Benoit Jacquot
- Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories by Di Phan Dang (Vietnam, France, Germany, Netherlands)
- Ixcanul Volcano by Jayro Bustamante (Guatemala, France)
- Nobody Wants the Night by Isabel Coixet (Spain, France, Bulgaria)
- As We Were Dreaming by Andreas Dresen (Germany, France)
- The Pearl Button by Patricio Guzman (France, Chile, Spain)
Out of Competition:
- Everything Will Be Fine by Wim Wenders (Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway)
PANORAMA SECTION
- Absence by Chico Teixeira (Brazil, Chile, France)
- Bizarre by Étienne Faure (France, USA)
- A Minor Leap Down by Hamed Rajabi (Iran, France)
- The Summer of Sangaile by Alanté Kavaïté (Lithuania, France, Netherlands)
- My Name is Annemarie Schwarzenbach by Véronique Aubouy
- The Yes Men Are Revolting by Laura Nix, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno (USA, Germany, France, Denmark, Netherlands)
- Murder in Pacot by Raoul Peck (France, Haiti, Norway)
- A German Youth by Jean-Gabriel Périot (France, Switzerland, Germany)
- Nasty Baby, de Sebastian Silva (France, Chili, Etats-Unis)
FORUM SECTION
- Voyage en post-histoire by Vincent Dieutre
- The Night and the Kid by David Yon (France, Qatar)
- Hotline by Silvina Landsmann (Israel, France)
- This Gigantic Furrowing of the Ground by Claire Angelini (France)
- Exotica, Erotica, Etc. by Evangelia Kranioti (France, Greece, Spain)
- Portrait of the Artist by Antoine Barraud
- Story of Judas by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
- La Sirène de Faso Fani by Michel K. Zongo (France, Burkina Faso, Germany)
- The Valley by Ghassan Salhab (Lebanon, France, Germany)
- Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem by Akram Zaatari (Lebanon, France)
- Untitled (Human Mask) by Pierre Huyghe (short film)
- Calamity qui? by Isabelle Prim (Canada, France) (short film)
- The Children of Uzai, AntiNarcissus by Mireille Kassar (Lebanon, France)
GENERATIONS SECTION
- Si la mer se meurt by Lorris Coulon (short film)
- Catalina y el sol by Anna Paula Hönig (France, Argentina, Germany) (short film)
- Coach by Ben Adler (short film)
- Messages dans l'air by Isabelle Favez (Switzerland, France) (short film)
BERLINALE SHORTS
- Planet Sigma by Momoko Seto
- Of Stains, Scraps & Trees by Sebastian Brameshuber
- YúYú by Marc Johnson
Download the complete program of French films presented at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in an attachment to this article, and all the festival selections at the Berlinale website.
