French cinema will be in the spotlight at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival, to be held February 11 through 20, 2016, with three majority-French productions in competition (along with three minority co-productions) and two films presented out of competition.
The directors André Téchiné (whose film The Witnesses was previously shown in competition in Berlin in 2007), Mia Hansen-Løve (in the competition section for the first time this year), and Danis Tanovic (whose film An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker was presented at Berlin in 2013) are behind the three films solely or majority-produced by France that are included in the Official Competition at Berlin this year.
In addition to this, the Out of Competition section will feature world premieres of two eagerly-anticipated films: Saint Amour by Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine, starring Gérard Depardieu and Benoît Poelvoorde, and News from Planet Mars by Dominik Moll, starring François Damiens.
The lineup for the festival's Panorama and Generation sections will be announced at a later late.
The Forum section, which serves as an independent platform for discovering new talent at the Berlinale, will showcase 44 films this year, including 10 titles crediting France as a co-production partner. Guillaume Nicloux will present his intriguing fantasy thriller The End, which reunites the director with lead actor Gérard Depardieu, while Eugène Green will reveal his latest offering The Son of Joseph, featuring Mathieu Amalric.
Feature Films - Official Competition:
- Alone in Berlin by Vincent Perez (minority co-production)
- Things to Come by Mia Hansen-Løve
- Death in Sarajevo by Danis Tanovic
- Being Seventeen by André Téchiné
- Soy nero by Rafi Pitts (minority co-production)
- Fire at Sea by Gianfranco Rosi (minority co-production)
Feature Films - Out of Competition:
Feature Films - Forum:
- The End by Guillaume Nicloux
- The Son of Joseph by Eugène Green
- Between Fences by Avi Mograbi
- Baden Baden de Rachel Lang (50% French production)
- El Dorado XXI by Salomé Lamas (minority co-production)
- Ta'ang, un peuple en exil, entre Chine et Birmanie by Wang Bing (minority co-production)
- A Maid for Each de Maher Abi Samra (minority co-production)
- We Are Never Alone by Petr Vaclav (minority co-production)
- Depth Two, by Ognjen Glavonic (minority co-production)
- Illegitimate, by Adrian Sitaru (minority co-production)
Feature Films - Génération :
Feature Films - Panorama :
- Aloys de Tobias Nölle
- Mariupolis de Mantas Kvedaravicius
- Don't Blink - Robert Frank de Laura Israel
- I, Olga Hepnarova de Tomáš Weinreb, Petr Kazda
- The Wounded Angel de Emir Baigazin
- Road to Istanbul de Rachid Bouchareb
- The First the Last de Bouli Lanners
- Paris 05:59 de Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Feature Films - Forum Expanded :
Short Films - Official Competition :
- Our Legacy de Jonathan Vinel
- Love de Réka Bucsi
- Estate de Ronny Trocker
- In the Soldier's Head de Christine Rebet
Short Films - Generation Competition :
Feature Films - Panorama / Teddy 30 :
- I, You, She, He de Chantal Akerman
- All Night Long de Chantal Akerman
