The Berlinale 2017 will open the Official Competition of its 67th edition (February 9-19) with Étienne Comar's first film, focused on the Gypsy community through one of its most famous artistic figures.
Django will be presented as a world premiere, opening the Berlinale, on February 9, 2017, and is also selected for Official Competition. The film, produced by Étienne Comar, Olivier Delbosc, and Marc Missonnier for Arches Films and Fidélité Films, and directed by Étienne Comar, features Reda Kateb in the role of the famous Gypsy guitarist, and his personal trajectory during the upheavals of World War Two, a dark period for Gypsies, persecuted by the Nazis. Cécile de France, Patrick Mille, Alex Brendemühl and Xavier Beauvois are the film's other leading actors.
Also in Competition, the French coproductions Félicité by Alain Gomis (majority),
Ana mon amour by Călin Peter Netzer, and Colo by Teresa Villaverde.
In terms of the Panorama section, Centaur by Aktan Arym Kubat and Pendular by Julia Murat have been selected for the "Europa Europa" focus, as well I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck and The Wound by John Trengove, for the "Black Worlds" focus.
Raoul Peck will present, at a Special Gala, his fiction feature The Young Karl Marx.
French films and coproductions
Official Competition
- Django by Étienne Comar (majority coproduction)
- Félicité by Alain Gomis (majority coproduction)
- Ana mon amour by Călin Peter Netzer
- Colo by Teresa Villaverde
- Return to Montauk by Volker Schlöndorff
Out of competition
- The Midwife by Martin Provost (majority coproduction)
Generation
- Wallay by Berni Goldblat
- Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl ! by Felipe Bragança
- Playground by Maxence Lemonnier
Panorama
- I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck (majority coproduction)
- Investigating Paradise by Merzak Allouache (majority coproduction)
- Belinda by Marie Dumora (majority coproduction)
- Call Me by Your Name by Luca Guadagnino
- Insyriated by Philippe Van Leeuw
- Pendular by Julia Murat
- The Wound by John Trengove
- Headbang Lullaby by Hicham Lasri
- Centaur by Aktan Arym Kubat
Forum
- Tinselwood, une forêt by Marie Voignier (majority coproduction)
- Somniloques by Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor (majority coproduction)
- Occidental by Neïl Beloufa (majority coproduction)
- Spell Reel by Filipa César
- Foreign Body by Raja Amari
- Low Tide by Daniel Mann
- Barrage by Laura Schroeder
- Strange Birds by Élise Girard
- Mama Colonel by Dieudo Hamadi
- My Happy Family by Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Grosse
Berlinale Special
- The Young Karl Marx by Raoul Peck (majority coproduction)
Forum Expanded
Official short films competition
