14/01/2015 - Eight titles have been added to the 65th Berlin Film Festival’s competition selection

Nicole Kidman and James Franco in Queen of the Desert by Werner Herzog

In competition at the 65th Berlin Film Festival (5-15 February), the new films by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, cult German filmmaker Werner Herzog, France’s Benoît Jacquot and Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska (In the Name of [+see also:
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All in all, eight titles have been added to the programme of the German gathering’s main section, including one film out of competition:

- Body by Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland)
- Diary of a Chambermaid by Benoît Jacquot (France), starring Léa Seydoux and Vincent Lindon
- Victoria by Sebastian Schipper (Germany)
- Cha và con và (Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories) by Di Phan Dang (Vietnam/France/Germany/Netherlands)
- Queen of the Desert by Werner Herzog (USA), starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco and Robert Pattinson
- Taxi by Jafar Panahi (Iran)
- Yi bu zhi yao (Gone with the Bullets) by Wen Jiang (China/USA /Hong Kong)
- Mr Holmes by Bill Condon (UK), out of competition

(Translated from French)