The Berlinale has announced the full line-up of its Panorama strand. The section will include a total of 29 films from 33 countries, among them 25 world premieres and nine debut films. This year, Panorama will be opened by Alain Guiraudie’s Nobody’s Hero [+lire aussi :
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interview : Alain Guiraudie
fiche film], the helmer’s first title to be presented at the prestigious German gathering. In it, Guiraudie’s love-struck band of middle-class citizens race through the streets of Clermont-Ferrand following a terrorist attack. Events will be driven forward by an unusual cast of characters revolving around a likeable man in his mid-thirties, an older, married female sex worker and a young, homeless man of Arab descent.

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According to the official press release, this year’s selection will offer “a wild ride through contemporary cinema with works that denounce corrupt elites, dissect hardened and toxic family structures, and lead us to places of resistance and reconciliation”. In detail, these titles will “mediate between past and present and look at the interplay between the individual and society”, but also “demonstrate an aesthetic desire to create, a delight in dramatic gestures and a satirical sensibility”.

Among the newly announced European (co-)productions are three German productions. In Cem Kaya’s documentary essay Love, Deutschmarks and Death [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lutz Pehnert
fiche film], Lutz Pehnert paints a portrait of Berlin-born singer-songwriter Bettina Wegner, made thanks to “meticulously researched and arranged archive material” and aiming to narrate “not only the biography of an artist, but also the history of the divided Germany”. In Grand Jeté [+lire aussi :
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interview : Isabelle Stever
fiche film], Isabelle Stever invites viewers “to witness the blossoming desire between a mother and her estranged son”, and “challenges our viewing habits and moral assumptions with relentless persistence and a masterful mise-en-scène”.

From Italy, the section includes Francesco Costabile’s Una Femmina – The Code of Silence [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], depicting “a young woman’s process of emancipation in the midst of a family entangled in dark machinations”. Meanwhile, Flávia Neves’ debut, Fogaréu [+lire aussi :
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This year’s Eastern European titles include modern slavery stories set in Russia – namely, Michael Borodin’s Convenience Store [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Russia/Slovenia/Turkey) and Askar Uzabayev’s Happiness (Kazakhstan) – alongside Miloš Pušić’s tale about Serbian turbo-capitalism Working Class Heroes [+lire aussi :
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interview : Miloš Pušić
fiche film] (Serbia) and Adam Koloman Rybanský’s Somewhere Over the Chemtrails [+lire aussi :
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interview : Adam Koloman Rybanský
fiche film] (Czech Republic), labelled as “a laconic film that explores the causes of racism”.

Finally, the other European titles present in this year’s line-up include Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s follow-up to Heartstone [+lire aussi :
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interview : Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
fiche film], the coming-of-age tale Beautiful Beings [+lire aussi :
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interview : Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
fiche film] (Iceland/Denmark/Sweden/Netherlands/Czech Republic), Ike Nnaebue’s documentary No U-Turn [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Nigeria/South Africa/France/Germany) and Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s Lullaby [+lire aussi :
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interview : Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
fiche film] (Spain), billed as “a sensitive study of the caring, cross-generational role of women”.

The full Panorama selection (including the first few titles announced - see the news) is as follows:

Nobody’s Hero [+lire aussi :
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interview : Alain Guiraudie
fiche film] – Alain Guiraudie (France) (opening film)
Until Tomorrow [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Ali Asgari (Iran/France/Qatar)
Into My Name [+lire aussi :
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interview : Nicolò Bassetti
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Swing Ride [+lire aussi :
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interview : Chiara Bellosi
fiche film] - Chiara Bellosi (Italy/Switzerland)
Convenience Store [+lire aussi :
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interview : Michael Borodin
fiche film] – Michael Borodin (Russia/Slovenia/Turkey)
Una femmina – The Code of Silence [+lire aussi :
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interview : Francesco Costabile
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Klondike [+lire aussi :
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interview : Maryna Er Gorbach
fiche film] - Maryna Er Gorbach (Ukraine/Turkey)
We, Students! [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - Rafiki Fariala (Central African Republic/France/Democratic Republic of the Congo/Saudi Arabia)
Nelly & Nadine [+lire aussi :
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interview : Magnus Gertten
fiche film] - Magnus Gertten (Sweden)
Beautiful Beings [+lire aussi :
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interview : Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
fiche film] – Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson (Iceland/Denmark/Sweden/Netherlands/Czech Republic)
Concerned Citizen – Idan Haguel (Israel)
Love, Deutschmarks and Death [+lire aussi :
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interview : Cem Kaya
fiche film] – Cem Kaya (Germany)
The Apartment with Two Women - Kim Se-in (South Korea)
Somewhere Over the Chemtrails [+lire aussi :
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interview : Adam Koloman Rybanský
fiche film] – Adam Koloman Rybanský (Czech Republic)
No Simple Way Home – Akuol de Mabior (Kenya/South Sudan/South Africa)
Northern Skies Over Empty Space – Alejandra Márquez Abella (Mexico)
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power - Nina Menkes (USA)
Myanmar Diaries [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] - The Myanmar Film Collective (Netherlands/Myanmar/Norway)
Fogaréu [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Flávia Neves (Brazil/France)
No U-Turn [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – Ike Nnaebue (Nigeria/South Africa/France/Germany)
Talking About the Weather [+lire aussi :
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interview : Annika Pinske
fiche film] - Annika Pinske (Germany)
Bettina [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lutz Pehnert
fiche film] – Lutz Pehnert (Germany)
Working Class Heroes [+lire aussi :
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interview : Miloš Pušić
fiche film] – Miloš Pušić (Serbia)
Lullaby [+lire aussi :
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interview : Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
fiche film] – Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (Spain)
Grand Jeté [+lire aussi :
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interview : Isabelle Stever
fiche film] – Isabelle Stever (Germany)
Taurus - Tim Sutton (USA)
Happiness – Askar Uzabayev (Kazakhstan)
Dreaming Walls [+lire aussi :
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interview : Amélie van Elmbt et Maya D…
fiche film] - Amélie van Elmbt, Maya Duverdier (Belgium/France/USA/Netherlands/Sweden)
A Love Song - Max Walker-Silverman (USA)