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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda 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.

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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lutz Pehnert
scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Isabelle Stever
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From Italy, the section includes Francesco Costabile’s Una Femmina – The Code of Silence [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Francesco Costabile
scheda film], depicting “a young woman’s process of emancipation in the midst of a family entangled in dark machinations”. Meanwhile, Flávia Neves’ debut, Fogaréu [+leggi anche:
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This year’s Eastern European titles include modern slavery stories set in Russia – namely, Michael Borodin’s Convenience Store [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (Russia/Slovenia/Turkey) and Askar Uzabayev’s Happiness (Kazakhstan) – alongside Miloš Pušić’s tale about Serbian turbo-capitalism Working Class Heroes [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Miloš Pušić
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intervista: Adam Koloman Rybanský
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Finally, the other European titles present in this year’s line-up include Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s follow-up to Heartstone [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
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intervista: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alain Guiraudie
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Until Tomorrow [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Ali Asgari (Iran/France/Qatar)
Into My Name [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nicolò Bassetti
scheda film] - Nicolò Bassetti (Italy)
Swing Ride [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Chiara Bellosi
scheda film] - Chiara Bellosi (Italy/Switzerland)
Convenience Store [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Michael Borodin
scheda film] – Michael Borodin (Russia/Slovenia/Turkey)
Una femmina – The Code of Silence [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Francesco Costabile
scheda film] – Francesco Costabile (Italy)
Klondike [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maryna Er Gorbach
scheda film] - Maryna Er Gorbach (Ukraine/Turkey)
We, Students! [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Rafiki Fariala (Central African Republic/France/Democratic Republic of the Congo/Saudi Arabia)
Nelly & Nadine [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Magnus Gertten
scheda film] - Magnus Gertten (Sweden)
Beautiful Beings [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
scheda film] – Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson (Iceland/Denmark/Sweden/Netherlands/Czech Republic)
Concerned Citizen – Idan Haguel (Israel)
Love, Deutschmarks and Death [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Cem Kaya
scheda film] – Cem Kaya (Germany)
The Apartment with Two Women - Kim Se-in (South Korea)
Somewhere Over the Chemtrails [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Adam Koloman Rybanský
scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - The Myanmar Film Collective (Netherlands/Myanmar/Norway)
Fogaréu [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] – Flávia Neves (Brazil/France)
No U-Turn [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] – Ike Nnaebue (Nigeria/South Africa/France/Germany)
Talking About the Weather [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Annika Pinske
scheda film] - Annika Pinske (Germany)
Bettina [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lutz Pehnert
scheda film] – Lutz Pehnert (Germany)
Working Class Heroes [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Miloš Pušić
scheda film] – Miloš Pušić (Serbia)
Lullaby [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
scheda film] – Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (Spain)
Grand Jeté [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Isabelle Stever
scheda film] – Isabelle Stever (Germany)
Taurus - Tim Sutton (USA)
Happiness – Askar Uzabayev (Kazakhstan)
Dreaming Walls [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Amélie van Elmbt e Maya Du…
scheda film] - Amélie van Elmbt, Maya Duverdier (Belgium/France/USA/Netherlands/Sweden)
A Love Song - Max Walker-Silverman (USA)