Berlinale Unveils Full Panorama, Forum & Generation Line-Ups With New Films By Nathan Silver, Levan Akin, André Téchiné & Bruce LaBruce

The Berlinale has announced the full line-ups of its Panorama, Forum and Generation sidebars for the 74th edition running from February 15 to 24. (scroll down for full list)

Panorama will showcase 31 titles including one series and 25 world premieres.

Highlights include Swedish-Georgian director Levan Akin’s Crossing, his first feature since 2019 Cannes breakout And Then We Danced, which opens the selection.

The drama revolves around a retired teacher whose search for her long-lost niece Tekla takes her to Istanbul where she becomes acquainted with a trans rights lawyer.

Other buzzy titles set for a world premiere include André Téchiné’s My New Friends, starring Isabelle Huppert as a solitary police officer, and and Myriam El Hajj’s documentary Diaries From Lebanon, following three people as they navigate their country on the brink of revolution.

A number of Sundance titles will also be making a Panorama splash including Nathan Silver’s Between The Temples, Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow and Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun.

Section head Michael Stütz said the films in the line-up reflected the current era of global crises, wars and social divisions.

“The films in this year’s programme express their attitudes in many voices, building bridges between lived experiences and cinematic possibilities that inspire us to look to the future”, he said.

Under the direction of Barbara Wurm, the 54th edition of the more avant-garde Forum section will present 30 films from 30 territories.

The selection features U.S. indie title The Wrong Movie by Keren Cytter, in which chilling gives way to tragedy; South Korean horror thriller Pa-myo (Exhuma), starring Oldboy lead Choi Min-sik as a feng shui expert working with a shaman, and German-Iranian cinematographer Faraz Fesharaki’s directorial feature debut What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov, capturing his own family’s diaspora experiences.

The line-up also features provocative Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce’s London-shot The Visitor, inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorama, in which a stranger lands with a bourgeois family, and has sex with each member of the household, changing their lives forever.

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