Berlinale 2013: Competition is Now Complete
The Competition of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival is now complete. 19 of the 24 films in the official programme will be vying for the Golden and Silver Bears. The following countries are participating in the Competition programme: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, Germany, France, Greece, Hong Kong/China, Iran, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, the Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland and the USA.
The Award Ceremony will take place at the Berlinale Palast on Saturday, February 16, 2013. The event will close with a screening of the winner of the Golden Bear.
“Young talents and established film artists will present films in which reality and fiction are bafflingly similar. Worldwide independent cinema is undergoing a resurgence. Fast and turbulent: life is hard and unfair – yet still a lot of fun,” says Festival Director Dieter Kosslick.
The following films will complete the Competition programme:
Before Midnight
USA / Greece
By Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, School of Rock, Me & Orson Welles)
With Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
International Premiere / out of competition
Dark Blood
The Netherlands
By George Sluizer (Utz, The Vanishing, The Commissioner)
With River Phoenix († 1993), Judy Davis, Jonathan Pryce, Karen Black
International Premiere / out of competition
Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn (A Long and Happy Life)
Russian Federation
By Boris Khlebnikov (Koktebel, Svobodnoe plavanie, Sumasshedsay a pomoshch)
With Alexander Yatsenko, Eugene Sitiy, Anna Kotova
World Premiere
Night Train to Lisbon
Germany/Switzerland/Portugal
By Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror, The House of the Spirits, Goodbye Bafana)
With Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston, Martina Gedeck, August Diehl, Christopher Lee, Charlotte Rampling
World Premiere / out of competition
Prince Avalanche
USA
By David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls, Pineapple Express)
With Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch
International Premiere
Uroki Garmonii (Harmony Lessons)
Kazakhstan/Germany
By Emir Baigazin - Feature debut
With Timur Aidarbekov, Aslan Anarbayev, Mukhtar Andassov
World Premiere
Vic+Flo ont vu un ours (Vic+Flo Saw a Bear)
Kanada
By Denis Côté (Les états nordiques, Curling, Bestiaire)
With Pierrette Robitaille, Romane Bohringer, Marc-André Grondin
World Premiere
W imię... (In the Name of)
Poland
By Małgośka Szumowska (Stranger, 33 Scenes from Life, Elles)
With Andrzej Chyra, Mateusz Kościukieiwcz
World Premiere
The following Competition films have already been announced (see press releases from Dec. 13, 2012; Dec., 19, 2012; and Jan. 11, 2013):
Camille Claudel 1915 by Bruno Dumont, France - WP
The Croods by Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders, USA (animated film in 3D) – WP (out of competition)
Elle s'en va (On my Way) by Emmanuelle Bercot, France - WP
Epizoda u životu berača željeza (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker) by Danis Tanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina/France/Slovenia - WP
Gloria by Sebastián Lelio, Chile/Spain - WP
Gold by Thomas Arslan, Germany - WP
La Religieuse (The Nun) by Guillaume Nicloux, France/Germany/Belgium - WP
Layla Fourie by Pia Marais, Germany/South Africa/France/Netherlands – WP
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman by Fredrik Bond, USA - IP
Nugu-ui Ttal-do Anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) by Hong Sangsoo, Republic of Korea - WP
Paradies: Hoffnung (Paradise: Hope) by Ulrich Seidl, Austria/France/ Germany - WP
Pardé (Closed Curtain) by Jafar Panahi and Kambozia Partovi, Iran - WP
Poziţia Copilului (Child's Pose) by Călin Peter Netzer, Romania - WP
Promised Land by Gus Van Sant, USA - IP
Side Effects by Steven Soderbergh, USA – IP
Yi dai zong shi (The Grandmaster) by Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, China – IP (out of competition), opening film
(WP = World Premiere, IP = International Premiere)
