The good news from today's announcement of ten additional main slate titles for the 67th Berlin Film Festival is that nine of them, included the five films competing for the bears, are world premieres. These include new works by festival favorites Hong Sangsoo, Sabu, Thomas Arslan and Volker Schlöndorff. I wouldn't be surprised if Schlöndorff, a key member of the New German Cinema of the 1970s, is also announced as this year's Lifetime Achievement awardee, considering that the Berlinale has recently liked to keep the honorary Golden Bear "in the family," so to speak (Michael Ballhaus and Wim Wenders are the two most recent recipients).
Danny Boyle's "Trainspotting" sequel, which reunites much of the cast of the 1997 cult classic and shows at the festival in its international premiere, and the WP of James Mangold's "Logan," headed by Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, promise to be among the festival's splashiest titles. Both films will be screened out-of-competition.
Full details below:
Competition
Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja (On the Beach at Night Alone)
South Korea
By Hong Sangsoo (Nobody's Daughter Haewon, Right Now, Wrong Then)
With Kim Minhee, Seo Younghwa, Jung Jaeyoung, Moon Sungkeun, Kwon Haehyo, Song Seonmi, Ahn Jaehong, Park Yeaju
World premiere
El Bar (The Bar)
Spain
By Álex de la Iglesia (Mad Circus, The Day of the Beast, The Oxford Murders)
With Blanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Carmen Machi, Terele Pávez, Secun de la Rosa, Alejandro Awada, Joaquín Climent, Jaime Ordóñez
World premiere - Out of competition
Helle Nächte (Bright Nights) Germany / Norway By Thomas Arslan (Dealer, Vacation, In the Shadows, Gold) With Georg Friedrich, Tristan Göbel, Marie Leuenberger, Hanna Karlberg World premiere
Joaquim Brazil / Portugal By Marcelo Gomes (Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures, The Man of the Crowd, I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You) With Julio Machado, Isabél Zuaa, Nuno Lopes, Rômulo Braga, Welket Bungué, Karay Rya Pua World premiere
Logan USA By James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted; Walk The Line, The Wolverine) With Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Doris Morgado, Sienna Novikov, Elizabeth Rodriguez World premiere - Out of competition
Mr. Long Japan / Germany / Hong Kong, China / Taiwan By Sabu (Monday, Chasuke’s Journey) With Chen Chang, Sho Aoyagi, Yiti Yao, Junyin Bai World premiere
Return to Montauk
Germany / France / Ireland
By Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum, Diplomatie)
With Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss, Susanne Wolff, Niels Arestrup
World premiere
T2 Trainspotting
United Kingdom
By Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, The Beach, Slumdog Millionaire)
With Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner
International premiere - Out of competition
Viceroy’s House India / United Kingdom
By Gurinder Chadha (Bend it like Beckham, What’s Cooking) With Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi World premiere - Out of competition
Wilde Maus (Wild Mouse) Austria By Josef Hader With Josef Hader, Pia Hierzegger, Georg Friedrich, Jörg Hartmann, Denis Moschitto World premiere – First Feature
Berlinale Special Gala at the Friedrichstadt-Palast
Es war einmal in Deutschland... (Bye Bye Germany)
Germany / Luxemburg / Belgium
By Sam Garbarski (The Rashevski’s Tango, Irina Palm, Quartier Lointain)
With Moritz Bleibtreu, Antje Traue, Mark Ivanir, Tim Seyfi, Hans Löw, Anatol Taubman, Pál Mácsai, Vaclav Jakoubek
World premiere
Berlinale Special Gala at the Zoo Palast
In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts (In Times of Fading Light)
Germany
By Matti Geschonneck (Boxhagener Platz, Das Zeugenhaus)
In collaboration with Wolfgang Kohlhaase
With Bruno Ganz, Hildegard Schmahl, Sylvester Groth, Evgenia Dodina, Natalia Belitski, Alexander Fehling, Gabriela Maria Schmeide
World premiere
Berlinale Special at Kino International
Masaryk (A Prominent Patient)
Czech Republic / Slovakia
By Julius Sevcík (Restart, Normal - The Düsseldorf Ripper)
With Karel Roden, Hanns Zischler, Arly Jover, Oldrich Kaiser, Dermot Crowley, Milton Welsch, Eva Herzigova
World premiere