The Berlin Film Festival immediately unveiled additional titles for the 2024 version of its Berlinale Special Presentations sidebar part alongside its classics program. Scroll down for the total record of titles introduced immediately.
Highlights from the newest drop of Specials titles embody Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, a characteristic documentary about influential British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger narrated by Killers of the Flower Moon filmmaker Martin Scorsese. The characteristic is directed by David Hinton and options uncommon archival materials from the private collections of Powell, Pressburger, and Scorsese.
Love Lies Bleeding, the newest characteristic from British filmmaker Rose Glass will debut within the Specials program. The characteristic stars Kristen Stewart alongside Weronika Tofilska. A brief synopsis describes the pic as “a romance fueled by ego, desire, and the American Dream.”
Abel Ferrara is ready to hit Berlin additionally with a documentary characteristic. Turn within the Wound, which he has directed, sees the filmmaker journey to Kyiv, Ukraine, to discover what stays after two years of Russia’s brutal invasion. Musician Patti Smith options within the pic. French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert additionally returns to Berlin to display screen Averroès & Rosa Parks, a companion piece to final 12 months’s Golden Bear-winning Sur l’Adamant.
Martin Scorsese additionally pops up within the classics program, with Berlin presenting a digital restoration of his 1985 characteristic After Hours. In the classics program, there may be additionally a 4K restoration of Ishirō Honda’s authentic Gojira (Godzilla), marking the movie’s seventieth anniversary, and a 4K restoration of Deprisa, deprisa by the late Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura.
The Berlin Film Festival runs Feb 15 – 25.
Berlin Specials Titles:
Averroès & Rosa Parks (At Averroès & Rosa Parks)
by Nicolas Philibert
France 2024
Berlinale Special | World premiere | Documentary Form
Beom-Joe-do-si 4 (The Roundup: Punishment)
by Heo Myeong-haeng | with Don Lee, Kim Moo-yul, Park Ji-hwan, Lee Dong-hwi
South Korea 2024
Berlinale Special Gala | World premiere
Elf Mal Morgen: Berlinale Meets Fußball (Eleven Tomorrows: Berlinale Meets Football)
by Maximilian Bungarten, Anna-Maria Dutoit, Kilian Armando Friedrich, Indira Geisel, Eva Gemmer, Felix Herrmann, Hannah Jandl,
Justina Jürgensen, Hilarija Ločmele, Daniela Magnani-Hüller, Sophie Mühe, Camille Tricaud, Marie Zrenner
Germany 2024
Berlinale Special | World premiere | Documentary Form
exergue – on documenta 14
by Dimitris Athiridis
Greece 2024
Berlinale Special | World premiere | Documentary Form
Hako Otoko (The Box Man)
by Gakuryu Ishii | with Masatoshi Nagase, Tadanobu Asano, Koichi Sato, Ayana Shiramoto
Japan 2024
Berlinale Special | World premiere
Das leere Grab (The Empty Grave)
by Agnes Lisa Wegner, Cece Mlay
Germany / Tanzania 2024
Berlinale Special | World premiere | Documentary Form
Love Lies Bleeding
by Rose Glass | with Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Ed Harris, Dave Franco, Jena Malone
USA / United Kingdom 2023
Berlinale Special Gala | International premiere
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
by David Hinton | with Martin Scorsese
United Kingdom 2024
Berlinale Special | World premiere | Documentary Form
Shikun
by Amos Gitai | with Irène Jacob, Bahira Ablassi, Hana Laslo, Menache Noy, Pini Mittelman
Israel / France / Switzerland 2024
Berlinale Special | World premiere
Supersex
by Francesca Manieri (Creator), Matteo Rovere, Francesco Carrozzini, Francesca Mazzoleni (Directors) | with Alessandro Borghi, Jasmine
Trinca, Adriano Giannini
Italy 2024
Berlinale Special | World premiere | Series
Turn within the Wound
by Abel Ferrara
United Kingdom / Germany / Italy / USA 2024
Berlinale Special | World premiere | Documentary Form