The Strangers’ Case from American filmmaker Brandt Andersen and starring French actor Omar Sy will make its world premiere at this 12 months’s Berlin Film Festival.
The movie’s quick synopsis reads: Tragedy strikes a Syrian household in Aleppo, beginning a sequence response of occasions involving 5 completely different households in 4 completely different international locations.
The pic is amongst a trio of late additions to the Berlinale Special sidebar, introduced this morning by the pageant. Also displaying in Berlin are the 2 mid-length Japanese movies Chime by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and August My Heaven by Riho Kudo.
Chime follows Tashiro, a pupil at a culinary college, who hears voices in his head. His instructor, Matsuoka, stays unconcerned. But then Tashiro claims {that a} machine has changed half of his mind. August My Heaven follows Joe, who earns a dwelling as knowledgeable stand-in actor for rent to play a relative, lover, or pal for her purchasers and attend ceremonies. After an encounter at a funeral, her skilled and personal lives merge.
Berlin opens this 12 months on February 15 with Cillian Murphy film Small Things Like These. The movie reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalen laundries – horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic establishments from the 1820s till 1996, ostensibly to reform “fallen young women.” It takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal service provider Bill Furlong (Murphy) discovers startling secrets and techniques saved by the convent in his city, together with some stunning truths of his personal. The film reunites director Tim Mielants (WIL, De Patrick, The Responder) with Murphy, who beforehand labored collectively on collection three of Peaky Blinders.
Other standout titles already introduced embody Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, a function documentary about influential British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger narrated by Killers of the Flower Moon filmmaker Martin Scorsese. The function is directed by David Hinton and options uncommon archival materials from the non-public collections of Powell, Pressburger, and Scorsese.
Love Lies Bleeding, the most recent function from British filmmaker Rose Glass may even play within the Specials program. The function stars Kristen Stewart alongside Weronika Tofilska. A brief synopsis describes the pic as “a romance fueled by ego, desire, and the American Dream.” The movie will arrive in Berlin following its debut at Sundance.
Scorsese will obtain the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement throughout this 12 months’s pageant and Lupita Nyong’o will head the International Jury.