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by Peter Knegt (January 7, 2009)
A scene from Nick Oceano's "Pedro." Image courtesy of the Berlin International Film Festival.
“Almost half the programme has been decided”, said Panorama director Wieland Speck in a statement. Speck recently returned from trips to Asia, North and Latin America, as well as several European countries, where he viewed and selected films. His “almost half” refers to the first 21 films in the Panorama programme, which indieWIRE has listed below. The Panorama program, which offers (as its name suggests) a wide range of perspectives, as part of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival will ultimately include around 50 films that will screen from February 5-15, 2009. Jose Padilha, winner of the Golden Bear in 2008 for “The Elite Squad,” will present his documentary “Garapa,” a work that “radically addresses the issue of global hunger.” Chema Rodriguez, who screened “The Railroad All-Stars” in the 2006 Panorama, details in “Coyote” smuggling in South America. In the Indonesia entry “At Stake,” five young directors explore prevailing moral conceptions in the world’s most populous Islamic country. The topics range from female genital mutilation to the conflict that results when unmarried women want to go to the gynecologist. Alongside a number of well-known names like Wolfgang Murnberger, Tom DiCillo, Julie Delpy and Ulli Lommel, this year’s feature films include many discoveries. In Jean-Paul Lilienfeld’s “Skirt Day,” Isabelle Adjani plays a teacher “who works in a violent milieu where suddenly the tables turn.” Jan Krueger, whose short film “The Whiz Kids” won the Silver Lion in Venice in 2001, recounts in “Light Gradient” a post-emancipatory love story set in Berlin’s outskirts. Actress Rie Rasmussen makes her directorial debut with “Human Zoo,” a grim post-traumatic life of a young woman in Paris after she has escaped from the Balkan crisis. So far the following films have been confirmed for the Main Programme, Panorama Special, and Panorama Dokumente: “Absolute Evil” by Ulli Lommel, USA (world premiere) With David Carradine, Carolyn Neff, Ulli Lommel, Chris Kiesa “Ander” by Roberto Caston, Spain (directorial debut and world premiere) With Josean Bengoetxea, Cristhian Esquivel, Mamen Rivera, Pilar Rodriguez, Leire Ucha
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