The Berlin International Film Festival (February 7-17) has added nine more titles to its competition lineup, including Jafar Panahi’s latest, “Closed Curtain,” Bruno Dumont’s “Camille Claudel 1915,” starring Juliette Binoche, Sundance entry “The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman,” starring Shia LaBeouf, and Steven Soderbergh’s psychological thriller “Side Effects,” starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum and Jude Law.
Full list below.
The Berlinale will also host the European premiere of Wong Kar-wai’s hotly anticipated kung fu biopic “The Grandmaster.” Check out the early review consensus on the film here.
Nine competition titles added, listed alphabetically:
Camille Claudel 1915
France
By Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus, Humanity, Flanders)
With Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent
World Premiere
Elle s’en va (On my Way)
France
By Emmanuelle Bercot (Clément, Backstage, Les infidèles)
With Catherine Deneuve
World Premiere
Epizoda u životu berača željeza (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker)
Bosnia and Herzegovina/France/Slovenia
By Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land, Hell, Circus Columbia)
With Senada Alimanovic, Nazif Mujic, Sandra Mujic, Semsa Mujic
World Premiere
Gold
Germany
By Thomas Arslan (Dealer, Vacation, In the Shadows)
With Nina Hoss, Marko Mandic, Uwe Bohm, Lars Rudolph, Peter Kurth, Rosa Enskat, Wolfgang Packhäuser
World Premiere
La Religieuse (The Nun)
France/Germany/Belgium
By Guillaume Nicloux (The Flying Children, A Private Affair, That Woman)
With Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert, Louise Bourgoin, Martina Gedeck
World Premiere
Layla Fourie
Germany/South Africa/France/Netherlands
By Pia Marais (The Unpolished,At Ellen’s Age)
With Rayna Campbell, August Diehl, Rapule Hendricks
World Premiere
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
USA
By Fredrik Bond – feature debut
With Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger, Rupert Grint, James Buckley
International Premiere
Parde (Closed Curtain)
Iran
By Jafar Panahi (The Circle, Offside, This Is Not A Film) and Kambozia Partovi (The Fish, Café Transit)
With Kambozia Partovi, Maryam Moghadam,Jafar Panahi, Hadi Saeedi, Azadh Torabi, Agha Olia, Zeynab Khanum, Boy
World Premiere
Side Effects
USA
By Steven Soderbergh (sex, lies, and videotape; Erin Brockovich, Haywire)
With Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum
International Premiere
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