The official selection of the 72nd edition of Berlin will open on Thursday the 10th with the already anticipated film “Peter von Kant”, played by Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla, a rereading by Frenchman François Ozon of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1972 classic “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant”. Among the selection of 18 films that the specialized sites reported yesterday, seven of them were directed by women and stand out “Both sides of the blade” by Claire Denis, starring Juliette Binoche; Sang-soo’s “The Novelist Movie”; “Everything will be alright” by Rithy Panh; and “Dark Glasses” by Dario Argento. Among those selected also appears the film “One year, one night”, by director Isaki Lacuesta, an adaptation of the book “Peace, love and death metal”, a fiction that takes as a reference the Paris attacks in 2015, starring the Argentine Nahuel Perez.
In addition to “Robe of Gems”, the first feature by Bolivian Natalia López Gallardo, which is a co-production between Mexico, Argentina and the United States, the national presence can be seen in sections such as Competition Encounters (with “A Little Love Package”, by Gastón Solnicki, co-produced by Argentina and Austria); Special Berlinale (with the aforementioned “Terminal Norte”, by Lucrecia Martel); Forum (with the documentaries “Camouflage”, by Jonathan Perel, and “The Middle Ages” by Alejo Moguillansky, Luciana Acuña). Our country will also be present in the Generation 14Plus sections (with “Sublime”, Mariano Biasin’s debut feature); Generation KPlus (with the short “An invisible apprentice” by Emilia Herbst), Berlinale Series (with “Iosi, the repentant spy” by Daniel Burman and Sebastián Borensztein, with Natalia Oreiro); Talent project Market (“The Promised Land” by Emiliano Torres) and at the Berlinale Co-production Market (“Las Corrientes” by Milagros Mumenthaler).
“The films are, like every year, a good description of the world in its current stage of mutation, but they also talk about how the world was before and how it should be,” said the festival’s artistic director, Carlo Chatrian. “More than half of the selected films take place in the current era but only two deal with the pandemic,” he added. “Human and affective ties are the common thread, half of the selection chose the family as the context of their stories,” he finally said. Precisely, what the international press noticed in the titles in competition is the lack of the strong political content that has characterized the Berlinale for several years. As if in these harsh years of the pandemic, films that comfort the public more had been chosen. French actress Isabelle Huppert will receive an honorary award in honor of her career.
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