Berlin Film Festival 2022 Competition Lineups – The Hollywood Reporter

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Berlin Film Festival 2022 Competition Lineups - The Hollywood Reporter

The Berlin International Film Festival has announced the full lineup for its 63rd edition next month.

The event was planned as a live festival taking place in a shortened version, lasting seven days from February 10-16, with four repeat days, showing the public through February 20.

Peter von Kant, Francois Ozon’s gender adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1972 masterpiece The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, starring Denis Menochet, Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla, will open the 72nd Berlinale and compete for the prize.

Joining the race for the 2022 Golden Bear are competitive titles like Claire Denis’ Both sides of the tongue, starring Juliette Binoche and Titane star Vincent Lindon, Hong Sangsoo’s latest, Novelist’s film, Charlotte Gainsbourg-starrer Passengers of the Night from Michael Hers; By Ulrich Seidel Rimini; AEIOU – Fast Alphabet of Love from German actress turned director Nicolette Krebitz; Current from Swiss director Ursula Meier; and abortion drama Call Jane, directorial debut of Carol Screenwriter Phillis Nagy, starring Kate Mara, Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver, will premiere at the online-only Sundance Film Festival.

Berlinale co-directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian introduced the official lineup via a live stream on Wednesday morning Berlin time. Their 2022 lineup lacks major studios or streaming movies of the same kind introduced in Venice (Sand dunes, The power of the dog) or Cannes (Still water, French Dispatch) last year and as proof, on their third overseas trip as head of the Berlinale film festival, Chatrian and Riseenbeek are looking to take the world’s number three film festival in a more indie, art house direction.

Along with Ozon, who screened several films in Berlin, including 8 female (2002) and By the grace of god (2018), several official Berlin directors return to competition this year, including Germany’s Andreas Dresen, winner of the Silver Bear Best Director award for Grill Point in 2002, who will screen the film. real life politics Rabiye Kurnaz vs George W. Bush; 2012 Golden Bear Winner Paolo Taviani (Caesar must die), who returned to the German capital with Leonora addio, his first film to be directed solo, without his brother Vittorio; and Canadian actor Denis Côté, whose film Social Hygiene won the top prize in Berlin’s Meet 2021 section and whose latest film, It’s kind of summer, will screen in this year’s competition.

The 2022 Encounters section, a separate competitive sidebar for more artistically challenging or experimental films, includes Flux Gourmet, the new film by British director Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga); Greek TV series City and City from directors Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas; and Queen of the Qing Dynasty by Canadian director Ashley McKenzie and starring Sarah Walker and Ziyin Zheng.

Uncompetitive, Berlin ranks among an impressive group of high-profile titles, including that of Sophie Hyde Good luck to you, Leo Grande starring Emma Thompson, Costume directed by Graham Moore, starring Mark Rylance and new thriller by Dario Argento Sunglasses, starring his daughter, Italian star Asia Argento.

The Sundance Film Festival canceled live screenings this year and went wild following a surge in COVID-19 infections caused by the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Berlin’s industrial division, the European Film Market, has only gone online following the dizzying rise of omicrons across Europe, but Berlinale remains determined to host a live event, which Chatrian describes is “the essence of film festivals, or at least the very nature of Berlinale. ”

The festival got some bad news on Wednesday as Germany’s Robert Koch Institute reported more than 112,000 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, the highest level since the pandemic began. In an interview on Tuesday night with the RTL television network, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said he expects the current wave of COVID infections, caused by the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, to peak in Germany “by mid-February” or in the middle of 2022 Berlinale. The German government has introduced new measures to prevent the spread of omicrons, including requiring proof of vaccinations for various indoor activities, including cinema visits, but allowing To date, cinemas have not been completely closed.

Among the confirmed films coming to Berlin this year is Laurent Larivière .’s French drama About Joan, starring Isabelle Huppert and Lars Eidinger, and period adventure film Against ice by Danish director Peter Flinth and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole, Heida Reed and Charles Dance. The two will have their world premiere as the Berlinale Special Galas during the 2022 festival.

Berlin has announced new COVID measures for its 2022 festival, banning public parties and events, requiring vaccinations, testing and wearing masks in cinemas, and cutting jobs by 50%. movie theater capacity to facilitate social alienation. The film festival has also cut three days from its 2022 schedule, with competition films showing on February 10-16, and the final four days of the festival through February 20 devoted to screenings. public and repeatable projections. Overall, Berlinale in 2022 will be smaller than last year, with 256 series and short films showing across all seasons, compared with 340 in 2021.

Berlin’s industrial division, the European Film Market, which operates from February 10 to 17, will only return online this year.

Berlin International Film Festival Competition 2022

AEIOU – Fast Alphabet of Love, dir. Nicolette Krebitz

Alcarras, dir. Carla Simon

Both sides of the tongue, dir. Claire Denis

Rimini, dir. Ulrich Seidl

Call Jane, dir. Phyllis Nagy

A piece of sky, dir. Michael Koch

Everything will be ok, dir. Rithy Panh

Current, dir. Ursula Meier

Leonora addio, dir. Paolo Taviani

Passengers of the Night, dir. Mikhaël Hers