Berlinale 2023: this anime phenomenon from Japan is the star of the competition


The selection for the 73rd edition of the Berlin International Film Festival has just been unveiled. X feature films are in the running for the Golden Bear and the Silver Bear.

Who will succeed Alcarras by Carla Simon, who was awarded the Golden Bear last year? The selections for the official competition and Encounters of the 73rd edition of the Berlin International Film Festival have just been unveiled.

Chaired by Kristen Stewart, the official competition jury will be responsible for deciding between 18 feature films, 6 of which are directed by female directors.

Note that 6 of the 18 feature films in the official competition are French co-productions: Le Grand Chariot by Philippe Garrel, Disco Boy by Giacomo Abbruzzese, Bad Living by João Canijo, Music by Angela Schanelec, Sur l’Adamant by Nicolas Philibert and Totem by Lila Aviles.

We should also note the presence in competition of Suzume by Makoto Shinkai (scheduled in theaters on April 12) to whom we already owe the excellent Your Name and Les Enfants du temps. Upon its release in 2016, Your Name was a resounding success in Japan, with a total of 19.4 million admissions at the box office, the third best result of all time at the Japanese box office for a local production. .

This edition will take place from February 16 to 26 with many highlights and the opening screening (out of competition) of She Came to Me by Rebecca Miller.

Steven Spielberg, whose next film The Fablemans hits theaters February 22, will be presented with an Honorary Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

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Sean Penn and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s documentary Superpower, which looks back on the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, will be presented in preview.

The Official Competition

20,000 Species of Bees by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

The Shadowless Tower by Zhang Lu

Till the End of the Night by Christoph Hochlausler

Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry

Disco Boy by Giacomo Abbruzzo

The Big Cart by Philippe Garrel

Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert by Margarethe von Trotta

Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything by Emily Atef

Limbo by Ivan Sen

Bad Living by Joao Canijo

John Trengove Manodrome

Music by Angela Schanelec

Celine Song’s Past Lives

The Red Sky by Christian Petzold

On the Adamant by Nicolas Philibert

The Survival of Kindness by Rolf de Heer

Suzume by Makoto Shinkai

Lila Ayles Totem

Encounters

The Klezmer Project by Leandro Koch and Paloma Schahmann

The Adults by Dustin Guy Defa

The Echo by Tatiana Huezo

Here by Bas Devos

In the Blind Spot by Ayse Polat

The Cage is Looking for a Bird by Malika Musaeva

My Worst Enemy by Mehran Tamadon

White Plastic Sky by Tibor Banoczki and Sarolta Szabo

In Water by Hong Sangsoo

Family Time by Tia Kuovo

The Walls of Bergamo by Stefano Savona

Orlando, My Political Biography by Paul B. Preciado

Samsara by Lois Patino

Eastern Front by Vitaly Mansky and Yevhen Titarenko

Bad Living by Joao Canijo

Absence of Wu Lang

Berlinale Special Gala

Superpower by Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman



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