BERLINALE FORUM
Il Forum della Berlinale presenta quest’anno 36 programmi cinematografici. Il programma principale comprende 30 film, 27 anteprime mondiali e sette opere prime. La selezione proviene da un totale di 32 paesi dei cinque continenti. Dodici film sono stati diretti da registe donne, 16 da registi uomini, due film sono stati co-diretti. Uno Speciale Forum dal titolo Relazioni e resistenze accompagna il programma principale della sezione: cinque lungometraggi e un programma di dieci cortometraggi mostrano un cinema con un senso sociale acuto e una consapevolezza intergenerazionale, dagli anni ’70 a oggi.
Forum Main Programme (30)
Il cassetto segreto (The Secret Drawer)
by Costanza Quatriglio
Italy / Switzerland 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
Chroniques fidèles survenues au siècle dernier à l’hôpital psychiatrique Blida-Joinville, au temps où le Docteur Frantz Fanon était chef de la cinquième division entre 1953 et 1956
(True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956)
by Abdenour Zahzah | with Alexandre Desane, Gérard Dubouche, Nicolas Dromard, Omar Boulakirba,
Amal Kateb
Algeria / France 2024
World premiere
Gokogu no Neko (The Cats of Gokogu Shrine)
by Kazuhiro Soda
Japan 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
Henry Fonda for President
by Alexander Horwath
Austria / Germany 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
La hojarasca (The Undergrowth)
by Macu Machín | with Carmen Machín, Elsa Machín, Maura Pérez
Spain 2024
World premiere | Documentary form | Debut film
Săptămâna Mare (Holy Week)
by Andrei Cohn | with Doru Nicolae Bem, Corneliu Ciprian Chiricheș,
Mario Gheorghe Dinu, Nicoleta Lefter
Romania / Switzerland 2024
World premiere
L’ homme-vertige (L’ homme-vertige: Tales of a City)
by Malaury Eloi Paisley
France 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
The Human Hibernation
by Anna Cornudella | with Clara Muck Dietrich, Brian Stevens, Jane Hubbell, Neil O’Neil
Spain 2024
World premiere
Ihre ergebenste Fräulein (Well Ordered Nature)
by Eva C. Heldmann
Germany 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
Intercepted
by Oksana Karpovych
Canada / France / Ukraine 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
In the Belly of a Tiger
by Siddartha Jatla | with Lawrence Francis, Poonam Tiwari, Sorabh Jaiswar, Pooja Pallavi, Rosely Raj
India 2024
World premiere
Kottukkaali (The Adamant Girl)
by Vinothraj PS | with Soori Muthuchamy, Anna Ben
India 2024
World premiere
Marijas klusums (Maria’s Silence)
by Dāvis Sīmanis | with Olga Šepicka, Artūrs Skrastiņš, Vilis Daudziņš, Ģirts Ķesteris, Inese Kučinska
Latvia / Lithuania 2024
World premiere
Mit einem Tiger schlafen (Sleeping with a Tiger)
by Anja Salomonowitz | with Birgit Minichmayr, Lukas Watzl, Oskar Haag, Johanna Orsini
Austria 2024
World premiere
As noites ainda cheiram á pôlvora (The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder)
by Inadelso Cossa | with Inadelso Cossa, Maria Estevão, Moises Langa, Macuacua, Zalina
Mozambique / Germany / France / Portugal / Netherlands / Norway 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
Oasis
by Tamara Uribe, Felipe Morgado
Chile 2024
World premiere | Documentary form | A film by MAFI Collective
Oasis of Now
by Chee Sum Chia | with Thi Diu Ta, Aster Ee Yeow, Abd Manaf Bin Rejab
Malaysia / Singapore / France 2023
European premiere
Pa-myo (Exhuma)
by Jang Jae-hyun | with Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, Yoo Hai-jin, Lee Do-hyun
South Korea 2024
World premiere
La piel en primavera (Skin in spring)
by Yennifer Uribe Alzate | with Alba Liliana Agudelo Posada, Eduardo Arango, Cristian López,
Laura Zapata
Colombia / Chile 2024
World premiere
Reas
by Lola Arias | with Yoseli Arias, Ignacio Amador Rodriguez
Argentina / Germany / Switzerland 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
Redaktsiya (The Editorial Office)
by Roman Bondarchuk | with Dmytro Bahnenko, Zhanna Ozirna, Rymma Ziubina, Andrii Kyrylchuk,
Vasyl Kukharskyi
Ukraine / Germany / Slovakia / Czechia 2024
World premiere
Reproduktion (Reproduction)
by Katharina Pethke
Germany 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
Republic
by Jin Jiang | with Li Eryang, Li, Bai, Jiaojiao, VT
Singapore / People’s Republic of China 2023
European premiere | Documentary form
Resonance Spiral
by Filipa César, Marinho de Pina | with Bedan na Onça, Cristina Mendes, Mû Mbana,
Sana na N’Hada, Vanessa Fernandes
Portugal / Guinea-Bissau / Germany 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
Shahid
by Narges Kalhor | with Baharak Abdolifard, Nima Nazarinia, Narges Kalhor, Thomas Sprekelsen,
Carine Huber
Germany 2024
World premiere
Spuren von Bewegung vor dem Eis (Traces of Movement before the Ice)
by René Frölke
Germany 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
Der unsichtbare Zoo (The Invisible Zoo)
by Romuald Karmakar
Germany 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
Was hast du gestern geträumt, Parajanov? (What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?)
by Faraz Fesharaki | with Mitra Kia, Hasan Fesharaki, Rahi Sinaki, Faraz Fesharaki
Germany 2024
World premiere | Documentary form
The Wrong Movie
by Keren Cytter | with Laura Hajek, Ashby Bland, Elijah Lajmer, Jordan Raf, Edward Baker
USA / Belgium 2024
World premiere
Yoake no subete (All the Long Nights)
by Shô Miyake | with Hokuto Matsumura, Mone Kamishiraishi, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Ryo,
Ken Mitsuishi
Japan 2024
International premiere
Forum Special: Relations & Resistance
Deda-Shvili an rame ar aris arasodes bolomde bneli
(Mother and Daughter, or the Night is Never Complete)
by Lana Gogoberidze
Georgia / France 2023
International premiere | Documentary form
Diese Tage in Terezín (Those Days in Terezín)
by Sibylle Schönemann | with Victoria Hanna Gabbay, Manka Alter, Orni, Hanna Fialová-Malka,
Irene Ravelová
Germany / Czechia 1997
Documentary form
Doesarananeun moksori / Yomigaeru Koe (Voices of the Silenced)
by Park Soo-nam, Park Maeui | with Kim Seong-soo, Hirano Nobuto, Jeon Dong-rye, Lee Yong-im,
Seo Jeong-woo
Japan / South Korea 2023
International premiere | Documentary form
Kaddu Beykat (Letter from My Village)
by Safi Faye | with Assane Faye, Maguette Gueye
Senegal 1975
Documentary form
Techqua Ikachi, Land – mein Leben (Techqua Ikachi, Land – My Life)
by Anka Schmid, James Danaqyumptewa, Agnes Barmettler | with Qomahoyngma, Sewemunewa,
Qomayumptewa, Quavayma, Dawangyawma
Federal Republic of Germany / Switzerland 1989
