This year’s lineup for the Berlinale Specials, the out-of-competition gala section of the Berlin Film Festival, will include a pair of high-octane action films: Rose Glass, the police action film love lies bleeding starring Kristen Stewart and Korean thriller The summary: punishment from director Heo Myeong-haeng.
love lies bleedingco-starring Anna Baryshnikov, Dave Franco, Katy M. O’Brian, Ed Harris and Jena Malone, will have its international premiere in Berlin after its presentation at Sundance later this month. The summary: punishmentstarring Train to Busan The hit film Don Lee will have its world premiere in Berlin.
Other highlights of the Berlinale Special, presented on Monday, include Shikunthe latest drama from Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai (Kadosh), the documentary project deliver the woundby acclaimed New York author Abel Ferrara (bad colonel), about life in kyiv since the start of the war in Ukraine, and supersexan Italian Netflix drama based on the life of famous porn star Rocco Siffredi, played by The eight mountains The actor Alejandro Borghi. All three will have their world premiere in Berlin. as will The man in the boxa new drama from Japanese director Gakuryu Ishii (Maze of dreams).
The French documentary filmmaker Nicolas Philibert, whose In the Adamant Last year it won the best film award in Berlin and returns to the German capital with a film out of competition. Averroès and Rosa Parkswhich is designed as a complementary piece to the Golden Bear winner.
Other documentaries receiving special Berlinale treatment include Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, directed by David Hinton and narrated by Martin Scorsese, about legendary British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; Agnes Lisa Wegner and Cece Mlay The empty tomba look at the efforts of Tanzanian descendants of those murdered by German colonialists in 19th-century East Africa to recover the remains of their ancestors from Germany, and exergue – about documenta 14by Dimitris Athiridis, an 840-minute (!) documentary about art curator Adam Szymczyk’s creation of the documenta 14 art exhibition in 2017.
Berlin will announce its full competition program on Monday, January 22. The 74th edition of the Berlinale will be held from February 15 to 25.