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BERLINALE 2023 (16-26 February) Berlinale unveils Forum titles for 2023 edition
by Davide Abbatescianni | Cineuropa 16/01/2023
The German festival has announced new European titles by names such as Claire Simon, Vlad Petri, Mehran Tamadon, Tomasz Wolski and Piotr Pawlus.
Today, the Berlinale (16-26 February) announced the full line-ups for its Forum and Forum Expanded strands. In detail, this year’s Forum section will see “powerful documentaries stand alongside highly personal essay films”, and according to the official press release, the 28 titles look set to “celebrate the diversity of cinematic forms, approaches and narratives, and explore the predicaments of the past and present in unflinching fashion”.
Between Revolutions by Vlad Petri
Vlad Petri’s Between Revolutions shows a semi-fictional correspondence between two women: one going to Iran in 1979, the other experiencing the years of Ceausescu’s Romania.
Among the Forum’s European highlights is, without a doubt, Claire Simon’s new documentary Our Body (France). In it, the helmer looks around a gynaecological clinic in Paris “with a gaze full of tenderness, collecting scenes of births and cancer diagnoses, consultations about endometriosis and hormone therapy”. Next, Paris-based Iranian filmmaker Mehran Tamadon will present Where God Is Not (France/Switzerland). The director asks acquaintances of his, who have served time in Iranian prisons, to reconstruct their experiences in an empty warehouse. Another timely work set to world-premiere at the German gathering is Tomasz Wolski and Piotr Pawlus’ In Ukraine (Poland). Here, the two filmmakers examine “the pulse of everyday life in a state of war”, deliberately “avoiding dramatisation and the pathos of urgency”.
Between Revolutions by Vlad Petri | Source: Activ Docs
Meanwhile, the 34 films and installations from 20 countries which make up this year’s Forum Expanded line-up revolve around “political and personal legacies which often lie in shambles”, and see their makers “keen on artistic experimentation, [...] propelling them forward on ever-changing and surprising trajectories”. The seven European (co-)productions included in this strand are Ana Vaz’s The Tree (Spain/Brazil), Manthia Diawara’s AI: African Intelligence (Portugal/Senegal/Belgium), Dan Guthrie’s Black Strangers (UK), Heiko-Thandeka Ncube’s The early rain which washes away the chaff before spring rains (Germany), Graeme Arnfield’s Home Invasion (UK), Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory’s Prototype (Canada/Denmark) and Cana Bilir-Meier’s In-between Worlds (Germany).
Here is the complete list of Berlinale Forum titles (including the previously announced ones – see the news):
Allensworth – James Benning (USA) Anqa – Helin Çelik (Austria/Spain) About Thirty – Martin Shanly (Argentina) Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait – Luke Fowler (UK) The Bride – Myriam U Birara (Rwanda) Cidade Rabat – Susana Nobre (Portugal/France) De Facto – Selma Doborac (Austria/Germany) The Intrusion – Flora Dias, Juruna Mallon (Brazil/France) The Temple Woods Gang – Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (France) Leaving and Staying – Volker Koepp (Germany) Between Revolutions – Vlad Petri (Romania/Croatia/Qatar/Iran) There Is a Stone – Tatsunari Ota (Japan) Where God Is Not – Mehran Tamadon (France/Switzerland) Our Body – Claire Simon (France) A Golden Life – Boubacar Sangaré (Burkina Faso/Benin/France) The Face of the Jellyfish – Melisa Liebenthal (Argentina) Remembering Every Night – Yui Kiyohara (Japan) Forms of Forgetting – Burak Çevik (Turkey) Regardless of Us – Yoo Heong-jun (South Korea) In Ukraine – Piotr Pawlus, Tomasz Wolski (Poland) Concrete Valley – Antoine Bourges (Canada) Dearest Fiona – Fiona Tan (Netherlands) Horse Opera – Moyra Davey (USA) The Trial – Ulises de la Orden (Argentina/Italy/France/Norway) Calls from Moscow – Luís Alejandro Yero (Cuba/Germany/Norway) Mammalia – Sebastian Mihãilescu (Romania/Poland/Germany) Notes from Eremocene – Viera Èákanyová (Czech Republic/Slovakia) This Is the End – Vincent Dieutre (France)
The 73rd Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 16 to 26, 2023 as an in-person event. The Berlinale is one of the largest public film festivals in the world and a unique venue for artistic debate and entertainment.
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