London-set revenge thrillerFemme, starringGeorge MacKayandCandymanactor Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, has been selected for theBerlinalesPanoramastrand.
The cast features Anais Demoustier, Tom Mercier and Beatrice Dalle.
Sepideh Farsis previously announcedThe Sirenwill fire up the strand, the 2023 selection of which is now complete.
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The strand is popular with local audiences, who vote for its main prize, the Panorama Audience Award.
The new titles join 14previously-announcedselections including Tina Satters debutReality, Jennifer ReedersPerpetrator, Ira SachsPassagesand Sacha PolaksSilver Haze.
Driving techno beats sweep everyone away.
People dance, consume and talk.
Felicie meets Said and takes him to her place for an after-party.
On the cusp between night and day, different lives and views collide.
During their long trips around the city they develop a deep affection for each other.
But in a society which considers homosexuality taboo, they feel the pressure of social norms.
From 1979 to 2004: from disco to techno.
A love story and an obsession.
But this creates enormous difficulties in their relationship and elsewhere.
A moving story from an all-too-often forgotten crisis region.
Justinas daughter Alexia would much prefer to return to Buenos Aires and work as a car mechanic.
A dark fairy tale.
Charming and determined, he traces his countrys film heritage and history and reveals the importance of film archives.
Do You Love Me?
(Ty mene lubysh?)
Vivacious 17-year-old Kira witnesses her family and the country she lives in falling apart.
The transformations in their lives arrive gradually but are sweeping.
Their whole world is shaking.
The film hints at the tragedy and sadness that his slide into oblivion brings for them both.
After a performance, he is brutally attacked and, traumatised, withdraws into himself.
Months later, he recognises his assailant in a gay sauna and begins an affair with him, incognito.
A gripping revenge thriller.
A meticulous, investigative expose that lays bare the mechanisms of Russian warfare.
Not just for Baez fans.
Questions of belonging and identity within the Black community are candidly addressed.
Matria*by Alvaro Gago | with Maria Vazquez, Santi Prego, Soraya Luaces, E.R.
They quickly encounter the challenges of everyday hospital life.
A passionate, jealous and narcissistic relationship unfolds between Tomas, Agathe and Martin.
As several classmates go missing, a bloody coming-of-age story takes its course.
She is trapped, but refuses to negotiate.
A thriller about the extreme disparities between social classes in Brazil.
But, as an adopted child, he also longs to learn more about his South Korean heritage.
A film about otherness and finding your own place in life.
When she falls head over heels in love with her patient Florence, her life changes profoundly.
A film about coming to terms with the past, social origins and the need to belong.
A feminist counterpoint to current reporting from the Sahel region.
The Sirenby Sepideh FarsiFrance / Germany / Luxembourg / Belgium 2023Panorama | World Premiere | AnimationIran, 1980.
After an Iraqi missile strike, the oil metropolis of Abadan descends into chaos.
The goal: the Olympic games.
Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
A collective of young women want to break the taboo with a theatre project.
But how free are they themselves?
