Contenders for prestigious Golden and Silver Bear unveiled with 75th edition of festival due to open on 13 February
Richard Linklater’s long-awaited Broadway biopic Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley, a Mexican love story with Jessica Chastain as a socialite who falls for a émigré ballet dancer, and a British family drama set in Spain featuring Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw will premiere in competition at next month’s
The French Oscar winner Marion Cotillard leads Lucile Hadžihalilović’s film-within-a-film The Ice Tower featuring cinema shock master Gaspar Noé playing a director. Ukrainian documentary Timestamp by Kateryna Gornostai offers a searing look at how schools are still functioning in wartime. In the Berlinale Special section outside the main competition, the American director Julia Loktev will show the first part of her five-hour documentary My Undesirable Friends about Russian independent journalists forced into exile after the Ukraine invasion.
a polarised debate in Germany about Israel’s military action in Gaza was leading some international artists to shun the festival
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