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With
16 world premieres, the main competition program of the 51st Berlin
International Film Festival is complete. Twenty-four feature films
and 11 short films will compete for the prestigious Golden and Silver
Bears, awarded by a jury of nine members chaired by the American
producer Bill Mechanic. With
the increasing number of co-production or international distribution
deals, the legal nationality of films has become less relevant to
the critical observer, than the cultural origin that inspired its
making.
The
Films are...
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Beijing
Bicycles by Wang Xiao-shuai ( China) with Zhou Xun, Cui Lin
and Li Bin 
Betelnut
Beauty by Ling Chin-sen (Taiwan, China) with Chang Chen, Sinje,
and Leon Dai
Cloe
by Go Riju (Japan) with Masatoshi Nagase, Shinya Tsukamoto and
Rie Tomosaka
Inugami
by Masato Harada (Japan) with Yuki Amami, Atsuro Watabe and Kazuhiro
Yamaji
Joint
Security Area (JSA) by Park Chan-Wook (South Korea) with Song
Kang-ho, Lee Byung-heon, Lee Young-ae and Kim Tae-woo.
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| From
Denmark, Spain and Poland , each with one film |
Italian
for Beginners by Lone Scherfig with Anders W. Berthelsen,
Anette Støvelbæk and Peter Gantzler (a new Dogma film, the first directed
by a woman).
You're
the One (Una historia de entonces) by José Luis Garci with
Lydia Bosch, Julia G. Caba, Juan Diego and Ana Fernandez.
Weiser
by Wojciech Marczewski with Marek Kondrat, Juliane Köhler, Krystyna
Janda and Zbigniew Zamachowski.
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South America and Africa |
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La Cienaga by Lucrecia Martel
(Argentina) with Graciela Borges, Mercedes Morán and Martin Adjemian
Little
Senegal by Rachid Bouchareb (Algeria/Senegal) with Sotigui
Kouyate, Roschdy Zem and Sharon Hope.
From Italy
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Le
Fate Ignoranti (Blind Fairies) by Ferzan Ozpetek with Stefano
Accorsi and Margherita Buy.
Malena
by Giuseppe Tornatore with Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Giovanni
Litrico, Daniele Arena.
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France |
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A ma soeur by Catherine Breillat with Anais Reboux, Roxane
Mesquida, Librero de Rienzo and Arsinée Khanjian.
Felix
et Lola by Patrice Leconte with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Philippe
Torreton and Alain Bashung.
Intimacy
by Patrice Chéreau with Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall,
Marianne Faithfull and Phillipe Calvario, (entirely shot in England).
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Great Britain and Ireland |
Chocolat by Lasse Hallström with Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche,
Alfred Molina, Judi Dench and Lena Olin.
The
Claim by Michael Winterbottom with Peter Mullan, Wes Bentley,
Nastassja Kinski and Milla Jovovich.
The
Tailor of Panama by John Boorman with Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey
Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson and Catherine McCormack.
Wit
by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins
and Harold Pinter.
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Enemy at the Gates by Jean-Jacques
Annaud with among others Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz,
Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, Matthias Habich, Eva Mattes and Sophie Rois
(opening film, out of competition).
My
Sweet Home by Filippos Tsitos with Harvey Friedman, Nadja
Uhl, Mario Mentrup and Monika Hansen.
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Bamboozled by Spike Lee with Damon Wayans, Savion Glover and
Jada Pinkett-Smith.
Finding
Forrester by Gus Van Sant with Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham,
Robert Brown and Anna Paquin.
Thirteen
Days by Roger Donaldson with Kevin Costner, (replacing
The Pledge withdrawn by director Sean Penn).
Traffic
by Steven Soderbergh with Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Catherine
Zeta-Jones and Benicio del Toro.
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Hannibal by Ridley Scott with Anthony Hopkins, Julianne
Moore, Ray Liotta and Gary Oldman
Quills
by Philip Kaufman with Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix,
and Michael Cain.
The
competition program will also include 11 short films. To
be noted among them the short films by Anja Breien (Norway),
Wong Kar-wei (Hong Kong), Peter Kern (Germany), all three known
as feature film directors.
The
program will also include as a further attractions, out of
competition, the world premiere of two documentaries:
Stanley
Kubrick - A Life in Pictures by Jan Harlan - a three part
documentary made by Kubrick's brother in law and his long time executive
producer, screened in Berlin in video, and including never before
seen footage of Kubrick's family life and work with the narration
by Tom Cruise.
Super
8 Stories by Emir Kusturica - a semi-documentary on his
renown music band named No Smoking.
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