The 73rd annual Berlin Film Festival has begun today, offering the first look at some new films from across the globe and will run through February 26th. Rebecca Miller's latest, "She Came To Me", a romantic-comedy with Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei and Anne Hathaway will open the fest.
The American actor, Kristen Stewart will preside as President over this year's jury who will select which films will win the prizes in the Main International Competition. The rest of the jury is Iranian-French actor, Golshifteh Farahani; German director, Valeska Griebach; Romanian filmmaker, Radu Jude; US casting director, Francine Maisler; Spanish director, Carla Simón and Hong Kong director, Johnnie To.
The selections for the main competition include new works by Philippe Garrel ("Le Grande Chariot (The Plough)"), Margarethe von Trotta ("Ingeborg Bachmann: Journey into the Desert"), Christian Petzold ("Roter Himmel (Afire)"), Zhang Lü ("The Shadowless Tower"), João Canijo ("Mal Viver (Bad Living)"), John Trengove ("Manodrome") and debut feature films by Giacomo Abbruzzese ("Disco Boy") and Celine Song ("Past Lives").
Some of the Special Screenings at Berlinale will include the world premiere of "Love To Love You, Donna Summer", a documentary on the legendary disco performer by the Oscar-winning filmmaker, Roger Ross Williams, "100 Years of Disney Animation: A Shorts Celebration" will highlight some of the best cartoon short films from this studio; "Superpower", actor/director, Sean Penn's non-fiction film on Volodymyr Zelenskyy which followed the Ukraine President from the beginning of the Russian invasion of his country last year.
And Steven Spielberg will be honored with this year's Golden Bear Lifetime Achievement Award and will screen several of this director's celebrated films in the Homage section. This will include his debut feature from 1971, "Duel"; the classics, "Jaws", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and his latest, the Oscar nominated drama loosely based on his life, "The Fabelmans"
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