With our most-anticipated film of the year leading the line-up, this year’s Berlin Film Festival has announced more titles to join the slate. Notably Werner Herzog’s first narrative feature in half-a-decade, Queen of the Desert, will be premiering there. The story of legendary cartographer Gertrude Bell features Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson, James Franco, and Damian Lewis.
Also in the line-up is an unexpected feature from Iranian director Jafar Panahi titled Taxi, Bill Condon‘s Ian McKellen-led Mr. Holmes, the Lea Seydoux-led Diary of a Chambermaid (see a first image below), and more. Check out the new additions below for the festival that begins on February 5th, and see the previous line-up here.
Update: See more additions below, including Queen of Earth and Life, and new images (via Film Divider).
Body
Poland
By Malgorzata Szumowska (Stranger, Elles, In the Name of)
With Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala
World premiere
Cha và con và (Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories)
Vietnam / France / Germany / Netherlands
By Di Phan Dang (Bi, Don’t Be Afraid)
With Do Thi Hai Yen, Le Cong Hoang, Truong The Vinh
World premiere
Journal d’une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid)
France / Belgium
By Benoit Jacquot (Farewell, My Queen; Three Hearts)
With Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Vincent Lacoste
World premiere
Mr. Holmes
United Kingdom
By Bill Condon (The Fifth Estate)
With Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hattie Morahan
World premiere – Out of competition
Queen of the Desert
USA
By Werner Herzog (Fata Morgana, Fitzcarraldo, Cave of Forgotten Dreams)
With Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis , Robert Pattinson
World premiere
Taxi
Iran
By Jafar Panahi (Closed Curtain, Offside)
With Jafar Panahi
World premiere
Victoria
Germany
By Sebastian Schipper (Gigantic, A Friend of Mine)
With Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff, André M. Hennicke
World premiere
Yi bu zhi yao (Gone with the Bullets)
People’s Republic of China / USA / Hong Kong, China
By Wen Jiang (Let the Bullets Fly)
With Wen Jiang, You Ge, Yun Zhou, Qi Shu, Huang Hung
International premiere
Abaabi ba boda boda (The Boda Boda Thieves) by Yes! That’s Us, Uganda / South Africa / Kenya / Germany – WP
Al-wadi (The Valley) by Ghassan Salhab, Lebanon / France / Germany
Balikbayan #1 (Memories of Overdevelopment Redux) by Kidlat Tahimik, The Philippines – WP
Beira-Mar (Seashore) by Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon, Brazil – WP
Ben Zaken by Efrat Corem, Israel – IP
Brasil S/A (Brazilian Dream) by Marcelo Pedroso, Brazil – IP
Ce gigantesque retournement de la terre (This Gigantic Furrowing of the Ground) by Claire Angelini, France – WP
Chaiki (The Gulls) by Ella Manzheeva, Russian Federation – WP
Cheol won gi haeng (End of Winter) by Kim Dae-hwan, Republic of Korea – IP
Counting by Jem Cohen, USA – WP
Dari Marusan by Izumi Takahashi, Japan – IP
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills by Marcin Malaszczak, Germany / Poland / USA – WP
Le dos rouge (Portrait of the Artist) by Antoine Barraud, France – IP
Exotica, Erotica, Etc. by Evangelia Kranioti, France – WP
Flotel Europa by Vladimir Tomic, Denmark / Serbia – WP
The Forbidden Room by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Canada
Freie Zeiten (After Work) by Janina Herhoffer, Germany – WP
Futaba kara toku hanarete dainibu (Nuclear Nation II) by Atsushi Funahashi, Japan – IP
Der Geldkomplex (The Money Complex) by Juan Rodrigáñez, Spain – WP
Il gesto delle mani (Hand Gestures) by Francesco Clerici, Italy – WP
H. by Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia, Argentina / USA – IP
Hedi Schneider steckt fest (Hedi Schneider is Stuck) by Sonja Heiss, Germany / Norway – WP
Histoire de Judas (The Story of Judas) by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, France – WP
Hotline by Silvina Landsmann, Israel / France – WP
K by Emyr ap Richard, Darhad Erdenibulag, People’s Republic of China / United Kingdom – WP
Koza by Ivan Ostrochovský, Slovakia / Czech Republic – WP
Madare ghalb atomi (Atom Heart Mother) by Ali Ahmadzadeh, Iran – WP
La maldad (Evilness) by Joshua Gil, Mexico – WP
Mar by Dominga Sotomayor, Chile / Argentina – IP
Mizu no koe o kiku (The Voice of Water) by Masashi Yamamoto, Japan – IP
La mujer de barro (The Mud Woman) by Sergio Castro San Martín, Chile / Argentina – WP
Nefesim kesilene kadar (Until I Lose My Breath) by Emine Emel Balcı, Turkey / Germany – WP
La nuit et l’enfant (The Night and the Kid) by David Yon, France – WP
Queen of Earth by Alex Ross Perry, USA – WP
Rabo de Peixe (Fish Tail) by Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel, Portugal – WP
La sirène de Faso Fani (The Siren of Faso Fani) by Michel K. Zongo, Burkina Faso / France / Germany – WP
Sueñan los androides (Androids Dream) by Ion de Sosa, Spain / Germany – IP
Superwelt (Superworld) by Karl Markovics, Austria – WP
Thamaniat wa ushrun laylan wa bayt min al-sheir (Twenty-Eight Nights and A Poem) by Akram Zaatari, Lebanon / France – WP
Über die Jahre (Over the Years) by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria – WP
Viaggio nella dopo-storia (Journey into Post-History) by Vincent Dieutre, France – WP
Violencia (Violence) by Jorge Forero, Colombia / Mexico – WP
Zurich by Sacha Polak, The Netherlands / Germany / Belgium – WP
Berlinale Special Galas at the Friedrichstadt-Palast
Love & Mercy
USA
By Bill Pohlad (Old Explorers)
With John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti
European premiere
Selma
United Kingdom / USA
By Ava DuVernay (Middle of Nowhere)
With David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Oprah Winfrey, Carmen Ejogo
International premiere
Woman in Gold
United Kingdom / USA
By Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn)
With Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl
World premiere
Berlinale Special Gala at the Zoo Palast
Life
United Kingdom / Canada
By Anton Corbijn (A Most Wanted Man)
With Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley
World premiere
Berlinale Special Gala at the Kino International
Virgin Mountain
Iceland / Denmark
By Dagur Kári (The Good Heart)
With Gunnar Jónsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdottir
World premiere
Berlinale Special Matinée at the Kino International
Breathe Umphefumlo (La Bohème)
South Africa
By Mark Dornford-May (U-Carmen ekhayelitsha)
With Pauline Malefane, Mandisi Dyantyis, Busisiwe Ngejane, Mhlekazi Mosiea
World premiere
Berlinale Special at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Die abhandene Welt (The Misplaced World)
Germany
By Margarethe von Trotta (Rosenstraße)
With Katja Riemann, Barbara Sukowa, Matthias Habich, Gunnar Moeller
World premiere
The Seventh Fire – documentary
USA
By Jack Pettibone Riccobono (Rage for Sale, The Sacred Food)
World premiere
Torneranno i prati (Greenery Will Bloom Again)
Italy
By Ermanno Olmi (Terra Madre, The Tree of Wooden Clogs)
With Claudio Santamaria, Alessandro Sperduti, Francesco Formichetti, Andrea Di Maria
German premiere
What do you think of the additions?