Hussam Fahmy - Berlin

Today begins the seventieth session of the Berlin International Film Festival, which is considered by many to be the highest mass festivals around the world, with thousands of audiences watching film screenings, along with actors, directors and journalists.

Among the dozens of films that will be shown at the Berlin Festival this year, we have chosen a number of highly anticipated films that accompany us on a journey starring some of the most prominent international movie stars of our time, such as Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Omar C and Roberto Benigni and others.

Abandoned roads
The first movie on our list is "The Roads Not Taken" by British director Sally Potter, starring Spanish actor Javier Bardem and American except Fanning, and Salma Hayek also participates with them, and this representative crew can be considered the most prominent in the official competition of this Berlin International Film Festival. Year.

The film revolves around a day in the life of a father and daughter, and how fate leads them to an accident that manipulates their present and puts them in front of multiple choices in their future, and it is worth mentioning that Javier Bardem has previously won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and also won the Best Actor Award at the Festival de Cannes , And it remains for him the Berlin Festival to complete his record of achievement.

There is no demon
Iranian director Muhammad Rousslav, who has been imprisoned by the result of his films opposing power in Iran, with his film "There Is No Evil", returns to the official competition of the Berlin Film Festival, to compete for the Golden Bear award.

The film revolves around a group of very ordinary Iranian men, a father who goes to his work every day, to be surprised by an accident that changes his fate and makes him forced to kill, another man who wants to come to his girlfriend on the day of her birth, a doctor who is afraid of practicing medicine, thus through multiple tales examining Roslav The moral fragility of the death penalty.

The fugitive
Everyone is talking about South Korea these days, especially after the Korean movie "Parasite" won four Oscars, including the best movie award, and among the Berlin Festival activities, we also see the latest movie of the distinguished Korean director Hong Sangso called "The Fugitive". Who Ran).

The film revolves around a woman who leaves her home during the absence of her husband on a business trip, to meet with three other women, and through long dialogues and intertwined discussions, Sangsu accompanies us on a journey inside the human soul, a journey that reminds us of his style that resembles the style of the famous American Woody Allen, and he also feels the spirit of stories Russian writer Anton Chekhov, just as the organizers of the Berlin 2020 festival describe it, in which this Korean director competes in the official competition.

Minamata
The fourth movie on our list is "Minamata" by American director Andrew Levitas, starring famous American star Johnny Depp.

In the film with a distinguished Japanese name, we follow the story of a photojournalist from Japan in the period after the Second World War, documenting with his lens the effect of mercury poisoning on the Japanese coastline.

The film is a new experience for director Andrew Levitas, who is best known for mixing more than one type of art, such as photography, cinematography and sculpture, as well as alternative arts.

Pinocchio
The fifth film in our nominations for the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival does not need much pampering, it is enough the name everyone knows, "Pinocchio", the story of the wooden boy that young and old know, and which we see here transformed into a real film that carries with it the magic of comics and cartoons that we know On it before.

The film is starred by famous Italian actor Roberto Benigni, who was previously known for the movie "Life is Beautiful", in which he won two Oscars, and directed by Italian Matteo Garrone, who previously won two awards from the Cannes International Film Festival jury for his previous works. .

Night patrol
To France, where our sixth nomination is, "Night Shift" by Anne Fontaine, who was previously known for her feminist films, including "Coco before Chanel". She also previously received the Cannes Prize for Best Screenplay.

In this film, starring French actor Omar C., we follow a French police patrol trip, consisting of men and women who have very different lives, but one day they are charged with taking an illegal immigrant to deport him, and there the police know that this man will be executed if he returns to his homeland, How will they behave?

Siberia
We conclude our list of nominations with the American director Apple Frere's movie, "Siberia", which the director presents us as a journey in the world of dreams, in an attempt to decipher her code and know her language.

The film represents a new collaboration between Apple Frera and American actor William Defoe, Academy Award nominee in the category of Best Actor more than once, most recently in 2019 for his role in the movie "At Eternity's Gate".

Apple Ferrera is an American director who has made more than 48 films during his career, and he previously won the Jury Prize from the Venice International Film Festival, and he recently received a prize for his entire artistic career from the "Locarno" International Film Festival.