German cinema is strongly represented in the main program of the Berlin Film Festival, which begins on February 16.
Among the eighteen entries in the competition are five local productions, including Margarethe von Trotta's film about Ingeborg Bachmann ("Journey into the Desert") with Vicky Krieps and Ronald Zehrfeld and Christian Petzold's "Red Sky" as well as new films by Emily Atef ("Someday will we tell each other everything”, the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Daniela Krien), Angela Schanelec (“Music”) and Christoph Hochhäusler (“Until the end of the night”, a detective story).
Four other German films are running as “Berlinale Specials”, alongside Lars Kraume’s “Der vermeame Mensch” about the genocide in Namibia and David Wnendt’s adaptation of the novel “Sonne und Beton”, there is the animated film “Loriots Große Animatedfilmrevue” by Peter Geyer and Robert Schwentke’s satire “ Seneca".
The film "Im toten Winkel" by the German-Kurdish director Ayşe Polat will be shown in the "Encounters" series.
Films by artists such as Philippe Garrel, John Trengove, Nicolas Philibert and Zhang Lu also compete for the Golden Berlinale Bear.
The Berlinale is scheduled to last until February 26;
Pandemic restrictions will no longer exist.
The American actress Kristen Stewart will lead the international jury this year, the director and Oscar winner Steven Spielberg is to be honored for his life's work.