Nel primo pomeriggio l’ufficio stampa della Berlinale (Berin International Film Festival) ha annunciato la lineap ufficiale – e definitiva – dell’edizione 2019.

Il film d’apertura sarà The Kindness of Strangers della danese Lone Scherfig, mentre per quanto riguarda gli italiani in concorso, spazio al solo La Paranza dei Bambini di Claudio Giovannesi, qui intitolato in lingua inglese come Piranhas.

La Berlinale 2019 si terrà dal 7 al 17 febbraio.

In Concorso

• The Kindness of Strangers, Director: Lone Scherfig (Denmark/Canada/Sweden/ Germany/France) – Film d’Apertura
• A Tale of Three Sisters, Director: Emin Alper (Turkey/Germany/Netherlands/Greece)
• By the Grace of God, Director: Francois Ozon (France)
• Elisa & Marcela, Director: Isabel Coixet (Spain)
• Ghost Town Anthology, Director: Denis Cote (Canada)
• God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya, Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska (Macedonia/Belgium/Slovenia/Croatia/France)
• I Was at Home, But, Director: Angela Schanelec (Germany/Serbia)
• Mr. Jones, Director: Agnieszka Holland (Poland / United Kingdom / Ukraine)
• Ondog, Director: Wang Quan’an (Mongolia)
• One Second, Director: Zhang Yimou (China)
• Out Stealing Horses, Director: Hans Petter Moland (Norway/Sweden/Denmark)
• Piranhas, Director: Claudio Giovannesi (Italy)
• So Long, My Son, Director: Wang Xiaoshuai (China)
• Synonyms, Director: Nadav Lapid (France/Israel/Germany)
• System Crasher, Director: Nora Fingscheidt (Germany)
• The Ground beneath My Feet, Director: Marie Kreutzer (Austria)
• The Golden Glove, Director: Fatih Akin (Germany/France)

FUORI CONCORSO

• Amazing Grace, Director: Alan Elliott (USA)
• Farewell to the Night, Director: Andre Techine (France/Germany)
• Marighella, Director: Wagner Moura (Brazil)
• The Operative, Director: Yuval Adler (Germany/Israel/France/USA)
• Vice, Director: Adam McKay (USA)

Berlinale Special

• Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, Director: Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky (Canada)
• Brecht, Director: Heinrich Breloer (Germany/Austria)
• Gully Boy, Director: Zoya Akhtar (India)
• It Could Have Been Worse – Mario Adorf, Director: Dominik Wessely (Germany)
• Kids in the Spotlight, Director: Alice Agneskirchner (Germany)
• Peter Lindbergh – Women Stories, Director: Jean Michel Vecchiet (Germany)
• Photograph, Director: Ritesh Batra (India/Germany/USA)
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor (United Kingdom)
• The North, Director: Gregory Nava (USA 1984)
• Varda By Agnes, Director: Agnes Varda (France)
• Watergate – Or: How We Learned to Stop an Out of Control President, Director: Charles Ferguson (USA)
• Who You Think I Am, Director: Safy Nebbou (France)
• You Only Live Once – Die Toten Hosen on Tour, Director: Cordula Kablitz-Post, concert director Paul Dugdale (Germany)