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\"Berlinale<\/a>
Berlinale 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n Berlin International Film Festival<\/B>

\n5 \u2013 15 February 2015

\nBerlin, Germany

\nBerlinale website<\/A>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Celebrating its 65th anniversary, this year\u2019s Berlinale promises exciting new works from some of our favourite directors. And while the line-up is the usual mixed bag of hits and misses, there is still a great diversity of films on show that go beyond the eye-catching heavyweights, high-profile gala features and prestige \u2018Berlinale Special\u2019 screenings, which this year include the likes of Sam Taylor-Johnson\u2019s much talked-about adaptation of EL James’s erotic fiction Fifty Shades of Grey<\/i><\/b> and Anton Corbijn\u2019s James Dean biopic Life<\/i><\/b>. <\/p>\n

One of the greatest highlights for us is undoubtedly Guy Maddin<\/a>\u2019s The Forbidden Room<\/i><\/a>, screening in the notoriously unpredictable Forum section. Following his ambitious noir<\/i> gangster ghost tale Keyhole<\/i><\/a> in 2012, Maddin, who has a long-standing relationship with the festival, returns with a film, co-directed by Evan Johnson, that resembles an endless nightmare where plot, characters and locations constantly flow into one another. <\/p>\n

Check out our previous Berlinale coverage<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Screening in Competition are Peter Greenaway<\/a>\u2019s Eisenstein in Guanajuato<\/i><\/b>, Pablo Larraín\u2019s The Club<\/i><\/b>, Werner Herzog\u2019s Queen of the Desert<\/i><\/b> and Sabu\u2019s Chasuke\u2019s Journey<\/i><\/b>, alongside other notable contenders such as Alexey German Jr.\u2019s Under Electric Clouds<\/i><\/b>, Radu Jude\u2019s Balkan western Aferim!<\/i><\/b>, and the highly anticipated German entry Victoria<\/i><\/b>, by Sebastian Schipper. Plus, following on the heels of last year\u2019s eccentric Berlinale winner Black Coal, Thin Ice<\/i><\/a>, comes Chinese offering Gone With the Bullets<\/i><\/b>, the second part of Jiang Wen \u2018Bullet\u2019 trilogy, which started with his cryptic 2010 comedy gangster drama Let the Bullets Fly<\/i><\/b>. <\/p>\n

Among the films we will be checking out in the Forum and Panorama strands are Emyr ap Richard and Darhad Erdenibulag\u2019s quietly radical adaptation of the Kafka classic K,<\/i><\/b> Mitchell Lichtenstein\u2019s haunting game of insecurities Angelica<\/i><\/b>, and Mark Christopher\u2019s rediscovered and extended 54: Director\u2019s Cut<\/b>. We also look forward to Marcin Malaszczak\u2019s The Days Run Away like Wild Horses over the Hills<\/i><\/b>, which takes its title from a collection of poems Charles Bukowski wrote for his lover, and Matthias Glasner\u2019s Blochin \u2013 The Living and the Dead<\/i><\/b>, the pilot to a new German TV crime drama series starring Jürgen Vogel. <\/p>\n

As always, the Berlinale will present a vast number of documentaries, this time focusing quite heavily on cult figures and troubled artists including Fassbinder, Nina Simone, Kurt Cobain and Yvonne Rainer, while Joshua Oppenheimer is at hand to present The Look of Silence<\/i><\/a>, his acclaimed follow-up to The Act of Killing<\/i><\/a>. Also of note is B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin<\/i><\/b> about the music, art and chaos in the wild West-Berlin of the 1980s, and Jean-Gabriel Périot\u2019s A German Youth<\/i><\/b>, which looks at the gradual transformation and increasing politicisation of the Red Army Faction (RAF) at the end of the 1960s until they took up armed resistance, constructed entirely from archive footage and audio material. <\/p>\n

Germany in the late 60s also features heavily in this year\u2019s Berlinale Classics strand, which offers a rare chance to see Jürgen Böttcher\u2019s Born in \u201945 <\/i><\/b> on the big screen, alongside newly restored versions of E. A. Dupont\u2019s Varieté<\/i><\/b> and Richard Brooks\u2019s In Cold Blood<\/i><\/b>. Finally, this year\u2019s Retrospective celebrates the 100th anniversary of \u2018Glorious Technicolor\u2019 films, with titles including John M. Stahl\u2019s Leave Her to Heaven<\/i><\/b>, Anthony Mann\u2019s The Naked Spur<\/i><\/b> and Powell and Pressburger\u2019s Black Narcissus<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n

For more information about the programme and how to book tickets visit the Berlinale website<\/A>. <\/div>\n

Pamela Jahn<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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Celebrating its 65th anniversary, this year\u2019s Berlinale promises exciting new works from some of our favourite directors, including Guy Maddin, Werner Herzog and Peter Greenaway. 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