The organizers of the Berlin Film Festival announced today that the first seven films to be screened in the
Competition section of the prestigious event have been selected. Amongst them are Terrence Malick's new project
Knight of Cups and Peter Greenaway's
Eisenstein in Guanajuato.
Kenneth Branagh's
Cinderella Cinderella by Kenneth Branagh will be screened out of competition as well.
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 5th – 15th 2015. American director Darren Aronofsky will be the jury president.
Films confirmed in Competition to date (in alphabetical order):
45 Years
United Kingdom
By Andrew Haigh (
Weekend)
With Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay
World premiere
Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming)
Germany / France
By Andreas Dresen (
Grill Point, Cloud 9, Stopped on Track)
With Merlin Rose, Julius Nitschkoff, Joel Basman, Marcel Heuperman,
Frederic Haselon, Ruby O. Fee
World premiere
Cinderella
USA
By Kenneth Branagh (
Hamlet)
With Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Richard Madden, Stellan Skarsgård,
Holliday Grainger, Sophie McShera, Derek Jacobi und Helena Bonham Carter
International premiere – Out of competition
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
The Netherlands / Mexico / Belgium / Finland
By Peter Greenaway (
Goltzius and the Pelican Company)
With Elmer Bäck, Luis Alberti
World premiere
Ixcanul (Ixcanul Volcano)
Guatemala / France
By Jayro Bustamante
With María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo,
Marvin Coroy
World premiere – Debut feature
Knight of Cups
USA
By Terrence Malick (
The Thin Red Line)
With Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman
World premiere
Pod electricheskimi oblakami (Under Electric Clouds)
Russian Federation / Ukraine / Poland
By Alexey German (Paper Soldier)
With Lui Frank, Merab Ninidze, Viktoriya Korotkova, Chulpan Khamatova,
Anastasiya Melnikova, Piotr Gasowski
World premiere
Note: Included below is the official new trailer for director Terrence Malick's
Knight of Cups.