61st Berlinale: World Cinema in the Panorama

After visiting Asia, North and South America as well as many European countries to view and select films, 24 works - that is just under half of the 50 films to be presented in the Panorama section - are now certain. They provide lively insight into the creations of world cinema during the so-called post-crisis era. What's more, they reveal that documentary film continues to be strong in 2011: documentaries again make up about a third of the programme.

From the start, the Panorama's mission has been to discover films for the upcoming art-house season and to provide the market with inspiration. To date the selection includes names like José Padilha (who won the Golden Bear in 2009 for Tropa de elite), Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors) and Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski, as well as promising newcomers like Marie Kreutzer (Austria), Jan Schomburg (Germany) and Michaël R. Roskam (Belgium). Returning to the Panorama with new works are documentary filmmakers Elfi Mikesch, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Cyril Tuschi and Rosa von Praunheim. All the films in the Panorama are screening as either world or European premieres.

The QUEER TEDDY AWARD, which evolved out of the Panorama and may be awarded to films from any section of the Berlinale, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. And during the Berlinale, more than 20,000 moviegoers will again participate in the Panorama Audience Award, which will be presented on February 20, 2011.

So far the following films have been confirmed for the Main Programme, Panorama Special and Panorama Dokumente:

Panorama Main Programme + Panorama Special

Bu-dang-geo-rae (The Unjust) by Seung-wan Ryoo, Republic of Korea

with Jung-min Hwang, Seung-bum Ryoo, Hae-jin Yoo

Chang-Pi-Hae (Ashamed) by Soo-hyun Kim, Republic of Korea

with Hyo-jin Kim, Kkobbi Kim

Dance Town by Kyu-hwan Jeon, Republic of Korea

with Mir-an Ra, Seong-tae Oh

The Devil's Double by Lee Tamahori, Belgium

with Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier

Dirty Girl by Abe Sylvia, USA

with Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Steenburgen, Jeremy Dozier

Fjellet (The Mountain) by Ole Giæver, Norway

with Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Marte Magnusdotter Solem

The Guard by John Michael McDonagh, Ireland/Great Britain/Argentina

with Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong

Majki (Mothers) by Milcho Manchevski, Macedonia/France

with Ana Stojanovska, Vladimir Jačev, Dimitar Gjorgjievski, Ratka Radmanović, Salaetin Bilal

Mishen (Target) by Alexander Zeldovich, Russian Federation, world premiere

with Maksim Sukhanov, Justine Waddell, Danila Kozlovsky, Daniela Stoyanovich, Nina Loshchinina

Rundskop (Bullhead) by Michaël R. Roskam, Belgium

with Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy, Barbara Sarafian, Frank Lammers

Tropa de Elite 2 - o inimigo agora é outro (Elite Squad 2 - The Enemy within) by José Padilha, Brazil

with Wagner Moura, Sandro Rocha, André Mattos, Maria Ribeiro, André Ramiro

Über uns das All by Jan Schomburg, Germany, world premiere

with Sandra Hüller, Georg Friedrich, Felix Knopp

Die Vaterlosen (The Fatherless) by Marie Kreutzer, Austria, world premiere

with Andrea Wenzl, Philipp Hochmair, Andreas Kiendl, Emily Cox, Marion Mitterhammer  

Panorama Dokumente

The Advocate For Fagdom by Angélique Bosio, France, world premiere

with Bruce LaBruce, Gus Van Sant, John Waters

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 by Göran Hugo Olsson, Sweden/USA

with Stokley Carmichael, Angela Davis, Erykha Badu, Harry Belafonte

BRASCH - Die Widersprüche sind die Hoffnung by Christoph Rüter, Germany, world premiere

Coming Home by Tomer Heymann, Israel, world premiere

homo@lv by Kaspars Goba, Latvia

House Of Shame / Chantal All Night Long by Johanna Jackie Baier, Germany, world premiere

with Chantal Lehner, Andreas Schwarz, Joey Arias, Sherry Vine, Gloria Viagra

Die Jungs vom Bahnhof Zoo (Rent Boys) by Rosa von Praunheim Germany, world premiere

with Sergiu Grimalschi, Lutz Volkwein, Wolfgang Werner, Peter Kern, Master Patrick

Khodorkovsky by Cyril Tuschi, Germany, world premiere

with Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mondo Lux by Elfi Mikesch, Germany, world premiere

with Isabelle Huppert, Ingrid Caven, Wim Wenders, Rosa von Praunheim, Monika Keppler

!Women Art Revolution - A Secret History by Lynn Hershman Leeson, USA

with Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Guerilla Girls, B. Ruby Rich, Carolee Schneeman

We Were Here by David Weissman, USA

with Ed Wolf, Paul Boneberg, Guy Clark, Eileen Glutzer, Daniel Goldstein