THE Berlinale, one of the most traditional and prestigious film festivals in the world, starts this Thursday (9). The event, which has been taking place in Berlin for 71 years, returns to its in-person programming for the first time since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
This is the first major cinematic event of 2022 to return to the physical model, following the cancellations of the Golden Globes and Sundance Film Festival. The schedule, however, is shorter than usual, with side events such as trade fairs being held online, and the schedule being reduced to six days.
This face-to-face return seeks to privilege the sessions and the movie theater experience.
“I always speak of a film religion, and I was converted to a session as a child. It transported me. At that moment I decided that I needed to recreate that feeling in my life,” said filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan (“The Sixth Sense”), president of the jury for this edition, at the event’s opening press conference.
The panel of judges has the presence of a Brazilian: director Karim Aïnouz, from “A Vida Invisível”, participates in the group responsible for choosing the big winners. Aïnouz himself has already competed at the Berlinale in 2014, with “Praia do Futuro”.
In addition to the filmmaker, Brazil attends the festival with six productions, all of them on the alternative circuit. In the Panorama show, of world cinema, there is the feature “Fogaréu”, by Flávia Neves. The Forum section, which is more experimental, will feature “Mato Seco em Chamas”, by Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta, and “Três Tigres Tristes”, by Gustavo Vinagre.
The short films “Manhã de Domingo”, by Bruno Ribeiro, “O Dente do Dragão”, by Rafael Castanheira Parrode, “Se Hace Camino al Andar”, by Paula Gaitán, complete the national presence.
In the main selection, eighteen films, from fifteen different countries, compete for the Golden and Silver Bear statuettes. As is typical at the festival, the focus is on authorial and alternative cinema. Among the main competitors is “Peter van Kant”, by the French François Ozon (from “8 Women”) and starring Isabelle Adjani, which opens the program this Thursday night.
Besides him, the new features by French Claire Denis (“Avec amour et acharnement”) and Korean Hong Sang-so (“The novelist’s film”) stand out. There will also be a special section of the documentary “This Much I Know To Be True”, about singer Nick Cave, directed by Australian Andrew Dominik.
Source: CNN Brasil
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