2024-01-22 16:42:57
On Monday, the organizers of the Berlin Film Festival published the list of works that will compete for the Golden Bear in the 74th session of the film event, with the emergence of African films and the return of Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako and a number of stars, including Gael García Bernal, Rooney Mara, Bruno Dumont and Olivier Assayas.
20 works will compete in the upcoming festival between February 15 and 25, to win the Golden Bear, which was won in the last session by the film “Sur Ladaman” by Frenchman Nicolas Philibert.
African works stand out in the list of competing films, at a time when Africa is witnessing development in the cinematic field, although its presence in major festivals is still limited.
Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, who has not completed any work since his film “Timbuktu,” which enjoyed great success and won the Cesar Award for Best Director in 2015, returns with the film “Black Tea.”
French-Senegalese Mati Diop (who won the Palme d’Or in 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival for the film “Atlantic”) will attend the screening of his film “Le Rotor”, a documentary regarding the recovery of the royal treasures of Abomey. Tunisia will be represented with the first feature film by director Meriem Joubar.
Also among the competing works is the film “Hour du Tan” by French director Olivier Assayas. This work deals with the story of a director and his journalist brother, who are isolated inside the house in which they grew up in the countryside.
Bruno Dumont returns with a very personal work, which is a new version of “Star Wars” filmed in his region in northern France.
Claire Berger is competing for the Golden Bear for the first time with her film “Lange Etranger”, starring French-German Chiara Mastroianni.
Among the competing films is “A Travelers Needs,” by South Korean Hong Sang-soo, who is accustomed to attending the Berlin Film Festival.
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