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We’re finally getting news about Clémence’s project ‘Final Portrait’! The World Premiere will be at Berlin Festival which runs from February 9-19.

The final films to compete for this year’s Gold and Silver Bears during the Feb. 9-19 fest are now set.

The Berlin International Film Festival on Friday finalized its competition lineup of films that will compete for this year’s Gold and Silver Bears.

The competition title added is Hao ji le (Have a Nice Day) by Liu Jian (Piercing I). Out-of-competition slots went to the world premieres of Final Portrait, directed by Stanley Tucci and starring Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clemence Poesy, Tony Shalhoub, James Faulkner and Sylvie Testud; and Sage femme (Midwife), helmed by Martin Provost (Violette) and starring Catherine Frot, Catherine Deneuve and Olivier Gourmet.

Previously announced competition titles include: The Dinner from U.S. director Oren Moverman (The Messenger) and starring Richard Gere, Rebecca Hall, Laura Linney and Steve Coogan; and The Party, the latest star-studded effort from U.K. director Sally Potter (Orlando), which will have their world premieres in Berlin. Also competing will be The Other Side of Hope, from acclaimed Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki (Le Havre), which will have its international premiere in Berlin, and Spoor from Oscar-nominated Polish helmer Agnieszka Holland (In Darkness).

Also in the running for Berlin’s Gold and Silver Bears will be On Body and Soul, from Hungarian director Ildiko Enyedi; Ana mon amour from Romanian helmer Calin Pater Netzer, winner of the Berlin Golden Bear in 2013 for Child’s Pose; and Beuys, a documentary on controversial German artist Joseph Beuys by acclaimed nonfiction filmmaker Andres Veiel (Black Box Germany). Colo, from Portugese director Teresa Villaverde, French helmer Alain Gomis’ Felicite and Una Mujer Fantastica from Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Lelio also previously made the Berlin competition cut.

The festival also completed its Berlinale Special program on Friday, adding Aisling Walsh’s Maudie, with Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett and Zachary Bennett; The Lost City of Z from James Gray (We Own the Night) with Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland; the bomb, co-directed by Kevin Ford, Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser; documentary La libertad del diablo (Devil’s Freedom) by Everardo Gonzalez; Nema-ye nazdik (Close Up) from Abbas Kiarostami; and doc The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov by Askold Kurov.

Berlin previously unveiled four films that will get special out-of-competition gala screenings. They are Fernando Trueba’s period comedy The Queen of Spain, the sequel to 1988’s The Girl of Your Dreams, starring Penelope Cruz and Mandy Patinkin; Raoul Peck’s biopic The Young Karl Marx, featuring German star August Diehl as the founder of communism; Last Days in Havana from director Fernando Perez; and a newly restored version of Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, a 1972 German TV series written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

The festival is set to run Feb. 9-19.

Posted on Jan 24, 2017  •  Comments Off on Berlin Festival Rounds Out Lineup With Stanley Tucci, Catherine Deneuve Titles  •  Filed under Final Portrait, News
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