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?Asian cinema will take center stage at the Berlin International Film Festival‘s Panorama sidebar this year, with new titles from Fruit Chan, Nao Kubota and LeeSong Hee-il among the films picked to complete the 2014 Panorama lineup, organizers said Friday.
The 2014 Panorama section opens Feb. 6 with the Vietnamese sci-fi feature Nuoc from director Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo.
Other Asian titles screening in the Panorama program this year include That Demon Within from Hong Kong’s Dante Lam, feature debut The Night from Chinese first-timer Hao Zhou; Journey to the West from Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang and The Rice Bomber from fellow Thai Cho Li; Midi Z‘ Ice Poison and the Filipino features Quick Change and Unfriend.
Among the few U.S. features selected to participate in Panorama this year were Ira Sachs‘ Love Is Strange, which stars John Lithgow, Alfred Molina and Marisa Tomei; The Better Angels, A. J Edwards‘ look at Abraham Lincoln’s childhood, which stars Diane Kruger, Jason Clarke and Wes Bentley; and Saar Klein‘s Things People Do, a crime drama featuring Bentley, True Blood star Sam Trammell and Brit actor Jason Isaacs. This will be Sachs third film to screen in Berlin’s Panorama following Keep the Lights on (2012) and Forty Shades of Blue (2005).
Jalil Lespert’s biopic Yves Saint Laurent will open the Panorama Special program Feb. 7.
Here is the full 2014 Panorama lineup:
Opening Film – Panorama
Nuoc (2030)
By Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo
World premiere
Opening Film – Panorama Special
Yves Saint Laurent
By Jalil Lespert
International premiere
I’m Not Angry!
By Reza Dormishian
International premiere
Blind
By Eskil Vogt
European premiere
Difret
By Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
European premiere
Fever
By Elfi Mikesch
World premiere
Gueros
By Alonso Ruízpalacios
World premiere
Highway
By Imtiaz Ali
World premiere
Homeland
By Nao Kubota
World premiere
In Grazia di Dio
By Edoardo Winspeare
World premiere
Love Is Strange
By Ira Sachs
International premiere
That Demon Within
By Dante Lam
World premiere
Standing Aside, Watching
By Yorgos Servetas
European premiere
Night Flight
By LeeSong Hee-il
World premiere
Brides
By Tinatin Kajrishvili
World premiere
Cracks in Concrete
By Umut Dag
World premiere
The Midnight After
By Fruit Chan
World premiere
Land of Storms
By Adam Csaszi
World premiere
The Night
By Hao Zhou
World premiere
If You Don’t, I Will
By Sophie Fillieres
World premiere
Calvary
By John Michael McDonagh
European premiere
The Way He Looks
By Daniel Ribeiro
World premiere
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
By Michel Gondry
European premiere
The Man of the Crowd
By Marcelo Gomes, Cao Guimaraes
International premiere
Papilio Buddha
By Jayan Cherian
European premiere
Stereo
By Maximilian Erlenwein
World premiere
Test
By Chris Mason Johnson
European premiere
The Better Angels
By A. J Edwards
International premiere
The Lamb
By Kutlug Ataman
World premiere
Things People Do
By Saar Klein
World premiere
Triptych
By Robert LePage, Pedro Pires
European premiere
Superegos
By Benjamin Heisenberg
World premiere
Journey to the West
By Tsai Ming-liang
World premiere
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