Written by Kianna Best on Jan 22, 2024. Posted in Awards and Festivals

Berlinale announces 2024 competition titles

The official films in competition for the 2024 Berlin Film Festival have been announced. Opening with Tim Mielant’s Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy, the lineup includes La Cocina from Mexican director Alonzo Ruizpalacious and From Hilde With Love from Germany’s Andreas Dresen. This year’s international jury will be headed by Lupita Nyong’o, with the festival taking place from 15-14 February.

 

 

“We are particularly proud of this year’s selection which achieves the best possible balance between auteurs we cherish and admire and powerful new voices in the independent cinema landscape. What drives the selection is of course the variety of the stories and their storytellers, but also and even more so the plurality of styles with the goal of showing the extensive possibilities of cinema language”, says Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director.

 

20 films from across 30 countries will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, including two first features and two documentary forms, with 19 world premieres. The 74^th edition of the Berlinale Film Festival competition selections were announced today by festival heads Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeck who return to the co-position for their final time. Starting from 2025, former BFI festivals director Tricia Tuttle will take over as Berlinale festival head.

 

 

Six of the films in competition have been directed or co-directed by women, including Langue Étrangère by Claire Burger, marking the third feature from the Camera d’Or winner alongside Anatomy of the Fall producer Marie-Ange Luciani. Other competing projects include Gloria! by Margherita Vicario, Keyke mahboobe man by Maryan Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, , Mé el Aïn by Meryam Joobeur, and Des Teufels Bad by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala.

 

Mexico will be represented both in front of an behind the camera, first with Rooney Mara starrer La Cocina, directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios. The film marks the first for the director outside of his native country and is set entirely in the kitchen of a New York restaurant. On screen, Mexican star Bernal takes on the role of a widower in Italian director Piero Messina’s Another End. Other countries set to be represented in competition at the film festival include Dominican Republic, Sweden, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Taiwan, Mauritania, Cote d’Ivoire, United States, Senegal, Benin, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland, Iran, Tunisia, Canada, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Namibia, Nepal, China, Turkey,  Mali and South Korea

 

 

The full list of films in competition is here below:

 

Another End, dir. Piero Messina

Architecton, dir. Victor Kossakovsky

Black Tea, dir. Abderrahmane Sissako

La Cocina, dir. Alonso Ruizpalacios

Dahomey, dir. Mati Diop

A Different Man, dir. Aaron Schimberg

The Empire, dir. Bruno Dumont

Gloria!, dir. Margherita Vicario

Suspended Time, dir. Olivier Assayas

From Hilde, With Love, dir. Andreas Dresen

My Favourite Cake, dir. Behtash Saneeha, Maryam Moghaddam

Langue Etrangère, dir. Claire Burger

Who Do I Belong To, dir. Meryam Joobeur

Pepe, dir. Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias

Shambhala, dir. Min Bahadur Bham

Sterben, dir. Matthias Glasner

The Devil’s Bath, dir. Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz

Small Things Like These, dir. Tim Mielants (previously announced)

A Traveler’s Needs, dir. Hong Sangsoo

Sons, dir. Gustav Möller