Berlinale 2024: Competition films unveiled

20 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, among them two first features as well as two documentary forms. Productions from 30 countries are represented. 19 films are world premieres. Six films were directed or co-directed by women. Nine filmmakers have been at the festival before, six in Competition.

“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,” said Carlo Chatrian, artistic director.

Films in Competition at Berlinale 2024

A Different Man by Aaron Schimberg | cin. Wyatt Garfield | with Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Adam Pearson | USA 2023 | International premiere

Another End by Piero Messina | cin. Fabrizio La Palombara | with Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo, Olivia Williams, Pal Aron | Italy 2024 | World premiere

Architecton by Victor Kossakovsky | Germany / France 2024 | World premiere | Documentary form

Black Tea by Abderrahmane Sissako | with Nina Mélo, Chang Han , Wu Ke-Xi , Michael Chang | France / Mauritania / Luxembourg / Taiwan / Côte d’Ivoire 2024 | World premiere

La Cocina by Alonso Ruizpalacios | cin. Juan Pablo Ramírez AMC | with Raúl Briones Carmona, Rooney Mara, Anna Diaz, Motell Foster, Oded Fehr | Mexico / USA 2024 | World premiere

Dahomey by Mati Diop | France / Senegal / Benin 2024 | World premiere | Documentary form

L’empire (The Empire) by Bruno Dumont | cin. David Chambille | with Brandon Vlieghe, Lyna Khoudri, Anamaria Vartolomei, Camille Cottin, Fabrice Luchini | France / Italy / Germany / Belgium / Portugal 2024 | World premiere

Gloria! by Margherita Vicario | cin. Gianluca Palma | with Galatéa Bellugi, Carlotta Gamba, Veronica Lucchesi, Maria Vittoria Dallasta, Sara Mafodda | Italy / Switzerland 2024 | World premiere | Debut film

Hors du temps (Suspended Time) by Olivier Assayas | with Vincent Macaigne, Micha Lescot, Nine D’Urso, Nora Hamzawi | France 2024 | World premiere

In Liebe, Eure Hilde (From Hilde, With Love) by Andreas Dresen | with Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann | Germany 2024 | World premiere

Keyke mahboobe man (My Favourite Cake) by Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha | with Lily Farhadpour, Esmail Mehrabi | Iran / France / Sweden / Germany 2024 | World premiere

Langue Étrangère by Claire Burger | with Lilith Grasmug, Josefa Heinsius, Nina Hoss, Chiara Mastroianni, Jalal Altawil | France / Germany / Belgium 2024 | World premiere

Mé el Aïn (Who Do I Belong To) by Meryam Joobeur | cin. Vincent Gonneville | with Salha Nasraoui, Mohamed Hassine Grayaa, Malek Mechergui, Adam Bessa, Dea Liane | Tunisia / France / Canada / Norway / Qatar / Saudi Arabia 2024 | World premiere | Debut film

Pepe by Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias | with Jhon Narváez, Sor María Ríos, Fareed Matjila, Harmony Ahalwa, Jorge Puntillón García | Dominican Republic / Namibia / Germany / France 2024 | World premiere

Shambhala by Min Bahadur Bham | with Thinley Lhamo, Sonam Topden, Tenzin Dalha, Karma Wangyal Gurung, Karma Shakya | Nepal / France / Norway / Hong Kong, China / Turkey / Taiwan / USA / Qatar 2024 | World premiere

Small Things Like These by Tim Mielants | with Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley, Emily Watson | Ireland / Belgium 2024 | World premiere

Sterben (Dying) by Matthias Glasner | with Corinna Harfouch, Lars Eidinger, Lilith Stangenberg, Ronald Zehrfeld, Robert Gwisdek | Germany 2024 | World premiere

Des Teufels Bad (The Devil’s Bath) by Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | Martin Gschlacht AAC | with Anja Plaschg, David Scheid, Maria Hofstätter | Austria / Germany 2024 | World premiere

Vogter (Sons) by Gustav Möller | cin. Jasper Spanning | with Sidse Babett Knudsen, Sebastian Bull, Dar Salim | Denmark / Sweden 2024 | World premiere

Yeohaengjaui pilyo (A Traveler’s Needs) by Hong Sangsoo | with Isabelle Huppert, Lee Hyeyoung, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee, Ha Seongguk | South Korea 2024 | World premiere