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Berlin - The 65th Berlinale, Europe's first major film festival of the year, starts on Thursday with 23 international productions screening in the main showcase.
Nineteen pictures will vie for the Golden Bear top prize at the event running February 5 to 15, with a jury led by US filmmaker Darren Aronofsky selecting the winner. Twenty-one of the main features are world premieres and two are directors' feature debuts.
The Berlinale Special sidebar section features notable films given gala screenings that are outside the main line-up.
Here is the complete list including the English title, director and countries where the films were produced:
45 Years, Andrew Haigh starring Charlotte Rampling, Britain
Aferim!, Radu Jude, Romania/Bulgaria/Czech Republic
Als wir traeumten (As We Were Dreaming), Andreas Dresen, Germany/France
Body, Malgorzata Szumowska, Poland
Cha va con va (Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories), Phan Dang Di,
Vietnam/France/Germany/Netherlands
Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh starring Cate Blanchett, Stellan Skarsgard and Helena Bonham Carter, US/Britain (out of competition)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato, Peter Greenaway,
Netherlands/Mexico/Belgium/Finland
El boton de nacar (The Pearl Button), Patricio Guzman, France/Chile/Spain
El Club (The Club), Pablo Larrain, Chile
Elser (13 Minutes), Oliver Hirschbiegel,
Germany (out of competition)
Everything Will Be Fine, Wim Wenders starring James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rachel McAdams,
Germany/Canada/France/Sweden/Norway (out of competition)
Ixcanul (Ixcanul Volcano), Jayro Bustamante, Guatemala/France (feature debut)
Journal d'une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid), Benoit Jacquot starring Lea Seydoux, France/Belgium
Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman, US
Mr. Holmes, Bill Condon starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney, Britain (out of competition)
Nadie quiere la noche (Nobody Wants the Night), Isabel Coixet starring Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kikuchi and Gabriel Byrne, Spain/France/Bulgaria (opening film)
Pod Elektricheskimi Oblakami (Under Electric Clouds), Alexei German, Russia/Ukraine/Poland
Queen of the Desert, Werner Herzog starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis and Robert Pattinson, US
Taxi, Jafar Panahi, Iran
Ten no chasuke (Chasuke's Journey), Sabu,
Japan
Vergine giurata (Sworn Virgin), Laura Bispuri,
Italy/Switzerland/Germany/Albania/Kosovo (feature debut)
Victoria, Sebastian Schipper, Germany
Yi Bu Zhi Yao (Gone with the Bullets), Jiang Wen, China/US
Berlinale Special Highlights:
Die abhandene Welt (The Misplaced World), Margarethe von Trotta, Germany
Fifty Shades of Grey, Sam Taylor-Johnson starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, US
Love and Mercy, Bill Pohlad starring John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti, US
Selma, Ava DuVernay starring David Oyelowo and Tom Wilkinson, US/Britain
Woman in Gold, Simon Curtis starring Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds and Katie Holmes, Britain
