Berlin Film Festival 2005 - Official Competition Film Line-Up
February 5th, 2005 by Andre Soares
The focus in the official competition of this year’s Berlin Film Festival is unabashedly Eurocentric. The only country from the Americas represented is the United States. South Africa, the only African country listed, has two films in competition, but one of these is a co-production with European countries.
Motion pictures from South and West Asia are nowhere to be found (though the French-Dutch co-production Paradise Now is set in Palestine), and the Australian cinema is also absent from the official list.
55th Berlin Film Festival Competition Line-Up
Anklaget (Accused), Denmark, director Jacob Thuesen
Asylum, United States / Ireland, director David MacKenzie
De battre mon coeur s’est arreté (The Beat That My Heart Slipped), France, director Jacques Audiard
Gespenster (Ghosts), Germany / France, director Christian Petzold
In Good Company, United States, director Paul Weitz
Kakushi Ken - Oni no Tsume (The Hidden Blade), Japan, director Yoji Yamada
Kong que (Peacock), China, director Gu Changwei
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, United States, director Wes Anderson
Man to Man, France / South Africa / Britain, director Regis Wargnier
Les mots bleus (Words in Blue), France, director Alain Corneau
One Day in Europe, Germany / Spain, director Hannes Stoehr
Paradise Now, Netherlands / France, director Hany Abu-Hassad
Le promeneur du Champ de Mars (The Late Mitterrand), France, director Robert Guediguian
Provincia Meccanica (Smalltown, Italy), Italy, director Stefano Mordini
Solnze (The Sun), Russia / Italy, director Alexander Sokurov
Sometimes in April, United States / Britain, director Raoul Peck
Sophie Scholl - die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl - Hope and Resistance), Germany, director Marc Rothemund
Les temps qui changent (Changing Times), France, director André Techiné
Thumbsucker, United States, director Mike Mills
Tian bian yi duo yun (The Wayward Cloud), France / Taiwan / China, director Tsai Ming Liang
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (Carmen in Khayelitsha), South Africa, director Mark Dornford-May
Out of competition:
Heights, United States, director Chris Terrio
Hitch, United States, director Andy Tennant
Hotel Rwanda, Canada / Britain / Italy / South Africa, director Terry George
Kinsey, United States / Germany / Britain, director Bill Condon
Tickets, Italy / Britain, directors Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach
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