58th Berlin Film Festival - 2008 Competition Line-Up

The Berlin Film Festival will be held between February 7–17, 2008.

Opening Film (Out of Competition):
Shine a Light, USA
by Martin Scorsese
with the Rolling Stones

Avaze Gonjeshk-ha / The Song of Sparrows, Iran (World Premiere)
by Majid Majidi
with Reza Najie, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan, Hossein Aghazi

Ballast, USA (International Premiere)
by Lance Hammer
with Micheal J. Smith, Jim Myron Ross, Tarra Riggs

Bam gua Nat / Night and Day, Republic of Korea (World Premiere)
by Hong Sangsoo
with Kim Youngho, Park Eunhye, Hwang Soojung

Caos calmo / Quiet Chaos, Italy (International Premiere)
by Antonello Grimaldi
with Nanni Moretti, Isabella Ferrari, Alessandro Gassman, Valeria Golino

Elegy, USA
by Isabel Coixet
with Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper

Feuerherz / Heart of Fire, Germany / Austria
by Luigi Falorni
with Letekidan Micael

Gardens of the Night, Great Britain / USA (World Premiere)
by Damian Harris
with Gillian Jacobs, Evan Ross, Tom Arnold and John Malkovich

Happy-Go-Lucky, UK
by Mike Leigh
with Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Eddie Marsan, Samuel Roukin

Il y a longtemps que je t’aime / I’ve Loved You So Long, France / Germany (World Premiere)
by Philippe Claudel
with Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grevill

Julia, France
by Erick Zonca
with Tilda Swinton, Aidan Gould, Saúl Rubinek

Kabei / Kabei - Our Mother, Japan (International Premiere)
by Yoji Yamada
with Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsugoro Bando, Tadanobu Asano

Kirschblüten - Hanami, Germany
by Doris Dörrie
with Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner, Nadja Uhl

Lady Jane, France
by Robert Guédiguian
with Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Frédérique Bonnal

Lake Tahoe, Mexico / US (World Premiere)
by Fernando Eimbcke
with Diego Cataño, Héctor Herrera, Daniela Valentine, Juan Carlos Lara and Yemil Sefani

Musta Jaä / Black Ice, Finland / Germany (International Premiere)
by Petri Kotwica
with Outi Mäenpää, Ria Kataja, Martti Suosala, Ville Virtanen

Restless, Israel / Germany / Canada / France / Belgium
by Amos Kollek
with Moshe Ivgy, Ran Danker, Karen Young, Phyllis Sommerville

S.O.P. Standard Operating Procedure, USA (World Premiere)
by Errol Morris

The Sparrow, Hong Kong
by Johnnie To
with Simon Yam Tat Wah, Kelly Lin Hsi Lei, Gordon Lam Ka Tung, Lam Suet

There Will Be Blood, USA
by Paul Thomas Anderson
with Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano

Tropa de Elite / The Elite Squad, Brazil (International Premiere)
by José Padilha
with Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira and André Ramiro

Zuo You / In Love We Trust, China (World Premiere)
by Wang Xiaoshuai
with Liu Weiwei, Zhang Jiayu and Yu Nan

Closing Film (Out of competition):
Be Kind Rewind, USA (International Premiere)
by Michel Gondry
with Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz

Out of Competition

Fireflies in the Garden, USA (World Premiere)
by Dennis Lee
with Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson

Katyn, Poland (International Premiere)
by Andrzej Wajda
with Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski and Andrzej Chyra

The Other Boleyn Girl, USA / Great Britain (World Premiere)
by Justin Chadwick
with Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana

One Response to “2008 Berlin Film Festival - Official Competition Line-Up”

1. justyna on March 6th, 2008 11:01 pm

   nie wiem co tu napisa? ale na pewno ten film jest fajny

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