The 14 entries in the “14 Films” competition include many films that have won awards at Sundance, Cannes, Venice and Locarno. And the specials are a celebration – with great cinema from Asia and Germany, great directing icons in three homages and at the “Grandfilm Birthday Night”. The “14 Films” series, the heart of AROUND THE WORLD IN 14 FILMS, will feature 2024 international festival hits by ten female directors and five male directors from Argentina, Mexico, Somalia, Italy, Ireland, France, Norway, Lithuania, Greece, Austria, Georgia, Iran, India and Vietnam. A jury will select one entry from the “14 Films” for the “BASIS Berlin Postproduction Award for Best Director”. The works that have been intensively discussed at festivals include Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio” (Italy). The quiet, meditative film is set in a snowy mountain village in the winter of 1944 and was the surprise winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2024. For film critic Patrick Wellinski (Deutschlandfunk Kultur), Kurdwin Ayub is "without question the greatest talent in Austrian cinema". The festival is showing her second film "Mond", brilliantly cast with Florentina Holzinger as a failed mixed martial arts fighter, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival. The specials include a tribute to British auteur Andrea Arnold, among others. In her latest film "Bird", with stars such as Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski, she tells the story of twelve-year-old girl Bailey (great: Nykiya Adams) on her journey to adulthood. AROUND THE WORLD IN 14 FILMS will present the 14 films and specials as German and Berlin premieres from November 29 to December 7, 2024.
From Argentina to Vietnam – the 14 films of the cinematic journey
The 14 entries in the “14 Films” competition: “Kill the Jockey”, R. Luis Ortega (Argentina), “Sujo”, R. Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez (Mexico), “The Village Next to Paradise”, R. Mo Harawe (Somalia), “Vermiglio”, R. Maura Delpero (Italy), “September Says”, R. Ariane Labed (Ireland), “Hundschuldig – Le procès du chien”, R. Laetitia Dosch (France), “Elternabend – Armand”, R. Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel (Norway), “Toxic”, R. Saulé Bliuvaité (Lithuania), “Harvest”, R. Athina Rachel Tsangari (Greece, Great Britain), “Mond”, R. Kurdwin Ayub (Austria, Jordan), “April”, R. Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia), “Boomerang”, R. Shahab Fotouhi (Iran), “All We Imagine as Light”, R. Payal Kapadia (India) and “Viêt and Nam” R. Minh Quý Truong (Vietnam). “The Village Next to Paradise”, “Boomerang” and “Viêt and Nam” are part of the “Berlinale Spotlight: World Cinema Fund”, which the festival is presenting for the 6th time this year.
Very special – great cinema from Jia Zhangke to Andrea Arnold to Pia Marais
AROUND THE WORLD IN 14 FILMS shows big names like Jia Zhangke, Andrea Arnold and Miguel Gomes, exciting talents from Gabor Reisz to Hu Guan and the new works of German-speaking artists such as Pia Marais and Christoph Hochhäusler in the specials. These include: a "Chinese Night" with "Black Dog - Companions" by Hu Guan and "Caught by the Tides" by star director Jia Zhangke, the "Grandfilm Birthday Night" with "An Explanation for Everything" by Gabor Reisz and "Veni Vidi Vici" by Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann, the special "German Cinema" with "Transamazonia" by Pia Marais and "Death Will Come" by Christoph Hochhäusler, three homages with "Grand Tour" by Miguel Gomes, "Bird" by Andrea Arnold and "Misericordia" by Alain Guiraudie.
Note: The full program of the 19th edition of AROUND THE WORLD IN 14 FILMS will be published on the website on Friday, November 8, 2024. Ticket sales start on Tuesday, November 12, 2024.
Film still: "Veni Vidi Vici" © Grandfilm / Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion
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