Berlinale. Competition complete.

Lots of Berlinale news all of a sudden. First, with the addition of Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty and Jafar Panahi's Offside, the Competition is now complete.

The Panorama program, too, is now complete, with 37 features, 14 docs and 23 shorts from 33 countries. The Short Film Jury and Competition have been announced and there'll be a new award for the Best First Feature. The fest runs February 9 through 19.

And: "Films by Roberto Benigni, Neten Chokling, Luis Llosa, Fredi M Murer and Julien Temple highlight this year's Berlinale Special. Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, film director Jürgen Böttcher (as a painter he is also known as Strawalde) and MoMa curator Laurence Kardish are among the winners of this year's Berlinale Cameras, which are awarded to personalities who have contributed to filmmaking in a special way."

Posted by dwhudson at January 28, 2006 2:44 AM