17/01/2024 - This year’s programme, now unveiled in full, aims to explore “the world around us, shaped by global crises, wars and social divisions”

Today, the Berlinale announced the full Panorama line-up for its 2024 edition, poised to unspool in the German capital from 15-25 February. The programme will be opened by Levan Akin’s fourth feature, Crossing [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Levan Akin
film profile]. In it, an unlikely duo travels from Batumi to the urban, labyrinthine Istanbul in search of a young transwoman called Tekla. According to the official press release, in this picture, Akin will regale the audience with “a topography of places that offer queer people comfort and solidarity while movingly connecting reality with imagination”.

This year’s line-up aims to explore “the world around us, shaped by global crises, wars and social divisions”, wherein “communication and language are becoming restricted and coarsened […]. Essentially, it’s about communicating experiences and realities of life, history, understanding and empathy. Whether rigorously stark and unadorned or innovative in image, structure and across all filmmaking crafts, the films in this year’s programme express their attitudes in many voices, building bridges between lived experiences and cinematic possibilities that inspire us to look to the future,” commented Panorama head Michael Stütz.

In total, the strand will host 31 titles, including one series and 25 world premieres. This year’s line-up will also play host to André Téchiné’s new effort My New Friends [+see also:
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film profile], starring Isabelle Huppert in the leading role. The plot revolves around some neighbours with opposing worldviews who risk taking significant steps towards conciliation.

As usual, the section boasts a significant German presence. In Scorched Earth [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Arslan
film profile], Thomas Arslan indulges in the second part of his Trojan trilogy and “returns to genre cinema with style and verve”, whilst in Every You Every Me [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Michael Fetter Nathansky
film profile], Michael Fetter Nathansky provides “a wise, sensitive film about the fragility of love and work relationships in the everyday life of a factory worker”. Two German documentaries are also part of the line-up (Markus Stein’s Baldiga – Unlocked Heart [+see also:
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film profile], and Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer’s Teaches of Peaches [+see also:
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interview: Philipp Fussenegger, Judy L…
film profile]) along with four instalments of the series Zeit Verbrechen.

Other European highlights include the documentaries A Bit of a Stranger [+see also:
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interview: Svitlana Lishchynska
film profile] by Svitlana Lishchynska (Ukraine) and Birgitte Stærmose’s Afterwar [+see also:
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interview: Birgitte Stærmose
film profile] (Denmark/Kosovo/Sweden/Finland) along with three fiction features: Bruce LaBruce’s “provocative remake of Pasolini’s Theorem”, titled The Visitor [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Bruce LaBruce
film profile] (UK); Dag Johan Haugerud’s “humorous film joyfully dismantling social norms” Sex [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Dag Johan Haugerud
film profile]; and Nora Fingscheidt’s drama The Outrun [+see also:
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interview: Nora Fingscheidt
film profile] (UK/Germany), toplined by Irish thesp Saoirse Ronan.

The selected Panorama titles are listed in full below:

Crossing [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Levan Akin
film profile] - Levan Akin (Sweden/Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia) (opening film)
Afterwar [+see also:
film review
interview: Birgitte Stærmose
film profile] - Birgitte Stærmose (Denmark/Kosovo/Sweden/Finland) (documentary)
Every You Every Me [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Michael Fetter Nathansky
film profile] - Michael Fetter Nathansky (Germany/Spain)
All Shall Be Well - Ray Yeung (Hong Kong/China)
Andrea Gets a Divorce [+see also:
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film profile] - Josef Hader (Austria)
Which Way Africa? - David-Pierre Fila (Republic of the Congo/Angola/Cameroon) (documentary)
Baldiga – Unlocked Heart [+see also:
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film profile] - Markus Stein (Germany) (documentary)
Betânia - Marcelo Botta (Brazil)
Between the Temples - Nathan Silver (USA)
A Bit of a Stranger [+see also:
film review
interview: Svitlana Lishchynska
film profile] - Svitlana Lishchynska (Ukraine) (documentary)
Cu Li Never Cries [+see also:
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film profile] - Lân Phạm Ngọc (Vietnam/Philippines/France/ Singapore/Norway)
Diaries from Lebanon [+see also:
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interview: Myriam El Hajj
film profile] - Myriam El Hajj (Lebanon/ France/Qatar/Saudi Arabia) (documentary)
Faruk [+see also:
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interview: Asli Özge
film profile] - Aslı Özge (Germany/Turkey/France)
My New Friends [+see also:
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film profile] - André Téchiné (France)
I Saw the TV Glow - Jane Schoenbrun (USA)
Janet Planet - Annie Baker (USA)
I’m Not Everything I Want to Be [+see also:
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film profile] - Klára Tasovská (Czech Republic/Slovakia/Austria) (documentary)
Brief History of a Family [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Lin Jianjie (China/France/Denmark/Qatar)
Memories of a Burning Body [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Antonella Sudasassi Furniss (Costa Rica/Spain)
No Other Land [+see also:
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interview: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham
film profile] - Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor (Palestine/Norway) (documentary)
The Outrun [+see also:
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interview: Nora Fingscheidt
film profile] - Nora Fingscheidt (UK/Germany)
Paradises of Diane [+see also:
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interview: Carmen Jaquier & Jan Gassmann
film profile] - Carmen Jaquier, Jan Gassmann (Switzerland)
Meanwhile on Earth [+see also:
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film profile] - Jérémy Clapin (France)
My Stolen Planet [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Farahnaz Sharifi (Germany/Iran) (documentary)
Sex [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Dag Johan Haugerud
film profile] - Dag Johan Haugerud (Norway)
Teaches of Peaches [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Philipp Fussenegger, Judy L…
film profile] - Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer (Germany) (documentary)
Rising Up at Night [+see also:
film review
interview: Nelson Makengo
film profile] - Nelson Makengo (DR Congo/Belgium/Germany/Burkina Faso/Qatar) (documentary)
Scorched Earth [+see also:
film review
interview: Thomas Arslan
film profile] - Thomas Arslan (Germany)
The Visitor [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bruce LaBruce
film profile] - Bruce LaBruce (UK)
I Saw Three Black Lights [+see also:
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film profile] - Santiago Lozano Álvarez (Colombia/Mexico/France/Germany)
Zeit Verbrechen 1: Dezember - Mariko Minoguchi (Germany) (series)
Zeit Verbrechen 2: Der Panther - Jan Bonny (Germany) (series)
Zeit Verbrechen 3: Deine Brüder - Helene Hegemann (Germany) (series)
Zeit Verbrechen 4: Love by Proxy - Faraz Shariat (Germany) (series)