The Dutch director and screenwriter Paul Verhoeven will serve as jury president of the 67th edition of the festival, composed by seven other members. The winners will be announced on February 18th.
Offering movies coming from the most remote corners of the world, the unrivalled variety of the festival program and its exotic taste is articulated through seven more main sections: independent and art house in
Panorama, films for young audiences in
Generation, new discoveries and promising talents from the German film scene in
Perspektive Deutsches Kino, avant-garde, experimental and unfamiliar cinematography in the
Forum and
Forum Expanded, an exploration of cinematic possibilities in
Berlinale Shorts. The
Berlinale Special is showing new productions and honours cinema personalities.
Berlinale Special Series presents selected international series. The programme is rounded out by a
Retrospective and a
Homage, which focuses on the work of a great personality of cinema.
Berlinale Classics shows current restorations of classics and rediscovered films. Food, pleasure and the environment are the topics of
Culinary Cinema. Finally
NATIVe is devoted to the cinematic story-telling of Indigenous peoples worldwide. All the non-English films in the festival are presented with English subtitles.
A short and heterogeneous highlights list belonging to these sections:
La Reina de España by Fernando Trueba with Penélope Cruz and
Le jeune Karl Marx by Raoul Peck at Berlinale Special. In Panorama,
I Am Not Your Negro, the Oscar-nominated documentary about the essayist and novelist James Baldwin also by Raoul Peck,
Call Me By Your Name by Luca Guadagnino and of course for the Berliners,
Berlin Syndrome by Cate Shortland, where an Australian backpacker is seduced by a local English teacher only to find herself his captive. Berlinale Classics shows the new 3D conversion of
Terminator 2: Judgement Day.