The Plaid Silhouette: 65th Berlin International Film Festival

The 65th annual Berlin International Film Festival is scheduled to be held from 5 to 15 February 2015, with American film director Darren Aronofsky announced as the President of the Jury. German film director Wim Wenders is scheduled to be presented with the Honorary Golden Bear. The first seven films of the festival were announced on 15 December 2014.Isabel Coixet's Nobody Wants the Night has been announced as the opening film.

Competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
45 Years	45 Years	Andrew Haigh	United Kingdom
As We Were Dreaming	Als wir träumten	Andreas Dresen	Germany, France
Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories	Cha và con và	Dang Di Phan	Vietnam
Body		Małgorzata Szumowska	Poland
Diary of a Chambermaid	Journal d'une femme de chambre	Benoît Jacquot	Belgium, France
Eisenstein in Guanajuato	Eisenstein in Guanajuato	Peter Greenaway	Netherlands, Mexico, Belgium, Finland
Gone with the Bullets	一步之遥 Yi bu zhi yao	Jiang Wen	China
Ixcanul Volcano	Ixcanul	Jayro Bustamante	Guatemala, France
Knight of Cups	Knight of Cups	Terrence Malick	United States
Nobody Wants the Night	Nadie quiere la noche	Isabel Coixet	Spain, France, Bulgaria
Queen of the Desert	Queen of the Desert	Werner Herzog	United States, Morocco
Taxi		Jafar Panahi	Iran
Under Electric Clouds	Под электрическими облаками Pod electricheskimi oblakami	Aleksei Alekseivich German	Russia, Ukraine, Poland
Victoria	Victoria	Sebastian Schipper	Germany

Out of competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Cinderella	Cinderella	Kenneth Branagh	United States
Mr. Holmes	Mr. Holmes	Bill Condon	United Kingdom, United States

Panorama

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
54 (director's cut)	54	Mark Christopher	United States
Chorus	Chorus	François Delisle	Canada
The Last Summer of the Rich	Der letzte Sommer der Reichen	Peter Kern	Austria
Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents	Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern	Stina Werenfels	Switzerland, Germany
Dyke Hard	Dyke Hard	Bitte Andersson	Sweden
Ode to My Father	Gukjesijang	Yoon Je-kyoon	South Korea
I Am Michael	I Am Michael	Justin Kelly	United States
Paradise in Service	軍中樂園 Jun Zhong Le Yuan	Doze Niu	Taiwan
Murder in Pacot	Meurtre à Pacot	Raoul Peck	France, Haiti, Norway
Out of Nature	Mot naturen	Ole Giæver, Marte Vold	Norway
Ned Rifle	Ned Rifle	Hal Hartley	United States

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALAS AT THE FRIEDRICHSTADT-PALASTLove & Mercy
USA
By Bill Pohlad (Old Explorers)
With John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti
European premiere

Selma
United Kingdom / USA
By Ava DuVernay (Middle of Nowhere)
With David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Oprah Winfrey, Carmen Ejogo
International premiere

Woman in GOLD
United Kingdom / USA
By Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn)
With Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl
World premiere

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA AT THE ZOO PALASTLife
United Kingdom / Canada
By Anton Corbijn (A Most Wanted Man)
With Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley
World premiere

BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA AT THE KINO INTERNATIONAL
Virgin Mountain
Iceland/Denmark
By Dagur Kári (The Good Heart)
With Gunnar Jónsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdottir
World premiere

BERLINALE SPECIAL MATINÉE AT THE KINO INTERNATIONALBreathe Umphefumlo (La Bohème)
South Africa
By Mark Dornford-May (U-Carmen ekhayelitsha)
With Pauline Malefane, Mandisi Dyantyis, Busisiwe Ngejane, Mhlekazi Mosiea
World premiere

BERLINALE SPECIAL AT THE HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE
Die abhandene Welt (The Misplaced World)
Germany
By Margarethe von Trotta (Rosenstraße)
With Katja Riemann, Barbara Sukowa, Matthias Habich, Gunnar Moeller
World premiere

The Seventh Fire – documentary
USA
By Jack Pettibone Riccobono (Rage for Sale, The Sacred Food)
World premiere

Torneranno i prati (Greenery Will Bloom Again)
Italy
By Ermanno Olmi (Terra Madre, The Tree of Wooden Clogs)
With Claudio Santamaria, Alessandro Sperduti, Francesco Formichetti, Andrea Di Maria
German premiere

Berlinale Shorts 2015:

"Architektura," Ulu Braun, Germany, 15' (WP)

"Bad at Dancing," Joanna Arnow, USA, 11' (WP)

"Blood Below the Skin," Jennifer Reeder, USA, 32' (WP)

"Chitrashala" ("House of Painting"), Amit Dutta, India, 19' (WP)

"Däwit" ("Daewit"), David Jansen, Germany, 15' (WP)

"Dissonance," Till Nowak, Germany, 17' (WP)

"Hosanna," Na Young-kil, South Korea, 25' (DP)

"La Isla está Encantada con Ustedes" ("The Island is Enchanted with You"), Alexander Carver & Daniel Schmidt, USA / Switzerland / Australia, 28' (IP)

"El Juego del Escondite" ("Hide & Seek"), David Muñoz, Spain, 23' (WP)

"Kamakshi," Satindar Singh Bedi, India, 25' (WP)

"Lama?" ("Why?"), Nadav Lapid, Israel, 5' (IP)