Berlinale- 2021 fights coronavirus with the help of carefree porn, political statements and fairy tales at night

The most strange in the history of existence, the Berlin Film Festival begins its work on March 1. In the capital of Germany, the hard Lokdown from December 16: borders are closed, museums, theaters and cinemas do not work. The festival was decided to hold in two stages. In March, online events will be held for the film industry, in June-film screenings for the general public. The only spectators on the film screen in Berlin will be an international jury, which will distribute prizes. Laureates will be announced on March 5.

In June, films from the Laureate list can be seen in cinemas and in open areas, then the award ceremony will be held. Then many of the programs of the program can be found on numerous online platforms.

The new leadership of the festival Carlo Shatrian (art director) and Mariett Rissenbek (Executive Director) have to respond to unprecedented calls.

The paramount task is to preserve one of the main filmings - from the difficult.

Whether the film site will return on the Berlinal, including the giant festival center on Marlene-Dietrich-Platz ****-it is unknown. Many producers abandon the online prime minister for their films. Therefore, the competition does not have American, British, Scandinavian paintings. And from the list of official program accredited journalists, not all work will be able to see: copyright holders have the opportunity to block the display “in certain territories”.

Contest

In the main competition, 15 films from France, South Korea, Hungary of Germany (almost a third of the films - German production, well, this is now the norm: each film forum promotes its cinema).

Cannes Laureatka Selin Syamma (“Portrait of a Girl in Fire”) will bring the picture “Little Mom” . This is the story of growing up and comprehending the world of eight -year -old Nelly. The operator of the film is Claire Maton, who received the Sezar Award for the visionary work on the “portrait of a girl in fire”, in which the art of seeing equal to the flourishing sense of love.

Among the contestants are a new tape of one of the most mysterious authors, South Korean director Hon San-Su, whose previous work “The Woman who escaped” only a year ago received a “silver bear” in Berlin for the best directing. The painting “Introduction” is another poetic fresco of modern Korea, captured in the optics of the relationship of women and men.

The festival favorite, a supporter of the leisurely melodramatic cinema of Ryusuke Hamaguti (his film “Happy Hour” lasts five hours) connected three stories. As usual, Hamaguti is fascinated by the “fate of the circle” of a middle -aged woman, her sensations, vague desires, including the need for self -expression.

“I am your man” to Maria Schrader, Emmy winners for the directing of the talented and very modern series “Unorthodox”. A new job is a fantastic Romkom. Dan Stevens (“Legion”) plays Milashka Android, with whom Alma (Maren Eggert) is forced to cohabit, a scientist from the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. And what to do if this "scientific family project" is well financed.

“Albatros” Xavier Bovois is a drama about the police Laurent, his life in a small Norman town, his far-reaching plans ... And about how the gods laugh at our plans-everything collapses due to an unintentional crime.

One of the most relevant directors of Rada Zhuda (we talked about his innovative film “Upensed Truths” from last year's Berlin program) made a film with the dashing name “Unfortunate sex, or carefree porn”. From the film to the film, he consistently analyzes the relationship between personality and society. The Romanian critics who already saw his new work called it "aggressive, experimental, crowded with ideas and an acute sense of modernity."

Actor Daniel Bruil (“First Avenger: confrontation”, “inglorious bastards”) represents his directorial debut “next door”. The psychological tragicomedy according to the scenario of the successful writer Daniel Kelmann talks about the famous film actor, who once in a bar faces a secret that can destroy his career. As Bruhle himself says, who played the main role in the film: "This is a very personal story that unfolds against the backdrop of the statements and social stratification in Berlin."

After a 30-year break, the Georgian film made in co-products with Germany, "What do we see when we look at the sky?", Romantic drama with elements of mysticism Alexander Koberidze: The narrative of a random meeting of a young woman and a man who can be the beginning of the novel. However, on the second day, they wake up in the bodies of other people, and can no longer find each other.

“Let the competition program this year lose according to the number of films, but it is very saturated in the sense of content and style,” said Carlo Shatrian.

It is worth paying attention to the painting “Courage” of the Belarusian director Alexei Poluyan (“Lake of Joy”) in the section “Special scales”. The story of people of protest. About actors for whom civil disobedience to the authoritarian system has turned into moral duty. Three heroes, three choices. The fragile human life is and the ridiculous tenacious regime.

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There are no Russian paintings in the competition. But in parallel programs there are two avant -garde works. In the forum section, among 17 films from all over the world, the experimental fairy-tale art-painting "Daughter of the Fisherman" of the St. Petersburg film defense industry Yuldus Bakhtiosina. In 2016, Vogue called Yuldus the best fashion photographer in the world. She analyzes Russian codes with the help of colors and fabric, inheriting the poetics of Parajanov and Khamdamov, is engaged in the search for eternal femininity and her faces. The author wonders: how, trying on different clothes and roles, not to lose, not to betray yourself, retaining your main “plot”. The heroine - the saleswoman of the fish shop Polina Schukin after the loss of his younger brother falls into a twilight state in anticipation of a fairy tale.

The SHORTS program “Vadim on a walk” is the new work of the director-experimenter Sasha Svirsky (“My Galactic Double Galaxy” participated in the Berlin festival of 2020)-about an attempt by the rebellion of an office clerk. In a 3D prologue, a twisted Vadim in clothes similar to a snake skin, rushes in the tightness of a transparent cube. It is almost impossible to get out of this captivity.

And is it necessary? Should he drop this "office skin"? Is it dangerous? What if something irreparable happens!

The one who has got out - in real life, in his thoughts - painted in the usual careless, sketchy style of Svirsky, Vadim is trying to master "outside." But outside everything is so strange, confusing that you are lost, literally break up, multiply, repeat, get confused. Look around, someone waves. You? Friend? Or a stranger-someone nearby? “Outstairs” is extremely dangerous and uncomfortable. But you go, and it even seems that your hands begin to resemble wings. How to get to yourself if you have so many faces, and in your head with balls, galloping thoughts, confusing the geometry of the lines and forms that are carried away into the clouds. Was it worth changing things for a cavard? Especially if there is a cozy and clear cube? And such an understandable employer-bloomemans. Affectionate ... like a lion whom the flesh of a jumping gazelle beckons. But the world is so arranged: it is always strong in its right. And now the Living Contour of the policeman is tanning the weak to the land ... A man is enough by the hair of a woman ... Is it worth resisting if the power is strong over the weak - in the nature of things? Go back to the cube! Do what they drive, and rejoice - and there is a house, a sweet house for a sleeping consciousness. Enraged pattern, excellent rhythm. Svirsky's sensual work, a new breakthrough of the director, as if an electric current of today was connected to a pencil.

The Panorama 2021 section has a subtitle: "Between doubt and rebellion." Here, paintings are collected, united by a critical look at relations with the authorities (is it worth it to be surprised that our films are not here).

“2021 is primarily a war, political cinema,” comments the head of the section Michael Stool. - Cinematographic views of strong female detectors, a new critical movie from the Middle East, as well as the narrative of the indigenous population and Quire plots clearly determine the focus of “panoramas”. The creators of the film take a position in their observations, reflecting on individual conflicts and collective injuries, while casting doubt on the political and interpersonal relations of the authorities and calling others to answer. ”