The Berlin Film Festival begins

Today, February 10, the world premiere of Francois Ozone “Peter von Kant” (Peter Von Kant) will open the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival.

The main competitive program involves 18 paintings from Austria, Argentina, Belgium, Germany, Indonesia, Spain, Italy, Cambodia, Canada, China, Mexico, the USA, France, Switzerland and South Korea. The program has 17 world prime ministers, 7 films were shot by women-director.

In addition to the film by Francois Ozon, among the participants in the main competition, new works by Claire Denis, Ulrich Zaydlya, Ursula Mayer, Paolo Taviani, Mikael Khers, Andreas Drasen and Denis Kote.

In the Encounters competition program, 15 films will compete, including the drama of Alexander Zolotukhin “Brother in All”-the story of the painful parting of the two twin brothers, who from their strong affection prevents each other to achieve a dream-to become military pilots.

The Berlinale Shorts programs programs will take place in the premieres of the films “Haulout” (Great Britain-Russia) Evgenia and Maxim Arbugaev and “TREP” ( TRAP , Russia-Lithuania) Anastasia Weber, and in the Generation 14plus section “Country Sasha” (Russia) Julia Trofimova will be presented.

Mikhail Borodin and Kazakhstan-Russian film Askar Uzabaev “Bayt” (“Count”) were selected into the Panorama program “Panorama”.

In addition, the organizers of the European film market included the Russian detective series Vladlena Sandu Sande “Identification” in the selection of Berlinale Series Market Selects .

The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival is held in a traditional format with strict security measures associated with pandemia. The holders of the main prizes will be declared on February 16, they will be chosen by the jury, which is headed by an American screenwriter, director and producer M. Knight Shyamalan .

Then, until February 20, repeated films will be repeated in Berlin cinemas. The occupancy of the halls will be limited to 50% of their capacity. The European film market this year is completely transferred to online format.