As I am in over my head in writing at Sundance right now, the 2020 Berlin Film Festival just announced the 18 films will be competing for the coveted Golden Bear award. This year’s lineup is led by filmmakers such as Sally Potter, Abel Ferrara, Kelly Reichardt, Christian Petzold, and Hong Sang-Soo.
The 2020 Berlin Film Festival kicks off on February 20th. You can see the full competition lineup below (via Deadline).
Competition
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Germany / Netherlands
by Burhan Qurbani
DAU. Natasha
Germany / Ukraine / United Kingdom / Russian Federation
by Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Jekaterina Oertel
Domangchin yeoja (The Woman Who Ran)
Republic of Korea
by Hong Sangsoo
Effacer l’historique (Delete History)
France / Belgium
by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern
El prófugo (The Intruder)
Argentina / Mexico
by Natalia Meta
with Érica Rivas, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Daniel Hendler,
Favolacce (Bad Tales)
Italy / Switzerland
by Damiano & Fabio D’’Innocenzo
First Cow
USA
by Kelly Reichardt
Irradiés (Irradiated)
France / Cambodia
by Rithy Panh
Le sel des larmes (The Salt of Tears)
France / Switzerland
by Philippe Garrel
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
USA
by Eliza Hittman
Rizi (Days)
Taiwan
by Tsai Ming-Liang
The Roads Not Taken
United Kingdom
by Sally Potter
Schwesterlein (My Little Sister)
Switzerland
by Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
Sheytan vojud nadarad (There Is No Evil)
Germany / Czech Republic / Iran
by Mohammad Rasoulof
Siberia
Italy / Germany / Mexico
by Abel Ferrara
Todos os mortos (All the Dead Ones)
Brazil / France
by Caetano Gotardo, Marco Dutra
Undine
Germany / France
by Christian Petzold
Volevo nascondermi (Hidden Away)
Italy
by Giorgio Diritti
The short version: "Woman Unknown" was a compromise. The jury deadlocked over "Possible Love" and "NAZA," not able to com to terms, fell back on their #3, May el-Toukhy's film.