Visual artist and The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich is among the names that have been set for the Talents programme at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
The Talents lineup was announced by the festival this morning alongside eight premiere titles added to its Berlinale Classics lineup and the ten books heading for the festival’s adaptations Co-Production Market.
Berlinale Talents will run from February 15 to 20. 201 filmmakers will take part in Talents and this year’s theme will be “Listen Courageously: Cinematic Narratives in Times of Dissonance.” Hunt-Ehrlich returns to the Berlinale following the 2023 debut of her work Conspiracy in Forum Expanded. Her work has been exhibited at institutions around the world including Tate Modern and the Whitney Museum of Art. Her 2023 feature debut The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, starring Zita Hanrot, began a lengthy festival run at last year’s Rotterdam Film Festival and was later picked up by Cinema Guild, which has committed to releasing the film theatrically through a unique 35mm print tour across the U.S.
Other names set for Talents include Luis De Filippis, Atena Eshtiaghi, Clare Weiskopf, María Silvia Esteve, Udit Duseja, and Sine Özbilge.
Elsewhere, The Paradine Case, a 1947 courtroom drama by Alfred Hitchcock, is one of the headline titles added to the Berlinale Classics lineup. The film stars Gregory Peck and the 4K digital restoration that will screen in Berlin was supervised by Walt Disney Studios and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation. The restored version has a runtime of 114 minutes. Also screening at Classics is a Warner Bros. restoration of Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry starring Clint Eastwood and a restored version of Wu Yonggang’s directorial debut Shennü (The Goddess, 1934).
Over at the Berlinale Co-Production Market, ten novels with potential for film adaptations will be presented to industry. This year, genre books are well represented with titles such as the Asian folk horror book Dog (Irô) by Angelo R. Lacuesta and the feminist gothic comedy Mediterranean Gothic by Marina Pierri heading to the market.
The full Berlinale lineup will be announced on Jan. 21. The fest runs from Feb. 13-23.
