Miranda July and Victoria Mahoney Heading to the “February Festival”

Now we know why this announcement was put on hold. Seeing as both fests are back to back and one ends up supplying the other, Sundance John Cooper kindly obliged before annoucing the inclusion of Miranda July’s The Future, a German-U.S co-production title that Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick is obviously pleased to include in his festival.

After announcing that the Coen Brothers’ excellent True Grit would open the comp, here comes the first batch of 8 competition titles which include a Wim Wenders film we actually want to see, Turkish filmmaker Seyfi Teoman’s Our Grand Despair and one filmmaker who we were sure was headed to Park City will instead receive a huge showcase in Berlin in Victoria Mahoney’s “Yelling to the Sky”. Here’s the complete list of titles:

“Bizim Büyük Çaresizligimiz” (Our Grand Despair); Turkey / Germany / Netherlands
by Seyfi Teoman (Tatil Kitabi/Summer Book)
with Ilker Aksum, Fatih Al, Günes Sayın, Baki Davrak, Taner Birsel, Mehmet Ali Nuroglu
World premiere

“Coriolanus”; UK – debut film
by Ralph Fiennes
with Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, James Nesbitt
World premiere / out of competition

“Lipstikka”; Israel/UK
by Jonathan Sagall (Urban Feel)
with Clara Khoury, Nataly Attiya, Moran Rosenblatt, Ziv Weiner
World premiere

“Pina”; Germany/France – dance film in 3D
by Wim Wenders (The American Friend, Buena Vista Social Club, The Million Dollar Hotel)
with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal
World premiere / out of competition

“Wer wenn nicht wir” (If not us, who?); Germany
by Andres Veiel (The Survivors, Addicted to Acting)
with August Diehl, Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling
World premiere

“Yelling To The Sky”; USA – debut film
by Victoria Mahoney
with Zoë Kravitz, Gabourey Sidibe, Tim Blake Nelson
World premiere

“The Future”; Germany / USA
by Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
with Hamish Linklater, Miranda July, David Warshofsky
International premiere