For fyrste gong på 15 år har ein norsk film vorti plukka ut til å delta i hovudkonkurransen i Berlin. Der skal 26 filmar kjempe om fleire prisar, mellom anna topprisen Gullbjørnen.

Den norske filmen heiter ”En ganske snill mann”, er regissert av Hans Petter Moland og handlar om ein mann som slepp or fengselet etter å ha sona i 12 år. Stellan Skarsgård speler hovudrolla, medan Bjørn Floberg, Gard B. Eidsvold, Jorunn Kjellsby, Bjørn Sundquist, Jon Øigarden, Kjersti Holmen og Aksel Hennie speler andre roller.

Moland får sterk konkurranse frå mange av dei andre nominerte filmskaparane, blant anna frå den erfarne japanske valdsfilmregissøren Kôji Wakamatsu, den kinesiske stjerneregissøren Zhang Yimou, den danske dogmeregissøren Thomas Vinterberg og britiske Michael Winterbottom.

”En ganske snill mann” får kinopremiere i Noreg 19. mars.


Her er 16 av filmane som skal konkurrere i Berlin:

Caterpillar Japan
By Koji Wakamatsu
With Shinobu Terajima, Shima Ohnishi
World Premiere
 
En Familie (A Family) Denmark
By Pernille Fischer Christensen
With Jesper Christensen, Lene Maria Christensen, Pilou Asbæk , Anne 
Louise Hassing
World Premiere
 
En ganske snill mann (A Somewhat Gentle Man) Norway
By Hans Petter Moland
With Stellan Skarsgård, Jannike Kruse Jåtog, Jan Gunnar Røise
World Premiere
 
Eu când vreau sa fluier, fluier (If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle) Romania/Sweden
By Florin Serban
With George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu, Clara Voda, Mihai Constantin
World Premiere
 
Greenberg USA
By Noah Baumbach 
With Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh 
World Premiere
 
Howl USA
By Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
With James Franco, Jon Hamm, David Strathairn, Mary-Louise Parker
International Premiere
 
Jud Süß - Film ohne Gewissen Austria/Germany
By Oskar Roehler
With Tobias Moretti, Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Justus von Dohnanyi, Armin Rohde
World Premiere
 
Kak ya provel etim letom (How I Ended This Summer) Russian Federation
By Alexei Popogrebsky
With Grigory Dobrygin, Sergei Puskepalis
World Premiere
 
Mammuth France
By Benoît Delépine, Gustave de Kervern 
With Gérard Depardieu, Yolande Moreau, Isabelle Adjani, Miss Ming 
World Premiere
 
Otouto (About Her Brother) Japan – Closing Film
By Yoji Yamada 
With Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tsurube Shofukutei, Yu Aoi, Ryo Kase
International Premiere / Out of Competition
 
Please Give USA
By Nicole Holofcener
With Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Sarah Steele, Ann Guilbert
International Premiere / Out of Competition
 
Rompecabezas (Puzzle) Argentina/France
By Natalia Smirnoff
With Maria Onetto, Gabriel Goity, Arturo Goetz, Henny Trailes
World Premiere
 
San qiang pai an jing qi (A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop) People´s Republic of China
By Zhang Yimou
With Sun Honglei, Xiao Shenyang, Yan Ni
International Premiere
 
Shahada Germany 
By Burhan Qurbani
With Maryam Zaree, Carlo Ljubek, Jeremias Acheampong, Sergej Moya
World Premiere
 
Submarino Denmark
By Thomas Vinterberg
With Jakob Cedergren, Peter Plaugborg, Patricia Schumann, Gustav Fischer Kjærulff, Morten Rose
World Premiere
 
The Kids Are Alright USA/France
By Lisa Cholodenko
With Julianne Moore, Annette Benning, Mark Ruffalo
International Premiere / Out of Competition
 
The Killer Inside Me USA/Great Britain
By Michael Winterbottom
With Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson
International Premiere
 
Tuan Yuan (Apart Together)
By Wang Quan’an
With Lisa Lu, Ling Feng, Xu Caigen, Monica Mo, Ma Xiaoqing
World Premiere