BERLINALE PANORAMA SELECTION
In its Main Program and two other series, Special and Dokumente, the 2004 Panorama of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival will present 34 features and 16 documentaries.
The Panorama’s Main Program will open on February 5 with Walk on Water by American-born Israeli director Eytan Fox, whose film Yossi and Jagger premiered in last year’s Panorama to great acclaim, and was subsequently released in the U.S. by Strand Releasing. Walk on Water tells the story of a Mossad agent and a German tourist in Israel who uncover the truth about the “last Nazi”.
The Panorama Special section will open on February 6 with two films: the angst-driven arthouse indie A Problem with Fear — or Laurie’s Anxiety Confronting the Escalator by the Canadian director Gary Burns (Lions Gate), and with Untold Scandal by E J-Young, a rising star of Korean cinema.
In addition, the Panorama will enhance the Festival’s special focus this year on Latin America with three political documentaries and two fiction features: Mexican director Felipe Cazals’s Digna hasta el ultimo aliento, and Che — The Last Hours by Romano Scavolini, from Italy — along with three films from Brazil: the documentary Fala tu by Guilherme Coelho and the features O outro lado da ruaby Marcos Bernstein and Contra todos by Roberto Moreira.
And finally, the Dokumente program of the 19th Panorama will offer ample opportunities for exploration and debate on a wide variety of subjects — from Woody Harrelson’s passion for green issues and an anarchistic political satire on the WTO to the illumination of politically uncharted regions in Latin America, to portraits of artists like Klaus Nomi and The Ramones, and new essay films by Bruce Weber and Romuald Karmakar.
Complete list of feature film titles:
BRAZIL
Contra todos/Up against them all by Roberto Moreira with Silvia Lourenco, Giulio Lopes, Leona Cavalli, Ailton Graça, Martha Meola, Dionisio Neto
Fala Tu/Fala Tu — Lives of Rhyme by Guilherme Coelho/Brazil
BRAZIL / FRANCE
O outro lado da rua/The Other Side of the Street by Marcos Bernstein, with Fernanda Montenegro, Raul Cortez, Luis Percy, Laura Cardoso
CANADA
A Problem with Fear — or Laurie’s Anxiety Confronting the Escalator by Gary Burns, with Paulo Costanzo, Emily Hampshire, Camille Sullivan, Willie Garson, Benjamin Ratner, Keegan Connor Tracy, Jennifer Clement
La face cachee de la lune/Far Side of the Moon by Robert Lepage, with Robert Lepage, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Marco Poulin, Celine Bonnier
Go Further by Ron Mann 
DENMARK
2 ryk og en aflevering /Kick’n Rush by Aage Rais-Nordentoft, with Jacob Oliver Krarup, Esben Smed Jensen, Cyron B. Melville, Marie Bach Hansen, Niels Ellergaard, Ann Eleonora Jorgensen
FRANCE
Je suis votre homme/I Am Your Man by Daniele Dubroux, with Catherine Frot, Isabelle Carre, Melvil Poupaud, Francois Berleand, Julie Depardieu
L’Esquive by Abdelatif Kechiche, with Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benahmou
Wild Side by Sebastien Lifshitz, with Stephanie Michelini, Edouard Mikitine, Yasmine Belmadi
FRANCE / BELGIUM
Demain, on demenage/Tomorrow We Move by Chantal Akerman, with Sylvie Testud, Aurore Clement, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Natacha Regnier, Lucas Belvaux, Elsa Zylberstein, Dominique Reymond
FRANCE / ISRAEL
Avanim by Raphael Nadjari, with Asi Levi, Uri Gabriel, Florence Bloch, Shaul Mizrahi
Zohre & Manouchehr by Mitra Farahani
GERMANY
Die Spielwutigen/Addicted to Acting by Andres Veiel
Die Mitte/The Center by Stanislaw Mucha
Freedom2Speak V2.0 by Markus C. M. Schmidt, Christoph Gampl, Brigitte Kramer, Marc Meyer, Uwe Nagel
Land der Vernichtung/Land of Annihilation by Romuald Karmakar
The Nomi Song by American director Andrew Horn 
The Raspberry Reich by Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, with Susanne Sachsse, Daniel Batscher, Andreas Rupprecht, Dean Stathis
Texas — Kabul by Helga Reidemeister
Was nutzt die Liebe in Gedanken/Love in Thoughts by Achim von Borries, with European Film Award 2003 winner Daniel Bruhl, with August Diehl, Anna Maria Muhe, Thure Lindhardt, Jana Pallaske
GERMANY / SWITZERLAND /FRANCE / ITALY / THE NETHERLANDS / UK
The Stratosphere Girl by M. X. Oberg, with Chloe Winkel, John Ng, Tuva Novotny
HONG KONG / PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Lost in Time by Derek Yee, with Cecilia Cheung, Lau Ching Wan, Daichi Harashima, Paul Chun Pui, Louis Koo
ICELAND / GERMANY / NORWAY / UK
Kaldaljos/Cold Light by Hilmar Oddsson, with Ingvar E. Sigurosson, Aslakur Ingvarsson, Kristbjorg Kjeld, Ruth Olafsdottir
ISRAEL / GERMANY
Lalecet Al Hamaim/Walk On Water by Eytan Fox, with Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Hanns Zischler, Carola Regnier
ITALY
Le ultime ore del Che/Che — The Last Hours by Romano Scavolini
Mi piace lavorare/Mobbing (I Like To Work) by Francesca Comencini, with Nicoletta Braschi, Camille Dugay Comencini
JAPAN
A Day on the Planet by Isao Yukisada, with Rena Tanaka, Satoshi Tsumabuki
Akame shijyuyataki shinjyumisui/Akame 48 Waterfalls by Genjirou Arato, with Takijirou Onishi, Shinobu Terajima, Michiyo Okusu, Yuya Uchida
MEXICO
Digna hasta el ultimo aliento/Digna — Worthy to Her Final Breath by Felipe Cazals
THE NETHERLANDS
Shouf shouf habibi! by Albert ter Heerdt, with Mimoun Oaissa, Touriya Haoud, Najib Amhali, Bridget Maasland
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Jing Zhe/The Story of Er Mei by Wang Quanan, with Yu Nan, Yan Ming
POLAND / CZECH REPUBLIC
Nienasycenie/Insatiability by Wiktor Grodecki, with Cezary Pazura, Michal Lewandowski, Weronika Marczuk-Pazura, Katarzyna Gniewkowska, Leon Niemczyk
RUSSIA
Ja ljublju tebja/You I Love by Olga Stolpolskava, Dmitri Troitsky, with Ljubowj Tolkalina, Jewgenij Korijakowskij, Damir Badmajew
SOUTH AFRICA / CANADA
Proteus by John Greyson, with Rouxnet Brown, Shaun Smyth, Neil Sandilands, Kristen Thomson
SOUTH KOREA
Chosun Nam Nyo Sang Yeol Jisa/Untold Scandal by E J-Yong, with Bae Yong-Jun, Lee Mi-Sook, Jeon Do-Youn, Cho Hyun-Jae, Lee So-Youn
SPAIN
Cachorro/Cachorro (Bear Cub) by Miguel Albaladejo, with Jose Luis Garcia-Perez, David Castillo, Diana Cerezo, Mario Arias, Arno Chevrier, Ampar Ferrer
The Machinist by American director Brad Anderson, with Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon
THAILAND
Beautiful Boxer by Ekachai Uekrongtham, with Asanee Suwan, Sorapong Chatree, Orn-Anong Panyawong, Nukkid Boonthong
UNITED KINGDOM
Death in Gaza by James Miller
Trollywood by Madeleine Farley
USA
A Letter to True by Bruce Weber
Anonymous by Todd Verow, with Todd Verow, Dustin Schell, Sophia Lamar, Shawn Durr, Craig Chester
Brother To Brother by Rodney Evans, with Anthony Mackie, Roger Robinson, Aunjanue Ellis, Larry Gilliard Jr.
D.E.B.S. by Angela Robinson, with Sara Foster, Jordana Brewster, Meagan Good, Devon Aoki, Jill Ritchie, Geoff Stults, Jimmi Simpson, Jessica Cauffiel
End of The Century — The Story of the Ramones by Jim Fields & Michael Gramaglia
Gettin’ The Man’s Foot Outta Your Baadassss! by Mario Van Peebles, with Mario Van Peebles, Joy Bryant, Nia Long, Khleo Thomas, Ossie Davis
The Graffiti Artist by James Bolton, with Ruben Bansie-Snellman, Pepper Fajans
Quattro Noza by Joey Curtis, with Brihanna Hernandez, Victor Larios, Robert Beaumont, Greg Leone, Fabiola Barrios
The Yes Men by Dan Ollman, Sarah Price & Chris Smith
