BERLIN. The 66th Berlin film festival starts on Thursday with the Hollywood glamor of George Clooney, star of the new film by the Coen brothers, but also with a look at the refugee crisis.
The event, to be held until February 21, will screen Thursday comedy Hail, Caesar! of Americans brothers Joel and Ethan Coen , a declaration of love to the classic Hollywood.
Clooney, who plays a film star of the 1950s, will be on the carpet red with his wife Amal and actors Channing Tatum and Tilda Swinton . The film, which also Josh Brolin , Scarlett Johansson and Ralph Fiennes will be screened out of competition.
the jury is chaired by Meryl Streep , winner of three Academy Awards, and has among other British actor Clive Owen and photographer French fashion Brigitte Lacombe . Its seven members will have to choose the best of the 18 films in the running to win the Golden Bear, which last year took Taxi Tehran , the Iranian Jafar Panahi .
in the official selection, which this year has no Latin American films, there are several French films like Quand on a 17 ans André Téchiné , chronicle adolescence, and L’Avenir , Mia Hansen-Love with Isabelle Huppert .
it is also highly anticipated the third film actor and Swiss Vincent Perez , an adaptation of Solo in Berlin , a novel by German Hans Fallada where Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson play a couple resisting Nazism after the death of his son.
they will also be in the competition Genius , British Michael Grandage with Colin Firth , Jude Law and Nicole Kidman , the science thriller -fiction Midnight Special , the US Jeff Nichols , known for titles like Mud and Take Shelter or Kollektivet (community) Danish Thomas Vinterberg .
Among the surprises of the official selection figure Hele Sa Hiwagang hapis (a lullaby to the painful mystery), a film of more than eight hours Filipino Lav Diaz .
Far from the glamor, the Berlinale will also have several titles this year address the refugee crisis that has brought thousands of people to Europe to escape war and famine.
the documentary competition Fuocoammare (Fire at sea), the Italian Gianfranco Rosi , winner of the Golden Lion in Venice for “Sacro GRA” is about the inhabitants of the Italian island of Lampedusa, one of the points of arrival of migrants.
in addition to the presence of several degrees in the parallel sections, the festival, which always pays great attention to social issues, will collect funds for refugees and invite some of them to the projections.
” since 1951, the Berlinale has helped promote peace among peoples and this year is no exception, “said event director, Dieter Kosslick .
the Latin American cinema will this year in the parallel sections, where you can see the Chilean tapes You’ll never be alone Alex Anwandter and Here nothing has happened Alejandro Fernandez Almonds , Colombian the Eden , Andrés Ramírez Pulido , or the king Once , Daniel Burman , a comedy set in the Jewish community in a neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
Along with the film Vincent Perez, Nazism also be present the first German biopic of Ana Frank . the presence of French actor Gérard Depardieu , is also expected star of Saint-Amour , a road-movie Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine and the End Guillaume Nicloux .
Out of competition, the US Spike Lee will present his musical comedy about violence in Chicago Chi-Raq and fellow Michael Moore for his documentary Where to Invade Next .
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