3D and Latin American cinema at the 61st Berlinale

The brothers Joel and Ethan Coen open the 61st edition of the Berlinale this Thursday with their western 'True Grit'. In total, Berlin will host more than 400 films this year, with a strong presence of 3D and Latin American cinema that competes with the Mexican film 'El Premio' and the Argentine film 'A mysterious world'.

Four hundred films, including sixteen contenders for the Bears, will be screened at the 61st edition of the Berlinale, which opens its doors this Thursday. Law value, the remake by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, which is being shown out of competition, will be in charge of opening the red carpet parade in a year with good cinema from the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and, of course, Latin America.

Screenwriter and now director Paula Markovitch presents her film The Prize, a production filmed in Mexico (where the director is based), which shows through a seven-year-old girl the hard years of the Argentine dictatorship.

He will also participate in this prestigious festival A mysterious world, by Rodrigo Moreno, who won the Alfred Bauer Prize in 2006 with The Custodian.

In total there will be around twenty Latin American titles present in Berlin, most of them out of competition, distributed among the Panorama, Forum and Generation sections with bets from Brazil (Elite Troop 2), Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Mexico.

Spain will be represented by Isabel Coixet, with the documentary Listening to Judge Garzón, at Berlinale Special; Also the rain, by Icíar Bollaín; and Amador, by Fernando León de Aranoa, both in the Panorama section.

Stereoscopy

Next Sunday, those who attend the festival will not take off their 3D glasses as a total of three stereoscopic films will be screened: Tales of the night, by Michel Ocelot; Pina, by Wim Wenders, and Cave of forgotten Deams, by Werner Herzog, the latter two out of competition.

As for the glamor of the festival, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Kevin Spacey and Ralph Fiennes are just some of the stars who will walk through Berlin. Madonna will also travel to Berlin to promote her latest film as a director, out of competition, W.E. Neeson also appears out of competition, with the thriller Unknown by Hollywood-based Spaniard Jaume Collet-Serra.

The Spanish Natalia Verbeke, Lola Dueñas, Carmen Maura will also be in Berlin with a film out of competition, The women of the 6th Floor, by Philippe Le Guay.

This year the presiding jury will be chaired by the Italian actress and director Isabella Rossellini. The recipient of the Golden Bear of Honor in this edition will be the German actor Armin Mueller-Stahl.