Six Ibero-American films will be screened in the official section of the Berlinale

'Nobody wants the night', 'The mother-of-pearl button', 'The Club', 'Ixcanul (Ixcanul Volcano)', 'Dauna: what the river carries' and 'Ausència' premiere at the Berlin Festival.

The 65th Berlin International Film Festival will feature four Ibero-American films competing for the Golden Bear this year. Nobody wants the night, by Isabel Coixet; The mother-of-pearl button, from the Chilean Patricio Guzmán; The Club, by Pablo Larraín; and Ixcanul (Ixcanul Volcano) by Jayro Bustamante will compete for the precious award.

On the other hand, from February 5 to 15, the Berlinale will also host the screening in the NATIVe Program of Damage, what the river carries, the first Venezuelan film in the Warao language, directed by Mario Crespo. In the Panorama section, Chico Teixeira will premiere Absence.

Coixet returns to the festival for the fifth time, this time with Nobody wants the night, which will open the Official Section this year. The film, co-produced by Spain, France and Bulgaria, stars Juliette Binoche and Rinko Kikuchi, and has the collaboration of Willem Dafoe. It tells the story of two women from two very different cultures: one belongs to the Inuit Eskimo tribe, and the other to New York high society. During an extreme situation on a trip to the North Pole, they have to help each other despite how little they have to do with each other.

As to Ixcanul (Ixcanul Volcano) is the directorial debut of Guatemalan Jayro Bustamante. The film, co-produced by Guatemala and France, tells the story of María, a 17-year-old Cakchiquel Mayan girl, who lives with her parents on a coffee farm, on the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala.

The Chilean Patricio Guzmán will try to convince the jury with his long documentary The mother-of-pearl button, a co-production of France, Chile and Spain that delves into the disappearances of leftists opposed to Pinochet's coup d'état, whose bodies were thrown to Patagonia from planes into the sea.

The also Chilean Pablo Larraín will premiere at the Berlinale, The club. The film stars Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers and Jaime Vadel, actors with whom he already worked in his previous film, No, with which he received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film. The club tells the story of four priests who go on a spiritual retreat to purge their sins. The arrival of a fifth member to the group unleashes the plot of this story.

Damage, what the river carries by the Cuban living in Venezuela Mario Crespo will be screened in the NATIVe Program, which this year includes the best films on indigenous themes made in Latin America between 1986 and 2014. The film, shot in Warao, had the support of the Ibermedia Program and the National Autonomous Center of Cinematography (CNAC) of Venezuela.

Lastly, the drama Absence by Chico Teixeira, co-produced by Brazil and Chile, closely follows the life of a fourteen-year-old boy. The viewer follows day after day the life of this young man “no longer a child, not yet a man” in his new role as the man of the house, in his work in the market, in his friendship with Mudinho and Silvinha, in his confusing relationship with a teacher. The film is a fabric of moments in the life of a child in transition.