Must see of Berlin film festival : 10 Hot Titles

Must see of Berlin film festival : 10 Hot Titles

Between more than 90 films show this week in berlinale 2020, we choose for you the must see of Berlin film festival .. Here is 10 titles that not European & will heat up the festival. 

 

‘Remote Control’

DIRECTOR : John Mathieson

CAST : Gerard Butler

Story : The Angel Has Fallen star is back in one-man-against-the-world mode as a war correspondent turned corporate security consultant caught up in a global conspiracy.

A no-brainer for the macho action crowd.

‘The Good Nurse’

DIRECTOR : Tobias Lindholm

CAST : Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne

Story : Riding the true crime wave comes this drama based on “Angel of Death” Charlie Cullen (Redmayne).

the British nurse who killed more than 300 patients.

Chastain will play the nurse who helped stop his killing spree.

 

‘Little America’

DIRECTOR : Rowan Athale

CAST : Sylvester Stallone

Story : Action remains the number one genre globally and Stallone, hot off Rambo 5, remains an international box office draw.

Set in a dystopian future where America is a bankrupt wasteland.

Stallone plays a former Army Ranger hired by an Asian billionaire to find his daughter in Little America, a walled-off ghetto within Hong Kong where ex-pats Americans have fled.

‘The Baccarat Machine’

CAST Awkwafina

Story : The Farewell and Ocean’s 8 actress will star as female gambler Cheung Yin “Kelly” Sun in what is being positioned

as a Hustlers-style tale of female empowerment as Sun teams up with international “King of Poker” Phil Ivey to try and beat the Vegas casinos at their own game.

‘The Portable Door’

DIRECTOR : Jeffrey Walker

CAST : Christoph Waltz, Guy Pearce

Story : Muppet-makers the Jim Henson Company and Story Bridge Films are making a play for a live-action family audience with.

this fantasy adventure comedy based on Tom Holt’s best-selling novels about a seemingly-ordinary office that is actual a front for magical nastiness.

With few fantasy projects on the indie market, The Portable Door could be just the ticket for mainstream distributors.

‘Perfect’

DIRECTOR : Olivia Wilde

Story : Hoping to land another I, Tonya-like success, producers have attached

Booksmart director Wilde to this biopic on American gymnast Kerri Strug.

who came back from a major injury to win gold at the 1996 Olympics. With a script from Borg/McEnroe scribe Ronnie Sandahl.

‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

DIRECTOR : Edward Berger

CAST :  Daniel Brühl

Story : The first-ever German-language adaptation of the landmark World War I novel.

from German writer Erich Maria Remarque seems ideally timed to benefit from post-1917 interest in the Great War.

‘Juniper’

DIRECTOR : Matthew Saville

CAST :Charlotte Rampling, Marton Csokas

Story :Rampling, a 2015 Berlinale best actress winner (for 45 Years) returns to the EFM with this darkly comic drama targeting the high-end art house crowd.

Rampling plays a feisty alcoholic grandmother who moves in with her son (Marton Csokas)

and grandson (newcomer George Ferrier).

 

‘A Hero’

DIRECTOR : Asghar Farhadi

Story : New Parasite-fueled interest in foreign-language titles should help sales of Asghar Farhadi’s new Iranian drama.

The plot is kept under wraps but the Oscar-winning director of A Separation.

and The Salesman has proven he can deliver cross-over and award-worthy arthouse for the world market.

‘Official Competition’

DIRECTOR : Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat

CAST : Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz

Story : Pain & Glory’s Spanish superstars reteam for this Argentine drama about a filmmaker (Cruz).

recruited by a billionaire entrepreneur to re-create an iconic movie, featuring heartthrob Félix Rivero (Banderas).

Likely to be a must for art house distribs everywhere.

 

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