Spanish actress Angela Molina has been named chairman of the international jury for the Berlin International Film Festival, which runs Feb. 10-21.
Molina is widely acclaimed for her role in Luis Bunuel's last film, "That Obscure Object of Desire" (1977), has worked with directors such as Manuel Gutierrez Aragón, Paul Leduc, Alain Tanner, Pedro Almodovar, Gilio Pontecorvo, José Luis Borau, Elio Petri, Vadim Glowna and Lina Wertmüller, to name just a few.
The rest of the panel includes:-
Ken Adam - U.K. production designer
Paolo Branco - Portuguese-French producer
Assi Dayan - Israeli actor-filmmaker
Pierre-Henri Deleau - French director
Katja von Garnier - German director
Hellmuth Karsasek - Czech-German journalist
Jeroen Krabbe - Dutch actor
Michelle Yeoh - Malaysian actress
The jury will judge 25 feature and 10 short films in competition.
The Features line up is:-
Aimee & Jaguar - German - Max Färberböck
The Last Days - English and Hungarian - James Moll
Karnaval - French - Thomas Vincent
Entre Las Piernas (Between Your Legs) - Spanish - Manuel Gómez Pereira
La Guerre dans le Haut Pays (War In The Highlands) - French - Francis Reusser
The Thin Red Line - English - Terrence Malick
Mifunes Sidste Sang - Dogme 3 (Mifune - Dogme 3) - Danish - Søren Kragh-Jacobs
Breakfast of Champions - English - Alan Rudolph
One True Thing - English - Carl Franklin
Nachtgestalten (Nightshapes) - German - Andreas Dresen
Shakespeare in Love - English - John Madden
Urban Feel - Hebrew - Jonathan Sagall
Three Seasons - Vietnamese and English - Tony Bui
La Nina de Tus Ojos (The Girl Of Your Dreams) - Spanish - Fernando Trueba
Playing By Heart - English - Willard Carroll
Gunese Yolculuk (Journey To The Sun) - Turkish - Yesim Ustaoglu
Ca Commerce Aujourd'hui (It All Starts Today) - French - Bertrand Tavernier
Existenz - English - David Cronenberg
Keiho Dai Sanjyukyu Jyo (Keiho) - Japanese - Yoshimitsu Morita
Simon Magus - English - Ben Hopkins
Buena Vista Social Club - Spanish and English - Wim Wenders
Gloria - Portuguese - Manuela Viegas
Au Coeur du Mensonge (The Color of Lies) - French - Claude Chabrol
Being There - English - Hal Ashby
Qian Yan Wan Yu (Ordinary Heroes) - Cantonese - Ann Hui
The Hi-Lo Country - English - Stephen Frears
8mm - Eight Millimeter - English - Joel Schumacher
Emporte - Moi (Set Me Free) - French - Léa Pool
Cookies Fortune - English - Robert Altman
The Faculty - English - Robert Rodriguez
Punktchen Und Anton (Annaluise and Anton) - German Caroline Link
Porgy and Bess - English - Otto Preminger
Following short films have been selected for the Competition:
Idölle, - Director: Anja Perl, Petra Schröder (Germany)
Strand, - Director: Susann Reck (Germany)
Desserts, - Director: Jeff Stark (Great Britain)
The Offering, - Director: Paul Lee (Canada)
Masks, - Director: Piotr Karwas (Germany / Poland)
El topo y el hada, - Director : Grojo (Spain)
Pausa, -Director : Michele de Virgilio, Nicola Scorza (Italy)
En kväll pa stan, - Director: Per Carleson (Sweden)
Koly, - Director: Boris Kazakov (Russia)
Faraon,- Director: Sergei Ovtscharov (Russia)
Michael McMahon 04/2/99
