Berlinale 2013 - Competition
by juhasz-attila-laszlo | created - 18 Jan 2013 | updated - 28 Jan 2013 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Prince Avalanche (2013)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne
Votes: 20,892 | Gross: $0.20M
2. Harmony Lessons (2013)
120 min | Drama
Lonely Kazakh teenager Aslan is bullied at his new school. He prepares himself for a bloody revenge on the school bully Bolat.
Director: Emir Baigazin | Stars: Timur Aidarbekov, Aslan Anarbayev, Mukhtar Andassov, Anelya Adilbekova
Votes: 1,014
3. Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two lesbian ex-cons, Victoria and Florence, are trying to make a new life in the backwoods of Quebec. Seeking peace and quiet, the couple slowly begin to feel under siege as Vic's probation... See full summary »
Director: Denis Côté | Stars: Pierrette Robitaille, Romane Bohringer, Marc-André Grondin, Marie Brassard
Votes: 1,330
4. Gloria (II) (2013)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla, Fabiola Zamora
Votes: 9,362 | Gross: $2.11M
5. Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The secret relationship between a student and a teacher, will their love last?
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Jung Eun-chae, Lee Sun-kyun, Yoo Joon-sang, Ye Ji-won
Votes: 1,824
6. Paradise: Hope (2013)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama
The final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('... See full summary »
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas
Votes: 4,987 | Gross: $0.01M
7. Child's Pose (2013)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.
Director: Cãlin Peter Netzer | Stars: Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Ilinca Goia
Votes: 8,847 | Gross: $0.09M
8. Promised Land (2012)
R | 106 min | Drama
A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook
Votes: 39,884 | Gross: $7.60M
9. Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama
Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Jessica Errero, Robert Leroy, Jean-Luc Vincent
Votes: 3,934 | Gross: $0.02M
10. On My Way (2013)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
Facing a failed relationship and a struggling restaurant, a woman hits the road for a trip with her grandson.
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Némo Schiffman, Gérard Garouste, Camille
Votes: 2,585 | Gross: $0.31M
11. An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013)
75 min | Drama
A Roma family lives far from the urban centres of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The father Nazif salvages metal from old cars and sells it to a scrap-dealer. The mother Senada keeps the house tidy, ... See full summary »
Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Nazif Mujic, Senada Alimanovic, Semsa Mujic, Sandra Mujic
Votes: 1,342
12. Gold (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In the summer of 1898, a small group of German compatriots head into the hostile northern interior of British Columbia in search for gold at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush.
Director: Thomas Arslan | Stars: Nina Hoss, Marko Mandic, Peter Kurth, Uwe Bohm
Votes: 1,344
13. The Nun (2013)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
1760s France. Suzanne is shocked when her bourgeois family sends her to a convent. There she faces oppression and torment, leading her to fight back and expose the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life.
Director: Guillaume Nicloux | Stars: Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert, Louise Bourgoin, Martina Gedeck
Votes: 1,990
14. Layla Fourie (2013)
Not Rated | 107 min | Thriller
Layla Fourie, a young single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. In the constant presence of mistrust, lies and fear Layla soon becomes a suspect herself.
Director: Pia Marais | Stars: Rayna Campbell, August Diehl, Rapule Hendricks, Terry Norton
Votes: 220
15. Charlie Countryman (2013)
R | 103 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
While travelling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.
Director: Fredrik Bond | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger
Votes: 29,765 | Gross: $0.01M
16. Closed Curtain (2013)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
In a secluded house by the sea with the curtains shut, a screenwriter hides from the world with only his dog as company. The tranquility is abruptly broken one night by the arrival of a ... See full summary »
Directors: Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi | Stars: Kambuzia Partovi, Maryam Moghadam, Jafar Panahi, Hadi Saeedi
Votes: 1,368 | Gross: $0.03M
17. A Long and Happy Life (2013)
77 min | Drama
Sascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsular in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and tolerate his clandestine love-affair with Anya.
Director: Boris Khlebnikov | Stars: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Anna Kotova, Vladimir Korobeynikov, Sergey Nasedkin
Votes: 504
18. Side Effects (I) (2013)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Votes: 197,060 | Gross: $32.17M
19. In the Name Of (2013)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
Running toward God but away from his sexuality, Adam became a priest at age 21. Now the head of a rural parish, he's still tormented by desire. When Father Adam attempts to help a troubled teen, long-suppressed feelings begin to surface.
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska | Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Maja Ostaszewska, Lukasz Simlat
Votes: 3,279
20. The Grandmaster (2013)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Ziyi Zhang, Jin Zhang, Chang Chen
Votes: 36,729 | Gross: $6.59M
Out of competition
21. Before Midnight (2013)
R | 109 min | Drama, Romance
We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Ariane Labed
Votes: 171,998 | Gross: $8.11M
Out of competition
22. The Croods (2013)
PG | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After their cave is destroyed, a caveman family must trek through an unfamiliar fantastical world with the help of an inventive boy.
Directors: Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener
Votes: 231,796 | Gross: $187.17M
Out of competition
23. Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
R | 111 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Swiss Professor Raimund Gregorius abandons his lectures and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself.
Director: Bille August | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston, Martina Gedeck
Votes: 20,755
Out of competition
24. Dark Blood (2012)
TV-PG | 86 min | Thriller
Dealing with nuclear testing and its deadly effects, the story portrays Boy, a young widower living in the desert on a nuclear testing site. Living as a hermit, he waits for the end of the world.
Director: George Sluizer | Stars: River Phoenix, Judy Davis, Jonathan Pryce, Karen Black
Votes: 1,430
Out of competition
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