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The Berlin Film Festival on Monday unveiled the full lineup for its Forum 2023 section, its sidebar of independent and avant-garde cinema.
Highlights include Allenswortha new documentary by acclaimed American filmmaker James Benning (RR13 lakes), which looks at California’s first African-American self-governing municipality; the drama The Temple Woods Gang by director Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (Judas story); and To Be in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Taita documentary by Luke Fowler about the Scottish poet and filmmaker.
Among the world premieres of the 53rd Berlinale Forum are In Ukrainea non-romantic look at In progress the war in Ukraine by Polish directors Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski; the tale of “coming of age” City of Rabat by Portuguese filmmaker Susana Nobre (Jack’s ride); the argentinian comedy of errors about thirty by director Martin Shanly (About 12); and The bridea feature debut by director Myriam U. Birara, set in Rwanda three years after the 1994 genocide.
Previously announced special Forum program includes Dick Fontaine’s newly restored 1982 documentary I heard it through the vine, which follows James Baldwin as he traces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement; and the feature film by Antonio Carlos da Fontoura in 1974 The Devil Queena Brazilian queer drama made during the country’s military dictatorship, and starring Milton Gonçalves, one of the country’s most famous black actors, who died last year.
The Berlinale 2023 runs from February 16 to 26.
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