Brillante Mendoza’s ‘Captive’, other contenders at Berlin film festival

BERLIN—The 62nd Berlinale, the first major European film festival of the year, will present its Golden Bear top prize Saturday to one of 18 contenders from around the world.

A jury led by British director Mike Leigh will present the awards at a gala ceremony starting at 1800 GMT. All the competition entries—including Brillante Mendoza’s “Captive”—were world premieres.

Here is the complete list including the English title, director and countries where the films were produced:

• “Barbara”, Christian Petzold. Germany.

• “Caesar Must Die” (Cesare deve morire), Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. Italy.

• “Captive”, Brillante Mendoza and starring Isabelle Huppert. France/Philippines/Germany/Britain.

• “Childish Games” (Dictado), Antonio Chavarrias. Spain.

• “Coming Home” (A moi seule), Frederic Videau. France.

• “Farewell My Queen” (Les adieux a la Reine), Benoit Jacquot, starring Diane Kruger. France/Spain. (opening film)

• “Home For The Weekend”, Hans-Christian Schmid. Germany.

• “Jayne Mansfield’s Car”, Billy Bob Thornton and starring Thornton, Robert Duvall, John Hurt and Kevin Bacon. Russia/United States.

• “Just The Wind” (Csak a szel), Bence Fliegauf. Hungary/Germany/France.

• “Mercy” (Gnade), Matthias Glasner. Germany/Norway.

• “Meteora”, Spiros Stathoulopoulos. Germany/Greece.

• “Postcards From The Zoo” (Kebun binatang), Edwin. Indonesia/Germany/Hong Kong/China.

• “A Royal Affair” (En Kongelig Affaere), Nikolaj Arcel. Denmark/Czech Republic/Germany/Sweden.

• “Sister” (L’enfant d’en haut), Ursula Meier. Switzerland/France.

• “Tabu”, Miguel Gomes. Portugal/Germany/Brazil/France.

• “Tey” (Aujourd’hui), Alain Gomis. France/Senegal.

• “War Witch” (Rebelle), Kim Nguyen. Canada.

“White Deer Plain” (Bai lu yuan), Wang Quan’an. China.

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