Berlin Film Festival: Michel Gondry & Ira Sachs Among Names Set For Competition Sidebars
deadline.comMichel Gondry and Ira Sachs are among the headline filmmakers set to debut new feature works within the sidebar competitions at next year’s Berlin Film Festival.
The German festival announced the pair this afternoon as part of its first crop of confirmed titles. Gondry will screen Maya, Give Me a Title (Maya, donne-moi un titre) in Berlin’s Generation sidebar.
The festival’s website describes the film as Gondry’s “stop-motion love letter to his daughter Maya brings to life a poetic and amusing journey that invites you to dream and laugh.” Also set for the Generation competition is Our Wildest Days (I Agries Meres Mas) by Greek filmmaker Vasilis Kekatos who is best known for his 2019 short film The Distance Between Us and the Sky, which won the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
He also created the popular Greek series Milky Way. Ira Sachs returns to the Berlinale’s Panorama competition with Peter Hujar’s Day, starring Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall.
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