Movies Competing For Golden Bear Award in Berlin International Film Festival 2017

Directed by Cãlin Peter Netzer
With Mircea Postelnicu, Diana Cavallioti, Carmen Tanase, Vasile Muraru

Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty, and quickly fall in love. But, because of Ana's mental illness, their relationship slowly collapses.

Directed by Andres Veiel
With Joseph Beuys

A documentary about the 20th century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys.

Directed by Thomas Arslan
With Georg Friedrich, Tristan Göbel, Marie Leuenberger, Hanna Karlberg

A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.

Directed by Teresa Villaverde
With João Pedro Vaz, Alice Albergaria Borges, Beatriz Batarda, Clara Jost

In Portugal, a father, a mother and a daughter's daily lives are being subsumed by the effects of the economic crisis.

Directed by Oren Moverman
With Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall

A look at how far parents will go to protect their children. Feature film based on a novel by Herman Koch.

Directed by Etienne Comar
With Reda Kateb, Cécile De France, Alex Brendemühl, Maximilien Poullein

The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.

Directed by Sebastián Lelio
With Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim

Marina, a waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.

Directed by Alain Gomis
With Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka, Nadine Ndebo

Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.

Directed by Jian Liu

A city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draws several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict.

Directed by Marcelo Gomes
With Júlio Machado, Rômulo Braga, Welket Bungué, Nuno Lopes

A partly fictional, partly historical account of the life of Brazil's national hero Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, alias Tiradentes.

Directed by Ildikó Enyedi
With Morcsányi Géza, Alexandra Borbély, Zoltán Schneider, Ervin Nagy

An unusual love story set in the everyday world, based around the duality of sleeping and waking, mind and matter.

Directed by Sang-soo Hong
With Min-hee Kim, Young-hwa Seo, Jae-yeong Jeong, Seong-kun Mun

An actress wanders around a seaside town, pondering her relationship with a married man.

Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
With Tommi Korpela, Ville Virtanen, Kati Outinen, Sulevi Peltola

A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived from Finland.

Directed by Sally Potter
With Cillian Murphy, Emily Mortimer, Timothy Spall, Kristin Scott Thomas

THE PARTY is a comedy wrapped around a tragedy. It starts as a celebration and ends with blood on the floor.

Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
With Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss, Bronagh Gallagher, Niels Arestrup

The author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he meets up again with the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together. 17 years have passed. Can there be a future for their past?

Directed by Agnieszka Holland
With Agnieszka Mandat-Grabka, Wiktor Zborowski, Jakub Gierszal, Patrycja Volny

Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.

Directed by Josef Hader
With Georg Friedrich, Josef Hader, Jörg Hartmann, Pia Hierzegger

When Georg loses his job, he conceals the fact from his younger wife Johanna, who wants a child with him. Instead, he embarks upon a campaign of revenge against his former boss and begins to renovate a roller-coaster an old school friend.