BERLIN: New movies starring Ethan Hawke, Lea Seydoux and Forest Whitaker will screen at the 64th Berlin film festival next month, along with a host of hard-hitting Asian fare, organisers said Wednesday.
Completing its programme for the competition at the 64th annual event, Europe's first major cinema showcase of the year, the "Berlinale", said 20 pictures would vie for its Golden Bear top prize awarded on February 15.
Along with new features from George Clooney and Wes Anderson already announced, the festival will screen the keenly awaited "Boyhood", the latest collaboration between Hawke and US director Richard Linklater ("Before Midnight").
Also starring Patricia Arquette, the film was periodically shot over a decade and tells the story of a young son's relationship with his divorced parents.
Seydoux, who picked up the Palme d'Or top prize in Cannes last May along with her director and co-star for the lesbian love story "Blue is the Warmest Colour", takes the lead with Vincent Cassel in a Franco-German co-production retelling the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast".
The picture directed by Christophe Gans will screen out of competition.
Oscar-winner Whitaker teams up with Harvey Keitel in Rachid Bouchareb's "Two Men in Town" about an ex-convict who has converted to Islam.
The French director of Algerian descent is best known for the 2006 drama "Days of Glory" (Indigenes) about north African men serving in the French army during World War II.
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