Jeffrey Wright
The American actor co-stars with Sam Rockwell, Jason Isaacs and William H. Macy in David Rosenthal’s thriller A Single Shot, which unspooled in the Berlinale’s Forum section.
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Ken Loach
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Using personal testimony and archive footage, the veteran British movie director presented the world premiere of his documentary The Spirit of '45, which discusses the slow privatization of the British welfare state. Loach also lent his experience to the Berlinale Talent Campus, the six-day film school that ran parallel to the festival.
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Miranda Otto
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Otto arrived in Berlin to celebrate the Panorama Special title Reaching for the Moon (Flores Raras), in which she pairs with Gloria Pires to portray the passionate romance between poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
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Jim Sturgess
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Rather than play in his band Tragic Toys, the British actor attended the festival to promote Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Best Offer, a classic Old World mystery set in Europe’s high-rolling art world that was featured at the Berlinale Special Gala.
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Geoffrey Rush
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese The Oscar-winning actor joined Sturgess and Tornatore at the screening of The Best Offer during Berlinale. THR praised Rush for his "sensitive, never pandering performance as an effete master auctioneer who gradually discovers he has a heart" in the film review.
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David Gordon Green
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese The Silver Bear-winning director presented Prince Avalanche, which first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by The Match Factory for international sales rights just before the Berlinale. THR considered the film an "exquisitely crafted existential odd-couple tale" and a "slice of comedic melancholia" in the Sundance review.
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Paul Rudd
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese The notorious funnyman also attended the Berlinale in support of Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche, in which he co-stars with Emile Hirsch to play a pair of Texas road maintenance workers.
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Jonathan Pryce
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Also co-starring Judy Davis and Karen Black, the veteran British star appeared the never-before-released desert drama Dark Blood, the last film to include River Phoenix in its cast before his death in 1993.
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Rufus Wainwright
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese The musician arrived at the Berlinale for the Lian Lunson’s rock-doc Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle. Shot at New York’s Town Hall theatre in May 2011, THR called the tribute show "an immersive experience" when it premiered at Sundance London last year.
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Greta Gerwig
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese The star of Noah Baumbach’s black-and-white production Francis Ha also co-wrote the film, which unspooled in the Panorama section of the film festival. Last year, THR noted it as "a film that, however cheap it was to make, is incredibly rich to watch."
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Noah Baumbach
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Just as Baumbach takes a seriocomic look at the life of an adorable misfit in 2012 New York City in Frances Ha, the director enjoyed the Berlin Film Festival with the comfort of his New Balance trainers.