Berlin Announces First Films for 2022 Including Titles With Isabelle Huppert and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled the first films for its 2022 edition, set to run Feb. 10-22.

Berlin announced a number of titles that will screen as part of its Panorama, Generations, Forum, Forum Expanded and Berlinale Specials program for the 72nd festival.

The Forger, a World War II period drama featuring Dark star Louis Hofmann, will premiere in the Berlinale Specials lineup as a featured gala. The film, from director Maggie Peren (Color of the Ocean), sees Hofmann playing a Jewish man living in 1940s Berlin who uses his skill as a document forger to hide in plain sight and try to save others with faked identities.

Other Berlinale Specials galas include Peter Flinth’s Against the Ice — starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole, Heida Reed and Charles Dance — and About Joan, a French drama featuring Isabelle Huppert and Lars Eidinger from director Laurent Larivière.

Panorama titles include the world premiers of Tim Sutton’s Taurus starring Megan Fox, Scoot McNairy, Colson Baker and Ruby Rose; the Italian feature Into My Name from Nicolò Bassetti; and Talking About the Weather from German director Annika Pinske.

French feature Rookies from directors Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai, The Quiet Girl from Irish director Colm Bairéad and Mascha Halberstad’s Dutch movie Oink are among the world premieres in the Generations selection for children’s and youth films.

Director M. Night Shyamalan will head up the 2022 Berlinale international jury, which picks the Gold and Silver Bear award winners among the festival’s competition titles.

Berlin organizers have said the 2022 festival program would be “roughly similarly” the same in size compared to the pre-COVID-19 edition of the fest in 2020. Short films, which were struck from the Generation sidebar for this year’s festival, will return to the section in 2022.

Despite concerns over the continuing coronavirus pandemic and the new omicron variant of COVID-19, Berlin is sticking to its plan to hold an in-person festival next year. Under current health regulations, all attendees will be required to be fully vaccinated, and there may be testing and masking requirements for some Berlinale venues.

The European Film Market (EFM), which runs Feb. 10-17, will again set up shop at Berlin’s Gropius Bau and the Marriott Hotel. The 2022 EFM will be a hybrid event, also featuring online formats and screenings for professionals unable to attend in person. Similarly, industry-focused sections — namely the Berlinale Series Market, running Feb. 14-16; the Berlinale Co-Production Market (Feb. 12-16); Berlinale Talents (Feb. 12-17); and the World Cinema Fund — will combine in-person sessions with online offerings.

The Sundance festival last week confirmed it would also return in person for 2022, unveiling its reduced lineup, which will include Lena Dunham’s Sharp Stick, Am I OK? from directors Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro, and 892 starring John Boyega, Connie Britton and the late Michael K. Williams.

A full list of the films announced for the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival as of Wednesday follows.

Berlinale Special Gala

Against the Ice, dir. Peter Flinth
World premiere

About Joan, dir. Laurent Larivière
World premiere

Gangubai Kathiawadi, dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
World premiere

The Forger, dir. Maggie Peren
World premiere

Berlinale Special

Heart of Oak, dirs. Laurent Charbonnier, Michel Seydoux
International premiere

1341 Frames of Love and War, dir. Ran Tal
World premiere

Nothing Lasts Forever, dir. Jason Kohn

Berlin Panorama

Talking About the Weather, dir. Annika Pinske
World premiere

The Apartment With Two Women, dir. Kim Se-in
International premiere

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, dir. Nina Menkes
International premiere

Swing Ride, dir. Chiara Bellosi
World premiere

Dreaming Walls, dirs. Amélie van Elmbt, Maya Duverdier
World premiere

Klondike, dir. Maryna Er Gorbach

A Love Song, dir. Max Walker-Silverman
International premiere

Myanmar Diaries, dirs. the Myanmar Film Collective
World premiere

Into My Name, dir. Nicolò Bassetti
World premiere

Nelly & Nadine, dir. Magnus Gertten
World premiere

We, Students!, dir. Rafiki Fariala
World premiere

Until Tomorrow, dir. Ali Asgari
World premiere

Taurus, dir. Tim Sutton
World premiere

Generation

Rookies, dirs. Thierry Demaizière, Alban Teurlai
World premiere

Beba, dir. Rebeca Huntt
European premiere

The Quiet Girl, dir. Colm Bairéad
World premiere

Comedy Queen, dir. Sanna Lenken
International premiere

Kind Hearts, dirs. Olivia Rochette, Gerard-Jan Claes
World premiere

Oink, dir. Mascha Halberstad
World premiere

Millie Lies Low, dir. Michelle Savill
International premiere

My Father’s Truck, dir. Mauricio Osaki
World premiere

Sublime, dir. Mariano Biasin
World premiere / debut film

Girl Picture, dir. Alli Haapasalo
European premiere

Forum

Afterwater, dir. Dane Komljen
World premiere

Poet, dir. Darezhan Omirbayev
European premiere

The Middle Ages, dirs. Alejo Moguillansky, Luciana Acuna
World premiere

Europe, dir. Philip Scheffner
World premiere

A Flower in the Mouth, dir. Éric Baudelaire
World premiere

Memoryland, dir. Kim Quy Bui
European premiere

My Two Voices, dir. Lina Rodriguez
World premiere

Nuclear Family, dirs. Erin Wilkerson, Travis Wilkerson
European premiere

Super Natural, dir. Jorge Jácome
World premiere

The United States of America, dir. James Benning
World premiere

Forum Expanded

Dragon Tooth, dir. Rafael Castanheira Parrode
World premiere

Home When You Return, dir. Carl Elsaesser
International premiere

Jail Bird in a Peacock Chair, dir. James Gregory Atkinson
International premiere

Sol in the Dark, dir. Mawena Yehouessi
World premiere

vs, dir. Lydia Nsiah
World premiere