Idris Elba's 'Yardie' Heading to Berlin as Festival Completes Panorama Lineup
New films from Kim Ki-duk and Ursula Meier are among the highlights of the festival sidebar.
Yardie, Idris Elba's directorial debut; Human, Space, Time and Human, from Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk; and Shock Waves - Diary of My Mind from French-Swiss director Ursula Meier (Sister) are among the highlights of the Panorama selection for the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival.
Panorama unveiled its full lineup Thursday. It will feature 47 films from 40 countries, including 37 world premieres.
River's Edge, a Japanese comedy from director Isao Yukisada (Parade) will open the Panorama sidebar Feb. 15, with the Panorama Special kicking off Feb. 16 with the world premiere of refugee drama Styx from German director Wolfgang Fischer.
Politics again plays a major role in many of this year's Panorama titles, which include Czech director Jan Gebert's documentary When the War Comes, which looks at the global rise of extremist nationalism; Arpad Bogdan's drama Genesis, an examination of a series of attacks on native Roma in Hungary; and The Silence of Others, a doc produced by Pedro Almodovar, which follows the pursuit of those who committed crimes during the Franco dictatorship in Spain.
The 2018 Berlin Film Festival runs Feb. 15-Feb. 25. Check out the full Panorama lineup below.
2018 Panorama Lineup
A Paris Education dir Jean Paul Civeyrac
World premiere
Boys Cry dir Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo
World premiere
Central Airport THF dir Karim Ainouz
Documentary
World premiere
Ex Shaman dir Luiz Bolognesi
Documentary
World Premiere
Family Life dir Rosa Hannah Ziegler
Documentary
World premiere
Foreboding dir Kiyoshi Kurosawa
European premiere
Game Girls dir Alina Skrzeszewska
Documentary
World premiere
Garbage dir Q
World premiere
Generation Wealth dir Lauren Greenfield
Documentary
International premiere
Genesis dir Arpad Bogdan
World premiere
Girls Always Happy dir Yang Mingming
World premiere
Hard Paint dir Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher
World premiere
Horizon dir Tinatin Kajrishvili
World premiere
Hotel Jugoslavija dir Nicolas Wagnières
Documentary
European premiere
Human, Space, Time and Human dir Kim Ki-duk
World premiere
Invasion dir Shahram Mokri
International premiere
I See Red People dir Bojina Panayotova
Documentary
World premiere
Jibril dir Henrika Kull
World premiere
Kinshasa Makambo dir Dieudo Hamadi
Documentary
World premiere
Land dir Babak Jalali
World premiere
L'Animale dir Katharina Muckstein
World premiere
Lemonade dir Ioana Uricaru
World premiere
Malambo, the Good Man dir Santiago Loza
World premiere
Marilyn dir Martin Rodriguez Redondo
World premiere
MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. dir Steve Loveridge
Documentary
International premiere
Obscuro Barroco dir Evangelia Kranioti
Documentary
World premiere
Partisan dir Lutz Pehnert, Matthias Ehlert, Adama Ulrich
Documentary
World premiere
Profile dir Timur Bekmambetov
World premiere
River's Edge dir Isao Yukisada
International premiere
Shakedown dir Leilah Weinraub
Documentary
World premiere
Shock Waves - Diary of My Mind dir Ursula Meier
International premiere
Shock Waves - First Name: Mathieu dir Lionel Baier
International premiere
Shut Up and Play the Piano dir Philipp Jedicke
Documentary
World premiere
Styx dir Wolfgang Fischer
World premiere
Sunday's Illness dir Ramón Salazar
World premiere
That Summer dir Goran Hugo Olsson
Documentary
European premiere
The Omission dir Sebastian Schjaer
World premiere
The Silence of Others dir Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar
Documentary
World premiere
The Silk and the Flame dir Jordan Schiele
Documentary
World premiere
The Trial dir Maria Ramos
Documentary
World premiere
Thirty Souls dir Diana Toucedo
World premiere
Tranny Fag dir Claudia Priscilla, Kiko Goifman
Documentary
World premiere
What Comes Around dir Reem Saleh
Documentary
World premiere
When the War Comes dir Jan Gebert
Documentary
World premiere
When the Trees Fall dir Marysia Nikitiuk
World premiere
Xiao Mei dir Maren Hwang
World premiere
Yardie dir Idris Elba
European premiere
