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Berlin film festival announces eclectic lineup including Rooney Mara, Stephen Fry and Gael García Bernal
Films include a sci-fi about a man who rents out his dead wife’s body and a documentary about a hippo owned by Pablo Escobar
Colombian cocaine hippos, a Star Wars parody set in northern France and an unlikely father-daughter pairing of Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham all feature in an eclectic lineup at this year’s Berlin film festival, which was unveiled on Monday. In the main competition, Mexican actor Gael García Bernal and Norwegian newcomer Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) star in Italian director Piero Messina’s dystopian sci-fi drama Another End, about a man whose wife dies and the woman renting out her body. French directors feature prominently, with Olivier Assayas’s “pandemic comedy” Hors du Temps (Suspended Time), and Bruno Dumont’s L’Empire, an absurdist Star Wars parody set in a fishing village on the Opal coast.
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