What's showing at Berlinale 2012
The 62nd Berlin Film Festival is hosting a broad collection of movies ranging from Angelina Jolie's directorial debut to veteran film-maker Stephen Daldry's big Oscar hopeful.
Daldry's 9/11 drama, which has picked up two Oscar nominations, stars Tom Hanks as a father who dies in the World Trade Center attacks, leaving a cryptic puzzle for his son.
For her first movie, the Salt and Tomb Raider star has chosen the thorny subject of Balkan politics for the thriller In The Land of Blood and Honey, focussing on a soldier and an abused woman.
Jolie's ex Billy Bob Thornton is also in town for his Vietnam War era drama Jayne Mansfield's Car, starring John Hurt and Kevin Bacon and telling the story of two families clashing following a death.
British hopes ride on director James Marsh's IRA drama Shadow Dancer, starring Andrea Riseborough as a republican sympathiser forced to make a terrible choice when she's implicated in a mainland bombing.
Director Kevin MacDonald has put together the documentary Marley, a detailed look into the life of the Jamaican reggae legend and cult hero Bob Marley.
Also flying the flag is directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod's adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's Bel Ami, starring Robert Pattinson as a serial seducer in the salons of Paris.
Canadian maverick Guy Maddin is in Berlin with his latest oddity Keyhole which tells the story of a gangster (Jason Patric) who returns to his home and embarks on an odyssey through the house, one roo
m at a time.
War movie geeks will be in seventh heaven with the premiere of the Nazis-in-space retro sci-fi thriller Iron Sky, which tells the story of remnants of the Third Reich who settle on the moon...and are planning their revenge.
On a more serious note, Berlin is also hosting Alison Klayman's documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry about the internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist, who was placed under house arrest by the Chinese authorities.
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