Dafoe stars in Abel Ferrara’s Siberia in a competition that beats out Cannes and Venice for female directors, while a documentary about Clinton shows outside the main lineup
Willem Dafoe, Elle Fanning and
Hillary Clinton are among the big names heading for the German capital after the
Berlin film festival announced its competition lineup.
Dafoe is starring in Siberia, the new film from maverick director Abel Ferrara, inspired by Carl Jung’s The Red Book and described by Ferrara as an exploration of “the language of dreams, myth and the natural world”. Siberia will receive its world premiere at Berlin and compete for the Golden Bear against The Roads Not Taken from
British writer-director Sally Potter, which stars Javier Bardem and Fanning as a father and daughter in the grip of chaotic alternative realities.