The Sundance Film Festival has announced further additions to its lineup for 2023, including five more features that will there make their world premieres, and four award-winners from years past to receive encore special screenings.
20.12.2022 - 17:55 / deadline.com
John Malkovich starrer Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes and Alex Gibney’s untitled Boris Becker documentary are set to have their world premieres at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival next year. The projects are among the six titles which will play in the fest’s Berlinale Special Gala section, which also includes Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth and Cleopatra Coleman and Todd Field’s Tár.
Infinity Pool will get its European premiere at the festival while Field and Tár stars Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir will attend the festival to give a public talk as part of the Berlinale Talents section.
The festival also announced its first project from its Berlinale Series section: ZDF’s eco-thriller The Swarm (Der Schwarm), based on the eponymous bestseller by Frank Schätzing. The project follows an international group of scientists who do research on mysterious ocean phenomena that become a global threat.
Seneca – On The Creation of Earthquakes, is a historical drama directed by Robert Schwentke and also stars Louis Hofmann, Geraldine Chaplin, Lilith Stangenberg and Samuel Finzi. The story takes a look at the relationship between Seneca, played by Malkovich, and Nero, the infamous Emperor he mentored since childhood and who also accused him of plotting his assassination.
Gibney’s documentary on disgraced former tennis champion Becker, explores all aspects of the six-Grand-Slam-winning sportsman’s life, who won Wimbledon when he was just 17 but is now in prison for hiding assets and loans to avoid paying his debts, following a tumultuous period, much of which spilled out into the media.
Here’s the list of projects that were unveiled
The Sundance Film Festival has announced further additions to its lineup for 2023, including five more features that will there make their world premieres, and four award-winners from years past to receive encore special screenings.
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