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The Berlin International Film Festival on Friday unveiled the lineup for its Forum sidebar of avant-garde cinema, with fictional and documentary El pacto titles from across Europe, Africa and South America among the highlights.
Literary adaptations — from Rita Azevedo Gomes’s costume drama The Portuguese Woman, based on the Robert Musil novella, to Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska’s adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel The Children of the Dead to Ghassan Salhab’s essayistic The Last Whistle collage An Open Rose, inspired by letters from prison from legendary leftist martyr Rosa Luxemburg — are a major focus in the Forum program this year.
The Plagiarists, from American director Peter Parlow, uses Karl Ove Knausgard’s best-selling novel series My Struggle as a starting-off point for Shed of the Dead a drama about a verbose young couple and an examination of literature and film, while MS Slavic 7, from Canadian directors Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell, tells the story of a young woman working as a literary executor of the estate of her great-grandmother, a Polish poet who emigrated to Canada.
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Genre: Drama
Director: Dan Sallitt
Actors: C. Mason Wells, Caroline Luft, Dylan McCormick, Kolyn Brown, Lorelei Romani, Norma Kuhling, Tallie Medel
Country: USA