The 74th Berlin Movie Competition is unveiling its full competitors lineup.

Berlin’s beforehand introduced opener is Eire-set drama “Small Issues Like These” starring “Oppenheimer’s” Cillian Murphy and directed by Tim Mielants (“Peaky Blinders”). In “Small Issues,” which is ready within the Eighties, Murphy performs a faithful father and coal service provider who discovers stunning truths about Eire’s horrific Magdalene laundries, the asylums for younger “fallen” ladies run by Roman Catholic establishments from the 1820s till 1996. Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson additionally star within the drama, making certain a high-wattage pink carpet. 

Beforehand introduced particular galas embody Netflix’s “Spaceman” starring Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan; Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham’s father-daughter movie “Treasure”; “Cuckoo,” a horror movie starring “Euphoria” breakout Hunter Schafer; Italian TV sequence “Dostoevskij” by twin administrators Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo; “Sasquatch Sundown” with Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg; Amanda Seyfried car “Seven Veils”; and Tsai Ming-liang’s documentary “Wu Suo Zhu” (“Abiding Nowhere”).

Lupita Nyong’o will likely be heading up this 12 months’s jury, marking the second consecutive 12 months the fest has had a feminine jury president (final 12 months’s version featured Kristen Stewart). “Lupita Nyong’o embodies what we like in cinema: versatility in embracing completely different initiatives, addressing completely different audiences, and consistency to 1 concept that’s fairly recognisable in her characters, as various as they could look,” Berlinale administrators Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian mentioned in a press release.

“Killers of the Flower Moon” director Martin Scorsese is ready to obtain the Honorary Golden Bear. Scorsese has a protracted historical past with the Berlinale, having screened “Raging Bull,” “Cape Concern,” “Gangs of New York” and “Shutter Island” on the competition.

This 12 months’s version will mark the final beneath the management of Rissenbeek and Chatrian. Former BFI London Movie Competition head Tricia Tuttle will take over beginning in 2025.

The Berlin Movie Competition will run from Feb. 15 to 25.