Berlin Festival Adds Jafar Panahi's 'Closed Curtain', Steven Soderbergh's 'Side Effects'

A year into a 20-year filmmaking ban in his native Iran, Jafar Panahi still managed to direct the 2011 documentary This Is Not A Film (which was smuggled to the Cannes Film Festival on a flash drive). The director, who is under house arrest in Iran, has evidently been behind the camera again as his Closed Curtain has just been added to the lineup for the 63rd Berlin Film Festival. Berlin provided few details about the film other than it's co-directed by Border Café helmer Kambozia Partovi ' who co-wrote Panahi's 2000 Venice winner The Circle ' and that both directors play roles in the movie, along with other castmembers. Joining that world premiere in competition will be the next film from No Man's Land director Danis Tanovic along with Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects with Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Channing Tatum and Fredrik Bond's feature debut The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman starring Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger and Rupert Grint. Berlin runs from February 7-17 this year. Click over for the full list of new additions:

Camille Claudel 1915
France
By Bruno Dumont
With Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent
World Premiere

Elle S'En Va (On My Way)
France
By Emmanuelle Bercot
With Catherine Deneuve
World Premiere

Epizoda U Zivotu Bera'a Seljeza (An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker)
Bosnia and Herzegovina/France/Slovenia
By Danis Tanovic
With Senada Alimanovic, Nazif Mujic, Sandra Mujic, Semsa Mujic
World Premiere

Gold
Germany
By Thomas Arslan
With Nina Hoss, Marko Mandic, Uwe Bohm, Lars Rudolph, Peter Kurth, Rosa Enskat, Wolfgang Packhäuser
World Premiere

La Religieuse (The Nun)
France/Germany/Belgium
By Guillaume Nicloux
With Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert, Louise Bourgoin, Martina Gedeck
World Premiere

Layla Fourie
Germany/South Africa/France/Netherlands
By Pia Marais
With Rayna Campbell, August Diehl, Rapule Hendricks
World Premiere

The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman
USA
By Fredrik Bond
With Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger, Rupert Grint, James Buckley
International Premiere

Parde (Closed Curtain)
Iran
By Jafar Panahi and Kambozia Partovi
With Kambozia Partovi, Maryam Moghadam, Jafar Panahi, Hadi Saeedi, Azadh Torabi, Agha Olia, Zeynab Khanum, Boy
World Premiere

Side Effects
USA
By Steven Soderbergh
With Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum
International Premiere

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