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Main competition films at Berlin festival

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 21:51 IST
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Berlin: The 60th Berlin film festival starts on Thursday and ends on February 21.

Following are the 26 films in the main competition lineup, along with the main production country, the name of the director and names of major stars. Six do not quality for prizes.

- * Exit Through the Gift Shop (Britain) by Banksy
- * The Kids Are All Right (United StatesFrance) by Lisa Cholodenko. Starring Julianne Moore, Annette Bening
- A Family (Denmark) by Pernille Fischer Christensen
- Mammuth (France) by Benoit Delepine. Starring Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani
- Howl (United States) by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Starring David Strathairn
- The Robber (Austria/Germany) by Benjamin Heisenberg
- * Please Give (United States) by Nicole Holofcener. Starring Catherine Keener
- * My Name Is Khan (India) by Karan Johar. Starring Shah Rukh Khan
- Honey (Turkey/Germany) by Semih Kaplanoglu
- Greenberg (United States) by Noah Baumbach. Starring Ben Stiller, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh
- A Somewhat Gentle Man (Norway) by Hans Petter Moland
- The Hunter (Germany/Iran) by Rafi Pitts
- The Ghost Writer (France/Germany/Britain) by Roman Polanski. Starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan
- How I Ended This Summer (Russia) by Alexei Popogrebsky
- Apart Together (China) by Wang Quan'an
- Shahada (Germany) by Burhan Qurbani
- Jud Suss (AustriaGermany) by Oskar Roehler. Starring Moritz Bleibtreu
- If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (RomaniaSweden) by Florin Serban
- * Shutter Island (United States) by Martin Scorsese. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams
- Puzzle (ArgentinaFrance) by Natalia Smirnoff
- Submarino (Denmark) by Thomas Vinterberg
- Caterpillar (Japan) by Koji Wakamatsu
- The Killer Inside Me (United StatesBritain) by Michael Winterbottom. Starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson
- * About Her Brother (Japan) by Yoji Yamada
- A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop (China) by Zhang Yimou
- On the Path (Bosnia and HerzegovinaAustriaGermany) by Jasmila Zbanic


* denotes films not competing for prizes

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