Regizat de Tom Tykwer (Perfume, Run, Lola Run) si avand o distributie de zile mari, thrillerul aduce in prim plan povestea unei institutii financiare care este implicata in traficul international cu armament.

Rolurile principale sunt interpretate de Clive Owen (Inside Man, Closer) si Naomi Watts (King Kong, 21 Grams).

The International va fi prezentat in afara competitiei celei de-a 59-a editii a Berlinalei.

CineFan.ro se va afla si in 2009 la Berlin, de unde va transmite pe site si pe blog, la cald, cele mai noi stiri din cadrul Festivalului.

Berlinale 2009 - lista filmelor Competitie oficiala Everyone Else (Germania, reg. Maren Ade) Rage (UK, reg. Sally Potter) The Dust of Time (Grecia, reg. Theo Angelopoulos) Forever Enthralled (China, reg. Chen Kaige) The Messenger (USA, reg. Oren Moverman) London River (Algeria, reg. Rachid Bouchareb) Mammoth (Suedia, reg. Lukas Moodysson) Cheri (UK, reg. Stephen Frears) About Elly (Iran, reg. Asghar Farhadi) Gigante (Uruguay, reg. Adrian Biniez) Happy Tears (USA, reg. Mitchell Liechtenstein) In the Electric Mist (USA, reg. Bertrand Tavernier) Katalin Varga (Romania / UK, reg. Peter Strickland) The Milk of Sorrow (Spania, reg. Claudia Llosa) Little Soldier (Danemarca, reg. Annette K. Olsen) Ricky (Franta, reg. Francois Ozon) Storm (Germania, reg. Hans-Christian Schmid, cu Anamaria Marinca in distributie) Sweet Rush (Polonia, reg. Andrzej Wajda) My One and Only (USA, reg. Richard Loncraine) Proiectii speciale - in afara competitiei The International (USA, reg. Tom Tykwer) The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (USA, reg. Rebecca Miller) The Reader (USA, reg. Stephen Daldry) Pink Panther 2 (USA, reg. Harald Zwart) Deutschland 09 (Germania, reg. Fatih Akin, Tom Tykwer, Wolfgang Becker, etc.) Eden is West (Franta, reg. Costa-Gavras) Notorious (USA, reg. George Tillman Jr.) An Education (UK, reg. Lone Scherfig) It Might Get Loud (USA, reg. Davis Guggenheim) Sectiunea Panorama - filme Absolute Evil (USA, reg. Ulli Lommel) Ander (Spania, reg. Roberto Caston) The Bone Man (Austria, reg. Wolfgang Murnberger) Fig Trees (Canada, reg. John Greyson) Fucking Different Tel Aviv (Israel, reg. Yair Hochner, Avital Barak, etc.) Ghosted (Germania, reg. Monika Treut) All Around Us (Japonia, reg. Hashigushi Ryosuke) High Life (Canada, reg. Gary Yates) Human Zoo (Franta, reg. Rie Rasmussen) Skirt Day (Franta, reg. Jean-Paul Lillenfeld) The Rainbow Troops (Indonezia, reg. Riri Riza) Pedro (USA, reg. Nick Oceano) Light Gradient (Germania, reg. Jan Kruger) Just Walking (Spania, reg. Augustin Diaz Yanes) The Countess (Franta, reg. Julie Delpy) White Lightnin' (UK, reg. Dominic Murphy) La barbe bleue (Franta, reg. Catherine Breillat) An Englishman in New York (UK, reg. Richard Laxton) Kill Daddy Good Night (Germania, reg. Michael Glawogger) The Fish Child (Argentina, reg. Lucia Puenzo) Welcome (Franta, reg. Philippe Lioret) A North Chinese Girl (China, reg. Zou Peng) Raging Sun, Raging Sky (Mexic, reg. Julian Hernandez) Russia 88 (Rusia, reg. Pavel Bardin) Sleeping Songs (Germania, reg. Andreas Struck) Strella (Grecia, reg. Panos H. Koutras) Retribution (Brazilia, reg. Paulo Pons) Claustrophobia (Hong Kong, reg. Ivy Ho) End of Love (China, reg. Simon Chung) North (Norvegia, reg. Rune Denstad Langlo) Short Cut to Hollywood (Germania, reg. Marcus Mittermeier, Jan Henrik Stahlberg) Yang Yang (Taiwan, reg. Yu-Chieh Cheng) 575 Castro Street (USA, reg. Jenni Olson) The End of the Pig Is the Beginning of the Sausage (Germania, reg. John Edward Heys) Gevald (Israel, reg. Netalie Braun) Queer Sarajevo Festival 2008 (Bosnia, reg. Masa Hilcisin) The Casuarina Cove (Singapore, reg. Junfeng Boo) Sectiunea Panorama - documentare At Stake (Indonezia, reg. Iwan Setiawan, Muhammad ichsan, etc.) Coyote (Spania, reg. Chema Rodriguez) Garapa (Brazilia, reg. Jose Padilha) Unmistaken Child (Israel, reg. Nati Baratz) When You're Strange (USA, reg. Tom DiCillo) The Shock Doctrine (UK, reg. Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross) Little Joe (USA, reg. Nicole Haeusser) Kiss the Moon (Germania, reg. Khalid Gill) City of Borders (USA, reg. Yun Suh) Comrade Couture (Germania, reg. Marco Wilms) Home From Home (Germania, reg. Sung-Hyung Cho) Kashmir: Journey to Freedom (USA, reg. Udi Aloni) War and Love in Kabul (Germania, reg. Helga Reidemeister) The Good American (Germania, reg. Jochen Hick) The Yes Men Fix the World (USA, reg. Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum) Off Ways (Germania, reg. Uli M. Schuepell) Sectiunea Forum Green Waters (Argentina, reg. Mariano De Rosa) From Arusha to Arusha (Franta, reg. Christophe Gargot) Beeswax (USA, reg. Andrew Bujalski) Calimucho (Olanda, reg. Eugenie Jansen) Cea mai fericita fata din lume (Romania, reg. Radu Jude) Citizen Juling (Thailanda, reg. Kraisak Choonhavan, Manit Sriwanichpoom) The Day After (Coreea, reg. Lee Suk-Gyung) Deep in the Valley (Japonia, reg. Funahashi Atsushi) Defamation (Israel, reg. Yoav Shamir) Doctor Ma's Country Clinic (China, reg. Cong Feng) Encirclement (Canada, reg. Richard Brouillette) The Exploding Gin (USA, reg. Bradley Rust Gray) Mr. Governor (Suedia, reg. Mans Mansson) My Only Sunshine (Turcia, reg. Reha Erdem) Help Gone Mad (Rusia, reg. Boris Khlebnikov) Can Go Through Skin (Olanda, reg. Esther Rots) The Korean Wedding Chest (Germania, reg. Ulrike Ottinger) Land of Scarecrows (Coreea, reg. Roh Gyeong-Tae) Letters to the President (Canada, reg. Petr Lom) Love Exposure (Japonia, reg. Sono Sion) Burrowing (Suedia, reg. Fredrik Wenzel, Henrik Hellstrom) Marin Blue (USA, reg. Matthew Hysell) Members of the Funeral (Coreea, reg. Baek Seung-Bin) Mental (Japonia, reg. Soda Kazuhiro) Sometime in August (Germania, reg. Sebastian Schipper) My Dear Enemy (Coreea, reg. Lee Yoon-Ki) Naked of Defenses (Japonia, reg. Ichii Masahide) My Greatest Escape (Franta, reg. Fabienne Godet) The One Man Village (Lebanon, reg. Simon El Habre) Rachel (Franta, reg. Simone Bitton) The Mermaid and the Diver (Mexic, reg. Mercedes Moncada Rodriguez) Soundless Wind Chime (Hong Kong, reg. Kit Hung) Sweetgrass (USA, reg. Lucien Castaing-Taylor) Treeless Mountain (Coreea, reg. So-Yong Kim) Pardon my French (Franta, reg. Sophie Fillieres) Winter Silence (Olanda, reg. Sonja Wyss) By Comparison (Germania, reg. Harun Farocki) Proiectii speciale in cadrul Sectiunii Forum A History of Israeli Cinema (Franta, reg. Raphael Nadjari) Araya (Venezuela, reg. Margot Benacerraf) The Beast Stalker (Hong Kong, reg. Dante Lam) Affectionately Known as Alex (Africa de Sud, reg. Danny Turken) Angels on our Shoulders (Africa de Sud, reg. Andy Spitz) The Blessing (Africa de Sud, reg. Omelga Mthiyane, Riaan Hendriks, Marianne Gysae) The Burning Man (Africa de Sud, reg. Adze Ugah) The Blue Generation (Indonezia, reg. Garin Nugroho, John De Rantau, Dosy Omar) Slow Summer (Austria, reg. John Cook) Material (Germania, reg. Thomas Heise) Clinch (Austria, reg. John Cook) Soul Power (USA, reg. Jeffrey Levy-Hinte) When it was Blue (USA, reg. Jennifer Reeves) The Wondrous World of Laundry (Germania, reg. Hans-Christian Schmid) Sectiunea Generation Brendan and the Secret of Kells (Irlanda, reg. Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey) It's Not Me, I Swear! (Canada, Philippe Falardeau) The Eagle Hunter's Son (Germania, reg. Rene Bo Hansen) The Girl (Suedia, reg. Fredrik Edfeldt) The Other Bank (Georgia, reg. George Ovashvili) Who is Afraid of the Wolf (Cehia, reg. Maria Prochazkova) Lippel's Dream (Germania, reg. Lars Buchel) The Inheritors (Mexic, reg. Eugenio Polgovsky) Mamma Moo & Crow (Suedia, reg. Igor Veyshtagin) Max Embarassing (Danemarca, reg. Lotte Svendsen) The Bogeyman (Turcia, reg. Atalay Tasdiken) Niloofar (Franta, reg. Sabine El Gemayel) The Strength of Water (Noua Zeelanda, reg. Armagan Ballantyne) Afterschool (USA, reg. Antonio Campos) Cherrybomb (UK, reg. Glenn Leyburn & Lisa Barros DSa) Lala's Gun (China, reg. Ning Jingwu) Katia's Sister (Olanda, reg. Mijke de Jong) I Know You Know (UK, reg. Justin Kerrigan) Glowing Stars (Suedia, reg. Lisa Siwe) Mary and Max (Australia, reg. Adam Elliot) Miao Miao (Hong Kong, reg. Cheng Hsiao-Tse) My Suicide (USA, reg. David Lee Miller) Snow (Bosnia, reg. Aida Begic) Sorasoi (Japonia, reg. Katsuhito Ishii, Shunichiro Miki & Yuuuka Ooosumi) Teenage Response (Germania, reg. Eleni Ampelakiotou) Unmade Beds (UK, reg. Alexis Dos Santos) I'm Gonna Explode (Mexic, reg. Gerardo Naranjo) Cinematografie germana Lung-metraje Distance (reg. Thomas Sieben) Dorfpunks (reg. Lars Jessen) Fly (reg. Piotr J. Lewandowski) For Miriam (reg. Lars-Gunnar Lotz) Roller Coaster (reg. Martin Busker) To Each His Own (reg. Stefan Schaller) In the Blink of an Eye (reg. Abel Lindner) Polar (reg. Michael Koch) Documentare Catapult (reg. Peter Dorfler) Gitti (reg. Anna Deutsch) Berlin Playground (reg. Claudia Lehmann) Generation Undecided (reg. Elmar Szucs) Scurt-metraje * Printre cele 28 de filme din aceasta sectiune se numara si 2 scurt metraje romanesti: Bric-Brac (Romania, reg. Gabriel Achim) Renovare (Romania, reg. Paul Negoescu)