While somewhat arbitrary and beholden to what’s finished, what’s available, and what’s ready, film festivals tend to have good years and bad years, depending. And well, after several good years, where the Berlin Film Festival has re-established itself as a significant player in the world cinema film festival sweepstakes, the Berlinale has really upped the ante in 2022 with a terrific line-up. Today, the festival revealed its complete wares with its Competition section, an Encounters section, and Special Galas program.

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At the 55th New York Film Festival, the great Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel brought her latest unique venture, “Zama.” The film is a peculiar oddity, a tackling of Spanish history with deliberate inaccuracies. It’s an adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 classic novel but with layers of splattered fiction woven into its story. “Zama” is Martel’s first period film and, even more intriguingly, her first film with a male protagonist.

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Watch: The Criterion Collection Looks At New Argentine Cinema & Lucrecia Martel’s 'La Ciénaga'

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What Ever Happened To These 5 Foreign-Language Filmmakers?

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