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‘Parasite’ director Bong Joon-ho to show new film at Berlin festival

South Korean director  Bong Joon-ho  will present his new film  Mickey 17  out of competition in Berlin next month, the city’s film festival announced on Thursday.

Six years ago, Bong won the Palme d’Or at Cannes then an Oscar for best picture for  Parasite  – the first not in English to do so at the Academy Awards.

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Science fiction black comedy  Mickey 17  stars  Robert Pattinson  as Mickey, who has volunteered in a program in which cloning allows him to have multiple successive lives to the point where “dying is a habit”.

The Berlinale is the first major European film event of the year. The festival has also announced that it will give a lifetime achievement award to British actor Tilda Swinton, who has also collaborated with Bong in the past.

The festival opens with the latest offering from German filmmaker  Tom Tykwer, who made his name with  Run, Lola, Run  in 1998.

The 75th edition of the Berlinale runs from Feb. 13 to 23. The full program and films in the running for the Golden Bear is due to be announced on Jan. 21.

Last year, French-Senegalese director  Mati Diop’s  Dahomey, a documentary examining Europe’s return of looted antiquities to Africa, took the prestigious prize.  AFP

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