Fantastic News this afternoon, Damsel is going to be in competition at this years Berlin Film Festival! It will also have it's international premiere there.
From Berlinale.de
Another ten films have now been invited to the Competition of the 68th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival. Three more have also been selected for the programme of the Berlinale Special.
Damsel
USA
By David Zellner, Nathan Zellner (Kid-Thing, Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter)
With Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Robert Forster, Joe Billingierev
International premiere
From The Hollywood Reporter
David Zellner's 'Damsel,' starring Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska, and Christian Petzold's 'Transit,' featuring German stars Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer, are among films in the running for the Golden Bear.
The Berlin film festival on Monday announced eight more films to its competition lineup, adding mainly European art house titles to a program already leaning in that direction.
David Zellner's Damsel, which will have its world premiere in Sundance, is one of the few U.S. titles in the running for Berlin's Golden Bear. The period drama stars Robert Pattinson as a businessman who travels West to join his fiancee (Mia Wasikowska) in the mountains.
From Variety
Berlin Film Festival Fleshes Out Competition Lineup
The competition lineup for the Berlin International Film Festival is taking shape with the organizers adding raft of new titles Monday including Robert Pattinson-starrer “Damsel.”
There are new competition entries for the 68th edition of the Berlin Film Festival hail from France, Germany, Ireland, the U.K. and across Europe, as well as from the U.S., Iran, and Paraguay.
Pattinson stars opposite Mia Wasikowska in period Western comedy “Damsel,” which is directed by David and Nathan Zellner. It will have its premiere at Sundance and its international premiere at Berlin.