Click to play videoNew Delhi: The upcoming Berlin Film Festival will see as many as 21 films including Oscar front-runners like There Will be Blood compete for the coveted Golden Bear award.
The 10-day-long festival will open on February 7.
The festival directors have already pronounced Spanish director Isabel Coixet's Elegy, starring Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley; There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Damian Harris' Gardens of the Night featuring John Malkovich as the front-runners for the award.
The festival will open with the premiere of Shine a Light, a documentary on the Rolling Stones by Martin Scorsese. Hollywood biggies like Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, John Malkovich, Natalie Portman, and Scarlett Johansson amongst others are expected at this festival.
The organisers are not expecting the Berlin festival to be hit by the Hollywood writers' strike.
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