Kate Winslet
Berlin Film Festival have announced a selection of movies that feature in the February event with Kate Winslet's erotic Holocaust drama The Reader leading the way.
The film, which follows the story of a young boy's brief affair with an older woman at the end of World War II only to meet her some years later when she is on trial for war crimes.
The film has already been nominated for a string of Golden Globes and is expected to feature heavily at the Oscars and Winslet is expected to attended the screening in February.
In recent years the Berlin Film Festival has been criticised for lacking star power but along with Winslet Steve Martin will also be on the red carpet for his new movie The Pink Panther 2.
Some of the in competition films include the follow up to 2006's Day of Glory for director Rachid Bouchareb with London River, which follows a group of strangers as they search for missing children after the terrorist attacks in London.
War movies are also top of the agenda as The Dust of Time and The Messenger are unveiled as being on the schedule. Starring Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton The Messenger follows a young army officer who falls in love with a fellow soldier's widow.
The Dust of Time by Theo Angelopoulos which looks at some of the personal upheavals during the Second World War. Of the films announced in the competition category so far they include pictures from Algeria, China, Greece, Great Britain, Sweden, the USA, and Germany.
So far there are only two German pictures in the competition category; Alle Anderen, which is getting it's world premiere, Mammoth, which stars Michelle Williams and Gael Garcia Bernal.
The film follows Tom, a successful New York businessman, leaves wife and daughter under the care of a nanny to go on a business trip to Thailand. As he submerges into a new cultural experience Tom soon realizes he wants to change his life, setting off a chain of dramatic events.
Other big names include Naomi Watts and Clive Owen's The International, The Private Lives of Pippi Lee, which stars Keanu Reeves and Julianne Moore and Rage which has Judi Dench on the cast list.
Despite all those A-List names Berlin has still included a string of art house movies including Chinese film "Mei Lanfang" (Forever Enthralled) by "Farewell My Concubine" director Chen Kaige.
The Berlin Film Festival will open on February 5th with the premiere of The International and will run to 15th.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw