Berlinale 2016 Hierarchy

Key
Seen during the Berlinale or Woche der Kritik (between Feb. 11-21)
Seen at some other festival or venue [new films only]


Tier 0 & 1

Tier 2
Sixty Six (Lewis Klahr)

Tier 3
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)
Homo Sapiens (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Little Men (Ira Sachs)
Marble Ass (1995, Želimir Žilnik)
A Dragon Arrives! (Mani Haghighi)
Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene)
Being 17 (André Téchiné)
Rio Corgo (Sergio da Costa & Maya Kosa)

Tier 4
Short Stay (Ted Fendt)
Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Crosscurrent (Yang Chao)
Cosmos (Andrzej Zulawski)
The Wounded Angel (Emir Baigazin)
The Lost Angel (1966, Ralf Kirsten)
Invention (Mark Lewis)
Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)
88:88 (Isiah Medina)
Much Ado About Nothing (Alejandro Fernández Almendras)
How Heavy This Hammer (Kazik Radwanski)
Havarie (Philip Scheffner)
Carla (1965, Herrmann Zschoche)
Despite the Night (Philippe Grandrieux)
Indignation (James Schamus)

Tier 5
The End (Guillaume Nicloux)
The Son of Joseph (Eugène Green)
Boris Without Béatrice (Denis Côté)
Maggie’s Plan (Rebecca Miller)
Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo)
Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Chi-Raq (Spike Lee)
Tales of Two Who Dreamt (Andrea Bussmann & Nicolás Pereda)
A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (Lav Diaz)
Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols)
The Road Back (1937, James Whale)
Where To Invade Next (Michael Moore)
Life After Life (Zhang Hanyi)
Ta’ang (Wang Bing)
Eldorado XXI (Salomé Lamas)
The Meadow of Things (1988, Heinz Emigholz)
Saint Amour (Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern)
Blue Dress (Igor Minaev)
Elixir (Daniil Zinchenko)
Illegitimate (Adrian Sitaru)
City of Jade (Midi Z)

Tier 6
Don’t Blink – Robert Frank (Laura Israel)
United States of Love (Tomasz Wasilewski)
Lily Lane (Bence Fliegauf)
Letters from War (Ivo M. Ferreira)
The Dreamed Ones (Ruth Beckermann)
The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman)

Tier 7
Depth Two (Ognjen Glavonić)

Tier 8
Soy Nero (Rafi Pitts)

Tier 9

Tier 10
Fantastic (Offer Egozy)