Saoirse Ronan-Starrer ‘The Outrun’ Leads Berlin Panorama Lineup

Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun, a Scotland-set drama starring Saoirse Ronan, will have its international premiere at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival, screening in Berlin’s Panorama section after its world premiere bow in Sundance.

The drama is adapted from Amy Liptrot’s best-selling memoir about a recovering alcoholic — played by four-time Oscar nominee Ronan — who returns to her home on the windswept wilderness of Scotland’s Orkney Islands. Fingscheidt made her debut with System Crasher at the 2019 Berlinale. Her English-language follow-up was 2021’s The Unforgivable, a Netflix drama starring Sandra Bullock.

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The Outrun is among the first 11 titles picked by Panorama for its 2024 lineup.

Other Panorama highlights include Andrea Gets a Divorce, an Austrian drama from famed actor and comedian Josef Hader, starring Birgit Minichmayr (Everyone Else) as policewoman Andrea trying to escape the confines of her provincial town; Paradises of Diane from Swiss directing duo Carmen Jaquier and Jan Gassmann, about the antihero Diane, who flees from her newborn baby and purported domestic bliss to an unknown city in the Mediterranean; and Meanwhile on Earth from director Jérémy Clapin about a woman searching for her missing brother whose problems exceed the merely terrestrial.

Here are the first 11 Panorama titles:

All Shall Be Well, directed by Ray Yeung
Andrea lässt sich scheiden (Andrea Gets a Divorce), directed by Josef Hader
Betânia, directed by Marcelo Botta
Faruk, directed by Aslı Özge
I Saw the TV Glow, directed by Jane Schoenbrun
Ještě nejsem, kým chci být (I’m not Everything I Want to Be), directed by Klára Tasovská
Jia ting jian shi (Brief History of a Family), directed by Lin Jianjie
The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt
Les Paradis de Diane (Paradises of Diane), directed by Carmen Jaquier, Jan Gassmann
Pendant ce temps sur Terre (Meanwhile on Earth), directed by Jérémy Clapin
Yo vi tres luces negras (I Saw Three Black Lights), directed by Santiago Lozano Álvarez

The Panorama Audience Award, voted on by Berlin filmgoers for the best title in the sidebar, will be presented Feb. 25, 2024, at the Zoo Palast. The prize for the best LGBTQ+ film, the Teddy Award, will be handed out Feb. 23 at the Volksbühne.

The full Panorama program will be announced mid-January. The 74th edition of the Berlinale will take place Feb. 15-25, 2024.

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