Berlin film festival 2013: key films – in pictures

Berlin's opening film is The Grandmaster, directed by Wong Kar-wai. It's a biopic of martial arts legend Ip Man (played by Tony Leung); here's Zhang Ziyi as Gong Er, his rival's daughter and main challenger Photograph: PR

Ken Loach's paean to the postwar Labour government, The Spirit of '45, has its world premiere in Berlin. Pictured is Clement Attlee surrounded by joyous supporters at an election victory party in 1945 Photograph: People History Museum

The seemingly unstoppable production line that is James Franco has resulted in yet another world premiere, this time for the long-gestating Maladies. It's directed by the artist Carter, who previously worked with Franco on the 2008 gallery piece Erased James Franco; this is a slightly more conventional-looking effort, with Franco as a soap star, Fallon Goodson as his introverted sister, and Catherine Keener as a cross-dressing painter Photograph: Pamela Berkovic

Isabelle Adjani played sculptor Camille Claudel in a memorably glamorous biopic in 1988. This film, though, takes a far more austere perspective, as befits French director Bruno Dumont, who tends to go for extremes. Juliette Binoche plays Claudel after she was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital; the film takes place almost entirely within its walls Photograph: PR

After This Is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi has managed to complete a second film, despite a 20-year ban and a six-year prison sentence from the Iranian authorities. Pardé (aka Closed Curtain) has made it to Berlin, co-directed by Panahi with Kambuzia Partovi (pictured above); it looks to be another studied meditation on flight and imprisonment, both physical and mental Photograph: PR

Master documentarist Nicolas Philibert (Être et Avoir, Nénette) returns with La Maison de la Radio, a film that would appear to do what it says on the tin. It's a study of French state broadcaster Radio France, and specifically their famous circular HQ by the Seine Photograph: PR

Gus van Sant's anti-fracking drama, with Matt Damon as a company man buying up drilling rights in rural Pennsylvania, triggered protests from the gas industry even before it had finished, and fared poorly when it was released in the US last December. It may find a more sympathetic hearing in Berlin though Photograph: Scott Green

Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore has not exactly impressed of late – his last film, Baaria, got a kicking from our critic Peter Bradshaw – so here's hoping he can turn it around. This latest is an international affair, with Geoffrey Rush as an intensely private auctioneer/collector who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman client, played by Dutch actor Sylvia Hoeks Photograph: Stefano Schirato

Austria's other director, Ulrich Seidl, has brought the third part of his Paradise trilogy – subtitled Hope – to Berlin for its world premiere. Following Love and Faith, this third film is about a teenage girl stuck in a diet camp who falls in love with the doctor. We can be reliably sure, given Seidl's past form, that we will be dealing with what our critic Peter Bradshaw calls 'the confrontational grotesque'; whether it will rise to the level of his acclaimed Import Export, we shall have to wait and see Photograph: Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH

New product from Bright Star director Jane Campion is always welcome: Top of the Lake, showing in the Berlinale Special section, is actually a six-part TV series, with co-director Garth Davis. Starring Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss as a detective on the track of a missing child-abuse victim in rural New Zealand, this has class written all over it Photograph: Parisa Taghizadeh/See-Saw (TOTL) Holdings Pty Ltd