Berlin International Film Festival: Nazi terror in Europe dominates schedule The Monuments Men is one of three films to screen out-of-competition at the festival, along with Christopher Gans's La Belle et la Bête and Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac. Wes Anderson's whimsical 1920s comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel will open the festival. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Anderson's film is based in part on the writings of Austrian novelist and playwright Stefan Zweig, who, after the war, lamented the destruction of Europe. "It [The Grand Budapest Hotel] opens in 1914 and covers a large arc until the arrival of the Nazis in 1933," Kosslick said. Only 12 years later the world lay in rubble and ashes. Continuing the theme, German veteran Volker Schlöndorff, who won an Oscar for the Hitler-era allegory The Tin Drum, will premiere Diplomacy, a drama about a German officer who helped save Paris from destruction. The documentary The Decent One, based on the discovery in Israel of hundreds of private letters, notes and photographs that belonged to Hitler henchman Heinrich Himmler, will also be screened. As will Memory of the Camps, a film newly completed by the British Imperial War Museum using footage taken at the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Alfred Hitchcock served as an advisor on the project, which was intended to confront Germans with their guilt but ended up vanishing into the archives. A documentary on that backstory, Night Will Fall, will also be shown in Berlin. There are a total of 20 films screening in competition, including three Chinese films and entries from Latin America. NEWS: Berlin Film Festival 2014: line-up includes Beauty and the Beast and Boyhood British filmmaker Ken Loach is to be awarded with an honorary Golden Bear. Loach, 77, whose career has spanned some 50 years, is famous for his socialist realist style of directing and his works include Kes (1969), My Name is Joe (1998) and Looking for Eric (2009). Loach turned down an OBE in 1977 but was awarded the Bafta Fellowship in 2006. The awards, including the Golden Bear for the best film, will be announced on February 15. The eight-member jury is led by Brokeback Mountain producer James Schamus. Full list of films showing at the Berlin International Film Festival In competiton: 71 - Yann Demange. Aimer, boire et chanter (Life of Riley) - Alain Resnais Aloft - Claudia Llosa Bai Ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice) - Diao Yinan Boyhood - Richard Linklater Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House) - Yoji Yamada. Die geliebten Schwestern (Beloved Sisters) - Dominik Graf The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson Historia del miedo (History of Fear) - Benjamin Naishtat Jack - Edward Berger Kraftidioten (In Order of Disappearance) - Hans Petter Moland Kreuzweg (Stations of the Cross) - Dietrich Brueggemann Macondo - Sudabeh Mortezai Praia do Futuro (Beach of the Future) - Karim Ainouz Stratos - Yannis Economides La tercera orilla (The Third Side of the River) - Celina Murga Tui Na (Blind Massage) - Lou Ye La voie de l'ennemi (Two Men in Town) - Rachid Bouchareb Wu Ren Qu (No Man's Land) - Ning Hao Zwischen Welten (Inbetween Worlds) - Feo Aladag Out of competition: La belle et la Bête - Christophe Gans The Monuments Men - George Clooney Nymphomaniac - Lars von Trier The Berlin International Film Festival runs from February 6-16