Following a hardy Canadian contingent at the Sundance Film Festival, 11 Canuck titles from the likes of filmmakers Guy Maddin, Bruce McDonald, Sarah Polley and Clement Virgo have been selected for next month’s 57th Berlin Film Festival.

McDonald’s teen angst piece The Tracey Fragments – set to open the fest’s prestigious Panorama program – Virgo’s Poor Boy’s Game and the international coproduction Faro by Salif Traore will have their world premieres.

Poor Boy’s Game, starring Danny Glover as a father out to revenge his son’s brutal beating, is Virgo’s second appearance at the German festival, following last year’s screening of his controversial feature Lie With Me.

‘My passion for Poor Boy’s Game was sparked by the idea of exploring tribalism through two characters that choose to step outside of their respective tribes in order to heal a community,’ says Virgo in a release.

Meanwhile, Polley’s Away from Her, which received a warm reception at Sundance, will have its European debut in the Panorama program.

Other films set to unspool are: Maddin’s Brand Upon the Brain!, Gariné Torossian’s Stone Time Touch, Nell Shipman’s Something New, Quebec filmmaker Catherine Martin’s Dans les villes and L’Esprit des lieux, and experimental filmmaker John Price’s shorts View of the Falls from the Canadian Side and Gun/Play.

Telefilm Canada will sponsor the fest’s Perspective Canada showcase for the second year in a row, screening 13 recent Canuck features.

‘[It is] a great complement to an already impressive official lineup of Canadian films at one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals,’ said Telefilm executive director Wayne Clarkson, in a release.

The Berlin Film Festival runs Feb. 8-18.