Madonna's film picked for Berlin Festival

Friday, December 28 2007, 12:20 GMT

By Kimberley Dadds

Madonna's directorial debut has been selected for the lineup at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Filth and Wisdom, starring Richard E Grant, will be premiered at the festival in February 2008 in the avant-garde Panorama section.

Euguen Hutz, the frontman of punk group Gogol Bordello, also stars in the film, but no other details have been confirmed about the short comedy.

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