Sean Penn, Jesse Eisenberg, Canadian actor-director Matt Johnson, South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo, and Korean-Canadian director Celine Song are headed to the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.

“We are very grateful to Sean Penn and the entire team to have picked the Berlinale to show this film.” The programmer noted that the doc details the roles of art and artists in war.

Matt Johnson biopic “BlackBerry,” which depicts the rise and fall of the Canadian smartphone company and stars Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton and Cary Elwes, is among other standouts ensconced in a Berlinale competition slot.

Prolific South Korean director Hong Sangsoo, a Berlin regular, is back with his latest work “In Water,” which is screening in the more cutting-edge, competitive Encounters section.

Meanwhile, titles by newcomers in competition comprise “Disco Boy,” a first feature by France-based Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese, about a refugee who arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion as a means to obtain a promised passport.

As previously announced, Rebecca Miller’s romantic comedy “She Came To Me,” starring Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig, Brian d’Arcy James and Anne Hathaway, has been set as the festival opener.