indieWIRE has info on two major European festival announcements this morning: the films selected for Rotterdam’s Tiger competition for early-career filmmakers; and “the first 21 films” slotted in Berlin’s Panorama program. The Berlin lineup includes Julie Delpy’s latest directorial effort, The Countess, a period piece starring the director and William Hurt; Pedro, the docudrama about the Real World San Francisco cast member who died of AIDS which premiered at Toronto last year; and two Sundance entries, Tom DiCillio’s Doors doc When You’re Strange and White Lightnin’, the “dancing outlaw” film scripted by VICE guys Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti.

Meanwhile, in Rotterdam, 14 films while vie for the award given to first and second time filmmakers. Among them: Michael Imperioli, best known as sometime-screenwriter, sometime-junkie Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos, whose The Hungry Ghosts will open the festival; and films from Chile, Indonesia, Iran, Taiwan and Turkey. The remainder of the festival’s lineup will be announced on January 15, six day before screenings get underway.