Jude Law, Matt Damon Bring Fracking, Drug Drama to Berlin

Jude Law, Matt Damon, Juliette Binoche and Anne Hathaway are among the stars converging on the German capital for this year’s Berlin Film Festival, traditionally a showcase for gritty, political dramas.

Damon persuades American farmers to give up their land for fracking -- drilling for gas -- in Gus Van Sant’s environmental drama “Promised Land,” competing with 18 other movies for the Golden Bear award at the festival opening today. Law plays a psychiatrist investigating the dark side of the pharmaceutical industry after a patient apparently commits murder and remembers nothing about it in Steven Soderbergh’s “Side Effects.”