Stephen Frears' Cheri, which pairs Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend as lovers in an adaptation of the 1920s novel by Colette, has been thrown into the ring to compete for this year's Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival.

Of the 26 films that will compete in the Berlinale main section, 25 have now been announced, with the latest batch of 14 joining 11 other titles announced last month. The highest profile of today's new entries is probably Notorious, a biopic of the late rap icon Notorious B.I.G.

Constantin Costa-Gavras' immigrant drama Eden Is West, about illegal immigrants living in the EU, also looks certain to ruffle feathers. Likewise Hans-Christian Schmid's political thriller Storm, about the trial of an alleged Serbian war criminal in the Hague, and Deutchland 09, an omnibus film by some of Germany's top filmmakers, including Fatih Akin (Head-On) and Tom Tykwer (Run, Lola, Run).

Also featuring in the main section are In the Electric Mist, a Franco/US co-production starring Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman and Peter Sarsgaard, Mitchell Lichtenstein's Happy Tears, a family drama starring Demi Moore and Parker Posey, as well as Francois Ozon's latest, a love story entitled Ricky.