The 75th Berlin International Film Festival hosted the premiere of director Richard Linklater’s latest film, Blue Moon. The film features a stellar ensemble cast, with Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott.

Blue Moon, Ethan Hawke's latest collaboration with Richard Linklater, was met with cheers at its Berlin Film Festival world premiere.

Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley star in Richard Linklater's new film "Blue Moon," about American lyricist Lorenz Hart.

Andrew Scott, left, and Margaret Qualley arrive at the press conference for the film 'Blue Moon' holding her dog Smokey the Bear during the International Film Festival, Berlinale, in Berlin,

The story plays out almost in real time on that May 1943 evening. Unimpressed by the show, Lorenz Hart (Hawke) has drifted across the street before the end to legendary Broadway restaurant and drinking hole Sardi’s (reconstructed with loving fidelity on an Irish soundstage) where the first night party will take place.

Hawke is unrecognizable as the 5-foot balding Broadway genius in Richard Linklater’s new film. "It was demolishing to my vanity," he says from Berlin.