Catalan Films at Berlinale 2022

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10-17 February 2022 _____

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Competition

Alcarras

By Carla Simón Production companies: Vilaüt, Avalon PC, Elastica Films and Kino Produzioni Sales agent: MK2 Contact Quentin Bohanna quentin.bohanna@mk2.com

Synopsis Following her popular breakthrough “Summer 1993”, Carla Simón takes a lucid look at traditional Catalonia, with a new personal and tender portrait of a family and its unbreakable bonds, in this beautifully observed ensemble drama.

Festival Screenings 15.02.2022 | 09:00h | Berlinale Palast (Press) 15.02.2022 | 15:30h | Berlinale Palast (Premiere) 16.02.2022 | 12:00h | Cubix 9 17.02.2022 | 14:30h | Urania 19.02.2022 | 20:30h | Berlinale Palast 20.02.2022 | 11:00h | Cubix 5 & 6

Competition

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One Year, One Night Un año, una noche

By Isaki Lacuesta Production companies: La Termita Films, Noodles Production, Bambú Producciones, Una noche la película AIE and Mr Fields and Friends Cinema Sales agent: Studio Canal Contact Chloé Marquet pascale.hornus@studiocanal.com

Synopsis Céline and Ramón, a young couple who survived the Bataclan terrorist attack, are struggling to regain a sense of normality and get beyond being identified as victims.

Can they move on in spite of wounds that may never heal?

Festival Screenings 14.02.2022 | 12:30h | CinemaxX 1-6 (press) 14.02.2022 | 18:00h | Berlinale Palast (Premiere) 15.02.2022 | 11:30h | Friedrichstadt-Palast 16.02.2022 | 17:30h | Friedrichstadt-Palast 19.02.2022 | 21:00h | Friedrichstadt-Palast 20.02.2022 | 20:30h | Friedrichstadt-Palast

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Berlinale Shorts

Agrilogistics

By Gerard Ortín Castellví Production company: Gerard Ortín Castellví Contact gerard.ortin@gmail.com

Synopsis “Agrilogistics” looks at recent technological transformations in contemporary industrial agriculture.

Festival Screenings 11.02.2022 | 09:00h | Cubix 3 (industry screening) 12.02.2022 | 12:00h | Cubix 6 12.02.2022 | 18:30h | Cubix 9 (premiere) 17.02.2022 | 19:00h | CinemaxX 9 20.02.2022 | 15:30h | Titania Palast

Forum

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Afterwater

By Dane Komljen Production companies: Andergraun Films, Flaneur Films, Dart Film Sales agent: Square Eyes Contact Andergraun Films info@andergraun.com

Synopsis Jonasz and Signe leave the city behind them, pitching their tent by a lake. As they swim in the cold water, the outside world feels ever further away. A stranger appears and a trio is formed. But there are also other trios, other lakes, other times.

Festival Screenings 12.02.2022 | 20:00h | Kino Arsenal 1 13.02.2022 | 18:10h | Cubix 1 (industry) 16.02.2022 | 18:00h | Cubix 6 19.02.2022 | 20:00h | Werkstattkino@ silent green 20.02.2022 | 18:00h | Cubix 7

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Co-Production Market

20.000 Species of Bees 20.000 especies de abejas

By Estíbaliz Urresola Production companies: Inicia Films, Gariza Films, 20000 Especies de abejas AIE Contact Valérie Delpierre info@iniciafilms.com

Synopsis Lucia is 6 years old and she is a girl with a penis whom everyone calls Aitor, who can’t wait for the summer holidays to arrive, and leave behind the hostile school atmosphere. Ane, Lucia´s mother is dealing with a professional and personal crisis, she will take advantage of the holidays to travel with her 3 children to her mum’s house, engaged in bee-keeping and honey production. In the village, Ane will try to hide her personal situation in front of everyone and unwind and relax. Lucia, instead, will take her holidays as a chance to show herself the way she is in front of everybody. Their wishes won’t last long during the summer that will change their lives.

Co-Pro Series

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Picadero

By Isabel Coixet Production companies: Amor y Lujo, Zeta Cinema, Fidelio Films Contact Amor y Lujo andrea@amorylujo.com

Synopsis Llanos Salinas (30) is a private investigator used to handling the dirty laundry of the Catalan middle class. She counts on clever advice from Félix, her father, who has schizophrenia. For every detective there is a graduation case, and for Llanos this comes up the day a dying aristocrat hires her to investigate a family crime. Llanos gets into the family by seducing Leo, the Count’s nephew. She’s contravening all professional ethics, exposing herself recklessly, but the more she knows of that family, the more captivated she is by their story.

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Berlinale Talents

Meritxell Colell (director)

Bruna Cusí (actress)

Manel Raga (director)

Mariona Borrull (film critique and journalist)

Marta Cruañas (producer)

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