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French sales company Bac Films has secured sales on comedy A Bun In The Oven starring Karin Viard as a middle-aged woman who discovers she is pregnant. The film, which is in post-production, has sold to Germany (Wild Bunch), Benelux (Cinéart) and Switzerland (Impuls Pictures). “We’ve had a lot of interest purely on the basis of the script,” said Bac sales chief Gilles Sousa, who has new images of the film at EFM. Sousa also reported sales of Nicolas Pariser’s political thriller The Great Game to the US (Distrib Films) and Benelux (Athena). The film will screen at Unifrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in New York next month.
The backlash against deep-pocketed digital players continues apace in Berlin, where Netflix and Amazon Studios have been rebuffed in their pursuit of coveted titles. Amazon was one of several buyers in the hunt for Loving and lost out in the early hours of Saturday to a reported $9m offer for North America and most of the world from the revamped Focus Features. The interracial marriage drama starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga marks Jeff Nichols’ followup to his Berlinale Competition entry Midnight Special. On Friday night, Netflix was one of at least six companies in pursuit of Southside With You, a film about the Obamas’ first date, which ultimately went to Miramax and Roadside Attractions in a $2m North American deal. Confidence in the new players has been shaken given the dismal
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theatrical performance of Netflix’s Beasts Of No Nation and its noshow in the Oscar nominations. The digital titans have lost out on films before. However, in the wake of Fox Searchlight’s $17.5m swoop last month on Sundance hit The Birth Of A Nation — when Netflix offered $20m and according to sources was willing to go up to $25m — the Berlin developments take on a deeper resonance. In the case of Southside With You,
Netflix is understood to have made a “fairly aggressive” offer for worldwide rights but the producers wanted to go with the theatrical expertise of Miramax and Roadside, which took Mr Holmes to $18m at the North America box office. “If you go with Netflix you’re eliminating any upside on your film, you have zero visibility into your film’s performance and they have yet to prove themselves in the awards arena,” said one source.
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Warner Bros collars Top Cat for UK release Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (KFD) has struck a deal with Warner Bros Pictures for all UK rights to animation Top Cat Begins, which features voice talent from Jason Harris (Rio 2 ) and Chris Edgerly (Happy Feet). The deal was brokered by Anthony Buckner at KFD for a
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Mirovision chases Chicken Seoul-based sales agent Mirovision has picked up international rights outside of the UK to Joe Stephenson’s Chicken. Based on Freddie Machin’s stage play of the same name, the film revolves around an optimistic teenager with learning difficulties, his abusive older brother and the girl he falls in love with. The feature debut premiered at Edinburgh last year and screened at Busan, where Mirovision founder Jason Chae met the filmmakers. “We hope to start picking up more English-language titles,” said Chae. Mirovision’s Berlin slate also includes Korean drama Canola, directed by Chang (The Target), and rom-com My New Sassy Girl, a Korean-Chinese co-production.
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Top Cat Begins and we are extremely excited to be working with a company with the pedigree of Warner Bros,” said Buckner. Andres Couturier directs, with Fernando de Fuentes and Jose C Garcia de Letona producing. Andreas Wiseman
Bear winner rolls on Daphne BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
Golden Bear winner Peter Mackie Burns has started shooting his London-set debut feature Daphne, production company The Bureau has announced. Emily Beecham — who features in the cast of Berlinale opening film Hail, Caesar! — plays the title character, a young Londoner with a frenetic lifestyle. The Bureau producers Tristan Goligher and Valentina Brazzini developed the project in-house. The BFI and Creative Scotland are the main financiers of the film, together with The Bureau. The company’s Paris-based sister company, The Bureau Sales, is handling international rights. Mackie Burns won the Golden Bear for best short film in 2005 for Milk. The Bureau scored success at last year’s Berlinale with Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, winning two Silver Bears, and is up for outstanding British film at tonight’s Baftas.
Finecut closes on Operation Finecut has closed deals on John H Lee’s Operation Chromite, starring Liam Neeson. The Korean War drama has sold to Germany, Austria and Benelux (Splendid Film), ex-Yugoslavia (Discovery Film) and Taiwan (Moviecloud).
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European producers collective The Project, which launched at Berlin last year, has added UK production partners and cast to its first production. Freya Tingley (Jersey Boys) is attached to star in Andrew Desmond’s supernatural thriller The Sonata, a UK-France-Latvia-Russia co-production, due to shoot in Latvia and London at the end of 2016. The collective, which comprises A-One Films’ Daniel Goroshko, CTB’s Sergey Selyanov, former K5 executive Rodolphe Sanzé and producer Laurent Fumeron, has struck an alliance with UK outfit Featuristic Films’ Julien Loeffler and Fabrice Smadja to collaborate on Englishlanguage projects. Titles include Alexandr Zeldovich’s Sweet Life, Full Moon Day, Adam’s Perfection and Knuckledust.
Hurricane whips up passion for Dickinson By Geoffrey Macnab
Hurricane Films, the UK production company behind Terence Davies’ Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion, which premieres here today, has revealed details of its forthcoming slate. To accompany A Quiet Passion, the company is preparing Phosphorescence, a documentary about Dickinson to be directed by Solon Papadopoulos, co-owner and
founder of Hurricane Films. Another project is The Route, the first feature from TV writer Joe Ainsworth, about an elderly man who travels from one end of the UK to the other using public buses. The company has Creative England support for Recovery, a thriller scripted by Nick Saltrese, while Hurricane’s slate also includes Victorian punk drama Rum Doxy Diver and an adaptation of Sara
Stockbridge’s novel Hammer, to be directed by Lindy Heymann. Also in the works is drama A Prayer Before Dawn, to star Joe Cole, directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (Johnny Mad Dog). HanWay is handling sales. Double Dutch International is handling world sales on A Quiet Passion. Metrodome has taken UK rights and a deal has also been made in South Korea.
Fish Without Bicycles adds Punch By Andreas Wiseman
Lucy Punch and Faye Marsay are to star in UK rom-com Fish Without Bicycles. The feature is the second from UK outfit Bad Penny Productions, which is filming
David Tennant and Elisabeth Moss drama Mad To Be Normal, about psychiatrist RD Laing. Fish Without Bicycles tells the story of two women’s differing experiences with pregnancy. The
twist is that they are in a relationship together. Writer-director Daisy Aitkens makes her feature debut and producers are Phin Glynn and Georgia Tennant. The film is due to shoot in late 2016.
Summerside warms to EFM By Melanie Goodfellow
Italian sales and acquisitions veteran Francesca Manno has launched the inaugural slate of her Rome-based sales and coproduction company Summerside International at EFM. Manno, former VP at Gianluca Curti’s Rome-based Minerva Pictures, has pulled together an eight-title line-up of edgy, youthful titles including German director Martin Hawie’s Toro, which is s c r e e n i n g i n Pe r s p e k t i v e Deutsches Kino. Set against the backdrop of a social-housing facility in Germany, it revolves around an unusual friendship between a Polish male escort and a drug addict who is on the run from ruthless dealers. “I’m looking for director-driven titles with strong stories, arthouse films with commercial potential,” said Manno, who launched the company in December.
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Doha Film Institute congratulates its grant recipients in competition as part of the 66th Berlinale
in 2010. Its platforms include funding and production of local, regional and international films, educational programmes, film screenings, the Ajyal Youth Film Festival and Qumra, a gathering of international industry professionals and filmmakers.
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The Doha Film Institute Grants Programme allows first- and second-time filmmakers from all over the world, and established directors from the MENA region, to apply for funding, furthering its commitment to supporting and discovering unique cinematic voices. For complete information about eligibility criteria and funding rules and regulations, please visit dohafilminstitute.com/ financing/grants/guidelines
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Doha Film Institute congratulates Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind for their short film ‘In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain’ (Palestine, Denmark, UK, Qatar) which had its world premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2015 and has been selected for the Forum Expanded Programme at the 66th Berlinale.
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Arnby readies polar expedition for Profile The partners on the project are Element Pictures in Ireland and Zik Zak in Iceland, where the film will shoot in early 2017. The company has two further features now in post, both feature directorial debuts from experienced writers. These are A Royal Affair writer Rasmus Heisterberg’s In The Blood, a story of twentysomething friends in
Copenhagen; and Pusher writer Jens Dahl’s 3 Things, a “contained thriller” starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. At the end of February, Profile will begin shooting Darkland, a masked avenger story set in a gang environment. The action thriller is the second feature from director Fenar Ahmad. Indie Sales is handling sales for Ali Abbasi’s dramatic thriller Shelley.
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takes pictures of the future. Bradley King directs, and the producers are BP Cooper and Rick Montgomery. Devilworks’ Matteo Rolleri and Condor’s Alexis Mas negotiated the deal.
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Rome-based sales company True Colours has boarded Edoardo de Angelis’ Indivisible, which is about Neapolitan Siamese twin sisters who are exploited as a novelty singing act by their father. The Tramp Limited and O’Groove co-production, in collaboration with Italian distributor Medusa, is generating strong interest at EFM.
Solidarity show for Sentsov By Martin Blaney
Actors Meret Becker and Katja Riemann have joined an initiative of the European and German Film Academies and Amnesty International to show solidarity with imprisoned Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov. A demonstration to highlight the case of Sentsov,
who was transferred to a hard-labour camp in Siberia last week, will be held before the world premiere of Mantas Kvedaravicius’s Mariupolis in the CineStar 7 cinema this afternoon. Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by a Russian military court for alleged “terrorist activities”.
Denmark’s Profile Pictures, which launches its debut feature Shelley here in Panorama, is planning the second feature from When Animals Dream director Jonas Alexander Arnby. The film, We Watch The Sun Disappear, is inspired by a real-life early 1900s polar expedition to northern Greenland that went horribly wrong.
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Genre sales outfit Devilworks has inked a French deal with Condor Entertainment for sci-fi Time Lapse.
Danielle Panabaker, George Finn and Matt O’Leary star in the film about three friends who discover a camera that
Qumra gears up Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event (March 4-9) has unveiled first-time attendees from Netflix, Ford Foundation, Berlinale, Sundance, ARTE and Protagonist in addition to returning industry veterans from Cannes, Toronto and Locarno. James Schamus and Joshua Oppenheimer have been confirmed as the final two masters for the second edition of Qumra. Schamus will screen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Oppenheimer will show The Look Of Silence. They join Qumra masters Naomi Kawase, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Aleksandr Sokurov. Wendy Mitchell
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Italian sales company FilmExport has acquired world sales rights to Italian director Sergio Rubini’s couples comedy Let’s Talk and streetart documentary Vertical Conquests. L e t ’s Ta l k re v o l v e s around two couples whose friendship and lives are laid
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bare over the course of one evening, following the revelation that one of the partners is having an affair. Rubini plays 50-year-old writer Vanni, who lives in a beautiful central Rome loft with his 30-year-old girlfriend Linda, played by former EFP Shooting Star Isabella Ragonese.
Fabrizio Bentivoglio costars as surgeon Alfredo, married to Constance, played by Maria Pia Calzone, star of TV series Gomorrah. Other titles on Film Export’s slate include found-footage thriller WAX: We Are The X and In The Box, which is about a woman trapped in a garage.
Kino sees Fritz Lang’s Destiny in US By Jeremy Kay
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Los Angeles-based Vision Films has acquired worldwide rights to Matthew John’s Henrik Ibsen adaptation Hedda Gabler and is in talks with EFM buyers. UK actress Rita Ramnani
stars in the renowned period drama. Vision Films’ slate includes the 3D family feature Aldabra: Once Upon An Island, eco doc Breath Of Life and musical Last Night A DJ Saved My Life.
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More In crowns Monkey King 2 By Liz Shackleton
South Korean sales company More In Group is handling international sales on Soi Cheang’s The Monkey King 2, which grossed $60m on its opening three days in China. Produced by Hong Kong’s Filmko Entertainment and Chinese partners, the 3D fantasy epic stars Aaron Kwok and Gong Li. Filmko has already sold the film to around 15 territories. It opened in China on February 8. More In Group is also selling Dejan Zecevic’s sci-fi thriller The Rift, which it co-produced with Serbia’s Viktoria Film and Slovenia’s BBO Star. The English-language thriller stars US actor Ken Foree (Dawn Of The Dead) and Slovenian actress Katarina Cas (The Wolf Of Wall Street). It tells the story of an astronaut who disappears mysteriously following a space-shuttle crash in eastern Serbia.
Truenorth and Mystery pact for slate of eight By Wendy Mitchell
Icelandic production companies Truenorth and Mystery are to partner on an ambitious slate of eight films to be shot over the next five years. Five will be in English with the other three in Icelandic. The projects include Axlar Bjorn from writer Ottar Nordfjord and director David Oskar Olafsson,
about a serial killer in 16th-century Iceland; Uganda-set political thriller Black Water; and Englishlanguage thriller The Hidden, the feature debut of commercials veteran Thor Saevarsson. Other titles include Oskar Jonasson’s MEDIA-backed truecrime story Habeas Corpus, about six men wrongly accused of mur-
der; New York-set sci-fi Causality; Olafsson’s 1986-set thriller All Through The Night; Los Angelesset comedy Lost And Found; and Gisli Snaer Erlingsson’s Bali-set comedy Life’s Too Good. Truenorth is Scandinavia’s largest production services company and has worked on films including Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
X Filme rocks global digital release By Martin Blaney
X Filme Creative Pool is to join forces with the Goethe Institute, Alleskino.de and Under The Milky Way to launch its production of Oskar Roehler’s Punk Berlin 1982 next month. It will be the first German feature film to have
a worldwide release on digital platforms. The film will be available with German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese subtitles on the iTunes, Google, Sony, Amazon, Vudu and Microsoft online VoD platforms
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as well as via the Goethe Institute’s website and libraries. X Filme producer Stefan Arndt noted the challenges of digitisation and how it was increasingly difficult to distribute German films internationally. “We are taking the only reasonable path there is.”
Oration moves fast for Inertia By Jeremy Kay
Timothy O’Brien’s Los Angelesbased sales company Oration Films has cut first deals on Sterlin Harjo’s thriller Mekko and is talking up Idan Haguel’s Israeli film Inertia, which screens in Forum. Vendetta Films has licensed all Australasian rights to Mekko. Oration handles worldwide sales on Inertia, in association with Claudia Landsberger of Baseworx For Film.
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Los Angeles-based Archstone Distribution has three By Martin Blaney new titles for international Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, the German buyers in Berlin. A r c h s t o n e h a n d l e s producer of Rafi Pitts’ Berliworldwide sales on the nale Competition title Soy Lindsay Lohan horror Nero, is lining up projects thriller The Shadow Within. from Israel and Cyprus. Twenty Twenty managArchstone’s Brady Bowen brokered the deal with pro- ing director Thanassis Karathanos told Screen that ducer Ross Otterman. The slate includes world- principal photography on wide rights on The Harvest- Israeli film-maker Veronica ing, about a family that Kedar’s Family began at retreats to Amish country, locations in the German city where they encounter a of Halle last week. malevolent presence. Although the film’s story Bastard hails from the is set in Israel, Family will 8 Films To Die For horror be shot in Germany. It label and was released in marks another collaborathe US via AfterDark. Arch- tion for Karathanos with stone holds international Mosh Danon’s Inosan Prorights to the story about a ductions after working on Scandar masked murderer. together12:21 Insert Margutta_Layout 1 11/02/16 PaginaCopti 1
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for the shooting of Georgiou’s first feature since the 2008 comedy Small Crime and is being structured as a co-production between Twenty Twenty and sister company Pallas Film, Georgiou, France’s Manny Films and Cyprus’s Lychnari Productions. Meanwhile, Twenty Twenty has another two co-productions in post: Bruno Dumont’s Ma Loute and Jordanian film-maker Mahmoud al Massad’s Blessed Benefit. Twenty Twenty was also a production partner on Lithuanian film-maker Mantas Kvedaravicius’s Mariupolis, which has its world premiere in Panorama.
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MARGUTTA DIGITAL INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC INVESTMENT FROM GLADIATOR CAPITAL Rome, 8 February, 2016 – Margutta, the company setting new standards for Post Production, today announced that Gladiator Capital based in the UK has made an important investment in the Rome based company. The investment will allow Margutta to build further an already impressive technological platform in line with the continuous expansion of its services that have seen a solid growth since its creation in 2012. Margutta operates out of two locations in central Rome and today represents the benchmark for the Italian post-production industry offering an integrated, end-to-end, solution for picture, sound, distribution and asset management. Maurizia Graziosi, CEO, a veteran of the industry, previously head of Deluxe Italy, said: “We are pleased with the investment from Gladiator Capital as it will allow us to expand further and continue to offer the ultimate service through the best people, state-of-the-art technology and the most charming and inspirational locations".
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Madonna dancer film Strike A Pose, premiering here in Panorama Documents, has been acquired for Benelux distribution by Cinemien. Reijer Zwaan and Ester Gould’s documentary tells the story of seven young male dancers who joined Madonna on tour in 1990, and life after their time in the spotlight. XYZ Films is handling sales in the US. Geoffrey Macnab
EFP’s SHOOTING stars 2016 Martha Canga Antonio Belgium Biggest inspiration? One of the actors that inspires and motivates me is Samuel L Jackson. Big break? The lead role in Black, about a girl who has to choose between her gang or love. Biggest challenge? It isn’t really a challenge but more something I keep in mind: the best way to prove myself in the industry is to stay true to myself, as I’m the best me there will ever be.
Next up? I’m improving my skills with a language-accent coach and looking for challenging projects abroad. Sarah Cooper
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Montreal-based Attraction Distribution has picked up two Generation titles, both world premieres in Berlin. Blue Bicycle is a Turkish feature by debut director Umit Koreken while Fortune
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Arclight’s Best Men sequel hits the town By Jeremy Kay
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Things To Come Reviewed by Wendy Ide Any film that name-drops philosophers and credos with the casual profligacy shown by Mia Hansen-Love’s Things To Come (L’Avenir) walks a precarious line. At best, it could alienate some of its potential audience; at worst it runs the risk of being dismissed as insufferably pretentious. It is to the credit of Isabelle Huppert, who excels in the role of philosophy teacher Nathalie, and to the deft handling by Hansen-Love, that the film wears its wealth of ideas so lightly. Hansen-Love’s films have been compared to those of Eric Rohmer, but with this bracingly intelligent and satisfying collage of moments from a life, she is beginning to look like his creative heir. Things To Come is a genuine rarity: a film that allows a middle-aged female protagonist to find fulfilment within herself rather than in the arms of a man. This, coupled with an engaging, often funny, performance from the peerless Huppert, should help the picture connect with an enthusiastic arthouse audience. There is an easiness to Nathalie’s relationship with her family; her marriage to Heinz (André Marcon) is unshowy and comfortable, like a well-worn cardigan. The marriage is the only thing about Nathalie that is not constantly on the move. Denis Lenoir’s camerawork is as restless and brisk as the film’s vital central character.
Fire At Sea Reviewed by Lee Marshall The European migrant crisis has found its cinematic Pietà in Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare), Italian director Gianfranco Rosi’s powerful, at times shocking but also intensely human documentary about life on Lampedusa. This small, windswept Mediterranean island of around 6,000 people has in the past 20 years, as a succinct introductory title informs us, seen 400,000 seaborne migrants pass through. And 15,000 more have died off the coastline. In films such as Below Sea Level or his Venice Golden Lion winner Sacro Gra, Rosi turns his camera on people living in circumscribed spaces, charting their lives, rituals and ways of making sense of the world, allowing pathos and sometimes humour to emerge in a narrationfree observational style. Here, however, he is more angry and empathetic but not, in the end, more judgmental. Rosi’s decision to channel much of the story through the eyes of a cheeky but still innocent nine-year-old Lampedusan kid, Samuele,
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Competition Fr-Ger. 2016. 100mins Director/screenplay Mia Hansen-Love Production company CG Cinema International sales Les Films Du Losange, b.vincent@ filmsdulosange.fr Producer Charles Gillibert Cinematography Denis Lenoir Editor Marion Monnier Production design Anna Falgueres Main cast Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Sarah Le Picard
Nathalie juggles the demands of her job — she teaches, writes textbooks and mentors her favourite former pupil, Fabien — with those of her highly strung mother Yvette. Edith Scob is a treat in this part, nervy as a greyhound and prone to calling the fire brigade when the Xanax fails to take the edge off her panic attacks. One of the pleasures of Hansen-Love’s screenplay is that it resists obvious scenes. We learn about Heinz’s infidelity not by following him to an assignation, but through a gentle exchange with his daughter. She points out that he needs to make a choice, and soon. He chooses to leave Nathalie. This, coupled with the death of her mother and her children leaving home, means that Nathalie is suddenly confronted by daunting expanses of freedom.
Competition It-Fr. 2016. 108mins Director/ cinematography Gianfranco Rosi Production companies 21 Uno Film, Stemal Entertainment, Rai Cinema, Istituto Luce International sales Doc&Film International, d.elstner@ docandfilm.com Producers Donatella Palermo, Gianfranco Rosi, Serge Lalou, Camille Laemle, Roberto Cicutto, Paolo del Brocco, Martine Saada, Olivier Pere Editor Jacopo Quadri
seems motivated partly by the need to find a sympathetic — often downright hilarious — guide to island life. But it also acts as an emotional bridge that makes the stronger content of the film’s second half — where crowded migrant centres and harrowing rescues at sea come to the fore — all the more affecting. In the first part of the film, we see Samuele hanging out on the island. We meet his grandmother Maria, Pippo — a young islander seated at the console from which he runs the local radio station — and an elderly scuba diver who
Nathalie mourns the books she lost in their literary custody battle and the memories locked away in the holiday home she will never visit again. But of Heinz, she notes wryly, “I’m taking it very well.” Hansen-Love allows the character the mental fortitude to grow into her new freedom; hauling her mother’s obese and rather charmless cat with her, she visits Fabien at the anarchist collective where he lives. She fields off the amorous advances of a stranger in a cinema. She embraces her new role as a grandmother. And it is then, with her baby grandson in her arms while her children eat Christmas dinner, that Nathalie is finally still, for a moment at least.
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we follow underwater in some of the film’s most poetic sequences, as he dives for sea urchins. There is also a kind local doctor who we first see administering an ultrasound scan to an African woman who is pregnant with twins. A radio news report of a migrant boat shipwreck enters the kitchen where grandma is chopping vegetables, and the fishermen seem to have seen more than they will ever say. But Rosi’s portrait of a place on the extreme southern fringe of Europe, though affectionate, is not just about islands; it is about two worlds that barely touch. Flagged by desperate recorded messages picked up by the coastguard in the film’s first half, the world of the migrants — who cross from Libya in unseaworthy boats and fragile dinghies — muscles its way gradually into the film from around the halfway mark. It culminates in some astonishing, heartbreaking sequences of Italian navy rescue operations filmed by Rosi, who lived on Lampedusa for a year and was eventually granted access to patrol boats.
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Shepherds And Butchers Reviewed by Lee Marshall
The Patriarch Reviewed by Wendy Ide Were it not for the spectre of sexual violence and cancer, Lee Tamahori’s overblown Maori potboiler could double as a travel advert for the beauty of rural New Zealand. This 1960s-set soap opera is filtered through sun-dappled nostalgia; there is so much soft focus that you start to wonder if there is something wrong with your eyes. Based on a novel by Witi Ihimaera, The Patriarch (Mahana) shares the same sentimentality as his bestknown book, Whale Rider, which was adapted into a film in 2002. But while the child protagonist and a decorative garnish of magical realism made Whale Rider a viewing option for a family audience, The Patriarch combines a lack of storytelling sophistication, off-putting for adult viewers, with some thematic elements (rape, for example) that make it unsuitable for children. As such, it is hard to work out at whom the picture is targeted. Commercial prospects outside of New Zealand would seem limited. Tamahori’s first film to be set in his native New Zealand since Once Were Warriors in 1994, The Patriarch is the tale of a pair of warring clans set against the backdrop of the 1950s and ’60s. The Mahanas are ruled over by the autocratic patriarch, Grandfather Mahana (Temuera Morrison, who also starred in Once Were Warriors). Grandfather is quick to predict the wrath of God for minor infractions such as tardiness, inept wood-chopping, frivolous fashion sense and long hair on boys. His grandson Simeon (Akuhata Keefe) is guilty of all this and more. And it turns out the wrath of God is nothing compared to the wrath of Grandfather Mahana, who banishes Simeon’s entire branch of the family when a dinner-table argument gets out of hand. When they are not feuding between themselves, the Mahanas have a longstanding grudge against a rival family, the Poatas. Simeon assumes, like the rest of the younger family members, that the bad blood is somehow sheep-related — the Mahanas and the Poatas battle for yearly supremacy at a sheep-shearing competition. Then he finds a photograph of his grandmother as a young woman, arm in arm with the Poata patriarch. The film is wallpapered with overwrought music and at one point a character sings to her (obviously CGI) bees. Plot points are as unsubtle Grandma Mahana’s facial tattoos and the climax — a graveside Haka followed by some lurid revelations — strikes a particularly uneasy note.
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out of competition NZ-Aus. 2016. 103mins Director Lee Tamahori Production company The Patriarch Ltd International sales Wild Bunch, ndevide@ wildbunch.eu Producers Robin Scholes, Janine Dickins Screenplay John Collee, based on a novel by Witi Ihimaera Cinematography Ginny Loane Editors Michael Horton, Jonathan WoodfordRobinson Production design Mark Robins Main cast Temuera Morrison, Akuhata Keefe, Nancy Brunning, Jim Moriarty, Regan Taylor, Maria Walker
A plodding, old-school courtroom battle struggles to encase an impassioned issue film about the brutality of the death penalty in this worthy, dour South African drama, starring Steve Coogan as a lawyer defending what seems like a lost cause — the case of a young white prison guard who shot seven black men in cold blood. Though he gives a decent-enough account of the story’s crumpled yet principled defence lawyer, Coogan seems a little lost in the role. Andrea Riseborough acquits herself well as a determined young prosecution lawyer but her talent is almost wasted in what turns out to be a minor supporting role. What stands out in relief from the film’s flat characters and pedestrian storytelling is its dramatic core: the killing machine that death row had become in South Africa by the end of the 1980s, with 164 executions taking place in Pretoria Central Prison in 1987, the year in which Shepherds And Butchers is set. The murder that sparks the court case is dealt with efficiently in a tense opening night-chase sequence that ends in an abandoned quarry. The shooter is a young white man, Leon Labuschagne (Dowds, in an emotionally committed performance), his black victims the members of a football team who had cut in front of Labuschagne in their minibus. Then things slow down, considerably, as humanrights lawyer John Weber (Coogan) is assigned to this apparently unwinnable case. He is virulently against the death penalty — and therefore ‘political’, which in PW Botha’s South Africa was code for anyone the regime mistrusted. In fact the po-faced Weber, a man apparently tormented by unexplained demons, seems a bit of a mystery even to himself. It is only when Labuschagne gradually opens up under cross-examination, prompting a series of devastating flashbacks to his prison duties, that this toothless courtroom drama begins to bite. The scenes in which we relive with the teenager the disgust and horror of the work he was forced to perform in the killing chambers, where men were sometimes hung six or seven at a time, are visceral and real. It feels, in the end, as if the contrived script was written as a frame for these bloody denunciations of what happens when the state turns murderer.
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The Black Frost Reviewed by David D’Arcy
The Tenth Man Reviewed by Jonathan Romney Argentina’s Jewish community is the background for the story of a belated coming of age in The Tenth Man (El Rey Del Once). Low key in mood, Daniel Burman’s film balances character-driven drama, picaresque street humour and quasi-documentary content, depicting a milieu that will feel intriguingly unfamiliar even to viewers who think that cinema has shown them every angle of Jewish life. An eye for cultural detail that feels authentic without being folkloric should bring plentiful esteem for writerdirector Burman, whose Lost Embrace won a Silver Bear in Berlin in 2004. Sales prospects should be moderate, but the film will score at festivals, especially with Jewish and/or Latin American specialisms. The film follows Ariel (Alan Sabbagh) over the days of a week, announced in chapter headings, leading to the festival of Purim. A middle-aged economist living in New York, Ariel heads back to Buenos Aires to visit his father Usher, but he is nowhere to be seen. Instead, Ariel discovers the benevolent foundation that Usher runs in the Jewish district of El Once. The foundation hands out food, clothing and medicine to needy residents, among whom Usher enjoys an almost God-like status — and like God (or Godot), he is mysteriously invisible, not least to Ariel, who has never forgiven his father for being available to everyone except him. Ariel’s guide to this world is a woman named Eva (Julieta Zylberberg), to whom he takes a shine — the only problem being is that she is Orthodox, so will not address a word to him. Gradually, though, Ariel discovers aspects of Jewish life that are new to him. Taking care of bits of business with which Usher has entrusted him, Ariel starts to become a new, more confident man and even clicks with Eva — although the plausibility of her attraction requires a pinch of screen-romance salt. The film’s implicitly conservative thrust — the idea that, eventually, you have to go home again — is nevertheless conveyed with wit and energy. Daniel Ortega’s photography gives the film a bustling energy, notably in handheld shots of the district’s chaotic streets. The enigmatic quality of the elusive Usher owes a lot to the fact he is a real person, who actually runs the kind of foundation depicted here. He is just part of a populous crowd of locals who bring the kind of energetic realism to The Tenth Man that central casting simply cannot buy.
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Panorama Special Arg. 2015. 80mins Director/screenplay Daniel Burman Production companies BD Cine, Pasto, Telefe, Alegoria International sales Filmsharks, guido_rud@ filmsharks.com Producers Diego Dubcovsky, Daniel Burman, Barbara Francisco Co-producers Alejandro Gorodisch, Alfredo Odorisio, Axel Kuschevatzky Cinematography Daniel Ortega Production designer Margarita Tambornino Editor Andres Tambornino Main cast Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg, Usher Barilka, Elvira Onetto, Adrian Stoppelman
The Black Frost (La Helada Negra) sounds like the title of a horror film. And it is, if your horror is the mystery of sainthood. Maximiliano Schonfeld’s second feature is the portrait of a sacred and seductive character who seems to bring miracles to a remote farm at the brink of crisis. Straddling the borderline of the sacred and the secret, The Black Frost sits deep in its rural atmosphere and its ambiguity. This measured story may not go much past festivals and arthouses in the US and Europe, but the mysterious and deeply watchable Ailin Salas in the lead should attract attention to the film. Schonfeld opens his peculiar parable about belief with a dark purplish blot on the screen, which hardens into something more distinct. In the horror vocabulary, it could be a pernicious virus under a microscope, leading you into a spiral of terrifying symptoms. Here it is a curtain that lifts to reveal an isolated family farm that has fallen victim to a frost that is killing everything. Members of the immigrant family that operates the farm are as blond as Nordics, and barely monosyllabic. Into their midst comes the dark-haired Alejandra (Salas), whom they feed, clothe and treat hospitably. Soon the crops recover. Is the family being rewarded for its decency, or is Alejandra a blessed presence? It is a mystery throughout, with a hint or two that does not take you very far. The family’s paterfamilias, the white-bearded Benigno (Benigno Lell), and the farmboyish Lucas (Lucas Schell), both have eyes for young Alejandra. The tension here, once the black frost ceases to destroy their livelihood, rests on whether the miraculous will ever reveal its own malevolence. Anyone raised in mainstream film culture will wonder whether the farmers are superstitious enough to torch their saviour as a witch. Whether characters are burning frost-ravaged vegetables or pulling a wagon of sleeping dogs by tractor, Schonfeld makes the audience feel the hardscrabble dirt on which they stand. Sometimes The Black Frost seems like a fly-on-the-wall documentary about farm life in a distant place that hasn’t changed for decades, complete with ethnographic flourishes such as dances in costume from the old country. Even with some exhilarating beauty shots of walking in the high reeds and sequences of Alejandra and Lucas among bales of hay, Schonfeld keeps exotic or romantic moments off the screen. Much rumbles beneath the surface, however, leaving the audience guessing.
Panorama Arg. 2016. 82mins Director Maximiliano Schonfeld Production companies Pasto, INCAA, Doha Institute International sales Still Moving, pmenahem@ stillmoving.fr Producer Barbara Francisco Cinematography Soledad Rodriguez Sound Nahuel Palenque Editor Anita Remon Production designer Adrian Suarez Main cast Ailin Salas, Lucas Schell, Benigno Lell, Dario Wendler, Mario Wendler
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The Yard Reviewed by Jonathan Romney
The First, The Last Reviewed by David D’Arcy This homage to the road movie and other things American on the plains of Belgium reaches for gestural absurdity, and captures it. Actor-director Bouli Lanners’ cocktail of cameraderie and satire is structured around the quest for a lost mobile phone, which provides the mock-heroic core for his comedy. With hipster wit, endless film allusions and deadpan Belgian surrealism, The First, The Last should have a solid run in festivals, although its theatrical future beyond French-speaking countries is likely to be in arthouses and midnight movies. The motors get running, literally, when two ageing bounty hunters in need of work, Gilou (Lanners) and Cochise (Albert Dupontel), receive orders to recover the lost phone. Its contents are one of many punchlines. Both men have the grizzled look of retired warriors and Lanners’ script puts them on a collision course with a pair of even more unfortunate souls, the homeless itinerant Willy (David Murgia) and his unhinged girlfriend, Esther (Aurore Broutin). As with any road movie, The First, The Last comprises a string of accidental encounters with collateral fallout that makes the deadpan all the more entertaining. Gilou collapses from a heart attack. Cochise, in a landscape where anyone could wander alone for days, meets the only available woman for miles. Willy is mistaken by locals for an attacker of someone’s wife. A homeless man named Jesus (Philippe Rebbot) has the stigmata of the passion on his hand — a bullet hole you can see through. Shot in a grey Belgian winter, and in an abandoned industrial interior with low light, The First, The Last comes close to the monochrome of black and white, with the odd effect of turning its bearded characters into the faces one might find either in 17th-century prints or in the chiaroscuro of comic-book melodrama. The poker-faced inanity of so much of the film calls to mind The Kidnapping Of Michel Houellebecq (2014), which observed a similar outcast milieu in its salute to the absurd. Yet Lanners seems more in a swoon for American images and genres — everything from blues music to bounty hunting to shotguns to a hopeless quest. The mix of reverie and mockery works until the film’s too-happy conclusion. Lanners and his team take you almost all the way until the black humour runs out.
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Panorama Fr-Bel. 2016. 98mins Director/screenplay Bouli Lanners Production companies Versus Production, ADCB Films International sales Wild Bunch, obarbier@ wildbunch.eu Producers Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Olivier Bronckart, Catherine Bozorgan Cinematography Jean-Paul de Zaeytijd Editor Ewin Ryckaert Music Pascal Humbert Production design Paul Rouschop Main cast Albert Dupontel, Bouli Lanners, Suzanne Clément, Michael Lonsdale, David Murgia, Aurore Broutin, Philippe Rebbot, Serge Riaboukine, Lionel Abelanski, Virgile Bramly, Max von Sydow
The dehumanising woes of industrial life — as experienced by a disillusioned poet — are given a discreetly stylised treatment in The Yard, a concise, involving feature by Mans Mansson, the Swedish director of 2014’s Stranded In Canton. The deadpan execution and laconic narrative style could hardly be more Nordic: Mansson’s approach has affinities with film-makers such as Aki Kaurismaki, Bent Hamer and Dagur Kari, with material that might have been heartwrenching, handled instead with a stoic matter-of-factness that hovers on the verge of glum comedy. With its engagingly minimal lead performance by Anders Mossling, and an evident edge of rage in its treatment of contemporary social issues, the film is ultimately a serious business, and an undemonstratively classy affair. A hard sell, commercially, Mansson’s film — which opened Göteborg before heading to the Berlinale’s Forum — should win ample respect on the festival circuit. Mossling plays a middle-aged man living in Malmo, whose name we never learn, and whose wife is absent (departed? dead?) for unspecified reasons. He is a poet — and, we are given to understand, quite a good one. But par for the course, he will never be rich or famous. Unable to feed himself and his uncommunicative teenage son (Axel Roos), the poet finds himself a job — deliberately avoiding the white-collar work for which he is apparently qualified, and signing up instead as a lowpaid drone at a car import yard. Here, the workers, many of them immigrants, are identified only by numbers — our man becomes ‘11811’ — and spend their time in orange uniforms patrolling a vast yard in which the top halves of their bodies appear in the distance, tiny specks on an ocean of white cars. Rigorously but unobtrusively stylised, The Yard uses a palette high on pale blues and greys, with the yard of cars a polar white: this is about as glacial a film as one can imagine, both visually and in terms of the inhospitable climate it evokes. Mossling is dishevelled, unprepossessing and sallowfaced, yet his character’s hangdog ordinariness and everyday vulnerability make him increasingly sympathetic, even quietly heroic as he rises above the indignities the film presents as endemic to modern working life. A subplot involving his co-worker shows it is invariably immigrants who get the worst of it — a theme that could hardly be timelier in European cinema.
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Drawn to the Baltics Stunning scenic backdrops of dramatic lakes and castles, combined with an attractive 20% tax incentive, are making Lithuania a popular location for European shoots
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tion, stimulate private investment and contribute to the valuable area of audiovisual content.” Almost 75% of Lithuanian productions are co-productions. LFC support has been given to internationally renowned projects including Mariupolis (Lith-Ger-Fr-Ukr) and The Summer Of Sangaile (Lith-Fr-Neth). Further titles include Caritas Et Amor (Lith-Bra), Seneca’s Day (Lith-Lat-Est), Stásis (Lith-Ger-Fr) and Ashes In The Snow (Lith-US-Neth). Since 2015 minority co-productions have also been supported, for example Habit And Armour (Pol-Lith), Pretenders (Est-Lith-Lat), Master Plan (Lat-LithEst) and The Man Who Knew 75 Languages (Nor-Pol-Lith). The country’s crew and facilities can
‘The remarkable results in 2015 demonstrate the potential of the Lithuanian film industry’ Rolandas Kvietkauskas, Lithuanian Film Centre
service up to three international productions, but only one large project at a time. “If a major production comes along, like Defiance or War And Peace, there are only resources left to cater for smaller productions,” says Gary Tuck, the Anglo-American managing director of Baltic Film Services (BFS), which has been providing production and co-production services in the three Baltic states
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Seven internationally commissioned productions were shot in Lithuania in 2015 following the introduction of a tax incentive programme in 2014. LFC issued 22 investment certificates confirming that more than $3m (€2.7m) had been granted by investors aiming to exploit the corporate tax exemption, facilitating 14 productions and co-productions. Almost $13m (€12m) was spent in Lithuania during 2015 by international projects. These included the BBC and The Weinstein Company’s War And Peace; the BBC’s Second World War drama The Eichmann Show by the UK’s Feelgood Fiction and Vistaar Entertainment; Antti Jokinen’s wartime love story The Midwife, from Finland’s Solar Films; the second season of the Swedish broadcaster SVT’s Thicker Than Water, Nice Drama’s family saga set on the Swedish coast; and Tomasol Films, Messidor Films and Television Espanola’s La Espera, about a Spanish couple’s attempts to adopt a child in eastern Europe.
since 2004. BFS hired around 300 local crew members for War And Peace, most of them English speakers. “The crew base here is very good in terms of skills and proficiency in English,” says Tuck. War And Peace director Tom Harper was impressed, telling The Lithuania Tribune: “Lithuania offered us the logistical support to film such large-scale battles. Shooting these war scenes is, essentially, quite dangerous. You’re blowing things up while working very long hours. You need experts who know what they’re doing. That’s why we picked Lithuania. On top of that, it’s such a huge logistical challenge, with so many people involved.” Many Lithuanians speak Russian, which proved an advantage on War And Peace. “It was invaluable when we spent two weeks on location in Saint Petersburg,” adds Lineta Miseikyte, who works as a production manager, line producer or producer on productions handled by BFS. As the Lithuanian Film Studios from the Soviet era are no more, BFS used a former factory in the capital Vilnius to construct some of the sets for War And Peace and ABC’s The Assets. A new film studio was opened in 2011 in Kaunas, just over 100km from Vilnius, while the Vilnius Film Cluster Audiovisual Lab boasts state-of-the-art facilities, including the largest green screen in the Baltic region.
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A STUDIO ULJANA KIM, EXTIMACY FILMS, TWENTY TWENTY VISION, ROUGE INTERNATIONAL, 435 FILMS production, with the support of LITHUANIAN FILM CENTRE, MEDIENBOARD BERLIN BRANDENBURG, LITHUANIAN NATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION. Written and directed by: MANTAS KVEDARAVICIUS. Produced by: ULJANA KIM, MANTAS KVEDARAVICIUS, THANASSIS KARATHANOS, NADIA TURINCEV, JULIE GAYET, ANNA PALENCHUK. Directors of Photography: MANTAS KVEDARAVICIUS, VADYM ILKOV, VIACHESLAV TSVETKOV. Edited by: DOUNIA SICHOV. Sound Design: ARTURAS PUGACIAUSKAS, ANDRIY NIDZELSKIY. Production manager: IRINA PRUDKOVA-GAVRIKOVA. World Sales: ROUGE INTERNATIONAL
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Berlin venues ACUDKINO Veteranenstrasse 21 10119 Berlin AKADEMIE DER KuNSTE (HANSEATENWEG) Hanseatenweg 10 10557 Berlin Arsenal Cinema Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785 Berlin AUDI BERLINALE LOUNGE Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1 10785 Berlin
HAU HEBBEL AM UFER (HAU1, HAU2, HAU3) HAU1: Stresemannstrasse 29 HAU2: Hallesches Ufer 32 HAU3: Tempelhofer Ufer 10 10963 Berlin HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE Schaperstrasse 24 10719 Berlin
BABYLON KREUZBERG Dresdener Strasse 126 10999 Berlin
HAUS DER KULTUR00EN DER WELT John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin
BERLINALE PALAST Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1 10785 Berlin
Il KINO Nansenstrasse 22 12047 Berlin (Neukolln)
BOTSCHAFT VON KANADA Leipziger Platz 17 10117 Berlin
Kino INTERNATIONAL Karl-Marx-Allee 33 10178 Berlin
CinemaxX Potsdamer Platz Potsdamer Strasse 5, Entrance Voxstrasse 10785 Berlin
KINO UNION Bolschestrasse 69 12587 Berlin (Friedrichshagen)
CineStar in the Sony Centre Potsdamer Strasse 4 10785 Berlin CINESTAR imax Potsdamer Strasse 4 10785 Berlin CITY KINO WEDDING (in the Centre Francais de Berlin) Mullerstrasse 74 13349 Berlin
MARRIOTT HOTEL Inge-Beisheim-Platz 1 10785 Berlin MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU (MGB) Niederkirchnerstrasse 7 10963 Berlin NEUE KAMMERSPIELE Karl-Marx-Strasse 18 14532 Kleinmachnow
Colosseum Schonhauser Allee 123 10437 Berlin
PREUSSISCHER LANDTAG (BERLIN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) Niederkirchnerstrasse 5 10111 Berlin
Cubix Alexanderplatz, Rathausstrasse 1, 10178 Berlin
SILENT GREEN KULTURQUARTIER Gerichtstrasse 35 13347 Berlin
Delphi Filmpalast Kantstrasse 12a 10623 Berlin
SPUTNIK KINO Hasenheide 54 10967 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK Filmhaus, Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785 Berlin
TONI & TONINO Antonplatz 1 13086 Berlin
FILMTHEATER AM FRIEDRICHSHAIN Botzowstrasse 1-5 10407 Berlin FRIEDRICHSTADT-PALAST Friedrichstrasse 107 10117 Berlin GROPIUS MIRROR RESTAURANT Niederkirchnerstrasse 10963 Berlin
Zeughauskino Unter den Linden 2 10117 Berlin ZOO PALAST Hardenbergstrasse 29a 10623 Berlin
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09:00 Letters from War
(Portugal) 105mins. Dir: Ivo M Ferreira. Cast: Miguel Nunes, Margarida Vila-Nova, Ricardo Pereira, Joao Pedro Vaz, Joao Pedro Mamede, Simao Cayatte, Francisco Hestness Ferreira, Tiago Aldeia, Orlando Sergio, Isaac Graca. The Portuguese Colonial War in Angola as seen through the eyes of a young military doctor in letters to his wife. Competition press only Berlinale Palast
09:30 Fire at Sea
(Italy, France) 107mins. Dir: Gianfranco Rosi. Lampedusa is an island that has become a symbol of the flight of refugees to Europe and the fate of hundreds of thousands of emigrants. A documentary about a sense of home and security, and the tragic encounter between two worlds. Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast
How Heavy This Hammer
(Canada) 75mins. Dir: Kazik Radwanski. Cast: Erwin Van Cotthem,
Kate Ashley, Seth Kirsh, Andrew Latter. A frustrated father is fighting a losing battle — against his waistline, his random bouts of rage and his video game addiction. The portrait of an aggressively ordinary man. Forum press only CinemaxX 6
09:30 The Patriarch
(New Zealand) 103mins. Dir: Lee Tamahori. Cast: Temuera Morrison, Akuhata Keefe, Nancy Brunning, Jim Moriarty, Regan Taylor, Maria Walker. Two feuding Maori clans are confronted by their
past. Lee Tamahori’s stirring family drama set in the 1960s depicts a clash between the warriors of yesteryear and their grandchildren, who rebel against outdated hierarchies. Competition (Out of Competition) Haus der Berliner Festspiele
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Things to Come
(France, Germany) Presente Lda. 100mins. Dir: Mia Hansen-Love. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Andre Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Sarah Le Picard, Solal Forte, Elise Lhomeau, Lionel Dray, Gregoire MontanaHaroche, Lina Benzerti. Unexpected events force Natalie, an enthusiastic Parisian philosophy teacher, to question her life and reinvent herself. Competition Zoo Palast 1
09:55 Indignation
(US) 109mins. Dir: James Schamus. Cast: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts, Linda Edmond, Danny Burstein. A place at college in Ohio saves Marcus, the son of a kosher butcher, from being drafted into military service in Korea. But his background makes him an outsider. He may be able
to stand up confidently for his ideals but can he also live by them? Panorama Special press only CineStar 3
10:00 Am Koelnberg
(Germany) Deutschfilm. 89mins. Dir: Robin Humboldt, Laurentia Genske. Four residents of Cologne in a prefabricated highrise on the edge of the city. A story of struggles against addiction and poverty, of lives that used to be different. And of friendship and happiness. LOLA at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2
Junction 48
(Israel, Germany, US) 97mins. Dir: Udi Aloni. Cast: Tamer Nafar, Samar Qupty, Salwa Nakkara, Ayed Fadel, Sameh ‘SAZ’ Zakout, Saeed Dassuki. Two young Palestinian musicians fight against the oppression of Israeli society as well as the
violence in their own conservative community. Hip-hop is their voice: it reflects the young Arab generation’s attitude towards life. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
Rauf
(Turkey) 94mins. Dir: Baris Kaya, Soner Caner. Cast: Alen Huseyin Gursoy, Yavuz Gurbuz, Seyda Sozuer, Veli Ubic, Muhammed Ubic. Eleven-year-old Rauf is all alone with his strong feelings for Zana, who is a grown woman and hardly even seems to notice him. In a poor country scarred by war, the boy undertakes a quest to find the colour that symbolises his love. Generation Kplus Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
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(Germany, Poland) Eon Productions. 85mins. Dir: Marta Minorowicz. Eleven-year-old Sukhbat is www.screendaily.com
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a child of the Mongolian steppes. He wants to prevent his father’s slide into imminent debt by winning the purse in a big horse race. Generation Kplus HKW
11:00 Depth Two
(Serbia, France) 80mins. Dir: Ognjen Glavonic. In 1999, the Serbian Army had the bodies of murdered Kosovars transported to Serbia to be buried there in secret. Images of the route today are connected with witness testimonies in voiceover to create a piercing essay on the mechanics of war crimes. Forum CineStar 8
Ta’ang
(Hong Kong, China, France) 148mins. Dir: Wang Bing. Women and children take refuge from the battles between the Ta’ang minority and the Burmese Army in the valleys lining the ChinaMyanmar border. Shot entirely in their provisional camps, this documentary captures the peculiarity of a life on the move. Forum press only CinemaxX 6
12:00 24 Weeks
(Germany) 102mins. Dir: Anne Zohra Berrached. Cast: Julia Jentsch, Bjarne Madel, Johanna Gastdorf, Emilia Pieske, Maria Dragus. Centred on the dilemma faced by a woman who is already six months pregnant when she learns that her unborn child will have Down’s syndrome as well as a serious heart defect. Competition press only Berlinale Palast
Agony
(Germany, Austria) 93mins. Dir: David Clay Diaz. Cast: Samuel Schneider, Alexander Srtschin, Alexandra Schmidt, Simon Hatzl, Laurenz Fleissner, Mercedes Echerer,
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Patrick Matijasevic, Martina Poel. A young man kills his girlfriend and dismembers her body. The head, torso and limbs are found in various rubbish bins scattered across Vienna. The motive remains totally unclear. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1
The Bunker
(Germany) Libra Film Productions. 85mins. Dir: Nikias Chryssos. Cast: Daniel Fripan, Pit Bukowski, David Scheller, Oona von Maydell. A young student is searching for quiet and solitude to focus on an important work but ends up with a strange family who home-school their son Klaus in their underground bunker. LOLA at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2
Different from the Others
(Germany) 50mins. Dir: Richard Oswald. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Fritz Schulz, Reinhold Schunzel, Magnus Hirschfeld, Anita Berber. Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Celebrated violinist Paul Korner accepts as his pupil young virtuoso violinist Kurt Sivers. The two soon discover feelings for each other but a blackmailer appears on the scene and puts pressure on Paul. Teddy 30 Zeughauskino
Fire at Sea
(Italy, France) 107mins. Dir: Gianfranco Rosi. Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele
The Lovers and the Despot
(UK) 95mins. Dir: Rob Cannan, Ross Adam. Cast: Choi Eun-hee, Shin Sang-ok. President Kim Jong-il has the dream couple of South Korean cinema abducted and taken to North Korea to enliven his nation’s dull and sycophantic cinema output. But the pair are
planning their escape — just like in a screenplay. Panorama Documents CineStar 7
Pallasseum — Invisible City
(Germany) 25mins. Dir: Manuel Inacker. An appraisal of a famous building complex in Berlin Schoneberg. Which story-forming forces can be discovered in the architectural design of a place? And how are the biographies in this place interwoven? Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1
Table for Love
(Federal Republic of Germany) 95mins. Dir: Edgar Reitz. Cast: Heidi Stroh, Georg Hauke, Nina Frank, Ruth von Zerboni, Ilona Schutze. The story of a young married couple who are unable to live up to their own idealised expectation, leading to catastrophe. Retrospektive CinemaxX 8
12:15 Things to Come
(France, Germany) Presente Lda. 100mins. Dir: Mia Hansen-Love. Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast
12:30 Dust Cloth
(Turkey, Germany) 99mins. Dir: Ahu Ozturk. Cast: Asiye Dincsoy, Nazan Kesal, Serra Yilmaz, Didem Inselel, Mehmet Ozgur, Asel Yalin, Yusuf Ancu. Nesrin and Hatun are Kurdish cleaning ladies who live in a run-down district on the edge of Istanbul, travelling into the centre to work. When Hatun’s husband disappears, she can no longer pay her bills, setting in motion a wrenching search for a way out. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
The World of Us
(South Korea) 95mins. Dir: Yoon Ga-eun. Cast: Choi Soo-in, Seol Hye-in,
Lee Seo-yeon. An easy-going friendship develops between Sun and Jia, who’s new in town. But when vacation comes to an end, the carefree days of summer give way to the realities of everyday life and their relationship is put to the test. Generation Kplus Zoo Palast 1
12:45 Fukushima, mon Amour
(Germany) 109mins. Dir: Doris Dorrie. Cast: Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Moshe Cohen, Nami Kamata, Aya Irizuki. A young German woman trying to escape her own problems makes friends with an old geisha living in Fukushima’s prohibited area. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
13:00 Mellow Mud
(Latvia) Center Stage Productions. 105mins. Dir: Renars Vimba. To avoid being sent to an orphanage, 17-year-old Raya and her younger brother keep their grandmother’s death a secret and bury her body in the garden. Raya uses all her cunning to maintain the appearance of normality. Generation 14plus HKW
13:10 While the Women Are Sleeping
(Japan) Studio. TV.Film. 103mins. Dir: Wayne Wang. Cast: Beat Takeshi, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Shioli Kutsuna, Sayuri Oyamada, Lily Franky, Hirofumi Arai, Makiko Watanabe. During a carefree summer an older man films a young woman every day with a video camera. This awakens a fatal curiosity in a novelist, evincing in him feelings of seduction, murder, lies and delusion that all hold an irresistible fascination for him. Panorama Special press only Zoo Palast 1
13:30 The Yard
(Sweden, Germany) Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. 80mins. Dir: Mans Mansson. Cast: Anders Mossling, Axel Roos, Hilal Shoman. A poet past his prime catapults himself out of intellectual life and ends up working in a gigantic car loading station. A deliberately pared down elegy, ‘The Yard’ depicts how a man gets sucked into the chilly working environment of unbridled capitalism. Forum CineStar 8
14:00 As Birds Flying
(Egypt) 7mins. Dir: Heba Y Amin. In late 2013, Egyptian authorities detained a migratory stork suspected of espionage due to an electronic device attached to its leg. Kama Tohalleq al Teyour addresses conspiracies embedded in the political landscape that shapes the present. Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste
Barakah Meets Barakah
(Saudi Arabia) 84mins. Dir: Mahmoud Sabbagh. Cast: Hisham Fageeh, Fatima AlBanawi, Sami Hifny, Khairia Nazmi, Abdulmajeed Al-Ruhaidi, Turki Sheikk, Marian Bilal. Bibi, a worldly-wise lifestyle icon, meets Barakah, a civil servant from a humble background. A remarkably candid love story from Saudi Arabia which uses stabs of acerbic humour as a counterweight to the difficulties faced by the couple. Forum press only CinemaxX 6
Elixir
(Russian Federation) 80mins. Dir: Daniil Zinchenko. A swimming pool full of black blood, an overgrown cemetery, an underground laboratory and an
endless forest form the mysterious settings for this contemporary parable, in which partisans, cosmonauts and a scientist are all in search of a mysterious elixir. Forum Delphi Filmpalast
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(Austria, Germany) 39mins. Dir: Clemens von Wedemeyer. Cast: Stephanie Cumming, Sven Dolinski. A dystopian science fiction, projecting the current financial crisis and the virtualization of work, life, and capital into the notall-too-distant future. Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste
Four Corners 0f a Circle
(Germany) 25mins. Dir: Katarina Stankovic. The spirit of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo hovers over the associative storylines of this cinematic essay. A reflection upon loose connections and final absences as well as a eulogy to the love of life. Perspektive Deutsches Kino press only CinemaxX 5
Happiness Avenue
(Japan) 93mins. Dir: Katsuyuki Hirano. Cast: Masahiro Sugiyama, Yoko Harada. Hirano and his troupe screech their way through the streets: a provocative performance that seeks to shatter the moral confines of small town mentalities. Forum Cubix 7
In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain
(Palestinian Territories, Denmark, UK, Qatar) Uzrok. 29mins. Dir: Larissa Sansour, Soren Lind. Cast: Pooneh Hajimohammadi, Anna Aldridge, Leyla Ertosun, Larissa Sansour, Carol Sansour. A self-proclaimed narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain – suggested »
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to belong to an entirely fictional civilisation. Once unearthed, the buried tableware will prove the existence of this counterfeit people. Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste
Little Men
(US) Filmadora Producciones. 85mins. Dir: Ira Sachs. Cast: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina Garcia, Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri. After moving to Brooklyn, 13-year-old Jake is happy to quickly make friends with Tony who is the same age. When an unpleasant rent dispute turns their parents into adversaries, the two boys conspire to stage a headstrong protest. Generation Kplus CinemaxX 3
Genzkow, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Sina Tkotsch, Lynn Femme. Tina is 17 and seems to have everything a teenage girl is desperate to have. But every night she has a visit from an abominable creature. Everybody believes she is insane. LOLA at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2
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(Federal Republic of Germany) 12mins. Dir: Jeanine Meerapfel. Cast: Marion Zemann, Reinhard Kahn, Hartmut Kirste. » Everybody a Berliner Kindl
(Federal Republic of Germany) 5mins. Dir: Harun Farocki.
» Saturday, 5 pm
(Federal Republic of Germany) 16mins. Dir: Ula Stockl. » Subjectitude
(Federal Republic of Germany) 4mins. Dir: Helke Sander. Cast: Barbara Lamers, Hans-Rudiger Minow, Wolfgang Sippel, Holger Meins. » The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreutz
(Federal Republic of Germany) 15mins. Dir: Werner Herzog. Cast: Peter H. Brumm, Georg Eska, Karl-Heinz Steffel, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg. » Vagrant
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(Federal Republic of Germany) 10mins. (Germany) 88mins. Dir: May Spils. Cast: Dir: AKIZ.CDB16_AF01AD Cast: Carolyn EFM SCR14.pdf 1 2/10/16 1:24
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(Federal Republic of Germany) 10mins. Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Christoph Roser, Susanne Schimkus, Michael
Fengler, Thomas Fengler, Irm Hermann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Seven early shorts by ‘Young German Film’ directors. Retrospektive Zeughauskino
by her search for a black lesbian actress from the 1930s known only as the ‘Watermelon Woman’, who had an affair with white Hollywood director Martha Page. Teddy 30 International
Stones Gods People
(Lebanon) 5mins. Dir: Joe Namy. Documentary. Broken inhabitants of the National Museum of Beirut remind us how frail these stones, and our history, can be. Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste
The Watermelon Woman
(US) 84mins. Dir: Cheryl Dunye. Cast: Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson, Camille Paglia, Brian Freeman, Irene Dunye, Sarah Schulman, Cheryl Clarke, Cheryl Dunye. Working on a film project, Cheryl becomes consumed
Who is Oda Jaune?
(Germany) 75mins. Dir: Kamilla Pfeffer. Cast: Oda Jaune. Monstrosity and tenderness lie side by side in Oda Jaune’s paintings. A discreet approach to observing a young artist in the fragile act of painting, without damaging it in the process nor resorting to trite illustration. Perspektive Deutsches Kino press only CinemaxX 5
14:15 The Easy Way Out
(Federal Republic of Germany) 89mins. Dir: Haro Senft. Cast: Bruno
Ganz, Verena Buss, Wolfgang Buttner, Lia Eibenschutz, Hans Putz. A young engineer realises that his career is less due to his own achievements and more to the influence wielded by his future father-in-law. A pensive, critical portrait of a generation. Retrospektive CinemaxX 8
14:30 The GDR Complex
(Germany) MinMamma Produktion. 90mins. Dir: Jochen Hick. Cast: Mario Rollig. In 1987, Mario Rollig was arrested in Hungary for attempting to flee the GDR. Nowadays he gives talks about his experiences. This portrait shows just how subjective and riddled with taboos attempts to interpret GDR history can be. Panorama Documents CineStar 7
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The Tenth Man
Siv Sleeps Astray
(Argentina) 80mins. Dir: Daniel Burman. Cast: Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg, Usher Barilka, Elvira Onetto, Adrian Stoppelman, Daniel Droblas, Elisa Carricajo, Dan Breitman, Uriel Rubin, Dalmiro Burman. Ariel unexpectedly finds himself at the centre of a vibrant altruistic community in the Jewish district of his childhood where he light-heartedly gains new self-confidence from the traditions that once divided him and his father.
(Sweden, Netherlands) 79mins. Dir: Catti Edfeldt, Lena Hanno Clyne. Cast: Astrid Lovgren, Lilly Brown, Henrik Gustafsson, Sofia Ledarp, Barry Atsma, Valter Skarsgard, Annemarie Prins, Bianca Kronlof, Nour El-Refai. Seven-year-old Siv’s first night sleeping over at her new friend Cerisia’s place turns out to be a magical one.
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15:00 A Boy Needs a Friend
(Canada, US) 23mins. Dir: Steve Reinke. Cast: Steve Reinke. In this latest instalment of his ongoing video essay, ‘Final Thoughts’, Steve Reinke ostensibly turns to the subject of friendship. Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 1
National Bird
(US) 99mins. Dir: Sonia Kennebeck. A film about three whistleblowers who break the silence about the deployment of US Air Force battle drones in Afghanistan and other war zones. Berlinale Special Haus der Berliner Festspiele
O PAssaro da Noite
(Portugal, France) 20mins. Dir: Marie Losier.
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15:45 Illegitimate
Festival & Press 15:30 Born to Dance
(New Zealand) Ceska televize. 96mins. Dir: Tammy Davis. Cast: Tia-Taharoa Maipi, Stan Walker, Kherington Payne. Marie Losier takes us into the world of Fernando, aka Deborah Krystal, the glittering and poetic performer of the Lisbon club Finalmente. Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 1
The Patriarch
(New Zealand) 103mins. Dir: Lee Tamahori. Cast: Temuera Morrison, Akuhata Keefe, Nancy Brunning, Jim Moriarty, Regan Taylor, Maria Walker. Competition (Out of Competition) Friedrichstadt-Palast
Tu doesn’t want to join the military — he wants to dance. When the country’s most successful crew offers him a chance, he sets out to prove himself. Generation 14plus Cubix 8
15:15 Zona Norte
(Germany) Felt Films. 89mins. Dir: Monika Treut. Cast: Yvonne Bezerra de Mello. Monika Treut returns to Rio de Janeiro to document the development of this alternative educational project. Panorama Documents CineStar 3
15:30 Being 17
(France) 116mins. Dir: Andre Techine. Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain,
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Miss Impossible
(France) 90mins. Dir: Emilie Deleuze. Cast: Lena Magnien, Patricia Mazuy, Philippe Duquesne, Catherine Hiegel, Alex Lutz. Unhappy, ugly and probably frigid, 13-yearold Aurore is fed up, with herself and especially with everyone else. With her
keen eye, and often sharp tongue to match, she observes and comments on her surroundings. Never satisfied but so very entertaining. Generation Kplus Zoo Palast 1
Rara
(Chile, Argentina) 87mins. Dir: Pepa San Martin. Cast: Julia Lubbert, Emilia Ossandon, Mariana Loyola, Agustina Munoz, Coca Guazzini, Daniel Munoz, Sigrid Alegria. After their parents’ separation, Sara and her sister live with their mother and her new girlfriend. While her father worries about the situation, Sara’s mind is mostly busy thinking about her upcoming birthday party and a boy from her volleyball team. Berlinale Goes Kiez Toni & Tonino
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Tales of Two Who Dreamt
(Canada, Mexico) 87mins. Dir: Andrea Bussmann, Nicolas Pereda. Cast: Sandor Laska, Sandorne Laska, Timea Laska, Alexander Laska, Jozsef Radics, Orsika Radics, Jennyfer Radics, Dani Laska, Norbi Tokes, Viki Laska. In a run-down housing block in Toronto, a Roma family await the results of their asylum hearings. Yet the long wait brings
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Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, Alexis Loret. At school, Damien and Thomas are said to be sworn enemies. Thomas’ mother works a remote farm in the mountains; when she falls pregnant, Damien’s mother takes in Thomas for a while. The young men go through a relationship full of drama.
(Romania, Poland, France) Heavy B Production. 85mins. Dir: Adrian Sitaru. Cast: Alina Grigore, Robi Urs, Bogdan Albulescu, Adrian Titieni, Cristina Olteanu, Miruna Dumitrescu, Liviu Vizitiu. A drama about abortion, free will and the perversions of state intervention.
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HADAS YARON “Fill the void” Coppa Volpi for Best Actress “Felix and Meira”
VALERIO MASTANDREA “The first beautiful thing” “Viva la libertà”
Mattia Oddone mattia.oddone@rai.it Alessandra Sottile alessandra.sottile@rai.it Lucetta Lanfranchi lucetta.lanfranchi@rai.it
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LES SAUTEURS THOSE WHO JUMP
A film by Moritz Siebert and Estephan Wagner Co-directed by Abou Bakar Sidibé
« A masterpiece of empathy and moral imagination » - Joshua Oppenheimer
FORUM
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15.02 9.30AM CinemaxX 6 (Press & Industry) 17.02 9.45PM Delphi (World Premiere) 18.02 12.30PM Arsenal 1 (Official Screening) 19.02 4.45PM Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg (Official Scr.) 21.02 10PM CinemaxX 4 (Official Screening)
DCP/HD • 2016 • DENMARK • 80 MIN • DOCUMENTARY
YOUNG WRESTLERS A film by Mete Gümürhan
Living, learning and suffering for their passion
OFFICIAL SCREENINGS
14.02 2.30PM CinemaxX 10 (Press & Industry) 17.02 9.30AM Zoo Palast (World Premiere) 18.02 10AM Filmtheater im Friedrichshain (FAF) (Official Scr.) 20.02 11.30AM CinemaxX 3 (Official Screening)
DCP/HD • 2016 • THE NETHERLANDS / TURKEY • 90 MIN • DOCUMENTARY
WHO IS ODA JAUNE? A film by Kamilla Pfeffer
Speaking softly, painting loud 14.02 2PM CinemaxX 5 (Press & Industry) 14.02 7.30PM CinemaxX 3 (World Premiere) 15.02 12PM Colosseum (Official Screening) 15.02 8.30PM CinemaxX 1 (Official Screening)
MARKET SCREENINGS
DCP/HD • 2016 • GERMANY • 75 MIN • DOCUMENTARY
13.02 1.50PM CinemaxX 2
13.02 4.30PM Marriott 1
13.02 7.30PM CinemaxX 14
14.02 2.10PM CinemaxX 13
14.02 4.30PM CinemaxX 19
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forth sprawling stories and legends. Forum press only CinemaxX 6
16:00 Europe, She Loves
(Switzerland, Germany) Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion. 100mins. Dir: Jan Gassmann. Four couples on the edges of Europe in Spain, Ireland, Estonia and Greece, whose lives reflect the sensitivities of their generation, allow us to participate in their love, sex and parties. An episodic semi-documentary portrait of their attitudes to life. Panorama Documents Colosseum 1
Letters from War
(Portugal) 105mins. Dir: Ivo M Ferreira. Competition Berlinale Palast
Miss Butterfly
(German Democratic Republic) 118mins. Dir: Kurt Barthel. Cast: Melania Jakubiskova, Christa Heiser, Carola Braunbock, Milan Sladek, Herwart Grosse, Rolf Hoppe. Poetic modern-day fairytale about an 18-yearold girl with a vivid imagination. Retrospektive Zeughauskino
Young Light
(Germany) 122mins. Dir: Adolf Winkelmann. Cast: Charly Hubner, Stephan Kampwirth, Oscar Brose. A childhood in the Ruhr
area, the early 1960s. Confronted with sex and violence, death and guilt, a 12-year-old coalminer’s son experiences a summer full of seduction.
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Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
(German Democratic Republic) 19mins. Dir: Kurt Tetzlaff. Cast: Manfred Krug.
LOLA at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2
» Responsibility
(US, Germany) 108mins. Dir: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato. Cast: Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Mapplethorpe, Fran Lebowitz, Brice Marden, Debbie Harry, Ken Moody, Robert Sherman, Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, Carolina Herrera, Brooke Shields. The film-makers were given unrestricted access to the artist Robert Mapplethorpe’s archives to help them paint a complex portrait of this exceptional photographer.
16:30 And-Ek Ghes...
(Germany) 93mins. Dir: Philip Scheffner, Colorado Velcu. Cast: Colorado Velcu. The German director passes the camera on to Roma Colorado Velcu to document his family’s new life in Berlin. Forum Delphi Filmpalast
Plants
(Chile) 90mins. Dir: Roberto Doveris. Cast: Violeta Castillo, Mauricio Vaca, Juan Cano, Simon Mercado, Ernesto Melendez, Ingrid Isensee. During the time that she has to take on full care of her paralysed brother, Florencia, 17, has her very first sexual experiences. A coming-of-age story that shifts between monotonous daily life and vibrant fantasy. Generation 14plus CinemaxX 3
Programme 3: When We Grow Up... » Being 18 is not Enough
(German Democratic Republic) 22mins. Dir: Kurt Tetzlaff. Cast: Manfred Krug. » Eleven Years Old
(German Democratic Republic) 29mins. Dir: Winfried Junge.
(German Democratic Republic) 27mins. Dir: Kurt Tetzlaff. Four short documentaries about hope, threats and proving oneself as a young person in East Germany. Retrospektive CinemaxX 8
17:00 Between Fences
(Israel, France) 85mins. Dir: Avi Mograbi. Cast: Chen Alon, Avi Mograbi. Mograbi and a theatre director organise a workshop with asylum seekers interned in the Negev Desert. This ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ makes tangible their journeys, the persecution they’ve suffered and the rejection they’ve experienced in Israel. Forum Akademie der Kunste
City of Jade
(Taiwan, Myanmar) 99mins. Dir: Midi Z. Cast: Midi Z. Before the backdrop of ongoing border skirmishes, Midi Z follows his brother into a jade region in the north of Myanmar. With mining companies out of the picture, men seek their fortune with their own hands, while opium helps them endure the harsh work. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
Panorama Documents International
Mariupolis
(Lithuania, Germany, France, Ukraine) 90mins. Dir: Mantas Kvedaravicius. Observations of life in Mariupol in eastern Ukraine come together to create an image of a city that manages to keep going, even though life is no longer the way it was before the attacks by pro-Russian rebels. Panorama Documents CineStar 7
My Revolution
(France) 80mins. Dir: Ramzi Ben Sliman. Cast: Samuel Vincent, Anamaria Vartolomei, Lucien Le Guern, Lubna Azabal, Samir Guesmi, Ahmed Benaissa. The Arab Spring in Paris: head over heels in love, Marwann, aged 14, hopes to win over Sygrid by cleverly re-inventing
himself as a revolutionary. Questions of identity arise in this romantic tale of first love. Generation 14plus HKW
executed for drug dealing. This courageous portrait of his daily routine in prison and of his life form an impressive legacy.
War on Everyone
Panorama Documents Cubix 7
(UK) 98mins. Dir: John Michael McDonagh. Cast: Michael Pena, Alexander Skarsgard, Theo James, Tessa Thompson, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephanie Sigman. A bitter, hyperactive, tragicomic ride with two buddy cops in a crazy setting, who give it their all in the pursuit of real evil. Panorama Special Cubix 9
17:30 Baden Baden
(Belgium, France) 95mins. Dir: Rachel Lang. Cast: Salome Richard, Claude Gensac, Lazare Gousseau, Swann Arlaud, Olivier Chantreau, Jorijn Vriesendorp, Noemie Rosset, Zabou Breitman. After a job goes sour, Ana returns to Strasbourg to be close to her best friend and beloved grandmother. Moving between a hopeless affair, a self-set task and various farewells, she looks for her place in the world. Forum press only CinemaxX 6
Curumim
(Brazil) Beauty Killed The Beast. 106mins. Dir: Marcos Prado. Cast: Marco Archer. In January 2015 Marco ‘Curumim’ Archer was
Tomcat
(Austria) 114mins. Dir: Handl Klaus. Cast: Lukas Turtur, Philipp Hochmair, Toni Thomas Stipsits, Manuel Rubey, Gerald Votava, Gabriela Hegedus. Andreas, Stefan and their tomcat Moses live a blissful existence just outside Vienna. One day an inexplicable outburst of violence shatters the couple’s relationship and casts doubt on everything. Panorama Special CineStar 3
18:00 Fire at Sea
(Italy, France) 107mins. Dir: Gianfranco Rosi. Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
(UK) 89mins. Dir: Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, Tilda Swinton, Bartek Dziadosz. Cast: John Berger, Tilda Swinton. An unconventional portrait of the writer, painter and art critic John Berger. Four like-minded artists pay him a visit in his domicile in the French Alps to share views on the fundamental things in life. Berlinale Special Cubix 8
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18:30 Creepy
(Japan) Johan Hagelback Tecknad Film. 130mins. Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yuko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Haruna Kawaguchi, Masahiro Higashide. Criminal psychologist Takakura is confronted by the case of a missing family. Berlinale Special Gala Haus der Berliner Festspiele
In the Last Days of the City
(Egypt, Germany, UK, UAE) 118mins. Dir: Tamer El Said. Khalid wanders through Cairo in search of ideas for a film, as the city and his private life seem to be falling apart in equal measure. Memories of better times and conversations with friends intertwine in this homage to a metropolis on the brink.
Pico Alexander, Philip Ettinger, Noah Robbins. Panorama Special Zoo Palast 1
19:00 24 Weeks
(Germany) 102mins. Dir: Anne Zohra Berrached. Cast: Julia Jentsch, Bjarne Madel, Johanna Gastdorf, Emilia Pieske, Maria Dragus. Competition Berlinale Palast
(US) 139mins. Dir: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Gough, Richard E Grant, Mary Beth Hurt. New York lawyer Newland Archer is engaged to a respectable young lady. But when he meets her cousin, the unconventional older woman becomes the love of his life. Homage Zeughauskino
Carla
(USA) Rewind My Future Films. 95mins. Dir: Morgan Neville. Cast: Yo-Yo Ma, Wu Man, Kinan Azmeh, Kayhan Kalhor, Cristina Pato. Bringing together almost 60 soloists from 20 nations, the Silk Road project unites music from Asian and western traditions. Berlinale Special Gala press only CinemaxX 9
Retrospektive CinemaxX 8
Deadweight
(New Zealand) 103mins. Dir: Lee Tamahori. Cast: Temuera Morrison, Akuhata Keefe, Nancy Brunning, Jim Moriarty, Regan Taylor, Maria Walker.
(Germany, Finland) 88mins. Dir: Axel Koenzen. Cast: Tommi Korpela, Ema Muntean, Archie Alemania, Manuelito Acido, Frank Lammers, Loes Luca, Teun Kuilboer, Jeanne Balibar. The Finnish captain of a container ship with an entirely Filipino crew must take responsibility when a fatal accident occurs. As he attempts to maintain a steady course, his feelings of guilt become increasingly hard to hold in.
18:45 Indignation
(US) 110mins. Dir: James Schamus. Cast: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts, Linda Edmond, Danny Burstein, Ben Rosenfield, 34 Screen International at Berlin February 14, 2016
(German Democratic Republic) 134mins. Dir: Herrmann Zschoche. Cast: Jutta Hoffmann, Jurgen Hentsch, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Inge Keller, Jorg Knochee. Young teacher Karla approaches her first class of students filled with vigour, idealism and the requisite measure of naivete, aiming to make honest, thoughtful, critical people of her pupils. She quickly realises how opportunistic they are.
The Patriarch
Berlinale Goes Kiez (Out of Competition) Toni & Tonino
An Outpost of Progress
(Portugal) 121mins. Dir: Hugo Vieira da Silva. Two inexperienced colonial officials are transferred to a remote ivory trading post on the Congo River. As they wait for the goods to arrive, the isolation brings with it mistrust and insanity. Forum press only CinemaxX 6
The Age of Innocence
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The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
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Forum Delphi Filmpalast
Four Corners 0f a Circle
(Germany) 25mins. Dir: Katarina Stankovic. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 3
Continuity
(Germany) 85mins. Dir: Omer Fast. ‘Continuity’ begins as a straight-forward story of an emotional homecoming and turns uncanny as the two protagonists — a middle aged couple living in a small town in Germany — repeatedly invite different young men into their home to perform an inscrutable ritual. Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste
Le Fils de Joseph
(France, Belgium) Presente Lda. 115mins. Dir: Eugene Green. Cast: Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Regnier, Fabrizio Rongione. After growing up with just his mother, Vincent wants to find out who his father is. His oft-amusing investigations lead him to the God-like figure of the Paris literary world, a truly Machiavellian scoundrel. Forum CinemaxX 4
Lantouri
(Iran) Wanda Vision. 115mins. Dir: Reza Dormishian. Lantouri is the name of a gang in Tehran. When a female journalist does not reciprocate the feelings of one of the gang members he runs amok. The badly injured woman demands lex talionis — the law, applicable in Iran, of ‘an eye for an eye’. Panorama CinemaxX 7
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MORRIS FROM AMERICA
Off-Road. Mugaritz, Feeling a Way.
(Spain) 65mins. Dir: Pep Gatell. ‘Mugaritz’ stopped being a restaurant a long time ago. It is a live ecosystem, an environment for the development of projects, the establishment of new protocols, where people create from nothing — and they even serve food. Culinary Cinema MGB-Kino
Director: Chad Hartigan (This Is Martin Bonner)
“Irresistibly sweet. ”
– Entertainment Weekly
“Christmas (a terrific discovery) and Robinson strike so many wonderfully varied notes.”– Variety
Cast: Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson (This Is the End) When a black teen moves to Germany with his single father, he must deal with culture shock and his infatuation with a rebellious girl, all while dreaming of becoming a hip hop star.
“[A] big-hearted coming-ofage tale.” – New York Post MARKET SCREENING: TODAY / 11:55 / Kino Arsenal 2
SUNTAN
Panamerican Machinery
(Mexico, Poland) Acrobates Films. 88mins. Dir: Joaquin del Paso. Progress and productivity are foreign concepts at Maquinaria Panamericana, where chatting is prized over working. When the boss of the small company dies and the staff realise he’s been paying their wages from his own pocket, drastic measures are necessary. Forum CineStar IMAX
Shelley
(Denmark, Sweden) Documentary Japan. 92mins. Dir: Ali Abbasi. Louise, a Danish woman, is unable to have children. She makes a pact with her Romanian home help Elena, who agrees to have her child as a surrogate mother. But during the pregnancy things do not develop according to plan. Panorama Zoo Palast 2
Who is Oda Jaune?
(Germany) 75mins. Dir: Kamilla Pfeffer. Cast: Oda Jaune.
Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos (Wasted Youth) Cast: Makis Papadimitriou (Chevalier, L), Elli Tringou
“Tringou’s astonishing sexuality burns up the screen.” – Variety
On a hedonistic Greek island, a doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard-partying friends.
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The First, the Last
(France, Belgium) 98mins. Dir: Bouli Lanners. Esther and Willy are handicapped. And in love. And on the run. Perhaps from the two bearded snoopers in the van? A weirdly beautiful late western set in a sparse European landscape. Panorama International
Jonathan
(Germany) 99mins. Dir: Piotr J Lewandowski. Jonathan, a young farmer, devotes himself to looking after his father, who has cancer. Then his father’s boyhood friend appears and suppressed family secrets are revealed that broaden Jonathan’s view of the world. Panorama Cubix 7 and 8
Lily Lane
(Hungary) 91mins. Dir: Bence Fliegauf. Cast: Angela Stefanovics, Balint Sotonyi, Miklos Szekely B, Maria Gindert, Maja Balogh, Bence Somkuti. The relationship between Rebeka and her young son Danny is inextricably linked to stories and fantasy: the account of a childhood in which time and space flow together and little separates divorce, death and reunion. Forum Cubix 9
99mins. Dir: Wang Yichun. Wherever Qu looks, the world seems full of mysteries and contradictions. Her parents don’t like one another very much. Her best friend disappears from one day to the next, and there’s a serial killer on the loose. Generation 14plus HKW
20:15 The Black Frost
(Argentina) 82mins. Dir: Maximiliano Schonfeld. Cast: Ailin Salas, Lucas Schell, Benigno Lell, Dario Wendler, Mario Wendler. The arrival of a young female stranger in Entre Rios makes the frost, which threatened to destroy a farm’s crops, suddenly disappear. The settlers soon revere Alejandra as a saint. Panorama CineStar 3
20:30 Agony
(Germany, Austria) 93mins. Dir: David Clay Diaz. Cast: Samuel Schneider, Alexander Srtschin, Alexandra Schmidt, Simon Hatzl, Laurenz Fleissner, Mercedes Echerer, Patrick Matijasevic, Martina Poel. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1
Pallasseum — Invisible City
(Germany) 25mins. Dir: Manuel Inacker. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1
21:00 A Quiet Passion
Don’t Blink — Robert Frank
Forum Colosseum 1
(US, France) 82mins. Dir: Laura Israel. Cast: Robert Frank.
What’s in the Darkness
(UK, Belgium) Zampa Audiovisual. 120mins. Dir: Terence Davies. Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Emma Bell, Duncan Duff, Jodhi May, Catherine Bailey, Joanna Bacon, Annette Badland, Eric Loren. When emotional trauma forces talented Emily Dickinson to give up her studies she withdraws to her parents’ mansion and into the world of words. A biopic that delicately explores a life defined by poetry.
(China) Port-Au-Prince Film & Kulturproduktion.
Berlinale Special Gala Friedrichstadt-Palast
Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 3
“Confident, unflinching filmmaking (...) Secures a place for Papadimitropoulos (...) on the list of emerging talent from Greece.” – Screen International
The renowned photographer looks back self-confidently but also self-deprecatingly at his life and work.
20:00 The Dreamed Ones
(Austria) 89mins. Dir: Ruth Beckermann. Cast: Anja Plaschg, Laurence Rupp. Two actors recite the correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, which reveals their tragic love story. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
We Are Never Alone
(Czech Republic, France) Hochschule fur Film und Fernsehen ‘Konrad Wolf ’. 104mins. Dir: Petr Vaclav. A resentful prison guard, an unemployed hypochondriac, his troubled wife and children that yearn for a different life: A black comedy that convey the dark atmosphere of the Czech provinces.
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the belly itches and the first child is screaming. The cat is the only solace.
21:30 A Magical Substance Flows into Me
Teddy CinemaxX 3
(Palestinian Territories, Germany, UK) 70mins. Dir: Jumana Manna. At the start of the 1930s, musicologist Robert Lachmann dedicated a radio show to music from Palestine. Taking his recordings as a starting point, the director journeys through the region in search of the musical diversity of today.
Mother Knows Best
(Sweden) 13mins. Dir: Mikael Bundsen. Cast: Alexander Gustavsson, Hanna Ullerstam, KarlErik Franzen. So, he’s gay. This evening he’s introduced his boyfriend to his mum and later kissed him passionately goodbye in the car. He’s fortunate to have such a liberal mother, but not everyone is as openminded as she is, says his mother.
Forum CineStar 8
The End
(France) Miss Wasabi. 85mins. Dir: Guillaume Nicloux. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Swann Arlaud, Audrey Bonnet, Didier Abot, Xavier Beauvois. A corpulent hunter heads out into the woods one morning, whereupon he loses first his dog and then his way. A summer stroll morphs into a fantastical loop from which there is no escape. Forum Delphi Filmpalast
Hedi
(Tunisia, Belgium, France) Acrobates Films. 88mins. Dir: Mohamed Ben Attia. Tunisian Hedi’s life is dictated by his domineering mother. Just one week before he is due to marry, he meets and falls in love with a young woman. A film about departing from traditions, about the happiness and pain of freedom. Berlinale Goes Kiez Toni & Tonino
Things to Come
Festival & Press 22:00 WEEKENDS
(South Korea) 98mins. Dir: Lee Dong-ha. Gay Korean male voice choir G-Voice are preparing for their 10-year anniversary
21:45 TriviSa
(Hong Kong, China) 97mins. Dir: Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong. Though unknown to one another, the notoriety of three infamous criminals has bred the rumour that they will join forces for a heist on the cusp of Hong Kong’s handover to China in 1997, so much so that they are tempted to do just that. Forum press only CinemaxX 6
22:00 A Boy Needs a Friend
(Canada, US) 23mins. Dir: Steve Reinke. Cast: Steve Reinke.
(France, Germany) Presente Lda. 100mins. Dir: Mia Hansen-Love.
Teddy CinemaxX 3
Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele
A Night in Tokoriki
While the Women Are Sleeping
(Japan) Studio.TV.Film. 103mins. Dir: Wayne Wang. Cast: Beat Takeshi, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Shioli Kutsuna, Sayuri Oyamada, Lily Franky, Hirofumi Arai, Makiko Watanabe. Panorama Special Zoo Palast 1
(Romania) 18mins. Dir: Roxana Stroe. Cast: Cristian Priboi, Cristian Bota. There’s a party in the Tokoriki nightclub. It’s Geanina’s 18th birthday and the whole village is there. But Alin seems to have something on his mind. His eyes sparkle when he sets eyes on Geanina, which doesn’t escape her boyfriend’s
38 Screen International at Berlin February 14, 2016
1980s Taiwan. concert. The film provides insights into Korean society, whose modern outlook on life still barely conceals its homophobia. Panorama Documents CineStar IMAX
attention. Will there be a escalation tonight?
Berlinale Classics CinemaxX 8
Expired
(Egypt) 14mins. Dir: Islam Kamal. A manifesto of sorts from the young, independent film scene in Egypt. Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste
Gendernauts — A Journey Through Shifting Identities
Being 17
(Germany) Felt Films. 86mins. Dir: Monika Treut. Cast: Sandy Stone, Texas Tomboy, Susan Stryker, Max Wolf Valerio, Annie Sprinkle. Explores transgenderism. San Francisco at the beginning of the new millennium: gender-benders and sexual cyborgs make use of new technologies to change their bodies. Identification as male or female is brought into question.
Competition Berlinale Palast
Bring Me The Head Of Tim Horton
(Canada) 31mins. Dir: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson. Cast: Michael Kennedy. Part cine-essay and part behind-the-scenes documentary, ‘Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton’ repurposes footage captured on the set of ‘Hyena Road’ into a psychedelic, darkly comical tale of alpha men, cartoonish violence, and one forlorn artist’s quest for meaning. Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste
Daughter of the Nile
(Taiwan) 93mins. Dir: Hou Hsiao-hsien. Cast: Yang Lin, Jack Kao, Chen Shu-fang, Hsin Shu-fen, Hsueh Chihcheng, Li Tian-lu. The oldest brother of three siblings living without their parents gets involved in criminal activities in
Teddy 30 Zeughauskino
The Lamps
(US) 4mins. Dir: Shelly Silver. A baroness visits the Naples Archeological Museum in the early 1900s, where she breaks into ‘Il Gabinetto Segreto’, a secret room filled with erotic objects from Pompeii. Teddy CinemaxX 3
Moms On Fire
(Sweden) 12mins. Dir: Joanna Rytel. Another four days till the due date. It’s intolerable! Can’t even reach the clitoris,
Culinary Cinema MGB-Kino
Reluctantly Queer
(Ghana, US) Marker 96 Films. 8mins. Dir: Akosua Adoma Owusu. Cast: Kwame Edwin Otu. A young man from Ghana writes a letter to his mother. Teddy CinemaxX 3
WEEKENDS O Passaro da Noite
Teddy CinemaxX 3
(France) 116mins. Dir: Andre Techine.
Teddy CinemaxX 3
der Have and 85-yearold pruning master Jan Freriks work passionately and painstakingly on perfecting the fruit trees and plants: sowing, potting, thinning, pruning, reaping. An ode to gardeners.
(Portugal, France) 20mins. Dir: Marie Losier. Teddy CinemaxX 3
Old Stone
(China, Canada) 80mins. Dir: Johnny Ma. Cast: Chen Gang, Nai An, Wang Hongwei, Zhang Zebin, Luo Xue’er. A motorcyclist falls into a coma following an accident. After ignoring regulations in order to save the man’s life, the taxi driver deemed responsible soon finds himself under unbearable pressure. Forum Zoo Palast 2
On the Roof
(Spain) UFA Fiction. 11mins. Dir: Damia Serra Cauchetiez. Cast: Nil Cardoner, Roger Princep, Biel Estivill, Pol Hinojosa, Arnau Aizpitarte. Every day at the same time, five boys stare enraptured at the rooftop of a house across the way, where a woman’s soaking up the sun unashamedly. One day a naked, well-built man comes into view and from that moment on one of the boys only has eyes for him.
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22:15 Homo sapiens
(Austria) 94mins. Dir: Nikolaus Geyrhalter. Abandoned buildings, places and areas being reclaimed by nature, myriad locations that each carry the traces of erstwhile human existence. In precisely framed wide shots of incredible visual power, the present post-apocalypse comes into focus. Forum Cubix 9
Tempestad
(Mexico) 105mins. Dir: Tatiana Huezo. One woman lands in a prison run by the drug cartels, while another loses her daughter. Forum CinemaxX 4
22:30 The Bacchus Lady
(South Korea) Final Cut for Real ApS. 110mins. Dir: E J-yong. Senior citizen So-young scrapes together just enough money as a ‘Bacchus lady’ to avoid begging. When she takes little Min-ho in, an unusual patchwork family is created for a short while.
Teddy CinemaxX 3
Panorama Cubix 7 and 8
Portrait of a Garden
Dog Days
(Netherlands) 98mins. Dir: Rosie Stapel. Cast: Daan van der Have, Jan Freriks, Kate Shepherd. At a centuries-old Dutch estate, gardener Daan van
(Hong Kong, China) Know Your City. 95mins. Dir: Jordan Schiele. When her boyfriend disappears with their baby son, Lulu and her
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7 TH EDITION IN BRUSSELS, MARCH 30–APRIL 1 8 TH EDITION IN MONTREAL, JULY 21–24 For its 2016 return to the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, 20 projects have been selected to pitch at Frontières from Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. 12
Amsterdam Gothic
(UK) DIRECTOR/WRITER:
(NETHERLANDS) DIRECTOR/WRITER:
The Ballad of Audrey Earnshaw
Bath of Blood (HUNGARY) DIRECTOR: Yvonne
Evrim Ersoy James Pearcey, Russell Would, Katherine O’Shea, Nicole McControversy, Thierry Phlips (Ne’er Do Well Productions Ltd.)
Chris W. Mitchell PRODUCER: Jan Doense, Herman Slagter (House of Netherhorror)
Bloodsuckers
Chained For Life
Crashed
Demonolatry
Drain You
(FINLAND) DIRECTOR/WRITER:
(USA) DIRECTOR/WRITER:
(FRANCE) DIRECTOR:
(CANADA) DIRECTOR/WRITER:
(USA) DIRECTOR:
PRODUCERS:
Elin Grönblom PRODUCER: Leila Lyytikäinen (Fisher King Production Oy)
Aaron Schimberg PRODUCER: Vanessa McDonnell (Grand Motel Films)
(CANADA) DIRECTOR/WRITER:
Thomas
Robert Lee PRODUCERS: Amy Darling, Thomas Robert Lee (Media Darling)
David Morlet WRITERS: Jean-Luc Cano, David Morlet, Samy Baaroun PRODUCERS: Vincent Brançon, François Cognard (To Be Continued)
Errementari (The Blacksmith and the Devil)
Fracture
Ghosts of India
(SPAIN - FRANCE) DIRECTOR: Paul Urkijo
(BELGIUM) DIRECTOR/WRITER:
(GERMANY) DIRECTOR: Thor
Writers: Paul Urkijo, Asier Guericaechebarria PRODUCERS: Luis de Oza, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Ortzi Acosta, Paul Urkijo Gorka Gómez Andreu (Kinoskopik Film Production), Rodolphe Sanzé, Laurent Fumeron (The Project)
In Vitro (CANADA) DIRECTOR:
Pascal Trottier WRITER: Svet Ruskov PRODUCERS: Casey Walker and Jay Deverett (Cave Painting Pictures)
Benjamin Viré PRODUCER: Marie Besson (Eklektik Productions)
La maison sans visage (CANADA) DIRECTOR:
Klein WRITERS: Thor Klein & Lena Vurma PRODUCER: Lena Vurma (dragonflyfilms)
Rémi Fréchette WRITER: Sophie Grech PRODUCER: Caroline Gaudette (Version 10 Productions)
Kerékgyártó Kerékgyártó, Garegin Vanesian PRODUCER: Károly Fehér (Popfilm Kft.)
The Battle of Farador
WRITERS: Yvonne
Daniel Perlmutter PRODUCERS: Laura Perlmutter & Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith (First Love Films Inc.)
Grimes & Blake at Your Service (USA) DIRECTOR/WRITER:
Glenn McQuaid PRODUCERS: Larry Fessenden, Peter Phok (Glass Eye Pix)
(CANADA) DIRECTOR:
Édouard Tremblay Édouard Tremblay, Daniel Boulanger PRODUCERS: Sonia Despars, Marc Biron (PARALLAXES) WRITERS:
Amanda Kramer Amanda Kramer & Benjamin Shearn PRODUCER: Rebecca Rose Perkins (Rosa Lucida) EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Gil Kenan WRITERS:
Housewife (TURKEY) DIRECTOR:
Can Evrenol Can Evrenol, Cem Ozuduru PRODUCER: MO Film WRITERS:
Loyal
Monsters Within
Painkillers
(FRANCE) DIRECTOR:
(USA) DIRECTOR/WRITER:
(BELGIUM) DIRECTOR:
Guillaume Pierret WRITERS: Samy Baaroun & Guillaume Pierret PRODUCERS: Frédéric Fiore et Rémi Leautier (Logical Pictures/Indemne Films)
Philippe
Alexandre O.
Kerry Deignan Roy (Exhibit A Pictures)
PRODUCER:
Vincent Toujas Giles Daoust PRODUCERS: Giles Daoust, Catherine Dumonceaux, Vincent Toujas (Title Media) WRITER:
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gay rival Sunny set off in search of him. Panorama Special Colosseum 1
On the Other Side
(Croatia, Serbia) 85mins. Dir: Zrinko Ogresta. Vesna came to Zagreb 20 years ago in order to put behind her memories of the war in Bosnia in which her husband played an active role. One day the phone rings out of the blue and Vesna hears his voice. Panorama CinemaxX 7
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Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?
(Israel, UK) Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion. 84mins. Dir: Tomer Heymann, Barak Heymann. Singing in the London Gay Men’s Chorus gives Saar the courage for a reunion with his estranged family in Israel. Panorama Documents CineStar 7
22:45 Shepherds and Butchers
(South Africa, US, Germany) Interior XIII. 100mins. Dir: Oliver Schmitz. Cast: Steve Coogan, Andrea Riseborough. Pretoria, 1987. One rainy night a young white police employee shoots dead seven members of a football club. What induced this hitherto blameless 19-year-old to commit such a crime? Panorama CineStar 3
(US) Autlook Filmsales, 74mins. Dir: Deborah Riley Draper. Cast: Amy Tiemann, Michael Draper, Lacy Barnes, Carl Lewis. Eighteen African Americans defy Nazi Germany and American segregation to compete at the 1936 Olympics. One is remembered. This is the story of the other 17.
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09:00 3000 Nights
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Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
(France) Indie Sales, 107mins. Dir: Anthony Roux. In Bonta, Joris leads a happy life. On the day he meets his idol, Kahn Karkass, a strange feeling creeps up on him.
(Lebanon, France) Intramovies, 103mins. Dir: Mai Masri. Cast: Maisa Abd Elhadi, Nadera Omran, Raida Adon, Rakeen Saad. A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison, where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
(Japan) 127mins. Dir: Masashi Yamamoto. Cast: Rubi, Shigenari Sugawara, Mikiko Tsunoda. A girl dressed in a pink outfit shoots innocent people at random through a white handbag. When she meets the burglar Nami, the two swap the revolver for poison.
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Dofus — Book I: Julith
(New Zealand) 103mins. Dir: Lee Tamahori.
Saint Terrorism
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The Patriarch
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was dug out in one of the bank’s offices, but nothing goes as planned.
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(Italy) True Colours, 103mins. Dir: Ivan Cotroneo. Cast: Rimau Grillo Ritzberger, Valentina Romani, Leonardo Pazzagli.
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Lorenzo, Blu and Antonio are all outsiders. They quickly become best friends and find the strength to fend off the bullies. One day everything changes. CineStar 6
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Accabadora
(Italy) Rai Com, 94mins. Dir: Enrico Pau. Cast: Donatella Finocchiaro, Barry Ward, Carolina Crescentini, Sara Serraiocco. Annetta kept the inherited secret of mercy killing passed down through her mother. In her ancestral Sardinian world, she is the Accabadora. MGB-Kino
by the North Wind, and finally reunite the family. CinemaxX 3
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Stranded
(Spain) Filmax International, 92mins. Dir: Juan Cruz, Jose Corbacho. Cast: Ernesto Alterio, Carlos Areces, Lola Duenas, Aida Folch. Join us on this riotous journey, which proves that there really are no limits to human stupidity. CineStar 5
One for All
(Italy) Minerva Pictures Group, 85mins. Dir: Mimmo Calopresti. Cast: Fabrizio Ferracane, Giorgio Panariello, Thomas Trabacchi, Isabella Ferrari. After 30 years, three men are called to settle accounts with an episode of their childhood. Kino Arsenal 1
The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice
(Russia, China) Wizart, 40mins. Dir: Alexey Tsitsilin. After heroically defeating both the Snow Queen and the Snow King, Gerda still cannot find peace. Her dream is to find her parents, who were once taken away from them
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Taylor is on a whirlwind tour promoting his new book.
You’ll Never Be Alone
(Chile) Wide, 81mins. Dir: Alex Anwandter. Cast: Sergio Hernandez, Andrew Bargsted, Jaime Leiva, Benjamin Westfall. After his gay teenage son, Andrew, is badly beaten up, Juan struggles between having to pay his son’s exorbitant medical bills and his last attempt at making partner at his company. CinemaxX 17
09:10 The Bounce Back
(US) Double Dutch International, 104mins. Dir: Youssef Delara. Cast: Shemar Moore, Nadine Velazquez, Kali Hawk. Father, author and allaround good guy Matthew
Food & Shelter
(Spain) Latido Films, 93mins. Dir: Juan Miguel del Castillo. Cast: Natalia De Molina, Jaime Lopez. Rocio is an unemployed single mother. She struggles to lead a normal life in fear of losing custody of Adrian. The situation gets worse when the owner of her flat reports her to the police for non-payment or rent. CinemaxX 2
09:15 The Boss’s Daughter
(France) Wild Bunch, 103mins. Dir: Olivier Loustau. Cast: Olivier Loustau, Christa Theret, Florence Thomassin, Patrick Descamps. Social differences threaten to derail a passionate love story between the boss’s daughter and the foreman at her father’s factory. CinemaxX 1
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
(New Zealand) Protagonist Pictures, 102mins. Dir: Taika Waititi. Cast: Sam Neill,
Julian Dennison. A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. CineStar 7
My Revolution
(France) Visit Films, 81mins. Dir: Ramzi Ben Sliman. Cast: Samuel Vincent, Anamaria Vartolomei, Lubna Azabal, Samir Guesmi. The Arab Spring in Paris: head over heels in love, Marwann, aged 14, hopes to win over Sygrid by cleverly reinventing himself as a revolutionary. CinemaxX 4
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Parisienne
(France) Films Boutique, 119mins. Dir: Danielle Arbid. Lina, 18, arrives in Paris for her studies. She is looking for something she can’t find at her home in the Lebanon: a certain kind of freedom.
09:30 All of a Sudden
(Germany, France, Netherlands) Memento Films International, 112mins. Dir: Asli Ozge. Cast: Sebastian Hulk, Julia Jentsch, Hanns Zischler, Sascha Gersa. Well-established in his provincial town, Karsten sees his life spiral out of control when a woman dies in his home after a party. CinemaxX 8
Bon Bini Holland
(Netherlands) Dutch Features Global Entertainment, 88mins. Dir: Jelle de Jonge. Cast: Jandino Asporaat, Teun Kuilboer, Liliana de Vries, Lone van Roosendaal. Robertico is forced to pay 200.000 gulden in damages due to dodgy dealing. He pretends to be a businessman to obtain an investment from the rich Ken Maduro… until he falls in love with Ken’s daughter. CinemaxX 16
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The Carer To Steal from a Thief
(Spain, Argentina) Film Factory Entertainment, 96mins. Dir: Daniel Calparsoro. Cast: Luis Tosar, Rodrigo de la Serna, Raul Arevalo, Jose Coronado. Six armed men attack a bank. The gang has a seemingly cut and dry mission: to clear out the most safe deposit boxes possible and to escape through a tunnel that
(Hungary, UK) The Yellow Affair, 89mins. Dir: Janos Edelenyi. Cast: Brian Cox, Emilia Fox, Anna Chancellor, Coco Konig. Heartwarming story about a man finding his way back to the stage and final recognition. CinemaxX 14
Combativo (rough cut)
(Pakistan) Shah Productions, 60mins.
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YOU’LL NEVER BE ALONE
LOEV
A film by Alex Anwandter
A film by Sudhanshu Saria
14/02 9AM CinemaxX 17
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KALO POTHI
2 NIGHTS TILL MORNING
AFTER EDEN
A film by Min Bahadur Bham
A film by Mikko Kuparinen
A film by Hans Christian Berger
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OFFICIAL & MARKET SCREENINGS OF FEB. 15TH
A film by Kelly Daniela Norris and TW Pittman
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15/02 8PM CinemaxX 7 (Premiere / Press & Ind.) 16/02 10.45PM Cinestar 3 (Official Screening) 17/02 2PM International (Official Screening) 19/02 5.45PM CineStar 3 (Official Screening) 20/02 8.15PM CineStar 3 (Official Screening)
CLEAN HANDS
THE INTERROGATION
A film by Tjebbo Penning
A film by Erez Pery
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Dir: Shahzel Syed. Cast: Shahzel Syed, Bushra Dost Baloch, Bashir Raja. Ahmad Ali was a highly trained operative of an anti-terrorist force that was disbanded. His personal mission now is to eliminate a powerful and ruthless criminal network that is playing a bloody game of terror in the country. Zoo Palast Club B
Heavenly Nomadic
(Kyrgyzstan) Pluto Film, 81mins. Dir: Mirlan Abdykalykov. Cast: Tabyldy Aktanov, Jibek Baktybekova, Taalaikan Abazova, Anar Nazarkulova. A family of nomads lives in a remote mountain area. One day heavy machinery appears in the meadows where their horses graze. CinemaxX 13
Sand Storm
(Israel) Beta Cinema, 88mins. Dir: Elite Zexer. Cast: Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal-Asfour, Haitham Omari, Khadija Alakel. Living their entire lives in a Bedouin village, Jalilaa and her daughters were taught that loyalty to tradition stands above all. But then Jalilaa’s husband marries a younger woman. CineStar 2
Sniper: Special Ops
(US) Voltage Pictures, 90mins. Dir: Fred Olen Ray. Cast: Steven Seagal, Tim Abell, Dale Dye, Rob Van Dam. A Special Ops military
force is sent to a remote Afghan village to extract an American congressman being held by the Taliban. Zoo Palast 5
The Sun
(Japan) Kadokawa Corporation, 129mins. Dir: Yu Irie. Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mugi Kadowaki, Yuki Furukawa. A deadly virus wipes out most of the world’s population. Survivors consist of two groups: the evolved humans and the old humans living in poverty. CinemaxX Studio 11
Wax: We Are the X
(Italy) Filmexport Group, 97mins. Dir: Lorenzo Corvino. Cast: Jacopo Maria Bicocchi, Gwendolyn Gourvenec, Davide Paganini, Rutger Hauer. A group of reporters are given a video by a mysterious man. Marriott 1
09:45 Blue Bicycle
(Turkey, Germany) Drama Film Production Umit Koreken, 94mins. Dir: Umit Koreken. Cast: Selim Kaya, Eray Kilincarslan, Nursen Cetin Koreken. Ali works at a tyre repair shop when not at school, giving his week’s wage to his mother to cover part of the family’s living expenses.
Filmdistribution, 83mins. Dir: Esa Illi. Cast: Ida Vakkuri, Bahar Tokat, Misa Lommi, Sara Soulie. A survival story about the moments when life kicks you but you decide to kick back, hard. Parliament
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(Germany) Real Fiction Filme, 89mins. Dir: Robin Humboldt. Four residents of Cologne in a prefabricated highrise on the edge of the city. A story of struggles against addiction and poverty, of lives that used to be different. And of friendship and happiness. Zoo Palast 2
10:15 Don’t Call Me Son
(Brazil) Loco Films, 82mins. Dir: Anna Muylaert. Cast: Naomi Nero, Dani Nefussi, Matheus Natchergaele, Daniel Botelho. Pierre is a teenager like others. After a DNA test, he learns the woman he calls Mom is not his real mother. He now has to move in with his biological family.
MArket 10:45 Viva
(Ireland) Mongrel International, 99mins. Dir: Paddy Breathnach. Cast: Hector Medina, Jorge Perugorria, Luis Alberto Garcia.
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Set in contemporary Cuba, Viva is a tender love story of a father and a son struggling to escape from opposing expectations, duty and the burden of past sins. MGB-Kino
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Halal Love (and Sex)
Dad Hold My Hand
(India) Wet Grass Films, 79mins. Dir: Arun Frank. Cast: Denzil Smith, Ratna Pathak Shah, Jayesh Kodwani, Jahannah James.
Other Girls
(France) SND — Groupe M6, 95mins. Dir: Julien Rappeneau. Cast: Noemie Lvovsky, Kyan Khojandi, Alice Isaaz. An unconventional and moving comedy with a touch of romance.
(Germany) Films Distribution, 95mins. Dir: Assad Fouladkar. Cast: Darine Hamze, Rodrigue Sleiman, Zeinab Khadra, Hussein Mokaddem. Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.
(Finland) Eastwest
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the verge of fame sees his future jeopardised by a rival group on a crucial night. CineStar 5
10:45 The Kind Words
(Israel, Canada) Beta Cinema, 118mins. Dir: Shemi Zarhin. Cast: Rotem Zissman-Cohen, Roy Assaf, Assaf BenShimon, Tsahi Halevi. Three siblings joined by the death of their mother and a revelation about the identity of their “real” father set off on a journey into the past from Israel through Paris and Marseille. CinemaxX 18
Scratch
(Canada) Filmoption International, 93mins. Dir: Sebastien Godron. Cast: Narra, Fayolle Jean Jr., Dominique Lague, Wahlee Sparks. A young hip-hop singer on
Very Big Shot
(Lebanon) Be for Films, 107mins. Dir: Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya. Cast: Alain Saadeh, Fouad Yammine, Tarek Yaacoub, Alexandra Kahwaji.
Intending to smuggle the amphetamine Captagon across the borders, a small-time Lebanese drug-dealer makes a brilliant discovery and, with the help of an underrated film-maker, slyly manipulates public opinion. CinemaxX 2
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103mins. Dir: Michal Marczak. Cast: Krzysztof Baginski, Michal Huszcza, Ewa Lebeuf. Warsaw has become a city emergent, teeming with a new generation of twentysomethings trying to discover their place in a city uncomfortably torn between its traumatic past and the bold future that always seems just out of reach. CinemaxX 19
A Conspiracy of Faith
Between Sea and Land
(Denmark, Germany, Norway) TrustNordisk, 110mins. Dir: Hans Petter Moland. Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Sverre Hagen, Jakob Oftebro. The siblings Samue and Magdalena grew up in a religious community. Suddenly one day they disappear. Meanwhile, the police in Copenhagen find an eight-year-old message in a bottle with a cry for help.
(Colombia, US) Global Screen, 98mins. Dir: Manolo Cruz. Cast: Manolo Cruz, Vicky Hernandez, Viviana Serna, Jorge Cao. Alberto lives on a swampy marsh next to the Caribbean sea and is afflicted with a neurological disorder that confines him to his bed. His mother lovingly protects and takes care of him.
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A Mighty Team
Fast Convoy
(France) Other Angle Pictures, 97mins. Dir: Thomas Sorriaux. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Medi Sadoun. A football star is injured and cannot play for a while. His agent sends him back to his home village to stay with his father he has not seen for 15 years and to train the local children’s team.
(France) Indie Sales, 102mins. Dir: Frederic Schoendoerffer. Cast: Benoit Magimel, Reem Kherici. Twelve hours. One woman. Seven men. One tonne of cannabis. 230 km/h.
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All These Sleepless Nights
(Poland) HanWay Films,
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(Germany) Picture Tree International, 93mins. Dir: Florian Gaag. Cast: Emilia Schule, Jannik Schumann, Kyra Sophia Kahre, Sina Tkotsch. Lena dreams her way out
of the suburb and chats with a guy she met online, not knowing that behind the stranger’s profile are her manipulative classmates. The joke among teenagers becomes a threatening, bullying excess. dffb-Kino
Monsieur Chocolat
(France) Gaumont, 119mins. Dir: Roschdy Zem. Cast: Omar Sy, James Thierree. Rafael Padilla, aka Chocolat, was born in Cuba in 1860. He was the first black artist to appear on a French stage and he and the clown Footit were the first to create a duo between a whiteface clown and a black Auguste. CineStar IMAX
La vache
(France) Pathe International, 96mins. Dir: Mohamed Hamidi. Cast: Fatsah Bouyahmed, Lambert Wilson, Jamel Debbouze. Fatah is a humble farmer in Algeria. His pride and joy is his cow, Jacqueline, and he dreams of taking her to the Paris Agricultural Show. CinemaxX 9
11:10 Loev
(India) Wide, 90mins. Dir: Sudhanshu Saria. Cast: Shiv Pandit, Dhruv Ganesh, Siddharth Menon. When hotshot Wall Street dealmaker Jai thinks of putting some pleasure into his 48-hour business
trip to Mumbai, his young musician friend Sahil drops everything, including his boyfriend, to help him execute the perfect getaway. CinemaxX 14
11:15 The Bride
(Spain) Fortissimo Films, 96mins. Dir: Paula Ortiz. Cast: Inma Cuesta, Alex Garcia, Asier Etxeandia. The story of a multifamily, multi-generational blood feud that is about to be settled by a wedding between two of the families. CinemaxX 15
Chronically Metropolitan
(US) 13 Films, 85mins. Dir: Xavier Manrique. Cast: Shiloh Fernandez, Ashley Benson, Mary Louis Parker, Chris Noth. Young novelist Fenton Dillane returns unannounced to New York City to reclaim his lost love who unbeknown to him is engaged to be married. Zoo Palast Club A invitation only
Do You Believe?
(US) Pure Flix/Quality Flix, 120mins. Dir: Jon Gunn. Cast: Sean Astin, Alexa PenaVega, Mira Sorvino, Cybil Sherpherd. Follows the personal journey of a handful of characters in interweaving stories. We are each given only so much time on earth; what you do with it makes the difference. What will you do? Parliament
Endorphine
(Canada) Seville International, 84mins. Dir: Andre Turpin. Cast: Sophie Nelisse, Mylene Mackay, Lise Roy, Guy Thauvette. Weaves together the lives of three seemingly unconnected women all named Simone De Koninck. CinemaxX 1
Gamba
(Japan) SC Films International, 93mins. Dir: Tomohiro Kawamura. Gamba, a town mouse with a brave, adventurous spirit, must go from zero to hero in this all-action 3D family romp. CineStar 6
Highway To Hellas
(Germany) ARRI Media, 89mins. Dir: Aron Lehmann. Cast: Christoph Maria Herbst, Adam Bousdoukos, Akillas Karazisis. As bank employee Joerg Geissner arrives on the Greek island of Paladiki to check some loan securities his bank gave for the project Galapagos in Greece, he is not at all aware of the mindchanging odyssey that awaits him. CineStar 4
11:20 A Good Wife
(Serbia) Films Boutique, 95mins. Dir: Mirjana Karanovic. Cast: Mirjana Karanovic, Boris Isakovic. When Milena (50) is diagnosed with cancer and at the same time finds
out about the horrible past of her seemingly ideal husband, she begins an awakening from the suburban paradise she had thought to live in. CinemaxX Studio 12
11:30 These Daughters of Mine
(Poland) Media Move, 88mins. Dir: Kinga Debska. Cast: Agata Kulesza, Gabriela Muskala, Marian Dziedziel. Two sisters who seem the opposite of each other are forced to cooperate due to the unexpected illness of their mother. Laughter is liberating in this heartwarming and profound story about family relations. CinemaxX 16
Fire at Sea
(Italy, France) Doc & Film International, 107mins. Dir: Gianfranco Rosi. Samuele is 12 years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men who try to cross it to get to his island. CineStar 2
Rara
(Chile, Argentina) Latido Films, 88mins. Dir: Pepa San Martin. Cast: Mariana Loyola, Julia Lubbert, Agustina Munoz, Emilia Ossandon. Sara feels happy with her mother, sister and mother’s wife. Now she has turned 13. Her world is changing, causing a devastating
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impact on other people’s lives. CinemaxX 10
11:40 Shepherds and Butchers
quirky animal friends in paradise. However, Tuesday can’t stop dreaming about discovering the world.
do everything to bring the truth to light.
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(Italy) Rai Com, 84mins. Dir: Carlo Lavagna. Cast: Ondina Quadri, Massimo Popolizio. At the age of 19, Arianna still hasn’t had her first period. In the heat of the silent summer afternoons she spends in the family’s hunting lodge in Tuscany, she starts inquiring about her body and her past.
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(US, South Africa) WestEnd Films, 106mins. Dir: Oliver Schmitz. Cast: Steve Coogan, Andrea Riseborough, Garion Dowds. As Apartheid crumbles in South Africa, a hotshot lawyer faces his biggest test when he agrees to defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men.
(Sweden, Netherlands) Idyll, 79mins. Dir: Axel Petersen. Art gallerist Katarina’s father Sten goes missing. Trying to solve the mystery of her father’s disappearance disturbs the past, revealing the ugly truth behind his fortune.
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London Heist
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(UK) Cinema Management Group (CMG), 96mins. Dir: Mark McQueen. Cast: Craig Fairbrass, James Cosmo, Mem Ferda, Nick Moran. After his father is brutally murdered and his recent loot from a heist is stolen, career criminal Jack Cregan goes on a mission for revenge.
(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 107mins. Dir: Emilio MartinezLazaro. Cast: Dani Rovira, Clara Lago, Karra Elejalde, Carmen Machi. Koldo finds out his daughter Amaia is planning on marrying a foreigner. Even worse, the man is a Catalan. He goes all over Spain to find Rafa to draw a plan to stop the wedding, because the truth is, Rafa still loves her.
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(Germany, US) Visit Films, 91mins. Dir: Chad Hartigan. Cast: Markees Christmas, Lina Keller, Craig Robinson, Carla Juri. The romantic and comingof-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany.
(France) SND — Groupe M6, 81mins. Dir: Julien Leclercq. Cast: Sami Bouajila, Guillaume Gouix.
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12:00 The Bunker
(Germany) Film Republic, 85mins. Dir: Nikias Chryssos. Cast: Daniel Fripan, Pit Bukowski, David Scheller, Oona von Maydell. A young student is searching for quiet and solitude to focus on an important work but ends up with a strange family who home-school their son Klaus in their underground bunker. Zoo Palast 2
Robinson Crusoe
(Belgium) Studiocanal, 91mins. Dir: Ben Stassen. On a tiny exotic island, Tuesday, an outgoing parrot, lives with his
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Arianna
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Par accident
(France) Be for Films, 85mins. Dir: Camille Fontaine. Cast: Hafsia Herzi, Emilie Dequenne, Mounir Margoum. One evening as Amra, a young Algerian woman, searched for her cellphone while driving, she ran over a pedestrian. She didn’t see anything happen. Amra is desperate and doesn’t know what to do. CinemaxX 2
Vicky Banjo
(France) Gaumont, 89mins. Dir: Denis Imbert. Cast: Victoria Bedos, Chantal Lauby, Francois Berleand. Already almost 30, Victoire is the baby of the famous Bonhomme family, the eternal angelic child of the tribe, who finally decides to break free, to discover alcohol, sex and her voice. CinemaxX 1
(Israel) Gilady Nitzan Films, 82mins. Dir: Nitzan Gilady. Cast: Asi Levi, Moran Rosenblatt, Roy Assaf, Arie Tcherner. A kindly and strong-willed young woman with a mild mental disability embarks on a relationship — much to the concern of her protective mother. dffb-Kino
12:45 A Decent Man
(France) Bac Films, 111mins. Dir: Emmanuel Finkiel. Cast: Nicolas Duvauchelle, Melanie Thierry, Driss Ramdi. After getting mugged, Eddie wrongly blames Ahmed, a perfect scapegoat. But upon realising how serious his accusation was, Eddie will
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12:50 Agnes
An author of mysterynovels helps a student to uncover the tragic story of the people who lived in her apartment before, which is filled with anger, hatred, murder and suicide.
Chawla, Lehar Khan. In a rural Indian village, three ordinary women begin to break free from century-old traditions that have kept them locked in servitude.
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Them Who?
The Stare
(Italy) True Colours, 92mins. Dir: Francesco Micciche. Cast: Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo, Catrinel Marlon, Lisa Bor. What would you do if your life got twisted upside down by the best of tricksters? With no more money, job and even girlfriend, David runs after his swindler Marcello, but charmed by his life, he suddenly decides to join him.
(Japan) Kadokawa Corporation, 99mins. Dir: Koichiro Miki. Cast: Tomomi Itano. A man dies after having vomited large amounts of mud. His girlfriend seems to have lost her mind and madly claims “It was the work of The Stare!”
115mins. Dir: Christopher Papakaliatis. Three generations fall in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil. Zoo Palast 4
13:20 Kivalina
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(Germany) Clip Filmund Fernsehproduktion, 95mins. Dir: Reinhard Gunzler. Together with our protagonist we pursue the question: why have we estranged ourselves from our basic commodities over the last decade? CinemaxX 17
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13:05 Sophie’s Misfortunes
(France) Gaumont, 104mins. Dir: Christophe Honore. Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Anais Demoustier, Muriel Robin. Sophie is far from being a model little girl. She always insists on having her own way, often getting into trouble. Poor Sophie will often have to live with the consequences of her bad behaviour and learn her lesson. CineStar IMAX
13:15 A Melody to Remember
Heartless
(Germany, US) Wind Child Entertainment, 90mins. Dir: Armin Schnurle. Cast: Olaf Kratke, Frieden Pfeiffer, Stefan Lorcher, Nadine Speer. Thriller with lots of action, lies and intrigue.
(Germany) Pluto Film, 105mins. Dir: Johannes Schmid. Cast: Odine Johne, Stephan Kampwirth, Sonja Baum, Walter Hess. The non-fiction author Walter falls for the pensive and peculiar Agnes. When she encourages him to write a story about their love, reality and fiction blend to a point that their relationship and even Agnes’ life are threatened.
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(Japan) Shochiku, 107mins. Dir: Yoshihiro Nakamura. Cast: Yuko Takeuchi, Ai Hashimoto, Kuranosuke Sasaki.
(US, India, UK) Seville International, 116mins. Dir: Leena Yadav. Cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Surveen
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(France) Wild Bunch, 99mins. Dir: Julie Delpy. Cast: Dany Boon, Julie Delpy, Vincent Lacoste, Karin Viard. When Parisian sophisticate Violette falls in love with geeky Jean-Rene, her ultrapossessive 19-year-old son determines to sabotage their relationship, by any means necessary.
(South Korea) Contents Panda (Next Entertainment World), 124mins. Dir: Lee Han. Cast: Lim Si-wan, Ko A-sung, Lee Hee-jun. A South Korean platoon leader leads an orphan choir who sing songs to heal soldiers and people who are going through tragedies. CinemaxX 16
Ted Sieger’s Molly Monster
(Germany, Switzerland, Sweden) Global Screen, 72mins. Dir: Ted Sieger, Michael Ekblad, Matthias Bruhn. Molly Monster is the deeply loved only monster of Popo and Etna Monster. She spends her days in familiar surroundings playing with her best friend Edison, a clockwork toy with a life of his own.
(US) Savor Terra Films, 64mins. Dir: Gina Abatemarco. Cast: Enat Sidi, Anne Takahashi. Kivalina is an evocative observational portrait of an Inupiaq Eskimo people trapped on a disappearing island in the Arctic. CinemaxX Studio 12
13:30 A Hundred Streets
(UK) Umedia International, 93mins. Dir: Jim O’Hanlon. Cast: Idris Elba, Gemma Arterton, Samantha Barks, Franz Drameh. Three extraordinary stories all lived out within a hundred London streets. Parliament
Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)
(France) Films Distribution, 98mins. Dir: Eva Husson. Cast: Finnegan Oldfield, Marilyn Lima, Daisy Broom, Lorenzo Lefebvre. When George falls in love with Alex, she starts a game with their friends, testing and pushing the limits of sexuality. Kino Arsenal 2
The Black Hen
(Nepal, Germany) Wide, 90mins. Dir: Min Bahadur Bham. In a remote Nepalese village, during the Maoist Civil war, Prakash and Kiran, two 12-year-old boys, are best friends despite belonging to different castes. CinemaxX Studio 11
Only for the Weekend
Worlds Apart
(Italy) Summerside International, 86mins. Dir: Director Kobayashi. Cast: Alessandro Roja, Francesca Inaudi, Stefano Fresi, Matilde Gioli. A disgraced copywriter addicted to psychiatric drugs goes through a hell of a weekend to save his marriage.
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which evoked Kenji’s curiosity as a novelist.
War on Everyone
(UK) Bankside Films, 98mins. Dir: John Michael McDonagh. Cast: Michael Pena, Alexander Skarsgard, Theo James. A jet-black comedy about two corrupt cops in New Mexico who set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path.
14:45 The Ardennes
(Belgium, Netherlands) Attraction Distribution, 93mins. Dir: Robin Pront. Cast: Jeroen Perceval, Veerle Baetens, Kevin Janssens, Viviane de Muynck. Brotherhood is tested in this intense drama.
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Rupture
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14:00 Der Nachtmahr
(Germany) K5 Mediagroup, 88mins. Dir: AKIZ (aka Achim Bornhak). Cast: Carolyn Genzkow, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Sina Tkotsch, Lynn Femme. Zoo Palast 2
14:05 Katabui — In the Heart of Okinawa
(Japan, Switzerland) Kukuru Vision, 80mins. Dir: Daniel Lopez. Cast: Reiko Shinjo, Morito Itoman, Minoru Kinjo, Yasuhiro Uema. Daniel Lopez didn’t know anything about Okinawa. Seduced by these southern Japanese islands, he left Switzerland to settle there. dffb-Kino
14:10 Koudelka Shooting Holy Land
(Germany, Czech Republic, Israel) Wide House, 72mins. Dir: Gilad Baram. Cast: Esther Niemeier. Forty years after capturing the iconic images of the Soviet invasion in Prague, Czech photographer Josef Koudelka plunges into another hotbed of contention — this time Israel and Palestine. CinemaxX 13
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(US, Luxembourg, Canada) Ambi Distribution, 102mins. Dir: Steven Shainberg. Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Chiklis, Peter Stormare, Kerry Bishe. A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.
go after her.
Market 14:20 The Master
(Hong Kong, China) Golden Network Asia, 109mins. Dir: Haofeng Xu. Cast: Fan Liao, Jia Song, Wenli Jiang.
14:15 2 Nights Till Morning
(Finland, Lithuania) Wide, 84mins. Dir: Mikko Kuparinen. A foreign city. A man and a woman. One hotel room. Two nights. No common language. CinemaxX 14
Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
(France) TF1 International, 100mins. Dir: Marilou Berry. Cast: Marilou Berry, Mehdi Nebbou, Medi Sadoun, Sarah Suco. At last Josephine has found her perfect soulmate. Everything is just peachy, until she realises she is pregnant. A bunch of overwhelming challenges that she will have to face in her own special way. CinemaxX 2
Kidnap Capital
(Canada) The Annex Entertainment, 93mins. Dir: Felipe Rodriguez. Cast: Johnathan Sousa, Paulino Nunes, Michelle Arvizu. Two illegal immigrants crossing the US/Mexico border are kidnapped and held captive in an Arizona
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A Wing Chun master must train, then sacrifice, a disciple to establish his martial-arts school, only to become a pawn in a political conspiracy. CineStar 1
suburb. Forced to live in horrid conditions among kidnapped immigrants, they must rally the other prisoners to escape. MGB-Kino
14:20 Land of the Enlightened
(Belgium, Ireland, Germany) Films Boutique, 88mins. Dir: Pieter-Jan De Pue. A group of Kuchi children dig out mines to sell to children working in a lapis lazuli mine. In the daily madness of Afghanistan life they dream the day away in personal fantasies, while American soldiers plan their retreat.
crimes of child abuse and paedophilia between the 1980s and 2000s. EFM Cinemobile
(Japan) Shochiku, 108mins. Dir: Yoji Yamada. On Tomiko’s birthday her husband Shuzo asks her what she wants as a gift. She asks for a divorce. Their children are thrown into a state of panic. CineStar 5
15:05
Happy Birthday
Summertime
(US) Arclight Films, 90mins. Dir: Casey Tebo. Cast: Matt Bush, Riley Litman. When two friends embark on a journey to Mexicali for a birthday celebration, they soon realise their psychedelic shenanigans have taken a turn for the worse.
(Italy) Rai Com, 105mins. Dir: Gabriele Muccino. Cast: Matilda Lutz, Brando Pacitto, Joey Haro, Taylor Frey. Two teenagers are on a road-trip through America but an encounter with a gay couple changes the way that they will look at their lives forever.
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Young Wrestlers
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(Turkey, Netherlands) Kaliber Film, 90mins. Dir: Mete Gumurhan. Cast: Aslihan Unaldi, Willem Baptist, Muhammed Ceylan, Beytullah Oner. Living, learning, suffering for their passion: the 26 boys living at the sports academy in Turkey will endure a lot to realise their wrestling dream.
Mr Pig
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What a Wonderful Family!
(US) Mundial, 92mins. Dir: Diego Luna. Cast: Danny Glover, Maya Rudolph, Jose Maria Yazpik, Johanna Murillo. Eubanks, an old-school pig farmer from Georgia on the brink of losing his family farm, sets off on a road trip with Howard, his beloved and very large pig. 15:00
15:10 Kids in Love
(UK) Carnaby International Sales & Distribution, 83mins. Dir: Chris Foggins. Cast: Will Poulter, Cara Delevingne, Alma Jodorowsky, Sebastian De Souza. A group of friends live their lives in London, imitating art and enjoying a fast-paced lifestyle. Zoo Palast 3
Agnus Dei
This Summer Feeling
(France) Pyramide International, 106mins. Dir: Mikael Hers. In midsummer, Sasha, 30, suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoe, closer together.
The Master
(Germany) Moonlightmovies, 58mins. Dir: Rasmus Gerlach. We came to know each other by watching experimental films together. Years after her death I got to know her even closer, through this film project. A journey to friends and enemies — and to her house in Harburg on her 75th birthday.
(France, Poland) Films Distribution, 115mins. Dir: Anne Fontaine. Cast: Lou de Laage, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne. Poland 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding
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While the Women Are Sleeping
Nick — Off Duty
(Japan) Toei Company, 103mins. Dir: Wayne Wang. Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Shioli Kutsuna, Sayuri Oyamada, Lily Franky. Kenji encounters a mysterious couple; an elderly man has an extreme obsession with his young and attractive partner,
(Germany) Global Screen, 140mins. Dir: Christian Alvart. Cast: Til Schweiger, Fahri Yardim, Luna Schweiger, Stefanie Stappenbeck. A tough cop lost his wife to the Turkish Mafia. When his teenage daughter runs away to Istanbul to avenge her, Nick and his partner
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14:30 The Church of Karadima
(Chile) Ocio Films, 95mins. Dir: Matias Lira. Cast: Luis Gnecco, Benjamin Vicuna, Ingrid Iseense. Based on true events involving powerful Catholic priest Fernando Karadima, who committed
Timeswings — Hanne Darboven Revisited
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15:15 A Woman, a Part
(US) Infinitum Productions, 99mins. Dir: Elisabeth Subrin. Cast: Maggie Siff, Cara Seymour, John Ortiz, Khandi Alexander. An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself. Zoo Palast 4
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Magnus
(Norway) TrustNordisk, 76mins. Dir: Benjamin Ree. When Magnus Carlsen was 13 he made a decision: he would become the World Chess Champion. We follow Magnus, battling his way through the ranks to become just that. Kino Arsenal 2
15:30 Inside the Chinese Closet
(Netherlands) Films Transit International, 72mins. Dir: Sophia Luvara. Andy and Cherry, both gay, look for love in Shanghai. Their rural families demand marriage, as no grandchild would mean loss of face. CinemaxX 16
Requirements to Be a Normal Person
(Spain) Latido Films, 85mins. Dir: Leticia Dolera. Cast: Leticia Dolera, Manuel Burque. What does it exactly mean to be normal? Parliament
Collector, 86mins. Dir: Yoshifumi Tsubota. A blind scholar’s life collecting shells is disrupted when the outside world descends on his solitary island in search of a miracle cure. Marriott 1
15:50 In Front of Others
(Iceland) Truenorth, 91mins. Dir: Oskar Jonasson. Shy and introverted Hubert resorts to his uncanny ability to mimic others to break the ice with Hanna, a school teacher. As their relationship develops, Hubert’s impersonations get out of hand, with unforeseen consequences. MGB-Kino
The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun
(France) Wild Bunch, 95mins. Dir: Joann Sfar. Our beautiful, perplexing and headstrong heroine struggles with her sanity when an impromptu trip to the seaside turns into a crazy nightmare. CinemaxX 1
16:00
Song of Lahore
Fire Song
(US) Autlook Filmsales, 82mins. Dir: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Andy Schocken. While music is considered sinful in Pakistan, an amazing recording of ‘Take Five’ played by Pakistani musicians goes viral. International acclaim starts as they get invited by legendary Wynton Marsalis to perform in NYC.
(Canada) MCE, 85mins. Dir: Adam Garnet Jones. Cast: Andrew Martin, Jennifer Podemski, Harley LegardeBeacham, Mary Galloway. Shane, a gay Anishinaabe teenager in Northern Ontario, is struggling to support his family in the aftermath of his sister’s suicide. If he fails, he will be forced to choose between his family’s home and his own future.
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The Mine
Young Light
(Finland) The Yellow Affair, 94mins. Dir: Aleksi Salmenpera. An ambitious man in charge of the environmental permit of a huge uranium mine comes up against the charismatic mine-owner and discovers he has been led astray and that new methods they are using are causing environmental hazards.
(Germany, France) Weltkino Filmverleih, 122mins. Dir: Adolf Winkelmann. Cast: Charly Hubner, Stephan Kampwirth, Oscar Brose. Confronted with sex and violence, death and guilt, a 12-year old coalminer’s son experiences a summer full of seduction.
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16:05 Wild
The Shell Collector
(US, Japan) Shell
(Germany) The Match Factory, 97mins.
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Dir: Nicolette Krebitz. Cast: Lilith Stangenberg, Georg Friedrich, Silke Bodenbender, Saskia Sophie Rosendahl. An anarchistic story of a protagonist who breaks the tacit contract with civilisation and fearlessly decides on a life without a safety net or hypocrisy.
making that arose in the 1990s from Austin, Texas. The film blends rare archival footage with journals and exclusive interviews with Linklater on and off set.
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(Italy) Rai Com, 117mins. Dir: Giuseppe Gaudino. Cast: Valeria Golino, Massimiliano Gallo, Adriano Giannini, Salvatore Cantalupo. Anna is an independent photojournalist investigating a human trafficking and child prostitution network in Asia.
16:10 Fade — The Tales About the Last Days
(Italy) New World Cinemas, 81mins. Dir: Alessandro Benedetto Bertoncini. Cast: Bob Messini, Edoardo Bocchi, Massimo Boschi, Giorgia Castrogiovanni. Alessandro is a shy kid and he is about to finish high school. He needs to declare his love to a girl and to deal with his future, without having the slightest idea of what life has in store for him. Zoo Palast Club B
Tickled
(New Zealand) Magnolia Pictures, 92mins. Dir: David Farrier. A journalist stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction. EFM Cinemobile
16:15 The Fits
(US) Mongrel International, 72mins. Dir: Anna Rose Holmer. Cast: Royalty Hightower, Alexis Neblett, Da’Sean Minor, Lauren Gibson. A psychological portrait of 11-year-old Toni — a tomboy assimilating to a tight-knit dance team in Cincinnati’s West End. CineStar 1
16:20 Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
(US) Dogwoof, 92mins. Dir: Louis Black. Cast: Dawn Johnson, Mike Nicholson, Nina Vizcarrando. This is an unconventional look at a fiercely independent style of film-
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16:30 Anna
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Man Falling
(Denmark) Wide House, 107mins. Dir: Anne Wivel. A brain injury after a fall forces Per Kirkeby — one of Denmark’s most famous artists — to stop painting. No longer able to see colours, he loses his life’s foundation. CinemaxX 19
The Linda Vista Project
(US) XVIII Entertainment, 86mins. Dir: John Rogers. Cast: Whitney Andersen, Kara Luis, Paul Dietz, Christopher Allen Nelson. An expert in the paranormal, Emily Strand takes her team on their last ghost hunt to explain the supernatural. She finds her team terrorised in one of America’s most haunted places. CinemaxX 17
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Taylor, Melanie Scrofano, Meghan Heffern. A struggling writer meets death and falls in love. Her name is Emma and she is beautiful. Now he must decide if his true love is in this world or the next, and if his dreams of success are worth dying for.
Protagonist Pictures, 116mins. Dir: Brady Corbet. Cast: Berenice Bejo, Robert Pattinson, Stacy Martin, Liam Cunningham. The chilling story of the birth of a monster.
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Valley of Knights — Mira’s Magical Christmas
16:50 Pursuit
(Ireland) An Pointe Productions, 95mins. Dir: Paul Mercier. Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Liam Cunningham, Barry Ward, Ruth Bradley. A thriller inspired by the Irish legend ‘The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne’. Set in the contemporary Dublin underworld, the film tells a tale of love, betrayal and revenge, and the desire for a life beyond crime. Zoo Palast Club A
17:00 California
(Brazil) Films Boutique, 91mins. Dir: Marina Person. Cast: Clara Gallo, Caio Horowicz, Caio Blat. Brazil in the 1980s. Estela, a teenage girl, dreams of going to the US, where her uncle is working as a music critic. CinemaxX Studio 11
(Austria) Red Bull Media House, 80mins. Dir: Rush Sturges. Rafa Ortiz and a crew of professional kayakers chase a dream — to ride the Niagara Falls. But unforeseen challenges put the set goal in question. CinemaxX 4
(Finland, Canada) Wide House, 86mins. Dir: Christy Garland. Cast: Patricia Fisk, Aino Selin, Miia Norvapalo. For Patricia and Aino, their cheerleading team’s success is the least of their concerns as they struggle to fight painful battles in their teenage lives.
(Greece) Visit Films, 104mins. Dir: Argyris Papadimitropoulos. Cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou, Dimi Hart, Hara Kotsali. On a hedonistic Greek island, a local doctor becomes obsessed with a young female tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hardpartying friends.
Welcome to Norway
(Norway, Sweden) Beta Cinema, 90mins. Dir: Rune Denstad Langlo. Cast: Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Olivier Mukata, Henriette Steenstrup, Nini Bakke Kristiansen. A comedy about a racist and broke hotel owner who starts a refugee reception centre at the family’s mountain resort in order to save their business. 17:20 Let’s Talk
(Italy) Filmexport Group, 101mins. Dir: Sergio Rubini. Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Isabella Ragonese, Sergio Rubini. Marriott 1
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(Sweden) Autlook Filmsales, 105mins. Dir: Fredrik Gertten. Cast: Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The decisive years of Swedish soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimovic, told through rare archive footage in which a young Zlatan speaks openly about his life and challenges. CinemaxX 14
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The Childhood of a Leader
(Germany) Picture Tree International, 115mins. Dir: Bora Dagtekin. Cast: Elyas M’Barek,
A Sunday Kind of Love
(Canada) Princ Films, 95mins. Dir: Geordie Sabbagh. Cast: Dylan
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Becoming Zlatan Suntan
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(Norway) Sola Media, 94mins. Dir: Thale Persen. Cast: Nils Jorgen Kaalstad, Kyrre Hellum, Tone Mostraum, Bjarte Tjostheim. An evil lord, eager to rule the Valley of Knights, steals a magic suit of armour and chases the young queen for the missing part, the snowmaking glove.
CineStar 5
Chasing Niagara
Cheer Up
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Jella Haase, Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann. Reunites ex-con teacher Zeki Muller with his chaotic students on a school trip to Thailand. Parliament
The Girl in the Book
(US) Myriad Pictures, 89mins. Dir: Marya Cohn. Cast: Emily VanCamp, Micheal Nyqvist, Ana MulvoyTen. Alice Harvey must face her past to rewrite her future. CineStar IMAX
House for Mermaids
(Estonia, Russia) Korela Film, 78mins. Dir: Yalkin Tuychiev. Cast: Seydulla Moldakhanov, Shakhzoda Matchanova, Yulia Usadova. Her name is Samal. In Central Asia samal means wind. Who knows what she is looking for? Just love or... ‘Home for Mermaids’ is a story about a young woman with a very special character and about her loneliness. MGB-Kino
If Cats Disappeared from the World
(Japan) Toho, 101mins. Dir: Akira Nagai. Cast: Takeru Sato, Aoi Miyazaki, Gaku Hamada. CineStar 1
On My Mother’s Side
(Canada) Seville International, 91mins. Dir: Dominic Goyer. Cast: Marc Paquet, Sylvie de Morais, Elise Guilbault, Marc Beland. A thriller about the origin of a species — ours. CinemaxX 2
Things to Come
(France, Germany) Les Films du Losange, 100mins. Dir: Mia Hansen-Love. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Andre Marcon. Nathalie, a philosophy teacher, is passionate about her job. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family and her students. One day, her husband leaves her for another woman. CinemaxX 1
he experiences strange encounters.
17:45 Hedi
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(Tunisia, Belgium, France) Luxbox, 88mins. Dir: Mohamed Ben Attia. Cast: Majd Mastoura, Rym Ben Messaoud, Sabah Bouzouita, Omnia Ben Ghali.
19:20 The Greasy Strangler
(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 93mins. Dir: Jim Hosking. Cast: Michael St Michaels, Elizabeth De Razzo, Jesse Keen, Sky Elobar. Ronnie runs a disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily strangler who stalks the streets.
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17:50 Mother
(Slovenia) Slovenian Film Centre, 90mins. Dir: Vlado Skafar. Cast: Natasa Tic Ralijan, Vida Rucli. Mother takes her selfdestructive daughter to a deserted village in a foreign country and locks her in a house in the middle of nowhere. She takes her away from everything in order to bring her back to life. EFM Cinemobile
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Cast: Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Silvia D’Amico, Roberta Mattei. Vittorio and Cesare are brothers for life. A life of excess involving alcohol and drugs. But they have different spirits, both seeking their affirmation. CinemaxX 18
19:20 We Are the Flesh
(Mexico) Reel Suspects, 79mins. Dir: Emiliano Rocha Minter. Cast: Noe Hernandez, Maria Evoli, Diego Gamaliel. In a culture where cruelty and lust are
linked in a shocking way, this debut provides an intense, allegorical vision of an apocalyptic Mexico. In a derelict building, a brother and sister become fascinated by an older man. CinemaxX 14
Jonathan
(Germany) m-appeal — Raspberry & Cream, 99mins. Dir: Piotr J Lewandowski. Cast: Jannis Niewohner, Andre Hennicke, Julia Koschitz, Thomas Sarbacher. Can a young man on the brink of adulthood accept his family’s troubled past? CinemaxX 17
18:10 Rosehill
(US, Germany) ManifestoFilm, 78mins. Dir: Brigitta Wagner. Cast: Josephine Decker, Kate Chamuris. Two women — an actress and a sex researcher — reconnect over a long weekend in the American Midwest. At impasses in their lives, they take to the local roads of a place that has seen better days. CinemaxX 15
18:15 From a House on Willow Street
(South Africa) The Exchange, 87mins. Dir: Alastair Orr. Cast: Sharni Vinson, Carlyn Burchell, Steven Ward, Zino Ventura. CinemaxX 12
18:30 Don’t Be Bad
(Italy) Rai Com, 102mins. Dir: Claudio Caligari.
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Humidity
(Serbia, Netherlands, Greece) Soul Food Films, 113mins. Dir: Nikola Ljuca. Cast: Milos Timotijevic, Tamara Krcunovic, Maria Kraakman, Katarina Markovic. The wife of a successful construction manager has disappeared after an ordinary morning in Belgrade. He is assured she will come back and continues with life as usual. But maybe she is just the first of the collapsed dominoes. CinemaxX 19
18:40 After Eden
(Canada) Wide, 80mins. Dir: Hans Christian Berger. Cast: Alyssa Reece, Cameron Crosby. Eve is a successful adult film performer. Adam is a reclusive university student obssessed by Eve. When she agrees to star in his very own private sex tape, Adam’s dream is about to become reality. CinemaxX Studio 11
Last of the Elephant Men
(Canada, France) Filmoption International, 86mins. Dir: Arnaud Bouquet. For centuries, the Bunong
indigenous people of Eastern Cambodia lived with elephants. The film follows three men of the Bunong tribe as they attempt to prevent the disappearance of the elephant at the heart of their culture. CineStar 5
Team Spirit
(France) Le Pacte, 112mins. Dir: Christophe Barratier. Cast: Arthur Dupont, Francois-Xavier Demaison, Sabrina Ouazani. In 2008, the biggest banking loss of its kind in history is discovered at the French Societe Generale and soon attributed to a quiet, low-profile, 31-yearold-employee: Jerome Kerviel. CinemaxX 13
19:00 Farewell My Teacher
(France) Studiocanal, 83mins. Dir: Emilie Therond. Cast: JeanMichel Burel. Director Emilie Therond pays an emotive tribute to his dedicated teacher by following the end of a long and devoted career. CineStar 4
The Rift
(South Korea, Serbia,
Slovenia) More In Group, 90mins. Dir: Dejan Zecevic. Cast: Ken Foree, Katarina Cas, Monte Markham, Dragan Micanovic. NASA receives a signal that one of their lost space shuttles has crashed in Serbia. Agents are dispatched to retrieve the shuttle’s flight data, but the team is stuck in a place where death is dead. CineStar 6
19:05 Scream Week
(Netherlands, Belgium) Incredible Film, 113mins. Dir: Martijn Heijne. Cast: Carolien Spoor, Jelle de Jong, Jord Knotter. A tongue-in-cheek thriller/ horror about six friends who have been planning a wild week away. But it is not long before a secret from their past comes bubbling up to the surface. CinemaxX 2
19:15 The End (The Wandering)
(France) Gaumont, 85mins. Dir: Guillaume Nicloux. Cast: Gerard Depardieu. A hunter goes for a walk in the woods with his dog and his rifle. A few hours later, lost in the forest,
CineStar 1
Sophie and the Rising Sun
(US) Seville International, 115mins. Dir: Maggie Greenwald. Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Margo Martindale, Lorraine Toussaint, Takashi Yamaguchi. CinemaxX 10
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19:30 Dragon
(Russia) Mirsand, 108mins. Dir: Indar Dgendunbaev. Cast: Matvey Lykhov, Maria Poezzhaeva. In the midst of a wedding a princess is kidnapped by a dragon. All that is left is a stony imprisonment shared with a mysterious young man. Who is he? EFM Cinemobile
Kiki
(Sweden, USA) Films Boutique. 95mins. Dir: Sara Jordeno. Presents the world of the young black LGBT community in New York. CinemaxX 15
Satanic
(US) Magnolia Pictures, 85mins. Dir: Jeffrey Hunt. Cast: Sarah Hyland, Marc Barnes, Justin Chon, Clara Mamet. Four friends on their way to Coachella stop off in Los Angeles to tour truecrime occult sites, only to encounter a mysterious young runaway. Parliament
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Letters from War (Por) Ivo M Ferreira
Set in the final years of the Angolan war of independence against Portugal (1961-74), Ferreira’s third feature is inspired ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ by a collection of letters sent by novelist Antonio Lobo Antunes to his pregnant young wife back in Lisbon.
24 Weeks (Ger) Anne Zohra Berrached
Julia Jentsch plays cabaret artist Astrid, who is six-months pregnant when she learns her child is likely to have Down’s ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ syndrome and a serious heart complaint. Together with her husband, she is faced with a life-or-death decision.
Being 17 (Fr) André Téchiné
Kacey Mottet Klein and Corentin Fila co-star as adolescent boys who are forced to live under the same roof due to ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ family circumstances. An autobiographical tale about growing up gay in a working-class neighbourhood.
Death in Sarajevo (Fr-Bos Herz) Danis Tanovic
Silver Bear winner Tanovic adapts Bernard-Henri Lévy’s play Hotel Europe. On the eve of the 2014 commemoration of ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ the start of the First World War, a Frenchman sits in his Sarajevo hotel room recalling the Bosnian War.
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Alone in Berlin (Ger-Fr-UK) Vincent Pérez
Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson star in this English-language adaptation of Hans Fallada’s 1947 novel, based ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ on the true story of a working-class couple who conduct a series of anonymous protests against the Nazi regime.
Crosscurrent (Chi) Yang Chao
This long-gestating project by China’s Yang is about the young captain of a cargo ship sailing up the Yangtze River who ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ witnesses the life of a woman backwards over a period of 20 years. Blind Massage’s Qin Hao stars.
Soy Nero (Ger-Fr-Mex) Rafi Pitts
A 19-year-old Mexican boy dreams of emigrating north of the border. However, the only way for him to achieve this ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ may be to enlist in the US Army and fight in the Middle East as a so-called ‘green-card soldier’.
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Zero Days (US) Alex Gibney
Oscar-winning documentary film-maker Gibney turns his critical eye to hacking and cyber security in this film about ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ the battles between online criminals and the white-hat hackers who try to stop them.
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Diaz’s 482-minute period epic marries history, literature and mythology with interconnected narrative threads on the ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Philippine revolution against the Spanish colonising force. John Lloyd Cruz and Piolo Pascual lead the ensemble cast.
United States of Love (Pol-Swe) Tomasz Wasilewski
Set in Poland in 1990 immediately after the fall of communism, Wasilewski’s third feature focuses on four seemingly ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ happy women of different ages who share an irresistible urge to change their lives and fulfil their desires.
A Dragon Arrives! (Iran) Mani Haghighi
Iranian director Haghighi returns with an intriguing story following a detective’s unauthorised investigation into ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ mysterious earthquakes on the remote island of Qeshm. Amir Jadidi and Homayoun Ghanizadeh star.
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World Premiere: Friday, 19th Feb, 16.00 BUYERS! Visit New Europe Film Sales’ EFM stand located at Martin Gropius Bau, Booth 141 (1st floor) for market screenings schedule. MAÑANA presents in co-production with TVP S.A., COMMONGROUND PICTURES & FILM VÄST a TOMASZ WASILEWSKI film UNITED STATES OF LOVE starring JULIA KIJOWSKA, MAGDALENA CIELECKA, DOROTA KOLAK, MARTA NIERADKIEWICZ, TOMEK TYNDYK, ANDRZEJ CHYRA & ŁUKASZ SIMLAT production manager ROBERT FELUCH costume designer MONIKA KALETA make up EWA KOWALEWSKA production designers KATARZYNA SOBAŃSKA & MARCEL SŁAWIŃSKI sound designer CHRISTIAN HOLM editor BEATA WALENTOWSKA director of photography OLEG MUTU RSC co-financed by THE POLISH FILM INSTITUTE co-producers ZBIGNIEW ADAMKIEWICZ, ARTUR MAJER, JONAS KELLAGHER, SIMON PERRY, KATARINA KRAVE produced by PIOTR KOBUS & AGNIESZKA DREWNO written and directed by TOMASZ WASILEWSKI
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