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FilmNation sci-fi Redivider lands at EFM

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FilmNation is screening a promo of futuristic sci-fi Redivider at EFM. The under-the-radar sci-fi stars Dan Stevens (The Guest) and Bérénice Marlohe (Skyfall).

In post-production after a 2014 shoot, first-time feature writerdirector Tim Smit’s VFX-heavy film follows a pilot battling to save his family and the planet.

FilmNation’s Aaron Ryder is among the producers on the project, based on Smit’s eye-catching short What’s In The Box?. Smit was a VFX supervisor on 2015 crime drama Tiger House and worked on 2013 thriller Last Passenger. Stevens will next be seen in Disney’s Beauty And The Beast and in Joseph Cedar’s drama Oppenheimer Strategies.

FilmNation is also at EFM with one of the market’s marquee titles in the shape of Steven Soderbergh’s script Lucky Logan, which is generating heat from buyers.

The company continues to see strong demand for Michael Keaton drama The Founder.

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Asghar Farhadi’s upcoming Farsilanguage project, which is in postproduction, having shot over the winter in Iran, has been attracting buyers here in Berlin.

Paris-based Memento Films International (MFI) has sealed deals for Benelux (Cinéart), Switzerland (Frenetic), Italy (Lucky Red), Japan (Doma Inc), South Korea (Challan), Poland (Gutek Films), Portugal (Alambique), ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom), Israel (Lev Cinema), Greece (Seven) and the Middle East (Falcon).

The Midwife — starring Catherine Deneuve — to Benelux (Lumiere), Spain (A Contracorriente), Australia (Palace), Sweden (Folkets Bio) and airlines (Skeye Inflight).

Dominik Moll’s News From Planet Mars, which world premieres out of competition and stars Francois Damiens, has sold to Italy (Good Films), Austria (Thim Films), Switzerland (Praesens), Israel (Lev Cinema), Greece (Seven), Turkey (Mor Films), Russia and CIS (Provzglyad), Hungary (Cirko), Brasil (Imovision), Hong Kong (Edko) and Taiwan (AV-Jet).

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Paramount eyes Clooney’s Suburbicon

BY JEREMY KAY

Paramount is close to securing a $10m US deal for Suburbicon, one of EFM’s most sought-after titles.

Black Bear Pictures fully finances the feature, a dark comedy to be directed by George Clooney and written by the Coen brothers.

It will star Matt Damon and Julianne Moore.

Joel Silver will produce via his Silver Pictures alongside Clooney and his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov, and Teddy Schwarzman of Black Bear.

CAA represents US rights, while Bloom handles international sales.

Bulk of public funding ‘goes to men’ Kirsten Dunst here in Berlin for Jeff Nichols’ Competition title Midnight Special. See review, page 14

RPC reunites with Miike Jeremy Thomas’s Recorded Picture Company (RPC) is reteaming with director Takashi Miike on action drama Blade Of The Immortal.

Miike, who is in post on sci-fi horror film Terraformars, is now shooting Blade Of The Immortal, which will follow a ronin cursed with immortality. The cast includes Takuya Kimura (2046).

Japanese outfit Oriental Light and Magic produces the feature,

Although the fine details of the project are largely under wraps, the Iranian director has revealed that the as-yet-untitled film is a contemporary tale revolving around a couple whose relationship turns violent due to societal pressures.

Long-time Farhadi collaborators Taraneh Alidoosti, who played the titular role in About Elly, and Shahab Hosseini, who appeared in Farhadi’s Golden Bear and Oscarwinning A Separation, co-star as the central couple.

MFI also reported pre-sales on writer-director Martin Provost’s

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The live-action film is adapted from the hit manga series of the same name by Hiroaki Samura and marks the fourth collaboration between UK production outfit RPC and Miike.

HanWay Films will handle international sales.

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Bac sees appeal of tender Hedi

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

New Paris-based sales company Luxbox Films has sold French rights to Mohamed Ben Attia’s Hedi to Bac Films Distribution.

The first Arabic-language film in Competition at the Berlinale since Hany Abu-Assad’s Paradise Now in 2005, the film revolves around a young man, under the thumb of an authoritarian mother, who falls for a free-spirited girl on the eve of his arranged marriage.

“We are delighted to be working

with Luxbox on this tender and powerful film. It is an arthouse movie with mainstream appeal, thanks to its modernism and subtle way of describing Tunisian society through the journey of one sweet and moving character,” said Bac general manager Mathieu Robinet.

Dora Bouchoucha of Tunisbased Nomadis Images produced the film with the Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Les Films du Fleuve on board as a co-producer. » See review, page 18

BY MARTIN BLANEY

The European Women’s Audiovisual Network is to unveil the findings of its report on gender equality in the film industry in Berlin today.

The seven-country study, supported by the UK’s Creative Skillset and BFI, the Swedish Film Institute and the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, found “significant under-representation” of women directors in all stages of production and distribution.

Only one in five films (21%) are directed by a woman and the bulk of public funding resources (84%) go into films directed by men.

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Last King has French crown By wendy Mitchell

TrustNordisk has sold The Last King (Birkebeinerne) to French distributor Metropolitan Filmexport.

The deal was negotiated between Nicolai Korsgaard from TrustNordisk and Cyril Burkel from Metropolitan.

The film has previously sold to North America (Magnolia), Germany, Aus-

tria and Switzerland (Koch), Italy (Minerva), Czech Republic (Film Europe Media Company), Middle East (Gulf Film), India (Pictureworks) and Estonia (Estinfilm). Nils Gaup directs the historical drama about two Norwegian warriors who venture across the mountains in 1204 with a royal baby.

SquareOne hops to it LevelK has sold Australian psychological thriller Rabbit to SquareOne Entertainment for Germany, Austria and Germanspeaking Switzerland.

Natja Noviani Rosner from LevelK negotiated the deal with Ingrid Pittana, head of acquisitions at SquareOne.

Luke Shanahan, making his feature directorial debut, will start shooting in May with a cast including Mad Max: Fury Road ’s Abbey Lee. David Ngo produces for Longshot Films and Projector Films, and Vendetta has Australian rights.

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Other Angle goes Full Speed ahead

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Paris-based Other Angle Pictures is reporting strong sales on its comedy-driven slate, with Full Speed, A Mighty Team and The Roommates Party leading the way.

Nicolas Benamou’s action comedy Full Speed, about a vacation-bound family stuck in a runaway car, has sold to Germany (Wild Bunch), Benelux (Belga), Italy ( L u c k y Re d ), Ru s s i a (Volga), Hungary (Cinetel), Portugal (Films4U), Czech Republic (Bohemia) and Turkey (Fabula).

Wild Bunch Distribution (WBD) will release the film in France in December.

The Roommates Party, about a wealthy Parisian

forced to share his flat with less-well-off citizens, has sold to Benelux (O’Brother), Germany (SquareOne), Italy (Italian International Film), Greece (Tanweer), Portugal (Films4U) and Turkey (Fabula). Also handled by WBD in France, the film has drawn more than a million spectators since its release in December.

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Football-based comedy A Mighty Team has been acquired for Switzerland (Frenetic), Benelux (Victory) and Turkey (Fabula).

Elie Chouraqui’s The Origin Of Violence has sold to Australia’s JIFF. Denis Lavant-starrer LouisFerdinand Céline has been acquired by Canada’s Axia and Turkey’s Fabula.

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Hong Kong’s Media Asia Films is launching sales on two high-profile action titles at EFM: Gordon Chan’s God Of War and the first martialarts project from Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke.

Jia’s as-yet-untitled project, set at the end of the Qing Dynasty, has Johnnie To on board as producer and is expected to start shooting in the second half of this year.

God Of War, starring Sammo Hung and Vincent Zhao, recently wrapped and is being lined up for release over China’s National Day holiday in October. The $25m action title is based on the true story of a 16thcentury general.

Media Asia is also selling John Woo’s Manhunt.

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Rai Com has secured world rights to Alex Infascelli’s S Is For Stanley, which revolves around the 30-year relationship between Stanley Kubrick and his faithful driver Emilio D’Alessandro.

The film was one of the buzz titles at Rome last year.

RatPac Documentary Films acquired North American rights from Infascelli’s Rome-based Kinethica and Lock & Valentine.

Rai Com has taken rights for the rest of the world.

co-production between A Really Good Film Company, which is wholly owned by N&J Enterprises, and Singapore’s Zhao Wei Films.

N&J Enterprises also owns 60% of international sales company Distribution Workshop.

“This Taiwan joint venture is part of an expansion

and re-positioning strategy we have beyond the existing international sales business of Distribution Workshop,” Chan told Screen.

The Taiwanese outfit will also release Dante Lam’s Operation Mekong, starring Eddie Peng and Zhang Hanyu, which is currently in production.

Mapplethorpe doc sells for Dogwoof Dogwoof has secured all-rights sales deals for Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures ahead of its European premiere here in Panorama on Sunday.

Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, the documentary about controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe has sold to Scandinavia, Baltics and Iceland (Non Stop Entertainment) and Italy

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All-rights deals for Crazy About Tiffany’s, about the iconic jewellery brand, closed for Japan (Fine Films), Taiwan (Sky Digital Entertainment) and Hong Kong (Edko).

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fire at Sea waves in pre-sales Paris-based Doc & Film has secured pre-sales on Italian film-maker Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire At Sea, ahead of its premiere in Competition today.

The feature-length documentary about life on the Italian island of Lampedusa has sold to Benelux (Cinéart) and Switzerland (Xenix).

Istituto Luce, one of two Italian partners on the film alongside Rai Cinema, will distribute in Italy. New Paris-based distribution company Météore Films has acquired rights for France.

The company also acquired Avi Mograbi’s Between Fences.

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Upside launches first feature slate By meLanie GooDfeLLoW

Factual content specialist Upside Distribution has launched sales at EFM on its inaugural feature slate.

Hot titles in its line-up include Reset (Releve), which follows Benjamin Millepied’s ill-fated directorship of the Paris Opera Ballet; Zhao Liang’s Behemoth, which captures the destruction of Mongolian prairieland; and Emilie Thérond’s Farewell My Teacher.

Paris-based sales and production company Upside previously focused only on TV, with recent titles including A Day In The Life Of A Dictator and Zero Gravity, both of which

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sold worldwide. It has been building the feature slate over the past 18 months, following the arrival of former Le Bureau Sales staffer Johan De Faria to head up acquisitions.

“We realised the market was changing and there was greater demand for feature-length documentaries, especially with the

likes of Netflix and other digital platforms investing in the format,” said Pauline Saint-Hilaire, who handles pre-sales and co-ordinates the operation at Upside.

Thierry Demaiziere and Alban Teurlai’s Reset has gained fresh traction in the market following the shock resignation of Black Swan choreographer Millepied from his post as director of the Paris Opera Ballet last week, just a year into the role.

The film has already been acquired by Studiocanal for the UK and Germany, and a US deal is close to being secured. The title is also destined for a major springtime US festival.

Ablaze Image fires up Moulin

By Liz ShackLeton

Taiwan’s Ablaze Image has picked up international rights to Huang Ya-li’s documentary The Moulin, which recently screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

The film explores the Le Moulin Poetry Society, which emerged in Taiwan in the 1930s when the country was under Japa-

nese colonial rule. Influenced by France and the Surrealists, the group protested against the cultural imperialism of their colonial rulers.

Produced by Taipeibased Roots Films, the film won positive reviews at both CPH:DOX last year and IFFR this year. Ablaze Image is also selling Singing Chen’s The Walkers.

El Americano deals take wing

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El Americano 3D, billed as the first major US-Mexico animated feature co-production, has scored a brace of deals. FilmSharks has sold the film to Cinepolis partner Neverlanding Pictures in Mexico and Andamiro Films for South Korea.

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Kunkel’s film, about a Mexican parrot who seeks help from a US crime-fighting celebrity to defend his family, previously sold to the Middle East and Turkey (Tanweer), CIS and eastern Europe (Top Film), Peru (Star Film) and central America (Palmera International).

Odin’s Eye Entertainment has signed a deal with Kinostar for German-speaking rights to Anima Istanbul’s Bad Cat. The film opened in its native Turkey last weekend, doing brisk business and receiving enthusiastic reviews.

Kinostar plans a late March theatrical release.

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US bites for Living Deb By anDreaS WiSeman

Genre specialist Jinga Films has sold Kyle Rankin’s comedy horror Night Of The Living Deb to MPI/Dark Sky Films for North America.

The home entertainment release is set for September.

Maria Thayer, Michael Cassidy and Ray Wise star in the rom-zom-com about a one night stand that evolves into a zombie apocalypse.

Icon Films is distributing the film in the UK.

Sony puts faith in Woodlawn

By Jeremy kay

Faith-based distributor and sales agent Pure Flix has licensed all international rights on Woodlawn to Sony.

The film follows a highschool athlete who embraces his faith as he battles racial tensions.

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Pure Flix is screening God’s Not Dead 2 today and has struck day-and-date deals for Latin America (California Filmes), eastern Europe/Poland (Revolutionary Releasing/Monolith), Australia (Crossroads) and the Middle East (Tanweer).

Universal in groove with Modern Life The Exchange and Serotonin Films have struck a multi-territory deal with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Group on Modern Life Is Rubbish.

The studio has picked up Europe, Asia and Latin America on Daniel Jerome Gill’s feature directorial debut starring Ian Hart and Freya Mavor. The film centres on a former couple as they divide their record collection.

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Van Groeningen set for fun at the circus

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Galway Film Fleadh 5th-10th July 2016

Belgica director Felix van Groeningen is working on a new feature that centres on the chaotic collaboration between a theatre company and a circus troupe.

The film, based on a play by van Groeningen’s regular co-writer Arne Sierens, is titled Ensor and billed as a Fellini-esque drama.

The Belgian film-maker will again collaborate with producer Dirk Impens, who

worked with van Groeningen on Sundance title Belgica and The Broken Circle Breakdown.

It will also see van Groeningen return to Europe

after his first US project, Beautiful Boy, which he is making for New Regency and Plan B. Belgica, about two brothers who open a bar, is being sold here by The Match Factory.

Meanwhile a row has broken out over the original poster for Belgica (pictured).

In advance of the film’s French and Benelux release next month, the media buyers for the Paris Metro have refused to carry the image.

EFP’S SHOOTING STarS 2016 atli osKar fJalarsson ICeLand Biggest inspiration?

My mum used to take me to shows and I became entranced by the performances, one of which was from Ingvar E Sigurdsson, who later played my father in [Runar Runarsson’s] Sparrows. It was an incredible honour to act alongside such a pivotal figure in my acting upbringing.

Biggest challenge?

Having no union for young actors in Iceland. I had to represent myself.

Big break?

When I was 14, I got a chance to be part of Runarsson’s highly awarded short 2 Birds.

FSC goes courting for Modern Love

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Galway Film Fair 7th–9th July 2016

Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company has launched sales talks here on Modern Love, a romantic drama starring Alyson Hannigan, which is in post-production.

FSC holds worldwide rights and Jason Ishikawa leads the negotiations on

the story of two gay men who host a heart-to-heart with friends on the eve of their wedding.

Josh Tunick wrote and directed, and the cast includes Anthony Rapp, Jonathan Bennett and Thomas Dekker. Tunick produces with Eric Kops and Dave Perkal.

Wizart hits with Urfin Russia’s Wizart Distribution has closed first deals at EFM on 3D animated feature Urfin And His Wooden Soldiers for the Middle East (Shooting Stars) and the Baltic states (BestFilm). The theatrical premiere of the Melnitsa Studio production is set for the autumn.

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Following the hype of Sparrows, I’ve had several film offers from around Europe and beyond. Only time will tell what path I will take.

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Playing the only female member in a teen gang in Spring Awakening

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It’s a big challenge to make films in Greece given the current economic situation and the lack of financing. The challenge for an actor is to overcome these limitations with creativity. next up?

I’m going to play a saint in a film based on [novella] The Legend Of The Holy Drinker, to be directed by Nikos Panayotopoulos.

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Fraternal film-making duo Tomer and Barak Heymann’s documentary Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? follows Saar, a gay Israeli man living with Aids. Ostracised by his family and based in London, Saar’s illness makes him feel like an outsider until he joins the London Gay Men’s Chorus. Europe’s largest such choir, the group performs in front of bumper crowds and has collaborated with the likes of Elton John and Dolly Parton.

Tomer originally encountered Saar in Tel Aviv in 1993. “I saw a young, very confused boy; he was

21 and just out of the Israeli army.

He told me he had a huge problem with his family and said he couldn’t go back to the Kibbutz.

His story touched my heart.”

Tomer later struck up a brief relationship with Saar, but the two lost contact when Saar moved to London before reconnecting in 2011 when Tomer was visiting the city. “Saar said he was open to telling his story but that I had to convince his family to be in this project,” says Tomer, who enlisted the help of his brother Barak. “I don’t know how but Barak convinced all the family to be in our movie.”

Under the radar Sonia Kennebeck and Wim Wenders discuss buzz documentary National Bird

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Ahead of its Berlinale screening this weekend, drone warfare documentary National Bird is becoming one of the festival’s buzz films. It follows the journey of three whistleblowers determined to break the silence around US drone strikes. Despite being executive produced by Errol Morris and Wim Wenders, the second feature from film-maker Sonia Kennebeck (Sex: Made In Germany) has flown

under the radar — intentionally so.

“All funders were aware of the sensitive nature of this film and didn’t publicise it for the three years of production,” explains Kennebeck. “The US administration has this cloud of secrecy around the drone programme.

I wanted to understand more about the drone war from firsthand sources and I hope that my film will start a discussion about the question of whether

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The pair also enlisted the help of London-based co-director Alexander Bodin Saphir to follow Saar. It was Saphir who suggested they approach the BFI, which came on board the project. With the BFI’s involvement, the brothers were able to employ “the best editors in Israel” to sift through 500 hours of footage shot over four years, and purchase music rights. These cost around $60,000 for full usage of the popular songs recited by the Gay Men’s Chorus.

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drone warfare is ever justified.

“I avoided narration on purpose,” adds the German filmmaker. “I want to give the audience room to form their own opinion.”

Kennebeck’s subject and approach attracted Wenders and Morris. “I saw the potential of the film when Sonia first told me the story,” says Wenders, himself known for documentaries Buena Vista Social Club and The Salt Of The Earth. The seasoned filmmaker is cognisant of the increasing public appetite for real-life stories and compelling exposés.

“I think documentaries are the counter-culture to fantasy films,” says Wenders. “And as fantasy is the mainstream darling these days, it’s only obvious that people are looking for the real thing.”

International sales are handled by ro*co films, while NFP will release in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.

Vincent Perez

At the time, you were close to giving up directing for good.

I’d reached a moment where I had to reinvent myself, not being a young actor anymore. I was always tortured by the need to tell stories and to direct but I had a problem with my subjects because they weren’t French and I live in France.

After the second movie I directed, I thought, ‘I don’t have any stories to tell, forget about being a director.’ I started to go into a small depression. Then I read Alone In Berlin and had this fire in me again.

Arthouse favourite and fixture of period dramas such as Cyrano De Bergerac and La Reine Margot, Vincent Perez has moved steadily towards directing since his 1992 short L’échange. When he read Hans Fallada’s Alone In Berlin in 2007, he knew it should be his next project. Starring Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson as a couple resisting the Nazis in the 1940s, Alone In Berlin screens in Competition on Monday.

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Has this experience rekindled your appetite for directing?

I’m developing several ideas but it’s too early to talk about them.

I want to direct. I’m still acting, I’m on stage now [in Dangerous Liaisons] and I’m really enjoying it. But I have a mission in life and it’s making films and directing.

Why did Alone In Berlin speak to you so strongly?

My mother being German, I grew up with so many questions with no answers. So I started to read a lot of books about [the Second World War] and I read an article about this Hans Fallada book, and was attracted by the idea of that building [in which the protagonists reside] and all those people living together.

I was fascinated by the way Fallada was leading us into that world. You felt the fear, it was so realistic, and I suddenly felt a

It took eight years to make Alone In Berlin. What kept you going?

My ancestors. I had to tell that story for my grandfather, who was shot by the Nationalists [in Spain]. I had to tell that story for my uncles who were killed at war in Germany. I needed to tell that story for my mother who I found out is losing her memory; she has Alzheimer’s. I discovered that on the first day of the prep. I always wanted to make that film for her, and for my German family.

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The follow-up to the highest-grossing HK film of 2012, the story continues as the conspirator behind the disappeared police vehicle is behind bar. But the true motive remains unclear, until the resurface of a retired police chief who unveils an unprecedented scheme to corrupt the police force.

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FINDING MR. RIGHT 2 GENRE ROMANCE DIRECTOR XUE XIAOLU (Finding Mr. Right, Ocean Heaven) CAST TANG WEI (Lust Caution), WU XIUBO (Finding Mr. Right, The Four)

The creative team and cast behind the blockbuster romantic comedy recreate their chemistry for this modern-day love tale set in glittering Las Vegas and Macau.

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The highest-grossing Chinese film of all time, this epic adventure is set in a fantasy world where humans and monsters battle to rule the land, until the birth of the new monster king who would ultimately bring balance to the new world.

Billion-dollar company Jones & Sunn is going public. Chairman Ho has promised CEO/mistress Chang to become a major shareholder of the company. As the IP team enters the company to audit, a series of inside stories start to be revealed.

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Midnight Special Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan Jeff Nichols’ urgent, unsettling Midnight Special is a crafted progression from such beloved films as Close Encounters Of The Third Kind or Starman. Low-key, intense and very, very secretive, it should be just as loved by similar audiences.

Special effects, world-building and a young boy who must wear goggles may all require viewer buy-in, but faith is a huge driver for this feature.

Michael Shannon, burning with a father’s allconsuming love for his son, is again transfixing in his fourth feature for Nichols.

As director and screenwriter, Nichols has stripped out much of the exposition in his thriller — along with daylight — in its early, tense stretches. The viewer is, literally, in the dark, scrabbling to piece together information from multiple strands. A laser-like light that flows from the hunted boy’s eyes is Midnight Special’s only (stunning) brightness, and a clue to what may come. When the characters emerge finally from tough realism in poky motel rooms to the bright world and beyond, it provokes an almost visceral response (with credit to Minority Report’s visual creator Alex McDowell).

Good notices and support from the sci-fi crowd probably won’t deliver enormous, Interstellar-level grosses to worldwide distributor Warner Bros when Midnight Special begins its

War On Everyone Reviewed by Lee Marshall After The Guard and Calvary, writer-director John Michael McDonagh is hot property — and it shows in his generously budgeted third feature. This indulgent homage to the 1970s buddy-cop genre veers, like the Monte Carlo coupé driven by Alexander Skarsgard’s harddrinking character, from dark comic brilliance to wearisome style exercise — the exercise being, mostly, to make sympathetic two utterly corrupt, foul-mouthed New Mexico policemen.

In this, it almost succeeds, thanks in no small part to the chemistry between Skarsgard and Michael Peña. But the glue of their jive-talking, bribe-taking relationship fails to stick together a contrived story. War On Everyone is essentially a clothes hanger for smart one-liners, verbal and visual, and its success will depend on how readily folks will go along for the ride. The film is high on the desert air of New Mexico, painted in garish colours, cut fast and flashy, and featuring big chunks of Glen Campbell on the soundtrack.

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CoMPetItIon US. 2016. 112mins Director/screenplay Jeff nichols Production company Tri-State Productions International distribution Warner Brothers Pictures Producers Sarah Green, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones Executive producers Hans Graffunder, Christos V Konstantakopoulos Cinematography Adam Stone Production designer Chad Keith Editor Julie Monroe Music David Wingo Main cast Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Sam Shepard

global run in March after a world premiere in Competition here. Although it is his first film for a major studio, Nichols is too low-key a director for that, focusing instead on performance and build-up. This will please the many fans of his earlier work, in particular Take Shelter. Like Midnight Special itself, commercial prospects are slow-burning, but excellent.

As with Take Shelter, Shannon is cast as a man possessed. He is the one driving the flight into which the film catapults us. News reports reveal, first of all, that we are in Eldorado, Texas, and that an eight-year-old boy, Alton Meyer (Jaeden Lieberher), has been abducted; a man named Ryan (Shannon) is connected to his disappearance. There is also a doomsday-style cult, led by Sam Shepard, called The Ranch, and its mem-

PanoRaMa UK. 2016. 98mins Director/screenplay John Michael McDonagh Production company Reprisal Films International sales Bankside Films, films@banksidefilms.com Producers Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez-Marengo, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross Executive producers Hilary Davis, Stephen Kelliher, Natascha Wharton, Ben Roberts, Fenella Ross, Elliot Ross Cinematography Bobby Bukowski Editor Chris Gill Production designer Wynn Thomas Music Lorne Balfe Main cast Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Peña

It is all fun enough perhaps to collar the kind of savvy urban audiences that mop up genre parodies like Kick Ass or Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

But in a film that takes a schoolboy’s delight in being politically incorrect, taking potshots at

bers want the boy back. Inexperienced NSA adviser Paul Sevier (Adam Driver) is sniffing around too. Alton is the key to everything here; we can sense he has special powers. But what is he, where are they going and how are all these people connected?

Nichols’ imagery bristles, long before impressive effects shots are introduced. Sequences of driving at night are potent, and daybreak comes to further unsettle. Midnight Special is a tough film for Nichols to sustain. As with all its cinematic precedents, there is a race to a destination, and at times the going can be uneven. The payoff, though, is well worth it.

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everything from police racism to Stephen Hawking to Al Qaeda, there are some off notes — clichéd gay and transvestite characters, for example — that for many will leave a nasty taste.

McDonagh sets the tone of relentless irreverence by having sharply dressed Terry Monroe (Skarsgard) run over a small-time-crook mime artist in the first scene, after his cop partner Bob Bolano (Peña) wonders whether mimes make a sound when they are hit. These two are bad, but not bad bad — between wisecracks, Monroe is a soulful loner with a drink problem, while Bolano is a family man who has brainy arguments about Simone de Beauvoir with his smart-but-supportive wife Dolores (Stephanie Sigman).

Lava-lamp blobs of sentiment are thrown in to balance the relentlessly sardonic tone. Hence Terry’s fling with former bar girl Jackie (Tessa Thompson) and, less pardonably, the introduction of a vulnerable kid who Terry ends up taking in to the bachelor pad he has already opened up to Jackie. Sure, the parody of the ‘alternative family’ trope is flagged by a throwaway line of dialogue — but here as so often, McDonagh is trying to persuade us to have the smart-ass cake and eat the emotional resonance too.

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Hedi Reviewed by Wendy Ide

Boris Without Beatrice Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan

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Denis Coté’s Boris Without Beatrice is correctly, if awkwardly titled — the Canadian director’s eighth film is about Boris Malinovsky (James Hyndman), a well-to-do, proud Québécois who is flailing in the wake of his wife Beatrice’s crippling depression when a God-like Denis Lavant appears to set him on the right path. There is precious little Beatrice in here. Is Boris Without Beatrice all in Boris’s head? Or is this a man-opausal breakdown?

Coté’s film is interesting without making the selfinvolved Boris’s plight in any way compelling.

Boris Without Beatrice is visually assured — almost aggressively so. When you combine Coté’s bold shots with Boris’s mid-life masculine assertiveness, it can threaten to stall a capricious, occasionally clichéd, narrative. It is an achievement for Coté that Boris, despite his arrogance, womanising and overall patronising attitude, can remain even mildly sympathetic. Or the fact the female characters appear in the film specifically to service him through his midlife crisis.

That will not be a universal opinion, however, and Boris Without Beatrice faces a mixed reaction after its Competition premiere, before heading into specialised distribution (the director’s last film, Vic + Flo Saw A Bear, which competed in Berlin in 2013, is a benchmark).

The film stakes its ground from the arresting opening sequence. Boris, legs planted firmly in the grass, hips thrust out, stands in a field as a helicopter descends.

Next, he is in a fancy clothes store; a harpist strums as the supremely confident Boris belittles a sales assistant.

Soon, he is in his factory, telling staff he cares little about that he is taking a leave of absence. (That’s apart from Helga, played by Dounia Sichov: next stop, he is banging her in a hotel room).

It is not for everyone, admittedly, but Coté is a compelling visualist. His silhouetted studies, deliberate, immobile stances and stilted interchanges hold a magnetism of their own. For all the predictable shots of Boris driving fast cars or staring at an Egon Schiele, there are striking sequences set in antiseptic surroundings that hold the attention long past the point where Boris’s plight has ceased to engage.

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Can. 2016. 93mins Director/screenplay Denis Coté Production company Metafilms International sales Films Boutique, contact@filmsboutique. com Producers Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant Executive producer Michel Merkt Cinematography Jessica Lee Gagné Production design Louisa Schabas Editor Nicolas Roy Music Ghislain poirier Main cast James Hyndman, Simone-elise Girard, Denis Lavant, Isolda Dychauk, Dounia Sichov

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A man is caught between the expectations of his overbearing family and the possibilities of love with a woman who values her freedom and expects him to do the same.

This debut feature, which was executive produced by the Dardenne brothers and shares the compassionate naturalism of their approach, takes a small-scale drama and turns it into an allegory for contemporary Tunisia, a country caught between tradition and modernity.

The Dardennes’ stamp of approval will act as a letter of introduction and healthy festival interest seems likely.

Theatrical prospects will likewise be oiled by the connection, although this picture is too gentle to generate the passionate audience response and word of mouth required for an arthouse breakout hit.

The performances from the leads, in particular Majd Mastoura as the browbeaten Hedi, are strong. Captured by spry handheld camera, Mastoura negotiates a bold arc. He initially seems a rather inert presence: a sulky, love-smothered man-child. But by the end, after a cathartic meltdown, we see a man about to take control of his destiny, whatever it might be.

Playing Hedi’s wonderfully toxic mother, Sabah Bouzouita also merits praise. She dispenses imperious affection to her son and beams a cloying, artificially sweetened smile in public. In contrast, Rim (Rym Ben Messaoud), an entertainer at the hotel where Hedi stays during a business trip, is warm and unaffected. After an inelegant first encounter with her — Hedi lies and then clumsily confesses that it is a week before his arranged marriage — they stumble into a relationship almost without thinking.

Writer/director Mohamed Ben Attia fills in the sociopolitical backdrop with a light touch, allowing the love story and Hedi’s story to take centre stage. The score is minimal but music is crucial in Hedi’s journey: the synthetic hotel muzak and forced jollity of Rim’s stage show contrasts with the film’s most potent scene, a joyful local celebration filled with drums and dancing. It is the moment when Hedi — the character and the film — finally comes alive.

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88mins Director/screenplay mohamed Ben Attia Production company nomadis Images, Les Films Du Fleuve International sales Luxbox, hedi@ luxboxfilms.com Producer Dora Bouchoucha Fourati Cinematography Frédéric Noirhomme Editors Azza Chaabouni, Ghalia Lacroix, Hafedh Laaridhi Production design mohamed Denguezli Main cast majd mastoura, Rym Ben messaoud, Sabah Bouzouita, omnia Ben Ghali, Hakim Boumessaoudi

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I, Olga Hepnarova Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan

Europe, She Loves Reviewed by Wendy ide The stress fractures in modern Europe are viewed through the relationships of four young couples in Europe, She Loves. Dividing its focus between Tallinn, Seville, Dublin and Thessaloniki, the film gains intimate access to the dreams, frustrations and bedrooms of its twentysomething subjects. The intimacy of the approach belies the bold scope of the film’s ambitions: through a collage of domestic details, director Jan Gassman pieces together a bigger picture.

While the film doesn’t tell us much about the state of contemporary Europe that we don’t already know, it does offer an unusually frank glimpse of a generation that is struggling to make life work on the embattled fringes of the EU. The film’s main asset, the eloquent, revealing photography by Gassman’s regular cinematographer, Ramon Giger, should make this an attractive proposition on the European festival circuit. Theatrical sales are not out of the question although the breadth of the film’s focus — unemployment, addiction, migration, protest, inertia — means it lacks the incisive central thesis that could hook an audience.

Sound design is used to plug the gaps where the subjects fail to adequately articulate their thoughts; soundbites from radio and television provide a context but is occasionally heavy-handed. However, there is a rare intimacy in the footage. The couples seem so at ease with the presence of the camera that, rather than treat it as a confidante, they seem almost oblivious to its presence.

Gassman’s most controversial decision — to include explicit sexual scenes — exposes his subjects at their most vulnerable moments. But the most revealing scenes are not those in which the characters are physically naked but the ones in which they are emotionally bare.

Drugs are central to Dublin-based Siobhan and Terry’s relationship. Her ice-breaking chat-up line, she breezily recalls to some friends, was, “Do you have any heroin?” In Tallinn, Veronika and Harri are trying to balance their blended family. She has a son that Harri can’t quite love as much as the baby they have together. Caro and Juan in Seville are in the first heady rush of a new relationship, but unemployment, jealousy and suspicion take their toll.

And Penny is leaving Greece and her older boyfriend Niko, the distance between them grows day by day. Small moments of daily drama admittedly, but the cumulative effect is undeniably powerful.

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Described as an ‘existential drama’, I, Olga Hepnarova looks at the life of the last woman to be hanged in the former Czechoslovakia in 1975, at the age of 22. Shot in austere yet beautiful black-and-white, this is a period feature that relies heavily on its Polish lead actress, the very up-and-coming 23-year-old Michalina Olszanska (who co-headlined Sundance mermaid drama The Lure).

I, Olga Hepnarova struggles with its difficult central character, always spiky and occasionally psychotic, but never really as intriguing as the film-makers clearly believe.

The troubled and murderous Hepnarova may describe herself as a “sexual cripple” here, but there is a strong lesbian angle to this niche auteur title and a couple of frank encounters that might see it gain traction on the LGBT festival circuit. Pitching it as the story of a beautiful Czech mass murderer — Hepnarova drove a truck into a crowded street, killing eight — may lure a salacious audience, but they stand to be disappointed. This is a monochrome foreign-language film about a depressed lesbian who works as a truck driver and doesn’t wash; it’s a niche item.

Olszanska delivers a committed performance, although Hepnarova — as imagined by debut co-directors and coscreenwriters Petr Kazda and Tomas Weinreb — is a challenging character on several levels. The actress, radiant despite a succession of bad haircuts and awkward poses, leans a little too heavily on the character’s tics — constant chain-smoking and a butch walk, in particular — but is still the film’s main draw, alongside an evocative design that brings 1970s Soviet-era settings and costumes back to lustrous monochromatic life.

We see Hepnarova was troubled as a teenager, attempting suicide and committed to a mental hospital where she was relentlessly bullied by her fellow inmates.

Angry with her placid middle-class family in Prague (her doctor mother is played stoically by Klara Meliskova), the teenager runs off to live in a hut and works in a garage.

She alienates her co-workers and, ultimately, her lover, but finds a strange friendship with the heavy-drinking Miroslav (Martin Pechlat).

Kazda and Weinreb, working from a story by Roman Cilek, struggle to give Hepnarova’s story a wider meaning but their visualisations show a clear talent, which means we should see more from the duo, as well as their talented DoP Adam Sikora. Olszanska is becoming the go-to actress of her generation in eastern Europe and, despite its flaws, I, Olga Hepnarova is a clear indication of why.

Opening Film, panORama Cze-Pol-Slov-Fr. 104mins Directors petr Kazda, Tomas Weinreb Production companies Black Balance, media Brigade, love Frame, alef Film & media group International sales guillaume de Seille, guillaume@arizonafilms.net Producers Vojtech Fric, petr Kazda, Tomas Weinreb, marcin Kurek, marian Urban Screenplay petr Kazda, Tomas Weinreb, from a story by Roman Cilek Cinematography adam Sikora Editor Vojtech Fric Production design alexandr Kozak Music alice glass Main cast michalina Olszanska, marta mazurek, Ondrej maly, lukas Bech, martin pechlat, Klara meliskova

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Born To Dance Reviewed by Sarah Ward

Baden Baden Reviewed by Jonathan Romney A laid-back feminist fable about a young woman pulling her life together over a complicated summer, FrancoBelgian drama Baden Baden is a confident, witty debut for French writer-director Rachel Lang. Featuring a striking performance from Salomé Richard — previously the lead in Lang’s two short films — Baden Baden is an intimate, at times seemingly whimsical narrative that appears to drift almost free-associatively from episode to episode. But it is unified by a distinctive humour and intelligence, crisp visuals and Richard’s charismatic presence. Too minor-key to hit a chord commercially, it will nevertheless score early-career notches for both Lang and Richard.

The film begins — in a boldly sustained five-minute head-and-shoulders shot — with mid-20s Ana (Richard) chauffeuring an actress to a Belgian film set, where she is working as a driver. Arriving 45 minutes late, she is bawled out by her boss. Unsure what to do after the shoot, Ana returns home to Strasbourg — neglecting to return the production’s rented Porsche — and spends time with her no-nonsense grandmother (Gensac), who soon finds herself in hospital for an operation. While she is away, Ana decides to redo Grandma’s bathroom and enlists a bemused stranger, DIY store assistant Grégoire (a very droll Lazare Gousseau), to help her out.

She also spends time hanging out with sort-of platonic friend Simon (Swann Arlaud) and cautiously keeping an eye on troublesome but attractive ex Boris (Olivier Chantreau), a video artist with inflated self-esteem. There is also a visit from a female friend who may, judging by a bathtub scene, be a past, present or future lover. At any rate, Ana is a free spirit and though confused about life as it stands, very much one to follow her own will.

Shifts of tone abound: into a basic naturalistic framework, with images shot cleanly and brightly by Fiona Braillon, Lang will sometimes drop visual curveballs, such as the glimpses of Boris’s video work (actually by artist/film-maker Clément Cogitore), or a sudden, highly composed image of a vast swimming pool under construction. The bathroom scenes, which play out with leisurely humour, are set up for maximum deadpan effect, with Ana and Grégoire as a Buster Keatonish duo.

The film, by the way, never sets foot in Baden-Baden: the title comes from a one-line comment of Ana’s, with implied punning on the German word for ‘bath’.

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FoRuM Bel-Fr. 2015. 95mins Director-screenwriter Rachel lang Production companies tarantula, ChevalDeuxtrois International sales Jour2Fete, sales@jour2fete.com Producers Jérémy Forni, pierre-louis Cassou, Joseph Rouschop, Valérie Bournonville Cinematography Fiona Braillon Production designer Jean-Francois Sturm Editor Sophie Vercruysse Main cast Salomé Richard, Claude Gensac, lazare Gousseau, Swann arlaud, olivier Chantreau

The dance movie travels to New Zealand in Born To Dance, giving an otherwise generic offering a muchneeded dose of enthusiasm in the process. The majority of the film adheres to tried-and-tested elements, as seen in a narrative peppered with underdogs trying to succeed against the odds, rivalries between dance crews, a coming-of-age journey and a wrong-side-of-the-tracks romance. Thankfully, the energy of the cast and the spectacular choreography enliven what could have remained a blandly formulaic, feelgood showcase of moving and grooving.

Indeed, the efforts of Parris Goebel (Step Up All In performer and Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj and Janet Jackson collaborator) cannot be underestimated in lifting Born To Dance beyond its standard story, and in venturing past its just-as-standard message about pursuing a passion and believing in oneself as well. In a film concerned with characters who dance because that’s who they are — as the screenplay is at pains to make clear — her distinctive numbers ensure their zeal transcends the often clumsy dialogue and always typical scenario.

Teenager Tu (Tia-Taharoa Maipi) is chief among the film’s flurry of frenzied and fleet feet, his dancing prowess an escape from the doldrums of his summer holiday job at a South Auckland recycling centre. Training with a group of pals who call themselves 2PK, he has his sights set on winning the national championships. Alas, his army sergeant father (John Tui) has other ideas about his future, giving Tu a six-week deadline to come up with a sensible plan for his life, or enlist in military service.

Writers Steve Barr, Hone Kouka and Casey Whelan show few signs of trying to challenge the dance movie status quo, their embrace of convenience and convention as overt as the film’s thumping P-Money-produced soundtrack. And yet, the movie’s charms adhere to similar clichés in an amiable way, for what the mash-up of Step Up, Dirty Dancing and Billy Elliot lacks in originality, it makes up for in style and spirit.

In his feature helming debut, Black Sheep and Outrageous Fortune actor-turned-filmmaker Davis sensibly devotes as much of the movie’s running time as possible to its main drawcard of writhing, rhythmic displays. The tight camerawork and close framing of cinematographer Duncan Cole, speedy pace enforced by editor Jeff Hurrell (Deathgasm) and keen eye of dance-unit director Chris Graham (Sione’s Wedding) are also crucial.

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The Bacchus Lady Dir E J-yong Written and directed by The Actresses and Untold Scandal director E J-yong, this drama stars Youn Yuh-jung (The Taste Of Money; Right Now, Wrong Then). She plays one of the most famous of the elderly prostitutes known as Bacchus ladies, who work out of a park in Seoul for a little more on top of the price of the energy drinks they sell. The film unfolds as she recovers from a sexually transmitted disease, takes in a young half-Korean, half-Filipino boy and starts being asked by her elderly clients to help them commit suicide. Also featuring Jeon Moo-song and Yoon Kye-sang, the film plays in Panorama.

Korea opportunities

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Weekends Dir Lee Dong-ha Director Lee Dong-ha’s first featurelength documentary follows the oldest gay men’s chorus in South Korea, G-Voice. Shot in a glossy music-video style, the documentary finds humorous insights as the members prepare for their big 10th anniversary performance, talk about their experiences as gay men with regard to their families and Korean society, and voice their political activism through song. The film plays in Panorama Documents and received Independent Film Production Support from the Korean Film Council last year.

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The World Of Us Dir Yoon Ga-eun Newcomer Choi Soo-jin stars in the feature directorial debut of 2014 best short film Crystal Bear winner Yoon Ga-eun.

She plays 10-year-old Sun, an outcast at school, who over the summer holidays becomes best friends with Jia, a new girl in town. Their friendship is put to the test when school starts and Jia wants to join the cool kids’ group. Playing in Generation KPlus.

A gay men’s chorus, an elderly prostitute and a lonely 10-year-old line up at the Berlinale, while Park Chan-wook’s latest hits the market. Jean Noh reports EFM LINE-UP Canola Dir Chang The latest film from Chang, who directed Cannes 2014 Midnight Screening title The Target. Canola stars Youn Yuh-jung (The Taste Of Money, Boomerang Family) as Gae-chun, a legendary female diver on Jeju Island, with Kim Go-eun (Eungyo, Coin Locker Girl) as her granddaughter Hae-ji. After accidently losing her granddaughter, Gae-chun does everything she can to find her, but it is 12 years before they are reunited. What happened during those years is something Gae-chun does not want to believe, and it is unclear whether they can ever return to their old life.

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(Left) Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden

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The Handmaiden Dir Park Chan-wook In post-production, Old Boy director Park Chan-wook’s erotic thriller, set in 1930s Korea and Japan, is loosely based on Sarah Waters’ crime novel Fingersmith, set in Victorian-era Britain. A young Korean woman living in the shabby part of a Japanese harbour town is visited by a charming count who asks her to assist him in his plot to marry a rich heiress from Kobe. He arranges for her to work as the heiress’s maid. If they succeed, the plan would see the heiress committed to an insane asylum and the count, in return for a share of the fortune, claim a legal spouse. The film stars Ha Jung-woo (The Yellow Sea) as the count, Kim Min-hee (Right Now, Wrong Then) as the heiress, and Kim Tae-ri as the maid.

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Karaoke Crazies Dir Kim Sang-chan Set for a world premiere in SXSW’s Visions section next month, fantasy comedy Karaoke Crazies is in post-production. Highway Star co-director Kim Sang-chan goes back to dealing with oddball singers, this time with a strong female

character. Sung-wook runs a suburban karaoke and when business is slow, he hires Ha-suck as a singing helper. She is a hopeless game addict in her twenties and not very talented, but mysteriously draws in customers. A second helper is also hired, the bubbly Na-ju, just as a serial killer is on the loose around town.

They are joined by the deaf Spotty who sneaks in to live in the basement karaoke. This set of outcasts seem to get along well until Na-ju’s ex-husband comes to claim their daughter. Lee Munsik (Battlefield Heroes), Bae So-eun, Kim Na-mi and Bang Jun-ho star.

Contact 9ers Entertainment angela@niners.co.kr

Master Dir Cho Ui-seok Director Cho Ui-seok’s follow-up to 2013 hit Cold Eyes — the hit remake of Hong Kong thriller Eye In The Sky — crime action film Master features top stars Gang Dong-won (The Priests, Woochi) and Lee Byung-hun (Inside Men, Terminator Genisys) along with Kim Woo-bin (Twenty, The Con Artists). In pre-production, the film focuses on a high-profile fraud case with Lee as a criminal mastermind tracked by Gang’s intellectual crime investigation unit.

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Treasure island Some of the hottest Taiwanese films in Berlin and beyond this year are profiled by Silvia Wong, including comedies, a supernatural thriller and a highly personal documentary Ace Of Sales Dir Cho Li The new romantic comedy by director Cho Li, whose film The Rice Bomber premiered in Panorama in 2014, focuses on an out-of-work, long-legged woman who gets herself recruited at a TV shopping channel through a triad boss. But her live shopping show becomes a reality piece when she is held hostage by a fellow host, her rival for the TV channel’s top salesperson. Produced by Cho’s regular collaborator Yeh Jufeng, Ace Of Sales stars Bianca Bai and Lin Mei-Hsiu. It is in post-production.

City Of Jade

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City Of Jade Dir Midi Z Premiering in Forum, City Of Jade is a “personal family video”, according to Myanmar-born, Taiwan-based filmmaker Midi Z. The documentary depicts the reunion after 16 years with his eldest brother, a former jade miner who abandoned his poor family and was jailed for drug abuse. As it follows the return of his brother to Hpakant, a malariainfested war zone most famous for its jade mines, it captures the plight of impoverished miners who are chasing the same dream.

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David Loman 2 Dir Chiu Li-Kwan Following her 2013 debut feature David Loman, which became Taiwan’s thirdhighest-grossing film ever, talent manager and producer-turneddirector Chiu Li-Kwan reunites with her original cast in the comedy sequel. Veteran comedian Chu Ko-Liang is back as a country bumpkinturned-gangster boss, along with Amber Kuo and Tony Yang as his character’s estranged daughter and

The Tag-Along

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son-in-law. David Loman 2 was released over Chinese New Year.

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My Egg Boy Dir Fu Tien-Yu Starring Rhydian Vaughan and Ariel Lin, My Egg Boy is about an embryo that is stored in liquid nitrogen while its owner, a 32-year-old single woman, desperately searches for Mr Right — or at least the right sperm. Currently in production, the romantic comedy is produced by Touch Of The Light producer Rachel Chen and is the second film from director Fu Tien-Yu, whose 2009 debut Somewhere I Have Never Travelled screened at the Taipei, Hong Kong and Karlovy Vary festivals.

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Contact Touch of Light Film phchen322@gmail.com

The Road To Mandalay Dir Midi Z The fourth feature from the director of the award-winning Ice (Left) David Loman 2

Poison follows a tragic love story involving two illegal Burmese migrants in Bangkok, played by You Are The Apple Of My Eye actor Kai Ko and Midi Z’s regular actress Wu Ke-Xi. In post-production, The Road To Mandalay has been generating buzz since winning the Taipei New Horizon Screenplay Award at the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion and the first prize at Amiens’ screenplay development fund. It has also received funding from the CNC’s World Cinema Fund and Aide aux Cinema du Monde.

The Tag-Along Dir Cheng Wei-Hao

Contact Flash Forward Entertainment patrick@ffe.com.tw

Based on the popular urban legend of the little girl in red, director Cheng Wei-Hao’s debut feature The Tag-Along has become the most successful locally financed and produced horror film in Taiwan since its release in November. Starring River Huang, Hsu Wei-Ning and Yumi Wong from Malaysia, it is about a hard-working real-estate broker who doesn’t know where to turn when his grandmother disappears, until he finds a video of a little girl in red walking along behind her.

Rookie Chef

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Dir Fung Kai

White Lies, Black Lies

Rookie Chef is a feelgood comedy about food and family. It revolves around a young girl who, on discovering her family’s long-lost cookbook, is determined along with her young friends to recreate the traditional recipes, even though none of them can cook. Fung Kai is a Golden Bell award-winning TV director who made his feature debut with Din Tao: Leader Of The Parade, which became Taiwan’s top-grossing local film in 2012.

Like Din Tao, Rookie Chef receives a Chinese New Year release.

Dir Lou Yi-An

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This crime thriller from A Place Of One’s Own director Lou Yi-An is about a hairsalon owner who disappears with his former lover when he is suspected of murdering his wife, while a reporter discovers her death may be linked to an old patricide case. Starring Hsu Wei-Ning, Wang Po-Chieh and model/TV actress Annie Chen in her big-screen debut, White Lies, Black Lies premiered as the opening film of Kaohsiung Film Festival in October.

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Literary adaptation Palm Trees In The Snow has grossed more than $16m

Spain enjoys home comforts Mainstream Spanish films are thriving as TV broadcasters fill the gap in public funding. But at what cost to creative experimentation? Could a new Pedro Almodovar emerge now? Elisabet Cabeza reports

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he Spanish film industry has started 2016 on an optimistic note.

Emilio Martinez-Lazaro’s broad comedy Spanish Affair 2 (Ocho Apellidos Catalanes), the sequel to the alltime local hit Spanish Affair, was the top grossing film of 2015, taking $34.7m (¤32m), and Fernando Gonzalez Molina’s romantic period drama Palm Trees In The Snow, released on December 25, out-performed Star Wars: The Force Awakens on its second weekend on release and has garnered more than $16m to date.

The label ‘made in Spain’ on a commercial, locally produced film is now a positive note for local audiences. “As in France, we’re learning to make films that work for a big audience,” says Ramon Colom, president of producers’ association FAPAE. And despite the economic crisis, which still holds Spain tightly in its grip, total admissions went up a healthy 9.7% year-on-

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year in 2015 with receipts of $618m (¤572m).

Hopes are high for 2016. Two of Spain’s internationally renowned film-makers, Pedro Almodovar and JA Bayona, are readying films for release this year, while Fernando Trueba is preparing to shoot The Queen Of Spain, starring Penelope Cruz.

The industry is also united in efforts to reduce the 21% levy on cinema tickets in Spain, the highest in Europe. And online piracy remains a major concern. It is widespread throughout the country due to the absence of real penalties, despite an ongoing campaign by producers and distributors who insist the government must do more.

While political uncertainty lingers, few producers are willing to predict what the long term holds for public funding policy.

Elections at the end of December failed to deliver a decisive victory for either of Spain’s two main political parties. The conservative

‘We are learning to make films that work for a big audience’ Ramon Colom, FAPAE

People’s Party (PP) and the left-wing Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) are still negotiating alternatives and pacts to form the new government. As of early February, no government had yet been formed.

In the short term, producers are adjusting to the changes in the public funding policy approved in December. The bulk of government support is now for films that meet requisites such as a solid production company, a minimum budget of $1.5m (¤1.3m), a release that covers a minimum of 20 theatres and ‘economic viability’ — measured by contracts with TV, distribution and international sales companies.

The schedule for payments has also changed in a move that will appeal to international co-producers looking to work with Spanish partners. Films that have been granted public funding will no longer have to wait until after their release to receive it. This means producers can skip the so-called »

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La Academia De Las Musas

Capture The Flag

20th Century Fox’s Assassin’s Creed, directed by Justin Kurzel and starring Michael Fassbender, shot in Andalusia

‘middle man’, bank loans to manage the gap between production and the receipt of the cash funds.

“2016 will be a difficult year, with the small amount of public help for the industry and the adjustment to the changes in the public funding formula,” says producer Edmon Roch of Ikiru Films, whose credits include animation Capture The Flag, which has grossed $12.5m. “But in 2015 the industry has proved it can cope, scoring hits at the box office.” rise in documentaries The average production budget for a Spanish film fell to $1.5m (¤1.3m) in 2015, from $3.5m (¤3.2m) five years ago. While the big features backed by broadcasters including Atresmedia Cine and Telecinco Cinema are thriving, mid-range and smaller films more reliant on public funding are struggling.

The TV companies remain the major power in Spain and the arrival of streaming giant Netflix and local competitor Movistar Plus is shaking up the industry as the theatrical audience for these smaller films shrinks further.

There has been a rise in the number of documentaries produced to 42.7% of all feature films made in Spain in 2015. This is due to their relatively low production budgets and easier route to TV. Local documentary

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film-makers include seasoned auteurs such as Jose Luis Guerin, who made La Academia De Las Musas, as well as newcomers Marcos Cabota and Toni Bestard, whose I Am Your Father — a documentary about David Prowse, the man behind Darth Vader’s mask — was released in Spain a month before Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

But as the influence of the broadcasters increases and public funding wanes, there is a growing sense of unease about the creative direction the industry may be pulled in. Can a new Almodovar emerge and thrive in Spain’s new prime-time friendly context?

“The healthiest scenario is an industry where both auteur and commercial films co-exist,” says Mod Producciones’ Fernando Bovaira, the long-time producer of Alejandro Amenabar’s films.

Others believe the power of the TV companies is a great asset for the industry. “It’s good for all of us, because it’s a matter of strengthening the foundations of the business,” says Ghislain Barrois, CEO of Telecinco Cinema.

Barrois has co-produced some of Spain’s biggest hits of recent years, including Spanish Affair, Spanish Affair 2, The Impossible and the upcoming A Monster Calls. The latter two are both in English and Barrois is keen to see greater support for Spanish-produced, English-language productions. Government funding presently excludes films

made in languages other than the official ones in the country.

“The limitations for shooting in English limit the growth of the industry in Spain,” Barrois suggests. “It’s the kind of old-fashioned protectionism that Spanish, as a language, does not need.”

‘The limitations for shooting in English limit the growth of the industry in Spain’ Ghislain Barrois, Telecinco Cinema

Dramatic locations The increased tax rebate for international film and high-end TV productions announced last year (15% for Spain, rising to 35% for the Canary Islands) is ensuring Spain remains one of Europe’s busiest shooting destinations.

After filming some of season five of Game Of Thrones in the Moorish palaces of Andalusia, HBO returned to Spain for season six, filming in locations including the semidesert area of Bardenas Reales in the southern region of Navarre as well as the medieval city of Girona in the north. Last year also saw 20th Century Fox’s Assassin’s Creed, directed by Justin Kurzel and starring Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender, shoot in Andalusia.

The dramatic volcanic scenery of the Canary Islands has recently attracted Ridley Scott’s Exodus and Ron Howard’s In The Heart Of The Sea. In the latter it stood in for the Ecuadorian coast. Now, the Canary Islands are hosting Lennart Ruff ’s US-UK sci-fi thriller The Titan, starring Taylor Schils ling and Sam Worthington. n

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Strong titles and successful promotional initiatives are helping to drive admissions. Elisabet Cabeza reports

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panish box-office receipts rose 9.7% to $618m (¤572m) and admissions increased by 8.6% in 2015. They were boosted by hit local film Spanish Affair 2, and strong performances from Minions, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World and Inside Out. The market share of local films was 18.9% compared to a record-breaking 25.5% in 2014.

But this is still the second biggest slice of the market for Spanish titles since 1997.

Local distributors are confident the box office will keep growing in 2016 with the release of highly anticipated Spanish films including JA Bayona’s A Monster Calls, Daniel Calparsoro’s To Steal From A Thief, Alberto Rodriguez’s Smoke And Mirrors and Fernando Trueba’s The Queen Of Spain.

Spanish Affair 2 (Ocho Apellidos Catalanes) dominated the headlines at the end of 2015. Released in November, the local comedy smash, produced by LaZona Films and Telecinco Cinema and distributed by Universal Pictures International Spain, was the biggest film of the year with a gross of $34.7m (¤32m). It had grossed $40.6m by early February 2016.

Most of the hit local films have TV partners and benefit from extensive advertising on the small screen. “The fact broadcasting compa-

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nies have realised the potential of theatrical releases is crucial,” says Ramon Colom, president of the producer’s association FAPAE. Fernando Lopez Puig, the head of film and fiction at public broadcaster TVE, agrees: “The wall between film fiction and TV fiction is thinner, there’s more interaction and that’s good for all of us.”

But it’s not only about big marketing budgets. “The productions that have managed to achieve a big theatrical success owe it to the stories they tell and how [they are told],” says Mercedes Gamero, CEO of Atresmedia Cine, co-producer of Marshland, the recent hit Palm Trees In The Snow and the upcoming The Queen Of Spain.

Attracting audiences Theatres too have been playing their part.

Cinemas have been offering discounts and there have been successful initiatives such as the ‘fiesta del cine’. Held twice a year, the promotional initiative offers cheaper tickets to attract younger audiences and tackle the impact of the 21% VAT on all cinema tickets.

In November, some 2 million tickets were sold in three days.

“The average price of a cinema ticket is lower than four years ago but the perception among audiences is that going to the cinema

Spanish Affair 2 was Spain’s top-grossing film of 2015

‘We need bigger budgets to make films visually attractive enough so people want to leave their sofa to go to the cinema’ Fernando Bovaira, Mod Producciones

is still expensive,” says Miguel Morales, who runs Wanda Films with his brother Jose Maria and heads up distribution for the company.

The tax on cinema tickets is part of a government levy on all cultural products in Spain.

Distributors and exhibitors claim it is the highest of its kind in the EU. Some producers, including Mod Producciones’ Fernando Bovaira, argue: “We need bigger budgets to make films visually attractive enough so people want to leave their TV set and their sofa to go to the cinema.”

In an effort to limit the damage from Spain’s widespread piracy, some distributors have signed deals with VoD platforms such as Filmin. It hosts more than 6,000 features and is the first to offer films at a flat rate.

Around 70% of its content is European films such as A Second Chance, Pride and Amy, and subscriptions grew by 30% in 2015, despite competition from Netflix and Movistar Plus.

The streaming platforms could prove an effective alternative to the piracy considered commonplace in Spain, even though the prosecution of offenders is a persistent demand across the industry. All three platforms have moved into film production, forging strategic links with the theatrical distributors, as the TV broadcasters, Atresmes dia and Telecinco, have done before them. n

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Getting into LaZona Local hits Spanish Affair and Spanish Affair 2 have given LaZona Films the confidence to expand into television, producer Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson tells Elisabet Cabeza

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roducer Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson co-founded LaZona Films with his brother Ignacio in 2003. In the past decade, the company has become a major player in Spain, producing record-breaking hits such as Emilio Martinez-Lazaro’s 2014 comedy Spanish Affair, which is the biggest Spanish film of all time at the local box office. Its sequel, Spanish Affair 2, opened late last year and is the highest-grossing film of 2015 with $40m (¤37m) and counting.

Both films were directed by MartinezLazaro and are Spanish versions of French fish-out of-water hit comedy Welcome To The Sticks. They each have fun with regional stereotypes and cultural differences. The first Spanish Affair focused on a fun-loving young man from Andalucia, played by popular stand-up comedian Dani Rovira. He falls for a more serious Basque girl (Clara Lago) and travels north to the Basque country to meet her parents. Spanish Affair 2 sees the action move to Catalonia.

“The success of Spanish Affair and Spanish Affair 2 has given us muscle enough to tackle two features a year and to start working on something we had been longing to do for a long time — producing TV series,” says Salazar-Simpson. The company is working with Movistar Plus on a project to be directed by Enrique Urbizu (No Rest For The Wicked) that will shoot later this year.

“The arrival of Netflix and Movistar Plus,

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and their goal of producing TV series more in the line of what HBO is doing, has been a great incentive for us,” says Salazar-Simpson.

LaZona is now in post-production on the feature Plan De Fuga, directed by Inaki Dorronsoro, whose credits include The Distance.

The thriller stars Luis Tosar and is a co-production with Atresmedia Cine.

Two further films are set to shoot this year.

The first is Vicente Villanueva’s comedy Toc Toc, based on a play by Laurent Baffie about six characters who meet in a psychologist’s waiting room. LaZona is producing, with Atresmedia Cine as co-producer.

The other is Coastland, the feature debut of UK-born film-maker Ben Gordon, who grew up in Spain. “It’s a story set in the Costa del Sol that portrays three different worlds — the one of the natives, people that changed their traditional rural life with the arrival of tourism; the British who set sail to establish themselves under the sun; and the illegal immigrants who also get to the coast,” Salazar-Simpson explains.

LaZona is also developing a script by The Ninth Gate writer Enrique Urbizu and the second feature by Oscar-nominated Esteban Crespo, a thriller called Black Beach set in Madrid, Paris and Guinea. a third affair Salazar-Simpson does not rule out a third Spanish Affair. “We are certainly thinking about it,” he reveals. “But the next step is to

make sure we can do it. Ensure we have a good screenplay and the agreement of the director and cast to work on it again. Nobody is going to commit to another sequel if we don’t have a powerful story.

“I have to be passionate about a project,” he adds. “It has to become a bit of an obsession in my life to make sure it’s going to be made.

Then I look into ways of financing it.”

‘I have to be passionate about a project. It has to become a bit of an obsession’ Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson, LaZona Films

Time of opportunity He believes it is a good time to be making films in Spain. “Spanish cinema has proved that all films are possible, never mind the language, the genre, the budget, the story,” he says. “They are so varied… they range from [JA Bayona’s] The Impossible to Spanish Affair.”

Like many Spanish producers, SalazarSimpson would like to see the government make changes to the rules surrounding the level of public funding and tax incentives available per project which, when combined, cannot exceed 50% of a film’s budget.

“If that were changed, things would be easier,” suggests Salazar-Simpson, who points out it is up to film-makers to make films that audiences will pay to watch.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a mainstream movie for a big audience or an auteur film for a smaller audience,” he says. “As producers we have to work towards international coproductions, for better tax incentives. We are s doing it and it’s working.” n

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A monster year Among the most anticipated Spanish productions of the year are a Paleolithic period drama, an animated family favourite and a regal role for Penelope Cruz. Profiles by Elisabet Cabeza A Monster Calls

beloved grandfather. A Spain-Germany co-production between Juan Gordon’s Morena Films and Match Factory Productions, The Olive Tree will be released

by Entertainment One in Spain in May. Even The Rain won the Panorama audience award at the Berlinale in 2010.

Dir JA Bayona A Monster Calls completes Bayona’s trilogy exploring motherhood, after The Orphanage and The Impossible. Patrick Ness has adapted his own novel about a boy who seeks refuge in a fantasy world to deal with bullying and his mother’s illness. The English-language film, which shot in Spain and the UK, stars Liam Neeson, Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver and Lewis MacDougall, and is a Spain-US co-production between Apaches Entertainment with Telecinco Cinema, Peliculas La Trini, Participant Media, River Road Entertainment and Lionsgate. A Monster Calls is set for release in the autumn and will be distributed in Spain by Universal Pictures International, in the US by Focus and in the UK via eOne.

Contact Seville Films International sevilleinternational@filmsseville.com

Oro Dir Agustin Diaz Yanes Diaz Yanes has adapted a short story by popular Spanish author Arturo PerezReverte about an expedition led by conquistadors Lope de Aguirre and Nunez de Balboa in the Amazon jungle in the 16th century. Set to star Oscar Jaenada and Barbara Lennie, Oro is being produced by Atresmedia Cine, Sony Pictures Spain and Apache Films. It is in pre-production and will shoot later this year. Diaz Yanes’ 2006 film Alatriste was also based on a story by Perez-Reverte.

Sony Pictures International has worldwide rights.

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Abracadabra Dir Pablo Berger Berger’s silent, black-and-white Blancanieves was a surprise critical success in 2012 and dominated the Goyas that year. His follow-up again stars Maribel Verdu, this time as a housewife determined to fight the spirit that has possessed her husband. Set to shoot this year, Abracadabra is a co-production between Spain’s Arcadia Motion Pictures and Atresmedia Cine with France’s Noodles Production. Sony Pictures Spain has local rights.

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Altamira Dir Hugh Hudson This period drama sees Antonio Banderas as the man who discovered the exceptional Palaeolithic cave paintings of Altamira, Spain, in the 19th century.

Chariots Of Fire director Hudson is back behind the camera for the first time on a feature since I Dreamed Of Africa in 2000. The English-language film is a Spanish production for 20th Century Fox and is produced by Morena Films’ Lucrecia Botin and Alvaro Longoria,

Contact Sony Pictures www.sonypictures.com

The Queen Of Spain Dir Fernando Trueba

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Oscar winners Trueba (Belle Epoque) and Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) reunite 18 years after The Girl Of Your Dreams for a sequel, the muchawaited The Queen Of Spain (La Reina De Espana). Trueba, who directs and produces through Atresmedia Cine, starts shooting The Queen Of Spain this month. The film picks up the story of fictional Spanish film star Macarena Granada, played by Cruz, who was seen fleeing Nazi Germany at the end of The Girl Of Your Dreams. Universal Pictures has Spanish rights.

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with Andy Paterson of the UK’s Sympathetic Ink and Alexandra Lebret of France’s Mare Nostrum. Fox is opening Altamira in Spain in April.

Contact Morena Films morenafilms@morenafilms.com

Julieta Dir Pedro Almodovar Emma Suarez and Adriana Ugarte star respectively as the older and younger Julieta, a teacher who wants to get back in touch with her daughter to explain all the secrets she has kept for the past 30 years. The film is scheduled to be released locally in March by Warner

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Bros Spain. Sony Pictures Classics has US rights. Originally called Silence, Almodovar renamed the film to avoid a clash with Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film of the same name.

Dir Iciar Bollain Following their award-wining collaboration on Even The Rain in 2010, director Bollain and UK screenwriter Paul Laverty have reteamed for this story of a spirited young woman named Alma who is determined to give hope to her

Smoke And Mirrors Dir Alberto Rodriguez Last year, Rodriguez savoured success with Marshland, which picked up 10 Goyas, excellent reviews and $8m at the local box office. Now he is back with »

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Smoke And Mirrors (El Hombre De Las Mil Caras), a corruption thriller pulled from recent headlines. Biutiful’s Eduard Fernandez stars as notorious secret agent Francisco Paesa. The film is being produced by Atresmedia Cine, Zeta Zinema, Atipica Films and Sacromonte.

Warner Bros will release in Spain.

Contact Film Factory v.canales@filmfactory.es

Tad, The Lost Explorer: The Hero Returns Dirs Enrique Gato, David Alonso The animated sequel to Tad, The Lost Explorer returns to the adventures of the wannabe archaeologist. The original grossed $19m (¤18m) in Spain in 2012.

Co-director Gato directed the original instalment and last year’s hit animation Capture The Flag.

Tad, The Lost Explorer: The Hero Returns will be produced by Telecinco Cinema, Telefonica Studios,

4 Cats Pictures, Lightbox Entertainment and Ikiru Films. Paramount Pictures has worldwide rights.

Contact Ikiru Films www.ikirufilms.com

To Steal From A Thief Dir Daniel Calparsoro Two superstars of Latin cinema, Spain’s Luis Tosar (Cell 211) and Argentina’s Rodrigo de la Serna (The Motorcycle Diaries), head the cast of this political thriller, centring around a bank heist that falls foul to unexpected complications. To Steal From A Thief is written by Jorge Guerricaechevarria (The Oxford Murders) and produced by Telecinco Cinema, Vaca Films and Morena Films. Fox is handling the theatrical release, set for March in Argentina and Spain.

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Contact Film Factory v.canales@filmfactory.es (Left) To Steal From A Thief

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Uncertain Glory Dir Agusti Villaronga Villaronga and producer Isona Passola join forces again after the critically acclaimed Black Bread (Pa Negre) to adapt Uncertain Glory, the classic Catalan novel about the Spanish Civil War, by Joan Sales. The project is a labour of love for Villaronga and Passola, and shooting is scheduled to begin in April.

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SPOTLIGHT HANWAY FILMS

A year to remember Thanks to Carol, Brooklyn and Anomalisa, 2015 proved to be a banner year for UK sales agent HanWay Films.

The company’s key executives explain how patience has paid dividends. Andreas Wiseman reports

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t was an all-nighter that carried on into the next day. We were exhausted,” recalls HanWay Films managing director Thorsten Schumacher about Fox Searchlight’s splashy multi-million dollar deal (brokered by CAA — Micah Green was intrinsic — and HanWay) for writer-director John Crowley’s drama Brooklyn at last year’s Sundance Film Festival.

“There is plenty of adrenaline on those all-nighters,” the Cologne-born executive enthuses. “It’s exciting when you have momentum but when you’re talking in detail about amounts and careers, especially with studios, the laughs do evaporate.”

The next day was Schumacher’s birthday and he had hoped to find an hour to hit the slopes. “[But] my wife had sent me a birthday cake so instead of going up the mountain, I ended up eating the cake with Tony [Safford] and Ray [Strache]

tionship-building helped pave the way for another multi-million dollar deal — also brokered by CAA — when Paramount swooped on global rights (excluding the UK) during Toronto.

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‘It’s exciting when you have momentum’ Thorsten Schumacher, HanWay Films

from Searchlight as we ironed out the deal. We still have those pictures.”

It has been that kind of year for HanWay: one of momentum, firsts, adrenaline, serious deal-making and justified celebration. Heady deals have been matched by stellar critical reception for films such as Carol, Brooklyn and Anomalisa. “It has been the most successful year for us to date,” says Schumacher, who joined the company in 2003, four years after it was founded by iconic producer Jeremy Thomas. Schumacher took the reins as managing director in 2010.

“Ten Indie Spirit awards, five Golden Globe nominations, 10 Oscar nominations and 15 Bafta nominations. That could be more than we’ve had in our entire history,” says Schumacher, who predicts Brooklyn will become the company’s biggest box-office performer to date, exceeding Woody Allen’s 2005 Match Point, which grossed $85m globally. The Wildgaze Films and Parallel Pictures-produced drama has already grossed $40m

Anomalisa

from its US and UK releases, with international roll-out to come.

Titles from Thomas’s production company Recorded Picture Company (RPC) — Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and Matteo Garrone’s Tale Of Tales — have also played their part (all RPC films funnel into the HanWay sales pipeline). The former, which debuted at Toronto, is amassing a cult following ahead of its UK release through Studiocanal, while the latter garnered strong notices at Cannes.

Both exemplify RPC and HanWay’s skill for building relationships.

Keeping patience Risk-taking and patience have been key to this year’s success. “Keeping distributors engaged with films, not just at markets, but 12 months of the year, is always a challenge,” says HanWay’s head of marketing Jonathan Lynch-Staunton, who orchestrated the marketing behind major festival berths across the year and who with Empire Design crafted the

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Carol promo that would heavily influence the US and UK trailers.

“There were challenges on each of our films this year,” says Schumacher. “The slate is the fruit of a lot of labour over years. In Cannes in 2012, we had scripts for Brooklyn and Carol and a treatment for Anomalisa. At that time, Sam Taylor-Johnson was on board to direct Brooklyn and John Crowley on Carol. It was a merry-goround.” The journey of Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman’s puppet-animated feature Anomalisa reinforces the point. The film took longer than expected to make and the budget altered over the years. “It was a long journey,” admits Schumacher.

“We had to keep the fire alive over years.

“We had to think hard on the right finance structure for the film,” he continues. “Whether to carve it out for sales worldwide or keep it intact for a studio.

The UK was very competitive so it made sense to go with the latter model.”

Serious stop-motion animations are not obvious studio fare but years of rela-

Strong ties A good relationship with Keith Calder’s finance outfit Snoot Entertainment, with which HanWay had worked on horror film You’re Next, helped secure Anomalisa in the first place. The Paramount deal was also helped by strong personal ties.

“When I’m in Santa Monica, Eben Davidson [Paramount’s SVP, acquisitions and productions] and I often go for a pre-market run,” says Schumacher. “We run for a couple of hours and cover everything. We discussed Anomalisa early and I knew they liked it. The film played well but it obviously wasn’t a typical studio movie.”

Trust and loyalty between sellers, producers and distributors remain essential in a sales business that has become more difficult over the years and companies have become more entrepreneurial and multi-faceted in their business models.

“With companies like [Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen’s] Number 9 Films and [Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey’s] Wildgaze, we’re often brainstorming, thinking about directors and cast,” says Schumacher. “It’s an organic process. It often evolves to the point when someone in the group pulls the trigger and says, ‘Now’s the time.’”

The integrated nature of the sizeable sales company also helps engender trust, as Thomas and Schumacher both point out. From business affairs, legal and production development to finance, sales and marketing, HanWay is as close to a one stop shop as UK sellers come.

Frequent collaborators are behind many of HanWay’s upcoming films, including See-Saw Films’ How To Talk To Girls At Parties and Number 9’s Colette.

RPC’s strong Asian ties secured a fourth collaboration with Takashi Miike on Blade Of The Immortal. “One of our key magnets is that people know us for our love of films and cinema,” concludes HanWay founder Thomas. “Businesses are run for various reasons but people s will always recognise us for that.” ■

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SPOTLIGHT TIGERLILY PRODUCTIONS

Tigerlily earns its stripes UK producers Natasha Dack-Ojumu and Nikki Parrott are celebrating a dynamic new era — and three films in Berlin. Wendy Mitchell reports

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t is a big year for UK production company Tigerlily Productions as it celebrates its 15th anniversary and has three of its new productions, Omer Fast’s Remainder, David Farr’s The Ones Below and Robert Cannan and Ross Adam’s The Lovers And The Despot,, all playing at the Berlinale.

Tigerlily’s founders Natasha DackOjumu and Nikki Parrott are taking the milestone as an opportunity to rebrand for the future — they have changed the company’s name from Tigerlily Films to Tigerlily Productions, and have set up three distinct arms for different areas of the business.

“In these 15 years, we have worked across a whole range of projects,” explains DackOjumu. “Now we’ve set up a film arm, a TV arm and a content arm. It’s a clearer proposition for people coming to the company.”

They have also been consulting with a mentor, Debbie Manners from KEO Films, as part of Nesta’s Creative Business Mentor Network.

Dack-Ojumu and Parrott met as students at London’s Royal College of Art in 1993.

They started the company together in 2000.

The beginnings were humble, as their first office was in a “broom cupboard” sublet by Metro Tartan in Wardour Street in London’s Soho. “We put in £100 [about $140] each and we have sustained ourselves over 15 years,” Parrott says proudly (they have since moved east to offices in Hackney).

During the economic downturn around 2009, the company had to downscale on some overheads and staff. Staying lean has allowed Tigerlily to work on its biggest productions to date.

The Ones Below is a relationship drama about two modern couples in London whose fates become fatally intertwined. Clémence Poésy, Stephen Campbell Moore, Laura Birn and David Morrissey star. The film marks the feature debut of theatre veteran and Hanna screenwriter Farr. It had its world premiere in Toronto’s City to City: London, and is now screening here in Panorama. Parrott produced for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily.

Remainder, the feature debut of visual artist Fast, shot in London and Berlin. Tom Sturridge stars as a young man who recovers from an accident and tries to piece together his past from fragmented memories.

Dack-Ojumu produced, in co-production with Malte Grunert of Amusement Park Film and ZDF/Arte. It premiered at the BFI

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Co-founders Nikki Parrott (left) and Natasha Dack-Ojumu

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‘Our ethos is about amazing storytelling, whether it’s a radio play or a feature film or a documentary’ Nikki Parrott, Tigerlily Productions

(Right) David Morrissey in The Ones Below

London Film Festival in October and is screening here in Panorama.

Also in Panorama is The Lovers And The Despot Despot, a documentary about a film-making couple kidnapped by Kim Jong-il, which premiered at Sundance.

Tigerlily’s future projects include another feature film with Farr now in development; multi-platform project 160 Characters — Text Me by Victoria Mapplebeck; Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Italian co-production Nico 1988,, about the last years of the singer’s life; and Brazilian co-production The Mayor Of Sao Carlos, about a favela gang boss.

The company’s previous fiction features included Ben Hopkins’ The Market,, Xiaolu Guo’s She, A Chinese, Amit Gupta’s Jadoo and the MTV Transit project Transit.

Documentaries for TV or theatrical have included Hopkins’ 37 Uses For A Dead Sheep, Jeanie Finlay’s Goth Cruise, Matthew Barbato’s Alexis Arquette — She’s My Brother Brother, Matt O’Casey’s Plus Tubular Bells, Beadie Finzi’s Only When I Dance Dance, and David Morris and Jacqui Morris’s McCullin.

The ‘content’ banner represents their work across anything from news segments for TV (including a recent piece for the BBC’s Newsnight about the experiences of older transgender people) to digital projects and branding work, to a recent foray into radio drama with Penny Woolcock’s A Pact Of Silence Silence.

Working across platforms is key. “We are developing more feature films now, and we’ll be very careful about who we work with on them,” Parrott says. “Our younger directors will probably start with more TV.” Dack-Ojumu says the fluidity to work between film and TV has changed since the company started. “Nobody wants to be in a box anymore. Look at Steven Soderbergh, coming out of film, working in TV, that’s a strong indication.”

Parrott agrees: “Our ethos is about amazing storytelling whether it’s a radio play or a feature film or a documentary.”

The company has become known for working with a dynamic mix of stories from diverse film-makers; supporting female film-makers; making international connections; and being especially strong with subjects relating to music and dance.

Part of the company’s ethos is sharing the knowledge it has gleaned in the past 15 years, and having an expanded family of collaborators at Tigerlily, some of whom started as interns and are now professional researchers or directors.

“We need to help women coming up,” Dack-Ojumu says. “I’m keen to demystify the processes behind financing and production.”

Parrott adds: “It’s the best job in the world, every day is slightly different. It’s been a great 15 years and it s will be another great 15 years.” ■ Natasha Dack-Ojumu is a speaker on Screen’s EFM panel ‘Producers As Entrepreneurs’ at 4pm on February 14 at Gropius Mirror Restaurant

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The Kaiser’s Last Kiss

New and improved Belgian’s revamped tax shelter is proving as popular as ever with both producers and investors, although competition is looming from the Netherlands and France. Geoffrey Macnab reports

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hen the Belgian film tax shelter system was reformed just over a year ago, there were worries among producers that its glory days would come to an abrupt end. This government-approved system, set up in 2002, has generated a huge boom in film financing and production in Belgium. Hundreds of millions of euros have been raised through the tax shelter, helping finance scores of Belgian and international films, some of them on a very large budget. The Artist, Grace Of Monaco, The Devil’s Double, Suite Francaise and John Wick are among the high-profile films to have used tax shelter money.

For at least a few investors though, the system appeared to have turned sour.

Late last year, a spate of articles ran in the Belgian press about the Antwerp-based producer and tax shelter specialist Corsan, and the troubles it was facing with its 2013 action thriller Killing Season, starring John Travolta and Robert De Niro. The film was a disaster at the US box office, grossing less than $40,000. It was reported that Belgium’s Special Tax Inspectorate, the prosecutor’s office and the financial regulator FSMA were looking closely at the activities of Corsan.

One report claimed 500 Belgian professionals and companies did not receive the promised tax certificates for the “millions” of euros they invested in Killing Season. Corsan

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CEO Paul Breuls disputes this. He acknowledges the Belgian tax authorities have refused to issue tax certificates to investors — but not nearly as many as 500.

“As a consequence, we have launched proceedings against the Ministry of Finance to protect the rights of the investors who have not been given the tax certificates,” says Breuls. “We believe the reasons why the Belgian tax authorities have not issued a certificate yet are erroneous. They are, according to us, the result of a confused situation.”

Abuse-proofing the system Whatever happens in the Corsan case, it is clear the way the tax shelter system works has changed dramatically. And the fact the Netherlands has set up its own cash rebate incentive means the Belgian industry has new competition across the border.

The upside, according to some local observers, is that the system is now close to abuse-proof. More of the money is reaching the productions.

“It is more simple and more transparent,” says Marijke Vandebuerie, COO and CFO for Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF).

The old system was seen by critics as being more favourable to investors and intermediaries than producers. Budgets, some claim, were artificially inflated because of the involvement of so many investors and intermediaries, all

‘The legislative changes have had more of an effect on the fund-raising side than production.

We’re absolutely delighted’ Adrian Politowski, Umedia

looking for a financial advantage. There have been accounts of rogue companies applying for tax certificates for one film and then, when it was rejected, using their investors’ money for a different film altogether. There were also reportedly cases of companies invoicing themselves — or invoicing companies that were their own offshoots. There have also been tensions between French-speaking and Flemish-speaking producers over the way the tax shelter was used.

Under the new system, the production company and the intermediaries need to be approved by the Minister of Finance. Any potential abuses of the system should therefore be ironed out at the very start of the process. There are far more strict controls on Belgian spend.

The question now is how the major taxshelter players are adjusting to the new rules.

At a time of very low interest rates, the shelter, which gives investors a tax benefit of around 10% on their investment, has obvious attractions. According to Adrian Politowski, CEO and co-founder of Brussels-based Umedia, a specialist at raising tax shelter money, it has actually been easier to raise money than before the system was overhauled.

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year ever,” says Politowski. He claims Umedia raised just over $45.7m (¤42m) through the new system in 2015 — in real terms, 50% more than in 2014.

Umedia’s slate includes The Kaiser’s Last Kiss starring Lily James, Jai Courtney and Christopher Plummer, produced by Egoli Tossell. The film received around $3.3m (¤3m) from Umedia and did 100% of production and post-production in Belgium.

Overdrive, starring Scott Eastwood and produced by Taken director Pierre Morel, had a budget of more than $21.8m (¤20m), of which about 10% came via Umedia.

Meanwhile, Tommy Wirkola’s $27m What Happened To Monday, starring Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close and Willem Dafoe, and produced by Vendome and Raffaella de Laurentiis, is also receiving 10% of its budget from Umedia and is posting in Belgium.

Reassuring measures Politowski suggests the changes to the tax shelter have given confidence to corporate investors. The system is now more straightforward — and there is reassurance the Ministry of Finance is vetting companies using it.

Umedia recently closed its London-based international sales arm but that, Politowski

‘The biggest problem is not that the Belgian tax shelter has changed. It’s that the tax credit in France was raised’ Genevieve Lemal, Scope Invest

says, has nothing to do with the Belgian tax shelter. “One of the things we realised was that although the sales arm was very active, it was really selling films we were not producing. Films we were producing or co-lead producing often ended up being sold by someone else.”

Umedia’s Brussels-based rival Scope Invest has also remained very active since the overhaul of the tax system, raising $18.5m (¤17m) last year. (Ironically, both Scope and Umedia originally opposed elements of the overhaul and lobbied against them, but both claim to be prospering since the changes were made.) Scope recently announced its involvement in a new slate of films including Ecosse’s Hampstead, directed by Joel Hopkins and starring Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson.

“The biggest problem in the [Belgian] market is not that the tax shelter has changed. The biggest problem is that the tax credit in France was raised,” suggests Genevieve Lemal, CEO of Scope Invest. “We expect to see fewer projects from France, which is why we are going to work a lot more with the UK and Scandinavia.”

Scope has also started developing its own projects, which it produces itself — and for

which it raises tax shelter financing. Films it has on the boil include Edith Wharton adaptation The Custom Of The Country, to be directed by Sophie Barthes (Madame Bovary) and which is now casting, and The African From Greenland, which Pascal Plisson is set to direct. Both are English-language films.

Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children starring Samuel L Jackson, Eva Green and Judi Dench also shot briefly in Belgium, with Scope as line producer but, as a US studio film, it was not permitted to access tax shelter financing.

The big players such as Scope and Umedia have adapted to the new legislation. Intermediaries including BNP Paribas, ING and Casa Kafka are increasingly prominent in tax shelter financing. Thanks to the tax incentive, there are also regional film funds and an increasing number of local production companies looking to co-produce. The system has now been extended to include opera and theatre as well as audiovisual works. Investors are drawn to the tax shelter for simple financial reasons — and it seems that in spite of the abuses that gave the system such a mixed reputation in the past, the tax shelter s is now here to stay. n

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MEETING POINT & DAILY SESSIONS AT MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU, 2ND FLOOR Stand #201 & EFM Producers Hub Phone: +49 30 400425-440 meetthedocs-efm@berlinale.de Find the whole panel programme, the “Docs Spotlight” selection (by CPH:DOX, IDFA and DOK Leipzig) and further details on www.efm-berlinale.de

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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 kulturEn 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 FirE at SEa

(Italy, France) 107mins.

Dir: Gianfranco Rosi.

Cast: Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Samuele Caruana, Pietro Bartolo, Giuseppe Fragapane, Maria Signorello, Francesco Paterna, Francesco Mannino, Maria Costa.

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 press only Berlinale Palast

09:30 HEdi

(Tunisia, Belgium, France) Acrobates Films. 88mins.

Dir: Mohamed Ben Attia.

Cast: Majd Mastoura, Rym Ben Messaoud, Sabah Bouzouita, Hakim Boumessoudi, Omnia Ben Ghali.

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 the pain of freedom.

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

inErtia

(Israel) 72mins. Dir: Idan Haguel. Cast: Ilanit Ben Yaakov, Mohammad Bakri, Galia Yshay, Ami Weinberg, Loutof Nousser, Dudu Niv, Florence Bloch, Gita Munte.

A woman wakes up from a nightmare with a shriek and realises that her husband is no longer there. As misfortune and liberation run in parallel, a somnambulant search begins, unfolding before the backdrop of a society that seems itself strangely numb.

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(US) Kanguruh-FilmGmbH. 112mins. Dir: Jeff Nichols. Cast: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Jaeden Lieberher, Adam Driver, Bill Camp, Scott Haze, Sam Shepard, Paul Sparks.

A loving father and his eight-year-old son, who possesses extraordinary powers, are on the run from religious extremists and high-ranking government officials. Every mile they cover brings them closer to the boy’s destiny.

Competition Zoo Palast 1

10:00 tHE tEntH Man

(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.

10:00 a HEavy HEart

(Germany) 109mins.

Dir: Thomas Stuber.

Cast: Peter Kurth, Lina Wendel, Lena Lauzemis, Edin Hasanovic.

The touching story of a lone wolf who takes a long time to find the meaning of his life. lOla at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2

FukuSHiMa, MOn aMOur

(Germany) 104mins.

Dir: Doris Dorrie. Cast : Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Moshe Cohen, Nami Kamata, Aya Irizuki.

A young German woman trying to escape her problems makes friends with an old geisha living in Fukushima’s prohibited area. Doris Dorrie’s tale describes two women learning how to liberate themselves from the prison of their memories.

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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.

Panorama Special CinemaxX 7

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(Turkey) 94mins.

Dir: Barıs 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 HkW

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11:00 HuMidity

(Serbia, Netherlands, Greece) 113mins.

Dir: Nikola Ljuca. Cast: Milos Timotijevic, Tamara Krcunovic, Maria Kraakman.

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his brother in the parental home and tries to find his way in a world of men.

(US) Kanguruh-FilmGmbH. 112mins. Dir: Jeff Nichols. Cast: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Jaeden Lieberher, Adam Driver, Bill Camp, Scott Haze, Sam Shepard, Paul Sparks.

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

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(Israel, Germany, US) 97mins. Dir: Udi Aloni.

Cast: Tamer Nafar, Samar Qupty, Salwa Nakkara, Ayed Fadel, Sameh ‘SAZ’ Zakout.

Two young Palestinian musicians fight against the oppression by the 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.

(Chile, Argentina) 91mins. 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.

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(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 CineStar 7

guest at all the best upperclass parties, a beautiful wife by his side. But when she suddenly vanishes without warning, his life and his self-image begin to come slowly undone.

firmly believes that the Germans will win the war.

When the Russians invade, his world collapses.

Forum press only Cinemaxx 6

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MidniGht SPeCiAl

(US) Kanguruh-FilmGmbH. 112mins. Dir: Jeff Nichols. Cast: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Jaeden Lieberher, Adam Driver, Bill Camp, Scott Haze, Sam Shepard, Paul Sparks.

Competition haus der Berliner Festspiele

the RuSSiAnS ARe COMinG

(German Democratic Republic) 95mins.

Dir: Heiner Carow.

Cast: Gert Krause-Melzer, Viktor Perewalow, Dorothea Meissner, Norbert Christian, Karla Runkehl, Wsewolod Safanow, Rolf Ludwig, Lissy Tempelhof.

In the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic, 16-year-old Gunter

Berlinale Classics Cinemaxx 8

(Brazil, Germany) Cicero Films. 84mins. Dir: Sergio Andrade, Fabio Baldo. Cast: Anderson Tikuna, Rita Carelli, BegeMuniz, Emanuel Aragao, Severiano Kedassere, Fidelis Baniwa, Kay Sara, Ana Sabrina, Arnaldo Barreto.

Anderson is a member of an Amazonian tribe but lives with his sister and her sick daughter in Manaus. When the shaman plans to perform a ritual on him, two worlds collide for Anderson.

Panorama Special CineStar 8

11:30 hOMO SAPienS See box, above

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Germany) 10mins.

Dir: Werner Nekes.

Cast: Werner Nekes, Dore O.

he has something to live for.

(Federal Republic of Germany) 11mins. Dir: Klaus Lemke. Cast: Lotti Ohnesorge, Les Olvedi.

MeteOR StReet

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(Federal Republic of Germany) 15mins.

Dir: Gerd Winkler.

Cast: Hanns Dieter Husch, Inge Wagner. » FeRRARi

(Germany) 84mins.

Dir: Aline Fischer. Cast: Hussein Eliraqui, Oktay Inanc Ozdemir, Bodo Goldbeck, Sebastian Gunther, Denis Golme.

Mohammed, 18 years old, fled with his parents years ago from the Palestinian war zone to Germany.

Now he lives alone with

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.

Perspektive deutsches Kino Colosseum 1

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(Federal Republic of Germany) 8mins. Dir: Michael Klier. » the MAChine

(Federal Republic of Germany) 11mins.

Dir: Wolfgang Urchs. » WinteR hOPS

(Federal Republic of Germany) 17mins. Dir: Wolfgang Ramsbott.

Cast: Joachim Nottke.

Six short films from 1965-66 that experiment with new narrative, documentary or formal forms of expression, whereby they are all based on literary texts, structural principles or achievements in genre cinema.

Retrospektive Zeughauskino

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(Germany, Canada) 101mins. Dir: Florian Cossen. Cast: Alex Ozerov, Bea Santos, Krista Bridges, Sebastian Schipper.

A kid with a death wish gets a brain tumour. Now

(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

Montana-Haroche, Lina Benzerti.

Unexpected events force Natalie, an enthusiastic Parisian philosophy teacher, to question her life and reinvent herself. A powerful and yet also ironic portrait of a woman in search of the meaning of life.

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Mpinda, Jose Manuel Mendes, Cleonise Malulo, Domingos Sita, Miguel Delfina (Page).

In this loose adaptation of the titular Joseph Conrad story, two inexperienced colonial officials are transferred to a remote ivory trading post on the Congo River. As they wait for the goods to arrive, their isolation brings with it mistrust and insanity.

Forum akademie der Kunste

Sturges, Natalie Miles, Marion Fisher, Janilee Svardstal, Sarah Kei Brooks, Osode Momoi, Melody Thi, Mimosa Pagkaliwangan.

An ageing prostitute accused of murder must now be assessed by a therapist. In a series of bizarre sessions, the different fragments of her memory emerge: a fatal fire, an unwanted pregnancy, a violent lover, truth or lies?

Forum CineStar 8

HanaSareru gang

cycle of disappointment, hypocrisy and injustice begins.

(Japan) 85mins.

Dir: Nobuhiro Suwa.

Cast: Takayuki Kamura, Rie Ito. This story of a fun-loving young woman who teams up with two petty gangsters already gives away director Suwa’s predilection for the style and motifs of the Nouvelle Vague.

Panorama Special Cubix 9

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Festival & Press 12:30 War On everyOne

(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, with great music and two male leads who give it their all in the pursuit of real evil.

Panorama Special CinemaxX 7

War On everyOne

Carla

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(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.

13:00 rag unIOn See box, right

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(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 press only CinemaxX 6

13:30 anD tHen, It’S bye-bye!

(Federal Republic of Germany) 13mins.

Dir: Marran Gosov.

Cast: Stanislaw Ledinek, Nora Minor. retrospektive CinemaxX 8

retrospektive Zeughauskino

tHe letter

(Federal Republic of Germany) 80mins. Dir: Vlado Kristl. Cast: Vlado Kristl, Horst Acher, Horst Manfred Adloff, Peter Berling, Boris Borresholm.

While attempting to deliver a letter, the self-sacrificing carrier gets himself into some awkward and dangerous situations. An anarchic

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revue full of jokes, rants and fisticuffs directed by the enfant terrible of ‘Young German Film’. retrospektive CinemaxX 8

14:00 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.

It is autumn. 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.

(Portugal) 121mins. Dir: Hugo Vieira da Silva.

Cast: Nuno Lopes, Ivo Alexandre, David Caracol, Ines Helena, Antonio

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 CinemaxX 5

(Japan) Barzegar Production. 72mins.

Dir: Kaori Momoi.

Cast: Kaori Momoi, Yugo Saso, Ayako Fujitani, Chris Harrison, Brian

PartIng glanCeS

(US) Filmkantine UG. 90mins. Dir: Bill Sherwood. Cast: Richard Ganoung, John Bolger, Steve Buscemi, Adam

Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 5

all OF a SuDDen

(Germany, Netherlands, France) Revolution Films. 112mins.

Dir: Aslı Ozge. Cast: Sebastian Hulk, Julia Jentsch, Hanns Zischler, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Luise Heyer, Natalia Belitski, Lea Draeger, Christoph Gawenda, Atef Vogel.

Thirtysomething Karsten leads a well-ordered life in a small town in Germany until one late night one wrong decision throws his whole life into question. A

Festival & Press 13:00 rag unIOn

(Russian Federation) 97mins.

Dir: Mikhail Mestetskiy. Cast: Vassily Butkevich, Ivan Yankovskiy, Pavel Chinarev, Alexander Pal, Anastasiya Pronina, Fyodor Lavrov, Vladislav Vetrov, Elena Nesterova.

The three young men from the radical Rag Union are getting ready to take power.

Vania, a reserved teenager, wants to join them, even though he’s unclear as to what it’s all about: world revolution, subversive action art or pure megalomania? generation 14plus HKW

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American who studied at the University of Virginia during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Festival & Press 15:00 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 Nathan, Kathy Kinney, Patrick Tull, Yolande Bavan, Andre Morgan.

Robert is about to move from New York to Kenya. He leaves behind Michael, who still harbours feelings for his ex, Nick, who is battling AIDS. Bill Sherwood’s only film remains one of the key works of independent New York cinema of the 1980s. teddy 30 international

shOrt stAy

(US) 61mins. Dir: Ted Fendt. Cast: Mike Maccherone, Elizabeth Soltan, Mark Simmons, Marta Sicinska, Meaghan Lydon, Dan Faro, Calvin Engime, Rob Fini.

Mike still lives with his mother and spends his time drifting through the New Jersey suburbs. When a job and an apartment in Philadelphia fall into his lap, it seems like a new start. You can change your context, but you can’t change yourself.

portrait of the writer, painter and art critic John Berger. Four likeminded artists pay him a visit in his domicile in the French Alps to share views on the fundamental things in life.

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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. The unfamiliar flat is transformed into a realm of riddles and adventure, one which mirrors the little girl’s worries and desires.

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siv sLeePs AstrAy

(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.

(Sweden, Netherlands) 79mins. Dir: Catti Edfeldt, Lena Hanno

Panorama special international press only Cinestar 3

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14:30 unCLe hOWArd

(UK, US) 96mins.

Dir: Aaron Brookner.

Cast: William S Burroughs, Jim Jarmusch, Robert Wilson, Tom DiCillo, Sara Driver, Brad Gooch, Madonna, James Grauerholz, Darryl Pinckney, Frederic Mitterrand.

Aaron Brookner’s desire to preserve the legacy of his uncle who died at the age of 34 leads to the discovery of an incredible archive documenting the cultural revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

Panorama documents Cinestar 7

15:00 BOris WithOut BeAtriCe

(Canada) 93mins.

Dir: Denis Cote.

Cast: James Hyndman, Simone-Elise Girard, Denis Lavant, Isolda Dychauk, Dounia Sichov, Laetitia Isambert-Denis, Bruce La Bruce, Louise Laprade.

Businessman Boris Malinovsky goes through his life with ruthless arrogance. But his world begins to falter when his wife falls into a depression and a mysterious stranger confronts him with questions he would rather not answer.

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

the iLLinOis PArABLes

(US) 60mins. Dir: Deborah Stratman. Cast: C Felton Jennings II, Joshua Frieman, Anna Toborg, Jose Oubrerie, Daniel

Verdier, David Gatten.

A suite of Midwestern parables that question the historical role belief has played in ideology and national identity.

Forum expanded Kino Arsenal 1

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(US) Road Movies.

10mins. Dir: Claudrena N Harold, Kevin Jerome Everson. Cast: Ricky Goldman, Richard Warner, Ryan Leach.

Tells the story of the AntiVietnam War Movement from the perspective of James R Roebuck, a northern-born African

(Portugal, France) 125mins. Dir: Salome Lamas.

La Rinconada is located at an altitude of 5,100m in the Peruvian Andes on the edge of a gold mine. A formally radical montage of spectacular images and sound recordings makes apparent the extreme conditions in which people here try to eke out a fortune from bare rock.

Forum press only CinemaxX 6

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.

Competition (Out of Competition) press only CinemaxX 7

15:30 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 as he is. When an unpleasant rent dispute turns their parents into adversaries, the two boys conspire to stage a headstrong protest.

Generation Kplus Zoo Palast 1

16:00 AGnes

(Germany) Center Stage Productions. 100mins.

Dir: Johannes Schmid.

Cast: Odine Johne, Stephan Kampwirth, Sonja Baum.

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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KiKi

(Sweden, US) Shochiku Co. 100mins. Dir: Sara Jordeno.

Presents the world of the young black LGBT community in New York by taking a look at the balls in which

Festival & Press 16:00 Fire At seA

(Italy, France) 107mins.

Dir: Gianfranco Rosi. Cast: Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Samuele Caruana, Pietro Bartolo, Giuseppe Fragapane, Maria Signorello, Francesco Paterna, Francesco Mannino, Maria Costa.

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.

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the participants fight for trophies in voguing competitions and by listening to proponents talking about their dreams and lives.

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(Australia) kNow Productions.

77mins. Dir: Rosemary Myers.

Cast: Bethany Whitmore, Harrison Feldman, Matthew Whittet, Amber McMahon, Eamon Farren, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Imogen Archer, Maiah Stewardson.

The last thing Greta wants for her 15th birthday is a surprise party.

Given the choice, she’d simply run away from it all far away into the forest, which is inhabited by mystical creatures and a fearless female warrior.

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(German Democratic Republic) 75mins.

Dir: Heiner Carow.

Cast: Ralf Strohbach, Siegfried Hochst, Horst Drinda, Arno Wyzniewski, Ralph Borgwardt.

A 10-year-old boy travels to spend the summer holidays with a group of Pioneers. Based on a children’s book by Benno Pludra, this road movie ‘avant la lettre’ is set under the vast skies of the Baltic’s Darss peninsula. retrospektive Cinemaxx 8

16:30 CarLa (CensoreD version)

(German Democratic Republic) 102mins.

Dir: Herrmann Zschoche.

Cast: Jutta Hoffmann, Jurgen Hentsch, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Inge Keller, Jorg Knochee.

The character of young, confident teacher Karla, who demands honesty from herself and everyone else, and disdains authority, was unacceptable as a protagonist in the wake of the 11th plenum.

The censored version is fragmentary and full of breaks. retrospektive Zeughauskino

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teMPestaD

(Mexico) 105mins.

Dir: Tatiana Huezo.

One woman lands in a prison run by the drug cartels, while another loses her daughter: against images of a journey through Mexico, the two testimonies are woven together into this storm-riven account of a country in the grip of organised crime.

In one of the world’s last tribal societies, a young girl breaks off an arranged marriage to run away with her lover, setting off a war that threatens the tribe’s future.

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(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 and 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.

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Who’s Gonna Love Me noW?

(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.

(Israel, UK) Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion. 84mins.

Dir: Tomer Heymann, Barak Heymann. Cast: Saar Maoz.

Singing in the London Gay Men’s Chorus gives Saar the courage for a reunion with his estranged family in Israel. A story about unexpected warmth and deeply felt rejection that incidentally illuminates the diversity of collective ways of life.

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(New Zealand) Ceska televize. 96mins. Dir: Tammy Davis. Cast: Tia-Taharoa Maipi, Stan Walker, Kherington Payne.

Tu doesn’t want to join the military — he wants to dance. When the country’s most successful crew offers the hip-hop dancer a chance, he sets out to prove himself. Parris Goebel’s brilliant choreography pushes the rhythm right up to the dramatic finale.

(Syria, Lebanon) 90mins.

Dir: Avo Kaprealian.

As the civil war rages, the Syrian-Armenian director films what’s happening on the streets of Aleppo from the windows of his housing block, connecting his own material with sound recordings and film images relating to the Armenian genocide.

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(Germany) Felt Films.

90mins. Dir: Monika Treut. Cast: Yvonne Bezerra de Mello.

Fifteen years after Monika Treut portrayed a human rights activist working with street kids in Kriegerin des Lichts, she returns to Rio de Janeiro to document the development of this alternative educational project.

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Campbell Moore, Clemence Poesy, Laura Birn.

The imminent birth of a child catapults two very different couples into a psychological reign of terror in which their sense of who they are is set to collide.

(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.

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(UK) International Dog Productions. 86mins.

Dir: David Farr. Cast: David Morrissey, Stephen

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(US) 109mins. Dir: Robert Greene. Cast: Kate Lyn Sheil.

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and the hobby film-maker each leave their mark on the voiceover.

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Festival & Press 18:30 tHe baCCHus laDy

(South Korea) Final Cut for Real ApS. 110mins.

Dir: E J-yong. Cast: Youn Yuh-jung, Chon Moo-song, Yoon Kyesang, An A-zu, Choi Hyun-jun.

Senior citizen So-young

scrapes together just enough money as a ‘Bacchus lady’ to avoid begging. When she takes little Min-ho under her roof, an unusual patchwork family is created for a short while. berlinale goes Kiez Il KIno

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HavarIe

(US) 92mins. Dir: Sonia Kennebeck.

“This is not science fiction,” says a commercial inviting young people to join the US Air Force. Indeed it is anything but a utopian vision when drones target humans in Afghanistan and other countries.

(Germany) 93mins.

Dir: Philip Scheffner.

Cast: Rhim Ibrir, Abdallah Benhamou, Leonid Savin, Guillaume Coutu-Lemaire, Emma Gillings, Terry Diamond, Jackie Kelly.

A three-minute video clip of a tiny dinghy floating in the Mediterranean is extended to feature-length.

The coastguard’s radio broadcasts, the accounts of those possibly on the boat

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1974. Kate is an actress who is now set to play Christine.

Research, interviews, wigs and contact lenses, reconstructions: just when is it exactly that acting begins?

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(Chile, US, France) Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb). 95mins. Dir: Alejandro Fernandez Almendras. Cast: Agustin Silva, Paulina Garcia, Alejandro Goic, Luis Gnecco, Daniel Alcaino, Samuel Landea, Pilar Ronderos, Dindi Jane, Isabella Costa, Augusto Schuster, Horacio Perez.

A drunken youth is involved in a hit and run — but so is the son of one of Chile’s most powerful families.

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18:00 HeaDstanD, maDam!

(Federal Republic of Germany) 82mins. Dir: Christian Rischert. Cast: Miriam Spoerri, Herbert

Fleischmann, Heinz Bennent, Lutz Berko, Helga Tolle.

A wife and mother decides to go back to work. While her husband flatly rejects the idea, her lover is more understanding. This film came down on the side of women like no other in 1966. retrospektive CinemaxX 8

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(Tunisia, Belgium, France) Acrobates Films. 88mins.

Dir: Mohamed Ben Attia.

Cast: Majd Mastoura, Rym Ben Messaoud, Sabah Bouzouita, Hakim Boumessoudi, Omnia Ben Ghali.

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.

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

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19:00 agony

Michael Ballhaus considers this psychological thriller about a sadomasochistic marriage the most important of his 15 Fassbinder films.

(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 oppression by the 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.

Homage Zeughauskino

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tHIngs to Come

(Federal Republic of Germany) 116mins.

Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Bohm, Barbara Valentin, Peter Chatel, Gisela Fackeldey, Adrian Hoven.

Unworldly Martha ends up with a husband who wants to turn her into a housewife with no will of her own. Cinematographer

(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 Montana-Haroche, Lina Benzerti.

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?

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(Canada) 93mins. Dir: Denis Cote. Cast: James Hyndman, Simone-Elise Girard, Denis Lavant, Isolda Dychauk, Dounia Sichov, Laetitia IsambertDenis, Bruce La Bruce.

Businessman Boris Malinovsky goes through his life with ruthless arrogance. But his world begins to falter when his wife falls into a depression and a mysterious stranger confronts him with questions he would rather not answer.

Competition Haus der berliner Festspiele

tHe FourtH stage

(Lebanon, UAE) 37mins.

Dir: Ahmad Ghossein.

Cast: Mouhamad Wehbi, Hajj Akil, Ali Fahes.

Traces the motivations and implications of the disappearance of a famous magician and ventriloquist named Chico, whom Ghossein assisted as a child.

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(Germany, Austria) 93mins. Dir: David Clay Diaz. Cast: Samuel Schneider, Alexander Srtschin, Alexandra Schmidt, Simon Hatzl, Laurenz Fleissner, Mercedes Echerer, Patrick Matijasevic, Martina Poel.

It is the autumn. 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.

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TomCAT

(Austria) 114mins.

Dir: Handl Klaus.

Cast: Lukas Turtur, Philipp Hochmair, Toni Thomas Stipsits, Manuel Rubey, Gerald Votava, Gabriela Hegedus.

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(Chile) 90mins.

Dir: Roberto Doveris.

Cast: Violeta Castillo, Mauricio Vaca, Juan Cano, Simon Mercado, Ernesto Melendez, Ingrid Isensee.

During the time that she

19:15 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.

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19:30 A QUIeT PAssIoN

(UK, Belgium) 125mins.

Dir: Terence Davies. Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Emma Bell, Duncan Duff.

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.

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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 HKW

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 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.

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Dog DAYs

(Hong Kong, China) Know Your City. 95mins.

Dir: Jordan Schiele. Cast: Huang Lu, Tian Mu Chen, Luo Lanshan, Xing Dan Wen, Lu Ze Xian, Zhou Lan, Xia Qi. When her boyfriend disappears with their baby son, Lulu and her gay rival Sunny set off in search of him. They finally track the child down. Should Lulu take back her son or allow him to grow up in better circumstances?

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IllegITImATe

(Romania, Poland, France) Heavy B Production. 85mins.

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Dir: Adrian Sitaru.

Cast: Alina Grigore, Robi Urs, Bogdan Albulescu, Adrian Titieni, Cristina Olteanu, Miruna Dumitrescu, Liviu Vizitiu.

When the adult children of a respected doctor find out about his past, tempers run wild. Things go from bad to worse once it emerges that the family twins are expecting a child. A drama about abortion, free will and the perversions of state intervention.

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20:00 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.

and the rejection they’ve experienced in Israel.

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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.

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(Hong Kong, China) 97mins. Dir: Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong.

Cast: Lam Ka Tung, Richie Jen, Jordan Chan, Tommy Wong Kwong Leung, Ngok Elliot, Stephen Au, Lam Suet, Vincent Wan Yeung Ming, Philip Keung, Ng Chi Hung.

Though unknown to one another, the notoriety of three infamous criminals has bred the rumour 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.

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UNCle HoWArD

(UK, US) 96mins.

Dir: Aaron Brookner.

Cast: William S Burroughs, Jim Jarmusch, Robert Wilson, Tom DiCillo, Sara Driver, Brad Gooch, Madonna, James Grauerholz, Darryl Pinckney, Frederic Mitterrand.

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We Are Never AloNe

(Czech Republic, France) Hochschule fur Film und Fernsehen ‘Konrad Wolf ’. 104mins. Dir: Petr Vaclav. Cast: Karel Roden, Lenka Vlasakova, Miroslav Hanus, Zdenek Godla, Klaudia Dudova, Daniel Doubrava.

A resentful prison guard, an unemployed hypochondriac, his troubled wife and children that yearn for a different life: a black comedy that takes on oft-drastic dimensions to convey the dark atmosphere of the Czech provinces.

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YoUNg Torless

(Federal Republic of Germany, France) 88mins. Dir: Volker Schlondorff. Cast: Mathieu Carriere, Marian Seidowsky,

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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

Festival & Press 20:00 sHePHerDs AND BUTCHers

(South Africa, US, Germany) Interior XIII. 100mins. Dir: Oliver Schmitz. Cast: Steve Coogan, Andrea Riseborough, Garion Dowds.

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? A courtroom drama that broadens into a plea against the death penalty.

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Bernd Tischer, Fred Dietz, Barbara Steele.

Boarding school pupil Torless becomes witness to the abuse suffered by another pupil at the hands of sadistic classmates. retrospektive cinemaxX 8

20:15 I, OlGa hePNarOva

(Czech Republic, Poland, Slovak Republic, France) 106mins. Dir: Tomas Weinreb, Petr Kazda.

Cast: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlat, Klara Meliskova, Marika Soposka, Juraj Nvota, Marta Mazurek.

The true story of the woman who in 1975 was the last person to be publicly executed in Czechoslovakia.

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JONaThaN

(Germany) 99mins.

Dir: Piotr J Lewandowski. Cast: Jannis Niewohner, Andre M Hennicke, Julia Koschitz, Thomas Sarbacher, Barbara Auer, Max Mauff, Leon Seidel, Ella-Maria Gollmer, Robert Alexander Baer, Romina Kuper.

Jonathan, a young farmer, devotes himself to looking after his father, who has cancer. Then his father’s boyhood friend appears and long-repressed and suppressed family secrets are revealed that broaden Jonathan’s view of the world.

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20:30 MeTeOr STreeT

(Germany) 84mins.

Dir: Aline Fischer.

Cast: Hussein Eliraqui, Oktay Inanc Ozdemir, Bodo Goldbeck, Sebastian Gunther, Denis Golme.

Mohammed, 18 years old, fled with his parents years ago from the Palestinian war zone to Germany.

Now he lives alone with his brother in the parental home and tries to find his way in a world of men.

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21:30 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 akademie der Kunste

fuKuShIMa, MON aMOur

(Germany) 109mins.

Dir: Doris Dorrie.

Cast: Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Moshe Cohen, Nami Kamata, Aya Irizuki.

Festival & Press 21:00 creePY

(Japan) Johan Hagelback Tecknad Film. 130mins.

Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yuko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Haruna Kawaguchi, Masahiro Higashide.

Criminal psychologist

MIdNIGhT SPecIal

Dir: Jeff Nichols.

Cast: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Jaeden Lieberher, Adam Driver, Bill Camp, Scott Haze, Sam Shepard, Paul Sparks.

(US) Kanguruh-FilmGmbH. 112mins.

competition haus der Berliner festspiele

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Conceicao, Bernardo Lacerda, Antoine Barraud, Didier D’Abreu.

Takes us into the world of Fernando, aka Deborah Krystal, the glittering and poetic performer of the Lisbon club Finalmente.

Takakura is confronted by the case of a missing family. He has no idea as yet that his investigations will also lead to his own private life. An adaptation of an award-winning Japanese suspense novel full of twists and turns.

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O PaSSarO da NOITe

(Portugal, France) 20mins. Dir: Marie Losier. Cast: Fernando Santos aka Deborah Krystal, Cindy Scrash, Alda Cabrita, Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Joao Rui Guerra da Mata, Simon Darmour, Carlos

(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.

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Trace Of STONeS

(German Democratic Republic) 134mins.

Dir: Frank Beyer.

Cast: Manfred Krug, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Eberhard Esche, Johannes Wieke, HansPeter Minetti.

On an East German construction site a party functionary and an anarchic foreman compete for the affection of a young engineer. retrospektive Zeughauskino

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.

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story from Saudi Arabia.

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The Color oF money

(US) 119mins. Dir: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro.

Veteran pool player Eddie Felson takes a young player under his wing, grooming him for the championships in Atlantic City, where they end up competing against each other. homage CinemaxX 8

a maid For eaCh

(Lebanon, France, Norway, UAE) 67mins.

Dir: Maher Abi Samra.

Housemaids from countries of the global south are widespread in the middleclass households of Lebanon. Conversations at a domestic labour agency reveal both the clients’ sense of privilege and the exploitative conditions under which maids must work.

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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

don’T Call me son

(Brazil) 82mins.

Dir: Anna Muylaert.

Cast: Naomi Nero, Daniel Botelho, Dani Nefusi, Matheus Nachtergaele, Lais Dias, Luciana Paes, Helena Albergaria, Luciano Bortoluzzi, June Dantas, Renan Tenca.

Aged 17, in the midst of puberty, Pierre discovers that his loving mother stole him when he was a baby. His biological parents want to catch up on the lost years as quickly as possible — but Pierre is not prepared to play the role of the ideal son.

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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.

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invenTion

(Canada, UK) Fonderia Artistica Battaglia.

87mins. Dir: Mark Lewis.

From famous corners of the Louvre Museum to the modernist buildings of Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil and Mies van der Rohe in Canada, ‘Invention’ takes us on a dynamic tour of fluctuating cityscapes, capturing the texture of these places, their landmarks, and the people who inhabit their streets and buildings.

Forum expanded Cinestar imaX

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) berlinale Palast

22:30 aloys

(Switzerland, France) Hi Film Productions.

91mins. Dir: Tobias Nolle. Cast: Georg Friedrich, Tilde von Overbeck, Kamil Krejci, Yufei Lee, Koi Lee, Sebastian Krahenbuhl, Karl Friedrich, Agnes

Lampkin, Haroldo Simao.

After the death of his father, who was also his boss, private detective Aloys works as if in a trance.

He gets caught during a surveillance, then loses his camera. The woman who calls him shortly afterwards appears to have something to do with this.

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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. Nimbly, she stirs up their taciturn, patriarchal isolation.

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dead man Walking

(US) 120mins. Dir: Tim Robbins. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J Barry, R Lee Ermey, Celia Weston, Lois Smith, Scott Wilson, Roberta Maxwell, Margo Martindale, Barton Heyman.

A drama about a convicted rapist and murderer on death row who is accompanied by Sister Helen Prejean on a long and painful journey towards realising his guilt. berlinale special international

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(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.

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(Japan) 59mins.

Dir: Akira Ogata.

Cast: Katsuro Onoue, Kazushi Hosaka, Shigeru Muroi.

A young man named K discovers one morning that his head has been replaced by a huge Chinese cabbage. When his new appearance turns him into a media star and sex object, he soon beats a hasty retreat into a cabbage patch.

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(France, Belgium) Presente Lda. 115mins.

Dir: Eugene Green.

Cast: Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Regnier, Fabrizio Rongione, Mathieu Amalric, Maria de Medeiros, Julia de Gasquet.

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.

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i am sion sono!!

(Japan) 37mins. Dir: Sion Sono. Cast: Sion Sono.

No other Japanese director ever introduced himself to audiences with such nonchalance and selfconfidence as the then 22-year-old Sion Sono did with this disarming, hugely energetic self-portrait, equal parts funny and raunchy.

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you’ll never be alone

(Chile) Hochschule fur Film und Fernsehen ‘Konrad Wolf ’.

80mins. Dir: Alex Anwandter. Cast: Sergio Hernandez, Andrew Bargsted, Jaime Leiva, Edgardo Bruna, Gabriela Hernandez, Astrid Roldan.

When his gay son becomes the victim of an attack, introverted Juan follows his own rules in the nocturnal streets of Santiago, taking up a position between the fixed norms of masculinity and queer identity.

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22:45 The baCChus lady

(South Korea) Final Cut for Real ApS. 110mins. Dir: E J-yong.

Cast: Youn Yuh-jung, Chon Moo-song, Yoon Kye-sang, An A-zu, Choi Hyun-jun.

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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.

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Weekend

(Russia) Igmar, 97mins. Dir: Stanislav Govorukhin. Cast: Maksim Matveyev, Yuliya Khlynina, Vyacheslav Chepurchenko, Viktor Sukhorukov.

The financial director of a large corporation kills an accountant who has discovered his fraud. The protagonist makes the murder look like a suicide, but he gets stuck in the elevator when leaving the crime scene.

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(France) Studiocanal, 90mins. Dir: Liang Zhao.

In this visually powerful documentary, one of China’s most interesting film-makers explores social structures and the industrial provinces of the inner parts of Mongolia.

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(US) The Works, 93mins.

Dir: Lisa Addario.

Cast: Jason Biggs, Janet Montgomery, Ashley Tisdale.

Unable to find work in his field, an insecure first-time dad unwittingly accepts a job driving hookers around LA. One long, crazy night proves to our hero that he is, in fact, up to the task of fatherhood.

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(South Korea) Showbox, 125mins.

Dir: Lee Il-hyung.

Cast: Hwang Jung-min, Dong-won Kang.

new face of terror.

Prosecutor Jae-wook is sent to jail for a crime he did not commit.

He joins criminal Chi-won to prove his innocence.

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The FourTh phaSe

(US) Red Bull Media House, 80mins.

Dir: Curt Morgan.

Cast: Travis Rice, Pat Moore, John Jackson.

Iconic snowboarder Travis Rice embarks on an epic journey across the Ring of Fire trying to find the world’s best snowboard ground.

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(Belgium) Be for Films, 73mins. Dir: Valery Rosier. Cast: Alfie Thomson, Yoko Pere, Julienne Goeffers, Christian Carr.

A Mediterranean island: three solitary persons wandering; a summer ending. Three lonely souls fiercely determined not to stay that way. Nostalgic for a past that never happened. kino arsenal 1

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(France) SND — Groupe M6, 96mins. Dir: Francois Desagnat.

Cast: Andre Dussollier,

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(India) Films Boutique, 100mins. Dir: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari.

Domestic help Chanda is raising her daughter Appu alone, hoping for a better life for her. But Appu has no other goal in life than to become a maid herself.

Berengere Krief, Arnaud Ducret, Julia Piaton.

A fast-paced comedy about giving up your comfort zone and extra bedrooms.

contemporary world.

‘History’s Future’ is about one man’s odyssey through a Europe in turmoil — and through his own mind.

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(Canada) Wide, 102mins.

Dir: Anne Emond.

(Italy) Amadeus Entertainment, 103mins.

Dir: Gianfranco Cabiddu.

Cast: Sergio Rubini, Ennio Fantaschini, Alba Gaia Kraghede Bellugi, Ciro Petrone.

Fleeing members of Camorra and actors in search of reputation end up in an island-prison after a shipwreck.

(France) Le Pacte, 103mins. Dir: Thomas Lilti. Cast: Francois Cluzet, Marianne Denicourt.

Dr Werner spends his life working as a general practitioner in the countryside. When he finds out that he suffers from a serious illness, he has to find a replacement, although he considers himself irreplaceable.

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Cast: Karelle Tremblay, Maxim Gaudette, Valerie Cadieux.

Guy is found dead in the basement of the family home. Years later, his son David, now a loving father of two children, secretly carries the weight of the enigmatic tragedy.

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War on eVeryone

(UK) Bankside Films, 98mins. Dir: John Michael McDonagh.

Cast: Michael Pena, Alexander Skarsgard,

09:20 ViVe le Cinema!

(France) Bac Films, 90mins. Dir: Diane Kurys. Cast: Sylvie Testud, Josiane Balasko, Zabou Breitman.

Sybille, a well-known actress, is about to direct her first film. Producers Brigitte and Ingrid are crazy but lovable and Sybille jumps at the chance to work with them.

But the perfect dream will soon turn into a nightmare.

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hiSTory’S FuTure

(US) Dogwoof, 112mins.

Dir: Brian Oakes.

In 2014, a video of the execution of American journalist James Foley rippled across the globe.

Foley wore an orange jumpsuit as he knelt beside an ISIS militant. That image challenged the world to deal with a

(Netherlands, Germany, Ireland) Mongrel International, 95mins.

Dir: Fiona Tan. Cast: Mark O’Halloran, Denis Lavant, Anne Consigny, Johanna ter Steege.

Part fiction, part documentary, part speculative essay on the

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Market 09:15 anTS on a Shrimp

(Netherlands) Fortissimo Films, 93mins. Dir: Maurice Dekkers.

Cast: Rene Redzepi, Lars Williams, Rosio Sanchez, Thomas Frebel.

The world’s best restaurant in Copenhagen, NOMA, and its renowned chef-owner Rene Redzepi, relocate the restaurant and staff to the Tokyo Mandarin Oriental Hotel for eight weeks.

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14/02 9AM

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16/02 8PM

CinemaxX 7 (Premiere / Press & Ind.)

17/02 2PM

17/02 10.45PM CineStar 3 (Official Screening)

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19/02 5.45PM CineStar 3 (Official Screening)

18/02 8.15PM Cubix 7 & 8 (Official Screening)

20/02 8.15PM CineStar 3 (Official Screening)

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17/02 9.45PM Delphi (World Premiere)

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Cast: Peter Kurth, Lina Wendel, Lena Lauzemis, Edin Hasanovic.

A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.

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(US) Protagonist Pictures, 90mins. Dir: Joshua Marston. Cast: Michael Shannon, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Danny Glover.

When Alice shows up at

09:30 AloyS

(Switzerland, France) New Europe Film Sales, 91mins. Dir: Tobias Nolle. Cast: Georg Friedrich, Tilde von Overbeck.

A lonely private investigator falls in love with a mysterious woman who left a disturbing message on his camera.

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(US) Celluloid Dreams, 75mins. Dir: Laurie Anderson.

A visual and poetic meditation as stories of Lolabelle, childhood fantasies, political and philosophical theories unfurl in a seamless songlike stream.

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JACK unterWeGer

(Austria) Picture Tree International, 95mins.

Dir: Elisabeth Scharang.

Cast: Johannes Krisch, Corinna Harfouch, Birgit Minichmayr, Sarah

Tom’s birthday dinner in NYC, the guests are immediately charmed by her. But things become complicated as questions arise as to who she really is, how she leads her life and what she wants.

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Viktoria Frick.

A riveting biopic of notorious Austrian convict Jack Unterweger, who became a literary superstar while serving a 15-year sentence for murder. parliament

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(France, Belgium) Les Films du Losange, 115mins. Dir: Eugene Green. Cast: Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Regnier, Fabrizio Rongione, Mathieu Amalric.

Raised by his mother, Vincent discovers that his father is an egoistic Parisian publisher.

Vincent develops a plan of revenge but his meeting with Joseph, living on the fringe of society, will deeply impact his plan and his life.

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the Model

(Denmark) TrustNordisk, 109mins. Dir: Mads Matthiesen. Cast: Maria Palm, Ed Skrein, Charlotte Tomaszewska, Marco Ilso.

When fashion model Emma gets a chance to pursue her dream of becoming an

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international top model, she leaves her life in Denmark behind, and moves to Paris where she falls in love with the charismatic photographer Shane.

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(Mexico, India) Kaleidoscope Film Distribution, 91mins.

Dir: Andres Couturier.

Cast: Jason Harris, David Hoffman, Chris Edgerly.

Everyone’s favourite feline star is back, as Top Cat, or TC to his furry friends, embarks on a brand-new feature-length adventure.

Dir: Arend Agthe. Cast: Nicolaus von der Recke, Sophie Lindenberg, Henriette Heinze, Claes Bang.

Sammy’s hamster Raffi is cleverer than any other of his kind. One day, Raffi gets seriously ill and before he can recover, he’s kidnapped by Rocky, a ruthless criminal.

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(Germany) Picture Tree International, 109mins.

Dir: Thomas Stuber.

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emasculated. The story is a trail of self-discovery and redemption against a criminal mastermind opponent, a doctor operating on the fringes of society.

(France) Studiocanal, 102mins. Dir: Igor Gotesman. Cast: Pierre Niney, Igor Gotesman.

Sam, Tim, Nestor, Vadim and Julia are inseparable friends who realise their teenage dream: sharing a cool apartment in Paris.

Things are going well until Sam is financially cut off by his parents and unable to pay the rent.

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(US) The Solution Entertainment Group, 60mins. Dir: Walter Hill.

Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez.

A revenge tale of an ace hitman double-crossed by gangsters and mysteriously

(China) Fortissimo Films, 100mins. Dir: Zhang Wei. A riveting exploration of the challenges of the manufacturing industry in China.

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GAllopInG MInd

(Belgium, Hungary) Be for Films, 115mins.

Dir: Wim Vandekeybus.

Cast: Jerry Killick, Natali Broods, Orsi Toth.

Twin babies are separated at birth. The girl grows up in a middle-class environment, her brother in a street gang. Twelve years later, their paths cross again. It is the beginning of an exciting journey.

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lo & Behold, reverIeS oF the ConneCted World

(US) Magnolia Pictures, 98mins. Dir: Werner Herzog.

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09:45 A Good AMerICAn

(Austria) Slingshot Films, 100mins. Dir: Friedrich Moser.

The perfect alternative to surveillance, the brilliant mind behind it and a blatant betrayal — this is the story of how our freedom was sold for money.

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doFuS — BooK I: JulIth

(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.

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(Germany) Eastwest Filmdistribution, 97mins.

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(France) EuropaCorp, 94mins.

Dir: Benoit Graffin. Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Edouard Baer.

The Ogiel family struggles to make

ends meet. From deep debts to bailiffs to get-rich-quick schemes, Sam, Marie and their two kids survive by collecting junk, fixing it up and selling it on eBay. CinemaxX 3

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Dir: Vanja d’Alcantara.

Cast: Isabelle Carre, Jun Kunimura, Niels Schneider.

After her brother Nathan dies, Alice leaves for Japan and finds refuge in a small village by the cliffs.

Nathan said he had found peace there, thanks to a man called Daisuke.

Society depends on the internet for nearly everything but rarely do we step back and recognize its endless intricacies and unsettling omnipotence. efm Cinemobile

11:00 BItterSWeet

(Germany) Wide, 95mins. Dir: Krishna Bhati. Cast: Lisa Brand, Mauel Cortez, Jessy Moravec.

After a fight with her conservative parents, 19-year-old Mina moves in with her sister Mandy, who works as a prostitute.

But two sinister debt collectors give them a drastic ultimatum.

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(Italy) Rai Com, 78mins.

Dir: Alex Infascelli.

Cast: Emilio D’Alessandro, Janette Woolmore, Alex Infascelli.

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(US) Coproduction Office, 97mins. Dir: Benjamin Dickinson.

In a near-future Brooklyn, an advertising executive uses a new augmented reality technology to conduct an illicit affair with his best friend’s girlfriend, or so it seems.

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gIBBy

(US) VMI Worldwide, 87mins. Dir: Phil Gorn.

Cast: Shannon Elizabeth, Sean Patrick Flanery, Shelby Lyon, Vivica A Fox. A young girl’s life is turned upside down when she is asked to monkeysit Gibby, her science teacher’s beloved Capuchin monkey.

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lIly lane

(Hungary) Films Boutique, 91mins.

Dir: Bence Fliegauf.

After the death of her mother, Rebeka and her young son Danny try to track down Rebeka’s estranged father. Along the way she tells Danny a story, revealing dark and haunted childhood memories.

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oPeratIon avalanChe

(US, Canada) XYZ Films, 93mins. Dir: Matt Johnson.

Cast: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Josh Boles.

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(UK) UDI — Urban Distribution International, 106mins.

Dir: Chanya Button.

Cast: Laura Carmichael, 1967: The Cold War. The CIA suspects that there is a Russian mole inside of NASA, sabotaging the Apollo program. They send two young agents posing as documentary film-makers to hunt down the leak.

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Chloe Pirrie, Jack Farthin.

Following the death of their best friend Dan, Alex and Seph embark on a hectic road trip to spread his ashes.

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the Union. After being captured and sent to a war camp as a prisoner, he understands what it means to be kept against one’s will. Together with a friend he escapes.

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SheeP and WolveS

(Russia) Wizart, 80mins.

Dir: Maxim Volkov, Andrey Galat. Cast: Ruby Rose, Tom Felton, China McClain.

In a magical faraway land, in a picturesque little village nestled among green meadows, lives a flock of carefree sheep. But their pastoral and stress-free life is interrupted when a pack of wolves sets up camp in the nearby ravine.

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unIon Bound

(US) XVIII Entertainment, 104mins.

Dir: Harvey Lowery.

Cast: Drew Seeley, Isaac C Singleton, Randy Wayne, Dave Blamy.

Sergeant Joseph Hoover went to war to preserve

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(UK) Vision Films, 111mins. Dir: Matthew John. Cast: Rita Ramnani, David R Butler, Francisco Ortiz.

A family of nomads lives in a remote mountain area. One day heavy machinery appears on the meadows where their horses graze. marriott 1

11:10 no tomorroW

(South Korea) Contents Panda (Next Entertainment World), 88mins. Dir: Lee Ji-seung. Cast: Park Hyoju, Seong-woo Bae, Lee Hyun-wook.

Based on the ‘Salt Farm Slaves’ scandal that shocked the world, ‘No Tomorrow’ features a

reporter, Hae-ri, covering a story of a disabled runaway slave at a salt mine.

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11:15 uP for love

(France) Gaumont, 100mins. Dir: Laurent Tirard. Cast: Jean Dujardin, Virginie Efira.

Diane is a beautiful woman, a brilliant lawyer with a good sense of humour. One evening she receives a phone call from a certain Alexandre who has found her cell phone.

They make a date.

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(US) Protagonist Pictures, 104mins.

Dir: Rob Zombie.

Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Richard Brake, Torsten Voges.

Five people kidnapped at random. Twelve hours in hell. Who can survive this deadly game?

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11:25 legaCy of Soma

(Japan) Village, 142mins.

Dir: Hidenori Inoue.

Cast: Yuki Amami, Kenichi Matsuyama, Taichi Saotome, Mikijiro Hira.

Soma and Masakado meet at a ministers’ festival

and fall in love. Their destinies take a turn when Masakado opposes the central government and sets up his own sovereign state. Can he win without an even more indomitable warrior?

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11:30 the algerIan

(US) Hannover House, 105mins. Dir: Giovanni Zelko. Cast: Ben Youcef, Candice Coke, Harry Lennix, Tara Holt.

An international political thriller about the conflict between the Middle East and America. It follows Ali across the world from Algeria to Los Angeles, revealing his role in a terrorist sleeper cell.

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(US) Carnaby International Sales & Distribution, 94mins.

Dir: Amanda Harlib.

Cast: Ray Liotta, Rose Leslie, Justin Bartha, Gina Rodriguez.

This is a story about love and loss... and maybe one day, love again.

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(Mexico) Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), 80mins. Dir: Barbara Ochoa. Cast: Andres Lupone, Carmen Beato, Paola Frias, Alejandra Cardenas, Ruben Pablos.

Bruno, 19, feels a profund rejection towards his own sexuality. His mother Martha insists on celebrating Esteban’s birthday and not Bruno’s because it happens to fall on the anniversary of her first-born son, who died two years ago.

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the fIrSt, the laSt

(France, Belgium) Wild Bunch, 98mins. Dir: Bouli Lanners. Cast: Albert Dupontel, Bouli Lanners, Suzanne Clement, Michael Lonsdale.

Multi award-winning director Bouli Lanners delivers a rites-ofpassage road movie with this suspenseful tale of endering characters caught up in an investigation.

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(France, Tunisia, Belgium) Doc & Film

11:40 Come What may

(France) Pathe International, 114mins.

Dir: Christian Carion.

Cast: August Diehl, Olivier Gourmet, Mathilde Seigner, Alice Isaaz.

In May 1940, France collapses and millions of people take to the roads, terrified by the advancing German army. Among them is a German man who has fled Nazism, and who now searches for his young son.

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olive tree precious to her ailing grandfather.

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tomCAt

(Austria) Films Distribution, 114mins.

Dir: Klaus Handl. Cast: Lukas Turtur, Philipp Hochmair.

Together with their tomcat Moses, Andreas and Stefan live in paradise.

An inexplicable outburst of violence suddenly calls everything into question.

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(Turkey) Odin’s Eye Entertainment, 87mins. Dir: Mehmet Kurtulus. Cast: Ugur Yucel, Demet Evgar, Ahmet Mumtaz Taylan,

Guven Kirac.

An animated epic for young adults featuring the unforgettably bad cat Shero and his foul-mouthed gang in action.

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fighting off a host of mysterious and sinister characters to save his kidnapped girlfriend.

(France, Germany) The Bureau Sales, 102mins.

Dir: Fabienne Berthaud.

Cast: Diane Kruger, Norman Reedus, Gilles Lellouche, Lena Dunham.

Romy is on holiday in the USA with her French husband, Richard. But the journey quickly turns into a settling of old scores for this worn-out couple. After an ultimate fight, Romy decides to break free.

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(Germany, Canada) Beta Cinema, 101mins. Dir: Florian Cossen. Cast: Alex Ozerov, Bea Santos, Krista Bridges, Sebastian Schipper.

A kid with a death wish gets a brain tumour. Now he has something to live for!

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(Japan) Gaga Corporation, 118mins.

Dir: Tomoaki Akune.

Cast: Ryoko Hirosue, Kenichi Takito.

Chie is diagnosed with

cancer after becoming engaged. During the cancer treatment she has her child. But her cancer returns, she knows her time will be short. So Chie starts teaching her child to live without her.

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(Canada) Films Boutique, 101mins. Dir: Guy Edion.

Cast: Monica Bellucci.

The Franco-Canadian production tells the story of a 50-year-old actress who discovers she favoured her career too much and didn’t give the love she should have to her son.

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Keeper

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(Spain, Germany) Seville International, 99mins. Dir: Iciar Bollain. Cast: Anna Castillo, Javier Gutierrez, Pep Ambros, Miguel Angel Aladren.

A willful and spirited young woman named Alma embarks on a journey from the east coast of Spain to Germany in order to retrieve an ancient

13:00 Antboy III

(Denmark, Germany) Attraction Distribution, 86mins. Dir: Ask Hasselbalch. Cast: Oscar Dietz, Samuel Ting Graf, Nicolas Bro, Paprika Steen.

Our pint-sized superhero rises once again to the occasion by forming unexpected alliances and saving the town from destruction.

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SKy LADDer: the Art oF CAI Guo-QIAnG

(France) Wild Bunch, 92mins. Dir: Damien Odoul. Cast: Nino Rocher, Eliott Margueron, Theo Chazal, Pierre Martial Gaillard.

A young man survives the living hell of the First World War, undergoing a horrifying journey through which he will discover his own humanity.

(US) Cinetic Media,

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mArry me!

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(US) Magnolia Pictures, 104mins. Dir: Brendan Toller. Cast: Justin Bond, Judy Collins, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop. A documentary on the life and times of Danny Fields, who worked for the Doors, Cream, Lou Reed and the Ramones.

(UK) Independent, 85mins. Dir: Adam Randall. Cast: Josh Bowman, Neil Maskell.

A fast-paced, high-concept thriller following a young man who, over the course of 24 hours, must make his way across London,

the oLIve tree

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(France) Elle Driver, 98mins. Dir: Audrey Estrougo. Cast: Sophie Marceau, Suzanne Clement, Alice Belaidi.

In order to save the man she loves from jail, Mathilde takes his place in prison. Without any news from him, only supported by her son, she learns to live in this dangerous setting among her new inmates.

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pregnant. Maxime wants to keep the child at all costs.

(New Zealand) Cinema Management Group (CMG), 96mins.

Dir: Tammy Davis.

Cast: Tia-Taharoa Maipi, Stan Walker, Kherington Payne, Parris Goebel.

Tu, an ambitious young man from an underprivileged Auckland suburb, dreams of becoming a professional hip-hop dancer to avoid enlisting in the army, culminating in a dance battle for the nationals against a rival crew.

82mins. Dir: Kevin Macdonald.

Having reached the pinnacle of the global art world, contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang is still seeking new ideas.

We trace his rise from childhood in Mao’s China and his ambitious journey to realise his lifelong obsession, Sky Ladder.

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(Belgium, Switzerland, France) Be for Films, 95mins. Dir: Guillaume Senez. Cast: Kacey Mottet Klein, Galatea Bellugi, Catherine Salee, Sam Louwyck.

Maxime and Melanie are in love. Only 15, they have barely left childhood.

Melanie discovers she is

Market 12:50 mArry me!

(Germany) ARRI Media, 94mins. Dir: Neelesha Barthel.

Cast: Maryam Zaree, Bharati Jaffrey, Steffen Groth, Fahri Yardim.

Kissy, an Indo-German social worker, lies about her marital status to her

visiting Indian grandmother. Forced to conceal her ex-husband’s ageing model-girlfriend, her Turkish boyfriend’s proposal, and her non-traditional Kreuzberg lifestyle, Kissy juggles the demands of her six-year-old daughter with the chaos initiated by her lie.

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youth, the abruptness of change, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.

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13:40 hangman See box, below

13:45 oSSeSSione VeZZoli

(Italy) Rai Com, 80mins.

Dir: Alessandra Galletta.

Cast: Simon Waldvogel.

The art of Francesco Vezzoli, worldwide acclaimed contemporary artist, commented on by the most influential players in the art and culture scene.

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13:50 ShaDoW WorlD Market 13:05 the tiger

(South Korea) Contents Panda (Next Entertainment World), 139mins. Dir: Park Hoon-jung. Cast: Choi Min-sik.

Set during the Japanese

imperial period in South Korea, the story revolves around the inevitable fate between Man-duk, a retired legendary hunter, and Dae-ho, the biggest, most infamous tiger of the Korean peninsula. dffb-kino

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(Ireland, UK, France) Protagonist Pictures, 94mins. Dir: Whit Stillman. Cast: Kate Bekinsale, Chloe Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Stephen Fry. Adaptation of Jane Austen’s early novella concerning the sensational Lady Susan Vernon.

An exquisite comedy of matchmaking and heartbreaking.

(Japan) Shochiku, 110mins. Dir: Naotaro Endo. Cast: Theodore C Bestor, People working at the Tsukiji.

A documentary about The Tsukiji Market, which is the biggest fish and seafood market in the world. Why does Tsukiji continue to fascinate people around the world? The treasured secret will be revealed as a documentary film.

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on the other SiDe

(Croatia, Serbia) Cercamon, 85mins. Dir: Zrinko Ogresta. Cast: Ksenija Marinkovic, Lazar Ristovski.

Twenty years ago, Vesna moved her family to Zagreb, away from the events that almost destroyed their lives.

However, an unexpected call will bring back the memory of a secret that she has been trying to hide all these years.

the Waiting room

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(Canada) Gearshift Films, 93mins. Dir: Igor Drljaca. Cast: Jasmin Geljo, Filip Geljo, Masa Lizdek.

Once a celebrated actor in pre-war Yugoslavia, a Sarajevoborn immigrant struggles to find work in his new life in Toronto and dreams of returning home... to a city and life that no longer exist.

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(Switzerland, Germany) Wide, 99mins. Dir: various. Cast: Peter Jecklin, Julia Glaus, Issaka Sawadogo, Michele Schaub.

A new generation of 10 film-makers imagine how the Swiss would deal with the worst imaginable scenario: having to depend on other countries.

Dillane returns unannounced to New York City to reclaim his lost love who unbeknown to him, is engaged to be married.

Zoo Palast Club B invitation only

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(US) The Exchange, 89mins. Dir: Meg Ryan.

Cast: Alex Neustaedter, Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Tom Hanks.

A coming-of-age story about the exuberance of

(US, Denmark, Belgium) Wide House, 90mins.

Dir: Johan Grimonprez.

Cast: Vijay Prashad, Robert Fisk, Jeremy Scahill, Trita Parsi.

Feature documentary that reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade, the only business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives.

Partnership, 80mins.

Dir: Tikhon Kornev.

Cast: Roman Evdokimov, Anna Vasileva, Alena Savastova,.

A late night subway.

The last train passes a terminal point taking away confused passengers.

The officials classify all information about the incident. Friends of the lost start their own investigation.

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Who’S Your DaDDY?

(France) Bac Films, 89mins. Dir: Sylvain Desclous. Cast: Gilbert Melki, Pio Marmai, Sara Giraudeau.

Serge is one of the best kitchen salesmen in France and he sacrificed all for his career. When the son he never sees reaches out for a job, Serge reluctantly gets him hired. Against all odds, Gerald finds out he has a gift.

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14:15 ColleCtor

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(Russia) All Media, 80mins. Dir: Alexey Krasovskiy. Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy.

Arthur is the best employee of a collecting firm. He has a high income and a solid reputation among his colleagues.

(Russia) Central

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14:10

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13:15 thiS Beautiful fantaStiC

(US, UK) Ambi Distribution, 92mins.

Dir: Simon Aboud. Cast: Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine.

A young woman who dreams of being a children’s author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.

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Market ChroniCallY metroPolitan

(US) 13 Films, 85mins.

Dir: Xavier Manrique.

Cast: Shiloh Fernandez, Ashley Benson, Mary Louis Parker, Chris Noth.

Young novelist Fenton

13:40 hangman

(US) Myriad Pictures, 87mins. Dir: Adam Mason. Cast: Jeremey Sisto, Kate Ashfield, Ryan Simpkins.

Returning from vacation, the Millers find

their home has been broken into. After cleaning up the mess they continue with their lives, shaking off the feeling of being violated. Little do they know, the nightmare has only just begun.

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Braun, Zoey Deutch, Israel Broussard.

Follows four overachieving high school students the summer after graduation.

After realizing that they missed out on key life experiences, they decide to reinvent themselves by partying for the first time in their lives.

14:30 dancer

(UK) WestEnd Films, 82mins. Dir: Steven Cantor. Cast: Sergei Polunin.

An unprecedented look into the life of a complex young man, Sergei Polunin, who has made ballet go viral.

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Boris Without Beatrice

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(Canada) Films Boutique, 93mins. Dir: Denis Cote.

Cast: James Hyndman, Simone-Elise Girard, Denis Lavant.

When he meets a mysterious man, Boris realises that he is the single reason behind his beloved wife’s illness. He now has to find a way to make amends.

lost in the Pacific

(China) Arclight Films, 90mins. Dir: Vincent Zhou. Cast: Brandon Routh, Yuqi Zhang.

A story centred around a group of elite passengers on board an inaugural luxury, transoceanic flight that turns into a disaster. cinemaxX 13

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(Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands) Picture Tree International, 99mins.

Dir: Rebecca Daly.

Cast: Rachel Griffiths, Barry Keoghan, Michael McElhatton.

The compelling and unorthodox love story between a woman who has lost her son in tragic circumstances and a young homeless man.

(Venezuela, Mexico) Celluloid Dreams, 93mins. Dir: Lorenzo Vigas. Cast: Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva.

Wealthy middleaged Armando’s first

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outlaWs and anGels

(US) VMI Worldwide, 110mins. Dir: J.T. Mollner. Cast: Luke Wilson, Francesca Eastwood, Chad Michael Murray, Teri Polo.

When outlaws on the run decide to hide for the night by invading the home of an unsuspecting, seemingly innocent frontier family, a game of cat and mouse ensues leading to seduction, role reversal, and ultimately bloody revenge. cinemaxX 17

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(Canada) Filmoption International, 87mins.

Dir: Danae Elon. Cast: Philippe Carbonneau, Philippe Attie. cinemaxX 4

the Possession eXPeriMent

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Management Group (CMG), 85mins. Dir: Scott B. Hansen. Cast: Bill Moseley, Rachel Faulkner, Eugenia Gonzales, Greg Travis.

When a student takes on a theology project, he taps into another side that had been hidden away from him. cinemaxX 14

14:35 BlacK

(Belgium) Be for Films, 95mins. Dir: Adil El Arbi. Cast: Martha Canga Antonio, Aboubakr Bensaihi.

Mavela is a Black Bronx. She falls madly in love with Marwan, a charismatic member of a rival gang. The young couple are forced to make a brutal choice between gang loyalty and the love they have for one another. cinestar 1

14:40 the BodyGuard

(China) All Rights Entertainment, 90mins.

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encounter with street thug teenager Elder is financially motivated and violent, but an unexpected intimacy emerges, tainted by an haunted past. cinemaxX 19

Dir: Song Yue. Cast: Yue Song, Xing Yu, Collin Chou, Michael Chan.

Wu leaves for the big city in search of his brother Jiang. Wu takes a job as a bodyguard for Faye, the daughter of the richest man in town. cinemaxX 15

14:45

into ZQN. Amid the panic, 35-year-old manga artist’s assistant Hideo meets high school student Hiromi, and they team up together to escape.

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KeePer of darKness

(Hong Kong, China) Edko Films, 103mins.

Dir: Nick Cheung. Cast: Nick Cheung, Amber Kuo, Louis Cheung.

Streetwise exorcist Fatt becomes an overnight sensation when his extraordinary exorcism is recorded and goes viral, which catches not only a lot of attention from the media but also the underworld.

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Blood father

(France) Wild Bunch, 88mins. Dir: JeanFrancois Richet. Cast: Mel Gibson, Erin Moriarty.

When his 18-year-old daughter goes on the run, her perennial screw-up dad — former drunk, junkie, biker and convict — is determined for once to do the right thing. cinestar 4

i aM a hero

(Japan) Toho, 127mins.

Dir: Shinsuke Sato.

Cast: Yo Oizumi, Kasumi Arimura, Masami Nagasawa.

One day, people start being infected by the mysterious virus that turns humans

solo

(Italy) True Colours, 97mins. Dir: Laura Morante. Cast: Laura Morante, Piera Degli Esposti, Francesco Pannofino, Marco Giallini.

Surrounded by her sons, her two ex-husbands, their “too-perfect-tobe-true” new wives and her tyrannical friends, Flavia (50) tries to regain independence and selfconfidence with the help of a wise and seraphic psychoanalyst.

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15:00 BecK’s last suMMer

(Germany) ARRI Media,

99mins. Dir: Frieder Wittich. Cast: Christian Ulmen, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Eugene Boateng, Friederike Becht.

A fast-paced film about music, love, unfulfilled wishes and secret dreams.

It explores the question whether there is life after failure and examines the courage it takes to leave the safety of your life. cinemaxX 18

ninja the Monster

(Japan) Shochiku, 81mins. Dir: Ken Ochiai.

Cast: Dean Fujioka, Aoi Morikawa.

A beautiful princess is travelling to Edo with her men including Denzo, an ex-ninja, whose true background has been hidden.

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the tenth Man

(Argentina) Filmsharks International, 80mins.

Dir: Daniel Burman.

Cast: Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg, Usher, Elvira Onetto.

Although his father Usher is the most popular and beloved man of the neighbourhood, Ariel never had a good relationship with him. cinestar 2

15:10 Good Kids

(US) Voltage Pictures, 90mins. Dir: Chris McCoy. Cast: Nicholas

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(Portugal, France) Forum/Office, 126mins.

Dir: Salome Lamas.

The far-off La Rinconda mine is located high up in the Peruvian Andes. This haunting ethnographic reality cut-up conveys the miners’ often selfdestructive attempts to seek their fortune in the gold mine. cinemaxX 6

15:30 a Man called ove

(Sweden) TrustNordisk, 115mins. Dir: Hannes Holm. Cast: Rolf Lassgard, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg, Ida Engvoll.

Ove is the block’s grumpy man. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox it sets off the beginning of an unexpected friendship. cinemaxX 2

doWn By love

(France) Studiocanal, 110mins. Dir: Pierre Godeau. Cast: Guillaume Gallienne, Adele Exarchopoulos.

Jean is an exemplary women’s prison warden and loving husband, but when he meets a prisoner, Anna, he is immediately charmed. cinestar 6

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MY REVOLUTION

Director: Ramzi Ben Sliman Producers: Jérôme Dopffer, Sébastien Haguenauer Cast: Samuel Vincent, Anamaria Vartolomei (My Little Princess), Lubna Azabal (Incendies), Samir Guesmi (Camille Rewinds, The Returned) While trying to impress his crush, a French-Tunisian teenager accidentally becomes the face of the Arab Spring in Paris.

MARKET SCREENINGS: Feb 14 / 9:15 / CinemaxX 4 Feb 15 / 15:30 / Kino Arsenal 2 Feb 18 / 11:30 / CinemaxX 2

MORRIS FROM AMERICA

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS: Feb 14 / 17:00 / HKW Feb 17 / 14:00 / CinemaxX 3 Feb 20 / 12:30 / Zoo Palast 1 Feb 21 / 16:30 / CinemaxX 3

Director: Chad Hartigan (This Is Martin Bonner) Cast: Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson (The Office, This Is the End), Carla Juri (Wetlands) 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.

“Christmas (a terrific discovery) and Robinson strike so many wonderfully varied notes.”. – Variety “Irresistibly sweet.” – Entertainment Weekly “[Robinson and Christmas] triumph over cinematic cliché to give [the film] its heart and, of course, soul.” – Screen International MARKET SCREENING: Feb 14 / 11:55 / Kino Arsenal 2

MY FRIEND FROM THE PARK

Director: Ana Katz (A Stray Girlfriend) Cast: Julieta Zylberberg (Wild Tales), Ana Katz (A Stray Girlfriend), Maricel Álvarez (Biutiful) When Liz, a lonely stay-at-home mom, forms a liberating alliance with the spontaneous Rosa, she gets sucked into a world of stolen cars, unstable sisters, and paranoia.

“Engaging (...) likely to strike an emotional chord.” – Screen International “[An] extremely clever premise and unique sense of unease.” – RogerEbert.com “A lovely, intelligent film.” – Criterion Cast

JACQUELINE (ARGENTINE)

Director: Bernardo Britto Cast: Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show), Camille Rutherford (Mary Queen of Scots) A young French woman hires a filmmaker to document her self-imposed political asylum in Argentina after supposedly leaking highly confidential government information.

“Quick-witted (…) satirical, wry.” – Newsweek “[An] engaging performance (...) The first post-Snowden existential indie comedy thriller.” – Indiewire “Driven by Cenac’s drily witty performance (…) a hilarious, low-key misadventure.” – Vibe

SUNTAN

Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos (Wasted Youth) Cast: Makis Papadimitriou (Chevalier, L), Elli Tringou, Milou Van Groessen, Dimi Hart 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.

“Confident, unflinching filmmaking (...) Secures a place for Papadimitropoulos (...) on the list of emerging filmmaking talent from Greece.” – Screen International “Captures the explosive aura of youth (...) Tringou’s astonishing sexuality burns up the screen.”

– Variety MARKET SCREENING: Feb 14 / 17:00 / Kino Arsenal 2

TANNA

Director: Bentley Dean and Martin Butler (Contact, First Footprints) Cast: The People of Yakel In one of the world’s last tribal societies, a young girl breaks off an arranged marriage to run away with her lover, setting off a war that threatens the tribe’s future.

“Richly cinematic (...) a haunting love story.” – The Hollywood Reporter “A universally accessible and emotionally affecting romantic drama.” – Variety “A warm, shimmering vitality. Like the trees and the birds, the frame feels alive.” – The Guardian MARKET SCREENING: TODAY / 16:15 / CinemaxX Studio 19

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scene, Enio, a 14-yearold boy, defies a stormy night that will lead to a brutal clash with destiny.

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tanna

(Australia) Visit Films, 105mins. Dir: Bentley Dean. Cast: The People of Yakel.

In one of the world’s last tribal societies, a young girl breaks off an arranged marriage to run away with her lover, setting off a war that threatens the tribe’s future.

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16:30 little Mountain Boy

Market 15:45 the Final lesson

(France) Elle Driver, 107mins. Dir: Pascale Pouzadoux. Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Marthe Villalonga, Antoine Dulery, Gilles Cohen.

Madeleine, 92, decides

Miles

(US) Odin’s Eye Entertainment, 85mins.

Dir: Nathan Adloff.

Cast: Molly Shannon, Paul Reiser, Missi Pyle, Stephen Root.

After discovering his recently deceased father had squandered his tuition fund on an affair, a young gay man desperate to get out of his small Illinois farming town joins the girls’ volleyball team to win a college scholarship.

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thanK you For BoMBing

(Austria) Premium Films, 104mins. Dir: Barbara Eder. Cast: Manon Kahle, Erwin Steinhauer, Raphael Von Bargen, Mohammad Jamil Jalla.

Three international TV correspondents cross paths while waiting for a war that has already begun long ago in their own lives.

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to set the date and conditions of her departure. By telling her children, she hopes to prepare them as gently as possible for her coming disappearance. But for them, it is a shock, and minds are set ablaze.

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alDaBra

(Czech Republic) Vision Films, 75mins. Dir: Steve Lichtag.

We invite you on a 3D voyage to Aldabra, a mysterious coral island located south of the Seychelles, one of the last pristine locations on planet Earth. eFM Cinemobile

Yang. Cast: Yueting Lang, Ziyi Wang, Taishen Cheng, Ailei Yu. Set in a remote Chinese village, the story begins with the sudden death of a man whose family is new to the community.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, the villagers come to know the widow, a mysterious mute with a story to tell.

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France) UDI — Urban Distribution International, 95mins.

Dir: Ariel Rotter. Cast: Erica Rivas, Marcelo Subito.

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Point Zero

(Brazil) Film Republic, 88mins. Dir: Jose Pedro Goulart. Cast: Sandro Aliprandini, Patricia Selonk, Eucir de Souza.

Trying to escape from a claustrophobic family

(Switzerland) ARRI Media, 104mins. Dir: Xavier Koller. Cast: Jonas Hartmann, Marcus Signer, Tonia Maria Zindel, Leonardo Nigro.

Ursli is a real mountain boy, living with his family and his beloved animals in the Swiss Alps. When an accident occurs all the kids in his village mock him.

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our last tango

(Germany) Wide House, 85mins. Dir: German Kral. Cast: Juan Carloa Copes, Maria Nieves,

Pablo Veron, Alejandra Gutty.

The true life story of the most famous Tango dance duo, who danced, passionately loved and hated each other for almost 50 years — until life itself finally separated them.

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Passage to Mars

(US) The Annex Entertainment, 95mins.

Dir: Jean-Christophe Jeauffre. Cast: Zachary Quinto, Charlotte Rampling, Buzz Aldrin, Pascal Lee. A NASA expedition to the Arctic designed to prepare for future human flights to Mars becomes an epic two-year odyssey of human adventure and survival.

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the Polar Boy

(Estonia) Luxfilm, 97mins. Dir: Anu Aun. Cast: Roland Laos, Jaanika Arum, Katariina Unt, Mirtel Pohla.

Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. His dream is constantly put to the test after he falls in love with a beautiful free spirit, Hanna.

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a heavy heart

(Germany) Picture Tree International, 109mins.

Dir: Thomas Stuber.

Cast: Peter Kurth, Lina Wendel, Lena Lauzemis, Edin Hasanovic.

A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.

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the Morning aFter

(US) Princ Films, 79mins. Dir: Shanra J Kehl. Cast: Roberto Aguire, Michelle Lombardo, Ben Esler, Vanessa Evigan.

Eight compelling story lines about the awkward and sweet moments when you wake up next to the right or wrong person.

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DaD in training

(France) TF1 International, 95mins.

Dir: Cyril Gelblat. Cast: Manu Payet, Audrey Lamy, Aure Atika.

After 10 years his marriage falls apart. A father has to take care of his two daughters for the first time... and finally learn to become a dad.

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Mountain Cry

(China) Fortissimo Films, 107mins. Dir: Larry

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Market 16:00 agnes

(Germany) Pluto Film, 100mins.

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’s life are threatened.

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Greene. Cast: Kate Lyn Sheil.

Kate Lyn Sheil is a young NY actress on the cusp of true fame. Christine Chubbuck was a 29-yearold news reporter who shot herself live on air in 1974.

Kate is to play Christine in a film and goes to Sarasota to research the part.

soPhie and The risinG sun

(US) Seville International, 115mins.

Dir: Maggie Greenwald.

Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Margo Martindale, Lorraine Toussaint, Takashi Yamaguchi.

In a small Southern US town in 1941, Sophie’s life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for longburied conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence.

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18:00 The Chosen

(Spain, Mexico) Filmax International, 125mins.

Dir: Antonio Chavarrias.

Cast: Alfonso Herrera, Hannah Murray, Henry Goodman, Julian Sands.

A frenetically intriguing historical thriller about the Spanish man who assassinated Trotsky.

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Too Close To our son

(France) Be for Films, 103mins. Dir: Yves Angelo. Cast: Sylvie Testud, Gregory Gadebois, Mathilde Bisson, Zacharie Chasseriaud.

During an investigation, a judge realises that the defendant is the biological mother of her adopted son. Far from recusing herself, she keeps hounding Juliette.

Market 17:30 noMa — My PerfeCT sTorM

(UK) TrustNordisk, 95mins. Dir: Pierre Deschamps. Cast: Rene Redzepi, Thomas Jæger, Keld Haaning Ibsen, Diego Sanchez.

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A creative journey into the unique mind of genius Rene Redzepi.

Redzepi plays with wilderness and interprets a forgotten edible world into a culinary language we all understand.

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17:00

andron

(US, Italy) Ambi Distribution,96mins.

Dir: Francesco Cinquemani. Cast: Alec Baldwin, Denny Glover, Gale Harold, Leo Howard.

A group of people are plunged into a dark, claustrophobic maze, where they must fight to survive as the outside world watches.

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16:45 hevn (revenGe)

(Norway, Canada) Beta Cinema, 100mins.

Dir: Kjersti Steinsbo.

Cast: Siren Jorgensen, Frode Winther, Maria Bock, Anders Baasmo Christiansen.

Set within the majestic backdrop of the fjords of Western Norway, Rebekka is looking for retribution. Under a false identity, she seeks out her deceased sister’s violator and embeds herself into his idyllic family to destroy him.

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Canada: noT shorT on TalenT

(Canada) Telefilm Canada, 106mins.

Dir: various.

Slow. The town corners Slow with love and crime stories.

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17:15 4 KinGs

(UK) The Works, 103mins. Dir: Jon Spira.

In 1976, ‘Star Wars’ was shot in suburban North London. Nobody involved had any idea how big the film would become. Yet for the extras, this seemingly insignificant job would go on to colour their lives even four decades later.

(Germany) Global Screen, 99mins.

Dir: Theresa von Eltz.

Cast: Paula Beer, Jella Haase, Jannis Niewohner, Moritz Leu. Four teenagers spend Christmas in the adolescent psychiatric emergency unit. Under the care of the young psychiatrist Dr Wolff, they will have a time that none of them will ever forget.

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17:10 ederly

(Poland) Andersa Street Art and Media, 96mins.

Dir: Piotr Dumala. Cast: Mariusz Bonaszewski, Helena Norowicz, Aleksandra Poplawska, Piotr Skiba.

Ederly is a town existing beyond time, on the edge of reality and dream. You may think it exists only for the main character

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17:20 They Call Me JeeG

(Italy) Rai Com, 118mins.

Dir: Gabriele Mainetti.

Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Luca Marinelli, Ilenia Pastorelli, Stefano Ambrogi.

Enzo, ex-con from the poor outskirts of Rome, puts his newfound superpowers to use furthering his career as a delinquent, a fact which makes the local crime bosses very unhappy. efM Cinemobile

17:25 abaTToir

(US) Versatile, 100mins.

Dir: Darren Lynn Bousman. Cast: Jessica Lowndes, Joe Anderson, Dayton Callie, Lin Shaye.

After the death of her sister and nephew, a real estate reporter uncovers the sinister truth behind a mysterious man who has been buying houses where tragedies have occurred.

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CaMino

(France) Pathe International, 96mins.

Dir: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud.

A poetic chronicle of Europe over the past 15,000 years, filmed through the eyes of animals. A natural symphony on the mysteries of the forests, plains and mountains.

(US) Bleiberg Entertainment, 104mins.

Dir: Josh C. Waller.

Cast: Zoe Bell, Nacho Vigalondo, Francisco Barriero, Sheila Vand.

In the jungles of Colombia, a photojournalist captures the truth behind a group of missionaries who may not be what they seem.

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The leGendary Giulia and oTher MiraCles

(Italy) Intramovies, 115mins. Dir: Edoardo Leo. Cast: Luca Argentero, Edoardo Leo, Claudio Amendola, Anna Foglietta.

Five losers — a new life together — a holiday farmhouse — a funny mafioso. dffb-Kino

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The eXile

(Spain) Cinema Republic, 87mins. Dir: Arturo Ruiz.

Cast: Joan Carles Suau, Eric Frances, Monika Kowalska.

Two Spanish soldiers are guarding an outpost during wartime and discover a polish woman, hurt and unconscious.

They nurse her back to health and must decide if they should turn her in to their commanders or keep her hidden.

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(France) Studiocanal, 110mins. Dir: Thierry Demaiziere, Alban Teurlai.

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(Israel, Germany) Wide, 84mins. Dir: Erez Pery. Cast: Romanus Fuhrmann, Maciej Marczewski.

In 1946, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoss, the longest-serving commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, is awaiting trial in a Polish prison. Albert, a Polish investigation judge, is appointed to get a perfect confession out of him.

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(US) Forum/Office, 114mins. Dir: Robert

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(US) Electric Entertainment, 91mins.

Dir: Daniel Alfredson.

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta, Alexander Ludwig.

A desperate young woman enlists the help of a hardened ex-logger — the only man in town brave enough to help her take a stand against her sociopathic stalker, an ex-cop turned violent crime lord.

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(US) Submarine Entertainment, 117mins.

Dir: Paul Marchand.

Cast: Jerry Jemmott, Joni Mitchell, Wayne Shorter, Peter Erskine.

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(France) Pyramide International, 145mins.

Dir: Lea Fehner.

They travel from town to town, carrying their circus tent with them, their show packed in their bags. They bring fantasy and disorder into our lives.

(Ghana, US) Wide, 90mins. Dir: Kelly Daniela Norris.

Cast: Jacob Ayanaba, Grace Ayariga, Abdul Aziz, Justina Kulidu.

After his father’s death, Iddrisu returns to his home village of northern Ghana. Faced with a debt that could destroy his family, Iddrisu has no choice but to turn their farm and fortunes around.

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(US) Cinema Management Group (CMG), 85mins. Dir: Andrew C. Erin. Cast: Julie Benz, Fionnula Flanagan, Belle House, Josh Stamberg.

A troubled young woman takes up residence in a gothic apartment building where she must confront a terrifying evil.

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(US) Pure Flix/Quality Flix, 126mins. Dir: Harold Cronk. Cast: Melissa Joan Hart, Jesse Metcalfe, Robin Givens, David A R White.

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After answering a simple question by a student, a high school teacher faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she had always dreamed of.

Parliament

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(Brazil, France) Films Distribution, 108mins.

Dir: Sandra Kogut.

Cast: Carla Ribas, Ygor Manoel, Rayane Do Amal, Julia Bernat.

Ygor and Rayane are left on Regina’s doorstep in an upscale neigborhood of Rio de Janeiro. The sudden arrival of these lower-class kids is mixed with the search for their mother in an unrecognisable city.

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(US) Hyde Park International, 92mins.

Dir: Robert Legato. Cast: Chace Crawford, Eliza Dushku, Robert Patrick.

Four friends break into an insane asylum nicknamed Eloise, where they fight to escape not only the confines of the institution but their own minds.

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(France) Indie Sales, 98mins. Dir: Lola Doillon. Cast: Cecile de France, Leonie Souchaud.

France, 1943. The true story of Fanny Ben Ami, 13 years old, who crossed France with 10 other

Jewish children to escape deportation.

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(Japan) Kadokawa Corporation, 122mins. Dir: Hideyuki Hirayama. Cast: Junichi Okada, Hiroshi Abe, Machiko Ono. In Nepal, a photographer hears about a genius mountaineer suddenly vanishing from the Japan climbing scene. Taking an interest in his motives to climb Mount Everest, the photographer is consumed by the mountaineer’s zest for life.

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(Brazil) Pluto Film, 113mins. Dir: Aly Muritiba. Cast: Fernando Alves Pinto, Lourinelson Vladmir, Mayana Neiva, Giuly Biancato.

During an investigation, a judge realises that the defendant is the biological mother of her adopted son.

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(Canada, Brazil) WTFilms, 96mins. Dir:

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Three creative spirits, a comic book artist, a novelist and a film director, who live in different realities, end up each writing a story about one of the others. mgb-kino

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(France, Switzerland) Be for Films, 144mins.

Dir: Claire Simon.

Everybody comes to the Bois de Vincennes to seek refuge in nature. Rich, poor, French, foreign, gay, straight, alone or accompanied, old-school or hip.

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(Japan) Nippon TV, 139mins. Dir: Cellin Gluck.

Diplomat Sugihara hopes to be posted in USSR with his mastery of the Russian language but is sent to Lithuania. In 1939, when Germany invades Poland, hordes of Jewish refugees oppressed by the Nazis turn to Sugihara for visas.

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(Japan) Shochiku, 130mins. Dir: Yoji Yamada. Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kazunari Ninomiya, Haru Kuroki, Tadanobu Asano.

“Mom, you wouldn’t let me go so I had a hard time getting here.”

August 9, 1948. Nobuko, a midwife in Nagasaki, is stunned when she is suddenly visited by her son who she thought had died when an atomic bomb fell on the city.

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(Russia) Planeta Inform Film Distribution, 110mins. Dir: Viktor Lakisov. Cast: Robbie Daymond, Michael Gross, Enn Reitel, Alanna Ubach.

A conflict flares up between local Mandarin Ducks and the Military Mallards who land on the Chinese island. But only together they can battle their foe, the daunting Ms Knout, who seeks to destroy the sun. efm Cinemobile

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(France) Java Films, 90mins. Dir: Sylvie Gilman, Thierry De Lestrade.

For generations, we have believed that man is driven by ruthless self-interest.

But now this idea is being increasingly challenged.

‘The Altruism Revolution’ examines the scientific reasons behind the call. dffb-kino

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(France) Kinovista, 191mins. Dir: Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

A collection of stories and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.

(US) VMI Worldwide, 84mins. Dir: Teddy Smith. Cast: Luke Perry, Danielle Campbell, Aiden Flowers, Thomas Francis Murphy.

After losing her father, a young woman must find the strength to face her fears and compete in the race of her life or her family will lose everything.

(US) Spotlight Pictures, 104mins. Dir: George Mendeluk. Cast: Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper, Terence Stamp.

During Stalin’s deliberately engineered genocidal famine of the Ukraine a young pacifist man must find a way to fight for freedom and love.

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(Italy) Wide House, 78mins. Dir: Carmine Amoroso. Cast: Riccardo Schicchi, Lasse Braun, Ilona (Cicciolina) Staller, Judith Malina.

Tracing porn’s incredible genesis from the first magazines, photoshoots andcensorship issues to its political and social repercussions.

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(US) Little Horse Crossing the River, 84mins. Dir: Nanfu Wang. Cast: Andrew Cohen, Alison Klayman.

Chinese activist Ye Haiyan (aka Sparrow) protests against two government officials who raped six schoolgirls.

Sparrow becomes an enemy of the state, but detentions and evictions can’t stop her protest from going viral.

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(Czech Republic, France) Wide, 105mins. Dir: Petr Vaclav.

A resentful prison guard, an unemployed hypochondriac, a wife gone astray and children dreaming of a different life: the key players in a darkly humorous portrait of the gloom of the Czech provinces.

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(Turkey) Ares Production & Hermes Film, 95mins. Dir: Ozgur Can Alkan. Cast: Ziya Azazi.

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Isabelle Huppert stars as a philosophy teacher forced out of a rut when her husband walks out at the same time as her ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ demanding mother dies. Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob and André Marcon co-star.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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