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Johnnie To assembles top Hong Kong talent Dark Horse

SPC rides with Dark Horse

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Sony Pictures Classics has snapped up North American rights to hit Sundance documentary Dark Horse from Protagonist Pictures.

Louise Osmond’s crowd-pleaser about a horse brought up on a south Wales allotment that goes on to win one of racing’s biggest prizes, won the audience award in Sundance’s world cinema documentary competition last week.

The deal was negotiated with SPC by Protagonist head of sales Vanessa Saal.

SPC will be hoping to replicate the success of feelgood doc Searching For Sugar Man — also launched at Sundance and bought from UK outfit Protagonist — which went on to win the Oscar for best documentary in 2013.

Osmond’s work includes Baftanominated documentary Richard III: The King In The Car Park.

Produced by Judith Dawson and edited by Joby Gee, Dark Horse is a DSP and World’s End Pictures production for Film4 and BFI, in association with Film Agency Wales.

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

Media Asia is unleashing a trio of Johnnie To projects at EFM, including an omnibus about Hong Kong’s history that brings together eight of the territory’s leading directors.

The as-yet-untitled project will include segments directed by To, John Woo, Tsui Hark, Ann Hui, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo-ping. To will also produce through his Hong Kong-based Milkyway Image.

“The idea is that each of them will focus on one decade of Hong Kong’s history, although it may not

end up being as strict as that,” explained Fred Tsui, Media Asia general manager and head of sales and international co-productions.

Hui has already started shooting her segment, set in 1940s Hong Kong, which delves into social commentary with a tale about kindergarten classes that were held on rooftops.

To is also planning to direct a new action thriller starring Louis Koo as an ex-convict who ends up in hospital after a heist, where he is caught in the crossfire between gangsters and undercover cops.

The film co-stars Wallace Chung (Drug War, The Continent).

To is also producing a thriller directed by a trio of new talents he is grooming: Frank Hui, Vicky Wong and Jevons Au Man-kit. The three film-makers will each shoot an interconnected story about a mainland gangster seeking his fortune in pre-handover Hong Kong.

The cast includes Gordon Lam, Jordan Chan and Richie Jen. All three projects will be co-produced by Media Asia and Milkyway Image, which is backed by China’s Hairun Media.

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NEWS Vertical integration Vertical Entertainment are hunting indie gems in Berlin » Page 4

REVIEW Cold shoulder Isabel Coixet’s Nobody Wants The Night comes in from the cold » Page 10

Chinese New Year What’s set to be big at the box office? » Page 26

BREAKING NEWS Sony’s Pascal steps down Amy Pascal, the Sony exec whose e-mails were made public as part of a hacking scandal at the studio, is to leave her co-chairman position and launch a new production venture at the studio. Pascal will transition to the role in May 2015.

Senator and Wild merge

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Germany’s Senator Entertainment has finalised its merger with France’s Wild Bunch. The merger, first announced in July, will see Wild Bunch’s current management team appointed as directors of the new entity, with Vincent Grimond named CEO, Vincent Maraval, chief content officer, and Brahim Chioua as COO.

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Juliette Binoche in Berlin for the world premiere of Isabel Coixet’s opening film, Nobody Wants The Night

Downton Abbey’s Froggatt to shoot for Starfish

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Father sales Euro execs launch co-pro group CJ racks up Ode To My CJ has also sold the film to MonBY LIZ SHACKLETON

Daniel Goroshko, Sergey Selyanov, Rodolphe Sanzé and Laurent Fumeron have joined forces on European co-production outlet The Project.

The company launches here in Berlin where the founders will be discussing projects with potential production partners and backers.

Among the first titles on the slate are Target writer-director Alexander Zeldovich’s next project

Sweet Life and Andrew Desmond’s The Sonata.

CTB Film Company CEO Selyanov (Mongol: The Rise Of Genghis Khan) and producerdistributor Goroshko, founder of Russian distributor A-One Films, will operate out of Russia while former K5 and Imagina sales exec Sanzé and producer Fumeron will spearhead a Paris base.

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Korea’s CJ Entertainment has closed a string of sales across the Asia Pacific region on JK Youn’s blockbuster Ode To My Father, screening in Berlin’s Panorama section.

The epic drama, spanning six decades of world history, has gone to Intercontinental for Hong Kong, mm2 Entertainment for Singapore and Malaysia, Dreamwest for Australia and New Zealand, and M Pictures for Thailand.

golia (Bloomsbury), Philippines (Viva Communications), Turkey (Medyavizyon), MATV for panAsian TV and Emphasis for airline rights.

Youn produced and directed the film about a young boy separated from his father and sister during the Korean War, who travels to Germany and war-torn Vietnam as a grown man, and never gives up the hope that he will find his missing relatives.

Golden Globe winner Joanne Froggatt is to star in and produce UK drama Starfish.

The Downton Abbey actress will star in the story of a husband and wife whose love is tested by the impact of a rare and devastating disease.

UK sales outfit High Point will be talking to buyers about the project — due for an August 2015 shoot — here at EFM. Bill Clark will write and direct, and the film be produced by Pippa Cross for CrossDay Productions, Mel Paton for Origami Films and Ros Hubbard for What’s The Story.

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BERLIN 2015

NEWS

Spall to tackle Special One

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

Mr. Turner star Timothy Spall has scored the lead in comedy drama The Special One, being pre-sold by Odin’s Eye here in Berlin.

The UK film will reunite Spall with director Stephen Cookson, who worked on My Angel (2011).

In The Special One, Spall will play an eccentric prisoner who is presented with the chance to escape and see England play in the World Cup — but at a cost.

The project is in the final stages of financing. It is scripted by Falcon Fields and will be executiveproduced by Peter Keegan.

Australian sales outfit Odin’s Eye has also taken sales duties on thriller Into The Deep. Written, produced and directed by Gerald Rascionato, it centres on three US students who go shark-watching off the coast of Australia but end up fighting for their lives. The film is in post-production.

Odin’s Eye is also handling martial-arts doc The Real Miyagi.

Vertical has global calling for indie gems

BY JEREMY KAY

Top brass from Los Angeles-based Vertical Entertainment are scouring Berlin for global rights to exploit independent gems across international platforms.

Co-founder Rich Goldberg and head of acquisitions and marketing Peter Jarowey are also on the look-out for US and UK pick-ups, buoyed by the US success of Susan Sarandon thriller The Calling.

The serial-killer film opened last August on VoD, cable and sat-

ellite and generated $3m, a hitherto unreported triumph that the distributor is keen to replicate across its prestige roster of curated releases.

Vertical plans to release around two films a month and believes it can deliver robust launches through its ties with Comcast and other digital platforms that bode well for international prospects.

Ties to Walmart are also crucial — the retail giant guarantees ‘end cap’ preferred shelf placement.

Goldberg’s fellow Vertical cofounder is Mitch Budin, the home-entertainment guru who launched direct retail with Walmart and Kmart during his tenure at Warner Home Video.

“Now with the ability to transact globally through single marketing and delivery platforms, our focus for this year’s EFM will be to acquire global rights to films that have the worldwide appeal to be consumed simultaneously around the world,” said Goldberg.

Match Factory snares Burglar

BY MARTIN BLANEY

This is an exclusive first look at eOne’s anticipated drama Spotlight, about The Boston Globe’s investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. From left to right, the film’s newspaper team: Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery and Brian d’Arcy James.

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The Match Factory has picked up international sales for Hagar BenAsher’s The Burglar.

The film, which stars Lihi Kornowski as a young woman who becomes a burglar after her mother’s home is broken into by brutal thieves, is majority produced by Germany’s Rohfilm with France’s Les Films du Poisson and Israel’s Cinema Group.

Rohfilm is one of the co-producers of Sacha Polak’s drama Zurich.

Pact to boost NZ-Aussie film profile Los Angeles-based XYZ Films and Auckland’s General Film Corporation, who partnered on The Dead Lands and the upcoming 6 Days, have launched a venture to promote films from New Zealand and Australia.

The enterprise — called XYZGFC and backed by New Zealand Film Commission’s business development scheme — will cover co-productions, New Zealand and Australian sales, North American sales and, in select cases, international sales.

XYZ’s Melbourne-based Simon de Bruyn will serve as the dedicated XYZ-GFC acquisitions executive reporting to General Film Corporation managing director Matthew Metcalfe and XYZ partner Aram Tertzakian.

The venture aims to produce one to three films a year, seeking commercial work with topdrawer festival appeal.

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Epic strikes Space Dogs sequel deals

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Lucy Hill earns eOne stripes

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Lucy Hill has been promoted to head of acquisitions for Sydneybased Entertainment One Films (eOne) and is taking meetings at EFM. Former acquisitions manager Hill, who joined Hopscotch Films (acquired by eOne in 2011) eight years ago, will now lead film acquisition efforts for eOne’s Australian team. She will report to eOne Film Australia managing director Troy Lum. During her tenure at the company, Hill has worked on titles including The Kids Are All Right, The Sapphires, Philomena, Pride, The Little Death and The Water Diviner.

Four Warriors marches to US Metrodome International has inked deals on action adventure The Four Warriors, including with Grindstone Entertainment Group for rights in North America, where Lionsgate Home Entertainment will release.

Deals have also closed for France (First International Productions), Middle East (Italia Film) and Turkey (Tanweer Enlightenment Corp) as well as Africa and eastern European territories (Daro Film Distribution).

All deals were negotiated by Caroline Couret-Delegue of Metrodome International.

Directed by Phil Hawkins from a script by Christopher Dane, the film follows four battle-weary Crusaders. Metrodome will screen the film for the first time at EFM. Andreas Wiseman

Films Distribution takes Innocent

BY MARTIN BLANEY

Films Distribution has picked up international distribution rights for Anne Fontaine’s Innocent.

The cast of the France-Poland co-production includes Agata Kulesza, who played the aunt of the title character in Pawel Paw-

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likowski’s Oscar-nominated Ida. Produced by Mandarin Cinema and Aeroplan Film, Innocent centres on true events in 1945 Poland when a young Red Cross intern from France discovered a group of nuns in advanced stages of pregnancy after being raped by

Red Army soldiers. The drama was written by Fontaine with Sabrina B Karine, Alice Vial and Pascal Bonitzer.

Principal photography has just begun at locations in Poland’s Mazury region and will continue until March.

Epic Pictures has closed multiple deals on its Space Dogs sequel and licensed French broadcast rights on the TV animation series spinoff to Canal Plus. Both projects stem from Space Dogs 3D, which Epic Pictures Group co-founders Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berenson said has grossed more than $30m internationally.

Space Dogs: Adventure To The Moon is in post-production and has gone to the UK (Signature), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Poland (Polsat) and former Yugoslavia (Blitz). Epic also licensed rights in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador (Delta), Chile (BF Distribution), Venezuela (Cine Unidos), Middle East (Eagle Film), Turkey (R Film), Israel (Five Stars), Thailand (IPA) and South Korea (Aone Entertainment).

TV series Space Dogs Family follows the exploits of the puppies of the original cosmonaut canines.

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Carnaby finds Truth, Haunting

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Carnaby International has picked up two new titles heading into EFM. Political thriller The Truth Commissioner is set to begin production in March. The deal was secured by Carnaby CEO Sean O’Kelly, together with Big Fish Films’ Eoin O’Callaghan.

Produced in association with Northern Ireland Screen, the Irish Film Board, the Broadcast Authority of Ireland and BBC Northern Ireland, it is adapted from David Park’s novel and will be directed by Declan Recks.

Also new to the slate is supernatural thriller The Haunting Of Borley Rectory, to be produced by Steven M Smith and Dan McSherry. It will begin shooting in the UK in June. The deal was secured by Carnaby’s O’Kelly and Andrew Loveday with Priceless Pictures’ Smith and McSherry.

Khan’s Factory Girl to see Swedish release

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

Egyptian film-maker Mohamed Khan’s Factory Girl is set for theatrical release in Sweden through Arab Cinema In Sweden (ACIS), the distribution arm of Malmo Arab Film Festival.

ACIS will release the film on April 24 across 12 screening venues in cities including Stockholm,

Gothenburg, Malmo, Norrkoping, Fajo, Umea, Lulea and Lund.

Although Sweden has one of Europe’s largest Arabic-speaking communities, Arabic-language films rarely receive a theatrical release in the territory. Factory Girl’s Swedish release marks its first beyond the Arab world.

Egypt and UAE-based MAD

Solutions handled the film’s distribution in the Arab world across six territories and is organising the Arab Cinema Center at EFM. The film will have a market screening here tomorrow.

Produced by DayDream Art Production, Factory Girl was Egypt’s official submission as best foreignlanguage film for the Oscars.

MAISIE WILLIAMS UK

What are you working on next?

It’s a feature in the US called The Devil

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Output deals signed Open Road Films and FilmNation Entertainment have closed a string of output deals on Open Road productions as part of their new partnership, with Sony taking multiple territories.

Clarius connects to Cell Clarius Entertainment has acquired US rights from CAA and Paradigm to Benaroya Pictures and The Genre Company’s thriller Cell.

TWC has feeling for Snow The Weinstein Company (TWC) will handle US distribution and co-finance IM Global and Antoine Fuqua’s thriller The Man Who Made It Snow, to shoot later this year.

EFP’S SHOOTING STARS 2015 What got you into acting?

I was training as a dancer when I was spotted by my agent and she thought I should try acting. Game Of Thrones was only my second audition.

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And The Deep Blue Sea, which starts in about a month. It’s a great role and I’m very excited.

Which director would you most like to work with and why?

Tim Burton. I just love his work.

Sarah Cooper

Plugs for Officer Downe Voltage Pictures has picked up international sales on graphic novel adaptation Officer Downe, which Slipknot co-founder M Shawn Crahan will direct.

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Workshop nets Kwok’s Full Strike

Duck Soup on the menu 9ers sells Cart

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Hong Kong-based Distribution Workshop has picked up international rights to Derek Kwok’s sports drama Full Strike, starring Josie Ho, Ekin Cheng and Ronald Cheng.

Currently in post-production, the film stars Ho as a former badminton player who returns to the sport to coach four reformed gangsters. Ho’s Hong Kong-based 852 Films produced with Why Entertainment and Star Chinese Movies.

Henri Wong co-directed the film with Kwok, whose credits include As The Lights Go Out and Journey To The West: Conquering The Demons.

Distribution Workshop has also picked up the latest feature from China’s Xu Jinglei, romantic drama Somewhere Only We Know, in which the director-actress stars with Kris Wu and Wang Likun.

Two UK producers with ties to Warp Films are launching the new production company Duck Soup.

Libby Durdy and Bekki WrayRogers will produce for Duck Soup, which will work in both film and television.

Durdy was previously on staff at Warp and for the past four years had been an independent producer with a first-look deal

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with Warp. She is also a 2013 Screen International Future Leader producer.

Wray-Rogers, who recently produced both series of Channel 4’s Utopia and This Is England ’88 and ’90, said the new company will concentrate on “cinematic, authored TV and cinematic, authored film”.

Durdy added: “We want to nurture talent, like first- and secondtime film-makers, or TV directors

who are moving into feature film, or film-makers moving into TV.” The company is based in Yorkshire and London. Durdy is attending EFM this week to take meetings.

Duck Soup will announce its initial slate of projects closer to Cannes.

Jessica Holyland, who worked on the This Is England TV shows, will handle production and business affairs for the company.

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EFP’S SHOOTING STARS 2015 JOACHIM FJELSTRUP DENMARK What was your big break?

Itsi Bitsi, my debut. We started shooting two months after I graduated from acting school.

Which director would you most like to work with and why?

Quentin Tarantino. He makes every last

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one of the frames in his movies important; he never loses your attention.

What are you working on next?

I’m in a play in Copenhagen about trafficking. I hate being a man these days. We’re such bastards.

Sarah Cooper

South Korean sales company 9ers Entertainment has sold Boo Jiyoung’s Cart to multiple territories including Taiwan (AVJet International Media Co) and Hong Kong (Edko Films).

The film, about a workers’ strike, played at Rotterdam and Busan after its Toronto world premiere. It is set for release in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan this year.

Finecut sees Red

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

Seoul-based sales company Finecut has picked up international rights to English-language 3D animation Red Shoes & The 7 Dwarfs (working title). The $12m animated feature is being readied for a summer 2017 release. Finecut’s Berlin slate also includes Im Kwon-taek’s Revivre, which is screening in Berlin’s Critics’ Week.

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REVIEWS

Reviews edited by Mark Adams mark.adams@screendaily.com

» Nobody Wants The Night p10 » Slow West p16 » What Happened, Miss » Paper Planes p16 Simone? p14 » Partisan p20

» Chlorine p20 » My Skinny Sister p22 » Paradise In Service p22

Nobody Wants The Night Reviewed by Mark Adams Isabel Coixet’s handsomely mounted period drama veers between epic Arctic vistas and intimate igloo intensity, and while blessed with an impressive double act in the form of Juliette Binoche and Rinko Kikuchi, it never quite settles on enough intensity to carry its almost twohour running time. Nobody Wants The Night (Nadie Quiere La Noche), which opened the Berlinale, has appropriate style and panache, but this frosty film lacks a much-needed dash of dramatic fire.

The presence of Binoche and Kikuchi gives this English-language film the right acting credentials to appeal to distributors, and certainly some of the visuals are quite stunning. But the backdrop of dangerous North Pole exploration at the turn of the 20th century flatters what is at heart a rather intimate story of discovery, love and survival between two different women.

There is a sense of epic narrative to the background story of real-life US explorer Robert Peary (never seen in the film, but who plays a central role) and his ambitions to be the first man to reach the North Pole. Binoche plays his loyal, high-society wife Josephine, who sup-

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ports and encourages his grand ambitions, despite the fact it has meant they have spent years apart. In 1908, she decides she wants to join him as he comes closer to achieving his dream, and arrives in the North perilously close to the dangerous onset of winter.

The film opens with Josephine gleefully shooting her first polar bear (“A big male,” she calls out happily… “Average,” comments her Inuit guide). She wants to travel deeper North to meet up with her husband despite the advice of grizzled explorers, and manages to convince the long-haired and experienced Bram (Gabriel Byrne) to lead a small expedition. Bram — sporting an Inuit-style nose tattoo and a relish for the clean remoteness of the frozen North — reluctantly helps her.

After incident and drama she eventually reaches a base camp hoping to find her husband, only to discover he has pushed onwards.

With winter drawing in (and the onset of almost permanent night due) she finds herself in a shack, accompanied only by Inuit woman Allaka (Kikuchi), who lives in a nearby igloo.

Josephine relishes her time alone and is irritated by the smiling Allaka, but in time the two women come to have a grudging companion-

ship, with Allaka saving her when Josephine collapses in the snow, and the ‘civilised’ woman showing Allaka how to use a knife and fork as she stages a formal dinner.

Things come to a head when it turns out Allaka is also there to wait for Peary, and Josephine is even more shocked to find out Allaka is expecting his baby. A bout of anger ensues — it is all rather predictable to be honest — but the two women are forced to bond as bleak and bitter winter descends and the child’s arrival draws closer.

The epic nature of the first part of the film contrasts effectively with the second part, which is set largely in the rickety frozen shack and the claustrophobic igloo. It is here, with the frostiness of Josephine’s reaction to Allaka juxtaposed with the warm-hearted nature of the Inuit woman, that the film finds its dramatic heart. In rather languid style, Coixet draws out the slow-burn friendship between the two women, bonded together in their love for the same man and in their very physical need to battle the elements.

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What Happened, Miss Simone?

Reviewed by Tim Grierson Serving as a handy (albeit simplistic) overview of one of the 20th century’s greatest singers, the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? does its best to suggest what made Nina Simone such an important cultural and political figure. But the straightforward approach cannot help but reduce an extraordinary life to biopic generalities.

Premiering at Sundance Film Festival before screening here, What Happened, Miss Simone? will play in the US on the streaming service Netflix. Perhaps appropriately, then, the documentary feels like a comfortable fit for the small screen, where those curious about Simone’s legacy will find the film to be a helpful primer.

Directed by Liz Garbus (Bobby Fischer Against The World), What Happened, Miss Simone? draws from concert footage, archival interviews and testimonials from family and friends to paint a portrait of the singer, who died in 2003 at the age of 70.

Blessed with an elastic, forceful voice, the African-American artist rose to prominence singing everything from jazz to blues to gospel.

As Garbus illustrates, Simone came to prominence just as black leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr were fighting for equal rights in the US. Rather than ducking these issues, Simone took them on, whether in interviews or in her music.

As a result, hers was a life electrified by the history she witnessed; the documentary includes brief footage of the performance she gave during King’s 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery to raise awareness for equal voting rights for black people. But if the civil rights movement became a defining aspect of her career, so too was the difficult, abusive relationship she had with her husband/manager Andrew Stroud along with the emotional problems that plagued her later years (she was diag-

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PANORAMA DOCUMENTARY US. 2015. 102mins Director Liz Garbus Production companies RadicalMedia, Moxie Firecracker International sales Netflix, netflix.com Producers Amy Hobby, Liz Garbus, Justin Wilkes, Jayson Jackson Executive producers Sidney Beaumont, Jon Kamen, Lisa Nishimura, Adam Del Deo, Lisa Simone Kelly Cinematography Igor Martinovic, Rachel Morrison, Ronan Killeen Production designer Markus Kirschner Editor Joshua L Pearson

nosed as bipolar and became more erratic as she got older).

To be sure, this is a rich, multifaceted life, but at just over 100 minutes, What Happened, Miss Simone? merely scratches the surface, hitting the main points without digging deeply enough into any of her different chapters. Garbus and editor Joshua L Pearson do a nifty job pacing this filmic overview, the proceedings moving along briskly without making the documentary feel glib or superficial. The worst one can say about What Happened, Miss Simone? is that it feels unnecessarily truncated, chronicling the

ups and downs without enough emotional heft to give any of them their due.

But this deficiency is especially problematic because of the depth of Simone’s vocal performances and the cultural significance of her times. A singer known for visceral renditions of her own songs and others’ — which is hinted at in the documentary’s brief but spectacular concert footage — Simone was celebrated for the passion and anguish she carried with her. By comparison, What Happened, Miss Simone? is a little too genteel, honouring an iconic artist without necessarily taking her full measure.

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Paper Planes Reviewed by Frank Hatherley

Slow West Reviewed by David D’Arcy The American frontier is as bloody as ever in Slow West, John Maclean’s lean and lyrical coming-of-age story set in 19th century Colorado and filmed in New Zealand.

Almost everyone is a killer, or becomes one. The fields of neo-Westerns and fugitive murderers are crowded these days, but Slow West’s New Zealand location is unique, and so is Michael Fassbender in the role of a grizzled gun for hire.

This impressive feature debut can ride into the arthouses with Fassbender up front and Maclean’s stylish narrative of danger in a grand, mysterious landscape.

The film’s violent, mannered fatalism shares enough ground with the horror genre that Slow West could tap into a wider public drawn to its cast and to the hairtrigger fright of a place with no laws and lots of guns.

The tale is right out of Western lore. Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a well-born Scot of 16, encounters bounty hunters. Before one of them can finish him off, he is saved by Silas Selleck (Fassbender), who once rode with the murderous gang. Jay, searching for his teenage Scottish love, signs up Silas to be his protector and the two set off through dazzling landscapes, pursued by bounty hunters who want to cash in on the fugitive girl.

Maclean’s script is an odyssey of the embittered and the naïve as the two wind on horseback through thick forests and broad valleys — locations seen in fantasy films from New Zealand. In the quest to find a loved one before killers do, all signs point to a final gunfight.

On the way there, Maclean shifts around the standard ingredients. Women shoot and kill here, and are killed without remorse. The trail that Jay and Silas travel has landmarks pulled from the horror dictionary: the cow skeletons that cross their path, or the bloody bullet hole in a suit that Jay tries on in a store. Irish and Scots on the frontier, plus Germans and Chinese, even Africans singing and drumming, remind us the West, like the rest of the US, was a land of immigrants.

The dialogue on the journey is minimal, with Jay musing on love and cerebral matters, and Silas demolishing any tender thoughts with caustic rancour. Observing the remains of a Native American, crushed by a fallen tree, Jay remarks that Darwin predicted the demise of the weak. Silas, clearly thinking of himself, responds: “I hope that’s not true.”

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MARKET UK-NZ. 2015. 84mins Director-screenplay John Maclean Production companies See-Saw Films, DMC Films International sales Hanway Films, info@ hanwayfilms.com Producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Conor McCaughan, Rachel Gardner Executive Producers Michael Fassbender, Katherine Butler, Zygi Kamasa Cinematography Robbie Ryan Editors Roland Gallois, Jon Gregory Production designer Kim Sinclair Music Jed Kurzel Main cast Michael Fassbender, Kodi SmitMcPhee, Caren Pistorius, Ben Mendelsohn, Rory McCann

Robert Connolly’s Aussie family movie looks good, sounds great and inspired its first Sydney audience to launch hundreds of paper planes (courtesy of paper supplied by local distributor Roadshow Films). If the adults present were less enthusiastic than the kids, it could be because the flight of this country-boy-conquers-the-world story requires some magical thinking to keep it aloft.

Paper Planes premiered at Melbourne Film Festival and has since won the CinefestOz competition, the richest film prize in Australia.

Twelve-year-old Dylan (Ed Oxenbould) lives with his deeply depressed father (Sam Worthington, no less) in an idyllic bush shack. We suspect something terrible has happened to Dylan’s mother.

At school, under the influence of a kindly teacher (Kath & Kim’s Peter Rowsthorn), Dylan finds he possesses an uncanny ability to make and propel unbeatable paper planes. His improbable first effort goes further than any other in the entire movie.

With minimal ado, he wins the ad hoc school competition, wins the regional, wins the state in Sydney, then heads for Tokyo and the world championship. What is Dylan’s secret? Connolly’s handsome movie — he directs, co-produces and co-scripts with Steve Worland — leaves us uninformed. He just seems to have the knack, while coping with an inert dad, a disreputable old grandad, a pudgy best mate, a sneaky rival and a sweet Japanese girlfriend.

Young Oxenbould, with his floppy blond hair and shiny blue eyes, is clearly one to watch following Disney’s 2014 Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and M Night Shyamalan’s upcoming 2015 release The Visit. Worthington (Avatar) contributes a handsome hopelessness and David Wenham looks great in a similarly small role. Connolly has some great connections.

The camerawork of Tristan Milani is excellent in the wide bushland sequences and the more traditional city views of Sydney and Tokyo.

If both script and editing are overemphatic, the full musical score of composer Nigel Westlake is a surprise.

With the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to hand, Westlake backs the swooping paper planes with some lushly stirring musical sequences.

GENERATION PLUS Aus. 2014. 96mins Director Robert Connolly Production company Arenamedia International sales Arclight Films, arclightfilms.com Producers Robert Connolly, Maggie Miles, Liz Kearney Executive producers Andrew Myer, Jonathan Chissick, Gary Hamilton , Ying Ye, Bernadette O’Mahony, Eric Bana Screenplay Robert Connolly, Steve Worland Cinematography Tristan Milani Editor Nick Meyers Production designer Clayton Jauncey Music Nigel Westlake Main cast Ed Oxenbould, Sam Worthington, Julian Dennison, Ena Imai, David Wenham, Nicholas Bakopoulos-Cooke, Deborah Mailman, Terry Norris, Peter Rowsthorn

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Partisan Reviewed by Tim Grierson The tension between a father-figure and his wilful ‘son’ is only intensified when dad is the leader of a murderous cult in Partisan, an intelligent, controlled drama highlighted by strong performances from Vincent Cassel and newcomer Jeremy Chabriel. Film-maker Ariel Kleiman, making his feature debut, may not delve deeply enough into the psychology of his fascinating milieu — a utopian commune led by a man who preaches the evils of the outside world while training his flock to kill — but the threat of violence lingers over the proceedings like a dark cloud.

Partisan could attract buyers on the strength of its premise alone: at the arthouse, cults (and cult-like behaviour) have been a central focus in recent acclaimed indies such as Martha Marcy May Marlene, Dogtooth and even The Master.

Cassel’s marquee value is also a draw and enthusiastic reviews should spark audience interest.

Cassel plays Gregori, a handsome, charismatic figure who has systematically built up a closed-off community that has nothing to do with the larger world. Populated by women and their children, this community is run by Gregori, who serves as teacher and inspirational leader to his group of perhaps 30 or so.

The oldest of the children is Alexander (Chabriel), who has just turned 11. When Alex-

ander was born, Gregori met his mother Susanna (Florence Mezzara) in the hospital, bringing them both into the fold (we suspect this is how Gregori has recruited most of his flock — by preying on the lonely and impressionable). Gregori has come to view Alexander as his child, putting great expectations on the boy, who loves this father figure but also has an obstinate, playfully disobedient streak.

Partisan soon reveals the disturbing secret of Gregori’s brood: he is training the children to

be expert shots so they can go into the nearby town and assassinate specific people. Alexander is the best of the group at this grim task, never questioning his assignments and happy to have this approval. But soon Alexander will begin to doubt Gregori’s infallibility, bringing the two into conflict.

From the outset, Kleiman and co-writer Sarah Cyngler plunge us into this bizarre community, treating its murderous actions with a nonchalance that makes them all the more chilling. One moment, the kids are learning how to tend a garden. The next, they’re having target practice.

Additionally, Partisan never establishes exactly where we are on the planet, which makes the characters’ dispassionate behaviour seem even more alien, almost post-apocalyptic.

Adding to the unsettling ambiguity, there is never an explanation of why Gregori selects his specific targets — the kids just knock on a door, confirm the name of the person who answers and then shoot.

The lead performances are both gripping, Cassel’s deceptively quiet manner belying the indiscriminate violence he unleashes. But the young Chabriel proves a worthy sparring partner and his defiant eyes become the film’s most resonant image. In his face, Partisan finds its shred of hope: the only way to vanquish evil is to not stand by idly.

emotionally crippled father and a brother who is suffering from all of this change.

She tries to find order in her new life, taking a job as a maid at an off-season ski resort, but Fabrizio has issues at his new school and eventually her father is taken to be looked after in a monastery. She only finds some secret solace when she sneaks into the hotel’s indoor pool late at night to keep up with her training. For some reason — that isn’t overly clear in the film — the serious-minded Jenny starts a relationship of sorts with Ivan (Ivan Franek), the older émigré warden of the hotel. The film has a cycle of sorts that

eventually sees Jenny return to see her old swimming team and ends in an expected fashion.

The design, tone and minimal dialogue all work together to deliver a chilled and restrained atmosphere, with the drama modest and at times cryptic. Jenny’s journey — both emotional and physical — feels a familiar one, but this austere story is told with a certain clinical style.

Most effective are the shots of her synchronised swimming practice where the pool footage is put together nicely and acts as a counterbalance to the chilly and at times gloomy images of the wintery ski resort.

MARKET Aus. 2014. 97mins Director Ariel Kleiman Production companies Screen Australia, Animal Kingdom, Warp Films Australia, Protagonist Pictures, Film Victoria, DDP Studios International sales Protagonist Pictures, protagonistpictures.com; UTA, unitedtalent.com Producers Anna McLeish, Sarah Shaw Screenplay Ariel Kleiman, Sarah Cyngler Cinematography Germain McMicking Editors Jack Hutchings, Chris Wyatt Production designer Steven Jones-Evans, Sarah Cyngler Music Daniel Lopatin Main cast Vincent Cassel, Jeremy Chabriel, Florence Mezzara

Chlorine Reviewed by Mark Adams Thoughtfully made but perhaps a little too gently paced, Lamberto Sanfelice’s drama feature debut Chlorine (Cloro) works well as an astute character drama as it dwells on a teenager who has to take on all sorts of responsibilities after a parent’s nervous breakdown. It is familiar dramatic territory but a maturely made film that bodes well for the film-maker.

Chlorine, which premiered at Sundance and screens here in Generation 14plus, is made with an easy understanding of a young person having to take on adult duties and Sanfelice works well with his young star, Sara Serraiocco. She plays 17-year-old Jenny, a dedicated swimmer who is part of a junior national synchronisedswimming team, but who has to change tack when drama strikes her family.

Her father Alfio (Andrea Vergoni) has a breakdown following his wife’s death, so Jenny and her eight-year-old brother Fabrizio (Anatol Sassi) have to leave their home in coastal Ostia and head with Alfio to his home town in the mountains to the north, staying in a holiday cabin owned by his brother. So, from a determined and focused would-be athlete, the teenager finds herself having to look after her

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Paradise In Service Reviewed by Jason Bechervaise

My Skinny Sister Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan My Skinny Sister is an involving first feature from Swedish director Sanna Lenken, who has a personal history with the eating disorders her film chronicles. There is a ring of authenticity to this story of a teenage ice skater’s struggle with anorexia, which is told through the eyes of her younger sister, brilliantly played by Rebecka Josephson.

My Skinny Sister can look forward to international festival play, where it will act as a topical talking point for younger audiences. Lenken struggles with her third act, however, and cannot quite bring her narrative to a satisfying conclusion. The drama — so affectingly captured in its initial stages — flirts with repetition and histrionics, which could dent its appeal to more mature audiences.

Having premiered at Göteborg Film Festival, where it won the audience award, My Skinny Sister tells the story of two young, auburn-haired sisters.

Teenager Katja (Amy Deasismont) is a talented skater and academic star, her achievements prized by her parents. Young Stella (Rebecka Josephson) is Katja’s polar opposite, at least physically, and she looks at her sister with a mixture of hero worship and queasy jealousy. As a depiction of the tug and pull of sibling emotions, My Skinny Sister hits the target with an unnerving accuracy.

It is not long before things turn sour. Katja is overexercising, hell bent on controlling her physique as a last defence against what is clearly a terrifying transition to adulthood. She is moody and difficult; she secretly eats crisps from the rubbish bin. She does not want to go to Stella’s birthday, and her little sister looks on uncomprehendingly. When Stella twigs that her sister is suffering from rapidly advancing anorexia, Katja blackmails her into staying quiet in front of their parents (Annika Hallin, Henrik Norlen).

Well-meaning but over-worked, the parents make some decisions that seem to serve the plot mechanics rather than add to the authenticity of the piece, and My Skinny Sister has difficulty recovering from an ill-advised trip to a country cabin to sort out the problem without professional help. Still, Lenken’s film is memorable and highly attractive, if only for the intoxicating mix of Moritz Schultheiss’s sun-dappled camerawork with the delicate face and hair of young Josephson. She’s quite an actress, even delivering her English lines with finesse.

And she captures best the pain and devastation this illness causes to families of its victims.

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Set in Kinmen — a group of islands administered by Taiwan — in the late 1960s and ’70s amid tensions with mainland China, the latest film from Doze Chen-Zer Niu (2010’s Monga) provides viewers with much to reflect on, delving as it does into the delicate subject matter of military prostitution. But this is no social realist drama, rather a compelling coming-of-age story.

The film begins by providing viewers with some historical context. International audiences will likely find the nuanced narrative more challenging to follow, but Niu is careful not to overly simplify the turbulent backdrop nor make it totally inaccessible.

The film takes place in 1969 as Taiwan maintained a standoff with mainland China. A large military presence was based on the island as tensions remained, although relations were not as turbulent as they were following the 1949 Battle of Guningtou (also known as the Battle of Kinmen) during the Chinese Civil War that saw the People’s Republic of China fail to take the islands of Kinmen (or Quemoy), located in the Taiwan strait.

On Kinmen, conscript Pao (Ethan Juan) arrives for his military service, and once it is discovered he cannot swim he is transferred from an amphibious reconnaissance battalion to a unit known as the ‘831’ or ‘Paradise in Service’, which is essentially a military-run brothel.

There Pao begins to develop meaningful friendships, including with the illiterate sergeant major Chang YunShan (Chen Jian Bin) who asks Pao to help him write letters to his mother. He also forms a relationship with Nini (Wan Qian) who turned to prostitution to have her sentence reduced after she killed her abusive husband.

Through these relationships Niu reveals the unfortunate and at times dangerous cycle that many found themselves in during this period, but like in Monga, he creates a warm ambience despite the bleak setting. This may appear at odds with the film’s themes, but it allows Niu to explore this period of history without laying blame, instead providing a layered perspective that focuses on individuals as well as the systems that govern them. Crucially, however, what lies at the heart of this feature is a coming-of-age story rather than a critique.

Juan who also acted in Niu’s Monga and Love, demonstrates again he fits well into Niu’s films. The rest of the cast is also excellent, particularly Wan, a standout among a number of challenging female roles.

PANORAMA Tai. 2014. 133mins Director/screenplay Doze Chen-Zer Niu Production companies Atom Cinema, Honto Production International sales Ablaze Image, www. ablazeimage.com Producers Doze Chen-Zer Niu, Jimmy Huang, Liu Weijan, Wang Zhong Lei Screenplay Tseng Li Ting, Doze Chen-Zer Niu Editor Tseng Li Ting, Doze Chen-Zer Niu Cinematography Charlie Lam Production designer Huang Mei Ching Music Lee Cincin Main cast Ethan Juan, Chen Jian Bin, Wan Qian, Chen Yi Han

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12 Golden Ducks Dir Matt Chow

Taken by storm Which films will triumph at the box office over Chinese New Year?

Liz Shackleton looks at the high-profile releases vying for the top slot

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he Greater China box office is always competitive but this year’s Chinese New Year holiday, which starts February 19, is being described by distributors as a potential bloodbath due to the large number of high-profile films jostling for release.

Among the heavy hitters are Jackie Chan’s $65m epic Dragon Blade, which stars John Cusack and Adrien Brody as Roman generals; Jean-Jacques Annaud’s $38m wilderness epic Wolf Totem; Wong Jing’s From Vegas To Macau 2 and bigbudget 3D fantasy adventure Zhoung Kui: Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal.

Several other films are also being released across multiple Chinese-speaking territories on February 19 — including Pegasus’s remake of An Inspector Calls and Media Asia’s aviation drama Triumph In The Skies — along with a plethora of smaller, seasonal comedies, which often involve gambling and spoofs of other local films.

As the holiday, which takes place from mid-January to mid-February depending on the Lunar calendar, is traditionally a time spent with family, animation and children’s films perform well over the period — this year Penguins Of Madagascar and Shaun The Sheep Movie will be battling the local films in Hong Kong. Chinese epics can perform well but audiences like to have fun during this holiday and there are often upsets with feelgood family comedies, even

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Actress Sandra Ng and director Matt Chow are reteaming on this comedy following their success with Golden Chickensss, which became Hong Kong’s highest-grossing local film last year following its Chinese New Year release.

While Golden Chickensss was a comedy about prostitutes adapting to Hong Kong’s digital economy, 12 Golden Ducks turns the gender tables by following a group of gigolos, known in the local vernacular as ‘ducks’. The film opens in Hong Kong and Singapore on February 19, Malaysia on February 26, Taiwan on March 20 and is unlikely to be released in China due to the naughty subject matter.

Contact We Distribution, Andree Sham andree@wedistribution.com

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three Chinese films in Malaysia last year those with slightly risqué content, snatching were all released over Chinese New Year — box office from loftier fare.

On the mainland, Chinese New Year The Journey ($5m), From Vegas To Macau concludes a five-month peak period for ($3m) and The Monkey King ($2.8m). The local films that runs from National Day holiday is shorter in Singapore but the top in October, through Christmas, until the two Chinese films in 2014 were also New relative quiet of March. Hollywood films are Year releases — Jack Neo’s The Lion Men restricted from release around National Day ($1.6m) and From Vegas To Macau ($1.5m). and Spring Festival. Last year, The Monkey All five Chinese-speaking territories produce Chinese New Year films that are King grossed $169m over Chinese New more local in content and humour and are Year, while the family-oriented Where Are aimed at just one or two territories.

We Going, Dad? took $112.8m — a sequel Singapore and Malaysia have been follows this year. producing more of these films in recent Hong Kong and Taiwan are more years as their respective box-office Hollywood-oriented, so foreign films can markets grow. This year’s offerings include perform well, but face stiffer competition.

Singapore’s Ah Boys To Men 3, Malaysia’s Last year in Hong Kong, after several years of Hollywood dominance during the holiday, My Papa Rich and Kungfu Taboo and Sandra Ng’s comedy Golden Chickensss, Singapore-Malaysia From Vegas To Macau and The Monkey King co-production trounced Hollywood releases Jack Ryan: King Of Shadow Recruit and Saving Mr Banks. This Mahjong. year, Fifty Shades Of Grey and Kingsman: The Secret Service will be rolled out in Hong Kong and Taiwan just before the deluge of local films. The holiday is slightly shorter in both these territories, compared with mainland China, where audiences have up to 10 days off work.

Malaysian Chinese also take up to 10 days holiday, returning to family outside the big cities, so box-office potential for local films is huge. The top An Inspector Calls

The third instalment in the recordbreaking series from Jack Neo — Singapore’s most bankable director — sees the popular cast as elite soldiers of the country’s Naval Diving Unit. The first two movies, about a group of army recruits completing their National Service, were filmed together and released at the end of 2012 and Chinese New Year 2013. They were both the topgrossing local movies in their respective years of release. Backed by mm2 Entertainment and Fox International Channels, Ah Boys To Men 3 opens in Singapore on February 19.

Contact mm2 Entertainment, Sim Wee Boon simweeboon@ mm2entertainment.com

An Inspector Calls Dirs Raymond Wong, Herman Yau Pegasus Motion Pictures has produced this adaptation of JB Priestley’s play of the same name, which adds black humour to the social commentary about a rich family’s involvement in the death of a young woman.

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know her, they are all connected to the victim. The cast also includes Eric Tsang, Teresa Mo, Lam Ka Tung, Chrissie Chau and Pegasus chief and actor Raymond Wong.

Dir Jean-Jacques Annaud Based on Jiang Rong’s bestselling novel, this $38m epic adventure follows a young student from Beijing who is sent to the wilderness of Inner Mongolia to teach a nomadic tribe of shepherds.

Fascinated by the bond between the shepherds and the wolves, he captures a cub and tries to tame it. Annaud has spent several years working on this China-France co-production, which involved shooting in extreme conditions and training three generations of wolves. Feng Shaofeng who recently appeared in Ann Hui’s The Golden Era, plays the student and the cast also includes Shawn Dou, whose credits include Zhang Yimou’s Under The Hawthorn Tree.

Contact Pegasus Motion Pictures, Kat Yeung kathy.yeung@ pegasusmovie.com

The Arti: The Adventure Begins Dir Huang Wen-Chang Warner Bros is releasing this 3D puppet animation in Taiwan in the run-up to Chinese New Year on February 11.

Backed by Taiwanese retail chains Family Mart and 7-Eleven, the $10m fantasy adventure is produced by Puppetmotion Entertainment and Pili International Multimedia, the creator of Taiwan’s iconic Pili puppet theatre show, which is broadcast as a top-rating TV series and sells 400,000 DVDs every month. The story follows the son and daughter of a family accused of treason, who are forced to cross the desert with their wooden robot, but are pursued by a jealous prince.

Contact Golden Network Asia, Clarence Tang clarence@goldnetasia.com

Dragon Blade Dir Daniel Lee John Cusack and Adrien Brody star alongside Jackie Chan in this $65m epic action film that imagines Roman soldiers crossing the border into China. Chan plays the commander of the Silk Road Protection Squad who is wrongly accused of treason and joins forces with a Roman general (Cusack), who has fled into China to protect a young boy from his power-crazed brother (Brody). The cast also includes Korean heartthrob Choi Siwon, the comedy duo known as the Chopstick Brothers and actresses Mika Wang and Lin Peng. Investors in the film include Sparkle Roll Media Corp, From Vegas To Macau 2

Contact Edko Films, Julian Chiu chiujulian@edkofilms.com.hk

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Huayi Brothers, Shanghai Film Group, Home Media & Entertainment Fund, China Film & TV Capital, Tencent and Alibaba.

Contact Golden Network Asia, Clarence Tang clarence@goldnetasia.com

From Vegas To Macau 2 Dir Wong Jing Chow Yun Fat reprises his role as a legendary gambler in the sequel to Wong Jing’s From Vegas To Macau, which grossed $85m in mainland China over Chinese New Year 2014. In the sequel, he travels to Thailand with his sidekick (Shawn Yue) on the tail of the mob’s chief accountant (Nick Cheung) who has absconded with $15bn of the bad guys’ money. Carina Lau plays the love interest who appears to be on the wrong side of the law. Andrew Lau, who produced the first, returns in the role.

The Wedding Diary and its sequel. The film is opening on February 19 in Singapore and February 26 in Malaysia.

Contact Rex Productions, Raymond Liu raymondliu@emperorgroup.com

Zhong Kui: Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal Dirs Peter Pau, Zhao Tianyu

This feature version of one of Hong Kong’s most popular TV series revolves around the glamorous lives and romantic escapades of pilots and flight attendants working for Skylette Airways.

Francis Ng and Julian Cheung reprise their roles in the top-rating TVB series, while Louis Koo and Sammi Cheng play new characters. Directed by Wilson Yip (Ip Man 1 & 2) and Matt Chow (Golden Chickensss), the film is produced by Media Asia and Shaw Brothers.

This 3D fantasy adventure stars Chen Kun as a legendary Chinese anti-hero who is forced into battle in the realms of Heaven, Earth and Hell to protect the people of his country and the woman he loves. Li Bingbing also stars. Peter Pau is serving as co-director, producer, DoP and VFX supervisor on the film, which has tapped 3D stereographer Vincent E Toto (Dredd), Weta Workshop for character and set design and Korea’s Macrograph for visual effects. Produced by Desen International Media, the film is co-financed by Village Roadshow Pictures Asia, Warner Bros Pictures and Wanda Media, while Arclight Films has international sales.

Contact Media Asia, Fred Tsui frederick_tsui@mediaasia.com

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Triumph In The Skies Dirs Wilson Yip, Matt Chow

Contact Angela Wong, Mega-Vision Project Workshop angelaolwong@mvphk.biz

King Of Mahjong Dir Adrian Teh This Singapore-Malaysia co-production is classic Chinese New Year fare — taking a popular Hong Kong genre, the mahjong comedy, pulling together a strong pan-regional ensemble cast and peppering liberally with a string of guest and celebrity appearances. Chapman To and Mark Lee star as rivals and disciples of a legendary mahjong master who go up against each other after a 20-year hiatus.

Singapore’s Clover Films has co-produced with Malaysia’s Asia Tropical Films, whose CEO, Adrian Teh, is directing after his success with

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Scenes from a marriage Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years is a truthful story about an older couple. He tells Wendy Mitchell about the film’s thematic inspirations and working with the dream cast of Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay

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ndrew Haigh’s 45 Years looks at a couple celebrating a long marriage, yet the director sees it as having similarities to his lauded 2011 film Weekend, which was about a couple’s initial meeting.

“I do, in a sense, weirdly see both films as companion pieces; Weekend is the first flourishes of love and this is about a relationship years later,” Haigh says.

45 Years follows Kate and Geoff Mercer, played by Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, in the week before a party for their 45th anniversary. Their relationship becomes strained when he is notified the body of his first love, Katya, is found in a Swiss glacier, where he lost her 50 years ago. Geoff has obsessive thoughts regarding the accident; Kate feels insecure when he admits he would have married Katya if she had not died.

“Kate and Geoff were in a different time when they got together, there were things they didn’t talk about. That was their early 20s and that’s really interesting to me that you become a certain person when you enter a relationship,” Haigh says.

The film is not just about the couple now, it is about the people they were and the decisions they made when they first met. “It’s about the choices we make when you start to go on a path in your life. You stop making those choices as you get older,” Haigh says.

“You get into a relationship and you get stuck on a certain direction.”

45 Years, premiering in Berlinale Competition from today, is sold by The Match Factory; Haigh reteams with Weekend’s producer, Tristan Goligher of The Bureau.

Curzon has already acquired UK rights.

Haigh has wanted to tell this story for years. He read David Constantine’s short Country and started writing story, In Another Country, the script for 45 Years at the same time he wrote Weekend.

“It just really struck me; it was the central metaphor of this body frozen in time,” he says. The adaptation was tricky, because the short story was 15 pages long, so Haigh had to develop the plot and characters to sustain a full feature.

The characters were originally in their 80s, and he updated that to a couple in their 60s and 70s. He also updated the

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Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years

time frame from the 1990s to present day. “I wanted it to be about an older couple living now. These feel like people of my generation even though I’m only 42.”

An honest story The writer-director’s realistic, unpatronising approach to an older couple was one thing that attracted the veteran leads of Rampling and Courtenay.

Kate and Geoff are people whose age does not define them — they still have an active social life, have sex and read Kierkegaard.

“When I watch films about the older generation, they are stereotypical older people and those stereotypes don’t make sense to me. The people I know of this age are still interested in the world and they are engaged in their lives,” Haigh says.

“Charlotte and I talked a lot about it. She doesn’t quite understand that representation of those 60 and 70 year olds that she sees on the screen. We wanted to tell something truthful about people of that age.”

Courtenay and Rampling had met each other over the years, but had

‘Weekend is the first flourishes of love and this is about a relationship years later’ Andrew Haigh, director

(Left) Tom Courtenay stars as husband Geoff

never worked together. They have a relaxed chemistry from the first scene. And working with consummate professionals meant their sex scene was somewhat relaxed to film.

“No-one was particularly nervous. I’ve done a lot of sex scenes now; it’s all just about treating it as any other scene for me,” Haigh says. “It’s like an important dialogue scene.

You make sure everyone feels comfortable.

It’s about keeping it simple… It feels honest and real and authentic.”

Courtenay appears in only a pair of briefs, and he had no trouble stripping down, Haigh reveals. “Tom joked this was his first sex scene… some actors would have been self conscious but they aren’t vain performers, they just want to do the best work.”

Haigh says this film does feel like a big step up from Weekend in terms of budget and actors’ profiles. But since he has been in California for the past few years directing, writing and executive producing the acclaimed HBO show Looking, with a crew of 150, the size of 45 Years was actually comforting.

“I had done the first season of Looking before I made the film, so it felt like a lovely return to doing something smaller again.”

HBO is currently deciding on a third series of Looking, but Haigh has plenty of film ideas up his sleeve. “Film is where I want to be. I can do different things in film s than I do in TV.” ■

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acquaintances and Barnum brought Wagner into the equation, with whom de Barros had collaborated in her Voltage days.

“We all worked in the indie space and had that energy and indie spirit,” says de Barros.

“We have all grown up hustling in this business. So we began the conversation in Toronto.”

As they huddled over drinks at the Metropolitan Hotel, the strength of their complementary skills became clear to all and they set about structuring a company.

The plan was to launch at Cannes 2014 but an opportunity arose with financier Kilburn Media on The End Of The Tour and they took the film to Berlin 2014 to kick off pre-sales.

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Fortitude attitude The co-founders of Fortitude International, Nadine de Barros, Daniel Wagner and Robert Ogden Barnum, tell Jeremy Kay about their plans for year two

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ne year after their first public outing as business partners, Fortitude International’s trio of co-founders arrive in Berlin on track for ‘phase two’.

Nadine de Barros, Daniel Wagner and Robert Ogden Barnum have achieved a lot in their first 12 months on the circuit.

James Ponsoldt sales title The End Of The Tour starring Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace recently premiered in Sundance and was acquired by A24, while the balance of the initial slate — Daughter Of God, Urge and The Runner — are all in post-production.

Now the plan is to nurture in-house productions. To that effect, Fortitude aims to line up six to seven projects in 2015, including submarine thriller Dive from Ariel Vromen, the in-demand director of The Iceman.

“We don’t feel like a company. We feel like film-makers,” says de Barros, the former Voltage Pictures and Aldamisa International senior executive with experience in film and TV, who spearheads sales. “We’re not corporate. We’re not bureaucratic. You deal with me, Rob and Daniel. We’re honest and transparent.”

Barnum and Wagner are producer-financiers. The former, also a partner with Cassian Elwes at finance and packaging firm e2b Capital, who has produced Margin Call, Hateship Loveship and Shelter among others, has served in a senior capacity at Annapurna

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‘We’re not corporate.

We’re not bureaucratic.

You deal with me, Rob and Daniel. We’re honest and transparent’ Nadine de Barros, Fortitude International

Pictures and Benaroya Pictures and is highly adept at structuring finance.

Wagner is the Sweden-born, Los Angelesbased owner of BiFrost Pictures and former head of production at Paradox Entertainment who produced Shelter and the upcoming Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead with Barnum. He backs Fortitude International with a group of other investors.

The company’s roots date back to Toronto 2013. De Barros had recently departed Aldamisa and was eager to build something.

“I knew what I needed more than just money was somebody who knew how to produce movies and somebody who understood international finance,” says de Barros. “I also knew I didn’t want to do it alone. I needed hands-on partners.”

She was in two minds about the trip to Canada that September but decided to attend. By chance, Barnum heard about her availability and called from his bachelor party to arrange a meeting. The pair were

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Taking control For Barnum, Fortitude has been a natural career progression. “Cassian and I have made something like 30 movies since 2012,” he says. “With each film we either felt we were making a lot of money for somebody else or we felt we were getting estimates from people that weren’t accurate.

“Bringing in a partner who could bring real transparency to the international sales space was a logical extension of what we were doing making films. It was something we had been talking about since 2011.

“Over the past year the market has shifted and it has become more important to produce your own stuff and put movies together.

When you’re putting together something from script to screen, it’s nice to talk with someone [de Barros] about [the value of ] actors and directors.”

One year on and the company’s other three third-party sales titles are all in post: Daughter Of God headed by Keanu Reeves; Pierce Brosnan starrer Urge; and The Runner with Nicolas Cage.

“The first year was more about acquisitions,” says de Barros, adding: “Year two is going to be more about projects we are more selective about doing ourselves.”

The company also has television ambitions and has struck a deal with Emmy winner Phil Goldfine and his Universal-based Hollywood Media Bridge. The partners have lined up three historical mini-series starting with Vlad The Impaler: Blood Empire set to go into production in April.

On the film side, the Fortitude co-founders agree Vromen and The End Of The Tour’s Ponsoldt are emblematic of the directors with who they want to work. They welcome fresh faces and established talents.

Barnum cites the need to pay constant attention to the “ebb and flow” of global economics when putting together projects.

“It makes it tricky to price these movies and come up with budgets that make sense,” he says. “You have to be nimble to make these things financially viable.” Being nimble is something the experienced Fortitude trio, with their deep industry ties and restless s energy, knows how to do. ■

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ubliners are used to film shoots on their streets, which regularly double for Victorian London in TV series Penny Dreadful, as well as more contemporary settings for films including Frank and What If?, while County Wicklow provides the backdrop to the fierce Nordic battles of the History channel’s The Vikings. Now those streets, lakes and mountains are set to get even busier with the introduction of a significantly revised version of Section 481, the tax credit for film and TV productions shooting in Ireland, which makes the country one of the world’s most financially competitive filming locations.

As of January 1, 2015 (and until December 31, 2020), producers of Irish-qualifying feature film and documentaries, as well as TV drama, series and animation can apply for a 32% tax credit on all their eligible expenditure up to $56.6m (¤50m). This now includes cast and crew of any nationality working in Ireland, rather than just European Union nationals.

The level of film and TV production expenditure in Ireland reached a record $219.8m (¤195m) in 2014. “What [the revised tax credit] does is put us in a stronger position in terms of expanding the kinds of projects that come to Ireland,” says James Hickey, chief executive of the Irish Film Board (IFB).

The new rules To access the relief, productions must now have a minimum budget of $282,000 (¤250,000) — for TV this applies to the entire series, not per episode — and a minimum qualifying spend of $141,000 (¤125,000). In line with all European national schemes, including the UK, the tax relief can only be claimed on up to 80% of the total budget.

Productions that do only their VFX work in Ireland can also qualify, providing their total VFX expenditure in Ireland is at least $141,000 (¤125,000). As before, to qualify as Irish, productions must comply with three out of eight criteria for a cultural test administered by the IFB. There is provision for the games industry although Hickey says this is still under discussion.

The new direct payment tax credit entirely replaces the former investor-led model. Now a producer applies directly to the Irish Revenue. As before, 90% of the relief can be claimed up front, with the remaining 10% paid on the project’s financial completion.

Producer Katie Holly of Dublin-based Bl!nder Films, which is in pre-production on Whit Stillman’s Love And Friendship, says easier routes to access the relief are something that Irish producers and the IFB lobbied hard to retain. “It shows great confidence in the indus-

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Penny Dreadful

Sweet relief What impact will Ireland’s new tax credit for film and TV have on international producers looking for partners and locations? Louise Tutt reports try,” Holly suggests. “We were always going to shoot in Ireland due to the locations as it is a period film and there are great crews here.

But one of the benefits of going over to the new system is there are now certain cast we are bringing in and a few crew members who are now eligible.”

Love And Friendship, which is based on a short story by Jane Austen and is set to star Chloe Sevigny, is set up as an IrelandFrance-Netherlands co-production with Paris-based Chic Films and Revolver Amsterdam. The production is accessing support from the Netherlands Film Fund as well as Dutch and Irish tax relief on different elements of the budget.

“There is crew coming from the Netherlands to work in Ireland but we will be paying them from the Netherlands so we won’t be applying for the Irish tax credit on them,” notes Holly.

The new mechanism is compatible with most other national schemes, including the UK’s Film Tax Relief and can be used alongside the Northern Ireland Screen Fund as well as the IFB’s own production financing.

“We already have projects that were going to locate in the UK but due to capacity located whole or part of

ALL CHANGE The major changes to Section 481: ■ Direct tax relief rather than investor model ■ Tax relief increased from 28% to 32% ■ Eligible expenditure extended to include non-EU personnel.

‘The existing studios are all looking to expand’ James Hickey, IFB

their activity in Ireland,” says Hickey. “There is a very close relationship between the UK, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in terms of work going in both directions.”

If the tax credit is the success it is likely to be, the IFB is aware it needs to keep a close eye on capacity. “I would describe our film studios as busy,” says Hickey tactfully. “The existing studios are all looking to expand by which time we will be able to accommodate significant levels of new production. We are encouraging the development of whatever new opportunities exist, whether that means converting existing facilities or building new s facilities.” ■

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reland’s animation sector, already booming, and its VFX sector, growing steadily, are also due to benefit from the tax incentive increase to 32% that came into effect on January 1 (see previous page).

Recent animation highlights range from Cartoon Saloon’s Oscar-nominated feature Song Of The Sea to TV projects including JAM Media’s Roy for CBBC, Brown Bag Films’ Henry Hugglemonster for Disney Junior, and Boulder Media’s The Amazing World Of Gumball for Cartoon Network.

VFX highlights of recent years include work on The Last Days On Mars, Haywire, Game Of Thrones and Ripper Street.

There are two prongs of support for the film and TV industries in Ireland, with project development and production funding coming from the Irish Film Board (IFB) and corporate backing coming from Enterprise Ireland (EI).

Teresa McGrane, deputy CEO of the IFB, praises the “resilience” of the animation and VFX companies in Ireland, which she said were fuelled by a spirit of “entrepreneurism”. That creative spirit pairs well with the business opportunities of the new tax incentives, as McGrane notes: “The tax incentive changes will be very advantageous for animation companies and VFX.” Eileen Bell of the government agency EI says animation and VFX are each “growth sectors that are priorities for Enterprise Ireland. These are not just creative industries, they are building business acumen.”

The companies are also helping themselves, realising there is strength in numbers. Each industry has banded together as the umbrella groups VFX Association of Ireland (VFXAI) and Animation Ireland. “Both of these sectors work in a very collegiate way,” says McGrane.

There are even new awards being launched in March so animation peers can celebrate each other’s work — the inaugural Animation Ireland Awards will run on March 13 in Dingle.

Of the two sectors, animation is more advanced and can include up to 1,5002,000 workers in animation at any given time in Ireland.

Band of brothers Co-productions are crucial, especially for animation. For example, Cartoon Saloon’s Song Of The Sea has partners in four other countries: Superprod Animation (France), Norlum (Denmark), Melusine (Luxembourg) and The Big Farm (Belgium).

Cartoon Saloon co-founder Paul Young and his colleagues across the industry have ensured crucial local support from the IFB is paired with interna-

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tional ambition — of course Ireland is not a big-enough country to make projects just for the Irish market.

Young says of his animation colleagues: “All of us are international focused. We’ve always had to rely on presales for our films, so it taught us about making commercially sellable works for the international market.”

Gary Timpson of Kavaleer, which was founded 13 years ago and is behind Kiva Can Do!, explains: “The studios in Ireland have grown exponentially in the last 10 to 15 years. It’s about attracting business from other companies but also producing our own shows.”

The tax incentive increase can only help draw in more international work.

Timpson says: “We need to shout from the rooftops about the new tax credit… it will make a big difference to producers.”

Salty Dog’s Deirdre Barry — also the

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head of Women In Animation Ireland — agrees with Timpson that the Irish animation industry is “very healthy now”.

Salty Dog has US animator Will Finn attached to a planned animated feature.

“We’re as good as anywhere in western Europe,” she says. “There are better connections between colleges and studios. A lot of people are focused on the practical experience. It’s seen as an industry where there’s an actual job when you graduate.”

Education and training is essential for more growth. During late November’s VFX+ Animation Summit Dublin, Animation Skillnet and the IFB announced

Roy

plans for a new apprenticeship scheme across animation and VFX for 2015.

For the VFX sector, one positive move has been the formation of VFXAI, which was founded by the four main effects and post houses: Windmill Lane, Screen Scene, Egg and Piranha Bar. VFX in particular is a sector where the wider industry can benefit from any single company winning work.

“We’ve had tremendous support from the Irish Film Board and Enterprise Ireland to create a sustainable VFX industry. So now we can get larger movies and share them,” says Dave Quinn, MD of post-production and VFX powerhouse Windmill Lane.

Quinn adds that the tax incentive will present “a new era of opportunity… the tax break is vital, the type of work we’re doing is vital, and coming together as VFXAI is vital”.

Windmill Lane, which has been a leading Irish post-production company for 35 years, ramped up its VFX work about five years ago, working on projects including Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire and Jake Paltrow’s Young Ones.

“We feel that we’ve got lots of skills for the medium to higher level films,” Quinn says. “And joined-up thinking as VFXAI, combined with the new Section 481, can transform Dublin as a VFX dess tination.” ■

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(Russian Federation) Antipode Sales & Distribution. 87mins.

Dir: Ella Manzheeva.

Cast: Evgeniya Mandzhieva, Sergey Adianov, Evgeny Sangadzhiev, Lyubov Ubushieva, Dmitry Mukeyev.

42 Screen International at Berlin February 6, 2015

which 16 male and female actors slip into the role of Annemarie Schwarzenbach — an irresistible, collective, fictional and real character. This androgynous lesbian writer and globetrotter casts a spell over everyone.

Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7

14:45

SUMMERS DOWNSTAIRS

600 MILES

(Germany, France) Arri Worldsales. 100mins.

Dir: Tom Sommerlatte.

Cast: Sebastian Fräsdorf, Godehard Giese, Karin Hanczewski, Alice Pehlivanyan, William Peiro.

Brothers David and Matthias have contrasting personalities. Long since grown up — one with a wife, the other a girlfriend — they unintentionally meet at their parents’ holiday home. Games and plots about power and dominance with unforeseen consequences.

(Mexico) NDM International Sales.

85mins. Dir: Gabriel Ripstein. Cast: Tim Roth,

(South Africa) Gravel Road Entertainment Group. 69mins. Dir: Tonie van der Merwe.

Cast: Innocent “Popo” Gumede, Kay Magubane, Hector Mathanda, Dumisani Shongwe, Vusi Gudazi, Fikile Majozi, Mao Mkhwanazi, Emmanuel Shangase, Vincent Velekazi.

A South African western whose only white character is shot at the outset and which playfully adapts the genre to the new setting. Made during the apartheid era, it’s not just the film’s production history that gives an unusual topicality.

Forum Kino Arsenal 1

15:30 45 YEARS See box, below

PAPER PLANES

(Australia) Arclight.

97mins. Dir: Robert Connolly. Cast: Ed Oxenbould, Sam Worthington, Ena Imai, Nicholas BakopoulosCooke, Julian Dennison, Deborah Mailman, Terry Norris, Peter Rowsthorn, David Wenham.

When 11-year-old Dylan manages to throw one of his paper planes on an incredible flight he starts dreaming, with high hopes, of participating in the world championships.

His friendship with a Japanese girl named Kimi helps him reach for the stars.

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16:00 FISH PLANE, HEART CLOCK

(Switzerland, Canada) 60mins. Dir: Arvo Leo. Hunter-turned-artist Pudlo Pudlat was part of the generation of Inuit in the 1950s who were given pencils and paper and asked to “draw their thoughts”. Twenty-two years after Pudlo’s death, Arvo Leo spent the spring living in the place where

Perspektive Deutsches Kino Press only CinemaxX 5

14:30 MY NAME IS ANNEMARIE SCHWARZENBACH

(France) Outplay.

85mins. Dir: Veronique Aubouy. Cast: Julia Perazzini, Nina Langensand, Megane Ferrat, Pauline Leprince, Valentin Jean, Stephen Loye.

An audition in Paris in

FESTIVAL & PRESS 15:30 45 YEARS

(UK) The Match Factory. 93mins.

Dir: Andrew Haigh. Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells, David Sibley, Sam Alexander, Richard Cunningham, Rufus Wright, Hannah Chalmers.

Kate is in the middle of preparations for her 45th wedding anniversary when a message pulls her husband back into the past, to a time before they loved one another. Unexpected feelings break into the couple’s routine.

Competition Press only CinemaxX 7

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06/02 8.15PM CineStar 3 (Official Screening) 07/02 10PM Zoo Palast 2 (Official Screening) 08/02 5PM CinemaxX 4 (Market Screening) 09/02 11.30AM CinemaxX 4 (Market Screening) 12/02 10.20AM CineStar 3 (Press Screening / Panorama Special) 12/02 9.30PM Zoo Palast 1 (World Premiere) 14/02 5PM Cubix 9 (Official Screening)

A film by Stina Werenfels

A film by Sanna Lenken

MARKET SCREENINGS

06/02 9.15AM CinemaxX 1 (Market Screening) 08/02 1PM Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1 (International Premiere) 09/02 11.30AM CinemaxX 3 (Official Screening) 15/02 12.30PM Zoo Palast 1(Official Screening)

WASP A film by Philippe Audi-Dor

MARKET SCREENINGS OF FEBRUARY 7TH

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SCREENINGS

playful and amusing fashion, progressing into a pleasing homage to the very act of storytelling.

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K

(China, UK) 86mins.

Dir: Emyr ap Richard, Darhad Erdenibulag.

Cast: Bayin, Jula, Yirgui, Altanochir, Zandaraa, Nomindalai, Ariuna, Urinshaa, Norbu, Oyunsang.

This quietly radical adaption of Kafka’s ‘The Castle’ takes place in a fictional Mongolia, tracing how K struggles against the opaque hierarchies of a strange village, falls in love with a waitress and goes from land surveyor to school janitor.

FESTIVAL & PRESS 17:00 JOE BULLET

(South Africa) Rushlake Media. 85mins. Dir: Louis de Witt. Cast: Ken Gampu, Abigail Kubeka, Jimmy Sabe, Cocky “Two Bull” Tlholthalemaje, Sidney Charma, Dan Poho, Sol Rachilo, Matthew Molete, Richard Khumalo,

Pudlo made his work.

Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste (Hanseatenweg)

QUEEN OF EARTH

(US) 90mins. Dir: Alex Ross Perry.

Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Patrick Fugit, Kentucker Audley, Keith Poulson, Kate Lyn Sheil, Craig Butta.

Catherine and Virginia are best friends. Last year, Virginia wasn’t doing well, while it’s Catherine who’s struggling this year. One week together at a lakeside cabin — conversations, walks, verbal clashes, rising tensions. It won’t be an easy ride.

Henry Siduma.

In this entertaining thriller, it’s not just black superhero Joe Bullet and the toe-tapping soundtrack that recall American Blaxploitation films. The film, which was shot under apartheid, was banned after only two screenings.

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16:15 CITIZENFOUR

(US, Germany) Praxis Films. Dir: Laura Poitras.

A story told in real time as Edward Snowden reveals himself to journalists and the world. Both thriller and intimate character study, ‘Citizenfour’ is a film about one man’s choice to share information that shook the world.

LOLA at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2

16:30 AFTER WORK

(Iran) 82mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi.

(Germany) 71mins.

Dir: Janina Herhoffer.

What is it that people look for in the leisure activities they choose to undertake?

By observing different recreational pursuits in a series of sustained shots, this documentary raises the question of how free our free time really is.

Competition Berlinale Palast

Forum CineStar 8

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

TAXI

44 Screen International at Berlin February 6, 2015

17:00 A GERMAN YOUTH

(France, Switzerland, Germany) Films Boutique. 93mins. Dir: Jean-Gabriel Periot.

Made from archive material, this portrait of an era examines the radicalisation of Red Army Faction founders Meinhof, Mahler, Baader, Meins and Ensslin, and the official reaction to them.

With footage from the first students of dffb Berlin.

Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7

JOE BULLET Kino Arsenal 1

17:30 WINGS OF DESIRE

(Federal Republic of Germany, France) HanWay Films. 128mins.

Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Hans Martin Stier, Elmar Wilms, Sigurd Rachman, Beatrice Manowski, Lajos Kovacs, Bruno Rosaz, Laurent Petigand, Bernhard Eisenschitz, Erika Rabau, Crime & The City Solution, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

Berlin, two years before the fall of the wall. The guardian angel Damiel falls in love with Marion, a trapeze artist. He gives up his immortality for her and becomes a human

being. He leaves behind his old friend Cassiel, who now watches over them.

Homage CinemaxX 8

17:45 A MINOR LEAP DOWN

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18:30 THE DAYS RUN AWAY LIKE WILD HORSES OVER THE HILLS

(Germany, Poland, US) 71mins. Dir: Marcin

Malaszczak. Cast: Natalie Warlow, Maria Christine Brehmer, Stefania Malec, Elise Brehmer, Emily Hunt, Emma Koster, Helena Strzelec, Zofia Siegienczuk, Zofia Borkowska, Stanislaw Malec.

This experimental documentary contrasts the daily life of a nanny in buzzing Berlin with the tranquil existence of a group of pensioners in provincial Poland.

A reflection on female biographies that draws a line between the beginning of life and its end.

Forum Akademie der Kunste (Hanseatenweg)

18:45 QUEEN OF THE DESERT See box, below

19:00 600 MILES

(Mexico) NDM International Sales.

85mins. Dir: Gabriel Ripstein. Cast: Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer, Noe

(Iran, France) 88mins.

Dir: Hamed Rajabi.

Cast: Negar Javaherian, Rambod Javan, Mehri Aleagha, Shafagh Shokri, Mahmoud Behrouzian, Sadaf Ahmadi.

Pregnant Nahal learns that her baby has died.

When she wants to talk about it, her family will not give her a chance to speak. Adopting unexpectedly anarchic methods, she begins a longoverdue rebellion against her repressive environment.

Panorama CineStar 3

18:00 THE FORBIDDEN ROOM

(Canada) Mongrel International. 130mins.

Dir: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson. Cast: Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Celine Bonnier, Karine Vanasse, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani, Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Maria de Medeiros, Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin.

This fictional reconstruction of a selection of lost silent films links together their adventurous plots in

FESTIVAL & PRESS 18:45 QUEEN OF THE DESERT

(US) Sierra/Affinity.

125mins. Dir: Werner Herzog. Cast: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, Robert Pattinson.

The life story of historian, novelist and diplomat Gertrude

Bell (1868-1926), who mediates between the Orient and the British Empire after the First World War. An epic drama in which the desert landscapes become the architecture of the characters’ souls.

Competition Berlinale Palast

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MISFITS

A film by Jannik Splidsboel

In some places love equals courage.

06.02 3.50PM CinemaxX 19 (Market Screening) 07.02 2.30PM CineStar 7 (Official Screening) 12.02 5PM CineStar 7 (World Premiere | P&I | Q&A with the filmmaker) 13.02 12PM CineStar 7 (Official Screening) 14.02 2PM Kino International (Official Screening)

DCP/HD • 2015 • DENMARK/SWEDEN • 74’ & 58’ • DOCUMENTARY

NUCLEAR NATION II A film by Atsushi Funahashi

Many people have forgotten what happened in Fukushima..

06.02 12.45PM CinemaxX 1 (Market Screening - 90 MIN VERSION) 09.02 9.30AM CinemaxX 6 (Press & Industry) 10.02 4.15PM Delphi Filmpalast (Official Screening | Q&A with the filmmaker) 12.02 7PM CineStar 8 (Official Screening) 13.02 9.30PM Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg (Official Screening) 15.02 7.30PM CinemaxX 4 (Official Screening)

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FINDING GASTON WINNER

A film by Patricia Perez

BEST FOOD FILM DOURO FILM HARVEST 2014

Can a chef change a nation?

MARKET SCREENINGS

06.02 6.30PM CinemaxX 10 (Market Screening) 11.02 10PM Martin Gropius Bau (Official Screening)

DCP/HD • 2014 • PERU • 78’ • DOCUMENTARY

FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER

THE RESURRECTION OF TIM ZOM

DANCING CHILD

MAIKO

A TURNING TIDE IN THE LIFE OF MEN

A film by Rüdiger Suchsland

A film by Billy Pols

A film by Åse Svenheim Drivenes

A film by Loïc Jourdain

06.02 5PM CinemaxX 17

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SCREENINGS

driver lets her down once again, this quiet heroine is forced to realise she’s all on her own.

Forum Kino Arsenal 1

19:45 FISH TAIL

FESTIVAL & PRESS 19:00 END OF WINTER

(South Korea) Lotte Entertainment. 99mins.

Dir: Kim Dae-hwan.

Cast: Moon Chang-gil, Lee Young-lan, Kim Min-hyuk, Lee Sanghee, Heo Je-wone.

At a family get-together, Hernandez, Harrison Thomas, Monica del Carmen, Armando Hernandez.

Panorama Special Zoo Palast 1

BLOOD AND SAND

(US) 125mins. Dir: Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth.

The tragic story of a matador who falls in love with an enchantingly beautiful woman.

Retrospective Zeughauskino

END OF WINTER See box, above

NOBODY WANTS THE NIGHT

(Spain, France, Bulgaria) Elle Driver. 118mins.

Dir: Isabel Coixet. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kikuchi, Gabriel Byrne, Orto Ignatiussen, Alberto Jo Lee, Clarence Smith, Ben Temple, Matthew Salinger, Reed Brody, Ciro Miro.

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

the father makes an announcement that carries anger and confusion in its wake.

A snowstorm hits, no one is able to leave and the family dispute envelops the following three days.

Forum CineStar 8

VARIETE

(Germany) NFP media rights. 95mins. Dir: EA Dupont. Cast: Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti, Warwick Ward, Maly Delschaft, Georg John, Kurt Gerron, Georg Baselt, Charles Lincoln, Alice Hechy, Paul Rehkopf, Trude Hesterberg, Rastelli.

A drama of jealousy set in the circus milieu, the film is one of the great classics produced at Babelsberg’s Ufa studio. World premiere of the digitally restored version with live music composed by Martin Jacques of The Tiger Lillies.

Berlinale Classics Haus der Berliner Festspiele

19:15 PIONEER HEROES

(Russian Federation) Alpha Violet.

116mins. Dir: Natalya Kudryashova. Cast: Natalya Kudryashova, Daria Moroz, Aleksei Mitin, Aleksandr Userdin, Yuri Kuznetsov, Varya Shablakova, Sima

46 Screen International at Berlin February 6, 2015

Vybornova, Nikita Yakovlev.

A film about three 30-something Muscovites’ attitudes towards life.

Atmospheric images show the gulf between childhood visions and today’s reality which the dissolution of the Soviet Union has left behind for its last generation of Young Pioneers.

Panorama Zoo Palast 2

19:30

UNTIL I LOSE MY BREATH

(Turkey, Germany) 94mins. Dir: Emine Emel Balci. Cast: Esme Madra, Riza Akin, Sema Kecik, Gizem Denizci, Ece Yuksel, Ugur Uzunel, Yavuz Pekman, Pinar Gok, Yavuz Ozata.

Young textile worker Serap places both her hopes and her hardearned money into her plan to rent a flat with her father. When the untrustworthy truck

(Portugal) Presente Lda. 103mins. Dir: Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel.

Cast: Pedro Moritz, Artur Carreiro, Rui Melo, Manuel Moniz, Bruno Moniz, Marco Moniz, Manuel Pereira, Emanuel Carreiro, Marco Placido.

Edited together from unique footage shot in Rabo de Peixe in the Azores between 1999 and 2001, this tender documentary is a portrait of the local fishermen, a tribute to working by hand and a look at a life that has only survived in these images.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

20:00 LOVE, THEFT AND OTHER ENTANGLEMENTS

(Palestinian Territories) 93mins. Dir: Muayad Alayan. Cast: Sami Metwasi, Maya Abu Alhayyat, Riyad Sliman, Ramzi Maqdisi, Kamel Elbasha, Hussein

Nakhleh, Valantina Abu Oqsa, Mustafa Abu Hanood, Nicola Zreineh, Mohammad Othman.

Mousa steals Israeli cars and sells them to Palestinian fences. He may not be interested in politics, but a discovery in the boot of a car suddenly makes him of interest to all sides.

A Palestinian tribute to the French New Wave.

Panorama Press CinemaxX 7

WHY ME?

(Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary) Transilvania Film. 130mins. Dir: Tudor Giurgiu. Cast: Emilian Oprea, Mihai Constantin, Andreea Vasile, Dan Condurache, Liviu Pintileasa, Mihai Smarandache, Alin Florea, Lucretia Mandric, Sore Mihalache, Ionut Caras.

Corrupt politicians, corrupt investigators and in between a young lawyer who must decide between his career and the truth. A bleak picture of a society looking for a new beginning. But how can this happen while old methods and values prevail?

Panorama Special CineStar 7

FLOTEL EUROPA

(Denmark, Serbia) 70mins. Dir: Vladimir Tomic.

Edited together from VHS footage shot in the early 1990s on a floating holding centre for Bosnian refugees in the harbour of Copenhagen, this autobiographical documentary blossoms into the nostalgic account of a youth between two worlds.

Forum CinemaxX 4

PRINCE See box, right

SUMMERS DOWNSTAIRS

(Germany, France) Arri Worldsales. 100mins.

Dir: Tom Sommerlatte.

Cast: Sebastian Fräsdorf, Godehard Giese, Karin Hanczewski, Alice Pehlivanyan, William Peiro.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 3

FESTIVAL & PRESS 19:30 PRINCE

(Netherlands) Mongrel International.

78mins. Dir: Sam de Jong. Cast: Ayoub Elasri, Jorik Scholten, Achraf Meziani, Oussama Addi, Elsie De Brauw, Sigrid Ten Napel, Olivia Lonsdale, Chaib Massaoudi, Peter Douma, Freddy Tratlehner.

These suburban boys all dream of motorbikes, Rolex watches and, naturally, girls. Ayoub is head over heels in love with pretty Laura. But if he wants her, he will need more to show for himself than no-name sneakers and a junkie father.

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Batel Mashian, Robby Elmaliah, David Ben Hamo.

Shlomi lives with his daughter, brother and mother on a run-down social housing estate and is increasingly overwhelmed by his arduous everyday life. A precise milieu study set on the margins of Israeli society.

Forum CinemaxX 4

SEASHORE

FESTIVAL & PRESS 20:15 DORA OR THE SEXUAL NEUROSES OF OUR PARENTS

(Switzerland, Germany) WIDE Management.

90mins. Dir: Stina Werenfels. Cast: Victoria Schulz, Jenny Schily, Lars Eidinger, Urs Jucker.

When her mother decides 20:15 DORA OR THE SEXUAL NEUROSES OF OUR PARENTS See box, above

20:30 GONE WITH THE WIND

(US) 234mins. Dir: Victor Fleming. Cast: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard.

This drama of the American south was planned as a spectacle of superlatives. The story of the love between Scarlett and adventurer Rhett set new standards for the use of colour to enhance dramatic mood.

Retrospective CinemaxX 8

SUMMERS DOWNSTAIRS

(Germany, France) Arri Worldsales. 100mins.

Dir: Tom Sommerlatte.

Cast: Sebastian Fräsdorf, Godehard Giese, Karin Hanczewski, Alice Pehlivanyan, William Peiro.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1

limits of one’s body. to stop administering medication to her mentally disabled daughter, 18-year-old Dora awakes, as if from a deep sleep, and discovers sex. But her libido shocks her parents, who feel that Dora is allowing herself to be abused.

Panorama Special CineStar 3

21:00 FACE B

(Belgium, Germany) 39mins. Dir: Leila Albayaty.

Leila auditions for the feature film ‘Berlin Telegram’. The film shoot initiates a sequence of musical and artistic encounters and collaborations. She steals the film’s images — in which shooting secrets reside — and decides to edit her own film.

Forum Expanded Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg)

INTO THE HINTERLANDS

(US) 39mins. Dir: Julia Yezbick. Cast: Richard Newman, Liza Bielby, Barney Baggett.

A camera, completely unleashed, pulls the viewers into the training process of a Detroitbased performance ensemble whose practice is one of ecstatic play, of finding the edge of one’s balance, and the

48 Screen International at Berlin February 6, 2015

Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste (Hanseatenweg)

21:30 ECHO OF THE MOUNTAIN

(Mexico) Piano. 92mins.

Dir: Nicolas Echevarria.

Cast: Santos Motoapohua de la Torre.

Huichol artist Motoapohua strives to create a mural depicting the origin and transformation of mankind.

First he must journey through the endangered sacred peyote route to Wirikuta with members of his community in order to ask permission from the gods.

89mins. Dir: Rosa von Praunheim. Cast: Hanno Koffler, Andreas Marquardt, Luise Heyer, Marion Erdmann, Katy Karrenbauer, Rudiger Gotze, Ilse Amberger Bendin.

Panorama Special Zoo Palast 1

21:45 BEN ZAKEN

(Israel) Patra Spanou Film Marketing & Consulting. 90mins. Dir: Efrat Corem. Cast: Eliraz Sade, Rom Shoshan, Mekikes (Ronen) Amar, Chani Elemlch,

(Brazil) FiGa Films.

83mins. Dir: Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon. Cast: Mateus Almada, Mauricio Jose Barcellos, Elisa Brites, Francisco Gick, Fernando Hart, Maite Felistoffa, Danuta Zaguetto, Irene Brietzke.

A young man travels to the family’s seaside holiday home to sort out an inheritance matter for his father, accompanied by an old friend. This debut film is the gentle account of a long winter weekend, awakening sexuality and new intimacy.

Forum CineStar 8

22:00 45 YEARS

(UK) The Match Factory. 93mins. Dir: Andrew Haigh. Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom

Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells, David Sibley, Sam Alexander, Richard Cunningham, Rufus Wright, Hannah Chalmers, Camille Ucan.

Competition Berlinale Palast

EVILNESS

(Mexico) 74mins. Dir: Joshua Gil. Cast: Rafael Gil Moran, Raymundo Delgado Munoz.

In a landscape strangely devoid of people, one old man prepares to die, while another still has big plans.

His resolve will lead him to Mexico City, where demands for political change increasingly reverberate.

Forum Press only CineStar 6

MAR

(Chile, Argentina) New Europe Film Sales.

60mins. Dir: Dominga Sotomayor. Cast: Lisandro Rodriguez, Vanina Montes, Andrea Strenitz.

Martin, called Mar for short, heads on holiday to the seaside with his girlfriend. Their time at the beach is going swimmingly, until his mother turns up unannounced and brings increasing complications in her wake.

Forum Zoo Palast 2

NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema CineStar IMAX

SHOW BOAT

(US) 108mins. Dir: George Sidney. Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel.

On a Mississippi riverboat in the 1890s, both the captain’s daughter and the star of his onboard show run aground in their relationships with men. With an unusually sober mood for a musical, the film also deals with the issue of racial discrimination.

Retrospective Zeughauskino

STORY OF JUDAS See box, right

TOUGH LOVE

FESTIVAL & PRESS 21:30 STORY OF JUDAS

(France) 99mins. Dir: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche. Cast: Nabil Djedouani, Mohamed Aroussi, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Marie Loustalot, Patricia Malvoisin, Eliott Khayat, Regis Laroche, Xavier

Mussel, Roland Gervet, Nouari Nezzar.

This timeless historical drama traces the profound friendship between Judas and Jesus of Nazareth, who is seen as inciting rebellion by the Roman occupying powers in Palestine.

Forum Delphi Filmpalast

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Altitude Film Sales, 83mins. Dir: Thomas Daly. Cast: Kaya Skodelario, Ed Skrein, Dougray Scott.

Kelly sneaks into her boyfriend Mark’s house, but tonight she’s not the only unwelcome visitor. As the situation spirals out of control, the suburban house becomes a terrifying arena for violence.

22:00 THE MUD WOMAN

(Chile, Argentina) Media Luna New Films. 92mins.

Dir: Sergio Castro San Martin. Cast: Catalina Saavedra, Paola Lattus, Daniel Antivilo, Maite Neira, Elsa Poblete, Tiare Pino, Angel Lattus.

Forum Kino Arsenal 1

09:15

THE FIRE

Panorama Press CinemaxX 7

PRISON SYSTEM 4614

(Germany) 60mins.

Dir: Jan Soldat.

Seven days in prison in handcuffs and shackles, voluntarily, with optional torture — a dream for some. A private prison that occupies a niche in the world of fetishes.

Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7

22:45 BLUE BLOOD

(Brazil) Picture Tree International. 119mins.

Dir: Lirio Ferreira.

Cast: Daniel de Oliveira, Caroline Abras, Sandra Coverloni, Rômulo Braga.

A circus artiste returns home after years away.

At the reunion with his sister he is confronted with repressed desires.

The characters’ sense of longing and their courage to take risks are mirrored in magical images of the circus ring and the sea.

Panorama CineStar 3

MARKET SCREENINGS

08:55 STEAK (R)EVOLUTION

(France) Jour 2 Fete,

CineStar 6

CineStar 4

22:30

(Argentina) FiGa Films.

95mins. Dir: Juan Schnitman. Cast: Pilar Gamboa, Juan Barberini.

Twenty-four hours in the life of a young couple in Buenos Aires as they wait for the keys to the flat they have just bought. The personal story of these two 30-year-olds broadens into a portrait of a tense and insecure society.

International, 112mins.

Dir: Rafael Ouellet.

Cast: Sophie Desmarais, Andreas Apergis.

Ben begins a torrid affair with Mercedes, a young French student in his writing class. The affair soon spins out of control, their emotions and Ben’s family hanging in the balance.

AURORA

MARKET 09:30 ANTBOY: REVENGE OF THE RED FURY

(Denmark, Germany) Attraction Distribution, 84mins. Dir: Ask Hasselbalch. Cast: Oscar Dietz, Samuel Ting Graf, Astrid Juncher-Benzon, Amalie 109mins. Dir: Franck Ribiere.

‘Steak (R)evolution’ travels the world in search of passionate cattle breeders, butchers and chefs. Far from the intensive cattle farms with their industrial output, a revolution is already under way.

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09:00 BIZARRE

(France, US) Visit Films, 98mins. Dir: Etienne Faure. Cast: Pierre Prieur, Adrian James, Raquel Nave, Rebekah Underhill.

An 18-year-old-boy from France takes refuge in an underground Brooklyn cabaret bar and finds himself immersed in a world of fantasy and pleasure.

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BLACK SOULS

(Italy) Rai Com, 103mins.

Dir: Francesco Munzi.

Cast: Marco Leonardi,

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Kruse-Jensen.

Our pint-sized superhero is back, facing greater challenges. A new supervillian announces her arrival in town: the invisible Red Fury. Will Antboy stand up to the test?

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Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio Ferracane, Anna Ferruzzo.

The story of a criminal family from the Italian southern region of Calabria plays out like a contemporary Western.

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THE BLUE HOUR

(Thailand) Reel Suspects, 97mins. Dir: Anucha Boonyawatana.

Tam is gay, gets beaten up by his fellow pupils and is shunned by his family.

When he meets Phum they soon develop a close bond, which opens a door into a fantastical parallel universe full of spirits and dangerous encounters.

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THE CLEARSTREAM AFFAIR

(France) Films Distribution, 110mins.

Dir: Vincent Garenq.

Cast: Gilles Lellouche, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto, Florence

Loiret-Caille.

Journalist Denis Robert sets the world of finance ablaze when he exposes Clearstream Banking’s opaque operations.

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DEATH IN BUENOS AIRES

(Argentina) Film Factory Entertainment, 92mins.

Dir: Natalia Meta.

Cast: Demian Bichir, Chino Darin, Monica Antonopulos.

At a crime scene in 1980s Buenos Aires, Detective Chavez meets officer Gomez, a good-looking rookie who becomes his right-hand man and goes undercover as bait to catch the murderer.

(Chile) Films Boutique, 86mins. Dir: Rodrigo Sepulveda. Cast: Amparo Noguera, Luis Gnecco, Jaime Vadell.

Sofia, a school teacher, has been trying to adopt a child. She reads in a newspaper that a baby was found dead in a landfill and becomes obsessed with the fate of the creature that, according to the law, has no rights.

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MY SKINNY SISTER

(Sweden, Germany) Wide/Wide House, 95mins. Dir: Sanna Lenken. Cast: Rebecka Josephson, Amy Deasismont, Annika Hallin, Henrik Norlen.

Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence, she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart.

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HIGH SOCIETY

(France) Pyramide International, 95mins.

Dir: Julie Lopes Curval.

Cast: Ana Girardot, Bastien Bouillon.

A passionate love story between Alice and Antoine, who belong to two different social classes and opposite worlds.

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INFLUENZ

(Poland) KADR Film Studio, 127mins. Dir: Lukasz Barczyk. Cast: Crispin Glover, Karl Markovic, Thomas Schweiberer, Florence Thomassin.

A pitch-black comedy, an alternative version of history and an spy thriller.

The film creates a parallel world all its own, telling the true story of the only successful uprising in Polish history.

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THE MUD WOMAN

(Chile, Argentina) Media Luna New Films, 92mins.

Dir: Sergio Castro San Martin. Cast: Catalina Saavedra, Paola Lattus, Daniel Antivilo, Maite Neira.

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ANTBOY: REVENGE OF THE RED FURY

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THE ROYAL TAILOR

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THE PRICE OF FAME

(South Korea) Finecut, 125mins. Dir: Lee Wonsuk. Cast: Han Seokkyu, Ko Soo, Park Shinhye, Yoo Yeon-seok.

In the royal palace of the Chosun, tailors crafted exquisite robes and ornaments for the royal family. ‘The Royal Tailor’ is a tale of rivalry between an old traditional tailor and a young, talented one in a battle for beauty and power.

THE CONFINES

(US) Arclight Films, 100mins. Dir: Eytan Rockaway.

A troubled young woman takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building.

As the night progresses, strange things begin to happen — and she realises it may not all be in her head.

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TIGER HOUSE

GUROV & ANNA

(UK, South Africa)

(Canada) Filmoption

(France, Switzerland) Wild Bunch, 114mins.

Dir: Xavier Beauvois.

Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Roschdy Zem. Two impoverished misfits concoct a crazy scheme to kidnap and ransom the recently deceased Charlie Chaplin. Loosely based on real events.

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(UK) Wide/Wide House, 75mins. Dir: Philippe Audi-Dor. Cast: Simon Haycock, Elly Condron, Hugo Bolton. »

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Olivier and James’ romantic break in the south of France is interrupted by the sudden arrival of Caroline.

11:00 THE END OF THE TOUR

(US) Fortitude International, 106mins.

Dir: James Ponsoldt.

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Segel, Joan Cusack, Ron Livingston.

‘Rolling Stone’ contributing editor David Lipsky spends a week conducting a series of interviews with David Foster Wallace during the tail end of his book tour for cultural juggernaut ‘Infinite Jest’.

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XYZ PROMO & TRAILER SCREENING

(US) XYZ Films, 90mins. Dir: various.

A screening featuring all of XYZ Film’s trailers, promos and teasers.

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09:45 DADDY OR MOMMY?

(France) Pathe International, 88mins.

Dir: Martin Bourboulon.

Cast: Laurent Lafitte, Marina Fois, Judith El Zein.

Florence and Vincent Leroy have got it all: a nice house, good careers and great kids. But now they are getting divorced and both doing all they can to not get custody of the kids.

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IT’S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE See box, right

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THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS

MARKET 09:45 IT’S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE

(Norway) Princ Films, 91mins. Dir: Arild Ostin Ommundsen. Cast: Silje Salomonsen, Vegar Hoel, Tomas Alf Larsen, Fredrik Hana.

Jenny is released from prison. With no job

and living in a wobbly old house, she sets out to get to know her now 10-year-old daughter.

But her old gang wants her back. When they threaten her daughter, Jenny must take action.

Teddy Leifer.

Takes us into a hidden world through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell.

A former prostitute with a drug habit, Brenda defied the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community.

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MISSISSIPPI GRIND

(US) Annapurna International, 109mins.

Dir: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck. Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn, Sienna Miller.

Gerry is a talented poker player whose habit is getting the best of him. He convinces younger player Curtis to join him on a road trip and they begin gambling their way towards a high-stakes game in New Orleans.

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10:00 MS. MUELLER MUST GO

(Germany) Little Shark Entertainment, 88mins.

Dir: Sonke Wortmann.

Cast: Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Anke Engelke, Ken Duken, Justus von Dohnanyi.

Ms Mueller must go. That much is certain when a bunch of worried parents have an unscheduled meeting with the teacher, but she is not so easily removed and the real fight is about to begin…

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EADWEARD 10:30 THE CHRISTMAS FAMILY

(Denmark) Global Screen, 90mins. Dir: Carsten Rudolf. Cast: Pelle Falk Krusbaek, Herman Knop, Paw Henriksen, Alfred Bjerre Larsen.

Six-year-old Hugo Christmas gets the surprise of his life when he discovers a magical elf named Pixy hiding in his house.

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10:35 HOCKNEY

(UK) HanWay Films, 112mins. Dir: Randall Wright. Cast: David Hockney.

For the first time, David Hockney has given unprecedented access to his personal archive of photographs and films, resulting in an unparalleled visual diary of his long life.

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10:40 1944

(Estonia, Finland)

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Eyewell, 100mins. Dir: Elmo Nuganen. Cast: Kristjan Ukskula, Kaspar Velberg, Maiken Schmidt.

1944. The last year of war on Estonian turf. Men are fighting on the border of Europe and Russia. Some have been taken to the Red Army, some to the Waffen SS. CinemaxX Studio 11

JOURNEY THROUGH CHINA

(France) Indie Sales, 95mins. Dir: Zoltan Mayer. Cast: Yolande Moreau, Andre Wilms, Qu Jing Jing, Lin Dong Fu. Liliane, a provincial nurse in her 50s, is faced with the sudden death of her son in Sichuan, China.

She decides to travel to China, where she has never been before, in order to bring his body home.

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10:45 DREAMCATCHER

(UK) Dogwoof, 98mins.

Dir: Kim Longinotto.

Cast: Lisa Stevens,

(Canada) Motion 58 Entertainment, 104mins.

Dir: Kyle Rideout.

Cast: Michael Eklund, Sara Canning, Christopher Heyerdahl, Torrance Coombs.

A psychological drama about Eadweard Muybridge, who famously photographed nude and deformed subjects, became the godfather of cinema, murdered his wife’s lover and was the last American to receive the justifiable homicide verdict.

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SOLOMON’S PERJURY

(Japan) Shochiku, 121mins. Dir: Izuru Narushima.

On a Christmas morning, the body of a classmate is discovered on the ground below a high rooftop.

“This can’t just be left to the adults.” The Junior High students rise up to expose the real truth.

Pictures, 105mins. Dir: Louis-Julien Petit. Cast: Olivier Bathelemy, Corinne Masiero, Pascal Demolon, Zabou Breitman.

A group of discount supermarket employees are about to get fired.

They decide to take away products that are still good but should have been thrown to the trash and sell them even cheaper in their own discount store.

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PEREZ

(Italy) Intramovies, 92mins. Dir: Edoardo De Angelis. Cast: Luca Zingaretti, Marco D’Amore, Simona Tabasco.

Perez is a lawyer. He could have become a great lawyer, but he is imbued with fear. But when real danger erupts in his life he will face everything and everyone to defend his daughter regardless of any rule and any law.

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SO FAR SO GOOD

DISCOUNT

(Italy) Rai Com, 80mins.

Dir: Roan Johnson. Cast: Alessio Vassallo, Melissa Bartolini, Silvia D’Amico, Paolo Cioni.

The last weekend together for five young friends who have lived and studied in the same apartment.

They will go their separate ways, and they will make decisions that will change everything.

(France) Other Angle

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10:50

(US) WestEnd Films, 103mins. Dir: Stephen Herek. Cast: Sophie Nelisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Octavia Spencer.

A hilarious and bighearted story about a headstrong girl who wants to find a place to call home.

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UNNATURAL

(US) VMI Worldwide, 86mins. Dir: Hank Braxtan. Cast: Sherilyn Fenn, James Remar, Ray Wise, Allegra Carpenter.

Global climate change prompts a scientific corporation to genetically modify Alaskan polar bears, with horrific and deadly results.

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11:10 THE ANDERSSONS ROCK THE MOUNTAINS

(Sweden) Sola Media, 93mins. Dir: Hannes Holm. Cast: Morgan Alling, Anja Lunqvist, William Ringstrom.

When 13-year-old Sune discovers that his beloved Sophie is about to hit the mountains with sporty, handsome classmate Santos, he convinces his whole family to follow, even though they cannot afford it or actually ski.

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BRAVETOWN

(US) Lightning Entertainment, 110mins.

Dir: Daniel Duran.

Cast: Lucas Till, Josh Duhamel, Laura Dern, Maria Bello.

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routines set to the backbeat of the groundbreaking EDM scene, ‘Bravetown’ tells the story of a boy with a fantastic musical talent set on a journey to find what he was looking for the least but needed the most.

area, which is as stuck and imprisoned by war as Ivo is by his crime.

to the mainland without becoming fodder for an army of walking dead.

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WE WERE YOUNG

THE FALLING See box, left

(France, Belgium, Luxembourg) Le Pacte, 100mins.

(France) Gaumont, 100mins. Dir: Philippe Guillard. Cast: Kad Merad, Benoît Magimel, Charles Berling, Vincent Moscato.

A feel-good movie about the lost ideals of an ageing group of five friends, five big mouths.

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THE REAPER

MARKET 11:30 THE FALLING

(UK) Independent, 104mins. Dir: Carol Morley. Cast: Maisie Williams, Monica Dolan, Greta Scacchi, Florence Pugh.

Set in a rural British girls’ school, ‘The Falling’ explores what lies behind a mysterious fainting and twitching outbreak that rapidly spreads among the pupils.

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(Croatia, Slovenia) New Morning Films, 98mins.

Dir: Zvonimir Juric Tilic.

Cast: Ivo Gregurevic, Mirjana Karanovic, Igor Kovac, Nikola Ristanovski.

Three stories taking place during a single night, and dealing with Ivo in different ways, gradually give us a gloomy picture of Ivo’s life and of the whole

11:30 DEADMAN INFERNO

(Japan) Kadokawa Corporation, 108mins.

Dir: Hiroshi Shinagawa.

Cast: Show Aikawa, Sawa Suzuki, Yuichi Kimura, Shingo Tsurumi.

Two rival yakuza gangs, a pair of runaway girls, a local doctor and a young cop converge on an island overrun by zombies. They must fight their way back

THE LAST WORD

(US) Altitude Film Sales, 94mins. Dir: Simon Rumley. Cast: Mike Doyle, Erin Cummings, Sean Patrick Flanery.

After a man is wrongly convicted and executed for murder, the people responsible for his fate begin dying unexpectedly.

Can juror Adam Redman put an end to the curse before it’s too late? dffb-Kino

THE WORLD OF KANAKO

(Japan) Wild Bunch, 118mins. Dir: Tetsuya Nakashima. Cast: Koji Yakusho, Nana Komatsu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Joe Odagiri.

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writes sadomasochistic novels under the pseudonym Jeanne de Berg.

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NECKTIE YOUTH

(South Africa, Netherlands) Urucu Media, 86mins. Dir: Sibs Shongwe-La Mer. Cast: Sibs ShongweLa Mer, Bonko Khoza, Emma Tollman, Jonathan Young.

Desperate for distraction, best friends Jabz and September go on a drugfuelled joyride through Johannesburg as they try to deal with the memory of Emily, a girl who livestreamed her suicide one year ago.

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MARKET 11:30 ZURICH

(Netherlands, Germany, Belgium) Beta Cinema, 89mins. Dir: Sacha Polak. Cast: Wende Snijders, Sascha Alexander Gersak,

student Kanako goes missing, her father’s search leads him step by step into the hellish underworld of his daughter’s secret life.

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SHOOT ME IN THE HEART

Barry Atsma, Martijn Lakemeier.

A road movie about Nina.

After the death of the love of her life, she finds out that he has been leading a double life.

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bandits during the civil war era of the 1940s in northeastern China.

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11:50 KAJAKI

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11:40 NASTY BABY

(US) Versatile, 100mins.

Dir: Sebastian Silva.

Cast: Kristen Wiig, Sebastian Silva, Tunde Adebimpe, Mark Margolis.

Centres around Brooklyn couple Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly.

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11:45 THE TAKING OF TIGER MOUNTAIN

(Hong Kong, China) Distribution Workshop, 143mins. Dir: Tsui Hark.

Cast: Hanyu Zhang, Tony Leung, Gengxin Lin. A battle of wits between a small military unit and ruthless heavy-armed

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(UK) Metro International Entertainment, 108mins.

Dir: Paul Katis. Cast: Mark Stanley, David Elliot, Malachi Kirby.

A true story about the bravery that took place on the Kajaki Dam. British soldiers fight for each other’s lives in a minefield where the next step could be their last.

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12:00 BEYOND PUNISHMENT

(Germany) SUMO Film, 98mins. Dir: Hubertus Siegert.

“Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you.” Three different countries and one case of deadly violent each. A film that changes our idea of guilt and punishment.

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OOOPS! NOAH IS GONE… See box, right

12:15 GHOUL

(Czech Republic) Hollywood Classic Entertainment, 90mins.

Dir: Petr Jakl. Cast: Jennifer Armour Armour, Jeremy Isabella, Paul S Tracey, Debra Garza.

US film-makers must face a real-life story of a violent serial killer. They travel to an area of Ukraine where people have been mysteriously disappearing and soon find themselves trapped in a supernatural hunting ground.

thief finds himself too deep into the criminal underworld, he must rely on his street-artist brother to complete what he started.

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THE CEREMONY

(Sweden) Autlook Filmsales, 75mins. Dir: Lina Mannheimer. Cast: Catherine Robbe-Grillet.

The most famous dominatrix in France, Catherine RobbeGrillet, age 84, creates sadomasochist ceremonies in her chateau. Catherine

(South Korea) 9ers Entertainment, 102mins.

Dir: Mun Che-Yong.

Cast: Lee Min-Ki, Yeo Jin-Goo. In an institution, an apathetic young man changes after befriending a full-of-spirit newbie and together they take a shot at their broken-winged youth.

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12:40 BANG BANG BABY

(Canada) Archstone Distribution, 89mins.

Dir: Jeffrey St. Jules.

Cast: Jane Levy, Justin

Chatwin, David Reale, Peter Stormare.

A small-town girl in the 1960s believes her dream of stardom will come true when her rock star idol gets stranded in town. But a toxic leak in a nearby chemical plant threatens to turn her dream into a nightmare.

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12:45 A WALK IN THE WOODS

(US) IM Global, 104mins.

Dir: Ken Kwapis. Cast: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson.

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CENSORED VOICES

(Israel, Germany) Dogwoof, 84mins. Dir: Mor Loushy.

One week after the 1967 Six-Day War, author Amos Oz recorded intimate conversations with returning soldiers to compile ‘The Seventh Day’. Originally censored

by Israel, the film reveals these recordings for the first time.

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CLUB LIFE

(US) Bleiberg Entertainment, 88mins.

Dir: Fabrizio Conte. Cast: Jerry Ferrara, Danny A. Abeckaser, Jessica Szohr, Robert Davi.

A nightclub promoter

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VOLLEY

(Argentina) Filmsharks International, 100mins.

Dir: Martin Piroyansky.

Cast: Martin Piroyansky, Chino Darin, Ines Efron, Violeta Urtizberea.

Six friends are spending New Year’s Eve together.

Nicolas scores on every girl, even his best friend’s girlfriend. After he declares his love to her, the group face a crisis to finally realise that he was not the only one breaking rules.

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12:30 ANTI-SOCIAL

(UK) Genesis Film Sales, 118mins. Dir: Reg Traviss. Cast: Greg Sulkin, Meghan Markle, Josh Myers, Christian Berkel.

After a smash-and-grab

MARKET 12:00 OOOPS! NOAH IS GONE… (Germany,

Luxembourg, Belgium, Ireland) Global Screen, 85mins. Dir: Toby Genkel. Cast: Callum Maloney, Dermont Magennis, Ava Connolly, Tara Flynn.

It’s the end of the world. A huge flood is coming. The land-based Nestrians Dave and his son Finny have made it onto Noah’s Ark. But when Finny and his friend Leah accidentally fall off, it’s the start of a thrilling adventure.

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MARKET 13:00 THE MASTER PLAN

(Sweden) Svensk Filmindustri, 95mins. Dir: Alain Darborg.

Cast: Simon J Berger, Alexander Karim, Susanne Thorson, Torkel Petersson.

tries to make a name for himself in New York City.

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FIELD OF LOST SHOES

(US) VMI Worldwide, 96mins. Dir: Sean McNamara. Cast: Jason Isaacs, David Arquette, Tom Skerritt, Lauren Holly.

Based on a true story of the American Civil War, a group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must face the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.

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NUCLEAR NATION II

(Japan) Wide/Wide House, 114mins. Dir: Atsushi Funahashi. Cast: Yutaka Yamazaki, Ryuichi Sakamoto.

A documentary about the exile of Futaba’s residents, the region housing the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which questions the real cost of capitalism and nuclear energy.

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12:50 OUT OF NATURE

(Norway) NDM International Sales, 80mins. Dir: Ole Giæver, Marte Vold.

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Charles has a plan. With the help of the charming impostor Vanheden, the skilled explosives expert Harry and the light-fingered lock specialist Rocky, he gathers the ultimate team to perform the perfect heist.

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Ellen Birgitte Winther.

Martin is alone on a hiking trip in the mountains and we hear all of his uncensored thoughts and brutally honest observations.

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13:00

Claridge. Cast: Steve Hudson, Jan Klingemann, Paul Bendelow, Alison Paule Rippier.

The adventurous story of Nano, who sets out on a fantastic journey through the body of his grandfather to save his life.

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CHORUS

(Canada) Doc & Film International, 97mins.

Dir: Francois Delisle.

Cast: Sebastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Pierre Curzi, Genevieve Bujold.

A couple, separated for 10 years, are forced to come together to identify the remains of their missing son. As they struggle to heal the wounds of the past, they find a way to be parents and lovers one last time.

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TEN THOUSAND SAINTS

(US) The Solution Entertainment Group, 104mins. Dir: various.

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Emily Mortimer.

A teenager from Vermont moves to the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s to live with his father in East Village.

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I AM MICHAEL

(US) The Exchange, 100mins. Dir: Justin Kelly. Cast: James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts.

The incredible true-life story of Michael Glatze, a gay activist who enrolls in the Christian Bible Academy to become a pastor.

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THE LITTLE MEDIC — SECRET MISSION OF THE BODYNAUTS

(Germany) Beta Cinema, 78mins. Dir: Peter

TURBO KID

(Canada, New Zealand) Epic Pictures Group, 95mins. Dir: Anouk Whissell. Cast: Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside, Aaron Jeffery.

It’s 1997. In a postapocalyptic world, a young kid survives by scavenging in the wasteland. His life is turned upside down when the evil Zeus kidnaps his new friend Apple. The kid finds the courage to face his fears and save her.

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NOBODY FROM NOWHERE

(France) Le Pacte, 75mins. Dir: Thomas Salvador. Cast: Thomas Salvador, Vimala Pons.

The story of Vincent, an apparently normal young man who hides a secret: in contact with water, he displays extraordinary abilities.

(France) Pathe International, 118mins.

Dir: Matthieu Delaporte.

Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Marie Josee Croze.

Sebastien Nicolas has always dreamed of being someone else, but he has never had any imagination. He observes the people he meets and then imitates them. He passes through their lives.

But some journeys have no way back.

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13:20 PETTSON AND FINDUS — A LITTLE NUISANCE, A GREAT FRIENDSHIP

(Germany) ARRI Worldsales, 86mins.

Dir: Ali Samadi Ahadi.

Cast: Ulrich Noethen, Marianne Sagebrecht, Max Herbrechter.

The story of a grumpy loner and his friend, a small, speaking cat, who experiences a series of adventures and learns what it means to have friends. dffb-Kino

13:30 MAY ALLAH BLESS FRANCE!

(France) Films Distribution, 96mins.

Dir: Abd Al Malik.

Cast: Marc Zinga, Sabrina Ouazani, Larouci Didi.

The true story of a French teenager rising out from the underprivileged suburbs through love, education and rap music.

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WILD BUNCH PROMO REEL

(France) Wild Bunch, 90mins. Dir: various.

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13:45 BIG SKY

(US) Voltage Pictures, 96mins. Dir: Jorge Michel Grau. Cast: Bella Thorne, Kyra Sedgwick, Frank Grillo.

After two masked assailants attack a young women’s van as she is travelling to a health facility in the desert, she must face the outlaws on her tail while she struggles to survive the elements and the demons in her head.

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SPRING

(US) XYZ Films, 109mins.

Dir: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson. Cast: Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia

Hilker, Jeremy Gardner, Nick Nevern.

A young man in a personal tailspin flees California for the Italian coast, where he meets a woman carrying a dark secret.

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13:50 ALL CATS ARE GREY

(Belgium) Be for Films, 85mins. Dir: Savina Dellicour. Cast: Bouli Lanners, Manon Capelle, Anne Coesens.

Paul is a detective in his 40s. Dorothy, almost 16, is going through a serious identity crisis. Paul lives on the fringe of Brussels’ self-righteous society, while Dorothy has grown up in its heart. What connects them?

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14:00 A GODSEND

(Germany) If Productions, 102mins.

Dir: Oliver Haffner.

Cast: Katharina Marie Schubert, Canan Kir, Adam Bousdoukos.

An actress at a provincial community theatre gets fired. Fresh off the stage, she finds herself at the job centre, being forced to work with seven hard-toplace clients to rehearse the classic play ‘Antigone’.

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MARKET 14:00 THE GULLS

(Russia) Antipode Sales & Distribution, 87mins. Dir: Ella Manzheeva. Cast: Evgenia Manzhieva, Evgeniy Sangadzhiev.

The unhappily married Elza lives

close to the Caspian Sea with her husband, who makes his money by illegally fishing in its misty side canals.

Following a tragic accident, the young Kalmyk woman is forced to find her bearings anew.

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North American and French Theatrical Releases

NEW YORK CITY, 1968. Max Bornstein had wit, looks and charm. He was also a full-time dope fiend and a part-time father working within the underground pornography industry.

Based on a true story.

A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.

Such Good People

Sleeping with the fishes (Romantic Comedy)

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Airing on

“Such Good People” is a contemporary screwball comedy, about a couple, Michael Urie & Randy Harrison who find a million dollars while housesitting.

A woman's journey of self-discovery and the dynamics of her zany family.

"A latino indie film we love... extremely uplifting and real..."

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Leslie Easterbrook (The Devil's Rejects, Police academy)

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In this bone-chilling thirller, a typical teenage girl dealing with typical problems finds herself in a horrifying situation when she discovers that the local ice-cream man is a psychotic killer.

Max Adler (Glee) stars in this heartfelt comedydrama as a gay son who, along with his straight brother, concoct a scheme to pose as ex-gay ministers to “convert” homosexuals into heterosexuals to raise money to pay for treatments for their ill mother.

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Dir: Sam de Jong Prod: 100% Halal, VICE media Sales: Mongrel International (feature, 78’) 19:30 Haus der Kulturen der Welt (world premiere, opening film Generation)

(US) Angel Grace Productions, 92mins. Dir: Laurie Weltz. Cast: India Ennenga, James Frecheville, Ellen Burstyn, Danny Glover.

A rebellious young girl convinces a suicidal young man to go on a road trip with her to find her little sister, who was taken by their father.

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14:15 BRAVE MEN’S BLOOD

(Iceland) Mongrel International, 96mins.

Dir: Olaf de Fleur. Cast: Darri Ingolfsson, Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir, Ingvar E Sigurdsson, Sigurdur Sigurjonsson, Zlato Krickic.

In order to take down a major criminal organisation, an ambitious cop heading internal affairs in the Reykjavik PD decides to investigate a corrupt police lieutenant, with dire consequences.

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MARKET 14:45 LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT

(US) HanWay Films, 100mins. Dir: Rodrigo Garcia. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ciaran Hinds, Tye Sheridan, Ayelet Zurer.

After 40 days of temptation, Joshua has

accepted his fate. So when the demon presents him with an unexpected final challenge in the guise of a family living in this barren landscape, Joshua must once again find his humanity.

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HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN

FORUM

ZURICH

Dir: Sacha Polak Prod: Viking Film Sales: Beta Cinema (feature, 89’) 11:30 CinemaxX 6 (efm)

(Serbia, Montenegro) Wide/Wide House, 89mins.

Dir: Srdjan Dragojevic.

Cast: Srdjan Todorovic, Branko Djuric, Natasa Janjic Lokas, Tanja Ribic.

A group of tourists from different parts of ex-Yugoslavia arrive at an Adriatic timeshare resort.

Mladen, a rutheless sales agent, will do his best to persuade them to buy a property.

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WE ARE CUBA

ZOMBIE

Dir: Billy Pols Prod: Hazazah Sales: Wide House (documentary, 72’) 19:00 CinemaxX 17 (efm)

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(Germany) Saxonia Entertainment, 91mins.

Dir: Annett Ilijew. Cast: Damian Perez, Nora Thoes.

Over seven years, amateur cameraman Andres filmed the lives of three families in a poor neighbourhood of Havana. The film, based on his close observation, shows the drama of Cuba’s underdogs as Westerners have never seen it before.

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14:20 DECADENCE

(US) MultiVisionnaire Pictures, 91mins.

Dir: Joaquin Rodriguez.

Cast: Alejandro Estrada, Nataly Umana, Roberto Palazuelos.

Anabel is a beautiful woman with a modest life.

Her innocent nature makes her a victim of Oskar — a handsome millionaire. An encounter is followed by a torrid romance. Then Anabel begins to descend into Oskar’s sexual games.

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14:30 THE WAYS TO HAPPINESS

(Germany) Videorauschen, 87mins. Dir: Agnieszka Jurek, Carsten Aschmann.

A documentary about the love for music, the desire to dance and striving for inclusion.

Zoo Palast Club A

14:40

14:45 FALL

(Canada) Marina Cordoni Entertainment, 82mins.

Dir: Terence Odette. Cast: Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Katie Boland, Suzanne Clement.

An ageing Catholic priest receives a letter forcing his complacent life into descent.

Now he must reconcile the truth: did a sexual encounter take place 40 years ago?

Can a moral custodian of the faithful transcend his own fall?

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LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT See box, above

HACKER

OPERATION ARCTIC

(US) Electric Entertainment, 105mins.

Dir: Akan Satayev.

Cast: Callan McAuliffe, Lorraine Nicholson, Daniel Eric Gold.

A young man in search of better opportunities finds himself involved in an online criminal organisation. When he attracts the attention of the authorities and the criminals, he must rely on his wits and ability to stay alive.

(Norway) TrustNordisk, 91mins. Dir: Grethe BøeWaal. Cast: Nicolai Cleve Broch, Kristofer Hivju, Kaisa Gurine Antonsen, Ida Leonora Valestrand Eike.

A journey to the Arctic Ocean.

MGB-Kino

journey across a fading world of ancient Irish legends and magic, a world that needs Saoirse to find her voice and sing the Song of the Sea. CinemaxX 3

15:00 LIZ IN SEPTEMBER

(Venezuela) Cinema Management Group (CMG), 92mins. Dir: Fina Torres. Cast: Patricia Velasquez, Eloisa Maturen, Mimi Lazo.

Liz knows several things since she was a child: that she is gay, that beauty is power and that she will never be a victim. Determined to enjoy the time she still has left on earth, she hides her terminal disease from her friends.

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ME HIM HER

(US) Protagonist Pictures, 97mins. Dir: Max Landis.

Cast: Dustin Milligan, Luke Bracey, Emily Meade, Angela Sarafyan.

From the incredible imagination of Max Landis, ‘Me Him Her’ is a comedy of errors, manners and fencing in which three people in their early twenties try to figure out love, friendship, sex, identity and life.

CineStar 4

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POSSESSED (AKA WHATEVER)

SONG OF THE SEA

(Spain) Filmsharks International, 83mins. Dir: Sam. Cast: Santiago Segura, Carlos Areces, Alex Angulo, Anabel Alonso.

Trini, the world-famous flamenco dancer, has been »

(Ireland, France) WestEnd Films, 90mins. Dir: Tomm Moore.

Ben and his little sister Saoirse, the last Seal-child, embark on a fantastic

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Dir: Colin Kennedy.

Cast: Elena Anaya, Owen McDonnell, Elizabeth McGovern.

A graphic, touching, funny and erotic drama that delves deep into the secret underside of a very modern relationship taken to its emotional and sexual limits.

deeply depressed and has abandoned the stage.

Damian, her eight-yearold son, is possessed by a malicious devil that makes him do the most bloody and cruel misdeeds. dffb-Kino

15:10 THE INVISIBLE BOY

(Italy, France) Pathe International, 100mins. Dir: Gabriele Salvatores. Cast: Ludovico Girardello, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Christo Jivkov.

Michele is 13 and lives in a quiet seaside town. One day the monotony of his normal life is shattered by an extraordinary discovery: Michele finds that he is invisible. The most incredible adventure of his life is about to begin.

CineStar 2

15:20 SUCKER

(Australia) LevelK, 95mins. Dir: Ben Chessell. Cast: John Luc, Lily Sullivan, Timothy Spall.

A colourful, ageing conman teaches 18-yearold Lawrence the art of lying. With his daughter in tow, the three work towards their biggest scam, and Lawrence has to make a choice between love, life and lies.

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15:30 STRANGERLAND

(Australia, Ireland) Wild Bunch, 110mins. Dir: Kim Farrant. Cast: Nicole

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16:00 THE GOLDEN HORSE

MARKET 15:45 HEADFIRST

(Finland) The Yellow Affair, 94mins. Dir: Antti Heikki Pesonen.

Cast: Armi Toivanen, Eero Ritala, Kai Lehtinen, Mimosa Willamo.

A story about a single

THE DARK STRANGER

mother with anger management problems and her teenage daughter who is always in trouble at school.

With yet another school comes a new teacher and a blast from the past for the mother.

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CHRISTMAS, AGAIN

80mins. Dir: Charles Poekel. Cast: Kentucker Audley, Hannah Gross.

A heartbroken Christmas tree salesman returns to NYC hoping to put his past behind him.

His life begins to spiral downwards until the saving of a mysterious woman and some colourful customers rescue him from self-destruction.

(US) Auke Bay Conifers,

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Kidman, Joseph Fiennes, Hugo Weaving.

Newcomers to a remote Australian desert town, Catherine and Matthew Parker, are pushed to the brink after the mysterious disappearance of their two teenage kids.

CineStar IMAX

15:45

(Canada) Prestige Films, 89mins. Dir: Chris Trebilcock. Cast: Katie Findlay, Enrico Colantoni, Stephen McHattie.

Terrorised by a character come to life out of her graphic novel, a young artist struggles to overcome her psychosis before it destroys her.

CineStar 6

HEADFIRST See box, above

LOCAL GOD

(Uruguay) Elle Driver, 88mins. Dir: Gustavo Hernandez. Cast: Mariana Olivera, Gabriela Freire, Agustin Urrutia.

When a three-member cult rock band reunites to film a music video at

an abandoned gold mine, they unleash the spirit of a sleeping demon god that will force them to relive and face the horrors of their past.

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15:50 MISFITS

(Denmark, Sweden) Wide/Wide House, 74mins. Dir: Jannik Splidsboel.

Three teenagers from Tulsa, Oklahoma, grapple with life in this coming-ofage story, portraying torn family bonds, emotional isolation and the everyday consequences of being openly LGBT in the buckle of the Bible belt.

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SWUNG

(UK) The Works, 90mins.

(Latvia, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Denmark) Rija Films, 79mins.

Dir: Reinis Kalnaellis.

Cast: Taiga Zile.

Seven years of captivity come to an end and grief turns to joy when an unlikely hero rescues the princess to win her hand and the throne.

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MENU FOR TWO

(Spain) Cinema Republic, 88mins. Dir: Robert Bellsola. Cast: Adria Collado, Andoni Agirregomezkorta, Carolina Bang, Sergi Lopez.

Oscar, a stockbroker from the city, and Dan, a goofy slacker from Hicksville, get big news: they are brothers. Now they’re stuck sharing their deceased father’s estate, a failing country-style restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

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QUEEN OF EARTH

(US) 90mins. Dir: Alex Ross Perry.

Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston,

Patrick Fugit, Kentucker Audley.

Catherine and Virginia are best friends. Last year, Virginia wasn’t doing well, while this year it is Catherine who is struggling. One week together at a lakeside cabin: it won’t be an easy ride.

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CHLORINE

THE WRECKING CREW

(Italy) Rai Com, 94mins.

Dir: Lamberto Sanfelice.

Cast: Sara Serraiocco, Ivan Franek, Giorgio Colangeli, Anatol Sassi.

Jenny is a 17-year-old girl whose dream is to become a synchronised swimmer.

But her carefree life is shaken by the sudden death of her mother.

(US) Magnolia Pictures, 101mins. Dir: Denny Tedesco. Cast: Brian Wilson, Cher, Nancy Sinatra, Dick Clark.

Tells the story of the unsung musicians that provided the backbeat, the bottom and the swinging melody that drove many of the number-one hits of the 1960s.

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STUNG

(Germany) XYZ Films, 85mins. Dir: Benni Diez.

Cast: Matt O’Leary, Jessica Cook, Clifton Collins Jr, Lance Henriksen.

Mrs Perch, an elderly, wealthy lady, is throwing a fancy garden party at her remote country villa.

When seven-feet-tall killer wasps invade the party, it is up to two waiters to stop the creatures and save the party attendees.

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16:15 BOOMERANG

(France) TF1 International, 105mins.

Dir: Francois Favrat.

Cast: Laurent Lafitte, Melanie Laurent, Wladimir Yordanoff, Audrey Dana.

Obsessed with his mother’s death 30 years ago, Antoine decides to confront his family’s darkest secrets.

CinemaxX 2 By invitation only

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COCONUT THE LITTLE DRAGON See box, left

CRUMBS

MARKET 16:30 COCONUT THE LITTLE DRAGON

(Germany) Sola Media, 95mins. Dir: Nina Wells, Hubert Weiland.

Coconut and his friend Oscar are outsiders.

Coconut is supposed

journalists and then the world. Both thriller and intimate character study, ‘Citizenfour’ is a film about one man’s choice to share information that shook the world.

Zoo Palast 2

CITIZENFOUR

(US, Germany) Praxis Films, 114mins. Dir: Laura Poitras.

A story told in real time as Edward Snowden reveals himself to

THE ROAD WITHIN

(US) Annapurna International, 101mins.

Dir: Gren Wells. Cast: Dev Patel, Robert Sheehan, Zoe Kravitz.

to be a flying dragon but he can’t fly. Oscar, a carnivore by nature, is a vegetarian by choice. Together with the porcupine Matilda, they go on fabulous adventures.

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Vincent has Tourette’s syndrome and is sent to a clinic where he finds friends in an obsessivecompulsive roommate and a romance with an anorexic woman. They escape and embark on a road trip that changes their lives forever.

Film Center, 90mins.

Dir: Dan Chisu. Cast: Gheorghe Ifrim, Alexandru Papadopol, Dorian Boguta, Ion Besoiu.

The film’s events take place during one night when four interconnected stories happen around a central character, “the nonstop boy”, seller at a nonstop shop in a poor Bucharest neighbourhood.

(Spain, Ethiopia, Finland, Finland) New Europe Film Sales, 68mins. Dir: Miguel Llanso. Cast: Daniel Tadesse, Selam Tesfaye.

Candy, a strange-looking scrap collector, embarks on a surreal epic journey through the postapocalyptic Ethiopian landscape. There he confronts himself, his fears and witches, Santa Claus and second-generation Nazis.

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16:45 A PERFECT MAN

BUCHAREST NON-STOP

(France) EuropaCorp, 80mins. Dir: Tristan Aurouet. Cast: Manu Payet, Joey Starr.

A race against the clock in this glamourfuelled, action-packed comedy.

(France) SND — Groupe M6, 103mins. Dir: Yann Gozlan. Cast: Pierre Niney, Ana Girardot.

Matthieu Vasseur is a struggling writer who finds a mysterious manuscript in a dead man’s house.

The memoirs of a soldier that turns out to be a masterpiece. Matthieu can’t help but submit the book as his own.

(Romania) Romanian

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16:50 HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK

(Germany, Norway) The Match Factory, 90mins.

Dir: Sonja Heiss. Cast: Laura Tonke, Hans Low, Leander Nitsche.

Hedi and her son Uli take each day as it comes, dreaming of the future.

Then, suddenly, Hedi gets stuck. With a light touch and tender humour, the film shows that for the 30-something generation, love is a very fragile thing.

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17:00 FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER

(Germany) Wide/Wide House, 113mins. Dir: Rudiger Suchsland.

The first feature documentary ever on German cinema of the ’20s. It shows well-known films, but furthermore forgotten, never shown or totally unknown material.

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MOMENTUM

(South Africa, US) Moonrise Pictures, 93mins. Dir: Stephen Campanelli. Cast: Olga Kurylenko,

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MARKET 17:10 LADYGREY

(France, South Africa, Belgium) The Bureau Sales, 109mins. Dir: Alain Choquart. Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Emily Mortimer, Liam Cunningham, Jeremie Renier.

James Purefoy.

A wanted female bank robber finds herself on the run from a deadly assassination squad after she inadvertently comes into possession of a valuable key they had been hired to track down.

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17:10 LADYGREY See box, above

17:15 CARTEL LAND

(US) The Documentary Group, 100mins. Dir: Matthew Heineman.

Cast: Pax Wasserman, Bradley Ross, Matt Porwoll.

Vigilante groups on both sides of the border battle the vicious Mexican drug cartels. With unprecedented access, ‘Cartel Land’ provokes deep questions about lawlessness and whether it is just for citizens to take up arms.

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MOLLY MOON

(UK) Metro International Entertainment, 98mins.

Dir: Christopher N Rowley. Cast: Emily Watson, Ann-Marie Duff, Dominic Monaghan, Leslie Manville.

When 12-year-old Molly Moon finds a mysterious book on hypnotism, she escapes from the 74 Screen International at Berlin February 6, 2015

Ten years after the end of apartheid, several characters from different horizons live in Ladygrey at the foot of the Drakensberg, South Africa. Nature, through its physical splendour and history, are the bonds uniting them.

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orphanage where she lives to pursue her dreams of fame and fortune.

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17:20 CAST NO SHADOW

(Canada) Marina Cordoni Entertainment, 88mins.

Dir: Christian Sparkes.

Cast: Percy Hynes-White, Mary-Colin Chisholm, Joel Thomas Hynes, Stephen Lush.

Tells the tragic story of a poor boy who tries to navigate a delinquent life of petty crime in a rugged seaside town.

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17:30 ATLIT

(France, Israel) Indie Sales, 91mins. Dir: Shirel Amitay. Cast: Geraldine Nakache, Yael Abecassis, Judith Chemla.

Three sisters fight their personal demons and those of a nation as they deal with the sale of their inherited property. What will become of this house in a country where the future holds no promise of peace?

60mins. Dir: Peter Sollett.

Cast: Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell.

True story in which a gay policewoman fights for the right for her partner to receive her pension before she dies.

CineStar IMAX By invitation only

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CIVIL WAR

(Canada) Reel Suspects, 120mins. Dir: Rodrigue Jean. Cast: Alexandre Landry, Jean-Simon Leduc, Simon Lefebvre, Catherine-Audrey Lachapelle.

Alex is an addict who sells his body in Montreal’s Centre-Sud district. He is flanked by Bruno, Simon, Jeanne, Eric and Velma.

Hostage to market logic, they are the fallen angels of a dark and violent time.

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SHORT SKIN

FREEHELD

(Italy) Films Boutique, 86mins. Dir: Duccio Chiarini. Cast: Matteo Creatini, Francesca Agostini.

Edoardo never told anybody, not even his best friend Arturo, that since birth his foreskin is too narrow, preventing him from having sex. But, at 17, love is in the air: Edoardo will have to find his way.

(US) Bankside Films,

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CITIZENFOUR

(US, Germany) Praxis Films, 114mins. Dir: Laura Poitras.

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(Ireland) Kaleidoscope Film Distribution, 93mins. Dir: Gerard Barrett. Cast: Jack Reynor, Toni Collette, Will Poulter, Michael Smiley.

A young man desperate to save his mother from addiction and reunite his broken family is forced to take a job, entangling him in the criminal world, which pushes him and his relationships to the limits.

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17:40

Dir: Isabel Coixet. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kikuchi, Gabriel Byrne, Orto Ignatiussen.

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18:00 LA FRENCH

(France, Belgium) Gaumont, 135mins.

Dir: Cedric Jimenez.

Cast: Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Celine Sallette, Melanie Doutey.

An ambitious, realistic and modern vision of ‘The French Connection’, based on the outstanding true story of Pierre Michel, the French Eliot Ness of the ’70s.

WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE STRONG.

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(Germany) Beta Cinema, 128mins. Dir: Burhan Qurbani. Cast: Devid Striesow, Jonas Nay, Trang Le Hong, Joel Basman.

Recounts the incident of violent xenophobic riots in Rostock in 1992 from the perspectives of three very different characters.

K

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17:45 NOBODY WANTS THE NIGHT

(Spain, France, Bulgaria) Elle Driver, 118mins.

(China, UK) 86mins.

Dir: various. Cast: Bayin, Jula, Yirgui, Altanochir.

This adaption of Kafka’s ‘The Castle’ takes place in a fictional Mongolia, tracing how K struggles against the opaque hierarchies of a strange village, falls in love with a waitress and goes from land surveyor to school janitor.

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18:05 ADMIRAL: MICHIEL DE RUYTER

(Netherlands) Arclight Films, 151mins. Dir: Roel Reine. Cast: Frank Lammers, Sanne Langelaar, Charles Dance, Rutger Hauer.

When the republic of the Netherlands is attacked

by England, France and Germany and the country is on the brink of civil war, only one man can lead the county’s strongest weapon: Michiel de Ruyter.

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18:15 DO YOU BELIEVE?

(US) Pure Flix, Quality Flix, 117mins. Dir: Jonathan M Gunn. Cast: Cybil Shepherd, Alexa PenaVega, Mira Sorvino, Sean Astin.

Follows the journey of a handful of characters in interweaving stories, in a story of love, forgiveness, hope and second chances. dffb-Kino

18:30 FINDING GASTON

(Peru) Wide/Wide House, 78mins. Dir: Patricia Perez. Cast: Gaston Acurio.

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(Austria) Red Bull Media House, 105mins. Dir: Gerald Salmina. Cast: Aksel Lund Svindal, Erik Guay, Max Franz, Yuri Danilochkin.

For 75 years, the annual Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbuhel, Austria, has produced unforgettable triumphs and heartrending tragedies, a heritage that is full of myths and legends.

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Director: Etienne Faure (Chaos) Cast: Pierre Prieur, Adrian James, Raquel Nave, Rebekah Underhill A French youth with a dark past takes refuge in a Brooklyn underground cabaret bar, becoming immersed in its eccentric, liberating world of outcasts.

A film as colorful as the environment in which it is set, using the real-life Bizarre cabaret bar as the thematic home for misplaced youth.

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Director: Jim Strouse (Grace is Gone, Lonesome Jim) Cast: Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords, What We Do in the Shadows), Regina Hall (About Last Night), Jessica Williams (The Daily Show)

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A newly single graphic novelist navigates fatherhood, teaching, and a new love while letting go of the woman who left him.

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“A superb, comically gifted cast.” – The Hollywood Reporter “Jemaine Clement shines in [this] effortlessly lovely [film].”

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Director: Kris Swanberg (It Was Great, But I Was Ready to Come Home) Cast: Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), Gail Bean A pregnant high school teacher develops an unlikely bond with one of her students, after learning that the student is also expecting.

“Cobie Smulders and Gail Bean are sublime .” – Variety “A warmly observed, unpretentious film.” – The Hollywood Reporter MARKET SCREENINGS: Feb 7 / 11:15 / Dffb-Kino Feb 8 / 10:40 / CineStar 4

SAM KLEMKE’S TIME MACHINE

Director: Matthew Bate (Shut Up Little Man!: An Audio Misadventure) Since 1977 Sam Klemke has filmed his life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human.

“Sam speaks for us all.” – LA Weekly “An absorbing and sometimes touching digital time capsule.”

– The Hollywood Reporter “A unique docu hybrid.” – Variety MARKET SCREENING: Feb 8 / 14:45 / CinemaxX 19

THE STRONGEST MAN

Director: Kenny Riches (Must Come Down) Cast: Robert “Meatball” Lorie, Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous) Beef thinks he’s the strongest man in the world. But when his precious golden BMX bike is stolen, he must battle demons and find his spirit animal to recover it.

“It’s like Terrence Malick directing Napoleon Dynamite.” – Indiewire “[A] weird, quirky and surrealistic vision quest that (…) marks Riches as a talent to look out for.” – Silver Screen Riot MARKET SCREENING: Feb 9 / 17:00 / Arsenal 2

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Director: Evan Leong (Linsanity) Cast: Lucy Liu (Kill Bill, Charlie’s Angels), Barkhad Abdi (Oscar Nominee, Captain Phillips) In pursuit of the American Dream, a smuggled Chinese woman becomes a human smuggler herself. Set in the ruthless underworld of NYC’s Chinatown, she becomes the target of both the FBI and her competition.

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ALWAYS SHINE

Director: Sophia Takal (Green) Cast: Caitlin Fitzgerald (Masters of Sex), Mackenzie Davis (Halt and Catch Fire) Two actresses embark on a road trip to Big Sur to mend their damaged friendship, but jealousy begins to open old wounds in this twisted thriller about obsession, fame and femininity.

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find out the stories, the inspirations and the dreams behind it. He took cuisine outside his kitchen in a mission to change his country.

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(Netherlands) Wide/ Wide House, 72mins.

Dir: Billy Pols. Cast: Tim Zom.

Tim Zom, born and raised in the south of Rotterdam, steps out of a dark past and stands at the point of becoming an international professional skateboarder.

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A long-married couple have an eventful weekend after they decide to sell their beloved Brooklyn apartment of 40 years.

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(Malaysia) Astro Shaw, 110mins. Dir: Nik Amir Mustapha. Cast: Bront Palarae, Iedil Putra, Nadiya Nisaa, Amerul Affendi.

Berg, a misunderstood film-maker, reunites with his school friends for one last hurrah embarking on a colourful and poignant road trip across Malaysia, shooting that last film, searching for themselves… and an ever-elusive UFO.

(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 99mins.

Dir: Jose Mari Goenaga.

Cast: Josean Bengoetxea, Nagore Aranburu, Itziar Ituno, Itziar Aizpuru.

The story of three women, three lives altered by the mere presence of flowers.

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RUTH & ALEX

(US) Myriad Pictures, 93mins. Dir: Richard Loncraine. Cast: Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton, Cynthia Nixon.

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PARASYTE

(Japan) Toho, 109mins.

Dir: Takashi Yamazaki.

Cast: Shota Sometani, Ai Hashimoto, Eri Fukatsu, Tadanobu Asano.

Tiny creatures – or Parasytes – arrive on earth to take over human bodies and prey on human kind. High-schooler Shinichi prevents a

Parasyte from taking over his mind and body but it starts a reluctant existence in his right arm.

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19:30 GENTLEMEN

(Sweden, Norway) Wild Bunch, 141mins. Dir: Mikael Marcimain. Cast: David Dencik, Ruth Vega Fernandez, David Fukamachi Regnfors.

The tale of the enigmatic Morgan brothers — dark secrets and forbidden love in the post-Second World War era of liberation, economic boom and political corruption.

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19:40 DRAGON BLADE

(Hong Kong, China) Golden Network Asia,

127mins. Dir: Daniel Lee. Cast: Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody.

48BC. A Roman general, falsely accused of treason, crosses into China where he fights and then befriends a Chinese commander who has also been framed by corrupt officials.

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19:45 FISH TAIL

Presente Lda. 103mins.

Dir: Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel. Cast: Pedro Moritz, Artur Carreiro, Rui Melo, Manuel Moniz, Bruno Moniz, Marco Moniz, Manuel Pereira, Emanuel Carreiro.

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22:00 EVILNESS

(Mexico) 74mins. Dir: Joshua Gil. Cast: Rafael Gil Moran, Raymundo Delgado Munoz.

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IN BERLIN THE EFM DOCUMENTARY NETWORKING PLATFORM

In cooperation with the European Documentary Network (EDN)

MEETING POINT & DAILY SESSIONS AT MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU, 2ND FLOOR Stand #201 & EFM Producers Hub Phone: +49 30 209159-445 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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JAN SCHULZ-OJALA Der Tagesspiegel (Germany)

TIM ROBEY The Daily Telegraph (UK)

DEREK MALCOLM London Evening Standard (UK)

BO GREEN JENSEN Weekendavisen Berlingske (Denmark)

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JOSE CARLOS AVELLAR escrevercinema.com (Brazil)

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BORIS ANDJELIC Evening News (Serbia)

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NOBODY WANTS THE NIGHT (Sp-Fr-Bulg) Isabel Coixet

Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kikuchi and Gabriel Byrne star in this Greenland-set story about a 1909 explorer and two ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ women whose relationships entangle in an inhospitable climate.

TAXI (Iran) Jafar Panahi

Banned in his native Iran, Panahi continues to film wherever he can and lives in a legal limbo, facing jail at any time. ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Taxi has been described as a portrait of Tehran, a documentary-style film set in a cab driven by Panahi.

QUEEN OF THE DESERT (US) Werner Herzog

Epic biographical drama about British explorer and intelligence agent Gertrude Bell (Nicole Kidman). Shot in Morocco, ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ the film also features Robert Pattinson (as TE Lawrence — aka Lawrence of Arabia), Damian Lewis and James Franco.

45 YEARS (UK) Andrew Haigh

A couple poised to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary begin to question their relationship after hearing the ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ body of the husband’s first love has been discovered in the Alps. Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay star.

IXCANUL (Guat-Fr) Jayro Bustamante

Writer-director Bustamante tells the story of a teenage girl in rural Guatemala who is about to enter an arranged ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ marriage. Those plans collapse when she falls in love with someone else and finds herself pregnant.

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DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (Fr-Bel) Benoit Jacquot

The fourth adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s 1900 novel, about an ambitious young chambermaid, sees Léa Seydoux ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ take the role played by Jeanne Moreau (for Luis Bunuel in 1964) and Paulette Goddard (for Jean Renoir in 1946).

VICTORIA (Ger) Sebastian Schipper

Actor-director Schipper brings this story of a bank heist. Rising Spanish actress Laia Costa stars as Victoria, whose ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ encounter with four men outside a Berlin nightclub sets off a dangerous chain of events.

KNIGHT OF CUPS (US) Terrence Malick

Golden Bear-winner Malick returns with a film about a screenwriter living in Los Angeles who tries to make sense of ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ the events around him. Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman star.

THE PEARL BUTTON (Fr-Chil-Sp) Patricio Guzman

Renowned documentary-maker Guzman presents a film that tells two separate stories linked by buttons found in the ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ocean, illustrating how “the sea is the memory of the earth”.

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THE CLUB (Chil) Pablo Larrain

Four priests live in seclusion, each one of them paying penance for past crimes. But their routine is disrupted by the ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ arrival of a fifth ‘inmate’, a newly disgraced companion who brings with him the past they thought they had left behind.

AS WE WERE DREAMING (Ger-Fr) Andreas Dresen

Based on Clemens Meyer’s German literary sensation of the same name, the story follows a group of young teenage ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ friends living in Leipzig through the difficult years of German reunification.

BODY (Pol) Malgorzata Szumowska

This exploration of mourning is about a father and his anorexic daughter trying to come to terms with the untimely ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ death of their wife and mother.

UNDER ELECTRIC CLOUDS (Rus-Ukr-Pol) Alexey German Jr

This drama, from auteur German Jr, weaves together seven stories that see characters come and go from each other’s ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ lives, set in a country that is coming apart at the seams.

AFERIM! (Rom-Bul-Cz Rep) Radu Jude

Set in 19th-century Romania, Aferim! tells the story of a government official and his teenage son who capture an ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ escaped gypsy slave. From Golden Bear-winning producer Ada Solomon.

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EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO Elmer Back stars as Sergei Eisenstein, the famed Russian director of Battleship Potemkin who in 1931 visited Mexico (Neth-Mex-Bel-Fin) ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ to make a film and found renewed creative inspiration in the process.

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GONE WITH THE BULLETS (Chi-US-HK) Jiang Wen

Set in 1920s Shanghai, a conman and policeman establish a notorious beauty pageant attended by the city’s elite. ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ When an outsider wins unexpectedly, it sets into motion events that escalate into a lethal maelstrom.

SWORN VIRGIN (It-Swit-GerAlb-Kos) Laura Bispuri

Bispuri’s feature directorial debut, based on Elvira Dones’s novel, stars Alba Rohrwacher as an Albanian woman who ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ chooses to live as a man in order to enjoy the privileges afforded in her patriarchal village.

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BIG FATHER, SMALL FATHER Set in Saigon in the late 1990s, Big Father, Small Father And Other Stories follows a young photography student who AND OTHER STORIES (Viet-Fr★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ becomes enchanted by his flatmate, a beautiful heroin dealer.

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CHASUKE’S JOURNEY (Jap) Sabu

Based on the film-maker’s own book, Chasuke’s Journey centres on an angel that comes down to Earth to rescue a ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ woman from a tragic fate.

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