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Memento flags French rights for Panahi’s Taxi Exclusive look at By Way Of Helena
Helena rides to Germany BY ANDREAS WISEMAN
WestEnd Films has sold Western By Way Of Helena to Weltkino for German-speaking territories. Liam Hemsworth plays a Texas Ranger investigating a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena. Co-stars include Woody Harrelson, Alice Braga (Elysium) and Emory Cohen (The Place Beyond The Pines). Directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith, the drama was written by Matt Cook who executive produces alongside Nathalie Marciano. The film was developed by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, who are producing it under their Mandeville Films banner. Atomic Entertainment’s Adam Rosenfelt and Maureen Meulen are producing alongside Mandeville, and are also financing. WestEnd’s EFM slate also includes Benedict Andrews’ Blackbird, Jeremy Saulnier’s crimethriller Green Room and Tomm Moore’s Song Of The Sea. Weltkino is the distribution outfit of Kinowelt founder Michael Kölmel and producer Dietmar Güntsche.
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Paris-based distributor Memento has signed a deal with Celluloid Dreams for French rights to Jafar Panahi’s Golden Bear contender, Taxi. It is his third feature since the Iranian authorities banned him from making films at the end of 2010, following This Is Not A Film and Closed Curtain, which was in Berlinale Competition in 2013. Panahi was also banned from travelling and giving interviews in his 2010 sentence so was unable to attend yesterday’s premiere of Taxi. In his latest film, Panahi has circumvented the ban by turning a
tracking three high-profile festival selections led by Werner Herzog’s Competition entry Queen Of The Desert, which also premiered yesterday. CAA and Cassian Elwes represent US rights and Sierra/ Affinity handles international. Terrence Malick’s Knight Of Cups has its first public outing tomorrow and Berlinale Special entry Life, by Anton Corbijn, premieres on Monday. CAA and WME Global split US duties on both while FilmNation is the international sales agent. » Taxi and Queen Of The Desert reviews, page 16
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REVIEW 45 Years A gently devastating snapshot of a couple in their twilight years » Page 14
FEATURE Spanish eyes Our territory guide to a cinema industry of contrasts » Page 28
Fortitude-R2 surf with Tribes BY JEREMY KAY
Fortitude International has struck a deal with Robbie Brenner’s Relativity Squared (R2) to launch sales at EFM on DJ Caruso’s The Tribes Of Palos Verdes. Matt Dillon has joined Jennifer Garner and Maika Monroe on the story of a teenager in an affluent beach town who surfs to escape her troubled home life. R2 distributes in the US. The deal allows Fortitude to tap into a vein of prestige films produced by Relativityowned R2 and the parties are exploring future collaborations.
Detective K crosses Asia Damian Lewis, Nicole Kidman, director Werner Herzog and James Franco in Berlin for the photocall of Competition title Queen Of The Desert. See our review on page 16.
Ramsay boards rehab thriller Dominic West, David Tennant and Stacy Martin are to star in crime drama I Feel Fine, which writerdirector Lynne Ramsay and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy producer Robyn Slovo will executive produce. It marks the directorial debut of casting agent Des Hamilton, who has cast films including Only God Forgives and This Is England. The script comes from Hamilton and Amber Trentham. Producers
yellow cab into a mobile studio with a camera placed on the dashboard, picking up passengers in Tehran who speak to the driver, played by the director himself. Memento Films Distribution chief Alexandre Mallet-Guy said the film was “very clever, funny and moving”, adding he was sure it would be a box-office hit in France. “The screening of Taxi went very well this morning and we have strong feedback from critics and distributors,” said Celluloid Dreams chief Hengameh Panahi following Friday’s press screening. Meanwhile, US buyers were
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are Buffalo Films’ Lara Manwaring and Capricorn Films’ Suzanne Reid. Set in 1980s Glasgow, the film will chart the story of a troubled teenager who must make his way into the safety of rehab after a bounty is placed on his head for a crime he did not commit. Billy Boyd and Carice van Houten are also attached to the project, which aims to shoot in October. Andreas Wiseman
Sony snaps up Sundance hit People, Places, Things BY JEREMY KAY
Visit Films and Sony have struck a major deal for the bulk of international rights on Sundance premiere People, Places, Things, starring Jemaine Clement. The studio picked up all territories outside the US except Australia and New Zealand, where Madman acquired rights. ICM and Cinetic represent US rights. Jim Strouse (Grace Is Gone)
directed the story of a cuckolded Brooklyn-based artist and professor who must come to grips with single fatherhood and dating. Regina Hall, Stephanie Allynne, Jessica Williams, Gia Gadsby and Aundrea Gadsby round out the cast on the first film from Los Angeles-based Beachside Films. “People, Places, Things was a joy to make,” said Strouse. “I can’t wait to share it with the rest of the world.”
Korea’s Showbox/Mediaplex has pre-sold adventure comedy Detective K: Secret Of The Lost Island to a slew of territories, including Twin Co for Japan. The film, which is scheduled for Korean release on February 11 in the run-up to Lunar New Year, has also gone to China (Lemon Tree), Taiwan (AV-Jet), Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos (Soundspace International), Philippines (VIVA Communications) and Myanmar (Colourful Garden). Full Brief Marketing, a company affiliated to China Lion Entertainment, has acquired the film for Australia and New Zealand, and Dreamwest Pictures for North America. Liz Shackleton
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Trolls scores budget award Norwegian Film Institute has announced a $2.19m production award for troll movie The Ash Lad: In The Hall Of The Mountain King. The $9m film, directed by Mikkel Braenne Sandemose and sold by TrustNordisk, features in the Berlinale co-production market. Geoffrey Macnab
Buyers ablaze for Samurai By Andreas Wiseman
UK sales outfit GFM has sold animation Blazing Samurai to eastern Europe (Freeman Distribution), Turkey (Medyavizyon), South Africa (Ster Kinekor), Middle East (ECS), Singapore (Shaw Renters), Israel (Globusmax), Portugal (Outsider), Greece (Odeon) and former Yugoslavia (VTI).
Bleibtreu spies chef role By Martin Blaney
Germany’s Moritz Bleibtreu has been cast as a “culinary James Bond” in a film version of Tom Hillenbrand’s bestseller Devil’s Fruit (Teufelsfrucht). The $6.8m feature is a co-production between Luxembourg’s Iris Productions, France’s Rezo Productions and Germany’s Iris Productions Deutschland (IPD). Bleibtreu, whose credits include Run Lola Run, World War Z and Munich, will play Luxem-
bourg chef and amateur sleuth Xavier Kieffer. Iris Group chief Nicolas Steil will direct. “This will be a real European crime story in various languages and with actors coming from different parts of Europe,” IPD’s Andreas Eicher told Screen. “It has all the makings of a franchise as Hillenbrand’s books are set in different European countries.” Steil — who will shoot the film at locations in Luxembourg, France and Germany this autumn
Breathe team in tune again The partners behind Berlinale title Breathe Umphefumlo will reunite on a slate of films starting with John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. Isango Ensemble, Advantage Entertainment and the UK’s Film & Music Entertainment will
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transport Gay’s 1728 satire to 1950s Cape Town. Mark DornfordMay again directs. Fortissimo Films is selling Breathe Umphefumlo, which starts screening tomorrow. Wendy Mitchell
— has already optioned Hillenbrand’s other three mystery novels. IPD has also committed to coproduce Amikam Kovner and Assaf Snir’s Echoes with Israel’s Handsome Serge Productions and France’s Avenue B Productions in Israel this autumn. The drama is about a man who attempts to discover the identity of his late wife’s lover. French distribution for the $1.4m film is already in place with Rezo Films.
Strand sees Stars in US By Andreas Wiseman
Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights to Elijah Wood drama Set Fire To The Stars from UK sales outfit The Works. Wood stars in the debut from director Andy Goddard about an aspiring poet who embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hero, Dylan Thomas (Celyn Jones). The Works’ head of sales Clare Crean and Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing negotiated the deal. Strand plans a spring 2015 release.
Leader snares further cast By Andreas Wiseman
Bérénice Bejo, Robert Pattinson and Stacy Martin have been joined by Yolande Moreau, Sophie Curtis and Game Of Thrones’ Liam Cunningham on Brady Corbet’s directorial feature debut, The Childhood Of A Leader.
The film, shooting in Hungary, charts the birth of a ‘would-be fascist’ in the early 20th century. Protagonist reps international sales, WME handles North America. Unanimous Entertainment and Mact Films produce in association with FilmTeam in Hungary.
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Dutch-German co-pro boost By Geoffrey Macnab
The long-awaited Dutch-German co-production treaty is to be ratified at the Berlinale today. Dutch minister for education, culture and science Jet Bussemaker, and German ministers Monika Grütters and Andreas Görgen will sign the treaty. The German Federal Film Board (FFA) and Netherlands Film Fund (NFF) prepared the treaty, which will boost co-production and the bilateral development of the film industry and film culture in both countries. FFA executive managing director Peter Dinges told Screen: “It is our goal to stimulate the intercultural awareness in film-making between our two countries. A Dutch-German children’s films co-development fund has also been backed by NFF with German partner Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM).
Menahem, Lepoutre make their next move By Melanie Goodfellow
Film industry veterans Pierre Menahem and Juliette Lepoutre have launched Paris-based coproduction-focused company Still Moving. Menahem said the firm would “develop international co-productions, and eventually set up an international sales and distribu-
tion department, with a first slate of acquisitions to be announced in the coming months”. The pair, who previously collaborated at MPM Film in Paris, are in Berlin with two features that are in pre-production. The first is Scarred Hearts by Romania’s Radu Jude, which will be the director’s next production
after Berlinale Competition title Aferim!. Still Moving has also boarded Pendular by Brazil’s Julia Murat. Tatiana Leite of Rio de Janeirobased Bubbles Project is producing the film, which is supported by the Brazilian Cinema Agency’s audiovisual sector fund and the Ibermedia and Hubert Bals funds. Jens Koch
EFP’s SHOOTING stars 2015 Jannis Niewöhner Germany What got you into acting? My father is a theatre actor and when I was about 11 years old, an agency from Cologne asked if there were any kids who wanted to do a casting. I was taken in by the agency and completed my first movie for the cinema at the age of 12.
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Constantin nabs Extortion By Jeremy Kay
Los Angeles-based 13 Films has cut a deal with Constantin for German-speaking rights in all media to action thriller Extortion starring Frank Grillo and Ving Rhames. Phil Volken is to shoot Extortion, his feature directorial debut, this month in Puerto Rico. He produces with Alina Shraybman. 13 Films handles worldwide sales.
Tooken takes a pop at Taken By Jeremy Kay
What was your big break? Playing Gideon De Villiers in the Ruby Red trilogy. What are you working on next? We are shooting Emerald Green, the third part of the trilogy, this year. Sarah Cooper
Highland Film Group is talking up a new sales title at EFM, action spoof Tooken starring Donnie Wahlberg, Jenny McCarthy and Lukas Haas. John Asher directs the Elevative Entertainment project, which pokes fun at the Taken films. Paradigm represents US rights.
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BERLIN BRIEFS Spotlight finds the Beat Spotlight Pictures has picked up world sales rights to Generation 14plus selection The Beat Beneath My Feet starring Luke Perry and Nicholas Galitzine. Spotlight is also handling sales on The Devil You Know starring Rosamund Pike and Jennifer Lawrence, and Chloe And Theo with Dakota Johnson.
DDI swims with Dolphin Double Dutch International has acquired worldwide rights for Adam Mars’ family animation Daniel Dolphin And The Horn Of The Sea Dragon.
Free Stone takes Girl Japan’s Free Stone Productions has picked up international rights to Girl Of The Sea, directed by 19-year-old Ryugo Nakamura. The film revolves around the US military base on Okinawa.
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Bustamante keeps it in family BY ANDREAS WISEMAN
Ixcanul (Ixcanul Volcano) director Jayro Bustamante is plotting a return to Guatemala. The Paris-based film-maker, who makes his directorial debut with the drama playing here in Competition, told Screen: “Next I want to make a film about the relationship between a father and son, rather than a mother and daughter, as in Ixcanul. “It will be a more modern,
comfortable Guatemala than that of Ixcanul but will also reveal underlying chaos.” The director intends to reunite with a number of his Ixcanul collaborators on the as-yet-untitled project, including producer Pilar Peredo and cinematographer Luis Armando Arteaga. Barcelona-based Film Factory is handling sales on Ixcanul, which charts the life of a 17-yearold Mayan woman who lives on
the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala but dreams of a life elsewhere. The 37-year-old director, who grew up in Guatemala, explained his motivation for making the film: “I wanted to shed light on the experience of Indian women who live in a country where the majority is discriminated against. Usually it’s the minority that is discriminated against.” » See ScreenDaily.com for more Vytenis Krisciunas
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Former Intandem and Manifest execs Andrew Brown and Billy Hurman have formed UK sales entity 4SquareFilms. The firm is allied with Bart Ruspoli and Freddie Hutton-Mills’ Next Level Films and Atomic Level Films under the Merlin Pictures Group umbrella. 4SquareFilms’ first titles include Electricity starring Agyness Deyn.
Pluto picks up The Culpable BY MARTIN BLANEY
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German sales company Pluto Film has made its EFM first acquisition, Gerd Schneider’s drama The Culpable (Verfehlung). The film, which premiered at last month’s Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival, was produced by AV Medien Penrose and Penrose Film.
What are you working on next? I have the premiere of a play by Dostoyevsky and it’s my final year of acting studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
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Pure Flix kicks off sales at EFM on Do You Believe?, its follow-up to the faith-based US box-office hit God’s Not Dead. Michael Scott, David AR White, Russell Wolfe and Elizabeth Travis produced Do You Believe? and Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon wrote the screenplay. It opens in the US via Pure Flix on March 20 on more than 1,000 screens. Sales chief Ron Gell screens Hope Bridge and Dancer And The Dame, which sold in Turkey (Sinema TV), Australia (Crossroads) and Germany (MoreFilms), and The Black Rider, which went to Sinema TV in Turkey. God’s Not Dead sold to Benelux (BBI), Portugal (Films4You), Poland (Revolution Releasing) and Germany (MoreFilms), while Camp Harlow has gone to Poland (Life Media), Australia (Crossroads) and Germany (KSM).
Barry Gordon’s XLrator Media continues to ramp up its global distribution ambitions with a production deal on three action thrillers from RNR Entertainment. XLrator will co-produce the slate, release in the US and oversee international distribution. Gordon is one of a small coterie of savvy players in US distribution who want to build a sustainable
model for films and avoid ‘statement buys’ that are liable to run out of steam after the first window. The move comes hot on the heels of XLrator’s similar pact for sci-fi thrillers with New Artists Alliance. Michael Hurst’s timetravel story Paradox kicks off the RNR slate and starts shooting in spring for a 2016 release. XLrator previously released Ironclad and Ironclad: Battle For
Blood in North America, which were produced by Rick Benattar, who runs RNR with Nigel Thomas and Robert Menzies. “We see this as an opportunity to expand our relationship with our existing partners like Netflix and Amazon and with some companies in key territories,” he said. “We have an informal conversation about creating a global releasing network.”
Landmine drama Kajaki: The True Story received its international launch at EFM with screenings at the market and British Embassy, which were attended by guests including military dignitaries. There was also a public screening hosted by Indiegogo. Metro International is handling international sales of the film, directed by Paul Katis. Pictured (from left) are guests: colonel Jose Abracos, Picard, colonel Richard Wakefield, Katis, colonel Zlatko Vehovar, executive producer Gareth Ellis-Unwin, colonel Wiebe Baron, colonel Gregory J Broecker and lieutenant colonel Uwe Brettschneider.
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FilmSharks picks a Pope By Jeremy Kay
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks is showing first footage from Francis: Pray For Me, the first officially endorsed biopic of Pope Francis, which has sold to Warsaw Movie Distribution in Poland. The $6m Spanish-language film is shooting between Buenos Aires, Madrid and Rome and charts the early career of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Beda Docampo Feijoo directs from his adapted screenplay based on Elisabetta Pique’s official biography. Dario Grandinetti stars as the Argentina-born pontiff. Disney will release in Latin America and Spain. Pablo Bossi produces.
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45 Years Reviewed by Mark Adams A gently devastating snapshot of a loving yet subtly fractured relationship in its twilight years, Andrew Haigh’s wonderfully performed 45 Years is an elegant and restrained film that dwells on how an apparently happy union can be tormented by an echo from the past. Delicate, thoughtful and moving, the film cements Haigh’s reputation as one of the leading lights of UK cinema, with him drawing out awardsworthy performances from his veteran leads, Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. The film, which screened in Competition here and is set for release in the UK in the summer, is the follow-up to Haigh’s critically acclaimed Weekend (2011). Adapted from David Constantine’s short story In Another Country, 45 Years depicts the relationship between a couple in the few days before a party for their 45th wedding anniversary. Where Weekend was about passion and the prospect of new love, 45 Years focuses on how a bond of decades can still be threatened by irrational worries, jealousies and emotional landmines, despite best intentions all round. The notion of memories — and how photo-
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COMPETITION UK. 2015. 93mins Director-screenplay Andrew Haigh Production companies The Bureau, Film4, BFI, Creative England International sales The Match Factory, www. the-match-factory.com Producer Tristan Goligher Executive producers Christopher Collins, Lizzie Francke, Sam Lavender, Tessa Ross, Richard Holmes, Louisa Dent, Philip Knatchbull Cinematography Lol Crawley Editor Jonathan Alberts Production designer Sarah Finlay Main cast Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay
graphs and imagery capture them — runs through 45 Years as this couple struggle to cling on to what held them together. Beautifully observed, gently amusing and often performed with emphasis on the small things in life rather than any major dramatic incident, its focus on retrospective jealousy is an unusual and intriguing one… and offers an absorbing story that comes up with some profound truths. Retired and living a pleasant existence, Kate (Rampling) and Geoff (Courtenay) share an easy bond. He reads, listens to the radio and always promises to finally fix their broken toilet, while she is busy taking their dog for a walk, pottering around the local town and preparing for their upcoming festivities. They have the easy verbal shorthand of a couple who know each other very well, but a letter from Switzerland throws an emotional bomb into their relationship. He receives a note that is a reminder of life before Kate. Authorities have finally found the body of Katya, his previous girlfriend, who died in a walking accident in Switzerland 50 years ago. There is no hint of foul play, but the contained and restrained Kate finds it increasingly difficult to deal with Geoff ’s emotional remembrances of Katya and his feelings for her (as she
puts it, Geoff “gets over-passionate about things”) despite the fact it all happened before they met. Kate’s initial response is measured (“I can hardly be cross with something that happened before we existed, can I?”) but she starts to fixate on slight changes in Geoff ’s behaviour; heads into their loft to look at slides of Katya; worries about what he will say in his speech at their party; and allows a vulnerability to take over. The story is set over a week and culminates at the party, where, with their friends gathered around them, Kate still has the look of a woman haunted by doubt and alone in her worries. Shot with an easy grace and a production design that reflects perfectly the lives of this ordinary English couple, the film scores well in all production aspects. A strand running through the story about them choosing the music for their party — they favour the likes of ‘Young Girl’; ‘Happy Together’ and ‘I Only Want To Be With You’ — subtly balances the romantic intentions of youth with the realities of a relationship that changes and is tested over the years.
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Queen Of The Desert Reviewed by Mark Adams
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A lush and languid romp through the deserts of the Middle East, Werner Herzog’s elegantly mounted and at times deliriously beautiful film is part The English Patient-style drama (for its mesmeric locations and striking design) and part slushy Mills & Boon romantic tale (for its plodding melodrama and often dull dialogue). While enjoyable in parts, its episodic pacing lets down the real-life story of a bold and remarkable woman. The strong cast — Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson and Damian Lewis — go through the motions with stoical determination to look the period part, and while the core story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who feels at her happiest deep in the desert is an appealing one, Queen Of The Desert is weighed down by her love for two different men and an attempt to inject drama in the form of dispute for control of the region. As might be expected, Herzog comes up with some striking footage and enthralling visual sequences — though some of his camera movements feel clumsy — but this awfully big adventure lacks real dramatic drive and heads into bloated territory. Kidman gets to polish off her best English accent as the adventurous Gertrude Bell, brought up in a life of privilege but bored with the rituals of upper-class society. Her father arranges for her to stay at the British embassy in Tehran, where she soon falls for the limp charms of Henry Cadogan (a rather bland Franco, with a so-so English accent). But their romance is not meant to be, and before long she is roaming the desert, looking for peace under the open skies. Her journeys bring her into contact with a young archaeologist named TE Lawrence (Pattinson), before he finds fame as Lawrence of Arabia, and she drifts into a romantic relationship with major Charles DoughtyWylie (Lewis). Kidman is perhaps the wrong age now to play the strident younger Florence, but comes into her own as the slightly older woman at ease in the desert. She holds the film together but while her performance is impressive, it is a little one-note at times.
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US. 2015. 127mins Director/screenplay Werner Herzog Production companies Palmyra Films, Benaroya Pictures International sales Sierra/Affinity, info@sierra-infinity.com Producers Nick Raslan, Michael Benaroya, Cassian Elwes Cinematography Peter Zeitlinger Editor Joe Bini Production designer Ulrich Bergfelder Music Klaus Badelt Main cast Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, Robert Pattinson, Jenny Agutter, Holly Earl, Christopher Fulford, Jay Abdo
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On paper, it looks like yet another Jafar Panahi exercise, outsmarting once again the Iranian authorities who have forbidden him from making films for the next 20 years. On screen, however, this is a delightful surprise, and though it is even more minimalistic than his last two illegal exports, This Is Not A film and Closed Curtain, it is also more mature, better calibrated and — at risk of annoying arthouse patrons who often hate this term — more entertaining than the other two. Following in the footsteps of Ten by Abbas Kiarostami, Panahi’s film is confined to a yellow cab travelling through Tehran, with two revolving digital cameras fixed on the dashboard, pointed most of the time inside the car but occasionally turned around to the street. The film is built around Panahi, who drives the cab himself, mostly listening to his passengers as he crosses the city from one end to the other. In the process he offers a priceless cinematic lesson, proving once again that if you know what you want and how to express it, the whole mystical paraphernalia of film-making and its inflated budgets is not really necessary. In a series of apparently unrelated vignettes, Panahi’s customers argue about anything from the ease of dispensing capital punishment in Iran to the flourishing black market in illegal videos. Naked greed is revealed at one point and deep human compassion at another, while a little girl is introduced as the driver’s niece and shamelessly steals her scenes with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. More than ever before, Panahi’s composite picture of contemporary Iranian reality puts on a satirical shape, but the melancholy smile on the driver/director’s face is more eloquent than any piece of dialogue. How this film was made, cut and put together; how it was sneaked out of Iran; and why the regime there is not blowing a fuse are questions that remain to be answered. The film, however, stands on its own merits. And if you are wondering about the missing credits, Panahi prefers not to quote any other names beside his own. No need to explain why.
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Prince Reviewed by Jonathan Romney Teenage traumas in the hood, with gangstas hovering, inaccessible love objects to be won and the odd pair of luxury sneakers — it all adds up to an increasingly familiar format in European urban realism. But we are not used to seeing it in a Dutch context, nor with the kind of skewed comic approach of Prince (Prins), an enjoyably idiosyncratic debut feature from Sam de Jong. Carrying the production stamp of modish street-culture brand VICE, Prince recounts the coming-of-age travails of a Dutch-Moroccan teenager. That the setting is not the toughest estate but a neat, seemingly bland part of Amsterdam contributes to the charm. Ultimately not quite distinctive enough for serious export prospects, Prince should find appreciative audiences at festivals, especially with a youth constituency, after opening Berlin’s Generation 14plus strand. The young hero is Ayoub (Elasri), son of separated parents — a Dutch mother (Elsie de Brauw) and a Moroccan dad (Chaib Massaoudi) — seriously on the skids. Hanging out with his friends and avoiding his older tormenters, Ayoub dreams of Laura (Sigrid ten Napel), a blonde teen goddess who seems to glide in slow motion. Gauche Ayoub stands little chance of impressing her — unless, he thinks, he can get in with manifestly deranged
GENERATION 14PLUS Neth. 2015. 78mins Director/screenplay Sam de Jong Production companies Halal Pictures, VICE Media International sales Mongrel International, charlotte@mongrelmedia. com Producers Gijs Kerbosch, Roel Oude Nijhuis, Gijs Determeijer Cinematography Paul Ozgur Editor Mieneke Kramer Production designer Sanne Schat Music Palmbomen Main cast Ayoub Elasri, Jorik Scholten, Achraf Meziani, Oussama Addi, Elsie de Brauw, Chaib Massaoudi, Freddy Tratlehner, Sigrid ten Napel
local dealer Kalpa (the larger-than-life rapper Freddy Tratlehner). At first, associating with Kalpa gets Ayoub what he wants — notably a pair of fancy trainers — but predictably, that is where his troubles begin. Prince benefits from an appealing stylistic disconnect, as it moves from a base note of detached minimalism to a more intense, almost surreal register, although this eclecticism finally dilutes the film’s coherence. In the opening sequences, de Jong establishes a singular tone, with static compositions, symmetrical framing and heightened rhythmic editing that suggest a cinematic cartoon strip, with touches of Aki Kaurismaki’s deadpan lugubriousness and Napoleon Dynamite’s absurdism. Later,
though, de Jong moves into a more expressionistic mode — for example, with a conventionally dynamic sequence of a gang beating. Elsewhere the film offers a gently dreamlike touch — when Ayoub acquires the crown that makes him the titular ‘prince’ — and even outright Lynchian weirdness for the scenes with Kalpa, who presides over his own private meat freezer. The film is strongest when it lets its cast, notably the younger non-professional members, to imprint their not-so ingratiating personalities on the action. Elasri in particular is a natural, with Ayoub believably turning from twerp to dysfunctional creep before excavating his inner nice guy.
episode is never mentioned, neither is the fateful Last Supper, while the Crucifixion takes place off screen. But then, Ameur-Zaimeche is not interested in an actual plot, he seems to be keener on reviving incidents in their primitive settings. When these are put together they show imperialist conquerors crushing idealist natives to prevent further risk to the security of the occupiers. Not that the religious establishment is treated any better. Any deviation from the holy traditions is considered an attempt against its authority, any cunning ploy or unscrupulous device should be used to put down such heresy. And in doing so, these so-called Men of God are willingly lending a hand to the same imperialists they claim to abhor. Shot in spectacular desert landscapes (remarkably similar to the Judean Desert near Jerusalem but deprived of any sets that might give an idea of the historical city) with Biblical robes and togas, mostly tattered when not adorning the Roman conquerors, the script is bound to raise objections for the liberal treatment of its characters and of its subject, all of them freely manipulated for the benefit of Ameur-Zaimeche’s dialectic approach. Without even one single charismatic person-
ality around, no character stands out in their own right and the whole affair remains stuck on a theoretical level. No wonder the most significant scene is the trial of Jesus Christ (Nabil Djedouani), at the end of which he is sent to his death in the best interests of the Roman Empire.
Story Of Judas Reviewed by Dan Fainaru Religion is put on hold for a while in this historical pageant, and the story of the Crucifixion becomes a political parable about Jesus being sent to the cross not because of his teachings and miracles, but for being capable of fomenting an eventual rebellion that might disturb the Roman occupation of Judea. It’s not a terribly original approach, but the subject mater is timely. Shot in what purports to be a replica of the places that served as the background to the actual events, and spinning out some of the familiar tales, without attempting to tell a fully coherent tale, this dry, minimalist version of the New Testament may well travel to some arthouses in search of esoteric items, but with Arte France’s involvement in the production, it is sure to get TV exposure. Though titled Story Of Judas (Histoire De Judas), the character that has become the eternally infamous icon of betrayal never really occupies centre stage here and when he does (played by director Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche himself ) he has nothing to reproach himself over. He is a devoted, faithful follower of the Rabbi from Nazareth, a sort of composite picture of all his apostles. The 30 pieces of silver
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FORUM Fr. 2014. 99mins Director/screenplay/ production designer Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche International sales Sarrazink Productions, sarrazinkproductions@ yahoo.fr Production companies Sarrazink Productions, Arte France Producers Rabah AmeurZaimeche, Rémi Burah Cinematography Irina Lubtchansky Editor Grégoire Pontecaille Music Rodolphe Burger Main cast Nabil Djedouani, Mohamed Aroussi, Rabah AmeurZaimeche, Marie Loustalot, Patricia Malvoisin, Eliott Khayat
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The Fire Reviewed by Lee Marshall
Love & Mercy Reviewed by Allan Hunter A more conventional biography of Brian Wilson would attempt to shape the vast arc of his troubled life into a pleasing mixture of highs and lows, tears and triumphs. Love & Mercy takes a different, more impressionistic approach, focusing and contrasting two key periods from his life: the rich success and optimism of the Beach Boys’ best years in the 1960s, then later when an unstrung Wilson was far from the limelight and at the mercy of a domineering, unscrupulous therapist. The result lacks some of the fine detail and context one might have liked but still emerges as a weighty, fitting salute to Wilson’s restless creativity and a touching celebration of the love that would prove to be his salvation. Lingering affection for the Beach Boys’ joyous soundtrack to the sun-kissed promise of a 1960s summer, respect for Wilson’s journey to hell and back and impressive performances from Paul Dano and John Cusack should all help to generate sufficient audience interest for a solid theatrical life, though Love & Mercy lacks the more obvious crowdpleasing elements and carefully packaged emotions of a Ray or a Walk The Line. The one thing Love & Mercy nails is the importance of the music and numerous scenes testify to Wilson’s painstaking devotion to creating the most original and multilayered pop music the world had ever heard. In the more contemporary scenes, a middle-aged, medicated Wilson (Cusack) meets car saleswoman Melinda (Elizabeth Banks) and starts a romance that places him on a collision course with Eugene Landy, the controversial therapist who has been appointed Wilson’s legal guardian and taken control of the musician’s life. Paul Giamatti’s sinister turn as this blustering, manipulative figure makes Landy one of the villains of the film along with Wilson’s callous father who seems determined to crush the spirit in both the boy and the man. Wilson quietly reveals he has almost no hearing in one ear because of the beatings he received as a child. A doughy Dano catches the look and spirit of Wilson with his wide-eyed stare, sudden passions and relentless drive to give expression to the voices in his head. He also sings beautifully. Cusack doesn’t look like the older Wilson but does a fine job with a character defined by his secret smiles, broken sentences and sweaty paranoia.
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BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA US. 2014. 120mins Director Bill Pohlad Production companies River Road Entertainment, Battle Mountain Films, John Wells Productions International sales Lionsgate, www.lionsgate. com Producers Bill Pohlad, Claire Rudnick Polstein, John Wells Executive producers Ann Ruark, Jim Lefkowitz, Oren Moverman Screenplay Oren Moverman, Michael Alan Lerner Cinematography Robert Yeoman Editor Dino Jonsäter Production designer Keith Cunningham Music Atticus Ross Main cast John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti
The postponement of a young couple’s appointment to sign the contract on a new apartment acts as a catalyst for catastrophe in Argentinian director Juan Schnitman’s claustrophobic relationship drama. The handheld camera and a preference for long, roving takes pile a deal of responsibility on the shoulders of leads Pilar Gamboa and Juan Barberini, but they acquit themselves well in two intense performances. Co-produced by Diego Dubcovsky’s BD Cine — something of an Argentinian indie stamp of approval — The Fire (El Incendio) has the dramatic bone structure to appeal to arthouse audiences, though the could-be-anywhere urban setting and difficulty in selling a story about an ordinary couple going through a rough patch will likely confine it to home territory, festivals and some limited play in Latin American speciality venues and seasons. Opening nicely with what seems an overhead still of Lucia (Gamboa) and Marcelo (Barberini) sprawled in bed — until the still comes to life — The Fire wastes little time sketching in the passionate, petulant relationship between the young live-in couple before waltzing us through their visit to the bank to withdraw a stack of money. They need it to pay the balance on the flat into which they are about to move, just five blocks from their current home; but as they drive to the appointment, the notary rings to tell the nervous duo the buyer wants to reschedule for the same time the next day. Around the crisp wads of pesos the couple must hold reluctantly, tensions flare and break out into rows. Marcelo resents the fact Lucia’s father is helping them to buy the new place; Lucia resents his resentment. She works in a restaurant, where the macho kitchen camaraderie has a nasty edge; he is a schoolteacher, threatened by the parents of a violent pupil. The film is so laconically edited and sparing with explanations that it takes a while to get the clever game it is playing with the spaces people live in and pigeonhole each other: from the couple’s boxy apartment, the bank vault and their cramped car, to the boxes that are ready for the removal men, or the shoeboxes that are used to hide the cash and, unexpectedly, a gun.
PANORAMA Arg. 2015. 95mins Director Juan Schnitman Production companies Pasto Cine, BD Cine International sales FiGa Films, contact@ figafilms.com Producers Barbara Francisco, Fernando Brom Co-producer Diego Dubcovsky Screenplay Agustina Liendo Cinematography Soledad Rodriguez Editor Andres Pepe Estrada Production designer Julieta Dolinsky Main cast Pilar Gamboa, Juan Barberini
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Black Mountain Island Dir Ha Won-jun Stray Dogs director Ha Won-jun’s latest project, Black Mountain Island (working title), is a film noir starring veteran actor Jung Doo-hong, whose action choreography can be seen in films such as RED 2 and Arahan, in which he co-stars. In post-production, the film centres around a homicide detective seeking revenge who heads to Black Mountain Island to find a criminal organisation. Ryu Deokhwan (Nobody’s Daughter Haewon) and Seo Eun-A (The Youth) also star.
End Of Winter
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Ode To My Father
The Classified File
Revivre
Dir Kwak Kyung-taek
Buzz titles Korea From stories of a real-life kidnapping to foot and mouth disease, Jean Noh rounds up some the hottest Korean projects here in Berlin
Based on an actual kidnap investigation, The Classified File is directed by Kwak Kyung-taek (Friend: The Great Legacy, Typhoon). Starring Kim Yun-seok (Haemoo, The Yellow Sea) and Yoo Hae-jin (King And The Clown), it follows a detective and a fortune teller in 1970s Busan searching for a missing girl. Contact Showbox/Mediaplex sales@showbox.co.kr
A Matter Of Interpretation Dir Lee Kwang-kuk
FESTIVAL FILMS
Ode To My Father
An Omnivorous Family’s Dilemma
Dir JK Youn Panorama Special
Dir Hwang Yun Culinary Cinema
Haeundae director JK Youn’s latest epic has clocked up more than 12.7 million admissions in South Korea. Ode To My Father stars Hwang Jung-min (New World) and Kim Yun-jin (Harmony) and follows a refugee boy from the time his family is split up in the chaos of the Korean War, through 60 years of history and personal sacrifices. It makes its European premiere at the Berlinale.
Award-winning documentary film-maker Hwang Yun (Farewell) investigates the impact of foot-and-mouth disease in Korea, which brought about the mass slaughter of livestock. As she spends time with the pigs at a local farm, she finds herself increasingly loathe to put pork on the table, creating a dilemma for her omnivorous family.
Contact CJ Entertainment yoonheec@cj.net
End Of Winter Dir Kim Dae-hwan Forum Kim Dae-hwan’s directorial debut won the New Currents Award at Busan last October and is making its international premiere at the Berlinale. Moon Chang-gil stars as a small-town teacher who announces to his sons and daughter-in-law — who are in town for his retirement party — that he plans to divorce his wife. When a blizzard strikes, they are all stranded at his house, dealing with the aftermath of this revelation. The film is produced by Kim Dong-ho as a project at Dankook University’s Graduate School of Cinematic Contents with Lotte Entertainment backing. Contact Lotte Entertainment r333@lotte.net
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Twenty
Revivre
Dir Lee Byeong-heon
Dir Im Kwon-taek Critics’ Week Master director Im Kwon-taek’s 102nd film stars Ahn Sung-ki (Unbowed), Kim Gyu-ri (Poongsan) and Kim Hojung (The Peter Pan Formula). Revivre portrays a man mourning the loss of his wife following her long battle with cancer, yet finds himself attracted to a young female co-worker. Screening here in the Critics’ Week programme, the film played at Venice, Toronto and Busan. Contact Finecut cineinfo@finecut. co.kr
The sophomore film from Lee Kwang-kuk (Tiger competitor Romance Joe), A Matter Of Interpretation made its international premiere at Rotterdam last month, following its world premiere at Busan. Starring Shin Dong-mi (A Hard Day) as an actress who is fed up playing to empty theatres and Yu Jun-sang (In Another Country) as an oddball detective who has a talent for interpreting dreams, this storywithin-a-story plays with dreams and reality.
A Matter Of Interpretation
Directed by Lee Byeong-heon, who scripted Tazza — The Hidden Card and directed Cheer Up Mr. Lee, Twenty (working title) features three men straight out of high school grappling with work, love and what to do with their lives. It stars popular actors Kim Woo-bin (Friend: The Great Legacy), Lee Jun-ho (Cold Eyes) and Kang Ha-neul (Mourning Grave). Now in post-production, the film is set for a local release in March. Contact Contents Panda s chris.cha@its-new.co.kr ■
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INTERVIEW Woody KIM
What’s NEW Woody Kim, CEO of NEW, talks to Jean Noh about the company’s track record of local hits and its multi-media ambitions with fresh investment
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n the past few years, independent investor-distributor Next Entertainment World (NEW) has been giving conglomerate-affiliated majors in South Korea such as CJ and Lotte Entertainment a run for their money. Established in 2008, NEW has specialised in mid-range budget choices of projects sometimes passed over by other companies. It has shaped these projects into hits such as 2013’s top film Miracle In Cell No. 7, which saw 12.7 million admissions locally; and The Attorney, which attracted 11.3 million admissions, according to the Korean Film Council. In October 2014, NEW got a $53m investment from China’s Huace Film & TV and in December, the company had a successful IPO. With a mergers and acquisitions background started at Samsung, CEO Woody Kim started working at Orion Group (parent company to Showbox/ Mediaplex) in 1996, where he helped acquire and develop cable network OCN and multiplex chain Megabox Cineplex. He was made executive director at Megabox in 1999. “It was a joint venture with Loews, which was owned by Sony. I learned everything to do with running a theatre, starting with popping the popcorn. Back then, Korea only had the Gangbyeon CGV [in terms of multiplexes]. When we first opened the COEX Megabox in 2000, it was the largest multiplex in Asia, with 16 screens and 4,500 seats,” he says. After four years, Kim was appointed CEO of investor-distributor Showbox/ Mediaplex, where he oversaw top boxoffice hits such as Taegukgi, Welcome To Dongmakgol and D-War. By this time, he had been bitten by the film industry bug. “I realised working in the mediarelated field is my lifelong calling,” he says. “Media, including films, can convey a positive and happy message to society,” he adds. So when his conglomerate bosses asked him to leave the film sector and handle games, he declined. “I had to make a choice. I left the company and set up one of my own. Thankfully, a few employees left with me and we’ve been able to grow a lot in six years,” he says. Unlike rivals such as CJ, Lotte or Showbox (which sold the Megabox chain to Macquarie in 2007, but still remains part of the Orion Group), NEW has no
12.7m Number of admissions for Miracle In Cell No. 7
11.3m Number of admissions for The Attorney
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‘We can concentrate more and talk more with the production companies and that is reflected in the films’ Woody Kim, NEW
parent or sister companies to support it with vertically integrated businesses. The independent famously started out with $1.83m (won2bn) of capital — slightly less than the budget of an average-sized film in Korea. “Once you leave a conglomerate, everything becomes more pressing and urgent. We were more passionate. We had a small pool of human resources and had to put everything into each and every film project we chose,” he says. Acting independently NEW distributes 15 to 20 films a year, of which eight to 10 are Korean productions. “We deal with fewer films, but our success rate is higher. This business is fundamentally about the power of content, and what’s most important is what kind of content you’re going to deal with and how. I’ve always operated on the opinion that films have to be entertaining, that they should be able to communicate with the public,” he says.
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Asked how he chose projects such as criminal thriller New World, which saw a solid 4.6 million admissions in 2012 and was one of the projects that made the local film industry take notice of NEW, he says: “Other places had turned down the script, but we got along very well with the production company. They reflected our concerns about budget and characters in the film, and we took care of the resources and distribution methods they had been concerned about. In this way, we came up with a very new, NEW-ish kind of film that you couldn’t see elsewhere. “There are things conglomerates have trouble approaching culturally, but that we can do freely. We can concentrate more and talk more with the production companies and that is reflected in the films,” he says, addressing a common complaint among Korean film-makers that they could be involved for years with a conglomerate representative who could suddenly be deployed elsewhere in the group. “This is why we have been able to work successfully with more new directors on films like Troubleshooter, Hide And Seek, Hello Ghost and The Attorney,” he says. “Films like Kim Ki-duk’s Pieta, which won Korea’s first Venice Golden Lion, or Yeon Sang-ho’s animations, are also things we can do that bigger companies have trouble with.”
In December 2014, South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission penalised conglomerate exhibitors for favouring their respective affiliates’ films, shifting the country’s film distribution paradigm. “In a way, it’s a good thing that we aren’t vertically integrated. Fair competition has been a big talking point for a while and now that it’s being regulated, the fundamental reasoning that your content has to be good will become even more important,” Kim says. As for NEW’s deal with Huace, he says: “They are number one in Chinese drama production, and we are good in films. It’s a win-win situation where we are sharing a dream.” That dream includes becoming a “small but meaningful media group”. Last year, NEW put on its first musical, December, directed by Jang Jin, and has started producing its first TV drama series. The company is also launching its international and ancillary rights arm, Contents Panda, here at EFM. Titles on the sales slate include Lee Byeong-heon’s story of male friendship Twenty (working title), Kim Haks o o n’s n ava l d ra m a B a tt l e O f Yeon-Pyeong (working title), documentary Roaring Currents: The Road Of The Admiral, Kim Soo-mi starrer Granny’s Got Talent and animated project s Master And Man. n
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Lessons learned pain is not an easy territory to categorise. In many ways, it is a cinema industry of contrasts — as Juan Sarda points out over the following pages, Spanish films have never done better at the local box office, yet producers are struggling more than ever to finance their films. Box office admissions are up, yet piracy is still rampant. There are hit films that are extremely local such as Spanish Affair and El Nino, and then Spanish directors who are telling very international stories in very international ways — in just two examples, Isabel Coixet’s new film, Nobody Wants The Night, set in Greenland, is a SpainFrance-Bulgaria co-production. And JA Bayona is telling a fantastical family story, A Monster Calls, in the English language with US actress Sigourney Weaver and UK Oscar nominee Felicity Jones. So there certainly isn’t only one model of success for Spanish film-makers. As our hot-titles rundown attests, 2015 is set to be a year with diverse and compelling productions. And any time there is a new Pedro Almodovar film, you know all eyes will be on Spain. Wendy Mitchell, contributing editor »
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Spanish Affair
A torrid affair Why are some Spanish producers struggling when home-grown titles are enjoying unprecedented success at the local box office, asks Juan Sarda
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he headlines cheer a record-breaking year for local films at the Spanish box office in 2014: two titles, culture-clash comedy Spanish Affair ($68m), directed by Emilio Martinez Lazaro and written by Borja Cobeaga and Diego San Jose — the biggest local film of all time — and Daniel Monzon’s thriller El Nino ($20m) helped propel Spanish films to a record breaking 25% share of the total market. Also performing well were Torrente 5: Operacion Eurovegas ($12m), Marshland ($7.8m), Mortadelo y Filemon Contra Jimmy El Cachondo ($5.7m) and Argentinian coproduction Wild Tales ($5.2m). But beyond the headlines, the news remains gloomy for Spanish producers. They are struggling to survive a 50% cut in public funding compared with four years ago as the country continues to suffer from a punishing economic recession. Although producers are rightly thrilled by
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Mortadelo y Filemon Contra Jimmy El Cachondo
the 14% increase in cinema admissions and a 3% growth in ticket sales in 2014, they are disappointed the Spanish government has levied a 21% tax on cinema tickets, the highest in Europe. They are weary of cuts that have seen public funding for film fall to $40m annually and lament the collapse of public broadcaster TVE. “We have been lucky in a very difficult situation,” says Lazona Films’ Gonzalo SalazarSimpson, capturing the mood of the sector. His credits include that huge hit Spanish Affair. “We didn’t shoot anything last year and we’re struggling to finance some of our most beloved projects. We will be shooting at least three films in 2015 but it’s not been easy.” Oscar-winning local producer Gerardo Herrero of Tornasol Films believes the government could do more to help producers. “We have been suffering real persecution from the government,” he says. “The situation is hard, not only because of the dramatic
‘The reality is that it’s still very easy to see films online before they are released in cinemas’ Fernando Evole, Yelmo Cines
drop in public funding but the downfall of TVE and ongoing rampant piracy. Unless something changes, producers are facing another year of struggle and the last three have already been terrible.” Piracy estimates in Spain remain among the highest in western Europe despite the introduction of tough anti-piracy legislation that came into effect in early 2014. But many believe illegal downloading of films has become endemic in Spanish culture. “Almost nothing has been done for 10 years,” says Fernando Evole, president of exhibitor Yelmo Cines, which operates more than 400 screens in Spain. “The new law is a good step but we’ve yet to see any results. The reality is it’s still very easy to see films online before they are in cinemas.” The number of films produced fell by 18% in 2014 and the average budget of a local film was $1.7m. This compares with $3.5m five years earlier. “You either do a $10m »
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DIRECTED BY MANUELA MORENO
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CAST NATALIA DE MOLINA, ÚRSULA CORBERÓ, CELIA DE MOLINA COMEDY, 95 min Five girl-friends in their late 20’s spend a crazy bachelorette week-end in Canary Islands.
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CAST YON GONZÁLEZ, JULIÁN LÓPEZ, BLANCA SUÁREZ ROMANTIC COMEDY, 105 min Hugo’s new life turns upside down when his parents and his girlfriend decide to visit him to see how well he is doing in Berlin.
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CAST CHARLOTTE VEGA, IVANA BAQUERO, ÀLEX MARUNY DRAMA, 105 min Valeria is new in town. Together with other students from School Counselor meetings they create “The Misfits Club”, where she’ll find friendship and love.
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Magical Girl
genre film backed by TV with a strong publicity campaign, or a very low-budget production,” says Herrero, of the choice facing Spanish producers. Few in the industry expect major changes or innovations to be introduced this year as the government prepares for the next general election in December. The 18% tax rebate for films shooting in Spain announced in June 2014 was met with resignation from many. Producers were hoping for a more competitive mechanism. Private financing remains an elusive concept as Spanish banks, saddled with a huge amount of national debt, are reluctant to Torrente 5: Operacion Eurovegas engage with the film sector. “It’s a suffocating situation,” says El Nino producer Edmon Roch, of the process of putting together budgets. His Ikiru Films is now preparing a new animation feature, Capture The Flag. Lorena Gonzalez, head of the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts, is acutely aware of the discontent emanating from the sector. Yet she tries to put a positive spin on it. “It is a very difficult moment but it can also be a great opportunity,” she ventures. “It’s a defining turning point that will lead to a better cinema industry.” From a creative point of view, Gonzalez’s optimism is not misplaced, and Spanish cinema is flying high artistically. On the festival circuit, Carlos Vermut’s Magical Girl won the Golden Shell at San Sebastian last September and Isabel Coixet’s Nobody Wants The Night opened the Berlinale on Thursday (see hot titles, page 38). Film-makers are being forced to hone their stories to appeal to local audiences, which means a focus on local stories and commercial success. “We had some opportunities to do the film in English but we really wanted to keep it very local,” says Roch of El Nino. Wild Tales “Even the way characters
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‘We will be shooting at least three films in 2015 but it’s not been easy’ Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson, Lazona Films
talk is specific to Andalusia, where it is set. Both Daniel Monzon and his co-writer Jorge Guerricaechevarria spent time there. When you play the local ace, you have to be as specific as possible to give the film a definite personality that also makes a difference on the international market.” World cinema Of course, Spanish cinema’s key talents want to appeal internationally as well. Spanish writers and directors remain sought after throughout the world and Spanish producers are popular international partners. Some of this year’s highestprofile Spanish titles are shot in the English language featuring
international stars. These include Coixet’s Spain-France Berlin opener that stars Juliette Binoche and is backed by Elle Driver and Wild Bunch; JA Bayona’s A Monster Calls, co-produced by Apaches Entertainment with Focus Features, and starring Sigourney Weaver and Felicity Jones; and Alejandro Amenabar’s Regression, produced by Mod Producciones for FilmNation and The Weinstein Company, and starring Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson. “You can still do Spanish-language films with a maximum budget of $2.9m-$3.4m (¤2.5m-¤3m),” says Andres Santana of Aiete-Ariane Films, which has produced Coixet’s Nobody Wants The Night. “If you want to make a bigger film you need an international star and to make it in English, because it’s hard to find that money in Spain and you need to co-produce. Even then, it was a four-year struggle to make Nobody Wants The Night.” Obliged to invest 5% of their total income in film production, public broadcasters Atresmedia and Mediaset have become the most powerful players in Spanish cinema. Not only are their film production arms Antena 3 and Telecinco, respectively, prolific and well respected, but the marketing spend they bring makes the biggest difference. “The promotion they can give you is priceless,” says Roch, who produced El Nino with Telecinco Cinema. “They bring their expertise to every step of the process.” Ramon Colom, president of the producer’s association FAPAE, adds: “They were very upset about their obligation to invest in cinema, but now they are very happy because it makes for very good business. They are, right now, the biggest promoters of Spanish cins ema and we are thankful for that.” ■
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Battle for the box office Spain has seen a box-office boom in 2014 but admissions were driven by discount ticket schemes. Distributors and exhibitors are looking for new solutions, Juan Sarda reports
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t a time when admissions in many major European territories are on a downward trajectory, Spain saw a 14% increase in cinema-goers in 2014 compared with the previous year, as total admissions reached 87 million. Although far short of 2004’s record 140 million customers, the upswing is a crucial reversal of five years of plunging cinema attendance. Yet Rentrak records that gross ticket sales rose just 3% year on year, to $605m. One initiative — now in its sixth year — that has helped grow admissions but hurts the profit margins is a promotional programme called Fiesta de Cine, which sees Spain’s exhibitors offer heavily reduced ticket prices — at $3.25 (¤2.90), compared to a typical $7.90 (¤6.97). For the first time the scheme ran twice in 2014, once in spring and once in autumn; each event was three days and covered 95% of the exhibition market. In April, 1.8 million cinema-goers took advantage of the offer, followed by 2 million in October. Spain’s producers’ association FAPAE, distributors’ group Fedicine and exhibitors’ organisation FECE jointly back Fiesta de Cin. In 2014, the organisers also touted another discount scheme, Wednesday at the Cinema, again with tickets reduced by at least 50%. “We did some very aggressive campaigns to lower the prices but the margins couldn’t be tighter right now,” says
Fernando Evole, president of Yelmo Cines, which operates 400 screens throughout Spain. The industry’s profits are also being hit by the 21% tax on cinema tickets. “It’s obvious we cannot survive selling tickets at ¤2.90 but it has been good to remind people we exist,” adds Evole. Heavy hitters Local films Spanish Affair ($77m) and El Nino ($20m) both far surpassed expectations. Both were helped by heavy promotion on the channels owned by backer Telecinco’s broadcaster parent Mediaset. Evole says those results skew the overall growth. “A single film, Spanish Affair, has almost saved the year by itself. So it’s too soon to say we are on the recovery path and really nobody knows what’s going to happen in the months ahead,” he warns. US titles including X-Men: Days Of Future Past ($9m), Transformers: Age Of Extinction ($6.5m), 300: Rise Of An Empire ($9.2m) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($7.7m) all underperformed. Industry watchers suggest action-heavy Hollywood blockbusters may have suffered because of the lack of disposable income among young adults — who are either unemployed or in low-paying jobs — not to mention Spain’s infamous piracy problem. Spanish audiences responded well to a handful of international titles including French comedy Serial (Bad) Weddings ($6.5m), UK drama Philomena ($2.2m), Bille
‘Unless there are some serious legal punishments for online piracy, nothing will work’ Josetxo Moreno, Golem
(Above, clockwise from top left) The Wind Rises, Serial (Bad) Weddings, Ida, Night Train To Lisbon, El Nino, Philomena
August’s English-language literary adaptation Night Train To Lisbon ($1m), Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-nominated Ida ($630,000), Italian comedy Viva La Liberta ($600,000) and Hayao Miyazaki’s animated The Wind Rises ($500,000). But overall, distributors are struggling. “2014 was not a good year for us,” says Josetxo Moreno, CEO of arthouse distributor Golem. “And I’m not very optimistic about 2015. The VAT on tickets has been the coup de grace for a sector deeply wounded by piracy and there’s no solution in sight. Unless there are some serious legal punishments for online piracy, nothing will work. The VoD market is growing but we are very, very far off its real possibilities.” Spanish distributors are more cautious than ever. “Every film has to be the film,” says Avalon director of distribution Enrique Costa. The company enjoyed success to the tune of $1m with Searching For Sugarman in 2012 but it had underwhelming results in 2014 with the likes of Magical Girl and Long Distance (aka 10.000 km). “Not long ago, people went to the cinema every week and you had to fill this demand. Right now you have to convince them they have to see your film for some very specific, important reason.” New films from some of Spain’s biggest directors are giving distributors cause for optimism in 2015. These include Alejandro Amenabar’s Regression, Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s A Perfect Day, JA Bayona’s A Monster Calls and Fernando Gonzalez Molina’s Palm s Trees In The Snow. ■
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A field of excellence A preview of some of the most-anticipated Spanish productions and co-productions of the year, from big-budget English-language dramas to Pedro Almodovar’s next women-centric tale. By Juan Sarda A Monster Calls
Nobody Wants The Night
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Dir Isabel Coixet
After his international hit The Impossible, Bayona is completing his ‘motherhood trilogy’ with a film about Conor, a 12-yearold boy who tries to deal with his mother’s terminal illness by befriending fantastical beings. “It’s the kind of story the audience is eager to see and Hollywood doesn’t produce any more,” suggests Bayona. Sigourney Weaver and Felicity Jones lead the cast, which is adapted from Patrick Ness’s novel. It is set for release in autumn 2016 by Focus Features in the US and Universal in Spain, and is a co-production between River Road Entertainment, Participant Media, Lionsgate International and Focus Features, with Belen Atienza producing.
Coixet, who has been in Berlinale Competition previously with My Life Without Me and Elegy, landed the coveted opening night slot for this year’s festival. The drama, inspired by true events, is set in 1909 Greenland. Juliette Binoche plays Josephine Peary, whose encounter with a mysterious woman (Rinko Kikuchi) in the icy landscape changes her life forever. Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick says: “Isabel Coixet has created an impressive and perceptive portrait of two women in extreme circumstances.” The film is produced by Andres Santana’s Ariane & Garoe and Jaume Roures of MediaPro in co-production with France and Bulgaria. Wild Bunch France has French rights.
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Palm Trees In The Snow
produced by Nostromo Pictures’ Adrian Guerra and Antena 3. Warner Bros plans a December launch in Spain. Contact Film Factory v.canales@filmfactory.es
Regression Dir Alejandro Amenabar
A Perfect Day
A Perfect Day
Palm Trees in the Snow
Dir Fernando Leon de Aranoa
Dir Fernando Gonzalez Molina
Four-time Goya winner Leon de Aranoa (Mondays In The Sun) has an international cast led by Benicio del Toro, Mélanie Thierry and Tim Robbins for his new film, set in an unspecified zone of conflict. The story follows a group of aid workers who try to remove a corpse that is poisoning a well’s water supply. Leon de Aranoa’s company Reposado and Jaume Roures’ MediaPro produce. WestEnd has already pre-sold to territories including France (TF1/UGC), Germany (X Verleih), Benelux (Wild Bunch), Switzerland (Praesens) and Israel (United King). The film is in post-production, and Universal is releasing in Spain later this year.
Box-office champion Molina (I Want You) reteams with actor Mario Casas for this adaptation of a bestselling Spanish novel. The story of tragic and forbidden love is set during the waning days of colonialism in Africa, as a young woman travels to Guinea. Popular local actress Macarena Garcia (Blancanieves) and Adriana Ugarte co-star. Palm Trees In The Snow is
Regression
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Oscar-winning director Amenabar (The Sea Inside) returns after a six-year absence with Regression, a supernatural thriller based on the director’s original story about a man who is accused of abusing his child. Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson lead the cast of this intense English-language story set in 1990 Minnesota. Long-time Amenabar collaborator Fernando Bovaira of Mod produces along with Telefilm Canada. The Weinstein Company will release in the US in August; Universal has acquired Spanish rights. Contact FilmNation info@filmnation.com
Silencio Dir Pedro Almodovar Almodovar will start shooting his new film, Silencio, in September. The director of Talk To Her and Volver has revealed it will be a drama and a return “to cinema based on women”. “It will really knock audiences out and that’s something that brings me a lot of joy,” the director explained. Casting is now under way with Almodovar revealing he plans to cast actors with who he has never before worked.
The Spanish-language production is being produced by his brother, Agustin. Contact El Deseo eldeseo@eldeseo.es
Toro Dir Kike Maillo Spanish superstars Mario Casas and Luis Tosar lead this action adventure film set on the streets of Malaga, Andalusia. They play brothers pursued by the mafia, who try to escape their life of crime and save one brother’s daughter. The film will combine action sequences with Spanish cultural references. Barcelona-born Maillo won the Goya Award for best new director in 2011 for robot story Eva. Apaches is producing with Atresmedia Cine, Zircocine and Escandalo. Shooting began in Malaga in January and the film is set for an autumn release. Contact Film Factory v.canales@filmfactory.es
Truman Dir Cesc Gay Gay enjoyed international success with A Gun In Each Hand (2012) and he reteams with two of that film’s stars — Argentina’s Ricardo Darin and Spain’s Javier Camara — for Truman. Using the Catalan film-maker’s trademark mix of comedy and drama, Truman tells the story of a middle-aged actor who must confront a terminal illness. He reunites with his childhood friend to find a new home for his dog. Gay said: “It’s a blend of humour and emotion, irony and tenderness.” In post-production, the film is readying for an autumn release. Contact Filmax
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(Guatemala, France) Film Factory Entertainment. 90mins. Dir: Jayro Bustamante. Cast: Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun. Maria, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation and is set to be married to the foreman. When her attempt to elope ends in failure, she sees her own world and culture through new eyes. Competition Press only Berlinale Palast
09:30 Counting
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(US) 111mins. Dir: Jem Cohen. An associative collection of visual impressions.
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(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 who mediates between the Orient and the
British Empire after the First World War. Competition Zoo Palast 1
Taxi
(Iran) 82mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi. A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver, who is the director. Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast
09:55 The Last Summer of the Rich
(Austria) 91mins. Dir: Peter Kern. Cast: Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder. An attractive company executive who has everything and controls even more hires a hit man to bump off her granddad. When she unexpectedly falls in love with his female carer, her happiness seems complete. But things are more complex than they first appear. Panorama Special Press only CineStar 3
10:00 45 Years
(UK) The Match Factory. 93mins. Dir: Andrew Haigh. Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay,
10:00 Snow Pirates
(Turkey) 83mins. Dir: Faruk Hacıhafızoglu. Cast: Taha Tegin Ozdemir, Yakup Ozgur Kurtaal, Omer Ulucs. Every day three boys head off through the snow in search of lumps
of coal. Conditions under the Turkish military dictatorship of the 1980s cannot do them any harm. Their friendship and unswerving optimism are stronger than the cold and oppression. Generation KPlus Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Geraldine James. 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.
Dir: Marco Wilms. The story of young, creative Egyptian artists of the Arab Spring who, through the means of graffiti murals, rebellious music, art, and enlightenment, try to salvage their revolution from going under.
Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele
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Snow Pirates
(Mexico) NDM International Sales. 85mins. Dir: Gabriel Ripstein. Cast: Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer, Noe Hernandez. A young Mexican smuggles weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel. A fateful encounter with an agent from the US law enforcement organisation ATF unites both men in a deadly spiral of violence.
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11:00 Born in ’45
(German Democratic Republic) Deutsche Kinemathek. 94mins. Dir: Jurgen Bottcher. Cast: Monika Hildebrand, Rolf Romer, Paul Eichbaum. Tale of two young people in 1960s East Berlin. Berlinale Classics CinemaxX 8
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Dir: Sergio Castro San Martin. Cast: Catalina Saavedra, Paola Lattus, Daniel Antivilo. Maria, a single mother in her early 40s, needs money and sets off for a job as a harvest worker with a revolver in her pocket as a precaution, leaving her daughter with her friend. Forum CineStar 8
11:30 The Bunker
(Germany) 85mins. Dir: Nikias Chryssos. Cast: Pit Bukowski, Daniel Fripan, Oona von Maydell. Seeking to remove himself from all distractions in order to concentrate on an important piece of work, a student lodges with a strange family who are abusing their son, Klaus, with their curious methods of education. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Press only Zoo Palast Club B
11:45 Atom Heart Mother
(Iran) DreamLab Films. 96mins. Dir: Ali Ahmadzadeh. Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani, Mehrdad Sedighiyan, Mohammad Reza Golzar. On a frivolous drive through the Tehran night, two streetwise friends chat about everyday life, atomic bombs and Pink Floyd. After a minor traffic accident, a charming stranger in a suit comes to their aid. His help will not come cheap. Forum Press only CinemaxX 6
Diary of a Chambermaid
(France, Belgium) Elle Driver. 96mins. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Lea Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Herve Pierre, Melodie Valemberg, Patrick D’Assumcao, Vincent
Lacoste, Josephine Derenne. France, around 1900. Celestine is sent to Normandy as a chambermaid. In the Lanlaire household she puts her sensuality to good use to secure a new life. Competition Press only Berlinale Palast
12:00 A German Youth
(France, Switzerland, Germany) Films Boutique. 93mins. Dir: Jean-Gabriel Periot. 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
Anne of the Indies
(US) 81mins.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget. A gaudy, near feminist adventure tale. Pirate Anne Providence discovers a French prisoner aboard a British ship she has captured and gives him a high-ranking job in her crew. But can she really trust the man she’s fallen in love with?
Sade, Rom Shoshan, Mekikes (Ronen) Amar, Chani Elemlch. 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.
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Chlorine
(US) Sierra/Affinity. 125mins. Dir: Werner Herzog. Cast: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, Robert Pattinson.
(Italy) Rai com. 94mins. Dir: Lamberto Sanfelice. Cast: Sara Serraiocco, Ivan Franek, Giorgio Colangeli, Anatol Sassi, Andrea Vergoni, Chiara Romano, Pina Bellano. Fate has conspired to put 17-year-old Jenny in a hut in the mountains with her little brother and her depressed father. But Jenny balks at this. She wants to go back to the sea to train for the synchronised
Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast
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(Israel) Patra Spanou Film Marketing & Consulting. 90mins. Dir: Efrat Corem. Cast: Eliraz
swimming championships. Generation 14Plus Zoo Palast 1
Taxi
(Iran) 82mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi. Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Tough Love
(Germany) M-Appeal. 89mins. Dir: Rosa von Praunheim. Cast: Hanno Koffler, Andreas Marquardt, Luise Heyer, Marion Erdmann, Katy Karrenbauer, Rudiger Gotze, Ilse Amberger Bendin. Based on karate champion Andreas Marquardt’s autobiography, the film describes a man’s experiences of domestic violence that lead to contempt and self-hatred. A drama about deep wounds and desperate resistance. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
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wandering, they free themselves from their memories in a magical montage of spaces to find new purpose in their ruptured world.
13:00 Confetti Harvest See box, right
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(Germany, France) Arri Worldsales. 100mins. Dir: Tom Sommerlatte. Cast: Sebastian Frasdorf, Godehard Giese, Karin Hanczewski, Alice Pehlivanyan. 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. Their games and plots about power and dominance have unforeseen consequences. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1
13:30 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(US) 83mins. Dir: David Hand. The first feature-length animated film in Technicolor. Retrospective CinemaxX 8
13:35 Angelica
(US) 95mins. Dir: Mitchell Lichtenstein. Cast: Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard. London in 1880. After the birth of her daughter, Constance, a doctor’s wife, is prescribed sexual abstinence. But demons emerge from her hysterical fantasies.
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(Netherlands, Belgium) Mountain Road Entertainment Group. 94mins. Dir: Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab. Cast: Hendrikje Nieuwerf, Suzan Boogaerdt, Steven van Watermeulen, Yannick de Waal, Tom van Kessel, Marie Louise Stheins,
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between Judas and Jesus of Nazareth, who is seen as inciting rebellion by the Roman occupying powers in Palestine.
13:45 Story of Judas
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.
Genio de Groot. Katelijn is one of seven children in a family that abides by the strict rules of a Protestant community. The devil apparently lurks everywhere — in music, books and even fairytales. Katelijn’s parents are stern and she dreams of getting away.
(France) 99mins. Dir: Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche. Cast: Nabil Djedouani, Forum Mohamed Aroussi, CineStar 8 Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche. 14:00 In thoughtful fashion, this historical drama traces Panorama Special Press only After Work the profound friendship CineStar 3 (Germany) 71mins.1 QuarterPageHorizontal75x218mmMarket_Layout 1 30/01/15 12:35 Pagina
(Canada) Doc & Film International. 97mins. Dir: Francois Delisle. Cast: Sebastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Genevieve Bujold, Pierre Curzi, Luc Senay, Didier Lucien, Antoine L’Ecuyer. Irene and Christophe have different ways of coping with the violent death of their child. Like two survivors aimlessly
(Japan) Kadokawa Corporation. 99mins. Dir: Kon Ichikawa. Cast: Raizo Ichikawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ganjiro Nakamura. Following the death of his father, a young man enters the famous Shukaku monastery in Kyoto as a novice. His time there is plagued by suffering and insanity, which finally leads him to a desperate act of violence: he sets the monastery on fire. Forum Special Delphi Filmpalast
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(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. NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema Cubix 7
Murder in Pacot
(France, Haiti, Norway) Doc & Film International. 130mins. Dir: Raoul Peck. Cast: Ayo, Alex
Descas, Thibault Vincon. Haiti after the earthquake of 2010. A middle-class couple has to rent out their damaged villa and are confronted with unfamiliar lifestyles. An intimate drama about social contrasts which poses fundamental questions about responsibility and justice. Panorama Special Cubix 9
Paper Planes
(Australia) Arclight. 97mins. Dir: Robert Connolly. Cast: Ed Oxenbould, Sam Worthington, Ena Imai. When 11-year-old Dylan manages to throw one of his paper planes on an incredible flight he starts dreaming of participating in the world championships. He has high hopes but his friendship with a Japanese girl named Kimi helps him reach for the stars. Generation KPlus CinemaxX 3
Portrait of the Artist
(France) Reel Suspects. 127mins. Dir: Antoine Barraud. Cast: Bertrand Bonello, Jeanne Balibar, Geraldine Pailhas. A famous director named Bertrand is looking for a painting that will represent the artistic motif of the monstrous in his next film. Over the course of his search, uncanny transformations start finding their way into his own life. Forum Press only CinemaxX 6
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SCREENINGS
Que Caramba es la Vida
(Germany) 86mins. Dir: Doris Dorrie. In the macho world of Mariachi music, very few women can hold their own. Just like the songs they play, this film is a snapshot of life, death and the things in between — seen from a bird’s-eye perspective. LOLA at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2
Until the End of the World. Director’s Cut
(Germany, France, Australia) 287mins. Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt, Sam Neill, Jeanne Moreau, Max von Sydow. The ultimate road movie in the director’s cut. Wim Wenders’ complex work, a science fiction film created on four continents in 1990, tells the tale of a breakneck trip around the world as well as the story of a possible future of images. Homage Zeughauskino
Wanja will be able to make it out in the big, wide world. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Press only CinemaxX 5
14:30 Misfits
(Denmark, Sweden) Wide House. 74mins. Dir: Jannik Splidsboel. This film portrays the lives of three teenagers in Tulsa, a town at the heart of America’s Bible Belt, and depicts their attempt to live differently in an environment of religious fundamentalism, to find their gender identities, to love and be loved. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
15:00 45 Years
(UK) The Match Factory. 93mins. Dir: Andrew Haigh. Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James. Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast
(Germany) 87mins. Dir: Carolina Hellsgard. Cast: Anne Ratte-Polle, Nele Trebs, Robert Viktor Minich, Marko Dyrlich, Michael Baderschneider, Mehmet Yilmaz, Jan Bulow, Tim Blochwitz, Hauke Petersen, Joachim Schoenfeld. Wanja is released from a long prison sentence and meets a young stable-girl named Emma. For a moment it appears that
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(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 Detroit-based performance ensemble whose practice is one of ecstatic play, of finding the edge of one’s balance, and the limits of one’s body. Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 1
The Seventh Fire
(US) 78mins. Dir: Jack Pettibone Riccobono. This precisely observed documentary reveals the turmoil of young Native Americans. It follows two Ojibwe men to their reservation where violence and drugs, but also an interest in the culture and language of their ancestors, are steadily on the increase. Berlinale Special Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Victoria
(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.
(Germany) The Match Factory. 140mins. Dir: Sebastian Schipper. Cast: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit. After visiting a club Victoria, a young Spanish woman, meets Sonne and his gang. They quickly get chatting and suddenly they are all caught up in a dodgy deal — a breathless Berlin night takes its course.
Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 1
Competition Press only CinemaxX 7
Face B Wanja
Into the Hinterlands
15:20 Pioneer Heroes
(Russian Federation) Alpha Violet. 116mins. Dir: Natalya Kudryashova. Cast: Natalya Kudryashova, Daria Moroz, Aleksei Mitin. 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 Press only CineStar 3
15:30 Sume — The Sound of a Revolution
(Greenland, Denmark, Norway) DR Sales. 73mins. Dir: Inuk Silis Hoegh. From 1973 to 1979 the rock band Sume’s songs provided the soundtrack for young people in Greenland who were protesting for independence from Denmark. A portrait of a band that is also a film about the struggle against colonialism in northern Europe. Panorama Dokumente Colosseum 1
15:45 You’re Ugly Too
(Ireland) Picture Tree International. 81mins. Dir: Mark Noonan. Cast: Lauren Kinsella, Aidan Gillen, Erika Sainte, George Pistereanu.
Stacey has lost both her parents. Her uncle is released from prison early so he can look after her. He is her only close relative. When Stacey finally discovers why he did time, it comes as a big shock. Generation KPlus Zoo Palast 1
16:00 Ixcanul Volcano
(Guatemala, France) Film Factory Entertainment. 90mins. Dir: Jayro Bustamante. Cast: Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun. Competition Berlinale Palast
The Toll of the Sea
(US) 54mins. Dir: Chester M Franklin. Cast: Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley. A ‘Madame Butterfly’ set in China, the melodrama tells of a young Chinese woman who saves an American from drowning and then falls in love with him. But the man abandons her. A restored version of the first film shot in two-colour Technicolor. Retrospective CinemaxX 8
16:15 We Are Young. We Are Strong.
(Germany) 128mins. Dir: Burhan Qurbani. The film recounts the true events of August 24, 1992 in the East German city of Rostock. Rampage and violence escalate when 3,000 rioters, neo-Nazis
and bystanders set fire to the shelter with 150 Vietnamese refugees inside. LOLA at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2
16:30 Flotel Europa
(Denmark, Serbia) 70mins. Dir: Vladimir Tomic. Edited together from VHS footage shot in the early ’90s 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 Akademie der Kunste (Hanseatenweg)
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(US, Argentina) Film Sales Company. 97mins. Dir: Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia. Cast: Robin Bartlett, Rebecca Dayan, Will Janowitz, Julian Gamble, Roger Robinson. In this modern take on a Greek myth, a young artist named Helen is pregnant, while her older namesake looks after a lifelike replica baby. When a peculiar meteorite hits close to Troy, New York State, it has an increasingly uncanny effect on their lives. Forum Press only CinemaxX 6
Prince
(Netherlands) Mongrel International. 78mins. Dir: Sam de Jong. Cast: Ayoub Elasri, Jorik Scholten, Achraf Meziani.
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 for a father.
17:30 Hotline
(Israel, France) Go2Films Distribution & Marketing. 100mins. Dir: Silvina Landsmann. This documentary shows how a Tel Aviv human rights organisation fights for the rights of African refugees in Israel, even as the mood in the population grows ever more hostile and state policy involves deterring and bullying the “infiltrators”.
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Until I Lose My Breath
(Turkey, Germany) 94mins. Dir: Emine Emel Balcı. Cast: Esme Madra, Rıza Akın, Sema Kecik. Young textile worker Serap places both her hopes and her hard-earned money into her plan to rent a flat with her father. When the untrustworthy truck driver lets her down once again, this quiet heroine is forced to realise she’s all on her own. Forum Delphi Filmpalast
17:00 14+ See box, right
Cobain: Montage of Heck
(US) 132mins. Dir: Brett Morgen. Cast: Kurt Cobain, Wendy O’Connor, Don Cobain. An intimate look at the life and work of the founder of grunge band Nirvana. Brett Morgen, a director renowned for his music documentaries, had access to previously unpublished archive material for his new work. Panorama Dokumente Press only Kino International
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The Wizard of Oz
Festival & Press 17:00 14+
(Russian Federation) 106mins. Dir: Andrey Zaytsev. Cast: Gleb Kalyuzhny, Ulyana Vaskovich, Olga Ozollapinya, Alexey Filimonov, Dmitry Barinov, Daniil Pikula, Elizaveta Makdonskaya. Alex is madly in love
Fassbinder — To Love Without Demands
(Denmark) 109mins. Dir: Christian Braad Thomsen. Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Irm Hermann, Harry Baer, Andrea Schober, Lilo Pempeit, Margit Carstensen. Danish film director and historian Christian Braad Thomsen’s
with Vika. But the beautiful girl is beyond his reach: her tower block is in enemy territory. Alex has to go through a lot before Vika reciprocates his feelings. A turbulent, moving tale of first love set in the suburban high-rises. Generation 14Plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt
illuminating, moving and intimate memories of his friend Rainer W Fassbinder, based on a long conversation held in a hotel room one late afternoon in the 1970s. Panorama Dokumente Cubix 7
The Gulls
(Russian Federation) Antipode Sales &
Distribution. 87mins. Dir: Ella Manzheeva. Cast: Evgeniya Mandzhieva, Sergey Adianov, Evgeny Sangadzhiev, Lyubov Ubushieva. 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. Forum CineStar 8
Out of Nature
(Norway) NDM International Sales. 80mins. Dir: Ole Giæver, Marte Vold. Cast: Ole Giæver, Marte Magnusdotter Solem, Sivert Giæver Solem. Alone in the mountains,
a father in his mid-30s faces up to his neuroses and sexual desires with a savage candour made palatable by disarming humour. Nature becomes the physical and emotional force field of his existence. Panorama Cubix 9
Tell Spring Not to Come This Year
(UK) Sabatour. 87mins. Dir: Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy. A year with a unit in the Afghan National Army tasked with pacifying Helmand Province after the withdrawal of NATO troops — a Sisyphean task. A series of endless conflicts in epic images, told from an Afghan point of view. Panorama Dokumente Press only CineStar 7
(US) 102mins. Dir: Victor Fleming. Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger. A tornado whisks young Dorothy from black-andwhite Kansas “over the rainbow” to a magical land of colours. Retrospective CinemaxX 8
17:45 Out of My Hand
(US, Liberia) 87mins. Dir: Takeshi Fukunaga. Cast: Bishop Blay, Zenobia Taylor, Duke Murphy Dennis. In order to escape harsh working conditions on a rubber plantation in Liberia, Cisco leaves his country to search for a better life in the US. A drama about one’s native land and a new one, about the search for happiness and the long shadows of the past. Panorama CineStar 3
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SCREENINGS
18:00 Taxi
(Iran) 82mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi. Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast
18:30 Love & Mercy
Festival & Press 19:00 Diary of a Chambermaid
(France, Belgium) Elle Driver. 96mins. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Lea Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Herve Pierre, Melodie Valemberg, Patrick D’Assumcao, Vincent Lacoste, Josephine Derenne,
Dominique Reymond. France, around 1900. Celestine is sent to Normandy as a chambermaid. In the Lanlaire household she puts her sensuality to good use to secure a new life. Competition Berlinale Palast
(US) Lionsgate. 122mins. Dir: Bill Pohlad. Cast: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti. Bill Pohlad’s biographical film about Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys traces early psychological wounds and the insoluble union between body and soul. A clever biopic and a journey through the America of the 1960s to the 1980s.
Lamine Bachar, Aness Baitich. In the Atlas Mountains under the cover of night, a man and a child flee from the shadows of the past as dark fragmentary memories of war and violence alternate with brighter moments full of lyrical beauty. Forum Press only CinemaxX 6
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The Night and the Kid
(Germany) NFP media rights. 95mins. Dir: EA Dupont. Cast: Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti, Warwick Ward, Maly Delschaft. A drama of jealousy set in the circus milieu, this film is one of the great classics produced at Babelsberg’s Ufa studio. Digitally restored version with live music composed by Martin Jacques of the Tiger Lillies.
(France, Qatar) 61mins. Dir: David Yon. Cast:
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19:00 Black President
(Zimbabwe, South Africa, Great Britain) 86mins. Dir: Mpumelelo Mcata. Cast: Kudzanai Chiurai, Anna Teeman, Melissa Goba, Lindiwe Matshikiza, Zaki Ibrahim. “What is Black Guilt? I’ve often asked myself, why can’t artist Kudzanai Chiurai be free to just paint flowers or some shit… ? If he wants to, that is.” – Mpumelelo Mcata. Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste (Hanseatenweg)
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The Last Summer of the Rich
(Austria) 91mins. Dir: Peter Kern. Cast: Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder, Heinz Trixner, Traute Furtner, Margarethe
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Dir: Tallulah Schwab Prod: Column Film | Sales: Mountain Road Entertainment Group | (feature, 94’) 13:00 Haus der Kulturen der Welt (international premiere)
Tiesel, Oliver Rosskopf, Paul Matic, Stephanie Furstenberg, Nicole Beutler, Susanna Hohlrieder. An attractive company executive who has everything and controls even more hires a hit man to bump off her granddad. When she unexpectedly falls in love with his female carer her happiness seems complete. But things are more complex than they first appear. Panorama Special Zoo Palast 1
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(Canada, Germany, Australia) FilmNation Entertainment. 111mins. Dir: Anton Corbijn. Cast: Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley. “Life” photographer Dennis Stock’s encounter with James Dean leads to some of the most famous images of the Hollywood icon-to-be. A film that also ponders the meaning of photography and iconography in the age of reproduction. Berlinale Special Gala Press only CinemaxX 5
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(Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) Beta Cinema. 89mins. Dir: Sacha Polak. Cast: Wende Snijders, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Barry Atsma, Martijn Lakemeier. Forum Delphi Filmpalast
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Festival & Press 19:30 Violence
(Colombia, Mexico) 74mins. Dir: Jorge Forero. Cast: Rodrigo Velez, David Aldana, Nelson Camayo. A prisoner chained up in the middle of the jungle, a teenager looking for Negrin Munoz, Emiliana Munoz, Nicolas Nieves, Alicia Martinez. A Mapuche woman and her children living in precarious conditions in the Patagonian desert are taken away from their seemingly desperate environment by health officials who don’t realise the consequences. NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema CineStar IMAX
Blue Blood
(Brazil) Picture Tree International. 119mins. Dir: Lirio Ferreira. Cast: Daniel de Oliveira, Caroline Abras, Sandra Coverloni, Romulo 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.
Goldfinger
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Geronima
Koltavanej
(Argentina) 90mins. Dir: Raul Tosso. Cast: Luisa Calcumil, Patricio Contreras, Mario Luciani, Ernesto Mitchell, Maria Isabel Cane, Rufino Munoz,
(Mexico) 19mins. Dir: Concepcion Suarez Aguilar. Cast: Rosa Lopez Diaz. An innocent woman’s testimony of how she was
(UK, US) Park Circus. 112mins. Dir: Guy Hamilton. Cast: Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton. The third of the James Bond films takes 007 to a Fort Knox extravagantly imagined by set designer Ken Adam, where Bond’s adversary, Goldfinger, plans to make the US gold reserves radioactive.
employment, a highranking officer in a militia: three episodes shot through with a piercing intensity, with Colombia’s ubiquitous violence as their connective tissue. Forum Zoo Palast 2
torn away from her life and imprisoned. NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema Short Film CineStar IMAX
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 CinemaxX 4
The River (Restored version)
(US) 99mins. Dir: Jean Renoir. Cast: Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields. The lives of three anglophone young women in India are disrupted by a shared crush on a visiting American war veteran. A masterpiece by Jean Renoir in poetic as well as realistic colours that was
shot entirely on location in Bengal. Retrospective Zeughauskino
Queen of Earth
(US) 90mins. Dir: Alex Ross Perry. Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Patrick Fugit. Catherine and Virginia are best friends. Last year, Virginia wasn’t doing well, while this year it’s Catherine who’s struggling. One week together at a lakeside cabin: conversations, walks, verbal clashes, rising tensions. It won’t be an easy ride. Forum CineStar 8
Violence See box, above
Wanja
(Germany) 87mins. Dir: Carolina Hellsgard. Cast: Anne Ratte-Polle, Nele Trebs, Robert Viktor Minich, Marko Dyrlich. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 3
20:00 Censored Voices
(Israel, Germany) Dogwoof. 84mins. Dir: Mor Loushy. Israeli writer Amos Oz interviewed returning soldiers after the Six-Day War in 1967. But his tapes were censored by the Israeli Army — and remain so today. ‘Censored Voices’ brings these voices out of the archive and into the open. Panorama Dokumente Press only CineStar 7
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Dir: Saskia Diesing Prod: KeyFilm Sales: Mountain Road Entertainment Group | (feature, 94’) 09:30 CinemaxX 16 (efm)
(US) K5 International. 102mins. Dir: Marielle Heller. Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, Christopher Meloni, Kristen Wiig. A story set in the wild San Francisco of the 1970s. Fifteen-year-old Minnie spills it all to her tape recorder: what her first time was like with her mother’s boyfriend of all people, and how sex now dominates all of her thoughts and feelings. Generation 14Plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt
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Dir: Albert ‘t Hooft, Paco Vink Prod: il Luster Sales: Attraction Distribution (animated feature, 67’) 09:30 CinemaxX 14 (efm)
(People’s Republic of 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. Forum Cubix 9
Leave Her to Heaven
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(US) 110mins. Dir: John M Stahl. Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain. A pathologically jealous wife will stop at nothing to keep her husband all to herself.
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The Bunker
(Germany) 85mins. Dir: Nikias Chryssos. Cast: Pit Bukowski, Daniel Fripan, Oona von Maydell, David Scheller. Seeking to remove himself from all distractions in 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 Colosseum 1
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order to concentrate on an important piece of work, a student lodges with a strange family who are abusing their son Klaus with their curious methods of education. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1
Yet her humdrum existence is turned upside down when she has a unique encounter with God. Forum Press only CinemaxX 6
20:15 Evilness
The Summer of Sangaile
(Chile, Argentina) New Europe Film Sales. 60mins. Dir: Dominga Sotomayor. Cast: Lisandro Rodriguez, Vanina Montes, Andrea Strenitz. Forum HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1)
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Seashore
Superworld
(Brazil) FiGa Films. 83mins. Dir: Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon. Cast: Mateus Almada, Mauricio Jose Barcellos, Elisa Brites, Francisco Gick, Fernando Hart, Maitê Felistoffa, Danuta Zaguetto, Irene Brietzke. A young man travels to the family’s seaside holiday home to sort out an
(Austria) Films Distribution. 120mins. Dir: Karl Markovics. Cast: Ulrike Beimpold, Rainer Woss, Nikolai Gemel, Angelika Strahser, Thomas Mraz, Sibylle Kos, Michael Scherff, Harri Stojka. Gabi is a supermarket cashier with husband and family, her life unfolding according to the standard lower middle-class pattern.
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Dir: Tim Oliehoek Prod: BosBros Sales: Attraction Distribution (feature, 100’) 13:00 CinemaxX 13 (efm)
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(Lithuania, France, Netherlands) Films Distribution. 88mins. Dir: Alante Kavaite. Cast: Julija Steponaityte, Aiste Dirziute, Jurate Sodyte, Martynas Budraitis, Laurynas Jurgelis, Nele Savicenko. The story of two girls’ intimacy, their passionate devotion and delicate collisions; their vulnerability and sense of trust.
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Festival & Press
(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 Kino Arsenal 1
The Bunker See box, left
Butterfly
(Argentina) 103mins. Dir: Marco Berger. Cast: Ailin Salas, Javier De Pietro, Julian Infantino, Malena Villa. Siblings or friends: Romina and German live parallel love lives. Marco Berger utilises the possibilities of cinema to provide their handling of forbidden emotions with ever more playful realities. Panorama Press only Kino International
21:00 Queen of the Desert
(US) Sierra/Affinity. 125mins. Dir: Werner Herzog. Cast: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, Robert Pattinson. Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast
21:30 Androids Dream
(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 an extremely tense, complex and insecure society.
(Spain, Germany) Luis Ferron. 61mins. Dir: Ion de Sosa. Cast: Manolo Marin, Moises Richart, Marta Bassols, Coque Sanchez, Margot Sanchez. This experimental adaptation of Philip K Dick’s classic ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ plays out among the abandoned skyscrapers and broadwalk attractions of southern Spain, an apocalyptic backdrop somewhere between past, present and future.
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Angelica
(US) 95mins. Dir: Mitchell Lichtenstein. Cast: Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard, Tovah Feldshuh, Eliza Holland Madore. Panorama Special Zoo Palast 1
Fish Tail
(Portugal) Presente Lda. 103mins. Dir: Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel. Cast: Pedro Moritz, Artur Carreiro, Rui Melo, Manuel Moniz. 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 CinemaxX 4
Flotel Europa
(Denmark, Serbia) 70mins. Dir: Vladimir Tomic. Forum Sputnik Kino
Oskar Dawicki in The Performer
(Poland) 63mins. Dir: Lukasz Ronduda, Maciej Sobieszczanski. Cast: Oskar Dawicki, Agata Buzek, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Anda Rottenberg. An insight into the contemporary art world, based on the life of performance artist Oskar Dawicki, who is playing himself. By mixing performance art with acting, this is the first ever art exhibition in the form of a feature film. Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste (Hanseatenweg)
Singin’ in the Rain
(US) 99mins. Dir: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds. Two silent film idols and onscreen sweethearts run into professional and romantic roadblocks shooting their first talkie. Retrospective Zeughauskino
22:00 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 54 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2015
Festival & Press 22:00 Victoria
(Germany) The Match Factory. 140mins. Dir: Sebastian Schipper. Cast: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff, Andre M. Hennicke, Anna Lena Klenke, Eike Schulz.
After visiting a club, Victoria, a young Spanish woman, meets Sonne and his gang. They quickly get chatting and suddenly they are all caught up in a dodgy deal — a breathless Berlin night takes its course. Competition Berlinale Palast
Edilson Silva, Adeilton Nascimento, Giovanna Simoes. A striking avant-garde satire firmly rooted in the political, which wildly edits together documentary footage and surreal images from the Brazil of the last decade to form a ravishing cinematic experience. Forum Press only CinemaxX 6
to stop administering medication to her mentally disabled daughter, 18-yearold 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 Zoo Palast 2
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 playful and amusing fashion, progressing into a pleasing homage to the very act of storytelling. Forum CineStar 8
Gone with the River
(Venezuela) 104mins.
Dir: Mario Crespo. Cast: Yordana Medrano, Eddie Gomez, Diego Armando Salazar, Ali Bolanos, Begona Bolanos, Teolinda Bolanos, Maria Guerra, Francia Torres, Tibisay Torres, Teresa Farrera. A Warao love story on the delta of the Orinoco. Supported by her family and teachers, Dauna has ambitions beyond what tradition dictates and feels suffocated by the role she must play as a woman bound to tending to her husband, crops and fire.
(US) 106mins. Dir: Mark Christopher. Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell, Mike Myers. In 1998, Mark Christopher created a cinematic tribute to the legendary Studio 54. After the producers intervened, the film was released with 25 minutes of reshot material. Seventeen years later, Christopher finally presents his reconstructed original.
NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema CineStar IMAX
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Bizarre
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(France, US) Visit Films. 98mins. Dir: Etienne Faure. Cast: Pierre Prieur, Adrian James, Raquel Nave, Rebekah Underhill. A young homeless man winds up in Brooklyn club ‘Bizarre’ and triggers a whirlwind of emotions filled with tenderness and menace. The secret of his emotional life is mirrored in a series of brilliant revues celebrating self-determined otherness.
22:15 45 Years
(UK) The Match Factory. 93mins. Dir: Andrew Haigh. Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James. Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Brazilian Dream
(Brazil) Antipode Sales & Distribution. 64mins. Dir: Marcelo Pedroso. Cast:
22:30 54: The Director’s Cut
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The Duke of Burgundy
(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 106mins. Dir: Peter Strickland. Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna. A dark melodrama which follows the intense relationship between two women. CineStar 4
The Famous Five 4
Festival & Press 22:30 Dyke Hard
(Sweden) Outplay. 94mins. Dir: Bitte Andersson. Cast: Peggy Sands, Alle Eriksson, M Wagensjo, Lina Kurttila, Iki Gonzalez, Josephine Krieg, Alexi Carpentieri, Anitha Nygards. A sexploitation-horror-
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End of Winter
(South Korea) Lotte Entertainment. 103mins. Dir: Kim Dae-hwan. Cast: Moon Chang-gil, Lee Young-lan, Kim Min-hyuk. At a family get-together, a father makes an announcement that carries anger and confusion in its wake. A snowstorm hits, no one is able to leave and a family dispute envelops the following three days. Forum Cubix 9
Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer
(US) 83mins. Dir: Jack Walsh. Eighty-year-old political choreographer and experimental film-maker Yvonne Rainer looks back on her life and art. She ponders coming out later in life and also her return to dance at the age of 65 — at Mikhail Baryshnikov’s invitation. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
(Federal Republic of 56 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2015
trash-musical about the stony-yet-unstoppable journey of lesbian rock band Dyke Hard on the road to a battle of the bands competition. Including crazy obstacles, intrigues, cyborgs, ninjas and the undead. Panorama Press only CinemaxX 7
Germany, Austria) HanWay Films. 103mins. Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Libgart Schwarz, Rudiger Vogler, Marie Bardischewski, Michael Toost, Bert Fortell, Edda Kochl, Mario Kranz, Ernst Meister, Monika Poschl, Sybille Danzer. The goalie Josef Bloch is sent off the field for a foul. He loses his bearings and commits a murder, almost unintentionally. Influenced by the visual language of Hitchcock movies, Wenders follows the novel by his friend Peter Handke in minute detail. Homage CinemaxX 8
22:45 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. 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 Kino Arsenal 1
Love, Theft and Other Entanglements
(Palestinian Territories) 93mins. Dir: Muayad Alayan. Cast: Sami Metwasi, Maya Abu Alhayyat, Riyad Sliman, Ramzi Maqdisi. 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 CineStar 3
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(Germany) Beta Cinema, 97mins. Dir: Mike Marzuk. Cast: Valeria Eisenbart, Quirin Oettl, Justus Schlingensiepen. This time The Famous Five venture thousands of miles and thousands of years back in time to solve yet another nail-biting mystery. CinemaxX Studio 13
The Forecaster
(Germany) Autlook Filmsales, 98mins. Dir: Marcus Vetter. The story of finance whiz Martin Armstrong reads like a movie script: a man designs a model that predicts developments in the world economy and even the outbreak of wars – until the FBI is on his doorstep and he is sent to prison. Kino Arsenal 2
I Kissed a Girl
(France) Gaumont, 90mins. Dir: Noemie Saglio, Maxime Govare. Cast: Pio Marmai, Franck Gastambide, Adrianna D’Ollone, Lannick Gautry. Jeremie wakes up in an unfamiliar apartment, next to a woman he does not know. She is Adna, and is as funny as she is clingy. The beginning of a fairy tale? Not quite. Because Jeremie is about to get married to another man.
Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama
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(Norway) Sola Media, 96mins. Dir: John Andreas Andersen, Lisa Marie Gamlem. Cast: Kyrre Haugen Sydness, OddMagnus Williamson. On board the notorious Captain Sabertooth’s pirate ship, the Dark Lady, 11-yearold Pinky and his loyal friend Raven set out on a thrilling quest to find King Rufu’s fabled treasure in the exotic kingdom of Lama Rama.
(Netherlands) Dutch Features Global Entertainment, 84mins. Dir: Anne De Clercq. Cast: Jelka Van Houten, Tygo Gernandt, Georgina Verbaan, Gijs Naber. Jack Oei is a single child and feels lonely and bored. Jack’s biggest wish is to have a brother. But no matter how he begs his mother, the little brother just does not arrive. Jack decides to take matters in his own hands.
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(Germany) Helden Film, 93mins. Dir: Marco Wilms. The story of young, creative Egyptian artists of the Arab Spring who, through the means of graffiti murals, rebellious music, art and enlightenment try to salvage their revolution from going under.
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(Denmark) TrustNordisk, 90mins. CineStar 5
09:10 Double Yellow Lines
(Spain) Sydon, 78mins. Dir: Maria Pulera. Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Jon Gries, Emma Holzer, Parker Mack. Shelly needs to catch a killer in order to prove her innocence in her brother’s murder. Along the way she meets love, sorrow and prosecution. A journey of self perception as she finally realises her destiny. Zoo Palast 4
09:15 Adama
(France) Picture Tree International, 60mins. Dir: Simon Rouby. A coming-of-age story spanning West Africa and Europe in the wake of the First World War. CinemaxX Studio 17
Fidelio — Alice’s Journey
(France) Pyramide International, 95mins. Dir: Lucie Borleteau. Cast: Ariane Labed, Melvil Poupaud, Anders Denielsen Lie. Alice is a 30-yearold sailor, in love but unmarried. While her companion Felix waits for her ashore, she sets off as second mechanic on the Fidelio, an old freighter.
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Market 09:00 So Long Africa
(France) Le Pacte, 85mins. Dir: Ada Loueilh. Cast: Niels Arestrup, Julia Coma, Natacha Lindinger, Bruno Todeschini. The story of an elderly Worldsales, 98mins. Dir: Tomasz Emil Rudzik. Cast: Karolina Gorczyca, Hildegard Schmahl, Lorenzo Nedis Walcher, Elisa Schlott. The story of a driven, hard-boiled woman who, through the love of a 16-year-old boy, finds the strength to turn her back on violence and finally stop running.
Corbo
(Canada) Be for Films, 119mins. Dir: Mathieu Denis. Cast: Anthony Therrien, Antoine L’Ecuyer, Karelle Tremblay, Tony Nardi. Province of Quebec, 1966. Jean Corbo, 16, a young idealist of Italian and Quebecois descent, meets two left-wing activists and joins an underground group seeking to spark a socialist revolution in the province.
Agnieszka
(Germany) ARRI
Zhao Wei, Huang Bo, Tong Dawei, Hao Lei. Wen Jun and his wife Xiaojuan are busy parents living in Shenzen. One day, as their young son Tian Peng plays with his friends, he’s snatched by kidnappers. With extraordinary commitment, they set out to find their lost son. CinemaxX 3
Do Not Disturb Counting
(US) 111mins. Dir: Jem Cohen. An associative collection of visual impressions across 13 chapters. CinemaxX 6
Daniel’s World
(Czech Republic) Visible Film, 74mins. Dir: Veronika Liskova. A film about forbidden love and a person who is just one kiss away from the wrath of society. CinemaxX Studio 11
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French expat and his 14-year-old mixed-race daughter, who almost don’t know each other but have to return to France, leaving behind a devastated Ivory Coast.
Dearest
(Hong Kong, China) Versatile, 128mins. Dir: Peter Ho-Sun Chan. Cast:
58 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2015
(France) Wild Bunch, 79mins. Dir: Patrice Leconte. Cast: Christian Clavier, Carole Bouquet, Valerie Bonneton, Rossy De Palma. When passionate jazz fan Michel finds a rare album at a flea market, he can’t wait to listen to it — at home, on his own — but the whole world seems to be ganging up to prevent him from doing so. CineStar 2
Fresh Dressed
(US) Dogwoof, 82mins. Dir: Sacha Jenkins. A chronicle of hip-hop, urban fashion and the hustle that brought
oversized pants and graffiti-drenched jackets from New York discount markets to high fashion’s catwalks and shopping malls all around the world. CinemaxX Studio 15
Memories
(France) TF1 International, 96mins. Dir: Jean-Paul Rouve. Cast: Michel Blanc, Chantal Lauby, Audrey Lamy, Annie Cordy. A witty dramedy about two generations looking forward without forgetting to look back. CinemaxX 2
Nena
(Netherlands, Germany) Mountain Road Entertainment Group, 94mins. Dir: Saskia Diesing. Cast: Abbey Hoes, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Andre Jung, Gijs Blom. Sixteen-year-old Nena is forced to deal with her terminally ill father’s suicide attempt. CinemaxX Studio 16
Return to Sender
(US) Voltage Pictures, 95mins. Dir: Fouad Mikati. Cast: Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez, Nick Nolte. In this intense thriller, a small town nurse gets attacked during a home invasion by a mysterious criminal. Following his arrest, she starts to regularly visit him in jail
and befriends him, against her father’s advice. Zoo Palast 5
Seashore
(Brazil) FiGa Films, 83mins. Dir: Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher. Cast: Mateus Almada, Mauricio Jose Barcellos, Elisa Brites, Francisco Gick. CinemaxX Studio 18
Triple Trouble
(Netherlands, Belgium) Attraction Distribution, 67mins. Dir: Albert ’t Hooft, Paco Vink. Cast: Georgina Verbaan, Hans Somers, Reinder van der Naalt. Soon it will be holiday season. Children are expecting gifts from Santa Claus. What about animals? They feel left out… Meet three intrepid friends on an animated quest to bring Christmas gifts for every pet. CinemaxX Studio 14
09:45 Dare to be Wild
(Ireland, US) Radiant Films International, 100mins. Dir: Vivienne DeCourcy. Cast: Christine Marzano, Alex Macqueen, Janie Dee, Emma Greenwell. The real-life story of a working-class Irish girl who takes on the wealthiest of British high society in a worldrenowned flower show. CinemaxX 5
(Russia) Wizart Animation, 76mins. Dir: Alexey Tsitsilin. Cast: Sharlto Copley, Sean Bean, Bella Thorne, Isabelle Fuhrman. The sequel to ‘The Snow Queen’. The story develops around a troll, Orm, who sets out on a lively and perilous adventure and learns that friends, happiness, and true love cannot be won through deceit. CineStar 7
10:15 Paragraph
(UK) Yoni Bentovim and Emily Harris, 62mins. Dir: Yoni Bentovim, Emily Harris. Cast: Katharina Rivilis, Nigil Casey, Bruno Bentovim. On the coast of a foreign land, Sophia and her son wander, their only property a red suitcase and only goal to find a way to eat and a place to sleep. But who are they? Are they fleeing from a distant memory or are they themselves a memory from years ago in someone else’s mind? Marriott 1
10:20 Off Course
(Spain) DeAPlaneta, 102mins. Dir: Nacho Garcia Velilla. Cast: Blanca Suarez, Yon Gonzalez, Javier Camara, Carmen Machi. Hugo’s new life turns upside-down when his parents and his girlfriend decide to visit him to see if he is doing well in Berlin. CinemaxX Studio 17
10:30 The Lesson
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Wide House, 111mins. Dir: Kristina Grozeva. Cast: Margita Gosheva, Ivan Burnev, Ivan Savov, Stefan Denolyubov. In a small Bulgarian town, Nadezhda, a young teacher, is lecturing a thief in her class. But when she becomes indebted to loan sharks, can she stay true to her own values? CinemaxX Studio 19
Torrente, Mission: Eurovegas
(Spain) Filmsharks International, 103mins. Dir: Santiago Segura. Cast: Santiago Segura. When Torrente gets out of prison, he discovers that the Spain he loved is gone. He plans to rob a casino and uses his contacts to find security expert Marshall. They assemble the dream team to pull off the heist of the century. CineStar IMAX
10:40 The Tournament
(France) MK2, 83mins. Dir: Elodie Namer. Cast: Michelangelo Passaniti, Lou de Laâge, MagneHavard Brekke. At an international chess tournament in Budapest, 22-year-old French mastermind Cal Fournier starts to lose control when challenged by an unknown prodigy half his age. Kino Arsenal 1
10:45 Best of Enemies
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(US) Magnolia Pictures, 87mins. Dir: Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon. Cast: Aaron Wickenden, Lee Rosch. The TV debates between Wiliam F Buckley and Gore Vidal during the 1968 presidential election paved the way to a new era in public discourse. Kino Arsenal 2
Last Weekend
(US) Aldamisa International, 94mins. Dir: Tom Dolby, Tom Williams. Cast: Patricia Clarkson. When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Californian lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams,
leading her to question her own role in the family. Parliament Studio
The Summer of Sangaile
(Lithuania, France, Netherlands) Films Distribution, 88mins. Dir: Alante Kavaite. Cast: Julija Steponaityte, Aiste Dirute, Jurate Sodyte, Martynas Budraitis. Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. Afraid of heights, she has never dared to even enter one of the cockpits. CineStar 1
10:50 Against the Sun
(US) Goldcrest Films, 100mins. Dir: Brian Falk. Cast: Tom Felton, Garret Dillahunt, Jake Abel. Three US Navy airmen crash their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific during the Second World War. Against incredible odds they must survive storms, sharks and starvation as they try to sail over a thousand miles to safety. Zoo Palast 4
Blue Blood
(Brazil) Picture Tree International, 119mins. Dir: Lirio Ferreira. Cast: Daniel de Oliveira, Caroline Abras, Sandra Coverloni, Romulo Braga. Twenty years ago on an island a boy was separated from his sister for fear of incestuous attraction. He joined a circus and became Zolah, the Cannon Man. A beautiful man, he is now visiting the island with the circus. CinemaxX Studio 14
Italo
(Italy) Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, 104mins. Dir: Alessia Scarso. Cast: Vincenzo Lauretta, Marco Bocci, Elena Radonicich, Martina Antoci. The tale of the tender and moving friendship between a lonely boy and an extraordinary stray dog that taught a whole village about being human. CineStar 4
11:00 Bibi & Tina: Bewildered and Bewitched!
(Germany) Beta Cinema, 109mins. Dir: Detlev Buck.
Cast: Lina Larissa Strahl, Lisa Marie Koroll, Louis Held, Emilio Moutaoukkil. Instead of concentrating upon a planned fancydress ball, Bibi, Tina and Alex must search for the thief who has stolen the pictures from the castle gallery. CinemaxX Studio 13
The Dead Lands
(New Zealand) XYZ Films, 109mins. Dir: Toa Fraser. Cast: James Rolleston, Lawrence Makoare, Te Kohe Tuhaka, Xavier Horan. Hongi — a Maori chieftain’s teenage son — must avenge his father’s murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery. CinemaxX Studio 12
Mortadelo & Filemon: Mission Implausible
(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 92mins. Dir: Javier Fesser. Mortadelo and Filemon are two superspies charged with solving crimes no other spy can solve… or rather, bungling situations like no one else can. In order to succeed, they will make use of disguises and bizarre inventions. MGB-Kino
Soldiers of the Damned
(UK, US) VMI Worldwide, 99mins. Dir: Mark Nuttall. Cast: Gil Darnell, Miriam Cooke, Tom Sawyer, Nicky Bell. Eastern Front, 1944. Major Kurt Fleischer, commander of an elite troop of German soldiers, is ordered to escort a female scientist, Prof. Anna Kappel, from the Nazi Occult Department into a mysterious forest behind enemy lines. CinemaxX Studio 15
Welcome to Leith
(US) Submarine USA, 85mins. Dir: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher Walker. Feature documentary chronicling the attempted takeover of a small town in North Dakota by white separatists. CinemaxX Studio 11
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11:10 Factory Girl
(Egypt) MAD Solutions, 96mins. Dir: Mohamed Khan. Cast: Yasmin Raeis, Hany Adel, Salwa Khattab, Salwa Mohamed Ali. A factory worker in a lower-middle-class area thinks her feelings for the new supervisor can grow in spite of the class gap, but reality calls when a pregnancy test is found in the factory and all fingers point to her. CinemaxX 2
11:15 A Step into the Dark
(Slovakia) Amadeus Entertainment, 120mins. Dir: Miloslav Luther. Cast: Marko Igonda, Kristyna Bokova, Monika Hassova, Miroslav Donutil. A period drama about a young physician who was forced to carry out executions during the war. He is unable to come to terms with his past and later resists a promising career opportunity offered by the regime. Zoo Palast Club A
The Amina Profile
(Canada) National Film Board of Canada, 86mins. Dir: Sophie Deraspe. During the Arab Spring a love story between two
women, Canadian and Syrian American, turns into an international socio-political thriller spotlighting media excesses and the thin line between truth and falsehood on the internet. CineStar 6
Cast: Cobie Smulders, Elizabeth McGovern, Anders Holm, Gail Bean. A pregnant high school teacher develops an unlikely bond with one of her students after learning that the student is also expecting. dffb-Kino
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 are both doing all they can to not get custody of the children.
Warsaw by Night
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(Poland) Eureka Studio, 100mins. Dir: Natalia Koryncka-Gruz. Cast: Izabela Kuna, Stanislawa Celinska, Roma GasiorowskaZurawska, Joanna Kulig. Four differently aged women wander the city of Warsaw by night putting on masks, searching for love, closeness and another human being. 11:20
Taxi
(Iran) Celluloid Dreams, 82mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi. Cast: Jafar Panahi. A yellow cab is driving through the colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is none other than the director himself.
(US) Annapurna International, 94mins. Dir: Charles Stone III. Cast: Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez. Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.
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Unexpected
(US) Visit Films, 86mins. Dir: Kris Swanberg.
Learning to Drive See box, below
Market 11:30 Learning to Drive
(US) WestEnd Films, 89mins. Dir: Isabel Coixet. Cast: Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson. The story of Darwan and Wendy, a
driving instructor and a Manhattan writer both experiencing marriage troubles, whose lives change forever when they meet over driving lessons. CinemaxX 5
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For its 2015 return to the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 20 projects have been selected to pitch at Frontières from Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, the UK and the United States.
78:52 (USA) DIRECTOR: Alexandre O.
Philippe WRITER: Alexandre O. Philippe PRODUCER: Kerry Deignan Roy (Exhibit A Pictures)
BEWARE OF THE DOG (Italy)
Giovanni Bufalini WRITERS: Giovanni Bufalini, Francesco Bufalini, Marco Greganti PRODUCERS: Mario Lanti & Alan Vele (Al One Srl) DIRECTOR:
DÖNER (France) DIRECTOR: Jean Luc
Herbulot WRITERS: Jean Luc Herbulot & Samy Baaroun PRODUCER: Alexis Perrin (Rumble Fish Productions)
FUCK THE WORLD (Spain)
Santiago Alvarado WRITERS: Ramon Salas & Santiago Alvarado PRODUCER: Joaquim Vivas (Magno Entertainment SL) DIRECTOR:
GEORGIE (UK) DIRECTOR: Johnny
Kevorkian WRITER: Craig Rutherford PRODUCER: Gerry Maguire (Pins & Needles Media)
ICKERMAN (France) DIRECTOR: Seth
Ickerman (Savitri Joly-Gonfard & Raphael Hernandez) WRITER: Seth Ickerman PRODUCER: REEL SUSPECTS
JESSIE’S DEMONS (Quebec) DIRECTOR:
Eugene Garcia WRITER: Eugene Garcia PRODUCER: Anne-Marie Gélinas & Benoît Beaulieu (EMAfilms Inc.)
LA NUIT A DEVORE LE MONDE
(France) DIRECTOR: Dominique Rocher WRITERS: Dominique Rocher, Guillaume Lemans & Jérémie Guez PRODUCER: Carole Scotta (HAUT ET COURT)
ON THE THRESHOLD (Quebec)
Érik Canuel WRITER: Celeste Parr PRODUCER: Nicole Robert (GO FILMS) DIRECTOR:
ONCE UPON A TIME IN JERUSALEM (Spain) DIRECTORS:
David Muñoz & Adrian Cardona WRITER: David Muñoz PRODUCERS: David Muñoz, Valentina Chidichino, Daniel Antequera & Adrian Cardona
ONE DROP (Canada) DIRECTOR: Tricia Lee Corey Brown PRODUCERS: Tricia Lee & Brigitte Kingsley (A Film Monkey Production) Executive PRODUCER: Michael Baker (Bunk 11 Pictures) WRITER:
SPARE (USA) DIRECTOR: Kevan Tucker
WRITER: Kevan Tucker PRODUCERS: Andrew D. Corkin, Tim O’Neill, Jared Parsons, Bryan Reisberg (Uncorked Productions)
ORPHEA (Belgium) DIRECTOR:
UBU (USA-Poland) DIRECTOR:
SINNERS (UK) DIRECTOR: Steven Sheil
VIVA BERLIN! (Germany) DIRECTOR:
Léo Médard WRITER: Dick Tomasovic PRODUCER: Nicolas George (Films du Carré) James Charkow, David Murdoch & Steven Sheil PRODUCER: David Murdoch (Sinner Films Ltd) WRITERS:
SKIN & BONES (Canada) DIRECTOR:
Casey Walker WRITERS: Pascal Trottier, Peter Scott Vicaire & Casey Walker. PRODUCER: Casey Walker (Cave Painting Pictures)
THE SONATA (France) DIRECTOR:
Andrew Desmond WRITERS: Andrew Desmond & Arthur Morin PRODUCERS: Laurent Fumeron, Rodolphe Sanzé, Daniel Goroshko (The Project)
John Harrison WRITERS: John Harrison & Stephen Billias PRODUCER: Wojtek Jezowski (Black Rabbit) Moritz Mohr WRITER: Benjamin Karalic PRODUCER: Benjamin Munz (Rat Pack Filmproduktion)
VIVARIUM (Ireland) DIRECTOR:
Lorcan Finnegan WRITER: Garret Shanley PRODUCERS: Brendan McCarthy & John McDonnell (Fantastic Films)
WHITE POINT (Finland) DIRECTOR: Akseli Tuomivaara WRITER: Vesa Virtanen PRODUCERS: Misha Jaari & Mark Lwoff (Bufo)
Frontières IS THE FIRST MARKET TO SPECIFICALLY FOCUS ON THE CO-PRODUCTION AND FINANCING OF GENRE FILMS BETWEEN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE.
Accreditations are now open for Frontières@Brussels and the European Genre Film Market. Early Bird Rates available until 20 February. Submissions are now open for Frontières@Fantasia (Deadline 31 March)
Meet the Frontières/EGFM Team in Berlin LINDSAY PETERS Market & Industry Director lindsay@fantasiafestival.com
JULIE BERGERON Executive Director, Vision-in-Motion julie@vision-in-motion.com
PASCAL DIOT Managing Director, EGFM & Frontières pascal@bifff.net
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SCREENINGS
MARKET 12:00 FAIR PLAY
(Czech Republic) Intramovies, 100mins. Dir: Andrea Sedlackova. Cast: Anna Geislerova, Judit Bardos, Roman Luknar.
ONE & TWO
(US) Protagonist Pictures, 91mins. Dir: Andrew Droz Palermo. Cast: Kiernan Shipka, Timothee Chalamet, Grant Bowler, Elizabeth Reaser. Siblings Zac and Eva share a supernatural escape from an oppressive home life but struggle with their secret as their mother falls gravely ill. CinemaxX 10
T.I.M.
(Netherlands) Attraction Distribution, 82mins. Dir: Rolf van Eijk. Cast: Dyon Wilkens, Abdelhadi Baaddi, Bas Keijzer, Claudia Kanne. Eleven-year-old Tibor has only one friend: his house robot, T.I.M. To save the outdated robot from destruction, he sets out to find the only one who can repair him. Along the way Tibor will find true friendship with a human. Marriott 1
11:45 ATOM HEART MOTHER
(Iran) DreamLab Films, 96mins. Dir: Ali Ahmadzadeh. Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani, Mohammad Reza Golzar, Mehrdad Sedighiyan. On a frivolous drive through the Tehran night, two streetwise friends chat about everyday life, atomic 66 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2015
Prague 1983. Young and talented sprinter Anna is selected for the national team and placed in a secret medical programme without her knowing. Anna refuses but playing by the rules never comes for free. CinemaxX Studio 17
bombs and Pink Floyd. After a minor traffic accident, a charming stranger in a suit comes to their aid. His help will not come cheap. CinemaxX 6
11:50 WACKEN — THE MOVIE
(Germany) Autlook Filmsales, 92mins. Dir: Norbert Heitker. Wacken is the biggest rock festival in the world. Three days of raw energy and 80,000 fans, a true legend set in the sleepy German countryside. Filmed with 18 3D cameras, ‘Wacken — The Movie’ takes you on an amazing journey into a fascinating world. CinemaxX 3
12:00 FAIR PLAY See box, above
12:30 ALLIES
(UK) Parkland Pictures, 93mins. Dir: Dominic Burns. Cast: Julian Ovenden, Chris Reilly, Matt Willis, Edmund Kingsley. August 1944. A team of British soldiers led by a US Captain are dropped behind enemy lines in France on a mission that could shorten the war. Parliament Studio
EN EQUILIBRE
(France) Studiocanal, 88mins. Dir: Denis Dercourt. Cast: Albert Dupontel, Cecile de France. Marc is an equestrian stuntman. After a serious accident which traumatically injures him, he loses all hope of ever getting back on a horse. CinemaxX 9
TO LIFE!
(Germany) Global Screen, 91mins. Dir: Uwe Janson. Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Max Riemelt, Sharon Brauner, Aylin Tezel. Fate has taken its toll on the ageing cabaret singer Ruth and the young but ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason to live. Zoo Palast 2
LIVEFOREVER
(Mexico) Mundial, 101mins. Dir: Carlos Moreno. Cast: Paulina Davila, Alejandra Avila, David Cantor, Luis Arrieta, Jose Restrepo. CineStar IMAX Private screening
ZERO POINT
(Estonia) Allfilm, 114mins. Dir: Mihkel Ulk. Cast: Mart Pius, Epp Eespaev, Uku Arop, Saara Kadak. »
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university student wouldn’t do in his final year to get his degree? A phsychology student faces a dilemma when his ethics teacher asks him for a mercy killing in exchange of passing his last exam.
search for the perfect pair of shoes for her dead shoemaker father, from whom she has been distant. Her quest takes her on an odyssey of selfdiscovery and she even meets Imelda Marcos. Zoo Palast Club B
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The Price We Pay The Last Hammer Blow
(France) Pyramide International, 83mins. Dir: Alix Delaporte. Cast: Romain Paul, Clotilde Hesme, Gregory Gadebois. Victor discovers he is the son of an orchestra director. He knows nothing about music nor about his father, but is determined to change his future. CinemaxX Studio 14
Market 13:00 The Amazing Wiplala
(Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium) Attraction Distribution, 100mins. Dir: Tim Oliehoek. Cast: Geza Weisz, Sasha Mylanus, Kee Ketelaar, Peter Paul Muller.
Young Johannes Wiplala is no imaginary friend, he’s as real as a fourinch-tall wizard can be. Wiplala befriends a family until he shrinks all of its members. Oops… the spell cannot be undone! CinemaxX Studio 13
After being denounced as an outcast in school and frightened away from home by his mother’s developing schizoprenia, there is no other way out for Johannes but to start improving his life by reforming himself.
of nomads discovers he has much to learn — about community and man’s complex bonds with the most feared and revered creature — the wolf.
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Being 14
12:40 The Moon and the Sun
(US) Good Universe, 109mins. Dir: Sean McNamara. Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Kaya Scodelario, Benjamin Walker, William Hurt. Louis XIV’s plans to steal the life-force of a mermaid are thwarted by a girl who risks her life and love to set the mermaid free.
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12:50 Money Buddies
(Italy, Switzerland) The Match Factory, 104mins. Dir: Daniele Ciprì. Cast: Sergio Castellitto, Rocco Papaleo, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. Oscar and Armand are two 50-somethings who become friends after a chance encounter. Oscar is a failed lawyer, Armando has just been released from prison after 25 years for a crime he did not commit. MGB-Kino
13:00
(China, Hong Kong, China, France) Wild Bunch, 118mins. Dir: Jean-Jacques Annaud. Cast: Feng Shaofeng, Shawn Dou, Ankhnyam Ragchaa, Yin Zhusheng. A student sent to inner Mongolia to teach a tribe
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Blackburn
(Canada) Raven Banner Entertainment, 85mins. Dir: Lauro Chartrand. Cast: Lochlyn Munro, Calum Worthy, Ken Kirzinger. A forest fire and rockslide trap five friends in a ghost town where they must fight to survive as the angry inhabitants slaughter them one by one.
The Amazing Wiplala
Breathless Time See box, right
(France) Versatile, 86mins. Dir: Helene Zimmer. Cast: Galatea Bellugi, Athalia Routier, Najaa Bensaid. The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of 14-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls — Sarah, Jade and Louise — with one last year to go before high school.
Art and Craft
The Four Warriors
(US) Autlook Filmsales, 89mins. Dir: Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman. Follows a prolific forger of European masters from Picasso to Monet, who donates his work to museums instead of selling it — a curious story at the intersection of art and philanthropy.
Kino Arsenal 2
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There Are Monsters
Belgian Rhapsody
(Canada) The Works, 96mins. Dir: Jay Dahl. Cast: Guy Germain, Kristin Langille, Jason Daley, Matthew Amyotte. The world is being taken over — slowly, quietly and efficiently — by monsters. And they look just like us.
(Belgium, Luxembourg) Be for Films, 100mins. Dir: Vincent Bal. Cast: Amaryllis Uitterlinden, Arthur Dupont, Jos Verbist, Tom Audenaert. A musical romantic comedy about Belgium, where all possible means are used to outdo the
(UK) Metrodome International, 89mins. Dir: Colin Lloyd. Cast: Christopher Dane, Alex Childs, Kristian Nairn, Glenn Spears. Travelling home from The Crusades, four soldiers discover a village gripped by fear — men and children have been taken by unknown predators. The warriors set out to rescue them and destroy the evil that lurks outside the village.
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Mariquina
(Philippines) TEN17P, 116mins. Dir: Milo Sogueco. Cast: Mylene Dizon, Ricky Davao, Bing Pimentel, Barbie Forteza. Imelda Guevarra comes back home, spurring her
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Walter
(US) Beta Cinema, 88mins. Dir: Anna Mastro. Cast: William H. Macy, Virginia Madsen, Andrew J West, Justin Kirk. Convinced he is God’s son, Walter judges if people will go to heaven or hell while tearing tickets at the
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12:45
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Wolf Totem
other: double-crossing, schmaltzy songs and even love.
(Canada) Filmoption International, 93mins. Dir: Harold Crooks. Exposes how offshore tax havens and Google, Amazon and the other tech giants of the cloud economy are eroding the foundations of the democratic state.
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Innocent Killers
(Spain) Filmax International, 95mins. Dir: Gonzalo Bendala. Cast: Maxi Iglesias, Aura Garrido. Is there anything a
Market 13:00 Breathless Time
(Spain) Latido Films, 106mins. Dir: Samuel Martin Mateos, Andres Luque Perez. Cast: Juana Acosta, Carmelo Gomez, Adriana Ugarte, Felix Gomez.
Maria, a Colombian nurse who lost her daughter at the hands of three militiamen, travels to the Spanish Canary Islands accompanied by her youngest son to find one of the killers and exact her revenge. CinemaxX Studio 18
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SCREENINGS
local Cineplex, until one day a lost soul interrupts his daily routine, forcing him to reassess the meaning of his life. CinemaxX Studio 12
13:10 The Black Rider
(US) Pure Flix, Quality Flix, 98mins. Dir: Gabriel Sabloff. Cast: James Denton, David AR White, Kevin Sorbo, Brian Bosworth. In a hungry wasteland filled with looters and scavengers, Josh McManus finds himself in a dangerous bordertown at the edge of the wildlands. With the aid of a beautiful survivor, Josh will discover the truth.
Market 14:00 Portrait of the Artist
(France) Reel Suspects, 127mins. Dir: Antoine Barraud. Cast: Bertrand Bonello. A famous film-maker searches for an
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image of the uncanny. An eccentric female art historian accompanies him through museums, where they examine and discuss numerous works of art. CinemaxX 6
13:15 Big News from Grand Rock
(Canada) The Yellow Affair, 87mins. Dir: Daniel Perlmutter. Cast: Ennis Esmer, Meredith MacNeill, Kristin Booth, Peter Keleghan. A small-town journalist starts making up stories to save his job. But when one of the stories turns out to be true, will anyone believe him? dffb-Kino
13:30 Sergio Herman, Fucking Perfect
(Netherlands) Fortissimo Films, 80mins. Dir: Willemiek Kluijfhout. Cast: Sergio Herman, Ellemieke HermanVermolen, Michel Herman, Ronny Herman. Master chef Sergio Herman feels he needs to let go of his three-star restaurant, Oud Sluis, in order to fulfil his dreams. A revealing story about perfection, ambition and sacrifice. CinemaxX 4
13:45
(Japan) Shochiku, 122mins. Dir: Junichi Mori. Cast: Ai Hashimoto, Takahiro Miura, Mayu Matsuoka, Yoichi Nukumizu. Farm, cook, eat, live. Live off the land and recharge it. A film of four seasons. CinemaxX 10
13:20 Secret Sharer
(UK) Moviehouse Entertainment, 103mins. Dir: Peter Fudakowski. Cast: Jack Laskey, Zhu Zhu. A classic contemporary romantic thriller set on the South China Sea. A young sea captain discovers a beautiful young Chinese woman on the run. Hours later a search party appears, looking for a murderer… Zoo Palast Club A
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14:15 Any Day
(US) VMI Worldwide, 100mins. Dir: Rustam Branaman. Cast: Sean Bean, Kate Walsh, Eva Longoria, Tom Arnold. Ex-boxer Vian has a chance to rebuild the life he lost to a tragic accident 12 years ago. But when tragedy strikes again, will the new love he has found be enough to keep him on the path to redemption? Parliament Studio
Hard to Get
(South Africa) AAA Entertainment, 94mins. Dir: Zee Ntuli. Cast: Pallance Dladla, Thishiwe Ziqubu, Israel Makoe, Paka Zwedala. ‘Hard To Get’ begins in a crowded bar where handsome gigolo TK works. A strong, beautiful out-of-town petty criminal catches his eye. TK wins her heart but he must undertake one mission which will lead him to Johannesburg.
Papers in the Wind
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The Legend of Longwood
14:00 Portrait of the Artist See box, above
Little Forest — Winter & Spring
influence of people who used his naivete to bring destruction.
Que caramba es la vida
(Germany) Illuminar, 86mins. Dir: Doris Dorrie. In the macho world of Mariachi music, very few women can hold their own. Just like the songs they play, this film is a snapshot of life, death and the things in between — seen from a bird’s-eye perspective. Zoo Palast 2
14:05 No Comment
(Russia) Intercinema Agency, 112mins. Dir: Artem Temnikov. Cast: Alexander Novin, Leonard Proxauf, Dmitry Zhuravlev. The story of a German boy who became a Wahhabi after being processed by Islamic radicals underlines how easily the young man fell under the
(Argentina) Filmsharks International, 100mins. Dir: Juan Taratuto. Cast: Diego Peretti, Pablo Echarri, Pablo Rago, Diego Torres. Three friends for life turn a humble soccer player into the next star of the major leagues in order to secure the future of their dead friend’s daughter. Kino Arsenal 2
(Netherlands, Ireland, Germany) Global Screen, 99mins. Dir: Lisa Mulcahy. Cast: Lucy Morton, Miriam Margolyes, Fiona Galscott, Sean Mahon. When 12-year-old Mickey Miller moves from New York to Ireland, she soon discovers a link between herself and the 300-year-old legend of the mysterious Black Knight. CineStar IMAX
14:20 The Night Watchman
(France, Belgium) Indie Sales, 95mins. Dir: Pierre Jolivet. Cast: Olivier Gourmet, Valerie Bonneton. Franck works as a night watchman in a shopping mall in the slum outskirts of Paris. When a gang is planning a holdup, he wants to turn the situation into an opportunity – a way for him to become a workingclass hero again. CineStar 4
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International Entertainment, 102mins. Dir: Damon Gameau. Cast: Damon Gameau. In the vein of ‘Supersize Me’, Damon Gameau becomes a human guinea pig when he puts himself through a grueling diet, consuming the equivalent of 40 teaspoons of sugar a day… the average daily amount consumed by teenagers.
14:30 Grandad
(Iceland) Thorsson Production, 106mins. Dir: Bjarni Haukur Thorsson. Cast: Sigurdur Sigurjonsson, Sigrun Edda Bjornsdottir, Thorsteinn Bachmann, Steindi Jr. Gudjon has led a safe life. Suddenly faced with retirement and growing older, he is forced to take a good, hard look at his marriage. A dramatic but often lighthearted story about life at a crossroads and the meaning of it all.
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15:15 Dancer & The Dame
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How to Change the World
(UK, Canada) Dogwoof, 112mins. Dir: Jerry Rothwell. In the early 1970s, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone. Their protest captures the world’s imagination, spearheading the modern green movement. This is the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace. CinemaxX Studio 14
Panama
(Serbia) Wide/Wide House, 60mins. Dir: Pavle Vuckovic. Cast: Slaven Doslo, Jovana Stojilkovic, Milos Pjevac, Tamara Dragicevic. In a web of lies, pride, jealousy and passionate sex, Jovan loses himself only to find out who Maja really is. CinemaxX 2
14:35 Ode to My Father See box, above
14:40 The Games Maker
(Argentina, Canada) Cinema Management Group (CMG), 112mins. Dir: Juan Pablo Buscarini. Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Tom Cavanagh, David Mazouz, Ed Asner. Young Ivan Drago’s newfound love of board games catapults him into fantastical worlds of game invention and pits him against the inventor Morodian. To save his family, Ivan must come to know what it is to be a true Games Maker. Zoo Palast 4
Market 14:35 Ode to My Father
(South Korea) CJ Entertainment, 126mins. Dir: JK Youn. Cast: Hwang Jung-min, Kim Yunjin, Oh Dal-su. During the Korean War,
12-year-old Duk-soo is separated from his father while migrating to Busan. Some 63 years go by with the oath to take care of his family deeply engraved in his heart. CinemaxX 1
(Japan) Toho, 117mins. Dir: Takashi Miike. Cast: Sota Fukushi, Hirona Yamazaki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Shota Sometani. Shun Takahata is a high school teen bored with his life. But one day, a mysterious Daruma doll appears in class and announces the commencement of a game with lives on the line. Is this really a game?
Indonesia) M-appeal — Raspberry & Cream, 80mins. Dir: Josh Kim. Cast: Thira Chutikul, Ingarat Damrongsakkul, Iirah Wimonchailerk. After the loss of both parents, a young boy faces an uncertain future when his older brother must submit to Thailand’s annual military draft lottery. He takes matters into his own hands, resulting in unexpected consequences.
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German Angst
Why Me?
(Germany) Reel Suspects, 110mins. Dir: Jorg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, Andreas Marschall. Cast: Annika Strauss, Milton Welsh. Three German tales of love, sex and death in Berlin.
(Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary) Libra Film Productions, 130mins. Dir: Tudor Giurgiu. Cast: Emilian Oprea, Mihai Constantin, Andreea Vasile, Dan Condurache. A young idealistic prosecutor tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. Looking further to solve the case, he enters a danger zone paved
14:45 As the Gods Will
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How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)
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with unexpected and painful revelations. CinemaxX Studio 16
14:50 My Friend Victoria
(France) Les Films du Losange, 95mins. Dir: Jean Paul Civeyrac. Cast: Guslagie Malanda, Nadia Moussa, Catherine Mouchet, Pascal Greggory. Fanny tells the story of her best friend Victoria, a young black girl coming from a humble background and fascinated by a rich and liberal family. CineStar 1
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Dir: Iulia Rugina. Cast: Dragos Bucur, Dorian Boguta, Alexandru Papadopol. It is winter in the mountains. Nine couples with issues and three therapists with bigger issues are fighting a past that catches up with them. Running towards ‘happily ever after’ is not that simple any more. CinemaxX Studio 18
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(Korea) CJ Entertainment, 120mins. Dir: Ryoo Seung-wan. Cast: Hwang Jung-min, Yoo Ah-in. dffb-Kino
45 Years
Sparks
(UK) The Match Factory, 93mins. Dir: Andrew Haigh. Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells. One week until Kate’s 45th wedding anniversary the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The corpse of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the Swiss Alps.
(Philippines) TEN17P, 120mins. Dir: Giancarlo Abrahan. Cast: Eula Valdes, Nonie Buencamino, Martin Rosario, Sandino Martin. The marriage of two professors is on the verge of falling apart. The woman is dragged into a scandal involving a young student. The man falls in love with his research — a deity that appears to him as the ghost of an old flame.
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Another Love Building
(Romania) Romanian Film Center, 115mins.
(US) Pure Flix, Quality Flix, 90mins. Dir: Gabriel Sabloff. Cast: Billy Gardell, James Denton, Eva Larue, David AR White. When psychologist Nicole Jackson suggests detective Rick Dancer team up with Princess, a female police dog with psychological issues of her own, they both get a second chance to set the record straight. Marriott 1
Ranna Silence
(Iran) Soureh Cinema Organization, 90mins. Dir: Behzad Rafiei. Cast: Majid Potki, Nasrin Babaei, Milad Hoseinpoor, Yousef Alijanpoor. Ranna is a seven-yearold girl who lives in a village located in northern Iran. She owns a special hen called Kakoli which she loves affectionately. They pick the eggs in order to have a chick but then Kakoli is hunted by a jackal. Zoo Palast Club A
15:20 Sherry & The Mystery of Palo Cortado
That Sugar Film
(Spain) Latido Films, 88mins. Dir: Jose Luis Lopez Linares. Cast: Josep Roca, Paco Perez. Enological thriller that reveals the mysteries and secrets of Spanish wine while illustrating Plato’s opinion: “Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.”
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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. MARKET SCREENING: Feb 9 / 12:20 / CinemaxX 17
PEOPLE PLACES THINGS
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS: TODAY / 22:30 / Cubix 7&8 Feb 10 / 22:30 / CinemaxX 7 Feb 11 / 20:15 / CineStar 3 Feb 12 / 20:45 / Cubix 7&8
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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“Ceaselessly entertaining, witty, and sentimental.” – IndieWire
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“A superb, comically gifted cast.” – The Hollywood Reporter “Jemaine Clement shines in [this] effortlessly lovely [film].” – Film School Rejects
UNEXPECTED
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: TODAY / 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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SCREENINGS
towards a high-stakes game in New Orleans.
15:40 Summer Solstice
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(Poland, Germany) Wide/Wide House, 100mins. Dir: Michal Rogalski. Cast: Filip Piotrowicz, Jonas Nay, Urszula Bogucka, Maria Semotiuk. The Polish countryside, 1943. Love, friendship and fate connect a simple Polish country boy, the daughter of a local farmer, a young German soldier and a Jewish girl from Warsaw.
Reversal
(US) Content, 79mins. Dir: Jose Manuel Cravioto. Cast: Tina Ivlev, Richard Tyson, Bianca Malinowski A young girl, chained in the basement of a sexual predator, escapes and turns the tables on her captor.
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Kafka’s the Burrow
The Diabolical
16:45 The Boy with the Golden Pants
(Sweden) Svensk Filmindustri, 100mins. Dir: Ella Lemhagen. Cast: Lukas Holgersson, Olle Krantz, Nina Sand, Shanti Roney.
Summer vacation has begun and Mats is just an ordinary kid like any other. But everything changes when he finds a pair of pants that contain an unlimited amount of money. CineStar 1
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16:00 All about Them
(France) Versatile, 90mins. Dir: Jerome Bonnell. Cast: Anais Demoustier, Sophie Verbeeck, Felix Moati. Charlotte is cheating on Micha with Melodie. Not suspecting a thing, yet feeling neglected, Micha in turn cheats on Charlotte. But also with Melodie. Kino Arsenal 2
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere
(Vietnam) Premium Films, 103mins. Dir: Diep Hoang Nguyen. Cast: Thuy Anh Nguyen, Bao Son Tran, Ha Pham Hoang, Thanh Duy Tran. Huyen, a pregnant teenage girl unable to afford an abortion, is forced into prostitution. Ironically, the only man willing to give her money has a fetish for pregnant girls. CinemaxX Studio 19
Daniel Garcia. In this modern take on a Greek myth, a young artist named Helen is pregnant, while her older namesake looks after a lifelike replica baby. When a peculiar meteorite hits close to Troy, New York State, it has an increasingly uncanny effect on their lives. CinemaxX 6
Pictures, 98mins. Dir: Ariel Kleiman. Cast: Vincent Cassel, Jeremy Chabriel, Florence Mezzarra. A confronting tale about Alexander who, raised to see the world through Gregori’s eyes, is starting to think for himself. CineStar 4
128mins. Dir: Burhan Qurbani. Cast: Devid Striesow, Jonas Nay, Trang Le Hong, Joel Basman. A film recounting the incident of violent xenophobic riots in Rostock in 1992 from the perspectives of three very different characters. Zoo Palast 2
Skin and Bones
(Denmark) DR Sales, 58mins. Dir: Michael Staal Dinesen. Cast: Casper Sogaard, Kristian Mogensen, Jakob Nasser. Three young guys share a friendship based on a common interest in sports, girls and partying. They also share a serious condition: progressive muscular dystrophy. The director follows them to a brothel and a party tour of Berlin. Parliament Studio
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We Are Young. We Are Strong.
(Australia) Protagonist
(Germany) Beta Cinema,
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16:20 Pele Penguin Comes to Town
(Sweden) The Yellow Affair, 73mins. Dir: Kenneth Hedenstrom, Gustav Forsberg, Fredrik Sandberg. Cast: Lennart Jahkel, Mirja Burlin, Lars Amble, Louise Hoffsten. Pele Penguin leaves the South Pole and journeys to a new and strange world. CinemaxX Studio 11
16:30 H.
(Argentina, US) The Film Sales Company, 97mins. Dir: Rania Attieh,
Latin Lover
(US) Content, 120mins. Dir: Alex Gibney. ‘Going Clear’ intimately profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how it attracts true believers and the things it does in the name of religion.
(Italy) Rai Com, 105mins. Dir: Cristina Comencini. Cast: Angela Finocchiaro, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Virna Lisi, Marisa Paredes. On the 10th anniversary of the death of Saverio Crispo, icon of the Italian cinema and latin lover, his five daughters, born from different mothers and in different countries, are brought together and get to know each other.
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Paradise in Service
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
Always Together
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Summers Downstairs
(Germany, France) ARRI Worldsales, 100mins. Dir: Tom Sommerlatte. Cast: Sebastian Frasdorf, Alice Pehlivanyan, Karin Hanczewski, Godehard Giese. The holidays of the brothers Matthias and David with their girlfriends at their parental holiday villa in France seem to show a clear balance of power between them. Only Matthias’ girlfriend wants to change something.
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(US) Content, 86mins. Dir: Alistair Legrand. Cast: Ali Larter. A high concept sci-fi horror film.
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(France) Gaumont, 100mins. Dir: Fred Grivois. Cast: Reda Kateb, Ludivine Sagnier, Johan Heldenbergh, Tcheky Karyo. A tense genre movie that will finally unveil a poignant love story.
(Czech Republic) Visible Film, 75mins. Dir: Eva Tomanova. Is there a recipe for an ideal family? Petr and Simona live in a selfmade house with the bare essentials — and their nine children. Can fatherly love become suffocating for the children? Will they be able to fit into modern society?
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Koza
(Slovakia, Czech Republic) Pluto Film, 75mins. Dir: Ivan Ostrochovsky. Cast: Peter Balaz, Zvonko Lakcevic, Jan Franek, Stanislava Bongilajova. A former Olympic boxer on a quest for his last defeat.
(Germany) Beta Cinema, 110mins. Dir: Jochen Alexander Freydank. Cast: Axel Prahl, Josef Hader, Robert Stadlober, Devid Striesow. When surveillance creates a nightmare… CinemaxX Studio 13
Misunderstood
(France, Italy) Other Angle Pictures, 106mins. Dir: Asia Argento. Cast: Giulia Salerno, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gabriel Garko. A young girl grows up in a messed-up family. Rejected by her half sisters and neglected by her parents, she wonders around Rome trying to preserve her innocence. CinemaxX Studio 17
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Wildlike
(Taiwan) Ablaze Image, 133mins. Dir: Doze Niu Chen-Zer. Cast: Ethan Juan, Jianbin Chen, Qian Wan, Yi-Han Chen. Through an unlucky lottery draw, Pao has to serve in the remote and perilous Kinmen. However, his greatest challenge is not to fight the battle but to keep his virginity in the military brothel, code name Unit 831.
(US) Inception Film Partners, 104mins. Dir: Frank Hall Green. Cast: Ella Purnell, Bruce Greenwood, Brian Geraghty, Ann Dowd. A troubled teen is sent away to Alaska. Things go badly and she is forced to escape, becoming lost in the wilderness. With nowhere else to turn, she meets a lone hiker and together they battle the elements in the last frontier.
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17:05 Dial A Prayer
(US) VMI Worldwide, 90mins. Dir: Maggie Kiley. Cast: Brittany Snow, William H Macy, Glenne Headly, Tom Lipinski. The story of a young woman who is sentenced to community service working in a prayer request call centre. She finds her own faith tested when a caller tries to convince her that she is his savior. CinemaxX Studio 16
17:15 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. Zoo Palast 5
Thank You For Calling! (Work in Progress)
(Austria) Die Schneiderei, 95mins. Dir: Klaus Scheidsteger. Cast: George Carlo, Wilhelm Mosgoller, Michael Kundi, Igor Belyaev. This documentary on cellphones and cancer follows an investigation by well-informed observers — a scientist and a journalist. Very few people are aware, but the largest litigation in history is happening behind the scenes. CinemaxX Studio 15 By invitation only
17:20 After the Ball
(Canada) Myriad Pictures, 102mins. Dir: Sean Garrity. Cast: Portia
Doubleday, Chris Noth, Marc Andre-Grondin, Lauren Holly. Kate dreams of designing couture clothing but has to take a job working for her family business, which has been taken over by her evil stepmother. She must reinvent herself to save the family business and realise her dreams.
Wyrmwood
(Australia) Altitude Film Sales, 100mins. Dir: Kiah Roache-Turner. Cast: Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill, Keith Agius. ‘Mad Max’ meets ‘Dawn of the Dead’ in this raucous post-apocalyptic epic. dffb-Kino
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(Argentina) The Match Factory, 105mins. Dir: Gustavo Taretto. Cast: Marina Bellati, Elisa Carricajo, Luisana Lopilato, Carla Peterson. Six friends share a dream: to travel to Cuba. But they are far from achieving it as they live in Buenos Aires and have no money. The long hours under the sun gradually cause heatstroke, turning the dream into an obsession.
(France) Be for Films, 85mins. Dir: Lea Fazer. Cast: Pio Marmai, Michael Lonsdale, Deborah Francois, Alice Belaidi. Keen to make his mark in the world of film, Henry finds himself starring in a small art house movie. His partner’s charm ignites emotions previously unfelt. Transformed by this unexpected experience, he finally is ready for love.
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courage to uncover two nation’s double-dealing during the Cold War.
17:40 The Valley
(Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar, UAE) Doc & Film International, 128mins. Dir: Ghassan Salhab. Cast: Carlos Chahine, Carole Abboud, Fadi Abi Samra, Mounzer Baalkabi. Following a car accident on a lone mountain road, a middle-aged man loses his memory. Drenched in blood, he continues to walk along the deserted path. CinemaxX Studio 11
17:45 The Idealist
18:00 Kakekomi
(Japan) Shochiku, 146mins. Dir: Masato Harada. Cast: Yo Oizumi, Erika Toda, Hikari Mitsushima. The divorce rate was twice as high in the Edo period as today. This film is set at a nunnery temple called Tokei-ji which was known for offering refuge to women who wanted to divorce their husbands. CineStar 4
(Denmark) LevelK, 114mins. Dir: Christina Rosendahl. Cast: Peter Plaugborg, Soeren Malling, Thomas Bo Larsen, Arly Jover. A political thriller based on one of the worst nuclear cover-ups in history. A story about power, idealism and one man’s
18:10 Results
(US) Magnolia Pictures, 105mins. Dir: Andrew Bujalski. Cast: Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi. Recently divorced, newly rich and miserable, Danny
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18:50 Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
(South Korea) Finecut, 120mins. Dir: Ha Jungwoo. Cast: Ha Jung-woo, Ha Ji-won. Based on an acclaimed Chinese novel, a story of a man who sells his blood whenever in need of money. When he discovers his son is critically ill, he sells his blood again to pay for the surgery, putting his own life in danger. CineStar 6
19:00 Chrieg
Market 18:20 The Dinner
(Italy) Rai Com, 94mins. Dir: Ivano De Matteo. Cast: Alessandro Gassman, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Luigi Lo Cascio, Barbora Bobulova. For many years two
brothers with opposite characters have been meeting once a month in a Iuxury restaurant just to respect a tradition. But one evening a security camera films the bravado of their children.
Aness Baitich. In the Atlas Mountains under the cover of night, a man and a child flee from the shadows of the past, as dark fragmentary memories of war and violence alternate with brighter moments full of lyrical beauty.
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(Switzerland) Picture Tree International, 110mins. Dir: Simon Jaquemet. Cast: Benjamin Lutzke, Ste, Ella Rumpf, Sascha Gisler. Being punished by his parents with three months of hard work on a remote farm, Matteo joins three hostile teenagers. Slowly gaining their respect, Matteo joins them on a feverish mission full of anger and violence. CinemaxX Studio 17
Tour de Force Testament of Youth
takes a trip to the gym, where he meets self-styled guru and owner Trevor, and acerbic trainer Kat. Soon, their three lives are inextricably knotted, professionally and personally. CinemaxX 1
18:15 The Tenor Lirico Spinto
(South Korea, Japan) More In Group, 120mins. Dir: Kim Sang-man. Cast: Yoo Ji-tae, Iseya Yusuke, Cha Ye-ryun, Natasa Tapuskovic. The talented Korean tenor Bae Jae-Chul is on the rise in the European opera scene. Koji Sawada is searching for a new tenor. He watches a performance of Bae and is amazed. But after a successful season, thyroid cancer strikes Bae. CinemaxX Studio 14
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International Sales, 96mins. Dir: Maria Ripoll. Cast: Nandita Das, Aina Clotet, Naby Dakhli, Subodh Maskara. Pain is universal. But so is hope. A story of hope and love between Mumbai and Barcelona; from India to the Mediterranean and all the way back. CinemaxX Studio 18
18:30 Cruel
(France) Wide/Wide House, 108mins. Dir: Eric Cherriere. Cast: Jean-Jacques Lelte, Magali Moreau, Maurice Poli, Hans Meyer. Pierre Tardieu is a parttime worker living in an old house with his sick father. No one is aware of his existence. Pierre is a serial killer. His victims are ordinary people with ordinary lives. CineStar 1
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Traces of Sandalwood
(France, Qatar) 61mins. Dir: David Yon. Cast: Lamine Bachar,
(Spain) Imagina
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(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 129mins. Dir: James Kent. Cast: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Emily Watson. A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view.
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19:10 October Gale
(US) Myriad Pictures, 91mins. Dir: Rub Nadda.
Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Scott Speedman, Tim Roth. A doctor takes in a mysterious man who washes ashore at her remote cottage with a gunshot wound. Quickly they both learn the killer has arrived to finish the job, while a storm has cut them off from the mainland.
Silvania and Dakaria throw themselves into a new adventure. Together with their human friends, the half-vampires are planning their summer holidays, just when the vampire band Krypton Krax is coming to town.
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(Austria) Films Distribution, 120mins. Dir: Karl Markovics. Gabi is a supermarket cashier with a husband and family, her life unfolding according to the standard lower-middleclass pattern. Yet her existence is turned upside down when she has an encounter with God.
19:15 600 Miles
(Mexico) NDM International Sales, 85mins. Dir: Gabriel Ripstein. Cast: Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer, Harrison Thomas, Noe Hernandez. Summer of 2010. Border between Arizona and Sonora. Arnulfo Rubio, a young man from Sinaloa, ventures into the world of arms trafficking. Hank Harris, a veteran agent from the ATF, keeps an eye on him from the other side of the border. CinemaxX 10
Vampire Sisters 2 Bats in the Belly
(Germany) ARRI Worldsales, 94mins. Dir: Wolfgang Groos. Cast: Marta Martin, Laura Antonia Roge, Christiane Paul, Stipe Erceg. The Vampire Sisters
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20:00 Superworld
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22:15 Brazilian Dream
(Brazil) 64mins. Dir: Marcelo Pedroso. Cast: Edilson Silva, Adeilton Nascimento, Giovanna Simões, Wilma Gomes. A striking avant-garde satire firmly rooted in the political which wildly edits together documentary footage and surreal images from the Brazil of the past decade to form a ravishing cinematic experience. CinemaxX 6
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18:40 Tough Love
(Germany) M-appeal — Raspberry & Cream, 89mins. Dir: Rosa von Praunheim. Cast: Luise Heyer, Hanno Koffler, Katy Karrenbauer, Marion Erdmann. Depicting Andreas Marquardt’s troubled past with his parents, his brutal treatment of women, his stint as a pimp and his jail sentence, this docu-fiction also tells how he went through therapy to make a new beginning.
Market 19:00 Tour de Force
(Germany) Beta Cinema, 95mins. Dir: Christian Zubert. Cast: Florian David Fitz, Julia Koschitz,
Jurgen Vogel, Miriam Stein. The poignant story of a group of friends who set out on a bicycle journey that will change their lives forever. CinemaxX Studio 13
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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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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. Peter Greenaway
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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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