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Herzog to scale supervolcano

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN AND JEREMY KAY

Golden Bear contender Werner Herzog is eyeing an April start on Salt And Fire, his Queen Of The Desert follow-up that is generating heat for sales agent International Film Trust (IFT).

German actress Veronica Ferres (Klimt) will star in the romantic thriller about a scientist in South America who clashes with the head of the corporation responsible for an ecological disaster.

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When she learns of the potential eruption of a supervolcano in the region, the scientist teams up with her nemesis to avert a global catastrophe.

Herzog wrote the script and will produce with his Queen Of The Desert collaborator and Margin Call producer Michael Benaroya alongside Nina Maag of Construction Film and Pablo Cruz of Canana Films. The production is in talks with a US star to play the male lead and plans to shoot Salt

And Fire on the Bolivian salt flats.

“I couldn’t be more pleased to be endeavouring on another journey with Werner Herzog,” said Benaroya, a backer of IFT. “He is a truly special film-maker and person. I believe this project will exceed the high expectations that come with any film he directs.”

In an interview with Screen, director Herzog confirmed the project and said of Benaroya: “It [Queen Of The Desert] was a very pleasant collaboration with Michael

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NEWS Making Sense Ritesh Batra in talks for next film » Page 2

REVIEW Ixcanul A sensitive story, shot beautifully » Page 10

BREAKING NEWS Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American and Latin American rights from Beta Cinema to Oliver Hirschbiegel’s out of competition title, 13 Minutes.

Funny Balloons has sold Pablo Larrain’s Competition title The Club to France (Wild Bunch) and the UK (Network Releasing).

Wenders dreams of Beaux Jours

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

German auteur Wim Wenders is planning to shoot Les Beaux Jours d’Aranjuez in June.

The project was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during EFM. The film is an adaptation of the play by Peter Handke.

It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. The film will be an Alfama/Road Movies co-production, to be sold by Alfama.

The film marks a reunion between Wenders and veteran Portuguese producer Branco, who first worked with the film-maker on The State Of Things (1982).

Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine will receive its world premiere out of competition on Tuesday and is sold by Hanway.

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Martin Scorsese has joined upcoming Ben Wheatley action film Free Fire as an executive producer.

Kill List director Wheatley has cited Scorsese’s Goodfellas and Casino as influences for Free Fire, a hard-boiled crime movie set in 1978 Boston that sees a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shootout and a game of survival. Wheatley is in post-production on anticipated dystopian thriller High-Rise, starring Tom Hiddleston.

Free Fire is set to shoot in the second quarter of 2015 with a cast including Luke Evans, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde and Michael Smiley. Andy Starke and Rook Films are producing.

Scorsese and his partner in Sikelia Productions, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, will both serve as executive producers on the film.

Scorsese previously lent his name to the US release campaign of Wheatley’s A Field In England, calling it “audacious and wildly brilliant. A stunning cinematic experience.”

“I wouldn’t be making films if it wasn’t for Martin Scorsese,” said Wheatley. “I think that’s the case for a lot of directors. It’s an honour and an extreme thrill to have him involved in this project.”

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Benaroya. Michael is a young man of great human depth. It’s good to work with a man like that.”

“Veronica is a talented actress who brings integrity to every role she is in and is perfectly cast as Laura, in what will be a visually stunning film,” said IFT president Christian de Gallegos.

Meanwhile, US buyers were last night circling Herzog’s Berlinale Competition entry Queen Of The Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson and James Franco.

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Branco has also announced several other projects. This year, Benoit Jacquot should finally shoot Alfama’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2001 novella, The Body Artist.

The film, now to be titled Son Corps, will star Julia Roy. Branco is also preparing La Jeunesse, a contemporary adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s autobiographical short story Youth to shoot in March. Julien Samani is to direct.

Kévin Azaïs is attached to star.

Another Branco project, due to shoot in Brazil later this autumn, is Tropical, scripted by Barry Gifford and to be directed by Giada Colagrande. Willem Dafoe and Irene Jacob are attached. Aflame will be handling sales.

Moviehouse tunes in to Temple Natalie Portman in Berlin at the Q&A for documentary The Seventh Fire, on which she is a producer. The film, about a Native American gang leader, is directed by Jack Pettibone Riccobono and presented by Terrence Malick.

Relativity uses its Killer instinct Relativity International, here in Berlin with Gerard Butler thriller HunterKiller, has updated key relationships in its global distribution network.

It has signed a new output deal with Tele München Group for Relativity Studios productions in Germany and Austria. A new partnership in the Philippines will see

Viva distribute Relativity Studios films and third-party titles overseen

by Relativity International.

Meanwhile, Relativity International president Camela Galano and Imagem have extended the Latin American deal covering Relativity Studios titles and third-party fare on the Relativity International slate.

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BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

UK sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment has boarded international rights to Julien Temple’s The Ecstasy Of Wilko Johnson.

The Essential Arts/Nitrate Film Production documentary, from producers Richard Conway and Andrew Curtis, follows the story of acclaimed musician Wilko Johnson who was told he had months to live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but staged a remarkable recovery while still managing to tour.

The film is in the latter stages of post-production and will premiere

at SXSW in Austin this March.

Temple, known for acclaimed music documentaries The Filth And The Fury and Glastonbury, said: “I was astonished by Wilko on Oil City Confidential when I realised the depth of his eccentricity and wisdom, and wanted to celebrate the inspirational way he dealt with his death sentence, and in the end he confounded us all.”

Mark Vennis of Moviehouse added: “We are delighted to bring this unique and cinematic story to the market and to have the opportunity to work with Julien, whose work we have admired for so long.”

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Wide dances with Japan on ballet doc

rainbow producer adds colour to indian market

By Geoffrey MacnaB

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Wide House has sold ballet documentary Ulyana Lopatkina to Japan. The film, directed by Marlene Ionesco (A Life For Ballet), explores the career of Ulyana Lopatkina, prima ballerina at the Kirov Ballet. It has been picked up for Japan by Showgate in an allrights deal.

The company is also beginning pre-sales here on what could be a controversial documentary from Marcel Ophüls, the French director of The Sorrow And The Pity.

The new film, entitled Unpleasant Truths and made by Ophüls with Eyal Sivan, asks whether Islamophobia is the new antiSemitism and explores “the very strange link between the far right in Europe and Israel”.

Just prior to EFM, Wide sold its German cinema documentary From Caligari To Hitler to US distributor Kino Lorber.

Wide House has three titles in official selection at the Berlinale: Finding Gaston in the culinary section, Misfits in Panorama and Nuclear Nation II in Forum.

Wide is also continuing presales on Johan Grimonprez’s Shadow World, a documentary about the murky world of the international arms business.

Manish Mundra, producer of Generation Kplus title Rainbow (Dhanak), has set up Mumbaibased Drishyam Films to finance content-driven Indian cinema, including Neeraj Ghaywan’s Masan, a co-production with Pathé and Arte in France.

India’s Phantom Films and Paris-based Melita Toscan du Plantier are also co-producing the drama, featuring three interweaving stories based on different relationships. Pathé is handling

international sales on the film, which is in post-production.

“I believe quality films with strong content can connect with audiences in India and overseas, especially now we have social media to help us,” said Mundra, who also produced Sundance audience-award winner Umrika.

He plans to produce two or three story-driven Indian films a year and is also looking to invest in English and French-language projects. Drishyam aims to handle the Indian distribution of its films.

The CEO of Nigeria-based oil company Indorama Eleme, Mundra was drawn into the film business a year ago via Twitter. His first film was Rajat Kapoor’s critically acclaimed Ankhon Dekhi, which he backed after reading Kapoor’s tweets.

Drishyam’s upcoming projects also include Anu Menon’s drama Waiting, about a man whose wife is in a coma.

Naseeruddin Shah, Kapoor and Kalki Koechlin star in the film, which is also in post.

Ritesh Batra closes in on Ending

By Geoffrey MacnaB

Ritesh Batra, director of Indian hit The Lunchbox, is in advanced talks to direct an adaptation of awardwinning novel The Sense Of An Ending.

The film, based on Julian Barnes’ tale of a retired man looking back on an old friendship, is in advanced development with UK production outfit Origin Pictures and is also backed by BBC Films.

The adaptation has been scripted

by Nick Payne.

Origin boss David Thompson said of the project: “We’ve been

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overwhelmed by offers and we’re going to be making it this year.”

Also on Origin’s EFM slate is crime drama Silencers, scripted by Matt Greenhalgh and billed as “a thrilling story of a unit of young

policemen who combat gun crime”.

The drama is likely to shoot this year, directed by Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders). It is being backed by BBC Films, which is also getting behind Origin’s A Tale Of Two Cities. Scripted by David Farr, the Charles Dickens adaptation is aiming for a 2016 shoot.

Here at Berlin, Origin’s Woman In Gold, starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds, is a world premiere tomorrow. It will be released

by The Weinstein Company in the US and by Entertainment Film Distributors in the UK in April.

Dutch-German treaty signed

By Geoffrey MacnaB

The long-awaited Dutch-German film co-production treaty was signed at the Berlinale yesterday.

It was all smiles as the Dutch minister for education, culture and science Jet Bussemaker, and Germany’s minister for culture and media Monika Grütters (pictured from left to right) together with Andreas Görgen, head of culture and communication at the Federal Foreign Office signed the treaty.

BerliN Briefs Distribution in spotlight Screen will host today’s EFM Industry Debate on ‘producers and alternative distribution’. Panellists include Gareth Unwin of Bedlam Pictures, Cristina Garza from Mundial Sales, Robert Franke of Viewster, Sigrid Dyekjaer from Danish Documentary and Olivier Kaempfer of Parkville Pictures and Film London. The session will be held at the Gropius Mirror Restaurant, 4:00pm-5:00pm.

Duelo makes its debut

Bloom boosts senior team Alex Walton and Ken Kao’s Bloom has announced a string of key hires in marketing, sales, finance and business affairs.

Beth McPhee, previously of Exclusive Media, arrives as EVP of international marketing and publicity while Christine Reppert, formerly of Viacom, joins as SVP of business affairs.

Gabrielle Stewart becomes SVP of international sales and most recently worked at Exclusive Media as SVP of sales, previously serving seven years as VP at Focus Features International.

Former Film Finances Inc and Bank Of Ireland executive James de Gallegos joins as VP of finance,

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while manager of international marketing Mallory Thomasson held the same role at Exclusive Media. Zach Glueck arrives from Lionsgate as manager of international sales.

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films Distribution finds its Marx

By Martin Blaney

Films Distribution is to handle international sales on Haiti-born Raoul Peck’s long-gestating project, The Young Karl Marx, about the budding friendship between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

August Diehl, who was selected as Germany’s Shooting Star at the Berlinale in 2000, will portray Marx, while Engels will be played by Alexander Fehling, one of the Shooting Stars line-up in 2011. He is best known to international audiences as staff sergeant Wilhelm in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and was the title character in Young Goethe In Love.

The Young Karl Marx is being structured as a France-Germany-

Myriad Pictures is handling world sales at EFM on Olga Kurylenko thriller Duelo. Spanish actor Jordi Molla also stars in the directorial debut of the Spanish-Italian duo Molla and Giuseppe Ferlito.

aldamisa on ice Aldamisa has acquired sales rights to Royal Ice, about Monaco’s Prince Albert II and his battle to pull together the country’s Olympic bobsleigh team. Set to shoot later this year, Aldamisa will finance and produce. alexander fehling

Belgium co-production between Agat films & Cie and Peck’s own company Velvet Film, with Berlin and Leipzig-based Rohfilm and Belgian producer Patrick Quinet’s Artemis Productions. Principal photography is set for summer.

clive owen is confirmed Clive Owen will play a down-on-hisluck carpenter in Arclight Films title The Confirmation, a comedy drama from Great Point Media that marks the feature directorial debut of Nebraska screenwriter Bob Nelson.

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Romanian fund makes April bow

Astro seeds HBO drama

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Romania’s first regional film fund is to be launched in April. Transilvania Film Fund (TFF) will have an initial budget of at least $110,000 as part of a publicprivate partnership.

Speaking to Screen ahead of this year’s Berlinale Co-Production Market, TFF’s executive director Cristian Hordila said the venture is financed by the city of Cluj, where Transilvania International Film Festival is held each June.

The aim is to have other cities in Transilvania board the initiative as financial partners in the future.

TFF will support the production of feature films including international co-productions, the development of local film projects, shorts and documentaries, further training of film-makers through masterclasses and the creation of a film commission.

Malaysia’s Astro Shaw has optioned Tan Twan Eng’s awardwinning novel The Garden Of Evening Mists, which it plans to adapt as an English-language feature to be co-produced with HBO Asia.

Set across three time periods, the book follows a woman who lost her sister during the Japanese occupation of Malaysia and later becomes the apprentice and lover

of a Japanese gardener in the Cameron Highlands.

“We see it as a project that will really showcase the best of Malaysia in terms of literature, culture and locations,” said Astro VP business development Najwa Abu Bakar. Acclaimed dramatist and actor Huzir Sulaiman is scripting the adaptation.

The project joins an expanding production slate for Astro Shaw, the film arm of pay-TV giant Astro,

which is reaching out to international markets with both commercial and festival-friendly films.

The company is also expanding its investments into non-Malaysian projects, including Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s highly anticipated Love In Khon Kaen and Hong Kong-set comedy ATM, directed by Kenne Yam. “We see this as a way to raise production quality in Malaysia,” said Abu Bakar.

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EFP’s sHOOTING sTars 2015 EmmI ParvIaINEN Finland What was your big break?

In 2013 I played the lead in The Princess Of Egypt by Jan Forsström.

tight and gruesome grip, while still maintaining a compassionate and humane sensibility.

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

I admire Lars von Trier’s ability to hold his characters and his audience in a

What are you working on next?

There are some interesting and inspiring projects coming up.

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Close Range targets deals

By Jeremy kAy

Blue Box International has closed key territories here on Scott Adkins action thriller Close Range, which wrapped production last week.

B l e i b e rg E n te r t a i n m e n t licensed the US to XLrator Media and Canada to VVS. Blue Box has closed deals with Latin America (California Filmes), eastern Europe and Africa (Daro), France (AB Groupe), Benelux (Dutch Filmworks), Spain (Second Gen Pictures), Turkey (Moviebox), China (HGC), India (SGN Mediaworks) and Middle East (Eagle Films).

Adkins, whose credits include The Expendables 2, reunites with director Isaac Florentine, who directed him in the Ninja and Undisputed franchises. Chad Law and Shane Dax Taylor wrote the screenplay for Close Range. Ehud Bleiberg serves as producer.

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Shadowland by John Skoog

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Dyke Hard by Bitte Andersson

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Flocking by Beata Gårdeler Play Time by Nanna Huolman

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Scoop readies road comedy

Scope50 gets the vote

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By Wendy Mitchell

Scoop Films, the UK production company that has The Beat Beneath My Feet as an international premiere in Generation 14plus, has greenlit its next feature, After Louise.

The film will start shooting in the UK on June 29, and a director will be confirmed soon.

Scoop’s Michael Mueller, who also wrote The Beat Beneath My Feet, writes the original screenplay, about a teenage girl running away from her wedding, who meets an agoraphobic hotel worker she accidentally takes hostage on a road trip. “It’s a story of redemption,” says Scoop producer Fiona Gillies.

After Louise will be delivered in early 2016. The music-driven The Beat Beneath My Feet stars newcomer Nicholas Galitzine alongside Luke Perry and marks the feature debut of director John Williams.

Festival Scope and Poland’s Gutek Film have developed an arthouse distribution initiative to stimulate audience interest in independent European films.

The project, titled Scope50, has been developed with Soda Pictures (UK), Aero Films (Czech Republic), Stadtkino (Austria), and Cinefil (Hungary), and is supported by Creative Europe’s audience development strand.

In each partner country, 50 film lovers have been recruited to act as the Scope50 community. Each person will watch 10 selected films and vote for the one to be released in that country.

The films, which vary by territory, include Berlinale Panorama title Out Of Nature, San Sebastian winner Magical Girl, Cannes hit Party Girl, Venice selection Goodnight Mommy and Sundance 2014 award winner Blind.

The vote continues until the end of February, and the winners will be released theatrically in each territory starting this summer. Rights will be negotiated with each chosen film’s sales company. The second edition for 2016 will aim to involve larger audiences in each country, as well as adding new territories in Europe.

The project is being presented in Berlin tomorrow at the Creative Europe conference.

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EFP’s sHOOTING sTars 2015 abbEy HOEs NetherlaNds What was your big break?

Boudewijn Koole’s TV drama Maite Was Here.

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

Wes Anderson. He is such a colourful film-maker. All of his shots are like little

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paintings and I really appreciate what he gets out of his actors.

What are you working on next?

I just shot the movies Ventoux and Escape and the TV series Black Tulip.

They will all be released in this year.

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NonStop spree scores seven

By Geoffrey MacnaB

Swedish distributor NonStop Entertainment has been on a buying spree, snapping up seven titles in EFM. The company has taken Scandinavian and Baltic rights for Peter Strickland’s The Duke Of Burgundy from Protagonist. It has also snapped up X+Y from Bankside Films and will distribute in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Baltics.

NonStop has taken This Is England ’90 from Warp Films for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Baltics.

Other pick ups include Julio Medem’s Ma Ma from Seville International; Dear White People from The Exchange; Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot from The Weinstein Company for Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland; and Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini, sold

by Funny Balloons.

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Ixcanul Reviewed by Lee Marshall Guatemala’s active Pacaya volcano is a symbol both of ancient traditions and modern threats in this absorbing, beautifully shot film about the consequences of a peasant girl’s pre-marital pregnancy. First-time director Jayro Bustamante steers Ixcanul (Ixcanul Volcano) on a steady course, mostly avoiding ethno-arthouse clichés by focusing on characters, especially the mother and daughter, who are the sympathetic focus of this sensitive, male-directed women’s film.

There is also social and political resonance in the story’s setting, a coffee-growing community that for all its folk wisdom and pre-Christian spiritual traditions is not a world apart. The big city where the bosses and bureaucrats come from, and the lure of emigration to the US — which one character places somewhere “on the other side of the volcano” — are constant disruptive forces.

Much credit too must go to the actors, all non-professionals who were discovered by the director via community meetings and theatre workshops. There is no Brechtian alienation here: these are committed yet unmannered performances that help to flesh out what might otherwise be a thin story. Ixcanul was picked up by Spanish sales company Film Factory for all territories except Central America, France and Switzerland after attracting strong buzz at

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COMPETITION Guat-Fr. 2015. 90mins Director-screenplay Jayro Bustamante Production companies La Casa de Produccion, Tu Vas Voir International sales Film Factory, info@filmfactory.es Producers Marina Peralta, Pilar Peredo, Edgard Tenembaum, Jayro Bustamante Cinematography Luis Armando Arteaga Editor Cesar Diaz Production designer Pilar Peredo Music Pascual Reyes Main cast Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin Coroy

San Sebastian’s Films in the Progress sidebar in 2014, and an upbeat critical and audience reaction at the Berlinale should guide it towards arthouse berths in more than a handful of territories.

This is by no means a travelogue but the majesty of the locations will not hurt its prospects: it is probably no coincidence that one of the backers credited is the Guatemala Tourist Board.

The film’s focus, Maria (Maria Mercedes Coroy), is in her late teens and lives in a shack on the fringes of the volcano with her mother Juana (Telon) and father Manuel (Antun), who works as an overseer on a nearby coffee plantation. The rough beauty of the landscape and the budding purity of Maria’s half-modest, halfsulky features contrast with the harsh realities of the family’s near-subsistence lifestyle.

A pair of pigs is brought to copulate and later one is slaughtered; the scenes cast a shadow over Maria’s own nascent sexual feelings, which she centres on moody young plantation worker Pepe (Marvin Coroy), who plans to emigrate to the US. But Maria’s family has other ideas, setting up a marriage between her and plantation foreman Ignacio (Lorenzo), a big fish in this small pond who, unlike Maria’s Kaqchikel-speaking family, speaks a smattering of Spanish.

Later scenes that see Ignacio interpret selectively in exchanges between the family and two different public officials bring home neatly a deep fracture in Guatemalan society, in which a failure to speak Spanish (and there are no fewer than 24 Mayan languages spoken here) inevita-

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bly leads to exploitation and disempowerment.

In giving herself to a drunken Pepe, Maria hopes to persuade him to take her overland to the US; but he departs alone, leaving her pregnant. She seems at first to have fallen into one of those cycles of entrapment that perpetuate misery and poverty — like Pepe himself, who spends all the money he earns in the plantation at the bar set up by the owners, and can only break the cycle by running away.

But there is an inner strength in Maria and her mother that is lacking in any of the film’s men, obsessed as they are with money, drink and copulation. Some of this strength is linked to the black, smoking volcano, where the two women go to pray to the spirits; but later this connection is questioned, shown to be a false god. This is a world poised between shamans and shams, between charms designed to cast out ‘sacred’ poisonous snakes and chemical repellent imported from the US. Tellingly, neither works.

There is something too hastily sketched about the film’s final act, revolving around a national scandal relating to the babies of Guatemalan peasant women. But the script holds back from sensationalism; in the end it is the welfare of a vulnerable woman that it has at heart — a vulnerability that is well captured by Luis Armando Arteaga’s crisp widescreen cinematography, which so often sets Maria, alone or with her mother, as the only thing of colour in a grey and barren landscape.

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REVIEWS

Victoria Reviewed by Lee Marshall Looking for the editor credit? German director Sebastian Schipper’s fourth feature does not have one: it was shot in a single take, in the same time it takes to watch the film. That’s great for cinematic completists who will want to add Victoria to a single-take film list that now includes Russian Ark, Uruguayan horror pic The Silent House and (if you allow analogue or digital trickery) both Hitchcock’s Rope and Inarritu’s Birdman.

If on the other hand all you are interested in is a good film, the news is mixed: this story of a young Spanish girl getting more than she bargained for when she hooks up with four Berlin lads after a night spent clubbing has moments of real adrenalin and an engaging, if somewhat sentimental, view of proletarian male camaraderie, not to mention the buzz of a tender love

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COMPETITION Ger. 2015. 139mins Director Sebastian Schipper Production companies MonkeyBoy, Deutschfilm, RadicalMedia, WDR, Arte International sales The Match Factory, info@match-factory.de Producers Jan Dressler, Sebastian Schipper, Anatol Nitschke, Catherine Baikousis, David Keitsch Screenplay Sebastian Schipper, Olivia Neergaard-Holm Music Nils Frahm Main cast Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit

story that — no mean feat — traces a reasonably satisfying dramatic arc in a little over two hours of real time.

It is just a shame the story itself, once you clear away the one-take smokescreen, also feels like it was made up in a single session after a night spent clubbing. Particularly after the midway dramatic turning point, it stretches character credibility, and resorts too much to criminal-underworld cliché and the driving pace of its own perpetual motion, which curiously does nothing to paper over the longueurs in certain over-stretched sequences.

Young Spanish talent Laia Costa puts in a livewire performance as Victoria, a vivacious twenty-something — though she looks younger — who is first seen bopping alone in a strobe-lit dance trance at a Berlin nightclub. Outside, she meets four drunken lads, not the kind a girl alone might normally hook up with — but Victoria has a fearless streak, a sort of willing naivety, that attracts her to the group of friends — especially Sonne (Lau), the only one of the

four who, in his inarticulate laddish way, seems to aspire to better things and wider views.

She has no German, which is odd given she works in a local café, so they all converse in more or less broken English, with Victoria left out of the friends’ Berliner slang exchanges — a cause of tension as the jeopardy kicks in when skinhead Boxer (Rogowski) is asked to do a favour for a gangland boss straight from central casting, in return for the protection he enjoyed while in prison.

You have to admire the stamina of Norwegian cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grovlen, who gamely climbs stairs, gives chase and dives into cars as the action unfolds. But some of the best scenes are the quieter ones — like the one set on the apartment rooftop, an old hang out for the friends, where the young male group dynamics are subtly exposed by the intrusion of this smart, pretty girl.

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Queen Of Earth Reviewed by David D’Arcy

600 Miles Reviewed by Dan Fainaru For his directorial debut, Gabriel Ripstein, the son of celebrated Mexican director Arturo Ripstein and a former executive of Sony Pictures’ Mexico office, tries his hand in genres ranging from youth delinquency through to organised crime, before settling on what is essentially a typical road movie.

If the script is not always as neat as one would expect at least the result is satisfactory, thanks to the authoritative presence of Tim Roth (an executive producer) as a US federal agent tracking arms traffickers, and of young talent Kristyan Ferrer as an adolescent apprentice in crime, whose conduct alternates between Travis Bickle braggadocio — when he is alone in front of a mirror — and snivelling terror in the face of real life.

Driving vans, packed with weapons, from the US to Mexico for one of the countless minor crime families, Arnulfo Rubio (Ferrer) already sees himself a gangster.

He has a cool US partner of his own age who buys weaponry across the counter in any shop just north of the border. He looks innocent enough to pass easily though customs on returning from yet another “visit with my uncle”, but he is certainly not smart or experienced enough to notice US agent Hank Harris (Roth), on his tail.

In an inept attempt to arrest Rubio, Harris is mugged and in an equally incredible decision, the terrified Rubio — despite being afraid of his own shadow — takes Harris prisoner to pass him on to his godfather south of the border. On the way, the two of them show signs of bonding before Rubio realises his gift is not appreciated by his bosses. Plus it is suggested Harris may have engineered the capture to work his way into enemy territory.

A modest production, Ripstein’s direction shows little interest in the details of the plot, but is more successful when underlining the unbearable ease of acquiring arms in any US shop and taking them over the border, while at the same time implying close relations between Mexican criminals and their law enforcement system.

Demystifying the image and the plot to the extent that he drains good guys and bad guys alike of any glamour whatsoever, Ripstein has Harris as one of the plainest secret agents around. He is more like a family man who goes about his gory business before heading home for breakfast with his family, while Ferrer’s Rubio seems closer to ridicule than he is to the confident portrait of heroism he tries to project.

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Who needs tragedy when friends can make you horribly miserable in your time of need? A young woman has the worst of both worlds in this delicately calibrated portrait of dissolution that points to the versatility of writer/ director Alex Ross Perry.

Queen Of Earth’s taut pace and polished neo-Hitchcock chill will strengthen Perry’s ties to the cinephile crowd, and Elisabeth Moss’s turn as a woman unwound will rally the critics. Yet even with an indie star like Moss, the film’s icy interior is unlikely to take it past a festival embrace and beyond the hipster arthouse crowd.

Stellar cinematography in soft 16mm by Sean Price Williams creates a look for the film that could vault Perry and Williams into higher budgets. Elegantly captured misery may be tough to sell widely, but it makes for an exquisite calling card.

The film opens with tactile, tearful close-ups as we learn that Catherine (Moss) has just lost her father — it was depression, she says — when her boyfriend James (Kentucker Audley) reveals he has been unfaithful while she has been in anguish. To ease her compounded pain, she dumps James and heads to the lake house owned by Virginia (Katherine Waterston).

Having set the tone with tight shots of a pained Catherine and ominous bells in Keegan DeWitt’s unsettling score, Perry gnaws away at his characters’ discomfort.

Waterston is relentless as Virginia, probing Catherine’s vulnerabilities as she takes apart her friend. Rich (Patrick Fugit), Virginia’s casual bedmate from a nearby house, finds ways to taunt the troubled Catherine and rub salt even deeper into her wounds, or so Catherine feels.

Moss (filmed mostly at point-blank range) fills the house with pain to cause as much unease as empathy.

Waterston reminds us that another’s weaknesses can bring out the worst in a friend.

To their credit, Perry and cinematographer Williams are not limited to the confines of the unhappy house, as they use the lake to frame the drama. Its surface reflects the house in its remarkable stillness, while jagged abstract patterns portray the tense fraying of Catherine’s psyche. Keegan’s spare score has an insistent power of suggestion, hinting that, if this were a more literalminded neo-Hitchcock endeavour, the ever-present water might hold a solution for ridding the tense tale of any of these unhappy souls.

FoRum US. 2015. 90mins Director/screenplay Alex Ross Perry Production companies Forager Film Company, Faliro House, Washington Square Films, Her majesty September Productions International sales match Factory www.thematch-factory.com Producers Elisabeth moss, Alex Ross Perry, Joe Swanberg, Adam Piotrowicz Executive producers Peter Gilbert, Edwin Linker, Christos V Konstantakopoulos Cinematography Sean Price Williams Editor Robert Greene Music Keegan DeWitt Main cast Elisabeth moss, Katherine Waterston, Patrick Fugit, Kentucker Audley

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Misfits Reviewed by Jonathan Romney Tulsa, Oklahoma, the so-called ‘Buckle of the Bible Belt’, is — as the opening titles of Misfits inform us — a city with more than 4,000 churches and only one lesbian and gay youth centre. This facility, the Openarms Youth Project, is the inspiration for Jannik Splidsboel’s engaging documentary, which focuses on three of the project’s regulars, but also offers a wider perspective on life if you are young and different in the US heartland.

Though not formally mould-breaking, this downbeat but visually stylish essay is an intimate portrait piece with a strong undertow of political commitment. Its brief running time will limit theatrical prospects, but Misfits is a must for festivals, especially those with LGBT and youth agendas, and it offers healthy appeal for online and broadcasting buyers.

Homophobia is established as a given at the start, when we see demonstrators carrying placards that rage ‘Remember Sodom and Gomarrha’ [sic]. But — notwithstanding the occasional ranter glimpsed in the street or heard off-screen — the film does not need to bang home this theme, since it emerges as a constant challenge in the lives of its subjects. Benny (19) is a gay man who has a testy but ultimately tender relationship with his brother Gage, who had originally reacted violently to Benny’s coming out.

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PANORAMA DOCUMeNTARY Den-Swe. 2015. 66mins Director Jannik Splidsboel Production companies Sonntag Pictures, Mantaray Film International sales Wide House, www.widehouse.org Producer Sara Stockmann Co-producer Stina Gardell Cinematography Henrik Bohn ipsen Editor Mikael Kloster ebbesen Music Mathias Blomdahl

enjoying downtime with her impish girlfriend, trying on stylised beard make-up and attending school with a wig over her own close-cropped hair. Perhaps the most idiosyncratic figure of the film’s three subjects is 16-year-old ‘D’. Seemingly old beyond his years, D lives alone in austere conditions, is formidably intelligent and adopts a tough street-kid persona, fedoras included. His story involves abuse from his mother and a belated reunion with his dad, who turns out to be far from the monster D had been led to expect.

There are potent moments of emotional directness; in fact, Misfits suffers slightly from having its most moving scene near the start, as Benny’s family sit together and Gage tearfully confesses his own initial homophobic response

to his brother. Benny is certainly the performer of the film, a natural show-off bantering with his supportive mother and clearly devoted to testing Gage’s limits.

Less extrovert is the somewhat diffident Larissa, but we also see her experimenting with self-presentation, not least dressing in female glam for a Project party.

An eye for urban detail inevitably recalls photographer William Eggleston, although Splidsboel never gratuitously lays on the Americana.

He offers a vivid insight into a harsh aspect of life in the US, but the overall picture, especially when we see the Openarms regulars hanging out together, is of the liberating force of community spirit and solidarity.

mother Fay (Parker Posey) continues to languish in prison as a convicted terrorist but has been transferred to a less punitive establishment. Ned leaves the reverend David Gardner (Martin Donovan) and the family who have sheltered him, vowing to kill the one man who has been the architect of all his family’s woes — his father Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan).

A God-fearing virgin who is saving himself for marriage, Ned heads to New York and Seattle in search of his father. His quest for revenge brings him into contact with his uncle Simon (James Urbaniak), now pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian, and with femme fatale Susan (Aubrey Plaza), a young woman who seems dangerously obsessed with every member of Ned’s family.

There is enough plot in Ned Rifle to sustain several cheesy television soap operas but it is largely played as a bone-dry comedy. Hartley’s film is a screwball farce invested with a hip indie sensibility and filled with garrulous characters spouting philosophical banter and intellectual rants. It is intentionally arch and artificial with an awkward self-consciousness in the performances.

You appreciate this is all part of Hartley’s dis-

tinctive style but the laughter provoked is just as often at the absurdity of it all rather than as a result of it actually being funny.

Hartley’s approach seems designed to prevent any genuine emotional entanglement in what unfolds. The same voice seems to be running through many of the characters and the prison scenes between a brittle, perky Posey and son Aiken would seem more at home in a John Waters film like Serial Mom.

Ned Rifle Reviewed by Allan Hunter A quarter of a century has passed since Hal Hartley charmed critics and made waves with The Unbelievable Truth and Trust. A great deal has changed in the making and selling of films since then but there are few signs of progress or growth in Hartley’s work to judge by Ned Rifle.

The concluding film in a trilogy that began with Henry Fool (1997) is, at least, an improvement on Fay Grim (2006). It should stir the attention of hardcore Hartley admirers while remaining an acquired taste for audiences beyond his loyal fanbase.

There is a drab, flat look to Ned Rifle suggesting this is a film made with the most modest resources. A budget of $400,000 was raised as part of a Kickstarter campaign but fans of the trilogy should still welcome the return of all the major characters and a scenario in which the sins of the past return to torment the present.

They may also welcome the chance to revisit the earlier titles in the trilogy.

On the day Ned (Liam Aiken) turns 18 he is free to leave the witness protection programme that has concealed his identity and protected his innocence for the past four years. His

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PANORAMA SPeCiAL US. 2014. 85mins Director/screenplay/ music Hal Hartley Production company Possible Films, LLC International sales Fortissimo Films, www.fortissimo.nl Producers Hal Hartley, Matthew Myers Cinematography Vladimir Subotic Editor Kyle Gilman Production designer Richard Sylvarnes Main cast Liam Aiken, Aubrey Plaza, Martin Donovan, Parker Posey, Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak

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(US) Versatile. 100mins.

Dir: Sebastian Silva. Cast: Kristen Wiig, Sebastian Silva, Tunde Adebimpe.

Brooklyn, NYC. Freddy and his partner Mo want to have a baby with help from a female friend.

Complications during their attempts to conceive and mounting harassment from a neighbour paint a critical portrait of the self-absorption of all those involved.

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(France, Belgium) Elle Driver. 96mins. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Lea Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet.

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.

Sardonic reflections on the impotence of the powerful

and the power of the apparently powerless.

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(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.

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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.

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(Chile, Argentina) New Europe Film Sales.

60mins. Dir: Dominga

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(UK) FilmNation Entertainment.

103mins. Dir: Bill Condon. Cast: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker.

In the country house where he has secluded himself, the venerable 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 Press only Cinemaxx 6

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(Guatemala, Mexico) 74mins. Dir: Ana V Bojorquez, Lucia Carreras. Cast: Gloria Lopez, Maria Lopez, Myriam Bravo.

The most exciting day in Rocio’s life. The Mayan girl’s mother has gone into labour and now she must bring the sheep down off the mountains alone,

detective Sherlock Holmes is pursued by old cases. A film about truth and legend, age and memory, and the chance to finally make peace with oneself.

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though she is really too young for the job. When she loses the herd she manages to rise above herself.

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(Austria) 91mins. Dir: Peter Kern. Cast: Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder, Heinz Trixner, Traute Furtner, Margarethe Tiesel, Oliver Rosskopf, Paul Matic, Stephanie Furstenberg.

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.

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

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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to throw one of his paper planes on an incredible flight, he starts dreaming of participating in the world championships. Despite the challenges, his friendship with a Japanese girl helps him reach for the stars.

(Australia) Arclight. 97mins. Dir: Robert Connolly. Cast: Ed Oxenbould, Sam Worthington, Ena Imai, Nicholas Bakopoulos-Cooke, Julian Dennison, Deborah Mailman, Terry Norris.

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Dir: Mark Dornford-May. Cast: Pauline Malefane, Sifiso Lupuzi, Mhlekazi (Wha Wha) Mosiea, Busisiwe Ngejane,.

Mark Dornford-May transposes Puccini’s

opera ‘La Boheme’ to the townships of contemporary South Africa and in doing so reveals the everyday lives of the poor who live there and their fight against tuberculosis.

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(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.

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Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez.

In Bagdad, the Grand Vizier Jaffar has King Ahmad cast into a dungeon and takes power for himself. But with the help of young thief, Abu, the king manages to liberate himself from the tyrant’s grip. An ‘Arabian’ movie evening of more than 1001 colours.

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Dir: JK Youn. Cast: Hwang Jung-min, Kim Yunjin, Oh Dal-su, Jung Jin-young.

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(US) 132mins. Dir: Brett Morgen. Cast: Kurt Cobain, Wendy O’Connor, Don Cobain, Jenny Cobain, Kimberly Cobain, Tracy Marander, Krist Novoselic, Courtney Love.

An intimate look at the life and work of the founder of grunge band Nirvana.

their first shared flat. But when she is invited to compete in a prestigious international music competition, she puts herself under so much pressure that her nerves begin to devour her daily life.

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(France, Belgium) Elle Driver. 96mins. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Lea Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet.

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(Germany) 80mins.

Dir: Isabell Suba. Cast: Anne Haug, Matthias Weidenhofer, Eva Bay. Isabell Suba, ambitious up-and-coming director, has made it — one of her short films is in the line-up of the most important film festival of the world. lola at berlinale Zoo Palast 2

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98mins. Dir: Jakob M Erwa. Cast: Esther Maria Pietsch, Tatja Seibt, Matthias Lier, Hermann Beyer.

Cello student Jessica moves with her boyfriend into

(Guatemala, France) Film Factory Entertainment.

90mins. Dir: Jayro Bustamante. Cast: Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun, Justo Lorenzo.

(US) FilmNation Entertainment. 118mins.

Dir: Terrence Malick.

Cast: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman.

A man lost in the superficial world of success struggles with life’s elementary forces: a new branch of ‘The Tree of Life’.

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12:30 anGelica

(US) 95mins. Dir: Mitchell Lichtenstein.

Cast: Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard, Tovah Feldshuh, Eliza Holland Madore.

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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(India) 103mins. Dir: Nagesh Kukunoor.

Cast: Krrish Chhabria, Hetal Gada, Gulfam Khan, Vipin Sharma, Suresh Menon, Chet Dixon, Fllora Saini, Vijay Maurya, Vibha Chhibber, Rajiv Laxman.

Ten-year-old Pari and her blind younger brother Chotu hope for help

from a famous film star.

In order to meet him they leave their village of shacks and set off alone on an adventurous odyssey across an impoverished yet fairytale like land.

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seashore

(Brazil) FiGa Films.

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

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

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(US) 126mins. Dir: George Sidney. Cast: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson.

In 17th century France, an inseparable quartet of royal musketeers challenges the schemer Cardinal Richelieu. A tumultuous, occasionally self-mocking film version of Alexandre Dumas’ adventure story. retrospective Zeughauskino

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(Sweden, Germany) Wide. 95mins. Dir: Sanna Lenken. Cast: Rebecka Josephson, Amy Deasismont, Annika Hallin, Henrik Norlen, Maxim Mehmet, Ellen Lindbom, Asa Janson, Hugo Wijk, Karin de Frumerie.

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A film by Jakob M. Erwa

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A film by Sanna Lenken

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

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A film by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov

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disorder. When Stella discovers this, she is sworn to secrecy, but it proves far too big a burden of responsibility for a girl of her age.

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(Germany) 87mins. Dir: Carolina Hellsgard. Cast: Anne RattePolle, 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 Wanja will be able to make it out in the big wide world.

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(US) 79mins. Dir: Richard Boleslawski.

Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone.

Set in the Sahara, this lush Technicolor melodrama is about the love between a young woman raised in a convent and a renegade monk. One of the first three-colour productions to make extensive use of exteriors, which were shot in the Mojave Desert. retrospective CinemaxX 8

i reMeMber

(Germany) 30mins. Dir: Janna Ji Wonders. Cast: Jude Thomas, Spencer Kennedy, Robyn Miller.

Two young adults, Josh and Ben, spend their holidays in a beach-hut on the Pacific. When the mysterious Elena, who is 10 years older, moves in nearby, the boys fall in love with her. This marks the beginning of a series of emotional entanglements.

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The SPiDerwebhouSe

(Germany) 91mins. Dir: Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt.

Cast: Ben Litwinschuh, Lutz Simon Eilert, Helena Pieske, Ludwig Trepte, Sylvie Testud, Matthias Koeberlin, Alexandra Finder, Petra Fehrmann.

Adaptation of the true story of three children who were abandoned by their single-parent mother. For

months, a 12-year-old boy took over the role of head of the family — and nobody noticed.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino Press only CinemaxX 5

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(Colombia, Mexico) 74mins. Dir: Jorge Forero. Cast: Rodrigo Velez, David Aldana, Nelson Camayo.

A prisoner chained up in the jungle, a teenager looking for employment, a high-ranking officer in a militia: three episodes shot through with a piercing intensity, with Colombia’s ubiquitous violence providing the connective tissue.

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(Brazil) The Match Factory. 111mins. Dir: Anna Muylaert. Cast:

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Regina Case, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles, Lourenco Mutarelli, Michel Joelsas, Helena Albergaria.

A subtle portrait of society as well as a study of a burgeoning emancipation.

Panorama special Press only Cinestar 3

13:45 unTIL I Lose my BreATh

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

Young textile worker Serap places 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 again, this quiet heroine is forced to realise she’s all on her own.

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fragile proposition.

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A PLACe In The mIddLe

(US) 25mins. Dir: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson.

This documentary follows a young Hawaiian girl determined to lead a traditional hula group — on the boys’ side. Her teacher asks her to take the place in the middle.

In old Hawaii this was always the spot for those who embrace both men and women. generation KPlus short Film CinemaxX 3

ConCreTe LoVe — The Bohm FAmILy

(Germany, Switzerland) 88mins. Dir: Maurizius Staerkle Drux.

Gottfried Bohm is regarded as Germany’s preeminent architect. His father, wife and three sons are all architects as well.

Professional collaboration within the family appears to be an equally fertile and

geronImA

(Argentina) 90mins.

Dir: Raul Tosso. Cast: Luisa Calcumil, Patricio Contreras, Mario Luciani.

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.

loves creating artistic formations in the water.

A charming portrait of an unusual boy.

grows ever more hostile and state policy involves deterring and bullying the ‘infiltrators’.

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(Japan) Kadokawa Corporation. 98mins. Dir: Kon Ichikawa. Cast: Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka.

A dysfunctional family: while the son rebels, his older sister is unable to extricate herself from familial demands.

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(Netherlands) NPO Sales. 17mins. Dir: Astrid Bussink.

Ten-year-old Giovanni is a courageous boy. He is the only male training for the synchronised swimming championships. He likes being with the girls and

may not be interested in politics but a discovery in the boot of a car suddenly makes him of interest to all sides.

(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

14:30

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(Mexico) 19mins. Dir: Concepcion Suarez Aguilar. Cast: Rosa Lopez Diaz.

An innocent woman’s testimony of how she was torn away from her life and imprisoned. nATIVe — Indigenous Cinema short Film Cubix 7

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

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.

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Tough LoVe

(Germany) M-Appeal.

89mins. Dir: Rosa von Praunheim. Cast: Hanno Koffler, Andreas Marquardt, Luise Heyer.

“A MOVIE FULL OF VISUAL SPARK...A GUTSY, VIBRANT FILM ABOUT TAKING CONTROL OF LIFE”

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Deborah Mailman, Terry Norris, Peter Rowsthorn, David Wenham.

Based on karate champion Andreas Marquardt’s autobiography, the film describes a man’s experiences of domestic violence that leads to contempt and self-hatred.

A drama about deep wounds and desperate resistance. panorama Special Cubix 9

viCtoriA

(Germany) The Match Factory. 140mins. Dir: Sebastian Schipper. Cast: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski.

After visiting a club, Victoria, a young Spanish woman, meets Sonne and his gang. They quickly get chatting and are suddenly caught up in a dodgy deal — a breathless Berlin night takes its course.

Competition Friedrichstadt-palast

15:00 blACK prESiDEnt

(Zimbabwe, South Africa, UK) 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.

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tHE pEArl button

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(France, Chile, Spain) 82mins. Dir: Patricio Guzman.

A story about water, the cosmos and us. It all starts with the discovery of two mysterious buttons deep in the Pacific Ocean, off the Chilean coast.

(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.

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(Netherlands, Germany) Mountain Road Entertainment Group. 94mins. Dir: Saskia Diesing. Cast: Abbey Hoes, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Gijs Blom, Monic Hendrickx, Fabian Jansen, Andre Jung.

tells of a young Chinese woman who saves an American from drowning and then falls in love with him. But the man abandons her. retrospective Zeughauskino

15:15

tHE looK oF SilEnCE

tHE SirEn oF FASo FAni

(Denmark, Norway, Finland, Indonesia, UK) Cinephil. 99mins. Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer.

The murders of alleged communists after the military coup of 1965 in Indonesia were the topic of ‘The Act Of Killing’.

Together with the brother of a victim, Oppenheimer now visits the perpetrators and confronts them with their crimes. berlinale Special Haus der berliner Festspiele

(France, Burkina Faso, Germany, Qatar) Cinedoc Films. 90mins. Dir: Michel K Zongo. Cast: Rachim Naser Sanou.

The pressures of globalisation forced the Faso Fani textile factory in Koudougou, Burkina Faso, to close in 2001. Years later, this documentary reassembles the factory workers from back then and follows their attempts to produce fabrics as a collective.

tHE toll oF tHE SEA

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(US) 54mins. Dir: Chester M Franklin.

Cast: Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley.

A ‘Madame Butterfly’ set in China, the melodrama

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(Russian Federation) 106mins. Dir: Andrey Zaytsev. Cast: Gleb Kalyuzhny, Ulyana

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Nena is very close to her paraplegic father. But just as she is enjoying her first summertime romance with young baseball player Carlo, her father unexpectedly confronts her with his death wish. generation 14plus Zoo palast 1

Vaskovich, Olga Ozollapinya.

Alex is madly in love 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 suburban high-rises. generation 14plus Cubix 8

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. panorama Dokumente Colosseum 1

ivAnHoE

(US) 107mins. Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine.

Ivanhoe the knight tries to

raise the ransom needed to free King Richard the Lionheart from Austrian captivity. retrospective CinemaxX 8

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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 Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

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(UK) FilmNation Entertainment. 103mins.

Dir: Bill Condon. Cast: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hattie Morahan.

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pApEr plAnES

(Australia) Arclight.

97mins. Dir: Robert Connolly. Cast: Ed Oxenbould, Sam Worthington, Ena Imai, Nicholas BakopoulosCooke, Julian Dennison,

the futuristic complex tell us about past utopias.

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

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

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

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SHApE SHiFting

(Germany, Japan) 18mins. Dir: Elke Marhofer, Mikhail Lylov.

In many regions of Asia, ‘Satoyama’ describes the space between village and mountain. How does that landscape change as a result of humans, animals, agriculture and local markets? A cinematic observation of nature and culture.

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(Italy) Rai Com. 94mins.

Dir: Lamberto Sanfelice.

Cast: Sara Serraiocco, Ivan Franek, Giorgio Colangeli.

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 swimming championships.

SHE WorE A YElloW ribbon

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inStitutE AbovE-grounD

(Germany) 22mins.

Dir: Florian Zeyfang, Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Alexander Schmoeger.

The ‘Instituto technologico de suelos y fertilizantes’ was an architectural experiment designed by Vittorio Garatti for 2000 students of agriculture after the revolution in Cuba. Today the ruins of

(US) 104mins. Dir: John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar.

During an Indian rebellion in 1876, a captain who is just days from retirement is ordered to escort two women to the nearest stagecoach stop. retrospective Zeughauskino

(US) 30mins. Dir: Anton Vidokle. Cast: Iman Musa Kulmohhametov, Svetlana.

An investigation of the ideas of Russian philosopher Nikolai Fedorov, who believed that death was a mistake. Fedorov was one of the Cosmo-Immortalists, who wanted to create ‘cosmos’ on earth.

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SUPERMODEL. VISIONARY. PRISONER.

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17:00 600 miles

(Mexico) NDM International Sales.

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

A young Mexican named Arnulfo Rubio 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. panorama special Cubix 9

B-movie: lust & sound in west-Berlin

(Germany) 92mins. Dir: Jorg A Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange.

A declaration of love, a record, and a re-encounter with West Berlin in about 1980. panorama dokumente press only Kino international

the resistors “their spirit prevAils …”

(Germany) 87mins. Dir: Katrin Seybold, Ula Stockl.

The execution of the Scholl siblings did not prevent others from distributing their leaflets.

Interviews with other members of ‘The White Rose’ resistance movement recall the memories and fears but also the courage needed to rise up against the Nazis. panorama dokumente press only Cinestar 7

17:15 twenty-eight nights And A poem

(Lebanon, France) 120mins. Dir: Akram Zaatari.

This experimental documentary focuses on a southern Lebanese photo studio that functions as an archive for the history of a community, a form of collective memory in constant flux due to changes in storage media. forum press only Cinemaxx 6

17:30 short sKin

(Italy) Films Boutique.

86mins. Dir: Duccio Chiarini. Cast: Matteo Creatini, Francesca Agostini, Nicola Nocchi.

Summer has arrived at the coast and everyone is talking about sex — all except slender Edoardo.

He cannot wait for his first time and girls seem to like him. But a painful problem affecting his delicate member prevents him from going all the way. generation 14plus haus der Kulturen der welt

an Afghan point of view. panorama dokumente Cubix 7

17:45 stories of our lives

(Kenya) Big World Cinema. 60mins. Dir: Jim Chuchu. Cast: Kelly Gichohi, Janice Mugo, Jimmy Wanjala.

Five dramatised episodes based on the real lives of young gays and lesbians in Kenya. panorama Cinestar 3

story of JudAs

(France) 99mins. Dir: Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche.

Cast: Nabil Djedouani, Mohamed Aroussi, Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, Marie Loustalot, Patricia Malvoisin, Eliott Khayat, Regis Laroche, Xavier Mussel, Roland Gervet, Nouari Nezzar.

Traces the profound friendship between Judas and Jesus of Nazareth, who is seen as inciting rebellion by the Roman occupying powers in Palestine. forum Kino Arsenal 1

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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

(Guatemala, France) Film Factory Entertainment.

90mins. Dir: Jayro Bustamante. Cast: Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin Coroy, Leo Antun.

Competition friedrichstadt-palast

the seventh fire

(US) 78mins. Dir: Jack

Pettibone Riccobono.

This precisely observed documentary reveals the turmoil of young Native Americans.

Berlinale special Cubix 8

18:30 summers downstAirs

(Germany, France) Arri Worldsales. 100mins.

Dir: Tom Sommerlatte.

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

Brothers David and Matthias have contrasting personalities. Long since grown up — one with a wife, the other a girlfriend — they unintentionally meet at their parents’ holiday home, leading to games of power and dominance with unforeseen consequences. perspektive deutsches Kino toni & tonino

the seCond mother

(Brazil) The Match Factory. 111mins. Dir: Anna Muylaert. Cast: Regina Case, Camila Mardila, Karine Teles, Lourenco Mutarelli, Michel Joelsas, Helena Albergaria.

A subtle portrait of society as well as a study of a burgeoning emancipation, with a female lead who is simply heart-warming. panorama special Zoo palast 1

womAn in gold

(UK) The Weinstein Company. 107mins. Dir: Simon Curtis. Cast: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds,

Daniel Bruhl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons, Charles Dance, Antje Traue, Elizabeth McGovern, Jonathan Pryce.

Octogenarian Maria Altmann travels from the US to Vienna to champion the restitution of a painting stolen by the Nazis. One woman’s brave opposition to statesanctioned greed and the fight against suppression and oblivion.

Knight of Cups

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19:00 hedi sChneider is stuCK

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

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

Uli, Hedi and Finn are a happy family, making ends meet with various odd jobs. Hedi in particular draws on humour to offset any negative experiences. Yet when she starts suffering panic attacks out of the blue, her everyday life slowly falls apart.

(US) FilmNation Entertainment. 118mins.

Dir: Terrence Malick.

Cast: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman.

A man lost in the superficial world of success struggles with life’s elementary forces: a new branch of ‘The Tree of Life’.

Competition Berlinale palast

(Egypt) 78mins. Dir: Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk. Cast: Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El Rob, Ahmed Kamel Taha El Nouby, Aly Khalili.

Ten workers from Helwan, an industrial Egyptian town near Cairo, participate in an acting workshop.

During rehearsals, stories of factory injustice, police brutality, corrupt courts, and exploitation by capitalist employers emerge. forum expanded Akademie der Kunste (hanseatenweg)

pAris, texAs

(US) Park Circus.

134mins. Dir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart.

A masterful black-andwhite thriller about the murders of a farming family by two ex-convicts.

(Federal Republic of Germany, France) HanWay Films. 145mins.

Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell.

Coming out of Mexico, a man appears in the blazing heat of the Texan Desert. He has been lost without a trace for years and all he wants is to find his wife and son again.

Berlinale Classics haus der Berliner festspiele

homage Zeughauskino

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in Cold Blood

virGin mountain

tHe QuisPe Girls

(Iceland, Denmark) BAC Films Distribution.

94mins. Dir: Dagur Kári.

Cast: Gunnar Jonsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdottir, Sigurjon Kjartansson.

Fusi, 43, still lives with his mother. When he meets the florist Sjofn at a dance school, his life begins to change. A tragicomic character study of an overweight man with a seemingly small horizon but a big heart.

(Chile, France, Argentina) 80mins. Dir: Sebastian Sepulveda.

Cast: Digna Quispe, Catalina Saavedra, Francisca Gavilan.

Three sisters live isolated and repressed lives as goat herders in the Andes.

Rumours abound of a new law that will come into place and affect their livelihood. They must decide what the next step will be.

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(Thailand, US, Indonesia) M-Appeal.

80mins. Dir: Josh Kim. Cast: Thira Chutikul, Ingarat Damrongsakkul, Iirah Wimonchailerk.

A refreshingly unadorned look at an unfamiliar side of Thailand: Ek and Jai’s uneven love for one another is put to the test when the day of the annual conscription approaches. Will corrupt social conditions destroy their love?

tHe sPiderwebHouse

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19:15 over tHe years

(Austria) Autlook Filmsales. 188mins. Dir: Nikolaus Geyrhalter.

Taking the closure of a traditional textile factory as its starting point, this documentary follows the further career steps of its final staff members. Over the years that follow, a complex panorama of post-industrial realities come into view.

Festival & Press 19:30 tHe boda boda tHieves

(Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Germany) 85mins. Dir: Yes! That’s Us. Cast: Hassan ‘Spike’ Insingoma, Prossy Rukundo, Saul Mwesigwa.

A coming-of-age drama

set in Uganda. After his father is injured in an accident, the impressionable young Abel must take over his ‘boda boda’, a motorbike taxi also used for transporting goods.

Forum CinemaxX 4

Forum Cinestar 8

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universe. Now Niels is nearing the end of his life and has no successor to take over his dream.

Good tHinGs await

Culinary Cinema mGb-kino

19:30 tHe boda boda tHieves

(Denmark) Cat & Docs.

100mins. Dir: Phie Ambo.

Niels, a 79-year-old biodynamic farmer provides some of the best restaurants in the world with fresh ingredients — ingredients grown in harmony with the

i remember

(Germany) 30mins. Dir: Janna Ji Wonders. Cast: Jude Thomas, Spencer Kennedy, Robyn Miller.

Two young adults, Josh and Ben, spend their holidays in a beach-hut on the Pacific. When the

mysterious Elena, who is 10 years older, moves in nearby, the boys fall in love with her. This marks the beginning of a series of emotional entanglements.

Perspektive deutsches kino CinemaxX 3

man oF tHe nortH

(Paraguay) 19mins. Dir: Marcelo Martinessi. Cast: Lidia Vda. de Cuevas, Arturo Fleitas.

A simple act of generosity

leads to a genuine connection between two people existing beyond the margins. native — indigenous Cinema short Film Cinestar imaX

ode to my FatHer

(South Korea) CJ Entertainment. 126mins.

Dir: JK Youn. Cast: Hwang Jung-min, Kim Yunjin, Oh Dal-su, Jung Jin-young, Jang Youngnam, Ra Mi-ran, Kim Seul-ki.

The family of 12-yearold Duk-soo is torn apart during the Korean War and the boy is now responsible for his mother and siblings. This film tells the story of 60 years in an individual’s life that reflects Korea’s recent history.

Panorama special zoo Palast 2

(Germany) 91mins. Dir: Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt.

Cast: Ben Litwinschuh, Lutz Simon Eilert, Helena Pieske, Ludwig Trepte, Sylvie Testud.

A free adaptation of the true story of three children who were abandoned by their single-parent mother. For months, a 12-year-old boy took over the role of head of the family — and nobody even noticed.

Perspektive deutsches kino CinemaxX 3

20:00 aFter work

(Germany) 71mins.

Dir: Janina Herhoffer.

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

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

Forum Colosseum 1

How to win at CHeCkers (every time)

koza

(Slovak Republic, Czech Republic) Pluto Film. 75mins. Dir: Ivan Ostrochovsky. Cast: Peter Balaz, Zvonko Lakcevic, Jan Franek.

Peter ‘Koza’ Balaz is a former Olympic boxer. He and his partner, Misa, live in a dilapidated housing estate, constantly struggling to make ends meet. Misa learns that she is expecting a child and has decided to terminate her pregnancy. In order to earn some much-needed cash and possibly change Misa’s mind, he and his manager Zvonko embark on a ‘tour’, where success is not measured in victories, but in the amount of blows Koza can take.

Forum Cubix 9

neCktie youtH

(South Africa, Netherlands) Premium Films. 86mins.

02/02/2015 16:41

SCREENINGS

Dir: Sibs Shongwe-La Mer. Cast: Bonko Khoza, Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, Colleen Balchin.

A portrait of the gilded youth of today’s Johannesburg. The suicide of a young white woman leads us into the world of a multi-ethnic set for whom Mandela is history and the present an alluring but ruthless challenge.

Panorama Press only Kino international

rEdsKin

(US) 83mins. Dir: Victor Schertzinger. Cast: Richard Dix, Gladis Belmont, Jane Novak.

A young Navajo man suffers bullying at prep school, but when he returns home, he is also an outcast among his own people. An authentic picture of Native American life. retrospective CinemaxX 8

20:15

tHE nEW MAn

ButtErFLy

(Uruguay, Chile) 79mins.

Dir: Aldo Garay.

At the tender age of 12, Roberto fought in support of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua.

Thirty years later his struggle is focused on being able to live life as a woman and to be recognised by his family as Stephania.

(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 uses all the possibilities cinema has to offer to explore forbidden emotions with ever more playful realities.

Panorama dokumente Press only Cinestar 7

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20:30 dyKE HArd

(Sweden) Outplay.

94mins. Dir: Bitte Andersson. Cast: Peggy Sands, Alle Eriksson, M Wagensjo, Lina Kurttila.

A camp-sexploitationhorror-trash-musical about the stony-yetunstoppable journey of lesbian girl rock band Dyke Hard on the road to a battle of the bands competition.

Panorama Cubix 7 and 8

FLoCKinG

(Sweden) Media Luna New Films. 110mins.

Dir: Beata Gardeler.

Cast: Fatime Azemi, John Risto, Eva Melander.

In a small village in the north of Sweden where people still uphold a sense of community, a girl claims to have been raped by another pupil, but the villagers don’t want to

believe her. A nightmare begins for her and her family.

Bulow, Tim Blochwitz, Hauke Petersen, Joachim Schoenfeld.

Generation 14Plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Perspektive deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1

21:00

FLotEL EuroPA

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

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

Forum Kino Arsenal 1

LovE & MErCy End oF WintEr

Berlinale special Gala Friedrichstadt-Palast

MEMoriEs For A PrivAtE EyE

LA doLCE siriA

(Germany) 87mins. Dir: Carolina Hellsgard. Cast: Anne Ratte-Polle, Nele Trebs, Robert Viktor Minich, Marko Dyrlich, Michael Baderschneider, Mehmet Yilmaz, Jan

Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste (Hanseatenweg)

(US) Lionsgate. 122mins.

Dir: Bill Pohlad. Cast: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti.

Biographical film about Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys traces early psychological wounds and the insoluble union between body and soul.

21:30

WAnjA

lion mangles an animal trainer. People are used to bombs, not fireworks, and Fellini is far away.

(Egypt, UAE) 23mins.

Dir: Ammar Al-Beik.

An Italian circus comes to Syria but it’s unlikely it has ever been to Rimini.

Instead of bringing the children joy, the audience has to witness how a

(South Korea) Lotte Entertainment. 99mins.

Dir: Kim Dae-hwan.

Cast: Moon Chang-gil, Lee Young-lan, Kim Minhyuk, Lee Sang-hee, Heo Je-wone.

Forum CinemaxX 6

(Lebanon) 30mins. Dir: Rania Stephan.

The film-maker’s exploration of her personal archive of images and film scenes invokes a fictional detective who helps her retrieve her deep and traumatic memories.

Forum Expanded Akademie der Kunste (Hanseatenweg)

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SCREENINGS

FESTIVAL & PRESS 21:30 NASTY BABY

(US) Versatile. 100mins.

Dir: Sebastian Silva. Cast: Kristen Wiig, Sebastian Silva, Tunde Adebimpe, Agustin Silva, Reg E Cathey, Mark Margolis, Alia Shawkat, Anthony Chisolm, Neal Huff, Lillias White.

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PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST

(France) Reel Suspects.

127mins. Dir: Antoine Barraud. Cast: Bertrand Bonello, Jeanne Balibar, Geraldine Pailhas.

A famous director hunts through a series of museums for a painting that will perfectly represent the uncanny.

Forum Delphi Filmpalast

VICTORIA

(Germany) The Match Factory. 140mins. Dir: Sebastian Schipper. Cast: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski.

Competition Toni & Tonino

22:00 A PLACE IN THE MIDDLE

(US) 25mins. Dir: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson.

This documentary follows a young Hawaiian girl determined to lead a traditional hula group — on the boys’ side.

Generation KPlus Short film Accredited only CinemaxX 3

AN OMNIVOROUS FAMILY’S DILEMMA

(South Korea) Cinema DAL. 105mins. Dir: Yun Hwang.

This film takes place during the winter of 2013 when there was a 36 Screen International at Berlin February 8, 2015

Freddy and his partner want to have a baby with help from a female friend.

But complications during their attempts to conceive and mounting harassment from a neighbour mean things don’t go smoothly, in this critical portrait of the self-absorption of all those involved.

Panorama Special Zoo Palast 1

nationwide slaughter of livestock to put a stop to the foot-and-mouth disease. Film-maker Yun realises she has never seen a pig before, and decides to follow its life closely.

Culinary Cinema MGB-Kino

THE FIGHTING CHOLITAS

(US) 20mins. Dir: Mariam Jobrani. Cast: Yolanda La Amorosa, Carmen Rosa, Julia La Pacena, Martha La Altena, Hilda Lopez.

A balancing act of gender roles, layered skirts, day jobs and alter egos.

NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema Short Film CineStar IMAX

THE HYPERWOMEN

(Brazil) 80mins. Dir: Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, Takumã Kuikuro.

Cast: Kanu Kuikuro, Kamankgagu Kuikuro, Ajahi Kuikuro.

Kanu is the only woman in the village who remembers all the songs to be performed at the ‘Hyperwomen’ ritual.

She must pass these on, so preparations begin for the female-only ceremony in this cheerful portrayal of gender relations among the Kuikuro.

NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema CineStar IMAX

THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL

(Germany, US) Icon Film

Distribution. 122mins.

Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Milla Jovovich, Jeremy Davies, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits.

A fairy tale about the power of unconditional love, shot in a dilapidated hotel in downtown Los Angeles. This madhouse is stirred up when Detective Skinner is sent to investigate the murder of a junkie.

Homage CinemaxX 8

THE MUD WOMAN

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

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

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THE NAKED SPUR

(US) 92mins.

Dir: Anthony Mann.

Cast: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan.

After capturing a wanted murderer, tensions erupt between the bounty hunter and his companions over both the reward and the woman who has stood by the prisoner. An intimate psychological drama played out under the open skies.

Retrospective Zeughauskino

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HOGTOWN - our nano-budgeted attempt to produce the most ambitious film ever made about Chicago.

HOGTOWN tries to be a kind of cinematic Ulysses,with a 19 year-old

ERNEST H E M I N G WAY

instead of Stephen Dedalus, & a marginalized black detective as its Leopold Bloom.

Its visual design is reminiscent of

GREGG TO L A N D

and evokes a ‘periodless’

C H I C AG O circa 1 9 1 9 .

This black and white, multiracial, multilingual, quasiliterary, experimental film will have just

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Festival & Press 22:30 aBsenCe

(Brazil, Chile, France) Mundial. 87mins. Dir: Chico Teixeira. Cast: Matheus Fagundes, Irandhir Santos, Gilda Nomacce.

The odyssey of emotionally and sexually troubled

The Gulls

15-year-old Serginho, who is searching for his place in a world that compels him to grow up in a hurry.

How can he find a way to become responsible and caring, and still find emotional security?

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“HOGTOWN expands into a multilayered, multicultural tapestry of a city and a century... epic in its scope and ravishingly photographed (mostly in luminous black-and-white), designed, and scored.”

– Marty Rubin, The Gene Siskel Film Center “Audacious styling mixes chiaroscuro lighting and onscreen verse... an epic tragedy of race.”

– Bill Stamets The Chicago Sun-Times •

from the director of CHICAGO HEIGHTS, named to ROGER EBERT’S Last List of Best Art Films

HOGTOWN www.923films.com

38 Screen International at Berlin February 8, 2015

The Pearl BuTTon

(France, Chile, Spain) 82mins. Dir: Patricio Guzman.

A story about water, the cosmos and us, which all starts with the discovery of two mysterious buttons deep in the Pacific Ocean, off the Chilean coast.

Competition Berlinale Palast

22:15 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 Cubix 9

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.

Competition haus der Berliner festspiele

22:30

(Russian Federation) Antipode Sales & Distribution. 87mins. Dir: Ella Manzheeva. Cast: Evgeniya Mandzhieva, Sergey Adianov, Evgeny Sangadzhiev.

The unhappily married Elza lives close to the Caspian Sea with her husband, who makes his money by illegally fishing in its misty side canals. Following a tragic accident, the young Kalmyk woman is forced to find her bearings anew. forum Zoo Palast 2

detailed and atmospheric portrait of a driven artist.

Panorama dokumente Cinestar 7

22:45 The summer of sanGaile

(Lithuania, France, Netherlands) Films Distribution. 88mins. Dir: Alante Kavaite. Cast: Julija Steponaityte, Aiste Dirziute, Jurate Sodyte.

The story of two girls in love: their intimacy, their passionate devotion and delicate collisions, their vulnerability and sense of trust.

Panorama Cinestar 3

aBsenCe

Paradise in serViCe

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(Taiwan) Ablaze Image.

133mins. Dir: Doze Niu Chen-Zer. Cast: Ethan Juan, Chen Jianbin, Wan Qian, Chen Yi-Han. ‘Unit 831’ is the code name for brothels operated unofficially by the Taiwanese government in the fight against Mao’s troops. This is where Pao, a young soldier, experiences an oppressive male military society and its patriarchal attitude towards women.

(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.

Panorama Colosseum 1

Perspektive deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1

WhaT haPPened, miss simone?

The fire

androids dream

(Spain, Germany) Luis Ferron. 61mins. Dir: Ion de Sosa. Cast: Manolo Marin, Moises Richart, Marta Bassols, Coque Sanchez.

This experimental adaptation of Philip K Dick’s classic ‘Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?’ plays out among the abandoned skyscrapers and neonlit boardwalks of southern Spain: an apocalyptic backdrop somewhere between past, present and future. forum Kino arsenal 1

diary of a ChamBermaid

(France, Belgium) Elle Driver. 96mins. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre.

Competition Kino international

(US) Netflix. 102mins. Dir: Liz Garbus. Cast: Nina Simone.

Nina Simone was a talented classical and jazz pianist who became a highly politicised human rights activist. Liz Garbus interweaves archive footage and interviews into a

23:00 The BunKer

(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.

Panorama Cubix 7 and 8

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Film still from “Ida”, dir. Paweł Pawlikowski – shot in Łódź and co-funded by Łódź

SAM KLEMKE’S TIME MACHINE

SCREENINGS

MARKET SCREENINGS

09:00 ASTRAGAL

“Sam speaks for us all.”

Dir: Matthew Bate

- LA Weekly

(Shut Up Little Man!: An Audio Misadventure)

“A unique docu hybrid. ”

Since 1977 Sam Klemke has filmed his life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human.

(France) Alfama Films, 97mins. Dir: Brigitte Sy. Cast: Leila Bekhti, Reda Kateb, Esther Garrel,.

April 1957. Albertine, a brilliant and reckless young convict, jumps from the wall of her prison to escape. A bone from her ankle breaks: the astragal. She is rescued by Julien, an outlaw, who will give her a new life.

CinemaxX Studio 11

THE MESSENGER

(UK) Cinema Management Group (CMG), 97mins. Dir: David Blair. Cast: Robert Sheehan, Lily Cole, Joely Richardson.

A man who sees ghosts is enlisted by a recently murdered journalist to help in saying goodbye to his wife, meanwhile facing his own demons.

– Variety

CineStar 4

CinemaxX Studio 17

“An absorbing and sometimes touching digital time capsule.”

DARKER THAN NIGHT

MOOMINS ON THE RIVIERA

(Mexico, Spain) 6 Sales, 110mins. Dir: Henry Bedwell. Cast: Zuria Vega, Adriana Louvier.

Greta inherits a huge mansion after her aunt Ofelia’s death with the only condition that she take good care of her life companion, Becker, a cat.

Greta moves in with three girlfriends. One night Becker suddenly dies…

(Finland, France) Indie Sales, 77mins. Dir: Xavier Picard. Cast: Russel Tovey.

Features the entire Moomins clan as they embark on a hilarious adventure on the glamorous Riviera.

- The Hollywood Reporter

MARKET SCREENING: TODAY / 14:45 / CinemaxX 19

UNEXPECTED

CineStar 5

THE END OF THE TOUR See box, below

THE GOOB

(UK) The Bureau Sales, 86mins. Dir: Guy Myhill.

Cast: Liam Walpole, Sean Harris, Sienna Guillory.

Dir: Kris Swanberg

Goob has always spent his summer helping his mum run the local cafe. When she shacks up with stockcar driving star and ladies man Gene, Goob becomes unwelcome.

Kino Arsenal 2

ON ANY SUNDAY — THE NEXT CHAPTER

(Austria, US) Red Bull Media House, 95mins.

Dir: Dana Brown. Cast: Marc Marquez, Robbie Maddison, Carlin Dunne.

An exploration into the pursuit of excitement, passion and life in the two-wheeled world of motorcycle riding.

CinemaxX 8

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.

CinemaxX 1

TOOKEN

(US) Highland Film Group, 80mins. Dir: John Asher. Cast: Lee Tergesen, Margaret Cho, Jenny McCarthy, Donnie Wahlberg.

A man reunites with his estranged wife, her new boyfriend, his ditzy daughter and his elderly secret agent mother to defeat an evil genius with a wacky plan of destruction.

CinemaxX Studio 19

WASTE LAND

(Belgium) Be for Films, 97mins. Dir: Pieter Van Hees. Cast: Jeremie Renier, Natali Broods, Babetida Sadjo.

A psychological thriller about a man and a city in crisis during his wife’s nine months of pregnancy.

CinemaxX 3

09:30 ACCUSED

(Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden) Fortissimo Films, 97mins. Dir: Paula van der Oest.

“Cobie Smulders and Gail Bean are sublime.” – Variety

(It Was Great, But I Was Ready to Come Home)

“A warmly observed, unpretentious film.”

Cast: Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother)

– The Hollywood Reporter

“Smart, sophisticated.”

A pregnant high school teacher develops an unlikely bond with one of her students, after learning that the student is also expecting.

– Film Stage

MARKET SCREENING: TODAY / 10:40 / CineStar 4

MARKET 09:00 THE END OF THE TOUR

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(US) Fortitude International, 106mins.

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

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

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SCREENINGS

Cast: Ariane Schluter, Sallie Harmsen, Fedja van Huet, Barry Atsma.

Based on the true story of nurse Lucia de Berk, ‘Accused’ is an intense drama on the biggest miscarriage of justice in Dutch history.

CinemaxX Studio 12

Being evel

(US) HeLo, 100mins. Dir: Daniel Junge. Cast: Johnny Knoxville.

Millions know the man but few know his story. A candid look at American daredevil Evel Knievel while also reflecting on our voracious public appetite for heroes and spectacles.

Zoo Palast 3

BiS

(France) EuropaCorp, 101mins. Dir: Dominique Farrugia. Cast: Franck Dubosc, Kad Merad.

Two best buddies having a mid-life crisis get a shot at starting over from when they were 17, sexy and single.

Market 09:30 For Some ineXPliCaBle reaSon

(Hungary) Alpha Violet, 96mins. Dir: Gabor Reisz.

Cast: Aron Ferenczik, Katalin Takacs, Zsolt Kovacs, Zalan Makranczi.

09:45

About to turn 30 and still jobless, Aron gets dumped by his girlfriend. On impulse he buys a one-way ticket to Portugal on the internet using his parents’ credit card.

CinemaxX Studio 18

CineStar 7

Bill

(UK) Independent, 94mins.

Dir: Richard Bracewell.

Cast: Mathew Baynton, Ben Willibond, Damien Lewis, Helen McCrory.

A comedy about Shakespeare: the story of how Bill became William.

CineStar 6

entertainment

(US) Epic Pictures Group, 102mins. Dir: Rick Alverson. Cast: Gregg Turkington, John C Reilly, Tye Sheridan, Amy Seimetz.

En route to meeting with his estranged daughter, in an attempt to revive his dwindling career, a broken, ageing comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave Desert.

CineStar 1

For Some ineXPliCaBle reaSon See box, above

iSao takahata and hiS tale oF the PrinCeSS kaguya

(Japan) Wild Bunch, 86mins. Dir: Akira Miki, Hidekazu Sato. Cast: Isao Takahata, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Joe Hisaishi.

The documentary follows animation director Isao Takahata as he takes on the production of ‘The Tale of The Princess Kaguya’, his first film in 14 years and a project that eventually took eight years to complete.

CinemaxX 2

kiCk it

(Norway) Attraction Distribution, 103mins. Dir: Katarina Launing. Cast: 42 Screen International at Berlin February 8, 2015

Mia Helene Solberg Brekke, Victor Papadopoulos Jacobsen.

Anja is a spirited young girl who loves playing soccer.

Through thick and thin, she remains humorous and optimistic, even when she is diagnosed with leukemia. marriott 1

mar

(Chile, Argentina) New Europe Film Sales, 60mins.

Dir: Dominga Sotomayor.

Cast: Lisandro Rodriguez, Vanina Montes, Andrea Strenitz.

Martin goes on holiday to the beach with his girlfriend.

Everything seems normal, until his mother arrives and Martin has to alternate between playing the role of a man and being a son.

CinemaxX 6

meSSi

(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 97mins.

Dir: Alex De la Iglesia.

Cast: Diego Armando Maradona, Cesar Luis Menotti, Jorge Valdano, Andres Iniesta.

Shot in Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Messi’s hometown of Rosario (Argentina), the film shows key scenes of the footballer’s life.

CinemaxX Studio 14

PoSthumouS

(US, Germany) Bleiberg Entertainment, 94mins.

Dir: Lulu Wang. Cast: Jack Huston, Brit Marling, Lambert Wilson.

After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue the charade by posing as his own brother.

Soon, a reporter enters his life and has a profound effect on him.

Parliament Studio

PrinCe

(Netherlands) Mongrel International, 78mins. Dir: Sam de Jong. Cast: Ayoub Elasri, Jorik Scholten, Achraf Meziani, Oussama Addi.

Shy and lanky Ayoub is crazy about Laura, the neighbourhood beauty, but she is already with the baddest boy in town.

Valiantly, Ayoub fights to win Laura’s heart, but before he can be a prince he has to learn to be a man.

eaSy SeX, Sad movieS

(Spain, Argentina) Filmax International, 90mins. Dir: Alejo Flah. Cast: Ernesto Alterio, Quim Gutierrez, Marta Etura.

How can you write a love story with a broken heart?

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Women he’S undreSSed

(Australia) Hollywood Classics, 99mins. Dir: Gillian Armstrong. Cast: Ben Osmo, Cathy Flannery, Ross Wallace, Edie Kurzer.

The life of Oscar-winning Australian designer OrryKelly who created costumes for, among others, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman and Natalie Wood. dffb-kino By invitation only

10:00 PhoeniX

(US) HanWay Films, 81mins. Dir: Ethan Hawke.

Explores the life and lessons of piano teacher Seymour Bernstein.

(Germany) The Match Factory, 98mins. Dir: Christian Petzold. Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Imogen Kogge.

Tells the story of Nelly, a disfigured Holocaust survivor. Unrecognisable after facial reconstruction surgery, Nelly returns to find out if her husband has betrayed her or still loves her.

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a film by Mitchell lichtenstein

PIERPOLINE FILMS PRODUCTION · A FILM BY MITCHELL LICHTENSTEIN “ANGELICA” JENA MALONE · JANET McTEER · ED STOPPARD · TOVAH FELDSHUH · CASTING KERRY BARDEN AND PAUL SCHNEE UK CASTING KELLY VALENTINE HENDRY CDG AND VICTOR JENKINS CDG · MUSIC ZBIGNIEW PREISNER · EDITORS ANDREW HAFITZ AND LEE PERCY, A.C.E. COSTUME DESIGNER RITA RYACK · PRODUCTION DESIGNER LUCIANA ARRIGHI · DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY DICK POPE, B.S.C. · BASED ON THE NOVEL BY ARTHUR PHILLIPS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MAGNONYMOUS · CO-PRODUCER RICHARD LORMAND · PRODUCED BY MITCHELL LICHTENSTEIN PRODUCED BY JOYCE PIERPOLINE, p.g.a. · WRITTEN FOR THE SCREEN AND DIRECTED BY MITCHELL LICHTENSTEIN A

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tHe tree

(Slovenia) Monoo, 90mins. Dir: Sonja Prosenc. Cast: Katarina Stegnar, Jernej Kogovsek, Lukas Matija Rosas Ursic.

A mother and her two sons find themselves in a deadend situation following a tregedy. The boys are only safe behind the walls of their own house, but their shelter soon turns into a prison.

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10:15 CHloe and tHeo

(US) Spotlight Pictures, 77mins. Dir: Ezna Sands.

Cast: Dakota Johnson, Mira Sorvino.

A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world.

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10:30 tHe diary of an old Man

(Canada) Seville International, 82mins.

Dir: Bernard Emond.

Cast: Paul Savoie, MarieEve Pelletier, MarieTherese Fortin, Ariane Legault.

Based on Chekhov’s revered novella, ‘The Diary Of An Old Man’ this centres on a terminally ill professor of medicine who realises how powerless he is to cure the unhappiness of his adopted daughter, whom he loves above all else.

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MaiKo: danCinG CHild

(Norway) Wide/Wide House, 70mins. Dir: Ase Svenheim-Drivenes.

Life as a professional dancer over 30 is tough.

This is the story of the talented Japanese prima ballerina Maiko, who is fighting to stay on top as a solo dancer in the Norwegian National Ballet. Then she decides to start a family…

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oPen CaGe

(Serbia) ETM Production, 70mins. Dir: Sinisa Galic.

Cast: Jelena RakocevicCekic, Leni Wesselmann, Nenad Okanovic, Boris Komnenic.

A story about European societies which, alongside their frequently exposed differences, have a great number of similarities that we would do well not to forget.

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set fire to tHe stars

(UK) The Works, 97mins.

Dir: Andy Goddard. Cast: Elijah Wood.

A playful, humorous and moving snapshot of Dylan Thomas, one of the world’s most beloved poets.

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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.

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10:40 BiZarre see box, above

eXtraordinary tales

(Luxembourg, Spain, US, Belgium) BAC Films, 73mins. Dir: Raul Garcia. Cast: Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Guillermo Del Toro.

A feature film anthology composed of five stories

by Edgar Allan Poe, each crafted in a graphic design style uniquely suited to the individual segments and inspired by visual artists and illustrators.

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uneXPeCted

(US) Visit Films, 86mins.

Dir: Kris Swanberg.

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.

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Market 10:40 BiZarre

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

wiCKed flyinG MonKeys 3d

(Mexico, India) Filmsharks International, 80mins. Dir: Alberto Mar. Ozzy is a friendly flying monkey. He serves Evilene the wicked witch, as do the rest of his kin. But when Evilene’s plans put Oz once again in peril, Ozzy reaches out to the ‘Champions of Oz’.

Unfortunately, this will not be easy.

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10:45 Between friends

(South Africa) AAA Entertainment, 98mins.

Dir: Zuko Nodada.

After seven years, a group of university friends reunite at an upmarket game lodge in KwaZuluNatal. Long-buried secrets are eventually exposed, causing tension to arise in their relationships.

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10:50 Gloria! tHe PriCe of faMe

(Mexico) 6 Sales, 123mins.

Dir: Christian Keller. Cast:

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

on the margins of Israeli society.

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soft VenGeanCe: alBie saCHs and tHe new soutH afriCa

Sofia Espinosa, Marco Perez, Tatiana del Real, Ximena Romo.

Not in her wildest dreams did 16-year-old Gloria imagine that a casting for music producer Sergio Andrade would change her life so drastically.

(US) Ginzberg Productions, 84mins.

Dir: Abby Ginzberg.

Cast: Alfre Woodard (narrator).

Paints a portrait of Albie Sachs, who lost his right arm in a car bomb attack, yet remained steadfast in his belief that his “soft vengeance” would be the creation of freedom and democracy in South Africa.

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HunGry Hearts

warsaw 44

(Italy) Radiant Films International, 113mins.

Dir: Saverio Costanzo.

Cast: Adam Driver, Alba Rohrwacher, Roberta Maxwell.

A young married couple in New York City engage in a fateful struggle over the life of their newborn child.

(Poland) Artist View Entertainment, 122mins.

Dir: Jan Komasa.

Cast: Josef Pawlowski, Zofia Wichlacz, Anna Prochniak.

A group of scouts called Szare Szeregi (Gray Ranks) during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, liberate one of its members through a maverick military action in broad daylight known as ‘Action at the Arsenal’.

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11:00 Ben ZaKen

(Israel) Patra Spanou Film Marketing & Consulting, 90mins.

Dir: Efrat Corem.

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

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11:05 winter

(UK) Genesis Film Sales, 95mins. Dir: Heidi Greensmith.

Cast: Tommy Flanagan, Tom Payne, Stacy Martin, Bill Milner.

After losing his wife in

tragic circumstances, an artist must come to terms with her death in order to save his relationship with his two sons.

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11:15 Key House Mirror

(Denmark) TrustNordisk, 95mins. Dir: Michael Noer. Cast: Ghita Norby, Sven Wollter.

Lily and Max have been married for more than 50 years. Now they live together in a nursing home, where Max has been reliant on professional care since his stroke. Lily has been putting her own needs aside and is desperately longing for some more excitement and intimacy in her life.

When a man known as The Pilot moves in next door, Lily is immediately charmed by him and his passion for life.

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until i lose My BreatH

(Turkey, Germany) Prolog Film, 94mins.

Dir: Emine Emel Balci.

Cast: Esme Madra, Riza Akin, Gizem Denizci, Ugur Uzunel.

Serap is an adolescent who works long hours in a cramped clothing workshop. Fed up with her abusive brother-inlaw and detached sister, her only hope is moving into an apartment with her father who is a longdistance truck driver.

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11:20 108 DeMon-kingS

(France) EuropaCorp, 110mins. Dir: Pascal Morelli.

In imperial China in the eleventh century, a very young prince, a monk, a greedy beggar and a dozen scary outlaws hope to defeat the armies of imperial tyranny of the Regent Gao-le Bel. CineStar 2

girlS’ nigHt out

(Spain) DeAPlaneta, 100mins. Dir: Manuela Moreno. Cast: Maria de Molina, Ursula Corbero, Maria Hervas, Celia de Molina.

Five girlfriends in their late 20s spend a crazy bachelorette weekend on the Canary Islands.

suicide, Jackson sets out to piece together the events leading up to his death. With the help of Eric and a spunky pizza girl they begin a journey that may just yield more questions than answers.

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tHe nigHtMAre

(US) Content, 90mins.

Dir: Rodney Ascher.

An original horror documentary.

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SleePing WitH otHer PeoPle

(US) IM Global, 101mins.

Dir: Leslye Headland.

Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet.

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11:30 BreAking tHrougH

(US) Voltage Pictures, 98mins. Dir: John Swetnam. Cast: Sophia Aguiar, Anitta, Ian Eastwood, Jordan Rodrigues.

A small-town girl’s hiphop dance video gets discovered by a Hollywood scout and becomes an overnight sensation, blurring the line between her internet image and real-life affairs. As her fame grows, she risks losing everything.

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uMrikA

(India) Beta Cinema, 100mins. Dir: Prashant Nair. Cast: Suraj Sharma, Tony Revolori, Adil Hussain, Smita Tambe, Pramod Pathak.

A small village in India is invigorated when one of their own travels to America, sharing his adventures and inspiring hope through letters home.

But when the letters stop coming, his brother sets out on a journey to find him.

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evA AnD leon

(France) Pyramide International, 75mins.

Dir: Emilie Cherpitel.

Cast: Clotilde Hesme, Clotilde Courau, Peter Coyote, Keziah Jones.

Eva, 35, is unpredictable, charmingly immature and has no children. Leon is 10, he’s got the seriousness of an adult and has no parents.

They weren’t meant to meet but they will spend five unforgettable days together.

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(Poland) Kosmos Film Sp.z.o.o, 112mins. Dir: Waldemar Krzystek.

Cast: Tatiana Arntgolts, Aleksandr Baluev, Sonia Bohosiewicz, Adam Woronowicz.

Natasha, a Moscow cop, must join FSB (ex-KGB) to hunt down a serial killer. All traces lead to Poland where years ago a boy kept a dark secret.

As she finds out the truth, she risks all to be exposed to the deadly danger. dffb-kino

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HoPe BriDge

Honey nigHt

(US) Pure Flix/Quality Flix, 90mins. Dir: Joshua Overbay. Cast: Booboo Stewart, Kevin Sorbo, Sam Jenkins.

Following his father’s

(Macedonia, Slovenia, Czech Republic) Kaval Film, 89mins. Dir: Ivo Trajkov. Cast: Nikola Ristanovski, Verica Nedeska.

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Deputy minister Nikola and his wife Anna return home from a reception to find their house bugged with listening devices placed there by the government. What follows is a long night full of fear, paranoia and claustrophobia.

We Are Still Here

(US) MPI Media Group, 85mins. Dir: Ted Geoghegan. Cast: Barbara Crampton, Andrew Sensenig, Lisa Marie.

A married couple move into a rural home, where they are terrorised by a family of vengeful spirits.

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ZouZou

(France) Doc & Film International, 81mins.

Dir: Blandine Lenoir.

Cast: Laure Calamy, Philippe Rebbot, Nanou Garcia.

Solange is pleased to welcome her three daughters, Agathe, Marie and Lucie, for a few days. She has great news for them: she is in love.

But the three women are struggling to imagine their 60-year-old mother in the arms of a man.

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12:00 Men SHoW MovieS & WoMen tHeir BreAStS

(Germany) missingFILMs, 80mins.

Dir: Isabell Suba.

Cast: Anne Haug, Matthias Weidenhofer, Eva Bay. Isabell Suba, ambitious up-and-coming director, has made it — one of her short films is in the line-up of the most important film festival in the world.

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12:05 el AMeriCAno: tHe Movie 3D

(Mexico, US) Filmsharks International, 90mins.

Dir: various.

Cuco is a Mexican boy parrot that would rather imitate the crazy stunts of his TV super-parrot hero El Americano, than help with his chores at the family bird circus. »

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Dir: Saskia Diesing Prod: KeyFilm Sales: Mountain Road Entertainment Group | (feature, 94’) 15:30 Zoo Palast 1 (international premiere) 12:10

(UK) WestEnd Films, 100mins. Dir: Michael Winterbottom. Cast: Daniel Bruhl, Kate Beckinsale, Cara Delevingne.

Why are we fascinated by murder? Inspired by the killing of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy, ‘The Face Of An Angel’ looks beyond the salacious headlines to explore the media and the public’s obsession with violent stories.

(Israel) The Yellow Affair, 92mins. Dir: Tali Shalom Ezer. Cast: Keren Mor, Ori Pfeffer, Shira Haas, Adar Zohar-Hantez.

While her mother works, 12-year-old Adar’s roleplaying games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking escape, Adar finds Alan, a boy who she brings to join her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.

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Dir: Tallulah Schwab Prod: Column Film Sales: Mountain Road Entertainment Group | (feature, 94’) 13:15 CinemaxX 16 (efm)

12:30 The Diary oF a Teenage girl

(US) K5 International, 102mins. Dir: Marielle Heller. Cast: Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgard.

A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco starts an affair with her mother’s boyfriend. cinemaxX 1

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LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO

Dir: Simone van Dusseldorp Prod: Family Affair Films Sales: Attraction Distribution | (feature, 81’) 14:30 CinemaxX 12 (efm)

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Market Princess

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

A group of discount supermarket employees are about to get fired. They decide to take away products that are still good but should have been thrown to the trash and sell them even cheaper in their own discount store.

12:45 BoulevarD

(US) Inception Film Partners, 89mins. Dir: Dito Montiel. Cast: Robin Williams, Bob Odenkirk, Kathy Baker, Roberto Aguire.

Although Nolan Mack and his wife wake up under the same roof each day, they seem to live in separate worlds. But Nolan begins a surprising journey when he encounters a troubled young man who offers the possibility of a new life.

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home sweeT home

PeTTing Zoo

(France) SND — Groupe M6, 97mins. Dir: Stephane Meunier. Cast: Lorant Deutsch, Didier Bourdon, Carmen Maura.

Germain, the mayor of a small village, is determined to revive it and convinces a company to open up a factoy.

The only thing missing to close the deal is a resident doctor. And Dr Mayer, a parisian surgeon, might just be the one.

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12:30 PeTTing Zoo

(Germany, Greece, US) The Match Factory, 93mins. Dir: Micah Magee. Cast: Devon Keller, Austin Reed, Deztiny Gonzales, Kiowa Tucker.

12:50 KnocK KnocK

(US) Voltage Pictures, 96mins. Dir: Eli Roth.

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Ana De Armas, Lorenza Izzo.

Evan Webber is a happily married man who seems to have everything.

After a weekend alone is interrupted by the arrival of two lost girls, the night takes a turn and a debaucherous mistake turns into a nightmare. cinemaxX 9

13:00 aBsence

(Brazil, Chile, France) Mundial, 87mins. Dir: Chico Teixeira. Cast: Matheus Fagundes, Irandhir Santos, Gilda Nomacce, Thiago de Matos.

A drama woven with moments of the life of a boy who is going through a transitional period. cinestar 1

The eichmann show

(UK) Content, 96mins.

Dir: Paul Andrew Williams.

Cast: Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia, Nicholas Woodeson, Rebecca Front.

An intense, absorbing and

A story of love, sex and teen pregnancy in San Antonio, Texas, ‘Petting Zoo’ offers a portrait of a young woman coming into her own in an environment that doesn’t always offer the best opportunities in life. cinestar 4

unique take on a singular and extraordinary moment in television and political history. cinestar 5

ninja hunTer

(Japan) Shochiku, 101mins.

Dir: Seiji Chiba. Cast: Masanori Mimoto, Mei Kurokawa.

Four ninjas, four conflicting accounts, 40 corpses. Ninja action with a ‘Rashomon’ twist. cinestar 6

welcome To The cluB

(Germany) New Morning Films, 87mins. Dir: Andreas Schimmelbusch.

Cast: Patricia Ziolkowska, Wolfram Koch.

‘Welcome To The Club’ is a drama, black comedy about suicide. cinemaxX studio 14

when marnie was There

(Japan) Wild Bunch, 103mins. Dir: Hiromasa Yonebayashi.

Sent from her foster home one summer to a town by the sea in Hokkaido, Anna dreams her days away and shuts herself off from everyone around her. Anna never expected to meet a friend like Marnie. cinemaxX 4

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Dir: Sam de Jong Prod: 100% Halal, VICE media Sales: Mongrel International (feature, 78’) 09:30 CinemaxX 15 (efm)

Market 13:20 LeopArDi

(Italy) Rai Com, 145mins.

Dir: Mario Martone.

Cast: Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Anna Mouglalis.

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GIOVANNI AND THE WATER BALLET

Dir: Astrid Bussink Prod: Een van de jongens Sales: NPO Sales (short doc, 17') 14:00 CinemaxX 3

13:10 A Cup of Life

(Japan) Kadokawa Corporation, 111mins.

Dir: Kou Honekawa.

Cast: Megumi Seki, Yui Ichikawa, Kadoru Fujiwara, Nobuaki Kakuda.

Mariko runs a cafe rumored to have some dark secrets. An eager journalist investigates and soon finds the answer lies in her past. A suspenseful yet humorous story about the true value of life.

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DreAMs rewireD

FORUM

ZURICH

Dir: Sacha Polak Prod: Viking Film Sales: Beta Cinema (feature, 89’) 17:10 CinemaxX 13 (efm)

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(Austria, Germany, UK) Amour Fou Vienna, 88mins. Dir: Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode.

Traces desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than 100 years, when telephone, film and television were new.

Using rare archival material, it reveals a history of betrayals and hopes.

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HAppy

(France) Wide/Wide House, 100mins. Dir: Jordan Goldnadel.

When Florent meets Alessia, they find themselves at a crucial crossroad of their lives. Together and

The poet Leopardi abhors hypocrisy, is unlucky in love but is fortunate in friendship. He will find inspiration in the poverty and vitality of Naples.

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with random encounters on a journey from Paris to Deauville they will uncover new sides of their personalities.

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13:15 CHiC!

(France) StudioCanal, 103mins. Dir: Jerome Cornuau. Cast: Fanny Ardant, Marina Hands, Eric Elmosnino.

Helene Birk reigns over a haute couture fashion house led by designer Alicia Ricosi.

Following a recent breakup, Alicia finds herself suffering from a creative block, and Helene must find a swift solution to help Alicia regain her creativy.

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Confetti HArvest

(Netherlands, Belgium) Mountain Road Entertainment Group, 94mins. Dir: Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab. Cast: Hendrikje Nieuwerf, Suzan Boogaerdt, Steven van Watermeulen.

Catherine grows up in a strict protestant farming family. She lets her fantasy run wild with Bible stories, gossip and fairy tales.

Although not allowed, reading and learning is the

only way to transcend her daily life.

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13:20 eLeCtriCity

(UK) 4Square Films, 96mins. Dir: Bryn Higgins.

Cast: Agyness Deyn, Lenora Crichlow, Paul Anderson, Christian Cooke.

An ‘Alice In Wonderland’ for the modern day. An extraordinary hallucinatory journey seen through the eyes of a bold young woman with epilepsy as she searches for her lost younger brother.

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13:30 vioLenCe

presidential election paved the way to a new era in public discourse. dffb-Kino

DrAgon nest wArriors’ DAwn

(US, China) All Rights Entertainment, 84mins.

Dir: Song Yuefeng. Cast: Carrie Anne Moss, Lucas Grabeel, DW Moffit, Graham Beckel.

The quiet land of Altera is inhabited by humans and elves but suddenly, freed from the dark mountains, groups of beasts attack peaceful human towns. This signals the return of the Black Dragon and the destruction of all of Altera.

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(Colombia, Mexico) 78mins. Dir: Jorge Forero.

Cast: Rodrigo Velez, David Aldana, Nelson Camayo.

A prisoner chained up in the middle of the jungle, a teenager looking for employment, a high-ranking officer in a militia: three episodes told with piercing intensity, with Colombia’s ubiquitous violence providing the tissue that connects them together.

(France) Funny Balloons, 87mins. Dir: Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern.

Cast: Michel Houellebecq.

Paul works for a cable company and is burning out.

On Friday the 13th, the news on TV sends him a signal that it is time for him to make a life-changing move.

Escaping from the boredom, he will live a near-death experience.

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pApers in tHe winD

(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

(Argentina) Filmsharks International, 100mins. Dir: Juan Taratuto. Cast: Diego Peretti, Pablo Echarri, Pablo Rago, Diego Torres.

Three lifelong friends turn a humble soccer player into the next star of the major »

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leagues, in order to secure the future of their dead friend’s daughter. kino arsenal 2

14:00 concrete Love — the BohM faMiLy

(Germany, Switzerland) Lichtblick Film, 88mins.

Dir: Mauritius Staerkle Drux.

Gottfried Bohm is regarded as Germany’s pre-eminent Architect.

His father, wife and three sons are all architects as well. Professional collaboration within the family appears to be an equally fertile and fragile proposition.

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14:10 SPookS: the greater good

(UK) Altitude Film Sales, 104mins.

Dir: Bharat Nalluri. Cast: Kit Harrington, Peter Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Tuppence Middleton.

The much-anticipated feature film based on the BAFTA-winning international hit UK TV series, ‘Spooks’ is a high-octane espionage thriller set in the covert world of MI5. cineStar 4

the MiSfitS cLuB

(Spain) DeAPlaneta, 110mins. Dir: Carlos Sedes. Cast: Charlotte Vega, Ivana Baquero, Alex Maruny, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon.

Valeria is new in town.

Together with other students from school counsellor meetings they create The Misfits Club, where she’ll find friendship and love. cinemaxX Studio 17

with anxiety. A series of suicide bomber attacks is the prelude to a grave danger…Will Wu Yingxiong and his new partner Chen Zhen once again save the whole city?

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Life according to nino

(Netherlands, Belgium) Attraction Distribution, 81mins. Dir: Simone van Dusseldorp. Cast: Rohan Timmermans, Arend Bouwmeester, Koen de Graeve, Rifka Lodeizen.

The sudden death of his mother turns eightyear-old Nino’s family life upside down, leaving him to his own devices.

One of them is talking to animals. His pet rabbit Bobby gives him comfort, but when will Nino get his family back? cinemaxX Studio 12

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(Norway) TrustNordisk, 102mins. Dir: Anne Sewitsky. Cast: Ine Marie Wilmann, Simon J Berger, Anneke von der Lippe, Silje Storstein.

Drama about seeking a family and breaking every rule to be one. cineStar 1

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PLASTIC MAN THE ARTFUL LIFE OF JERRY ROSS BARRISH PRODUCED by JANIS PLOTKIN

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(Greece, Germany, Netherlands) Greek Film Centre, 83mins.

Dir: Syllas Tzoumerkas.

Cast: Angeliki Papoulia, Vassilis Doganis, Maria Filini, Themis Bazaka.

Maria is fleeing along the highway in her roaring SUV. Behind her lies a fire and a case full of money.

In front of her lies the hopeless vastness of the motorway. Yesterday she was a caring mother, a loving wife and responsible daughter. cinemaxX Studio 14

BLack and White: the daWn of JuStice

(Taiwan) Ablaze Image, 126mins. Dir: Yuehhsun Tsai. Cast: Mark Chao, Gengxin Lin, Bo Huang.

The sunny Harbor City is soon to be permeated

SaM kLeMke’S tiMe Machine

(Australia) Visit Films, 90mins. Dir: Matthew Bate.

Sam Klemke has filmed and narrated 50 years of his life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human. cinemaxX Studio 19

14:55 MetaMorPhoSiS

(Russia) Intercinema Agency, 104mins. Dir: Sergey Taramaev, Lubov Lvova. Cast: Egor Koreshkov, Evgeniy Tkachuk, Vasilisa Bernaskoni, Julia Aug. Talented pianist Alexei Senin has become an intimate friend of his sponsor’s daughter Sasha.

But he is 26 while she is 11, so their friendship is forbidden.Together Alex and Sasha will have to withstand the onslaught of the whole world. cinemaxX Studio 18

15:00 Big Match

(South Korea) United Pictures, 112mins. Dir: Ho Choi. Cast: Jeongjae Lee, Ha-kyun Shin, Soung-min Lee. Unrelenting MMA fighter Iko begins a high-speed, action-packed chase to save his brother from evil genius Ace. There is only one rule of the game: if you stop, you die. The biggest match of your life has just begun. cinemaxX Studio 11

the hoarder

(UK) Genesis Film Sales, 85mins. Dir: Matt Winn.

Cast: Mischa Barton, Robert Knepper, Emily Atack.

Ella suspects her boyfriend is having an affair when she discovers he is renting a secret storage unit. She breaks in with her best friend, Molly, only to set free a terrifying creature and watch helplessly as Molly is killed. cinemaxX Studio 16

hoMeSick

(Germany) Wide/Wide House, 98mins. Dir: Jakob M Erwa. Cast: Esther Maria Pietsch, Tatja Seibt, Matthias Lier, Hermann Beyer.

Passion and insanity are dark neighbours. cinemaxX 10

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(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 visit him regularly in jail and befriends him, against her father’s advice.

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(France, Burkina, Germany, Qatar) Cinedoc Films, 89mins.

The pressures of globalisation forced the Faso Fani textile factory in Koudougou, Burkina Faso, to close in 2001. Years later, this documentary »

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reassembles the factory workers from back then and follows their attempts to produce fabrics as a collective.

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we were young

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

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

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15:25 orIana…

(Italy) Rai Com, 110mins.

Dir: Marco Turco. Cast: Vittoria Puccini, Vinicio Marchioni, Francesca Agostini, Adriano Chiaramida.

A biopic about Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist, author, and interviewer..

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15:30 aTlanTIC

(Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) Fortissimo Films, 94mins. Dir: JanWillem van Ewijk. Cast: Fettah Lamara, Thekla Reuten, Mohamed Majd, Boujmaa Guilloul.

After watching European tourists come and go for many years, Fettah takes off on an epic ocean journey along the Moroccan Atlantic coast to Europe on a windsurf board.

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Market 16:15 who aM I — no SySTeM IS Safe

(Germany) TrustNordisk, 105mins.

Dir: Baran Bo Oder.

Cast: Tom Schilling, Elyas M’Barek, Hannah Herzsprung, Wotan Wilke Mohring.

Soriano. Cast: Buboy Villar, Alessandra de Rossi, Cesar Montano.

Witness the rise of a young boy turned warrior on a journey to become a champion in the unforgiving world of boxing. This is the true story of the origins of one of the world’s greatest boxers: Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Pacquiao.

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deSSau danCerS — The InCredIble STory of breakdanCe In eaST gerMany

(Germany) ARRI Worldsales, 90mins.

Dir: Jan Martin Scharf.

Cast: Gordon Kammerer, Sonja Gerhardt, Oliver Konietzny, Rainer Bock.

East Germany, 1985: Frank and his friends have been infected by breakdance fever.

At first they are suspiciously monitored, but when the socialist government realises that it cannot stop them, it tries to exploit them. dffb-kino

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Productions, 90mins.

Dir: Rudina Vojvoda.

Cast: Ermal Mamaqi, Enxhi Cuku, Zamira Kita, Eriona Kakeli.

Riku, a young divorce lawyer, is trapped between sexy but horrendous prospect wives brought to him by his mother, a crazy mob boss with an adorable daughter, and his conviction to stay single forever.

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The PaSSIon of auguSTIne

(Canada) Seville International, 103mins.

Dir: Lea Pool. Cast: Celine Bonnier, Lysandre Menard, Diane Lavallee, Valerie Blais.

Mother Augustine, a nun who runs a musical convent for girls in the 1960s, is forced to confront the waves of modernity when her talented and rebellious niece arrives at the convent and the government threatens to close the school.

15:40 auSTrIa — above and below

(Austria) Red Film Sales, 103mins. Dir: Joseph Vilsmaier.

A documentary exploring the spectacular work of Joseph Vilsmaier, one of the world’s most renowned directors and cameramen, with beautiful accompanying music from Hubert von Goisern. kino arsenal 2

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Manglehorn

woMen

(US) WestEnd Films, 97mins. Dir: David Gordon Green. Cast:

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(Philippines) TEN17P, 110mins. Dir: Paul

A young programmer in Berlin becomes part of a subversive hacker group that fascinates the public and provokes the system with its mischievous hacks – until everything starts to get out of control.

(US) Rucksack

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Al Pacino, Holly Hunter.

A movingly humanistic portrait of a man portrayed with unsentimental simplicity and idiosyncratic humour.

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16:00 angelS of revoluTIon

(Russia) Antipode Sales & Distribution, 113mins.

Dir: Alexei Fedorchenko.

Cast: Darya Yekamasova, Georgiy Lobadze, Konstantin Balakirev, Oleg Yagodin.

Five friends who are red avant-garde artists try to find the embodiment of their hopes and dreams in the young Soviet state.

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16:10 The hallow

(US) Altitude Film Sales, 95mins. Dir: Corin Hardy.

Cast: Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic.

Adam and Clare move with their baby to the Irish countryside. But what seems a rural idyll soon becomes a terrifying fight for survival when the couple comes under attack from demonic creatures.

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16:15 who aM I — no SySTeM IS Safe See box, above

16:30 reSulTS

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(Japan) Gaga Corporation, 103mins.

Dir: Nobuhiro Yamashita.

Cast: Subaru Shibutani, Fumi Nikaido.

Shigeo, who gets amnesia after being badly beaten, goes through the struggle to remember with the help of a lone teenager Kasumi.

But what comes back is his dark past…

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The SMell of uS

(France, Belgium) Wild Bunch, 88mins. Dir: Larry Clark. Cast: Lukas Ionesco, Diane Rouxel, Theo Cholbi, Hugo Behar-Thinieres.

A harsh and poetic tale of self-destructive Parisian skate kids.

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(US) Magnolia Pictures, 105mins. Dir: Andrew Bujalski. Cast: Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi.

Recently divorced, newly rich and miserable, Danny takes a trip to the gym, where he meets self-styled guru, owner Trevor and acerbic trainer Kat. Soon, their three lives are inextricably knotted, professionally and personally.

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Son of MIne

(Netherlands) Bind, 102mins. Dir: Remy van Heugten. Cast: Bart Slegers, Vincent van der Valk, Joy Verberk, Johan Leysen.

A gripping social drama about the oppressive

relationship between a father and son who, as modern outlaws, struggle to survive in the neglected southern Dutch province of Limburg.

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16:45 Il noMe del fIglIo

(Italy) Films Distribution, 94mins. Dir: Francesca Archibugi. Cast: Micaela Ramazzotti, Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessandro Gassman, Rocco Papaleo.

The extrovert Paolo and the beautiful Simona are expecting a baby. At dinner with Betta, Sandro and Claudio, one simple question will lead to an argument that will have profound repercussions: the name of Paola and Simona’s son.

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The laSa & Zabala CaSe

(Spain) Imagina International Sales, 101mins. Dir: Pablo Malo. Cast: Unax Ugalde, Francesc Orella, Oriol Vila, Jon Anza.

October 1983. Two Basque refugees go missing in Bayonne. Twelve years later, a police officer reopens the case of two unidentified bodies that had been unearthed 10 years before.

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17:00 dora or The SeXual neuroSeS of our ParenTS

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SCREENINGS

plans to remain above the fray at his Nebraskan family reunion, but a strange encounter places him at the centre of a long-buried family secret.

Frank Langella.

A richly animated tale of the unlikely friendship between a mischievous young girl and an imprisoned poet.

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Mazar-e Sharif

(US) The Works, 91mins.

Dir: Bert Marcus. Cast: Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Bernard Hopkins.

An insightful, honest and moving portrayal that explores the highs and lows of three legends of the sport of boxing: Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Bernard Hopkins.

(Iran) Soureh Cinema Organization, 100mins.

Dir: Abdolhassan Barzideh. Cast: Hossein Yari, Mahtab Keramati, Masoud Raigan.

The story of a Taliban attack on the Iranian consulate in Mazar-e Sharif in 1998, which resulted in the deaths of some Iranian consuls.

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(Spain, Brazil) Latido Films, 78mins.

Dir: Virginia Curia.

After the mysterious kidnapping of her grandmother, with whom

she lives and who devotes herself to helping people with her knowledge on medicinal plants, little Malva sets off for a journey through unknown and dangerous places.

Bjorn Granath, Fanny Ketter, Vidar Magnussen.

A furniture dealer sees himself and his business go out of fashion when Ikea opens a store next to his furniture shop.

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

Dora is 18 and has learning disabilities. After stopping her medication, she throws herself into her life and engages in a sexual relationship. But in her desire to be like everyone else, she finds herself pregnant.

Lovely Kermonde Fifi.

After the terrible January 2010 earthquake in Portau-Prince, an intellectual bourgeois couple struggles to reinvent a life amid the rubble of their luxurious home.

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The GruMp

(Finland, Iceland) The Yellow Affair, 105mins.

Dir: Dome Karukoski.

Cast: Antti Litja, Ilkka Forss, Mari Perankoski, Mikko Neuvonen.

A cantankerous old man’s stubborness is put to the test when he is forced, after a heavy fall, to move in to the city with his sharp business-minded daughterin-law.

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17:10 wiTChCrafTS See box, above

(Netherlands, Germany, Belgium) Beta Cinema, 89mins. Dir: Sacha Polak.

Cast: Wende Snijders, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Barry Atsma, Martijn Lakemeier.

Zurich is a road movie about Nina. After the death of the love of her life she finds out that he has been leading a double life.

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Murder in paCoT

(France, Haiti, Norway) Doc & Film International, 130mins. Dir: Raoul Peck. Cast: Alex Descas, Ayo, Thibault Vincon,

The forbidden rooM

ride

(Bolivia, Argentina) Arbol Cine Organico, 86mins. Dir: Yashira Jordan. Cast: Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Ezequiel W Gonzalez.

A documentary following Ezequiel and Nahuel as they set out on a road trip together. The two are both in search of something: Ezequiel is looking for his biological father while Nahuel is studying him with the intent of basing a character on him.

(US) 6 Sales, 93mins.

Dir: Helen Hunt.

Cast: Helen Hunt, Luke Wilson, Brenton Thwaites.

A mother travels crosscountry to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.

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17:20 Take Me To The river

(US) Cinetic Media, 84mins. Dir: Matt Sobel.

Cast: Logan Miller, Robin Weigert, Ursula Parker, Richard Schiff.

A naive California teen

17:45 kahlil Gibran’S The propheT

(US, Lebanon, France) Wild Bunch, 85mins.

Dir: various. Cast: Liam Neeson, Salma HayekPinault, John Krasinski,

(Canada) Mongrel International, 130mins.

Dir: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson. Cast: Udo Kier, Geraldine Chaplin, Charlotte Rampling.

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

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(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 86mins.

Dir: Louise Osmond.

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SideTraCked

(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 103mins.

Dir: Alvaro Fernandez Armero. Cast: Raul Arevalo, Inma Cuesta, Alberto San Juan, Candela Pena.

A fun and optimistic comedy about six young adults trying to find their way out of a personal crisis, each one breaking free in the most creative and surprising way possible.

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(Norway, Sweden) TrustNordisk, 88mins.

Dir: Gunnar Vikene.

Cast: Bjorn Sundquist,

TwenTy-eiGhT niGhTS and a poeM

56 Screen International at Berlin February 8, 2015

120mins.

This experimental documentary focuses on a southern Lebanese photo studio which functions as an archive for the history of a community, a form of collective memory in constant flux due to changes in storage media.

Market 17:15 before i diSappear

(UK, US) Electric Entertainment, 98mins. Dir: Shawn Christensen.

Cast: Shawn Christensen, Fatima Ptacek, Emmy Rossum, Paul Wesley.

At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his 11-year-old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.

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with magical powers that transforms whatever he paints into reality. But information reaches a cruel and greedy general who manages to steal the brush. cinemaxX 2

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(US) American Cinema International, 95mins.

Dir: Phillip Rhee. Cast: Phillip Rhee, Beau Bridges, Mirelly Taylor.

While trying to save a young boy, former MMA fighter Jimmy Lee is hit by a small truck. In the wake of this hardship, Jimmy discovers his calling as a mentor, training a group of troubled kids for a major tournament in Beverly Hills.

Market 18:30 You’re uGlY too

(Ireland) Picture Tree International, 81mins.

Dir: Mark Noonan.

Cast: Aidan Gillen, George Pistereanu, Erika Sainte, Lauren Kinsella.

After the death of her

An inspirational and lifeaffirming rags-to-riches true story of a barmaid who bred a champion racehorse. cinestar 4

soaKeD in Bleach

(US) VMI Worldwide, 87mins. Dir: Benjamin Statler. Cast: Daniel Roebuck, Kurt Cobain, Sarah Scott, Tyler Bryan.

Reveals the events behind Kurt Cobain’s death as seen through the eyes of Tom Grant, the private investigator who was hired

by Courtney Love in 1994 to track down her missing husband days before his body was found at their home. cinemaxX studio 17

18:30 citizenFour

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

A story told in real time as Edward Snowden reveals himself to journalists and then the world. cinemaxX studio 16

Gentle

(Vietnam) Oration Films,

mother, a young girl called Stacey is raised by her mysterious uncle Will, who has been released from prison to care for her. Together they must struggle to find a way to connect to help build a new life.

collaborates with the police after the suicide of one of his patients.

But when selfie-videos surface with paranormal phenomena, the good doctor begins to change his story. dffb-Kino

his family over more than half a century, acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays a moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of the people of Iraq. cinemaxX studio 11

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98mins. Dir: Kiet Le-Van. Cast: Dustin Nguyen, Thanh Tu Nguyen.

In modern-day southern Vietnam, the silence is loud between a middleaged man and a young lady, and love is all but impossible.

(India) Wide/Wide House, 100mins. Dir: Shonali Bose. Cast: Kalki Koechlin, Revathy, Sayani Gupta, William Moseley.

Laila, a fiery young Indian woman with cerebral palsy, leaves India to study at New York University, where she unexpectedly falls in love and begins a remarkable journey of self-discovery.

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the MaGic Brush

(China) All Rights Entertainment, 87mins.

Dir: Zhixing Zhong.

In a small village lives a boy who loves to paint.

One day, he’s given a brush

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19:30 45 Years

French Dolls

(France, Belgium) Wild Bunch, 95mins. Dir: Katia Lewkowicz. Cast: Marina Fois, Noemie Lvovsky, Laura Smet.

Three women trapped in roles of their own making.

Three women united on the same mission — to escape their cages and change their lives forever… cinemaxX studio 12

19:45 hanD Gestures

(Italy) 77mins. Dir: Francesco Clerici. Cast: Andrea Boccone, Nicolae Ciortan, Mario Conti,.

A bronze foundry in Milan has been making statues for more than 100 years.

This affectionate tribute to an ancient handicraft shows step by step how a statue comes into being. cinemaxX 6

(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 and 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.

(South Korea) Lotte Entertainment, 103mins.

Dir: Kim Dae-hwan.

At a family get-together, the father makes an announcement that causes much anger and confusion. But then a snowstorm hits, no one is able to leave and the family dispute develops over the next three days.

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18:40 snoW Pirates

(Turkey) Kars Film, 83mins. Dir: Faruk Hacihafizoglu. Cast: Taha Tegin Ozdemir, Yakup Ozgur Kurtaal, Omer Uluc.

It is 1981… Turkey is at the dawn of one of its most atrocious coup d’etats and its hardest winter. The people’s need for coal is as acute as their need for freedom. cinemaxX 10

18:45 anoMalous

(Spain) Numerica Films, 100mins. Dir: Hugo Stuven Casanovas. Cast: Lluis Homar, Christy Escobar, Edgar Fox. A renowned psychiatrist

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(Belgium, Argentina, Brazil) Latido Films, 105mins. Dir: Diego Martinez Vignatti. Cast: Geert Van Rampelberg, Eugenia Ramirez Miori.

Pierre is one of the managers at a plantation that is polluting the poor region of Misiones with chemicals. He is in love with a young militant, but with the social war going on, it’s not easy simply to switch sides. cinemaxX studio 18

18:50 iraqi oDYsseY

(Switzerland, Germany, Iraq, UAE) Autlook Filmsales, 163mins.

Dir: Samir.

Tracing the emigrations of

Market 19:00 the FareWell PartY

(Israel) Beta Cinema, 93mins. Dir: Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit. Cast: Zeev Revah, Levana Finkelstein, Alisa

Rozen, Ilan Dar. A bunch of men at an old people’s home construct a euthanasia device to assist their dying friend to end his life in dignity. cinemaxX studio 13

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

SWorn vIrGIn (It-Swit-GerAlb-Kos) Laura Bispuri

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

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BIG fAThEr, SMAll fAThEr Set in Saigon in the late 1990s, Big Father, Small Father And Other Stories follows a young photography student who And oThEr STorIES (Viet-Fr★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ becomes enchanted by his flatmate, a beautiful heroin dealer.

Ger-Neth) Phan Dang Di

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

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NUCLEAR NATION II A film by Atsushi Funahashi

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FINDING GASTON

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A film by Patricia Perez

BEST FOOD FILM DOURO FILM HARVEST 2014

Can a chef change a nation?

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A film by Jannik Splidsboel

In some places love equals courage.

12.02 5PM CineStar 7 (World Premiere | P&I | Q&A with the filmmaker) 13.02 12PM CineStar 7 (Official Screening) 14.02 2PM Kino International (Official Screening)

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MAIKO, DANCING CHILD

A TURNING TIDE IN THE LIFE OF MEN

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A film by Loïc Jourdain

08.02 10.30AM CinemaxX 19

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