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TrustNordisk closes deals on Utoya film

BY WENDY MITCHELL

TrustNordisk has closed a number of deals on Erik Poppe’s U – July 22 ahead of the film’s world premiere here in Competition tomorrow (Monday).

The film has sold to Latin America (California), China (HGC), South Korea (Cinema de Manon), Hungary (Vertiog), Slovakia and Czech Republic (Film Europe), and Portugal (Alambique).

Poppe’s story is set on July 22, 2011, when 500 youths were at a youth Labour summer camp on Utoya island outside Oslo, where they were attacked by terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. Poppe’s aim was to avoid focusing on Breivik, who is not named in the film.

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Equality debate puts quotas back on agenda

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW AND TOM GRATER

Top European film professionals called for more action to tackle gender inequality in the industry at a highly charged Berlinale debate yesterday, with the controversial issue of funding quotas raising its head again.

The debate unfolded as news broke that 190 women from the film, theatre and TV industries had signed an open letter calling for an end to harassment, abuse and impunity, to coincide with the Bafta ceremony in London tonight (Sunday).

Signatories include Naomie Harris, Keira Knightley, Carey

Mulligan, Emma Thompson, Barbara Broccoli and Emilia Clarke.

Several attendees will take activists to the ceremony as their guests, including Andrea Riseborough, who will be accompanied by Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, co-founder and executive director of UK Black Pride.

The open letter and the Berlinale debate are among a wave initiatives taking place as the fledgling Time’s Up movement, launched to combat sexual harassment in response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal and #MeToo movement, gathers momentum.

Saturday’s debate, organised by the Swedish Film Institute and

Women in Film and Television, addressed what could be done structurally to ensure women attain parity in terms of funding and opportunities.

Anna Serner, the tough-talking CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, said affirmative action, or the threat of it, combined with education programmes to raise awareness of gender bias among both men and women, is the only way to bring change.

“We said we will aim for 50:50 by 2015 and if we don’t get there we’ll impose a quota for the money,” Serner said of her institute’s actions over the past six years.

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BERLIN BRIEFS Altitude adds to UK slate Altitude Film Distribution has bolstered its UK release slate with two acquisitions at the EFM: Ari Folman’s (Waltz With Bashir) Where Is Anne Frank? from Wild Bunch and Tom Volf’s documentary Maria By Callas: In Her Own Words from mk2.

Vasilyev plans Irish co-pro Artem Vasilyev, producer of Aleksey German Jr’s Berlinale competition entry Dovlatov, is lining up Englishlanguage drama Aspiration with Reflektor Media founder Stephen McCormack. The film, configured as a Russian Irish co-production, will shoot in Ireland.

Arrow shoots for Terminal Arrow Films has picked up UK rights from Highland Film Group to Vaughn Stein’s noir thriller Terminal, starring Oscar nominee Margot Robbie (I, Tonya) and Simon Pegg.

Protagonist sells Teacher Protagonist Pictures has tied up a UK deal on the newest title on its slate: Sara Colangelo’s Sundance hit The Kindergarten Teacher.

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Buyers bite for FilmSharks’ You Shall Not Sleep FilmSharks has licensed Colombian hotshot Gustavo Hernandez’s horror film You Shall Not Sleep (No Dormiras) to a raft of territories.

Rights to the film, starring Spanish superstar Belen Rueda, have been sold to Spain (Filmax), France (Eurozoom),

Russia (Big Film), Taiwan (Deepjoy), and Vietnam and CIS (Skyline). Fox will distribute in the US, German-speaking territories and Latin America.

Australia, Italy, Scandinavia, China and Japan are in discussions for the story, about a theatre group

that conducts a sleep-deprivation experiment in an abandoned psychiatric institution. Juma Fodde Roma wrote the screenplay and Argentina’s Pablo E Bossi (Nine Queens) is one of the producers.

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FEATURE Screen and the Panama Film Commission panel puts co-productions under the spotlight. » Page 18

REVIEW Dovlatov Alexey German Jr delivers a slowburning evocation of the times of Russia’s acclaimed poet. » Page 10

JURY GRID See which competition selections are impressing our critics panel. » Page 72

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Monster hit sends Chinese box office top

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

China’s total box office on the first day of the Chinese New Year holidays (Feb 16) hit an estimated $205m (RMB1.3bn), powered by Monster Hunt 2 – a world record for a singleday box office in a single market, according to local trade press.

The figure was up 62% on the same day in 2017, beating the $137m record set by the US on December 18 2015, the opening day of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, at current exchange rates. The sci-fi film accounted for $119m of the US total.

Monster Hunt 2, which screens today as an out-of-competition Berlinale special screening, led the Chinese holiday with an $85m take, according to EntGroup. That compares with the $107m opening weekend of the first Monster Hunt film in July 2015. The sequel made $60m on Saturday, its second day.

Detective film Chinatown 2 was the second highest-grossing film on the first day of the Chinese holidays with $53m.

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TVCO sizes up Versace

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Italian sales company TVCO has announced two additions to its line-up: the long-gestating Gianni Versace biopic that Bille August will direct, and Youtopia.

August was preparing to direct the film about the murdered Italian fashion icon with Antonio Banderas before the star dropped out last year. Oberon Productions and TVCO are producing and casting is under way.

August said Versace “seemed to capture everything I admire about Italy” and cited colour, culture and a zest for life. “That ineffable ‘thing’ that is Italy seemed to be bound up in everything that was the Versace persona. But Versace is also an enigma. And enigmas make the best stories.”

TVCO is also kicking off sales on Berardo Carboni’s double-life drama Youtopia, which stars Berlinale 2018 Shooting Star Matilda De Angelis (Italian Race).

Dogwoof aims Westwood UK documentary specialist Dogwoof has scored a flurry of deals. Lorna Tucker’s Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist has sold to US (Greenwich Entertainment), Canada (Films We Like), Scandinavia (NonStop), CIS and Russia (Pioneer), China TV rights (DD Dream), Thailand (Movies Matter) and airlines (Jaguar).

Kusama Infinity, Heather Lenz’s portrait of Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama, sold in Scandinavia (NonStop), Australia and New Zealand (Madman), Mexico (Nueva Era), Taiwan (Joint Entertainment), Hong Kong (Edko), South Korea (AUD), CIS and Russia (Documentary Film Centre), and Thailand (Movies Matter).

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Germany and China reach for co-pro deal

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A group of Chinese officials will meet next week with Germany’s Federal Film Board (FFA) and other film industry representatives to discuss a first SinoGerman co-production treaty as part of the Bridging The Dragon initiative.

China Film Group chairman Jiao Hongfen and Miao Xiaotian, president of the China Film Co-production Corporation (CFCC), will head the Chinese

delegation. In addition to the FFA, they will meet with Germany’s Federal Commission of Culture and Media (BKM), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, promotional body German Films, and producers such as Constantin Film.

Germany is currently the only major European economy that doesn’t have a co-production treaty with China, which has agreements in place with Belgium, Estonia, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the UK.

Bridging The Dragon is also teaming up with the EFM and Asian Film and Television Promotion (AFTP) to host the daylong Sino-European Production Seminar on February 21.

Speakers including CFCC’s Miao, and producers Chen Lizhi and Manfred Wong, will present Chinese film industry data and discuss topics including China co-productions, currency exchange with China and protection of IP.

BERLIN BRIEFS Intentions gets the best Leading German distributor Neue Visionen has struck a deal with Paris-based Charades for Gilles Legrand’s comedy-drama Best Intentions. 20th Century Fox France pre-bought the film.

Fun readies its Hero Worldwide rights holder Fun Academy Motion Pictures screens exclusive footage today of Richard Lanni’s CGI feature Sgt. Stubby: An Unlikely Hero, based on the true story of the bond between a young soldier and a stray dog.

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Vertigo Releasing has grabbed UK rights to zombie musical Anna And The Apocalypse in a deal with AMP International. The film has also sold to Japan (Pony Canyon), German-speaking Europe and Benelux (Splendid), Middle East (Front Row), Taiwan (MovieCloud) and Latin America (MGM). Fox Asia acquired panAsian TV rights.

LevelK has closed deals on Christian Tafdrup’s buzzy Danish relationship story A Horrible Woman, licensing rights to China (Lemon Tree), Taiwan (Encore), Australia (Palace) and Czech Republic (Film Europe).

The dark comedy about a woman making life miserable for her boyfriend has been a hit in Denmark, where it has passed

and Amanda Collin star.

LevelK’s Tine Klint said: “The title and subject generated interesting discussions with distributors, and the audience interacted strongly on social media during the Danish theatrical release.”

Thomas Heinesen and Marta Mleczek produced for Nordisk.

LevelK will host a market screening at EFM on Monday.

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Denmark’s Snowglobe has released the first picture of Sofia Helin in Josefine Kirkeskov’s debut Lifeboat (working title), about a couple on a luxury yacht who rescue a refugee. Delivery is scheduled for autumn.

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Film Movement has acquired the North American rights to French director Marine Francen’s first feature, Napoleonic era drama The Sower, from Celluloid Dreams, along with Venezuelan filmmaker Gustavo Rondon Córdova’s La Familia (excluding pay-TV).

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Upcoming women directors driving Hungarian revival

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

Hungarian National Film Fund director Agnes Havas has told Screen how a new generation of women directors is sparking a revival in the Hungarian film industry. Buoyed by the country’s recent Oscar nomination for Ildiko

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Enyedi’s Golden Bear winner On Body And Soul, Havas outlined several films by women in the pipeline.

Enyedi’s The Story Of My Wife, starring Lea Seydoux, is in the advanced stages of production; Krisztina Goda’s remake of Italian box-office hit Perfect Strangers is

due to begin shooting in April with $1.4m (¤1.1m) support from the fund; Agnes Kocsis’ Eden, which received $1.7m (¤1.4m) fund backing, is shooting; and Cecilia Felmeri’s debut Spiral, which stars Alexandra Borbély, starts filming in Hungary in February.

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TF1 Studio has announced an array of deals on Emmanuel Finkiel’s Memoir Of Pain, inspired

by French writer Marguerite Duras’ account of her husband’s return from the Dachau concentration camp after the Second World War. The film has sold to the UK (New Wave), Switzerland (Pathé), Belgium (O’Brother Distribution), Greece (Videorama), Lithuania (KP Distribution), Sweden (TriArt Film), Japan (Hark), China ( Jushi), Canada (FunFilm Distribution) and Brazil (Imovision).

As previously announced, Music Box has acquired US rights and will release the film this summer under the title Memoir Of War. The film, starring Melanie Thierry and Benoit Magimel, premiered at San Sebastian last September. It is due to screen at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in New York on March 15 and 17. The film has sold 246,026 tickets in its first three weeks in France, where it is distributed by Les Films du Losange.

“Memoir Of Pain has been praised by the press in France and we are delighted that the French audience is embracing this exceptional adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ novel,” said Sabine Chemaly of TF1 Studio.

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The Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland has unveiled its new programmer following the departure of Gar O’Brien, who has stepped down after seven years in the role.

William Fitzgerald has taken over the programming reins and will curate the line-up of feature films for the festival’s 30th edition, which will run July 10-15.

Fitzgerald is stepping into the role after eight years with the Fleadh in various roles including short-film programmer. He previously worked at the Foyle Film Festival in Derry, and the Tribeca Film Festival and Irish Screen America festival in New York.

Good Move wins global rights to Fly By Night

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

Hong Kong-based sales agent Good Move Media has picked up international rights to Malaysian heist drama Fly By Night (working title), starring Sunny Pang, Jack Tan and Fabian Loo. A debut feature by Zahir Omar, who previously directed two shorts that screened at Rotterdam, the film brings together several talents from Malaysia’s rising independent film scene.

Produced by Perin Petrus and Leonard Tee, a long-time collaborator of Tsai Ming Liang, Fly By Night was co-scripted by Dain Said (Interchange), Ivan Yeo and Frederick Bailey. Among the cast, Sunny Pang is known for his role in the Mo Brothers’ action thriller Headshot, while Tan recently starred in award-winning arthouse drama Shuttle Life.

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Kosslick turns a page Dieter Kosslick will have his work cut out after this year’s Berlinale to deliver his autobiography in time for the Frankfurt Book Fair in October.

A spokesperson for the book’s publisher, Hoffmann & Campe Verlag, confirmed the as-yetuntitled German tome will reach bookshops after the event.

Kosslick’s previous book was a homage to bagels co-written with film critic Peter Koerte. Kosslick’s predecessor Moritz de Hadeln’s biography, Mr Filmfestival, will be presented at the Berlinale next week.

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London Screenings finds its slot

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Indie Sales is at EFM with Matteo Rovere’s action movie The First King, about the founding of Rome. Rovere and Andrea Paris produce through Groenlandia with Rai Cinema, in association with Roman Citizen.

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Good Move is also launching sales on Indonesian filmmaker Edwin’s dark romantic drama Posesif, Korean director Park Kiyong’s Old Love, which is screening in Berlinale Forum, and Japanese filmmaker Junji Kojima’s Hot Ashes, which stars Seiko Ando as a woman trapped in a violent marriage.

Film London has revealed the dates for the 15th edition of London Screenings, the UK export market that showcases British films to global buyers.

Taking place June 18-21, the event presents a range of UK projects, including completed features and works-in-progress. Last year’s London Screenings featured God’s Own Country and The Ghoul.

The Breakthrough strand will return, giving emerging British filmmakers a chance to show their work to sales agents and festival curators. The event is supported by the Mayor of London, Film Export UK and the Department for International Trade.

BERLIN BRIEFS Filmarti gets the Hump Australian sales agency Odin’s Eye Entertainment has announced an all rights deal with iTurkish distributor Filmarti Film for the $16m musical animated feature Hump, about a timid young camel on a quest to find his owner.

Kew finds Believer Sales outfit Kew Media Group has added two documentaries to its EFM slate, picking up recent Sundance world premiere Believer featuring Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds, and Soufra, an inspiring tale of entrepreneurship in a refugee camp in Lebanon.

Darkness rises for US Vertical Entertainment has acquired US rights to Anthony Byrne’s In Darkness, starring Natalie Dormer as a blind woman who hears a struggle in her neighbour’s apartment and gets sucked into a world of corruption and revenge. Vertical brokered the deal with UTA Independent Film Group and plans a May theatrical release. XYZ Films represents international sales at EFM.

EDN calls for change The European Documentary Network (EDN) has launched its ‘Documentary in a Changing Media Landscape’ initiative, calling for more support for docs from public bodies and policymakers. EDN plans to announce an update in Cannes.

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Russian animation specialist Wizart is racking up more sales on its EFM slate. It has struck a highprofile deal with Universal Pictures Video France for The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands that guarantees a wide theatrical release in France as well as in Andorra, Monaco and the French-speaking territories o f B e l g i u m , Sw i t z e r l a n d , Luxembourg and Africa.

Meanwhile, Turkish rights on Sheep And Wolves: Pig Deal have gone to Filmarti, while Shooting Stars has taken the project for the Middle East and will look to give the film a release in Saudi Arabia, where the ban on cinema-going was recently lifted.

Another Wizart title, Fantastic Journey To Oz, has found a UK home with Signature. Signature head of acquisitions and development Elizabeth Williams brokered the deal.

French filmmaker Thierry Demaizière has revealed fresh details about his joint work Lourdes, which Upside Distribution is selling at EFM. The film explores the motivations of the millions of sick pilgrims and volunteers who flock to the French shrine town.

Mars Film has acquired French rights to the film, Demaizière’s latest collaboration with Alban Teurlai after Reset, about

Benjamin Millepied’s ill-fated tenure at the Paris Opera Ballet, and Rocco, an authorised portrait of Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi.

“It’s not a film about religion but rather about what motivates people to visit Lourdes,” said Demaizière. “Through a series of portraits, we try to understand what is going on between the six pilgrims and the volunteers who accompany them.”

The filmmakers followed a cross-section of people, including

members of the travelling community, a group of soldiers, and sick children and their parents.

Demaizière and Teurlai are producing through their company Falabracks, with support from France 3 Cinéma and the participation of Canal+.

Paris-based Upside’s EFM slate includes Luiz Bolognesi’s Berlinale Panorama selection Ex-Shaman, and there is a market premiere for Olivier Megaton’s conman documentary Scam(s).

The European Children’s Film Association (ECFA) crowned Petter Lennstrand’s Swedish family comedy Up In The Sky winner of its annual Best European Children’s Film prize at a Berlin ceremony yesterday. Runners up were Meikeminne Clinckspoor’s Cloudboy and Tobias Wiemann’s Mountain Miracle – An Unexpected Friendship.

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Incontrol takes to North America

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SP Releasing has landed North American rights to Incontrol, Kurtis David Harder’s sci-fi thriller.

Genre specialist Devilworks handles sales on the project here at EFM. The deal was negotiated

by Galen Christy, founder of High Octane Pictures, on behalf of Devilworks, and Jason Price, on behalf of SP Releasing.

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Transit Reviewed by Demetrios Matheou Christian Petzold’s films are invariably peopled by characters wrestling with identity, ghosts (both real and metaphorical) who are trying to escape world war, cold war, and reunification. So it was perhaps inevitable that the director would find his own way towards Anna Seghers’ lauded, 1942-set existential novel concerning war-time refugees trapped in Vichy France while trying to flee the Nazis. You might say that, for good and ill, Transit is a match made in limbo.

Like all of his work, the writer/director’s fourth film in Berlinale Competition is elegantly made, ingenious and intellectually challenging. Yet it’s also too much like hard work to be entirely satis­ fying and, dramatically, it suffers from the same condition as its protagonists: inertia. After Phoenix — his most accessible film to date — this is a step back in what ought to be, for such a talented director, an easier bid to reach non-festival audiences.

With the Nazi troops just outside Paris, German refugee Georg (Franz Rogowski) escapes to Marseille. Before leaving Paris, he comes into possession of the papers of a writer, Weidel, who has just committed suicide. These include a manuscript and a letter from the Mexican Embassy assuring Weidel of a visa. As only those refugees who can prove they’re able to leave Marseilles are allowed into the port town in the first place, Georg duly assumes Weidel’s identity.

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Ger-Fr. 2018. 101mins Director Christian Petzold Production company Schramm Film Koerner & Weber International sales The Match Factory info@matchfactory.de Screenplay Christian Petzold, based on the novel

by Anna Seghers Producers Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber Cinematography Hans Fromm Production design Kade Gruber Main cast Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree

While waiting for his ship, Georg encounters other refugees desperately waiting for the same papers to whisk them to safety — a conductor hoping to get to Caracas and a Jewish woman with her sights on the US. He also befriends the wife and son of an ally, who died on the train from Paris, and the mysterious Marie (Paula Beer), who is desperate to find her husband — Weidel. As Georg falls in love, he has to find a way of saving Marie without revealing his deceit.

Most of the above scenario — the characters and their motivations — is evident from the screen; but the war-time setting is not. For Petzold has taken the bold decision not to dress Transit as a historical film, but to locate its action in the present-day. It is both then, and now. As if the novel didn’t offer enough to mull over, he has upped the ante.

What this means in concrete terms is that Petzold and his production team have eschewed historical recreation and placed actors amid contemporary Marseilles. There are no soldiers or tanks on the streets, only police cars.

Costumes are what you might call ‘classic’.

Thematically, this gives the scenario the potential for incredible resonance. As the starving, fearful Europeans in the foreground of the story yearn for escape and a new life, Georg encounters today’s African immigrants, who inhabit their own living hell. When the narrator says that

the locals “don’t see you, you don’t exist in their world”, the powerful impression is that nothing has changed in the trade of lost souls, other than the conflicts that create them.

If only it weren’t such a cryptic and heavy slog. Patience and an keen ear are required for the inferences and scarce keynote words — ‘fascists’, ‘the camp’, ‘cleansing’ — in a script that places events in war-time France. Why certain people are speaking in French or German becomes a minefield of distraction.

Ironically, given his temporal ploy, Petzold doesn’t offer enough contact with modern-day refugees — yet the one moment in which he does so, it is electrifying. He also introduces but seems to forget about the novel’s interest in narrative (the refugees’ anecdotes, Weidel’s manuscript), in favour of the love quadrangle between Georg, Maria, a doctor and the dead husband — which singularly fails to spark.

Rogowski (Victoria, Happy End) carries the film with a surly charisma reminiscent of Joaquin Phoenix. But Beer, so good in Francois Ozon’s Frantz, is given little opportunity to show what she can do. Who knows what electricity may have been brought to bear if Petzold had been writing for his muse and customary star, Nina Hoss.

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No one does mysterious femmes fatales quite like Isabelle Huppert — but enigmatic in this instance doesn’t necessarily mean fascinating. The actress has often collaborated to stimulating effect with director Benoit Jacquot, but this sleekly cerebral psycho-thriller finds Huppert uncharacteristically coasting.

The film may travel in the wake of Huppert’s success in Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, but this nebulously cool exercise won’t offer any surprises either to Huppert watchers or followers of upmarket French psychodrama.

Adapted from a 1945 novel by James Hadley Chase, this Eva is very different from Joseph Losey’s 1962 version. Jacquot’s protagonist is Bertrand (Gaspard Ulliel), a young man of dubious morals who steals the typescript of a new play by a faded English novelist when the latter has a heart attack. The next time we see him, the piece is a huge hit in Paris, and no one suspects that Bertrand’s overnight fame is the result of someone else’s work.

With his producer Régis (Richard Berry) wanting a new creation, Bertrand is in a corner, but his girlfriend Caroline (Julia Roy) suggests he visit her parents’ Alpine chalet for a writing break. There he finds strangers have broken in — which earns him a peremptory bash on the head from the imperious Eva (Huppert).

It turns out that Eva is an upmarket prostitute based in Annecy, where Bertrand’s play happens to be currently on stage. Grasping at inspiration for the next play he’ll eventually have to write, Bertrand follows up his growing fascination with Eva, paying to spend time with her and eventually sleeping with her.

Eva is structured as a multiple cat-and-mouse game, and the action zigzags between Paris and Annecy.

Jacquot at his best is a master at teasing us with tanta­ lising narrative mazes and false threads, but here we soon find ourselves losing interest in the riddle.

With Huppert on autopilot, the film’s ace card is the wolfish Ulliel as a self-regarding anti-hero; yet with his worldly success and its possible loss the only real stakes, it becomes hard to care about what happens to anyone.

Still, Julia Gregory’s abrupt editing style gives Eva a rhythm that’s decidedly not by the book.

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Fr-Bel. 2017. 102mins Director Benoit Jacquot Production company Macassar Productions International sales EuropaCorp contact@europacorp.com Producers Marie-Jeanne Pascal, Mélita Toscan du Plantier Screenplay Benoit Jacquot, Gilles Taurand, adapted from the book by James Hadley Chase Cinematography Julien Hirsch Production design Katia Wyszkop Main cast Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Julia Roy, Marc Barbe, Richard Berry

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Alexey German Jr’s Dovlatov could almost have been called ‘Ballad Of The Unknown Writer’; the story of a man who remained unknown in his lifetime and is still little discussed in the West although, following his death in 1990, he went on to be highly acclaimed in his native Russia.

This slow-burning evocation of the times of the poet Sergei Dovlatov is not a conventional portrait, but a realistic recreation of a bygone era of Russian culture, when literature and art were considered matters of life and death.

The film’s borderline-talky narrative and altogether dream-like feel won’t make it an obvious commercial proposition, but festivals should gravitate towards a film that’s indirectly as much about the survival of serious artistry in cinema as in any other realm.

With its overlapping dialogue, complex use of crowds and beautifully choreographed long takes, Dovlatov is very much of a stylistic piece with the other films by Alexey German Jr. This film contrives to be at once dreamily impressionistic and highly concrete in its look at a week in the life of the young Dovlatov, an aspiring writer who can’t get his work published and has been excluded from the USSR’s Writers’ Union.

Dovlatov is in Leningrad, November 1971, when a hardline cultural freeze is replacing the permissiveness of the 1960s. The poet (Milan Maric), newly divorced and living with his mother, is trying to earn a living working for an industrial magazine. Over the course of a week, he has awkward meetings with his ex-wife Elena (Helena Sujecka), hangs out with fellow writer and later Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky (Artur Beschastny) and spends evenings at bohemian soirees where struggling writers and artists listen to jazz and argue about the value of assorted poets — for this was a time when literature was a religion, and a lifeline to sanity.

A number of emotional spikes punctuate the drama — most notably when a Metro tunnel dig leads to bodies of children who died in the Siege of Leningrad. But overall, the film catches the mood of both memory and dream, and of an era in Russian history that could now be too easily forgotten. This stylistically distinctive film also figures as a universal outcry for our own era: if art and the belief in art diminishes, we all lose unimaginably.

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Central Airport THF Reviewed by Allan Hunter

Cobain Reviewed by Ben Croll With her sixth feature, Dutch director Nanouk Leopold again mines the fault lines of family in Cobain, a naturalistic portrait of a wilful adolescent and his steadfast devotion to his troubled addict mother.

Premiering in Berlin’s Generation section before an April release in the Netherlands, this well crafted — if somewhat slight — piece of impressionistic realism should only reinforce the director’s reputation on the international arthouse circuit, if not quite pushing it to the next level.

Life isn’t easy for boys named Cobain, as the titular character (sharp-angled newcomer Bas Keizer) has learned many times throughout his 15 years. Bearing a first name that says an awful lot about his mother’s caprices and chemical dependencies, and carrying it like a burden, young Cobain has spent his whole life bouncing between foster homes and juvenile detention.

Meanwhile his mother, thirtysomething addict Mia (Naomi Velissariou), is rarely without a cigarette in mouth or beer in hand. Heavily pregnant, she does not promise to be any better a parent to her second child than she was to her first. “I’m worried about you,” Cobain earnestly pleads at one point. “Do I worry about you?” is her brittle reply.

The words no doubt sting, but Leopold — working from a script by Stienette Bosklopper — doesn’t over­ emphasise their lacerating effects. She uses naturalistic lighting and hand-held cameras for muted fly-on-the-wall realism, while also downplaying sharp dramatic turns.

Even though Cobain assumes a more impressionistic approach, it still benefits from a few central, animating questions: just how far does Cobain’s seemingly onesided devotion go? And just who is the subject of his devotion; Mia, or the unborn sibling she carries? But it never poses these questions too confrontationally, instead content to simply follow the lead into a moment and then let the scene play out in close-up on the young man’s face.

DoP Frank van den Eeden’s nimble camera is nicely complemented by a stripped down, guitar-heavy score from composer Harry de Wit. The obvious Nirvana songbook may be a tad too pricey for this modestly scaled production, but de Wit’s subtly grunge-inspired accompaniments ably pick up the slack.

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94mins Director Nanouk Leopold Production company Circe Films International sales Beta Cinema beta@betacinema.com Producers Stienette Bosklopper, Lisette Kelder Screenplay Stienette Bosklopper Production design Elsje de Bruijn Cinematography Frank van den Eeden Main cast Bas Keizer, Naomi Velissariou, Wim Opbrouck, Dana Marineci, Cosmina Stratan, Maria Kraakman, Maartje van de Wetering, Tamar van den Dop

Countless documentaries have attempted to put a human face to the global refugee crisis, but few have felt as compassionate or engaging as Karim Ainouz’s Central Airport THF. The Futuro Beach director brings a warmly sympathetic eye to bear on the temporary refugee shelters in Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, and to the individuals there who are seeking to rebuild their lives. Festival interest should be brisk following the Berlinale world premiere.

So much of Germany’s recent history is reflected in Tempelhof Airport, which began operations in the 1920s.

Early in the film we follow tourists around the now abandoned buildings that are spotless and eerily empty. The tour commentary is a clever means of providing a potted history of Tempelhof — from Hitler’s rule through to the Berlin Airlift and beyond.

Tempelhof Airport became a public space when it closed in 2008 and, since 2015, several hangars have been used to provide supposedly temporary shelter for thousands of refugees. It has become its own city and Ainouz’s discreet camera ventures beyond the dozens of little boxes that serve as homes to gather a sense of community — from spaces set up for table tennis to the administering of vaccinations and even a modest Christmas market.

Central Airport THF follows this community over the best part of a year, finding its focus in the fates of 18-year-old Syrian refugee Ibrahim and aspiring doctor Qutaiba from Iraq. Both men are separated from loved ones, seeking a fresh start and adjusting to a new normality defined by uncertainty.

Ibrahim narrates and becomes central to the documentary as we watch him learn German and patiently wait to discover if he will be granted refugee status. Significantly, Ainouz feels no need to document what is happening in the wider world or address politics over the refugee population. His interest is strictly in the residents of Tempelhof, and DoP Juan Sarmiento G provides a sense of the airport’s scale and majesty as he lingers over vast abandoned runways or picks out the urban foxes that prowl at night.

Ironically, the spaces around Tempelhof Airport have now been reclaimed by the public for bike rides and picnics, beekeeping and jogging. There is a peaceful paradise on the refugees’ doorstep and an implicit message that Germany might be one of the few European countries generous enough to allow them to share it.

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97mins Director Karim Ainouz Production company Lupa Film International sales Luxbox hedi@luxboxfilms.com Producer Felix von Boehm Cinematography Juan Sarmiento G Editor Felix von Boehm

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Styx Reviewed by Ben Croll

Girls Always Happy Reviewed by Sarah Ward Swap Sacramento’s lower middle-class for Beijing’s hutong dwellers and Girls Always Happy somewhat resembles Lady Bird, laying bare a complex yet relatable mother-daughter relationship. A dark centre lurks at the heart of writer-director-editor and actress Yang Mingming’s feature debut, eschewing warmth for a wartsand-all — and sometimes bleakly humorous — approach.

Premiering in Panorama, Girls Always Happy is unflinching in its exploration of a difficult parent-child dynamic, benefitting from the two lead performances. As Yang bickers furiously with co-star Nai An about everything from marriage to money to table manners, the film is fascinating. Yet, even though it gives the first-time filmmaker a strong showcase, the richness of character and insight isn’t matched by its narrative, and Girls Always Happy is likely to remain confined to the festival circuit.

What’s evident about twentysomething screenwriter Wu (Yang) and her unnamed single mother (An) is their festering despair. Wu can’t forgive her mother for past choices, while her mother never misses an opportunity to offer criticism and demand recognition.

And yet, with an astute understanding of the way such close bonds can simmer with anger one moment and resound with comfort the next, they tone down their war of words on two occasions: over meals, when the usual onslaught of bitterness becomes a trickle; and whenever Wu’s Grandpa (Huang Wei) is around. But that’s only because they want to get into the elderly man’s good graces to secure a place in his will. Their precarious financial state illustrates modern China’s economic and social disparities.

What becomes clear in every exchange is that the two women are more similar than they’d ever admit. Yang grew up with her mother in the same area, which helps explain the film’s tone of art imitating life — not only in the intense central relationship, but in the detailed way she depicts every nook and cranny in their shared home, as well as the aesthetic of their neighbourhood.

The setting shines courtesy of DoP Shen Xiaomin’s crisp digital lensing, which, when outside, often follows Wu riding her scooter along the streets with carefree abandon. Affection also resonates in fluid shots of everyday locales, reflecting the film’s core: what we love and what we struggle with are often the same thing.

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PANORAMA China. 2018. 117mins Director/screenplay Yang Mingming Production company Beijing Trend Cultural Investment International sales Parallax Films info@parallaxchina.com Producer Yang Jing Executive producer Yang Chao Cinematography Shen Xiaomin Production design Xia Nv, Xiong Yue Main cast Nai An, Yang Mingming, Zhang Xianmin, Li Qinqin, Huang Wei, Yuan Li, Li Wenbo

Death, and the spectre thereof, haunts Wolfgang Fischer’s Styx at nearly every point, as its allusive title may suggest.

Premiering in Berlin’s Panorama Special, this sobering, near dialogue-free drama follows a burned-out emergency medic as she seeks restorative calm on a solo yacht trip, only to find there’s no escaping life’s pitiless turns.

Offering little exposition and even less dialogue, Fischer’s sophomore effort develops character and unsettling moral questions entirely through action. Styx could easily sail through other high-minded festivals, and will ultimately find port in niche, arthouse cinemas — particularly in markets most familiar with lead actress Susanne Wolff and those unafraid of fraught moral stalemates.

Those moral stalemates take a while to manifest, however. After a brief, Germany-set prologue that shows Rieke’s (Wolff ) life-and-death professional routine, we spend the next 30 minutes in observational remove aboard the Asa Grey, watching Rieke as she tracks a course from Gibraltar to Ascension Island.

Similar to Dunkirk, depictions of sea, sky and survival take precedence over character for the first half of the film, with Fischer cutting between violent storms and placid vistas. Conflict arrives when Rieke encounters a distressed fishing trawler filled with refugees off the coast of Cape Verde. Styx then eases into its more narrative-driven second half with precision, following Rieke as she rescues a boy in the water.

With 14-year-old Kingsley (Gedion Odour Wekesa) now on board, Styx explores the tension between Rieke’s desire to help his family and the uncomfortable truth that she might make matters worse. Fischer and co-writer Ika Künzel add a political tone when the friendly voices Rieke — a white European woman — interacts with over the radio fall silent when the subject turns to saving refugees.

Styx offers no easy or complete answers. In one telling moment, Rieke pulls her sails to turn away from the refugees she longs to assist, and we can hear their cries carried on the wind. There may be little she can do, but she must nevertheless bear witness to their existence.

As befitting such sobering themes, the film forgoes any musical accompaniment. Instead, the rustling wind and crashing water remain our constant companions, while DoP Benedict Neuenfels captures the mercurial ocean in crisp digital photography.

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Ger-Aus. 2018. 94mins Director Wolfgang Fischer Production company Schiwago Film International sales Beta Cinema beta@betacinema.com Producers Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny Screenplay Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Künzel Cinematography Benedict Neuenfels Main cast Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa

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SPOTLIGHT 7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE

port. Despite having threatened to kill the hostages if the terminal was stormed, Böse in fact ordered everyone to stay down and trained his fire outwards. “At that moment, I thought there’s definitely a film to be made here,” explains Solomon. “By the end of that week, Böse and Brigitte couldn’t kill the hostages.”

As Padilha worked with Burke and the producers to refine the screenplay, Studiocanal began to have second thoughts. Chairman and CEO Olivier Courson exited the studio in September 2015, and the Paris terror attacks of November that year cast the project in a different light for the company. US financier Participant Media quickly stepped into the breach. Focus Features came in for US rights, eOne bought UK and Australia (where the film is titled simply Entebbe), France, Germany, Spain, Austria and Benelux, and Lionsgate had sales rights on other territories.

Daniel Brühl as Wilfried Böse in 7 Days In Entebbe

Point of view The events of the world’s most famous plane hijacking are given fresh complexity in José Padilha’s 7 Days In Entebbe, which plays out of Competition in Berlin. Charles Gant reports

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osé Padilha’s 7 Days In Entebbe, which plays out of Competition at the Berlinale on Monday (February 19), begins not with a hijacking, but with a dance. The film — which tells the famed story of the June 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the events leading up to the storming a week later of the Entebbe airport terminal building in Uganda by Israeli special forces — takes a different view from the quickly made US TV movies of the time, Raid On Entebbe and Victory At Entebbe, and the Israelimade Operation Thunderbolt.

“There were two different accounts of the operation — a popular, nationalistic account, and a research scholar account,” comments the Brazilian filmmaker, whose credits include 2008 Berlin Golden Bear winner Elite Squad and Sony Pictures’ 2014 RoboCop reboot.

“The nationalistic account was simple: this is the biggest military siege of all time. When you read the scholar account, you start to say, ‘Yes, they are doing something evil, there’s no excuse for what they’ve done, but they have motivations and, actually, one of them changed his mind in the process.’ The hostages described it like that.”

Padilha is talking specifically about Wilfried Böse, played in the film by Daniel Brühl, and a member of German radical group Revolutionary Cells. Böse and his fellow hijacker Brigitte (Rosamund Pike) are pivotal characters in a drama that offers multiple perspectives on events, which are also seen through the eyes of Israeli politicians Yitzhak Rabin (Foxtrot’s Lior Ashkenazi) and Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan); an Israeli special forces soldier (Ben Schnetzer) and his dancer girlfriend (Zina Zinchenko); the French airline crew (including Custody’s Denis Ménochet as flight engineer Jacques Lamoine); members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; and Israeli hostages.

Padilha boarded the project after the original director, Sweden’s Daniel Espinosa, dropped out due to timing conflicts. The screenplay by Gregory

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‘Yes, they are doing something evil, there’s no excuse, but they have motivations’ José Padilha

Burke (’71) was developed by Working Title, financier Studiocanal and independent UK producer Kate Solomon, after being proposed in 2014

by Studiocanal’s executive vicepresident Ron Halpern. At the time, Halpern, Solomon and Working Title co-chairman Tim Bevan were working on Krays biopic Legend Legend.

For Solomon, the breakthrough came when she met Lamoine, who told her about his conversations with Böse and how their eyes locked when the Israeli special forces stormed the air-

The shoot The bulk of 7 Days In Entebbe shot in Malta, from October to December 2016, with the production constructing a replica of the Entebbe terminal at Valletta airport. The film then relocated to the UK before Christmas, shooting all of the Israeli cabinet scenes at Harrow Civic Centre. The shoot wrapped in Israel in March 2017 for a crucial sequence that was introduced by Padilha just four weeks before principal photography, and which punctuates the drama, including during the climactic raid.

The piece is popularly known as ‘the chair dance’ and set to traditional Israeli song ‘Echad Mi Yodea’. “The performers walk on wearing Orthodox clothes,” Padilha explains. “They dance on chairs, performing self-inflicting pain movements. As the dance progresses, they strip their Orthodox clothes — except one of them. The one who doesn’t strip keeps falling from the chair. That’s an amazing metaphor. The only way there’s going to be a solution and break this cycle of fear is if somehow people strip themselves of their orthodox way of thinking.”

By making the girlfriend of Schnetzer’s character a member of the Batsheva Dance Company, Padilha was able to weave this visual metaphor into his film — and he pays tribute to Participant Media CEO David Linde for supporting him on what he agrees was “a creative risk”. “My biggest contribution to the movie was: how I can go beyond the event and make a statement about this subject — and how can I do this cinematically?” he says. “There is a state of fear, because of the conflict and the history.

There are the politicians — on both sides — who prey on the fear. It locks those two s nations in a never-ending cycle.” ■

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Irish Films at the Berlinale & EFM

— Black ’47

— Kissing Candice

— Float Like a Butterfly

— A Girl from Mogadishu

— A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot

— Damo & Ivor – The Movie

— Dark Lies the Island

— Losing Alaska

— Never Grow Old

— One Million American Dreams

— Sonja – The White Swan

— The Hole In the Ground

— The Life After

— Vita & Virginia

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IN FOCUS EUROPE-LATIN AMERICA CO-PRODUCTIONS

Passion and pragmatism Producers from Europe and Latin America discussed the advantages and challenges of co-producing together at an industry debate organised by Screen International in partnership with the Panama Film Commission. Elisabet Cabeza reports

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Laurette Schillings, from Topkapi Films in the Netherlands, the other European producer at Screen’s industry debate, spoke in similar terms when it came to praising the Latin American talent Topkapi has worked with, including Carlos Reygadas in Mexico and Fernando Epstein in Uruguay. Topkapi also coproduced the debut feature of Argentinian director Monica Lairana, The Bed, which premieres in this year’s Berlinale Forum. “Maybe we have more money in Europe, but in Latin America there are excellent stories, urgent stories that need to be told,” said Schillings.

Local talent and the perception that Latin American stories are well-received by European audiences, as well as on the international festival circuit, were among the advantages pointed out by the producers in attendance.

Yossy Zagha of Mexico’s Avanti Pictures (The Night Guard) also pointed out the opportunity to expand a project’s potential: “One of the main incentives of co-producing is opening a second market. The movies that work in Mexico usually don’t work in the rest of Latin America, and vice versa. The challenge is finding a project that can work in two markets.

“There’s a co-production treaty between Mexico and France,” added Zagha. “That has worked very well, particularly for arthouse Mexican films.”

Argentinian producer Melanie Schapiro of Trapecio Cine added that funding and market access aside, co-production is important to help talented filmmakers build their profile in Europe. Schapiro, who produced The Omission — the debut feature by Sebastian Schjaer that is screening in Panorama — believes that in their case, “it’s important that the film is both at the Berlinale and that it got European support” through co-producing with the Netherlands and Switzerland.

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experience in co-production, said that this has to come naturally. “They have to start with the script, the story, and look for partners that will fit,” he said. Monzon agreed: “If it’s not a natural co-production, forget it.

If at the end of the day you have a production that has no soul, it has no distribution.”

Brazilian producer Tatiana Leite, whose Rio de Janeiro-based company Bubbles Project produced Sundance title Loveling, commented: “It’s important to fall in love with the script. There is also the added value of mixing crews from different countries. It can be a very enriching process from a creative point of view.”

But there are also hurdles that need to be considered; “practicalities” to do with funding requirements, cuts in public funding for film, timings or fluctuating currencies in Latin America. “Co-production treaties are good, but we should ask politicians to make things easier on the bureaucracy side,” said Monzon.

“The amount of talent in Latin American cinema is amazing, but we are mostly talking arthouse. It’s hard to find a blockbuster, so we always need some support.”

In that respect, Schapiro believes that “distribution funds would be an idea to enforce,

‘It’s important to fall in love with the script.

There is also the added value of mixing crews from different countries’ Tatiana Leite, Bubbles Project

because it’s easy to access film festivals but harder to get a theatrical release”. In fellow Brazilian Leite’s experience, co-production within Latin American countries helps ensure access to theatres too.

Most of the panellists agreed that navigating the complexities that come with putting a co-production together makes it a tough road for partners on Europe-Latin American co-productions. “It’s like a difficult marriage sometimes,” said Schillings. “You have to hire somebody full-time to deal with the administration alone.”

Hence the importance of a strong story and a project that both sides believe in — that’s the key when choosing a co-production partner. “The human factor, to share the same passion for the project,” as Serra described it.

“You usually get involved in a co-production because you love the story. If you do, you’ll do everything in your power to make it come true,” added Zagha.

The final advice from panellists for creating a successful Europe-Latin America coproduction was to make full use of markets.

That, and a cool head when it comes to paperwork. “Put everything in writing. It’s the best s way to avoid conflict,” concluded Zagha. n

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ON SET ROADS

On the road Sebastian Schipper follows Berlin Silver Bear winner Victoria with Roads, headlined by Fionn Whitehead and Stéphane Bak. Elisabet Cabeza reports from the road movie’s pit-stop on Spain’s Costa Brava

Special friendship Schipper started writing Roads with cowriter Oliver Ziegenbalg in the summer of 2016, looking to explore a story about friendship. The narrative evolved further during a shoot that started at the end of August in Morocco and wrapped in October in France. “That’s the freedom I have producing myself,” he adds.

As Schipper puts it, Roads “took wind in its sails and used the current from Victoria”, a critical success and the Silver

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he shoot of Roads trails through North Africa, Spain and France, following its two main characters at the wheel of a caravan.

French actor Stéphane Bak plays William, a boy from Congo, searching for his brother on a journey that will take him to a refugee camp in Calais. Along the way he meets Gyllen (2016 Screen Star of Tomorrow Fionn Whitehead), a London boy fleeing in the caravan from a family holiday in Morocco.

The $7.4m (¤6m) Germany-France co-production focuses on these boys and their friendship, as well as one of today’s most urgent social topics: the refugee humanitarian crisis. On the day Screen International visits the set, the scenes involve the caravan in question — “The one true diva of the shoot,” jokes director Sebastian Schipper — stuck on the beautiful Platja del Castell beach on Spain’s Costa Brava.

“I don’t want to put myself in a position of telling people how it is,” says the German-born director, during his lunch break. “I didn’t want to make a heavy-handed refugee story. The world is messed up, yes, but I still think it’s also a crazy beautiful place, full of wonders.” An experienced actor himself, Schipper is full of praise for his two leads: “They are bold, talented and they get along great.”

Roads — which was retitled from Caravan before this month’s European Film Market — finds Whitehead on a very different beach to that of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, the actor’s breakout picture. “The topic the film tackles is important, but I like the fact it’s not preachy,” he says. “The focus is not on having a character helping the other. It focuses on what they get from each other.”

(From left) Fionn Whitehead and Stéphane Bak in Roads

Bear winner in Berlin for outstanding artistic contribution in 2015.

David Keitsch, his producing partner at Missing Link Films, confirms that the process for putting Roads on track was fast for this kind of production: “We set it up within 11 months — from the process of scriptwriting to developing, financing and actually preparing the shoot itself, involving three countries.”

Mainly financed by German backers, the film’s long list of coproduction partners comprises Kazak Productions, WDR, Arte, ARD Degeto, Komplizen Film, Studiocanal Film and RadicalMedia, with funding from Medienboard BerlinBrandenburg, Filmund Medienstiftung NRW, FFA, Eurimages, Mini Traité, (Right) Sebastian Schipper on the set of Roads

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BKM and the DFFF. Studiocanal will release the film in Germany and Rezo Films in France. HanWay Films handles worldwide sales, and will be active on the title in Berlin.

The decision to shoot in English was due mainly to “the nature of the story”, says Keitsch, although the decision clearly allows the film to reach a broader audience. English is also the common language between the two main characters in Victoria, which exported successfully to territories including the UK. In his fifth feature as a director,

Schipper is open to letting reality and the actors’ energy shape the film. While it is not a genre movie, the director admits Roads could be identified as a coming-of-age story, a road movie, a buddy movie, a heist movie. “I like the idea of genre,” he adds. “I did in Victoria and I like it here, too.”

Watching the energetic Schipper, it is easy to picture him at the helm of a technical challenge such as Victoria, which was made in a single continuous shot of 140 minutes following Barcelona-born actress Laia Costa through an eventful night in Berlin.

From a Catalan actress to Catalan shores, this time the demanding shoot involves a long list of outdoor locations, from Morocco to Normandy. Under the pine trees that surround the beach of Platja del Castell, with tourists casually flip-flopping their way past the set, Schipper explains that of the 100 scenes in the film, there are hardly any that happen in the same location: “We are constantly moving. Everybody is a bit s worn out, but it feels great.” ■

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INDIAN CINEMA ON A GLOBAL

JOURNEY AT BERLINALE The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India, in association with the Confederation of Indian Industry, is participating in the 68th Berlin International Film Festival and European Film Market, to project Indian cinema, facilitate syndication of Indian films, and promote shooting locales and film services in India. The Indian delegation is led

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IN FOCUS DRAMA SERIES DAYS

Reality check Berlin’s market-focused TV section Drama Series Days (Feb 19-21) and accompanying pitching platform CoPro Series are ramping up in importance for international producers. Louise Tutt reports

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The 12-hour drama, created by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries and Henk Handloegten, was close to being financed by that point and was to be wholly produced by Arndt and Tykwer’s X-Filme. What Arndt, a leading international independent film producer, was looking for was affirmation that they

‘The feedback was a big, big help. It was much more open-minded than I expected’ Stefan Arndt, producer

were on the right track. Babylon Berlin was X-Filme’s first venture into TV drama and it was going to be expensive, budgeted at $3m (¤2.4m) per episode.

“It was incredibly important for us to get a real feeling for the international need for what we were developing,” Arndt explains. “We went to CoPro Series to double-check, together with our sales company [Beta], what our possible buyers or collaborators were thinking about what we were doing. The feedback we got was a big, big help. It was much more open-minded than I expected.”

Holding a TV pitching event within a major film festival meant participants were in the right frame of mind to exchange frank opinions and ask difficult questions, Arndt believes.

Invited audience This year, eight drama series looking for international backers and producing partners (see Co-pro Series Projects sidebar) will be pitched to an audience of 270 invited industry professionals at the Zoo Palast cinema. The day also includes a networking event and one-to-one meetings at the Berlinale Series’ new ‘business

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SMALL SCREEN, BIG AMBITIONS The Berlinale Series, part of the Berlinale Special, will present the world or international premieres of the first couple of episodes of seven drama series within the festival programme.

For the first time, all the screenings will take place at the Zoo Palast, in the same location as CoPro Series.

The selection is chosen by festival director Dieter Kosslick, in co-operation with his team, including programme manager Solmaz Azizi. “We focus on highend drama series — series that follow a cinematic staging, are visually opulent or have a high production value. Then we try to find series that have a new approach, which pursue this rather new form of storytelling,” Kosslick explains.

Demand for the seven slots is tight but Kosslick says he has no intention of increasing the number of TV series the festival shows. This year’s section will open with FremantleMedia’s adaptation of Picnic At Hanging Rock, and also features Israeli series Sleeping Bears, Germany-Luxembourg co-production Bad Banks from ZDF and Arte, Norwegian series Home Ground, Danish drama Liberty, Amazon and Hulu’s The Looming Tower and AMC’s The Terror.

lounge’, held at the nearby Spreegold restaurant. “Producers tell us they like its exclusivity,” says Martina Bleis, one of the team at the Co-Production Market who co-ordinates CoPro Series. “It’s a small event and very focused.”

For the first two years, projects were invited rather than submitted but, since 2017, the event has been opened up to submissions to ensure the net is thrown as wide as possible. According to Bleis, there were around 120 entries for the seven slots this year. An eighth is selected by the Series Mania TV co-production event in Lille (one of the CoPro Series projects will be selected for » Series Mania in return).

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CO-PRO SERIES PROJECTS

‘We’ve seen an increase in visitors producing high-end drama’

Baby Alone (Ger) Writers Judith Angerbauer, Matthias Luthardt Dir Matthias Luthardt Production company Akzente Film und Fernsehproduktion

Matthijs Wouter Knol, EFM

Bleis says one of the aims of CoPro Series is for the Co-Production Market team to use its feature film expertise to open producers’ eyes to the benefits of international co-productions. It is a model familiar to all independent film producers, but much less so to TV producers, who are used to their series being financed by just one or two broadcasters. “Some producers might submit projects and say they are looking for pre­ sales, and we encourage them to consider co-producing,” says Bleis. “There are so many TV series that are set across Europe that could, for example, use different casts or combine technical knowhow if they make a bond with another international producer.”

CoPro Series is part of Berlin’s threeday Drama Series Days (February 19-21), a joint initiative of the European Film Market, the Berlinale Co-Production Market and Berlinale Talents. In addition to the invite-only CoPro Series day, there are networking sessions and panel discussions as well as a tightly curated programme of around 30 market screenings of completed high-end drama series, including web and documentary series, for international buyers. This year’s screenings include Lionsgate’s period adaptation Little Women, Dynamic Television’s Belgium series The Day and ZDF Enterprises’ Ku’damm 59.

High demand Any delegate with EFM or festival accreditation can access Drama Series Days, although high demand for the panel programme means priority is given to those attendees working in drama series. “The majority of our visitors are coming for EFM and some focus on the Drama Series Days,” says EFM director Matthijs Wouter Knol. “There’s an interesting overlap in film professionals who have grown accustomed to working in drama series as well — that initially was also the reason to start this platform within the EFM. Since 2015, we’ve seen an increase in visitors attending from companies producing highend drama series specifically. They were always at EFM, but with the establishment of the Drama Series Days, we see more people coming from those compa-

Black Port (Ice) Writer Mikael Torfason Dirs Gisli Örn Gardarsson, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson Production company Vesturport

Costigan (Ire) Writer Gary Duggan Dir Neasa Hardiman, tbc Production companies Shinawil, Against the Grain The Faction* (Neth)

Ku’damm 59

Writer Oscar van Woensel Dir tba Production company Submarine

Fury (Nor) Showrunner Gjermund S Eriksen Dir Roar Uthaug Production company Monster Scripted

Henkersbach (Ger) Writers Friedrich Ani, Ina Jung Dir Dominik Graf Production company Cinecentrum Berlin Film und Fernsehproduktion

In A Heartbeat (Isr)

Little Women

nies because the infrastructure for their business has improved.”

As of February 5, with two weeks to go, some 550 people had registered to attend Drama Series Days, which represents a 10% rise on the total number of attendees in 2017. “From the beginning, we have had a strong focus on the Scandinavian industry and the presence of our ‘neighbours’ — the Danes, Swedes, Norwegians and Finns — is very important for us,” Knol continues.

“Apart from Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other major players, we are also seeing major European channels sending drama series commissioning editors — many of them have only had that focus for a couple of years.“ In a sign of the growing significance of Drama Series Days on the high-end TV circuit, producers are also returning year after year. Arndt will be back without a new project to talk up officially but keen

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to take the temperature of the market, to see what other producers are working on and to carry on learning as much as possible about the TV world. “I will be there as an interested co-producer,” he says.

Norwegian producer Nina B Andersson of Oslo-based Tordenfilm is another now-familiar face at Drama Series Days.

Tordenfilm’s Valkyrie was also presented at the first edition of CoPro Series, and Andersson was so impressed with what the event did for the project that she has returned ever since. “We were there with a goal to find a distributor for the series,” she says. “We were close to greenlighting the project and we had 75% of the budget in place. The CoPro Series took very good care of us. They briefed us in advance.

We didn’t know what the room would be like, what the atmosphere would be, who would be the people there. Fortunately, it was a lot of co-producers, a lot of distributors and sales agents.

Writers Shani Melamed Nitzan, Gaya Wildman Dir tba Production company Black Sheep Film Productions

South (Port) Writers Edgar Medina, Guilherme Mendonca Dir Ivo Ferreira Producer Arquipelago Filmes *In association with Series Mania

“We got a lot of attention from that pitch,” she continues. “CoPro Series arranged meetings and it resulted in us joining with About Premium Content (APC) from France, which specialises in high-end TV. It was a brilliant choice for us. We’re now back and curious about other projects and what other producers are doing. And we hope to introduce our s new project there at some point.” n

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09:00 THE PRAYER

(France) Les Films des Tournelles. 107mins.

Dir: Cedric Kahn.

Cast: Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Alex Brendemuhl, Louise Grinberg, Hanna Schygulla, Antoine Amblard.

In a remote community subject to a strict regimen in the French mountains, Thomas struggles to overcome his drug addiction. He rediscovers values such as friendship and faith, but also himself, and wins back his selfrespect.

Competition Press only Berlinale Palast

09:30 AGGREGATE

(Germany) 92mins.

Dir: Marie Wilke.

How are new challenges to be met in political life?

With cool precision, Wilke observes locations across Germany where democratic decision-making processes take place and looks behind the scenes at the Bundestag, news desks and constituency offices.

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CLEO & PAUL

(France) 60mins.

Dir: Stephane Demoustier.

Cast: Cleo Demoustier, Paul Demoustier, Vimala Pons, Anders Danielsen Lie, Elsa Wolliaston, Sam Louwyck.

Three-and-a-half-year-old Cleo is brilliant at hideand-seek: her brother Paul and their nanny have no chance of finding her.

At some point Paul also discovers what Paris is like when one is out and about without any adults.

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DOVLATOV

(Russian Federation, Poland, Serbia) Lita Stantic Producciones.

126mins. Dir: Alexey German Jr. Cast: Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovsky, Helena Sujecka, Artur Beschastny, Elena Lyadova, Anton Shagin.

A few days in the life of the Russian-Jewish writer Sergei Dovlatov (1941– 1990), whose brilliantly ironic texts were forbidden from being printed in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev.

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

EVA

(France, Belgium) Channel Four Films.

102mins. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Isabelle

09:30 THE HAPPY PRINCE

(Germany, Belgium, Italy) 105mins.

Dir: Rupert Everett.

Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Benjamin Voisin, Antonio Spagnuolo.

The once celebrated writer Oscar Wilde spends his final years in Parisian exile.

Impoverished and ailing, he loses himself in an unhappy love affair but somehow manages to retain his charm and sense of irony.

Berlinale Special Gala Zoo Palast 1

Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Julia Roy, Marc Barbe, Richard Berry.

A young writer hopes his encounter with a mysterious high-class prostitute will inspire him. But he becomes ensnared in an emotional entrapment that leads to catastrophe.

Caught between reality and a tapestry of lies, she becomes enthralled by him.

A thriller that takes place entirely on a computer screen.

Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele

(Germany) 86mins.

Dir: Carolin Genreith.

How embarrassing when your father’s intended is no older than you — and Thai to boot! A culture clash comedy about love, money and happiness.

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PROFILE

(US, UK, Cyprus, Russian Federation) 105mins. Dir: Timur Bekmambetov. Cast: Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Christine Adams, Amir Rahimzadeh, Morgan Watkins.

Posing as a convert named Melody, a British journalist contacts an ISIS fighter in Syria using a fake Facebook profile.

Panorama Special CinemaxX 7

10:00 HAPPY

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MANIFESTO

(Germany) 95mins.

Dir: Julian Rosefeldt.

Cast: Cate Blanchett.

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questioning the role of the artist in society today.

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SUPA MODO

(Germany, Kenya) 74mins. Dir: Likarion Wainaina. Cast: Stycie Waweru, Nyawara Ndambia, Marrianne Nungo, Johnson Chege, Humphrey Maina.

Nine-year-old Jo loves action films and dreams of being a superhero.

Her daydreams help her forget that she is terminally ill.

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THE SEEN AND UNSEEN

(Indonesia, Netherlands, Australia, Qatar) 86mins. Dir: Kamila Andini.

While her twin brother is gravely ill in hospital, 10-year-old Tantri enters magical dream worlds

revealed by the Balinese philosophy of the seen and the unseen. Through dance and body painting she says farewell to her dying brother.

Generation Kplus Zoo Palast 2

10:15 L’ ANIMALE

(Austria) 97mins.

Dir: Katharina Mueckstein. Cast: Sophie Stockinger, Kathrin Resetarits, Dominik Warta, Julia Franz Richter, Jack Hofer, Dominic Marcus Singer.

Shortly before graduating from school and studying in Vienna, the paradigms in young Mati’s life begin to shift. Things like friendship and love have to be renegotiated in her boys’ gang. Meanwhile, her parents are busy stumbling over their own lies.

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11:00 THE CRANES ARE FLYING

(USSR) Barzegar Production. 98mins.

Dir: Michail Kalatosow.

Cast: Tatjana Samoilowa, Alexei Batalow, Wassili Merkurjew.

The tragic story of a young Muscovite couple separated by the events of the Second World War. Instead of heroic victors, it portrays the suffering and sacrifice of the civilian population during war.

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STATELESS

(Morocco, France, Qatar) 94mins. Dir: Narjiss Nejjar. Cast: El Ghalia Ben Zaouia, Avishay Benazra, Aziz Fadili, Nadia Niazi, Mohamed Nadif, Julie Gayet, Zakaria Atifi.

In 1975, 45,000 Moroccan families were expelled from

Algeria overnight. This feature tells the story of a woman who stubbornly attempts to prevail over the border between the two countries, with the coastal landscape as an idyllic backdrop.

Forum CineStar 8

11:30 FIRST STRIPES

(Canada) RTBF. 106mins.

Dir: Jean-Francois Caissy.

At a military school in Quebec, men and women of different backgrounds receive training.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

12:00

his estranged teenage son.

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CENTRAL AIRPORT THF

(Germany, France, Brazil) Tangerine Tree. 97mins.

Dir: Karim Ainouz.

In the hangars of this defunct airport, refugees dream of being able to make a new start while Berliners escape their daily routine at the recreation area of Tempelhofer Feld.

Impressive images that capture a year of anguish, jollity and aspirations.

Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7

BRIGHT NIGHTS

DAUGHTER OF MINE

(Germany) 86mins.

Dir: Thomas Arslan.

Cast: Georg Friedrich, Tristan Gobel, Marie Leuenberger.

While on a trip to bury his father in remote northern Norway, Michael is determined to bond with

(Italy, Germany, Switzerland) 100mins.

Dir: Laura Bispuri.

Cast: Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu, Udo Kier, Michele Carboni.

Vittoria is growing up in a remote Sardinian

village. One day she meets the wildly independent Angelica, who is so very different from her own caring mother Tina.

The young girl has no knowledge of the secret that connects these two women.

Competition Press only Berlinale Palast

NATIONAL BIRD

(Germany, US) 92mins.

Dir: Sonia Kennebeck.

Three former military operatives offer disturbing, first-hand accounts of the deadly impact that US drone warfare has had on civilians overseas.

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PEOPLE IN THE BUSH

(Germany) 64mins.

Dir: Friedrich Dalsheim, Gulla Pfeffer.

An ethnographic documentary study that dispenses with off-camera narration, of daily life and

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work in a village in the interior of Togo. It presents an extreme contrast to life in Togo’s cities, heavily influenced by the country’s colonial history.

FESTIVAL & PRESS 12:30 AFTER-WORK BEER

(Germany) 113mins. Dir: Ben Brummer. Cast: Tilman Strauss, Julia Dietze, Johann Jurgens.

Barkeeper Magnus and his mate Dimi are a couple of prize hipsters. When

Magnus’ beloved classic car is stolen he becomes obsessed with tracking down the thief. A wild goose chase follows from swinger clubs to conspiracies, heading towards an exciting finale.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1

EVA

Retrospective Zeughauskino

(France, Belgium) Channel Four Films.

102mins. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Julia Roy, Marc Barbe, Richard Berry.

TRANSIT

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

(Germany, France) 101mins. Dir: Christian Petzold. Cast: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Sebastian Hulk, Emilie de Preissac.

Georg flees to Marseille to escape the German army.

Assuming a false identity, he tries to obtain passage on a ship bound for Mexico.

But then he meets Marie and his plans change.

Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele

12:30 AFTER-WORK BEER See box, left

GENESIS

(Hungary) 120mins. Dir: Arpad Bogdan. Cast: Milan Csordas, Anna Marie Cseh, Eniko Anna Illesi, Lidia Danis, Levente Molnar, Zsolt Kovacs, Tamas Ravasz, Istvan Szilvasi, Szofi Berki, Dezso Lukacs.

Racist attacks carried out in 2008/09 on a Hungarian Roma settlement and their effect on both the victims and Hungarian society are at the heart of three interwoven, visually powerful stories.

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HUMAN, SPACE, TIME AND HUMAN

(Korea) 122mins.

Dir: Kim Ki-duk. Cast: Mina Fujii, Jang Keunsuk, Ahn Sung-ki, Lee Sung-jae, Ryoo Seungbum, Sung Ki-youn, Joe Odagiri.

A journey on an old warship with an unknown destination. When a group of very different people set sail, violence soon turns into anarchy.

Panorama Special CinemaxX 7

THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE GIANT PEAR

(Denmark) 79mins.

Dir: Philip Einstein Lipski, Amalie Næsby Fick, Jorgen Lerdam.

Cast: Alfred Bjerre Larsen, Liva Elvira Magnussen, Peter Frodin.

Aboard an enormous pear repurposed to serve as a sailboat, Mitcho, Sebastian and Professor Glykose set out in search

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of a mysterious island that’s spawned many a legend.

the day when the man who killed his father is being released from prison.

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OUR MADNESS

Galway Film Fleadh 10th-15th July 2018

(Mozambique, GuineaBissau, Qatar, Portugal, France) 90mins. Dir: Joao Viana. Cast: Ernania Rainha, Bernardo Guiamba, Hanic Corio.

Committed to a psychiatric institution in Mozambique, Ernania makes beguiling music with her bed. After a spontaneous escape attempt, she wanders through the country, initially alone: a somnambulant journey into the past and into the recesses of her mind.

Forum Arsenal Cinema 1

12:45 YOUNG SOLITUDE

(France) 100mins.

Dir: Claire Simon.

A school in a Paris suburb: 10 ordinary teenagers grow closer in a series of astonishingly intimate conversations about their backgrounds, parents, loves, longings and fears for the future. It’s good to realise that you’re not alone.

Generation 14plus Zoo Palast 2

(Argentina) 67mins.

Dir: Dario Mascambroni.

Cast: Facundo Underwood, Gerardo Pascual, Elisa Gagliano, Agustin Rittano, Osvaldo Wehbe, Ruben Gattino.

Tomas has listened to the grown-ups’ excuses for long enough. But now he’s made his decision; today he’s setting out to find the truth — because today is

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THE WALDHEIM WALTZ

(Austria) Pimienta Films. 93mins. Dir: Ruth Beckermann.

The scandal surrounding the Nazi past of former UN General Secretary and Austrian president Kurt Waldheim made worldwide headlines in the 1980s, not least because of his repeated denials.

Forum CineStar 8

13:00

14:00

CROSS MY HEART

A DYSFUNCTIONAL CAT

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13:45 OUR HOUSE

PACKING HEAVY

lives from the two young women who also reside there. A pair of narratives as if from parallel worlds that are still mysteriously connected.

(Japan) unafilm. 80mins.

Dir: Yui Kiyohara.

Cast: Nodoka Kawanishi, Yukiko Yasuno, Mariwo Osawa, Mei Fujiwara, Masanori Kikuzawa, Akane Yoshida, Toshio Furuya, Noa Kitamura, .

The inhabitants of an old house know nothing of one another; the daughter and her mother lead entirely separate

(Germany) 93mins.

Dir: Susan Gordanshekan.

Cast: Pegah Ferydoni, Hadi Khanjanpour, Henrike von Kuick, Constantin von Jascheroff.

A love story that unfolds in reverse. Two strangers get married and settle down but can’t seem to find a way to be a couple — until they start afresh and get to know each other anew.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino Press + accreditation CinemaxX 5

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FESTIVAL & PRESS 13:00 CROSS MY HEART

(Canada) 104mins. Dir: Luc Picard.

Cast: Milya Corbeil-Gauvreau, Anthony Bouchard, Henri Picard, Alexis Guay, Clare Coulter, Maude Laurendeau, Julie Menard, Jean-Francois Boudreau.

Quebec, 1970: 12-year-old Manon can

only watch helplessly as her family falls apart. To make sure that she and her younger brother are not sent to different foster parents, she forms a revolutionary group with her cousins and kidnaps a grandma.

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FESTIVAL & PRESS 14:30 EX SHAMAN

(Brazil) UFA Fiction. 81mins.

Dir: Luiz Bolognesi. Cast: Perpera Surui, Kabena Cinta Larga, Agamenon Surui, Kennedy Surui, Ubiratan Surui In the Amazon basin, the church and the

CHRISTIAN WAHNSCHAFFE, PART 1: WORLD AFIRE

(Germany) 80mins.

Dir: Urban Gad. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Lillebil Christensen, Hermann Vallentin.

The son of an industrialist joins the Nihilist movement planning a revolution in Russia in 1905. A wideranging panorama of society set in Paris and St Petersburg.

Retrospective Zeughauskino

FIGHTER

(Germany) 104mins.

Dir: Susanne Binninger.

Big Daddy, Leon, Warrior — men who fight and beat each other bloody in cages. What drives them, who are they? An atmospheric and lucid exploration of Mixed Martial Arts.

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FOUR HANDS

(Germany) 94mins.

Dir: Oliver Kienle.

Cast: Frida-Lovisa Hamann, Friederike Becht, Christoph Letkowski, Detlef Bothe.

After losing her beloved but paranoid sister in a fatal accident, Sophie is hoping to start a 38 Screen International at Berlin February 18, 2018

modern Western world threaten to rob the indigenous Paiter Surui of their cultural identity. A Christianised former shaman trusts in the supernatural powers of the rain forest to save his village’s life blood.

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normal life. But soon she recognises that another person is controlling her spirit. How do you fight somebody who is in your head?

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WHAT COMES AROUND

(Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, Qatar, Slovenia) 79mins.

Dir: Reem Saleh.

To ease survival in one of Cairo’s poorest districts, its inhabitants have developed an alternative economic system for their community. Filmmaker Saleh has created an intimate portrait about solidarity and support in an inhospitable environment.

self-righteous village community. Portrays a gloomy, strife-ridden, postwar society.

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STYX

(Germany, Austria) 93mins. Dir: Wolfgang Fischer. Cast: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa.

Somewhere between Africa and Europe, the sailing trip of a doctor comes to a sudden end. The dramatic struggle for survival that ensues makes palpable the cruel rules that govern the lives of people in dire straits whose fate is determined by others.

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REGINA, OR THE SINS OF THE FATHER

(Germany) 124mins.

Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht.

Cast: Lissy Arna, Jack Trevor, Andreas BehrensKlausen, Louise Woldera.

In 1813 Prussia, a junior officer, son of a baron who was a Napoleon sympathiser, faces a

(Argentina) 97mins.

Dir: Fernando E Solanas.

An eco-thriller about the state-sanctioned crimes of industrial agriculture and their consequences. The film investigates the social aftermath of monoculture and the toxic effects of herbicides on people, and searches for a way out of this vicious circle.

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SCREENINGS

FORTUNA

(Switzerland, Belgium) 106mins. Dir: Germinal Roaux. Cast: Kidist Siyum Beza, Bruno Ganz, Patrick d’Assumcao, Assefa Zerihun Gudeta.

A warm light of humanity shines beside the dark bluffs of an Alpine mountain pass. After braving the Mediterranean passage, Fortuna finds shelter in a Swiss monastery. There is a secret hidden in her longing for love that keeps her from feeling lonely.

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FESTIVAL & PRESS 15:00 WHEN THE WAR COMES

(Czech Republic, Croatia) FFP New Media. 76mins. Dir: Jan Gebert.

This film spends a year with Peter Svrcek, the leader of the Slovakian paramilitary

group Slovenski Branci. An insight into the structures of an anti-liberal youth movement that is gearing up for a clash of cultures.

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(Nigeria) 142mins.

Dir: Adamu Halilu.

Cast: Umaru Ladan, Mairiga Aliyu, Husaini Mohammed.

Writer Abubakar Balewa, who later became prime minister of Nigeria, landed a lasting bestseller with his 1955 novella. Thought

lost for many years, this adaptation is now being shown for the first time in a restored version.

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TRANSIT

(Germany, France) 101mins. Dir: Christian Petzold. Cast: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree.

Georg flees to Marseille to escape the German army.

Assuming a false identity, he tries to obtain passage on a ship bound for Mexico.

But then he meets Marie and his plans change.

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15:30 BLUE WIND BLOWS

(Japan) 88mins.

Dir: Tetsuya Tomina.

Cast: Hizuki Tanaka,

Yayako Uchida, Tsubaki Tanaka, Masato Hagiwara.

Ao lives with his mother and little sister on Sado Island in Japan. His father recently disappeared without a trace. At school, the mysterious Sayako catches Ao’s eye. She is just like him and seems to be even more of an outsider.

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COBAIN

(Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) 94mins.

Dir: Nanouk Leopold.

Cast: Bas Keizer, Naomi Velissariou, Wim Opbrouck, Dana Marineci.

Cobain has the chance to start a new life but he can’t stop worrying about his drug-addicted mother.

Nanouk Leopold paints a tender though brutally direct portrait of a modern hero who is forced to grow up much too young.

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THE ENDLESS DAY

(Argentina, France) 98mins. Dir: Alessia Chiesa. Cast: Lara Rogora, Mateo Baldasso, Mila Marchisio.

Eight-year-old Fan and her younger siblings live all alone in a house out in the country, where Fan uses scary fairy tales to help impose her selfmade rules. A constricting bond exists between the trio, oscillating between warmth and rebellion.

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LAST CHILD

(South Korea) 124mins.

Dir: Shin Dong-seok.

Cast: Choi Moo-seong, Kim Yeo-jin, Seong Yu-bin.

Eunchan drowns while swimming in the river; his classmate Kihyun somehow survives. Eunchan’s parents gradually come to terms with their loss — until Kihyun suddenly reveals

his own version of events, casting everything in a new light.

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THE REAL ESTATE

(Sweden, UK) 88mins.

Dir: Axel Petersen, Mans Mansson. Cast: Leonore Ekstrand, Christer Levin, Christian Saldert.

After a life of luxury financed by her father, 68-year-old Nojet inherits one of his apartment buildings in Stockholm city centre. Her future seems secure, but the house turns out to be a surreal curse for this lady accustomed to a life of leisure.

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16:00 CHRISTIAN WAHNSCHAFFE, PART 2: THE ESCAPE FROM THE GOLDEN PRISON

(Germany) 85mins. Dir: Urban Gad. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Rose Muller,

Werner Krauss.

Wealthy heir Christian Wahnschaffe dedicates his life to the poor, provoking a crime against a good samaritan.

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THE PRAYER

(France) Les Films des Tournelles. 107mins.

Dir: Cedric Kahn.

Cast: Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Alex Brendemuhl, Louise Grinberg, Hanna Schygulla.

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16:15 INLAND SEA

(Japan, US) 122mins.

Dir: Kazuhiro Soda.

Ushimado is a fishing village on the Seta Inland Sea whose population is dwindling. Catching and delivering fish, looking after graves and feeding the cats, dreams of retirement — a

captivating, tender blackand-white portrait of an ageing community.

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16:30 FACING THE WIND

(Spain, Argentina, France) 108mins. Dir: Meritxell Colell Aparicio. Cast: Monica Garcia, Concha Canal, Ana Fernandez, Elena Martin.

A dancer named Monica returns to her home village after many years away to attend her father’s burial.

The sale of the family home prolongs her stay, setting in motion an emotional journey that examines where she comes from and the events of the past.

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MISSION: LOVE

(Germany) 107mins. Dir: Laura Lackmann. Cast: Laura Tonke, Marc Hosemann.

Hans and his girlfriend Heinz are a typical couple who are stuck in a rut after eight years. On their anniversary, they go to the cinema and realise real life is nothing like the movies.

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MY HAPPY FAMILY

(Germany, France, Georgia) Neue Road Movies. 120mins.

Dir: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Gross. Cast: Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze.

Georgia 2016: a patriarchal society, where three generations of an ordinary Gerogian family live together under one roof. Everyone is shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move. A journey into the unknown begins.

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SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO

(Germany, UK) Jumana Manna. 82mins.

Dir: Philipp Jedicke.

A portrait of the musician Chilly Gonzales, from his punk beginnings in Berlin’s underground music scene to orchestral performances in concert halls.

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SPK COMPLEX

(Germany) Waypoint Entertainment. 111mins.

Dir: Gerd Kroske.

The Socialist Patients’ Collective (SPK) was founded in the 1970s and saw capitalist structures as the reason for individual suffering. Many of its members soon went underground. Kroske’s documentary examines the group from the perspective of today.

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SCREENINGS

17:00 GIRLS ALWAYS HAPPY

(China) 117mins.

Dir: Yang Mingming.

Cast: Nai An, Yang Mingming, Zhang Xianmin, Li Qinqin, Huang Wei, Yuan Li. Wu lives with her mother in one of Beijing’s hutongs. The daily lives of these two unsuccessful writers are characterised by mutual reproaches.

Yang Mingming creates intimate and humorous scenes to portray a fragile mother-daughter relationship.

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FESTIVAL & PRESS 17:45 XIAO MEI

(Taiwan) 95mins. Dir: Maren Hwang.

Cast: Chen Yi-Wen, Liu Kuan-Ting, Na Dow , Wu Chien-Ho, Yin Shin.

A film about the irresolvable strangeness of the other. A young woman suddenly

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disappears. Nine people from her immediate surroundings try to solve the mystery of her disappearance, only to find themselves caught up in a vortex of disorientation.

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(Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Switzerland, Germany, Qatar, Norway) 75mins.

Dir: Dieudo Hamadi.

Should you fight in exile or in the country?

Should resistance be

peaceful or violent if required? Hamadi looks at the pros and cons of various forms of opposition in the wake of Joseph Kabila’s unconstitutional extension of his presidency in the Congo.

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RED COW

(Israel) Zero One Film.

90mins. Dir: Tsivia Barkai Yacov.

Cast: Avigayil Koevary, Gal Toren, Moran Rosenblatt, Dana Sorin, Uri Hochman.

When the self-confident yet vulnerable Yael comes into her life, Benny’s emotional world is turned upside down.

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17:15 THE BLUE LIGHT

(Germany) 86mins.

Dir: Leni Riefenstahl.

Cast: Leni Riefenstahl,

Mathias Wieman, Max Holzboer, Beni Fuhrer, Franz Maldacea, Martha Mair.

A painter from the city uncovers the secret of a young mountain woman who is ostracised by the villagers as a witch.

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17:30 11 X 14

(US) 77mins.

Dir: James Benning.

Cast: Serafina Bathrick, Paddy Whannel, Harvey Taylor, Barbara Frankel, Bette Gordon, Tim Welsh, Rick Goodwin, Ted Brady, Michael O’Brien.

The bizarre chronicle of a journey through the MidWest without any obvious reason and the stops made along the way.

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SHAKEDOWN

(US) 82mins. Dir: Leilah

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Weinraub.

Loud hip-hop beats and it’s raining dollars in the club. A chronicle and portrait of the lesbian underground strip scene of the noughties in Los Angeles, and its protagonists who celebrate their freedom and selfdetermination.

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17:45 EVA

(France, Belgium) Channel Four Films.

102mins. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Julia Roy, Marc Barbe, Richard Berry.

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18:00 THE BED

(Argentina, Germany,

Netherlands, Brazil) 95mins. Dir: Monica Lairana. Cast: Sandra Sandrini, Alejo Mango.

Mabel and Jorge have 24 hours left before the removal van arrives to collect their things, cementing their separation after decades of marriage.

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THE HAPPY PRINCE

(Germany, Belgium, Italy) 105mins. Dir: Rupert Everett. Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinsone.

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THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST

(US, Canada) 163mins.

Dir: Martin Scorsese.

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco, Steven Shill, Verna Bloom, Harry Dean

Stanton, Peter Berling, David Bowie.

The life of Jesus Christ, as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.

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18:30 BECOMING ASTRID

(Sweden, Germany, Denmark) Centro de Investigacion y Formacion para la Modalidad Aborigen. 123mins.

Dir: Pernille Fischer Christensen. Cast: Alba August, Maria Bonnevie, Trine Dyrholm, Henrik Rafaelsen, Magnus Krepper.

Five years in the life of the young Astrid Lindgren.

A portrait of a strong, independent woman who breaks down social norms and braves difficult decisions.

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BLACK 47

(Ireland, Luxembourg) Iris Productions. 96mins.

Dir: Lance Daly. Cast: Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford, Sarah Greene, Jim Broadbent.

1847: an Irish soldier who fought in Afghanistan returns home, where he experiences famine and British despotism. He becomes the avenger of his dead family, challenging the occupying British right across Ireland’s social and political hierarchies.

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19:00 A DYSFUNCTIONAL CAT

(Germany) 93mins.

Dir: Susan Gordanshekan.

Cast: Pegah Ferydoni, Hadi Khanjanpour, Henrike von Kuick, Constantin von Jascheroff,

Arash Marandi, Kianoosh Sadigh, Azar Shahidi, Mahdokht Ansari, Marzieh Alivirdi, Massud Rahnama.

A love story that unfolds in reverse. Two strangers get married and settle down but can’t seem to find a way to be a couple — until they start afresh and get to know each other anew.

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A PARIS EDUCATION

(France) Presente Lda. 136mins. Dir: Jean Paul Civeyrac. Cast: Andranic Manet, Corentin Fila, Gonzague Van Bervesseles, Diane Rouxel, Jenna Thiam.

Three film students from provincial France and their first encounters with art and life. A tender black-and-white study of the passions, errors and tragedies of youth that is also a melancholy

declaration of love for classic cinema and Paris.

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DAUGHTER OF MINE

(Italy, Germany, Switzerland) 100mins.

Dir: Laura Bispuri.

Cast: Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu, Udo Kier, Michele Carboni.

Vittoria is growing up in a remote Sardinian village. One day she meets the wildly independent Angelica, who is so very different from her own caring mother, Tina.

The young girl has no knowledge of the secret that connects these two women.

Competition Berlinale Palast

THE HAPPY PRINCE

(Germany, Belgium, Italy) 105mins.

Dir: Rupert Everett.

Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Morgan,

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SCREENINGS

Edwin Thomas, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson.

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IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION

(France) Muzeum Sztuki.

91mins. Dir: Julien Faraut.

Cast: Mathieu Amalric.

In the 1980s, a film team attempted to analyse John McEnroe’s unique tennis style. During the French Open, he becomes an on-court hero, subject and director. An astonishing look at the parallels between film and competition: cinema lies, sport does not.

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L’ ANIMALE

(Austria) 97mins.

Dir: Katharina Mueckstein. Cast: Sophie Stockinger, Kathrin Resetarits, Dominik Warta, Julia Franz Richter,

Jack Hofer, Dominic Marcus Singer.

Shortly before graduating from school and studying in Vienna, the paradigms in young Mati’s life begin to shift. Things like friendship and love have to be renegotiated in her boys’ gang. Meanwhile, her parents are busy stumbling over their own lies.

THIRTY SOULS

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MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A.

(Spain) Ted Fendt.

80mins. Dir: Diana Toucedo. Cast: Alba Arias, Samuel Vilarino.

In the everyday life of a Galician village, the borders between reality and fiction seem to be blurring. In this documentary-fiction hybrid, the dead dwell among the living while some of the living suddenly disappear.

19:15

(US, UK, Sri Lanka) 97mins. Dir: Steve Loveridge. Cast: Maya Arulpragasam.

Charting her experiences of civil war and migration to her rise as a popular but controversial star, this documentary film traces the life, motivations and politics of the singer, composer and pop icon M.I.A.

(France) 84mins.

Dir: Aminatou Echard.

Chingiz Aytmatov’s novel ‘Jamila’ left an impression on generations of Kyrgyz women. Shot on Super-8, this debut film gently probes contemporary biographies and reveals how conflict, yearning and the desire for self-determination are not past concerns.

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JAMILA

19:30 CHEF FLYNN

(US) 83mins.

Dir: Cameron Yates.

Cast: Flynn McGarry, Meg McGarry, Paris McGarry, Will McGarry.

Ten-year-old Flynn transforms his living room into a supper club, using his classmates as line cooks and serving a tasting menu.

With sudden fame, Flynn outgrows his bedroom kitchen and sets out to challenge the hierarchy of the culinary world.

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HEAVEN ON EARTH

(Germany) 113mins.

Dir: Reinhold Schunzel, Alfred Schirokauer.

Cast: Reinhold Schunzel, Charlotte Ander, Adele Sandrock, Otto Wallburg.

Of all people, the president of a decency league inherits the notorious nightclub “Heaven on

Earth”. With risque innuendo and effervescent humour, this boisterous farce bubbles into an attack on the 1926 obscenity law.

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LAND

(Italy, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Qatar) 111mins. Dir: Babak Jalali. Cast: Rod Rondeaux, Florence Klein, Wilma Pelly.

Wesley is one of three brothers in a Native American family. Every morning his mother drops him off at the liquor store on the edge of their reservation. His younger brother’s death in Afghanistan rouses the family from their quiet resignation.

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THE SON

(France, Russian

Federation) 71mins.

Dir: Alexander Abaturov.

The death of his cousin in active service leads Abaturov to reflect upon the Russian military. New recruits receive training, while qualified soldiers are sent to fight: the former must prove their mettle; the latter have to grapple with loss.

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19:45 14 APPLES

(Taiwan, Myanmar) 84mins. Dir: Midi Z. Shin-hong suffers from insomnia and seeks advice from a fortune teller, who recommends he spend 14 days in a village monastery and eat one apple each day. Everyday life and the monks’ routines reveal the workings of Buddhism in rural Myanmar.

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PERSPECTIVE CANADA

MAKE LOTS OF ROOM IN YOUR AGENDA A selection of market premieres and festival favourites.

Barefoot at Dawn Pieds nus dans l’aube Francis Leclerc

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The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches La petites fille qui aimait trop les allumettes

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FIRST LOOK UN PREMIER REGARD A selection of clips from films to hit the international circuit this spring.

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Published according to information submitted.

SCREENINGS

To save him, his martial arts-savvy parents join a legendary troupe of monster hunters. Their search leads them into colourful worlds.

excitement of the good old days?

Berlinale Special Gala Friedrichstadt-Palast

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21:30 7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE See box, below

ACROSS TWO WORLDS

BY CAR

training could completely change her way of thinking.

(Germany) 60mins.

Dir: Clarenore Stinnes, Carl-Axel Soderstrom.

Cast: Clarenore Stinnes.

For this prototype road movie, race car driver Clarenore Stinnes and Swedish cameraman Carl-Axel Soderstrom covered 46,75km, driving through 23 countries and circumnavigating the globe.

Generation 14plus Cubix 8

Retrospective Zeughauskino

FESTIVAL & PRESS 20:15 INVASION

(Iran) Wanda Vision.

102mins. Dir: Shahram Mokri. Cast: Abed Abest, Elaheh Bakhshi, Babak Karimi, Behzad Dorani.

Someone’s been murdered.

The police have already

identified a suspect. When the crime is re-enacted at the stadium where it took place, more secrets are revealed. Suddenly, all those involved find themselves in a time warp.

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Surrounded by her mother and two older sisters, Paola attempts to find her place in this world. In a tour de force bursting with the tragicomedy of everyday drama, Paola develops into a self-confident young woman in spite of all the challenges facing her.

Generation 14plus HKW

20:00 THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR LIFE

(Germany, Mexico) 93mins. Dir: Zita Erffa.

A brother who joined the religious order of the Legionaries of Christ and a sister who is studying film.

It’s been years since they’ve really communicated.

This film is an attempt to reconnect and understand each other.

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GRASS

(South Korea) 66mins.

Dir: Hong Sangsoo.

Cast: Kim Minhee, Jung Jinyoung, Ki Joobong.

Different people meet to drink, flirt and argue at a small cafe where classical music never fails to play. Another cheerfully melancholy story about couplings past, present and future.

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Molly Parker, Okwui Okpokwasili, Sunita Mani.

Madeline doesn’t enjoy spending time with her mother and feels much happier when attending her theatre group sessions. Yet her personality and the role she’s playing soon become increasingly blurred: only a fine line separates performance and madness.

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TRANNY FAG

(Brazil) 75mins.

Dir: Claudia Priscilla, Kiko Goifman. Cast: Linn da Quebrada, Jup do Bairro.

A musical documentary portrait of young transwoman and Brazilian pop performer Linn da Quebrada. She’s black, comes from periurban Sao Paulo and sees her music as a weapon against racism, transphobia and machismo.

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VIRUS TROPICAL MADELINE’S MADELINE

(US) The Nest Collective.

93mins. Dir: Josephine Decker. Cast: Helena Howard, Miranda July,

(Colombia) 97mins.

Dir: Santiago Caicedo.

Cast: Maria Cecilia Sanchez, Martina Toro, Alejandra Borrero.

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MALAMBO, THE GOOD MAN

21:00 MONSTER HUNT 2

(China, Hong Kong, China) Warner Bros Film Productions Germany.

110mins. Dir: Raman Hui. Cast: Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Baihe Bai, Boran Jing, Chris Lee, Yo Yang.

In ancient China, a bounty is put on a little monster named Wuba who has big round eyes and green hair.

AWAY YOU GO

(Germany) 77mins.

Dir: Philipp Eichholtz.

Cast: Victoria Schulz, Aleksandar Radenkovic, Daniel Zillmann.

Charlie is having a hard time being a grown-up.

Her boyfriend is desperate to have a child — but what about her own needs?

And, dammit, whatever happened to all the

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(Russian Federation, Poland, Serbia) Lita Stantic Producciones.

126mins. Dir: Alexey German Jr. Cast: Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovsky, Helena Sujecka, Artur Beschastny, Elena Lyadova, Anton Shagin.

Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele

GENESIS

(Hungary) 120mins.

Dir: Arpad Bogdan.

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INFINITE FOOTBALL

(Romania) Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema.

70mins. Dir: Corneliu Porumboiu.

A municipal official in provincial Romania wants to make the beautiful game that bit more beautiful. He obsessively devises new rules, before spurning them again to return to the former ones.

What does it mean to leave behind something significant?

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(Argentina) 71mins.

Dir: Santiago Loza.

Cast: Gaspar Jofre, Fernando Munoz, Nubecita Vargas, Pablo Lugones, Gabriela Pastor, Carlos Defeo.

Santiago Loza’s magical black-and-white images whisk us away into the world of the Argentinian dance malambo. His protagonist, a young dancer named Gaspar, has dedicated his life to his passion, but his devotion takes its toll on his body.

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WHAT WALAA WANTS

(Canada, Denmark) Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion. 89mins.

Dir: Christy Garland.

Walaa dreams of a job with the Palestinian National Authority, where she can carry a gun. Getting there demands strength — which is something Walaa has in abundance. Her mother knows that the military

FESTIVAL & PRESS 21:30 7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE

(US, UK) 107mins. Dir: Jose Padilha.

Cast: Rosamund Pike, Daniel Bruhl, Eddie Marsan, Lior Ashkenazi, Denis Menochet, Ben Schnetzer.

June, 1976: four hijackers seize a plane and take more than 100 Israeli

passengers hostage. What do the hijackers want? What are the hostages facing? How does the Israeli government respond? A film about terror and fear, violence and counter-violence.

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SCREENINGS

MAKI’LA

(Democratic Republic of the Congo, France) NiKo Film. 78mins.

Dir: Macherie Ekwa Bahango. Cast: Amour Lombi, Fideline Kwanza, Serge Kanyinda.

Maki has been living on the streets of Kinshasa for years. After growing tired of her lover and his gang’s posing, she bands together with the younger Acha, which only makes him even more jealous.

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OLD LOVE

(South Korea) 90mins.

Dir: Park Kiyong. Cast: Yoo Jung-ah, Kim Taehoon, Kim Moonhee.

After many years apart, a former couple from student days bump into one another at the airport. She’s only visiting Korea and he’s just saying goodbye to his daughter. The two of them get slowly reacquainted, but is a new beginning possible?

Forum Delphi Filmpalast

22:00 AUTO FOCUS

(US) 106mins. Dir: Paul Schrader. Cast: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe,

Rita Wilson.

A tragicomic biopic about TV star Bob Crane (1928-78), who acts out his sex addiction in pornographic films.

reflections on life’s finite nature and the value of the everyday.

Homage CinemaxX 8

THE GREEN LIE

CASANOVA GENE

(Germany) 67mins. Dir: Luise Donschen. Cast: Wolfgang Forstmeier, John Malkovich, Elija Pott, Undine de Riviere, Lumi Lausas, Luise Donschen.

A monk, a sex worker, an evolutionary biologist at work, young people in a bar and Casanova: slyly shifting between fiction and documentary, this debut film examines questions of the body and desire.

Forum CinemaxX 4

DIE TOMORROW

(Thailand) 75mins.

Dir: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit.

Cast: Patcha Poonpiriya, Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying.

Death frequently arrives unannounced; the day before can still be perfectly ordinary. Girlfriends celebrate graduating, siblings are reunited, a couple separates. Six

Forum Zoo Palast 2

(Austria) 97mins.

Dir: Werner Boote.

Cast: Werner Boote, Kathrin Hartmann, Noam Chomsky, Raj Patel.

Follows the trail of corporate green lies to the sites of the most catastrophic environmental disasters.

Culinary Cinema MGB Cinema

JAHILYA

(Morocco, France) 95mins. Dir: Hicham Lasri. Cast: Mostapha Houari, Salma Eddlimi, Hassan Ben Badida.

While cockroaches dream of not getting trampled on, people are happy to crush one another every day. A furious condemnation of a society full of malice, where dependency leads to humiliation and submissiveness only increases the misery.

Forum CineStar 8

THE REAL ESTATE See box, below

FESTIVAL & PRESS 22:00 THE REAL ESTATE

(Sweden, UK) 88mins. Dir: Axel Petersen, Mans Mansson. Cast: Leonore Ekstrand, Christer Levin, Christian Saldert, Olof Rhodin.

After a life of luxury financed by her

father, 68-year-old Nojet inherits one of his apartment buildings in Stockholm city centre. Her future seems secure, but the house turns out to be a surreal curse for this lady accustomed to a life of leisure.

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PANORAMA

HARD PAINT TINTA BRUTA

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Besouro Filmes CO-PRODUCED BY

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22:30

CinemaxX 7 première

Feb 19

16:30

CinemaxX 13 market screening

Feb 19

17:30

CineStar 3

Feb 20

22:30

Cubix 7

Feb 22

19:00

Zoo Palast 2

Feb 25

17:45

CineStar 3

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SCREENINGS

screening TODAY Sun., Feb. 18th • 11:00H CinemaxX 17

DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAIN by Isa Prahl Sun., Feb. 18th • 14:00H (P&I) CinemaxX 5

FESTIVAL & PRESS 22:30

A DYSFUNCTIONAL CAT by Susan Gordanshekan screening TOMORROW Mon., Feb. 19th • 10:50H CinemaxX 14

THE SILENCE OF OTHERS

(US, Spain) 95mins. Dir: Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar.

Jose Galantes cannot and will not accept that his torturer is living only a few metres away from him, unpunished. Maria Martín is fighting to ensure that her father’s bones are exhumed from a mass grave and

THE WEAK ONES

FAIRYTALE by Sebastiano Mauri Mon., Feb. 19th • 12:30H CinemaxX 14

(Mexico) 65mins.

Dir: Raul Rico, Eduardo Giralt Brun. Cast: Jose Luis Lizarraga, Eduardo Martinez.

After finding his dogs murdered, a taciturn loner sets out in his truck in search of the perpetrators.

Yet this apparent revenge trip develops instead into a droll, laconic road movie.

Forum Cubix 9

THE UNSEEN by Nicolás Puenzo Mon., Feb. 19th • 16:45H CinemaxX 18

ANNA’S WAR by Aleksey Fedorchenko

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WHEN I AM DEAD AND PALE

(Yugoslavia) 79mins. Dir: Zivojin Pavlovic. Cast: Dragan Nikolic, Ruzica Sokic, Neda Spasojevic.

Self-possessed Jimmy desperately wants to make it as a singer regardless of his lack of talent. A punk film full of music, which explores Belgrade’s lively outskirts, then still a work in progress.

Forum Akademie der Kunste

22:30 DOVLATOV

(Russian Federation, Poland, Serbia) Lita Stantic Producciones.

126mins. Dir: Alexey

buried next to her mother’s remains….

Passed in 1977, Spain’s amnesty law continues to prohibit prosecution for any of the crimes committed by Franco’s dictatorship. This investigative documentary paints a picture of a society torn between forgetting and coming to terms with its past.

Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7

German Jr. Cast: Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovsky, Helena Sujecka.

Competition International

GUSHING PRAYER

(Japan) May Spils.

74mins. Dir: Masao Adachi. Cast: Michio Akiyama, Yuji Aoki, Masaaki Hiraoka.

The story of a group of high school students who start experimenting with their sexuality.

Forum Arsenal Cinema 1

HORIZON

(Georgia, Sweden) 105mins. Dir: Tinatin Kajrishvili. Cast: George Bochorishvili, Ia Sukhitashvili, Jano Izoria.

Giorgi’s life is in pieces when his wife leaves him.

He forsakes the city and his family and exchanges his old life for the barren solitude of a hut by the sea.

Panorama Cubix 7

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22:45

HARD PAINT

THE OMISSION

(Brazil) Studio.TV.Film GmbH. 118mins.

Dir: Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher. Cast: Shico Menegat, Bruno Fernandes, Guega Peixoto.

Pedro is young, gay and earns a living as a performer in chat rooms.

As NeonBoy, the Brazilian paints his naked body and glows in the dark. But when someone in the city copies his act, things take a sudden and dramatic turn.

(Argentina, Netherlands, Switzerland) 90mins.

Dir: Sebastian Schjaer.

Cast: Sofia Brito, Lisandro Rodriguez, Malena Hernandez Diaz.

Paula is in her mid-20s.

She’s come to Argentina’s cold south to work as a casual labourer during the winter season. Her thick clothing protects her against the snow but also the expectations to which this young mother refuses to subjugate herself.

Panorama CinemaxX 7

Panorama CineStar 3

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PANORAMA

TRANNY FAG BIXA TRAVESTY

by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman PRODUCED BY

Válvula Produções and PaleoTV Produções CO-PRODUCED BY

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20:00

Cinestar 7 première

Feb 19

14:30

CineStar 7

Feb 19

15:10

CinemaxX 13 market screening

Feb 20

17:30

Cubix 7

Feb 24

20:00

International

Feb 25

20:00

CineStar 7

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SCREENINGS

SIMON & THEODORE

MARKET

(France) Be For Films, 84mins. Dir: Mikael Buch.

Simon is going to become a father soon. But how can he take care of a child when he can’t even take care of himself ? An encounter with Theodore, who has never known his father, will help Simon with his imminent fatherhood.

SCREENINGS

09:00 3 WAY JUNCTION

(UK, Germany, South Africa) Beta Cinema, 101mins. Dir: Jurgen Bollmeyer. Cast: Tom Sturridge, Stacy Martin, Tommy Flanagan.

London architect Carl Walters travels to the grand dunes of the Namibian Desert to escape. However, destiny soon strikes and he finds himself stranded alone in the middle of nowhere, desperately waiting for a ride that never comes.

CinemaxX 11

09:05 WHERE I’VE NEVER LIVED

CinemaxX 14

THE APPARITION

(France) Memento Films International, 138mins.

Dir: Xavier Giannoli.

Jacques is a journalist at a large regional newspaper in France. His reputation as an impartial and talented investigator attracts the attention of the Vatican, which recruits him for a special task.

CinemaxX 16

BETRAYAL

(Mexico) Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), 84mins. Dir: Ignacio Ortiz Cruz. Cast: Juan Manuel Bernal, Diana Avalos, Noe Hernandez, Sofia Sylwin.

Felix, a criminal boss in the south of Mexico, has always wanted to go to San Francisco to see how draw-bridges are raised for passing ships.

MGB Cinema

THE BREADWINNER

(Ireland, Luxembourg, Canada) WestEnd Films, 93mins. Dir: Nora Twomey. Cast: Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Laara Sadiq, Ali Badshah.

Centres on a young Afghan girl who cuts her hair and disguises herself as a boy in order to support her family after the Taliban imprisons her father.

CineStar 5

CARGO

(Belgium, Netherlands, France) Wide, 91mins.

Dir: Gilles Coulier.

Cast: Sam Louwyck,

MARKET 09:00 THE GUILTY

(Denmark) TrustNordisk, 85mins.

Dir: Gustav Moller.

Cast: Jakob Cedergren.

Alarm dispatcher and former police officer Wim Willaert, Sebastien Dewaele.

After a boat accident puts his father into a deep coma, Jean is left with a huge debt and the responsibility of the family business. His father’s absence sets off an aftershock of conflicts between him and his two brothers.

CinemaxX 1

CUBAN FOOD STORIES

(US) Submarine Entertainment, 85mins.

Dir: Asori Soto.

After 10 years living as an expat in the United States, Asori Soto returns to his homeland of Cuba to discover the missing flavours of his childhood, and capture the unknown Cuban food stories.

CinemaxX 13

EL INCA

(Venezuela) Wide, 128mins. Dir: Ignacio Castillo Cottin.

Cast: Alexander Leterni, Scarlett Jaimes.

A tragic love story based in the life of the great Latin American boxer Edwin “El Inca” Valero. The only

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Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.

When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman begins.

Cinemobile

Cast: John Corbett, Tatum O’Neal, David AR White, Ted McGinley.

When a tragic accident rocks the entire community and threatens the future of Dave’s church, he is forced to confront the questions that so many of us face: is God really all good and all powerful?

fight he lost was the one against himself.

Arsenal Cinema 2

CinemaxX 8

THE GUEST

GANGSTA

(Belgium) Indie Sales, 126mins. Dir: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah.

Cast: Matteao Simoni, Nora Gharib, Said Boumazoughe, The lives of four drugdealer friends spin out of control when they steal a shipment of cocaine from the ruthless Colombian cartels.

CinemaxX 4

GASTON

(France) Gaumont, 85mins. Dir: PierreFrancois Martin-Laval.

Cast: Theo Fernandez, Pierre-Francois MartinLaval, Alison Wheeler.

One of the most loved French comic books of all time — Gaston Lagaffe — comes to the big screen.

CineStar IMAX

Miranda July, Helena Howard.

Madeline got the lead role in the play. Strangely, the character looks just like Madeline. And has a cat just like Madeline. And is holding a steaming hot iron next to her mother’s face… just like Madeline.

CinemaxX 15

MONSTERS AND MEN

(Turkey) Turkish Cinema, 90mins. Dir: Andac Haznedaroglu. Cast: Saba Mubarak, Rawan Skef.

Follows the journey of Lena and Meryem during their flight from the war in Syria.

CinemaxX 9

THE GUILTY See box, above

LOOKING FOR TEDDY

(France) Pathe International, 82mins.

Dir: Philippe Mechelen, Julien Herve. Cast: Kad Merad, Malik Bentalha.

Sofiane spots a reward advertised for the recovery of a lost teddy at the airport. He does not hesitate to claim it.

Teaming up with the square father of the teddy’s owner, a hilarious hunt ensues, filled with twists.

CinemaxX 5

GOD’S NOT DEAD: A LIGHT IN DARKNESS

MADELINE’S MADELINE

(US) Pure Flix/ Quality Flix, 113mins.

Dir: Michael Mason.

(US) Visit Films, 94mins.

Dir: Josephine Decker.

Cast: Molly Parker,

(US) HanWay Films, 95mins. Dir: Reinaldo Marcus Green. Cast: Kelvin Harrison, Jr, John David Washington, Anthony Ramos.

Manny Ortega witnesses a white police officer wrongfully gun down a neighbourhood hustler.

Manny films the incident on his phone. Should he release the video and bring exposure, or keep the video private and be complicit in the injustice?

CineStar 2 Invitation only

THE PRAYER

(France) Le Pacte, 107mins. Dir: Cedric Kahn. Cast: Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Alex Brendemuhl, Louise Grinberg.

Thomas, 22, is a drug addict. To recover, he decides to join a community of former addicts who use prayers as a way to cure themselves. Gradually, Thomas discovers faith and love… but also a new kind of torment.

Berlinale Palast

(Italy) True Colours, 98mins. Dir: Paolo Franchi.

When her old father is bedridden, Francesca returns from Paris and agrees to help him with the renovation of a lakeside villa together with Massimo, a charming 50-year-old man who is her father’s most trusted partner.

Arsenal Cinema 1

09:15 BAD REPUTATION

(US) Submarine Entertainment, 95mins.

Dir: Kevin Kerslake.

A look at the life of Joan Jett, from her early years as the founder of The Runaways and first meeting with collaborator Kenny Laguna in 1980, to her enduring presence in pop culture as a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer.

Parliament Studio

MISSING JOHNNY

(Taiwan) MandarinVision, 106mins. Dir: Xi Huang.

Cast: Rima Zeidan, Yu-Luen Ko, Yuan Huang.

In this portrayal of interpersonal relationships in modern-day Taipei, the lives of three strangers cross paths and their solitary emotions begin to unravel.

CineStar 6

09:20 THE ESCAPE OF PRISONER 614

(US) Film Mode Entertainment, 95mins.

Dir: Zach Golden. Cast: Ron Perlman, Martin Starr, Jake McDorman, George Sample III. After being fired by their overbearing sheriff, two well-intentioned but simple-minded sheriff ’s deputies decide to go after an escaped prisoner in the

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This sequel to the mega blockbuster follows monster king Wuba as he faces another threat from the dark lord who plots to seize the throne.

Feb. 17 (Sat) | 18:30 | CinemaxX 5 (press screening) Feb. 18 (Sun) | 21:00 | Friedrichstadt Palast (official gala screening) Feb. 19 (Mon) | 13:55 | CinemaxX 15 (market screening) Feb. 19 (Mon) | 15:00 | Friedrichstadt Palast (festival screening) Feb. 19 (Mon) | 21:30 | Haus der Berliner Festspiele (festival screening) Feb. 22 (Thu) | 12:00 | CinemaxX 4 (market screening)

THE LIQUIDATOR

OLD BEAST

A criminal psychologist teams up with a rookie detective to track down a vigilante serial killer.

A rowdy father steals the money his family gathers for his wife’s surgery and sets himself on a path of self-destruction with no turning back.

HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED FILM ADAPTATION OF LEI MI’S POPULAR NOVEL SERIES CRIMINAL MINDS GENRE ACTION DIRECTOR XU JIZHOU CAST DENG CHAO (The Mermaid), ETHAN JUAN (The Assassin)

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SCREENINGS

Dir: Sergio Manfio.

Life is peaceful in Vinci: Leonardo struggles with his incredible inventions, Lorenzo helps him and Gioconda observes them mockingly. When a mysterious story teller comes to town and speaks of a hidden treasure, an adventure begins.

hope of getting their jobs back.

CinemaxX 18

THE HEIRESSES

(Paraguay) Luxbox, 95mins. Dir: Marcelo Martinessi. Cast: Ana Brun, Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova, Nilda Gonzalez.

When Chiquita is sent to prison, her introverted girlfriend Chela is left to her own devices. Chela offers rich women a taxi service in her old Daimler.

As she explores the outside world she also starts to focus on her own desires.

CinemaxX 9

10:40 BUTTERFLIES

CineStar 4

09:25 A POLAR YEAR

(France) Kinology, 94mins. Dir: Samuel Collardey.

A teacher in Denmark takes a job in rural Greenland, where he struggles to fit in with the locals. dffb Cinema

09:30 PERSON TO PERSON

(US) Celluloid Dreams, 84mins. Dir: Dustin Guy Defa. Cast: Michael Cera, Abbi Jacobsen, Tavi Gevinson, Philip Baker Hall.

A nostalgic love letter to New York through four slice-of-life stories set in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

CinemaxX 17

THE END OF MEAT

(Germany) mindjazz pictures, 95mins.

Dir: Marc Pierschel.

Cast: Mark Post, Gene Baur, Steven Wise.

Have you ever wondered what the world would look like if we stopped eating animals? Philosophers, scientists, artists and activists offer their insights and progressive ideas about a world without meat consumption.

CinemaxX 19

THE MIGRUMPIES

(Austria) Autlook Filmsales, 98mins.

Dir: Arman T Riahi.

Cast: Fahris Rahoma, Aleksandar Petrovic, Doris Schretzmayer, Mehmet Ali Salman.

Unemployed friends Benny and Marko pretend to be

MARKET 10:40 KUNG FOOD

(China) Yi Animation, 60mins. Dir: Haipeng Sun. In the world of food, mortal enemies Super

immigrant petty criminals for a TV documentary, until the coin flips and reality turns against them.

Bao and Salmon — a hot steaming bun and a cold sushi — are forced to unite to prevent the world’s flavours from getting out of control.

CinemaxX 1

love story unfolds between them but Theo has to move at the end of the summer.

CinemaxX 2

CinemaxX 10

09:45 DEADTECTIVES

(US) Odin’s Eye Entertainment, 90mins. Dir: Tony West.

Cast: Chris Geere, Martha Higareda, Jose Maria de Tavira, Tina Ivlev.

TV’s DeadTectives visit Mexico’s most haunted mansion to manufacture real scares. When the true dark secrets of the mansion reveal themselves the hapless ghost-hunters discover that this house is no hoax.

CinemaxX 12

THE LEGEND OF MUAY THAI: 9 SATRA

(Thailand) Arclight Films, 98mins.

Dir: Pongsa Kornsri, Nat Yoswatananont, Gun Phansuwon.

Marriott Studio

10:00 HAPPY

(Germany) New Docs, 86mins. Dir: Carolin Genreith.

How embarrassing when your father’s intended is no older than you — and Thai to boot! A culture clash comedy about love, money and happiness. delphi LUX 1

FAKE TATTOOS

(Canada) Seville International, 87mins.

Dir: Pascal Plante.

Cast: Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault.

Theo spends his 18th birthday alone at a punk rock show. There he meets Mag, a marginal teenager who invites him to spend the night at her place. A

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emotional artist manifestos in history. delphi LUX 2

10:20 POROROCA

(Romania, France) Wide, 153mins. Dir: Constantin Popescu. Cast: Bogdan Dumitrache, Iulia Lumanare.

Cristina and Tudor live the life of an ordinary couple with their children, Maria and Ilie. But when Tudor takes his kids to the park on a Sunday morning, Maria disappears. Their lives abruptly change forever.

CinemaxX 3

10:30 KILLING STELLA

(Austria) Picture Tree International, 100mins.

Dir: Julian Polsler.

Cast: Martina Gedeck, Matthias Brandt, Mala Emde.

Richard, a successful lawyer, seduces the young student Stella and then dumps her. After being forced to have an abortion, Stella commits suicide.

CinemaxX 11

MANIFESTO

(Germany) The Match Factory, 95mins.

Dir: Julian Rosefeldt.

Cast: Cate Blanchett.

Cate Blanchett in 13 different roles, among them a housewife, a factory worker, and a TV anchor, embodying some of the most influential and

THE INHABITANT

(Mexico, Chile) FilmSharks International, 92mins. Dir: Guillermo Amoedo. Cast: Maria Evoli, Vanesa Restrepo, Carla Adell, Fernando Becerri.

Three edgy sisters break into the house of a very

important senator to steal money he received in bribes.

The strange noises coming from the basement arouse a curiosity in them that will take them to a terrifying universe.

(Turkey) Karacelik Film, 118mins.

Dir: Tolga Karacelik.

Cast: Tolga Tekin, Bartu Kucukcaglayan, Tugce Altug, Serkan Keskin.

Cemal, Kenan and Suzan — the children of Mazhar.

Now, after 30 years apart, their father calls them back to the village of Hasanlar.

When they arrive, they start to find out more about their father, each other and themselves.

CineStar IMAX

KUNG FOOD See box, left

Cinemobile

10:35 DOG

(France, Belgium) Films Boutique, 93mins.

Dir: Samuel Benchetrit.

Cast: Vincent Macaigne, Bouli Lanners, Vanessa Paradis.

Jacques Blanchot just lost everything: his wife, his son, his house, his work.

Abandoned by all, he gets picked up by a zealous pet shop owner who, unable to see him as a friend, offers to train him as his dog.

CinemaxX 15

LAST CHILD

(South Korea) Finecut, 124mins. Dir: Dong-seok Shin. Cast: Choi Mooseong, Kim Yeo-jin, Seong Yu-bin.

Sungcheol and Misook’s son drowned saving his friend, Kihyun. The couple try to have another child but fail. They start to look after Kihyun, who lives alone, and slowly he becomes a part of the couple’s life.

CinemaxX 13

LEO DA VINCI: MISSION MONA LISA

(Italy, Poland) All Rights Entertainment, 82mins.

MEKTOUB, MY LOVE: CANTO UNO

(France) Pathe International, 175mins.

Dir: Abdellatif Kechiche.

Cast: Shain Boumedine, Ophelie Bau, Salim Kechiouche, Lou Luttiau.

A coming-of-age saga set in 1994, casting a nostalgic glow on the wonders of youth.

CinemaxX 5

10:45 ALEKSI

(Croatia, Serbia) Croatian Audiovisual Centre, 90mins. Dir: Barbara Vekaric. Cast: Tihana Lazovic, Goran Markovic, Sebastian Cavazza.

Aleksi, stuck under her parents’ roof, ignores pressing family responsibilities and follows her impulses with various men, while figuring out how to escape the safe but boring upper-middle-class life her family intends for her.

CineStar 2

INVISIBLE BOY — SECOND GENERATION

(Italy) True Colours, 100mins. Dir: Gabriele Salvatores. Cast: Ludovico Girardello, Ksenia Rappoport. »

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The young superhero Michele is now 16 and is facing all the troubles of his age. But it is hard to be a normal teenager after having discovered you have superpowers.

a safehouse where nothing is safe and no one can be trusted.

and artists that imagine indigenous life 150 years in the future.

CinemaxX 14

VR Cinema at Marriott

CineStar 1

(Spain) Filmax International, 90mins.

Dir: Bacha Caravedo, Chinon Higashionna.

Cast: Adriana Ugarte, Gisela Ponce de Leon, Cesar Ritter.

It’s Christmas Eve in Lima and the del Solar family are getting together for the first time in over two years.

STEEL COUNTRY

(UK) Bankside Films, 89mins. Dir: Simon Fellows. Cast: Andrew Scott, Bronagh Waugh, Denise Gough.

When a boy is found dead in a sleepy Midwestern town, a local truck driver suffering with Asperger syndrome plays detective to prove the boy was murdered.

CineStar 5

10:50 SHELTER

(Germany, France) Beta Cinema, 93mins.

Dir: Eran Riklis. Cast: Neta Riskin, Golshifteh Farahani, Lior Ashkenazi.

Two women are trapped in

10:55 THE SOLAR SYSTEM

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— a matter of life and death.

CinemaxX 18

HOFFMANIADA DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAIN

(Germany) Media Luna, 91mins. Dir: Isa Prahl.

Cast: Bjarne Madel, Bibiana Beglau, Emma Bading, Janina Fautz.

Teenager Mike locks himself in his room without any hint as to why, shutting out his helpless father, mother and sister. Secrets are revealed, faiths dissolve and hidden gems alight in the tiny corridor while the door becomes a mirror of their own lives.

2167: AN INDIGENOUS VR EXPERIENCE

CinemaxX 17

(Canada) NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema, 60mins. Dir: various.

Cast: Devery Jacobs.

The first of its kind, this innovative virtual reality project presents four experiences by leading indigenous filmmakers

LA FAMILIA

(Russia) Souzmultfilm, 72mins. Dir: Stanislav Sokolov. Cast: Vladimir Koshevoy, Alexey Petrenko, Alexandr Shirvindt.

ETA Hoffmann is transported into the world of his own phantasmagoric writings and pitted against the villains he created on the page as he struggles to defend love and beauty against the philistine plots closing in around him.

MGB Cinema

THE LADY IN THE PORTRAIT

(Venezuela) Celluloid Dreams, 84mins.

Dir: Gustavo Rondon Cordova. Cast: Giovanny Garcia, Reggie Reyes.

Twelve-year-old Pedro and his father must escape their violent suburb in Caracas

(China, France) All Rights Entertainment, 94mins.

Dir: Charles de Meaux.

Cast: Bingbing Fan, Melvil Poupaud, Thibault de Montalembert.

This is the story of two people meeting. It is also the story of a portrait, in

which immutable Chinese art meets occidental art.

The Jesuit Jean Denis Attiret was given the honourable task of painting a portrait of Empress Ulanara.

Cilurzo, Manuel Agnelli.

An exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio.

Zoo Palast 4

CineStar 4

11:05 THE HARROWING

(US) Film Mode Entertainment, 110mins.

Dir: Jon Keeyes. Cast: Matthew Tompkins, Arnold Vosloo, Arianne Martin, Michael Ironside.

Wrongly accused of the ritualistic murder of his best friend, a detective bent on finding the truth is plunged into a living hell when he goes undercover and discovers the truth behind a demonic myth. dffb Cinema

11:10 CARAVAGGIO — SOUL AND BLOOD

(Italy) Nexo Digital, 95mins. Dir: Jesus Garces Lambert. Cast: Vincenzo

LET THE CHILD BE THE GUIDE

(France) Wide House, 100mins. Dir: Alexandre Mourot.

As a young father, watching his daughter go through her life, Alexandre Mourot discovers the Montessori approach and decides to set his camera up in the oldest Montessori school in France.

CineStar 6

11:15 CLOUD WHISPERS

(Germany, Switzerland) The Yellow Affair, 93mins. Dir: Kerstin Polte. Cast: Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, Sabine Timoteo, Karl Kranzkowski.

Charlotte, who leaves her

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La cama by Mónica Lairana

Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France

Netherlands

Argentina/Netherlands

Won the Arte France Cinéma Award with a value of €10,000 at CineMart 2011

Part of the CineMart 2015 selection

HBF Script support in 2014, NFF+HBF support in 2015 and part of BoostNL in 2017

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La omission by Sebastián Schjaer

Hard Paint by Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher

The Seen and the Unseen by Kamila Andini

Argentina

Brazil

Indonesia

HBF Script support in 2014 & NFF+HBF support in 2016

HBF script support 2014

HBF Project & Development support 2011

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SCREENINGS

husband behind at a gas station, says goodbye to her old life. This triggers a chain of events that sends her husband, daughter and grandchild on a funny journey to experience love and life anew.

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Dir: Bing Liu. Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.

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IMPULSO

(France, Spain) Jour 2 Fête, 90mins. Dir: Emilio Belmonte.

Spanish dancer Rocio Molina became the new shining star of Flamenco, using public improv to create choreographies. She now faces a new challenge: the creation of a show at the Chaillot National Theatre in Paris.

OF SKIN AND MEN

(France, Tunisia) Loco Films, 106mins.

Dir: Mehdi Ben Attia. Cast: Hafsia Herzy, Raouf Ben Amor, Haythem Achour.

THE GUARDIAN ANGEL

Present day Tunis: Amel is a young photographer. When her husband dies, her life falls apart. Encouraged by her stepfather, she starts to enjoy life again by taking pictures of boys in the street.

OF SKIN AND MEN

(Finland) AMBI Distribution, 102mins.

Dir: Arto Halonen.

Cast: Pilou Asbaek, Josh Lucas, Rade Serbedzija.

A psychological thriller about a hypnotist who turns another man into a murderer. The story follows the investigation of these crimes as an investigator becomes obsessed with catching the psychological manipulator.

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MINDING THE GAP

THE SUMMIT — PERFORMING G20

(US) Dogwoof, 98mins.

(Germany) Kinoki,

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77mins. Dir: Rasmus Gerlach.

In July 2017, Rasmus Gerlach and 10 camera people immersed themselves in the protests surrounding G20 in Hamburg.

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11:45 CARDINALS

(Canada) Cercamon, 84mins. Dir: Grayson Moore, Aidan Shipley.

Cast: Sheila McCarthy, Noah Reid, Grace Glowicki, Peter MacNeill.

When Valerie returns home from prison years after killing her neighbour in an apparent drunk driving accident, she wants nothing more than to move on — until the deceased’s son shows up at her door.

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11:50 GENESIS 2.0

(Switzerland) Rise and Shine World Sales,

“Dazzling and disquieting (…) a slow-building nightmare.” - Variety WINNER

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR SCREENWRITING

A FILM BY SEBASTIÁN HOFMANN (HALLEY)

TIME SHARE A young father takes his family to the perfect holiday resort, only to discover that they must share their room with another family due to a clerical error. And the other family is selfish and really annoying. And better at sports. And he’s the only one who doesn’t like them.

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Writer/Director: Josephine Decker (Thou Wast Mild And Lovely, Butter on the Latch) Cast: Molly Parker (House of Cards, Deadwood), Miranda July (The Future, Me and You and Everyone We Know), Helena Howard Madeline got the lead role in the play! Strangely, the character looks just like Madeline. And has a cat just like Madeline. And is holding a steaming hot iron next to her mother’s face – just like Madeline.

“A mind-scrambling masterpiece (...) One of the boldest and most invigorating American films of the 21st century.”

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SCREENINGS

113mins. Dir: Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev.

On the New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths.

When they discover a well-preserved carcass, its resurrection will be the manifestation of the next technological revolution: genetics.

Arsenal Cinema 2

12:00 BRIGHT NIGHTS

(Germany) The Match Factory, 86mins.

Dir: Thomas Arslan.

Cast: Georg Friedrich, Tristan Gobel, Marie Leuenberger.

While on a trip to bury his father in remote northern Norway, Michael tries to rekindle his relationship with his teenage son after years of absence and lack of communication, hoping it is not too late. delphi LUX 2

DAUGHTER OF MINE

(Italy, Germany, Switzerland) The Match Factory, 100mins.

Dir: Laura Bispuri.

Cast: Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu, Udo Kier.

A girl torn between mothers: one who raised her with love; and her birth mother, who instinctively claims her back. A story of imperfect motherhood and inextricable bonds, struggling with innate feelings and dealing with wounds.

12:10 ON HER SHOULDERS

(US) Cinephil, 94mins.

Dir: Alexandria Bombach.

Mobbed by iPhone cameras and pushy reporters, 23-year-old Nadia Murad leads a harrowing but vital crusade: to find the most influential platforms and speak out on behalf of the Yazidi community who face mass extermination by ISIS. CinemaxX 11

YOU SHALL NOT SLEEP

PAPER YEAR

(Argentina, Uruguay) FilmSharks International, 105mins. Dir: Gustavo Fernandez. Cast: Eva De Dominici, Belen Rueda, Eugenia Tobal.

In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre group experiments with insomnia in preparation for a stage play.

(Canada) Myriad Pictures, 90mins. Dir: Rebecca Addelman. Cast: Eve Hewson, Avan Jogia, Andie MacDowell, Hamish Linklater.

Young newlyweds encounter a series of challenges during the first year of their marriage.

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12:20

MGB Cinema

12:30 THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT

(Germany, US) Ro Co Films International, 92mins. Dir: Sonia Kennebeck.

Three former military operatives offer disturbing, first-hand accounts of the deadly impact that US drone warfare has had on civilians overseas.

(US, South Africa) Pure Flix/Quality Flix, 110mins.

Dir: Bruce Macdonald.

Cast: Jackson Rathbone, Billy Zane, Rutger Hauer, Taylor James.

After losing the love of his life to a cruel Philistine prince, a young Hebrew with supernatural strength defends his people, sacrificing everything to avenge his love, his people and his God.

(US) Great Point Media, 94mins. Dir: Timothy McNeil. Cast: John Carroll Lynch, Matt Bomer, Maura Tierney, Micah Hauptman.

Recently widowed southerner Early Landry starts a new life in a rundown corner of Hollywood.

He strikes up a friendship with his neighbour but their growing affection is hard to reconcile with their disparate backgrounds.

(Belgium, Switzerland, France) Be For Films, 95mins. Dir: Samuel Tilman. Cast: Fabrizio Rongione, Natacha Regnier.

David is a happy father. However, on returning from holiday, he is taken in for questioning by the police as part of a murder investigation that reveals all is not what it seems behind the happy facade of David’s life.

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CineStar 2

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Berlinale Palast

NATIONAL BIRD

ANYTHING SAMSON

I’M (ENDLESS LIKE THE SPACE)

(Italy) Rai Com, 112mins.

Dir: Anne-Riitta Ciccone.

Cast: Barbora Bobulova, Mathilde Bundschuh, Guglielmo Scilla.

A young girl lives in a strange world — a place that could be our world in a near future or an alternate dimension. The point is that, whatever the nature of her world is, her issues are the very same as in our world.

CineStar 5

NOME DI DONNA

(Italy) Celluloid Dreams, 92mins. Dir: Marco Tullio Giordana. Cast: Cristiana Capotondi, Valerio Binasco, Adriana Asti.

Nina Martini fights against the sexual harassment inflicted by her manager, the charming and powerful Marco Tori, who is protected by the Catholic Church.

CinemaxX 14

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12:40 CRAZY FIST

FIGHTER

(China) All Rights Entertainment, 90mins.

Dir: Qing Guo. Cast: Collin Chou, Huang Xiaoming, Wei Wang.

A former mixed martial arts champion and inheritor of a corporation swore never to fight after accidentally killing his opponent during a fight.

But when his brother is killed in a tournament, he has no choice but to investigate.

(Germany) NEW DOCS, 104mins. Dir: Susanne Binninger.

Big Daddy, Leon, Warrior — men who fight and beat each other bloody in cages.

What drives them, who are they? An atmospheric and lucid exploration of Mixed Martial Arts. delphi LUX 2

FOUR HANDS

CineStar 4

THE HOWLING MILLER

(France) Films Boutique, 105mins. Dir: Yann Le Quellec.

An odd miller settles in a small village at the end of the world to build a mill. At first well received, the stranger soon reveals a surprising secret: every night he howls at the moon.

CinemaxX 17

THE ROYAL EXCHANGE

(France, Belgium) Playtime, 100mins.

Dir: Marc Dugain.

Cast: Lambert Wilson, Olivier Gourmet.

1721: the Regent of France, wanting to seal the peace with Spain, marries his daughter to the heir to the Spanish throne, in exchange for which Louis XV must marry the fouryear-old Infanta. However, nothing will proceed as planned.

CineStar 1

12:45 AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN See box, above

GORDON AND PADDY

(Sweden) New Europe Film Sales, 65mins.

Dir: Linda Hamback.

The forest’s police chief Gordon and his new assistant, a clever mouse called Paddy, have to solve Gordon’s last case — the mystery of the squirrels’ missing nuts.

CinemaxX 13

12:50 FREEDOM

(Germany, Slovakia) Pluto Film, 102mins.

Dir: Jan Speckenbach.

Cast: Johanna Wokalek,

MARKET 12:45 AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN

(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 108mins.

Dir: Jim Hosking.

Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch, Matt Berry.

Lulu Danger’s Hans-Jochen Wagner, Inga Birkenfeld, Andrea Szabova.

Nora walks out on her husband and their two children without a word of explanation. She is driven by an irresistible force… she wants to be free.

CinemaxX 19

OCTAVIO IS DEAD!

(Canada) WTFilms, 89mins. Dir: Lee SookYin. Cast: Sarah Gadon, Rosanna Arquette, Raoul Trujillo, Dimitris Kitsos.

Escaping her overbearing mother, Tyler enters the rich and strange world of her deceased father, Octavio.

A father she never knew.

CinemaxX 10

PLANE TREE

(Turkey) Turkish Cinema, 99mins. Dir: Mustafa Karadeniz. Cast: Sezgin Cengiz, Silan Duzdaban, Yunus Emre Celik, Mert Aygun.

Mustafa lives in an inherited two-room house in a poor, out-of-the-way village in Kars, an area of northeastern Turkey with long, savage winters. He

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unsatisfying marriage takes a fortunate turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform a mysterious event titled: “An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn for One Magical Night Only”.

CineStar IMAX

and his wife Suna have a disabled son, Rıza, who is unable to walk.

Zoo Palast 4

13:00 PICK OF THE LITTER

(US) Submarine Entertainment, 81mins.

Dir: Dana Nachman, Don Hardy.

Follows a litter of puppies from birth through to the day they become guide dogs.

the American dream, the state has become the symbol of a civilisation gone selfdestructive.

CinemaxX 16

13:15 KAYAK TO KLEMTU

(Canada) NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema, 92mins. Dir: Zoe Hopkins. Cast: Ta’Kaiya Blaney, Sonja Bennett, Lorne Cardinal, Jared Ager-Foster.

Fourteen-year-old Ella is determined to travel the length of the Inside Passage, along the shores of the Great Bear Rainforest by kayak, in order to testify against a proposed pipeline that would see oil tanker traffic through her home.

CinemaxX 1

WE

(Japan) Open Sesame, 120mins. Dir: Michihito Fujii. Cast: Erina Mano, Kurumi Shimizu, Ryusei Yokohama, Junki Tozuka.

Coming-of-age drama about seven youths, set in Tokyo and a local small town in Japan.

(Netherlands) Wide, 100mins. Dir: Rene Eller. Cast: Aime Claeys, Tijmen Govaerts, Pauline Casteleyn, Maxime Jacobs.

During a summer in a Belgian-Dutch village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the monotony. They challenge each other and themselves, and soon their sexual curiosity starts to blur lines between right and wrong.

Marriott Studio

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13:10

13:20

AMERICA

BENT

(France) Indie Sales, 84mins. Dir: Claus Drexel.

An immersion into the heart of Arizona during the presidential election. Home of the modern cowboy and

(US) AMBI Distribution, 94mins. Dir: Robert Moresco. Cast: Karl Urban, Sofia Vergara, Andy Garcia.

Danny Gallagher is a

Zoo Palast Club A

WE ARE

discredited narcotics detective who, upon his release from prison, makes plans to seek revenge on the accuser who framed him and killed his partner.

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13:25

(Germany) ARRI Media, 94mins. Dir: Oliver Kienle. Cast: Frida-Lovisa Hamann, Friederike Becht, Christoph Letkowski, Detlef Bothe.

After losing her beloved but paranoid sister in a fatal accident, Sophie is hoping to start a normal life. But soon she recognises that another person is controlling her spirit. How do you fight somebody who is in your head? delphi LUX 1

RAGE

KIKORIKI: DEJA VU

(Portugal, France, Brazil) Doc & Film International, 83mins. Dir: Sergio Trefaut. Cast: Isabel Ruth, Leonor Silveira, Hugo Bentes.

In the desolated, windy countryside of 1950s southern Portugal, rich families control the land with the blessing of the church and support of the police. Meanwhile, the poor die of hunger for lack of work and bread.

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

Dir: Denis Chernov.

The Kikoriki crew fail to follow the rules of the Deja Vu Travel Agency, scattering them across time.

Our hero Krash must find and retrieve his friends through the ages with the help of his alter ego from another time and place.

CinemaxX 12

(Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) Attraction Distribution, 75mins.

Dir: Barbara Bredero.

Cast: Liam de Vries, Yannick van de Velde, Egbert-Jan Weeber, Medi Broekman.

A little boy is born on the same day as his best friend, a big giraffe who lives in a zoo where the boy’s grandpa works…. Now it is time for the boy to start school. He is ready to take his best friend with him.

13:40 EAST OF SWEDEN

(Finland) The Yellow Affair, 102mins. Dir: Simo Halinen. Cast: Laura Birn, Samuel Vauramo, Lauri Untamo, David Nzinga.

Three strangers on a northbound train: one of them will die and the other two will plummet into a tangled web of lies, threats and failed escapes. dffb Cinema

13:50 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE

(US) Magnolia Pictures, 94mins. Dir: Kate Novack.

Andre Leon Talley’s life and career are on full display in this poignant portrait.

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MY GIRAFFE

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THE RETURN

(Macedonia, Kosovo) Dardania Film, 81mins.

Dir: Kastriot Abdyli.

Cast: Delphine Depardieu, Hazir Haziri, Selman Lokaj.

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Catherine Senart.

It is 1927, Felix’s last year with his family before attending a private college.

Accompanied by his faithful friend, he will face adversity, love, death, and will embark on the path of adulthood.

immigrant and his French girlfriend pay a surprise visit to his native village.

The surprise turns sour when his family learns the real reasons behind their son’s return.

Zoo Palast Club B

SHANKAR, THE GROCER

(India) Custard Apple Pictures, 105mins. Dir: Aniket Chattopadhyay.

Cast: Kaushik Ganguly, Sreela Majumder, Anjan Dutt, Ankitaa Chakraborty.

Foreign direct investment is slowly but steadily spreading its wings in the towns and suburban areas of our country. This film looks into its impact on our society.

Parliament Studio

TEN DAYS WITHOUT MOM

(Argentina) FilmSharks International, 99mins.

Dir: Ariel Winograd.

Cast: Diego Peretti, Carla Peterson.

Victor and Vera have been married for 20 years and have four kids. Absorbed by his work, Victor lives outside the daily life of his wife and children. Vera, overwhelmed by domestic life, decides to take a vacation from her family.

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14:10 VALLEY OF SHADOWS

(Norway) Celluloid Dreams, 91mins.

Dir: Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen.

Cast: Adam Ekeli, Kathrine Fagerland, Jone Hope Larsen, Lennard Salamon.

Six-year-old Aslak ventures into the dark forest in a quest for answers following a tragic event.

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15:15 CLIMATE WARRIORS

MARKET 14:10 WHEN THE TREES FALL

(Ukraine, Poland, Macedonia) Latido Films, 88mins.

Dir: Marysia Nikitiuk.

Cast: Anastasiia Pustovit, Sonya Halaimova, Maksym Samchik.

In a godforsaken postSoviet village, Larysa has Cast: Jaden Smith.

A teen girl gets on the ride of her life when she joins all-girl New York skateboard collective Skate Kitchen and falls for a mysterious guy in the scene.

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14:25 JOSIE

(US) Lightning Entertainment Group, 100mins. Dir: Eric England. Cast: Sophie Turner, Dylan McDermott, Jack Kilmer.

Hank, a solitary man living a dull existence in a sleepy southern town, raises eyebrows when he forms a questionable relationship with high school student Josie.

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14:30

WHEN THE TREES FALL

LAST PRINCE OF ATLANTIS

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(US) Grading Dimension Pictures, 90mins.

Dir: Vladlen Barbe.

Cast: Jordi Molla, Yuri Lowenthal, Elisa Gabrielli.

Beautiful family fairy tale about love and adventure.

An old pearl-fisher has to sell his boat to a cruel man who wants to marry his daughter against her will.

The last Prince of Atlantis sacrifices his eternal life to save the girl.

14:15 EPIC COMPLEX

(Czech Republic) GPO Platform, 55mins.

Dir: Jan Strejcovsky.

What happens when 20 giant paintings suddenly visit Japan?

CineStar 4

SKATE KITCHEN

(US) Charades, 106mins.

Dir: Crystal Moselle.

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fallen in love with an attractive young criminal.

After he heads to the city, she will be forced to follow the traditional life she has always refused. However, her rebellious five-year-old cousin holds a secret that can change everyone’s destiny.

CinemaxX 18

MISSION KATHMANDU: THE ADVENTURES OF NELLY AND SIMON

(Canada) Cinema Management Group, 85mins. Dir: Pierre Greco, Nancy Florence Savard.

Cast: Sylvie Moreau, Guillaume LemayThivierge, Rachid Badouri.

Nelly, a young apprentice detective, together with Simon, a research assistant, embarks on a daring quest to discover a legendary species up in the Himalayas.

CineStar 5

THAT SUMMER

(US, Sweden, Denmark) Dogwoof, 80mins.

Dir: Goran Hugo Olsson.

Cast: Jonas Mekas, Goran Olsson, Sarah Dhanens.

The eccentric world of the symbiotic mother-anddaughter duo from the film ‘Grey Gardens’.

CinemaxX 17

14:35 SECOND CHANCE

(Macedonia, Serbia) Small Moves Films, 78mins.

Dir: Marija Dzidzeva.

Cast: Mirjana Karanovic, Daniela Ivanovska, Natalija Teodosieva.

Three stories about three women who live in the

same building, interwoven together to create a kaleidoscopic observation of the experience of being a mother.

Zoo Palast Club A

14:40 LE BRIO

(France) Pathe International, 95mins.

Dir: Yvan Attal.

Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Camelia Jordana.

After an incident, a brilliant professor known for his outbursts is forced to mentor the student he wronged for a speech contest.

CinemaxX 10

Aleksandar Aleksiev.

1971: in Bulgaria under the communist regime, a father decides to walk almost 100km to the nearest town so he can buy a new radio for his rock’n’ roll-obsessed son.

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STYX

(Germany, Austria) Beta Cinema, 93mins.

Dir: Wolfgang Fischer.

Cast: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Kelvin Mutuku Ndinda.

The transformation of a strong woman torn from her idyllic world during a sailing trip.

CineStar 6

JO, THE MEDICINE RUNNER

14:55

(US) Blue Fox Entertainment, 115mins. Dir: David L Cunningham. Cast: Matt Dillon, Jim Cavievel, Ryan Potter, Juliet Mills.

Hawaii in the 1920s: a young man who transcends the boundaries of race and class in pursuit of a forbidden love.

(France) Gaumont, 118mins. Dir: Albert Dupontel. Cast: Albert Dupontel, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Laurent Lafitte.

1920s France: two survivors of the trenches set up a scam based on war memorials.

CineStar IMAX

CinemaxX 1

TITANIUM WHITE

SEE YOU UP THERE

15:00

(Poland) Parkland Pictures, 102mins.

Dir: Piotr Smigasiewicz.

Cast: Steven Berkoff, Alessandra Mastronardi.

Dominik, an art researcher, is on the trail of the last works of Caravaggio. In Italy, he unexpectedly discovers a series of criminal events.

(China, France) Wild Bunch, 107mins. Dir: Vivian Qu. Cast: Wen Qi, Zhou Meijun, Shi Ke. Two schoolgirls are assaulted. Teenager Mia is the only witness. In a world that offers them no safety, they must find their own way out.

CinemaxX 19

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14:45 RADIOGRAM

(Bulgaria, Poland, Turkey) Intramovies, 84mins.

Dir: Rouzie Hassanova.

Cast: Alexander Hadjiangelov, Yana Titova,

ANGELS WEAR WHITE

BAREFOOT AT DAWN

(Canada) Seville International, 114mins.

Dir: Francis Leclerc.

Cast: Justin LeyrollesBouchard, Roy Dupuis, Julien Leclerc,

(Germany) fechnerMedia, 86mins. Dir: Carl-A Fechner, Nicolai Niemann.

Cast: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Amir Roughani, Joylette Portlock.

Shows how the energy revolution can actually be realised.

Marriott Studio

WHITE FANG

(US, France, Luxembourg) SC Films International, 88mins. Dir: Alexandre Espigares. Cast: Rashida Jones, Nick Offerman.

The classic tale of a canine’s journey from life in the wild to domestication.

CineStar 4

15:20 THE WOLF HOUSE

(Chile) Diluvio, 75mins.

Dir: Cristobal Leon, Joaqin Cocina.

A young woman finds refuge in a house after escaping from a sect of German religious fanatics in Chile.

CinemaxX 13

15:30 THE SONG KEEPERS

(Australia) LevelK, 84mins. Dir: Naina Sen. Cast: Daphne Puntjina, Marion Swift, Theresa Nipper, Morris Stuart.

The joyous and poignant story of an Aboriginal women’s choir and their historic tour of Germany.

CinemaxX 11

15:35 HITLER VERSUS PICASSO: THE NAZI OBSESSION FOR ART

(Italy) Nexo Digital, 94mins. Dir: Claudio Poli.

Cast: Toni Servillo.

Reveals secrets of the Fuhrer’s collection of Picasso, Matisse and Chagall: paintings looted and condemned finally come to light.

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ANE DAHL TORP JOHN CARE W A XEL BØYUM EMMA BONES D i rec ted by A R I LD A N DR ESEN P r o d u c e d b y V I L J E K AT H R I N E H A G E N E xec ut ive P roducers V EGA R D ST E N BE RG E R I KSE N a nd Y NGV E SÆ T H E R

directed by | réalisé par Torill Kove animation Torill Kove Josefine Hannibal compositing | composition Kristian Pedersen Cathinka Tanberg original music | musique originale Kevin Dean sound design | conception sonore Luigi Allemano mix | mixage Jean Paul Vialard editing | montage Simen Gengenbach (NFK) producers | producteurs Lise Fearnley Tonje Skar Reiersen Michael Fukushima a co-production of | une coproduction de Mikrofilm AS and | et the National Film Board of Canada | l’Office national du film du Canada

SCREENINGS

16:30

15:45 BLACK 47

MISSION: LOVE

(Ireland, Luxembourg) Altitude Film Sales, 96mins. Dir: Lance Daly.

Cast: Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea. Ireland, 1847: during the Great Famine, Feeney, a hardened ranger, deserts his post with the British Army and returns home to find his family slain by the brutal hand of the English.

He sets out to avenge their deaths.

(Germany) Studio.

TV.Film, 107mins.

Dir: Laura Lackmann.

Cast: Laura Tonke, Marc Hosemann.

Heinz and Hans are a typical couple who are stuck in a rut after eight years. On their anniversary they go to the movies and realise: real life is nothing like the movies!

CineStar 2

(Germany, France, Georgia) mementoFILM Berlin, 120mins.

Dir: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Gross. Cast: Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze.

Georgia 2016: a patriarchal society, where three generations of an ordinary Gerogian family live together under one roof. Everyone is shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move.

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MY HAPPY FAMILY

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15:50 MADE IN ITALY

(Italy) Fandango Sales, 103mins. Dir: Luciano Ligabue.

Riko is facing an existential crisis. He decides to confront his problems, but when his wife confesses she cheated and his best friend commits suicide, the downward spiral begins.

Only his son can help him to find a way out.

CinemaxX 14

15:55 THE ELEPHANT AND THE BUTTERFLY

(Belgium) Blue Fox Entertainment, 86mins.

Dir: Amelie van Elmbt.

Cast: Lina Doillon, Thomas Blanchart, Judith Chemla, Alice de Lencquesaing.

An unexpected turn of events leaves Antoine suddenly alone to take care of Elsa, the daughter he has never met.

CinemaxX 15

MAYA DARDEL

(US, Poland) The Yellow Affair, 104mins.

Dir: Zachary Cotler, Magdalena Zyzak.

Cast: Lena Olin, Rosanna Arquette, Jordan Gavaris.

Maya Dardel, a renowned writer, announces on radio that she intends to end her life and that young male writers may compete to become executor of her estate.

CinemaxX 18

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME

(Italy) Indie Sales,

MARKET 15:45 LOCKDOWN

(Germany) Media, 85mins. Dir: Bogdana Vera Lorenz. Cast: Alice Dwyer, Gotz Schulte, Maximilian MeyerBretschneider.

A couple of young 105mins. Dir: Gabriele Muccino. Cast: Stefano Accorsi, Pierfrancesco Favino, Carolina Crescentini, Elena Cucci.

A sudden storm blocks a family reunited on a small island.

CinemaxX 17

16:00 BEFORE MY FEET TOUCH THE GROUND

(Israel) Go2Films, 78mins. Dir: Daphni Leef.

Summer 2011: 25-year-old Daphni Leef moves into a tent in the centre of Tel Aviv to protest the cost of housing. Within a few days she becomes a leader and a face for the largest protest movement in the history of Israel.

Parliament Studio

IN ANOTHER LIFE

(UK) Fulfilment Agency, 84mins. Dir: Jason Wingard. Cast: Elie Haddad, Yousef Hayyan Jubeh, Biniyam Biruk Theshome.

Adnan is a Syrian refugee who finds himself trapped in the sprawling encampment outside Calais and gradually brutalised by the corruption of ruthless people smugglers and the

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scientists wake up in the hermetically sealed apartment of a prepper and must find out if he kidnapped them or if he really saved them from a biological weapons attack.

MGB Cinema

discrimination he faces.

Zoo Palast Club A

THE SCHOOL

(Australia) Cinema Management Group, 90mins. Dir: Storm Ashwood. Cast: Megan Drury, William McDonald, Nicholas Hope.

When a doctor looking for her missing child awakens to find herself in an abandoned school, she must survive the supernatural terror and face her own demons.

CineStar 5

16:15 LOS BANDO

(Norway, Sweden) Sola Media, 94mins. Dir: Christian Lo. Cast: Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Jakob Dyrud, Tage Hogness.

Four friends embark on a crazy journey across Norway to attend the annual Championships of Rock.

CineStar 1

16:20 BECKS

(US) Lightning Entertainment Group, 94mins. Dir: Daniel Powell. Cast: Lena Hall, Mena Suvari, Dan Fogler,

Christine Lahti.

After a crushing breakup with her girlfriend, a Brooklyn musician moves back in with her mother.

CinemaxX 10

LOST AND FOUND

(Netherlands) Dutch Features Global Entertainment, 95mins.

Dir: Nicole van Kilsdonk.

Lucas travels to Berlin, the current hipster paradise of hedonism, to work on his great Dutch novel.

Everything changes when he encounters an old lover.

CinemaxX 16

MONKY

(Sweden, Germany) Picture Tree International, 90mins. Dir: Maria Blom.

Cast: Frida Hallgren, Julius Jimenez Hugoson, Johan Peterson.

Frank, 11, finds a real monkey in his family’s backyard. Named Monky and being anything but ordinary, he takes the family on a exciting adventure.

Cinemobile

16:25 FATHER TO SON

(Taiwan) Ablaze Image, 115mins. Dir: Ya-Chuan Hsiao. Cast: Michael JQ Huang, Kai-Hsun Chuang.

Van Pao-Te finds himself suffering from a serious illness. Instead of getting treatment, he decides to go to Japan with his son to look for his father, who abandoned him 50 years earlier.

CineStar 6

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THERE’S ALWAYS NEXT SEASON

(Norway) Original Film, 111mins. Dir: Carl Christian Lein Stormer.

Searching for proof of a 20-year-old urban legend, a first-time director discovers not only a gripping tale of friendship, hardship and faded dreams, but one last chance to make things right.

CinemaxX 19

16:40 TIME SHARE

(Mexico, Netherlands) Visit Films, 96mins.

Dir: Sebastian Hofmann.

Cast: Luis Gerardo Mendez, Miguel Rodarte, RJ Mitte.

Two haunted family men join forces in a destructive crusade to rescue their families from a tropical paradise, after becoming convinced an American timeshare conglomerate has a sinister plan.

CinemaxX 13

16:45 REVOLVER MIND

(Mexico) Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), 90mins. Dir: Alejandro Ramirez Corona.

Cast: Baltimore Beltran,

Bella Merlin, Hoze Melendez.

Chicali is a youth who starts killing for the mafia.

Mario, locked up for assasinating the Mexican presidential candidate in 1994, comes out of prison after 20 years and returns to Tijuana.

CineStar IMAX

16:50 GANDHIS OF INDIAN JUNGLES

(India) Devenky Films, 95mins. Dir: Ramesh Thummala. Cast: Ramesh Thummala, Shaniya Mishra, Baalu Rosham, Balakrishna Akula.

The story of a few modernday youths who join hands with the tribals of an indian jungle to fight the construction of an illegal dam.

Marriott Studio

THE NIGHT EATS THE WORLD

(France) WTFilms, 94mins. Dir: Dominique Rocher. Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant.

Waking up after a party one morning, Sam realises the living dead have infested the streets of Paris.

But is he really the lone survivor?

CineStar 4

17:00 BACK TO SQUARE ONE

(India) Kanika Multiscope, 150mins.

Dir: Lekh Tandon. Cast: Govind Namdev, Kanika Bajpayee, Kawaljeet Singh, Parmjeet Sethi.

The story of a woman of fortitude who gets duped in love and rises up to ensure that justice prevails.

Zoo Palast 3

LOVERS

(Italy) Intramovies, 102mins. Dir: Matteo Vicino. Cast: Primo Reggiani, Margherita Mannino, Ivano Marescotti.

Symmetrically approaches four stories where the characters are all connected in a spiral driven by love.

CinemaxX 11

RETURN TO BOLLENE

(France) Pyramide International, 67mins.

Dir: Said Hamich.

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SCREENINGS

Cast: Anas El Baz, Kate Colebrook.

Nassim lives in Abu Dhabi with his American fiancee.

After several years of absence, he returns with her to Bollene, a town in the South of France where he grew up. Now Nassim must face his past.

CinemaxX 12

For the past 10 years, Franck has been a flunkey for a provincial football club. One night, he meets Salome. They become lovers — until Djibril Azembert joins the team. Now, a curious love triangle ensues.

Arsenal Cinema 2

17:25 THE WEAK ONES

THE MARRIAGE

(Kosovo, Albania) Wide, 97mins. Dir: Blerta Zeqiri.

Cast: Alban Ukaj, Adriana Matoshi, Genc Salihu.

Anita and Bekim are almost done planning their wedding. But when Bekim’s secret gay ex-lover returns from abroad, unexpectedly the situation becomes complicated.

CinemaxX 2

TRANSIT

(Germany, France) The Match Factory, 101mins.

Dir: Christian Petzold.

Cast: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman.

The story of a nearly impossible great love amid escape, exile and a longing for a place one can call home.

CinemaxX 4

17:15 THE ASH LAD — IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING

(Norway, Ireland, Czech Republic) TrustNordisk, 104mins. Dir: Mikkel Brænne Sandemose.

Cast: Vebjorn Enger, Eili Harboe, Mats Sjogard Pettersen, Elias Holmen.

Espen “Ash Lad”, a poor farmer’s son, embarks on a dangerous quest with his brothers to save the princess from a vile troll known as the mountain king.

(Mexico) Luz Verde, 65mins. Dir: Raul Rico, Eduardo Giralt Brun.

Cast: Luis Lizarraga, Eduardo Martinez, Javier Diaz Dalannais.

Victor has a scuffle with a boy who is part of a gang.

Hours later he finds his beloved dogs murdered. He gets his gun and begins a journey on a path that will take him across the hostile land of Sinaloa.

Parliament Studio

17:30 CENTRAL AIRPORT THF

(Germany, France, Brazil) Luxbox, 98mins. Dir: Karim Ainouz. Cast: Ibrahim Al Hussein, Qutaiba Nafer.

Berlin’s historic defunct Tempelhof Airport remains a place of arrivals and departures. Today its massive hangars are used as Germany’s largest emergency shelter for asylum seekers.

CineStar 2

SPIROU AND FANTASIO’S BIG ADVENTURES

(France) Kinology, 89mins. Dir: Alexandre Coffre. Cast: Thomas Soliveres, Alex Lutz, Geraldine Nakache, Christian Clavier.

The long-time anticipated adaptation of the ultra-cult French comics ‘Spirou’ and ‘Fantasio’.

MGB Cinema

CinemaxX 15

AYLA — THE DAUGHTER OF WAR

THE WITNESS

(Turkey) Turkish Cinema, 124mins. Dir: Can Ulkay.

Cast: Ismail Hacioglu, Kim Seol, Cetin Tekindor.

The true story of a little girl and a soldier.

Zoo Palast 5

ON THE SLY

(France) Be For Films, 97mins. Dir: Christophe Regin. Cast: Franck Gastambide, Alice Isaaz, Hippolyte Girardot.

(Switzerland, Macedonia, Ireland) Tipi’mages Productions, 113mins.

Dir: Mitko Panov.

Cast: Podraic Delaney, Bruno Ganz, Natasha Petrovic, Marthe Kelle.

An ambitious junior legal officer at The Hague travels to a fictitious country in order to obtain a pre-trial statement from an insider witness enshrined in mystery.

Zoo Palast Club A

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17:35 LINO 3D

(Brazil) FilmSharks International, 93mins.

Dir: Rafael Ribas. Cast: Selton Mello, Paolla Oliveira, Dira Paes.

Lino is an entertainer for children’s parties who can no longer stand his job.

Deciding to seek outside help, he unfortunately finds a very untalented wizard who transforms him into the thing he hates most.

CineStar 5

THE LEGEND OF THE UGLY KING

(Germany, Austria) mitosfilm, 122mins.

Dir: Huseyin Tabak. Cast: Yilmaz Guney, Elif Guney Putun, Michael Haneke.

A young filmmaker sets out to explore the eventful life of the famous Kurdish director, actor, and revolutionary Yilmaz Guney. dffb Cinema

17:45 BARLEY FIELDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN

(UK) Visit Films, 88mins.

Dir: Tian Tsering. Cast: Tsering Choekyi, Pema Chokey, Samten Dhondup.

In the remote mountains of Tibet, a teenage girl must choose between supporting her family after her father’s political imprisonment or joining a group of oppressed nuns on their journey to freedom.

CinemaxX 18

17:50 SUSU

(UK) Parkland Pictures, 106mins. Dir: Yixi Sun. Cast: Zitong Wu, Frederick Szkoda, Steve Edwin.

A student who begins work as a film translator at a secluded English mansion discovers gruesome secrets.

95mins. Dir: Monica Lairana. Cast: Sandra Sandrini, Alejo Mango.

Jorge and Mabel spend their last 24 hours together as a couple locked in their family home.

CinemaxX 6

(UK) Altitude Film Sales, 96mins. Dir: Andy Nyman, Jeremy Dyson.

Cast: Andy Nyman, Alex Lawther, Paul Whitehouse, Martin Freeman.

Professor Phillip Goodman has his rationality tested when he investigates three paranormal episodes.

(Portugal) Minerva Pictures, 124mins.

Dir: Luis Ismael. Cast: Enrique Arce, Luis Ismael, Francisco Menezes.

When Romeu, a corrupt policeman, forces Alex and Cid to deceive FBI agent Sam Folkes, the international bomb is set to explode.

Cinemobile

CinemaxX 19

GONE FOR A WHILE

(Italy) ACEK, 100mins.

Dir: Terence Hill.

Cast: Terence Hill.

An easy rider sets off on his Harley for the desert in search of solitude and rescues a girl on the way.

The wisdom he is seeking is not to be found in solitude, but in the girl’s courageous spirit.

CinemaxX 10 No press

18:15 LOVE AND BULLETS

(Italy) Rai Com, 140mins.

Dir: Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti. Cast: Giampaolo Morelli, Serena Rossi, Claudia Gerini, Carlo Buccirosso.

Naples: Ciro is a killer.

Together with Rosario, he is one of the two “tigers” who serve Don Vincenzo and his wife, Donna Maria.

Fatima, a young nurse, is a dreamer. Their lives are worlds apart, but destined to meet once again.

CinemaxX 12

18:25 A BETTER TOMORROW 2018

CineStar 1

CineStar 6

DOVLATOV

18:00 THE BED

(Argentina, Germany, Netherlands, Brazil)

18:30 BAD INVESTIGATE

(Russia, Poland, Serbia) Alpha Violet, 126mins.

Dir: Alexey German Jr. Cast: Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovsky.

17:55

CinemaxX 13

GHOST STORIES

(Hong Kong, China) Sparkle Roll Media, 114mins. Dir: Sheng Ding.

Cast: Kai Wang, Ray Ma, Talu Wang.

Traces the journey of a former smuggler attempting to start his life anew and repair his relationship with his estranged brother after his release from prison.

CinemaxX 14

Henriksen, Jackson Hurst, Ali Hillis.

A family suddenly discovers a ghost-like presence trying to communicate with them.

(US) Princ Films, 100mins. Dir: Michael Sajbel. Cast: Lance

CinemaxX 17

18:50 SCAM(S)

(France) Upside Distribution, 133mins.

Dir: Olivier Megaton.

Cast: Christophe Rocancourt.

The gripping psychological approach of a master manipulator: Christophe Rocancourt, the “Con Man” of the stars.

CinemaxX 11

19:15 BAREFOOT

EDERLEZI RISING

(Serbia) Arclight Films, 89mins. Dir: Lazar Bordoza. Cast: Sebastian Cavazza, Stoya.

A pioneering space mission is led by the Ederlezi Corporation.

Ederlezi recruits Mllutin, a cosmonaut trained in the newly reformed futuristic Soviet Union, and Nimani, a female android programmed to fulfil all his desires.

Marriott Studio

LOVE ME NOT

(Greece, France) Elle Driver, 102mins.

Dir: Alexandros Avranas.

Cast: Eleni Roussinou, Christos Loulis.

A couple hire a young migrant to be their surrogate mother. After a confrontation with the girl, the woman goes for a drive. The same night, her husband gets a call: his wife is dead; her burned body was found in her wrecked car.

CineStar 4

18:35 LOOK BACK

(US) QK Pictures, 60mins. Dir: Queen Kim. A detective faces his past when the serial killer he’s chasing turns out to be from his own, dysfunctional childhood home.

Parliament Studio

18:45 DOUBTFUL

WRAITH

Surjon, Bat-el Musseri.

A story about a detached man who aspires to save delinquent youths through art.

(Israel) Go2Films, 88mins. Dir: Eliran Elya.

Cast: Ran Danker, Adar Hazazi Gersch, Hilla

(Czech Republic, Denmark, Slovakia) Biograf Jan Sverak, 104mins. Dir: Jan Sverak.

Cast: Tereza Voriskova, Ondrej Vetchy, Zdenek Sverak, Jan Triska.

During the final years of the Second World War, eight-year-old Eda must deal with a family secret.

CineStar 5

19:20 ABEL FERRARA’S PIAZZA VITTORIO

(Italy) Minerva Pictures, 76mins. Dir: Abel Ferrara.

A vivid mosaic portrait of Rome’s biggest public square, Piazza Vittorio.

CinemaxX 18

19:45 THE BUTCHER, THE WHORE AND THE ONE-EYED MAN

(Hungary) Hungarian National Film Fund, 105mins. Dir: Janos Szasz.

Cast: Zsolt Nagy, Dorka Gryllus, Geza Hegedus G. In 1925, a terrible scandal shakes the city of Budapest.

CinemaxX 16

THE RED COLLAR

(France) francetv distribution, 84mins.

Dir: Jean Becker.

Cast: Francois Cluzet, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Sophie Verbeeck.

In the summer of 1919, a war hero is held in a deserted barrack. Outside, his mutt barks. Not far away, a woman is waiting.

Then a war-weary judge arrives. Three people and a dog who holds the key to the affair.

CinemaxX 10

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A film by Ignacio Castillo Cottin

A film by Gilles Coulier

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International Competition Nominee

A film by Constantin Popescu

A film by Rene Eller

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A film by Blerta Zeqiri

A film by Olga Chajdas

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THE HEIRESSES (Par-Ger-Uru-Nor-Bra-Fr) Marcelo Martinessi

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DAUGHTER OF MINE (It-Ger-Switz) Laura Bispuri

The director of the 2015 Competition title Sworn Virgin follows up with this Italian drama about a woman torn ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ between adoptive and biological mothers. Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Sara Casu and Udo Kier head the cast.

THE PRAYER (Fr) Cédric Kahn

Anthony Bajon stars as a young drug addict who struggles to fit in when he joins an isolated mountain retreat ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ formed of fellow addicts trying to cure themselves through prayer. Damien Chapelle and Alex Brendemühl star.

THE REAL ESTATE (Swe-UK) Mans Mansson, Axel Petersen

The filmmakers co-direct for the first time on this dark comedy-thriller, which stars Leonore Ekstrand as a woman ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ who inherits an apartment complex in Stockholm and is pulled into the greedy world of real estate.

3 DAYS IN QUIBERON (Ger-Aust-Fr) Emily Atef

Atef probes what happened during the last interview and photoshoot of enigmatic Austrian film star Romy ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Schneider, which took place at a spa in Brittany in 1981, just a year before her death at the age of 43.

U – JULY 22 (Nor) Erik Poppe

Poppe’s third feature to play the Berlinale looks at the July 22, 2011 attack on a youth summer camp on Utoya ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ island, Norway by far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, as told from the youths’ point of view.

SEASON OF THE DEVIL (Phil) Lav Diaz

The former Alfred Bauer prize-winning director’s latest effort — clocking in at 234 minutes — is described as a ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ black and white “anti-musical musical, a rock opera, that delves into mythology”.

DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT (US) Gus Van Sant

Van Sant celebrates the life of John Callahan, who became a renowned cartoonist after he was left quadriplegic by a ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ car crash. Joaquin Phoenix stars alongside Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black, Beth Ditto and Kim Gordon.

PIG (Iran) Mani Haghighi

The latest film from Iranian writer/director/actor Haghighi is an absurdist comedy about a dejected film director ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ who wonders why he is not important enough to be targeted by a serial killer. Hasan Majuni and Leila Hatami star.

MY BROTHER’S NAME IS ROBERT AND HE IS AN IDIOT (Ger-Fr-Switz) Philip Gröning

Gröning enjoys his first Berlinale world premiere with this drama that chronicles the unusual relationship between ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ two incestuous siblings. Josef Mattes and Julia Zange head the cast.

MUSEUM (Mex) Alonso Ruizpalacios

The director’s follow-up to 2014’s Berlinale best first feature winner Güeros is a coming-of-age heist movie set in ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 1985. Shot in Mexico City, Palenque and Acapulco, it stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Leonardo Ortizgris and Alfredo Castro.

TOUCH ME NOT (Rom-Ger-Czech-Bul-Fr) Adina Pintilie

The first female Romanian director to be selected for the Berlinale’s Competition, Pintilie’s debut feature and ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ docu-drama hybrid Touch Me Not explores themes of intimacy and humanity’s longing for contact.

IN THE AISLES (Ger) Thomas Stuber

Stuber’s third feature to play at the Berlinale follows a man who begins work as a shelf-stacker in a supermarket. ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Franz Rogowski plays opposite Sandra Hüller and Peter Kurth.

MUG (Pol) Malgorzata Szumowska

Szumowska tied for the directing Silver Bear with Body (2015) and won a Teddy for In The Name Off (2013) with ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, who also stars in Mug as a man who experiences identity issues after a face transplant.

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