SCREENINGS
Maria Kallimani, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Alexandros Logothetis. For many years, Nadja has been the housekeeper and nanny for a rich couple on the Peloponnese, almost part of the family. When she falls ill and the economic crisis begins to bite, meticulously concealed class differences rear their head.
Masters Of The Universe
Forum press CinemaxX 6
LOLA@Berlinale Zoo Palast 2
Germany, Pale Mother
Shamans of the Blind Country
(Germany) 88mins. Dir: Marc Bauder. He was one of the topinvestment bankers in Germany. Now he is sitting in an empty bank building in the financial centre and talks. A frightening inside in a megalomaniacal, quasi-religious parallel world.
(Germany) 151mins. Dir: Helma Sanders-Brahms. Cast: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek. The story of a mother who does whatever is necessary to get her young daughter through the Second World War.
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11:30 The Iron Mask
(US) 123mins. Dir: Allan Dwan. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Leon Bary, Stanley J Sandford. Fast-paced swashbuckling classic.
Einstein and Einstein
(China) 119mins. Dir: Cao Baoping. Cast: Zhang Xueying, Guo Jinglin, Cao Xinyue. Her father and stepmother don’t have time for the wayward Li Wan,
who is fascinated by astrophysics. Her father buys her a dog to placate her. When “Einstein” disappears, Li Wan’s parents’ patchwork of lies falls apart. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
Retrospective CinemaxX 8
12:00 Last Hijack
(Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Belgium) 83mins. Dir: Tommy Pallotta, Femke Wolting. Using a mixture of animation, documentary and dramatised scenes, the film describes how Mohamed became a pirate. Conditions in his native Somalia mean that many fishermen still wind up in the clutches of the pirate recruiters. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
Two Men In Town
(France, Algeria, US, Belgium) 120mins. Dir: Rachid Bouchareb. Cast: Forest Whitaker, Harvey Keitel, Brenda Blethyn. Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast
Kohlhaas or the Proportionality of Means
(Germany) 89mins. Dir: Aron Lehmann. Cast: Robert Gwisdek, Jan Messutat, Thorsten
Merten. Deep in the Bavarian countryside Kleist’s historical drama ‘Kohlhaas’ is being shot. Young director Lehman is fighting for his film and he appeals to the imagination of the audience, since all funds have been cancelled. LOLA@Berlinale Zoo Palast 2
12:30 A Christmoose Story
(Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium) 85mins. Dir: Lourens Blok. Cast: Eroen van Koningsbrugge, Jelka van Houten, Derek de Lint. Max can hardly believe it when a moose plunges out of the sky into his barn and begins to speak. Santa has also crashed somewhere. Both of them must get back on their feet as soon as possible – for Christmas will soon be here. Generation Kplus Zoo Palast 1
Jack
(Germany) 103mins. Dir:
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Edward Berger. Cast: Ivo Pietzcker, Georg Arms, Luise Heyer, Vincent Redetzki. Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele
The Monuments Men
(US) 120mins. Dir: George Clooney. Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon. 1944 and 1945. Dressed in US army uniforms, a small platoon of art experts make their way behind enemy lines to save monumental works of art from destruction at the hands of the Nazis. Out of competition press Berlinale Palast
Sunrise – A Song of Two Humans
(US) 95mins. Dir: FW Murnau. Cast: George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor. Melodrama of a marriage, in which a young farmer is spurred on by a big city vamp to stage an accident to kill his wife. Murnau’s most mature and captivating film, which received
the very first Oscar for cinematography. Retrospective Zeughauskino
12:45 Love Is Strange
(US) 98mins. Dir: Ira Sachs. Cast: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei. After 39 years together Ben and George marry – and promptly lose their apartment. The couple counter this loss of their home and their livelihood with a confident lightheartedness and enchant us with their deep bond. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
13:00 Einstein and Einstein See box, above
My Brother’s Keeper
(Germany) 88mins. Dir: Maximilian Leo. Cast: Sebastian Zimmler, Nadja Bobyleva, Robert Finster. Two very different brothers who are anything but close are nonetheless symbiotically connected by their very differences. When one disappears, the other begins to lose sight of who he is. It’s almost as if a part of him has also left – forever. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1
13:15 A Dream Of Iron
(South Korea) 98mins.
Dir: Kelvin Kyung Kun Park. Plagued by the loss of his girlfriend after she left him to become a shaman, an unnamed narrator writes her a cinematic letter offering alternative forms of divinity: prehistoric whale petroglyphs and the vast industrial halls and shipyards of Hyundai. Forum press CinemaxX 6
13:45 Castanha
(Brazil) 95mins. Dir: Davi Pretto. Cast: Joao Carlos Castanha, Celina Castanha. Reality, performance and fantasy coalesce in the life of 52-year old Joao, a transvestite and actor marked by his extravagant life and hounded by the shadows of his past. Forum CineStar 8
14:00 Amma & Appa
(Germany) 89mins. Dir: Franziska Schonenberger, Jayakrishnan Subramanian. When their children fall in love, two sets of parents, both of whom have been from completely different cultures – Bavaria and southern India – find that their lives connect in surprising ways. Perspektive Deutsches Kino press CinemaxX 5
(Nepal, Germany, US) 223mins. Dir: Michael Oppitz. This epic documentary follows the trail of the magical healing methods and enduring Asiaspanning traditions of shamanism, exploring how it has been preserved in the isolated society of the northern Magar tribe in West Nepal. Forum Delphi Filmpalast
Wolfy, The Incredible Secret
(France) 80mins. Dir: Gregoire Solotareff, Eric Omond. A young wolf, Loulou, and his loyal friend, Tom, a rabbit, find themselves in a place ruled by cruel predators. In their bid to find Loulou’s mother, they escape hungry mouths, pass dangerous tests of courage and discover their true nature. Generation Kplus CinemaxX 3
14:05 That Demon Within
(Hong Kong, China) 112mins. Dir: Dante Lam. Cast: Daniel Wu, Nick Cheung. Policeman Dave saves the life of a stranger, who turns out to be the boss of a brutal street gang. Dave decides to destroy the gang. Panorama Special press CineStar 3
14:15 An Actor’s Revenge
(Japan) 97mins. Dir: Teinosuke Kinugasa. Cast: Chojiro Hayashi. A renowned “onnagata” (actor playing female roles) takes revenge on the »