(US) 117mins. Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson.
close-knit community in a remote alpine region. When several people mysteriously die, the old order begins to unravel.
Retrospective Zeughauskino
Berlinale Special Gala press Zoo Palast 1
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Nagima
Flesh And The Devil
Iranian
(France, Switzerland) 105mins. Dir: Mehran Tamadon. Forum CinemaxX 4
Life Of Riley
(US) 105mins. Dir: David Zellner. Cast: Rinko Kikuchi, Nathan Zellner, David Zellner. The solitary Kumiko finds a video tape allegedly showing the true story of a briefcase full of money buried in snowbound Minnesota. Driven by the hope of escaping her humdrum life, she makes the journey to far-off America.
Festival & Press
Forum CineStar IMAX
21:00 A Long Way Down
The Midnight After
(Hong Kong, China) 124mins. Dir: Fruit Chan. Cast: Wong You-nam, Simon Yam, Kara Hui.
(UK, Germany) 96mins. Dir: Pascal Chaumeil. Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots.
(Kazakhstan) 80mins. Dir: Zhanna Issabayeva. Cast: Dina Tukubayeva, Galina Pyanova, Marya Nezhentseva. Nagima can only just make ends meet by working as a kitchen porter. When she loses her beloved friend and roommate in childbirth, her already precarious situation soon takes on unbearable dimensions. Four suicidal people meet on New Year’s Eve on the roof of a high-rise and decide to postpone their suicides to Valentine’s Day. Berlinale Special Gala Friedrichstadt-Palast
Panorama Special press Zoo Palast 2
The Circle To Singapore, With Love
(Singapore) 70mins. Dir: Tan Pin Pin. Forum CinemaxX 4
The Square
(US, Egypt) 104mins. Dir: Jehane Noujaim. For a period of two years, Jehane Noujaim trained her camera on a group of different activists at Tahrir Square: Ahmed, who has nothing to lose; Magdy, who is a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood; and actor Abdallah, who seeks to document the events. Forum press CinemaxX 6
20:00 And There We Are, In The Middle
(Austria) 85mins. Dir: Sebastian Brameshuber. In 2009, Ebensee in Austria hit the headlines after teenagers disrupted a concentration camp memorial ceremony. Without direct comment, the film paints a complex picture of the town’s youth: daily life, identity formation and dwindling perspectives. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
(Switzerland) 102mins. Dir: Stefan Haupt. Cast: Marianne Sagebrecht, Anatole Taubman, Matthias Hungerbuhle. In 1950s Zurich ‘The Circle’ blossoms into an internationally renowned gay liberation community. Ernst Ostertag and Robi Rapp fight for their love, made taboo by society, with inspiring courage. Panorama Dokumente press CineStar 7
the management board at work. An institutional portrait straddling proud tradition and the economics of culture. Forum Cubix 9
If You Don’t, I Will
(France) 102mins. Dir: Sophie Fillieres. Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric. Panorama Special International
Late Autumn Free Range
(Estonia) 104mins. Dir: Veiko Ounpuu. Cast: Lauri Lagle, Jaanika Arum, Laura Peterson. A young man trying to find his way in life: torn between his dream of living for his art and the demands placed on him by everyday life, his goal is to find a state of true weightlessness. Forum Colosseum 1
The Great Museum
(Austria) 94mins. Dir: Johannes Holzhausen. A look behind the scenes of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna: curators, technicians, restorers, taxidermists, marketing strategists and
n 26 Screen International at Berlin February 10, 2014
(Japan) 129mins. Dir: Yasujiro Ozu. Cast: Setsuko Hara, Yoko Tsukasa, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada. Three middle-aged men decide to marry off the daughter of their late friend. If necessary, one of them will marry her mother first. Berlinale Classics CinemaxX 8
Someone You Love
(Denmark, Sweden) 100mins. Dir: Pernille Fischer Christensen. Cast: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Birgitte Hjort Sorensen. A world-famous but egocentric musician returns to his native Denmark where he is
(France) 108mins. Dir: Alain Resnais. Cast: Sabine Azema, Sandrine Kiberlain, Caroline Silhol. Competition Berlinale Palast
Port Of Shadows
forced to come to terms with himself, his past and his family.
Forum Delphi Filmpalast
(France) 92mins. Dir: Marcel Carne. Cast: Jean Gabin, Michele Morgan, Michel Simon. A deserter from the French army falls in love with a young girl in Le Havre, which puts him in conflict with local hoodlums.
Berlinale Special Gala press CinemaxX 5
Nymphomaniac Volume I
Retrospective Zeughauskino
The Way He Looks
(Brazil) 96mins. Dir: Daniel Ribeiro. Cast: Ghilherme Lobo, Tess Amorim, Fabio Audi. Panorama festival and press CinemaxX 7
20:15 The Rice Bomber
(Taiwan) 115mins. Dir: Cho Li. Cast: Huang Chien-wei, Nikki Hsieh, Michael Chang. Panorama CineStar 3
Unfriend
(Philippines) 93mins. Dir: Joselito Altarejos. Cast: Sandino Martin, Angelo Ilagan, Boots Anson-Roa. Panorama Cubix7 and 8
21:00
(Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden) 145mins. Dir: Lars Von Trier. Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Stacy Martin.
Top Girl Or La Deformation Professionnelle
(Turkey) 89mins. Dir: Melisa Onel. Cast: Mira Furlan, Timucin Esen, Ahmet Rifat Sungar.
(Germany) 94mins. Dir: Tatjana Turanskyj. Cast: Julia Hummer, Susanne Bredehoft, RP Kahl. The second part of the ‘Women and Work’ trilogy shows the everyday life of Helena, a frustrated actress who works as a high-class prostitute while trying to take care of her young daughter. Forum Press CinemaxX 6
Watermark
Lamento
Berlinale Special Adria
Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1
21:30 The Dark Valley
(Austria, Germany) 115mins. Dir: Andreas Prochaska. A stranger finds himself confronted with a suspecting and unwittingly
Forum Zoo Palast 2
Seaburners
See box, above
(Germany) 83mins. Dir: Jons Jonsson. Cast: Gunilla Roor, Hendrik Kraft, Bjorn Andersson.
(France) 90mins. Dir: Nadege Trebal.
Out of competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele
(Canada) 90mins. Dir: Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky.
A Long Way Down
Scrap Yard
22:00 Food Chains
(US) 82mins. Dir: Sanjay Rawal. Cast: Eric Schlosser, Eva Longoria, Dolores Huerta. Exposes the abuse in farm labour and reveals the forces behind this exploitation via the narrative of a brave group of tomato pickers in Florida. Culinary Cinema MGB-Kino
Forum CineStar 8
Standing Aside, Watching
(Greece) 90mins. Dir: Yorgos Servetas. Cast: Marina Symeou, Marianthi Pantelopoulou. On her return to the Greek town where she grew up, a young city-dweller encounters a brutalised male world where discrimination, violence and submissiveness rule the streets. Panorama CineStar IMAX
22:15 Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
(US) 76mins. Dir: Josephine Decker. Cast: Joe Swanberg, Sophie Traub, Robert Longstreet. What starts as a harmless love story gradually morphs into a dark thriller. When Akin moves to Kentucky to work on Sarah and her father’s farm, he has little idea of the turns his relationship with this strange, yet