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Pattinson joins Brimstone

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Fortissimo books return trip to Salaam Bombay!

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

Fortissimo Films has acquired world rights outside India and South Asia to the 25th anniversary edition of Mira Nair’s classic Salaam Bombay!.

Reissue rights to the critically acclaimed film were previously represented by Fortissimo for select territories, but this is the first time the remastered version will be introduced to the market and made available for the entire world.

The film, about a boy on the streets of Bombay who befriends a drug dealer and a young prostitute, won the Camera d’Or and Prix du Publique at Cannes in 1988. It also received Oscar, Golden Globe, Bafta and César nominations for best foreign-language film in 1989.

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Robert Pattinson and Carice van Houten (Black Book) have joined Mia Wasikowska and Guy Pearce in writer-director Martin Koolhoven’s thriller Brimstone, launched by Embankment at EFM. Set to shoot in May 2015, the film follows a heroine on the run from a diabolical preacher. Pattinson will play an outlaw.

The producer is Els Vandevorst of N279 Entertainment in co-production with Studio Babelsberg, The Film Farm and Prime Time.

Nik Powell and Backup Media’s Jean-Baptiste Babin and Joel Thibout are executive producers while CAA reps US rights.

Pattinson stars in Anton Corbijn’s Berlinale Gala title Life and the star is set to attend the world pre-

EFM panel: ‘Self-distribution is not a dirty word’

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

‘Know your project inside out’ was the message from a panel of industry experts to producers thinking about taking the alternative-distribution route.

Speaking on an EFM Industry Debate panel, hosted by Screen, Oscar-winning producer Gareth Ellis-Unwin, who adopted the model for war film Kajaki: The True Story in the UK, said: “Selfdistribution, direct distribution

aren’t dirty words. On the right project, it may be that you can find the right exhibitor who will take your film.”

Speaking about his Kickstarterbacked Borrowed Time, producer Olivier Kaempfer said: “In order to distribute your own film, you need these key ingredients — passion and dedication, experience and money.”

Producer Sigrid Dyekjaer encouraged delegates to take up

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distribution not only in their home market but abroad as well: “Getting the ambassadors in your own territories and then making a list of what works and what doesn’t makes it easier to do the same abroad, providing you know your film well.”

Other panellists included Robert Franke of VoD platform Viewster, who urged producers to interact with sales companies; and Cristina Garza of Mundial.

Buyers hail Taxi

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Eye widens VoD network

BY MARTIN BLANEY

The Eye on Films (EoF) network has expanded to Spain, Turkey and Chile with the creation of EoF channels on existing VoD platforms.

EoF project co-ordinator Nawid Sarem revealed that channels will now be launched in Spain (Filmin), Turkey (Salonsuz) and Chile (Ojocorto).

He also revealed that EoF’s own VoD platform, Eyeflick, will be launched by Wide and EoF in the week after the Berlinale in the US and Croatia.

Almost 50 independent titles will be available in the US and around 20 films in Croatia.

EoF is supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe.

miere tonight. He also has a role in Werner Herzog’s Golden Bear contender Queen Of The Desert, in which he plays TE Lawrence.

“Wasikowska is a powerhouse performer,” said Embankment cofounder Tim Haslam. “Guy Pearce plays a hunter who unleashes hell.

Martin directs a highly emotional, gripping and unique story of a mesmerising woman.”

Laura Linney, Ian McKellen, Milo Parker and Hiroyuki Sanada in Berlin for Bill Condon’s out of competition title Mr Holmes. See our review on page 16.

Jafar Panahi’s Golden Bear contender Taxi has secured further sales to Germany and Austria (Weltkino), Italy (Valerio De Paolis), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Sweden (Folkets Bio), Norway (Arthaus), Poland (Solopan), former Yugoslavia (I2 Films), Baltics (Must Kasi) and Colombia (Cine Colombia).

Hengameh Panahi’s Celluloid Dreams sells the film.

Magic brings Japan-Baltics debut co-pro to life Latvian film-maker Maris Martinsons will direct the first co-production between Japan and the Baltics, with Japanese actress Kaori Momoi (Memoirs Of A Geisha) heading the cast.

Due to shoot in Riga, Latvia and Kobe, Japan from August 15, Magic Kimono is co-produced by Linda

Krukle for Latvia’s KrukFilms, Eiko and Jason Gray for Japan’s Loaded Films and Sten Saluveer for Estonia’s Oree Films.

The tragi-comedy follows a Japanese woman’s efforts to open a sushi restaurant in Riga while coming to terms with the rich food culture of northern Europe and the sudden

reappearance of a long-lost husband.

The $1.5m project, which recently passed the UniJapan co-production certificate, is also backed by Latvian investor Boris Teterev.

Martinsons and Momoi worked together on Latvia-US thriller OKI: In The Middle Of The Ocean (2014).

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NEWS Life choices Dane DeHaan reveals the nerves — and second thoughts — that came playing James Dean » Page 8

REVIEW Knight Of Cups Terrence Malick’s latest is an elegant and strikingly shot film » Page 12

BREAKING NEWS Terrence Malick’s Knight Of Cups, starring Christian Bale, and the director’s upcoming untitled film, have been sold to US distributor Broad Green Pictures for $6.5m.

Beta clocks Hirschbiegel’s 13 Minutes

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Competition entry 13 Minutes continues to sell well for Beta, closing deals in Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Poland (Monolith Films) and Taiwan (Swallow Wings Films).

The US rights to the drama about Georg Elser, who failed in an elaborate attempt to assassinate Hitler, were snapped up by Sony Pictures Classics earlier in the market.

Sundance audience award winner Umrika, about a village in India that is invigorated when one of their own travels to the US, has been sold to South Korea (Focus), Israel (New Cinema) and Taiwan (Swallow Wings). Swallow Wings also picked up Romanian Competition entry Aferim! by the producer of Beta’s 2013 Golden Bear winner, Child’s Pose.

Beta has closed additional deals on Labyrinth Of Lies by Giulio Ricciarelli, which has been sold to Japan (AT Entertainment), Hungary (Pueblo Film Distribution) and Argentina (Compania Distribuidora); and to Scandinavia (Scanbox) and Mexico (Cine Video Y Television), which both also acquired Venice Days audience award winner The Farewell Party.

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Franco, Kelly’s Michael to open BFI Flare By andreaS WiSeman

James Franco drama I Am Michael, playing here in Panorama Special, is to open the London LGBT Film Festival BFI Flare (March 19-29).

Franco and Zachary Quinto star in director Justin Kelly’s drama that tells the true story of a gay activist and magazine founder who renounces his homosexuality after turning to God. Speaking to Screen, Kelly revealed his next film will also deal with questions of identity, through a real-life literary hoax.

The subject will be JT LeRoy, the US writer who wrote The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things and whose name turned out to be a pseudonym for Laura Victoria Albert. » Screen can also reveal the 59th BFI London Film Festival will run October 7-18.

Sweet deal for Sugar Film

By Jeremy Kay

More than a decade after it distributed Super Size Me, Samuel Goldwyn Films is to take another swipe at the food industry after its acquisition of US rights to Damon Gameau’s Generation and Culinary Cinema selection That Sugar Film.

Samuel Goldwyn Films VP and general counsel Ian Puente negotiated the deal with Metro International sales head Natalie Brenner.

Gameau’s film documents the impact of a high-sugar diet on a healthy body by only consuming foods that are perceived, promoted and marketed as healthy options. The film includes guest cameos from actors Stephen Fry, Brenton Thwaites and Isabel Lucas, and interviews with author Gary Taubes and scientist Kimber Stanhope. Goldwyn plans a 2015 release.

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Madman Production Company in conjunction with Sprout Pictures and Metro International.

“Damon’s film was a real eyeopener,” said Samuel Goldwyn Films SVP Peter Goldwyn. “It was a shock to see the hidden sugars in so many foods we often perceive as healthy. I hope this film reaches audiences that might not be aware of the issue and helps create a conversation about our eating habits.”

Soda to adopt Second Mother Soda Pictures has taken UK and Canadian rights to Anna Muylaert’s Berlin and Sundance title The Second Mother. The deal was confirmed by Soda MD Eve Gabereau here in Berlin.

The Match Factory handles world rights to the film, about shifting relationships in a Brazilian household.

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Bernal joins Doha’s first Qumra

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Gael Garcia Bernal has joined the list of ‘masters’ for the Doha Film Institute’s inaugural Qumra event (March 6-11).

The masters announced in December were Abderrahmane Sissako, Leila Hatami, Cristian Mungiu and Danis Tanovic.

The 31 projects from 29 countries selected for Qumra include 23 narrative features, four feature documentaries and four shorts.

There are 22 projects supported

by DFI and nine from Qatari independent film-makers.

The Qumra projects (full list at ScreenDaily.com) include the

story of women in a Gaza hair salon, a drama about two brothers in Istanbul and a documentary about a New York-based imam who is embroiled in a scandal.

Qumra, more of an industry event than a traditional festival, aims to support first and secondtime film-makers.

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Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has closed multiple territories on thriller Go With Me, starring Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta and Hal Holbrook.

Deals have closed in Spain (Corbi Media), Latin America (California Filmes), Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria (Grandview Castle), Taiwan (CMC), Middle East (Eagle), Turkey (Central Park), Israel (Shoval) and former Yugoslavia (Cinemania).

Fox acquired select Southeast Asian territories, Mnet has picked up South Africa and Entertainment in Motion will handle international airlines.

Electric and Enderby Entertainment co-finance the project, which Daniel Alfredson directs from Joe Gangemi and Gregory Jacobs’ adaptation of the book by Castle Freeman Jr.

Belgium’s Lunanime is to make its third feature with French animation powerhouse Folimage.

The pair first collaborated on international box-office hit A Cat In Paris (2010) and are in postproduction on a second feature, Phantom Boy.

At EFM, Lunanime’s Annemie Degryse confirmed to Screen the two companies will be working on a third project, Tulip.

Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, who directed the first two productions, will return to make the new film in the same hand-drawn animated style.

aCC scares up found footage

By Liz ShaCkLeTon

Arab Cinema Center (ACC) is screening Egypt’s first foundfootage horror film, Hadi El Bagoury’s Warda, at EFM tomorrow.

Produced by Egypt’s Film Clinic and The Producers, the film follows a video blogger investigating the strange happenings that have disturbed his family since his father’s death. Film Clinic founder Mohamed Hefzy scripted and Aroma Pictures co-produced.

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ing ACC, held test screenings before its release, a rare move in the Middle East, after which the film-makers adjusted the final cut. The film went on to break non-holiday season box-office records in Egypt on its November release.

ACC is also introducing three Egyptian projects that are in production: The Producers’ Hepta; X-Rated’s omnibus Cairo, Visions Of Love; and Middle West Films’ Kiss Me Not.

Lumiere International Sales will handle deals together with Paris-based Doc & Film International.

Speaking about the upcoming Phantom Boy, Degryse said there were plans to synchronise the release in multiple European territories in October.

Sarajevo co-pro fund goes live

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The revamped Sarajevo City of Film Fund’s co-production support scheme has gone fully operational after launching under the auspices of Sarajevo Film Festival last August.

The festival’s creative director, Izeta Gradevic, will preside over the fund’s selection board and head of industry Jovan Marjanovic will be executive director.

Doc&film flies to Gaza Doc&Film International is to handle international sales for Samouni Road, a Gaza-set docu-drama hybrid featuring animation scenes, to be directed

by Stefano Savona.

The only Italian project at this year’s Berlinale Co-Production Market will see Savona’s Francebased production outfit Picofilms reunite with Italybased Dugong, following the documentary Tahrir: Liberation Square (2011).

Samouni Road is the true story of a family who survived 60 years of war and occupation on their family land in Gaza until 29 members were killed during the 2009 Israeli offensive.

The animated world being created by Simone Massi and his team will make up around half of the film, according to Savona.

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OUT OF THE FOREST (FORUM SPECIAL)

US actor Dane DeHaan has said the challenge of portraying icon James Dean filled him with nerves.

“I was hesitant to do the project because I held him in such high regard,” the star told Screen about portraying Dean in Anton Corbijn’s Life, which receives its world premiere here in Berlin tonight “I felt a lot of pressure and initially questioned whether it should be done.”

DeHaan had long been a Dean devotee: “I’ve had a poster of him in my room

since I was at college and at acting school my teachers told us to watch his films and study his performances.”

Corbijn’s drama charts the relationship between LIFE magazine photographer Dennis Stock (Robert Pattinson) and Dean, after the former is assigned to shoot pictures of the famously camera-shy star.

Corbijn’s drama goes beyond traditional biopic, however, said DeHaan.

“This film isn’t about James Dean the icon, it’s about how a human being

is turned into an icon and how that impacts on a person. The film is about two artists with very different approaches — Stock was driven by his anxiety and fears, Dean was more chilled. The business almost suffocates Dean whereas the business propels Stock,” he said.

FilmNation represents international sales on Life, which has its world premiere tonight.

Next up for DeHaan is indie drama Two Lovers And A Bear from Kim Nguyen (War Witch).

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FilmSharks has struck further deals on Benedikt Erlingsson’s 2014 Icelandic Oscar submission Of Horses And Men. Amstel Film has acquired rights for Benelux while CEO Guido Rud is in talks with a major

broadcaster for Latin America pay-TV. Previous deals saw rights go to North America (Music Box), Australia and New Zealand (Umbrella), Germany (NDF) and Austria (Polyfilm).

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Truenorth pitches Others

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Truenorth, the Icelandic production company that has worked on major US shoots such as Darren Aronofsky’s Noah and the Wachowskis’ upcoming Netflix series Sense8, is gearing up for its first in-house production this summer.

The $1.5m project, Oskar Jonasson’s In Front Of Others, is being pitched at Berlin’s Co-Production Market.

Denmark’s Nepenthe is attached as co-producer and German partners are also showing interest.

Jonasson (Reykjavik-Rotterdam) co-writes the romantic comedy with playwright Kristjan Thordur Hrafnsson, about a shy guy who tries to impress a woman with a clever impersonation of his boss, which spirals out of control.

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EFP’S SHOOTING STARS 2015 HERA HILMAR ICELAND What inspired you to become an actor?

I have a film and theatreoriented family. My dad is a film director and my mum is an actress.

What was your big break?

A high-school play when I was 16. Film director Gudny Halldorsdottir saw it and offered me the lead in her film

The Quiet Storm, which was a game changer.

What’s next?

The third season of Da Vinci’s Demons is coming out in March and a film called Summer Children later this year. I’m prepping for a couple of films that are both in the very early stages.

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A French youth with a dark past takes refuge in a Brooklyn underground cabaret bar, becoming immersed in its eccentric, liberating world of outcasts.

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Werner Herzog’s Berlin Competition entry Queen Of The Desert, about British writer, archaeologist and explorer Gertrude Bell, proved a novel experience for the iconic director.

“I didn’t know Gertrude Bell before a friend of mine told me about her,” the German director told Screen. “I knew within 20 minutes of sifting through her letters that this subject was so big… The biggest challenge was to condense the life of a person of such complexity.”

Herzog related to Bell, who seemingly felt most comfortable among the

Bedouin desert community: “Yes, to some degree there is a distant echo of her in me but there’s also a distant echo in me of Fitzcarraldo and other characters.”

The film is one of the director’s first narrative features to focus on a female lead. “It never occurred to me that this was a first narrative feature about a woman. But in fact I have made a number of documentaries about very strong female characters.”

Herzog first played in Berlin’s Competition in 1968 with his first ever feature film Signs Of Life. “The Berlinale refused so many

Devilworks is out for Blood Sales outfit Devilworks is at EFM with vampire thriller Blood Ransom, starring Filipina-Australian actress Anne Curtis, and horror Afterimages, which shot in 4K. The latter is paired with a graphic novel and an app that complements the film.

In Blood Ransom, Curtis plays a recently turned vampire who must fight her urges and save the man she loves.

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Beef thinks he’s the strongest man in the world. But when his precious golden BMX bike is stolen, he must battle demons and find his spirit animal to recover it.

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of my films — Aguirre, The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser and others. They didn’t want my films. Now, since Dieter Kosslick, I am all of a sudden back in Competition,” he said, smiling.

The director also mentioned the premiere of Queen Of The Desert was briefly interrupted by an anti-Islam heckler. “I took this [the heckler] as something significant. There are too many people out there with Islamophobic views.

It’s good that I made this film and could show the dignity and beauty and poetry of the Bedouins and their respect for Islam.”

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EFP’S SHOOTING STARS 2015 MOE DUNFORD IRELAND What was your big break?

Terry McMahon’s Patrick’s Day. It was my first lead and a chance to dive into a role I was very passionate about.

Which director would you like to work with?

Nicolas Winding Refn, because of what his

characters come up against in his movies.

What are you working on next?

It’s back to season four of Vikings in April and I’m excited to work with Terry on his next project, The Dancehall Bitch, a dark prison movie.

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Knight Of Cups Reviewed by Mark Adams A tormented hero searching for meaning in life, accompanied by a meandering voiceover, stunning visuals and more than a hint of existential crisis and pondering of one’s place in the universe. Yes indeed — welcome to that now familiar refrain of a Terrence Malick film and this time one grounded in that most surreal of real worlds, a chunk of Santa Monica peopled by movie stars, models and other members of the ‘beautiful’ Hollywood elite.

It is an elegant film that revels in a series of wonderfully shot locations — from beaches to deserts and from hedonistic parties through to intimate encounters — and will likely enrapture fans of Malick’s very individual style. An inordinately good-looking cast, most of whom are dressed in the coolest of designer labels, will help marketing impact and while this time round the story is pretty easy to follow it may annoy some with its rather casual sexism (no chance is missed to film a perfectly formed female derriere).

The title Knight Of Cups stems from a tarotcard character and — in the film at least — a Chaucerian-style story about a young prince sent by his father to find a pearl, but who

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COMPETITION US. 2015. 118mins Director/screenplay Terrence Malick Production companies Tugg, Brace Cove, Waypoint Entertainment International sales FilmNation Entertainment, info@wearefilmnation.com Producers Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Ken Kao Executive producers Glen Basner, Tanner Beard Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki Editors Geoffrey Richman, Keith Fraase, AJ Edwards Production designer Jack Fisk Music Hanan Townshend Main cast Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Brian Dennehy, Wes Bentley, Freida Pinto, Imogen Poots, Antonio Banderas, Teresa Palmer, Isabel Lucas

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becomes distracted from his quest, forgets who he is and falls into a deep sleep.

The prince here is Armani-suited Hollywood comedy screenwriter Rick (Christian Bale) — though he does not seem a guy blessed with a capacity for laughs — who longs for something, without knowing quite what it is or how to find it, and despite wealth, looks and success does not quite know which way to turn. The Knight of Cups is an artist, a romantic and an adventurer, but also a tormented soul searching for meaning.

Perhaps Santa Monica is the wrong place for a search for meaning, but this Knight finds solace, distraction and hints about how he should and could embark on a new direction in his encounters with a series of alluring women. These loving and loyal souls include flighty Della (Imogen Poots); doctor Nancy (Cate Blanchett), to who he was once married; mannered model Helen (Freida Pinto); married woman Elizabeth (Natalie Portman); stripper Karen (Teresa Palmer) and Isabel (Isabel Lucas) a young woman who may ultimately show him the way.

His quest for spiritual — and presumably sexual — enlightenment is juxtaposed by scenes that dwell on his troubled relationship with his father (Brian Dennehy) and brother (Wes Bentley), with all three haunted by the death of other brother Billy.

In a now familiar style from many of his pre-

vious films, Malick’s camera glides around the haunted hero, as scenes are intercut with striking visuals — ranging from views of the Earth from space and desert mountain ranges through to underwater shots of a dog swimming in a pool — all set alongside an internal monologue by Rick. The character has very little actual dialogue — much of what passes for script happens in the background to the images — and while the largely unsmiling lead gives the film a serious edge, it is the women he meets who offer life, personality and the hope of direction.

Thin, beautiful and often sporting wispy and expensively elegant clothes, the women here are less formal personalities than chapter breaks to push on this ‘Knight’ and his search for spiritual fulfilment. There is a niggling notion they are often shot for sex appeal, which is a shame. It is a bold and ambitious film — some may say pretentious — packed with striking visual moments that shows Los Angeles off to great effect. Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki is at his very best.

There is also plenty of jumping into swimming pools and/or the ocean fully garbed. Perhaps Armani is coming up with a new waterproof suit that needs to be promoted…

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The Pearl Button Reviewed by Lee Marshall

Diary of A chambermaid Reviewed by Dan Fainaru

COMPETITION

Following film masters such as Renoir and Bunuel is never an easy task, and short of coming up with a powerful new approach to Octave Mirbeau’s novel, written around the turn of the 19th century, it could be argued there is no sense in going back to it once again. But Benoit Jacquot does just that, claiming his new version is closer to the novel than its two previous adaptations.

This may well be the case, but this version fails to breathe new life into the character of Célestine (Léa Seydoux), whose point of view documents to a great extent the end of an era, and has nothing significant to offer our age that has not been mentioned before countless times.

Unlike Bunuel’s 1964 sexually acerbic Jeanne Moreaustarrer and Renoir’s earlier, Hollywood-made, romantic 1946 version with Paulette Goddard — both self-sustained, coherent adaptations that fit the point of view of each director — Jacquot’s script (written with Hélene Zimmer) of Diary Of A Chambermaid (Journal d’Une Femme De Chambre) offers no new insights, while his direction stumbles decoratively over a collection of cardboard characters bound to leave most present-day audiences indifferent.

An independent, elegantly attired, strong-willed young woman, Célestine’s services as a chambermaid are in great demand despite her spunky conduct. Jacquot’s script starts with her unenthusiastically accepting a position with the Lanlaire household. M. Lanlaire (Hervé Pierre) is a lecherous bore who she can handle, but Mme Lanlaire (Clotilde Mollet) is a tyrannical shrew who mistreats her servants, and Célestine in particular, with a vengeance. Luckily, there is the gardener (Vincent Lindon), a strong, silent type and just the kind to induce sexual fantasies in the minds of every full-bodied woman.

At least this is how it works in the movies.

Seydoux never manages to assemble all of Célestine’s various facets into one convincing character, while the social, sexual and political nuances in the script are wellestablished clichés. That includes the pronounced French anti-Semitism that Jacquot singles out in his press book, which had already played an important part in Bunuel’s 1964 version.

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COMPETITION

Like Patricio Guzman’s documentary Nostalgia For The Light, The Pearl Button (El Boton De Nacar) uses a Chilean location as the springboard for an exploration of a cluster of mysteries: some of them, like the Pinochet regime’s Desaparecidos, man-made; others cosmic, like the distant galaxies that are monitored from giant radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert — the setting for Nostalgia.

Though these are glimpsed at the beginning of his new film, it is a different area of his country that interests Guzman this time round: the vast watery expanse of the Patagonian Archipelago. Applying the same mix of lyrical nature and space imagery, voiceover narration, interviews and archive footage, the director crafts another poetic but also committedly, at times even angrily, humanist meditation on buried traces of the past and how they determine our present and future as a race and as a civil society.

Over shots of a 3,000-year-old block of quartz that still has a water drop imprisoned in it, Guzman’s languid, gentle voiceover introduces the Patagonian location and the documentary’s central theme: water. Edited so as to move from the cosmos to recent history and back again, Guzman begins at his most lyrical, setting the Patagonian scene and atmosphere with a mix of ravishing shots of glaciers, meditations on his childhood and crisply recorded sounds of cracking ice and rain.

Next, we learn about the five native tribes that lived in this inhospitable land of water, rock and ice — all but exterminated first by European colonists, later by Chilean settlers. Interviews with a historian, a poet and three of the surviving Fuegian natives fill in the background.

For Guzman, the Allende and Pinochet years are something of a core interest, but when the inevitable connection arrives, the tone is more elegiac than polemical.

It is a button that bridges the gap between the genocide of the Patagonian natives and the estimated 1,200 to 1,400 political prisoners who were thrown into these icy seas by Chilean navy helicopters. The story involves a Patagonian native called Jemmy Button who was taken back to England in 1830 by the captain of the HMS Beagle, and a section of rail track discovered on the sea bed, which had been tied to the body of one of the Pinochet regime’s torture victims.

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Mr Holmes Reviewed by Mark Adams A beautifully mannered, gently moving and eminently thoughtful film that offers a delightful final twist on the story of the world’s most famous detective, Bill Condon’s Mr Holmes is an entertaining and absorbing film that interweaves several story strands and comes up with an enthralling portrait of a man whose powers may be fading but who still searches for answers. It also allows Ian McKellen a wonderfully nuanced role that is perfect for his lugubrious style and innate intelligence.

The film sees McKellen reunited with Condon after their Oscar-winning 1998 film Gods And Monsters — a fictional tale that also dealt with ageing and a man (Frankenstein director James Whale) at the end of his days — and it is clear there is a shared trust in how to present Holmes.

Some myths are punctured — no pipe or deerstalker here, and apparently 221b Baker Street was also an invention of Dr Watson — while the old support cast of Watson, Mycroft Holmes and Mrs Watson play little part in this story of a 93-year-old Holmes tackling long-supressed emotions as his mental powers dwindle.

The film opens post Second World War, with

OUT OF COMPETITION US. 2015. 103mins Director Bill Condon Production companies AI Film, Archer Gray Productions, See-Saw Films, BBC Films International sales FilmNation, www. wearefilmnation.com Producers Anne Carey, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman Screenplay Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the novel A Slight Trick Of The Mind by Mitch Cullin Cinematography Tobias Schliessler Production designer Martin Childs Music Carter Burwell Main cast Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hattie Morahan, Roger Allam

Holmes returning from Japan where he has been in search of a rare plant named Prickly Ash, which is rumoured to have restorative qualities he hopes can help his fading memory. He spends his days tending bees with his only company his housekeeper (Laura Linney) and her young son, Roger (Milo Parker), but starts to challenge himself to recall the real aspects of his final case.

At heart Mr Holmes is about identity and morality, with the central strand the rather tender relationship between the fading detective and Roger, who encourages him to piece together the aspects of his long-forgotten case.

Parker’s Roger makes for a feisty balance to the doddery Holmes, while Linney exudes practical charm as the housekeeper at her wits’ end trying to deal with the eccentric detective.

Flashbacks to 1919 as Holmes investigates the mystery of a woman who may be plotting murder allows McKellen to play a Holmes still brimming with sharp wit and energy, but the heart and soul of the story is with the older version desperately trying to reconnect with lost recollections and at last facing his mistakes.

In one delightful sequence he goes to the cinema to see a film adaptation of one of Watson’s stories, just to see how he is presented on screen — deerstalker and hat intact — with, in a clever bit of casting, the onscreen Holmes played by Nicholas Rowe, who played the teenage Holmes in Barry Levinson’s 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes.

Gentle fun and astute insight define Mr Holmes — a fine addition to the list of stories about the great detective.

Dora Or The Sexual Neuroses Of Our Parents Reviewed by Jonathan Romney A young woman with learning difficulties falls pregnant after embarking on a sexual relationship with an abusive seducer… It would take a film-maker of outstanding subtlety, or a fearless provocateur, to make the most of this premise.

Unfortunately, writer-director Stina Werenfels does not remotely succeed in Dora Or The Sexual Neuroses Of Our Parents (Dora Oder Die Sexuellen Neurosen Unserer Eltern), a film that contrives to be at once well-meaning, half-baked and by the end, ill-judged, as the melodrama cranks up from the uncomfortable to the absurd.

Based on a play by Lukas Bärfuss, and featuring a spirited but unavoidably problematic lead performance by newcomer Victoria Schulz, Dora may provide ample fodder for festival discussions focused on disability and sexuality, but has slim commercial prospects.

Werenfels’ follow-up to her 2006 feature Going Private is about 18-year-old Dora (Schulz), who has learning difficulties and lives with her middle-class parents, party caterer Kristin (Schily) and maths professor Felix (Jucker). Despite the subtitle, mum and dad do not seem to suffer from sexual neuroses, only an understandable discomfort around their daughter, as her sexual curiosity starts to erupt.

Dora bursts in on their love-making, attempts to give Dad a passionate kiss and, in a scene that yields unintentional farce, masturbates in the

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bath while embarrassed mum reads her a fairy tale. One day Dora follows a young man, Peter (Eidinger), into a subway toilet and finds herself having sex with him. It seems to be straightforward rape, but she then starts a long-term liaison with him, leading to pregnancy.

Werenfels has stated that she is interested in questions of taboo surrounding disability and sexuality, but the film is never dispassionate enough to engage us productively in these issues. At the start, the film elicits our sympathies for Dora’s loving but over-stretched parents, while skewing the film very much to their daughter’s perception of the world.

It all comes unstuck with the arrival of Peter, a contemptuous dandy who might as well be

swinging a forked tail. A black-suited flaneur, he openly uses Dora for sex. Even he, however, has second thoughts about the three-way he has arranged with Dora and a sleazy friend — a scene that might just have been pulled off by Ulrich Seidl, but is deeply awkward here. The film ends on a risible note as Kristin gets in touch with her own libido at an upmarket sex party.

The acting is creditable all round, with Eidinger even contriving to tone down Peter’s fire-and-brimstone factor to manageable levels, while Schily and Jucker agonise with commendable delicacy. Dora could have used a sharper edge to truly challenge viewer preconceptions, but its soft-centred earnestness makes it more a social case study than an effective drama.

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Hedi Schneider Is Stuck Reviewed by Lee marshall Not just a German comedy; a German comedy about depression. Sonja Heiss’s delicate, funny, surprising second feature navigates the same waters as edgy comedy dramas such as 50/50 or Declaration Of War, but it is less formulaic than the former and less manic than the latter.

The intriguing tonal jolts of the first act settle down by the end to something a little more conventional; but superlative performances from the two leads and an intriguing switchback game of sympathies keep our attention, and the film’s resolute avoidance of melodrama is refreshing given the subject.

Its unclassifiable, curio status will perhaps limit the film’s prospects outside of Germany, where it will be released by Pandora, but the Norwegian co-production could open some doors in Nordic territories and one or two adventurous distributors elsewhere may be persuaded to take a punt on what is, apart from anything else, a well-made package, down to the soundtrack by, among others, Berlin-based pianist Lambert.

Jaunty vibraphone music plays and even jauntier credits roll as we first meet happy-golucky Hedi (Laura Tonke) riding to work on her bike; at this point, if the film had not premiered in the edgy Forum sidebar at Berlin, we would be bracing for canned laughter. Hedi is clearly a bit of a flake, so it is no surprise when she gets

The Gulls Reviewed by Carmen Gray An attractively lensed but fairly bloodless portrait of hard-up existence with few options, Ella Manzheeva’s feature debut The Gulls (Chaiki) is set against the snowy, sparse expanses of the Republic of Kalmykia in Russia’s Volga region. The film’s themes of corruption and desperation in the country’s far reaches, and yearning to escape to the city, are well-trammelled in recent Russian cinema, and its blend of folk legend, ethnography and mysticism are not as evocative as a film such as Aleksei Fedorchenko’s Silent Souls. But its selling point as a rare film from Kalmykia should see it well-served with festival slots, even if it evades wider distribution Elza is the wife of a fisherman in a village by the Caspian Sea — the misty waterways of which are shot to seem as eerie and mysterious as they are picturesque. In voiceover she recalls the folk legend that a fisherman only returns if a woman waits faithfully for him, and that seagulls are the souls of the missing. It is a heavily patriarchal world in which a woman’s role is defined in relation to the man she serves,

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stuck in the lift at work — and tries to get the life story of the service guy over the intercom — or has Tati-esque problems with partition walls and photocopiers. But we soon see that at home, she is a caring mother to post-toddler Finn (Leander Nitsche) and a loving wife to hubby Uli (Hans Löw). However, the hyper edge we had already detected soon spills over into a serious panic attack, just when the couple are making love. Before long the fizz has gone out of Hedi, the panic has turned to depression, and the comedy of the intro has deflated into something darker — without ever quite abandoning a healthy sense of the absurd.

Tonke is excellent as a woman felled by an ailment she never saw coming, and the script explores issues often sidestepped in films about

the black dog of depression — such as the selfishness, or perceived selfishness, of the sufferer.

On the fringes of the story at first, the slightly stand-offish Uli is gradually fleshed out: a speaking signer, he works as an assistant with the deaf, but had been planning to move to Gambia with the whole family to work for an NGO. The graceful photography of cinematographer Nikolai von Graevenitz, whose credits include Miranda July’s The Future, continues to find beauty and light in the darkest moments, but also suggests the disjunct between ‘normal’ and ‘depressed’ vision — something also driven home by sound design (heightened traffic noises, or none at all), costumes and a continual play on windows, apertures, cages and aquariums.

enforced by such mythology and the close-knit web of attentive in-laws that uphold it.

Elza packs her case to leave while her husband is out on the boat, but has second thoughts at the bus stop — a small and solitary waiting-bench against the vast, snow-covered expanse of the unknown. With an expressionless stoicism that gives away little of her inner world, Elza tends to her brusquely taciturn husband’s demands, serving food for him and his

fishing buddies who press her to retire to her room while they drink vodka.

Aside from a rather incongruous scene that shows her as a piano teacher, her life offers little in personal fulfilment. Secretly smoking against her husband’s wishes and other rebellions show that she is still reluctant to accept a life so prescribed. When her husband and his two companions disappear at sea, Elza is eyed suspiciously as a possible talisman of bad fortune by her relatives.

Evgeniya Mandzhieva, a successful fashion model from Kalmykia in her debut performance, appears somewhat miscast and out of her depth as Elza. While understated reserve may be typical of the Kalmyk people, she fails to bring any inner fire or urgency.

The film alternates between Russian and the Kalmyk language, and its role as ethnographic record was clearly considered an important one — understandable given that Stalin’s repressions left the language and culture under serious threat of extinction. As well as making the most of the natural landscape, the film is shot elegantly with frames that close off space using curtains and doorways — a technique that works to emphasise the protagonist’s confined state but at times feels stiffly composed and schematic.

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The kids stay in the picture A new fund will foster co-productions from Netherlands and Germany in the growing market for children’s films. Geoffrey Macnab reports

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ere at the Berlinale on Saturday, Netherlands and Germany signed their long-awaited coproduction treaty. The countries have also announced another joint venture, the Dutch-German children’s films co-development fund, a cross-border initiative aimed at supporting children’s and youth films.

Netherlands Film Fund is launching it with German partner Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM).

Doreen Boonekamp, director of Netherlands Film Fund, points out the Dutch and Germans share expertise in making movies for young people. “For the Netherlands, it is a strong asset to our industry. We want to maintain it,” she says.

One key reason why local films consistently achieve a 20% market share in Netherlands is that audiences come in huge numbers to see children’s movies made by companies such as BosBros and Lemming Tony 10 Film. Cool Kids

Don’t Cry, Winky’s Horse, Winter In Wartime, Miss Minoes, Kauwboy and Fuchsia The Mini-Witch are just some of the boxoffice hits of recent years. Other countries have long cast envious glances at the Dutch children’s film sector.

So why is the territory so good at making children’s movies? It helps that the industry takes children’s cinema seriously and that funders are keen to provide an alternative to the Hollywood fare that dominates so many other markets.

Dutch children’s movies are also surprisingly grown-up, and the film-makers know never to patronise their audience.

“It’s not only fun, they talk about real life,” Boonekamp says.

It is frustrating, though, that these Dutch children’s pictures rarely perform so well abroad. That is why co-producing is so important.

“We’re a small country. If we produce films, we’re looking for ways to get these films across borders,” Boonekamp says. For obvious rea-

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sons, films that are developed and produced with international partners have a much better chance of travelling.

Germany, with its thriving children’s movie sector, is a natural partner. Manfred Schmidt, executive director at MDM, says: “Children’s films especially have always played a major role within MDM’s funding programme as our region is a centre for children’s media in Germany.

“At the same time, Netherlands is one of the strongest markets for children’s films, both in terms of content and production in Europe. With the fund, we want to foster collaboration between Dutch and German film professionals in joint efforts to develop exciting children’s film stories — or stories that will find their audience in both countries and beyond.”

Early investment Generally, when the Dutch and Germans co-produce, their partnership on any given film will begin late in the process, with a script already in place and a financing plan drawn up. What is unusual about the new fund is that it targets projects at their very inception.

Manfred Schmidt

Netherlands Film Fund and MDM are investing an initial $57,000 (¤50,000) each in the scheme this year (it is envisaged other funds may join the scheme at a later stage). The first application deadline is April 14 and producers are invited to apply for funding for individual projects.

“Projects can come at different stages,” Boonekamp points out. “Producers can apply [for funds] for treatments or for the rewriting of a script. They can ask for normal script funding. They can also apply for script coaching or for a co-writer.”

The Dutch and Germans already have a history of working well together.

“Being direct neighbours, Netherlands and Germany have always had close relationships in many fields,” Schmidt says.

“Our collaboration is based on long-term experience, which results from quite a high number of co-productions.”

MDM alone has supported approximately 15 Netherlands-Germany co-productions — either majority or minority — over the past decade.

Recent co-productions on children’s movies include Supernova from Tamar van den Dop, produced by Revolver Amsterdam (Netherlands) in co-production with IJswater Films (Netherlands) and co-producers Coin Film (Germany) and Epidemic (Belgium); Tony 10, directed by Mischa Kamp and produced

by Lemming Film (Netherlands), with German co-producer Heino Deckert; and Lepel, directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen and produced by Lemming Film (Netherlands), with Germany’s Egoli Tossell Films as co-producer.

As Schmidt points out, despite “all national differences in film taste, there are similar ways to create high-quality films that can perform well in both couns tries”. ■

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114mins. Dir: Atsushi Funahashi. Cast: Einwohner der Stadt Futaba, Fukushima, Bewohner der Region Futaba, Katsutaka Idogawa, Shiro Izawa, Masami Yoshizawa.

Following ‘Nuclear Nation’, which showed the events in the immediate aftermath of the disaster in Fukushima, this sequel documents the village of Futaba’s dogged fight against being forgotten as well as the unceasing nuclear threat.

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(UK) FilmNation Entertainment. 103mins.

Dir: Bill Condon.

Cast: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada.

In the country house where he has secluded himself, the venerable detective Sherlock Holmes is pursued by old cases.

A film about truth and legend, age and memory and the chance to

(US) The Exchange.

100mins. Dir: Justin Kelly. Cast: James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts.

A sensitive portrayal of the unusual transformation of gay activist Michael Glatze, who resumes the struggle for his sexual identity with dogged selfreflection and meditative contemplation.

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(US) Wide. 103mins.

Dir: Brian Perkins. Cast: Shine Htet Zaw, Ko Yin Saw Ri, Ko Yin Than Maung.

They are just children but they are already monks. Every day, four

10:00 anTboy: revenGe oF The red Fury

(Denmark, Germany) Attraction Distribution.

84mins. Dir: Ask Hasselbalch. Cast: Oscar Dietz, Samuel Ting Graf, Amalie Kruse Jensen.

Pelle is a little boy and a superhero known as Antboy who fights for justice and stands up to all evil. His adversaries include the terror-twins, his powerful arch enemy Flea and a mysterious new opponent.

But he is also in love.

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The GreaTeST houSe in The World

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

The most exciting day in Rocio’s life. The Mayan girl’s mother has gone

boys pray and meditate before a golden Buddha in a remote monastery in Myanmar where an old monk cares for them. One day, the old man has to leave, and strange things begin to happen.

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into labour and now she must bring the sheep down from the mountains alone, though she is really too young for the job. When she loses the herd she manages to rise above herself.

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(US) Lionsgate. 122mins.

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

Biographical film about Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys traces early psychological wounds and the insoluble union between body and soul. A journey through America from the 1960s to the 1980s. berlinale Special Gala haus der berliner Festspiele

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(Germany) 94mins.

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– a former guerilla fighter and flower grower, and the current president of Uruguay. He’s known for being the world’s poorest president and one of the most charismatic politicians in Latin America. lolA at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2

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

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

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Indonesia) M-Appeal.

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

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

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(Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) Beta Cinema.

89mins. Dir: Sacha Polak. Cast: Wende Snijders, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Barry Atsma. forum CineStar 8

Wide. 95mins. Dir: Sanna Lenken. Cast: Rebecka Josephson, Amy Deasismont, Annika Hallin, Henrik Norlen.

Stella’s older sister is suffering from a lifethreatening eating disorder. When Stella discovers this, she is sworn to secrecy. That is far too big a burden of responsibility for a girl of her age.

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(Philippines) 140mins.

Dir: Kidlat Tahimik.

Cast: Kidlat Tahimik, George Steinberg, Kawayan de Guia, Wigs Tysman, Katrin de Guia.

Shot over 35 years on a range of formats, this epic film is the story of Enrique of Malacca, slave of Ferdinand Magellan and the first man to circumnavigate the globe. forum Press only Cinemaxx 6

12:00 B-movIE: luSt & SouNd IN WESt-BERlIN

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

A declaration of love, a record, and a re-encounter with West Berlin in about 1980 for all those who were part of it, and an eye-opener for every newcomer.

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(US) FilmNation Entertainment. 118mins.

Dir: Terrence Malick.

Cast: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman.

In a symphonic stream of heady images, Terrence Malick tackles philosophical questions of existence. A man lost in the superficial world

of success struggles with life’s elementary forces: a new branch of ‘The Tree of Life’.

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(Germany) 84mins. Dir: Carlo Zoratti.

Twenty-nine-year-old Enea is looking for love – physical love that is. But being autistic and living in Italy makes this anything but easy. So he and his two best friends Carlo and Alex set out on a journey through Europe. lolA at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2

12:15 AS WE WERE dREAmING

(Germany, France) The Match Factory. 117mins.

Dir: Andreas Dresen.

Cast: Merlin Rose, Julius Nitschkoff, Marcel Heuperman.

A gang of boys in Leipzig just after the collapse

of East Germany and their nightly adventures revolving around the boxing club, disco and juvenile prison. An authentic parable about friendship and betrayal, hope and illusion, brutality and tenderness.

Competition Press only Berlinale Palast

12:30 AftER WoRk

(Germany) 71mins. Dir: Janina Herhoffer.

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

By observing different recreational pursuits in a series of sustained shots, this documentary raises the question of how free our free time really is. forum kino Arsenal 1

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(Brazil) MK2. 105mins.

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In Walter Salles’s tribute to his Chinese colleague Jia Zhang-ke, he accompanies him as he retraces his cinematic career.

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13:00 1992

(Italy) Beta Film.

103mins. Dir: Giuseppe Gagliardi. Cast: Stefano Accorsi, Guido Caprino, Domenico Diele, Miriam Leone, Tea Falco, Alessandro Roja.

Drama that revolves around six ordinary people whose lives are intertwined with the political and societal earthquake that swept away Italy’s post-war political establishment. berlinale Special Series haus der berliner Festspiele

AFriCAn Queen

(UK, US) 105mins.

Dir: Huston John.

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, Robert Morley.

At the start of the First World War, a prim spinster and an alcoholic river boat skipper in Africa hatch a plan to sink a German gunboat.

Digitally restored version. retrospective CinemaxX 8

i remember

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

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

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(US) Versatile. 100mins.

Dir: Sebastian Silva.

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

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

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

(China) Laurel Films International. 103mins.

Dir: Li Ruijun. Cast: Tang Long, Guo Songtao, Bai Wenxin, Guo Jianmin.

The two brothers have long since forgotten what normal life is like.

Constantly worried about their mother, they spend most of their time trying to save her from herself.

Their hopeless situation leads to a fateful deed.

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the SPiDerWebhouSe the PeArl button

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

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

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

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

The true story of three children who were abandoned by their single-parent mother. For months, a 12-year-old boy took over the role of

head of the family — and nobody even noticed.

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13:30 the ForbiDDen room

(Canada) Mongrel International. 130mins.

Dir: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson. Cast: Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Celine Bonnier.

This fictional reconstruction of a selection of lost silent films links together their adventurous plots in playful and amusing fashion.

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

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

Uli, Hedi and Finn

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

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14:00 An ACtor’S revenge

(Japan) Kadokawa Corporation. 114mins.

Dir: Kon Ichikawa.

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao.

In Ichikawa’s capable hands, this remake of a 1935 film, a story set in the 19th Kabuki milieu, becomes a widescreen visual spectacle whose soundtrack oscillates between traditional music and suggestive jazz.

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Dir: Sacha Polak Prod: Viking Film Sales: Beta Cinema (feature, 89’) 11:00 CineStar 8

(Netherlands, Belgium) Mountain Road Entertainment Group.

94mins. Dir: Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab. Cast: Hendrikje Nieuwerf, Suzan Boogaerdt, Steven van Watermeulen.

Katelijn is one of seven children in a family that abides by the strict rules of a Protestant community.

The devil apparently lurks everywhere – in music, books and even fairytales. Katelijn’s parents are stern and she dreams of getting away.

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Divine LoCation — a City reinvents itseLf

(Germany) 99mins. Dir: Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken.

In the middle of one of the largest industrial areas in Europe, the Ruhr region, a beautiful, artificial lake with a luxurious residential area has been developed – marina and piazza included.

Festival & Press 14:00 tHe summer of sanGaiLe

(Lithuania, France, Netherlands) Films Distribution. 88mins.

Dir: Alante Kavaite. Cast: Julija Steponaityte, Aiste Dirziute, Jurate Sodyte.

A tale of two teenagers in love: their intimacy, their passionate devotion and delicate collisions; their vulnerability and sense of trust.

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Dir: Marjoleine Boonstra Prod: Volya Films Sales: UDI (feature, 83’) 11:15 CinemaxX 18 (efm)

tHe summer of sanGaiLe Gone witH tHe river

(Venezuela) 104mins.

Dir: Mario Crespo. Cast: Yordana Medrano, Eddie Gomez, Diego Armando Salazar.

A Warao love story on the delta of the Orinoco.

Supported by her family and teachers, Dauna has ambitions beyond what tradition dictates and feels suffocated by the role she must play as a woman bound to tend to her husband, crops and fire. native — indigenous Cinema Cubix 7

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Dir: Simone van Dusseldorp Prod: Family Affair Films Sales: Attraction Distribution (feature, 81’) 11:30 Marriott 1 (efm)

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(Germany) Deutsche Filmund Fernsehakademie Berlin. 81mins. Dir: Moritz Kramer. Cast: Ceci Chuh, Niels Braun, Monika Wiedemer, Jurgen Lehmann, Lena Drieschner.

Hanna travels deep into the Black Forest to complete her community service on a farm. The farmer is bankrupt but Hanna’s interests clearly lie elsewhere.

With obsessive energy she tries to get close to a family with a foster child.

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(Austria) 91mins. Dir: Peter Kern. Cast: Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder, Heinz Trixner.

An attractive company executive who has everything and controls even more hires a hit man to bump off her granddad. When she unexpectedly falls in love with his female carer her happiness seems complete.

But things are more complex than they first appear.

Entertainment. 103mins.

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

Competition (out of competition) friedrichstadt-Palast

osKar DawiCKi in tHe Performer

Panorama special Cubix 9

(Poland) 62mins. Dir: Lukasz Ronduda, Maciej Sobieszczanski. Cast: Oskar Dawicki, Agata Buzek, Zbigniew Warpechowski.

An insight into the contemporary art world, based on the life of performance artist Oskar Dawicki who is playing himself.

tHe new man

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(Uruguay, Chile) 79mins.

Dir: Aldo Garay.

At the tender age of 12, Roberto fought in support of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. Thirty years later his struggle is focused on being able to live life as a woman and to be recognised by his family as Stephania.

Panorama Dokumente Cinestar 7

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(UK) FilmNation

15:30 BoDy

(Poland) Memento Films International. 90mins. Dir: Malgorzata Szumowska.

Cast: Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala.

Coroner Janusz almost loses sight of his anorexic daughter. She meets a psychologist who dabbles in the esoteric. A black comedy about the link between body and soul and the

complexities of coping with grief and loneliness.

Competition Press only CinemaxX 7

CHLorine

(Italy) Rai Com. 94mins.

Dir: Lamberto Sanfelice.

Cast: Sara Serraiocco, Ivan Franek, Giorgio Colangeli.

Fate has conspired to place 17-year-old Jenny in a hut in the mountains with her little brother and her depressed father. But Jenny is determined to go back to the sea to train for the synchronised swimming championships.

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eXotiCa, erotiCa, etC.

(France) 73mins.

Dir: Evangelia Kranioti.

An essay film about heading to sea, the men of the huge container ships and the women who wait for them in ports and drinking holes: a maritime symphony that fuses sound and image, a moving tale of homesickness, love and desire. forum Press only CinemaxX 6

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(US) 92mins. Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters.

Marilyn Monroe as a bottle blonde scheming to murder her husband at Niagara Falls. A thriller about marital discord and revenge. retrospective CinemaxX 8

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Dir: Sam de Jong Prod: 100% Halal, VICE media Sales: Mongrel International (feature, 78’) 16:45 CinemaxX 18 (efm)

(India) 103mins. Dir: Nagesh Kukunoor. Cast: Krrish Chhabria, Hetal Gada, Gulfam Khan.

Ten-year-old Pari and her blind younger brother Chotu hope for help from a famous film star. In order to meet him, they leave their village of shacks and set off alone on an adventurous odyssey across an impoverished yet fairytale-like land.

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

Every day three boys head off through the snow in search of bits of coal. Conditions under the Turkish military dictatorship of the 1980s cannot do them any harm.

Their friendship and unswerving optimism are stronger than the cold and oppression.

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(Germany) FremantleMedia International. 90mins. Dir: Edward Berger, Samira Radsi. Cast: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen, Sylvester Groth.

At the height of the Cold

War, 24-year-old East German is recruited by the Stasi to infiltrate the West German army and uncover NATO secrets. He finds himself caught between personal and ideological fronts. berlinale Special Series haus der berliner Festspiele

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(Chile) Funny Balloons.

98mins. Dir: Pablo Larrain.

Cast: Roberto Farias, Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro, Alejandro Goic.

mother on a run-down social housing estate and is increasingly overwhelmed by his arduous everyday life. A precise milieu study set on the margins of Israeli society.

all to her tape recorder: what her first time was like with her mother’s boyfriend of all people, and how sex now dominates all of her thoughts and feelings.

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SeaShoRe

(Germany) 123mins. Giulo Ricciarelli.

Frankfurt 1958: nobody wants to look back at the realities of the Second World War. But when Rookie prosecuting attorney Radmann finds documents and starts to investigate suspected SS members, he gradually realises the extent of this maze of guilt and lies.

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

An intimate look at the life and work of the founder of grunge band Nirvana. Brett Morgen, a director renowned for his music documentaries, had access to previously unpublished archive material for his new work.

(Brazil) FiGa Films.

83mins. Dir: Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon. Cast: Mateus Almada, Mauricio Jose Barcellos, Elisa Brites.

A young man travels to the family’s seaside holiday home to sort out an inheritance matter for his father, accompanied by an old friend.

A gentle account of a long winter weekend, awakening sexuality and new intimacy.

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Dir: Willemiek Kluijfhout Prod: Trueworks Sales: Fortissimo Films (documentary, 80’) 19:30 MGB (world premiere)

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(Israel) Patra Spanou Film Marketing & Consulting.

90mins. Dir: Efrat Corem.

Cast: Eliraz Sade, Rom Shoshan, Mekikes (Ronen) Amar, Chani Elemlch.

Shlomi lives with his daughter, brother and

(US) K5 International.

102mins. Dir: Marielle Heller.

Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, Christopher Meloni, Kristen Wiig.

A story set in the wild San Francisco of the 1970s.

15-year-old Minnie spills it

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(Czech Republic) Visible Film. 74mins. Dir: Veronika Liskova.

What is it like for a young man who loves young boys but, unable to ever fulfil his desire, has to content himself with sexual fantasies? This film accompanies Daniel

who, having come out, struggles to accept himself.

Panorama Dokumente Press only CineStar 7

Jia ZhanG-Ke, a Guy FRoM FenyanG

(Brazil) MK2. 105mins.

Dir: Walter Salles.

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oDe to My FatheR

(South Korea) CJ Entertainment. 126mins.

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

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

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(South Korea) Lotte Entertainment. 99mins.

Dir: Kim Dae-hwan. Cast: Moon Chang-gil, Lee Young-lan, Kim Min-hyuk, Lee Sang-hee, Heo Je-wone.

At a family get-together, the father makes an announcement that carries anger and confusion in its wake. A snowstorm hits, no one is able to leave and the family dispute builds up over the next three days.

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about the struggles of Martin Luther King and other civil rights movement campaigners in 1965 as they organise marches from Selma to Montgomery to confront discriminatory voting legislation.

Gentlemen PreFer BlonDes

(US) 91mins. Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn.

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell as two New York showgirls who send their fellow male passengers aboard an ocean liner into a tizzy.

Berlinale special Gala Press only CinemaxX 9

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19:00 BlooDline

tHis GiGAntiC FurroWinG oF tHe GrounD

(France) 71mins. Dir: Claire Angelini. Cast: Bernard Pommier, Carlo Angelini, Julien Thorel.

Jean Gremillon’s ‘Le Six Juin A L’aube’ was shot at the end of the Second World War and showed the widespread destruction in Normandy. Taking the 1945 documentary as a starting point, this essay film examines the same landscape today.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

one & tWo

(US) Protagonist Pictures. 91mins. Dir: Andrew Droz Palermo.

Cast: Kiernan Shipka, Timothee Chalamet, Grant Bowler.

Eva and Zac live with their parents on a small farm that is completely cut off from the rest of the world since it is surrounded by a strange, insurmountable wall. Mysterious events and real conflicts merge in an intensely dramatic family story.

Generation 14Plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt

tHe resistors “tHeir sPirit PrevAils …”

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

The execution of the Scholl siblings did not prevent others from distributing their leaflets. Interviews with other members of ‘The White Rose’ resistance movement recall the memories and fears but also the courage needed to rise up against the Nazis.

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17:45 neCKtie youtH

(South Africa,

Festival & Press 18:30 As We Were DreAminG

(Germany, France) The Match Factory. 117mins.

Dir: Andreas Dresen.

Cast: Merlin Rose, Julius Nitschkoff, Marcel Heuperman.

The nightly adventures of a gang of boys in Leipzig just after

tHe PeArl Button

the collapse of East Germany, moving between the boxing club, disco and juvenile prison. An authentic parable about friendship and betrayal, hope and illusion, brutality and tenderness.

Competition Berlinale Palast

Netherlands) Premium Films. 86mins. Dir: Sibs Shongwe-La Mer. Cast: Bonko Khoza, Sibs Shongwe-La Me. A portrait of the gilded youth of today’s Johannesburg. The suicide of a young white woman leads us into the world of a multi-ethnic set for whom Mandela is history and the present an alluring but ruthless challenge.

esCAPe From my eyes

Panorama Cinestar 3

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18:00

(Brazil, Germany) 33mins. Dir: Felipe Braganca. Cast: Mayga, Elias, Abidal.

Documentary images and imaginary fiction intertwine in three short tales about Mayga, Elias and Abidal, three refugees from Ghana, Mali, and Burkina Faso, who were part of the protest camp at Oranienplatz in the middle of BerlinKreuzberg.

ACAPellA

tHe looK oF silenCe

(Egypt, Germany) 13mins. Dir: Islam Safiyyudin Mohamed.

An experiment: a group of young men are trapped in prison cubicles. They hold their heads down at first, then comes a message on a thread. They start communicating, knocking at the walls until a chanting begins – and with it their liberation.

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

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

Together with the brother of a victim, Oppenheimer now visits the perpetrators and confronts them with their crimes.

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34 Screen International at Berlin February 9, 2015

Berlinale special Cubix 8

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

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

reDsKin

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

A young Navajo man suffers bullying at prep school, but when he returns home, his is also an outcast among his own people. retrospective zeughauskino

18:30 As We Were DreAminG

(US) Netflix. 106mins.

Dir: Johan Renck. Cast: Kyle Chandler, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Linda Cardellini, Ben Mendelsohn.

Bodies are concealed in the cloud-covered swamps of the Florida Keys, and behind the facade of the Rayburn’s idyllic family hotel, abysses are beginning to open up.

Berlinale special series Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Journey into PostHistory

(France) 80mins. Dir: Vincent Dieutre. Cast: Simon Versnel, Vincent Dieutre, Emmanuel Pierrat.

Two men in Naples, a crumbling relationship, an autobiographical remake of Rossellini’s ‘Journey to Italy’ and one admiring film-maker erecting a cinematic memorial to another.

Forum Delphi Filmpalast

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mAr

Berlinale special Gala thalia Kino Berlin

(Chile, Argentina) New Europe Film Sales.

60mins. Dir: Dominga Sotomayor. Cast: Lisandro Rodriguez, Vanina Montes, Andrea Strenitz.

Martin, called Mar for short, heads on holiday to the seaside with his girlfriend. Their time at the beach is going swimmingly, until his mother turns up unannounced and brings increasing complications in her wake.

selmA

Forum Cinestar 8

i Am miCHAel

(US) The Exchange.

100mins. Dir: Justin Kelly. Cast: James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts.

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love & merCy

(US) Lionsgate. 122mins.

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

(US, UK) Pathe International. 128mins.

Dir: Ava DuVernay. Cast: David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo.

Historical drama

19:30

Marin, Moises Richart, Marta Bassols.

This experimental adaptation of Philip K Dick’s classic ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ plays out among the abandoned skyscrapers and neon-lit boardwalks of southern Spain, an apocalyptic backdrop somewhere between past, present and future.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

AutomAtiC Fitness

(Germany) 22mins. Dir: Alejandra Tomei, Alberto Couceiro.

A reflection upon our everyday relationship with time and money. A parody on an outdated modern way of life.

Culinary Cinema short Film mGB-Kino

KozA

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

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

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mA e DAmi XinA — i’ve AlreADy BeCome An imAGe

(Brazil) 32mins. Dir: Zezinho Yube. Cast: Joaquim Mana, Nilo Bixku, Augustinho Muru.

A compelling account of the Hunikui people’s history of enslavement and cultural resurgence. nAtive — indigenous Cinema short Film Cinestar imAX

AnDroiDs DreAm

serGio HermAn, FuCKinG PerFeCt

(Spain, Germany) Luis Ferron. 61mins. Dir: Ion de Sosa. Cast: Manolo

(Netherlands) 80mins.

Dir: Willemiek Kluijfhout.

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Every day, Sergio Herman strives for perfection. In order to further pursue his dreams, he feels he must close his 3-star restaurant, Oud Sluis. A revealing story about perfection, ambition and sacrifices.

Culinary Cinema mGb-kino

siP’oHi — mandure PlaCe

(Argentina) 66mins.

Dir: Sebastian Lingiardi.

Cast: Gustavo Salvatierra, Andres Segundo, Leticia Gonzales, Felix Segundo.

Gustavo Salvatierra returns home to Sip’ohi to capture Wichi tales and legends as a way of preserving culture and spirit through their ingrained tradition of storytelling. native — indigenous Cinema Cinestar imaX

stubborn boy

(Germany) Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.

81mins. Dir: Moritz Kramer. Cast: Ceci Chuh, Niels Braun, Monika Wiedemer.

Perspektive deutsches kino CinemaxX 3

Festival & Press 20:30 woman in Gold

(UK) The Weinstein Company. 107mins. Dir: Simon Curtis. Cast: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons, Charles Dance, Elizabeth McGovern, Jonathan Pryce.

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

(France, Qatar) 61mins.

Dir: David Yon. Cast: Lamine Bachar, Aness Baitich.

In the Atlas Mountains under the cover of night, a man and a child flee from the shadows of the past, as dark fragmentary memories of war and violence alternate with brighter moments full of lyrical beauty.

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CHorus

iraqi odyssey

(Canada) Doc & Film International. 97mins.

Dir: Francois Delisle.

Cast: Sebastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Genevieve Bujold.

Irene and Christophe have different ways of coping with the violent death of their child. Like two survivors aimlessly wandering, they free themselves from their memories in a magical montage of spaces to find new purpose in their ruptured world.

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

The odyssey of Samir’s Iraqi family, now living in the diaspora, describes an Arab world beyond the clichés. This film proves that history is best understood by exploring the fate of individual people.

(US) 108mins. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan.

A young heiress is swindled by a con man, but he ends up falling in love with her. retrospective CinemaxX 8

20:00 atom Heart motHer

(Iran) DreamLab Films. 96mins. Dir: Ali Ahmadzadeh. Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah

Forum Colosseum 1

Panorama Cubix 7 and 8

absenCe

CountinG

yolanda and tHe tHieF

How to win at CHeCkers (every time)

20:15

Ahangarani, Mehrdad Sedighiyan.

On a frivolous drive through the Tehran night, two streetwise friends chat about everyday life, atomic bombs and Pink Floyd.

After a minor traffic accident, a charming stranger in a suit comes to their aid, but his help will not come cheaply.

tHe niGHt and tHe kid

In thoughtful, tender fashion, this timeless historical drama traces the profound friendship between Judas and Jesus of Nazareth, who is seen as inciting rebellion by the Roman occupying powers in Palestine.

Panorama Press only CinemaxX 7

36 Screen International at Berlin February 9, 2015

(US) 111mins. Dir: Jem Cohen.

An associative collection of visual impressions across 15 chapters: a seagull in Porto, political posters in New York, an abstract painting in St Petersburg, an abandoned video shop in Cairo and cats everywhere you look.

Panorama dokumente Press only Cinestar 7

kinGs oF tHe road

(Federal Republic of

Germany) HanWay Films. 176mins. Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Rudiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schundler.

Chance brings ‘King of the Road’ and ‘Kamikaze’ together. During their journey along the border of the GDR, a taciturn friendship develops between the two men. This road movie has become a cult classic of the New German Cinema.

Homage Zeughauskino

out oF nature

(Norway) NDM International Sales.

80mins. Dir: Ole Giæver, Marte Vold.

Cast: Ole Giaever, Marte Magnusdotter Solem, Sivert Giaever Solem.

Alone in the mountains, a father in his mid-30s faces up to his neuroses and sexual desires with a savage candour made palatable by disarming humour. Nature becomes the physical and emotional force field of his existence.

Panorama Press only kino international

story oF Judas

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

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

(Brazil, Chile, France) Mundial. 87mins. Dir: Chico Teixeira. Cast: Matheus Fagundes, Irandhir Santos, Gilda Nomacce, Francisca Gavilan, Thiago de Matos, Andreia Mayumi, Antonio Ravan, Mateus Mariano, Vinicius Zinn, Gloria Rabelo.

The odyssey of emotionally and sexually troubled 15-year-old Serginho, who is searching for his place in a world that compels him to grow up in a hurry.

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

Panorama Cinestar 3

20:30 CyCloPs observes tHe Celestial bodies

(US) 15mins. Dir: Ken Jacobs.

“Cyclopean 3D is the most 3D a single eye can come up with. This means the celestial horde on display here can only seem to be galloping through space. Actual seeing into depth must be denied, it’s the law.” –Ken Jacobs.

Forum expanded akademie der kunste (Hanseatenweg)

HomesiCk

(Germany, Austria) WIDE Management. 98mins.

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

Cello student Jessica moves with her boyfriend into their first shared flat.

When she is invited to compete in a prestigious international music competition, she puts herself under so much pressure her nerves begin to devour her daily life.

Perspektive deutsches kino CinemaxX 1

(Thailand, US, Indonesia) M-Appeal.

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

orCHard street

(US) 27mins. Dir: Ken Jacobs.

Avant-garde film-maker Ken Jacobs’s first foray into the world of cinema – a document of the vibrant Jewish neighbourhood in Manhattan where Jacobs grew up.

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21:00 Hotline

(Israel, France) Go2Films Distribution & Marketing. 100mins. Dir: Silvina Landsmann.

This documentary shows how a Tel Aviv human rights organisation fights for the rights of African refugees in Israel, even as the mood in the population grows ever more hostile and state policy involves deterring and bullying the ‘infiltrators’.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

suPerworld

(Austria) Films Distribution. 120mins.

Dir: Karl Markovics.

Cast: Ulrike Beimpold, Rainer Woss, Nikolai Gemel, Angelika Strahser, Thomas Mraz, Sibylle Kos, Michael Scherff, Harri Stojka.

Gabi is a supermarket cashier with husband and family, her life unfolding according to the standard lower-middle-class pattern.

Yet her humdrum existence is turned upside down when she has a unique encounter with God. Forum Cinestar 8

21:30 liFe

(Canada, Germany, Australia) FilmNation

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Entertainment. 111mins.

Dir: Anton Corbijn.

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley.

‘Life’ photographer Dennis Stock’s encounter with James Dean leads to some of the most famous images of the Hollywood icon-to-be. A film that also ponders the meaning of photography and iconography in the age of reproduction.

ViolenCe

and horror.

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

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

Panorama Special Zoo Palast 2

Berlinale Special gala Zoo Palast 1

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Queen oF earth

(US) 90mins. Dir: Alex Ross Perry.

Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Patrick Fugit,.

Catherine and Virginia are best friends. Last year, Virginia wasn’t doing well, while it’s Catherine who’s struggling this year. One week together at a lakeside cabin: conversations, walks, verbal clashes, rising tensions. It won’t be an easy ride.

22:00 angeliCa

(US) 95mins. Dir: Mitchell Lichtenstein.

Cast: Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard.

London in 1880. After the birth of her daughter, Constance, a doctor’s wife, is prescribed sexual abstinence. But demons emerge from her hysterical fantasies. A wickedly ironic portrait of a society in a blend of psychodrama

Blue eyeS

(Sweden) ZDF Enterprises. 115mins.

Dir: Henrik Georgsson, Fredrik Edfeldt, Emiliano Goessens. Cast: Louise Peterhoff, Sven Nordin, Daniel Larsson.

A right-wing Swedish Member of Parliament is murdered in the middle of an election campaign.

Her children become radicalised and seek revenge. A political crime thriller about tension-filled present-day Europe.

Berlinale Special Series haus der Berliner Festspiele

Body See box, below

Guarani peasants contemplate whether better times will come. They go about their daily chores and sit in a hammock to converse, yet it is clear that they struggle to maintain a hopeful outlook in the worst of situations. natiVe — indigenous Cinema CineStar iMaX

SeedS oF tiMe

(US) 77mins. Dir: Sandy McLeod.

A storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect our food’s future.

Gene banks are crumbling and the climate change is affecting farmers globally, while he tries to save the resource we cannot live without: our seeds.

Culinary Cinema MgB-Kino

Paraguayan haMMoCK

(Argentina, France, Netherlands, Paraguay, Spain) 78mins. Dir: Paz Encina. Cast: Ramon Del Rio, Georgina Genes.

An ageing couple of

toKyo-ga

(Federal Republic of Germany, US) HanWay Films. 93mins. Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Chishu Ryu, Yuharu Atsuta,

(US) Milestone Films.

64mins. Dir: Leo Hurwitz. Cast: Virgil Richardson, Sophie Maslow, Cathy McGregor.

Produced shortly after the victory over Hitler, this documentary holds American society up to its own standards: an early polemic against prejudice and a still highly relevant analysis of the simple, yet unfortunately powerful, nature of racism.

the Blue hour

(Thailand) Reel Suspects. 97mins. Dir: Anucha Boonyawatana.

Cast: Atthaphan Poonsawas, Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang, Duangjai Hirunsr.

Tam is gay, gets beaten up by his fellow pupils and is shunned by his family.

When he meets Phum they soon develop a close bond which opens a door into a fantastical parallel universe.

Panorama Press only CinemaxX 7

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dyKe hard

21:45 twenty-eight nightS and a PoeM

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

After his father is injured in an accident, the impressionable young Abel must take over his ‘boda boda’, a motorbike taxi also used for transporting goods. A homage to ‘The Bicycle Thieves’ that unfolds in the bustling streets of Kampala.

Strange ViCtory

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homage CinemaxX 8

the Boda Boda thieVeS

Forum thalia Kino Berlin

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

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

Werner Herzog, Chris Marker, Wim Wenders.

Wenders’ tribute to his beloved master, Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. In conversations with Ozu’s contemporaries he explores the master’s working methods, while also showing us the Tokyo of the present, 20 years after Ozu’s death.

Festival & Press 22:00 Body

(Poland) Memento Films International.

90mins. Dir: Margorzata Szumowska.

Cast: Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala.

The story of a cynical prosecutor and

his anorexic daughter who are trying to cope with the tragic death of their wife and mother. A black comedy about the link between body and soul and the complexities of grief and loneliness.

Competition Berlinale Palast

(Sweden) Outplay.

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

A queer campsexploitation-horrortrash-musical about the stony-yet-unstoppable journey of lesbian girl rock band Dyke Hard on the road to a battle of the bands competition.

Including crazy obstacles, intrigues, cyborgs, ninjas, the undead etc.

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Virgin Mountain

(Iceland, Denmark) BAC Films Distribution.

94mins. Dir: Dagur Kari.

Cast: Gunnar Jonsson, Ilmur Kristjansdottir, Sigurjon Kjartansson.

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

Berlinale Special gala Kino international

22:45 FiSh tail

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

Cast: Pedro Moritz, Artur Carreiro, Rui Melo, Manuel Moniz.

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

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the Sea iS Behind

(Morocco) Pan Production. 88mins.

Dir: Hicham Lasri. Cast: Malek Akhmiss, Hassan Badida, Yassine Sekkal,.

Tarik is a H’Dya, a male dancer wearing women’s clothes, who can no longer cry. In surreal black-andwhite images accompanied by raucous Moroccan rock music, the director tells of Moroccan traditions and trance, and of intolerance and violence.

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23:00 ButterFly

(Argentina) 103mins.

Dir: Marco Berger. Cast: Ailin Salas, Javier De Pietro, Julian Infantino, Malena Villa.

Siblings or friends: Romina and German live parallel love lives. Marco Berger utilises the full possibilities of cinema to explore forbidden emotions with ever playful realities.

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08:45 Snow girl And The dArK CrySTAl

(China) Arclight Films, 100mins. Dir: Peter Pau, Tianyu Zhao. Cast: Bingbing Li, Kun Chen, Winston Chao.

A young man endowed with mysterious powers is forced into a battle among the realms of heaven, earth and hell to save his countrymen and the woman he loves.

CineStar 4

08:55 MeTAMorphoSiS

(Russia) Intercinema Agency, 104mins. Dir: Sergey Taramaev, Lubov Lvova. Cast: Egor Koreshkov, Evgeniy Tkachuk, Vasilisa Bernaskoni, Julia Aug.

Talented pianist Alexei Senin became an intimate friend of his sponsor’s daughter, Sasha. But he is 26 while she is 11, and their friendship is forbidden.Together Alex and Sasha will have to withstand the onslaught of the whole world.

CinemaxX Studio 11

09:00 A Turning Tide in The life of Men

(France, Ireland) Wide/ Wide House, 106mins.

Dir: Loic Jourdain.

A fisherman from the small island of Bo Finne in Ireland, initiated a European campaign to regain his ancestors’ right to fish.

CinemaxX Studio 17

The greAT gilly hopKinS

(US) WestEnd Films, 103mins. Dir: Stephen Herek. Cast: Sophie Nelisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close.

A hilarious story about a headstrong girl who wants to find a place to call home.

CinemaxX 3

The MAgiC BruSh

(China) All Rights Entertainment, 87mins.

Dir: Zhixing Zhong.

A boy is given a brush with magical powers that transforms whatever he paints into reality. But information reaches a cruel general, who steals the brush.

STrAngerlAnd

(Australia, Ireland) Wild Bunch, 110mins. Dir: Kim Farrant. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes, Hugo Weaving.

Newcomers to a remote Australian desert town, Catherine and Matthew Parker are pushed to the brink after the mysterious disappearance of their two teenage kids.

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Virgin MounTAin

(UK) HanWay Films, 84mins. Dir: John Maclean. Cast: Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Mendelsohn.

A dangerous drifter crosses paths in the American West with a guileless adolescent who comes to realise that America takes no pity on the innocent.

(Iceland, Denmark) BAC Films, 94mins.

Dir: Dagur Kari. Cast: Gunnar Jonsson, Ilmur Kristjansdottir, Sigurjon Kjartansson.

Fusi, 40, still has to find courage to enter the adult world. He sleepwalks through everyday life, where routine is key.

When a bubbly woman and an eight-year-old girl unexpectedly enter his life, he is forced to take a leap.

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Slow weST

09:15 dAre To Be wild See box, right

The iSlAnd of SeCreTS

(Finland, Greece) Eastwest Filmdistribution, 85mins. Dir: Taavi Vartia.

Cast: Nuutti Konttinen, Ifigeneia Tzola, Veikka Vainikka.

Toni, 15, is forced to take a vacation in Greece with his dad, new stepmother and his two stepbrothers.

In Greece he meets the beautiful Adriana, who is suddenly kidnapped. All together they jump into the adventure of their lives.

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plASTiC MAn: The ArTful life of Jerry roSS BArriSh

(US) What Happened Was Productions, 74mins.

Dir: William Farley.

Cast: Peter Selz, Paul Karlstrom, Hon. Mayor Willie Brown.

A rainbow tangle of plastic beach trash compels businessman Jerry Barrish to forge a new identity as a sculptor. Dyslexic, a renowned bail bondsman and independent filmmaker, Barrish struggles to create museum-quality fine art.

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Zipper

(US) Cargo Entertainment, 113mins.

Dir: Mora Stephens.

Cast: Patrick Wilson, Lena Headey, Richard Dreyfuss, Ray Winstone.

A political thriller about a federal prosecutor running for office who cannot stop sleeping with high-class escorts.

Zoo palast Club A

09:30 BiBi & TinA: Bewildered And BewiTChed!

(Germany) Beta Cinema, 109mins. Dir: Detlev Buck. Cast: Lina Larissa

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Strahl, Lisa Marie Koroll, Louis Held, Emilio Moutaoukkil.

Instead of concentrating upon the planned fancydress ball, Stone, Bibi, Tina and Alex must search for the thief who has stolen the pictures from the castle gallery.

Dare To be WIlD

(Ireland, US) Radiant Films International, 100mins. Dir: Vivienne DeCourcy. Cast: Christine Marzano, Alex Macqueen, Janie Dee,

Emma Greenwell.

The real-life story of a working-class Irish girl, who takes on the wealthiest of British high society in a worldrenowned flower show.

Cinemaxx 8

CineStar 2

Zoo Palast 5

IxCanul (VolCano)

(UK) The Exchange, 104mins. Dir: Vadim Jean. Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Tasmin Greig, John Michael Higgins.

Sir Charles Bunbury, the bumbling chairman of a 200-year-old British bank, must fend of foreign investors intent on taking over the family-run institution.

(Guatemala, France) Film Factory Entertainment, 90mins. Dir: Jayro Bustamante. Cast: Maria Mercedes Croy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun, Justo Lorenzo.

Maria is a 17-year-old living and working on the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala. A snakebite forces her into the modern world, about which she has dreamt so much. It saves her life, but at too high a cost.

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The look of SIlenCe

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

(France) Studiocanal, 88mins. Dir: Denis Dercourt. Cast: Albert Dupontel, Cecile de France.

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

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Marc is an equestrian stuntman. After a serious accident which traumatically injures him, he loses all hope of ever getting back on a horse.

(France) Kinology, 99mins. Dir: Emmanuel Mouret. Cast: Emmanuel Mouret, Virginie Efira, Anais Demoustier, Laurent Stocker.

Clement is unfathomably happy with famous actress Alicia, whom he not only loves but also admires. His happiness is threatened, however, when he meets Caprice, an exuberant young woman who falls in love with him.

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A small town girl’s hiphop dance video gets discovered by a Hollywood scout and becomes an overnight sensation.

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Through Joshua Oppenheimer’s work filming peretrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered and finds out about the identity of the men who killed him.

her days caring for her grown-up sons and her elderly mother, despite her family’s efforts to stop her. But her daily routine starts to derail when she receives a series of anonymous calls.

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(Japan) Wide/Wide House, 114mins. Dir: Atsushi Funahashi. Cast: Yutaka Yamazaki, Ryuichi Sakamoto.

A documentary about the exile of Futaba’s residents — the region housing the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant — which questions the real cost of capitalism and nuclear energy.

(Italy) Films Boutique, 86mins. Dir: Duccio Chiarini. Cast: Matteo Creatini, Francesca Agostini.

Edoardo has never told anybody, not even his best friend Arturo, that since birth his foreskin has been too tight, preventing him from having sex. But, at 17, love is in the air: Edoardo will have to find his way.

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PoSSESSEd (aka whaTEVER)

(Spain) Filmsharks International, 83mins.

Dir: Sam. Cast: Santiago Segura, Carlos Areces, Alex Angulo, Anabel Alonso.

Trini, the world-famous flamenco dancer, has been deeply depressed and has abandoned the stage.

Damian, her eight-yearold son, is possessed by a malicious devil that makes him do the most bloody and cruel misdeeds.

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(China) Chinese Shadows, 104mins. Dir: Wang Xiaoshuai. Cast: Lu Zhong, Shi Liu, Qin Hao, Feng Yuanzheng.

Deng is a stubborn retired widow who spends

SToCkholM, PENNSylVaNIa

(US) Magnolia Pictures, 99mins. Dir: Sean Baker.

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Jason Isaacs, Cynthia Nixon.

A young woman, kidnapped when she was a child, returns home to the family she barely remembers and struggles to feel at home.

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SuCkER

(Australia) LevelK, 95mins. Dir: Ben Chessell.

Cast: John Luc, Lily Sullivan, Timothy Spall.

Starring Timothy Spall as a colourful, ageing conman who teaches a young man, Lawrence, the art of lying. With his daughter in tow, the three work towards their biggest

scam, and Lawrence has to make a choice between love, life and lies.

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ThERE aRE MoNSTERS

(Canada) The Works, 96mins. Dir: Jay Dahl.

Cast: Guy Germain, Kristin Langille, Jason Daley, Matthew Amyotte.

The world is being taken over — slowly, quietly and efficiently — by monsters.

And they look just like us. kino arsenal 2

To lIFE!

(Germany) Global Screen, 91mins. Dir: Uwe Janson.

Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Max Riemelt, Sharon Brauner, Aylin Tezel.

Fate has taken its toll on the ageing cabaret singer Ruth and the young but ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason to live.

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ThE VISIT

(Denmark, Austria, Ireland) Autlook Filmsales, 83mins. Dir: Michael Madsen.

With unprecedented access to the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs and scientists from leading space agencies, ‘The Visit’ sets out to explore man’s first ever encounter with alien intelligent life.

Roache-Turner. Cast: Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill, Keith Agius.

‘Mad Max’ meets ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ in this raucous post-apocalyptic epic that’s one of the most original and wildly entertaining genre films in years.

Shakespeare Company, 59mins. Dir: Sunny Moodie. Cast: Andre Scott, Maurice Chevalier, Wilson Conkwright, Natalie Ulman.

The proponents of the innocent wave explore the legend of Apollo and Daphne.

Paul is a detective in his 40s. Dorothy, almost 16, is going through a serious identity crisis.

Paul lives on the fringe of Brussels selfrighteous society, while Dorothy has a grown-up heart. What connects them?

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aNoThER woRld

(UK) Trailblazer, 91mins.

Dir: Naeem Mahmood.

Cast: Melissa Latouche, Tom Bott, Paul Chiedozie, Julian Glover.

Set against a vibrant backdrop of urban London, Brash Young Turks tells the intertwining stories of a new breed of daring young go-getters who fight against oppression, greed and adversity whie aspiring to pursue their dreams.

(Israel) Spotlight Pictures, 100mins.

Dir: Eitan Reuven.

Cast: Zach Cohen, Susanne Gschwendtner, Dvina Kevelson, Carl McCrystal.

In a post-apocalyptic future, a biological warfare programme gone wrong leaves only four survivors defending themselves from the infected.

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10:00 PEPE MujICa — lESSoNS FRoM ThE FlowERBEd

(Germany) Deckert Distribution, 94mins.

Dir: Heidi Specogna.

A portrait of Pepe Mujica — a former guerilla fighter and flower grower, and the current president of Uruguay. He’s known for being the ‘world’s poorest president’ and one of the most charismatic politicians in Latin America.

(Australia) Altitude Film Sales, 100mins. Dir: Kiah

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(France) Versatile, 90mins. Dir: Jerome Bonnell. Cast: Anais Demoustier, Sophie Verbeeck, Felix Moati.

Charlotte is cheating on Micha with Melodie.

Not suspecting a thing, yet feeling neglected, Micha in turn cheats on Charlotte. But also with Melodie. kino arsenal 1

10:45 all CaTS aRE GREy

wIld hEaRTS: ThE lEGENd oF aPollo & daPhNE (oR EXPERIMENT oNE)

(Belgium) Be for Films, 85mins. Dir: Savina Dellicour. Cast: Bouli Lanners, Manon Capelle, Anne Coesens.

(US, UK) The Highland

FloCkING Se box, right

ThE Go Go BoyS

(France) Other Angle Pictures, 88mins.

Dir: Hilla Medalia.

Cast: Menachem Golan, Yoram Globus, JeanClaude Van Damme, John Voight.

The inside story of Menachem Golan and Yoram Globus and their Company Cannon Films, the biggest indie film company of the 1980s.

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all aBouT ThEM

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oNE & Two

(US) Protagonist Pictures, 91mins. Dir: Andrew Droz Palermo. Cast: Kiernan Shipka, Timothee Chalamet, Grant Bowler, Elizabeth Reaser.

Siblings Zac and Eva share a supernatural escape from an oppressive home life, but struggle with their secret as their mother falls gravely ill.

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10:50 ThE FallING

(UK) Independent, 104mins. Dir: Carol Morley. Cast: Maisie Williams, Monica Dolan,

Andreena Savin, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Maria Sole Mansutti.

The difficult relationship between a woman writer who lives in solitude and a young girl who comes bursting into her life.

has much to learn — about community and man’s complex bonds with the most feared and revered creature — the wolf.

he appears to be a man who has been given a second chance in life, but we soon learn that his only goal is revenge.

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THe seVenTH Fire

(US) Creative Artists Agency (CAA), 78mins.

Dir: Jack Pettibone Riccobono. Cast: Michael J Palmer, Adelaide Papazoglou.

A Native American gang leader is torn between his criminal lifestyle and loyalty to his tribe. He sets out to reckon with his past in order to imagine a greater destiny for himself and his people.

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(Sweden) Media Luna New Films, 110mins.

Dir: Beata Gardeler.

Cast: Malin Levanon, Fatime Azemi, John Ristu, Jakob Ohrman.

When 14-year-old Jennifer claims to have

FolloW THe money

been raped by classmate Alexander, the story spreads rapidly through the small community.

But in order to stick with the flock, they all start to turn against the young girl, convinced she is lying.

(Denmark) DR Sales, 118mins. Dir: Per Fly. Cast: Thomas Bo Larsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Natalie Madueno, Esben Smed.

A story of greed: both theirs and ours.

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Foodies

dragon nesT: Warriors’ daWn

Entertainment, 87mins.

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

The quiet land of Altera is inhabited by humans and elves but suddenly, freed from the dark mountains, groups of beasts attack peaceful human towns.

This signals the return of the Black Dragon and the destruction of all of Altera.

(US, China) All Rights

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Greta Scacchi, Florence Pugh.

Set in a rural British girl’s school, ‘The Falling’ explores what lies behind a mysterious fainting and twitching outbreak that rapidly spreads among the pupils.

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(Sweden) Fortissimo Films, 99mins. Dir: various. Cast: Aiste Miseviciute, Perm Paitayawat, Andy Hayler, Katie Keiko.

A documentary on the fine dining subculture of foodies.

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no one Can brusH my Hair liKe THe Wind

(Italy) Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, 94mins. Dir: Peter Del Monte. Cast: Laura Morante, Denisa

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11:10

(Argentina) Filmsharks International, 100mins.

Dir: Martin Piroyansky.

Cast: Martin Piroyansky, Chino Darin, Ines Efron, Violeta Urtizberea.

Six friends spend New Year’s Eve together.

Nicolas scores with every girl, even his best friend’s girlfriend. After he declares his love to her, the group faces a crisis by finally realising he was not the only one breaking rules.

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song oF THe sea

THe CHrisTmas Family

(Ireland, France) WestEnd Films, 90mins.

Dir: Tomm Moore.

Ben and his little sister Saoirse, the last seal-child, embark on a fantastic journey across a fading world of ancient Irish legends and magic, a world that needs Saoirse to find her voice and sing the Song of the Sea.

(Denmark) Global Screen, 90mins. Dir: Carsten Rudolf. Cast: Pelle Falk Krusbaek, Herman Knop, Paw Henriksen, Alfred Bjerre Larsen.

Six-year-old Hugo Christmas gets the surprise of his life when he discovers a magical elf named Pixy hiding in his house.

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WolF ToTem

(China, Hong Kong, China, France) Wild Bunch, 118mins. Dir: Jean-Jacques Annaud.

Cast: Feng Shaofeng, Shawn Dou, Ankhnyam Ragchaa, Yin Zhusheng.

A student sent to inner Mongolia to teach a tribe of nomads, discovers he

Hellions

(Canada) XYZ Films, 82mins. Dir: Bruce McDonald. Cast: Chloe Rose, Robert Patrick, Rachel Wilson, Rossif Sutherland.

Teenager Dora Vogel must survive a Halloween night from hell when three malevolent trick-ortreaters come knocking at her door.

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Kurai Kurai — Tales on THe Wind

(Netherlands, Kyrgyzstan) UDI — Urban Distribution International, 83mins.

Dir: Marjoleine Boonstra.

Cast: Talgat Kelimbetov, Tatiana Gorobchenko, Taynar Abdrazaeva, Aman Mambetakunov.

A journey based on tales of the wind, about life and death, through the land of the kurai (tumbleweed), where nothing is as it seems.

A collection of stories and characters connected by the kurai as it rolls along with the wind.

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Fire

(Spain) Latido Films, 103mins. Dir: Luis Marias. Cast: Jose Coronado, Aida Folch, Leyre Berrocal.

A bomb blows up Carlos’s car: his wife is killed and his 10-year-old daughter loses her legs. After years,

nobody WanTs THe nigHT

(Spain, France, Bulgaria) Elle Driver, 118mins.

Dir: Isabel Coixet. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kikuchi, Gabriel Byrne, Orto Ignatiussen.

Inspired by true events,

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a story replete with the passion, dignity and strength of two very different women as they battle to survive in one of the most inhospitable places on earth.

physical love that is. But as an autistic man living in Italy, this is anything but easy. So he and his two best friends Carlo and Alex set out on a journey through Europe.

he has to decide whether to take Lola back home to collect the reward or help her.

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(UK) 4Square Films, 96mins. Dir: Bryn Higgins. Cast: Agyness Deyn, Lenora Crichlow, Paul Anderson, Christian Cooke.

An ‘Alice In Wonderland’ for the modern day.

An extraordinary hallucinatory journey seen through the eyes of a bold young woman with epilepsy as she searches for her lost younger brother.

12:15

thE PilgriM — Paulo coElho’S BESt Story

(Brazil, Spain) Picture Tree International, 112mins. Dir: Daniel Augusto. Cast: Julio Andrade, Ravel Andrade, Fabiana Gugli, Fabiula Nascimento.

Tells the amazing and true journey of Paulo Coelho’s life that turned him into a writer of tales millions of people all over the world enjoy.

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thE wintEr

(UK, Greece) Melancholy Star, 105mins.

Dir: Konstantinos Koutsoliotas. Cast: Theo Albanis, Vaggelis Mourikis, Efi Papatheodorou.

A romantic young Greek writer, struggling financially, escapes from London. Hiding in the abandoned Siatista house where his imaginative father mysteriously died, will he lose himself in the same strange fantasies?

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11:20 a gErMan youth

(France, Switzerland, Germany) Films Boutique, 93mins. Dir: Jean-Gabriel Periot.

When the German postwar youth realised their ideological fight could no longer be achieved merely through debates or films, a radical group emerged that gave up cameras and words for assault rifles and bombs: the Red Army Faction was born.

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Market 11:30 thE faMouS fivE 4

(Germany) Beta Cinema, 97mins. Dir: Mike Marzuk. Cast: Valeria Eisenbart, Quirin Oettl, Justus Schlingensiepen.

to different mothers in different countries, are brought together and get to know each other.

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11:30 Dora or thE SEXual nEuroSES of our ParEntS

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

Dora is 18 and has learning disabilities. After stopping her medication, she throws herself into a new life and engages in a sexual relationship, but in her wish to be like everyone else, Dora finds herself pregnant. cinemaxX 4

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latin lovEr

thE laSt haMMEr Blow

(Italy) Rai Com, 105mins.

Dir: Cristina Comencini.

Cast: Angela Finocchiaro, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Virna Lisi, Marisa Paredes.

On the tenth anniversary of the death of Saverio Crispo, icon of the Italian cinema and Latin lover, his five daughters, born

(France) Pyramide International, 83mins.

Dir: Alix Delaporte.

Cast: Romain Paul, Clotilde Hesme, Gregory Gadebois.

Victor discovers he is the son of an orchestra director. Although he knows nothing about music nor about his father,

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The latest in the Famous Five series sees the quintet venture thousands of miles and thousands of years back in time to solve another nail-biting mystery. cinemaxX Studio 12

he is determined to change his future. cinemaxX Studio 14

130mins. Dir: Alexandr Melnik. Cast: Konstantin Lavronenko, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Kseniya Kutepova, Evgeniy Tsuganov.

The year is 1960, the place is the far north-east of the Soviet Union. On the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the centre of a vast region called The Territory, there is a settlement, inhabited by gold miners.

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

The death of his mother turns eight-year-old Nino’s family life upside down, leaving him to his own devices. One of them is talking to animals. His pet rabbit Bobby comforts him, but when will Nino get his family back?

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lila & EvE

(US) Annapurna International, 94mins.

Dir: Charles Stone III. Cast: Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez.

Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.

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thE tErritory

(Russia) Antipode Sales & Distribution,

11:45 thE law

(France) Doc & Film International, 90mins.

Dir: Christian Faure.

In the autumn of 1974, French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing puts his health minister, Simone Veil, in charge of a daunting task: to draft an abortion law. cinemaxX Studio 19

12:00 BaliKBayan #1 MEMoriES of ovErDEvEloPMEnt rEDuX iii

(Philippines) 140mins.

Shot over 35 years in a range of formats, this epic film is the story of Enrique of Malacca, slave of Ferdinand Magellan and the first man to circumnavigate the globe — and is a playful essay about his legacy in the Philippines of today. cinemaxX 6

thE SPEcial nEED

(Germany, Italy) Wide/ Wide House, 84mins.

Dir: Carlo Zoratti.

Twenty-nine-year-old Enea is looking for love —

(France) Alpha Violet, 85mins. Dir: Fred Nicolas. Cast: Camelia Pand’Or, Jisca Kalvanda, Mathieu Demy, Pierre Salvadori.

In the multicultural city of Marseille, Max is a cheerful teenager who happens to be an illegal immigrant supporting her Congolese family. Lenny wishes to be a rap singer, the language of her soul.

Music is the bond that unites the two girls. cinemaxX Studio 11

12:20 BiZarrE

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

An 18-year-old-boy from France takes refuge in an underground Brooklyn cabaret bar and finds himself immersed in a world of fantasy and pleasure. cinemaxX Studio 17

12:30 italo

(Italy) Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, 104mins.

Dir: Alessia Scarso. Cast: Vincenzo Lauretta, Marco Bocci, Elena Radonicich, Martina Antoci.

The tale of the tender and moving friendship between a lonely boy and an extraordinary stray dog that taught a whole village about being human. cinemaxX 9

12:45 DangErouS gEtaway (aKa what lola wantS)

(US) Arclight Films, 81mins. Dir: Rupert Glasson. Cast: Sophie Lowe, Beau Knapp.

Seventeen-year-old Lola runs away from home but everybody thinks she’s been kidnapped. Trying to escape she meets Marlo and they fall in love, but

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ElEctricity

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lovE ProjEct

(Canada) Seville International, 103mins.

Dir: Carole Laure.

Cast: Benoit McGinnis, Magalie LepineBlondeau, Celine Bonnier, Eric Robidoux.

An ensemble film that tells the story of young artists taking part in a stage production. They evolve, lust after one another, cry, work and wrestle with their appetite for life. cineStar 6

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(France) Funny Balloons, 95mins. Dir: Laurent Cantet. Cast: Isabel Santos, Jorge Perugorria, Fernando Hechavarria, Nestor Jimenez.

At sunset on a terrace overlooking Havana, five friends gather to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile. From dusk to dawn, they reminisce about their youth, the faith they had… but also their disillusionment. cinemaxX Studio 13

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(France) SND — Groupe M6, 121mins. Dir: Frederic Tellier. Cast: Raphael Personnaz, Olivier Gourmet, Nathalie Baye.

Charly, a promising police inspector, joins an elite criminal investigation department in Paris. His first case is a gruesome rape and murder that will haunt his memory for seven years. cineStar 4

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12:55 GET MARRIED IF YOU CAN

(Mexico) Media Luna New Films, 107mins.

Dir: Marco Polo Constandse. Cast: Martha Higareda, Miriam Higareda, Luis Gerardo Mendez.

Ana is obsessed with her dream wedding. Daniela is focused on her career and has no time for marriage.

When Ana finds out her fiancé is cheating on her and Daniela falls in love, they discover that love is the true path to marriage.

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help with his chores at the family bird circus.

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DEUTSCHLAND 83

(Germany) FremantleMedia International, 92mins.

Dir: Edward Berger, Samira Radsi. Cast: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen, Sylvester Groth.

Follows 24-year-old Martin Rauch, an East German spy sent West to gather NATO military secrets in this suspenseful coming-of-age drama set in 1983, against a backdrop of real Cold War events.

EL AMERICANO: THE MOVIE 3D

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(Mexico, US) Filmsharks International, 90mins.

Dir: various.

Cuco is a male Mexican parrot that would rather imitate the crazy stunts of his TV super-parrot hero El Americano, than

THE GATE

(France, Belgium, Cambodia) Gaumont, 95mins. Dir: Regis Wargnier. Cast: Raphael Personnaz, Olivier Gourmet, Kompheak Phoeung.

Best Artistic contriBution MontreAl World FilM FestivAl 2014

Recounts the unique relationship between one of the most villainous torturers of modern times and his prisoner. Their story is exceptional in that the only man this Khmer executioner trusts is his designated enemy.

a hair-dressing salon. To do so, she agrees to carry the child of Emily, a rich Englishwoman who is no longer able to have children.

includes a young Ernest Hemingway.

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(France) Le Pacte, 104mins. Dir: Mario Fanfani. Cast: Guillaume De Tonquedec, Jeanne Balibar.

France, 1959. Michel and Helene seem to be a perfect couple. But Michel has a dark secret: every weekend, he becomes Mylene, beneath the gaze of Flavia, an experienced transvestite and his former comrade in arms during the phony war.

(UK) Roast Beef Productions, 80mins.

Dir: Chad Gracia.

A Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life by revealing it, amid growing clouds of revolution and war.

LIVEFOREVER

(Mexico) Mundial, 101mins. Dir: Carlos Moreno. Cast: Paulina Davila, Alejandra Avila, David Cantor, Luis Arrieta, Jose Restrepo.

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MELODY

(Belgium, France, Luxembourg) Doc & Film International, 94mins.

Dir: Bernard Bellefroid.

Cast: Rachael Blake, Lucie Debay.

Melody decides to rent out her body in order to get the money she needs to realise her dream: opening

FiPresci Prize MontreAl World FilM FestivAl 2014

GerMAn cineMA neW tAlent AWArd Best Actress vicky kriePs FilMFest München 2014

SUMMER NIGHTS

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13:10 ANGELICA

(US) Pierpoline Films, 95mins. Dir: Mitchell Lichtenstein. Cast: Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard.

In Victorian England, sexual abstinence opens a rift between a couple, while a supernatural predator threatens their young daughter Angelica.

A spellbinding story of desire and repression.

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SOMETHING BETTER TO COME

Market Premiere tue 10th Feb 15:45 cinemaxX 19 t “Rarely has fetishism been portrayed with such intense, empathetic attention to detail.” v variety

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(Denmark, Poland) Films Transit International, 108mins. Dir: Hanna Polak.

Filmed over 11 years, Yula and her friends grow up amid the harsh realities of Russia’s underclass, its homeless and poor at an immense garbage dump near Moscow. Here she lives her life and it is from here that her future emerges.

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Das Zimmermädchen Lynn The Chambermaid Lynn

a sutor kolonko and 58FilMe production in co-production with Wdr | PAndorA FilM and torus in association with iMok a film by inGo hAeB “the chAMBerMAid lynn”

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13:15 HOGTOWN

(US) 9:23 Films, 110mins. Dir: Daniel Nearing. Cast: Herman Wilkins, Diandra Lyle, McKenzie Chinn, Pete Giovagnoli.

This presents a blackand-white tapestry of a city and a century. This multicultural arthouse film is set around the 1919 race riots in Chicago and

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THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER

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THE SNAKE BROTHERS

(Czech Republic) Offside MEN, 109mins. Dir: Jan Prusinovsky. Cast: Krystof Hadek, Matej Hadek, Jan Hajek, David Maj. Grass, unemployed and still without a girl in his late thirties, does not know how to escape from the shadow of his druggie and troublemaker brother Cobra. dffb-Kino

SWUNG

(UK) The Works, 90mins.

Dir: Colin Kennedy.

Cast: Elena Anaya, Owen McDonnell, Elizabeth McGovern.

Swung is a graphic, touching, funny and erotic drama that delves deep into the secret underside of a very modern relationship taken to its emotional and sexual limits.

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13:20 DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID

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

Much courted for her beauty, Celestine is a young chambermaid in the early 20th century who has just arrived from Paris to the service of the Lanlaire household.

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13:30 THE LESSON

(Bulgaria, Greece) Wide/ Wide House, 111mins.

Dir: Kristina Grozeva.

Cast: Margita Gosheva, Ivan Burnev, Ivan Savov, Stefan Denolyubov.

In a small Bulgarian town, Nadezhda, a young teacher, is lecturing a thief in her class. But when she becomes indebted to loan sharks, can she stay true to her own values?

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THE WRECKING CREW

(US) Magnolia Pictures, 101mins. Dir: Denny Tedesco. Cast: Brian Wilson, Cher, Nancy Sinatra, Dick Clark.

The story of the unsung musicians who provided the backbeat, the bottom and the swinging melody that drove many of the number one hits of the 1960s.

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13:45 2+2

(Romania) Romanian Film Center, 97mins. Dir: Thomas Ciulei. Cast: Marius Manole, Cornel Scripcaru, Mihai Calota, Razvan Vasilescu.

The methods of coercion and control used by a state will ultimately lead to its downfall.

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14:00 AGAINST THE SUN

(US) Goldcrest Films, 100mins. Dir: Brian Falk.

Cast: Tom Felton, Garret Dillahunt, Jake Abel.

Three US Navy airmen crash their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific during the Second World War. Against incredible odds, they must survive storms, sharks and starvation as they try to sail more than 1,000 miles to safety.

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DIVINE LOCATION — A CITY REINVENTS ITSELF

(Germany) New Docs, 99mins. Dir: Ulrike Franke.

In the middle of one of the largest industrial areas in Europe, the Ruhr region, a beautiful, artificial lake with a luxurious residential area has been developed — marina and piazza included.

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(Germany, France) The Match Factory, 112mins. Dir: Christoph Hochhausler. Cast:

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SCREENINGS

Florian David Fitz, Lilith Stangenberg.

Investigative journalist Fabian Groys enjoys great freedom since the stories he uncovers make for strong sales. He works for a political news magazine in the Berlin head office. In this context his arrogance raises a few eyebrows.

Forsgren, Ville Virtanen.

Contemporary Nordic thriller about a mother’s obsession with solving the mystery of her child’s disappearance. How far is she willing to go to protect the one she loves?

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(US) Versatile, 100mins.

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

‘Nasty Baby’ centres around the Brooklyn couple Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend Polly.

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14:15 WiTh you, BRead and onion

(Cuba) ICAIC, 105mins.

Dir: Juan Carlos Cremata.

Cast: Alina Rodriguez, Enrique Molina, Alicia Bustamante, Edith Massola.

Havana in the 1950s.

Lala Fundora needs a refrigerator and to obtain it she will move heaven and earth. parliament studio

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(Canada, France) Cinephil, 108mins. Dir: Sturla Gunnarsson.

Part road movie, part spectacle, part human drama, ‘Monsoon’ is a documentary exploration of chaos, creation and faith in the land of believers.

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15:00 Ten Thousand sainTs

(US) The Solution Entertainment Group, 104mins. Dir: various.

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Emily

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(Argentina) Fandango, 88mins. Dir: Sergio Mazza. Cast: Maximiliano Garcia, Sofia Gala Castiglione, Daniel Araoz.

Gonzalo is a 10-year-old boy left alone to take care of his baby sister when their mother dies. Adrift, he looks around to find a new family to live with. He meets a traveller, a broken couple and the owner of a former cabaret.

off CouRse

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(France) Films Distribution, 87mins.

Dir: Cyprien Vial. Cast: Harmandeep Palminder, Elisabeth Lando, Vikram Sharma.

Many, a 17-year-old Indian boy from Punjab, has been taken care of by the French government since he arrived in Paris two years ago.

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(China) Intramovies, 119mins. Dir: Yukun Xin. Cast: Weimin Huo, Xiaotian Wang, Yun Luo, Yuzen Yang.

Three people linked by an accidental killing. How much do you know about your own death? You can try to hide certain secrets, but it is impossible with a coffin in the mountains.

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

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

But when the letters stop coming, his brother sets out

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109mins. Dir: Sean McNamara. Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Kaya Scodelario, Benjamin Walker, William Hurt.

Louis XIV’s plans to steal the life-force of a mermaid are thwarted by a girl who risks her life and love to set the mermaid free.

The Kid

The days Come

umRiKa

Mortimer, Nadia Alexander.

A teenager from Vermont moves to the raw New York City of the late 1980s to live with his father in the East Village.

on a journey to find him.

The Coffin in The mounTain

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Market

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(France) Les Films du Losange, 85mins. Dir: Romain Goupil. Cast: Romain Goupil, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Marin Hands, Noemie Lvovsky.

A series of scenes recounting a life, switching from present to past and back again, from recollection to new directions. A film about time passing and the time left before that day comes.

Izci, Muttalip Mujdeci, Banu Fotocan, Okan Avci.

Tells the story of an elevenyear-old boy, Aslan, and a weathered fighting dog, Sivas, who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.

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iCe foResT

(Italy) Doc & Film International, 100mins.

Dir: Claudio Noce. Cast: Emir Kusturica, Ksenia Rappoport, Adriano Giannini, Domenico Diele.

A storm is about to break in a small village in the Alps and Pietro, a young specialised technician, arrives in the valley to repair a failure at the high-altitude power plant, where he suddenly faces a very strange disappearance. marriott 1

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me him heR

(US) Protagonist Pictures, 97mins. Dir: Max Landis. Cast: Dustin Milligan, Luke Bracey, Emily Meade, Angela Sarafyan.

From the incredible imagination of Max Landis, ‘Me Him Her’ is a comedy of errors, manners and fencing in which three people in their early 20s try to figure out love, friendship, sex, identity and life.

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The moon and The sun

(US) Good Universe,

(Spain) DeAPlaneta, 102mins. Dir: Nacho Garcia Velilla. Cast: Blanca Suarez, Yon Gonzalez, Javier Camara, Carmen Machi.

Hugo’s new life turns upside down when his parents and his girlfriend decide to visit him to see if he is doing well in Berlin.

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Bad luCK

(Austria) KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production, 80mins.

Dir: Thomas Woschitz.

Cast: Christian Zankl, Josef Smretschnig, Valerie Pachner, Markus Schwarzer.

Dagmar has debts.

Lippo is fired and swears revenge. Karl and Rizzo find a lot of money and are driven to senseless actions. Three car crashes.

Three days. Three stories.

A tragiccomic film about bad decisions and the search for happiness.

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(Sweden) ITV Studios Global Entertainment, 120mins. Dir: Henrik Bjorn. Cast: Moa Gammel, Goran Ragnerstam, Richard

Blood Ransom

(US) Devilworks, 101mins. Dir: Francis Dela Torre. Cast: Anne Curtis, Alexander Dreymon, Jamie Harris, Darion Basco.

Crystal, a recently turned vampire, has to kill a human, or will otherwise die in agony. But the human she is meant to kill has liberated her from her vampire master. They plan to run away together; him unaware of her condition.

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The empiRe of sCenTs

(Canada) Films Transit International, 90mins.

Dir: Kim Nguyen.

Smell: we know little about the most direct of our senses. Exploring saffron, exotic perfumes, truffles, the smell of space, food molecules and ambergris and many other areas, this is about smell, but also about life.

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eXoTiCa, eRoTiCa, eTC. eva and leon

(France) Pyramide International, 75mins.

Dir: Emilie Cherpitel.

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

Thirty-five-year-old Eva is unpredictable, charmingly immature and has no children. Leon is 10, he’s got the seriousness of an adult and has no parents.

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

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15:15 sivas

(Turkey, Germany) Coloured Giraffes, 97mins. Dir: Kaan Mujdeci. Cast: Dogan

(France) 73mins. Dir: Evangelia Kranioti.

An essay film about heading to sea, the men of the huge container ships and the women who wait for them in ports and drinking: a maritime symphony that fuses sound and image, a moving tale of homesickness, love and desire.

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ooops! noah is Gone…

(Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Ireland) Global Screen, 85mins.

Dir: Toby Genkel.

Cast: Callum Maloney, Dermont Magennis, Ava Connolly, Tara Flynn.

It’s the end of the world.

A huge flood is coming.

The land-based Nestrians Dave and his son Finny have made it on to Noah’s Ark. But when Finny »

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SCREENINGS

Ayoub Elasri, Jorik Scholten, Achraf Meziani, Oussama Addi.

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

Valiantly, Ayoub fights to win Laura’s heart.

and his friend Leah accidentally fall off, it’s the start of a thrilling adventure.

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SeX:SpeaK

(Germany) Sprechfilm, 80mins. Dir: Saskia Walker, Ralf Hechelmann.

Sex is the most wonderful thing in the world.

Nevertheless, talking about sex remains difficult.

‘Sex:Speak’ overcomes the barriers.

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torrente, MiSSion: euroveGaS

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SeyMour: an introduCtion

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

Explores the life and lessons of piano teacher Seymour Bernstein.

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Market 16:30 3 BeautieS

(Venezuela) Media Luna New Films, 97mins. Dir: Carlos Caridad Montero.

Cast: Diana Penalver, Josette Vidal, Fabiola Arace, Fabian Moreno.

Perla is obsessed with having a beauty queen in the family and she is willing to do whatever it takes to make her dream come true — including destroying her own family.

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tiGer houSe

(UK, South Africa) Altitude Film Sales, 83mins. Dir: Thomas Daly. Cast: Kaya Skodelario, Ed Skrein, Dougray Scott.

Kelly sneaks into her boyfriend Mark’s house, but tonight she’s not the only unwelcome visitor. As the situation spirals out of control, the suburban house becomes a terrifying arena for violence. dffb-Kino

16:00 the hoarder

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

Cast: Mischa Barton, Robert Knepper, Emily Atack.

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

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16:05 War of lieS

(Germany) Cinephil, 90mins. Dir: Matthias Bittner. Cast: Rafed Ahmed Alwan.

An Iraqi refugee’s information about weapons of mass destruction passed through the hands of the

Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Guillermo Del Toro.

A feature film anthology composed of five stories

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

BND, MI6 and CIA. But although this information was used by the US to legitimise the war on Iraq in 2003, we now know it was based on a lie.

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16:15 laByrinth of lieS

(Germany) Beta Cinema, 123mins. Dir: Giulio Ricciarelli. Cast: Alexander Fehling, Johann von Bulow, Friederike Becht, Andre Szymanski.

Frankfurt 1958: nobody wants to look back at the realities of the Second World War. But when rookie prosecuting attorney Radmann finds documents and begins to investigate suspect SS members, he starts to realise the extent of this maze of guilt and lies.

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SuperBoB

(UK) Genesis Film Sales, 85mins. Dir: Jon Drever.

Cast: Brett Goldstein, Catherine Tate, Natalia Tena, Laura Haddock.

After a freak meteor storm turns Bob into a superhero, he must face his greatest challenge: going on his first date in six years. Bob must balance international politics, saving the world and getting the girl.

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the War of the piG

(Italy, Argentina) Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, 103mins. Dir: David Maria Putorti. Cast: Victor Laplace, Arturo Goetz, Ricardo Merkin, Roberto Castro.

An adaptation of the novel ‘Diary Of The War Of The Pig’ by the great Argentinian writer Adolfo Bioy Casares. parliament Studio

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the fire

(Argentina) FiGa Films, 95mins. Dir: Juan Schnitman. Cast: Pilar Gamboa, Juan Barberini.

Over the next 24 hours, Lucia and Marcelo’s relationship will unravel — along with the crisis they are facing — exposing the violence within themselves.

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land GraBBinG

(Austria) Autlook Filmsales, 94mins. Dir: Kurt Langbein.

Demand for farmland has soared. ‘Land Grabbing’ gives an inside look into the world of investors in the international agro business and shows the consequences for families

kicked off the land — colonialism 2.0.

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Son of Mine

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

A gripping social drama about the oppressive relationship between a father and a son, who as modern outlaws struggle to survive.

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When Marnie WaS there

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

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

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16:45 paradiSe in ServiCe

(Taiwan) Ablaze Image, 133mins. Dir: Doze Niu Chen-Zer. Cast: Ethan Juan, Jianbin Chen, Qian Wan, Yi-Han Chen.

Through an unlucky lottery draw, Pao has to serve in the remote and perilous Kinmen region.

But his greatest challenge is not to fight the battle but to keep his virginity in the military brothel, code name Unit 831.

(Spain) Filmsharks International, 103mins.

Dir: Santiago Segura.

Cast: Santiago Segura.

When Torrente gets out of prison, he discovers that the Spain he loved is gone.

He plans to rob a casino and uses his contacts to find security expert Marshall. Together they assemble a dream team to pull off the heist of the century.

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(UK) Independent, 94mins. Dir: Richard Bracewell. Cast: Mathew Baynton, Ben Willibond, Damien Lewis, Helen McCrory.

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

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17:00 a perfeCt Man

(France) SND — Groupe M6, 103mins. Dir: Yann Gozlan. Cast: Pierre Niney, Ana Girardot.

Matthieu Vasseur is a struggling writer who finds a mysterious manuscript in a dead man’s house: the memoirs of a soldier, which turns out to be a masterpiece. Matthieu can’t help but submit the book as his own…

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Canada: not Short on talent

(Canada) Telefilm Canada, 107mins. Dir: various.

A selection of new short films from several cities and international festivals.

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eXtraordinary taleS

(Netherlands) Mongrel International, 78mins.

Dir: Sam de Jong. Cast:

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SpotleSS (UK) Tandem Communications, 106mins. Dir: Pascal Chaumeil. Cast: MarcAndre Grondin, Denis Menochet, Miranda Raison, Brendan Coyle.

‘Spotless’ is a drama series set in London. It tells the story of a troubled man whose tidy life is turned upside down when his outlaw brother crashlands into his world, and gets both of them fatally involved in organised crime.

(Luxembourg, Spain, US, Belgium) BAC Films, 73mins. Dir: Raul Garcia. Cast: Christopher

StunG

(Germany) XYZ Films, 85mins. Dir: Benni Diez.

Cast: Matt O’Leary, Jessica Cook, Clifton Collins Jr., Lance Henriksen.

Mrs Perch, a wealthy elderly lady, is throwing a fancy garden party at her remote country villa. But when seven-feet-tall killer wasps invade the party, it is up to two waiters to save the attendees.

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the StronGeSt Man

(US) Visit Films, 98mins.

Dir: Kenny Riches. Cast: Robert ‘Meatball’ Lorie, Paul Chamberlain, Ashly Burch, Patrick Fugit.

A Miami-based comedy about an anxiety-ridden Cuban man who fancies himself the strongest man in the world. In a quest to recover his most beloved possession, his bicycle which was stolen, he finds and loses so much more.

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17:10 hoStaGe

(Slovakia, Czech Republic) ALEF Film and Media, 102mins.

Dir: Juraj Nvota.

Cast: Richard Labuda, Milan Lasica, Libuse

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SCREENINGS

Safrankova, Szidi Tobias.

Tragicomic story about the son of a local communist officer and his friend, who has been a hostage of the regime ever since his parents emigrated to the West.

with Mercedes, a young French student in his writing class. The affair soon spins out of control, their emotions and Ben’s family hanging in the balance.

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17:30 reLatiVe haPPiness

(Canada) The Yellow Affair, 97mins.

Dir: Deanne Foley.

Cast: Melissa Begland, Aaron Poole, Jonathan Sousa.

A warm, feel-good romantic comedy about feisty, plus-sized, pastry baking, bed and breakfast owner Lexie, and her flawed quest to find her knight on a bike.

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this GiGantiC furrowinG of the Ground

(France) 71mins.

Jean Gremillon’s ‘Le Six Juin À L’aube’ was shot at the end of the Second World War and showed the widespread destruction in Normandy.

Taking the 1945 documentary as a starting point, this essay film in three chapters examines the same landscape today.

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(Latvia, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Denmark) Rija Films, 79mins. Dir: Reinis Kalnaellis. Cast: Taiga Zile.

and modern vision of ‘The French Connection’, based on the outstanding true story of Pierre Michel, the French Eliot Ness of the 1970s.

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saiLinG to Paradise

17:40 LiZ in sePtember

(Canada, New Zealand) Epic Pictures Group, 95mins. Dir: Anouk Whissell. Cast: Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside, Aaron Jeffery.

It’s 1997. In a postapocalyptic world, a young kid survives by scavenging in the wasteland. His life is turned upside down when the evil Zeus kidnaps his new friend Apple.

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unCut

(Canada) Finding ME Films, 86mins. Dir: Mark Sweatman. Cast: Mark Wynn, Lea Kovach, Steve Watts, Twan Holiday.

Uncut is ‘Deliverance’ meets ‘The Blair Witch Project’, a graphic

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arthouse thriller about two campers who go missing. Years later evidence of their final hour is recovered from a camera’s digital hard drive unedited, unaltered, ‘Uncut’.

(Venezuela) Cinema Management Group (CMG), 92mins.

Dir: Fina Torres.

Cast: Patricia Velasquez, Eloisa Maturen, Mimi Lazo.

Liz has known several things since she was a child: that she is gay, that beauty is power and that she will never be a victim.

Determined to enjoy the time she still has left on earth, she hides her terminal disease from her friends.

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Seven years of captivity come to an end and grief turns to joy when an unlikely hero rescues a princess to win her hand and the throne.

18:00 La frenCh

(France, Belgium) Gaumont, 135mins. Dir: Cedric Jimenez. Cast: Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Celine Sallette, Melanie Doutey.

An ambitious, realistic

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(Slovenia) Slovenian Film Centre, 83mins.

Dir: Blaz Zavrsnik. Cast: Klemen Janezic, Ajda Smrekar, Stane Tomazin, Igor Zuzek.

After the death of his parents, Zak sets out on a sailing trip in a quest to get some peace, but his path crosses with Lucka, who follows him all the way to his boat in the marina, determined to start the trip with him.

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18:05 kebab & horosCoPe

(Poland) New Europe Film Sales, 72mins.

Dir: Grzegorz Jaroszuk.

Cast: Piotr Zurawski, Bartlomiej Topa, Justyna Wasilewska, Tomasz Schuchardt.

A group of misfits from a carpet shop have the chance to change their lives with the help of two marketing experts, an

ex-kebab shop worker and an ex-fortune teller from a wildlife magazine.

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(Brazil) Picture Tree International, 119mins.

Dir: Lirio Ferreira.

Cast: Daniel de Oliveira, Caroline Abras, Sandra Coverloni, Romulo Braga.

Twenty years ago on an island a boy was separated from his sister out of fear that they might develop an incestuous attraction. He joined a circus and became Zolah, the Cannon Man. A beautiful man, he is now visiting the island with the circus.

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eL CinCo

(Uruguay, Germany, France) Films Boutique, 100mins. Dir: Adrian Biniez. Cast: Esteban Lamothe, Julieta Zylberberg, Nestor Guzzini.

After being sent off during a B-division match, Paton, the captain of the Talleres football team, realises his career has come to an end.

Together with his wife Ale he is looking for a new start.

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GuroV & anna

(Canada) Filmoption International, 112mins.

Dir: Rafael Ouellet.

Cast: Sophie Desmarais, Andreas Apergis.

Ben begins a torrid affair

(France) Films Distribution, 128mins.

Dir: Lyes Salem. Cast: Lyes Salem, Khaled Benaissa, Djemel Barek, Najib Oudghiri.

During the first euphoric years following the independence of Algeria, two friends, Djaffar and Hamid, face a bright and promising future.

Over the decades, secrets and betrayal drive them apart.

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Labyrinth of Lies

(Germany) Beta Cinema, 123mins. Dir: Giulio Ricciarelli. Cast: Alexander Fehling, Johann von Bulow, Friederike Becht, Andre Szymanski.

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(Netherlands) Arclight Films, 151mins. Dir: Roel Reine. Cast: Frank Lammers, Sanne Langelaar, Charles Dance, Rutger Hauer.

When the republic of the Netherlands is attacked

by England, France and Germany and the country is on the brink of civil war, only one man can save the day by harnessing the power of the Dutch fleet: Michiel de Ruyter.

(France) Les Films du Losange, 95mins. Dir: Jean Paul Civeyrac.

Cast: Guslagie Malanda, Nadia Moussa, Catherine Mouchet, Pascal Greggory.

Fanny tells the story of her best friend Victoria, a young black girl from a humble background who became fascinated by a rich and liberal family…

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(Austria, Germany) Dor Film Produktion, 120mins. Dir: Wolfgang Murnberger. Cast: Josef Hader, Tobias Moretti, Nora von Waldstatten, Roland Duringer.

18:45 in the GraysCaLe

(Chile) Outplay, 98mins.

Dir: Claudio Marcone.

Cast: Francisco Celhay, Emilio Edwards, Daniela Ramirez, Sergio Hernandez.

Bruno is an architect with a perfect life. He is married, has a son, and a nice house and nice car, but his life is turned upside down when he meets Fer, a young teacher and tourist guide.

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La La La at roCk bottom

(Japan) Gaga Corporation, 103mins.

Dir: Nobuhiro Yamashita.

Cast: Subaru Shibutani, Fumi Nikaido.

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

But what comes back is his dark past.

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19:15 3 days

(Russia, France) Artistic Finances, 95mins.

Dir: Mikhail Kosirev Nesterov. Cast: Adele Exarchopoulos.

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Life eternaL

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19:30 androids dream

(Spain, Germany) 61mins. Dir: Ion de Sosa.

Cast: Manolo Marin, Moises Richart, Marta Bassols, Coque Sanchez.

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

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(Israel, France) Go2Films Distribution & Marketin, 100mins. Dir: Silvina Landsmann.

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ThE cluB (Chil) Pablo Larrain

Four priests live in seclusion, each one of them paying penance for past crimes. But their routine is disrupted by the ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ arrival of a fifth ‘inmate’, a newly disgraced companion who brings with him the past they thought they had left behind.

AS WE WErE drEAMInG (Ger-Fr) Andreas Dresen

Based on Clemens Meyer’s German literary sensation of the same name, the story follows a group of young teenage ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ friends living in Leipzig through the difficult years of German reunification.

Body (Pol) Malgorzata Szumowska

This exploration of mourning is about a father and his anorexic daughter trying to come to terms with the untimely ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ death of their wife and mother.

undEr ElEcTrIc cloudS (Rus-Ukr-Pol) Alexey German Jr

This drama, from auteur German Jr, weaves together seven stories that see characters come and go from each other’s ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ lives, set in a country that is coming apart at the seams.

AfErIM! (Rom-Bul-Cz Rep) Radu Jude

Set in 19th-century Romania, Aferim! tells the story of a government official and his teenage son who capture an ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ escaped gypsy slave. From Golden Bear-winning producer Ada Solomon.

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EISEnSTEIn In GuAnAjuATo Elmer Back stars as Sergei Eisenstein, the famed Russian director of Battleship Potemkin who in 1931 visited Mexico (Neth-Mex-Bel-Fin) ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ to make a film and found renewed creative inspiration in the process.

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

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

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

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

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