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IN BERLIN IN COMPETITION

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IN COMPETITION

VICTORIA by Sebastian Schipper

AS WE WERE DREAMING

by Andreas Dresen

Producer: Monkey Boy · World Sales: The Match Factory

Producer: Rommel Film · World Sales: The Match Factory

Sat, 7 Feb, 15:00 h, CinemaxX 7 (press) Sat, 7 Feb, 22:00 h, Berlinale Palast (premiere) Sun, 8 Feb, 14:30 h, Friedrichstadt-Palast Sun, 8 Feb, 21:30 h, Toni & Tonino Sun, 8 Feb, 22:15 h, Haus der Berliner Festspiele Mon, 9 Feb, 19:30 h, CinemaxX 10 (market) Thu, 12 Feb, 16:30 h, CinemaxX 4 (market) Sun, 15 Feb, 18:00 h, Berlinale Palast

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EVERY THING WILL BE FINE

Producer: Lucky Bird Pictures · World Sales: Beta Cinema

Producer: Neue Road Movies · World Sales: HanWay Films

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BERLINALE SPECIAL

by Wim Wenders

FURTHER FILMS IN COMPETITION WITH GERMAN PARTICIPATION

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SWORN VIRGIN

BIG FATHER, SMALL FATHER AND OTHER STORIES

by Phan Dang Di (VN/FR/DE/NL)

THE MISPLACED WORLD

by Margarethe von Trotta

Producer: Clasart Film, Tele München · World Sales: Wild Bunch Thu, 12 Feb, 18:30 h, CinemaxX 9 (press) Fri, 13 Feb, 15:00 h, Haus der Berliner Festspiele (premiere) Sat, 14 Feb, 18:00 h, Cubix 8

QUEEN OF THE DESERT

by Werner Herzog (US)

Screening schedules subject to change.

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EFM buyers strike gold despite exchange rate Chloe Grace Moretz

November Criminals seized across Asia

BY JEREMY KAY

Lotus Entertainment has enjoyed a strong reception for its Sacha Gervasi thriller November Criminals starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Ansel Elgort.

Deals have closed in Japan (Gaga), Hong Kong (MVP Entertainment PTE Limited), Indonesia (PT Amero Mitra Films), Philippines (Pioneer Films) and Singapore (Cathay Keris Films PTE Limited) as well as Italy (Eagle).

Rights have also gone to South Korea (Joy N Contents Group), Taiwan (CMC Entertainment), Thailand (Monofilm) and China (WellGo USA Entertainment).

Steven Knight adapted the screenplay from Sam Munson’s 2011 novel about two teens who fall in love while investigating a friend’s murder in Washington DC. Black Bicycle co-finances with Lotus and Beth O’Neil produces with Erika Olde of Black Bicycle and Lotus.

Last week, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions acquired English-speaking territories including the US, Canada, UK, Australia/New Zealand, Spain, Latin America, Scandinavia, Benelux, eastern Europe, Middle East, South Africa, Greece, Portugal, Iceland, Israel, India and airlines.

BY JEREMY KAY

EFM attendees pulled a steady market out of the bag despite the exchange rate, the customary early-year scramble to assemble new product and buyer reluctance to pull out wallets before Cannes.

That said, most of the sales agents arrived ready for fresh business and there were marquee titles in the mix, notably IM Global’s Hacksaw Ridge, Sierra/Affinity’s Gold, Protagonist’s Ben Wheatley action film Free Fire, Celluloid Dreams’ Taxi and Beta Cinema’s Competition entry 13 Minutes.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions arrived in Berlin looking to buy and pounced on a slew of territories for Free Fire as several notable US deals bubbled to the surface.

Ambitious Broad Green Pictures committed $6.5m for Knight Of

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Cups and Terrence Malick’s untitled follow-up, while Lionsgate acquired Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore, and Sony Classics took North and Latin America on Hitler assassination thriller 13 Minutes.

“Very steady with the emphasis on the word ‘steady’, partly because of the usual Berlin grey zone between AFM and Cannes and the exchange rate,” was the assessment of IM Global chief Stuart

Ford. “But in most of the major territories distributors have come looking to buy but not at any cost.”

Fortitude International partner and sales chief Nadine de Barros stressed the need for reasonable prices. She reported solid business on Isabel Coixet romance This Man, This Woman and Keanu Reeves drama Daughter Of God, adding: “We’ve had very targeted movies.”

IFT head of sales Christian de Gallegos, who enjoyed strong business on Wake and the new Werner Herzog thriller, Salt And Fire, noted some of the larger deals were conducted in euros to hedge against currency fluctuations.

Some attributed the dearth of Asian buyers pounding the corridors in Berlin to the belief that more western companies are travelling to Filmart in March.

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IM Global has reported a roaring trade on its marquee sales title Hacksaw Ridge.

Mel Gibson will direct Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss, the real-life Second World War medic who became the first conscientious objector to receive a Congressional Medal Of Honor.

Cross Creek Pictures is financing the $40m-$50m project and produces alongside Pandemonium Films. Rights have gone in Germany (Universum), Italy (Andrea Leone), Spain (DeAPlaneta), Scandinavia (Mis Label), South Korea (Pancinema), Latin America (Sun

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NEWS Eurimages ‘must take risk’ Roberto Olla urges a rethink of funding decisions » Page 4

REVIEWS Life James Dean title as self-consciously stylish as a hep-cat cocktail bar » Page 6

Body Plays like Krzysztof Kieslowski with a sense of humour » Page 7

SCREENINGS What films to see at the festival and EFM today » Page 14

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Memento offers French home to Father

BY MICHAEL ROSSER

Helen Mirren in a playful mood with director Simon Curtis and co-star Ryan Reynolds at the photocall for Woman In Gold. See page 8 for review.

Global deals inked for Hacksaw Ridge

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Distribution), Switzerland (Impuls) and Taiwan (Applause). Deals also closed in South Africa (M-Net), Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia (Freeman Entertainment), Hong Kong (Bravos), Indonesia (Cinema 21), Czech/ Slovak (AQS), Greece (Spentzos), Turkey (Pinema), Indonesia (Cinema 21) and Israel (United King).

Entertainment In Motion took airlines rights.

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Competition title Big Father, Small Father And Other Stories has been snapped up in France ahead of its world premiere here in Berlin on Friday.

Urban Distribution International has sold French rights for the coming-of-age drama to Memento Films, following its first market screening.

The film marks the second feature from Vietnamese director Phan Dang Di following Bi, Don’t Be Afraid, which screened in Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2010.

Set in Saigon in the late 1990s, his latest film follows a young photography student in Saigon who becomes enchanted by his flatmate, a beautiful heroin dealer.

CNC’s World Cinema Fund and Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund are among the film’s backers.

Producers are Tran Thi Bich Ngoc of DNY Vietnam, Claire Lajoumard of France’s Acrobates Films, Markus Halberschmidt of Germany’s Busse & Halberschmidt and Denis Vaslin of Netherlands’ Volya Films.

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German-Arab projects score By liz SHaCklEtON

The Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung has handed out awards of up to $70,000 to three German-Arab projects at a gala held at the Berlinale Talents.

The three winning projects — selected from a shortlist of 15 — are Mohamed Siam’s documentary Amal; Amjad Al Rasheed and Darin Salam’s short fiction film The Parrot; and Ghassan Halwani’s animation Clean Up The Living Room, We’ve Got Visitors Coming.

Produced by Sara Bökemeyer, Amal (Germany-Egypt) revolves around how the Egyptian revolution affects the life of a young girl.

The Parrot (Germany-Jordan), produced by Roman Roitman, is about a Moroccan Jewish family trying to settle into their new lives in Palestine in 1948.

Clean Up The Living Room, We’ve Got Visitors Coming (Germany-Lebanon), produced by Inka Dewitz, mixes animation and live action in a story about people who disappeared during the Lebanese Civil War. Launched in 2012, the Film Prize aims to match producers and film-makers in the Arab world with German producers.

Oettinger urges cinema to fully embrace digital

By MartiN BlaNEy

Cinema needs to welcome the digital revolution to realise its full potential, according to European commissioner Günther Oettinger.

Delivering a keynote speech at the Creative Europe MEDIA day conference in Berlin, Oettinger said: “We are living in a digital revolution and with revolutions, you can win or lose.

“In an age where more consumers watch films online, we should work together to ensure that our creative potential and

European diversity are preserved and are accessible for everyone.”

Oettinger’s speech marked his first encounter with the European film industry since taking the role last year. Around 700 professionals were in attendance.

“We want to help film professionals to experiment with new business models and take advantage of the European digital market, rather than seeing it as a threat,” he said. “The European film industry can and should reach out to new audiences.”

Oettinger suggested the “real challenge” was to break down national restrictions for a wider circulation of European films throughout the EU. “I want more choice for consumers,” he said. “They should also benefit from the advantages of digitalisation and be able to shop for more films across borders.”

While some in attendance found his speech encouraging, one professional told Screen: “It sounded like a speech written by Google and Apple.”

BerliN Briefs Canada believes Pure Flix has sold faith-based title Do You Believe? to Canada (Mongrel Media). It opens in the US on March 20.

Conspiracy theory Silver Sword International has acquired all US, Canadian and UK rights to Catholic Church corruption documentary Final Vatican Conspiracy from Stark Productions of Canada.

Stranger secured Raven Banner has secured Canadian rights to writer-director Guillermo Amoedo’s Eli Roth Presents The Stranger.

Norway to be BFi invites bookings on ‘lost’ guest at Les Arcs Hitchcock Belsen documentary

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Norway is to be the guest country at the next Les Arcs European Film Festival (December 12-19).

Announcing the partnership here, the festival will organise the focus with the Norwegian Film Institute and the Norwegian Embassy in Paris. It will combine recent films, new talent and more established directors.

BFI Distribution is inviting bookings from international exhibitors to screen a newly restored concentration camp documentary known as ‘the lost Hitchcock’.

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey will be available for screening from April 16 to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belsen.

The feature doc, shot by army and newsreel cameramen when British troops liberated the concentration camp in April 1945, will be preceded by a 15-minute film contextualising the harrowing footage.

Fully restored by Imperial War Museums, director Alfred Hitchcock was originally brought in as a treatment adviser, working alongside producer Sidney Bernstein.

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Coccinelle takes Ma Folie

New Europe rocks on

Italian sales collective Coccinelle Film Placement has taken on world sales of Austrian director Andrina Mracnikar’s psychological thriller Ma Folie.

The German-language feature stars Alice Dwyer and Sabin Tambrea as a couple whose relationship turns sour. It marks the debut feature for Mracnikar, a former Berlinale Talent Campus alumni, after producing a number of shorts and documentaries.

Ma Folie receives its market premiere here today at 9:00am.

Austrian distributor Filmladen is due to release it in March.

Other titles on Coccinelle’s slate include Rolando Ravello’s Remember Me (Ti Ricordi Di Me) starring Edoardo Leo. Melanie Goodfellow

New Europe Film Sales has sold Bas Devos’s Violet, a Berlinale selection last year, to Poland (Alter Ego) and Lithuania (Kaunas FF).

Signe Baumane’s animated Rocks In My Pockets, Latvia’s Oscar submission, has sold to Spain (Yowu Entertainment).

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EFP’s Shooting Stars 2015 (from left): Dieter Kosslick (director, Berlinale) with Maisie Williams (UK), Natalie Portman, Natalia de Molina (Spain), Sven Schelker (Switzerland), Aiste Dirziute (Lithuania), Emmi Parviainen (Finland), Hera Hilmar (Iceland), Joachim Fjelstrup (Denmark), Moe Dunford (Ireland), Jannis Niewöhner (Germany) and Abbey Hoes (Netherlands).

Initiative aims to bridge the Europe-Asia gap By liz SHaCklEtON

Euro-China initiative Bridging The Dragon is hosting its first public event at EFM today, a panel discussion and case study with speakers including producer Nansun Shi and X-Filme’s Stefan Arndt.

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Shi and Arndt will join Bona Film Group’s Jeffrey Chan and Constantin Film’s Martin Moszkowicz in a discussion on the challenges and opportunities of co-producing between Europe and China.

Producer Lorna Tee will speak

to Unifrance’s Isabelle Glachant about what works in China and the Chinese audience.

Launched at Locarno Film Festival last year, Bridging The Dragon is an association connecting European and Chinese film professionals.

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Snow Queen 2 heads to Brazil

By GEOFFrEy MaCNaB

The Snow Queen 2 has been snapped up for release in Brazil, one of several deals closed here by Russian studio Wizart.

The animated sequel has been picked up by Conquest Filmes for a wide theatrical release in Brazil.

Following the success of the first Snow Queen film in Bulgaria, distributor Pro Films has acquired the rights for the sequel in the country, while DVD rights have been secured in France (Universal through KLB) as well as Germany and Austria (Elite Film AG) among others.

The first film has been released in 70 countries but new deals continue to be struck, including an acquisition in South Africa (Indigenous Film Distribution).

Wizart has also closed several pre-sales on its 3D animation Sheep And Wolves, due for delivery in February 2016. It has been picked up for Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia (Star Films), Poland (Kino Swiat), Middle East (Shooting Star) and former Yugoslavia (Blitz). The voice cast will be announced at Cannes.

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Sevastopol battles to open big in Russia

By GEOffrEy MacnaB

Epic Second World War war movie Battle For Sevastopol, now in post-production, is to be given a massive release in Russia on 2,000 screens in the first week of April. It will be released at the same time in Ukraine.

The film will be shown in the Ukrainian language in Ukraine and in Russian in Russia.

Battle For Sevastopol, directed by Sergei Mokritsky, is notable as the first big co-production between Russia and Ukraine in many years.

Its production has continued in spite of the ongoing political tensions between the countries.

The film has been made in association with Fox International Productions. It has now been confirmed that Fox will be handling distribution in the CIS territories.

Fox is also in negotiation to take further major territories on the film, which tells the story of female sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko.

The producers have recently signed a deal with Japanese distributor New Select Co and talks for other territories are under way.

The film will be ready for Cannes and there is likely to be an “international” version available to western buyers.

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Olla: Eurimages funding must back risk-takers

By GEOffrEy MacnaB

Roberto Olla, executive director of Eurimages, the Council of Europe’s film fund, is calling for a rethink of how the organisation reaches its funding decisions and how it defines “quality”.

“Eurimages should help producers taking risks,” Olla said.

“We are a cultural fund. We are not, like MEDIA, an industrial fund. We are there to help producers trying new things and being original.”

Under the current decisionmaking process, Olla suggested, quality is evaluated “on the basis of the classic dramaturgical criteria”.

This means that projects that are presented in a non-

conventional way or use new technology and innovative storytelling and funding models tend to be ignored.

“What we are trying to understand is how we can adapt,” Olla said of the organisation’s attitude toward less orthodox projects.

“We ask ourselves why we reject them. Are they bad because their content is bad or are they bad because we do not understand them?”

Eurimages is setting up a study group to reflect further on its selection criteria.

Olla’s own opinion is clear. He believes Eurimages should continue financing “arthouse mainstream films” from established

Sweden to boost youth features By andrEas WisEMan

Film i Vast, Swedish Television and the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) are joining forces to boost the number of films in Sweden aimed at young audiences.

The initiative, Bombay Basic, led by former SFI consultant Linus Stohr Torell, will see the trio

of Swedish backers and production company Copenhagen Bombay — run by producer Sarita Christensen — develop original features for the youth market with the industry.

The partners aim to release two films theatrically per year and will provide marketing support.

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By Liz shackLEtOn

tenor to sing in hk, israel South Korea’s More In Group has sold biopic The Tenor Lirico Spinto, about Korean tenor Bae Jae-chul, to Israel (Nachshon Film) and Hong Kong (Lighten Distribution).

Yoo Ji-tae (Oldboy) plays a singer who loses his voice to thyroid cancer. The film is directed by Kim Sang-man.

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auteurs working for solid production companies. “We should keep on doing this because it is our brand and it is what the market wants,” he said.

One idea Olla is floating is that Eurimages uses money recouped from mainstream arthouse films to invest in less traditional fare.

“That money, which is between ¤1.5m-¤2m [$1.7m-$2.3m] a year, instead of re-investing it in the fund as a rollover system, we could put it aside and reserve it for more delicate films.”

Here in Berlin, there are nine features in official selection that have received Eurimages support, including opening title Nobody Wants The Night by Isabel Coixet.

Chinese production company Chinese Shadows, which recently established an international sales arm, has sold Wang Xiaoshuai’s Red Amnesia to Les Acacias for France.

Hong Kong-based Edko Films is handling Southeast Asia sales on the film and has sold it to GV Films for Singapore. Edko Films will also handle its distribution in Hong Kong.

Wang edited a slightly shorter cut of the film following its world premiere at Venice Film Festival last year. The film has also played at Toronto, Busan and Cairo film festivals, among others, with Zhong Lu winning best actress at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

Chinese Shadows, headed by Isabelle Glachant, has also picked

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“We have identified a need to modernise children’s films to make them relevant to the kids in Sweden today. Bombay Basic is the first step for the Swedish Film Institute to further develop and focus on children’s films,” said Hjalmar Palmgren, director of production funding.

Anwar exposes Indonesia’s Berlinale gaffe

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up Israeli director Lior Shamriz’s Korea-Germany co-production Cancelled Faces during Berlinale.

The film receives its world premiere in Berlin’s Forum Expanded section tonight.

Glachant’s slate also includes Tibetan film-maker Chakme Rinpoche’s Ata, Taiwanese director Wang Wei-ming’s (Sex) Appeal and Indonesian film-maker Eddie Cahyono’s Siti.

The Indonesian government has sacked a senior official after it emerged the Tourism Ministry sent a delegation to the Berlinale that had no connection to the film industry.

The scandal was exposed by film-maker Joko Anwar, who tweeted that young Indonesians selected for the festival and Berlinale Talent Campus were not able to attend.

Indonesia’s director for film industry development, Armein Firmansyah, was fired and the delegation recalled — resulting in an empty booth at the Marriott this week.

Carnaby spies sales for Rhys Meyers thriller London-based Carnaby International has inked deals on espionage thriller Damascus Cover, set to star Jonathan Rhys Meyers (pictured), John Hurt and Olivia Thirlby.

Deals have closed with Spain (Flins y Piniculas), Middle East (Gulf Films), Indonesia (PT Prima Cinema), former Yugoslavia (Discovery), South Korea (Mountain Pictures) and Malaysia (KRU Group).

Xeitgeist Entertainment Group has joined Big Book Media as investment and production partner on the film, about a spy sent to smuggle a chemical-weapons scientist out of Damascus.

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autlook docs snapped up

By GEOffrEy MacnaB

Iraqi Odyssey is one of a raft of titles to secure sales for documentary specialist Autlook.

The 3D Panorama title, tracing the emigrations of the film-maker’s family over more than half a century, has gone to Italy (iWonder) while Look Now! has also picked up rights for Switzerland in a deal negotiated directly with producers Dschoint Ventschr.

Middle East Broadcasting Center has also taken the film and will broadcast the 163-minute version in MENA. There is likely to be a theatrical release in Iraq prior to the broadcast.

Autlook’s debt crisis documentary The Forecaster has now gone to Italy (iWonder). Farbfilm will release in Germany while Praesens Film has taken Swiss rights.

Meanwhile, Autlook has sold The Ceremony to Italy ( Just Wanted) and Taiwan (IPA Asia).

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Life Reviewed by Lee Marshall As chilled as the New York and Indiana winterscapes where most of the film is set, and as selfconsciously stylish as a hep-cat cocktail bar, this portrait of the brief friendship between Magnum photographer Dennis Stock and rising star James Dean leads, mostly, to the iconic photo of Dean in Times Square that was published in LIFE magazine, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, collar turned up against the rain.

It takes the long route, meandering through the unlikely rapport between Robert Pattinson’s Stock and Dane DeHaan’s Dean, circling around two difficult characters as they tussle with their own demons, and who seem to become more elusive the more we see of them.

At first this understated approach is refreshing, hitting the same minor key as the film’s breathy jazz soundtrack, but by the end a certain frustration has set in, with not quite enough payback to justify the script’s slow-burn dramatic arc. Director Anton Corbijn, a celebrated still photographer before he began a double life in film with Ian Curtis biopic Control, is clearly fascinated by the power-play between photographer and subject — but the script toys with the theme like a kitten with a ball of wool, and with the same attention span.

What resonates more than the wary friend-

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110mins Director Anton Corbijn Production companies Telefilm Canada, Film4, Screen Australia, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, FilmNation Entertainment, Corner Piece Capital, Entertainment One, Harold Greenberg Fund, Cross City Sales, See-Saw Films, First Generation Films, Barry Films Production International sales FilmNation Entertainment, info@wearefilmnation.com Producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Christina Piovesan, Benito Mueller, Wolfgang Mueller Screenplay Luke Davies Cinematography Charlotte Bruus Christensen Main cast Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Joel Edgerton

ship between Dean and Stock is the film’s portrait of an era, which is presented, for all its sharp suits and show of solid American values, as unsure of itself, ragged and hungry beneath its shiny veneer. This is a more austere package than the casting and Jimmy Dean angle might suggest, and will likely play more at the arthouse end of the urban crossover market (not unlike another recent DeHaan-starring dalliance with post-war US cultural icons, the Beatpoet drama Kill Your Darlings).

Pattinson’s Stock is an insecure young photographer with ambitions to make great art for Magnum (where Joel Edgerton plays his agency boss John Morris) but for the time being he is stuck on the film publicity and red-carpet treadmill in Los Angeles. Here, at a party hosted

by Nicholas Ray, he meets the then relatively unknown Dean. The latter seems to recognise another troubled creative soul, and he invites Stock to a preview screening of East Of Eden the following day.

With an estranged wife and young son to support back in New York, Stock is torn between the need to make money and his artistic ambitions. He realises Dean, then on the brink of major stardom, could be the perfect subject for a photo essay in LIFE magazine; the Holy Grail for serious photographers at the time.

What follows is a long courtship as the conflicted Stock tries to talk the conflicted Dean into doing a shoot to provide exposure the actor is not sure he wants. The Hollywood system

into which he is on the verge of being sucked is embodied here in the film’s tastiest performance: a nasally enhanced Ben Kingsley as studio boss Jack Warner, who lays down the contractual law to the moody young star.

Stock follows Dean to New York, where the photographer tries awkwardly to bond with his young son, and, always looking for the killer shot, accompanies the star around his old Actors Studio workshops and hangouts. Then it is off to rural Indiana, where Dean grew up on a farm owned by his Quaker uncle and aunt.

The two leads convince as actors; it is the characters who are more of a problem. DeHaan method acts his way into the persona of a consummate method actor whose cool persona was partly a protective screen. Pattinson’s hangdog role is defined by an exchange in which Dean says he is disappointed in him, and Stock replies, “You’re not the only one.”

But this resentment and self-hatred simmers for too long without much reason or outlet, to the point where we start to wonder what Dean could possibly have seen in the photographer, other than something the script always coyly denies — that Stock might be useful for his career.

Script problems aside, the film delivers on all the tech fronts, from production design to costumes to — unsurprisingly — the pin-sharp widescreen photography that nails 1950s Americana without needing lazy references to Edward Hopper.

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Reviewed by Lee Marshall A quirky, intriguing drama with supernatural overtones sees Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska shift into an unexpected, and refreshing, darkly comic mode as she explores the intimate though often unbalanced rapport between mind and body, the supposedly eternal soul and temporary here and now.

It plays a bit like a Krzysztof Kieslowski film with a sense of humour; all that’s missing is that great Polish director’s way with a script. Better at beginnings and middles than endings, Szumowska sets up a premise of rich, novelistic potential, but wraps it up like a clichéd short story. There is, however, plenty to enjoy along the way, not least the performances of three fine actors inhabiting three memorable characters — especially veteran Janusz Gajos’s bitter police chief and Maja Ostaszewska’s New Age therapist. Though it lacks the Binoche-bait of her 2011 film Elles, Body is fresh and original enough to attract some arthouse interest in selected territories.

The wonderful opening scene establishes both Body’s darkly deadpan sense of humour and its major theme.

The corpulent, bad-tempered criminal prosecutor played

by Gajos is called to a riverside location where a man has apparently hung himself. After his body is cut down, the man gets up and staggers off. The prosecutor returns home to his moody, severely anorexic teenage daughter Olga, who hates her gruff, unsympathetic, hard-drinking father and misses the mother who died five years ago.

After a cry-for-help suicide attempt, the prosecutor drags Olga to a clinic for eating disorders. Here she joins a group of anorexic teenage girls that are in the care of therapist Anna (Ostaszewska), a self-satisfied spinster with tragically dated dress sense who shares her food, and her bed, with her dog. She is gradually revealed to be a medium as well as a conventional therapist, relaying messages from loved ones via automatic writing.

Balanced neatly between ghost story and family drama, scepticism and belief, Body is an intriguing study of imperfect bodies in an imperfect world, and the tricks the mind plays to make things better.

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Pol. 2015. 90mins Director Malgorzata Szumowska Production companies Nowhere, D35, Kino Swiat, Mazowiecki Fundusz Filmowy International sales Memento Films International, sales@ memento-films.com Producers Jacek Drosio, Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert Executive producer Lambros Ziotas Screenplay Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert Cinematography Michal Englert Editor Jacek Drosio Production designer Elwira Pluta Main cast Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala, Ewa Dalkowska, Adam Woronowicz

One thing missing in Pablo Larrain’s new movie is a touch of Luis Bunuel. Without it, the fierce, sarcastic attack he launches against the Catholic Church looks a little too much like a self-motivated settling of accounts, terribly angry and lacking a perspective that would put it all into the right context. The frequent scandals the church has been involved in recently suggest Larrain is not barking up the wrong tree, but, as was the case in such films as Tony Manero and Post Mortem, he is too easily tempted into looking down on his protagonists and showering them with ridicule, whether or not they deserve it.

The ‘Club’ of the title refers to a house near a dilapidated little Chilean town, used by the church to put disaffected priests out to pasture, all of whom have strayed from the “path of sanctity” and need to be hidden away from the eyes of the world.

Living in a kind of open prison with restrictions that should prevent them falling into temptation once again, they are cared for by former nun Mother Monica (Antonia Zegers) who looks on these grown men as her wayward children to be kept in line with a firm hand.

The house is shaken out of its peaceful complacency on the arrival of Father Lazcano (Jose Soza), another sinful priest. He is followed by one of his early victims, a vagabond who calls himself Sandokan (Roberto Farias), once an altar boy who was sexually abused by the priest.

A shocking turn compels the church to send one of its specialised henchmen to investigate the case before the onset of yet another scandal.

Shot mostly against the light as if to hide their features in the shadows, The Club (El Club) is wrapped in a kind of murky mist that somehow reflects the moral state of his protagonists. Unlike his early films, dealing exclusively with past Chilean politics, this time, given the long arm of the church, Larrain’s theme is indeed universal.

But heavy dialogue spiced with sardonic remarks about the hypocrisy of organised faith may make it difficult for it to break out of the arthouse circuit.

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Chile. 2015. 98mins Director Pablo Larrain Production companies Fabula, Santiago de Chile International sales Funny Balloons, contact@ funny-balloons.com Producers Juan de Dios Larrain Screenplay Guillermo Calderon, Daniel Villalobos, Pablo Larrain Cinematography Sergio Armstrong Editor Sebastian Sepulveda Production designer Estefania Larrain Main cast Roberto Farias, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking, Marcelo Alonso, Jose Soza, Francisco Reyes

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Woman In Gold Reviewed by Mark Adams A classy real-life story of one woman’s journey to reclaim her family’s heritage in the face of opposition from the Austrian establishment, Simon Curtis’s impressively staged drama features yet another towering performance from Helen Mirren. She plays an elderly Jewish woman who seeks to retrieve family possessions stolen by the Nazis some 60 years earlier, among them a famous Klimt painting now deemed to be an Austrian national treasure.

Though perhaps lacking in a real sense of dramatic tension, veering towards the schmaltzy at times and needing a far tighter ending, Woman In Gold is still a thoroughly enjoyable story. The film is told engagingly and with a nice line in gentle humour to balance the legal-battle structure, which can veer towards dryness at times. It is an often enthralling story, shrewdly punctuated by flashbacks (with the young Maria played by Tatiana Maslany) that help tell the story of a wealthy Jewish family whose lives are torn apart by the Nazi occupation of Vienna.

Mirren’s amusingly strident Maria Altmann is a terrific character for the actress, driven by a determination to seek justice for her family and her heritage, but also reluctant to face up to the realities of what happened to her in Vienna, a city she has refused to visit since her escape 60

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years earlier. The film also features an engagingly subtle performance by Ryan Reynolds as inexperienced lawyer Randy Schoenberg — the son of a family friend and whose family also has links to Austria — and offers a nice change of pace and tone for the actor.

After the death of her sister, Maria comes across a letter in her belongings about unsuccessful attempts to recover five Klimt paintings that had belonged to the family and which now hang in Vienna’s Belvedere gallery. She thinks she has a case for restitution, and after seeking advice from the initially reluctant Randy, the pair head to Vienna but are faced with a blunt

determination from the authorities to keep the paintings in Austria. The painting is now known as Woman In Gold, rather than its original title, Portrait Of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, a portrait of Maria’s beloved aunt.

With help from Austrian journalist Hubertus Czernin (Daniel Brühl) they embark on a lengthy legal battle, taking on the Austrian establishment and heading all the way to the US Supreme Court. Mirren is funny, feisty and steely as Maria, a woman torn between trying to leave behind the past and seeking justice, and though there are a few structural missteps the film works as an enthralling real-life drama.

ordering the same dish. But sooner or later, something is bound to happen. His domineering mother has an affair and wouldn’t mind having Fusi out of her hair every once in a while. The lecherous new boyfriend offers him a free coupon for a dance school, where he meets Sjofn (Ilmur Kristjansdottir), a friendly young woman who carries a heavy load of personal problems.

The encounter between these two lonely souls leads to an unlikely affair. Kari, true to his own brand of humour, keeps it all simple and

straightforward. Emotions are suggested rather than declared; the characters, the background and, most importantly, the unobtrusive choice of camera angles and direction allow the story to flow freely and naturally.

Jonsson’s Fusi is perfect and the part seems tailor-made for him. His performance conveying, without any apparent effort, the gamut of emotions that take him from belated adolescence through to maturity. Kristjansdottir’s Sjofn may be a smaller part but she handles it with aplomb and this goes for the rest of the cast.

Virgin Mountain Reviewed by Dan Fainaru Believe it or not, the title does not refer to a specific geographical site but to a very specific human being. The man is vastly mountainous, 24 stone or more, rather dishevelled, in his forties, terribly shy and still living with his mother.

Such is Fusi (Gunnar Jonsson), the hero of Dagur Kari’s tender romantic comedy, a belated coming-of-age story with just the right touch of melancholy to make it all the more plausible.

Fusi works on the ground crew of an airport, loading and unloading aeroplanes, and plays at home with his toy soldiers, reconstructing the armies fighting the battle of El Alamein. He is a giant but still a kid at heart, with the man waiting for a chance to come out.

A loner whose only friend is a neighbour who shares his fondness for Second World War battles, Fusi is often the butt of the joke at work, but he would rather endure the cruel practical jokes than complain. When a little girl downstairs befriends him, her newly divorced father goes straight to the police to complain: what would a grown-up man have in common with a little girl? His only solace is phoning in requests for heavy-metal songs on the local radio or having a Thai dinner on Friday night, always

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SPECIAL GALA Ice-Den. 2015. 94mins Director/screenplay Dagur Kari Production companies RVK Studios, Nimbus Film International sales BAC Films Distribution, www.bacfilms.fr Producers Baltasar Kormakur, Agnes Johansen Cinematography Rasmus Videbaek Editors Andri Steinn Gudjonsson, Olivier Bugge Coutte, Dagur Kari Petursson Production designer Halfdan Pedersen Music Slowblow Main cast Gunnar Jonsson, Ilmur Kristjansdottir, Sigurjon Kjartansson, Franziska Una Dagsdottir

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Pioneer Heroes Reviewed by David D’Arcy

Love, Theft And Other Entanglements Reviewed by Jonathan Romney Starting with its flip English-language title, Palestinian feature Love, Theft And Other Entanglements (Al-Hob Wa Al-Sariqa Wa Mashakel Ukhra) never quite manages to give clear signals of the kind of film it intends to be: antihero’s redemptive drama, political thriller or deadpan picaresque comedy. In theory, there should be no problem in Muayad Alayan’s debut narrative feature being all of these, but frustratingly, the film never hits its stride despite striking visual execution.

What the film does provide is proof the hands-on team of Alayan and his brother — co-writer, co-producer and production designer Rami Alayan — mean business with their low-budget collective Palcine Productions. Distribution prospects are middling, although many festivals will look favourably on this politically current statement.

The protagonist is Mousa (Metwasi), first seen on a building site in Israel, but soon walking out in favour of his main trade, car theft. Returning to Palestine, Mousa enjoys a tryst with his girlfriend Manal (Abu Alhayyat), married to a rich man whose young daughter is really Mousa’s progeny. Mousa gets into deep water when quizzed by Palestinian militants seeking a lost car; deeper water still when it turns out the car he has recently stolen contains a hostage, Israeli soldier Avi (Sliman), who was being held to exchange for political prisoners. Then Israeli intelligence starts leaning on Mousa for information about the militants.

One of the film’s key problems is establishing a tone.

At moments, it suggests a dry, detached comedy in the vein of Jim Jarmusch — partly because Alayan’s own black-and-white photography echoes the look of the US director’s early films, partly because of the boisterous score, fusing Middle Eastern music with Ethiopian-style jazz. Elsewhere, though, the tone is in deadly earnest, and it is clear when Israeli intelligence puts the screws on Mousa that the film is not joking about its hero’s predicament nor about the world he inhabits.

Where the film scores considerably is in the director’s formidable black-and-white cinematography, with long takes and elegantly composed landscape shots making the most of the locations. It is a shame this energetic and enterprising film should finally resemble a mood board for a more fully realised piece.

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PANORAMA Pal Terrs. 2015. 93mins Director Muayad Alayan Production company/ sales Palcine Productions, rami@palcine.net Producers/screenplay Muayad Alayan, Rami Alayan Cinematography Muayad Alayan Editor Sameer Qumsiyeh Production designer Rami Alayan Music Nathan Daems Main cast Sami Metwasi, Maya Abu Alhayyat, Riyad Sliman, Ramzi Maqdisi

The recent Red past is partially rehabilitated in Pioneer Heroes (Pionery-Geroi), which lurches between nostalgia and satire as it looks back fondly at the young scouts of the Soviet Union. Long and muddled, this debut feature by writer-director-actress Natalya Kudryashova is unlikely to be released theatrically in many territories beyond its homeland, but its oddity could make it a curiosity on the festival circuit.

Pioneer Heroes begins with a vivid group portrait of Russian kids in the ‘Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’ Young Pioneer organisation in 1987, brimming with personality as they are about to sing. Sergey, who is to perform a solo, wants to join with his peers — a true young pioneer who takes collectivism to heart?

Kudryashova follows Sergey and two of the young girls in that group — Olga and Katya — through adventures in the twilight of the Soviet period. The film shifts between those charming period scenes — a little too charming for a youth movement that praised children who informed on their parents — and what is shown to be the rootlessness of life in Moscow today.

The three former pioneers are as troubled as the rusty industrial or gleaming commercial landscapes are ugly, and Kudryashova suggests that nothing is what it used to be — when the pioneers built discipline, morale and solidarity. If the perspective in the rear-view mirror of life here looks rosy, the scenes from contemporary Russia could hardly be clumsier: with odd sexual confessions from Olga (Kudryashova); emptiness in front of a computer from Sergey (Aleksei Mitin); and Katya (Daria Moroz) confronted by an act of terror that could not be more crudely obvious and racially profiled.

Releasing the state-supported film in Russia could have its problems, since the present-day former pioneers use profanity with abandon, which may require some overdubbing to comply with new Russian laws banning cursing in movies (another reminder that Russia is not what it used to be).

In today’s context, the film brings to mind an observation by the late media theorist Marshall McLuhan, that when something ceases to serve a need, it either passes into obsolescence, or it becomes a work of art. Here Kudryashova has seized on the latter approach, taking the memory of the mass regimentation of youth and making it decorous. Art would have required her to be as sceptical of the past as she is of the present.

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Qumra Doha Film Institute presents Qumra, a gathering of creative film professionals designed to provide mentorship, nurturing and development to emerging filmmakers from Qatar and around the world.

Thirty-one projects with an emphasis on first- and second-time filmmakers, including independent filmmakers from Qatar and recipients of funding from the Institute, have been selected to participate in the inaugural edition. The industry programme will connect these filmmakers with industry mentors for tailored consultations and workshops, as well as master classes with five acclaimed Qumra Masters.

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Asphalt

Director: Jihane Chouaib Lebanon, France, Qatar

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Director: Ali Hammoud Libya, Egypt, Qatar, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan

By the Time it Gets Dark

Holy Cow

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong Thailand, France, Qatar

Director: Imamaddin Hasanov Azerbaijan, Germany, Romania, Qatar

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Salaam Plenty

Director: Arab & Tarzan Abunasser France, Palestine, Jordan, Qatar

Director: Yasmine Kassari Morocco, Australia, Belgium, Qatar

Frenzy

What Comes Around

Director: Emin Alper Turkey, Germany, France, Qatar

Director: Reem Saleh Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar

Mountain Director: João Salaviza Portugal, France, Qatar

The Garbage Helicopter Director: Jonas Selberg Augustén Sweden, Qatar

The Wounded Angel Director: Emir Baigazin Kazakhstan, Russian Federation, Germany, Qatar

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Green Eyes

Director: Sophia Al-Maria Egypt, USA, Qatar

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Our Time Is Running Out

Director: Nora Al Subai Qatar

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In Search of Adam

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Pizza O Bass

Director: Ahmed Ibrahim Al Baker Qatar

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Little River

Superpower

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Madmen’s Fort

The Taste of Apples Is Red

Director: Narimane Mari Algeria, France, Qatar

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Wooden Rifle

the Flying Headscarf

Director: Alfouz Tanjour Lebanon, Syria, Qatar

Director: Susan Youssef Lebanon, The Netherlands, USA, Qatar

Me Myself and Murdoch Director: Yahya Alabdallah Jordan, Palestine, France, Qatar

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(Russian Federation, Ukraine, Poland) Films Boutique. 130mins.

Dir: Alexey German Jr. Cast: Louis Franck, Merab Ninidze, Viktoriya Korotkova, Chulpan Khamatova, Viktor Bugakov, Karim Pakachakov, Konstantin Zeliger, Anastasiya Melnikova, Piotr Gasowski.

People drift aimlessly through a bizarre snowscape strewn with bits of steel and concrete. Seven metaphorical episodes about the spiritual state of a country that is coming apart at the seams, trapped between a washedup past and an imaginary future.

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(Chile) Funny Balloons.

98mins. Dir: Pablo Larrain. Cast: Roberto Farias, Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking, Jaime Vadell, Marcelo Alonso, Francisco Reyes, Jose Soza.

A group of priests live in a house on the Chilean coast where they are looked after by a nun. The film mercilessly probes into the dark past of these servants of God and reveals contradictions in the Catholic church. competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

09:30 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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(Thailand) Mosquito Films Distribution.

85mins. Dir: Kongdej Jaturanrasmee.

After his entertaining appearances in a Buddhist reality show, seven-yearold William is something of a celebrity – and he really does want to become a monk later on. Whereas 11-year-old Bundit cannot cope with the constraints of his religious school.

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the Valley

(Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar, UAE) Doc & Film International.

128mins. Dir: Ghassan Salhab. Cast: Carlos Chahine, Carole Abboud, Fadi Abi Samra, Mounzer Baalkabi, Yumna Marwan, Aouni Kawas, Rodrigue Sleiman, Ahmad Ghossein.

A man loses his memory in

an accident and is taken in by a group of strangers.

Their estate turns out to be an illegal drug factory, while the rumblings of a distant war also threaten to break the uneasy calm.

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(France, Haiti, Norway) Doc & Film International.

130mins. Dir: Raoul Peck. Cast: Ayo, Alex Descas, Thibault Vincon, Lovely Kermonde Fifi, Albert Moleon.

Haiti after the earthquake of 2010. A middle-class couple has to rent out their damaged villa and is confronted with unfamiliar lifestyles. An intimate drama about social contrasts which poses fundamental questions about responsibility and justice.

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WacKen — the MoVie

(Germany) 92mins.

Dir: Norbert Heitker.

Takes you on stage and behind the curtain of the biggest Metal festival in the world. Experience four days of music, mud and madness with Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Motorhead, Rammstein and many other bands. lola at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2

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(UK) The Weinstein Company. 107mins.

Dir: Simon Curtis.

Cast: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Bruhl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons, Charles Dance, Antje Traue, Elizabeth McGovern, Jonathan Pryce.

Octogenarian Maria Altmann travels from the US to Vienna to champion the restitution of a painting stolen by www.screendaily.com

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11:00 The gulls

(Russian Federation) Antipode Sales & Distribution. 87mins.

Dir: Ella Manzheeva.

Cast: Evgeniya Mandzhieva, Sergey Adianov, Evgeny Sangadzhiev, Lyubov Ubushieva, Dmitry Mukeyev.

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

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

Nelson Camayo.

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

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(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.

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(Germany, France) The Match Factory.

117mins. Dir: Andreas Dresen. Cast: Merlin Rose, Julius Nitschkoff, Marcel Heuperman, Joel Basman, Frederic Haselon, Ruby O. Fee, Chiron Elias Krase, Luna Rosner, Tom von Heymann, Nico Ramon Kleemann.

A gang of boys in Leipzig just after the collapse of East Germany and their nightly adventures between the boxing club, disco and juvenile prison.

An authentic cinematic parable about friendship and betrayal, hope and illusion, brutality and tenderness.

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MuDiMbe’s orDer oF Things

(Cameroon) 243mins.

Dir: Jean-Pierre Bekolo.

In this epic and very persona l documentary portrait, African philosopher Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is interviewed at his home in the US about living in exile

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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.

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The ShePherd oF The hillS

(US) 97mins. Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey.

A hillbilly swears to kill his father, whom he holds responsible for his mother’s death. The film is an enthralling melodrama, set in the Ozarks in the days when they cooked up moonshine. retrospective cinemaxX 8

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(Germany) 94mins.

Dir: Regina Schilling.

Actress and writer Adriana Altaras tells the story of her “high maintenance family”. She is from a country that no longer exists and is the daughter of Jewish partisans who started a new life in postwar Germany. lola at Berlinale zoo Palast 2

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(Japan) ColorBird.

103mins. Dir: Izumi Takahashi. Cast: Hiromasa Hirosue, Miho Ohshita, Takashi Matsumoto, Midori Shin-e, Yasuhiro Isobe, Hikaru Takanezawa, Satoshi Yabumoto, Keiko Sugawara, Akie Namiki.

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(Argentina) Fandango.

88mins. Dir: Sergio Mazza. Cast: Maximiliano Garcia, Sofia Gala Castiglione, Daniel Araoz, Susana Hornos, Federico Luppi, Belen Blanco, Ian Franco Morales.

Director’s statement: “I wanted to portray the inner workings of people in a realistic way against a decidedly fantastic setting. My intent was not to focus on deafness; rather, I wanted to use physical movement to depict communication with others.”

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Gonzalo is only 10 years old and must look after his baby sister all by himself, with help from the neighbours. He has no idea if his mother will ever return. But gradually, the fog of uncertainty begins to lift. generation 14Plus haus der Kulturen der Welt

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(Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary) Transilvania Film. 130mins. Dir: Tudor Giurgiu. Cast: Emilian Oprea, Mihai Constantin, Andreea Vasile, Dan Condurache, Liviu Pintileasa, Mihai Smarandache, Alin Florea, Lucretia Mandric.

Corrupt politicians, corrupt investigators and in between a young lawyer who must decide between his career and the truth. A bleak picture of a society looking for a new beginning. But how can this happen while old methods and values prevail?

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(Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway) HanWay Films. 118mins.

Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rachel McAdams, Marie-Josee Croze, Robert Naylor, Patrick Bauchau, Peter Stormare.

A winter’s evening. A

country road. It is snowing, visibility is poor. Out of nowhere, a sledge glides down a hill. Brakes are slammed on, the car comes to a halt. Silence. Tomas, a novelist, is not to blame for this tragic accident, neither is little Christopher, who could have kept a closer eye on his brother, nor Kate, the mother of the two, who could have called the children in earlier. The film follows Tomas over 12 years in his attempt to give his life meaning again, just as much as it follows Kate and Christopher until the latter is 17 years old and finally decides to face the man he met only once before, on that fateful evening. competition (out of competition) Press only cinemaxX 7

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

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 much-needed cash and possibly change Misa’s mind, Peter and his manager Zvonko embark on a tour, where success is not measured in victories, but in the amount of blows that Koza can take.

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(Germany) ZDF Enterprises. 90mins.

Dir: Matthias Glasner.

Cast: Jurgen Vogel, Thomas Heinze, Maja Schone, Jordis Triebel, Christoph Letkowski, Agnieszka Piwowarska, Jorg Pose, Gisa Flake, Thomas Lawinky, Carol Schuler.

A criminal past catches up with Berlin policeman Blochin. His brotherin-law and colleague, Stotzner, tries to cover up for him. The two contrasting characters suddenly find themselves

at the centre of a political intrigue.

social conditions destroy their love?

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(Chile) Funny Balloons.

98mins. Dir: Pablo Larrain. Cast: Roberto Farias, Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking, Jaime Vadell, Marcelo Alonso, Francisco Reyes, Jose Soza.

A group of priests lives in a house on the Chilean coast, where they are looked after by a nun. The film mercilessly probes into the dark past of these servants of God and reveals contradictions in the Catholic church.

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(China, UK) 86mins.

Dir: Emyr ap Richard, Darhad Erdenibulag.

Cast: Bayin, Jula, Yirgui, Altanochir, Zandaraa, Nomindalai, Ariuna, Urinshaa.

This quietly radical adaption of Kafka’s ‘The

STuBBorN Boy

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

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.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1

(Netherlands, Germany) Mountain Road Entertainment Group.

94mins. Dir: Saskia Diesing. Cast: Abbey Hoes, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Gijs Blom, Monic Hendrickx, Fabian Jansen, Andre Jung.

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

13:45 PorTraIT oF THe arTIST

(France) Reel Suspects.

127mins. Dir: Antoine Barraud. Cast: Bertrand Bonello, Jeanne Balibar, Geraldine Pailhas, Joana Preiss, Pascal Greggory, Sigrid Bouaziz, Valerie Dreville, Nicolas Maury, Barbet Schroeder, Nathalie

Castle’ takes place in a fictional Mongolia, tracing how K struggles against the opaque hierarchies of a strange village, falls in love with a waitress and goes from land surveyor to school janitor.

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Boutefeu, Nazim Boudjenah, Isild Le Besco, Alex Descas, Marta Hoskins, Charlotte Rampling.

A famous director named Bertrand is looking for a painting that will represent the artistic motif of the monstrous in his next film. Over the course of his search, uncanny transformations start

finding their way in his own life too.

Forum CineStar 8

14:00 a PerFeCT PlaCe

(Germany) 40mins.

Dir: Anatol Schuster.

Cast: Matthias Neukirch, Jule Bowe, Raja Rexin, Lukas Kuhl, Robert Schupp, Radik Golovkov, Barbara Philipp, Jurgen Hartmann, Eva-Maria Blumentrath, Sebastian und Martin Fulbrecht.

A family caught between techno and brass-band music. A place caught between a nature reserve and a pig factory. A film which seeks out the extraordinary in the ordinary and unites the seemingly irreconcilable in tragicomic beauty.

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ParaGuayaN HammoCK How To wIN aT CHeCKerS (eVery TIme)

(Thailand, US, Indonesia) M-Appeal.

80mins. Dir: Josh Kim. Cast: Thira Chutikul, Ingarat Damrongsakkul, Iirah Wimonchailerk, Arthur Navarat, Vatanya Thamdee, Warattha Kaew-on, Natarat Lakha, Anawat Patnawanitchakun, Kovit Wattanakul, Nanthita Khamphiranon.

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

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

An ageing couple of 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 they struggle to maintain a hopeful outlook in the worst of situations.

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SweeTHearTS

(US) 114mins. Dir: WS Van Dyke II. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan.

SCREENINGS

debut is 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.

Panorama Special CinemaxX 7

PrinCe

Festival & Press 15:30 tell SPrinG not to Come thiS Year

(UK) Sabatour. 87mins.

Dir: Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy.

A year with a unit in the Afghan National Army tasked with pacifying

Helmand Province after the withdrawal of NATO troops — a Sisyphean task. A series of endless conflicts in epic images, told from an Afghan point of view.

Panorama dokumente Colosseum 1

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.

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out on the Street

The stars of the Broadway operetta ‘Sweethearts’ are happily married offstage.

But when Hollywood comes calling, all that changes. retrospective CinemaxX 8

unoCCuPied

(Germany) 63mins.

Dir: Filippa Bauer.

Rooms empty of people are full of stories. Four women narrate how it felt when their children suddenly left home. There is peace and freedom but also melancholia and loneliness in their freefall reflections about shedding one’s skin.

Perspektive deutsches Kino Press only CinemaxX 5

14:30 Jia ZhanG-Ke, a GuY From FenYanG

(Brazil) MK2. 105mins.

Dir: Walter Salles.

In Walter Salles’ tribute to his Chinese colleague Jia Zhang-ke, he accompanies him as he retraces his cinematic steps. This portrait shows the radical changes of a country which have inspired the work of one of the great

film-makers of our time.

Panorama dokumente CineStar 7

the Sea iS Behind

(Morocco) Pan Production. 88mins.

Dir: Hicham Lasri. Cast: Malek Akhmiss, Hassan Badida, Yassine Sekkal, Mohammed Aouragh, Adil Lasri, Fairouz Amiri, Najat Khairallah, Hanane Zouhdi, Zineb Smaiki.

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, director Hicham Lasri tells of Moroccan traditions and trance, and of intolerance and violence.

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15:00 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

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(Egypt) 78mins. Dir: Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk. Cast: Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El Rob’, Ahmed Kamel Taha El Nouby, Aly Khalili, Hassan El Gharieb Mohamed, Khalaf Ibrahim Ahmed, Mohamed Mahmoud, Saeed Ramadan Hassan, Sabry Hakiem Khella.

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

During rehearsals, stories of factory injustice, police brutality, corrupt courts, and exploitation by capitalist employers emerge.

through a bizarre snowscape strewn with bits of steel and concrete. Seven metaphorical episodes about the spiritual state of a country that is coming apart at the seams, trapped between a washedup past and an imaginary future.

Competition Berlinale Palast

15:30 i am miChael

(US) The Exchange.

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

Justin Kelly’s feature

(Netherlands) Mongrel International. 78mins.

Dir: Sam de Jong. Cast: Ayoub Elasri, Jorik Scholten, Achraf Meziani, Oussama Addi, Elsie De Brauw, Sigrid Ten Napel, Olivia Lonsdale, Chaib Massaoudi, Peter Douma, Freddy Tratlehner.

These suburban boys all dream of motorbikes, Rolex watches and, naturally, girls. Ayoub is head over heels in love with pretty Laura. But if he wants her he will need more to show for himself than no-name sneakers and a junkie for a father.

Generation 14Plus Zoo Palast 1

Short SKin

(Italy) Films Boutique.

86mins. Dir: Duccio Chiarini. Cast: Matteo Creatini, Francesca Agostini, Nicola Nocchi, Miriana Raschillà, Bianca Ceravolo, Bianca Nappi, Michele Crestacci, Francesco Acquaroli,

Crisula Stafida, Anna Ferzetti, Lisa Granuzza di Vita.

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

He cannot wait for his first time and girls seem to like him. But a painful problem affecting his delicate member prevents him from going all the way.

Generation 14Plus Cubix 8

Snow PirateS

(Turkey) 83mins. Dir: Faruk Hacıhafızoglu.

Cast: Taha Tegin Ozdemir, Yakup Ozgur Kurtaal, Omer Uluc, Yucel Can, Isa Mastar, Ilker Sır, Oguzhan Ulukaya, Arda Ilkin Parlak, Figen Oral Cebel, Sureyya Koca, Zeki Aktas.

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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under eleCtriC CloudS

(Russian Federation, Ukraine, Poland) Films Boutique. 130mins.

Dir: Alexey German Jr. Cast: Louis Franck, Merab Ninidze, Viktoriya Korotkova, Chulpan Khamatova, Viktor Bugakov, Karim Pakachakov, Konstantin Zeliger, Anastasiya Melnikova, Piotr Gasowski.

People drift aimlessly

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(Japan) Wide House. 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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16:00 FolloW The MoNey

(Denmark) DR Sales.

118mins. Dir: Per Fly. Cast: Thomas Bo Larsen, Natalie Madueno, Esben Smed, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Thomas Hwan, Line Kruse.

The cold power of money and the criminal machinations of capitalists: speculators and finance moguls unscrupulously do their mischief, enriching themselves and provoking the next economic tsunami.

Berlinale Special Series haus der Berliner Festspiele

16:10 PeTTiNG Zoo

(Germany, Greece, US) The Match Factory.

93mins. Dir: Micah Magee. Cast: Devon Keller, Austin Reed, Deztiny Gonzales, Jocko Sims, Kiowa Tucker, Adrienne Harrel, Emily Lape, Cory Criswell.

Layla is 17 and pregnant.

Her parents are against abortion and she keeps the child, continues to attend school and takes casual jobs. But a combination of work, stress and fate takes its toll. A tender portrait of a teenager in an extreme situation.

Festival & Press 17:00 The CirCle

(Sweden) 144mins.

Dir: Levan Akin.

Cast: Josefin Asplund, Helena Engstrom, Miranda Frydman, Irma von Platen, Hanna Asp, Leona Axelsen, Ruth Vega Fernandez, Sverrir Gudnason.

After the mysterious suicide of a pupil,

several schoolgirls at a high school discover they have developed magical powers. They are the chosen ones, a group of six witches who — according to an old prophecy — can save the world from being destroyed by demons.

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16:15 NuClear NaTioN ii See box, left

rouGh road ahead

(Germany, Austria) 108mins. Dir: Christian Frosch. Cast Victoria Schulz, Anton Spieker, Ben Becker, Ursula Ofner.

Germany, 1967. Ruby and Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence and, ultimately, institutionalisation. But they’re ready to take on the cause of love. lola at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2

16:30 aFriCaN queeN

(UK, US) 105mins.

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Dir: Huston John.

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine 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. Dye transfer print. retrospective CinemaxX 8

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 Press only CinemaxX 6

FaSSBiNder — To love WiThouT deMaNdS

(Denmark) 109mins.

Dir: Christian Braad Thomsen. Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Irm Hermann, Harry Baer, Andrea Schober, Lilo Pempeit, Margit Carstensen.

Danish film director and historian Christian Braad Thomsen’s illuminating, moving and intimate memories of his friend Rainer W Fassbinder, based on a long conversation held in a hotel room one late afternoon in the 1970s.

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FloCkiNG

(Sweden) Media Luna New Films. 110mins.

Dir: Beata Gardeler.

Cast: Fatime Azemi, John Risto, Eva Melander, Malin Levanon, Jacob Ohrman, Henrik Dorsin, Ville Virtanen, Julia Gronberg, Ayelin Naylin, Paasi Haapala.

A small village in the north of Sweden, where people are upholding a sense of community. A girl claims to have been raped by another pupil but the villagers don’t want to believe her. A nightmare begins for her and her family.

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The NiGhT aNd The kid

(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.

Forum akademie der kunste (hanseatenweg)

16:45 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 CineStar 8

17:00 The CirCle

Muynck, Rodrigo Vissers.

A film in black-and-white.

A narrow path meanders through woods and fields.

A tree and a cross with flowers. This is where something happened that changed Henri’s life forever. He never wants to be dependent on anyone again. Will he find solace?

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NaSTy BaBy

BlaCk NarCiSSuS

(US) Versatile. 100mins.

Dir: SebastiAn Silva.

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

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.

(UK) 101mins. Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar.

A drama distinguished not just by its outstanding use of colour about five nuns setting up a mission in the remote Himalayas.

Physically and emotionally overwhelmed, the women are plagued with profane memories and erotic fantasies.

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17:30 a hole iN My hearT

(Netherlands) Some Shorts. 10mins. Dir: Mees Peijnenburg. Cast: Henri Leblanc, Leyla de

retrospective Zeughauskino

BloodliNeS

(US) 11mins. Dir: Christopher Nataanii Cegielski. Cast: MarcAnthony Pimber, Alex Quevedo, Jon Proudstar.

Two boys cultivate a ranch with their stern father.

When a calf is killed by a wolf, the boys set off »

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SCREENINGS

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10

T.I.M.

Dir: Rolf van Eijk Prod: Dutch Mountain Movies Sales: Attraction Distribution (feature, 82’) 09:30 CinemaxX 14 (efm)

JACK’S WISH

Dir: Anne de Clercq Prod: 2CFilm Sales: Dutch Features Global Entertainment | (feature, 90’) 12:00 CineStar 5 (efm)

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NENA

Dir: Saskia Diesing Prod: KeyFilm Sales: Mountain Road Entertainment Group | (feature, 94’) 14:00 CinemaxX 3

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A HOLE IN MY HEART Dir: Mees Peijnenburg Prod: 100% Halal | (short, 10’) 17:30 CinemaxX 1 (world premiere)

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(South Africa) 90mins.

Dir: Mark Dornford-May. Cast: Pauline Malefane, Sifiso Lupuzi, Mhlekazi (Wha Wha) Mosiea, Busisiwe Ngejane, Luvo Rasemeni, Zebulon (Katlego) Mmusi, Ayanda Eleki, Zamile Gantana.

to hunt it down, the elder hoping that this will earn them the father’s respect. But once they catch up with the wolf, he hesitates to pull the trigger.

Generation 14Plus Short film CinemaxX 1

IraqI OdySSey

(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 cliches. This film proves that history is best understood by exploring the fate of individual people.

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Let’S danCe: BOwIe dOwn Under

(Australia, UK) 12mins.

Dir: Rubika Shah. Cast: David Bowie, David Mallet, Julien Temple, Joelene King, Geeling Ng, Ross Cameron, Marcia Langton, Norman Jay, Kurt Loder,

Mark Dornford-May transposes Puccini’s opera ‘La Boheme’ to the townships of contemporary South Africa. In doing so he reveals the everyday lives of the poor people who live there and their fight against tuberculosis.

Berlinale Special Cubix 8

Matt Coyte.

A young Aboriginal couple in love travel through a country that once was theirs.

Now they belong nowhere.

Conditions are unbearable.

A film about the making of the famous music video for David Bowie’s 1983 hit ‘Let’s Dance’.

Generation 14Plus Short film CinemaxX 1

SUme — the SOUnd Of a revOLUtIOn

(Greenland, Denmark, Norway) DR Sales. 73mins.

Dir: Inuk Silis Høegh.

From 1973 to 1979, the rock band Sume’s songs provided the soundtrack for young people in Greenland who were protesting for independence from Denmark.

A portrait of a band that is also a film about the struggle against colonialism in northern Europe.

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thIS IS COSmOS

(US) 30mins. Dir: Anton

Vidokle. Cast: Iman Musa Kulmohhametov, Svetlana.

A cinematic investigation of the ideas of Russian philosopher Nikolai Fedorov, who believed that death was a mistake. Fedorov was one of the Cosmo-Immortalists, who wanted to create “cosmos” on Earth. forum expanded mid-length film Press only CinemaxX 6

17:45

Vadell, Marcelo Alonso, Francisco Reyes, Jose Soza.

A group of priests lives in a house on the Chilean coast where they are looked after by a nun. The film mercilessly probes into the dark past of these servants of God and reveals contradictions in the Catholic church.

Competition friedrichstadt-Palast

18:30

ChOrUS

hedI SChneIder IS StUCk

(Canada) Doc & Film International. 97mins. Dir: Francois Delisle. Cast: Sebastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Genevieve Bujold, Pierre Curzi, Luc Senay, Didier Lucien, Antoine L’Ecuyer.

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.

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

Dir: Sonja Heiss. Cast: Laura Tonke, Hans Low, Leander Nitsche, Melanie Straub, Simon Schwarz, Margarita Broich, Matthias Bundschuh, Rosa Enskat, Urs Jucker, Alex Brendemuhl.

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.

Panorama Press only CineStar 3

18:00 Breathe UmPhefUmLO See box, above

forum kino Union

19:00 Better CaLL SaUL

the CLUB

(Chile) Funny Balloons.

98mins. Dir: Pablo Larrain.

Cast: Roberto Farias, Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking, Jaime

(US) Netflix. 99mins.

Dir: Colin Bucksey, Adam Bernstein, Vince Gilligan, Cast: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Patrick Fabian, Rhea Seehorn, Michael Mando.

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FROM THE NETHERLANDS TUE FEB 10 - WED FEB 11 The ‘Breaking Bad’ spin-off explores the hustling earlier life of Walter White’s quickwitted lawyer Saul and his transformation into the defence lawyer who is as bad as his criminal clientele.

Berlinale Special Series Haus der Berliner Festspiele

THe CaT HaS NiNe LiveS

(Federal Republic of Germany) Deutsche Kinemathek. 92mins.

Dir: Ula Stockl. Cast: Liane Hielscher, Marie Philippine (= Kristine Deloup), Jurgen Arndt, Antje Ellermann, Alexander Kaempfe, Elke Kummer, Hartmut Kirste, Wolfgang von UngernSternberg, Heidi Stroh.

This narrative essay film set in 1960s Munich about five women and their lives is considered the first West German feminist film. Originally shot in Techniscope, the wide-screen format used by Technicolor.

World premiere of the digitally restored version.

Berlinale Classics CinemaxX 8

PeTTiNg Zoo

(Germany, Greece, US) The Match Factory. 93mins.

Dir: Micah Magee. Cast: Devon Keller, Austin Reed, Deztiny Gonzales,

Jocko Sims, Kiowa Tucker, Adrienne Harrel, Emily Lape, Cory Criswell.

Layla is 17 and pregnant.

Her parents are against abortion and so she keeps the child, continues to attend school and takes casual jobs. But a combination of work, stress and fate takes its toll. A tender portrait of a teenager in an extreme situation.

Panorama Special Zoo Palast 1

19:15 THe guLLS

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

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

Forum Delphi Filmpalast

H.

(US, Argentina) Film Sales

Company. 97mins. Dir: Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia.

Cast: Robin Bartlett, Rebecca Dayan, Will Janowitz, Julian Gamble, Roger Robinson.

In this modern take on a Greek myth, a young artist named Helen is pregnant, while her older namesake looks after a lifelike replica baby. When a peculiar meteorite hits close to Troy, New York State, it has an increasingly uncanny effect on their lives.

Forum CineStar 8

19:30 54: THe DireCTor’S CuT

(US) 106mins. Dir: Mark Christopher. Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell, Mike Myers, Sela Ward, Breckin Meyer, Ellen Albertini Dow, Heather Matarazzo, Daniel Lapaine, Lauren Hutton.

In 1998 Mark Christopher created a cinematic tribute to the legendary Studio 54. After the producers intervened, the film was released with 25 minutes of re-shot material. Seventeen years later, Christopher presents his reconstructed original version.

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a PerFeCT PLaCe See box, below

Der geLDKomPLeX (THe moNey ComPLeX)

(Spain) 76mins. Dir: Juan RodrigAnez. Cast: Lola Rubio, Gianfranco Poddighe, Rafael Lamata, Eduard Mont de Palol, Jorge Dutor, Katrin Memmer, Pablo Herranz, Juan RodrigAnez, Cecilia Molano, Julia de Castro, Miguel RodrigAnez.

Revolves around a motley group of revellers at an idyllic country estate: a fiancee from Germany, conversations about love, money and revolution, wine, songs and a secret gold mine.

Forum CinemaxX 4

COMPETITION

EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO

Dir: Peter Greenaway Prod: Submarine + Fu Works Sales: Films Boutique | (feature, 105’) Wed Feb 11, 12:15 Berlinale Palast (press) Wed Feb 11, 19:00 Berlinale Palast (world premiere)

THe goaLie’S aNXieTy aT THe PeNaLTy KiCK

(Federal Republic of Germany, Austria) HanWay Films. 103mins. Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Libgart Schwarz, Rudiger Vogler, Marie Bardischewski, Michael Toost, Bert Fortell, Edda Kochl, Mario Kranz, Ernst Meister, Monika Poschl, Sybille Danzer.

The goalie Josef Bloch is sent off the field for a foul.

FORUM

ZURICH

Dir: Sacha Polak Prod: Viking Film Sales: Beta Cinema (feature, 89’) Tue Feb 10, 22:30 Arsenal 1

GENERATION KPLUS

GIOVANNI AND THE WATER BALLET

Dir: Astrid Bussink Prod: Een van de jongens Sales: NPO Sales (short doc, 17') Tue Feb 10, 10:00 Filmtheater am Friedrichshain Wed Feb 11, 17:30 CinemaxX 1

Festival & Press 19:30 a PerFeCT PLaCe

(Germany) 40mins. Dir: Anatol Schuster. Cast: Matthias Neukirch, Jule Bowe, Raja Rexin, Lukas Kuhl, Robert Schupp, Radik Golovkov, Barbara Philipp, Jurgen Hartmann, Eva-Maria Blumentrath, Sebastian and Martin Fulbrecht.

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A family caught between techno and brass-band music.

A place caught between a nature reserve and a pig factory. A film that seeks out the extraordinary in the ordinary and unites the seemingly irreconcilable in tragicomic beauty.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 3

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SCREENINGS

Therrien, Antoine L’Ecuyer, Karelle Tremblay, Tony Nardi, Marie Brassard, JeanFrancois Pronovost, Dino Tavarone, Francis Ducharme, Simon Pigeon.

In Canada in the 1960s people fight for the independence of the province of Quebec, some with bombs and guns.

One of them is schoolboy Jean Corbo. Radicalised by the movement, he pursues his ideals to the bitter end.

He loses his bearings and commits a murder, almost unintentionally. Influenced by the visual language of Hitchcock movies, Wenders follows the novel by his friend Peter Handke in minute detail.

Homage Zeughauskino

LITTLE FOrEsT

(Japan) Shochiku Co. Ltd. 118mins. Dir: Junichi Mori. Cast: Ai Hashimoto, Karen Kirishima, Takahiro Miura, Mayu Matsuoka, Yoichi Nukumizu.

Farm, cook, eat, live.

‘Little Forest’, shot over the course of a year in NorthEastern Japan, is a fourpart film of four seasons.

It follows the simple but fulfilling life of a girl who cooks delicious dishes from the food she gathers and farms.

Culinary Cinema MGB-Kino

MAdEINusA

(Peru, Spain) The Match Factory. 100mins. Dir: Claudia Llosa. Cast: Magaly Solier, Carlos de la Torre, Yiliana Chong, Ubaldo Huaman, Melvin Quijada.

Burdened by her family and feeling trapped, beautiful Madeinusa decides to take control of her life during the upcoming “Holy Time”, when there is no sin for two days, allowing people to indulge in immoral activities without remorse or punishment.

NATIve — Indigenous Cinema Cinestar IMAX

OvEr THE yEArs

(Austria) Autlook Filmsales. 188mins.

Dir: Nikolaus Geyrhalter.

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

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PArAdIsE IN sErvICE

(Taiwan) Ablaze Image.

133mins. Dir: Doze Niu Chen-Zer. Cast: Ethan

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Festival & Press 20:00 THE vOICE OF WATEr

(Japan) Geta Films, Spirits Project.

129mins. Dir: Masashi Yamamoto. Cast: Hyunri, Shuri, Natsuko Nakamura, Akihiro Kamataki, Kei Oda, Hayate Matsuzaki, Riku Hagiwara, Izumi Minai, Jun Murakami.

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In Tokyo’s Korean quarter, Minjon receives outcasts of all kinds, who tell her of their suffering before being comforted with platitudes. Her ploy is soon so successful that a group of businessmen exploit her popularity to found the “God’s Water” sect.

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

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THE sECONd MOTHEr

(Germany) 63mins.

Dir: Filippa Bauer.

Rooms empty of people are full of stories. Four women narrate how it felt when their children suddenly left home. There is peace and freedom but also melancholia and loneliness in their freefall reflections about shedding one’s skin.

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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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(Lebanon) 30mins.

Dir: Rania Stephan.

The film-maker’s exploration of her personal archive of images and film scenes invokes a fictional detective who helps unfold her deep and traumatic memories. All images weave together into a maze that creates a blueprint of remembrance itself.

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

Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Patrick Fugit, Kentucker Audley, Keith Poulson, Kate Lyn Sheil, Craig Butta.

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

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(US, Germany, France, Denmark, Netherlands) Cinephil. 92mins.

Dir: Laura Nix, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno.

A cinematic diary chronicling subversive activists The Yes Men from 2009 to the present: their interventions — successful or otherwise — and personal moments, all powered by a debunking humour as a weapon against greed, ecocide and climate change.

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20:15 OuT OF NATurE

(Norway) NDM International Sales.

80mins. Dir: Ole Giæver, Marte Vold.

Cast: Ole Giæver, Marte Magnusdotter Solem, Sivert Giæver Solem, Rebekka Nystabakk, Ellen Birgitte Winther, Per Kjerstad, William Valle Bache-Wiig, Trond Peter Stamsø Munch.

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.

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(Israel, Germany) Dogwoof. 84mins. Dir: Mor Loushy.

Israeli writer Amos Oz interviewed returning soldiers after the Six-Day War in 1967. But his tapes were censored by the Israeli Army — and remain so today. Censored Voices brings these voices out of the archive and into the open.

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(Canada) Be For Films.

119mins. Dir: Mathieu Denis. Cast: Anthony

(Portugal) 31mins. Dir: Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Joao Rui Guerra da Mata.

Who inhabits the ancient Iec Long Firecracker Factory? A search for the traces of the history of china crackers, child labour and the ghosts of a majestic ruin.

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(US) 14mins. Dir: Fern Silva.

Mermaids flip a tale of twin detriments, domiciles cradle morph invaders, crocodile trails swallow two-legged twigs in a fecund mash of nature’s outlaws... down in the Everglades Forum Expanded short Film Akademie der Kunste (Hanseatenweg)

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(Germany) Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin. 81mins.

Dir: Moritz Kramer.

Cast: Ceci Chuh, Niels Braun, Monika Wiedemer, Jurgen Lehmann, Lena Drieschner, Margot Kramer.

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

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a family with a foster child.

video shop in Cairo and cats everywhere you look.

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(Germany, France) The Match Factory.

117mins. Dir: Andreas Dresen. Cast: Merlin Rose, Julius Nitschkoff, Marcel Heuperman, Joel Basman, Frederic Haselon, Ruby O. Fee, Chiron Elias Krase, Luna Rosner, Tom von Heymann, Nico Ramon Kleemann.

A gang of boys in Leipzig just after the collapse of East Germany and their nightly adventures between the boxing club, disco and juvenile prison.

An authentic cinematic parable about friendship and betrayal, hope and illusion, brutality and tenderness.

(Mexico) 53mins.

Dir: Maria Dolores Arias Martinez. Cast: Manuel Jimenez.

The gods gave Manuel Jimenez the gift of poetry to intercede between the earthly and the divine.

He preserves the ancestral traditions of his Tsotsil community without denying Catholic influence and the impact of contemporary lifestyles.

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(France, Haiti, Norway) Doc & Film International.

130mins. Dir: Raoul Peck. Cast: Ayo, Alex Descas, Thibault Vincon, Lovely Kermonde Fifi, Albert Moleon.

Haiti after the earthquake of 2010. A middle-class couple has to rent out their damaged villa and is confronted with unfamiliar lifestyles. An intimate drama about social contrasts which poses fundamental questions about responsibility and justice.

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(US, UK) Pathe International. 128mins.

Dir: Ava DuVernay.

Cast: David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo, Andre Holland, Giovanni Ribisi, Lorraine Toussaint, Stephan James, Wendell Pierce, Common, Alessandro Nuvola, Lakeith Lee Stanfield, Cuba Gooding Jr., Dylan Baker, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey.

Historical drama about Martin Luther King and his march from Alabama to Washington. The

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Festival & Press 21:00 EVEry thINg WIll BE FINE

(Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway) HanWay Films. 118mins. Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rachel McAdams, Marie-Josee Croze, Robert Naylor, Patrick Bauchau, Peter Stormare.

A winter’s evening.

A country road. It is snowing, visibility is poor.

Out of nowhere, a sledge glides down a hill. Brakes are slammed on, the car comes to a halt. Silence.

Tomas, a novelist, is not

peaceful campaign to secure the vote for AfroAmerican people in the US is a milestone in the history of the civil rights’ movement.

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(Philippines) 140mins.

Dir: Kidlat Tahimik.

Cast: Kidlat Tahimik, George Steinberg, Kawayan de Guia, Wigs Tysman, Katrin de Guia, Kabunyan de Guia, Danny Orquico, Marlies v Brevern, Mitos Benitez, Marita Manzanillo, Jeff

to blame for this tragic accident, neither is little Christopher who could have kept a closer eye on his brother, nor Kate, the mother of the two, who could have called the children in earlier. The film follows Tomas over 12 years in his attempt to give his life meaning again, just as much as it follows Kate and Christopher until the latter is 17 years old and finally decides to face the man he met only once before, on that fateful evening.

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Cohen, Craig Scharlin.

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

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(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”.

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(Federal Republic of Germany) HanWay Films. 113mins. Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Rudiger Vogler, Yella Rottlander, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Kochl, Ernst Boehm, Sam Presti, Lois Moran, Didi Petrikat, Hans Hirschmuller, Wim Wenders.

Travelling back to Germany, journalist Phillip Winter reluctantly agrees to take along little Alice.

But nobody shows up for her on arrival, so the two of them set out on a journey in search of her family.

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Dir: various. Cast: various.

Bad at Dancing; Daewit; Hide & Seek; Snapshot Mon Amour; Symbolic Threats; YúYú.

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(South Korea, Germany) 80mins. Dir: Lior

Shamriz. Cast: Kim Wonmok, Lee Je-yeon, Ye Soo-jeong, Won Tae-hee, Kim Hye-na.

A man, striving for autonomy, lives in fear of being absorbed by his lover. Korea, the now.

When Unk hits Boaz on his scooter, an amour fou takes its course in a performative ballad of dependency, which is intertwined with the staging of an ancient story.

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(Spain) Contents Area SL. 87mins. Dir: Luis GonzAlez, Andrea Gomez. Cast: Joan Roca, Josep Roca, Jordi Roca.

Chronicles a journey in which one of the world’s best restaurants closes for five weeks to go on the road. The team from El Celler de Can Roca pays tribute to four American countries with their reinterpretation of the local cusine.

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(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

(Mexico) 74mins. Dir: Joshua Gil. Cast: Rafael Gil MorAn, Raymundo Delgado Munoz.

In a landscape strangely devoid of people, one old man prepares to die, while another still has big plans.

His resolve will lead him to Mexico City, where demands for political change increasingly reverberate.

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(Israel) Keshet International. 40mins.

Dir: Oded Ruskin.

Cast: Ishai Golan, Ania Bukstein, Magi Azarzar, Angel Bonanni, Orna Salinger, Miki Leon, Igal Naor.

Ben Rafael sees a news report about himself. He and four other Israelis are accused of kidnapping the Iranian minister of defence. What first looks like a case of mistaken identity develops into a nerve-racking spy thriller.

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(US) 79mins. Dir: Richard Boleslawski.

Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone.

Set in the Sahara, this lush Technicolor melodrama is about the love between a young woman raised in a convent and a renegade monk. One of the first three-colour »

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tribute to the French New Wave.

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23:00 The Blue hour

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

Cast: Atthaphan Poonsawas, Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang, Duangjai Hirunsri, Panutchai Kittisatima, Nithiroj Simkamtom, Chaowalit Teangsap.

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 full of spirits and dangerous encounters.

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(US) Lionsgate.

114mins. Dir: Matthew Weiner. Cast: Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Poehler, Laura Ramsey, Alana de la Garza, Joel Gretsch, Paul Schulze, Edward Herrmann, Peter Bogdanovich, David Selby.

productions to make extensive use of exteriors, which were shot in the Mojave Desert. retrospective Zeughauskino

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(Mexico) Ojo de Agua Comunicacion. 65mins.

Dir: Roberto Olivares, Jonathan Amith. Cast: Silvestre Pantaleon.

As one of the last traditional rope makers in his Nahuatl-speaking village, Silvestre Pantaleon spends his days labouring over his craft. To pay for a costly traditional healing ceremony, he must first craft a special rope used for religious rites. naTive — indigenous Cinema CineStar imaX

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(Brazil, Chile, France) Mundial. 87mins. Dir:

Best buddies Ben and Steve prefer to spend their days smoking dope on the sofa. Life starts to get interesting when Ben inherits a multimillion-dollar fortune from his father and decides to found a “society for unwashed free-thinkers”.

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

How can he beat a path between being responsible and caring and still find emotional security?

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(France, US) Visit Films.

98mins. Dir: Etienne Faure. Cast: Pierre Prieur,

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Adrian James, Raquel Nave, Rebekah Underhill, Charlie Himmelstein, Luc Bierme.

A young homeless man winds up in Brooklyn club ‘Bizarre’ and triggers a whirlwind of emotions filled with tenderness and menace. The secret of his emotional life is mirrored in a series of brilliant revues celebrating selfdetermined otherness.

Mohammad Othman.

Mousa steals Israeli cars and sells them to Palestinian fences. He may not be interested in politics, but a discovery in the boot of a car suddenly makes him of interest to all sides. A Palestinian

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(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 that her nerves begin to devour her daily life.

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The Blue hour

(Thailand) Reel Suspects.

97mins.

Dir: Anucha Boonyawatana.

Cast: Atthaphan Poonsawas, Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang, Duangjai Hirunsri, Panutchai Kittisatima, Nithiroj Simkamtom, Chaowalit Teangsap.

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 full of spirits and dangerous encounters.

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(Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) Beta Cinema.

89mins. Dir: Sacha Polak. Cast: Wende Snijders, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Barry Atsma, Martijn Lakemeier.

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(Palestinian Territories) 93mins. Dir: Muayad Alayan. Cast: Sami Metwasi, Maya Abu Alhayyat, Riyad Sliman, Ramzi Maqdisi, Kamel Elbasha, Hussein Nakhleh, Valantina Abu Oqsa, Mustafa Abu Hanood, Nicola Zreineh,

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(Taiwan) Swallow Wings Films.

107mins. Dir: Chang Tso-Chi. Cast: Lee Hong-Chi, Chen Jen-Shuo, Huang Shang-Ho, Lu Hsueh-Feng, Wang Ching-Ting, Chang Ning, Lin ChinYu.

The camera follows closely on the heels of two brothers — one gay, the other straight. Both are looking for a job, but also for a foothold in life. The film constantly shifts in tone as it depicts the lives of a younger generation in Taipei.

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Dir: Artem Temnikov.

Cast: Alexander Novin, Leonard Proxauf, Dmitry Zhuravlev.

The story of a German boy who, processed by Islamic radicals became a Wahhabi, underlines how easily the young man fell under the influence of people who use his naivete to bring destruction to innocent citizens.

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(Italy) Rai Com, 95mins.

Dir: Marco Pontecorvo.

Cast: Luca Zingaretti, Pasquale Petrolo (‘Lillo’), John Turturro, Carolina Crescentini.

Two friends find oil in the courtyard of their company, which is going bankrupt. An explosive mixture blowing the rules: breaking friendships, ending marriages and city mess. A sarcastic metaphor of vices and virtues of modern Italy. kino arsenal 1

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

Dir: Andreas Dresen.

Cast: Merlin Rose, Ruby O. Fee, Joel Basman, Marcel Heuperman.

A group of rough-andtumble East German friends grow up in the 1990s, the first years of reunified Germany — when everything seemed possible. A powerful, wild and tender adaptation of Clemens Meyer’s popular novel.

(Switzerland) Media Luna New Films, 103mins. Dir: Jean-Paul Cardinaux, Xavier Ruiz.

Cast: Flore Babled, Marie Petiot, Julie Nicolet, Gilles Tschudi.

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Two teenage girls facing the housing crisis decide to empty the apartments occupied by “the old people” who, in their eyes, are responsible for the current social imbalance.

(France) Wide/Wide House, 101mins. Dir: Jean Francois Davy. Cast: Jean Francois Davy, Kitty Kat. Eroticism is an art revealing the vice in all of us.

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of the girl’s marriage to a tribal leader. A deadly hunt for them begins.

when classical family patterns have radically changed.

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(France) Wild Bunch, 79mins. Dir: Patrice Leconte. Cast: Christian Clavier, Carole Bouquet, Valerie Bonneton, Rossy De Palma.

When passionate jazz fan Michel finds a rare album at a flea market, he can’t wait to listen to it at home on his own — but the whole world seems to be ganging up to prevent him from doing so.

(France, South Africa, Belgium) The Bureau Sales, 109mins. Dir: Alain Choquart. Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Emily Mortimer, Liam Cunningham, Jeremie Renier.

Ten years after the end of apartheid, several characters from different horizons live in Ladygrey at the foot of the Drakensberg in South Africa. Nature through its physical splendour and history are the bonds uniting them.

(Austria) Coccinelle Film Placement, 100mins.

Dir: Andrina Mracnikar.

Cast: Alice Dwyer, Sabin Tambrea, Gerti Drassl, Oliver Rosskopf.

Hanna loves Yann and his lettres filmées. Yann loves Hanna but mistrusts her.

He leaves her but doesn’t leave her alone. His lettres become a threat and Hanna doesn’t know whom she can trust and whether she can trust herself.

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(Pakistan, US, Norway) Dukhtar Productions, 93mins. Dir: Afia Nathaniel. Cast: Samiya Mumtaz, Mohib Mirza, Saleha Aref.

In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her 10-year-old daughter flee their home on the eve

(Denmark) DR Sales, 58mins. Dir: Jesper Christensen a.o. Cast: Trine Dyrholm, Jesper Christensen, Mikkel Boe Folsgaard, Carsten Bjornlund.

A character-driven drama serial about what it means to be a family in a time

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(China) Arclight Films, 100mins. Dir: Yi Li. Tibet: post-apocalypse and civilisation has brought humanity to its knees. A monster has unleashed tyranny to all the remaining tribes and one girl is destined to save her land and people with the help of fearless fighters.

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Amaryllis Uitterlinden, Arthur Dupont, Jos Verbist, Tom Audenaert.

A musical romantic comedy about Belgium where all possible means are used to outdo the other: double-crossing, schmaltzy songs and even love.

(UK) Genesis Film Sales, 118mins. Dir: Reg Traviss. Cast: Greg Sulkin, Meghan Markle, Josh Myers, Christian Berkel.

After a smash-and-grab thief finds himself too deep into the criminal underworld, he must rely on his street-artist brother to complete what he started.

(UK) HanWay Films, 112mins. Dir: Randall Wright. Cast: David Hockney.

For the first time, David Hockney has given unprecedented access to his personal archive of photographs and films, resulting in an unparalleled visual diary of his long life.

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(Spain) Cinema Republic, 88mins. Dir: Robert Bellsola. Cast: Adrià Collado, Andoni Agirregomezkorta, Carolina Bang, Sergi Lopez.

Oscar, a stockbroker from the city, and Dan, a goofy slacker from Hicksville, get big news: they are brothers. Now they’re stuck sharing their deceased father’s estate, a failing country-style restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

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(Belgium, Luxembourg) Be for Films, 100mins.

Dir: Vincent Bal. Cast:

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(France) Versatile, 86mins. Dir: Helene Zimmer. Cast: Galatea Bellugi, Athalia Routier, Najaa Bensaid.

The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of 14-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls — Sarah, Jade and Louise — with one last year to go before high school.

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(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 103mins.

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

Las Ovejas no Pierden El Tren is a fun and optimistic comedy about six young adults trying to find their way out of a personal crisis, each one breaking free in the most creative and surprising way possible.

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(Russia) Intercinema Agency, 112mins.

(Netherlands) Attraction Distribution, 82mins.

Dir: Rolf van Eijk. Cast: Dyon Wilkens, Abdelhadi Baaddi, Bas Keijzer, Claudia Kanne.

Eleven-year-old Tibor has only one friend: his house robot, T.I.M. To save the outdated robot from destruction, he sets out to find the only one who can repair him. Along the way, Tibor will find true friendship with a human.

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(Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar, UAE) Doc & Film International, 128mins. Dir: Ghassan Salhab. Cast: Carlos Chahine, Carole Abboud, Fadi Abi Samra, Mounzer Baalkabi.

Following a car accident on a lone mountain road, a middle-aged man loses his memory. Drenched in blood, he continues to walk along the deserted path.

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Denmark) Cinephil, 165mins. Dir: Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford.

‘Cathedrals Of Culture’ offers six startling responses to this question. This 3D film project, about the soul of buildings, allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves.

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

‘The Gate’ 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.

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(Germany) Autlook Filmsales, 92mins. Dir: Norbert Heitker.

Wacken is the biggest rock festival in the world. Three days of raw energy and 80,000 fans, a true legend set in the sleepy German countryside. Filmed with 18 3D cameras, ‘Wacken — The Movie’ takes you on an amazing journey into a fascinating world.

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(Germany) Beta Cinema, 82mins. Dir: Veit Helmer. Cast: Benno Fuhrmann, Fritzi Haberlandt, Rolf Zacher,

the death of his father.

Alexander Scheer.

The children of Bollersville knock out their parents in order to free their grandparents from the old folks’ home.

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(Romania) HBO Europe, 88mins. Dir: Igor Cobileanski, Bogdan Mirica. Cast: Serban Pavlu, Maria Obretin.

Relu is a family man. He has a wife, two children and leads a double life.

Seen through the eyes of his family, Relu Oncescu seems to be an ordinary taxi driver. No one suspects that Relu works as a collector for a local mobster.

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(Italy) Meproducodasolo, 60mins. Dir: Alfredo Covelli. Cast: Alfredo Covelli, Chamba Lamo.

Affected by a neurological disease, Alfredo is scared of losing his legs forever, so he decides to realise a dream that is about to expire. He goes hike in the Himalayas, gets lost and reaches a retirement house for Buddhist nuns.

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(Iran) Celluloid Dreams, 82mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi.

Cast: Jafar Panahi.

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A yellow cab is driving through the colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver, who is none other than the director himself.

Zalan Makranczi.

About to turn 30 and still jobless, Aron gets dumped by his girlfriend. An impulse to buy a one way ticket to Portugal on the internet with his parents’ credit card will change his life.

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(Nicaragua) All Rights Entertainment, 96mins.

Dir: Florence Jaugey.

Cast: Paola Baldion, Oscar Sinela, Roberto Guillen.

The Naked Screen is about a friendship, which turns into obsession for one of the characters and pushes him to use technology and social networks to destroy a love story that stands between him and his friend. kino arsenal 1

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(Hungary) Alpha Violet, 96mins. Dir: GAbor Reisz. Cast: Aron Ferenczik, Katalin Takacs, Zsolt Kovacs,

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‘(France) Jour 2 Fête, 109mins. Dir: Franck Ribiere.

‘Steak (R)evolution’ travels the world in search of passionate cattle breeders, butchers and chefs. Far from the intensive cattle farms with their industrial output, a revolution is already under way.

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(Egypt) MAD Solutions, 75mins. Dir: Hady Al Bagoury. Cast: Nada Al Alfy, Abir Mansoor, Bassel Al Kadi, Ahmed Selem.

The film follows a video blogger who returns to his Egyptian countryside home to document and investigate strange happenings that have been disturbing his family since

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(Germany) Doc & Film International, 100mins.

Dir: Katja von Garnier.

Cast: Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs, James Kottak.

After 50 years on stages all around the world, The Scorpions decided in 2010 that it was time to say goodbye to a rockstar lifestyle and to embark on one last music tour.

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(Romania) Romanian Film Center, 73mins.

Dir: Sinisa Dragin.

Cast: Horatiu Malaele, Alexandru Bindea.

In 1947, Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito visited Romania.

Its communist regime gave him an Ion Andreescu painting. In the 1960s, an art critic elaborated a monograph dedicated to the great painter. A strange event occurred.

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YoNa

(Israel, Germany) The Match Factory, 100mins. Dir: Nir Bergman. Cast: Naomi Levov, Shalom

Michaelashvili, Itamar Rothchild, Michael Moshonov.

‘Yona’ is based on the turbulent life story of Yona Wallach, one of the greatest poets to have written in the Hebrew language.

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(Ireland) Kaleidoscope Film Distribution, 93mins. Dir: Gerard Barrett. Cast: Jack Reynor, Toni Collette, Will Poulter, Michael Smiley.

A young man desperate to save his mother from addiction and reunite his broken family is forced to take a job, entangling him in the criminal world, which pushes him and his relationships to the limits.

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(Austria, Switzerland) Picture Tree International, 90mins.

Dir: David Ruehm.

Cast: Tobias Moretti, Jeanette Hain, Cornelia Ivancan, David Bennent.

Vienna, early 1930s.

Sigmund Freud’s new patient is mysterious Count Geza von Kozsnom, who can no longer bear the “eternally long” relationship with his narcissistic wife.

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(South Africa, Netherlands) Urucu Media, 86mins. Dir: Sibs Shongwe-La Mer. Cast: Sibs ShongweLa Mer, Bonko Khoza, Emma Tollman, Jonathan Young.

Desperate for distraction, best friends Jabz and September go on a drugfuelled joyride through Johannesburg as they try to deal with the memory of Emily, a girl who livestreamed her suicide one year ago. dffb-kino

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(Germany) Trilemma, 97mins. Dir: Sebastian Herrmann. Cast: Rudiger Hauffe, Sarah Bauerett, Josef Heynert.

Aaron and Lilith just got married and rent a flat far away from an unclear past. A miscarriage shatters their fragile happiness. When Lili’s ex-boyfriend Daniel moves in with the couple, the situation begins to escalate.

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(Poland) Memento Films International, 90mins. Dir: Malgorzata Szumowska. Cast: Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala, Ewa Dalkowska.

Body… of Poland.

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of a dangerously skinny teenager whose illness is not taken seriously in the psychiatric hospital.

and gets to rediscover her father.

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(France, Switzerland, Germany) Films Boutique, 93mins.

Dir: Jean-Gabriel Periot.

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

ChuBBY

(Switzerland, Belgium) Films Distribution, 83mins. Dir: Bruno Deville. Cast: David Thielemans, Swann Arlaud, Julie Ferrier.

Chubby. That’s how people call Kevin, 100 kg, age 12 and certainly not destined to a glorious future. Gobbing in fries, patisserie and dairies, he’s only waiting for the cardiac arrest… unless he changes.

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(Ireland) Eastwest Filmdistribution, 87mins.

Dir: Dieter Auner.

Rolling between villages and towns in rural Ireland for nine months of the year, Circus Gerbola becomes a place outside the ordinary world.

It helps us to feel the sense of wonderment and remember the important things in life.

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(Austria, Germany) Kurt Mayer Film, 110mins.

Dir: Helmut Voitl, Elisabeth Guggenberger.

The film-makers survived the 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami. Acting out of compassion for the victims, they set up an aid initiative to help 400 families. A relentlessly stark film about the dark sides of helping. marriott 2

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(Spain) Latido Films, 113mins. Dir: Manuel Gomez Pereira. Cast: Paz Vega, Juan Diego Botto.

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(Norway) Attraction Distribution, 103mins.

Dir: Katarina Launing.

Cast: Mia Helene Solberg Brekke, Victor Papadopoulos Jacobsen.

Anja is a spirited young girl who loves playing soccer. Through thick and thin, she remains humorous and optimistic, even when she is diagnosed with leukemia.

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(Netherlands) Dutch Features Global Entertainment, 84mins.

Dir: Anne De Clercq.

Cast: Jelka Van Houten, Tygo Gernandt, Georgina Verbaan, Gijs Naber.

Jack Oei, is a single child and feels lonely and bored.

Jack’s biggest wish is to have a brother. But no matter how he begs his mom, the little brother just does not arrive.

Jack decides to take matters into his own hands.

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International, 100mins.

Dir: Dana Nechushtan.

Cast: Marcel Hensema, Kim van Kooten, Martijn Lakemeier, Megan de Kruijf.

A forensic psychiatrist suddenly finds himself having a career as a drug dealer when he inherits his father’s farm, Hollands Hope. His talent to understand the criminal brain may bring him more success than he can handle.

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Javier Falcon, chief of the Homicide Division in Sevilla, will have to face the Russian mafia and Islamic terrorists to solve two dangerous cases.

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(Germany) Ruth Diskin Films, 94mins.

Dir: Regina Schilling.

Actress and writer Adriana Altaras tells the story of her “high maintenance family”. Being from a country that no longer exists, she is the daughter of Jewish partisans who started a new life in postwar Germany.

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(Mexico, India) Filmsharks International, 87mins. Dir: Alberto Mar. Ozzy is a friendly flying monkey. He serves Evilene the wicked witch, as the rest of his kin. But when Evilene’s plans put Oz once again in peril, Ozzy reaches out to the “Champions of Oz”.

Unfortunately, this will not be easy.

Matsumoto, Midori Shin-e, Yasuhiro Isobe, Hikaru Takanezawa, Satoshi Yabumoto, Keiko Sugawara, Akie Namiki.

Director’s statement: “I wanted to portray the inner workings of people in a realistic way against a decidedly fantastic setting. My intent was not to focus on deafness; rather, I wanted to use physical movement to depict communication with others.”

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(Argentina, Mexico, Israel) Media Luna New Films, 91mins. Dir: Alexander Katzowicz.

Cast: Antonio Birabent, Nicolas Baksht, Arturo Ripstein, Angela Molina.

Virtual world: a soldier looking for lovers, a teenager addicted to porn, a mother in need of friends, a graduate looking for a job, women waiting to find the love of their life.

No one is what they seem.

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Dir: Izumi Takahashi.

Cast: Hiromasa Hirosue, Miho Ohshita, Takashi

the PhotoGrAPher

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

Cast: Tatiana Arntgolts, Aleksandr Baluev, Sonia

Bohosiewicz, Adam Woronowicz.

Natasha (27), a Moscow cop, must join FSB (ex-KGB) to hunt down a serial killer. All traces lead to Poland, where years ago a boy kept a dark secret. As she finds out the truth, she risks all to be exposed to deadly danger.

(Hong Kong, China) Golden Network Asia, 127mins. Dir: Daniel Lee. Cast: Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody.

48 BC. A Roman general, falsely accused of treason, crosses into China where he fights and then befriends a Chinese commander who has also been framed by corrupt officials. The encounter sparks a thrilling chapter of history.

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(South Korea, Japan) More In Group, 120mins.

Dir: Kim Sang-man.

Cast: Yoo Ji-tae, Yusuke Iseya, Cha Ye-ryun, Natasa Tapuskovic.

The talented Korean tenor Bae Jae-Chul is on the rise at the European opera scene. Koji Sawada is searching for a new tenor. He watches a performance of Bae and is amazed. But after a successful season, thyroid cancer strikes Bae. CinemaxX 9

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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, Bettina Aptheker.

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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(France) Other Angle Pictures, 93mins.

Dir: Francois Margolin.

Cast: Anna Sigalevitch, Michel Bouquet, Francois Berleand, Robert Hirsch.

A young woman inquires about her family’s painting collection, stolen during the Second World War. Along the way, she unravels family secrets

(Japan) Shochiku, 121mins. Dir: Izuru Narushima.

On a Christmas morning, the body of a classmate is discovered on the ground below a high rooftop.

“This can’t just be left to the adults.” The Junior High students rise up to expose the real truth.

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met Yvan Sorel who runs an MMA club in this neighbourhood.”

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(US, Canada) Cinephil, 80mins. Dir: Noam Gonick.

Leading up to the Olympics in Sochi, an anti-gay law was passed in Russia.

Gay Olympians were confronted with a tough decision: whether to protest in defence of their Russian comrades or compete in silence.

ThRough The aiR

(France) Gaumont, 100mins. Dir: Fred Grivois. Cast: Reda Kateb, Ludivine Sagnier, Johan Heldenbergh, Tcheky Karyo.

A tense genre movie that will finally unveil a poignant love story.

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(Norway) New Europe Film Sales, 83mins.

Dir: Eirik Svensson.

Cast: Samakab Omar, Mohammed Alghoul, Thea Sofie Loch Næss.

Fifteen-year-old best friends Sam and Amir fall out over a girl. The night before the Norwegian Day of Liberation becomes the most important night in their life. Can they forgive each other or is this the end of their friendship?

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(Germany) Picture Tree International, 86mins. Dir: Florian Mischa Boder. Cast: Benno Furmann, Mavie Horbiger, Wolf Roth, Ivan Shvedoff.

Ambitious Koralnik is

a contract killer for a secret EU programme, who has been waiting for his first mission for eight years. Bored and frustrated, he lives according to the programme’s strict rules.

One day, the telephone rings.

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(Czech Republic, Slovakia) Czech Television, 133mins.

Dir: Irena Pavlaskova.

Cast: Karel Roden, Masa Malkova, Zuzana Vejvodova, Vaclav Neuzil.

The story is loosely based on the life and work of Jan Saudek, who is probably the most well-known Czech photographer and has indisputably been involved in the development of international photography. dffb-Kino

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(Germany) Flickfilm, 87mins. Dir: Carolina Hellsgard. Cast: Anne Ratte-Polle, Nele Trebs, Robert Viktor Minich.

The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. Against all odds she lands an internship at a racing stable. She meets the troubled teenager Emma, and a strong friendship develops between the two women.

(Uruguay) Elle Driver, 88mins. Dir: Gustavo Hernandez. Cast: Mariana Olivera, Gabriela Freire, Agustin Urrutia.

When a three-member cult rock band reunites to film a music video at an abandoned gold mine, they unleash the spirit of a sleeping demon god that will force them to relive and face the horrors of their past.

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(Chile) Funny Balloons, 98mins. Dir: Pablo Larrain. Cast: Roberto Farias, Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro, Alejandro Goic.

Four men live together in a secluded house, according to a strict regime, watched over by a female caretaker. Their fragile routine is disrupted by the arrival of a fifth man, bringing with him the past they had left behind.

(New Zealand) Rise and Shine World Sales, 93mins. Dir: Bryn Evans.

These senior citizens may each be almost a century young, but for Kara (94), Maynie (95) and Terri (93) the journey to Las Vegas and the World Hip Hop Dance Championships is just the beginning of a life’s journey.

(Chile, Argentina) New Europe Film Sales, 60mins. Dir: Dominga Sotomayor. Cast: Lisandro Rodriguez, Vanina Montes, Andrea Strenitz.

Martin goes on vacation to the beach with his girlfriend. Everything seems normal, until his mother arrives and Martin has to switch between playing the role of a man and a son.

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(Sweden, Germany) ZDF Enterprises, 115mins.

Dir: Henrik Georgsson, Frederik Edfeldt. Cast: Louise Peterhoff, Sven Nordin, Karin Franz Korlof, David Lindstrom.

‘Blue Eyes’ is an x-ray of today’s Sweden. It’s a political drama that explores alienation, intolerance, corruption, greed and big dreams. It’s a brave series that shakes the viewers into thought and debate.

up her boyfriend with a terminally ill millionaire in order to inherit her fortune.

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(France) 80mins.

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

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

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

A spellbinding story of desire and repression.

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The invenTion oF Love

(Germany, Luxembourg) Eastwest Film Distribution, 104mins.

Dir: Lola Randl. Cast: Maria Kwiatkowski, Sunnyi Melles, Marie Rosa Tietjen, Bastian Trost.

A young woman sets

one FoR The Road

(Mexico) Media Luna New Films, 91mins.

Dir: Jack Zagha Kababie. Cast: Jose Carlos Ruiz, Luis Bayardo, Eduardo Manzano, Pedro Weber.

Three 80-year-old men embark in a hilarious road trip in order to fulfill the dying wish of a lifelong friend. Crutches, nursing homes or dead wives won’t stop them.

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SPaRTanS

(Switzerland) Doc & Film International, 80mins.

Dir: Nicolas Wadimoff.

“I spent weeks filming in Marseille’s Quartier nord, a district of the city mainly known in the media for its drug trafficking, gang shootings and Kalashnikovs. There, I

(Italy) Fandango, 90mins. Dir: Pasquale Scimeca. Cast: Marcello Marzarella, Vincenzo Albanese, Renato Lenzi, Omar Noto.

The film tells the story of Biagio, whose revolutionary choices made him one of the few just men. He abandoned the ease of his youth and ventured into the mountains. In solitude, he rediscovered harmony with himself and nature.

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CaRmina & amen

(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 98mins.

Dir: Paco Leon. Cast: Carmina Barrios, Maria Leon, Yolanda Ramos, Manolo Solo.

After the sudden death of her husband, Carmen convinces her daughter, Maria, not to announce his passing until she’s been able to get paid the bonus he was due.

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(Israel) Keshet International, 39mins.

Dir: Oded Ruskin.

Cast: Ishai Golan, Ania Bukstein, Magi Azarzar, Angel Bonanni.

Five Israeli citizens find themselves plunged into a gripping international espionage affair overnight.

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deceptive methods that have since spread all over Europe.

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(Finland) Films Transit International, 90mins.

Dir: Joonas Berghall.

Like his award-winning Steam of Life, the episodic Mother’s Wish tells 10 stories of women around the world, connected by the theme of motherhood.

They give us hope of a better tomorrow.

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Rough Road ahead

(Germany, Austria) Paul Thiltges Distributions, 108mins. Dir: Christian Frosch. Cast: Victoria Schulz, Anton Spieker, Ben Becker, Ursula Ofner.

Germany, 1967. Ruby and Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and ultimately institutionalisation. But they’re ready to take on the cause of love.

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StReIF — one hell oF a RIde

(Austria) Red Bull Media House, 105mins. Dir: Gerald Salmina. Cast: Aksel Lund Svindal, Erik Guay, Max Franz, Yuri Danilochkin.

For 75 years, the annual Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbuhel, Austria, has produced unforgettable triumphs and heartrending tragedies, a heritage that is full of myths and legends.

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(Canada) Mongrel International, 130mins.

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

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

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(Germany) Sola Media, 95mins. Dir: Nina Wells, Hubert Weiland.

Coconut and his friend Oscar are outsiders.

Coconut is supposed to be a flying dragon but he can’t fly. Oscar, a carnivore by nature, is a vegetarian by choice. Together with the porcupine Matilda they go on fabulous adventures.

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(Mexico) Media Luna New Films, 99mins. Dir: Luis Urquiza Mondragon.

Cast: Juan Manuel Bernal, Sebastian Aguirre,

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(Germany) Patra Spanou Film Marketing & Consulting, 90mins. Dir: Ingo Haeb. Cast: Vicky Krieps, Lena Lauzemis, Steffen Munster, Christine Schorn.

The chambermaid Lynn, who rummages through the possessions of the hotel guests and hides under their beds at night to discover the secrets of other lives, falls in love with the androgynous call-girl Chiara.

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Juan Ignacio Aranda, Alejandro de Hoyos.

A young seminarian will endure a hard spiritual journey to reach ‘Perfect Obedience’. His mentor, captivated by his fragility and innocence, will guide him to complete psychological and physical surrender.

the human population is likely to be more than 10 billion. Scientist Stephen Emmott delivers an urgent message, highlighting key issues in the most important discussion of our environment today.

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(Chile) Films Boutique, 86mins. Dir: Rodrigo Sepulveda. Cast: Amparo Noguera, Luis Gnecco, Jaime Vadell.

Sofia, a school teacher, has been trying to adopt a child.

She reads in the newspaper that a baby was found dead in a landfill and becomes obsessed with the fate of the creature that, according to the law, has no rights.

(Germany) ZDF Enterprises, 90mins.

Dir: Matthias Glasner.

Cast: Jurgen Vogel, Thomas Heinze, Maja Schone, Jordis Triebel.

A kaleidoscope of Berlin and its people.

Homicide inspector Blochin investigates an unfolding drama of crime and punishment, which threatens to delete the borders between good and evil.

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(UK) HanWay Films, 82mins. Dir: Peter Webber.

By the end of this century,

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(Switzerland) Picture Tree International,

115mins. Dir: Marcel Gisler. Cast: Florian Burkhardt, Hildegard Burkhardt, Peter Burkhardt, Urs Althaus.

The breathtaking true story of a young man who leaves his claustrophobic surroundings in search of fame: in a series of success stories he reinvents himself time and again, changing careers like other people change their shirt. dffb-kino

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(Spain) Imagina International Sales, 96mins. Dir: Maria Ripoll. Cast: Nandita Das, Aina Clotet, Naby Dakhli, Subodh Maskara.

Pain is universal. But so is hope. A story of hope and love across Mumbai and Barcelona; from India to the Mediterranean and all the way back.

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(Germany) Kinoki, 89mins. Dir: Rasmus Gerlach.

For 80 Lampedusa refugees, the church in Hamburg St. Pauli becomes a safe haven. This documentary shows how

they organise themselves and how the whole quarter helps them.

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(US) Media Luna New Films, 97mins. Dir: Joel Potrykus. Cast: Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus.

Marty is a small-time con artist drifting from one scam to the next.

When his latest ruse goes awry, mounting paranoia forces him to leave his lousy temp job and hide out in his co-worker’s basement until he leaves for Detroit.

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(Germany) 71mins.

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.

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(Austria, Germany) Kurt Mayer Film, 90mins. Dir: Nathalie Borgers.

A subjective journey into the world of Joerg Haider — Europe’s first posterboy for populism.

Nathalie Borgers discovers populism’s illusory and

(Romania, Moldova, US) Romanian Film Center, 95mins. Dir: Adrian Popovici. Cast: Constantin Turcan, Olesea Svecla, Arcadie Strungaru.

‘Innocent Murder’ is a film about child traffic and illegal work. The film tells the story of a 12-year-old child who is taken across borders illegally.

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(US, Germany, France, Denmark, Netherlands) Cinephil, 92mins.

Dir: Laura Nix, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno.

In their third cinematic outing, notorious activists the Yes Men are now well into their 40s, preparing to take on the biggest challenge they’ve ever faced — climate change.

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(US, Morocco, France) Wide/Wide House, 93mins. Dir: Tala Hadid.

Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Marie-Josee Croze, Fadwa Boujouane, Hocine Choutri.

A man in search of his brother and a young girl in search of a home, both running toward an unknown future. One finds freedom, the other death.

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(Italy) Rai Com, 110mins.

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

A biopic about the life of Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist, author, and interviewer. The underlying theme of the movie is about her thoughts as well as the missed opportunity to be both a frontline reporter and a mother.

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(US) M-Appeal — Raspberry & Cream, 89mins. Dir: Gerald McCullouch. Cast: Gerald McCullouch, Dan Via, Jaime Cepero, Tamlyn Tomita, Richard Riehle.

Colin thinks he has it all — a great job, a stream of hot young guys, and a best friend whose devotion he takes for granted. Then he meets a charming intern, and Colin comes to discover something that may cost him everything.

Book of Negroes recounts the extraordinary journey of Aminata Diallo, an indomitable African woman who survives in a world in which everything seems to be against her. mgb-kino

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(Turkey, Germany) Coloured Giraffes, 97mins. Dir: Kaan Mujdeci. Cast: Dogan Izci, Muttalip Mujdeci, Banu Fotocan, Okan Avci.

Tells the story of an 11-year-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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(US, Taiwan) Media Luna New Films, 102mins.

Dir: Barney Cheng. Cast: Barney Cheng, Ah-Leh Gua, Michael Adam Hamilton, Love Fang.

Danny and his boyfriend long to have a baby.

The complex world of international surrogacy is further complicated by Danny’s well-meaning but extremely meddlesome mother who wants to

control every aspect of the process.

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(US, Liberia) Television, 87mins. Dir: Takeshi Fukunaga. Cast: Bishop Blay, Duke Murphy Dennis, Zenobia Taylor, David Roberts.

The quiet life of Cisco as a rubber plantation worker in the Liberian countryside is disrupted by a workers’ strike. Risking everything, he accepts a chance invitation to move to New York to discover a new life as a cab driver.

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(Russia) Intercinema Agency, 122mins. Dir: Ramil Salakhutdinov.

Cast: Artyom Tsypin, Irina Obrezkova, Dmitry Vorobiev, Sergei Barkovski.

A private detective in search of a missing guy comes to St Petersburg, where he once lived.

Immersed into the past, he peers into the present, trying to see the future.

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Tree International, 85mins. Dir: Mathieu Urfer. Cast: Baptiste Gillieron, Julia Faure, Andre Wilms.

Laid-back songwriter Sami is shocked when his girlfriend Julia decides to put their relationship on hold. Coached by his friend Fernand, an old alcoholic guitar player, Sami tries to prove to Julia she is the only one for him. dffb-kino

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(Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Germany) 85mins.

Dir: Yes! That’s Us. Cast: Hassan “Spike” Insingoma, Prossy Rukundo, Saul Mwesigwa, Michael Wawuyo.

After his father is injured in an accident, the young Abel must take over his “boda boda”, a motorbike taxi also used for transporting goods.

A homage to ‘Ladri Di Biciclette’ that unfolds in the bustling streets of Kampala.

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

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(Spain) Numerica Films, 100mins. Dir: Hugo Stuven Casanovas. Cast: Lluis Homar, Christy Escobar, Edgar Fox. A renowned psychiatrist collaborates with the police in regards to the suicide of one of his patients.

But when selfie videos surface with paranormal phenomena, the good doctor begins to change his story. The occult looms.

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

April 1957. Albertine, a brilliant and reckless young convict, jumps from the wall of her prison to escape. A bone from her ankle breaks: the astragal.

She is rescued by Julien, an outlaw, who will give her a new life.

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Flow

(Spain) La Real Academia de Taramundi, 93mins.

Dir: David Martinez.

Cast: Juan del Santo, Berta Solanas Martinez, Concha Velasco, Emilio Gutierrez Caba.

Actor Walter Mann is about to fulfil his dream: to star in his own play. Bordering on that moment, something unexpected will blow up all he has or is about to achieve. ‘Flow’ tells us the story of a man who suffers an interior fight.

toiletS — the truth behind CloSed doorS in germAny

(Germany) Leitmotiv Film, 91mins. Dir: Soeren Hueper, Christian Prettin.

Cast: Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Horst Guenter Marx, Teresa Weissbach, Anian Zollner.

With five delicate stories taking place in five different toilets, this pitch black comedy relentlessly illuminates some dark corners of much-admired German society in this day and age.

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(Singapore) Media Luna New Films, 122mins. Dir: Ken Kwek. Cast: Jeffrey Quizon, Adrian Pang, Judee Tan. Sky has a debt to the Mafia and hopes to convince his wife to sell her parents’ flat. Looking for a way out, she rents the flat to an evicted single father, while unintentionally setting into motion a series of unfortunate events.

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single mother, moonlights as a prostitute. Good husband Solvi is recruited into the snake pit of international banking.

Soon fate will make them meet.

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unluCky PlAzA

(Denmark, Germany) Attraction Distribution, 84mins. Dir: Ask Hasselbalch. Cast: Oscar Dietz, Samuel Ting Graf, Astrid Juncher-Benzon, Amalie Kruse-Jensen.

Our pint-sized superhero is back, facing greater challenges. A new supervillian announces her arrival in town: the invisible Red Fury. Will Antboy stand up to the test?

(UK, Canada, South Africa) eOne Films International, 86mins.

Dir: Clement Virgo. Cast: Aunjanue Ellis, Lyric Bent, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lou Gossett Jr. A universal story of loss, courage and triumph. The

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Antboy: revenge oF the red Fury

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Babetida Sadjo, Peter Van Den Begin.

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

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(Japan) Shochiku, 146mins. Dir: Masato Harada. Cast: Yo Oizumi, Erika Toda, Hikari Mitsushima.

The divorce rate was twice as high in

Edo period as today. This film is set in the Edo period at a nunnery temple called Tokei-ji, which is known for offering refuge to women looking to divorce their husbands.

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(Iceland) Films Boutique, 130mins. Dir: Baldvin Zophoniasson. Cast: Thorsteinn Bachmann, Hera Hilmarsdottir, Thor Kristjansson.

Reykjavik: after a tragedy, writer Mori drinks himself into oblivion. Eik, a young

19:00 ninjA hunter

(Japan) Shochiku, 101mins. Dir: Seiji Chiba.

Cast: Masanori Mimoto, Mei Kurokawa.

Four ninjas, four conflicting accounts, 40 corpses. Ninja action with a Rashomon twist.

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(Austria) Autlook Filmsales, 188mins.

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

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

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