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Fortissimo to relaunch

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Fortissimo Films looks set to return, in a major boost to the independent film sector. According to multiple sources, the Hong Kong and Amsterdam-based sales outfit, which filed for bankruptcy last summer, is set to be acquired by new Chinese owners, thought to be Hehe Pictures Corporation.

Not only is Fortissimo’s sales arm being revived but the com-

pany, under its new management, will also look to move into production.

There was widespread dismay in Europe and Asia at the news in August 2016 of Fortissimo’s bankruptcy. For two decades, the company had handled work from eminent filmmakers including Wong Kar Wai, Park Chan-wook, Richard Linklater and Bela Tarr, among many others.

Hehe Pictures, which is partly owned by Alibaba Group, is one of the leading media companies in China. Last year, Hehe co-financed and released China’s top grossing film of all time, Stephen Chow’s fantasy The Mermaid.

If Hehe does become the owner of Fortissimo, it will have the resources to quickly re-establish the sales outfit as a major player in the independent film market.

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FilmSharks has bolstered its EFM slate with international sales rights to Roberto Sneider’s comedic drama You Are Killing Me Susana starring Gael Garcia Bernal.

Los Angeles-based Hola Mexico Distribution holds US rights and the Latin cinema specialist has set a February 17 release on more than

50 screens. Videocine holds Mexican and Latin American rights.

Adapted from Jose Agustin’s novel Ciudades Desiertas, the story is about a Mexican man who reflects on his life as he embarks on a humbling trip to the US in the hope of reclaiming his wife.

The cast features Veronica Echegui, Ashley Hinshaw and

Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson.

La Banda Films produced with Mexico’s Cuevano Films and Canada’s Buffalo Gal Pictures.

“We are honoured to start working with Roberto Sneider again, one of the best Latin cinema directors today,” said FilmSharks’ Guido Rud. “We’ve been chasing this project since we read the script.”

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Wild Bunch has boarded sales on upcoming documentary Prince: Pop Life, capturing the music, life and legacy of the music legend, who died in April.

French-US photographer, art director and filmmaker Mathieu Bitton, who got close to Prince in his final years, is co-directing alongside writer, journalist and TV producer Frédéric Bénudis.

The documentary will use exclusive archive footage, fresh interviews and will be presented as a road trip taking in Paris, Los Angeles and New York. Joann Sfar will create animated segments.

“It will be music driven with a lot of exclusive footage,” said Wild Bunch co-chief Vincent Maraval.

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Stephan Elliott’s comedy Flammable Children reunites Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce on screen for the first time since TV’s Neighbours.

WestEnd Films handles world sales and will show a promo here at the EFM. In post-production, Flammable Children follows a teenager in a small Australian town during the 1970s when a blue whale washes up on a local beach.

Minogue and Pearce play eccentric parents. Al Clark and Jamie Hilton produce.

Nicholson, Wiig headline US Toni Erdmann Screen sources have confirmed Jack Nicholson and Kristen Wiig are set to star in the US remake of Maren Ade’s lauded German comedy Toni Erdmann.

The Cannes Competition hit and Oscar nominee is being remade by Paramount, which has not yet attached a writer or director.

Adam McKay will produce alongside Wiig, Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum of Gloria Sanchez Productions. Ade will executive produce the English-language remake alongside original German producers Jonas Dornbach and Janine Jackowski.

It will be 80-year-old Nicholson’s first starring role since 2010.

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Celluloid shines on Téchiné’s Golden Years Celluloid Dreams has boarded international sales for André Téchiné’s latest feature, Golden Years (Nos Années Folles).

Starring Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger By The Lake), the film

charts the true story of a French First World War deserter who spent a decade disguised as a woman.

Céline Sallette (Rust And Bone) plays his wife. The $8m film is set for completion this spring.

“I am stunned by the modernity and the lyricism of the film,” said Celluloid Dreams CEO Hengameh Panahi. Téchiné co-wrote the script with Cédric Anger.

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Gaumont is kicking off sales on actor and director Guillaume Gallienne’s Bright Weakness (Maryline), about the journey of a talented actress haunted by a difficult childhood.

Based on a true story, the film stars Adeline D’Hermy as a beautiful but complex and fragile woman who loses herself in the process of becoming an actress. Vanessa Paradis and Xavier Beauvois are also in the cast.

It is Gallienne’s second feature after Me, Myself And Mum, which was a critical hit in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes 2014.

Gaumont is also rolling out Belle And Sebastian: Friends For Life, the third and final instalment in the family franchise. Gaumont has already secured pre-sales to Italy (Notorious) and Switzerland (Pathé) and has deals underway to Poland, Benelux and Canada.

Gaumont sales chief Cécile Gaget and her team will also launch sales on Mathieu Amalric’s Barbara, a fictional tribute to the iconic French chanteuse.

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A daring adventure from family entertainment specialist A fresh and entertaining, yet deeply touching 3D animated Caligari Film about friendship and about what it means to be feature, based on an award winning screenplay. From the a hero. makers of the beautiful “Niko” Christmas movies and the director of “Ooops! Noah is Gone…”.

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Brimming with magic, humor and featuring a high-stakes race against time, the sequel to “The Christmas Family” is an enchanting Christmas movie for the entire family again.

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Following their collaboration on hit animation Your Name, Japanese studio Toho and producer Genki Kawamura are reteaming on an animated feature based on a TV series created by Shunji Iwai (A Bride For Rip Van Winkle).

The new project, Fireworks, Should We See It From The Side Or The Bottom? (pictured above), will be directed by Akiyuki Shinbo of Japan’s Shaft animation studio and Nobuyuki Takeuchi, who has worked with Studio Ghibli. Hitoshi One (Bakuman) has adapted the TV series.

Now in production, the film tells the story of two young boys and a girl whose fates become intertwined one summer day.

Voice talent includes Suzu Hirose (Our Little Sister) and Masaki Suda (Drowning Love). The Japanese release is scheduled for August.

New titles on Toho’s slate also include Yasuo Furuhata’s suspense drama Reminiscence.

Crowdpleasing Sundance opener Pop Aye — about a disenchanted architect who sets out on a trip across Thailand with his childhood elephant — is proving a hit with buyers.

Sales company Cercamon is reporting brisk sales on the title since its Sundance premiere to France (Happiness Distribution), Germany and Austria (NFP), Switzerland (Frenetic), Australia (Madman) and Sweden (Folkets Bio).

Kino Lorber announced it had

acquired North American rights during Sundance.

“Pop Aye is totally exotic and at the same time truly universal.

Everybody falls in love with Pop Aye, the elephant,” said Cercamon founding chief Sebastien Chesneau. The Thailand-set film is the debut feature of Singaporean director Kirsten Tan. It won the special jury award for screenwriting at Sundance and also clinched the VPRO Big Screen Award in Rotterdam, where it made its European premiere.

South Korea’s Showbox has inked pre-sales on crime action film The Prison. Since launching at AFM, the film has since sold for North America (Well Go USA), the UK, Australia and New Zealand (JBG Pictures), China (Lemon Tree), Philippines (Viva Communication) and Taiwan (Movie Cloud).

Directed by Na Hyun, it stars

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Han Seok-kyu (The Berlin File) and Kim Rae-won (Gangnam Blues). Kim plays a troubled former police inspector who is sent to jail after a hit-and-run accident and learns the facility is controlled by a crime syndicate.

The Prison has a market screening at the EFM on Saturday and is set for a March release in South Korea.

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Vertical Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Michael Mailer’s romantic drama Blind, starring Alec Baldwin.

Foresight Unlimited will introduce the title to buyers in Berlin today.

Los Angeles-based Octane Entertainment arrives in Berlin with worldwide rights to Nicholas Kalikow’s heist caper Carter & June from Napoleon Dynamite producer Sean Covel.

Flare kicks off with Law The 31st BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival (March 16-26) will open with Fergus O’Brien’s historical drama Against The Law. Daniel Mays and Mark Gatiss star.

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STXfilms has confirmed its initial UK distribution slate: Andy Serkis’s Breathe, Hallie MeyersShyer’s Home Again, Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River, Baltasar Kormakur’s Adrift, the untitled Nash Edgerton project and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman.

London-based sales outfit Truffle Pictures has boarded Justin Edgar’s thriller The Marker and will launch the completed film at the EFM. Frederick Schmidt stars.

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Works finds Cuban Way The Works International has acquired worldwide rights to documentary The Cuban Way and will show footage to buyers here at the EFM. The feature directorial debut of Glaswegian filmmaker Eirene Houston explores the evolution of the Cuban people through their passion for dancing, and the roots of the son and salsa styles. Houston produces with Mick Southworth and Martin McCabe.

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Eva Green will star as Virginia Woolf and Gemma Arterton will play Vita Sackville-West in Vita & Virginia, the second feature from Burn Burn Burn director Chanya Button. Protagonist Pictures has boarded sales on the project and will launch to buyers here at the EFM. Set in the 1920s, Vita & Virginia will depict the love affair between novelist Woolf and socialite Sackville-West, which inspired the former to write her novel Orlando.

Producers are Evangelo Kioussis of Mirror Productions and Katie Holly of Blinder Films.

Gaga goes to the Opera Top Japanese indie distributor Gaga has snapped up rights to Swiss director Jean-Stéphane Bron’s feature documentary The Paris Opera, capturing an intense season at the world famous French institution.

Paris-based Les Films du Losange is handling sales on the fly-on-the-wall feature, including interviews with opera house director Stéphane Lissner, choreographer Benjamin Millepied and Bryn Terfel.

Philippe Martin’s Paris-based Les Films Pelléas produces. Les Films du Losange distributes in France, Frenetic in Switzerland.

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French warm to Wizart’s Snow Queen 3

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Russia’s Wizart has signed a deal with Universal Pictures Video France (UPVF) and KLB to release animation The Snow Queen 3: Fire And Ice in Frenchspeaking territories.

The family film is set for a wide release in French cinemas in winter 2017-18 and will also be distributed in Andorra and Monaco, French-speaking parts of Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg as well as Francophone Africa.

The Snow Queen 3 — which screens in the EFM on Saturday — has earned more than $4.9m at the Russian box office for Universal.

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TrustNordisk ramps up

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LevelK has boarded sales for two films that world premiere in Berlinale’s Generation selection: The Inland Road and Oskar’s America.

The Inland Road (Generation 14plus), the debut feature from New Zealand writer/director Jackie van Beek, is a coming-ofage drama about a 16-year-old Maori runaway who develops a bond with a family she meets after a car accident. Aaron Watson produces for Sabertooth Films.

Torfinn Iversen’s NorwegianSwedish family film Oskar’s America (Generation Kplus) is about a Norwegian boy who hatches a plan to join his mother in the US. This debut feature expands on Iversen’s 2012 Generation 14plus short Levi’s Horse. Mona Steffensen produces for Original Film in co-production with Bob Film Sweden. Storytelling Media will release in Norway on March 24.

TrustNordisk is diversifying its film sales business by adding more development and financial backing of films and TV drama series, to create something of a “ministudio”, CEO Rikke Ennis told Screen.

“We’re taking the next step.

You’ll see TrustNordisk as an important player in financing, content development and co-production of both films and TV drama from the idea stage,” said

Ennis. “As part of a big family with Zentropa and Nordisk, it makes sense to prepare for the future. Nordisk is also scaling up and for some projects we will be working closely together.”

As part of the company’s plans, Susan Wendt has been promoted from head of sales to director of international sales and marketing.

Ennis, who will remain CEO, will spearhead the company’s original content development as well as bringing in new partners and

financing opportunities. One project already announced on the TV side is dystopian series Last Light.

Wendt will oversee all of the company’s sales activities for film and TV. She manages eight people including newly promoted senior sales manager Nicolai Korsgaard and Silje Glimsdal, who will be in charge of incoming projects.

Wendt said: “We still want to keep and strengthen our film business; we will keep working with the high-profile films we do now.”

Flanders to CONNeXT in October Flanders Image has rebranded its invitation-only industry event NeXT as CONNeXT for the second edition (October 8-11) in Ghent.

This year it will include TV series in addition to films as works-inprogress and completed screenings, and expand one-onone meetings. Guests will include programmers from festivals such as Cannes, Tribeca, Toronto and SXSW; plus buyers and sellers.

Mongrel’s Menashe finds favour

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Toronto-based Mongrel International has closed key territories on Yiddish-language Forum selection and recent Sundance world premiere Menashe. Sophie Dulac Distribution has acquired the drama

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for France and Rialto has taken Australia and New Zealand. Mongrel Media will release in Canada.

Mongrel International chief Charlotte Mickie said a sale is pending in Scandinavia and reported “high interest” from the

UK, Israel, Switzerland, Germany and Japan. A24 recently acquired the US rights to Joshua Z Weinstein’s feature directorial debut, which stars Menashe Lustig and Ruben Niborski. It screens here on Sunday.

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UNITED KINGDOM • ACTION-COMEDY • ENGLISH DIRECTOR SIMON WEST SYNOPSIS The story follows Turk Henry; a mega platinum rock star who’s married to a supermodel and rich beyond his wildest dreams. Whilst on holiday, his wife is mysteriously abducted by a group of renegade, ship-less pirates. With little assistance from local authorities Turk is forced to embark on a mission to rescue his wife. With life skills better suited to playing bass, playing the field, and partying he is forced to navigate through deadly jungles and take on ruthless bandits in this truly hilarious, action-packed romp.

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Overwhelmed by the tangled web of violence and intrigue that surrounds him and with his mind affected, Mozart creates the astonishing music and drama that becomes Don Giovanni.

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T2 Trainspotting Reviewed by Wendy Ide It is impossible to approach this sequel, which rejoins the Trainspotting characters 20 years later, without remembering Sick Boy’s Unifying Theory of Life from the original film: “At one point, you’ve got it. Then you lose it. Then it’s gone forever.” While director Danny Boyle and his team have clearly still ‘got it’, the characters have reached a point in life when, to quote Mark ‘Rent Boy’ Renton (Ewan McGregor), they must accept “reconciliation with what you can get rather than what you had hoped for”. The tonal shift in the sequel compared to the original means that, although there are plenty of moments of savage humour, the highs are just not quite so high any more. There is a melancholy maturity, however, which is satisfying in its own way.

The ache of regret that underpins this portrait of men still struggling with growing up is unlikely to harm the film’s box-office prospects; such is the iconic status of Trainspotting that this sequel is like the reunion tour of a muchloved band. The film’s commercial prospects are healthiest in the UK, where the cultural impact of Trainspotting still resonates most strongly. Elsewhere, the slick package — DoP Anthony Dod Mantle and production designer

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INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE, OUT OF COMPETITION UK. 2016. 117mins Director Danny Boyle Production companies Cloud Eight Films, DNA Films, Decibel Films, TriStar Pictures Worldwide distribution Sony Pictures Entertainment Producers Bernard Bellew, Danny Boyle, Christian Colson, Andrew Macdonald Screenplay John Hodge Cinematography Anthony Dod Mantle Main cast Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly Macdonald, Ewen Bremner

Mark Tildesley bring a dirty, sexy, colour-saturated energy to the picture — and the name appeal of McGregor and Boyle will add to its drawing power.

The plot sees Renton returning to Edinburgh to face two of the three friends he robbed at the end of the last film. Spud (Ewen Bremner) has not managed to shake his habit; a scene in which he scores heroin from a pair of sneering dealers less than half his age is one of the film’s most quietly devastating. Meanwhile Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), or Simon as he is now known, is running a failing pub, with a sideline in blackmail, and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) is still safely behind bars — or so Renton believes.

The writing, by returning screenwriter John Hodge, retains the satirical bite of the original film and manages to mock nostalgia while also embracing it — after all, it is unlikely this sequel would exist were it not for the misty affection of a whole generation who grew up with the first movie.

Indeed, it is unusually closely tied to the original film, a closeness that manifests itself in several ways. The most overt, and jarring, of these is the decision to cut in clips from the first film.

While the two pictures have much in common, tonally they are different beasts and each

glimpse of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie in the past is a reminder of how much more fun they were 20 years ago.

More successful are the wry nods and playful references, which work particularly well within the music. The soundtrack of Trainspotting became iconic in its own right, and even the faintest hint of Lou Reed’s Perfect Day or Underworld’s Born Slippy is enough to bring back a rush of good will. In the most audacious moment, Renton revisits his childhood bedroom for the first time after his 20-year exile.

He pulls a record from its sleeve and drops the needle onto it, then lifts it almost immediately — the brief snatch of music is clearly recognisable as Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life, a tease and an in-joke for fans.

Like the first film, T2 is structured episodically, like a string of slightly disjointed stoner anecdotes. What’s new here is an elegant device that brings Spud to front and centre. In an effort to finally quit heroin, he follows Renton’s advice and tries to replace one addiction with another: writing. Gradually, it is Spud’s voice that takes control of the story, and with it comes a note of hope for the most sympathetic but pitiable of all the reprobates who burst out of Irvine Welsh’s pages.

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The Wound Reviewed by Allan Hunter

On The Road Reviewed by Kevin Harley Among the many stop-offs in a prolific career, UK director Michael Winterbottom’s output has included road movies, pop films, new angles on old genres and experimental fact/fiction mergers. These routes meet to largely rousing effect in his latest trip, where fly-on-the-bus snapshots of touring life for north London indie-rockers Wolf Alice combine with the warmly played fictional tale of a tour-bus fling.

If well targeted at the band’s and director’s audiences, this Don’t Look Back-inspired pic could be a modest but sound investment for Lorton Entertainment, the UKbased financier-distributor whose recent projects include Oasis documentary Supersonic. While Winterbottom’s name could generate intrigue, Wolf Alice’s fastexpanding fanbase may well boost numbers.

Those fans flooded out for the band’s March 2016 UK tour, documented here. The four-piece emerges as a natural magnet for teenage fans and nostalgic indieheads, their mix of sweet bubblegum melodies and scorching grunge riffs capped off to perfection by singer Ellie Rowsell’s dreamy coo, feral roar and natural charisma. Crowd’s-eye views are bracingly captured by DoP James Clarke. Throughout, Winterbottom adopts an observational rather than interrogative approach, but back-stories are not explored and touring troubles are presented as matter-of-fact hiccups, not high dramas.

More intimate material emerges from a fictional plot about an affair between a management rep (Leah Harvey) and a young-but-grizzled tourhand (James McArdle), though this strand proves less meaty than the main material. Resembling Winterbottom’s The Trip with cheaper nosh, scenes of the pair sharing ice-cream unfold with an easy charm; later, the bedroom scenes approach Winterbottom’s 9 Songs territory. But their story is not sufficiently integrated into the main narrative, beyond faint parallels between connections forged in transit and Wolf Alice’s fleeting liaisons with student union-sized venues.

Winterbottom scores most points with his boisterous, bawdy and beery portrait of an indie band forging ahead the old-school way, and the soundtrack justifies the climactic impression of bigger things ahead. This picture mounts a richly watchable showcase of a group navigating its way between touring’s testing downtime and full-pelt forward momentum, holding each other steady as they go.

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OPENING FILM, GENERATION 14PLUS UK. 2016. 120mins Director Michael Winterbottom Production companies Lorton Entertainment, Revolution Films International sales Independent Film Company, sarahl@ independentfilmcompany. com Producers Melissa Parmenter, Anthony Wilcox Cinematography James Clarke Main cast Wolf Alice, Leah Harvey, James McArdle

A traditional rite of passage is the catalyst for exploring conflicting notions of what it means to be a man in The Wound (Inxeba), an assured first feature from writer-director John Trengove. The initial promise of a South African Brokeback Mountain broadens into a measured consideration of class, race, self-loathing and self-assertion in a compact but complex drama that should be especially welcomed by LGBT audiences and niche distributors.

Trengove briefly contrasts the routine of city life with the elemental call of the wild before setting the bulk of the film in the remote mountains of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Factory worker Xolani (Nakhane Touré) leaves his job in Queenstown to serve as a caregiver to rich city boy Kwanda (Niza Jay Ncoyini), one of the teenage initiates undergoing the Xhosa ritual of circumcision and forest retreat to mark the passage from boyhood to adulthood.

Xolani’s ulterior motive, however, is his annual reunion with fellow caregiver Vijami (Bongile Mantsai). Trengove makes it clear that Xolani is more emotionally invested in the relationship, gazing on his lover with a puppy-dog devotion that the brawny, married Vijami seems unable to reciprocate. Kwanda readily picks up on the bond between the two men, but Trengove avoids the obvious melodramatic option of having him threaten to expose them. Instead, Kwanda proves unexpectedly encouraging in the way he urges Xolani to find himself a better life.

The Wound is not without its predictable elements, but one of its strengths is the quality of the characters. Vijami seems to have built his gruff personality as a defence against the hint of an accusation that he is not a real man, but we come to see a more gentle, vulnerable side to him.

Xolani is also someone we come to understand in greater depth; lonely, yearning but lacking that extra confidence to escape the shackles of his own self-hatred.

If the connections between the central trio are at the heart of the film, then the wider focus is very much on contrasts between urban and rural, ancient and modern, wealth and poverty. Kwanda is constantly teased for his expensive trainers and privileged lifestyle but he also comes to embody a more forward-looking, progressive South Africa that feels increasingly like an impossible dream as the film unfolds.

PANORAMA SA-Ger-Neth-Fr. 2016.

88mins Director John Trengrove Production company Urucu Media International sales Pyramide International, sales@pyramidefilms. com Producers Elias Ribeiro, Cait Pansegrouw Screenplay John Trengove, Thando Mgqolozana, Malusi Bengu Cinematography Paul Ozgur Main cast Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay Ncoyini

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Casting JonBenet Reviewed by Tim Grierson “People are quick to judge,” says one of the subjects in Casting JonBenet, a riveting and unexpectedly moving documentary that grapples with the legacy of JonBenet Ramsey’s 1996 murder and, more importantly, people’s insatiable need to discuss and dissect other people’s lives.

Following festival screenings, Casting JonBenet will stream on Netflix in April. More than two decades after Ramsey’s death, public appetite for stories about the sixyear-old beauty queen remains high, although writerdirector Kitty Green’s unconventional approach would seem more suited to adventurous viewers.

Green (Ukraine Is Not A Brothel) constructs her film from a series of interviews she conducted with members of Ramsey’s Colorado community, essentially auditioning them for roles in a non-existent JonBenet project. There are no title cards or voiceover to explain the film’s nervy premise; instead, we simply meet people who talk to the camera — men, women and children who are trying to be cast as John Ramsey (JonBenet’s father), Patsy (her mother), Burke (her older brother) and other figures in the girl’s world. What quickly becomes evident, however, is that this is a device to encourage these people to discuss theories on the girl’s still-unsolved murder, and their opinions about the real-life individuals they hope to play.

At first, there are so many actors explaining their backgrounds and their character motivations that it can be overwhelming. But, slowly, fascinating patterns emerge.

Everyone has opinions on who they think killed the girl, but often their logic is coloured by their own experiences.

Because Green is never seen or heard, the viewer feels an intimate connection with these strangers, who talk frankly about everything from their battles with cancer to the unlikely ways they make a living. In this way, Casting JonBenet deftly makes the point that, aside from the undeniable tabloid allure, public tragedies also captivate us because we can relate to the participants’ pain. Instead of crude gossiping, the film’s subjects are touchingly forthright, sharing with Green why the murder matters to them.

Without warning, the film becomes a confessional, and the actors’ candour underlines how, although we may be quick to judge, it is partly because we are trying to understand our own lives. The mirror Casting JonBenet holds up to its subjects — and perhaps the audience — is incredibly, sometimes painfully, illuminating.

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80mins Director Kitty Green Production companies Meridian Entertainment, Screen Australia, Forensic Films, Matricide Pictures, Symbolic Exchange Worldwide distribution Netflix Producers Kitty Green, Scott Macaulay, James Schamus Cinematography Michael Latham Music Nathan Larson

If Listen Up Philip, Alex Ross Perry’s darkly funny 2014 feature, was indebted to Philip Roth, Golden Exits is inspired by the films of Eric Rohmer. An intimate study of an interconnected group of New Yorkers and the outsider who briefly upends their troubled lives, this is an idiosyncratic film about little moments of human pain and loneliness.

For this reason, Golden Exits can be tough-going, and may be a tough sell. Festival programmers and fans of the burgeoning auteur will be sure to seek out Perry’s latest cinematic experiment, but Golden Exits is not likely to build much on the modest success of Listen Up Philip.

Still, the new film shows a maturity that offers further proof of Perry’s abilities as a filmmaker.

Set in Brooklyn, Golden Exits revolves around Nick (Adam Horovitz), a fortysomething family archivist, his solemn wife Alyssa (Chloe Sevigny) and her sister Gwen (Mary-Louise Parker). When we first meet this unhappy trio, they are discussing Nick’s latest job — to archive the materials of the sisters’ recently deceased father — but everyone goes silent with the entrance of Nick’s beautiful new Australian assistant, Naomi (Emily Browning).

While Nick works with Naomi in his small basement office, Alyssa fears her husband might be unfaithful.

Meanwhile, Naomi seeks out a family friend, Buddy (Jason Schwartzman), for companionship. We also meet Buddy’s wife Jess (Analeigh Tipton) and her good friend, Sam (Lily Rabe), who is also Gwen’s personal assistant.

And none them appear to be remotely happy or satisfied.

Horowitz’s Nick is a solitary man who appears to have neither the interest nor the wherewithal to change his staid routine, while Sevigny, in her best performance in years, is severe and aggrieved. When Alyssa speaks about her and her husband’s loss of interest in small talk, celebrations or weekend trips, it is like something out of Bergman.

While Golden Exits features gold-hued cinematography, there is little sunniness in Perry’s script. Rather, the film is a bitter examination of both marriage and living alone, with neither option bringing much comfort. In one of the many confessional scenes between the characters, Jess suggests to her friend, Sam, that “the grass is always greener”. Sam’s reply, in many ways, says a lot about the film as a whole: “The grass is dead.”

FORUM US. 2016. 94mins Director/screenplay Alex Ross Perry Production companies Washington Square Films, Forager Films International sales The Match Factory, info@matchfactory.de Producers Christos V Konstantakopoulos, Alex Ross Perry, Adam Piotrowicz, Katie Stern, Joshua Blum Cinematography Sean Price Williams Main cast Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Mary-Louise Parker, Lily Rabe, Jason Schwartzman, Chloe Sevigny

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By Jeremy Kay Lionsgate and Participant Media kick off their sales relationship with an untitled Entebbe project starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl, and produced by Working Title Films. Lionsgate co-chairman Patrick Wachsberger and his team are expected to show footage from Jose Padilha’s film about the 1976 hijack of a passenger jet by pro-Palestinian forces and the subsequent rescue by Israeli commandos.

FilmNation arrives with sales rights to Amazon Studios’ Suspiria remake from Luca Guadagnino, who is red-hot after the Sundance premiere of his Call Me By Your Name. Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson and Chloe Grace Moretz star in the horror feature.

Voltage Pictures is screening the Tupac Shakur drama All Eyez On Me, which Lionsgate will release in the US on June 16 through its Summit label. The film recounts the late rapper’s life and stars Demetrius Shipp Jr as Shakur.

Benny Boom directs from a script by Ed Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft.

Bloom Media is in Berlin with one of the most unique titles in the market, Woody Harrelson’s Lost In London. The project shot in a single take in the UK capital last month, while being simultaneously beamed to audiences in the UK and US. Harrelson plays himself and

produces with Bloom partner and Waypoint Entertainment founder Ken Kao. CAA is repping US rights.

Sierra/Affinity’s Nick Meyer, Jonathan Kier and the sales team are launching talks on the Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace thriller Stockholm, based on a real 1973 Swedish bank robbery during which the hostages bonded with their captors. The event coined the term for the psychological condition Stockholm Syndrome. Shooting is expected to begin in April. Productivity Media is financing and Jason Blum is among the producers.

IM Global is launching pre-sales on Serenity, a noir thriller it is fully financing.

Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway are in talks to star, and Steven Knight will direct from his own screenplay. It is about a fisherman whose past is about to catch up with him. Production is scheduled for the summer on what will be IM Global’s third collaboration with Knight following Locke and Redemption.

Good Universe is in town to talk up Burden, in which Garrett Hedlund tackles another racism story following his noted turn in Sundance world premiere Mudbound.. Hedlund plays a man who battles his family’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan when his lover urges him to choose a better life. Forest You Were Never Here Whitaker,

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Andrea Riseborough and Tom Wilkinson round out the key cast and Robbie Brenner of Dallas Buyers Club produces. Burden is now in post.

Content Media is hoping to cause a stir with its well-received Sundance documentary Cries From Syria by Oscarnominated Evgeny Afineevsky. The film chronicles the Middle Eastern country’s civil war and draws on hundreds of hours of war footage and testimony from children, survivors and army officers who have defected from government ranks. HBO will air the film on March 13.

Mongrel International is at the EFM with completed Australian coming-ofage mystery Jasper Jones. Toni Collette and Hugo Weaving star in Rachel Perkins’ drama about a teenage boy who sets out to confront racism and find a killer in the course of an eventful summer in 1968.

Visit Films has boarded international sales on Columbus, a completed drama about a woman who forms a close bond with a man visiting his dying father. John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey, Rory Culkin and Michelle Forbes star. It is the directorial debut of South Koreanborn filmmaker and film writer Kogonada. Cinetic represents US rights.

Mundial’s Cristina Garza is jetting into town with Generation 14Plus selection Don’t

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Swallow My Heart Alligator Girl! from Brazil’s Felipe Braganca. The Sundance premiere is an epic love story about a Brazilian boy and a Guarani girl from across the Apa river in Paraguay.

Adam Brody and The Book Thief’s Sophie Nélisse star in The Kid Detective, a Myriad Pictures sales title produced by Vancouver-based Brightlight Pictures.

The satirical murder mystery follows a down-at-heel former child detective who gets a shot at his first ‘adult’ case. Brightlight, Myriad and UTA Independent Film Group jointly arranged financing and the latter two are handling US rights.

XYZ Films has international rights to recent Sundance premiere Bushwick, which just sold to RLJ Entertainment for the US and stars Dave Bautista and Brittany Snow. The action thriller takes place as civil war breaks out in the US and a former soldier helps a young woman survive.

Premiere Entertainment is talking to buyers about You Were Never He re, a thriller starring Mireille Enos, Sam Shepard and Goran Visnjic. Camille Thoman directs and produces the film, about an artist who suspects she is being stalked. The film screens in the market.

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of a family massacre who revisits her childhood home on the eve of its destruction. Katrina Law, Bryce Johnson, Tara Holt and horror stalwart Ted Raimi star in the project from Storyboard Entertainment and Compass Entertainment.

The Exchange is showcasing We’re Just Married, from director Rodrigo Garcia.

Lily Rabe, Sam Rockwell and Chris Messina are attached to star. The comedy drama is set in the early 1970s and presents a portrait of a romantic triangle.

Double Dutch International has Heidi: Queen Of The Mountain, starring Bill Nighy. Bhavna Talwar directs the feature, based on the celebrated tales of the Swiss mountain girl. It is anticipated as the first in a family trilogy.

AMBI Distribution is selling worldwide rights to Beyond The Edge, in which a team of paranormal crooks plan a bank heist. Antonio Banderas stars in the film, which is co-directed by Aleksandr Boguslavskiy and Francesco Cinquemani.

VMI Worldwide has picked up sales on and is screening Nightworld by Chilean horror master Patricio Valladares.

Jason London and Robert Englund star in the film about a security guard at an old apartment building in Eastern Europe possessed by a malevolent force.

Shoreline Entertainment is handling sales on Tatu And Patu, a completed project based on the Finnish family bestseller about brother inventors who visit the city at Christmas with their best friend.

Electric Entertainment is showing footage of company owner Dean Devlin’s Bad Samaritan with David Tennant and Robert Sheehan, about two burglars who stumble on a captive woman during a break-in. Electric has worldwide rights.

MPI Media Group is showcasing It Stains The Sands Red, a zombie apocalypse story about a woman who is pursued through the desert by an undead creature. Brittany Allen and Juan Riedinger star. Dark Sky Films has US rights.

Nu Image is at the EFM to tempt buyers with Nicolas Cage in the Millennium Films thriller #211, about a teenager who is caught up in a heist and tries to record the action on his phone. Production is set to begin in Bulgaria in March.

Cinema Entertainment Group is starting talks on Peruvian animation Ainbo.

The 3D CGI feature from Tunche Films is scheduled to begin production this year. It focuses on an Amazonian girl who must protect her community from an evil spirit.

Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks is kicking off sales on You Are Killing Me Susana, a darkly comic story about a Mexican man desperate to win back his love after she relocates to Iowa. Gael Garcia Bernal stars alongside Veronica Echegui.

Bleiberg Entertainment is introducing Queen Of Spades, a drama about the feisty

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relationship between a singer and her protégé that won the audience award at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.

Little Film Company is talking up Bad Blood, a thriller starring Xavier Samuel from Fury and Love & Friendship, about a romantic weekend at a mountain resort that turns into a terrifying ordeal.

Seville International has boarded sales on Hochelaga, Land Of Souls. Vincent Perez stars in Francois Girard’s historical drama weaving together five stories over 750 years. The film is now shooting in Montreal.

Octane Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Carter & June, an action title in post about a New Orleans con artist who gets in over his head when he tries to pay off his debts.

Film Sales Company has worldwide rights to Berlin Critics’ Week selection California Dreams from Mike Ott. The comedy-documentary feature centres on five unique individuals in pursuit of fame and fortune in Hollywood.

Hyde Park International is launching sales on The Female Brain, a romantic comedy in post that marks the directorial debut of comedian Whitney Cummings, who stars alongside Sofia Vergara, James Marsden, Lucy Punch

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and Toby Kebbell.

Canadian outfit Attraction Distribution is here at the Berlinale with a selection of European titles that include Simone van Dusseldorp’s family film Owls And Mice, produced by Dutch outfit Lemming, which is screening in Generation Kplus. Attraction is also handling Nathalie Teirlinck’s Past Imperfect, a drama produced by Belgium’s Savage Film, and crime series 13 Commandments, produced by Menuet of Belgium.

Also from Canada, Jan Rofekamp’s Films Transit is screening Sundance documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World, which looks at the key role of Native Americans in US popular music history.

IFT launches sales on Dick Move starring Olivia Munn as an artist who starts seeing phallic imagery in her paintings.

Archstone Distribution arrives with On Wings Of Eagles starring Joseph Fiennes. The unofficial Chariots Of Fire sequel screens on Friday.

Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International will be talking up The Price Of Admission, a part-dramedy, part-existential thriller to star Michael Sheen as a playwright in the throes of a midlife crisis.

David Garrett’s Mister Smith is launching sales on Terrence Malick’s Second World War drama Radegund, the true story of Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector who refused to fight for the Nazis. The film marks Malick’s return to the period following acclaimed 1998 drama The Thin Red Line. August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Matthias Schoenaerts and Bruno Ganz star.

HanWay Films is back in business with Brooklyn star Saoirse Ronan on the drama Sweetness In The Belly, based on Camilla Gibb’s novel about a white Muslim woman raised in Africa who goes on to be employed by the UK’s National Health Service. Ethopia-born Zeresenay Mehari, whose 2014 film Difret won an audience award at Sundance, is directing the film, which is produced by Sienna Films and Parallel Films.

Protagonist Pictures is in Berlin with period biopic Vita And Virginia, about literary icons Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Gemma Arterton is set to star as the former and Eva Green as the latter.

The film marks the second feature of Chanya Button (Burn Burn Burn) and is due to shoot in the spring.

Thorsten Schumacher’s Rocket Science is at the EFM with Kristin Scott Thomas’s directorial debut about a couple whose marriage is in crisis. Scott Thomas will play the woman in the troubled relationship and Mark Strong is in talks to play her husband.

Altitude Film Sales recently secured world sales rights to Mary And The Witch’s Flower, the first feature from Studio Ponoc, the Japanese animation house founded by former Studio Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura. He will be working on the film with director Hiromasa ‘Maro’ Yonebayashi.

Cornerstone Films is in town with Adam Shankman’s The Chocolate Money, based on the novel of the same name by Ashley Prentice Norton. It chronicles the relationship between a wealthy confectionery heiress and her precocious young daughter. Kate Beckinsale will star as the eccentric mother.

Embankment Films’ slate includes McQueen, about the rise of celebrated UK fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who committed suicide in 2010. Salon Pictures (Churchill) produces alongside London outfit Misfits Entertainment.

Bankside Films comes to market with a promo of UK horror film Possum, starring Sean Harris as a disgraced children’s puppeteer who returns to his childhood home and is forced to »

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confront the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.

WestEnd Films is handling sales on Georgian-Russian Panorama title Hostages, from Ida producer Ewa Puszczynska. The film is based on the true story of a young couple who enact a dangerous plot to escape the Soviet Union.

Metro International is showing footage of First World War feature Journey’s End. Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Asa Butterfield, Toby Jones and Tom Sturridge star in the drama adapted from the classic play of the same name.

Great Point Media is selling Sally Potter’s Berlin Competition title The Party.

The tragi-comedy is set during one eventful night in London and stars Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Timothy Spall and Cherry Jones.

Independent Film Company is hoping to seal further deals on Michael Winterbottom’s documentary-fiction feature On The Road, which opens the Generation strand. The film about UK indie band Wolf Alice will have its US festival launch at SXSW. Simon Crowe’s SC Films International comes to market with animation Pachamama. The film is about an Andean boy who dreams of becoming a shaman. It marks the first 3D CGI animation to be produced by Didier and Damien Brunner’s Folivari.

Goldcrest Films is showcasing BBC Earth Films and SMG Pictures’ nature documentary Earth: One Amazing Day, the sequel to Earth, the 2007 box-office hit that grossed more than $110m worldwide. Peter Webber (The Girl With The Pearl Earring) and Richard Dale (The Human Body) co-direct.

Film Constellation is screening first footage from New York-set romantic comedy Permission, starring Rebecca Hall and Dan Stevens, which is written and directed by Brian Crano. Hall is making her producing debut on the film.

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Fledgling outfit AMP International is at its first market with UK comedy Songbird, starring Cobie Smulders and Noel Clarke. Clarke also produces the feature, which is about the lead singer of a 1990s Britpop band whose star has faded.

Kaleidoscope is screening horror title Nails. Shauna Macdonald (The Descent) and comedian Ross Noble (Stitches) star in the story of a paralysed woman, trapped in her own body, who becomes convinced she is being stalked by a malevolent spirit in her hospital room.

Celsius brings Isabel Coixet’s The Bookshop, which is in post-production.

Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson star in the adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1950s novel about a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

Cinestaan is in Berlin with Bombay Rose, the first feature by Indian animator Gitanjali Rao. The Bollywood-inspired love story, set on the streets of Mumbai, is produced by Les Films d’Ici’s Serge Lalou, whose credits include Waltz With Bashir, alongside Clara Mahieu.

Timeless Films has a market premiere screening of 3D animation Happy Fam-

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ily, featuring the voices of Emily Watson, Jason Isaacs, Nick Frost, Catherine Tate and Jessica Brown Findlay. The film follows the Wishbone clan, who must pull together to battle real-life beasts.

GFM Films will be talking to buyers about animation Duck Duck Goose featuring Stephen Fry among its voice cast.

Home producer Christopher Jenkins cowrote and directs the story about a loner goose who rescues two ducklings.

GSP Studios is in post-production on writer-director Carl Strathie’s debut sci-fi thriller Solis. Steven Ogg, best known for roles in The Walking Dead and Westworld, stars as a man trapped aboard an escape pod hurtling toward the sun.

The Works is giving a market screening to Danny Huston’s The Last Photograph, in which Huston plays a man whose life is thrown into a tailspin following a random act of theft. Sarita Choudhury, Stacy Martin and newcomer Jonah Hauer-King co-star.

Truffle Pictures is at the EFM with Justin Edgar’s noir-thriller The Marker starring Frederick Schmidt, John Hannah and Ana Ularu in a story of a criminal seeking redemption.

Carnaby International is selling com-

edy road movie The Young Offenders, the Irish box-office hit inspired by the true story of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure in 2007.

Genre specialist Jinga Films has boarded Norbert Keil’s sci-fi horror Replace, starring Rebecca Forsythe as a woman afflicted by a strange disease.

Richard Stanley co-wrote the screenplay.

Moviehouse Entertainment is talking to buyers about feature documentary Here To Be Heard: The Story Of The Slits, about the UK all-female punk band formed in 1976. Now in post-production, the film is due to be completed this autumn.

Dogwoof hopes to tempt buyers with Sundance title 78/52, about the famous shower scene in Psycho. The film features interviews with Guillermo del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Karyn Kusama, Eli Roth, Walter Murch and Peter Bogdanovich.

Former IM Global executive Tim Grohne’s Primal Screen is selling Beatles film It Was Fifty Years Ago Today… Sgt Pepper And Beyond, which marks the 50th anniversary of the band’s seminal album.

Parkland Pictures has a market screening of thriller Us And Them, in which a disillusioned young man holds a banker and his family hostage and forces him to gamble for their lives. Jack Roth stars.

Devilworks is launching sci-fi thriller Incontrol from director Kurtis David Harder. Starring Levi Meaden and Rory J Saper, the film tells the story of a group of students who discover a device that allows them to control other people.

Evolutionary Films is hoping to do well with its own production, action horror AUX. The film, starring John RhysDavies, is about what happens when two young boys playing in the woods discover the hidden entrance to an underground military bunker.

Anna Krupnova’s Reason8 is selling US crime-thriller Dark Meridian, about a New Orleans detective who is caught up in a fight between two rival criminal factions while on a stakeout. »

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By Melanie Goodfellow Doc & Film International is flying in

Bruno Dumont for a presentation of his second season of mini-series Li’l Quinquin, entitled Coincoin And The Extrahumans. Further titles include Nicolas Philibert’s next documentary, the details of which are under wraps, as well as Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris — New York Public Library.

In addition to Berlinale opener Django and out of Competition title Viceroy’s House, Pathé International is handling market premieres of Guillaume Canet’s midlife crisis comedy Rock’n Roll and Dany Boon’s RAID: Special Unit, which just drew 1.2 million spectators over five days in France, Belgium and Switzerland.

Pathé is also showing first footage of Eric Barbier’s Promise At Dawn, which stars Pierre Niney as colourful French writer Romain Gary opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg as his mother. In addition, Pathé will showcase Abdellatif Kechiche’s coming-of age-story Mektoub Is Mektoub and Xavier Beauvois’ Second World War drama Les Gardiennes.

New Wild Bunch titles include Cannes hopefuls K.O., a drama by Fabrice Gobert that stars Laurent Lafitte as a man who awakes from a coma with very changed fortunes, and Christian Carion’s kidnap drama My Son starring Guillaume Canet.

Projects due for late 2017/early 2018 delivery include Jean-Luc Godard’s exploration of the Arab world Image Et Parole, Pierre Godeau’s Sempé adaptation Raoul Taburin and Omar Sy vehicle YAO. Gaumont is launching sales on Belle And Sebastian: Friends For Life, the third and final instalment in the family franchise. It is also showcasing Mathieu Amalric’s biopic Barbara, about the late French chanteuse, and Bright Weakness, the second film by Guillaume Gallienne.

WTFilms is kicking off sales on Canadian director Sook-Yin Lee’s Octavio Is Dead, starring Sarah Gadon as a woman who escapes the clutches of an overbearing mother, played by Rosanna Arquette, and reconnects with her dead father.

Raoul Trujillo co-stars. It will also show first footage of Paris zombie invasion picture The Night That Eats The World and same-sex romantic comedy Kiss Me!.

Bac Films is screening the first footage of Paolo Virzi’s The Leisure Seeker, zombie drama The Third Wave and Babak Jalali’s Native American reservation-set Land. Bac is also launching sales on French-language feature Ava, about a teenage girl rebelliously coming to terms with impending blindness.

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dling China’s animated Golden Bear contender Have A Nice Day, as well as Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome (which screens in Panorama) and Martin Provost’s The Midwife (out of Competition).

In the market it is talking to buyers about Xavier Giannoli’s The Apparition, starring Vincent Lindon as a journalist investigating a series of saintly visions.

Upside Distribution is screening a promo-reel of Roc: The World’s Greatest Con Artist, about the alleged ‘conman of the stars’ Christophe Rocancourt. The film is directed by Olivier Megaton, best known for Taken 2.

Alma Cinema is launching Milad Alami’s cultural identity drama The Charmer and English-language thriller A Bluebird In My Heart. The latter stars Roland Moller as an ex-con drawn into a gangland feud. Alma is also selling Guillaume Nicloux’s Indochina war-set drama To The Ends Of The Earth, which starts shooting this March in Vietnam.

Versatile is unveiling Jean Luc Herbulot’s urban thriller Döner, set in a Paris kebab shop and starring Hugo Becker and Grégory Gadebois.

TF1 Studio is launching sales on Italian director Andrea Pallaoro’s The Whale, starring Charlotte Rampling as a woman suffering from an identity crisis. The company is also screening new promo reels of romantic comedy Nobody’s Perfect, starring Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, and the thriller All That Divides Us, starring Deneuve and Diane Kruger as a mother and daughter caught up in the drugs world.

Alfama Films is starting sales on Robert Schwentke’s long-awaited Second

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ambitious father, and Tala Hadid’s Forum title House In The Fields, about two teenage girls living in a remote Moroccan mountain village.

France TV is re-entering film sales with Jean Becker’s Le Collier Rouge, starring Nicolas Duvauchelle as a First World War hero mysteriously jailed on his return from the western front. The cast also includes Francois Cluzet.

New EFM films for Wide Management include IFFR titles The Last Painting, black comedy Secret Ingredient by Macedonian Berlinale Talent alumnus Gjorce Stavreski, and Italian director Adriano Giotti’s award-winning Sex Cowboys.

Studiocanal is launching sales on Hard Powder, starring Liam Neeson as a quiet snowplough driver in the Rocky Mountains seeking revenge on the drugs kingpin who ordered the killing of his son.

Luxbox is selling Forum title Barrage, starring Lolita Chammah and her mother Isabelle Huppert. Further titles include Sharunas Bartas’ aid convoy drama Frost, The Third Way starring Vanessa Paradis, and Bruno Dumont’s Cannes hopeful Jeannette.

World War adventure tale The Captain, Marie-Pierre Macia’s MPM is selling Elise Girard’s misfits romance Strange which starts shooting this month. Titles Birds, starring Lolita Chammah, which in post-production include family is also screening in Forum. secrets melodrama Sunbeat by former Pyramide International is starting Berlinale Talent alumnus Clara Lapersales on Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Secrousaz and her sister Laura, and Brigitte ond World War drama Rainbow, and is Sy’s Happiness Is Tomorrow, starring her showing a promo reel of Tonie Mardaughter Esther Garrel as a woman shall’s drama Number One. It is also talkinvolved with a violent drugs dealer.

Still Moving is selling Panorama title ing to buyers about Cyril Mennegun’s La Pendular, a hybrid work capturing the Consolation, which reunites the director intricate and intense relationship with Corinne Masiero, star of his critibetween two artists. cally acclaimed 2011 title Louise Wimmer.

Le Bureau is showcasing Peter In addition to Raoul Peck’s Berlinale Mackie Burns’ London-set drama Special Gala screener The Young Karl Daphne, which debuted at IFFR to good Marx, Films Distribution’s slate includes survivalist thriller Killing Ground and reviews. The company is also showing Handle With Care, which stars Norway’s the first footage of Lean On Pete, which it Kristoffer Joner as a widower who heads is selling with Celluloid Dreams.

Indie Sales is talking to buyers about to Colombia in search of his adopted Julien Hallard’s comedy Let The Girls Play, son’s biological mother. It is also screenabout France’s first all-female football ing a promo reel of Erick Zonca’s Le team, and The Price Of Success starring Fleuve Noir, starring Vincent Cassel as a Tahar Rahim as a stand-up comedian disillusioned policeman, and Pablo dealing with the pressures of fame.

Berger’s dark comedy Abracadabra.

Loco Films is selling Generation titles SND has the market premiere of With Arms the latest culture-clash comLittle Harbour, about a Open Arms, edy from Serial (Bad) Weddings director neglected 10-year-old who Philippe de Chauveron, reuniting him cares for abandoned twins, again with Christian Clavier. It is and Brazilian father-andalso handling Eric Valette’s terdaughter drama Nalu On Border rorist-on-the-run thriller The Border.

Alpha Violet is in Thousand Cuts and Nicotown to kick off sales las Boukhrief ’s The on Italian directors Confession starring Silvia Luzi and Marine Vacth as a Luca Bellino’s woman who embarks hybrid work The on an affair with a priest.

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This Is Our Land and Nicolas Bedos’ period romance Mr & Mrs Adelman.

Further projects include Thomas Lilti’s The Freshman, which revisits the medical world of his previous two films.

Jour 2 Fete is handling Alain Gomis’ Golden Bear contender Félicité, about a Kinshasa singer’s bid to raise money for her son’s operation. It is also kicking off sales on Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s Beauty And The Dogs, about a young woman’s fight for justice after she is raped by police officers.

Les Films Du Losange is presenting Barbet Schroeder’s The Venerable W, examining Islamophobia within Buddhism, and has the market premiere of Jean-Stéphane Bron’s documentary The Paris Opera. The company has also taken on sales of ensemble drama I Still Hide To Smoke, about a group of women who discuss their lives at the local hammam.

Celluloid Dreams is kicking off sales on André Téchiné’s drama Golden Years, as well as daring Iranian animation Tehran Taboo, which explores how people express their sexuality against the backdrop of strict prohibitions. Celluloid’s slate also includes Xavier Legrand’s family drama Custody.

MK2 is splitting sales on Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War with the UK’s Protagonist Pictures. The love story is set in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris.

New titles from Urban Distribution International include Good Manners, the latest film from Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra after the award-winning 2011 film Hard Labor, and Cristina Pinheiro’s Menina. It is also selling Panorama documentary Ghost Hunting.

Cercamon is handling the fast-selling Thailand-set Pop Aye, about a disillusioned architect who sets off on a road trip with his pet elephant. It also has the market premiere of Katie Says Goodbye.

Wide House highlights include Oscarcontender I Am Not Your Negro, which is playing in Panorama, and the Forum title For Ahkeem, which explores the struggles of disadvantaged black teens in the US. Reel Suspects is market premiering Spanish time-travel thriller Black Hollow Cage and Philippine drama Purgatoyro.

The top titles for Stray Dogs include Mansfield 66/67, an experimental feature documentary about the last two years in the life of screen siren Jayne Mansfield.

Other Angle is continuing sales on comedies In And Out, Grounded and Just Divorced.

The top sales priority for EuropaCorp is Thomas Vinterberg’s Russian nuclear submarine drama Kursk, which is due to start shooting on April 18 with Matthias Schoenaerts, Colin Firth and Léa Seydoux in the cast.

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By Geoffrey Macnab Beta Cinema is at the EFM with one of

its most varied selections in recent years, including seven titles in Berlinale official selection. Among its Competition films is Beta’s first ever feature documentary Beuys, from Andres Veiel, about legendary German artist Joseph Beuys.

It is also handling Agnieszka Holland’s darkly humorous drama Spoor. Also on its slate are The King’s Choice, one of the biggest Norwegian hits of all time, as well as Chris Kraus’s comedy The Bloom Of Yesterday and Stefan Ruzowitzky’s genre film Cold Hell.

The Match Factory has the latest Aki Kaurismaki movie The Other Side Of Hope, which is screening in Competition. It is also selling Thomas Arslan’s Bright Nights and Josef Hader’s Wild Mouse, both Competition titles. Further films likely to intrigue buyers include Tarek Saleh’s The Nile Hilton Incident, which comes to the EFM fresh from winning the world cinema grand jury prize at Sundance; and Sam Garbarski’s latest feature, Bye Bye Germany, starring Moritz Bleibtreu and set just after the Second World War. The drama is screening in the Special Gala section.

Arri Media is talking to buyers about In Love With Lou — A Philosopher’s Life, its biopic of female German psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé. Wild Bunch released the movie in German cinemas and it premiered at Shanghai International Film Festival. Arri also has family drama Mountain Miracle — An Unexpected Friendship, scripted by Natja Brunckhorst (who starred as a child in harrowing drugs drama Christiane F). The film is screening in Generation Kplus. Arri is also showing the first trailer of Oliver Kienle’s psychological thriller Four Hands.

Picture Tree International is introducing international buyers to Simon Verhoeven’s immigration-themed comedy Welcome To Germany one of the Germany, runaway

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hits at the German box office last year.

Further titles include Jakob Lass’s Tiger Girl, the joint-opening film of Panorama Special, as well as action comedy Hot Dog, starring Til Schweiger and Matthias Schweighöfer, which is in production.

Films Boutique has several films in official selection, including Competition title Joaquim by Brazilian director Marcelo Gomes, Berlinale Special Gala choice La Libertad Del Diablo by Everardo Gonzalez and Vazante by Daniela Thomas, which co-opens Panorama Special. The company is also handling Insyriated, directed by Philippe Van Leeuw and starring Hiam Abbass, which is screening in Panorama.

M-A p p e a l h a s a packed Berlinale slate including, among others, Daan Bakker’s Quality Time Time, one of the most admired films in Rotterdam’s recent Tiger competition, Brazilian title Body (Left) Mountain Miracle — An Unexpected Friendship

Electric by Marcelo Caetano, Generation 14plus entry Butterfly Kisses, Bruce LaBruce’s latest The Misandrists and Turkish feature Inflame by Ceylan Ozgun Ozcelik.

Global Screen is beginning pre-sales on high-end 3D animated feature My Fairy Troublemaker & Me. The company is also handling Richard The Stork, a world premiere in Generation Kplus, and will be holding a market premiere of The Death And Life Of Otto Bloom, directed by Australia’s Cris Jones and starring Xavier Samuel.

Global Screen is also presenting children’s film Capt’n Sharky, from director Hubert Weiland, and giving a market debut to Max Kestner’s time-travel drama Man Divided.

Family fare specialist Sola Media has three new Scandinavian titles on its slate: Norwegian animation Elias, Danish family adventure Iqbal And The Superchip and, also from Norway, Eva Dahr’s drama Trio — The Hunt For The Holy Shrine.

Ida Martins’ Media Luna is presenting Euros Lyn’s Wales-set thriller The Library Suicides, which premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival last year. »

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By Gabriele Niola True Colors is kickstarting sales on

Fabio Meira’s drama Two Irenes, as well as Cristina Comencini’s comedy Something New and Luca Miniero’s Messy Christmas. The latter is about Islamic and Christian communities coming together to overcome their differences.

The company is also selling The Invisible Boy 2, the sequel to Gabriele Salvatores’ young-adult superhero movie. The film is now in post.

Fandango is selling Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe winner It’s Not The Time Of My Life, a family drama directed by Szabolcs Hajdu. The company is also showcasing the second and third films in the actioncomedy saga I Can Quit Whenever I Want; part two is completed, with the third in post. Fandango is also talking to buyers about Francesca Comencini’s intense romantic drama Stories Of Love That Cannot Belong To This World, which will be ready later this year.

Rai Com is here with There Is A Light, a love story starring Italian rising star Luca Marinelli. It is also screening At War With Love, a romantic comedy set during the Second World War, and The War Of The Yokels, the narrative feature debut of documentary filmmakers Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte.

Minerva Pictures is selling gritty police drama Falchi from Toni D’Angelo, starring Fortunato Cerlino, best known for TV series Gomorrah.

Intramovies is showcasing drama The Furlough, directed by and starring Claudio Amendola, with Luca Argentero, Giacomo Ferrara and Valentina Belle.

The Open Reel is handling feature documentary William, The New Judo Master, which premiered in Rotterdam’s Bright Future section, together with Giada Colagrande’s Padre, starring Willem Dafoe, Marina Abramovic and Franco Battiato.

A new, as-yet-untitled project starring Italian-German actor Terence Hill headlines Adriana Chiesa’s slate.

Coccinelle is talking to buyers about Eitan Anner’s Heart the winner A Quiet Heart, of the Grand Prix at Tallinn Black Nights last December. The Israeli drama stars Game Of Thrones’ Ania Bukstein. Coccinelle is also handling Like Stars a comShooting Stars, edy starring Maribel Verdu and Miki A Quiet Heart Manojlovic.

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By Wendy Mitchell Scandi powerhouse TrustNordisk is introducing The Quake, which is in preproduction. The film marks a return to the disaster genre for Fantefilm, producers of hit The Wave, this time inspired by a 1904 earthquake in Oslo.

Also in pre-production is the new Lars von Trier film, 1970s-set serial-killer story The House That Jack Built. For the first time, the company is also screening scenes from 3 Things, Jens Dahl’s feature debut starring Game Of Thrones actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The taut thriller is about the negotiations over the terms of a tricky witness protection deal. Dahl previously wrote Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher as well as working in TV. TrustNordisk is also looking to finalise deals on Danish box-office hit Darkland, Fenar Ahmad’s thriller about a surgeon who avenges his brother’s death in Copenhagen’s criminal underworld. The film will have a first market screening for buyers only. Satirical comedy DRIB, which will world premiere at South by Southwest, will also have a buyers-only screening. Further titles include Icelandic thriller I Remember You and Norwegian fantasy adventure The Ash Lad, which was presented as a work-in-progress at Goteborg.

Sweden-based SF Studios is hosting the first market screenings of Danish comedy drama Swinger, directed by Mikkel Munch-Fals and described as similar in tone to the works of Woody Allen. Also screening is Rotterdam and Goteborg selection The Man by Charlotte Sieling, whose recent TV credits include Homeland. The Man stars Soren Malling and Jakob Oftebro in a story of an egotistical art-world superstar unnerved by a visit from his estranged son. SF is also showcasing thriller Kings Bay, based on a Norwegian political scandal in the 1960s; Janus Metz’s sports drama Borg/McEnroe, which is now in post; and family titles Bamse And The Witch’s Daughter and In The Huckybucky Forest Of Huckybucky.

LevelK is introducing Jussi Hiltunen’s Finnish action drama Law Of Land about a policeman in LapThe Land, land who is nearing retirement when he is caught between two men trying to kill each other. The company is also handling two Generation titles: New Zealand drama The Inland Road (in Generation 14plus)

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and Norwegian family film Oskar’s America (in Kplus), as well as Czech family animation Oddsockeaters. Also on its slate is the lauded Venice and Toronto drama Sami Blood.

For the first time Eyewell is screening Jaak Kilmi’s Estonian comedy The Dissidents, from Taska Film producer Kristian Taska, who also worked with Eyewell on drama 1944. The Dissidents is about three men who escape Soviet Estonia in the 1980s in the belief their new lives will be like Miami Vice and Knight Rider. Eyewell is also introducing buyers to Love & Fury, a drama from Finland’s Solar Films. Alli Haapasalo directs the adaptation of Anja Snellman’s novel Autumn Prince, about two young writers who fall in love in 1980s Helsinki. The cast is led

by Lauri Tilkanen (The Midwife) and Laura Birn (The Ones Below).

The Yellow Affair has first market screenings of Olof Spaak’s Swedish drama Garden Lane, starring 2017 EFP Shooting Star Karin Franz Korlof and Simon J Berger; and Olaf Kraemer’s German thriller 5 Women, about five friends who meet for a getaway in France and are caught up in unexpected violence. The company is screening Wiktor Ericsson’s Strawberry Days, a love story about a Swedish strawberry farmer’s daughter and a Polish worker, and is talking to buyers about Eric Styles’ Bach, which is in development as a UK-Germany co-production. It is also handling Tony Simpson’s family holiday story Kiwi Christmas, which is in pre-production. »

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By Elisabet Cabeza Film Factory Entertainment is at the

EFM with a line-up that includes two titles in the Berlinale festival programme. Alex de la Iglesia’s black comedy The Bar is screening in Competition and features Blanca Suarez and Mario Casas, who were both in de la Iglesias’ My Big Night. They are part of an ensemble cast playing a group of strangers trapped in a Madrid bar after somebody is shot outside. The film is produced by de la Iglesias’ Pokeepsie Films, also behind Eduardo Casanova’s directorial debut Skins (with Nadie Es Perfecto) that screens in Panorama.

Skins is a comedy about society’s attitudes towards people’s appearance. The cast includes Jon Kortajarena and Carmen Machi.

Latido Films is in town with Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi’s documentary Chavela, screening in Panorama Dokumente. The film focuses on the life and work of Mexican singer Chavela Vargas, talking to friends and admirers including Pedro Almodovar, who has often used Vargas’ music in his films.

Latido is also handling Rescue Under Fire, the debut feature from Adolfo Martinez. The war drama is about a mission to rescue medical personnel after a helicopter accident in Afghanistan. Ariadna Gil, Ingrid Garcia Jonsson and Roberto Alamo star.

Filmax International is talking to buyers about Jaume Balaguero’s supernatural thriller Muse. Filmax is also coproducing the English-language film with Ireland’s Fantastic Films, Belgium’s Frakas Prods and France’s The Jokers Films. The cast includes Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, Manuela Vellés and Leonor Watling.

Filmax is also selling comedy The Tunnel Gang, the directorial debut of writer Pepon Montero, which was released in Spain in January.

By Geoffrey Macnab From Russia, Planeta Inform is presenting several projects signed just before the market. These include Nikita Argunov’s sci-fi thriller The Coma and Yavor Gyrdev’s dystopian sci-fi drama Icaria.

Also on its slate is Svyatoslav Podgayevskiy’s box-office hit horror film The Bride and Andrey Volgin’s action title Dance To Death. Planeta is also showing new footage from Rustam Mosafir’s period action title The Scythian.

Central Partnership is launching sales on two ballet-themed films: Valery Todorovskiy’s The Bolshoi is about a provincial girl struggling to become a prima ballerina at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre. Ballerina Margarita Simonova stars, and the film was shot partly in the Bolshoi Theatre itself. Anna Matison’s After You’re Gone is about a bad-tempered ballet genius with a debilitating injury who hopes to stage one final production but cannot find dancers who meet his standards.

Art Pictures is hoping to close US and UK deals on Fedor Bondarchuk’s apocalyptic sci-fi film Attraction, which had a strong opening in Russian cinemas in late January, taking close to $7m during its first weekend. Also on Art Pictures’ slate is Pavel Lungin’s thriller Queen Of Spades and Oleg Trofim’s romantic drama Ice. Moscow-based Cinema Production Center is pre-selling Sobibor, a drama based on the Sobibor revolt of 1943, and Andrey Sokolov’s spy film Survivor.

Russian World Vision is introducing buyers to Dmitry Suvorov’s outrageous comedy Superbad.

Benelux distributor Be For Films has picked up Marie Dumora’s French documentary Belinda, which opens Panorama Dokumente. The company is also showcasing Greg Zglinski’s Forum title

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Animals after Be For Films’ principal Pamela Leu spotted the film at Polish Days in Wroclaw last summer. A further Polish title on its slate is Maria Sadowska’s box-office hit The Art Of Loving, which was spotted by Leu at Warsaw Film Festival last October and will receive a market premiere.

Hungarian National Film Fund is handling international sales on Ferenc Török’s 1945, which is screening in Panorama (Menemsha has sales rights in North America), and Arpad Sopsits’ market title Strangled.

Austrian documentary specialist Autlook is giving a market premiere to Crash & Burn, Sean O Cualain’s documentary about the brilliant but wayward and self-destructive Irish racing driver Tommy Byrne.

From the Netherlands, Pim van Collem’s outfit Dutch Features Entertainment is continuing pre-sales on thriller Swagger by much-feted directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the team behind Black. It is also handling sales on Joram Lursen’s The Longing and Ineke Houtman’s family drama The Fantastic Family Hotel.

Australia’s Odin’s Eye Entertainment is heading to the EFM to begin pre-sales on $16m 3D animation Hump. Based on an original screenplay by Sundance audience-award winners Amin Matalqa and Matt Antonelli, Hump is to be directed by Disney/Pixar veteran director and story artist Rob Gibbs, and will be produced by Germany’s MovieBrats Pictures, with Belgian animation studio Walking The Dog and Canada’s Tangent Animation.

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Director: Amman Abbasi Executive Producers: David Gordon Green, James Schamus, Jody Hill, Danny McBride, Brandon James, Lisa Muskat, Joe Pirro, Todd Remis, Isaiah Smallman, Barlow Jacobs

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Mourning the death of his older brother, 13-year-old Dayveon becomes drawn to the camaraderie of a local gang.

“Graced with the same humanist shine that defined George Washington.”

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FAMILY LIFE

Directors: Alicia Scherson (Il Futuro, Tourists), Cristián Jiménez (Bonsai, Voice Over) Cast: Jorge Becker, Gabriela Arancibia, Blanca Lewin, Cristián Carbajal

A lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met.

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Director: Kogonada Cast: John Cho (Star Trek, Harold & Kumar), Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen), Parker Posey (Café Society, Mascots), Rory Culkin (Scream 4)

A younger girl reluctant to leave home forms a close bond with a son visiting his dying father.

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Directors: Kevin Ford, Smriti Keshari, Eric Schlosser Music: The Acid

An exploration of the immense power of nuclear weapons, the perverse appeal they have, and the profound death wish at the very heart of them.

“A stunning, avant-garde approach to a plea for nuclear disarmament.”

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Director: Juan Andrés Arango (La Playa DC) Cast: Jembie Almazan, Jonathan Diaz Angulo

Thousands of kilometers apart, three young migrants undergo mental, emotional, and physical transformations in order to survive the violence of their new worlds.

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Director: Theo Anthony

Directors: Bentley Dean, Martin Butler (Contact, First Footprints) Cast: The People of Yakel

A provocative portrait of rats in the American city of Baltimore and the humans who love them, live with them, and kill them.

In one of the world’s last tribal societies, a young girl breaks off an arranged marriage to run away with her lover, setting off a war that threatens the tribe’s future.

“Chris Marker meets Werner Herzog in [this] brilliant, quirky rodent documentary.” - Indiewire

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China fires up Boosted by the Chinese New Year holiday, China’s box office is showing signs of a recovery. Liz Shackleton reports on the big hitters at local cinemas and the indie treats at the Berlinale and EFM

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ollowing a lacklustre 2016, when the Chinese box office flatlined after years of breakneck growth, the Chinese New Year holiday (January 28-February 2) offered a glimmer of hope with total ticket sales up 13% on the previous year.

According to box-office tracker EntGroup, ticket sales over the six-day holiday reached $485.8m (RMB3.34bn), up from $430.6m (RMB2.96bn) over Chinese New Year 2016, when Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid became the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time.

Chow was back this holiday as producer on Journey To The West: The

Demons Strike Back, the follow-up to his 2013 hit based on the Chinese classic.

He brought in fellow Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark to direct the sequel.

The film topped the box office when it opened on January 28, setting an opening day record of $53m and going on to gross $169m by the end of the holiday.

It was followed by two India-themed action comedies: Kung Fu Yoga, directed

by Stanley Tong and starring Jackie Chan; and Buddies In India, directed by and starring Wang Baoqiang. Initially opening in third place, Kung Fu Yoga was leading the box office by the end of the holidays, grossing $127m after six

days. Buddies In India had grossed $84m after six days, while bloggerturned-filmmaker Han Han’s more contemplative drama Duckweed had taken around $60m.

Total ticket sales for January were up 25% on the previous year — the first monthly increase since August 2016.

Chinese New Year is an exceptional period however, during which families visit the cinema en masse. In addition, the January figures were inflated by the regulators’ new method of tracking box office, which includes the online booking fee of around 8%-9% of the ticket price. More than 70% of tickets are

bought online in China. The big question is how admissions will hold up in coming months.

At the other end of the budget spectrum from the country’s starladen action-adventure films, Chinese independent cinema is making its presence felt at the Berlinale, with Liu Jian’s animation Have A Nice Day in Competition and three films selected for Panorama.

This is a welcome return to form following a year in which Chinese filmmakers’ race for box-office success appeared to drown out the indie sector and few titles made it to major international festivals.

BERLIN COMPETITION Have A Nice Day Dir Liu Jian The first Chinese animated film to play at the Berlinale, Have A Nice Day is a black comedy about a chauffeur who steals a million dollars from his boss to fix his girlfriend’s failed plastic surgery, setting in motion a farcical chain of events. Director Liu Jian is a multimedia artist whose first animated feature, Piercing I (2010), screened at Annecy and won best animated feature at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Have A Nice Day is produced by Yang Cheng at NeZha Bros Pictures and Liu’s Le-joy Animation Studio.

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CHINESE NEW YEAR 2017 RELEASES Buddies In India Dir Wang Baoqiang

Ciao Ciao

BERLIN PANORAMA Ciao Ciao Dir Song Chuan Song Chuan’s second feature follows a young woman who returns to her rural hometown, clad in the designer trappings of the big city. Although initially bored by the quiet backwater, she finds herself drawn into a Tennessee Williams-style drama involving a local youth. Song’s debut feature Huan Huan screened at several Chinese and international film festivals, including New Directors/New Films in New York. Ciao Ciao was supported by the World Cinema Fund and also selected for l’Atelier de la Cinefondation in Cannes.

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work in the big city. Produced by Beijing-based production houses Yiti Film and NeZha Bros Pictures, the film stars Tang Shenggang, Liang Yu and Shang Yutong. Yang’s 2006 debut feature Betelnut won the New Currents Award at Busan International Film Festival.

His credits include Sun Spots (2009) and Lake August (2014).

Comedy star Wang Baoqiang directs this action comedy, which transposes the concept of megahit Lost In Thailand — a group of Chinese characters on a madcap adventure in a foreign country — to India. The film grossed $44m on its opening two-day weekend, and may increase the numbers of Chinese tourists to India — but it was not made for South Asian audiences as cultural stereotypes abound and India is not much more than a backdrop in the film.

Wang also stars, with Liu Yan and Yue Yunpeng. Buddies In India is distributed by Enlight Pictures in China and China Lion in the US. Contact IM Global info@imglobalfilm.com

Contact Yang Cheng, NeZha Bros Pictures yc2046@outlook.com

The Taste Of Betel Nut Dir Hu Jia

Journey To The West: The Demons Strike Back Dir Tsui Hark China’s most bankable producer-director Stephen Chow brought in fellow Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark to direct the sequel to his 2013 hit Journey To The West: Conquering The Demons, while he sat in the producer’s chair. The cast has also changed, with Kris Wu playing the monk Xuanzang and Lin Gengxin playing the Monkey King. The film grossed $53m on its January 28 opening day, smashing Chow’s own opening-day record for a Chinese film, set by The Mermaid during Chinese New Year 2016. After two days, The Demons Strike Back had grossed $83m.

Sony has US and a slew of other rights.

Contact Alice Chow, Bingo Group alice.chow@bingogroup.com.hk

Kung Fu Yoga Dir Stanley Tong Duckweed

Duckweed

Set on China’s Hainan Island, Hu Jia’s second feature revolves around two young men, drifting along in the tourism trade, who meet a young woman and embark on a polyamorous relationship, until an unexpected event rocks them to their core. Starring Zhao Bing Rui, Yue Ye and Shen Shi Yu, the film is produced by Sun Wei’s Vshine Brothers Entertainment. Hu’s debut feature, Dance With Me, screened at the First International Film Festival, Xining, in 2014.

Contact Sun Wei, Vshine Brothers Entertainment s@vstars.cn

ing weekend. Han Han’s debut film, road trip drama The Continent, grossed more than $100m in 2014.

Contact Virginia Leung, Distribution Workshop virginia@distributionworkshop. com

Dir Han Han The second feature from popular blogger turned filmmaker Han Han, Duckweed tells the story of a racing-car driver who has a near-death experience and is transported back to his past in a small Chinese town in the 1990s. Distributed by Bona Film Group, the film stars Deng Chao (The Mermaid), Eddie Peng (Operation Mekong) and Zhao Liying. Targeted more towards the youth market than a wider family audience compared to the other holiday releases, it grossed $18m over its open-

Another India-themed Chinese New Year release, this action adventure stars Jackie Chan as an archaeologist who teams with an Indian professor to find a legendary diamond. Also starring Disha Patani, Sonu Sood, Aarif Rahman and EXO boyband member Lay Zhang, the film is produced by Sparkle Roll Media Corp, Beijing Taihe Entertainment Culture Development Co and India’s Top Entertainment. It opened in third place with $38m over its opening weekend, but strong word-of-mouth bumped it to first by the end of the holidays.

Contact Clarence Tang, Golden Network Asia clarence@goldnetasia.com

Ghost In The Mountains

Ghost In The Mountains Dir Yang Heng Also a tale of a city dweller returning to a rural home, this time after an absence of many years, Ghost In The Mountains follows a man reconnecting with old friends and religious beliefs in a blighted highland region where most of the inhabitants have moved to find

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Chasing The Dragon

Chasing The Dragon Dirs Wong Jing, Jason Kwan Donnie Yen plays real-life 1970s gangster Ng Sek-ho (aka Crippled Ho) in this crime drama, backed by Bona Film Group and Wong Jing’s Mega-Vision Project Workshop. Andy Lau also stars and Wong is directing along with acclaimed cinematographer Jason Kwan. Now in production, the film follows Ho from his days as an illegal immigrant through his rise to become one of Hong Kong’s most powerful drug lords.

Contact Angela Wong, Mega-Vision Project Workshop angelaolwong@mvphk.biz

Love Off The Cuff

rescue her kidnapped son. China’s New Clues Films and Jaywalk Studio are coproducing with Korean production house The Lamp.

Contact Clarence Tang, Golden Network Asia clarence@goldnetasia.com

Cook Up A Storm

Shock Wave

Dir Raymond Yip Wai-man Building on the success of his cooking and travelogue show Chef Nic, Hong Kong actor Nicholas Tse heads the cast of this foodie drama as a Cantonese street cook who goes up against a Michelin-starred chef in a culinary competition. Directed by Raymond Yip Waiman (The House That Never Dies), the film also stars Korean idol Jung Yonghwa and features a special appearance by China’s Ge You. The film is in post-production for release in China and Hong Kong on February 10.

Contact May Yip, Emperor Motion Pictures mayyip@emperorgroup.com

Love Off The Cuff Dir Pang Ho-cheung Miriam Yeung and Shawn Yue resume their roles as star-crossed lovers Cherie and Jimmy in the latest instalment of Pang Ho-cheung’s romantic comedy series, which also includes Love In A Puff (2010) and Love In The Buff (2012). In this third episode, the couple’s relationship is tested when Jimmy’s childhood friend asks him to donate sperm for her artificial insemination. The film is in post-production after shooting in Hong

Dir Herman Yau

Reset

Kong and Taipei. It is tentatively scheduled for release on April 27.

Contact Fred Tsui, Media Asia frederick_tsui@mediaasia.com

Made In Kowloon Dir Fruit Chan Zhang Jin and mixed martial-arts star Anderson Silva star in this $20m action film, which is currently in production with Fruit Chan directing. Produced by Pegasus Motion Pictures, the film follows a Hong Kong policeman who travels to Macau to investigate a series of murders. Key crew also includes DoP Cheng Siu Keung (Election) and action director Stephen Tung Wei (Operation Mekong). Zhang starred in Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster and Ip Man 3.

Contact Alvina Wong, Pegasus Motion Pictures alvina.wong@ pegasusmovie.com

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Reset Dir Chang Produced by Jackie Chan and directed by Korean filmmaker Chang, Reset is a high-concept China-Korea co-production starring You Are Yang Mi (You ), WalMy Sunshine), The Honey lace Huo (The ), Taiwanese Enemy), veteran King Shih-chieh Brotherhood Of (Brotherhood Blades) and newcomer Liu Chang. Now in post-production, the sci-fi action-adventure follows a female scientist who travels back in time to

Andy Lau is producing and stars in this $22m crime thriller about a cop who goes up against a mob boss planning a bomb attack in the busiest cross-harbour tunnel in Hong Kong. The cast also includes Jiang Wu (A Touch Of Sin) and Philip Keung (Firestorm). Herman Yau (Ip Man: The Final Fight) is directing from a script he co-wrote with Shock Wave Erica Lee, while Dion Lam (Kung Fu Jungle) is on board as action choreographer. Universe Entertainment and Bona Film Group are co-financing the film, which is in post-production for tentative release in April.

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SPOTLIGHT PARTICIPANT MEDIA

A uniting force David Linde of US production powerhouse Participant Media talks to Jeremy Kay about the impact the company’s new deal with Lionsgate International will have on its strategy

I

t feels only right that less than 18 months after David Linde was named CEO of Participant Media, the company has made its first concrete moves in the international distribution arena. As the former Universal Pictures chairman and the man who helped established Good Machine with partners James Schamus and Ted Hope — before it morphed into Focus Features — Linde knows as well as anyone the value and importance of reaching a global audience.

Participant, founded by US philanthropist and entrepreneur Jeff Skoll to effect social change, announced its sales pact with Lionsgate International in January. The deal covers Participant films in all territories outside North America, including all available non-output territories for the features that fall under Participant’s deal with Amblin Partners as a co-investor alongside Reliance Group, eOne and Alibaba Group.

Universal or Focus will distribute the Amblin features in the US and Participant will continue to work with other domestic distributors on non-Amblin titles.

The arrangement is kicking off at the EFM with an untitled Entebbe project and Captive State, and represents a dovetailing of corporate sensibilities and a mechanism that will enable Participant to build a consumer-facing brand whose films engage global audiences.

“We work with NGOs and foundations to galvanise real action,” says Linde.

“There’s no social impact if nobody sees your movie, and consistent distribution increases the ability to build an ongoing relationship with your audience.”

The deal with Lionsgate marks the culmination of a long-term relationship between the two companies. “[Participant was an] investor in Summit and we’ve made a lot of movies together, so they understand our work,” says Linde.

“Their ability to provide us a comprehensive approach to placing our content around the world was convincing.”

Given that Participant operates on a dual-mission mandate to promote social change and entertain, the potential benefits of the relationship are mutual. The untitled Entebbe project, directed by Brazilian filmmaker Jose Padilha, who shot the Elite Squad franchise and episodes of Narcos, just wrapped. The film

David Linde

‘With our movies there’s a fourth act – audiences’ action to support an issue’ David Linde, Participant Media

recounts the 1976 rescue mission by Israeli commandos after pro-Palestinian forces hijacked a passenger jet.

“We have a history of work in the Middle East, like Zero Days, and it’s a conversation we feel to be important,” says Linde. “It’s a nail-biter of an action thriller and is about a defining moment in Israeli and Middle Eastern politics, and that’s a pretty contemporary conversation.”

Timely reminder Rupert Wyatt, whose credits include Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, is scheduled to start shooting Captive State later this month. It is a sci-fi film — a genre Linde appreciates, having earned a best picture Oscar nomination as a producer on the global hit Arrival — about an alien invasion that creates stark divisions among humans.

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sider the profile and success of films such as Food, Inc., He Named Me Malala and An Inconvenient Truth.

“We’re committed to documentaries because we believe in them as having commercial audiences,” Linde says, having just witnessed the euphoric Sundance world premiere of An Inconvenient Sequel last month.

Former US vice president Al Gore’s second environmental call to arms does not involve Lionsgate — Paramount holds worldwide rights and was on board immediately when Skoll, Participant head of documentary Diane Weyermann and Gore decided to make a follow-up to 2006 global hit An Inconvenient Truth.

An Inconvenient Sequel shot under the code name ‘Project Rainbow’ for 18 months and nobody suspected a thing. Some 200,000 people watched Gore’s Q&A after An Inconvenient Sequel’s world premiere, which illustrates the deep following Particip a n t ’s s o c i a lIt is another impact group timely converdevelops among sation, espeaudiences and plans cially in the early to build on with its An Inconvenient Sequel days of Donald acquisition of shortTrump’s US presiform content creator Souldency. “We’re building walls Pancake. and building divisions between us, and The social-impact team will expand this is a movie about what happens now the international deal is in place. when we do that,” says Linde.

Linde says Participant is considering a The goal is to give Lionsgate InternaLondon office and there will be a gradual tional five or six narrative features a increase of its involvement in television. year. As well as the Entebbe film and Meanwhile an in-house international Captive State, Patrick Wachsberger and unit will co-ordinate with Lionsgate’s his team could target a Cannes sales team and attend all the major markets. launch on Participant’s untitled MexiOnce the films have secured internacan family drama from Alfonso Cuaron. tional distribution, the audiences kick in.

Linde and his team will send “up to a “With our movies there’s a fourth act,” couple” of documentary features to Linde says, “and the fourth act is the Lionsgate each year too. This is a critical audiences’ action to support an issue s part of the company’s output — conintrinsic to the film itself.” ■

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(Germany) 91mins.

Dir: Nicolas Wackerbarth.

Cast: Andreas Lust, Judith Engel, Milena Dreissig, Nicole Marischka, Stephan Grossmann, Ursina Lardi, Marie-Lou Sellem, Corinna Kirchhoff.

Director Vera is unwilling to compromise when it comes to finding the right lead actress for a television Fassbinder remake. Acting assistant Gerwin delivers dialogues with a bevy of famous actresses and realises this could be his big chance.

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(Germany) 88mins.

Dir: Heinz Emigholz.

A documentary of the recording sessions for the album ABC by German electronic music group Kreidler in Tbilisi, Georgia. Sequences in the sound studio alternate with 26 street scenes and 26 views of the director’s notebooks.

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Mille, Alex Brandemuhl, Ulrich Brandhoff.

Paris, 1943. The occupying Nazis pressure swing guitarist Django Reinhardt to go on tour in Germany. Faced with the question of whether or not to allow his art to be misused for political purposes, he has to make a decision of vital significance.

bridal suite at the Hotel Occidental, which feels stuck in the ’70s. When the maelstrom of events threatens to envelop staff and guests alike, hotel manager Diana tries to maintain order.

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(Luxembourg, Belgium, France) Acrobates Films.

112mins. Dir: Laura Schroeder. Cast: Lolita Chammah, Themis Pauwels, Isabelle Huppert, Charles Muller, Elsa Houben, Marja-Leena Juncker, Luc Schiltz.

After 10 years away, Catherine returns to her daughter who’s been raised by her grandmother in the interim. As a mother, she’s no longer needed, while as a daughter, she’s only a disappointment. Can a bond be created by sheer effort alone?

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Dir: Neil Beloufa.

Cast: Idir Chender, Anna Ivacheff, Paul Hamy, Louise Orry-Diquero, Hamza Meziani, Brahim Tekfa.

As protests rage on the Paris streets, two suspicious men rent the

“A sharply observed and poignant parable.”

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75mins. Dir: Amman Abbasi. Cast: Devin Blackmon, Kordell ‘KD’ Johnson, Dontrell Bright, Chasity Moore, Lachion Buckingham, Marquell Manning.

Thirteen-year-old Dayveon has lost direction following the death of his brother, meaning that being initiated into a local gang now seems a necessary step towards becoming a man.

A search for brotherhood in an African-American community in the rural South.

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While house-sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met.

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Documents the last summer spent together by two sisters in a Berber village in the Atlas Mountains. While Fatima prepares for her wedding and to leave the tightknit community, her younger sister Khadija dreams of being able to

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(South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France) 88mins. Dir: John Trengove. Cast: Nakhane Toure, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay Ncoyini.

In a remote, mountainous region of South Africa,

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BERLIN VENUES AKADEMIE DER KUNSTE (HANSEATENWEG) Hanseatenweg 10 10557 Berlin ARSENAL CINEMA Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785 Berlin AUDI BERLINALE LOUNGE Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1 10785 Berlin BERLINALE PALAST Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1 10785 Berlin EMBASSY OF CANADA Leipziger Platz 17 10117 Berlin BUNDESPLATZ-KINO Bundesplatz 14 10715 Berlin (Wilmersdorf) CINEMAXX POTSDAMER PLATZ Potsdamer Strasse 5, Entrance Voxstrasse 10785 Berlin CINESTAR IN THE SONY CENTRE Potsdamer Strasse 4 10785 Berlin CINESTAR IMAX Potsdamer Strasse 4 10785 Berlin

a group of young men undergo a circumcision ritual of initiation. Their guardian, Xolani from Johannesburg, struggles with the contradiction between his people’s tradition and his own sexuality.

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21:30

CITY KINO WEDDING (in the Centre Francais de Berlin) Mullerstrasse 74 13349 Berlin COLOSSEUM Schonhauser Allee 123 10437 Berlin CUBIX Alexanderplatz, Rathausstrasse 1, 10178 Berlin

THE TOKYO NIGHT SKY IS ALWAYS THE DENSEST SHADE OF BLUE

DELPHI FILMPALAST Kantstrasse 12a 10623 Berlin

(Japan) unafilm. 108mins.

Dir: Yuya Ishii. Cast: Shizuka Ishibashi, Sosuke Ikematsu, Tetsushi Tanaka, Ryuhei Matsuda, Paul Magsalin, Mikako Ichikawa, Ryo Sato, Takahiro Miura.

Is the moon really only this blue in Tokyo and why doesn’t anyone else see it?

Shinji and Mika would both say they’re strange and chance brings them together again and again. A tender love story between two lonely souls in the big city.

DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK Filmhaus, Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785 Berlin

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

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EISZEIT KINO Zeughofstrasse 20 10997 Berlin (Kreuzberg) FILMTHEATER AM FRIEDRICHSHAIN Botzowstrasse 1-5 10407 Berlin

HAU HEBBEL AM UFER (HAU1, HAU2, HAU3) HAU1: Stresemannstrasse 29 HAU2: Hallesches Ufer 32 HAU3: Tempelhofer Ufer 10 10963 Berlin HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE Schaperstrasse 24 10719 Berlin HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin KINO INTERNATIONAL Karl-Marx-Allee 33 10178 Berlin MARRIOTT HOTEL Inge-Beisheim-Platz 1 10785 Berlin MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU (MGB) Niederkirchnerstrasse 7 10963 Berlin ODEON Hauptstrasse 116 10827 Berlin (Schoneberg) PREUSSISCHER LANDTAG (BERLIN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) Niederkirchnerstrasse 5 10111 Berlin SILENT GREEN KULTURQUARTIER Gerichtstrasse 35 13347 Berlin SPUTNIK KINO Hasenheide 54 10967 Berlin (Kreuzberg) THALIA PROGRAMMKINO POTSDAM Rudolf-Breitscheid-Str. 50 14482 PotsdamBabelsberg TONI & TONINO Antonplatz 1 13086 Berlin VOLKSBUHNE AM ROSALUXEMBURG-PLATZ Linienstrasse 227 10178 Berlin WOLF Weserstrasse 59 12045 Berlin (Neukolln) ZEUGHAUSKINO Unter den Linden 2 10117 Berlin

FRIEDRICHSTADT-PALAST Friedrichstrasse 107 10117 Berlin

ZOO PALAST Hardenbergstrasse 29a 10623 Berlin

GROPIUS MIRROR RESTAURANT Niederkirchnerstrasse 10963 Berlin

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MARKET SCREENINGS

08:45 GAUMONT PROMO REELS

Barks, Morfrydd Clark.

A true story of love, lust and murder set in 1787 Prague that follows Mozart and the events that influenced the operatic masterpiece ‘Don Giovanni’.

(France) Gaumont, 60mins. Dir: various.

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JULIE AND THE SHOE FACTORY

09:15 CHURCHILL

(UK) Embankment Films, 105mins. Dir: Jonathan Teplitzky. Cast: Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, Ella Purnell.

The untold story of Britain’s iconic leader, uncovering the true nature of Churchill’s herculean wartime status and his relationship with Clemmie, his backbone and total confidant — the love that inspired him to greatness.

CineStar 1

TRUE CRIME

(Germany, US) Rocket Science Industries, 95mins. Dir: Alexandros Avranas. Cast: Jim Carrey, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Martin Csokas.

A murder investigation of a slain business man turns to clues found in an author’s book about an eerily similar crime.

CineStar IMAX

09:30 INTERLUDE IN PRAGUE

(UK) Carnaby International Sales & Distribution, 103mins.

Dir: John Stephenson.

Cast: Aneurin Barnard, James Purefoy, Samantha

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11:00 PATHE INTERNATIONAL PROMOREEL SCREENING

(France) Pathe International, 90mins.

Dir: various.

CineStar 4

SOCIAL SUICIDE

(France) Films Boutique, 84mins. Dir: Kostia Testut, Paul Calori.

Cast: Pauline Etienne, Olivier Chantreau, Francois Morel.

When Julie finally lands a job at a luxury shoemaker, her dreams of stability collapse as the owner threatens to close the factory. Together with an intrepid group of women, she decides to resist. dffb-Kino

THE OTHER HALF

(Canada) AMBI Media Group, 103mins.

Dir: Joey Klein.

Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Tom Cullen, Diana Bentley.

A bipolar woman and a grief-stricken man struggle to forge a simple life.

MGB-Kino

09:45 PROMO BAC FILMS

(Italy) Bac Films, 60mins.

Dir: various.

CineStar 4

10:15 STUDIOCANAL PROMOREELS

(France) Studiocanal, 110mins. Dir: various.

CineStar 5

(UK) Princ Films, 92mins. Dir: Bruce Webb.

Cast: India Eisley, Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Neve McIntosh.

Examines what it takes to get noticed on the internet today. When two teenagers die in an unexpected fight, the police investigate — with the help of the teenager’s social media history.

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11:10 THE FURY

(Netherlands) Incredible Film, 117mins. Dir: Andre van Duren. Cast: Hannah Hoekstra, Benja Bruining, Hadewych Minis, Frank Lammers.

Sharp-tongued and imposing Tiny suffers from mysophobia. Her nephew Albert loves her and once he’s grown up he confronts her, after which all the family secrets finally come to light. dffb-Kino

11:20 WITH OPEN ARMS

(France) SND — Groupe M6, 93mins. Dir: Philippe De Chauveron. Cast: Christian Clavier, Ary Abittan, Elsa Zylberstein.

Jean Etienne Fougerole is a left-wing intellectual.

Promoting his book ‘With

Open Arms’ on a TV show, he is challenged to be a man of his word.

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catastrophe, she wanders the strangely deserted streets and eventually meets four other teenagers.

CineStar 6

THE WORKERS CUP

(UK) Autlook Filmsales, 89mins. Dir: Adam Sobel.

Cast: Nazim Aggoune, Anne Junemann, Anne Fabini, Francois Sculier.

A film team gains access to the most controversial construction site — the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar — and gives voice to the workers following their enthusiastic preparation for their own soccer cup.

THE ART OF LOVING

(Poland) Be For Films, 120mins. Dir: Maria Sadowska. Cast: Magdalena Boczarska, Eryk Lubos, Piotr Adamczyk, Justyna Wasilewska.

A woman in a love triangle and a book about sex that overthrew the system of men.

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11:30 AFTERIMAGE

(Poland) Films Boutique, 98mins. Dir: Andrzej Wajda. Cast: Boguslaw Linda, Bronislawa Zamachowska, Zofia Wichlacz.

In 1945, as Stalin tightens his grip on Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise with the doctrines of social realism.

Persecuted, he is eventually erased from the walls of museums but he starts fighting back.

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ALONE

(France) Studiocanal, 96mins. Dir: David Moreau. Cast: Sofia Lesaffre, Stephane Bak, Liah O Prey, Harry Tanner.

Leila wakes up in an empty city. Where are her parents?

Where has everyone gone?

Thinking she must be the sole survivor of a mysterious

CRUELTY

(US) LevelK, 105mins.

Dir: Anton Sigurdsson.

Cast: Margret Vilhjalmsdottir, Sveinn Olafur Gunnarsson, Salome Gunnarsdottir, Petur Oskar Sigurdsson.

Reykjavik is rocked when two sisters who have been missing for the past three days are found brutally murdered.

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THE FALSE SECRETS

(France) Doc & Film International, 87mins.

Dir: Luc Bondy. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Yves Jacques, Manon Combs.

Dorante, a penniless young man, takes on the position of a steward in the house of Araminte, an attractive widow he secretly loves.

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Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart.

A contemporary tale of self-discovery and sexualawareness set in the sheep farming fields of rural England.

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IN BETWEEN

(Israel, France) Alma Cinema, 102mins.

Dir: Maysaloun Hamoud.

Cast: Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura.

Three young Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big-city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party and choose.

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IN LOCO PARENTIS

(Ireland, Spain) Soilsiu Films, 99mins. Dir: Neasa Ni Chianain.

Long careers are drawing to a close for John and Amanda, who teach Latin, English and guitar at a stately home-turned-school, where they are legends with a mantra: “Reading. ’Rithmetic. Rock ’n’ roll!”

But leaving is the hardest lesson.

CinemaxX 12

LORD OF SHANGHAI

(China) Recreation, 110mins. Dir: Sherwood Hu. Cast: Nan Yu, Bai Ling, Hu Yun, Johann Urb. CinemaxX 15

GOD’S OWN COUNTRY

(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 104mins. Dir: Francis Lee. Cast: Josh O’Connor, Alec

MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH

(UK) The Exchange, 104mins. Dir: Daniel

Alex, 17, is abandoned by her mother. Left to fend for herself, her home is raided by thieves. Alex, trying to escape reality, searches for human proximity by invading houses herself as a burglar.

CineStar 4

12:45 CAUSE OF DEATH: UNKNOWN

MARKET 12:50 DON’T SWALLOW MY HEART, ALLIGATOR GIRL!

(Brazil, Netherlands, France) Mundial, 108mins. Dir: Felipe Braganca. Cast: Caua Raymond, Leopoldo Pacheco, Eduardo Jerome Gill. Cast: Josh Whitehouse, Freya Mavor, Tom Riley, Ian Hart.

When Liam and Natalie decide to separate, they start by splitting their prized music library, but the soundtrack that defined their relationship keeps pulling them back together.

Macedo, Adelaide Benitez.

A tale about love and war, telling the story of a Brazilian boy who falls in love with a Paraguayan girl at the border between the two countries.

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rats in the American city of Baltimore and the humans who love them, live with them and kill them.

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TF1 STUDIO PROMO REEL

11:45 DARKNESS RISING

(US) Raven Banner Entertainment, 81mins.

Dir: Austin Reading.

Cast: Katrina Law, Bryce Johnson, Tara Holt.

Haunted by her mysterious past, the lone survivor of a family massacre revisits her childhood home on the eve of its destruction, awakening the evil that resides there.

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SMALL TOWN KILLERS

WALKING OUT

(US) Visit Films, 84mins.

Dir: Theo Anthony. Cast: Maureen Jones.

A provocative portrait of

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(France) TF1 Studio, 45mins. Dir: various.

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RAT FILM

Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people.

(US) AMP International, 96mins. Dir: Alex Smith, Andrew Smith. Cast: Matt Bomer, Josh Wiggins, Bill Pullman.

After a fight with their wives, they get drunk and hire a Russian hitman to kill the women. They underestimate their wives and end up being chased by a hitman themselves.

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12:15

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12:50

WOODPECKERS

13:00

(Germany, Poland) Films Boutique, 100mins.

Dir: Marie Noïlle.

Cast: Karolina Gruszka, Arieh Worthalter, Charles Berling.

Left alone with two young daughters after the accidental death of her beloved husband, Marie Curie faces her duties with great courage as a mother and a scientist.

THE BURGLAR

(US) XYZ Films, 100mins.

Dir: Brendan Muldowney.

Cast: Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal, Richard Armitage, Stanley Weber.

A small group of monks must deliver a holy relic across an island torn between centuries of tribal warfare and the growing power of Norman invaders.

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(France) Luxbox, 60mins.

Dir: Bruno Dumont.

We are in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War between France and England. Jeannette, at the still tender age of 10, lives in Domremy in the Lorraine.

(Israel) The Match Factory, 94mins.

Dir: Hagar Ben Asher.

Cast: Lihi Kornovsky, Ronald Zehrfeld.

PILGRIMAGE

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MARIE CURIE — THE COURAGE OF KNOWLEDGE

12:40

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DON’T SWALLOW MY HEART, ALLIGATOR GIRL!

JEANNETTE PROMO REEL — LUXBOX

CineStar 5

(Denmark) TrustNordisk, 90mins. Dir: Ole Bornedal. Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Nicolas Bro, Lene Mara Christiansen.

Ib and Edward are tired of their lifeless marriages.

(Norway) ManifestoFilm, 89mins. Dir: Anniken Hoel.

A sudden, unexpected death from prescription antipsychotics triggers a global investigation into the crimes of the pharma industry and the corruption of the government regulatory agencies that have failed to protect us.

Netherlands) Attraction Distribution, 111mins.

Dir: Nathalie Teirlinck.

Cast: Evelyne Brochu, Zuri Francois, Eriq Ebouaney.

Alice leads a routine life as an escort and dodges social contact. When forced to take care of her son after the death of her ex, her apparent indifference seems to fade away and she is confronted with her emotional emptiness.

CinemaxX 13

(Dominican Republic) Film Factory Entertainment, 107mins.

Dir: Jose Maria Cabral.

Cast: Jean Jean, Judith Rodriguez, Ramon Emilio Candelario.

Julian finds love in the last place he imagined: Najayo prison in the Dominican Republic. Through sign language from one prison to another he encounters Yanelly, separated by 150 metres and dozens of guards.

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PAST IMPERFECT

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(Spain) Embankment Films, 89mins. Dir: Miguel

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MARKET 13:10 STRONG ISLAND

(US, Denmark) Doc & Film International, 107mins. Dir: Yance Ford. Cast: Craig Sutherland.

Angel Vivas. Cast: Rachel Nichols, Laura Harring.

There is nothing fiercer than a mother’s love.

CinemaxX 8

MARJORIE PRIME

(US) Fortitude International, 100mins.

Dir: Michael Almereyda.

Cast: Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Tim Robbins, Lois Smith.

With the help of a service that provides holographic projections of lost loved ones, an ageing woman reconnects with those she was closest to as her memory and life begin to fade away.

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Emilia Fox, Elaine Cassidy.

A dying mother creates a list of thoughts and memories to help the man she loved to create the best possible life for their two sons after she goes.

MGB-Kino

13:20 HOUSE OF ATONEMENT

(Austria) FreibeuterFilm, 95mins. Dir: Maya McKechneay.

Tells the story of a luckless address: Vienna, Schottenring 7. This was the site of Ringtheater where nearly 400 people died in a fire in 1881.

CineStar 7

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STRONG ISLAND

PARTNERS IN CRIME

See box, above

(Italy) Minerva Pictures, 84mins.

Dir: Alex Infascelli.

Cast: Margherita Buy, Sergio Castellitto.

Based on the best-selling novel that sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

A noir story which redefines truth and love through lies.

13:15 GHOST HOUSE

(US) The Exchange, 99mins. Dir: Rich Ragsdale. Cast: Scout Taylor Compton, James Landry Hebert, Mark Boone Junio.

Two visitors get lost in the Thai countryside and become the prey of an angry ghost. Desperate for a solution, they spiral deeper into a surreal, supernatural world.

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MUM’S LIST

(UK) Truffle Pictures, 101mins. Dir: Niall Johnson. Cast: Rafe Spall, 50 Screen International at Berlin February 9, 2017

Haunted by the murder of her brother, ‘Strong Island’ is the director’s meditation on guilt, the impact of grief over time and the illusive meaning of justice.

CineStar 2

SALTY

(UK) Carnaby International Sales & Distribution, 100mins. Dir: Simon West. Cast: Antonio Banderes, Olga Kurylenko.

An ageing rock star is forced to navigate deadly jungles and ruthless bandits to save his wife.

CinemaxX 9

WRATH

(Spain) Cinema Republic, 93mins. Dir: Jota Aronak.

Cast: Urko Olazabal, Nacho Marraco.

Iker, a journalist filming a documentary about the death penalty, will record the preparation and execution of a real murder: a father who will kill his son’s assassin.

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13:30 ALIBI.COM

(France) TF1 Studio, 90mins. Dir: Philippe Lacheau. Cast: Philippe Lacheau, Elodie Fontan, Nathalie Baye, Didier Bourdon.

Greg’s start-up, alibi.com, is a huge success. Why lie when you can get an abili?

Greg is on a lucky streak but when he meets his future father-in-law, who happens to be one of his clients, he’s forced to tell lie upon lie.

CineStar 6

AN ORDINARY MAN

(US, UK) Electric Entertainment, 90mins.

Dir: Brad Silberling.

Cast: Ben Kingsley, Hera Hilmar, Peter Serafinowicz.

An infamous war criminal in hiding is moved to a new safe house, where he forms a relationship with his maid. When he discovers that she is actually an agent hired to protect him, www.screendaily.com

he makes a decision that will change their lives.

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uneasy context of our time.

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13:40

BLIND SPOT

CRAZY IN LOVE

(Belgium) Indie Sales, 99mins. Dir: Nabil Ben Yadir. Cast: Peter Van den Begin, Soufiane Chilah, Jan Decleir, David Murgia.

Jan Verbeek, popular commissionner of the Antwerp drug squad, leaves the police force just before the elections to join the extreme right party. On his last day as a cop, he leads a drug lab raid, which sets off a series of violent events.

(France) Wide, 80mins.

Dir: Jacky Katu. Cast: Eloise Valli, Gery Clapier, Fabien Hengbart.

Nurse Felicia meets Dimitri, a war reporter.

Their physical attraction is mutual and they rapidly engage in passionate sex. As if under a spell, Felicia soon starts living only for those passionate love encounters.

EFM Cinemobile

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14:20 NEW TRIAL

FILMS DISTRIBUTION PROMO REEL

(France) Films Distribution, 90mins.

Dir: various.

A special presentation of teaser and promo-reels of new and upcoming films.

CineStar 5

KISS ME LIKE A LOVER

(Canada) Filmoption International, 106mins.

Dir: Andre Forcier.

Cast: Roy Dupuis, Emile Schneider, Juliette Gosselin, Celine Bonnier.

1940: Pierre Sauvageau wants to enlist but must care for his crippled twin sister Berthe instead. Their closeness has awoken Berthe’s sensuality. Pierre rejects her advances but is haunted by her fantasy.

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(South Korea) United Pictures, 119mins. Dir: Kim Tae-Yun. Cast: Jung Woo, Kang Ha-Neul.

Lawyer Joon-young meets Hyun-woo, who is charged with murder and serves 10 years in prison. Together they begin a journey to prove Hyun-woo’s innocence.

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14:30 SUPER DARK TIMES

(US) The Match Factory, 110mins. Dir: Kevin Phillips. Cast: Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Amy Hargreaves.

Two high school friends in the ’90s get into some serious trouble.

CineStar 4

14:45

MR STEIN GOES ONLINE

DARK MERIDIAN

(France, Germany, Belgium) Memento Films International, 105mins. Dir: Stephane Robelin. Cast: Pierre Richard, Yaniss Lespert, Fanny Valette, Stephanie Crayencour, Stephane Bissot.

Seventy-five-year-old Pierre rediscovers love through online dating — but under Alex’s identity, his young computer teacher. Asked on a date, Pierre sends Alex in his place.

(US) Reason8 Films, 92mins. Dir: Rankin Hickman. Cast: Billy Slaughter, Dave Davis, James Moses Black, David Kallaway.

A corrupt New Orleans detective is caught up in a fight between two criminal gangs while on a stake-out.

He must find a killer on the run who has a list of other targets.

CinemaxX 12

(Germany) Picture Tree International, 116mins.

Dir: Simon Verhoeven.

Cast: Senta Berger, Heiner Lauterbach, Florian David Fitz, Elyas M’Barek, Palina Rojinski.

Fall 2016: Germany continues to cope with the refugee crisis. The country

OCCIDENTAL

(France) MPM Film, 74mins. Dir: Neil Beloufa.

Cast: Ana Ivacheff, Idir Chender, Paul Hamy, Louise Orry Diquero.

A funny and tangled story that reflects satirically the www.screendaily.com

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WELCOME TO GERMANY

is deeply polarised. The plot focuses on an affluent Munich married couple in their 60s and their two adult children who are welcoming a Nigerian refugee.

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(UK) The Exchange, 93mins. Dir: Daniel Berk. Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Olivia Thrilby, John Hurt, Jurgen Prochnow.

A veteran spy is sent undercover in Syria to smuggle a chemical weapons scientist and his family out of Damascus.

CinemaxX 8

DARKLAND

(Denmark) TrustNordisk, 112mins. Dir: Fenar Ahmad. Cast: Dar Salim, Stine Fischer Christensen, Ali Sivandi, Dulfi Al-Jabouri.

One night Zaid’s younger brother, Yasin, knocks on his door and asks his brother for money. A few days later Yasin gets killed.

Zaid embarks on a mission to eliminate all the criminal gangs and takes on the criminal underworld.

MGB-Kino

HIDDEN RESERVES

(Austria, Germany, Switzerland) FreibeuterFilm, 96mins.

Dir: Valentin Hitz. Cast: Clemens Schick, Lena Lauzemis.

The insurance salesman Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless system, turns into a victim of the very corporations he is representing. Degraded to a henchman, he grimly struggles to get back in the job market.

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NOT ON MY WATCH

(France) Alma Cinema, 86mins. Dir: Emmanuelle Cuau. Cast: Virginie Efira, Gilbert Melki.

A single mother struggles to make ends meet and gets tangled in a web of lies and crimes to protect her two sons.

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Pictures, 88mins.

Dir: Kriv Stenders.

Cast: Levi Miller, Bryan Brown, Jason Isaacs, Hanna Mangan Lawrence.

An iconic Australian story of family, friendship and adventure, between a young boy and a scrappy one-of-akind dog that would grow up to become an Australian legend.

Erdogan. Cast: Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Yilmaz Erdogan, Songul Oden, Sukru Ozyildiz.

An adventure that grows into a web of stories taking in marriages for love, marriages under protest, military takeovers, neverending civil war and migration, untold joys and disappointments.

105mins. Dir: Ludovic Bernard. Cast: Ahmed Sylla, Alice Belaidi.

When Samy professes his love to Nadia, she jokingly dares him to climb Everest to prove his passion. True to his word, he embarks on the impossible journey.

cultural diplomat, the ex-Yugoslavian cult band Laibach becomes the first rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea.

PROTAGONIST PROMO REEL

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THE DISSIDENTS

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ALTITUDE PROMO REEL

THE ERLPRINCE

(UK) Altitude Film Sales, 90mins. Dir: various.

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(Poland) Oration Films, 101mins. Dir: Kuba Czekaj. Cast: Staszek Cywka, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Sebastian Lach.

An exceptionally gifted teenage boy starts studying physics at university working on the theory of parallel worlds.

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(Israel) WestEnd Films, 91mins. Dir: Nir Bergman. Cast: Benny Avni, Neta Riskin, Rotem Abuhab, Irit Kaplan.

Four women whose lives are in turmoil encounter a mysterious stranger, Neta, whose honesty and vulnerability will help them reconnect with their dearest ones: their families.

(US, Portugal, France) New Europe Film Sales, 77mins. Dir: Gabe Klinger.

Cast: Anton Yelchin, Lucie Lucas, Francoise Lebrun, Paulo Calatre.

Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief but intimate connection.

CineStar 8 No press

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SOUR APPLES

(Turkey) Match Point, 114mins. Dir: Yilmaz

PORTO

15:10 THE CLIMB

(France) Studiocanal,

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LIBERATION DAY

(Latvia) Dogwoof, 100mins. Dir: Morten Traavik.

Under the loving but firm guidance of an old fan turned director and

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MALIGLUTIT (SEARCHERS)

(Canada) Isuma Distribution International, 94mins. Dir: Zacharias Kunuk. Cast: Benjamin Kunuk, Jocelyne Immaroitok, Karen Ivalu, Joseph Uttak.

Kuanana returns from a caribou hunt to discover his wife and daughter kidnapped, and the rest of his family slaughtered. His father’s spirit helper, the loon Kallulik, sets him on course to overturn fate and reunite his family.

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(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 120mins. Dir: Protagonist Pictures.CineStar 5 15:30

(Estonia, Finland, Latvia) Eyewell, 93mins. Dir: Jaak Kilmi. Cast: Mart Pius, Karl-Andreas Kalmet, Veiko Porkanen, Esko Salminen.

Inspired by real-life events, this upbeat crime-comedy is about three boys who escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in 1984 to fulfil their dreams in the free world. First heroes, then bank robbers — legend was made. dffb-Kino

KINGS BAY

(Norway) SF Studios, 96mins. Dir: Stig Svendsen. Cast: Kari Bremnes, Andre Sorum.

The explosion in the Kings Bay coal mine on Svalbard in 1962 took 21 lives.

The sitting government had to resign. What if the explosion wasn’t an accident but a power play between Russia and the US for control of the Arctic?

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PAST LIFE

(Israel) Bleiberg Entertainment, 109mins.

Dir: Avi Nesher. Cast: Nelly Tagar, Joy Rieger, Doron Tavory, Evgenia Dodina.

Two Israeli sisters delve into the dark mystery of their father’s former life in Poland during the Second World War. CinemaxX 18

ROMANS

(UK) Wide, 91mins.

Dir: Ludwig Shammasian, Paul Shammasain. Cast: Orlando Bloom, Janet Montgomery, Anne Reid, Charlie Creed-Miles.

An adult who was the victim of sexual abuse as a child confronts his past.

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(US) Voltage Pictures, 112mins.

Dir: Taylor Sheridan. Cast: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Jon Bernthal,

15:40 ROBBY AND TOBY’S FANTASTIC VOYAGER

(Germany) ARRI Media, 106mins. Dir: Wolfgang Groos. Cast: Arsseni Bultmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Sam Riley, Friedrich Mucke.

One day Toby, an 11-yearold inventor, meets the little robot Robby. Together they build an invention that can fly, float and drive.

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15:50 DALIDA

(France) Pathe International, 127mins.

Dir: Lisa Azuelos. Cast: Sveva Alviti, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jean-Paul Rouve.

A touching and tragic portrait of an emotionally complex woman who was born to be a star. An unconventional, modern woman living through conventional times.

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An experienced tracker and hunter discovers the frozen dead body of a teenage girl.

CineStar 4 No press

century, and how those struggles inform, define and frame the fights we are having over cities in the era of mass urbanisation.

CinemaxX 19

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FAMILY LIFE

(Chile) Visit Films, 81mins. Dir: Alicia Scherson, Cristian Jimenez. Cast: Jorge Becker, Gabriela Arancibia, Blanca Lewin.

While housesitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met.

CinemaxX 11

16:40 DON’T SLEEP

WIND RIVER

(US) Film Mode Entertainment, 95mins.

Dir: Rick Bieber. Cast: Cary Elwes, Drea de Matteo, Dominic Sherwood, Jill Hennessy.

After moving into a cottage together, two young lovers confront the horrors of a forgotten childhood.

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16:30 CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY

(US) Dogwoof, 93mins.

Dir: Matt Tyrnauer.

A documentary on Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses and their epic battles for the right to the city in the 20th

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Iranian Embassy in London. Over the next six days a group of SAS soldiers prepared for a raid that would change the world forever.

16:50

GAUMONT PROMO REELS

(France) Gaumont, 60mins. Dir: various.

CineStar 3

17:00 7 DAYS, 7 GIRLS

(Italy) River Road Entertainment, 60mins.

Dir: Luciano Silighini Garagnani. Cast: Flavia Monteleone, Francesca La Gala, Carol Visconti, Fausta Belli.

Seven girls trapped in a former mental hospital for seven days. A mystery overturns their life.

Marriott Studio

ANGEL

(Belgium) Elle Driver, 84mins. Dir: Harry Cleven. Cast: Fleur Gefrier, Elina Lowensohn, Maya Dory, Hannah Boudru.

A tale of love between a girl who cannot see and a boy who cannot be seen.

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(US) XYZ Films, 100mins.

Dir: Toa Fraser. Cast: Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, Abbie Cornish, Martin Shaw.

In April 1980, armed gunmen stormed the

(Norway, US) TrustNordisk, 94mins.

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LAW OF THE LAND

(Finland) LevelK, 90mins.

Dir: Jussi Hiltunen. Cast: Ville Virtanen, Mikko Neuvonen, Antti Holma, Jorgen Langhelle.

A retiring police officer learns his illegitimate son has been released from prison and is terrorising the area.

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THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT

(Sweden, Germany, Denmark) The Match Factory, 111mins. Dir: Tarik Saleh. Cast: Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Mohamed Yousry, Yasser Ali Maher.

A police officer in Cairo’s corrupt system investigates the murder of a club singer.

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THE NOBODIES

(Colombia) Alpha Violet, 84mins. Dir: Juan Sebastian Mesa. Cast: Maria Angelica Puerta, Luis Felipe Alzate, Maria Camila Castrillon, Alejandro Perez Ceferino.

Camilo, Mechas, Manu, Ana and Pipa are five friends who live a nonconforming life in Medellin.

Their punkish lifestyle is at the same time a protest and a renewed discourse resisting the cultural limitations of their time.

CinemaxX 16

PROMOREELS WILD BUNCH

(France) Wild Bunch, 90mins. Dir: Wild Bunch.

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Moissac, a small village in the south of France. A wounded terrorist finds refuge in a small house lost in the vineyard. Wanted by the police, hunted by a drug organisation, his days are numbered.

CinemaxX 14

17:10 ELON DOESN’T BELIEVE IN DEATH

(Brazil) Wide, 75mins.

Dir: Ricardo Alves Jr. Cast: R0mulo Braga, Clara Choveaux.

After the mysterious disappearance of his wife, Elon emerges in a restless journey through the darkest sides of town in the search of an answer.

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17:30 PARIS LA BLANCHE

(France) Doc & Film International, 83mins.

Dir: Lidia Terki. Cast: Tassadit Mandi, Zahir Bouzekar, Karole Rocher, Sebastien Houbani.

At the age of 70, Rekia decides to leave her village in Kabylie to go to Paris.

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VAMPS

(Russia) Central Partnership, 85mins.

Dir: Sergey Ginzbourg.

Cast: Mikhail Porechenkov, Konstantin Kryukov, Aglaya Shilovskaya, Andrey Rudensky.

Empress Elizabeth’s confessor is exiled to the mountains, taking his secret ancient knowledge with him. Years later, Elizabeth sends her godson to bring him back.

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(China) Golden Network Asia, 124mins. Dir: Sheng Ding. Cast: Jackie Chan, Zitao Huang, Kai Wang, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi.

In 1941, railroad workers in East China become unlikely fearless fighters, employing their deep knowledge of the train network to derail Japan’s war machine.

CinemaxX 5

(UAE) The Exchange, 109mins. Dir: Khurram Alavi. Cast: Ian McShane, Adewale AkinnuoyeAgbaje, Jacob Latimore.

Bilal dreams of becoming a great warrior. When he and his sister are abducted, Bilal must rise up and fight for their freedom.

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(France) SND — Groupe M6, 104mins. Dir: Eric Valette. Cast: Tomer Sisley.

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Brazil, 1821. Upon his return to the imposing farmhouse, Antonio, a rich cattle herder, finds out his wife died in labour. Forced to live in the property with numerous African slaves, he marries his wife’s niece.

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18:30 DAPHNE

(UK) The Bureau Sales, 93mins. Dir: Peter Mackie Burns. Cast: Emily Beecham, Geraldine James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Nathaniel Martello-White, Karina Fernandez.

Londoner Daphne is caught up in the daily rush of her restaurant job and an agitated nightlife. She is strong, funny and acerbic but deep down she is not happy. When she saves the life of a shopkeeper, the armour she wears to protect herself begins to crack.

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(France) Pathe International, 106mins.

Dir: Dany Boon. Cast: Dany Boon, Alice Pol. Johanna wants to be the first woman in France’s elite police unit. She finds herself training under the most misogynistic of officers: Eugene. While duty calls, they have to find a way of working together.

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(Poland, Netherlands) Mnana, 97mins. Dir: Kasia Roslaniec. Cast: Magdalena Berus, Lukasz Simlat, Tygo Gernandt.

An Instagram film in times of the selfie. A kaleidoscope of moments from Karolina’s life — a scandalous writer obsessed with parties, drugs, sexuality and complex relationships, on her way to self-destruction.

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21:30 THE TOKYO NIGHT SKY IS ALWAYS THE DENSEST SHADE OF BLUE

(Japan) Forum Office, 109mins. Dir: Yuya Ishii.

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DJANGO (Fr) Etienne Comar

Reda Kateb took guitar lessons for a year in preparation for his starring role in Comar’s film about legendary French ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Comar makes his directorial and Berlinale debut with the film.

ON BODY AND SOUL (Hun) Ildiko Enyedi

This romantic fantasy explores the duality between sleeping and waking, posing the question of what you would do ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ if you encountered someone who dreamed the same dreams as you every night. The film is Enyedi’s fifth feature.

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Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall, Chloe Sevigny, Richard Gere and Steve Coogan star in this retelling of Herman Koch’s ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Dutch-language novel of the same name, about the moral and political fallout from one night in a restaurant.

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Set against the bustling streets of the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, Félicité follows a singer as she tries to raise ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ money to fund an operation for her son. Big-screen debutante Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu stars.

WILD MOUSE (Austria) Josef Hader

Hader makes his directorial debut with comedy Wild Mouse. As well as writing and directing, he also stars in the film ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ as an unemployed Viennese music critic out for revenge against his former boss when his life is turned upside-down.

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Daniela Vega stars as a waitress and nightclub singer who is left reeling by the death of her older boyfriend ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ (Francisco Reyes). As a transgender woman, she faces a battle with his family to be allowed the right to grieve.

BRIGHT NIGHTS (Ger-Nor) Thomas Arslan

Northern Norway is the setting for this drama about a man who takes his son on a road trip in an attempt to rekindle ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ their relationship. Bright Nights is Arslan’s second film in a row to play in Competition, following Gold in 2013.

THE PARTY (UK) Sally Potter

Emily Mortimer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Cillian Murphy and Timothy Spall star in Potter’s dark comedy set in real time ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ at a London drinks party hosted by a woman to celebrate her husband’s promotion.

MR LONG (Jap-Ger-HK-China-Tai) Sabu

The new film from cult Japanese director Sabu stars Taiwanese actor Chang Chen as a killer who attempts to leave ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ behind the Japanese underworld and start a new life. Sho Aoyagi and Yiti Yao co-star.

THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE (Fin) Aki Kaurismaki

Kaurismaki reunites with regular leading man Sakari Kuosmanen to tell the story of a travelling salesman who ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ encounters a Syrian refugee, played by Sherwan Haji, who is seeking asylum in Helsinki.

BEUYS (Ger) Andres Veiel

Veiel returns to the documentary genre for his latest project. Using previously unseen visual and audio recordings, ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Beuys is an intimate portrait of German artist Joseph Beuys, focusing on the man, his work and his world of ideas.

COLO (Por-Fr) Teresa Villaverde

Portuguese filmmaker Villaverde makes her Berlin debut with her seventh feature, an intense drama that draws ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ attention to the lives of families in contemporary European cities.

RETURN TO MONTAUK (Ger-Fr-Ire) Volker Schlöndorff

Based on an original screenplay by Schlöndorff and Irish author Colm Toibin, Return To Montauk stars Swedish ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ actor Stellan Skarsgard and Germany’s Nina Hoss as former lovers who meet after a 20-year separation.

ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (S Kor) Hong Sang-soo

Shot in Germany and South Korea, On The Beach At Night Alone is about an actress who has given up everything ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ for her relationship with a married man. It marks Hong’s third appearance in Berlin’s Competition.

JOAQUIM (Bra-Por) Marcelo Gomes

The latest film from Gomes is set during the 18th century and is about a trusted soldier for the Portuguese colonial ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ rulers who plunder Brazil’s gold reserves. Julio Machado and Isabel Zuaa star.

HAVE A NICE DAY (China) Liu Jian

The first Chinese animated feature to screen in Competition at Berlin is a road movie about a man who robs his boss ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ to pay for his fiancée’s plastic surgery. This black comedy holds up a magnifying glass to life and social conditions.

ANA, MON AMOUR (Rom-Ger-Fr) Calin Peter Netzer

Netzer is back in Competition with his fourth feature, about a couple struggling with the impact of psychological ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ illness. He was the first Romanian director to win the Golden Bear, for his third feature, Child’s Pose, in 2013.

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