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Dornan, Claflin join IRA thriller

BY JEREMY KAY

Jamie Dornan, riding high on the $140m global debut of Fifty Shades Freed, will star opposite Sam Claflin in the IRA action thriller Borderland, which IMR International has introduced to EFM buyers here in Berlin.

Brian Kirk (Game Of Thrones, Luther) will direct the 1970s Londonset feature, described as being in the vein of Michael Mann’s crime thriller Heat. CAA and UTA Independent Film Group represent US rights.

Borderland will focus on two men on opposite sides of the bloody conflict between the IRA and the British government. Production is scheduled to kick off this summer in London and Dublin.

Ronan Bennett wrote the screenplay and producers are Chris Coen for Unanimous Entertainment, Rebecca Brown, and Alan Moloney of Parallel Film Productions.

BY TOM GRATER

Lone Scherfig’s forthcoming Secrets From The Russian Tea Room has cast up ahead of shooting this spring. Bafta-nominated Andrea Riseborough (The Death Of Stalin), Cesar winner Tahar Rahim (A Prophet) and The Big Sick star Zoe Kazan will play a group of people going through the worst crises of their lives.

Riseborough will star as an ER nurse who runs an eclectic therapy group; Rahim an ex-con turned manager of the titular restaurant; and Kazan a mother looking to avoid her abusive cop husband.

The film will shoot at the iconic Russian Tea Room in Manhattan, New York.

HanWay Films has acquired worldwide sales rights and will be

touting the project at this week’s EFM. The company has previously handled sales on four Lone Scherfig titles, including period drama Their Finest.

Producers are Malene Blenkov for Creative Alliance and Canada’s Strada Films, in co-production with France’s D’Ar tagnan, Germany’s Nadcon and Sweden’s Unlimited Stories.

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Achtung Panda! boards Lou Ye period drama

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Protagonist grabs Teacher

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UK sales outfit Protagonist Pictures has picked up international rights to the Maggie Gyllenhaal-starring The Kindergarten Teacher following the film’s buzzy Sundance premiere.

Gyllenhaal plays a kindergarten teacher who becomes obsessed with a five-year-old child she considers to be gifted. The film is a remake of Nadav Lapid’s acclaimed 2014 Israeli feature of the same name.

Writer-director Sara Colangelo scooped Sundance’s best director prize after the film’s debut in the US Dramatic programme. Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren produced for Pie Films, with Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray for Maven Films, alongside Gyllenhaal.

Paris-based Bac Films International has unveiled a raft of pre -sales on Paolo Virzi’s upcoming Rome-set comedy noir Notti Magiche, which revolves around the mysterious death of a film producer.

On the basis of script and images, the picture has sold to China (Time Vision), Brazil (Imovision), Poland (Against Gravity), Greece (Strada Films), Israel (Lev Films) and Turkey (Filmarti).

“We expect to close more territories here after showing a first

promo,” said Bac head of sales Gilles Sousa.

Bac also unveiled new sales on David Freyne’s post-zombie era picture The Cured, starring Ellen Page, to Mexico (View Link), China (Time Vision), Italy (Movie Inspired) and Eastern Europe (HBO).

Berlin-based production house Achtung Panda! and Japan’s Uplink have boarded Saturday Fiction, a 1940s-set period drama from controversial Chinese director Lou Ye. Gong Li, Taiwanese actor Mark Chao, German actor Tom Wlaschiha, France’s Pascal Greggory and Japan’s Joe Odagiri and Ayumu Nakajima head the cast of the multilingual drama, also produced by Lou’s YingFilms. Chinese actors Zhang Songwen, Huang Xiangli and Wang Chuanjun also star.

Helge Albers is producing for Achtung Panda! and is presenting the project to sales agents, distributors and other potential European partners at the EFM. Set in Shanghai in 1941, the film follows an actress who is working undercover gathering intelligence for the Allies. Lou was temporarily banned from filmmaking in China following Cannes titles Summer Palace (2006) and Spring Fever (2009). His last film, Blind Massage, won a Silver Bear at the 2014 Berlinale.

Komplizen Film partners Sony on Jopp drama Komplizen Film, the producer of Maren Ade comedy Toni Erdmann, is to partner with Sony Pictures on Vanessa Jopp’s forthcoming adaptation of Austrian writer Daniel Glattauer’s bestseller Love Virtually.

Sony’s German production arm will serve as Komplizen Film’s co-producer alongside Erfttal Film, with Sony Pictures releasing the film theatrically in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Former European Shooting Star Alexander Fehling (Three Peaks), Nora Tschirner (Rabbit Without Ears) and Swiss actress Ella Rumpf headline the cast.

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Charades rides Skate Kitchen

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In its first pick-up of a US film, Charades has acquired international sales rights to Crystal Moselle’s Sundance NEXT entry Skate Kitchen. It’s Moselle’s first narrative feature since she announced her arrival in 2015 with Park City documentary The Wolfpack, which was acquired for North America by Magnolia Pictures.

Skate Kitchen follows a Long Island teenager whose life changes when she befriends a group of female skateboarders in New York.

Rachelle Vinberg and Dede Lovelace star, alongside Elizabeth Rodriguez and Jaden Smith.

Charades negotiated the deal with UTA Independent Film Group on behalf of the filmmakers. Lizzie Nastro and Izabella Tzenkova produced the Bow and Arrow Entertainment and RT Features presentation in association with Pulse Films and Kotva Films, along with Moselle, Julia Nottingham, Rodrigo Teixeira, Michael Sherman and Matthew Perniciaro.

Independent launches UK black comedy

BY TOM GRATER

Roger Allam, Derek Jacobi and Anna Maxwell-Martin will lead the cast of black comedy Ilkley, which Independent is introducing to buyers at EFM. The film is the second feature from former Screen Star of Tomorrow Harry Michell, whose debut Chubby Funny saw the director nominated for a Most Promising Newcomer BIFA in 2016.

The film is set in an idyllic spa town during its annual literary festival. As the world’s most controversial secularist is set to make an appearance, two hapless evangelicals are tasked with killing him.

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Global Road Entertainment aims to amass a $1bn production war chest over the next three years as it targets 15 annual US releases by 2020, eight or nine of which are anticipated to be developed and produced in-house.

The $1bn goal was announced to buyers at a private presentation in Berlin yesterday. CEO Rob Friedman, speaking to Screen on the eve of the market, said he is looking for wide-release films in the $20m-$100m range.

Since Tang Media Partners CEO Donald Tang merged IM Global and IM Global Television with US distributor Open Road to form Global Road six months ago, the company has not brought new product to market. International sales and distribution chief Michael Rothstein is in Berlin with the team.

Friedman said restrictive Chinese rules on getting money out of the country would not hinder production and acquisitions budgets, noting the company is “almost

evenly split” between Chinese and international owners.

He remained upbeat despite the departure of Cristina Garza, the general manager of Latin American sales venture Mundial, and production chief Greg Shapiro, with whom Global Road will continue to work on Serenity, Richard Says Goodbye and The Rhythm Section.

He pointed to new key hires as an indicator of a healthy executive suite, including head of worldwide production Lynn Harris.

Screen can reveal an exclusive first look at Sophie Cookson and Judi Dench in Trevor Nunn’s spy drama Red Joan. The film is based on Jennie Rooney’s novel of the same name, which was inspired by the true story of a woman who was the KGB’s longest-serving British spy. Dench plays her in the year 2000 and Cookson in 1938.

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BERLIN BRIEFS Digging for Gold Sony Pictures Television has acquired all pan-Latin American rights to Paraguayan foreignlanguage Oscar submission The Gold Seekers (Los Buscadores) in a deal with Buenos Airesbased FilmSharks.

Mungiu enters Hackerville HBO Europe has revealed its first international co-production, Hackerville, with German company TNT Serie. Cristian Mungiu is producing the six-part thriller.

Jumpman hops to Europe New Europe Film Sales has signed a world sales deal for Ivan Tverdovsky’s new film Jumpman.

It’s the company’s second collaboration with Tverdovsky.

Arclight barks for Dogs Arclight Films has boarded worldwide sales excluding China for Ting Liang’s timely feature Year Of The Dogs, starring Yi Cheng, Yahan Cui and Song Wen.

Splendid takes Hereditary Splendid’s Benelux distribution arm has confirmed two highprofile acquisitions: Ari Aster’s controversial horror film Hereditary from A24 and Ludovic Bernard’s Au Bout Des Doigts from TF1.

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Indies Sales finds Amour Paris-based Indies Sales has acquired world sales rights to French director Claire Burger’s C’est Ça L’Amour, her first solo feature after co-directed debut Party Girl, which opened Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2014 and won the Caméra d’Or. The semi-autobiographical tale stars Belgian actor Bouli Lanners as a man left to bring up his two teenage daughters after his wife walks out. Isabelle Madelaine’s Paris-based production house Dharamsala is producing the feature, which is currently in postproduction. Mars Film will release it in France in 2018.

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Celluloid Dreams sells Mutafukaz True Colors

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Celluloid Dreams has announced deals on French-Japanese futuristic animation Mutafukaz, set against the backdrop of Dark Meat City, a fantasy, dystopian world inspired

by Los Angeles.

It has sold to Australia, New Zealand and the UK (Manga), Germany and Austria (Pepper-

mint), Spain (Mediatres) and Switzerland (MovieBiz).

Co-directed by Guillaume Renard and Shoujirou Nishimi, the film is produced by France’s Ankama in collaboration with Japanese animation company Studio 4°C. Ankama is teaming up with Tamasa Distribution to release the film on May 23 in France.

Vertigo takes plunge on Swimming

BY TOM GRATER

Oliver Parker’s Rob Brydon-starring comedy Swimming With Men has been picked up for UK distribution by Vertigo Releasing from HanWay Films. HanWay MD Gabrielle Stewart negotiated the deal with Ed Caffrey on behalf of

Vertigo Releasing. The UK release is being set for May-June this year.

Comedian and actor Brydon plays Eric, who aims to win back his wife (Jane Horrocks) by diving into the world of male synchronised swimming. Oliver Parker directs from a screenplay by Aschlin Ditta.

grabs Golino’s Euphoria

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True Colours has added Valeria Golino’s second feature as a director, Euphoria, to its international sales slate. Produced by HT Film, Indigo Film and Rai Cinema, the film is in postproduction after wrapping an eight-week shoot in December. 01 will release in Italy later this year.

The story of a difficult relationship between two brothers with opposite characters, Euphoria’s cast includes Riccardo Scamarcio and Valerio Mastandrea as the siblings, and Jasmine Trinca, who starred in Golino’s 2013 directorial debut Honey, in a supporting role.

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Uncorked bites on LevelK’s Giant Pear

BY WENDY MITCHELL

LevelK has struck a North American deal with Uncorked Entertainment for family animation The Incredible Story Of The Giant Pear, which opens Berlinale’s Generation Kplus section today (Feb 16).

LevelK has now sold the film to more than 150 countries, including recent deals with the UK and Ireland (Kaleidoscope), Turkey (FilmArti) and Portugal (Films4you).

Gaga grabs Zeze drama Japan’s Gaga Corp has picked up international rights to Takahisa Zeze’s upcoming drama My Friend ‘A’, based on the novel Yuzai by Gaku Yakumaru.

Toma Ikuta, who played a transgender woman in last year’s Teddy Jury award-winning drama Close-Knit, heads the cast of the film, which revolves around a former journalist trying to get his job back.

Gaga is also an investor in the film, along with a group of Japanese companies.

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The film, a hit in Denmark with more than 230,000 box-office admissions, won two prizes at Denmark’s Robert awards: best children’s film and best adapted script. It has a

Summer rises for Sundance Selects

BY JEREMY KAY

Sundance Selects has snapped up US rights to Göran Hugo Olsson’s That Summer ahead of its international premiere in the Panorama documentary sidebar tonight (Feb 16).

Dogwoof sells inter­ national rights to the feature, about a long-lost film project that photographer Peter Beard initiated in 1972 with Lee Radziwill, the younger sister of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, to chronicle her childhood on Long Island.

Visit adds White Riot to EFM slate

BY JEREMY KAY

Ryan Kampe’s New Yorkbased Visit Films has added writer-director Rubika Shah’s documentary White Riot to its EFM slate.

The film is based on Shah’s short White Riot: London, which premiered at Sundance 2017 and went on to screen at Berlin, Tel Aviv and Sheffield Doc/ Fest, among others.

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market screening here tomorrow (Saturday).

The film was directed by Philip Einstein Lipski, Jørgen Lerdam and Amalie Næsby, and produced by Thomas Heinesen and Trine Heidegaard for Nordisk Film Production. Backers include the Danish Film Institute, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, NFTVF and MEDIA. The script, from Bo Hr. Hansen, was based on a Danish children’s book by Jakob Martin Strid.

White Riot explores how punk influenced politics in late-1970s Britain, a time of deep social unrest. The film follows three artists and fanzine creators who fought the neo-Nazi National Front, and created the British civil rights movement Rock Against Racism. It features archive interviews and previously unseen footage of groups such as The Clash.

That Summer premiered at Telluride Film Festival last autumn and is produced by Oscar-nominated Strong Island producer Joslyn Barnes of Louverture Films, as well as Tobias Janson of Story, Nejma Beard of Thunderbolt Ranch Productions and Signe Byrge Sørensen for Final Cut for Real.

Sundance Selects, which released Olsson’s The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 in 2011, plans a spring launch.

Arianna Bocco of Sundance Selects/IFC Films brokered the deal with Cinetic.

Esparza film heads to US Antonio Méndez Esparza’s Life And Nothing More will have a US theatrical release through the California Film Institute’s distribution arm CFI Releasing. Film Constellation is selling the film, which is up for two Independent Spirit Awards.

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Finecut closes key sales on Berlin duo

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Blue Fox Entertainment has boarded international sales on Unified Pictures’ thriller Ride, starring Bella Thorne of Sundance sensation Assassination Nation. Thorne stars as a young woman in Los Angeles who hails a ride with a sociopath. Blue Fox is showing buyers a first-look promo in Berlin.

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Heretic boards Peru’s Retablo

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Athens-based Heretic Outreach continues to expand its international portfolio and will kick off sales at EFM on Generations 14plus selection Retablo.

The Peru- GermanyNorway co-production is a coming-of-age story that

won best Peruvian film at the Lima Film Festival last August.

Magaly Solier from 2009 Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow stars alongside Amiel Cayo.

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Seoul-based sales company Finecut has closed several territories on Kim Ki-duk’s Human, Space, Time And Human, which is receiving its world premiere in Panorama Special, and Hong Sangsoo’s Grass, premiering in Forum.

Human, Space, Time And Human has gone to Norway (AS Fidalgo), Japan (King Records) and Greece/Cyprus

(Danaos Films). The Korean and Japanese-language film revolves around a small group of people on a sea journey who find themselves adrift in mid-air.

France’s Les Acacias has picked up Grass, which marks Hong’s return to Forum for the first time in 21 years. Starring Kim Minhee, Grass follows a woman observing various inter­ actions taking place in a

coffee house. Kim won Berlin’s Silver Bear for best actress last year for Hong’s On The Beach At Night Alone.

Finecut has also sold Shin Dong-seok’s Forum title Last Child to Encore for worldwide in-flight rights, excluding Taiwan. The film, about a couple who lose their son in a drowning accident, won the Fipresci prize at last year’s Busan International Film Festival.

Cinephil takes Berlin music doc Gurrumul

BY TOM GRATER

Tel Aviv-based sales outfit Cinephil has picked up international rights to Berlin documentary Gurrumul.

The film is about indigenous Australian singer and musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, who passed away in July 2017,

three days after approving the film.

It’s a feature debut for director Paul Williams.

Shannon Swan produced.

Reason8 expands EFM slate London-based sales agent Reason8 has boosted its market slate with two new acquisitions: Humour Me, a comedy starring Jemaine Clement that is currently on release in the US, and children’s fantasy adventure 2:HRS. The company has also inked multiple deals on upcoming fantasy thriller A Rough Draft, which has sold to German-speaking Europe (Capelight Pictures), Baltics (ACME), Malaysia (Suraya Filem), and Vietnam, Indonesia and Taiwan (Purple Plan).

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Isle Of Dogs Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan Five abandoned dogs and a 12-year-old boy roam a toxic wasteland in the Japanese archipelago 20 years in the future looking for a lost pet. Like all Wes Anderson films, Isle Of Dogs is wholly unusual while still being immediately identifiable as a Wes Anderson film.

So lush with gorgeous detail it’s like a piece of highly-textured haute couture, there’s also a sharp social message behind the film’s elaborate seams: the dogs are starving, filthy, diseased and quarantined, and only the orphan boy remembers who man’s best friend really is.

With the exquisite sets practically sitting up and begging to be seen again, Isle Of Dogs is the American director’s second stop-motion animation after Fantastic Mr. Fox, and a rarefied experience which, without the strength of Roald Dahl behind the title, may need a stronger marketing push — although the canine stars do have a loud collective bark. (Isle Of Dogs premiered in Berlin on the first day of the Year of the Dog.) Reminiscent of Okja, in that it straddles the line between child and adult fare — somewhat uneasily at times — Isle Of Dogs surpasses even The Grand Budapest Hotel’s lavish attention to detail and elaborate dioramas, shot over two years in London’s Three Mills Studios. Anderson’s legion of fans will be happy.

Written by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Anderson’s friend Kunichi

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OPENING FILM, COMPETITION UK-Ger. 2018. 101mins Director Wes Anderson Production companies Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical, Fox Searchlight Distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures Producers Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson Executive producer Christopher Fisser Screenplay Wes Anderson, from a story

by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, Kunichi Nomura Cinematography Tristan Oliver Voice cast Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Greta Gerwig, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaba, Scarlett Johansson, Courtney B Vance, Kunichi Nomura

Nomura (who also provides the voice of Mayor Kobayashi of Megasaki City), the film gives us Japan in the near future, when Dog Flu and Snout Fever threaten to cross over to the human species — a somewhat uncomfortable reminder of swine flu.

Mayor Kobayashi, whose clan nurses an intergenerational loathing of canines, dispatches all hounds to the garbage-infested Trash Island where they must fend for themselves and face certain death. But his 12-year-old adopted ward Atari — a latter-day Astro Boy — flies to Trash Island to rescue his beloved guard dog, Spots (voiced by Liev Schreiber).

Atari (Koyu Rankin) quickly encounters a band of Wes Anderson stalwarts: Edward Norton playing the self-appointed leader of the pack Rex; Jeff Goldblum as the incorrigible gossip Duke; Bill Murray as Boss, a former baseball team mascot; and Bob Balaban voicing King, who used to be a spokeshound for dog food brand ‘Doggy Chop’. Joining them are Scarlett Johansson as one-time show-dog Nutmeg and Harvey Keitel, voicing the aboriginal Gondo. Tilda Swinton shows up as Oracle, who can understand the TV. But the real hero is Chief (Bryan Cranston), a stray dog who bites.

The film is bursting with colour out of its elaborate miniatures, audacious choices that demand to be admired (bright purple volcanos, vibrant reds, cherry blossoms, leached-out sequences that pay tribute to Japanese cinema’s

past). Isle Of Dogs is also filled with music throughout (regular collaborator Alexandre Desplat is not easily identifiable in a robustly Japanese score), even if it’s only whistling.

Anderson squeezes in more shots per-second than most traditional stop-motion work, which at times gives the puppets a slightly blurry, outof-this-world feel (the hair on the dogs, always a challenge for animators, is exquisitely rendered).

The spirit of Akira Kurosawa lives on here — there’s even a decaying statue of Toshiro Mifune on Trash Island — while Yasujiro Ozu is referenced in the sheer precision of the framing. Atari is pure anime, while sequences from kabuki theatre enhance the other-worldliness of the setting, which is delightfully contrasted with some very American dry wit.

Isle Of Dogs pushes the viewer (some sequences aren’t translated, for example, although Frances McDormand has fun playing an overly-empathetic interpreter). But Anderson’s trademark tongue-in-cheek humour and deadpan quips, which seem more fluidly delivered by puppets as opposed to Anderson’s liveaction fare, are there to ease the way. Either way, when the five, easily identifiable doggies cheekily break the fourth wall continuously to arch an eyebrow at the camera, there are few who will be able to resist.

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Madeline’s Madeline Reviewed by Anthony Kaufman

Yardie Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan Actor/producer and part-time DJ Idris Elba now adds director to his resume with Yardie, an adaptation of Victor Headley’s 1992 novel about a young drug courier which begins on the mean streets of Kingston, Jamaica, in 1973, and concludes on the even meaner backroads of 1980s east London.

It’s an alluring, muscular debut soaked in authenticity; attractive lead performances and cameos draw the viewer into a story that resonates with knife crime in London today. While Elba stretches the narrative to its limits, the film is shot and cast well, telling a story with a geniality that cuts through some of its bleaker moments.

Clearly framed for the big screen, Yardie (a term used to describe Jamaican immigrants in the 1970s) stands to do well in the underserved UK community, where it could mirror the commercial success of Noel Clarke’s ‘hood’ series while attracting warm notices from serious outlets. Elba’s fanbase is wider than that, however, and innovative marketing — as well as a thumping soundtrack — could win further audiences in Anglo markets, particularly the US. Use of Jamaican patois, however, is a little taxing on the ear, and could prove a hurdle: sub­ titles or some explicatory device might help on occasion.

Charismatic lead actor Aml Ameen, who made such a strong impression in Kidulthood, stakes his claim to stardom here as D (for Denis), a young boy (initially played

by Antwayne Ecclestone) first seen in the green countryside and bleached, dusty Kingston streets of Jamaica, 1973. With no parents in evidence, D relies on his older brother Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary), a peace-loving Rasta whose attempts to reconcile warring gangsters suffers predictably disastrous results. D ends up running errands for drugs — and music — impresario King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd).

With a colour palette that blends the burnt oranges of Trench Town with the popping yellow and green Jamaican colours of the schoolgirl uniforms, Yardie seems to come from Jamaica, as opposed to just being shot there.

Yet when the action see’s D courier drugs to London in 1983, there’s also a solid sense of place — the punks, the squats, the unswept streets of Hackney in Thatcher’s Britain also securely anchor the action. The film gives British viewers a vision of period cinema and a reflection of themselves in a past that isn’t entirely white.

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PANORAMA UK. 2018. 101mins Director Idris Elba Production company Warp Films International sales Studiocanal info@studiocanal.co.uk Producers Gina Carter, Robin Gutch Screenplay Brock Norman Brock, Martin Stellman Cinematography John Conroy Main cast Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Fraser James

American indie director Josephine Decker’s (Thou Wast Mild And Lovely) bold new film follows Madeline (Helen Howard), a 16-year-old performer in a New York experimental theatre company. Much of Madeline’s Madeline unfolds like an impressionistic psychological portrait of a young woman with mother issues — the plot eventually throwing dramatic coherence out the window, favouring the kind of experimental mode in which it is set. The combination is intriguing, but it places the film into a rarefied arthouse box, where it should survive in microcinemas and auteur-based VoD platforms after its Sundance and Berlin festival launches.

Madeline’s Madeline takes its time to form a shape, initially combining dreamy, blurred images with the character’s Brooklyn-based reality. We are introduced to Madeline (Howard) and her brittle mother Regina (Miranda July), as well as scenes from her theatre troupe and their movement-based exercises, led by encouraging director Evangeline (Molly Parker).

Decker cuts between the two, interweaving domestic tensions between daughter and mother with visions of Madeline acting like a sea turtle. Eventually, we learn that Madeline herself has suffered from mental illness, and the film’s loose grip on reality mirrors her own.

Increasingly, Madeline clashes with her over-protective and passive-aggressive mother, who does little to alleviate her anxieties. To escape her, Madeline finds herself drawn to Evangeline as a safer maternal figure. However, Evangeline crosses the line when she pushes Madeline to bring her personal maternal issues — and even her mother — into their theatrical venture. The third act may make sense for Madeline’s coming-of-age arc, but for the other characters’ motivations, it’s a stretch.

However, Decker is most interested in Madeline. While Parker delivers a fine performance as a strong, creative woman belying a greater vulnerability, young discovery Howard is a fierce and fiery on-screen presence.

The film is both visually and sonically experimental.

The cinematography is dominated by soft and out-offocus images, while the soundtrack is punctuated by modern operative voices, rhythmic breathing, and string-dominated orchestral music. Among this year’s coming-of-age films, it’s got to be one of the most original. But it’s also one of the more perplexing.

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Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan

Fake Tattoos Reviewed by Ben Croll Quebecois up-and-comer Pascal Plante spins an understated and slyly shifting tale of summertime romance with feature debut Fake Tattoos. What begins as a twohander with a pair of young thrashers eventually transforms into a singular investigation of adolescent guilt and renewal. Taking a languid urban romance and turning it on questions of shame and abnegation, the film plays like a mix of Medicine For Melancholy and Manchester By The Sea rejigged for the young adult mindset.

Having premiered at the Vancouver Film Festival and taken home the Grand Prix at Montreal’s Festival de Nouveau Cinema, Fake Tattoos is screening as part of Berlinale’s Generation 14plus programme at the same time as its theatrical release back home in Canada. Thanks to Plante’s well-tuned eye for detail and subtly rewarding narrative approach, the title could prove of interest for other smaller-scale festivals and VoD programmers looking to highlight emerging francophone talent.

Things kick off on Theo’s (Anthony Therrien) 18th birthday, a night he hopes to spend losing himself in the mosh at a downtown metal show. But there he meets the slightly older, recently single Mag (Rose-Marie Perreault), who pulls him into a local diner and into her life. Why single him out? “A guy with a fake tattoo couldn’t be much of a threat,” she reasons.

Theo’s press-on tattoos and the decidedly non-metal posters in Mag’s room make for effective visual symbols, reiterating how unfixed these two are — both of them figuring out their identities as they near adulthood. The point is never forced by DoP Vincent Allard’s HD camera, often capturing the lovers in long, unbroken takes.

While the self-assured Mag initially takes the reins, Theo’s taciturn, almost bashful façade never falls, even as their relationship blooms. Midway through, Mag’s perspective is left behind as Theo’s becomes the focal point.

Working from his own script, Plante never resorts to flashbacks or overt speeches, instead allowing the viewer to piece together the lead’s wounded backstory through uneasy interactions, allusions and insinuations.

A seasoned sound editor, Plante furthers that strategy via the film’s woozy audio design, where music abruptly cuts and bass notes drone on from one scene to the next.

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GENERATION 14PLUS Can. 2017. 87mins Director-screenplay Pascal Plante Production companies Les Productions Bal Masqué/Némésis Films International sales Seville International sevilleinternational @filmsseville.com Producer Katerine Lefrançois katerinelefrancois @gmail.com Cinematography Vincent Allard Main cast Anthony Therrien, Rose-Marie Perreault, Lynsandre Nadeau, Brigitte Poupart, NicoleSylvie Legarde

From the highs of Amy in 2015, audiences have begun to approach the pop star biopic with justifiable suspicion; these have tended towards marketing tie-ins if the artist is alive; rueful catalogue-shifters when they’re dead. The Sri Lankan/London rap magpie M.I.A. hasn’t released anything since 2016, however, and she is very much alive and well. What distinguishes Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. from the crowd is its extensive access to the controversial artist, and the strong impression that she isn’t terribly likeable, nor terribly keen to be liked.

Yet, despite the natural vitality of Mathangi Arulpragasam (aka Maya), her old college friend Steve Loveridge struggles to give his film meaning, even with his subject’s relentlessly fiery political pronunciations, incessant feuding and status as daughter of one of the founders of guerrilla terrorist organisation The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. His honest, interesting, but ultimately drifting doc was disowned by its protagonist in Sundance (“It’s not the film I would have made”), but that’s a little unfair: while there is a sense of a missed opportunity, M.I.A. still stands to do terrific business on streaming platforms and brings a little bit of edge back to the popdoc, dancing closer to Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck than Lady Gaga’s Five Foot Two. Premiering in Sundance before it crossed over to Berlin, this Dogwoof-sold documentary should secure some prestige theatrical slots before romping onto premium cable.

You get a sense of Maya’s atavistic need to provoke from a young age, and Loveridge presents her as a refugee housed in Mitcham, south-west London in 1986 at the age of 11 after a childhood spent in war-torn Jaffna.

Maya spent her teenage years on a council estate mostly without her father, who was busy waging war back home.

It’s quite a story, how this spat-upon ‘Paki’ grew up to be an international star even as, in Jaffna, the Sri Lankan government was waging a civil war against the Tigers, culminating in shocking massacres in 2009 likened to genocide. Her opinions certainly come from the heart, and bitter experience. In fact, it’s a trip she takes back to Sri Lanka in 2001 that manages to get beyond M.I.A. to Maya, letting us know why Mathangi is who she is and says what she says. It’s not all attitude or prickliness, and there are reasons for both: if she’s no more likeable by the end of it, that seems to be by happy design.

PANORAMA UK-US-Sri. 2018. 95mins Director Steve Loveridge Production companies Hard Working Movies, Cinereach International sales Dogwoof anna@dogwoof.com Producers Lori Cheatle, Andrew Goldman, Paul Mezey Editor Marina Katz, Gabriel Rhodes Music Dhani Harrison, Paul Hicks Featuring Maya Arulpragasam

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That Summer Reviewed by Wendy Ide

Generation Wealth Reviewed by Nikki Baughan In a photographic and documentary career spanning more than 25 years, visual anthropologist Lauren Greenfield has been drawn to the extremes of human behaviour around the world; from deadly eating disorders (Thin) to a billionaire couple’s attempts to build a replica of a French palace (The Queen Of Versailles). Realising that the majority of her work shares a unifying theme of excess, Greenfield has worked since 2008 to wrangle her vast back catalogue into Generation Wealth; a multi-form project spanning exhibition, book and this documentary. The result is both a compelling, damning cultural observation and testament to Greenwood’s own visual artistry, which should travel well on the festival circuit.

While documentary tradition might look to separate filmmaker and subject, Generation Wealth takes a deeply personal approach. Greenfield makes no apologies for how closely she is entwined with her subjects, or that the film is as much about exploring her own psychology as it is about those she interviews.

Just as her subjects are embroiled in the pursuit of ‘more’ — be it in the form of money, fame or body image — so Greenfield realises that she, too, has an obsessive relationship with her work, always chasing the next perfect image.

That this has come at a cost to her family life is revealed in on-screen conversations with her sons Noah and Gabriel who, over the course of filming, grow from young boys into adolescents. This personal approach gives the film a sharp intimacy, and from here Greenfield pulls out to reveal how similar patterns are reshaping lives and families the world over. In Russia and China, for example, where the newly wealthy splurge on handbags and houses their parents could never have afforded. Social commentators speak about rampant consumerism, and the resulting commodification of everything from power to sex, as the death knell for civilised society.

It is in Greenfield’s interviews with Kacey Jordan, a porn star and infamous Charlie Sheen playmate, that the dangers of pursuing wealth are at their most obvious.

Long associating happiness with fame and fortune, Jordan has endured degradation, addiction and depression for celebrity.

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PANORAMA DOKUMENTE US. 2018. 106mins Director Lauren Greenfield Production compaies Amazon Studios, Evergreen Pictures International sales Dogwoof anna@dogwoof.com Producers Frank Evers, Lauren Greenfield, Wallis Annenbergl Executive producers Regina K Scully, Lilly Hartley, Jeffrey Tarrant, Geralyn Dreyfous Editor Aaron Wickenden, Michelle Witten, Victor Livingston, Dan Marks Cinematography Robert Chappell, Lauren Greenfield, Shana Hagan, Jerry Risius, Lars Skree Music Jeff Beal Sound design Peter Albrechtsen Sound Pete Horner

Before Albert and David Maysles gained entry into the weed-choked grounds of Grey Gardens, another film project captured the eccentric mother and daughter ‘Big and Little Edie Beale’. The film, by the artist Peter Beard and the Beales’ cousin Lee Radziwill, aimed to explore the evolution of the Hamptons, and was abandoned early on. The footage, long believed to be lost, was recently rediscovered. And these four reels of Bouvier Beale antics, bookended by a commentary by Beard, form the basis of the sporadically intriguing, but ultimately unsatisfying, That Summer.

The ongoing fascination with Grey Gardens and the two women who lived there — surrounded by memories, paranoia and cats — is a key selling point for this film (a Berlinale-premiering re-edit of a version shown at Telluride in 2017). The mini industry that has spawned an off-Broadway musical, an HBO film, a drag parody, a documentary follow-up (Ghosts Of Grey Gardens, 2005) and a Marc Jacobs handbag suggests that the appetite for the Beales is not yet sated. That said, the fact that the material came to light when Albert Maysles asked for permission to use it for DVD extras is telling — this doesn’t entirely work as a self-contained entity.

The Maysles brothers were hired as crew on the aborted project, which was spawned during the summer of 1972 when Beard and Radziwill met in Montauk, Long Island. Super 8 footage captures various Factory members frolicking on the beach, and Andy Warhol himself, looking perplexed. In a present-day section at the start of the film, Beard flicks through a scrapbook of his art, listing luminaries — Bianca and Mick; Truman Capote.

But the real interest comes once all the names have been dropped. The Grey Gardens to which Beard and Radziwill gain access is even more dilapidated than the house in the Maysles’ film. East Hampton’s environmental inspectors tut their way through the building, threatening the Edies with eviction. So, funded by the deep pockets of Aristotle Onassis, emergency renovation is undertaken. Meanwhile, the camera scopes the teetering piles of detritus, roaming restlessly through the building like one of the Bouvier Beale cats. Little Edie seems equally daunted by the mess. “What are you looking for?” barks her mother. “The same thing I am always looking for,” she says plaintively. “Either my pants or my make-up.”

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Korea’s world builders As the local box office rides high, Korean projects are looking to make an impact in both the festival and the market. Jean Noh reports

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n South Korea, the year began with Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds, which opened on December 20, and became the country’s third highestgrossing hit of all time by early February.

According to Korean Film Council (KOFIC) figures, it had takings of $106m at the time of going to press and currently sits behind Roaring Currents and Avatar in the all-time South Korea rankings.

Directed by Kim Yong-hwa, the fantasy film about a deceased firefighter who goes through seven kinds of hell while being judged on whether he merits reincarnation also captured audiences across Asia, topping the box office in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Another showcase for Korea’s recent powerhouse VFX capabilities, Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds also denotes a different path to international success that local productions are increasingly following — one that does not necessarily involve a festival premiere.

This year’s second biggest hit, historical drama 1987: When The Day Comes, also adopted this strategy. A December 27 local release was followed closely by a rollout around North America and Asia, effectively removing the film from the winter festivals race for prestigious debuts. To date, it has taken more than $53.5m at the local box office, according to KOFIC.

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Along With The Gods took a different path to international success – one that does not necessarily involve a festival premiere Overall, admissions in 2017 reached a new record of 219.8 million, up by 2.5 million on 2015’s previous high. The 2017 chart was topped by Jang Hun’s Gwangju democracy uprising drama A Taxi Driver, which surpassed 12 million admissions.

Korea has four films in the Berlinale’s official selection, from festival regulars Hong Sangsoo and Kim Ki-duk, veteran director Park Kiyong and newcomer Shin Dong-seok. In the European Film Market, Korean sellers will be tempting buyers with titles with international potential across a range of genres, including action, comedy, crime, fantasy and foodie drama.

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Korean auteur Hong is back at the Berlinale with the world premiere of black-and-white drama Grass in Forum. The film is set in a Seoul coffee house as customers talk and mix while a woman listens to snatches of their conversations and writes down her thoughts. The night grows late, soju is brought out and the conversation continues. The cast includes Kim Minhee (The Day After), Jung ), Seo Jin-young (Claire’s Camera), Right Now, Wrong Then) Young-hwa (Right On The Beach and Gong Minjeung (On At Night Alone).

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Human, Space, Time And Human Dir Kim Ki-duk Playing as a Panorama Special, Kim’s latest is a fantasy drama featuring a

group of people from a variety of backgrounds who set sail on a warship. Following a night of debauchery and violence, they discover the next morning that they are floating in a sea of clouds instead of water and have a limited food supply. Unfolding in Korean and Japanese, the film’s ensemble cast includes Mina Fujii, Jang Keun-suk, Ahn Sung-ki and Lee Sung-jae.

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Last Child Dir Shin Dong-seok Winner of the Fipresci prize in Busan where it premiered last October, Shin’s feature debut is playing in Forum and follows a couple who lost their son when he drowned saving one of his friends. The couple slowly make the rescued b o y, w h o m they find

being bullied, a part of their lives. But burdened by guilt, he confesses the shocking truth behind their son’s death. Choi Moo-seong, Kim Yeo-jin and Seong Yu-bin star.

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Old Love Dir Park Kiyong Camel(s) director Park’s film also made its world premiere in Busan and is screening here in Forum. Old Love follows a man and a woman who meet by chance at Incheon airport after 25 years, and decide to revisit a small town they went to in their college days. There, old romantic feelings collide with reality and disappointment. The film stars Yoo Jungah, Kim Taehoon and Kim Moonhee.

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EUROPEAN FILM MARKET The Drug King Dir Woo Min-ho A crime drama from Inside Men director Woo, The Drug King stars Song Kang-ho (A Taxi Driver), Cho Jung-seok (My Annoying Brother) and Doona Bae (Cloud Atlas). Set in 1970s Busan, the film follows the rise and fall of a smalltime smuggler who becomes an infamous drug lord, playing the good community leader by day and ruling a criminal empire by night. The film is currently in post-production.

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Dir Baek Seung-bin

failing rapper in Seoul who rushes back to his long-abandoned hometown on hearing his father has fallen ill. It turns out to be a ruse by his parent to get him home, but a return to Seoul is further delayed when he meets up with childhood classmates including Sun-mi, played by Kim Go-eun (Coin Locker Girl). The film is scheduled for local release in May.

Members Of The Funeral director Baek’s sophomore feature had its world premiere in the Tiger Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam earlier this month. On his birthday, a writerdirector who has not been able to make another film since his debut 10 years earlier is visited by four strangers who want to know about his latest script, which is set a day before the apocalypse.

The film stars Kim Sung-kyun, Jang Yeong-nam, Kang Ha-neul, Lee Hyeyoung and Kim Hak-sun.

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Take Point Dir Kim Byung-woo I Have A Date With Spring

The Terror, Live director Kim is working again with leading actor Ha Jung-woo on this action film, also featuring Lee Sunkyun, Jennifer Ehle and Kevin Durand.

The story follows a team of elite mercenaries on a secret CIA mission to abduct a North Korean politician, a situation that pushes the world to the brink of a third world war. In English and Korean, the film is currently in post-production.

Little Forest Dir Yim Soon-rye Based on the Japanese manga of the same title by Daisuke Igarashi (which was previously adapted into a two-part Japanese film series), the Korean version of Little Forest is directed by Yim (The Whistleblower). Shot over four seasons, it stars Kim Tae-ri (The Handmaiden) with Ryu Jun-yeol (A Taxi Driver), Moon So-ri (The Running Actress) and Jin Ki-joo, and follows a young woman who returns to her hometown, a failure from the big city.

Reuniting with her childhood friends, she learns to prepare meals with organic local ingredients and slowly realises the true reason she has come back.

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What A Man Wants Dir Lee Byeong-heon Sunset In My Hometown

comes looking for her missing husband.

Unfolding in Japanese and Korean, the film stars Yang Dong-keun and Lee Il-hwa.

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A Living Being

Money

Dir Min Byung-kook

Dir Park Nu-ri

Min’s film is set in a care home on Jeju Island, where a lewd old man with Alzheimer’s disease is looked after by a female caretaker who treats him as if he were a young child. Mysterious stories start to emerge when another woman

Starring Ryu Jun-yeol (A Taxi Driver) and Yoo Ji-tae (Old Boy), Money is about a rookie stockbroker with big dreams but none of the necessary connections to make it in his cut-throat world. When he is approached by an anonymous master-

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mind, he takes a chance despite the potential dire consequences. Previously assistant director to Ryoo Seung-wan on The Berlin File and The Unjust, Park is making a feature debut.

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Sunset In My Hometown Dir Lee Joon-ik Directed by Lee (The Throne), Sunset In My Hometown stars Park Jung-min as a

Lee’s comedy follows the intertwining relationships of two couples on windy Jeju Island and stars Lee Sungmin, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Ji-hyo and EL. Currently in post-production, it is set for spring release in Korea.

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South land tales With new titles from filmmakers including Matteo Garrone and Ferzan Ozpetek, Italian sellers have a wide range of films to attract buyers in Berlin, reports Gabriele Niola

COMPETITION

Daughter Of Mine (It-Ger-Switz) Dir Laura Bispuri The director of the 2015 Berlinale Competition title Sworn Virgin follows up with Daughter Of Mine (Figlia Mia), an Italian drama about a woman torn between adoptive and biological mothers. Sworn Virgin’s Alba Rohrwacher is joined by Valeria Golino, Sara Casu and Udo Kier. Producers include Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa for Rome-based Vivo Film, with Colorado Film, Rai Cinema, The Match Factory and Bord Cadre.

Contact The Match Factory

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PANORAMA Dogman

Boys Cry (It) EUROPEAN FILM MARKET Bad Investigate (Port) Dir Luis Ismael This Portuguese action movie throws together an FBI agent, a vengeful drug dealer, a corrupt policemen and the two cops he is controlling. From the director of the Balas & Bolinhos crime comedy trilogy, Bad Investigate is produced by Lightbox Filmes and was released in Portugal in mid-January via NOS Audiovisuais, landing in third place at the box office for its first weekend of wide play.

Contact Francesca Delise, Minerva f.delise@minervapictures.com

The Ball (It) Dir Pasquale Scimeca Inspired by the story of a young child detained in a Sicilian refugee camp, The Ball offers a different view on the topic of migration, investigating what happens before the migrant journey starts. Blending fiction and documentary, the film was

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shot in Sierra Leone, Morocco and Sicily.

It premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in November and won the Gandhi’s Glasses award (ex aequo) at Torino Film Festival.

Contact Francesca Breccia, Coccinelle fbreccia@coccinellefilm.com

Cinderella The Cat (It) Dirs Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Alessandro Rak, Dario Sansone After premiering in Horizons at Venice Film Festival last year, this indie animation was promptly released in Italian cinemas via Videa. Set in a dystopianfuture Naples, this riffs on the Cinderella story to tell the tale of an orphaned girl growing up on a rusting ship with her step-mother and step-siblings.

Contact Cristina Cavaliere, Rai Com cristina.cavaliere@rai.it

Dogman (It-Fr) Dir Matteo Garrone Gomorrah director Garrone returns to the crime genre after his 2015 fairytale adaptation Tale Of Tales. Billed as a contemporary urban western and set on the outskirts of Rome, Dogman — which is in post-production — is inspired by one of the grittiest Italian murder cases of the 1980s. Archimede and Le Pacte produce in collaboration with Rai Cinema. 01 Distribution and Le Pacte will distribute respectively in Italy and France.

Contact Cristina Cavaliere, Rai Com cristina.cavaliere@rai.it

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Dirs Damiano D’Innocenzo, Fabio D’Innocenzo Sibling directing duo Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo (Travel Well, KamiBoys Cry kaze) put a spin on the traditional Italian mafiosa tale with this story of two young boys who accidentally kill a local gangster in a hit-and-run. Rome-based Pepito Productions was also behind Gianni Amelio’s drama Tenderness, which won multiple Italian awards last year. Boys Cry received support from Italy’s culture and tourism ministry MiBACT. Contact The Match Factory

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Lorello And Brunello (It) Dir Jacopo Quadri Quadri’s documentary looks at the tough lives of farmer twins Brunello and Lorello Biondi as they attempt to eke out a living in southern Tuscany, against the inexorable tide of global economic forces. It is the fourth feature documentary for Quadri, a veteran Italian editor who has worked with directors including Gianfranco Rosi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Zhang Yuan and Mohammed Soudani.

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Made In Italy (It) Dir Luciano Ligabue International rock star Luciano Ligabue returns to filmmaking for his third feature after Radio Arrow and From Zero To Ten, this time with Stefano Accorsi (Italian Race) and Kasia Smutniak (Perfect Strangers) as a couple struggling with everyday challenges in Italy. A drama with a slice of bittersweet comedy, Made In Italy debuted at the top of the Italian box office in late January, and is produced by Fandango, Zoo Aperto, Riservarossa and Eventidigitali Films in collaboration with Medusa Film.

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Naples In Veils (It) Dir Ferzan Ozpetek Istanbul-born Ozpetek (The Ignorant Fairies, Loose Cannons) has been primarily living and working in Italy since arriving there to study in 1976.

His latest reunites him with actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno 14 years after Facing Windows, with a noir-inflected mystery centred on a Naples coroner in her 40s who spends the night with a younger man — and then has him turn up on her postmortem table.

Naples In Veils was released in Italy in December via Warner Bros.

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Rafael (Neth-Bel-Cro) Dir Ben Sombogaart A Tunisian man trying to reunite with his pregnant Dutch wife for the birth of their son ends up on the Italian island of Lampedusa, imprisoned as an illegal refugee. Dutch director Sombogaart (Bride Flight) works from a screenplay

by Massimo Gaudioso (Tale Of Tales, Gomorrah) and Tijs van Marle (Accused), who have taken inspiration from a real-life case. Developed through Rotterdam’s CineMart and Trieste’s WEMW, Rafael is currently in post production.

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Dir Diana Toucedo Selected for Berlin’s Panorama section, Thirty Souls is the feature directing debut of editor turned filmmaker Toucedo, who has previously made documentary and experimental shorts. Capturing life in the Spanish Galician village of O Courel, the documentary celebrates local myths and legends as well as the details of daily existence, with Toucedo blurring the boundaries between truth and invention. Produced by Madrid’s Lasoga Films and the filmmaker’s own Barcelona-based Diana Touceda Films.

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SPOTLIGHT BEKI PROBST

Market leader The European Film Market has grown in size and stature since launching 30 years ago.

Geoffrey Macnab discusses EFM’s past and future with its president, Beki Probst

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t is 30 years since the European Film Market (EFM) was set up in Berlin in 1988. Back then, the event was a relatively parochial affair that took place in the west, in the hive-like atmosphere of the Cinecenter — the sprawling, multi-layered building next to the Zoo Palast, then the main screening venue for the festival.

Turkish former journalist and Swiss exhibitor Beki Probst — who had been the festival’s programme adviser for Turkey and Greece from 1981-88 — was the director, a post she held until she became EFM president in 2014 and Matthijs Wouter Knol took over as director.

“I think it was [then festival director] Moritz de Hadeln who used to call Beki his secret weapon. Beki has always hosted the market as if you were coming into her own home and your stand was a wing of her home,” says veteran publicist Lucius Barre as he describes how Probst would walk down the aisles of the market, making sure everything was in perfect order. “You have a sense of intimacy and personality that Beki has brought that influences everything that goes on.”

Opening the calendar New spaces opened up in the years after the Berlin Wall came down, and in 2000 both the festival and the market moved to Potsdamer Platz. Attendance grew but the EFM still faced fierce competition from Milan’s Mifed in November and the American Film Market (AFM), then held in February.

Probst remembers the mass migration that would happen midway through the Berlinale during this period, with industry delegates heading off to Santa Monica for the AFM. Either that or they wouldn’t attend Berlin because they did not want to make two long trips in such a short space of time. That is why Asian buyers and sellers in particular were in short supply in Berlin.

The big change to EFM’s fortunes came in 2004 when the AFM moved its dates to November, leaving February free for Berlin. As a result, Mifed wilted and Berlin was the beneficiary. “That was the biggest gift the Americans made to Berlin. Then, everything was open for us,” says Probst.

In the Cinecenter days, the big US independent sellers and buyers were not

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present in Berlin in large numbers. That quickly changed. Probst credits Dieter Kosslick, who succeeded de Hadeln in 2001, with the “very intelligent” and leftfield decision to house the market in the unlikely setting of exhibition space Martin-Gropius-Bau (MGB), where it moved in 2006. As the market grew, so did the festival. “We were like Siamese twins,” Probst says of the quick growth.

Hengameh Panahi of Celluloid Dreams remembers: “The market was very intimate and romantic in the west. I have very sweet memories and met people in the industry who remain friends to this day. The new market is much more efficient and business-oriented — bravo to EFM for the evolution — but still, it’s hard not to get a little sentimental.”

Nonetheless, Panahi’s company has done well in the new setting. “EFM is a pivotal event for us, a wonderful combination of culture and business that really lends value to the prestige movies that Celluloid sells,” she says.

It soon became clear the MGB was not big enough to accommodate the increasing number of sales agents and (Right) Beki Probst

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‘We don’t make the films.

We just give the infrastructure so people can work at their best’ Beki Probst, EFM

distributors coming to Berlin. That is when the market decided to take over the Marriott hotel in order to have more space — and several companies based themselves in the Hyatt or the Ritz.

Wild Bunch, one of the most dynamic and irreverent sales agents, ruffled feathers a decade ago when it set up its own makeshift office in a container a few hundred metres from the MGB, and later in the car park to the rear of the venue. This was initially in protest at the festival’s programming policies, but Probst kept lines of communication open with the company’s managing director, Vincent Maraval.

“I personally had excellent relations with Wild Bunch,” Probst says. “Wild Bunch have always been, like their name, a little

wild. Their thing was to be different from the others.”

Probst is not under any illusions about why the market has grown: “If you think objectively, no one comes here unless they think it is profitable for them.” She compares participants at film markets to flocks of birds: “When you have birds going in one direction, they all follow.”

The EFM is now vast: ‘543 exhibitors, 9,230 professionals from 110 countries, including 1,623 international buyers, and 1,124 screenings of 784 films,’ reads the description on its website. Can it keep on growing? Probst says that is for the industry to decide.

“One of the main roles of the market is to be very attentive and listen to the demands. We don’t make the films. We just give the infrastructure so people can work at their best,” adding that one truism always stays the same: “Everyone needs good films so the machine can go on working.”

Probst will not be drawn on how the EFM might change following Kosslick’s mooted departure as festival head in May 2019. “I have been working with Dieter [who before Berlin had other German film industry posts] since day one, and I think he has done a wonderful job in growing not only the market but also the s festival — and that is all I can say.” ■

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SPOTLIGHT AMAZON STUDIOS

Prime time Amazon Studios’ strategy is about working with its global distribution partners — not competing against them. Jeremy Kay talks to head of international distribution and strategic initiatives Matt Newman

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mazon Studios has been expanding its global footprint.

Since it began fully financing features several years ago, the company has built up its Prime Video streaming platform, largely underpinned by robust relations with the world’s top international theatrical distributors.

The philosophy behind Amazon chief Jeff Bezos’ content venture to feed Prime members exclusive entertainment perks and keep them shopping on Amazon essentially remains intact. Yet the film division is evolving into a top-notch operation driven by skilled executives who bring a nuanced, forward-looking spin to a traditional business model.

Amazon Studios’ commitment to distribution of prestige and commercial entertainment through a theatrical component is no longer simply a headlinegrabbing differentiator from, say, Netflix.

The model has shifted gears, moving into self-distribution in the US and growing its international presence.

Matt Newman is in charge of international distribution and strategic initiatives. He has worked across various aspects of Amazon’s business at a strategic operational level for five years, managing the fashion and consumables business in London before moving over

to Prime Video and running film content in the UK. Since Newman arrived in Los Angeles to take up his current post, the way Amazon Studios operates its film business has changed dramatically. There has been a broadening of focus from the US theatrical distribution partnership model (Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate have been key partners), to self-distribution in the US, to a global presence via a strong sales relationship with preferred partner FilmNation Entertainment.

Amazon Studios is also setting up its first international output deals.

Rapid growth “Back in 2015, we released one movie, Chi-Raq,” says Newman. “In 2016, we released 14 movies, all US acquisitions. We also started developing and financing more of our own movies in 2016, which has allowed most of our 2017 and 2018 slates to be made up of films where we have developed, financed and control worldwide rights.

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“So we needed to develop a strategy to allow us to get those movies distributed or sold around the world and get as wide a theatrical release as possible, and allow us to get the movies on our Prime Video service around the world.”

Amazon launched its Prime Video service worldwide towards the end of 2016. At that time, it had seven films in the pipeline that it had fully or cofinanced: Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck, Doug Liman’s The Wall, Mike White’s Brad’s Status (co-financed with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment), Marc Webb’s The Only Living Boy In New York, Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying, Felix van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy and Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria (co-financed with Manchester By The Sea backer K Period Media).

Newman says: “We had worldwide rights on those movies and wanted to ensure they got as wide a theatrical release as possible, and

‘In 2015, we released one movie.

In 2016, we released 14’ Matt Newman

we also wanted to ensure we kept the rights we needed to exploit those movies on our Prime Video service in the countries where we were alive.”

To secure international theatrical distribution, the company embarked on an enduring collaboration with Glen Basner’s FilmNation that started in Cannes 2016 with international sales on its first two productions: family mystery and eventual Cannes 2017 competition selection Wonderstuck, and war thriller The Wall. While Amazon Studios will consider working with other sales agents, Newman says FilmNation is the main partner. “We have a very close working relationship with them.”

At that market in 2016, the partners introduced a distribution arrangement that has become Amazon Studios’ modus operandi whenever it licenses international rights on the five to 10 films »

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‘The model allows us to ensure our international distributors are bidding for our movies based on the same terms’ Matt Newman

a year on which it owns worldwide rights. Newman had seen how rising P&A costs and the exhibitors’ large share of ticket revenue meant international buyers seldom profited from theatrical or home entertainment revenues alone, and spotted an opportunity.

Theatrical distribution had essentially become a loss-leading marketing push for ancillary revenue streams. By 2016, various SVoD services had begun to hold back streaming and TV rights when they licensed films, which made it harder for theatrical buyers to profit, and reduced the amount they were willing to pay for titles.

So the international team devised a structure whereby Amazon Studios sells all rights including streaming and TV to international distributors, and agrees to license back streaming rights from the buyer based on a percentage of local box office.

“The model allows us to ensure our [international] distributors are bidding for our movies based on the same terms, regardless of whether or not they have a pay-TV output deal,” he says, “while ensuring our movies are set up in each territory with a local distributor who’s fully incentivised to release our movies to their widest theatrical potential.”

A film buy from Amazon Studios supersedes a theatrical distributor’s existing pay-TV deal with another company because Amazon Studios retains streaming rights and pays a fee in lieu of those rights that mirrors the economics of a pay-TV deal. The distributor never controls the streaming rights and is not obliged to offer the specific film to its existing pay-TV partner.

Newman says the notion of an arrangement that offers the same rate card to buyers keeps Amazon Studios’ partners “whole”, bucking a trend whereby streaming services, in retaining streaming and TV rights, were making it challenging for theatrical buyers to recoup, let alone earn, a profit.

After Cannes 2016, Amazon Studios brought two titles to each subsequent market. FilmNation launched sales on The Only Living Boy In New York at AFM later that year, followed by Last Flag Flying and Suspiria at EFM 2017, and Beautiful Boy and Gus Van Sant’s current Berlinale Competition selection Don’t Worry,

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Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot

He Won’t Get Far On Foot at Cannes 2017. Sierra/Affinity sold Brad’s Status at AFM 2016.

EFM 2018 At this EFM, FilmNation is selling Amazon Studios’ Tom Harper-directed hot-air balloon adventure The Aeronauts, starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, which has pre-sold to eOne for the UK and Canada, and TMG in Germany.

The adventure film will also go out through Amazon Studios’ output deals, an inevitable development as the company grows its international distribution footprint. The first deals to be announced are with Transmission in Australia, Scanbox in Scandinavia, Gaga in Japan and Telefilms in Spain and Latin America.

When it comes to the nature of the theatrical release, Amazon Studios is happy to leave it up to local expertise.

Whereas in the US the company pays its own P&A costs (and did so before it moved

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into self-distribution when it partnered with the likes of Roadside Attractions), that is not the case elsewhere.

“Internationally we’re selling the movie for an MG,” Newman says. “We do stay pretty closely involved and maintain approval of a lot of things, but our local distributors are now the ones putting up the P&A and releasing those movies, so it’s a different dynamic. They truly have skin in the game with each purchase.”

He continues: “We leave it to our local distributor to decide the widest possible release for each movie… So that means in the UK it’s a 16-week theatrical holdback in order to achieve that widest possible theatrical release. We fully honour and respect those holdbacks for theatrical.

Each territory has different theatrical holdbacks and we fully embrace those.”

Newman says Amazon Studios is yet to close a deal with a US major in an international territory, but that does not mean it will not happen. “We’re not

opposed to that and are constantly in discussions with different people.”

Local-language productions are not on the cards, for now at least.

As a buyer, Newman and Amazon Studios executives scour festivals and markets for content and tend to acquire the world rather than individual territories. There are no plans to change that approach, although the company will acquire a slew of available territories, as it did on Oscar contender The Big Sick at Sundance 2017.

In that case, besides the US, Amazon Studios picked up the UK, Germany, Spain and Japan, among others, and licensed rights to Studiocanal in the UK, Weltkino in Germany, Inopia in Spain and Gaga in Japan. In each case, it licensed back streaming rights, and worked closely with the distributors on marketing the theatrical release and the eventual release on Prime Video.

The Big Sick, which has grossed more than $42m in the US and at least $55m worldwide theatrically, is now live in more than 45 countries on the Prime Video service. The Wall is now live in more than 80, Wonderstruck in more than 25, and Sundance 2017 acquisitions City Of Ghosts and Crown Heights in more than 200 each.

Amazon Studios is notoriously protective of proprietary information and extracting any kind of viewership intelligence pertaining to Prime Video is a pointless exercise. Besides, Newman claims not to have that kind of information yet, and the executive at a data-driven company is happy to keep things general.

“The Grand Tour is one of our most popular shows on a global basis. On the movie side, all of our independent films and our s blockbusters definitely get engaged.” ■

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ON SET VITA & VIRGINIA

‘A friend suggested Ireland as being more Georgian than London, as far as the architecture goes’ Evangelo Kioussis, Mirror Productions

Gemma Arterton as Vita Sackville-West and Elizabeth Debicki as Virginia Woolf in Vita & Virginia

Love letters Vita & Virginia centres on the love affair between writers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Esther McCarthy reports from the Dublin set, where iconic English locations have been brought to life

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n a quiet corner of suburban Dublin, the Bloomsbury group is bringing art to life. Paintings and drawings are dotted throughout Baldonnell House, one of several Irish locations hosting the production of a new film about literary icon Virginia Woolf.

Vita & Virginia, directed and cowritten by Chanya Button (Burn Burn Burn), centres on the true story of the love affair between the acclaimed author (played by Elizabeth Debicki) and socialite/ writer Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton), and how the relationship inspired Woolf ’s novel Orlando. Isabella Rossellini and Rupert Penry-Jones also star.

For Arterton, who is an executive producer on the film — based on Eileen Atkins’ 1993 stage play — the story is one she has long aspired to bring to screen.

“Eileen Atkins sent me a very early draft, maybe four or five years ago. I ended up showing Chanya the script on holiday.”

While many accounts of Woolf turn towards her troubled later years, this film shows her at her most vibrant, according to Arterton. “She wrote such vivid stories, full of inspiration and energy and creativity

and humour and wit,” she says. “I don’t know if we’ve seen that side, because the fascination with her is always the end of her life, which is sad, I think. Their relationship was one that lasted until Vita’s death. They were only lovers for a small period of time, but they were great friends.”

This is the actress’s second time in a producer role. “I produced a film which has yet to come out called The Escape,” she says.

“My involvement comes more creatively — script stage, crew stage, getting directors and the cast in place. I was very involved in that, and various drafts of the script. Because Chanya is a friend of mine, it was very collaborative with her in terms of visual style, what we felt about this story.”

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(Right) director Chanya Button on the set of Vita & Virginia

Vita & Virginia is produced by Evangelo Kioussis for London-based Mirror Productions and Katie Holly for Ireland’s Blinder Films. Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales. Financiers are Piccadilly Pictures, Sampsonic Media, Lipsync and the Irish Film Board.

Kioussis started developing the script at Mirror, whose other recent Love projects include Crash Burn Love, with Atkins in 2012, after meeting her through a mutual acquaintance and reading her first-draft s c r e e n p l a y. I t w a s inspired by her play of the same name, which wa s s t a ge d i n a n acclaimed production in New York in 1994 that featured Vanessa Redgrave as Vita and Atkins as Virginia.

Kioussis attached Dutch director Sacha Polak (Hemel (Hemel, Zurich) in 2014 and added Romola Garai as Virginia along-

side Arterton as Vita. He then approached Blinder’s Holly, whose recent credits include Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship and Sophie Fiennes’ Grace Jones: Bloodlight And Bami, to board as producer in early 2016. When Polak exited the project shortly after, Kioussis met Button through Arterton. Button came on board to co-write the final shooting script with Atkins and direct the picture. Eva Green was briefly attached to replace Garai as Virginia, but was forced to drop out due to a scheduling conflict; Debicki joined the project for its autumn 2017 production in Dublin.

A bigger picture Locations across Dublin double for the UK in the film, although a day was spent shooting on location in England at Knole House, Kent, which features in the novel Orlando. Ireland has stood in for the UK on several recent productions, including Love & Friendship. “We’re delivering on something that feels a lot bigger than what we’re making it for,” says Holly.

“A friend suggested Ireland as being more Georgian than London, as far as the architecture goes,” adds Kioussis. “It was a place I really wanted to come and do the film. We have such a variety of locations and they’re very period-specific and they’re based on real places, so we wanted to be authentic and true.” He adds that Button’s in-depth knowledge of Woolf and the period was extremely useful in that regard.

“If we can be relied upon to know anything about Virginia Woolf, it’s how she passed away,” says Button. “For someone we have historically associated with fragility, the story we get to explore in this film is a moment of profound strength.

“Her relationship with Vita is the story of her connecting with her body, and her sexuality,” adds the filmmaker, “and it’s a kind of alternative look at an artist-andmuse relationship. It’s the story of the creation of Orlando, but it’s also the story of Virginia using her profound genius to overcome an experience that we might presume, on the face of it, would overwhelm her. That’s what interests me, the opportunity to look at this really iconic s writer in a very different way.” ■

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SPOTLIGHT THE REAL ESTATE

The real deal Berlin Competition entry The Real Estate was inspired by Stockholm’s ruthless housing market.

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ans Mansson and Axel Petersen expect the star of their film, Leonore Ekstrand, to be the toast of this year’s Berlinale. At 68, she also happens to be the same age as the festival itself. It was Ekstrand who was the inspiration behind these two Swedish filmmakers co-directing a feature for the first time. Petersen, the actress’s nephew, says proudly: “She’s on another level.”

‘You soon realise housing is the number one concern in Stockholm’ Mans Mansson

Mansson and Petersen, who first met in kindergarten in Stockholm, reconnected at art school 20 years later and made a short film starring Ekstrand 12 years ago. For The Real Estate, the pair knew they both wanted to work together in Stockholm, using real locations, and create a meaty role for Ekstrand. As Mansson says: “Leonore was key. She had always been the sidekick and never been up front on her own terms.”

Petersen adds: “It couldn’t have been made with anyone else, she is the entry point to this character and this narrative.” That narrative follows Ekstrand’s character, Nojet, who has been living a carefree life until she inherits an apartment building in Stockholm, and learns the realities of the real-estate business.

The film has its world premiere in Berlinale Competition — the first Swedish film in Competition since Lukas Moodysson’s Mammoth in 2009 — and The Match Factory handles sales.

Njutafilms will release in Sweden on March 16. Sigrid Helleday and Mansson produce for Flybridge, alongside coproducers Across The Alley, Entertainment International and Giants & Toys — with backing from the Swedish Film Institute and SVT. Mansson, who is also an acclaimed cinematographer as well as a director, had shot Petersen’s 2011 feature Avalon.

Petersen remembers: “We got along well and there was something in the communication that was intuitive. Sure, I wrote the script and Mans held the camera, but we were pursuing something side by side.” For The Real Estate, Petersen wrote the script, Mansson shot the film and “everything in between we shared”, Petersen explains.

Ekstrand is an untrained actress, who has played smaller roles in several features (including Avalon). She was ready to step up for her first leading role.

Petersen says: “Seeing [and] working with her now, it was obvious she knows exactly what she’s doing as an actor.

When she was working with extras she leads them.” Mansson adds: “She is just a fascinating woman — we wanted to go deeper to portray her and understand her. Even if she’s Axel’s aunt, we haven’t figured [her] out yet!” They even wrote her “a sex scene to die for”, Petersen says.

When the pair first started thinking about the film’s themes, Stockholm’s real-estate bubble seemed ripe to explore, as Mansson explains. “You don’t have to think more than 10 seconds to realise housing is the number one concern [in Stockholm]. Everybody needs a roof over [their] head. If you’re the top 1% or you’re homeless, housing seems to be at the top of your mind.”

It’s a universal issue that will connect with citizens of many cities. Looking at it from a landlord’s perspective was a way to explore it “top down”, Mansson adds.

Nojet becomes a more brutal character when she learns more about the real estate business. The film is not as dark, though. “The comedy is crucial in

balancing this,” Mansson says. “It has to be funny.”

After working on bigger films, the duo shot most of The Real Estate with just a three-person crew. “Coming out of larger shoots we felt a desire to try to work again on this small scale,” says Mansson.

He adds that the camera has a closeness with Ekstrand: “We just went with her.

Her movements and her presence dictated how the camera worked.”

‘It was obvious Leonore knows exactly what she’s doing’ Axel Petersen

The team had the “blessing” to shoot for 50 days (about double the usual time for a typical lower-budget Swedish production) — and were able to draw on locations they knew well.

“We wanted it to make sense logistically,” says Petersen. “We wanted to bring everything back to the closest circle. Every location, every person was something connected to us s and Leonore.” ■

Leonore Ekstrand in The Real Estate

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SPOTLIGHT RUPERT EVERETT

Wilde at heart Rupert Everett struggled to get his film about Oscar Wilde off the ground until he played the writer in a hit stage play. Matt Mueller talks to the debut director about The Happy Prince

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hile a film that he has written, directed, produced and stars in bears all the hallmarks of a passion project, Rupert Everett says The Happy Prince only became that for him a few years after he began working on it. “My initial motivation was to try and make a career move for myself as an actor,” he says. “I thought Oscar Wilde would be a perfect role for me. As it went on, it turned into something else. It became my life, and to let it go seemed like death somehow.”

The British actor began writing The Happy Prince, which is playing as a Special Gala in Berlin after premiering in Sundance, in 2009. Wilde has been notably played on screen previously by Robert Morley, Peter Finch and Stephen Fry, but Everett was keen to offer a different interpretation. “They all present Wilde as a much more thoughtful, troubled, serious man,” he says. “My picture of him is kind of as the last great 19thcentury vagabond.” Everett had the idea to set the film on Wilde’s deathbed in a cheap Parisian hotel room that expands and contracts (to reflect his “crumbling brain”) as the Irish playwright sees flashes of his life, mostly in the final, penniless years after he is released from incarceration for gross indecency.

Initially, working with producer Robert Fox (The Hours), the script was sent to Scott Rudin, who suggested Philip Seymour Hoffman play Wilde. “It was a genius idea, and I should have said yes because it would have established me as a writer in the most advantageous way; he is, of course, a genius producer,” says Everett. Not wanting to give up the role he had written for himself, he declined, but Rudin then said, “Well, if you find one of these six or seven directors, I will do it.”

In the ensuing two years, all those names turned him down, at which point he decided to direct the film himself.

Another round of pitching and rejection followed, before Everett had the idea to approach playwright David Hare about mounting a new production of his 1998 play The Judas Kiss, which covers some of the same terrain as The Happy Prince.

“That was the thing that really turned this around,” reveals Everett, who received strong reviews for his stage portrayal, which he first performed at a

Rupert Everett directed and took on the lead role of Oscar Wilde

sell-out run at London’s Hampstead Theatre in 2012.

BBC Films and Lionsgate UK came on board, and partners Jorg Schulze and Philipp Kreuzer at indie German production house Maze Pictures became instrumental in piecing together the co-production financing puzzle. The Bavarian Film Fund offered substantial funding, and Concorde acquired German rights. Further backing came from the German Federal Film Fund, Rome-based Palomar, the Italian tax credit, Colin Firth’s Raindog Films and Eurimages.

Belgium’s Sébastien Delloye joined Schulze and Kreuzer producing, which helped access Belgium’s regional funds and the Belgian tax shelter.

Beta Cinema came on board for international sales.

The Happy Prince shot for 42 days in autumn 2016, mostly in Bavaria. “By going to Franconia [a region of Bavaria on the Czech border], and finding three amazing old castles, I was able to shoot all manner of interiors,” says (Right) Colin Firth as Reggie Turner in The Happy Prince

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‘The trouble was having that double job, trying to make the day and then having the space to act’ Rupert Everett

Everett, “from a Neapolitan villa to a French music hall to streets and hotel rooms and bars.” He also filmed in Naples, Brussels, Wallonia and, briefly, in France.

Many of Everett’s friends committed to key roles, including Firth, Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson. “My name was not a particularly glossy one and so I very much relied on them,” says Everett. “Particularly Colin, who, since signing a little piece of paper to me 10 years ago, became hugely successful. Every bit of money had their eye on him and he was amazing to stand by me.” British actors Colin Morgan and Edwin Thomas appear as Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas and former lover Robbie Ross respectively.

Everett’s performance of a man in sad and terminal decline utilised the same large body stocking designed for him in The Judas Kiss. “It’s this amazing body, this huge stocking with everything — an amazing arse, fantastic cock, low-hanging moobs. I also had some amazing work done on teeth and plates to make my face a little bit thicker. The trouble for me wasn’t wearing the suit, it was just having that double job, trying to make sure we meet the day and then having the space to try and act.”

Everett credits cinematographer John Conroy for providing the necessary support. Other key collaborators included production designer Brian Morris and composer Gabriel Yared. As for guiding lights along the way, apart from Fox (credited as associate producer) and his other partners, Everett cites UK filmmaker Roger Michell, who offered advice on the initial cut of the film, and Philip Prowse, a theatre director who gave the actor his first professional job.

“One has to be careful with advice,” he adds. “A first-time director is in a precarious position. If he sounds weak or uncertain then the floodgates open and everyone else takes over. You’ve got to, s I think, be a light to yourself.” ■

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SPOTLIGHT BLUEPRINT PICTURES

Friends reunited Pals at university, Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin spent a decade apart learning the industry ropes before setting up Blueprint Pictures. The UK producers of awards contender Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri tell Charles Gant about their own blueprint for TV and film success

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raham Broadbent and Pete Czernin apologise for the mess. In truth, there is little disarray at the central London headquarters of their film and television company Blueprint Pictures, but the offices in Fitzrovia have yet to receive the personal touch. The company’s nineperson team moved in just before Christmas, and everyone has been busy.

First there is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which has thrown the co-chairmen into the white heat of awards season for the first time, while also netting them their first personal Oscar nominations as two of the picture’s three producers, alongside Martin McDonagh (the $15m production was jointly financed by Fox Searchlight and Film4). Then there are a pair of Studiocanal-financed productions, The Mercy and The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, which hit UK cinema screens in February and April respectively. These are closely followed by the first production to emerge from Blueprint Television, A Very English Scandal, about the 1979 trial of former UK politician Jeremy Thorpe, which stars Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw and goes out in three parts on BBC1 this spring.

As film producers, Broadbent and Czernin have come a long way since meeting on their first day at Bristol University as history students who became friends and housemates. While both were keen to pursue careers in the film industry, their paths diverged after university. Broadbent moved to London, becoming a runner at Working Title, a third AD and a producer’s assistant. In a hurry to establish himself as an independent producer, he spent three years trying to get Welcome To Sarajevo (1997) off the ground — finally doing so with Michael Winterbottom at the helm. “It was literally three years on the dole and doing cleaning jobs,” recalls Broadbent.

Czernin, meanwhile, was making his way in Los Angeles, where he ended up president of Denise Di Novi’s Warner Bros-based Di Novi Pictures. “I always wanted to learn in a big corporation and see how the studios worked,” he says.

“Then I’d come back and set up a company and produce, which is kind of what

‘Our approach is, who is the filmmaker, will it sell into North America and will it sell internationally?’

Graham Broadbent, Blueprint Pictures

series The Outcast in 2015 and fantasythemed TV movie The Last Dragonslayer for Sky One in 2016. In June 2016, the company formalised those ambitions by hiring EastEnders executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins to head up its TV division, with backing from Sony Pictures Television for staff and development overheads.

(From left) Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent

happened.” After nearly a decade in the US, Czernin relocated his family back to London and set up Blueprint in 2004 with old pal Broadbent.

Blueprint’s first features — romantic drama Becoming Jane (with Ecosse Films) and supernatural thriller Wind Chill, both 2007 — were reasonably auspicious, but real critical and then commercial success came respectively with In Bruges (2008) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), also beginning vital relationships with McDonagh, director John Madden and writer Ol Parker. The appointment of Diarmuid McKeown as Blueprint’s managing director in 2016 has allowed the two co-chairmen to focus more on their creative roles. “It gets business and legal more off our desks,” says Czernin.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was (Right) Hugh Grant in A Very English Scandal

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Blueprint’s first $100m global cinema hit, and Three Billboards ($88m at the time of going to press) is on track to be their second. ‘Filmmakers for an audience’ is how the pair define the Blueprint corporate ethos. “Filmmakers for festivals — that’s its own interesting experience,” comments Broadbent, “but, if you look around this office, there’s a load of people employed here and it has to function as a business. Our approach is, ‘Who is the filmmaker, will it sell into North America and will it sell internationally?’”

As for their respective roles, “I’m probably more conceptual and bookish,” says Czernin, “whereas Graham is brilliant with filmmakers.” Following the Working Title template, the pair both take a producer credit on Blueprint productions, but either one will take the lead on individual titles.

Blueprint made its first forays into TV with BBC1 two-part mini-

High-end drama The executive hit the ground running, alighting on John Preston’s non-fiction book A Very English Scandal, which Czernin had already optioned with a TV adaptation in mind. Treadwell-Collins managed to secure the writing services of Queer As Folk creator Russell T Davies, with the resulting script luring Stephen Frears to direct and Hugh Grant to star as the former Liberal Party leader Thorpe.

Producer partners BBC and Amazon have key UK and US rights — each episode will premiere on BBC1 in the UK and become available as an Amazon Original on Amazon Prime in the US the following day, as Amazon acquired the US rights before it went into production.

Sony is selling internationally.

“Our first television thing, it stands for what we want to do, which is take amazing, accessible stories and yet make it feel big and noisy and commercial,” says Treadwell-Collins. “It’s powerful men and their cover-ups, and bumbling British eccentricity. It’s all very Blueprint stuff.”

A Very English Scandal achieved greenlight after only nine months of development, a speed that certainly got the attention of Broadbent and Czernin.

“Now they’re going, ‘Right, where’s the next one?’ I have to explain that television isn’t as swift as this normally,” says Treadwell-Collins. The TV development slate includes another non-fiction book, The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau by »

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Lily James in The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society

Julie Ferry, and a four-part series based on Patrick Gale’s novel A Place Called Winter. TV host Graham Norton’s detective novel Holding has provided the inspiration for what is hoped will be a long-running murder mystery series, drawing on Treadwell-Collins’ early experience of working on enduring detective drama Midsomer Murders.

Title treatment Broadbent and Czernin concede that Blueprint has — after the two Marigold Hotel films and Three Billboards — gained a reputation for its lengthy and peculiar titles. The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, based on the 2008 novel

by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer, and set in Guernsey and London shortly after the Second World War, is their biggest tongue-twister yet. “You’ve got a book that’s sold 7 million copies,” says Czernin. “Do you change the title on the poster? Probably not.”

Blueprint boarded after the original producers — Mazur/Kaplan’s Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan — had to pull the plug during pre-production on an earlier Fox 2000-backed incarnation, in which Kenneth Branagh would have directed Kate Winslet, from a screenplay

by Don Roos. “They hadn’t cast the [male] role so it came undone,” explains

Broadbent. The producer quartet brought on a new writer, Kevin Hood (Becoming Jane), and then Thomas Bezucha (The Family Stone), and it was the latter’s screenplay that snagged director Mike Newell. Lily James was cast as the story’s bestselling author, with a rich American fiancé, who travels from London to Guernsey to investigate the titular book club, and finds herself falling for one of its members, a local pig farmer (played by Game Of Thrones’ Michiel Huisman).

Studiocanal financed the film and will release in the UK, following a pattern established on The Mercy, which tells the true story of plucky amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth), and is adapted from the 2006 documentary Deep Water.

Directed by James Marsh, The Mercy started shooting in May 2015, and has endured a lengthy post-production involving two editors (Jinx Godfrey, then Joan Sobel). The 1968-set story’s dark trajectory has evidently made this material a challenging fit for Blueprint’s commercially ambitious ethos. “Can you make a movie as compelling as the documentary?” ponders Czernin. “I think we have, but it’s taken a while, for sure.”

Broadbent and Czernin are proud of the company’s relatively lean develop-

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The Mercy

‘I’m probably more conceptual and bookish whereas Graham is brilliant with filmmakers’ Pete Czernin, Blueprint Pictures

ment slate (15 projects maximum at any given time), as well as its proactive approach to material. On that slate is A Boy Called Christmas, based on Matt Haig’s children’s book about the origin of Father Christmas. Ol Parker is adapting, Studiocanal is once again financing and Blueprint is looking to attach a director.

“For us, it’s a step into a bigger area,” says Broadbent. “To date, it’s been $10m-$25m films, that mini-major space. This is bigger. It’s a $50m-$60m film. Studiocanal are very keen [for us] to get on with it as quickly as we can.”

In the broader comedy arena, the company has writer-director Dan Mazer’s Three Miles North Of Molkom (another wordy title), based on Corinna McFarlane and Robert Cannan’s 2008 documentary capturing events at a Swedish New Age festival.

“The danger is that we seem a bit awards-y, but Dan is absolutely a filmmaker of comedy, one of the key UK

talents,” says Broadbent. “The idea of doing this at the much broader end of comedy — clever comedy, but still comedy — is a nice space to be in.”

Producers flourishing While Blueprint’s commercial ambitions and international outlook made it a relative outlier in London when Broadbent and Czernin first teamed up — Working Title being the model, and exceptionally so — the pair now feel that the picture has changed. “Tim [Bevan] and Eric [Fellner] built a unique company and they’re a league above, but there are some very nice producers operating at our level,” says Broadbent. “You’d point to [See-Saw’s] Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, to Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich [at DNA], Debra Hayward and Alison Owen [at Monumental]. And David Heyman clearly is unique.

“The UK is a nice place to make films, because you can originate here, we’re close to the talent, it’s a much smaller pool and we punch far above our weight on the international market in terms of cast, filmmakers and our ability to find audiences. [Working Title’s] Darkest Hour is doing business. Three Billboards is a British film. You can make these films here and worldwide audiences are s interested. I find that pretty exciting.” ■

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95mins. Dir: Marcelo Martinessi. Cast: Ana Brun, Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova, Nilda Gonzalez, Maria Martins, Alicia Guerra, Yvera Zayas.

When Chiquita is sent to prison because of debts, her introverted girlfriend, Chela, is left to her own devices. Chela offers rich women a taxi service in her old Daimler. As she goes to explore the outside world, she also starts to focus on her own desires.

(Germany) 94mins.

Dir: Helene Hegemann.

Cast: Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Arly Jover, Mavie Horbiger, Laura Tonke.

Mifti is 16, looks like she’s 12 and acts like she’s in her mid-30s. Wild, sad, sensible and in love, Mifti has to grow up, in one way or another.

Competition Press only Berlinale Palast

09:30 SPK COMPLEX

(Germany) Waypoint Entertainment. 111mins.

Dir: Gerd Kroske.

The Socialist Patients’ Collective (SPK) was founded in the 1970s and saw capitalist structures as the reason for individual suffering. Many of its members soon went underground. Kroske’s

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CASTING

(Germany) 91mins.

Dir: Nicolas Wackerbarth.

Cast: Andreas Lust, Judith Engel.

One week before the shooting of a TV remake of Fassbinder’s ‘The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant’, the female leading role is not yet cast. While the crew become desperate, scene partner Gerwin happily exchanges lines with the starry candidates… and senses a second shot at his acting career.

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10:15 STYX

(Germany, Austria) 93mins. Dir: Wolfgang Fischer. Cast: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa.

Somewhere between Africa and Europe, a doctor’s sailing trip comes to a 10:15

sudden end. The dramatic struggle for survival that ensues makes palpable the cruel rules that govern the lives of people in dire straits whose fate is determined by others.

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STYX

CASANOVA GENE

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(Germany) 67mins.

Dir: Luise Donschen.

Cast: Wolfgang Forstmeier, John Malkovich, Elija Pott, Undine de Riviere, Lumi Lausas, Luise Donschen, Zacharias Zitouni.

A monk, a sex worker, an evolutionary biologist at work, young people in a bar and John Malkovich in the role of Casanova: slyly shifting between fiction and documentary, this debut film examines questions of the body and desire.

10:30 ISLE OF DOGS

(UK, Germany) France 2 Cinema. 101mins.

Dir: Wes Anderson.

Cast: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Greta Gerwig, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, Scarlett Johansson, Courtney B Vance, Kunichi Nomura.

Atari is the 12-year-old ward of corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When the boy’s dog is exiled to Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his pet, accompanied by a pack of proud, four-legged mongrels. Their journey will decide the fate and future of the entire prefecture.

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

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12:00 BACK FOR GOOD

(Germany) Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam. 91mins.

Dir: Mia Spengler.

Cast: Kim Riedle, Leonie Wesselow, Juliane Kohler.

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drug withdrawal. As none of her friends wants to take care of her, she has to move back to her mother.

Dir: Douglas Gordon.

A first-hand account of the life, thoughts and feelings of a displaced person.

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12:45

DAMSEL

(US) 113mins. Dir: David & Nathan Zellner.

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Robert Forster, Joe Billingiere.

Pioneer Samuel is riding across the dangerous expanse of the prairie in search of the love of his life.

With his guitar and his miniature pony in tow, what can go wrong?

But in this gritty, comical western it is the lady who lays down the law.

(China) 117mins.

Dir: Yang Mingming.

Cast: Nai An, Yang Mingming, Zhang Xianmin, Li Qinqin, Huang Wei, Yuan Li, Li Wenbo.

A portrayal of a fragile mother-daughter relationship: Wu lives with her mother in one of Beijing’s hutongs. The daily lives of these two unsuccessful writers is characterised by mutual reproaches.

Competition Press only Berlinale Palast

Panorama Special Press only CineStar 3

I HAD NOWHERE TO GO

(Germany) The Weinstein Company. 97mins.

GIRLS ALWAYS HAPPY

13:30 OUR MADNESS

(Mozambique, Guinea-

Bissau, Qatar, Portugal, France) 90mins. Dir: João Viana. Cast: Ernania Rainha, Bernardo Guiamba, Hanic Corio, Rosa Mario, Emerson Sanjane, Francisco Muxanga, Mamadu Baio, Janete Mutemba, Jessica Laimo, Francisco Manjate.

Committed to a psychiatric institution in Mozambique, Ernania makes beguiling music with her bed.

After a spontaneous escape attempt, she wanders through the country, initially alone: a somnambulant journey into the past and into the recesses of her mind.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

14:00 AWAY YOU GO

(Germany) 77mins.

Dir: Philipp Eichholtz.

Cast: Victoria Schulz, Aleksandar Radenkovic, Daniel Zillmann, Angelika Waller, Karin Hanczewski,

Amelie Kiefer, Claudius von Stolzmann, Martina Schone-Radunski, Ruth Bickelhaupt.

Charlie is having a hard time being a grown-up.

Her boyfriend is desperate to have a child but what about her own needs?

And, dammit, whatever happened to all the excitement of the good old days?

Perspektive Deutsches Kino Press + accreditation CinemaxX 5

LUX — WARRIOR OF LIGHT

(Germany) Mythos Film Produktions. 105mins.

Dir: Daniel Wild.

Cast: Franz Rogowski, Heiko Pinkowski, Tilman Strauss, Kristin Suckow.

The story of a young man heading out to do some good. But instead of changing the world, the world changes him.

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STORKOW KALIFORNIA

(Germany) 29mins.

Dir: Kolja Malik.

Cast: Daniel Roth, Lana Cooper, Franziska Ponitz, Christoph Schmidt, Tammo Winkler.

Sunny comes from Storkow. Without drugs, not much is going on. Torn between his mother-cumbest-mate, Nena, and his new love, Liv, a hot traffic cop, he finds himself being ground down between staying put and making a break for it.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino Press + accreditation CinemaxX 5

SUBS

(Germany) Tamtam Film.

107mins. Dir: Oskar Roehler. Cast: Katja Riemann, Oliver Masucci, Samuel Finzi, Lize Feryn.

A wealthy man searching for a new housekeeper for his luxurious villa places an online ad saying “Slave wanted”. Claus and Evi

Muller-Todt’s life of carefree prosperity changes forever when Bartos and Lana enter their home.

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14:30 FAMILY LIFE

(Germany) 96mins.

Dir: Rosa Hannah Ziegler.

This country life is far from idyllic. Biggi lives with her daughters Denise, 17, and Saskia, 14, on a farm that they share with her ex-boyfriend, Alfred, and his fits of rage.

A portrait of a family microcosm, full of cracks and dreams.

Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7

15:00 11 X 14

(US) 77mins.

Dir: James Benning.

Cast: Serafina Bathrick, Paddy Whannel, Harvey Taylor, Barbara Frankel,

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Bette Gordon, Tim Welsh, Rick Goodwin, Ted Brady, Michael O’Brien.

The bizarre chronicle of a journey through the Midwest without any obvious reason and the stops made along the way.

Gonzalez, Maria Martins, Alicia Guerra, Yvera Zayas.

Forum Akademie der Kunste

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Competition Berlinale Palast

THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE GIANT PEAR

JAMILA CENTRAL AIRPORT THF

(Germany, France, Brazil) Tangerine Tree. 97mins.

Dir: Karim Ainouz.

In the hangars of this defunct airport, refugees dream of being able to make a new start while Berliners escape their daily routine at the recreation area of Tempelhofer Feld. Impressive images that capture a year of anguish, jollity and aspirations.

Panorama Dokumente Press only CineStar 3

(France) 84mins.

Dir: Aminatou Echard.

Chingiz Aytmatov’s novel ‘Jamila’ left an impression on generations of Kyrgyz women. Shot on Super 8, this debut film gently probes contemporary biographies and reveals how conflict, yearning and the desire for self-determination are not past concerns.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

16:30 INFINITE FOOTBALL

(Japan) 110mins. Dir: Mitsuo Sato, Kyoichi Yamaoka.

Yama reveals how the Japanese elite, the police and Yakuza gangs all worked together during the construction boom of the 1980s. For making this documentary on capitalist excesses with fascist undertones, both directors paid with their lives.

(Romania) Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema. 70mins.

Dir: Corneliu Porumboiu.

A municipal official in provincial Romania wants to make the beautiful game that bit more beautiful.

He obsessively devises new rules, before spurning them again to return to the former ones. What does it mean to leave behind something significant?

Forum Arsenal Cinema 1

Forum CineStar 8

YAMA — ATTACK TO ATTACK

TO BE A TEACHER

(Germany) 106mins.

Dir: Jakob Schmidt.

Thee emotional story of three young teachers in the making, who are thrown into the harsh reality of public education.

LOLA at Berlinale Accreditation only delphi LUX 1

actor with a brilliant career in 19th century Vienna. A high point of German-Jewish silent film history. French composer Philippe Schoeller composed new music for this version.

Berlinale Classics Friedrichstadt-Palast

WHEN THE WAR COMES

WEIT. THE STORY OF A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD

(Germany) Cinema Defacto.

127mins. Dir: Gwendolin Weisser, Patrick Allgaier.

An authentic diary of two travellers who took off towards the East, to return home from the West 3.5 years later with a third. In their main focus is always the direct encounter of people and nature.

(Czech Republic, Croatia) FFP New Media. 76mins.

Dir: Jan Gebert.

This films spends a year with Peter Svrcek, the leader of the Slovakian paramilitary group Slovenski Branci. An insight into the structures of an anti-liberal youth movement that is gearing up for a clash of cultures.

Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7

17:30 IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION

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17:00 THE ANCIENT LAW

(Germany) Carte Blanche.

135mins. Dir: Ewald Andre Dupont. Cast: Ernst Deutsch, Henny Porten, Ruth Weyher, Hermann Vallentin, Abraham Morewski, Grete Berger, Robert Garrison, Fritz Richard.

The son of a rabbi defies his father to become a stage

(France) Muzeum Sztuki.

91mins. Dir: Julien Faraut.

Cast: Mathieu Amalric.

In the 1980s, a film team attempted to analyse John McEnroe’s unique tennis style. During the French Open, he becomes an on-court hero, subject and director.

An astonishing look at the parallels between film and competition: cinema lies, sport does not.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

15:30 BLACK 47

(Ireland, Luxembourg) Iris Productions. 96mins.

Dir: Lance Daly. Cast: Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford, Sarah Greene, Jim Broadbent.

1847: an Irish soldier who fought in Afghanistan returns home where he experiences famine and British despotism.

He becomes the avenger of his dead family, challenging the occupying British right across Ireland’s social and political hierarchies.

Competition (out of competition) Press only CinemaxX 7 & 9

FESTIVAL & PRESS

THE HEIRESSES

THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE GIANT PEAR

(Paraguay, Uruguay, Germany, Brazil, Norway, France) Acrobates Films.

95mins. Dir: Marcelo Martinessi. Cast: Ana Brun, Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova, Nilda

(Denmark) 79mins. Dir: Philip Einstein Lipski, Amalie Næsby Fick, Jorgen Lerdam.

Cast: Alfred Bjerre Larsen, Liva Elvira Magnussen, Peter Frodin, Soren Pilmark, Henrik Koefoed, Peter Plaugborg, Jakob Oftebro, Peter Zhelder, Peter Aude,

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Bjarne Henriksen.

Aboard an enormous pear repurposed to serve as a sailboat, Mitcho, Sebastian and Professor Glykose set out in search of a mysterious island that’s spawned many a legend.

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WILD RELATIVES

(Germany, Lebanon, Norway) 68mins.

Dir: Jumana Manna.

The holdings of a seed bank left behind in Aleppo are being reconstructed in Lebanon by way of back-ups from deep in the Norwegian permafrost. ‘Loosely weaves together three accounts of humanmade catastrophes and the will to defy them.

Forum Akademie der Kunste

17:45 JIBRIL

(Germany) Center Stage Productions. 83mins. Dir: Henrika Kull.

Cast: Susana Abdulmajid, Malik Adan, Doua Rahal, Emna El-Aouni.

Single mother Maryam plunges enthusiastically into an initially largely platonic romance with prisoner Jibril. But having a relationship with someone who barely takes

part in your own life is hard. How well do you need to know a person to fall in love?

Panorama CineStar 3

18:00 INTERCHANGE

(Canada) 62mins.

Dir: Brian M Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky.

A traffic interchange on the edge of Montreal, where city becomes suburb: signs, passersby, vehicles of all kinds. Both staged and observed, this documentary collects impressions of an in-between zone in radiant images full of contrast and reflection.

Forum Arsenal Cinema 1

18:30 THE HAPPY PRINCE

(Germany, Belgium, Italy) 105mins. Dir: Rupert Everett. Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas,

Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Benjamin Voisin, Antonio Spagnuolo, Tom Colley, Beatrice Dalle.

The once celebrated writer Oscar Wilde spends his final years in Parisian exile. Impoverished and ailing, he loses himself in an unhappy love affair but somehow manages to retain his charm and sense of irony.

DAMSEL

(US) 113mins. Dir: David & Nathan Zellner.

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Robert Forster, Joe Billingiere.

Competition Berlinale Palast

FIGHT FOR THE MATTERHORN

(Germany) 77mins.

Dir: Philipp Eichholtz.

Cast: Victoria Schulz, Aleksandar Radenkovic, Daniel Zillmann, Angelika Waller, Karin Hanczewski, Amelie Kiefer, Claudius von Stolzmann, Martina Schone-Radunski, Ruth Bickelhaupt.

(Germany) 117mins.

Dir: Mario Bonnard, Nunzio Malasomma.

Cast: Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, Alexandra Schmitt, Clifford McLaglen, Peter Voss, Paul Graetz, Johanna Ewald, Hannes Schneider, Ernst Petersen.

The rousing contest of mountain climbers Jean-Antoine Carrel and Edward Whymper. An Alpine action thriller about the first ascent of the Matterhorn.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 3

Retrospective CinemaxX 8

Berlinale Special Gala Press only CinemaxX 5 & 9

19:00 AWAY YOU GO

TO LIVE AND DIE IN .LA.

(US) 116mins.

Dir: William Friedkin.

Cast: William L Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro, Darlanne Fluegel, Dean Stockwell.

Secret Service agents trying to convict a counterfeiter resort to illegal methods.

Homage Zeughauskino

19:15 THEATRE OF WAR

(Argentina, Spain) 78mins. Dir: Lola Arias.

Decades after the end of the Falklands War, English and Argentinian veterans come together to re-enact their experiences.

Forum CineStar 8

19:30

STORKOW KALIFORNIA

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(Germany) 29mins.

Dir: Kolja Malik. Cast: Daniel Roth, Lana Cooper, Franziska Ponitz, Christoph Schmidt, Tammo Winkler.

(Germany) micro_scope.

145mins. Dir: Hans Weingartner. Cast: Mala Emde, Anton Spieker, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Thomas Schmuckert, Jorg Bundschuh, Steven Lange, Martin Neuhaus, Hannah Schroder.

Does capitalism turn people into Neanderthals?

Does monogamy lead to unhappiness? Can you choose who you fall in love with? Jule and Jan have different goals and views, but they form a bond

Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 3

STYX

(Germany, Austria) 93mins. Dir: Wolfgang Fischer. Cast: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa.

Panorama Special Zoo Palast 1

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GIRLS ALWAYS HAPPY

(China) 117mins.

Dir: Yang Mingming.

Cast: Nai An, Yang Mingming, Zhang Xianmin, Li Qinqin, Huang Wei, Yuan Li, Li Wenbo.

Panorama Special Zoo Palast 1

GRASS

FESTIVAL & PRESS 21:00 THE BOOKSHOP

(Spain, UK, Germany) Ret-Film. 113mins.

Dir: Isabel Coixet. Cast: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson.

At the end of the 1950s, widow Florence Green realises her dream and

during a road trip across Western Europe.

MALAMBO, THE GOOD MAN

opens a bookshop in an English coastal town. But she doesn’t bargain for resistance on the part of the town’s conservative inhabitants and soon faces considerable opposition.

Berlinale Special Gala Friedrichstadt-Palast

STATELESS

(China) 230mins.

Dir: Hu Bo. Cast: Zhang Yu, Peng Yuchang, Wang Yuwen, Liu Congxi.

This visually stunning debut interweaves the biographies of a range of different protagonists in virtuoso fashion, narrating the course of one single, tension-filled day from dawn until dusk to create the portrait of a society marked by selfishness.

(Morocco, France, Qatar) 94mins. Dir: Narjiss Nejjar. Cast: El Ghalia Ben Zaouia, Avishay Benazra, Aziz Fadili, Nadia Niazi, Mohamed Nadif, Julie Gayet, Zakaria Atifi, Kenza Es-Safi, Idriss Dahman.

In 1975, 45,000 Moroccan families were expelled from Algeria overnight.

This feature tells the story of a woman who stubbornly attempts to prevail over the border between the two countries, with the coastal landscape as an idyllic backdrop.

Forum CinemaxX 4

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AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL

OBSCURO BARROCO

20:00

(France, Greece) 60mins.

Dir: Evangelia Kranioti.

In her somnambulistic cinematic essay, the Greek director explores via her transgender narrator the magical city of Rio de Janeiro. A stream of images and words caught between carnival, subculture and politics.

(Germany) 77mins.

Dir: Philipp Eichholtz.

Cast: Victoria Schulz, Aleksandar Radenkovic, Daniel Zillmann, Angelika Waller, Karin Hanczewski, Amelie Kiefer, Claudius von Stolzmann, Martina Schone-Radunski, Ruth Bickelhaupt.

Panorama Dokumente CineStar IMAX

Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1

AWAY YOU GO

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(Argentina) 71mins.

Dir: Santiago Loza. Cast: Gaspar Jofre, Fernando Muñoz, Nubecita Vargas, Pablo Lugones, Gabriela Pastor, Carlos Defeo.

Santiago Loza’s magical black and white images whisk us away into the world of the Argentinian dance malambo. His protagonist, a young dancer named Gaspar, has dedicated his life to his passion, but his devotion takes its toll on his body.

Panorama CinemaxX 7

STORKOW KALIFORNIA

(Germany) 29mins.

Dir: Kolja Malik.

Cast: Daniel Roth, Lana Cooper, Franziska Ponitz, Christoph Schmidt, Tammo Winkler.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1

As a boy, D witnessed the murder of his brother in Jamaica. Now an adult in 1980s London, he searches for the killer.

Panorama Special CineStar 3

20:30 CLASSICAL PERIOD

(US) 62mins. Dir: Ted Fendt. Cast: Calvin Engime, Evelyn Emile, Sam Ritterman, Christopher Stump, Michael Carwile.

The members of a reading group exchange historical and literary references with such eagerness that there’s soon nothing else to say: an attempt to flee the modern world or just their own lives? A drolly melancholy story about literature and loneliness.

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YARDIE

(UK) Kurt Krigar, 101mins. Dir: Idris Elba.

Cast: Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Fraser James, Sheldon Shepherd, Everaldo Creary.

THE LIGHT OF ASIA (PREM SANYAS)

(Germany, India) 98mins.

Dir: Franz Osten. Cast: Himansu Rai, Seeta Devi, Sarada Ukil, Rani Bala, Prafulla Roy, Sunit Mitter,

MAKI’LA

(Democratic Republic of the Congo, France) NiKo Film. 78mins.

Dir: Machérie Ekwa Bahango. Cast: Amour Lombi, Fideline Kwanza, Serge Kanyinda, Deborah Tshisalu, Plotin Dianani, Ekwa Ekwa Wangi.

Maki has been living on the streets of Kinshasa for years. After growing tired of her lover and his gang, she bands together with the younger Acha, which only makes him even more jealous.

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(Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, Qatar, Slovenia) 79mins.

Dir: Reem Saleh.

To ease survival in one of Cairo’s poorest districts, its inhabitants have developed an alternative economic system for their community.

20:15

Forum Delphi Filmpalast

Retrospective Zeughauskino

Forum Arsenal Cinema 1

WHAT COMES AROUND

Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7

(South Korea) 66mins.

Dir: Hong Sangsoo.

Cast: Kim Minhee, Jung Jinyoung, Ki Joobong, Seo Younghwa, Kim Saebyuk, Ahn Jaehong, Gong Minjeung.

Different people meet to drink, flirt and argue at a small cafe where classical music never fails to play. Another cheerfully melancholy story about couplings past, present and future, with Kim Min-hee as a discreet observer who chronicles the everyday.

Jagit Mathur, Sundar Rayam, Profulla Chandra.

The early life of Prince Gautama, who would become the Buddha and founder of Buddhism, as he faces the choice between wealth and inner greatness. A magnificent, monumental film shot on location in India, with German support.

21:30 EVA

(France, Belgium) Channel Four Films.

102mins. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Julia Roy, Marc Barbe, Richard Berry.

A young writer hopes his encounter with a mysterious high-class prostitute will inspire him.

But he becomes ensnared in an emotional entrapment that leads to catastrophe.

Competition Daily press only CinemaxX 5 & 9

FESTIVAL & PRESS 21:30 TOWER. A BRIGHT DAY.

(Poland) 106mins.

Dir: Jagoda Szelc. Cast: Anna Krotoska, Malgorzata Szczerbowska, Rafal Cieluch, Rafal Kwietniewski, Dorota LukasiewiczKwietniewska, Laila Hennessy.

Mula’s sister Kaja

turns up after six years away to attend the first communion of Mula’s daughter Nina. Kaja is Nina’s biological mother and is viewed with mistrust by Mula.

Gradually though, more mysterious tones start seeping into the summer idyll.

Forum CineStar IMAX

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09:00 A POLAR YEAR

(France) Kinology, 94mins. Dir: Samuel Collardey.

A teacher in Denmark takes a job in rural Greenland where he struggles to fit in with the locals.

CineStar 8

BLAZE

FESTIVAL & PRESS 22:30 BLACK 47

(Ireland, Luxembourg) Iris Productions.

96mins. Dir: Lance Daly.

Cast: Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford, Sarah Greene, Jim Broadbent.

1847: an Irish soldier who fought in

WINGS OF DESIRE

(Federal Republic of Germany, France) Escapade Pictures.

129mins. Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Hans Martin Stier, Elmar Wilms, Sigurd Rachman.

Two guardian angels keep watch over Berlin until one of them falls in love and becomes mortal.

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21:45 THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST

(US, Canada) 163mins.

Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco, Steven Shill, Verna Bloom, Barbara Hershey, Irvin Kershner, Harry Dean Stanton, Peter Berling, David Bowie.

The life of Jesus Christ as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.

CinemaxX 8

Afghanistan returns home where he experiences famine and British despotism. He becomes the avenger of his dead family, challenging the occupying British right across Ireland’s social and political hierarchies.

Competition (out of competition) Berlinale Palast

22:00 THE WEAK ONES

(Mexico) 65mins.

Dir: Raul Rico, Eduardo Giralt Brun. Cast: Jose Luis Lizarraga, Eduardo Martinez, Javier Diaz Dalannais, Javier Chimaldi, Joshua Estrada, Eduardo Rauda, Sean Hennessey, Ulises Bojorquez, Eduardo Carreon, Cruz Tirado.

After finding his dogs murdered, a taciturn loner sets out in his truck in search of the perpetrators.

Yet this apparent revenge trip develops instead into a droll, laconic road movie that plays skillfully with viewer expectations.

Forum CineStar 8

22:30 BLACK 47 See box, above

HORIZON

(Georgia, Sweden) 105mins. Dir: Tinatin Kajrishvili. Cast: George Bochorishvili, Ia Sukhitashvili, Jano Izoria,

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Soso Gogichaishvili, Lika Okroshidze, Nana Datunashvili, Sergo Buigishvili, George Beridze, Beka Samdbegishvili, Luka Akhvlediani.

When his wife leaves him, Giorgi’s life is in pieces.

He forsakes the city and his family and exchanges his old life for the barren solitude of a hut by the sea.

Panorama CinemaxX 7

INFLATABLE SEX DOLL OF THE WASTELANDS

(Japan) May Spils.

86mins. Dir: Atsushi Yamatoya. Cast: Noriko Tatsumi, Yuichi Minato, Miki Watari, Shohei Yamamoto, Seigi (Masayoshi) Nogami, Hatsuo Yamaya.

Hitman Sho is hired to find a kidnapped woman and meets an old enemy over the course of this visually striking film.

22:45 RIVER’S EDGE

(Japan) Atzmor Productions. 118mins.

Dir: Isao Yukisada. Cast: Fumi Nikaidou, Ryo Yoshizawa, Aoi Morikawa, Shuhei Uesugi, Sumire, Shiori Doi. Tokyo, 1994: various stories are woven into a social portrait of a driven but seemingly lost generation.

An unusually edited, restless drama poised between the search for meaning, turmoil, sex and violence.

Panorama CineStar 3

(US) Cinetic Media, 127mins. Dir: Ethan Hawke. Cast: Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Sam Rockwell, Kris Kristofferson.

The story of legendary singer-songwriter Blaze Foley.

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forced to face an intimate revolution.

Berlinale Palast

MONSTERS AND MEN

(US) HanWay Films, 95mins. Dir: Reinaldo Marcus Green. Cast: Kelvin Harrison, Jr, John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Chante Adams, Jasmine Cephas Jones.

Manny Ortega witnesses a white police officer wrongfully gun down a neighbourhood hustler.

Manny films the incident on his phone. Should he release the video and bring exposure, or keep the video private and be complicit in the injustice?

CinemaxX 5 Invitation only

MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDING (INTERNATIONAL WORKING TITLE) See box, below

THE HEIRESSES

(Paraguay, Uruguay, Germany, Brazil, Norway, France) Luxbox, 95mins.

Dir: Marcelo Martinessi.

Cast: Ana Brun, Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova, Nilda Gonzalez, Maria Martins.

Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asuncion, Paraguay, have been together for more than 30 years. But recently their financial situation has worsened and Chela is

NOME DI DONNA

(Italy) Celluloid Dreams, 92mins. Dir: Marco Tullio Giordana. Cast: Cristiana Capotondi, Valerio Binasco, Adriana Asti, Stefano Scandaletti.

Nina Martini’s fight against the sexual harassment extorted by her manager, the charming and powerful Marco Tori, protected by the Catholic Church.

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THAT SUMMER

(Sweden, US, Denmark) 80mins. Dir: Goran Hugo Olsson. Cast: Peter Beard, Lee Radziwill, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Andy Warhol.

The eccentric world of the symbiotic mother-anddaughter duo from the film 'Grey Gardens'. This documentary presents long-lost footage from the summer of 1972.

Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7

MARKET 09:00 MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDING (INTERNATIONAL WORKING TITLE)

(Italy) True Colours, 90mins.

Dir: Alessandro Genovesi.

Cast: Diego Abatantuono, Monica

Guerritore, Salvatore Esposito.

A father who defines himself “open” and tolerant, discovers he is not so liberal when his gay son comes out and announces the imminent wedding with his partner.

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SCREENINGS

(France) MK2 Films, 59mins. Dir: Mikhael Hers. Cast: Stacy Martin.

International, 82mins.

Dir: Philippe Mechelen, Julien Herve. Cast: Kad Merad, Malik Bentalha.

Sofiane spots a reward advertised for the recovery of a lost teddy bear at the airport. He does not hesitate to claim it.

Teaming up with the father of the teddy’s owner, a hilarious hunt ensues, filled with twists.

CineStar 2

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A road movie about two brothers, Hassan and Mourad, searching for their younger brother Yasin, an alleged extremist, in wartorn Syria.

PROMOREELS WILD BUNCH

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

CineStar 4 THE RAPE OF RECY TAYLOR

(US) Wide House, 91mins.

Dir: Nancy Buirski.

The story of Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old mother who was gang raped in 1944 in Alabama.

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MK2 FILMS PROMO SCREENING

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SPEED KILLS

(US) Hannibal Classics, 100mins. Dir: John Luessenhop. Cast: John Travolta, Katheryn Winnick, Kellan Lutz, Jordi Molla.

Ben Aronoff, a New Jersey construction developer, reinvents himself as a speedboat builder and racer in Miami, until his shady past catches up with him.

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SUNNY SIDE

(Sweden) SF Studios, 105mins. Dir: Felix Herngren. Cast: Felix Herngren, Mia Skaringer, Johan Rheborg, Josephine Bornebusch.

Divorce, involuntary childlessness and parental relations… in an atmosphere filled with rancorous undertones. These are some of the ingredients when the most popular comedy series in Sweden moves onto the big screen.

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TOYS & PETS ADVENTURES

(China) All Rights Entertainment, 98mins.

Dir: Gary Wang.

Atang lives in a shop and is the only toy that cannot change colour. One day, Atang meets a little robot and decides to join it on an adventure to find a way back to his creator — and to finally change his colour.

CineStar 7

THE WEDDING GUEST

(US) Myriad Pictures, 105mins. Dir: Ryan Eggold. Cast: Justin Long, Cobie Smulders, Ryan Hansen, Kristen Schaal.

A young man navigates the painful awkwardness of attending his ex-girlfriend’s wedding.

OPERATION RAGNAROK

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MARKET 09:00 WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY

(Norway, Germany) Beta Cinema, 106mins.

Dir: Iram Haq. Cast: Maria Mozhdah, Adil Hussain.

An emotional and topical story about love, social control and a young girl finding her own way between Norway and Pakistan.

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09:20 THE ARK OF DISPERATA

M6, 88mins. Dir: Anne Depetrini. Cast: Berengere Krief, Marilou Berry, Gregory Fitoussi, Patrick Chesnay.

Agathe is an English teacher in one of the most prestigious junior high schools of Paris. Transferred to Trouilly-sur Selles, her world collapses. With Raphael she begins to realise that she might not be in hell.

Ruhi Sari, Demet Genc, Michal Elia Kamal.

Yusuf is a youngster living with his sister and brother in one of Adana’s suburbs. On the roof of the house where they live, he passionately feeds and raises the pigeons bequeathed by his father.

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(Denmark) Alma Cinema, 100mins. Dir: Milad Alami. Cast: Ardalan Esmaili, Soho Rezanejad, Susan Taslimi, Lars Brygmann.

An intense, psychological drama about Esmail, a young Iranian desperately looking to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him.

WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY See box, above

09:10 LOVELING

(Brazil, Uruguay) New Europe Film Sales, 100mins. Dir: Gustavo Passos Pizzi. Cast: Karine Teles, Otavio Muller, Adriana Esteves, Konstantinos Sarris.

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and regain her inner confidence before sending her eldest son out into the world.

CineStar IMAX

Parliament Studio

THE PIGEON

WELCOME TO TROUILLY!

(Turkey) Turkish Cinema, 76mins. Dir: Banu Sivaci.

Cast: Kemal Burak Alper,

(France) SND — Groupe

forest where a mysterious creature dwells. They soon find themselves in a fierce fight for survival against a terrifying beast that may be the legendary Bigfoot.

(Sweden) Eyewell, 26mins. Dir: Fredrik Hiller. Cast: Jonas Malmsjo, Per Ragnar, Bahar Pars, Elin Lanto.

A city is infected by a virus that turns people into monsters. Quarantined by the military, people try to escape, as old conflicts between the Swedish natives and the immigrants escalate... you will meet the monster in yourself.

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09:15 THE CHARMER

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(Italy) Intramovies, 110mins. Dir: Edoardo Winspeare. Cast: Gustavo Caputo, Antonio Carluccio, Celeste Cacciaro, Claudio Giangreco.

At Disperata, a godforsaken town in southern Italy, the melancholy mayor, Filippo, gives lessons of poetry to prison inmates. There he meets Pati and Angiolino.

This unusual friendship will change their lives.

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BROTHERS

(Netherlands) Wide, 106mins. Dir: Bram Schouw. Cast: Jonas Smulders, Lukas Niels Gomperts, Christa Theret.

When Alexander leaves on a road trip to France, Lukas decides to join him as he’s been trailing his brother his entire life.

During the journey, he realises he has to go his own way.

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PRIMAL RAGE

(US) Blue Fox Entertainment, 105mins.

Dir: Patrick Magee. Cast: Andrew Montgomery, Casey Gagliardi, Eloy Casdos, Justin Rai. Deep in the Pacific Northwest, Ashley and Max Carr become lost in a

09:30 BROTHERS

(Netherlands) Dutch Features Global Entertainment, 93mins.

Dir: Hanro Smitsman.

Cast: Achmed Akkabi, Walid Benmbarek, Bilal Wahib.

SNOWFLAKE

(Germany) Raven Banner Entertainment, 120mins.

Dir: Adolfo J Kolmerer.

Cast: Erkan Acar, Reza Brojerdi, Xenia Assenza.

Hunting down the murderer of their families, the outlaws Tan and Javid find themselves trapped in the wicked fairytale of a mysterious screenplay that entangles them in a vicious circle of revenge.

10:00 AMERICAN DRESSER

(US) VMI Worldwide, 97mins. Dir: Carmine Cangialosi. Cast: Tom Berenger, Keith David, Gina Gershon, Penelope Ann Miller.

When a recent widower consumed with regret seeks absolution in riding his motorcycle cross-country to confront the mistakes of his past, he unexpectedly discovers that life is about moving forward, one mile at a time.

Zoo Palast Club A

AXOLOTL OVERKILL

(Germany) The Match Factory, 94mins.

Dir: Helene Hegemann.

Cast: Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Arly Jover, Mavie Horbiger, Laura Tonke.

Mifti is 16, looks like she’s 12 and acts like she’s in her mid-30s. Wild, sad, sensible and in love, Mifti has to grow up.

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Delphi LUX 2

SPK COMPLEX

CASTING

(Germany) Waypoint Entertainment. 117mins.

Dir: Gerd Kroske.

The Socialist Patients’ Collective (SPK) was founded in the 1970s and saw capitalist structures as the reason for individual suffering. Many of its members soon went underground. Kroske’s documentary examines the group from the perspective of today.

(Germany) Story House Productions, 91mins.

Dir: Nicolas Wackerbarth.

Cast: Andreas Lust, Judith Engel.

One week before the shooting of a TV remake of Fassbinder’s ‘The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant’, the female lead role is not yet cast. While the crew become desperate, scene partner Gerwin happily exchanges lines with the starry candidates… and senses a second shot at his acting career.

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TRUSTNORDISK PROMO REEL

Delphi LUX 1

(Denmark) TrustNordisk, 100mins. Dir: various.

EDIE

CineStar 5 09:55 LOOKING FOR TEDDY

(France) Pathé

(UK) Film Seekers, 102mins. Dir: Simon Hunter. Cast: Sheila Hancock, Kevin Guthrie, Amy Manson.

To try and overcome a

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Jennifer Saunders, Beattie Edmondson.

Sarah, newly single and permanently a mess, has her life changed when her grandmother bequeaths her prized possession to her — a very spoilt pug named Patrick.

lifetime of bitterness and resentment, an older lady decides to climb a mountain in Scotland.

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MK2 FILMS PROMO SCREENING

(France) MK2 Films, 23mins. Dir: Mikhael Hers. Cast: Stacy Martin.

Parliament Studio

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THE OSLO DIARIES

10:25 OPHELIA

(US, UK) Covert Media, 115mins. Dir: Claire McCarthy. Cast: Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, George MacKay. Ophelia is taken under the wing of Queen Gertrude and captures the attention of her son, Prince Hamlet.

While she learns the ways of power and plotting in court, an undeniable love between Ophelia and the prince secretly blossoms.

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10:30 THE GUILTY

(Denmark) TrustNordisk, 85mins. Dir: Gustav Möller. Cast: Jakob Cedergren.

Alarm dispatcher and former police officer Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.

When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman begins, and he finds crime far bigger than he first thought.

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10:40 CHAMPIONS

(Spain) Latido Films, 125mins. Dir: Javier Fesser. Cast: Javier Gutierrez, Sergio Olmos, Julio Fernandez,.

A professional basketball coach with plenty of problems and frustrations sees his life change after a series of coincidences lead him to manage a team of individuals with learning disabilities.

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DARK BUILDINGS (A CRACK IN THE WALL)

(Argentina, Spain) FilmSharks International, 94mins. Dir: Nicolas Gil Lavedra. Cast: Oscar

as they prepare a stage play. When Bianca, a young actress, joins the cast and competes for the lead role, she must survive not only the intensity of the work and her cast mates but also the unknown force that is pulling them towards a tragic outcome.

MARKET 10:30 SPACE CHICKEN

(Peru, US) Sola Media, 88mins. Dir: Alex Orelle, Eduardo Schuldt.

Cast: Omar Chaparro, Jessica Cediel, Jey Mammon, Coco Legrand.

Martinez, Joaquin Furriel, Soledad Villamil, Santiago Segura.

An angry man and a dead body force the secrets and lies of Buenos Aires architects into the open.

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JOINT CUSTODY

(France) Wild Bunch, 103mins. Dir: Alexandra Leclere. Cast: Didier Bourdon, Valérie Bonneton, Isabelle Carré.

When Marie discovers that her husband Jean is having an affair, she makes her rival, Virginie, a radical proposition: they share custody of Jean.

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10:45 THE MEN

(US) Archstone Distribution, 102mins.

Dir: Michael Cooney.

Cast: Kyle Gallner, Mary McCormack, Richard Schiff, Azura Skye.

After deciphering a message found in a satellite, genius cryptographer Alex Jacobs finds himself being stalked by government agents and otherworldly beings.

Zoo Palast Club B

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When aliens abduct Condorito’s mother-inlaw and intend to destroy Earth, he decides to be brave and fly to space to fight the aliens, save the world and win back the heart of his true love.

CineStar 2

OVER THE LIMIT

(Poland, Germany, Finland) Autlook Filmsales, 74mins.

Dir: Marta Prus.

Elite rhythmic gymnast Rita Mamun has reached a crucial moment in her career. She is soon to retire but has one final goal set out for her: winning Olympic gold.

Arsenal Cinema 2

POSTCARDS FROM LONDON

(UK) The Bureau Sales, 88mins.

Dir: Steve McLean.

Cast: Harris Dickinson, Jonah Hauer-King, Alessandro Cimadamore.

From shy novice to soughtafter escort, and eventually artist’s muse, Jim, would be the toast of the town if it wasn’t for his annoying affliction, which causes him to hallucinate and faint.

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SHUT UP & PLAY THE PIANO

(Germany, UK) Charades, 82mins. Dir: Philipp Jedicke. Cast: Chilly Gonzales, Peaches, Leslie Feist, Sibylle Berg, Jarvis Cocker.

Follows Chilly Gonzales from his native Canada to

late-1990s underground Berlin, and from Paris to the world’s great philharmonic halls.

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(Canada) Filmoption International, 99mins.

Dir: Patrick Demers.

Cast: Francois Arnaud, Normand D’Amour, Milton Tanaka, AlexJeanne Dubé.

David travels down his own personal timeline to correct past mistakes.

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ROLLING TO YOU

11:10 LOVE REVISITED

WINE CALLING

(France) WTFilms, 94mins. Dir: Bruno Sauvard.

How the world of wine is being rocked by the counter culture of natural wines.

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10:50 THE CRESCENT

(Canada) Raven Banner Entertainment, 100mins.

Dir: Seth Smith. Cast: Amy Trefry, Andrew Gillis, Chik White.

At a remote beach house, a single mother struggles to keep her infant son safe from the influence of an otherworldly presence.

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10:55 SUMMER OF ‘84

(US) Gunpowder & Sky, 106mins. Dir: Francois Simard. Cast: Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emery,.

After suspecting that their police officer neighbour is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence. As they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.

Marriott Studio

11:00 PATRICK

(UK) The Exchange, 95mins. Dir: Mandie Fletcher. Cast: Ed Skrein,

11:15

(Israel, Canada) Submarine Entertainment, 97mins. Dir: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan. Cast: Avner Shahaf.

In 1992, Israeli-Palestinian relations reached an all time low. In an attempt to stop the bloodshed, a group of Israelis and Palestinians met in Oslo. The meetings were held in secrect and changed the Middle East forever.

(Netherlands, Belgium) Attraction Distribution, 99mins. Dir: Nicole van Kilsdonk. Cast: Beppie Melissen, Gene Bervoets, Halina Reijn, Eva Van der Gucht.

The mourning of the sudden death of their adult son reunites an old couple who have been estranged for many years. This new relationship will cause an uproar among their surviving offsprings.

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THE UNDERWATER ADVENTURES OF SADKO

(Russia) FILM.UA Group, 85mins.

Dir: Maksim Volkov, Vitaly Mukhametzianov.

You can run but you can’t hide... from love. Even at the palace of the Prince of Novgorod. Even on the bottom of the ocean.

Doubly so, if your name is Sadko, and you are a good-looking, funny fellow and you can play the gusli.

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YOU SHALL NOT SLEEP

(Argentina, Uruguay) FilmSharks International, 105mins. Dir: Gustavo Fernandez. Cast: Eva De Dominici, Belen Rueda, Eugenia Tobal.

In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre company experiments with insomnia

ORIGAMI

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(France) Gaumont, 106mins. Dir: Franck Dubosc. Cast: Franck Dubosc, Alexandra Lamy.

Jocelyn is a womaniser and a seducer. One day, he pretends to be paraplegic to seduce a young caregiver.

But how could he imagine that he would fall in love with her sister, who is in a wheelchair?

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11:25 HEAVY WATER

(Austria) Red Bull Media House, 84mins. Dir: Michael Oblowitz. Cast: Nathan Fletcher, Makua Rothman, Danny Fuller, Herbie Fletcher.

Big-wave surfer Nathan Fletcher and filmmaker Michael Oblowitz team up to capture the essence of what it means to surf the largest breaks in the world.

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11:30 FINDING STEVE MCQUEEN

(US) AMBI Distribution, 90mins. Dir: Mark Steven Johnson. Cast: Travis Fimmel, Forest Whitaker, Racheal Taylor.

Based on the true story of the biggest bank heist in US history. In 1972 a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio, attempt to steal $30m in illegal campaigncontributions from President Richard Nixon’s secret fund.

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MADELINE’S MADELINE

Writer/Director: Josephine Decker (Thou Wast Mild And Lovely, Butter on the Latch) Cast: Molly Parker (House of Cards, Deadwood), Miranda July (The Future, Me and You and Everyone We Know), Helena Howard

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS: Feb 17 / 21:30 / CinemaxX 3 Feb 18 / 20:00 / Colosseum 1 Feb 21 / 11:45 / CinemaxX 6 (P&I) Feb 21 / 16:30 / Delphi Feb 25 / 16:30 / CineStar 8

Madeline got the lead role in the play! Strangely, the character looks just like Madeline. And has a cat just like Madeline’s. And is holding a steaming hot iron next to her mother’s face – like Madeline is.

“A mind-scrambling masterpiece (...) One of the boldest and most invigorating American films of the 21st century.” – Indiewire

MARKET SCREENINGS: Feb 18 / 9:00 / CinemaxX 15 Feb 22 / 10:00 / CinemaxX 10

BEHOLD MY HEART

Writer/Director: Joshua Leonard (Beautiful Losers, The Lie) Cast: Marisa Tomei (Academy Award Winner, My Cousin Vinny, Academy Award Nominee, The Wrestler), Charlie Plummer (All the Money in the World, Lean on Pete), Timothy Olyphant (Justified, Santa Clarita Diet), Mireille Enos (World War Z, The Killing), Emily Robinson (Transparent)

After the tragic death of his dad, 16-year-old Marcus must look after his self-destructive mother while navigating the difficulties of adolescence.

MARKET SCREENING: Feb 17 / 18:15 / CineStar 5

THE QUEEN OF FEAR

WINNER

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR ACTING

Directors: Valeria Bertuccelli, Fabiana Tiscornia Cast: Valeria Bertuccelli (XXY, A Boyfriend for My Wife), Dario Grandinetti (Wild Tales, Talk to Her), Diego Velázquez, Sary López, Gabriel Goity

In a constant state of anxiety, a celebrated actress obsessively distracts herself from preparing for her career-defining one-woman show.

“An elegant, insightful exploration of the often pugnacious relationship between ambition and self-belief, anchored by a strong central performance from Bertuccelli.” –Screen International

MARKET SCREENINGS: Feb 17 / 16:05 / CinemaxX 14 Feb 19 / 11:05 / CinemaxX 14

TIME SHARE

WINNER

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR SCREENWRITING

Director: Sebastián Hofmann (Halley) Cast: Luis Gerardo Méndez (Club of Crows, The Noble Family), Miguel Rodarte (Saving Private Perez), Andrés Almeida, RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad)

A young father takes his family to the perfect holiday resort, only to discover that they must share their room with another family due to a clerical error. And the other family is selfish and really annoying. And better at sports. And he’s the only one who doesn’t like them.

MARKET SCREENING: Feb 18 / 16:40 / CinemaxX 13

ANCHOR AND HOPE

“Dazzling and disquieting (...) a slow-building nightmare.” –Variety Director: Carlos Marques-Marcet (10.000 KM) Cast: Natalia Tena (Harry Potter series), Oona Chaplin (Avatar series), David Verdaguer (10.000 KM)

GOOD FAVOUR

A remote Christian community experiencing a crisis of faith finds new hope in the arrival of a mysterious young man.

When Roger agrees to be Kat and Eva’s donor, the three friends set out on an unconventional journey to start a family.

MARKET SCREENINGS: Feb 17 / 14:00 / CinemaxX 16 Feb 20 / 9:00 / CinemaxX 14

MESSI AND MAUD

“Nuanced in its emotions.”

–Screen International

MARKET SCREENINGS: TODAY / 17:45 / CinemaxX 18 Feb 19 / 17:30 / CinemaxX 17

Director: Marleen Jonkman Cast: Rifka Lodeizen (Tonio, Disappearance)

BARLEY FIELDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN

“Marks a promising debut.”

–Screen International SALES: Ryan Kampe rk@visitfilms.com +1 646 548 4700

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“Riveting (...) As bewitching as it is mysterious.” –Moveable Fest Director: Tian Tsering In the remote mountains of Tibet, a teenage girl must choose between supporting her family after her father’s political imprisonment or joining a group of oppressed nuns on their journey to freedom.

While on vacation in Chile, Dutch tourist Maud abandons her husband to travel alone. When she befriends “Messi”, a local boy who fills a void in her heart, the pair embark on a road trip to reinvent themselves.

MARKET SCREENING: Feb 20 / 12:20 / CinemaxX 18

Director: Rebecca Daly (Mammal) Cast: Lars Brygmann (Stealing Rembrandt, Dicte), Vincent Romeo

MARKET SCREENING: Feb 18 / 17:45 / CinemaxX 18

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“A great sense of silence and majesty.”

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SCREENINGS

11:35 GOLIATH

(Switzerland) Wide, 86mins. Dir: Dominik Locher. Cast: Sven Schelker, Jasna Fritzi Bauer.

After he and his pregnant girlfriend Jessy are attacked on a train, David’s fears of inadequacy as a man take hold. He resorts to steroids and begins excessive strength training, which causes him to develop erratic behaviour.

11:40 DAMN KIDS

(Chile) Cinema Management Group, 96mins. Dir: Gonzalo Justiniano. Cast: Nahalia Aragonese, Daniel Contesse, Elias Collado.

In 1983, a young woman, living in the poor area of Santiago with her mother and daughter meets Samuel, a young missionary, who arrives to document the locals’ struggle with poverty and government protests.

CineStar 8

11:45 CONTROL

(Belgium, Netherlands) Incredible Film, 120mins.

Dir: Jan Verheijen.

Cast: Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Greg Timmermans.

The once unconditional friendship between police officers Vincke and Verstuyft hits a rough patch when they investigate a series of gruesome murders.

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(UK) Fulfilment Agency, 84mins. Dir: Jason Wingard. Cast: Elie Haddad, Yousef Hayyan Jubeh, Biniyam Biruk Theshome, Mudar Abbara.

Adnan is a Syrian refugee trapped in the sprawling

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(UK) Embankment Films, 90mins. Embnkament Films.

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12:30 BREAKING THE LIMITS

globe navigate rivalries, setbacks and hormones on their quest to an international science fair.

(Poland) Media Move, 107mins. Dir: Lukasz Palkowski. Cast: Jakub Gierszal, Kamila Kaminska, Anna Prochniak, Janusz Gajos.

Based on a true story of a drug addict who became a triathlon champion and winner of the Ironman competition.

CineStar 2

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MARKET 12:15 I AM WILLIAM

(Denmark) SF Studios, 83mins. Dir: Jonas Elmer. Cast: Alexander Magnusson, Rasmus Bjerg.

William lives with his uncle, who has got

encampment outside Calais.

Separated from his wife, he is gradually brutalised by the corruption of ruthless people smugglers and the discrimination he faces.

Zoo Palast Club A

11:50 UNTIL JUDGE DO US PART

(Italy) Minerva Pictures, 90mins. Dir: Andrea Maia, Toni Fornari. Cast: Francesca Inaudi, Simone Montedoro, Luca Angeletti.

Massimo is fresh from separation and has just tried to take his own life.

His three friends, also divorced, stay close to him.

Just when they seem to talk some sense into Massimo, a handsome neighbour rings at the door.

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12:00 BACK FOR GOOD

IN ANOTHER LIFE

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EMBANKMENT PROMO REEL

THE HOWLING MILLER

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taking care of his nineyear-old daughter alone.

Now, he has to take her with him on his nightly journeys, exposing her to his world for the first time.

12:25

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(France) Films Boutique, 105mins. Dir: Yann Le Quellec.

A strange mmiller settles in a small village at the end of the world. At first well received, the stranger soon reveals a surprising secret.

Fidel, an executive who has lost his memory.

Through ‘The Mommas’, the mother and son discover that the rhythm runs in their veins.

(Germany) Zum Goldenen Lamm, 91mins. Dir: Mia Spengler. Cast: Kim Riedle, Leonie Wesselow, Juliane Kohler.

Angie, a reality TV star, is broke after undergoing drug withdrawal. As none of her friends wants to take

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himself into trouble. The town’s local gangster is after him, so William has to muster the courage to save himself and his uncle. All the while, William has a growing crush on Viola.

Arsenal Cinema 2

care of her, she has to move back to her mother.

Delphi LUX 2

DAMSEL

(US) 113mins. Dir: David & Nathan Zellner. Cast: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Robert Forster.

An affluent pioneer travels to frontier country to marry the love of his life.

Traversing the Wild West with a drunkard and a miniature horse, his journey turns treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain and damsel.

Berlinale Palast

I HAD NOWHERE TO GO

(Germany) Moneypenny Filmproduktion, 97mins.

Dir: Douglas Gordon.

A first-hand account of the life, thoughts and feelings of a displaced person. delphi LUX 1

12:05 SCIENCE FAIR

(US) Cinetic Media, 90mins. Dir: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster.

Nine students from disparate corners of the

12:10

I FEEL BETTER

I AM WILLIAM

(France) EuropaCorp, 90mins. Dir: Jean-Pierre Améris. Cast: Éric Elmosnino, Ary Abittan, Alice Pol. A middle-aged man suffers from tremendous back pains. No doctors seem able to cure him. What if the remedy was elsewhere? His work, his wife or his family — what must he change to get better?

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CinemaxX 10

MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A.

(US, UK, Sri Lanka) Dogwoof, 97mins.

Dir: Steve Loveridge.

Cast: Maya Arulpragasam.

An intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.

CinemaxX 13

12:15

12:20

VIRGINS

(US) Electric Entertainment, 97mins.

Dir: Rob Reiner. Cast: Woody Harrelson, Jeffrey Donovan, Bill Pullman, Jennifer Jason Leigh.

In the aftermath of the JFK assassination, Lyndon Johnson faces off against enemies from within his own party as he struggles to secure the legitimacy of his presidency before it slips through his fingers.

(France, Israel, Belgium) Pyramide International, 90mins. Dir: Ben Rafael Keren. Cast: Joy Rieger, Evgenia Dodina, Michael Aloni.

In a small seaside town in Israel, everything seems to have stopped. Lana vowed to fight against resignation and immobilism. She couldn’t imagine that the rumour of a mermaid off the coast would wake her town from its torpidity.

CinemaxX 9

CinemaxX 14

LBJ

THE TRIBE

(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 90mins.

Dir: Fernando Colomo.

Cast: Carmen Machi, Paco Leon, Luis Bermejo.

A cleaning lady whose true calling is street dance reunites with the son she gave up for adoption —

12:35 DRIVER

(Israel, France) Beta Cinema, 92mins.

Dir: Yehonatan Indursky.

Cast: Moshe Folkenflik, Manuel Elkaslassy Vardi.

When his wife suddenly leaves, Ruzumni is faced with the responsibility of

12:40 THE VANISHED

(South Korea) Contents Panda, 102mins. Dir: Lee Changhee. Cast: Kim Sangkyung, Kim Kangwoo, Kim Heeae.

A thrilling hunt to find out the truth behind a missing corpse.

CineStar 6

12:45 A BLUEBIRD IN MY HEART

(France) Alma Cinema, 90mins. Dir: Jérémie Guez. Cast: Roland Moller, Veerle Baetens, Lola Le Lann, Lubna Azabal.

Attempting to lead a quiet, reformed life, an ex-con finds refuge in a motel run by a single mother and her teenage daughter, Clara.

The peace and freedom he has found in this safe haven disappears when Clara is assaulted.

Parliament Studio

LEMONADE

(Romania, Germany, Canada) Pluto Film, 88mins. Dir: Ioana Uricaru. Cast: Malina Manovici, Steve Bacic, Dylan Smith,.

Mara, a fresh-in-the-US married single mum from Romania, is faced with abuses of power when the process of getting her Green Card veers unexpectedly off course. How far will Mara go to get what she wants?

CinemaxX 15

12:50 THE CLEANERS

(Germany, US) Cinephil, 89mins. Dir: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck.

Revealing the bitter reality that social media is as much a tool for expression as it is a platform for radicalised social and political opinions, the impacts of which are still unknown.

CinemaxX 1

SHIORI

(Japan) Open Sesame, 116mins. Dir: Yusuke

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SCREENINGS

Sakakibara. Cast: Takahiro Miura, Shinnosuke Abe, Sei Shiraishi, Shingo Tsurumi.

A film about a young physical therapist and his struggle as a professional, and as a son of his father who is terminally ill in hospital.

Rasca Pamukovic.

A single mother embarks upon a road trip across the Balkans with her autistic three-year-old daughter.

Marriott Studio

(Spain) Filmax International, 103mins.

Dir: Antonio Cuadri.

Cast: Jordi Molla, Karra Elejalde, Barbara Goenaga, Unax Ugalde.

A fast-paced con movie set in the wonderfully glamorous context of the San Sebastian Film Festival.

CineStar 2

13:50 OPERATION GOLDENSHELL

13:00 BITTER FLOWERS See box, right

HOT DOG

(Germany) Picture Tree International, 106mins.

Dir: Torsten Künstler.

Cast: Til Schweiger, Matthias Schweighofer.

Elite unit officers Luke and Theo have to join forces to save the Moldavian ambassador’s daughter.

CineStar 5

INDIAN HORSE

(Canada) Moonrise Pictures, 100mins.

Dir: Stephen Campanelli.

Cast: Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck, Ajuawak Kapashesit, Michael Huisman.

The life of Canadian First Nations boy Saul Indian Horse, as he survives residential school and life among the rascism of the 1970s.

CineStar 1

LINO 3D

(Brazil) FilmSharks International, 93mins.

Dir: Rafael Ribas.

Cast: Selton Mello, Paolla Oliveira, Dira Paes.

Lino is an entertainer for children’s parties who can’t stand his job. Deciding to seek outside help, he finds a very untalented wizard who transforms him into the thing he hates most: his cat costume.

CinemaxX 7

THE NINTH PASSENGER

(Canada) Film Mode Entertainment, 81mins.

Dir: Corey Large.

Cast: Jesse Metcalfe, Tom Maden, Alexia Fast, Timothy V Murphy.

A group of salacious students party aboard a luxury yacht, only to turn on each other as a ninth passenger picks them off, one by one.

CinemaxX 18

Dffb Cinema

13:55 MARKET 13:00 BITTER FLOWERS

(Belgium, France, China) Loco Films, 95mins. Dir: Olivier Meys. Cast: Qi Xi, Wang Xi, Geng Le, Zeng Meihuizi.

Lina, a young Chinese

13:05 AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN

(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 108mins. Dir: Jim Hosking. Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch, Matt Berry.

Lulu Danger’s unsatisfying marriage takes a fortunate turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town.

CineStar IMAX

13:10 STEEL COUNTRY

(UK) Bankside Films, 89mins. Dir: Simon Fellows. Cast: Andrew Scott, Bronagh Waugh, Denise Gough.

When a boy turns up dead in a sleepy Midwestern town, a local truck driver suffering with Asperger syndrome plays detective to prove the boy was murdered.

CinemaxX 3

13:15 THE LITTLE MERMAID

(US) Archstone Distribution, 86mins.

Dir: Chris Bouchard.

Cast: Poppy Drayton,

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THE DAWN WALL

woman, comes to Paris to earn money to pursue her entrepreneurial dreams.

But once in Europe, nothing goes as planned, and she is forced into a line of work she never could have imagined.

CinemaxX 17

Gina Gershon, William Moseley, Shirley MacLaine.

A young reporter and his niece discover a beautiful and enchanting creature they believe to be the real little mermaid.

13:30 AMATEURS

(Sweden) LevelK, 98mins.

Dir: Gabriela Pichler.

Cast: Fredrik Dahl, Yara Ebrahim, Zahraa Aldoujaili.

Welcome to Lafors — a small Swedish community in desperate need of a fresh start, with which the superstore Superbilly can help. The town needs promotion, so lets school children make a promo film. The battle of who has the right to tell the story of Lafors has begun.

CinemaxX 12

Zoo Palast Club A

13:20 ME AND EL CHE

(France) Wide, 90mins.

Dir: Patrice Gautier.

Cast: Patrick Chesnais, Fanny Cottencon, Philippe Caroit, Florence Thomassin.

Go is not just an ageing college teacher. He still is the young 18-yearold idealist who dared to engage in social and political action to defend his principles.

CinemaxX 2

13:25 RBG

(US) Magnolia Pictures, 97mins. Dir: Julie Cohen, Betsy West. Cast: Nadine Natour, Grace Mendenhall.

A look at the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

MGB Cinema

AMERICAN PETS

(US) Bob’s Your Uncle, 87mins. Dir: Robert Logevall. Cast: Rhys Wakefield, Fabianne Therese, Nathan Keyes, Leslie Ann Warren.

When a twisted young charmer’s decadent Hollywood lifestyle is put into jeopardy, he hatches a diabolical plan of murder and to save it.

CinemaxX 19

OUR MADNESS

(Mozambique, GuineaBissau, Qatar, Portugal, France) 90mins. Dir: Joao Viana. Cast: Ernania Rainha, Bernardo Guiamba, Hanic Corio, Rosa Mario.

Committed to a psychiatric institution in Mozambique, Ermania makes beguiling music with her bed. After a spontaneous escape, she

wanders through the country.

CinemaxX 6

13:40 COUCH POTATOES

(Italy) True Colours, 104mins. Dir: Francesca Archibugi. Cast: Claudio Bisio, Antonia Truppo, Gaddo Bacchini, Cochi Ponzoni.

Giorgio and Tito, father and son — a successful journalist and a lazy teenager. After a series of accidents and misunderstandings, somehow father and son will find a way to communicate, or at least they will try to.

Arsenal Cinema 2

13:45 SOLLERS POINT

(France, US) The Bureau Sales, 101mins. Dir: Matt Porterfield. Cast: McCaul Lombardi, Jim Belushi, Zazie Beetz.

Keith, a small-time drug dealer under house arrest at his father’s home in Baltimore, re-enters a community scarred by unemployment and replete with barriers of its own.

CineStar 8

THE CHAOTIC LIFE OF NADA KADIC

(Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), 85mins. Dir: Marta Hernaiz. Cast: Aida HadzibegovicDombic, Hava Dombic, Mirela Rajkovic,

(Austria, US) Red Bull Media House, 101mins.

Dir: Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer.

Legendary free-climber Tommy Caldwell tries to get over a heartbreak by scaling 3,000ft of an impossible rock face: the Dawn Wall of El Capitan.

CinemaxX 8

14:00 LUX — WARRIOR OF LIGHT

(Germany) Mixtvision Mediengesellschaft, 105mins. Dir: Daniel Wild. Cast: Franz Rogowski, Heiko Pinkowski, Tilman Strauss, Kristin Suckow.

The story of a young man heading out to do some good. But instead of changing the world, the world changes him.

Delphi LUX 1

PROMO BAC FILMS

(France) Bac Films, 60mins. Dir: various.

CineStar 4

SUBS

(Germany) Molina Film.

KG, 111mins. Dir: Oskar Roehler. Cast: Katja Riemann, Oliver Masucci, Samuel Finzi, Lize Feryn.

A wealthy man searching for a new housekeeper for his luxurious villa places an online ad saying ‘Slave wanted’.

Claus and Evi M llerTodt’s life of carefree prosperity changes forever when Bartos and Lana enter their home.

Delphi LUX 2

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Dir: David Yanez. Cast: Kai Wu, Alina Nastase, Valentina Acevedo.

A Chinese tourist loses his papers and has to stay in Spain as an illegal immigrant. In the middle of this desperate situation, he will fall deeply in love.

14:05 THE MISOGYNISTS See box, right

VISIONS MEXICO PROGRAM

(Mexico) Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), 110mins. Dir: various.

Six works in progress by new and established directors in 10-minute clips.

Marriott Studio

15:05 THE COUSIN

CinemaxX 10

(US) Bleiberg Entertainment, 93mins.

Dir: Tzahi Grad. Cast: Tzahi Grad, Ala Dakka, Osnat Fishman.

A well-intentioned ArabicMuslim handyman upends the day-to-day lives of an Israeli village.

14:10 THE FAITHFUL SON

(Belgium) Loco Films, 81mins. Dir: Guerin Van De Vorst. Cast: Vincent Rottiers, Sebastien Houbani, Johan Libéreau.

Ben is released after three years in prison, where he converted to Islam. In the struggle of getting his life back and reconnecting with his son, he will face religious fundamentalism and risk losing everything.

CinemaxX 13

HAL

(US) Saboteur Media, 90mins. Dir: Amy Scott.

Hal Ashby directed widely admired classics throughout the 1970s.

However, he’s often overlooked amid the crowd of luminaries from his generation.

CinemaxX 14

14:15 12 DAYS

(France) Wild Bunch, 87mins. Dir: Raymond Depardon.

By French law, anyone admitted into the hospital without their consent must be seen by a judge within 12 days. That judge must decide whether they can be allowed back into society.

CinemaxX 16

14:20 DEAD PIGS

(China) Media Asia Film Distribution, 132mins.

Dir: Cathy Yan. Cast: Vivian Wu, Haoyu Yang, Meng Li, Mason Lee. A pig farmer, a salon owner, a busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the Yangtze River towards a rapidly modernisng Shanghai.

Based on true events.

CinemaxX 15

CinemaxX 19

MARKET 14:05 THE MISOGYNISTS

(US) WTFilms, 85mins.

Dir: Onur Tukel. Cast: Dylan Baker, Christine M Campbell, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Ivana Milicevic.

In a single, fully-stocked hotel room on the night of the 2016 US Presidential election, two Trump supporters celebrate the unexpected results.

Cinemobile

A young golden plover has trouble learning to fly and fails to migrate with his family to warmer climates.

He must survive the arctic winter, vicious enemies and himself in order to be reunited with them the following spring.

CineStar 1

SAMSON

(US, South Africa) Pure Flix/Quality Flix, 110mins.

Dir: Bruce Macdonald.

Cast: Jackson Rathbone, Billy Zane, Rutger Hauer.

After losing the love of his life to a cruel Philistine prince, a young Hebrew with supernatural strength defends his people, sacrificing everything to avenge his love, his people, and his god.

Parliament Studio

14:25 BROKEN GHOST

(US) Film Mode Entertainment, 104mins.

Dir: Richard Gray.

Cast: Autry HaydonWilson, Scottie Thompson, Nick Farnell.

Desperate to start a new life, Imogen and her family move to Montana. The ghosts of their past are not the only ones with which they have to deal.

CinemaxX 18

LET THE GIRLS PLAY

(France) Indie Sales, 90mins. Dir: Julien Hallard. Cast: Max Boublil, Vanessa Guide.

In 1969, a sport journalist is forced to plan his newspaper’s annual fair.

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He comes up with a crazy idea: organise the first women’s football match in France.

CineStar 6

14:40 MUTAFUKAZ

(France, Japan) Celluloid Dreams, 94mins.

Dir: Shojiro Nishimi, Guillaume Renard.

Ground-breaking postmodern graphics bring to life the adventures of Angelino. Hunted by Men in Black, he finds out he’s a creature from the dark matter of the universe.

CinemaxX 1

14:45

14:50 GASTON

(France) Gaumont, 85mins. Dir: PierreFrancois Martin-Laval.

Cast: Théo Fernandez, Pierre-Francois MartinLaval, Alison Wheeler.

One of the most-loved French comic books of all time —Gaston Lagaffe — comes to the big screen.

MGB Cinema Invitation only

THE GUARDIAN ANGEL

(Finland) AMBI Distribution, 102mins.

Dir: Arto Halonen.

Cast: Pilou Asbaek, Josh Lucas, Rade Serbedzija.

The most incredible series of hypnosis crimes in history send an investigator and a hypnotist into a world of psychological manipulation.

Zoo Palast 3

15:15 GAME GIRLS

(Germany) Films Boutique, 80mins.

Dir: various.

CinemaxX 11

CinemaxX 12

15:00 FILMS BOUTIQUE PROMO REEL

OLD BOYS

(Argentina) FilmSharks International, 105mins.

Dir: Marcos Carnevale.

Cast: Adrian Suar, Julieta Diaz, Alfredo Casero.

A sports fan loses everything for being addicted to his team and soccer. He then starts a quest to find a cure and regain his wife’s love.

(UK, Sweden) WestEnd Films, 96mins. Dir: Toby MacDonald. Cast: Alex Lawther, Pauline Etienne, Jonah Hauer-King, Denis Menochet.

An awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.

CineStar IMAX

PLOEY

(Iceland, Belgium) ARRI Media, 82mins. Dir: Arni Olafur Asgeirsson.

CJ PROMO REEL

(South Korea) CJ Entertainment, 60mins.

Dir: various.

(France, Germany) Doc & Film International, 90mins. Dir: Alina Skrzeszewska.

A film about the hopes and dreams of women living on the fringes of contemporary US society.

CineStar 5

MY LOVE OR MY PASSION

CinemaxX 17

15:10

SIDE B

(Spain) Summerside International, 100mins.

15:25 WELCOME TO ACAPULCO

(US, Bulgaria) Pantelion Films, 105mins. Dir: Guillermo Ivan. Cast: Mike Kingsbaker, Michael Madsen, William Baldwin, Ana Serradilla.

Matt Booth wakes to find himself in Acapulco, Mexico, hunted by hired mercenaries looking for a package he knows nothing about. Trying to stay alive, he is aided by CIA agent Adriana Vasquez, who is following orders of her own.

Arsenal Cinema 2

15:30 JAMILA

(France) 529 Dragons, 84mins. Dir: Aminatou Echard.

Chingiz Aytmatov’s novel ‘Jamila’ left an impression on generations of Kyrgyz women. This debut explores contemporary biographies and reveals how conflict, yearning and the desire for self-determination are not just past concerns.

CinemaxX 6

15:40 THE COMPETITION

(US) VMI Worldwide, 104mins. Dir: Harvey Lowry. Cast: Thora Birch, Chris Klein, Claire Coffee.

Lauren Mauldin is a blogger who encourages her millions of blog followers that all men/women cheat and monogamy is dead.

Calvin Chesney challenges Laura to a competition to prove her theory wrong.

Zoo Palast Club A

RED COW

(Israel) Alma Cinema, 90mins. Dir: Tsivia Barkai. Cast: Avigayil Koevary, Moran Rosenblat, Gal Toren, Dana Sorin, Uri Hochman.

Benny, a young woman, lives in East Jerusalem and sees her father’s religious, utopian nationalism with increasing scepticism — unlike the secret embraces of her girlfriend Yael.

CinemaxX 13

15:45 A ROUGH DRAFT

(Russia) Reason8 Films, 114mins. Dir: Sergey Mokritsky. Cast: Nikita Volkov, Evgeny Tkachuk, Olga Borovskaya, Yulia Perisild.

After a heartbroken man is erased from the memory of everyone he knows, he discovers that his new mission is to serve as customs officer with the mysterious power to open portals between parallel worlds.

CinemaxX 8 No press

IMPERFECT AGE

(Italy) Intramovies, 96mins. Dir: Ulisse Lendaro. Cast: Marina Occhionero, Paola Calliari, Anita Kravos, Anna Valle. »

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Camilla has a dream: to become a ballet dancer.

Camilla and Sara sign up for an important audition.

Sara passes it, Camilla doesn’t. Camilla blames Sara, but nothing is as it seems.

The emotional story of three young teachers in the making, thrown into the harsh reality of public education.

Delphi LUX 1

WEIT. THE STORY OF A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD

CinemaxX 14

(Germany) Weit GbR, 127mins. Dir: Gwendolin Weisser, Patrick Allgaier.

An authentic diary of two travellers who took off towards the East, only to return home from the West three years later. Their main focus is on direct encounters with people and nature.

OUR HOUSE

(US, Canada, Germany) XYZ Films, 90mins.

Dir: Anthony Scott Burns.

Cast: Thomas Mann, Nicola Peltz.

A young genius accidentally invents a device that amplifies the paranormal activity within his family’s house, possibly bringing back the spirits of loved ones and unleashing things far worse.

Cinemobile

MARKET 16:15 KILLING JESUS

WONDERLAND

(Finland) The Yellow Affair, 91mins. Dir: Inari Niemi. Cast: Milka Ahlroth, Anna Paavilainen, Mari Rantasila.

Helena’s husband left for a younger woman. Her best friend talks her into spending Christmas in the country. As days pass, their lives take an unexpected turn and the women of wonderland face life’s big questions.

Dffb Cinema

15:50 WESTWOOD: PUNK, ICON, ACTIVIST

(UK) Dogwoof, 84mins.

Dir: Lorna Tucker.

The first film to encompass the remarkable story of Vivienne Westwood’s life, her fashion, her activism and her cultural importance.

CinemaxX 16

16:00 HERMITAGE VR

(Russia) Videofabrika, 60mins. Dir: Mikhail Antykov.

Travel through two centuries of the museum’s vibrant history.

VR Cinema at Marriott

delphi LUX 2

(Colombia, Argentina) Latido Films, 99mins.

Dir: Laura Mora.

Cast: Natasha Jaramillo, Giovanny Rodriguez, Camilo Escobar, Carmenza Cossio.

Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.

CineStar 6

Paula witnesses the coldblooded murder of her father. After facing the inefficiency of the police, she crosses paths with the hitman. Driven by anger and frustration, revenge seems to be her only choice.

MGB Cinema

Two couples appear to live in marital bliss until cracks begin to surface in both seemingly steady marriages.

CineStar 1

OF FATHERS AND SONS

(Germany, Syria, Lebanon) Autlook Filmsales, 99mins.

Dir: Talal Derki.

Talal Derki returns to his homeland, where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family.

CinemaxX 10

16:10 AMERICA

(France) Indie Sales, 84mins. Dir: Claus Drexel.

The film is an immersion into the heart of Arizona during the Presidential election. Home of the modern cowboy and the American dream, the state has become the symbol of a civilisation that has become self-destructive.

FOUR HANDS

(Germany) ARRI Media, 94mins. Dir: Oliver Kienle. Cast: Frida-Lovisa Hamann, Friederike Becht, Christoph Letkowski, Detlef Bothe.

After losing her beloved but paranoid sister in a fatal accident, Sophie is hoping to start a normal life. But soon she recognises that another person is controlling her spirit.

CinemaxX 1

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PLAYTIME PROMO REEL

(France) Playtime, 95mins. Dir: various.

CinemaxX 2

CinemaxX 18

NAPLES IN VEILS

(Italy) True Colours, 112mins. Dir: Ferzan Ozpetek.

In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of

16:15 THE DELINQUENT SEASON

(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 104mins. Dir: Mark O’Rowe. Cast: Cillian Murphy, Andrew Scott, Eva Birsthistle, Catherine Walker.

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THREE SECONDS

(Russia) Central Partnership, 134mins.

Dir: Anton Megerdichev.

Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Andrey Smoliakov, Marat Basharov, Sergey Garmash.

Some victories change

the course of history. The legendary ‘three-second’ victory of the Soviet basketball team over the US at the 1972 Munich Olympics is one of those triumphs.

CinemaxX 4

16:20 THE 12TH MAN

(Norway) TrustNordisk, 135mins. Dir: Harald Zwart. Cast: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus, Mads Sjogaard Pettersen.

They were 12 saboteurs.

The Nazis killed 11 of them.

This is the true story of the one who got away.

CineStar 4

16:25 TWO TAILS

(Russia) Licensing Brands, 85mins. Dir: Victor Azeev.

After becoming best friends, a beaver and a cat undertake a dangerous mission to free their fellow animals, who were kidnapped by aliens.

CineStar 5

16:30 LIQUID TRUTH

(Brazil) MPM Premium, 90mins. Dir: Carolina Jabor. Cast: Daniel de Oliveira, Marco Ricca.

A boy’s parents accuse a swimming teacher of abusing one of his students.

Parliament Studio

TO BE A TEACHER

(Germany) Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, 106mins. Dir: Jakob Schmidt.

YOU GO TO MY HEAD

(France, Germany) Wide, 116mins. Dir: Dimitri De Clercq. Cast: Delfine Bafort, Svetozar Cvetkovic.

Following a mysterious car accident in the desert, Dafne suffers from posttraumatic amnesia.

Jake, the first person she sees when she regains consciousness, tells her the he is her husband.

CinemaxX 3

16:35 GANGSTER LAND

(US) Film Mode Entertainment, 88mins.

Dir: Timothy Woodward Jr. Cast: Milo Gibson, Sean Faris, Jason Patric, Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

The never-before-told true story of Al Capone and his right-hand man, ‘Machine Gun’ Jack McMurray, battling the Irish Mob. CinemaxX 17

16:40 MARILYN

(Argentina, Chile) Film Factory Entertainment, 80mins. Dir: Martin Rodriguez Redondo.

Cast: Walter Rodriguez, Catalina Saavedra, German de Silva, Ignacio Gimenez.

In an oppressive climate where he is cornered by the town and by his own family, Marcos is confronted by the growing impossibility of ever being who he truly wants to be.

CinemaxX 15

16:45 BEYOND THE RIVER

(South Africa) Parkland

Pictures, 107mins.

Dir: Craig Freimond.

Cast: Grant Swanby, Lemogang Tsipa, Garth Breytenback.

Set in post-Apartheid South Africa, the true story of two men, separated by everything except their determination to win gold in the Dusi Canoe Marathon.

CinemaxX 19

CHARADES PROMO REELS

(France) Charades, 105mins. Dir: various.

CinemaxX 11

FACK JU GOEHTE 3

(Germany) Picture Tree International, 120mins.

Dir: Bora Dagtekin.

Cast: Elyas M’Barek, Katja Riemann, Jella Haase, Sandra Hüller.

Miller’s class is about to fail graduation, thanks to daily violence and disorder.

Miller’s last hope is an anti-mobbing seminar.

CineStar IMAX

16:50 THE PARTY IS OVER

(France) Pyramide International, 90mins.

Dir: Marie Garel-Weiss.

Despite their differences, Céleste and Sihem become inseparable. When, expelled from their shelter, they are left on their own, facing the real world and its temptations.

CinemaxX 12

17:00 ARCTIC JUSTICE

(US) AMBI Distribution, 102mins. Dir: Aaron Woodley. Cast: Jeremy Renner, Heidi Klum, Alec Baldwin, John Cleese.

A ragtag group of inexperienced heroes must come together to save the Arctic and foil the evil plans of a sinister Otto Von Walrus.

Zoo Palast 3

SMOKIN’ ON THE MOON

(Japan) Open Sesame, 120mins. Dir: Kanata Wolf. Cast: Arata Iura, Ryo Narita, Sara Mary, Kanji Tsuda.

Sota and Rakuto make a living by working at a bar while trafficking marijuana. When Rakuto meets a single mother, he’s involved in risky business run by the Yakuza. Years »

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later, Sota is visited by a young woman with unexpected news.

A private investigator must unravel the murder of her uncle while hiding that she is descended from a line of werewolves.

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17:15

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NORTHERN WIND

(France, Tunisia, Belgium) Be For Films, 91mins. Dir: Walid Mattar. Cast: Philippe Rebbot, Mohamed Amine Hamzaoui, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corinne Masiero.

Northern France: when Hervé’s factory is relocated abroad, he tries to become a fisherman. In Tunis, where the factory is relocated, Foued does Hervé’s old job.

Their destinies mirror and echo one another.

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OH MY GOD!

(Italy) Ellipsis Media International, 100mins.

Dir: Giorgio Amato. Cast: Carlo Caprioli, Anna Maria de Luca, Stefano Fregni, Giulia Gualano.

What would happen today in a society that defines itself Catholic and Christian if Jesus really came back, as announced in the Gospels?

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17:20 SWIMMING WITH MEN

(UK, US) HanWay Films, 94mins. Dir: Oliver Parker. Cast: Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves, Daniel Mays, Charlotte Riley.

A man who is suffering a midlife crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middleaged, amateur synchronised swimming team.

Arsenal Cinema 2

17:25 IN THE GAME

(France, Belgium) Orange Studio, 85mins.

Dir: Robin Sykes.

Cast: Thierry Lhermitte, Rayane Bensetti.

To play his basketball final in Paris, JB, a teenageboy, has to run away with Roland, his grandfather.

Not only are they estranged, but Roland has also been losing his mind lately, and nothing happens as planned.

18:50 THE LOST STRAIT

MARKET 17:45 THE INHABITANT

(Mexico, Chile) FilmSharks International, 92mins.

Dir: Guillermo Amoedo.

Cast: Maria Evoli, Vanesa Restrepo, Carla Adell, Fernando Becerri.

Three edgy sisters break Intramovies, 76mins.

Dir: Matias Bize. Cast: Eva Arias, Josue Guerrero.

Two strangers have an intense casual encounter.

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I CAN ONLY IMAGINE

(US) Mission Pictures International, 110mins.

Dir: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin. Cast: Dennis Quaid, J Michael Finley, Cloris Leachman,.

The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe’s beloved, charttopping song.

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into the house of a very important senator to steal money he received in bribes. The strange noises coming from the basement arouses a curiosity in them that will take them to a terrifying universe.

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17:45 GOOD FAVOUR

(Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium) Visit Films, 101mins. Dir: Rebecca Daly. Cast: Vincent Romeo, Lars Brygmann, Clara Rugaard.

A remote Christian community experiencing a crisis of faith finds new hope in the arrival of a mysterious young man.

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THE INHABITANT See box, above

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IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION

FAMILY IS FAMILY (LA CH’TITE FAMILLE)

(France) Film Constellation, 95mins.

Dir: Julien Faraut.

Cast: Mathieu Amalric.

In the 1980s, a film team attempted to analyse John McEnroe’s unique tennis style.

(France) Pathé International, 107mins.

Dir: Dany Boon.

Cast: Dany Boon, Laurence Arne, Line Renaud, Valerie Bonneton.

When the world of northern country bumpkins collides with the world of Paris high design and luxury, it is bound to be explosive…

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17:40 HOSTILE

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7.20 ONCE A WEEK

(France) All Rights Entertainment, 85mins.

Dir: Mathieu Turi.

Cast: Gregory Fitoussi, Brittany Ashworth, Javier Botet.

A lone survivor of an apocalyptic era fights to survive against strange, disturbing creatures that only come out at night.

(Poland) Wide, 130mins.

Dir: Olga Chajdas.

Nina’s and Wojtek ask a young woman, Magda, to become their surrogate mother. Things get complicated when Nina feels attracted to Magda.

(Dominican Republic)

Cinemobile

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17:55 NINA

18:00 SND PROMO REELS

(France) SND — Groupe M6, 60mins. Dir: various.

MGB Cinema 18:05 KINSHASA MAKAMBO

(Congo, France, Germany) AndanaFilms, 72mins.

Dir: Dieudo Hamadi.

The story of three young Congolese who demand that elections be held in the Congo.

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THE REGULARS

(Norway) Eyewell, 99mins. Dir: Leon Bashir.

Cast: Leon Bashir, Lene Nystrom, Kim Sorensen, Selem Zina.

Joseph has spent most of his life in prison. After his younger brother dies, he returns to prison and meets young, naive Chris.

who develops an interest in the case.

CineStar 1

18:30 MY SON

(France) Wild Bunch, 85mins. Dir: Christian Carion. Cast: Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Laurent, Olivier De Benoist.

The disappearance of his child sends a man on a dark path to find the truth.

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18:40 THE BOLD, THE CORRUPT AND THE BEAUTIFUL

(Taiwan) MandarinVision, 112mins. Dir: Ya-Che Yang. Cast: Kara Wai, Ke-Xi Wu, Vicky Chen.

A conniving woman who mediates between the government and private businesses finds herself caught up in a murder.

CineStar 4

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18:10 SELFIE

(Russia) All Media, 115mins. Dir: Nikolay Khomeriki. Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Yulia Khlynina, Fedor Bondarchuk.

The successful life of popular and cynical writer Bogdanov is erased in an instant, as a doppelgänger takes over his identity.

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18:15 BLACK TIDE

(France) Playtime, 113mins. Dir: Erick Zonca.

Cast: Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Sandrine Kiberlain, Charles Berling.

A disillusioned detective investigates the case of a missing teenager while reluctant to take care of his own son. He progressively suspects the teenager’s tutor,

BUDAPEST NOIR

(Hungary) Hungarian National Film Fund, 95mins. Dir: Eva Gardos. Cast: Krisztian Kolovratnik, Reka Tenki.

Budapest, 1936: a beautiful young woman is dead, with only a Jewish prayer book in her purse.

CinemaxX 19

SANTET

(Indonesia) The Annex Entertainment, 90mins.

Dir: Helfi Kardit.

Cast: Kelly Brook.

A man returns to Indonesia to find that his family has been overrun by black magic.

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THE SHADOW WITHIN

(US) Level Films, 90mins.

Dir: Tiago Mesquita. Cast: Charlotte Beckett, Lindsay Lohan, Gianni Capaldi, Dominik Madani.

(Iran) Ayat Media, 92mins. Dir: Bahram Tavakoli. Cast: Javad Ezati, Amir Jadidi, Hamid Reza Azarang.

A group of soldiers are returning to their homes when news of a new attack on a strategic border area causes a tough dilemma.

CinemaxX 16

19:00 CONTRIBUTION

(Russia) Igmar, 170mins.

Dir: Sergey Snezhkin.

Cast: Maksim Matveev, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Ilya Noskov, Igor Chernevich.

Russia, 1918: Red Army investigator Andrei Murzin has a chance to evade his death sentence if he succeeds in finding a stolen diamond.

Dffb Cinema

DON’T. GET. OUT!

(Germany) Global Screen, 107mins. Dir: Christian Alvart. Cast: Wotan Wilke Möhring, Hannah Herzsprung, Emily Kusche.

Driving his kids to school, Berlin property developer Karl gets a call from a blackmailer. If he does not pay, the car will blow up.

CinemaxX 13

KILLER MOSQUITOS

(Italy) Minerva Pictures, 88mins. Dir: Riccardo Paoletti. Cast: Giulio Greco, Filippo Tirabassi, Lana Vlady.

During a weekend holed up in an isolated house in the mountains, a group of friends are attacked by a swarm of killer horseflies.

CinemaxX 14

19:20 MRS. MILLS

(France) Orange Studio, 88mins. Dir: Sophie Marceau. Cast: Sophie Marceau, Pierre Richard.

Helene publishes novels and leads an undisturbed life, until a strange old American lady moves in next door.

CinemaxX 10

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DAMSEL (US) David Zellner, Nathan Zellner

A revisionist western from the directors of Kumiko, Treasure Hunter starring Pattinson, travels west Film in brief Perepellis dolupta dus nisquias derferrThe umquunt occum, sitenit, veritRobert ea vellesequis mowho doluptiis ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ to reunite with his fiancéeutem (Miaalia Wasikowska), who maiorernatem appears to havenonempe been therrovid victimeatem of a kidnapping. experia voloris sitiassint doluptat volest fuga.

THE HEIRESSES (Par-Ger-Uru-Nor-Bra-Fr) Marcelo Martinessi

Shorts director Martinessi’s feature directorial debut is the story of a 60-year-old woman — used to a comfortable ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ lifestyle — who realises her funds are running out. Ana Brun, Margarita Irun and Ana Ivanova star.

DOVLATOV (Rus-Pol-Ser) Alexey German Jr

After Under Electric Clouds premiered at the Berlinale in 2015, Russian director German Jr returns with this drama ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ charting six days in the life of writer Sergei Dovlatov (Milan Maric), who fell foul of Soviet censors in the 1970s.

EVA (Fr-Bel) Benoit Jacquot

This tale of a playwright who encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter during a violent snowstorm is ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ adapted from the novel by James Hadley Chase. Gaspard Ulliel and Isabelle Huppert star.

TRANSIT (Ger-Fr) Christian Petzold

A man fleeing the Nazi invasion of France assumes the identity of a dead author. He then meets a woman seeking ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ her missing husband — the very man he is impersonating. Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer star.

DAUGHTER OF MINE (It-Ger-Switz) Laura Bispuri

The director of the 2015 Competition title Sworn Virgin follows up with this Italian drama about a woman torn ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ between adoptive and biological mothers. Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Sara Casu and Udo Kier head the cast.

THE PRAYER (Fr) Cédric Kahn

Anthony Bajon stars as a young drug addict who struggles to fit in when he joins an isolated mountain retreat ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ formed of fellow addicts trying to cure themselves through prayer. Damien Chapelle and Alex Brendemühl star.

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THE REAL ESTATE (Swe-UK) Mans Mansson, Axel Petersen

The filmmakers co-direct for the first time on this dark comedy-thriller, which stars Leonore Ekstrand as a woman ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ who inherits an apartment complex in Stockholm and is pulled into the greedy world of real estate.

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Atef probes what happened during the last interview and photoshoot of enigmatic Austrian film star Romy ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Schneider, which took place at a spa in Brittany in 1981, just a year before her death at the age of 43.

U – JULY 22 (Nor) Erik Poppe

Poppe’s third feature to play the Berlinale looks at the July 22, 2011 attack on a youth summer camp on Utoya ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ island, Norway by far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, as told from the youths’ point of view.

SEASON OF THE DEVIL (Phil) Lav Diaz

The former Alfred Bauer prize-winning director’s latest effort — clocking in at 234 minutes — is described as a ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ black and white “anti-musical musical, a rock opera, that delves into mythology”.

DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT (US) Gus Van Sant

Van Sant celebrates the life of John Callahan, who became a renowned cartoonist after he was left quadriplegic by a ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ car crash. Joaquin Phoenix stars alongside Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black, Beth Ditto and Kim Gordon.

PIG (Iran) Mani Haghighi

The latest film from Iranian writer/director/actor Haghighi is an absurdist comedy about a dejected film director ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ who wonders why he is not important enough to be targeted by a serial killer. Hasan Majuni and Leila Hatami star.

MY BROTHER’S NAME IS ROBERT AND HE IS AN IDIOT (Ger-Fr-Switz) Philip Gröning

Gröning enjoys his first Berlinale world premiere with this drama that chronicles the unusual relationship between ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ two incestuous siblings. Josef Mattes and Julia Zange head the cast.

MUSEUM (Mex) Alonso Ruizpalacios

The director’s follow-up to 2014’s Berlinale best first feature winner Güeros is a coming-of-age heist movie set in ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ 1985. Shot in Mexico City, Palenque and Acapulco, it stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Leonardo Ortizgris and Alfredo Castro.

TOUCH ME NOT (Rom-Ger-Czech-Bul-Fr) Adina Pintilie

The first female Romanian director to be selected for the Berlinale’s Competition, Pintilie’s debut feature and ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ docu-drama hybrid Touch Me Not explores themes of intimacy and humanity’s longing for contact.

IN THE AISLES (Ger) Thomas Stuber

Stuber’s third feature to play at the Berlinale follows a man who begins work as a shelf-stacker in a supermarket. ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Franz Rogowski plays opposite Sandra Hüller and Peter Kurth.

MUG (Pol) Malgorzata Szumowska

Szumowska tied for the directing Silver Bear with Body (2015) and won a Teddy for In The Name Off (2013) with ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, who also stars in Mug as a man who experiences identity issues after a face transplant.

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