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Speak Up! launches at Berlinale BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
A new campaign bannered Speak Up! and aimed at stamping out sexual harassment within the European film industry launches today at the Berlinale. Daniela Elstner, CEO of Paris-based Doc & Film International, is spearheading the initiative, which has the endorsement of several professional bodies. As its first action, Speak Up! will launch a new website setting out guidelines for professionals in the industry and providing links to
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bodies that can help victims of sexual harassment. “The European film industry wants to make it clear that sexual harassment will no longer be tolerated,” Elstner said. Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska, who is at the Berlinale with Golden Bear contender Mug, will present the new initiative today at the Closing the Gap seminar, looking at ways of tackling gender equality. “This initiative is important for me as the mother of a five-year-old
girl. I want a different environment for her in the future, one in which she feels more comfortable than I did,” the Polish director told Screen. “I’m also thinking about all of those women who are afraid to talk out loud about what has happened to them. I believe this kind of action can change a lot.” Anna Serner, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, which is organising Closing the Gap (taking place 10am-1pm today at the Meistersaal) with the German and Nordic
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Noah Schnapp, one of the stars of Netflix series Stranger Things, will lead Ben Cookson’s Waiting For Anya, an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel of the same name. Anjelica Huston has joined the supporting cast alongside Thomas Kretschmann, Elsa Zylberstein and Tomas Lemarquis. UK-based Goldfinch Studios is launching the project on its EFM
Schweighöfer and Fitz to star in 100 Things BY TOM GRATER
European Film Market president Beki Probst received the Berlinale Camera yesterday at a ceremony at the Martin-GropiusBau. Festival director Dieter Kosslick and Istituto Luce-Cinecitta president Roberto Cicutto were among those who paid tribute to the long-serving EFM head.
O’Connor climbs aboard Hope Gap God’s Own Country star Josh O’Connor has joined Annette Bening and Bill Nighy in the cast of Hope Gap. William Nicholson, the Oscar-nominated writer of Breathe, Everest, Gladiator and Shadowlands, will write and direct the family drama, which is currently
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Star Power Meet this year’s EFP Shooting Stars, who were out in force at the festival yesterday. » Page 22
REVIEW The Heiresses This is an accomplished debut from Marcelo Martinessi. » Page 8
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Wild Bunch has boarded as international sales agent on German director Christian Schwochow’s adaptation of Siegfried Lenz’s classic novel The German Lesson, which begins shooting in North Rhine-Westphalia in March. Schwochow is at this year’ Berlinale with his buzzed-about highfinance TV series Bad Banks, which premieres in the festival’s TV sidebar. One of the classic novels of postSecond World War German literature, The German Lesson explores human behaviour under a dictatorship through the tale of a young man who defies his police officer father to save a neighbour’s expressionist paintings from Nazi destruction. Network Movie Film is producing alongside Senator Film, with the support of ZDF. Three former European Shooting Stars – Maria Dragus, Johanna Wokalek and Ulrich Noethen – are in the cast. Austrian actor Tobias Moretti, who is in Bad Banks, has also signed on for the production. Wild Bunch Germany will release The German Lesson locally. Schwochow is also attached as director of Thomas Wendrich’s Je Suis Karl, which is currently in development at Cologne-based Pandora Film, co-producer of the Paraguayan Competition film The Heiresses.
branches of Women in Film and Television, said promoting gender equality and stamping out sexual harassment go hand-in-hand. “Sexual harassment has to be put into the context of gender and power structures. We have sexual harassment because the structures are unequal between the genders,” she added. “If there were more women in power, I’m sure we would see much less sexual harassment, and that’s also what experience tells us.”
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in pre-production and will shoot in summer 2018. David M Thompson of Origin Pictures is producing. Protagonist handles international sales, with North American sales co-repped by CAA and Protagonist. Orlando Parfitt
Florian David Fitz and Matthias Schweighöfer will star in buddy comedy 100 Things, on which Picture Tree International is launching sales at EFM this week. Principal photography is scheduled to start at the end of this month on the $8.1m (¤7m) project. The story follows a pair of tech entrepreneurs who make a bet to give up all of their possessions. Fitz also wrote the screenplay and will direct. Pantaleon Films is producing and Warner Bros Germany will release it locally in December 2018. Picture Tree’s EFM slate also includes Pantaleon projects Hot Dog and A Jar Full Of Life, both of which have market premieres in Berlin.
production slate. Sales are being handled by LA-based 13 Films. Producers are Phin Glynn for Bad Penny Productions and Alan Latham for Goldfinch Studios. Executive producers are Kirsty Bell, Victor Glynn and Geoffrey Iles. The film is co-produced by Daz Spencer-Lovesey. Shooting will commence later this year on location in France.
mk2 cooks up deals for Ramen Shop France’s mk2 films has unveiled first sales on Singapore director Eric Khoo’s Ramen Shop ahead of its premiere in the Berlinale’s Culinary Cinema section. The film has sold to Spain (Avalon), Benelux (Imagine), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Hungary (Cirko), South Korea (Company L), Taiwan (Moviecloud), Brazil (Imovision), Colombia & Regional Pay TV (Cineplex) and Mexico (Cine y Video). The feature stars Japanese actor and model Takumi Saito as a young Japanese chef who embarks on a culinary journey to Singapore to learn more about his late mother. Melanie Goodfellow
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Holland to direct Czech healer co-pro Charlatan Clemons joins Cuarón’s Z BY JEREMY KAY
Rising star Kiersey Clemons has joined Gael Garcia Bernal on Jonás Cuarón’s Zorro re-imagining Z, which Pantelion Inter national is selling at the EFM. Three years after Clemons appeared in Sundance 2015 selection Dope, she returned triumphantly to Park City last month with Hearts Beat Loud, which sparked an international deal with Sony and a North American sale to Gunpowder & Sky. Principal photography on Z will commence in June. Bernal reunites with his Desierto director to play the lead, inspired by the iconic swashbuckling character created by pulp writer Johnston McCulley. Sobini Films and Lantica Media are producing. AnneMarie Ross of Pantelion Inter national has launched sales in Berlin and UTA Independent Film Group represents US rights.
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Agnieszka Holland has signed on to direct Charlatan, a CzechIrish-Slovak co-production written by Marek Epstein. Sarka Cimbalova and Svatka Peschkova’s Czech production company Marlene Film leads the project, which will be coproduced by Film & Music Entertainment (F&ME)’s Irish outpost and Slovakia’s Furia Film. Charlatan is about a man with exceptional abilities — inspired by the real-life healer Jan Mikolasek
— living in totalitarian 1950s Czechoslovakia. Films Boutique will handle international sales, with Falcon on board for Czech distribution. Itafilm will release in Slovakia. The film aims for a late 2018 or mid-2019 shoot for a spring 2020 premiere. Holland’s many credits include films such as Spoor, In Darkness and Europa Europa, and TV hits such as House Of Cards and Treme. She is also directing Netflix’s first Polish-language original series.
“Charlatan is a fabulous screenplay and a great project,” said co-producer Mike Downey of F&ME. “Sarka and Marlene Film are leaders in their field in the Czech Republic. We look forward to working with them and with Agnieszka Holland on this story.” Ivan Trojan will play the lead, with the supporting cast including Vladimir Polivka and Jarka Pokorna. The crew will include editor Pavel Hrdlicka, DoP Martin Strba and production designer Milan Bycek.
Van Damme hits for Other Angle BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
Paris-based Other Angle Pictures has announced first sales on French director Julien Leclercq’s action thriller The Bouncer, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, which started shooting last week. It has sold to Germany (Constantin Film), Italy (Minerva Pictures), Spain (Inopia Films), Latin America (Leda Film), Poland (Monolith Films), Middle East
(Falcon Films), Russia (Capella Film), Turkey (Fabula Films), Hungary (Cinetel) and ex-Yugoslavia (Fox Vision). Van Damme plays a bouncer who is strong-armed by the police into infiltrating a dangerous counterfeiting gang. The $10m production is lead-produced by Julien Madon. The company is also reporting strong interest on Daniel Auteuil’s
The Other Woman, in which the French star plays a happily married man who fantasises about running off with a younger woman. The film has sold to Italy (Eagle), Canada (Christal Films), Brazil (Immovision), Benelux (Vertigo Films), China (Lemon Tree), Greece (Tanweer), Poland (Canal+) and Israel (Lev Cinemas). It is being handled by Sony in France.
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Condor swoops on Berlin titles Condor Entertainment has acquired Berlinale’s Generation Kplus competition opening film The Incredible Story Of The Giant Pear from LevelK. Condor has also picked up Lukas Feigelfeld’s gothic horror tale Hagazussa from Raven Banner, ahead of its appearance in Berlin Critics’ Week. The company runs two separate slates, one aimed at theatrical release films, the other on direct-to-digital titles, and handles 25 to 30 titles a year. It plans to release Giant Pear on 200 screens on April 25 in France, to coincide with the spring school holiday. Melanie Goodfellow
Stray Dogs’ Nathan Fischer, Cinetic’s Dana O’Keefe and Heretic Outreach’s Ioanna Stais debated how to futureproof the sales business at Screen International’s annual EFM panel yesterday (Feb 16). For the full report, go to Screendaily.com.
Match Factory in business with Hamer’s Middle Man BY MARTIN BLANEY
The Match Factory has boarded Bent Hamer’s The Middle Man as international sales agent. It will be Hamer’s fifth collaboration with Pandora Film Produktion. Pandora Film’s Claudia Steffen, one of the co-producers of Berlin
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Competition title The Heiresses, revealed that the English-language film will be a co-production between Hamer’s BulBul Film, Pandora Film and Canada’s The Film Farm, with principal photo graphy planned for this summer on location in Manitoba and
North Rhine-Westphalia. Pandora Verleih will release the film theatrically in Germany in 2019. Described as “a bizarre and absurd look at Trump’s USA”, the $4.2m production is set in a small town in the Midwest with a declining population.
BERLIN BRIEFS SBS and Pathé join Virgin France’s Pathé Films has joined Paul Verhoeven’s anticipated nun tale Blessed Virgin alongside Said Ben Said’s SBS Productions. Pathé International will launch world sales in Cannes, while Pathé Films has taken French distribution rights.
CBS buys Strange But True CBS Films has acquired US rights to the Automatik and First Generation Films mystery-thriller Strange But True starring Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Nick Robinson and Margaret Qualley. Bankside Films handles international sales on Rowan Athale’s feature.
Dovlatov moves for Alpha Ahead of its premiere in Berlin Competition today, Alpha Violet has unveiled first sales on Russian director Alexey German Jr’s drama Dovlatov to China (Times Vision), Greece (Ama Films) and Estonia and Latvia (Estin Film).
Trier, Robsahm team up Norwegian director Joachim Trier and producer Thomas Robsahm are starting a new production company within Film Farms’ new corporate group. They will part ways with Motlys, which has produced Trier’s previous films.
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Breathtaking sales for TF1 BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW
TF1 Studio has announced brisk business on French actiondisaster thriller Just A Breath Away, starring Romain Duris and Olga Kurylenko. The film has sold to many territories, including Germany (Splendid Medien), Spain (Avalon), Switzerland (Pathé), Belgium (Distri7), Russia (Top Film) and Turkey (Ozen Film). Mars Films is releasing the film in France this April. It’s produced by Nicolas Duval (Intouchables) with Guillaume Colboc, Guillaume Lemans and Christian Larouche.
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Carnaby launches post and VFX fund BY TOM GRATER
UK sales and production outfit Carnaby International has launched a joint-venture with production facilities provider Focus24 that will see the companies team up on a £12m post-production and VFX fund. Mark Foligno, former managing director of London post-production
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be able to apply for funding to cover post and VFX costs in return for equity. “The hope is to attract top creative filmmaking talent,” said Carnaby CEO Andrew Loveday. “The new fund will provide a vital resource for independent filmmakers, who often struggle to finance costly VFX and run out of funds before post.”
Haley Bennett (left), who co-starred in The Girl On The Train, and Matthias Schweighöfer (Kursk) are in talks for key roles in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance, in which Jesse Eisenberg will play legendary mime artist Marcel Marceau. The film details his role in the French Resistance during the Second World War. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing with Pantaleon, is selling it at this week’s EFM.
Bedlam steps into Breach BY TOM GRATER
Gur Benshemesh (Narrated By) will direct sci-fi thriller Breach for Gareth EllisUnwin’s Bedlam Productions (The King’s Speech) and GFM Films, which is launching the project to buyers this week. Shooting will commence this summer in Belgium in co-production with uMedia.
The film follows a space crew on a 16-year mission. Medical officer Sam Limkin uses a camera droid to record the expedition but, when an alien insect dies, a pathogen is accidentally released. What follows is recorded by the droid. Crew include Oscarnominated DoP Dan
Arclight takes shine to Tilt and Ederlezi Rising BY JEREMY KAY
Arclight Films has boarded sales on sci-fi romance Ederlezi Rising and mindbending thriller Tilt, both of which are available to EFM buyers this week. The film, directed by Lazar Bodroza, about a cosmonaut who falls for a female android, screens in EFM. Sebastian Cavazza and US porn star Stoya star.
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Arclight CEO Gary Hamilton’s team are also handling international sales on Tilt, the Tribeca 2017 premiere that The Orchard will distribute in North America later this year. “This festival favourite has shocked audiences across North America, and we are thrilled to share it with our international partners,” Hamilton said.
Laustsen (The Shape Of Water), VFX producer Tim Field (Ex Machina) and Cliff Wallace (World War Z), who handles creature effects. “We fell in love with Breach from the first meeting,” said Ellis-Unwin. “It offers something very different for the audience.”
Starline plays Piano Starline Entertainment has taken worldwide rights to Michal Sulima’s documentary Piano To Zanskar, which follows a 65-year-old London piano tuner’s efforts to take a 100-year-old instrument to a school in the Himalayas. The soundtrack is by Werner Herzog collaborator Ernst Reijseger. Wendy Mitchell
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Global steps into Baghdad Global Screen has bagged the international sales rights for Baghdad In My Shadow. Currently in post-production, the film is directed by Samir, whose documentary Iraqi Odyssey (2014) was the Swiss foreign-language Oscar entry. The deal was inked by producer Joël Jent and Global Screen’s Anke Beining-Wellhausen. The Swiss-German-UK co-production is an English-language tale and unfolds in a London café where Iraqi expats work. The cast includes Haytham Abdulrazaq, Zahraa Ghandour, Kerry Fox and Meriam Abbas. Geoffrey Macnab
EFB inks deal to back bigger-budget films BY TOM GRATER
Completion bond outfit European Film Bonds (EFB) has struck a partnership with insurance firm Inter Hannover that it said will see the company guarantee bigger-budget films. Recent projects bonded by EFB include Idris Elba’s Yardie and Chanya Button’s upcoming Vita & Virginia. The company is
now planning to increase the number of projects it takes on and expand its staff. Inter Hannover is owned by Hannover Re, the thirdlargest reinsurance company in the world, with a gross premium of around $19.9bn. Nina Crone, who oversees bonding activity from EFB’s Copenhagen office, newly appointed MD
of EFB’s London office Sudie Smyth and production executive Simon Bosanquet are all attending the EFM. Separately, EFB has also secured financial backing from investment firm Sape Group. Upcoming projects handled by EFB include Secrets From The Russian Tea Room and Guns Akimbo.
First Hand grabs Aboriginal doc Outlines BY GEOFFREY MACNAB
Switzerland-based doc specialist First Hand Films is to handle sales on Outlines, the new feature documentary from Larm Film, the outfit behind
Oscar contender Last Men In Aleppo. The film, directed by Jannik Splidsboel and looking at the battle for Aboriginal rights in Australia, is now in production.
First Hand’s other pickups include David Aronowitsch’s Yasir, about refugees stranded in Greece, and Sahra Mosawi’s Obstinate, about an Afghan woman indicting her father for incest.
SAILING AWAY LA-based Premiere Entertainment Group is touting worldwide rights here to JK Simmons family comedy A Boy Called Sailboat and horror thriller You’re Not Alone. Cameron Nugent makes his feature directorial debut on A Boy Called Sailboat, which also stars Jake Busey. Jeremy Kay
Epic adds Passenger, Flavor BY JEREMY KAY
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Black 47 Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan ‘Black 47’ is a familiar term in Ireland for the worst year of the potato famine, in which over a million people died and more than 2 million were displaced. Lance Daly’s film is the first to deal with the traumatising events of the mid1800s, and it will play best at home, where the context is widely understood and still haunts the country today. Using the ‘Great Hunger’ as a backdrop for a revenge western is an interesting way to exorcise old ghosts, but the end result drains pathos from the tragedy while muting its The Proposition-style genre elements. Thanks to its subject matter, Daly’s ambitious film may secure US interest, even though it’s couched partially in Gaelic as Feeney (Animal Kingdom’s James Frecheville), who has taken ‘the king’s shilling’ to fight in Afghanistan for the British Army, returns to Connemara to find his mother has died of starvation, his brother has been hanged, and his starving sister-in-law (Sarah Greene) and children are hanging on to life by a thread. When that thread finally snaps, it’s no surprise that the silent-butdeadly Feeney is provoked into a campaign of bloody retribution that will surge through the local constabulary and clergy, all the way to the local British landowner, Lord Kilmichael (Jim Broadbent, in full aristo-sneer mode). Meanwhile, Hugo Weaving plays Hannah, a drunken British inspector and former colleague of Feeney’s in Kabul who is tasked with tracking him down. The necessities of the revenge drama sit uncomfortably beside scenes of abject starvation in this film, which plays out of Competition at the Berlinale before opening the Dublin Film Festival. Although Black 47 isn’t arthouse friendly — being over-lit and under-nuanced — it is intermittently effective on a visual level. Shot on location in Connemara (the Wild West of Ireland), wide, windswept vistas give way to thatched cottages, but there’s a flat, TV-value air to the picture. It’s left to the actors to carry Daly’s shifting tones — Frecheville is particularly effective despite being mostly mute, while Weaving is solid in everything except his British accent. Broadbent and Rea, hardy veterans both, are most at ease in roles that convey the film’s underlying message with greater effect than the leads.
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OUT OF COMPETITION Ire-Lux. 2018. 100mins Director Lance Daly Production company Fastnet Films International sales Altitude Film Sales info@altitudefilment.com Producers Macdara Kelleher, Tim O’Hair, Arcadiy Golubovich, Jonathan Loughran Screenplay PJ Dillon, Pierce Ryan, Eugene O’Brien, Lance Daly Cinematography Declan Quinn Production design Waldemar Kalinowski Main cast Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford, Sarah Greene, Jim Broadbent
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Fifty-something Chela (Ana Brun) has retreated from the world. Born into wealth but now mired in debt, she suffers the humiliation of watching her heirlooms being pawed by potential buyers through the crack of a nearly closed door. Leaving the grubby financial practicalities to her outgoing life partner Chiquita (Margarita Irun), Chela sits at her easel, dabbing reproachfully at a small abstract canvas. Then Chiquita is sent to prison for fraud and Chela is forced to cope on her own. This accomplished first feature from Marcelo Martinessi combines commentary on class in Paraguay with a piercing character study, and favours a low-key approach that may not connect with audiences geared towards bold directorial statements. There is much to admire here, however. An acting prize for the mesmerising Brun is possible, and this would certainly give the film a boost following its premiere in Competition in Berlin, and further festival berths seem assured. In a role initially shrouded in an aggrieved silence and later with a watchful reserve, Brun conveys much of her performance with her eyes. The elegantly arched eyebrow and cool, appraising glance tell us much about the pride and entitlement of Chela. While other women in her rarefied social circle trade gossip, Chela silently judges. With Chiquita in prison, Chela is adrift. But after driving her elderly neighbour Pituca (Maria Martins), she finds work ferrying wealthy women of a certain age to and from card games in her solid Mercedes. Music is used sparsely but with wit — as Chela eases the car cautiously down the drive for the first time, a Tchaikovsky symphony works into a frenzy of disproportionate anticipation. It is through her driving that Chela meets Angy (Ana Ivanova). Younger than Chela, she is luxuriantly at ease with her own sexuality. Basking in Angy’s attention, Chela blossoms. The camera clings close, capturing the nervous flicker of Chela’s lashes as she snatches glances at the other woman’s lithe body.
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The Bookshop Reviewed by Demetrios Matheou It’s possible to imagine a film having fun with a bookshop — contriving a confluence of bookish obsessives, romantics and academics, their myriad stories and relationships crackling to life amid the shelves. Yet few have mined the possibilities, and Isabel Coixet certainly has nothing upbeat in mind with her adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1978, Booker Prize-nominated novel. Set in 1959, it tells how the small-minded burghers of an English coastal town conspire against its bookshop, whose owner’s cultural presumption includes stocking Nabokov’s Lolita. Despite its pessimistic ending, Fitzgerald infused her story with satirical wit and colourful characters. For some reason, Coixet’s adaptation throws these elements away, leaving a moribund drama about the triumph of the smallminded. Despite winning two Goyas and an impressive performance at the Spanish box office, it’s unlikely that critical response will buoy its theatrical life internationally. After several “hazy years” of reading and grieving, the widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) decides to dust herself off and bring a long-held dream to life. She buys the ramshackle Old House in Hardborough, and opens a bookshop. However, retired general’s wife and self-styled town leader Mrs Gamart (Patricia Clarkson) has set her sights on making the Old House an arts centre. Unable to persuade Florence to sell, Gamart starts a campaign of rumours and skulduggery to force her hand. The shop succeeds, regardless, for a time, and Florence finds an unlikely ally in the form of the reclusive but exceedingly bookish Mr Brundish (Bill Nighy). But when Florence takes the risky decision to fill her window display with Lolitas, Gamart starts to turn the screw. In theory there’s plenty to engage: a critique of Little England philistinism, the arrival of provocative literature into a sleepy backwater, the revolt of a courageous woman against the establishment. Yet none of that comes to life in Coixet’s enervating treatment. The script is a stilted and airless stinker, with actors often stuck on pause and not even the silver-tongued Nighy able to coax more than a laugh or two. His melancholy sums up the film’s tone, which is maudlin bordering on amateurish. Even the inestimable Clarkson fails to find much beyond cartoon upper-class villainy. Most credit goes to Mortimer, who reliably exudes grace and quiet strength in adversity.
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SPECIAL Sp-Ger-UK. 2017. 113mins Director/screenplay Isabel Coixet, based on the novel by Penelope Fitzgerald Production companies Diagonal Televisió, A Contracorriente Films, Green Films, Zephyr Films International sales Celsius Entertainment in@celsiusentertainment. com Producers Joan Bas, Jaume Banacolocha, Adolfo Blanco, Chris Curling Executive producers Albert Sagalés, Manuel Monzón, Paz Recolons, Fernando Riera Cinematography Jean Claude Larrieu Production design Llorenç Miquel Main cast Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson, James Lance, Honor Kneafsey, Frances Barber, Jorge Suquet, Charlotte Vega, Hunter Tremayne, Reg Wilson
Teenage angst is one of the dependable universals of modern movie culture, and although Isao Yukisada’s River’s Edge gives the theme a distinctively Japanese spin, there’s enough familiar about this intermittently gripping ensemble drama to leave you thinking: it’s all just a phase they’re going through. The source is an early 1990s manga series by Kyoko Okazaki, and although there’s no direct connection with the 1986 US film of the same name, the theme — a shared secret of a dead body — is close enough to suggest that Tim Hunter’s movie must have influenced the comic. The cleverly constructed drama, acted by a charismatic young cast, is absorbing as it builds, but once things hit a climax there are few surprises. After opening the Berlin Panorama, this watchable retro piece from Yukisada (Crying Out Love In The Center Of The World, Narratage) is unlikely to make waves beyond Japan. Set in an industrial waterside area of Tokyo in 1994, the story revolves around a group of variously troubled highschoolers. The film’s emotional centre is Haruna (Fumi Nikaidou), a strong-spirited young woman seen rescuing a young man from a locker where he’s been bound and gagged, naked. He’s Ichiro (Ryo Yoshizawa), the moody outsider who is being victimised by Haruna’s rebellious boyfriend Kannonzaki (Shuhei Uesugi). Behind Haruna’s back, Kannonzaki is meeting up for kinky sex with class vamp Rumi (Shiori Doi), whose private life brings home the film’s highly conservative message that young sex is the royal road to big trouble. Ichiro confides in Haruna, telling her that he’s secretly gay, only dating ingenue Kanna (Aoi Morikawa) as a front. As if these characters didn’t have enough woe to keep them busy, trouble is on the horizon, signalled by Ichiro showing Haruna a corpse that only he knows about, mouldering in a field of long grass by the river. The pair eventually bury it, but the very same spot later becomes the scene for a violent incident that will bring the slow-burning story to a dramatic climax. Most of the characters are more or less archetypes, brought to life by nuanced acting. Sumire and Nikaido emerge best, although other cast members are highly effective. The film’s most individual card is Kenji Maki’s atmospheric cinematography in Academy ratio, which makes the best use of the sinister grassland and the smoke-belching chimneys across the river.
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Jap. 2018. 118mins Director Isao Yukisada Production company Thefool International sales Kino Films maki-shimizu@kinofilms.jp Producers Shinji Ogawa, Takahiro Yoshizawa, Shunsuke Koga, Tsuyoshi Sugiyama Screenplay Misaki Setoyama Cinematography Kenji Maki Production design Takahisa Taguchi Main cast Fumi Nikaidou, Ryo Yoshizawa, Aoi Morikawa, Shuhei Uesugi, Sumire, Shiori Doi
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303 Reviewed by Nikki Baughan In another film, the premise of a single girl picking up a male hitchhiker would lead down a more treacherous road. But in Hans Weingartner’s 303, it’s the starting point for a journey of romantic discovery which — while occasionally skirting close to darker issues — plays like a charming, if meandering, meet-cute road movie. Weingartner is perhaps best known for The Edukators which, buoyed by its Palme d’Or nomination and critical praise, enjoyed international distribution. 303 is unlikely to strike such a universal chord, although its charming leads and attractive visuals should secure further festival attention following its Berlin Generation 14plus premiere. An overlong running time (this is a festival cut, but is available at a shorter 125 minutes for the marketplace) will be the main stumbling block for distributors, but there’s much to enjoy in this intelligent tale of young romance. 303 (named after the ageing Mercedes camper van which acts as the film’s main setting) centres around Berlin university students Jule (Mala Emde) and Jan (Anton Spieker), who both struggle to cope with life’s curveballs. An unplanned pregnancy by an unreliable boyfriend throws biologist Jule into emotional turmoil, while a missed scholarship and phone call from the Spanish father he never knew does the same for political science major Jan. Jule decides to drive to Portugal to confront her boyfriend who is working there and, when she stops for fuel, bumps into Jan, who is attempting to hitchhike to Spain to meet his dad. Jule offers him a lift. There are echoes of When Harry Met Sally in this premise of two strangers thrown together by a road trip, developing a friendship that threatens to spill into something more; a scene in which Jule describes a restaurant dish as ‘orgasmic’ its most obvious nod. But 303 takes itself far more seriously, with the pair spending most of their trip debating such weighty issues as consumerism, war and drug addiction. Contradictions and coincidences are leant on rather heavily in the screenplay — Jule’s hippyish beliefs rub up against Jan’s cynicism, while her pregnancy is played for dramatic convenience — and the narrative sometimes stalls because of it. Yet the endearing performances from Emde and Spieker keep the plot moving forward and, as virtually the only two people on screen, they succeed in drawing the viewer into their journey.
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Ger. 2018. 145mins Director Hans Weingartner Production company Kahuuna Films International sales Global Screen info@globalscreen.de Producer Hans Weingartner Executive producer Luis Singer Screenplay Hans Weingartner, Silke Eggert Cinematography Mario Krause, Sebastian Lempe Production design Ricarda Schwarz Main cast Mala Emde, Anton Spieker, Arndt SchweringSohnrey, Thomas Schmuckert, Jörg Bundschuh, Steven Lange, Martin Neuhaus, Hannah Schröder
If the intricacies of football’s offside rule are beyond you, then Infinite Football (Fotbal Infinit) could prove challenging. The second feature-length documentary from Corneliu Porumboiu charts his friend Laurentiu Ginghina’s obsessive quest to revolutionise football and develop a more harmonious game where the ball moves more and the players move less. Porumbiou’s name could secure further festival play for what is a decidedly niche venture. In 1986, Ginghina was kicked in the leg while playing football, breaking his right fibula. The following year, he broke his tibia at work. The second injury was a direct result of the first and completely changed the course of his life. Ginghina eventually concluded that the blame for his misfortune lay not with his aggressive opponent or himself, but with the game of football itself. Ever since, he has been devising ways of improving the beautiful game. We learn all of this as Porumbiou chats to Ginghina at the sites of the injuries, at work and at home. The director is present throughout the documentary, prompting his friend with the odd question, but generally content to play silent witness to the flowing monologues rather than challenge him or offer much in the way of commentary. Ginghina offers extensive testimony about his many inspired notions to change how the game is played, from octagonal pitches to teams that are split into sub-teams with players who would no longer be allowed to cross the midfield line. He illustrates his often harebrained ideas with flip charts, boards and even an attempt to play a game under his own rules. There are welcome digressions in which Ginghina considers the roads untravelled, including employment on an orange farm in Florida. We see him at work as a bureaucrat trying to assist an elderly woman still seeking to regain possession of her land 27 years after the Romanian revolution. There is a possibility that the vicissitudes of Ginghina’s life provide some small window into events in Romanian society over the past 30 years — the factory where he once worked is now a derelict ruin, his hopes for Romania’s EU membership have dwindled into disappointment. No matter where the film may veer, everything eventually leads back to football and Ginghina’s belief that he has something in common with superheroes, leading the double life of an ordinary pen pusher by day and radical revolutionary of the sporting world by night.
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Grass Reviewed by Sarah Ward
Kissing Candice Reviewed by David D’Arcy A young woman battles her own nightmares and local thugs in Kissing Candice, a film in which director Aoife McArdle lurches around the language of the music video in a stylish feature debut. Coming of age in a depressed everytown on the Irish coast is Candice (Ann Skelly), a cocky and vulnerable a girl in the grip of seizures that blur into the chaos and lawlessness around her. Skelly’s impressive performance won’t get crowds to storm the box office, yet she and director/writer Aoife McArdle should attract attention for more ambitious projects in the future. In a script built more on image and atmosphere than on language, Candice is a 17-yearold trapped between an angry policeman father and the toughs who are terrorising her neighbourhood where a young boy has gone missing. The film unfolds as a series of outbursts, but it is unclear if they are the seizures Candice suffers or attacks from the gang that careens a car through the streets. Kissing Candice is built on images that evoke the director’s background in adverts and music videos, including U2’s ‘Every Breaking Wave’ (2014). Kissing Candice is an example of Irish filmmaking that skirts the roots of a literary tradition, eschewing extended dialogue and the language-bound conventions of theatre. The director is fortunate to have a young actress like Skelly, whose face conveys an emotional complexity that can sustain long close-ups. Amid the violent action, McArdle varies the rhythm with those long observant takes, as if she’s trying to challenge the limits of the short music video format. The film carries plenty of influences. Among them is the young Danny Boyle, as seen in the tactile camera, red-tinted filter, and throbbing music. Another presence that haunts Kissing Candice is Stephen King, who is called to mind in Candice’s seizures, in an ambiguously possessive policeman father and in the self-destructive bullies who prey on her family. In the cast, Ryan Lincoln, a young man who seems to emerge from one of Candice’s hallucinations, is a softening presence and a buffer between her and the gang. In this visual theme and variations (which can be dazzling) we have a stirring self-advertisement by a deft emerging image-maker. McArdle is certainly that. With more of a script, her visual fireworks could be more of a film.
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GENERATION 14PLUS Ire. 2017. 103mins Director/screenplay Aoife McArdle Production company Venom Films International sales Film Constellation info@filmconstellation. com Producers Andrew Freedman, Sally Campbell Cinematography Steve Annis Main cast Ann Skelly, Ryan Lincoln, Conall Keating, Ryan McParland, Catriona Ennis, John Lynch
Short, bittersweet and unsurprisingly soaked in soju, Hong Sangsoo’s Grass could double as a snapshot of his filmography; tales of life, love, connection, sorrow and yearning all unfurling in a café. Each of the filmmaker’s features may seem more archetypal than the last, but his 21st picture, bowing at Berlinale’s Forum, happily focuses Hong’s recognisable traits, themes and flourishes into a conversation-driven package. This time, he’s serving up an existentially-minded series of vignette-like chats between men and women. Indeed, Grass demonstrates a fresh type of playfulness from the prolific director. It’s a film filled with his usual intimacy, but it’s also one that’s purposefully more concerned with the bigger picture than the individual details. Names aren’t mentioned, relationships aren’t explained, and emotions, not incidents, fuel the discussion. The approach is engaging, aided by the film’s brisk 66-minute running time — although, while a more abstract, ruminative Hong feature is likely to intrigue existing fans, it’s ultimately destined to play best on the festival circuit. Brandishing his classic naturalistic style, Hong’s black-and-white film hops between conversations at the central alleyway coffee house, listening in — and zooming for emphasis where necessary, of course. On The Beach At Night Alone star and Berlin 2017 best actress winner Kim Minhee, in her fourth consecutive film for Hong, proves a distinctively solo figure amid the groups chatting over beverages. Writing at her laptop but quick to explain she’s not a writer, she’s happy spinning her eavesdropped snippets into her own commentary. Among her fellow patrons are a younger couple (Gong Minjeung and Ahn Jaehong) reconnecting after clear difficulties, and an older pair (Ki Joobong and Seo Younghwa) swapping dreams and disappointments. The men are all actors, and there’s more than one writer there. Unsurprisingly, Minhee stands out among the cast, though every player — many of them Hong regulars — really sells the emotion behind each conversation. That said, it’s the classical music (Schubert, Wagner and Offenbach, for example) paired with the majority of Grass’ discussions that has the biggest impact. The film might paint existence as cyclical, but each melodic tune offers a reminder of the beauty and variety in its ebbs and flows.
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Japan’s new horizons With a multitude of films in official selection, and new projects by Koji Fukada, Takahisa Zeze and Hirokazu Kore-eda in the market, Japan is primed for a buzzy Berlin. Liz Shackleton reports
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apanese films have been taking a more than 50% share of their local box office for the past decade but, as last year’s figures show, these strong results are heavily dependent on long-running anime franchises and occasional features from animation masters such as Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Hosoda and Makoto Shinkai. Of last year’s top 10 local releases, six were animated features — headed by the latest instalments in the Detective Conan and Doraemon series, which grossed $63m and $41m respectively. These two films were also the only local productions to register in the year-end top 10. Without a release from one of the anime greats, the market share of local films shrank to 55% on combined box office of $1.15bn, compared with a 63% share in 2016 when Shinkai’s Your Name singlehandedly grossed $215m. The highest-grossing live-action film last year was manga adaptation Gintama, which was considered a success with a gross of $35m, but paled in comparison to the biggest Hollywood liveaction title, Beauty And The Beast, which topped the year-end chart with $114m. It
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Inland Sea Screening in Forum, this black-andwhite documentary examines Japan’s ageing population through the story of a 90-year-old fisherman in the small harbour town of Minatomachi,
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Set against the backdrop of an industrialised coastal town, Tomina’s debut feature follows a young boy struggling with the recent disappearance of his father, who strikes up a friendship with a classmate.
who still takes his boat out every day on the Inland Sea that separates Honshu and Shikoku, two of Japan’s main islands. The film’s director, who also produced with Minatomachi native Kiyoko Kashiwagi, is a Forum regular with documentaries including Campaign (Senkyo), which played at Berlinale in 2007, and Seishin (Mental) in 2009. Contact Daisy Hamilton, TriCoast Worldwide daisyhamilton@tricoast.com
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was followed by Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, which grossed $68m, and Despicable Me 3 with $67m, while Detective Conan: The Crimson Love Letter came in fourth. The production of live-action films in Japan has long been polarised into bigbudget manga adaptations, financed through risk-averse production committees, and low-budget indies that can usually secure theatrical distribution in the country’s arthouse circuit, but struggle to recoup. As a result, there’s not much of a middle ground for commercially viable but still director-driven films with export potential — as is the case in neigbouring South Korea and, at least until recent years, in Hong Kong. Yet Japan has a consistently high profile on
After winning both the audience award and Hikari TV award at last year’s Pia Film Festival, Yamanaka’s debut feature is receiving its international premiere in Forum. The story revolves around a rebellious high school girl who leaves her provincial home town and heads to Tokyo after the boy she adores runs away. Her cynical and sometimes selfdeprecating inner monologue adds humour and substance to the film.
Few words are needed between the two boys who retreat into a world of dreams and monsters. London Film School graduate Tomina founded Tokyo-based production outfit Tetsuya to Mina Film with producer Mina Hatanaka. Blue Wind Blows is receiving its world premiere in Generation Kplus.
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Dir Yui Kiyohara Influenced by Bach fugues and the director’s mentor, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, this eerie drama unfolds in a small house by the ocean where two seemingly unrelated stories are taking place simultaneously, as if in parallel universes. The debut feature and graduation film of 26-year-old filmmaker Yui Kiyohara, who studied with Kurosawa, the film won the Grand Prize at last year’s Pia Film Festival, played at Tokyo International Film Festival and screens in Berlinale in Forum. Contact Pia Film Festival international@pff.jp »
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BERLINALE (CONTINUED) River’s Edge Dir Isao Yukisada Based on Kyoko Okazaki’s manga of the same name, River’s Edge is a comedy drama revolving around a high school girl and a bullied gay teen who make a gruesome discovery at a nearby river polluted by industrial waste. Fumi Nikaidou (Himizu) and Ryo Yoshizawa (Gintama) head the cast of the film, which opens theatrically in Japan on February 15 before receiving its international premiere in Berlin’s Panorama section. Yukisada’s recent credits include Narratage (2017) and an entry in the Roman Porno series Aroused By Gymnopedies (2016). Contact Maki Shimizu, Kino Films maki-shimizu@kinofilms.jp
Ryuichi Sakamoto: async At The Park Avenue Armory Dir Stephen Nomura Schible Following his intimate portrayal of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, which premiered at Venice last year, Stephen Nomura Schible
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recorded the Japanese composer’s two concerts at the Park Avenue Armory in New York in April 2017. The film, which screens in Berlinale Special, shows him in action with instruments including a piano without a lid, a guitar and a glass panel, while a huge ceiling-mounted screen translates his music into blackand-white images. Contact Doc & Film International sales@docandfilm.com
Yocho (Foreboding) Dir Kiyoshi Kurosawa The theatrical version of a Wowow miniseries with the same title, Kurosawa’s Yocho was conceived as a companion
piece to his last feature, sci-fi thriller Before We Vanish, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2017. Kaho, Shota Sometani, Masahiro Higashide and Ren Osugi head the cast of the film about a woman who finds a number of inexplicable things are happening around her — mirror surfaces are distorting, people’s behaviour changes and extreme weather is forecast — and realises the end of the world is nigh. After playing in Japan, the film screened at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Festival as part of a Kurosawa Master Class, and plays in Panorama at Berlin. Contact Aya Takagawa, Wowow aya.takagawa@wowow.co.jp
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the international film festival circuit, mostly due to the work of just five filmmakers who first emerged in the 1990s: Takashi Miike and the ‘4Ks’ of Naomi Kawase, Takeshi Kitano, Hirokazu Kore-eda and Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Kore-eda and Kitano both had films that premiered at Venice last year – Kore-eda’s courtroom drama The Third Murder went on to gross an encouraging, if not spectacular, $13m at the domestic box office in September, while Kitano’s Outrage Coda grossed $14.5m the following month. Kurosawa is attending Berlin with sci-fi thriller Yocho, a companion piece to his Cannes 2017 Un Certain Regard title Before We Vanish. But Japanese cinema needs a new wave to maintain its international profile — one that can escape the double bind of production committee restrictions or limited budgets. Encouragingly, there is evidence of a new outward-looking generation emerging. Filmmakers such as Koji Fukada and Daishi Matsunaga have started to work overseas in an attempt to escape home market constraints — Fukada with Japan-Indonesia-France co-production The Man From The Sea, and Matsunaga with Hawaii-set Hanalei Bay. Both films are in post-production. Isao Yukisada, whose manga adaptation River’s Edge premieres in Panorama, has also been looking further afield. In 2016, he directed a short film in Malaysia, using local cast and crew, for the Japan Foundation and Tokyo International Film Festival’s omnibus Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016: Reflections, designed to encourage Japanese filmmakers to work with their Asian neighbours. A second round of the initiative is currently in production, which sees Matsunaga shooting in Myanmar in March, while Indonesian filmmaker Edwin wrapped a short in Tokyo last month. This year could also see another Japanese anime mega-hit with Hosoda’s Mirai Of The Future, handled internationally by Paris-based Charades, which is scheduled for Japanese release on July 20. However, there will be a wait of another three to four years for Studio Ghibli’s How Do You Live?, the feature film that has brought Miyazaki out of retirement, much to the relief of both Japanese and international fans.
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EUROPEAN FILM MARKET The Blood Of Wolves Dir Kazuya Shiraishi Koji Yakusho (The Third Murder) and Tori Matsuzaka (Birds Without Names) star in this crime action title, based on a bestselling novel by Yuko Yuzuki. The story follows a rookie policeman who teams up with a veteran detective, rumoured to be working with the mob, to investigate a company that appears to be a front for organised crime. ( Directed by Shiraishi (Twisted Justice, Birds Without Names Names), the film is scheduled for Japanese release on May 12, 2018. Contact Daichi Yashiki, Toei dai_yashiki@toei.co.jp
The Forest Of Wool And Steel Dir Kojiro Hashimoto Based on the awardwinning novel of the same
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name, this musical coming-of-age drama tells the story of an apprentice piano tuner and his relationships with a mentor and his two piano-playing sisters. Starring Kento Yamazaki and Tomokazu Miura, the film is directed by Hashimoto, who scored a big hit with high school drama Orange in 2015. The Forest Of Wool And Steel is scheduled for Japanese release on June 8, 2018.
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Dir Masaharu Take Filmed in black-and-white, the latest drama from Take (100 Yen Love) follows a young man who finds a gun by a dead body. When his life becomes complicated, he becomes obsessed with using the gun. Nijiro Murakami, Alice Hirose and Lily Franky star. The Gun is in post and set for autumn release in Japan.
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Hanagatami Dir Nobuhiko Obayashi Based on a screenplay that he wrote before his 1977 cult horror film House, Obayashi’s Hanagatami completes his wartime trilogy that also includes Casting Blossoms To The Sky (2012) and Seven Weeks (2014). Set in 1941, the story follows a young man (Shunsuke Kubozuka) who shows up at the home of his aunt (Takako Tokiwa) where he flirts with the local girls and bonds with three classmates while war breaks out in the Pacific. The film premiered at last year’s Fukuoka International Film Festival before receiving a theatrical release in Japan in December.
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Laplace’s Witch Dir Takashi Miike Based on Japanese writer Keigo Higashino’s latest bestselling novel, this mystery thriller tells the story of a detective investigating the bizarre deaths of two people at two different hot springs resorts. A young woman who is accompanied by recurring supernatural phenomena appears to be connected to the deaths. Directed by Japanese genremeister Miike and starring Sho Sakurai (Yatterman) and Suzu Hirose (Our Little Sister), the film is currently in production for release in the second quarter of 2018. Contact Akihiro Takeda, Toho a_takeda@toho.co.jp
Laughing Under The Clouds Dir Katsuyuki Motohiro An adaptation of a manga that sold more than 1.2 million copies, this Samurai-era action title follows three brothers who are guardians of a sacred tomb. The trio unite to tackle a giant serpent and an evil ninja clan. Motohiro’s credits include the blockbuster Bayside Shakedown series, and his new film stars Sota Fukushi, Yuma Nakayama and Kirato Wakayama. Japanese release is scheduled for March 21, 2018. Contact Shion Komatsu, Shochiku shion_komatsu@shochiku.co.jp
The Man From The Sea
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a Japanese family working in Banda Aceh who find a man washed up on the beach. They take him in and discover that he understands some Japanese, but the local population become suspicious of him when he starts to perform miracles. Dean Fujioka, Taiga and Junko Abe head the cast of this Japanese and Bahasalanguage film, which is co-produced by Japan’s Nikkatsu, France’s Commes des Cinemas and Indonesia’s Kaninga Pictures. Fukada’s last feature Harmonium won the Un Certain Regard jury prize in Cannes in 2016. Contact Emico Kawai, Nikkatsu kawai@nikkatsu.co.jp
Maquia: When The Promised Flower Blooms Dir Mari Okada The directorial debut of anime screenwriter Okada (Anthem Of The Heart), this animated feature is set in a mystical land where people live for centuries while maintaining the appearance they had in their late teens. When they are invaded by an army seeking the secrets of long life, an
Dir Koji Fukada Filmed entirely in Indonesia, Fukada’s new drama revolves around
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orphaned girl escapes into the forest and adopts a baby with a human lifespan. Scheduled for Japanese release on February 24, the film will receive its international premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival in March. Contact Atsumi Shibata, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures isales@hakuhodody-map.jp
Mori, The Artist’s Habitat Dir Shuichi Okita Tsutomu Yamazaki plays reclusive 20thcentury artist Morikazu Kumagai in this biopic from director Okita, whose credits include Ecotherapy Getaway Holiday and The Woodsman And The Rain. Also starring veteran actress Kirin Kiki, the film is currently in postproduction for a 2018 release in Japan. Yamazaki worked regularly with Akira Kurosawa and later starred in films such as Juzo Itami’s Tampopo. Contact Emico Kawai, Nikkatsu kawai@nikkatsu.co.jp
My Friend ‘A’ Dir Takahisa Zeze Based on a novel by Gaku Yakumaru, Zeze’s drama follows an ex-journalist working at a factory after one of his articles resulted in a fatality, who discovers that his colleague is a former convict who killed some children back in
middle school. While befriending him in an attempt to write an article and get his job back, the journalist is haunted by memories of his own school days when he triggered the suicide of a classmate. Toma Ikuta (Close-Knit) and Eita (Dear Doctor) head the cast of the film, which is currently in post-production for Japanese release in May 2018. Contact Haruko Watanabe, Gaga watanabh@gaga.co.jp
Shoplifters Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda Returning to family drama after his courtroom drama The Third Murder, Kore-eda is shooting a story about a father and son from a poor family who take in a girl they find freezing on the streets after one of their shoplifting sessions. Ando Sakura (100 Yen Love), Lily Franky and Kirin Kiki head the cast of the film, which is produced by Gaga Corp, Fuji Television Network and AOI Pro. Gaga will also release the film theatrically in Japan in June 2018. Contact Haruko Watanabe, Gaga watanabh@gaga.co.jp (Asian territories); Fanny Beauville, Wild Bunch fbeauville@wildbunch.eu
What A Wonderful Family 3: My Wife, My Life Dir Yoji Yamada The third instalment in Yamada’s hit comedy series revolves around a housewife’s rebellion. When her husband berates her for saving money that is then stolen by an intruder, the feisty matriarch walks out and leaves the family to fend for themselves. Yui Natsukawa and Masahiko Nishimura play the quarrelling couple while Isao Hashizume, Satoshi Tsumabuki and Yu Aoi provide support. Contact Shion Komatsu, Shochiku shion_komatsu@shochiku.co.jp
When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends To Be Dead Dir Toshio Lee In 2010, an unfortunate netizen in Japan asked Yahoo! Answer for advice about his wife who was faking her own death every night when he came home from work. Was she bored? Was this a cry for help? The question went viral before inspiring a hit song, a bestselling manga and now this live-action feature film directed by Lee (Detroit Metal City). Nana Eikura (The Floating Castle) and Ken Yasuda (The Actor) head the cast of the film, which is scheduled for Japanese release on June 8. Contact Yasushi Miyamae, Colobird s ymiyamae@colorbird.co.jp ■
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SPOTLIGHT EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS 2018
Star power
The 10 young European actors selected for this year’s Shooting Stars initiative are in town to meet the global film industry. Orlando Parfitt introduces the 2018 crop of rising talent
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hile young acting talent is spotlighted annually by initiatives such as Bafta’s Rising Star award and Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow, European Film Promotion’s (EFP) Shooting Stars programme is the most visible celebration of next-generation thespian talent allied to an A-list film festival. Each year, 10 young European actors are awarded the Shooting Star accolade at the Berlinale, a five-person jury having selected the winners from submissions by the 37 EFP member countries.
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The recipients travel to Berlin to meet producers, casting directors and other film industry figures, and are feted at a ceremony at the Berlinale Palast, which this year takes place on Monday February 19. This year’s line-up includes UK Screen Star Of Tomorrow Michaela Coel, Norway’s Thelma star Eili Harboe, Hungary’s Réka Tenki, who appeared in last year’s Berlin Golden Bear winner On Body And Soul, and Germany’s Franz Rogowski, whose credits include Happy End and Victoria, and who stars in Berlinale 2018 selections In The Aisles and Transit.
The award has been running since 1998, and has honoured major stars down the years including Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Carey Mulligan, Cécile de France, Domhnall Gleeson, Maria Valverde, Daniel Brühl, Riz Ahmed and Baltasar Kormakur. The 2018 Shooting Stars jury comprised former winner Eduardo Noriega, director Mijke de Jong, casting director and ICDN member Nicole Schmied, Croatian producer Ankica Juric Tilic and Norwegian s film critic and arts editor Mode Steinkjer. ■
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2018 EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS
Alba August SWEDEN Credits Becoming Astrid (2018), The Rain (2018), A Serious Game (2016) “Going from one big project to another without having a single day off is really tough. You need time to get into a character, get close to a role. I shot Becoming Astrid and got thrown into The Rain, and my process was the opposite: I played the character, and it’s now that I understand the character.”
Michaela Coel UK Credits Chewing Gum (2015-2017), Been So Long (2018), Black Mirror (2016-2017) “My biggest inspiration is injustice. For me, at the crux of every story, of every character worth fictionalising within any genre, is injustice. It’s the thing I look for as it helps me empathise: to place my feet in the shoes of a fictional character and do my best to embody them.”
Matilda De Angelis ITALY Credits Youtopia (2017), Italian Race (2016), Tutto Puo Succedere (2015-2016) “My biggest challenge was Youtopia, directed by Berardo Carboni, where I play a young woman who decides to sell her virginity online. It was difficult, and I had to get comfortable with my naked body and my deepest fears.”
Eili Harboe NORWAY Credits Thelma (2017), The Wave (2015) “What’s important to me when it comes to acting is that the character is complex and strong, and that the story is meaningful in some way, whether it’s a main role or a supporting part. As a young actress, I feel a responsibility to do so. [Also] I really want to keep writing and work as a curator, and maybe put on an exhibition.”
Irakli Kvirikadze GEORGIA Credits Hostages (2017) “I get inspiration from everything, mostly by absorbing people and myself. I love watching my sister; she is only six and gives me a great deal of truthful emotions — that inspires me a lot. Children are a great source of inspiration.”
Franz Rogowski GERMANY Credits In The Aisles (2018), Transit (2018), Happy End (2017), Victoria (2015) “What’s my biggest inspiration? Silence.”
Matteo Simoni BELGIUM Credits Callboys (2016), Safety First (2013-2014), Marina (2013) “Every so often, I get this weird feeling that Belgium is maybe a little too small for me. I want to meet new people who amaze me with their imagination, creativity and vision. Directors who challenge and inspire me, and who make me achieve things I didn’t know I had in me.”
Jonas Smulders NETHERLANDS Credits Broers (2017), The Dinner (2013), Even Cowboys Get To Cry (2013) “I have the strong ambition to make my own films. I am currently in my first year of the Dutch Film Academy, studying directing. Besides that, I would love to play challenging new roles in all sorts of countries around the world. I want to expand my view and vision about what filmmaking really includes and is about.”
Réka Tenki HUNGARY Credits On Body And Soul (2017), Budapest Noir (2017), The Door (2012) “After graduating from the University of Theatre and Film Art Budapest, I had to understand what my job really meant. That I had to give a product every evening to the audience. I still enjoy this feeling.” (Back row, left to right) Irakli Kvirikadze, Luna Wedler, Franz Rogowski, Jonas Smulders, Réka Tenki, Matteo Simoni (Front row, left to right) Eili Harboe, Michaela Coel, Matilda De Angelis, Alba August
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Luna Wedler SWITZERLAND Credits Das Schönste Mädchen Der Welt (2018), Blue My Mind (2017), Flitzer (2017) “Blue My Mind was my biggest challenge so far. I knew I had to do this role. There were a lot of scenes where I had no idea how to play it. But when we were shooting, soon it wasn’t me any more, it was my character. At that point, I felt safe.”
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IN FOCUS EUROPA INTERNATIONAL
Power of the collective From addressing sexual harassment to the challenge of platforms and China, Europa International board members Susan Wendt, Jean-Christophe Simon and Daniela Elstner talk about the organisation’s growing remit in a time of seismic change for sales. Melanie Goodfellow reports
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he atmosphere among Europe’s sales agents may be competitive along the hallways of the MartinGropius-Bau this EFM, but behind the scenes they are increasingly coming together in the face of the seismic developments affecting their business. One sign of this is the rising membership of Europa International, which has doubled in number to 48 companies since its formation during the 2011 Berlinale. “It’s an agitated but exciting environment for sales,” comments Films Boutique CEO Jean-Christophe Simon, who took over as president of the European sales agent network last November. “There are a lot of changes taking place in distribution. There is the question of the platforms, which are changing our work and sometimes causing us to come on board projects much earlier; and there is China, which is becoming an increasingly big market for us. These are our main focus.” The organisation is also involved in discussions over the European Union’s future strategy for the cultural and audiovisual sectors, with the current $1.8bn (¤1.46bn) Creative Europe programme due to end in 2020. One of the body’s triumphs has been securing more Creative Europe-backed support for European sales agents, but it is unclear in what form this will continue post-2020. “When we began, no one was lobbying for us. Creative Europe funding for sales agents was very low,” says Susan Wendt, TrustNordisk sales director and Europa International vice president. “We’ve managed to raise the lump sum for the sales agents, and open up discussions on what the future holds. It’s a world that is changing all the time. What was good in terms of funding yesterday might not be good tomorrow.”
(From left) Susan Wendt, TrustNordisk, Jean-Christophe Simon, Films Boutique and Daniela Elstner, Doc & Film International
Tales of Europe during the annual Art House Convergence meeting in Utah. Under the latter initiative, Europa International has teamed up with Europa Cinemas, the network of European exhibitors, and France-based content delivery platform EclairPlay to make a package of 10 recent European films with festival
Discussing the future These developments, as well as the topical issue of sexual harassment in the film industry (see box), were all on the agenda of Europa International’s general assembly at the EFM this week. But it’s not all talk. The body has also spearheaded a dozen practical projects since its creation, ranging from simple initiatives such as devising a universal submission form for festivals to cut down on paperwork, to the launch in January of
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histories available to arthouse cinemas across the US. The line-up includes French director Gael Morel’s Catch The Wind, Polish filmmaker Jan P Matuszynski’s The Last Family and Men Don’t Cry by Bosnia’s Alen Drljevic. “There’s a lot of interest from arthouse cinemas in the US for European films but it can be complicated for
ACTION ON HARASSMENT
This Berlin will see the launch of sexual-harassment initiative Speak Up! As the MeToo! movement gathered pace in the US late last year, a number of European sales executives came forward to talk about their experiences of sexual harassment on the festival and market circuit. It became apparent their accounts were just the tip of the iceberg. Berlin will see the launch of a European campaign called Speak Up! to support those affected by sexual harassment in the film industry and stamp it out for future generations. The initiative has been spearheaded by Doc & Film’s Daniela Elstner, who was one of the first European sales agents to break her silence, with the endorsement of Europa International. “We want to say that we as European professionals are against any kind of sexual harassment in our business,” she says.
The campaign kicks off with the launch of a website showing guidelines on what are and what are not acceptable duties and requests, plus contact details for organisations offering support for victims of sexual harassment. The long-term goal is to set up a counselling service, a festival and markets hotline providing legal advice and workshops to educate staff as they enter the industry. “The most important thing is to set basic guidelines for young people coming into this industry,” comments TrustNordisk sales chief Susan Wendt. Elstner will unveil more details during the Closing The Gap seminar on gender equality on February 17, organised by the Swedish Film Institute and the German and Nordic branches of Women in Film and Television.
them to access them, either because they don’t know the sales companies or because of the expense of the DCP,” explains Simon. Doc & Film International CEO Daniela Elstner, who is its treasurer, adds that the long-term goal is to foster new audiences for European cinema in the US. She highlights the fact Europa International has paid close attention to the US ever since its creation. “We’ve always tried to be one step ahead,” she explains.
‘We don’t see platforms as the enemy. We’re happy to change’ Jean-Christophe Simon, Films Boutique
“We were discussing VoD and SVoD long before big platforms came along. As the US was where this took off first, it was only natural to invite US speakers to talk about their experiences.” One of the US attendees in the early days was Ted Hope, who moderated the first conference, although he has not been back since being appointed head of film production at Amazon Studios. “We have regular informal conversations with the platforms,” says Simon. “We don’t see them as the enemy. They are challenging us, asking us to change and we’re happy to — it’s just another s way of working.” ■
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La Quietud
Argentina’s embrace As its filmmakers continue to make an international impact and its industry confronts creative and economic challenges, Argentina looks poised to become a major global player. Jeremy Kay reports
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ach year, Argentina’s fecund creative landscape continues to bear fruit. It was in 2015 that Damian Szifron’s crossover hit Wild Tales earned an Oscar nomination, momentum that Pablo Trapero rode with the release of The Clan, another internationally renowned feature that delivered the biggest ever opening for a locally produced film in Argentina. Somewhere between then and now, Gaston Duprat’s The Distinguished Citizen took Venice by storm and Lucrecia Martel wowed critics with her brooding Zama. Now, Duprat and Trapero are poised to return in 2018 with their latest works — two films among a handful of anticipated features set to grace the circuit. Duprat is back with Mi Obra Maestra, which stars The Clan’s Guillermo Francella as a gallery owner up to no good. Trapero’s La Quietud stars Berenice Bejo and Martina Gusman in a family drama that once again sees the auteur tap into Argentina’s ominous recent past. Elsewhere, Juan Vera, artistic director at production titan Patagonik, directs Argentinian superstar Ricardo Darin in
A thriving local industry has refused to allow Argentina’s troubled economy to get in the way of its storytelling ambition marital drama Love At Last Sight, while Oscar-winning Birdman cowriter Armando Bo represents a younger vanguard with his thriller Animal (which also stars Francella). And stalwart Argentinian actress Valeria Bertuccelli makes her feature directorial debut as a doyenne with stage fright in Sundance hit The Queen Of Fear, telling Screen International in these pages that she enjoyed herself so much she cannot wait to do it again. Behind the talent and creative vision lies a thriving local industry (Right) Guillermo Francella in Animal
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that has consistently refused to allow Argentina’s troubled economy to get in the way of its storytelling ambition. One example of an enduring business success story is Polar Star, the blue-chip distributor of commercial independent Hollywood content to the Latin American pay-TV sector that remains as vital as ever 27 years after its launch. Co-owner Cristian Sessa grew up watching his father and company founder, celebrated Argentinian industry icon Alejandro Sessa, produce Highlander II: The Quickening and forge a long collaboration with none other than indie pioneer Roger Corman. No w, S e s s a
and his company are facing new challenges at a time when the streaming giants are laying down roots in the region and impacting on the way content is consumed and dispersed to audiences. Yet, as he tells Screen International, an in-depth knowledge of the local industry and consumer habits ensures he continues to run a business that remains compelling and enterprising. Such vision and resolve are to be admired, and Polar Star is one of several companies that are beating a path through the tangled undergrowth of Argentina’s particular challenges, as well as negotiating the broader macroeconomics of the ever-evolving content business. Screen International has previously examined efforts to establish Argentina’s first film tax incentive. We do not return to that subject in this focus — however, the need for a robust and efficient system of state support remains as urgent as ever, particularly at a time when Argentinian talent from all sectors is making a serious impact on the inters » national stage. ■
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Face down your fear Argentinian actress Valeria Bertuccelli tells Jeremy Kay why she was finally ready to make her directorial debut with The Queen Of Fear ‘I have always liked the idea of fear as a motivator, observing it cautiously in myself and in other people’ Valeria Bertuccelli
gets worse as the premiere approaches. But — only a few minutes later — this feeling fades away and another one takes over: I am then the happiest person in the world.
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rgentinian screen doyenne Valeria Bertuccelli has wowed audiences for years, working with the likes of Juan Jose Campanella and Daniel Burman, and winning the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Science’s best actress prize for A Boyfriend For My Mother in 2008, among other accolades. In January, Bertuccelli premiered her directorial debut The Queen Of Fear, codirected with Fabiana Tiscornia, at Sundance. She won the special jury award for acting in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition for her role as an actress who nervously counts down the days to the start of her one-woman show. Argentina’s Rei Cine and Patagonik teamed up with Denmark’s Snowglobe on the drama, which earned strong reviews at Park City and combines moments of absurdist comedy with dark passages of psychological introspection. International sales are handled by Visit Films.
the idea of fear as a motivator. I have been an interested observer of the emotion of fear, observing it cautiously in myself and in other people. Fear is like a strong blow; we vibrate when we feel it. Four years ago, I started writing unconnected scenes around this idea and then I managed to put the screenplay together.
What made you want to make your directorial debut with this particular story? For many wonderful years, I’ve been working very hard as an actress to embody the passions, thoughts and stories written by others. It has always been challenging and rewarding. But, some time ago, I started feeling a need to try directing for myself. I have always liked
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Do you suffer from stage fright in your own career? When I’m working on a play, I arrive at the theatre several hours in advance. I walk around on my own, mumbling, suffering. It
ONE-TO-ONE BENJAMIN DOMENECH, PRODUCER When did Rei Cine come on board and how was the film funded? We came on board in late 2016. Valeria had a very advanced script and we worked on final details with her as we began rounding up the rest of the cast and starting finance. Benjamin Domenech We then shaped up an alliance with Argentinian company Patagonik [following a successful collaboration on Lucrecia Martel’s Zama] and we were lucky to have [Argentinian TV host and producer] Marcelo Tinelli as a strategic partner on the film. The rest of the finance was completed with local INCAA [National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts] support and Buenos
Aires’ tax incentive scheme. Visit Films then came on board during Ventana Sur 2017 [in Buenos Aires]. We had a very successful experience with them on Berlinale 2014 Competition title History Of Fear, and they had a strong interest in supporting Valeria’s career.
What is the creative community in Argentina like for filmmakers? There seems to be so much talent coming out of the country. We are lucky to have a very strong literary and filmic tradition. Fortunately, there is a rise of women filmmakers, many of whom we work with, that is slowly evening out the current landscape of Argentinian film.
When and where did the film shoot? We shot most of the film in winter in Buenos Aires. As a location, we used a modern house with a Valeria gigantic garden. This Bertuccelli was a must for me — a wild, dark garden, beautiful during the day and with menace at night. Then we went to Copenhagen to shoot the summer scenes of [the protagonist’s] sudden trip. We wanted a super-developed city, very light, with broad parks and an overall slick feeling. What was it like to direct yourself and how did you strike the right tonal balance? It was hilarious. Sometimes it looked as if I was suffering from some sort of mental disorder. I went step-by-step, scene-byscene. If that went OK, the comedy and the drama would be good catalysts for the character to reveal herself. Which films would you regard as milestones in your career so far? Silvia Prieto and The Magic Gloves (Los Guantes Magicos) by Martin Rejtman had a lasting influence on me. They have the elegant, sophisticated humour I like best. I also enjoyed Luna De Avellaneda (Avellaneda’s Moon) by Juan Jose Campanella and Un Novio Para Mi Mujer (A Boyfriend For My Wife) by Juan Taratuto. Will you direct again? Yes. I have learned so much doing this film that I can only think about doing it again. I’m starting a new screenplay that s I plan to direct. n »
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Polar power Cristian Sessa, co-owner of Argentinian distributor Polar Star, tells Jeremy Kay why playing to the strengths of the local cable TV market has ensured growth and success
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ristian Sessa, co-owner of Buenos Aires-based distributor Polar Star, recalls spending his youth with his brother Sergio on set with their father, the pioneering Argentinian producer Alejandro Sessa, who made films with Roger Corman and co-produced Highlander II: The Quickening. Although the late Sessa Sr tried to dissuade his children from following him into the business, years of hanging around crews and idols such as David Carradine (“a colourful character”) left a mark on the youngsters. Despite their father’s entreaties, the Sessa boys knew what they wanted to do when they grew up. “You see people in their seventies walking around at festivals and you realise nobody wants to leave this world,” smiles Sessa. Alejandro Sessa also owned Alex Labs and counted Disney among his clients. His son remembers watching open-mouthed as signed prints arrived from Walt Disney himself in gratitude for Alex Labs’ work on copies of Pinocchio. In 1991, Alejandro founded Polar Star with Carlos Kargauer, who remains a coowner with his son Diego. “We’re two families, basically,” says Sessa. “Carlos and his son, and Sergio and I. Sergio and I concentrate more on the buying and selling, while Carlos and Diego come more from a TV background. My father wanted someone who was stronger in TV.” Working the pay-TV windows Sessa spends much of his time on the global festival and market circuit, building up a portfolio of commercial independent films through a network of buyers such as Voltage Pictures, Global Road, Brazil’s Globosat and other leading sellers from around the world. “Ninety-nine percent of our library is in the English language,” he says. “We focus on Hollywood product.” Polar Star is not a theatrical distributor; instead, the focus is “more on the premium windows and the basic windows on pay-TV and free-TV. We do the whole cycle across Latin America, Central America even. So when we buy we think of something that can work in all of those windows: pay-TV, free-TV and video-on-demand [VoD].” Sessa will sell the likes of Zero Dark Thirty and Drive to partners covering the whole gamut of international buyers, from HBO to Universal and Viacom, to top regional players such as Globosat and Televisa-owned Visat. “We sell to everybody in the region,” he says. “Family works well, and action works very well in Latin America. Comedy is difficult.”
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(From left) Cristian Sessa, Carlos Kargauer and Diego Kargauer
Over the years, Polar Star — housed in the Recoleta district of Argentina’s capital city — has worked steadily to build an enviable library. “We have created one of the biggest in Latin America,” says Sessa. “Recently, we took the California Filmes library after the premium window — that’s 270 movies. Globosat has elected us as its distributor, so there’s another 250 movies. We bought VoD rights from the HanWay library — that’s 150 movies. Including our own library, I’d say we control 1,000 titles. We have the Wim Wenders collection [for VoD]. We have The Last Emperor, and March Of The Penguins from Wild Bunch. We had commercial titles and wanted to attack the artsy side.” While Netflix has established itself as a force in Latin America and Amazon Studios is “advancing rapidly” in the region, Sessa believes his client base continues to represent a compelling business. “The strong money is still in pay-TV,” he says. “Those channels — not all of them but the majority — are moving quite slowly into the digital world with the apps. HBO and Fox have done it with HBO Go and Fox Play, but I don’t see a lot of other standalone services being offered on apps.” As with everywhere else, the VoD market is taking time to (Pictured from left) Drive and Zero Dark Thirty
‘The strong money is still in pay-TV. Those channels — not all of them but the majority — are moving quite slowly into the digital world’ Cristian Sessa, Polar Star
fill the void left by DVD, besides Netflix and Amazon. Sessa believes once more services establish themselves, there will be greater opportunity to exploit arthouse products. The cable model still represents good value for money for consumers in a region where not everyone has a credit card, much less one that can pay the US dollar fee for Netflix without incurring exchange fees. “That’s why it’s more natural to pay for cable,” he says of a region where the basic cable offer remains far less expensive than those in the US. “People are less used to paying for specific content; they’re more used to an ‘all you can eat’ system, where you pay a fee and you get everything. I have tried with my movies on the transactional market and I’d say it’s still immature. The only successes I’ve had is where transactional is related to a cable system, where people have a control and press a button and buy the movie, and it’s seamless; they don’t have to get out their credit card.” Sessa enjoys the challenges of buying the product before he sells it on, which he says offers a deeper insight into the value chain and the pool of available content. “It completes you,” he says. “But I prefer selling because when you have to buy it’s a difficult moment — you’re making a decision that determines whether you will make money or lose money. Not the case when you sell. Selling is s always a happy moment.” ■ »
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Marilyn
PASSION PROJECTS This year’s Argentinian releases highlight the exciting creative voices being nurtured in the country. Jeremy Kay profiles a selection Animal (Arg) Dir Armando Bo Cast Guillermo Francella, Carla Peterson, Gloria Carra Production companies Bowfinger International Pictures, MyS Produccion, Rebolucion, Telefe
Bo, the Oscar-winning co-writer of Birdman, is filming Animal, a thriller about a family man forced to follow his animal instincts when he is thrown into an unexpected situation. Guillermo Francella from Argentina’s record-breaking release The Clan stars alongside Carla Peterson from 2017 local smash Ten Days Without Mom. Animal marks the first foray by Viacom International Media Networks The Americas into Latin American production after it acquired local network Telefe in 2016.
Darin is among the producers with Vera, and Disney will release Love At Last Sight in Argentina and South America in August. Contact Guido Rud, FilmSharks guido_rud@filmsharks.com
Malambo, The Good Man (Arg) Dir Santiago Loza Cast Gaspar Jofre, Fernando Munoz Production company Varsovia Films
Contact Vicente Canales, Film Factory v.canales@filmfactory.es
Argentina’s Loza has frequented the prestige festival circuit for some years and will debut his latest work in the Berlinale’s Panorama. He took La Paz to the festival five years ago and premiered The Lips in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2010 after trips with prior films to Locarno and Rotterdam. Malambo, The Good Man centres on a Malambo dancer in lifelong training for a special competition.
Love At Last Sight (Arg)
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Dir Juan Vera Cast Ricardo Darin, Mercedes Moran Production company Patagonik
Vera, artistic director at Argentinian production giant Patagonik Film Group, directs Ricardo Darin and Mercedes Moran as 50-year-olds who split up after a 25-year marriage, before the man invites the woman out on a date. Vera says the film is for people born in the 1960s: “They have seen almost all utopias die, and now they live with the weight of disenchantment, yet still vitally and optimistically.”
Marilyn (Arg-Chile) Dir Martin Rodriguez Redondo Cast Walter Rodriguez, Catalina Saavedra, Ignacio Gimenez Production companies Maravillacine, Don Quijote
Argentinian filmmaker Redondo’s solo directorial debut after the 2016 portmanteau 12 Short Stories premieres in the Berlinale’s Panorama, and sees Walter Rodriguez play a transvestite teenage farm worker from outside Buenos Aires.
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Adding to the pre-release buzz, the project participated in San Sebastian’s 2014 Europe-Latin American Co-Production Forum, won Argentina’s INCAA Film Institute script competition, and received the Art Cinema Award in the works-inprogress sidebar at Toulouse Cinelatino Fest in 2016.
reconnect as Argentina’s dark past looms over proceedings. La Quietud is Sony’s first local-language production in Argentina. The studio will distribute there as well as in Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and the US, and holds Latin American TV rights. Wild Bunch handles sales in remaining territories.
Contact Vicente Canales, Film Factory v.canales@filmfactory.es
Contact Eva Diederix, Wild Bunch ediederix@wildbunch.eu
Mi Obra Maestra (Arg-Sp)
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Dir Gaston Duprat Cast Raul Arevalo, Guillermo Francella, Luis Brandoni Production companies Mediapro, Clarin Group
Duprat’s Argentina-Spain follow-up to Platino Awards winner The Distinguished Citizen — which also snagged Venice 2016’s best actor award for Oscar Martinez — hails from Spain’s Mediapro and Argentina’s Clarin Group. The Clan’s Guillermo Francella stars as a gallery owner who enlists an art collector into a devious scheme. Duprat’s long-time collaborator Mariano Cohn produces, alongside Argentina’s Fernando Sokolowicz, Carlos L Mentasti and Duda Rosembak.
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Dirs Valeria Bertuccelli, Fabiana Tiscornia Main cast Valeria Bertuccelli, Gabriel Goity, Dario Grandinetti Production companies Patagonik, Rei Cine, Snowglobe
Contact Latido Films latido@latidofilms.com
Local acting royalty Bertuccelli makes her feature directorial debut (Tiscornia co-directs) and gives a performance that earned her the World Cinema Dramatic special jury award for acting at Sundance, where the film premiered in January. Rei Cine and Patagonik produced with Denmark’s Snowglobe. The Queen Of Fear tells the story of an actress who freaks out in the run-up to her onewoman show. It is scheduled to open in Argentina in March.
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Contact Ryan Kampe, Visit Films rk@visitfilms.com
(Arg-Neth-Switz) Dir Sebastian Schjaer Cast Sofia Brito, Malena Hernandez Diaz, Laura Lopez Moyano Production company Trapecio Cine
Schjaer’s first full-length narrative feature premieres in the Berlinale’s Panorama section and won San Sebastian’s best project award at the fourth Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum in 2015. It tells of a transient worker and young mother living in Argentina’s deep south Tierra del Fuego region. Contact Melanie Schapiro, Trapecio Cine melanie@trapeciocine.com.ar
La Quietud (Arg) Dir Pablo Trapero Cast Edgar Ramirez, Berenice Bejo, Joaquin Furriel, Martina Gusman Production companies Macassar Productions, Matanza Cine, Telefe
Argentinian master Trapero recently wrapped production in Buenos Aires on his followup to global hit The Clan. Berenice Bejo and Martina Gusman play estranged sisters who (Right) Malambo, The Good Man
Recreo (Arg) Dirs Jazmin Stuart, Hernan Guerschuny Main cast Carla Peterson, Fernan Miras Production companies HC Films, Benteveo Producciones
The comedy-drama from HC Films and Benteveo Producciones features Carla Peterson, the star of Argentina’s biggest local hit of 2017 Ten Days Without Mom, and Fernan Miras in the tale of a reunion between three couples and their children in a field filled with hotair balloons. Buena Vista International is scheduled to distribute in Argentina this month. Guerschuny’s credits include Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Science’s best first picture nominee The Film Critic (2013) and 2016 rom-com Amor Una Noche De Amor. Actress Stuart also directed the 2014 crimedrama Pistas Para Volver A Casa and 2011 comic Desmadre drama Desmadre. Contact HC Films s www.hcfilms.com.ar ■
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MONSTER HUNT 2 SEQUEL TO THE 2015 MEGA BLOCKBUSTER THAT GROSSED OVER US$400 MILLION WORLDWIDE GENRE FANTASY ADVENTURE DIRECTOR RAMAN HUI CAST TONY LEUNG CHIU WAI (The Grandmaster), BAI BAIHE (Monster Hunt), JING BORAN (Time Raiders)
This sequel to the mega blockbuster follows monster king Wuba as he faces another threat from the dark lord who plots to seize the throne.
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A criminal psychologist teams up with a rookie detective to track down a vigilante serial killer.
A rowdy father steals the money his family gathers for his wife’s surgery and sets himself on a path of self-destruction with no turning back.
HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED FILM ADAPTATION OF LEI MI’S POPULAR NOVEL SERIES CRIMINAL MINDS GENRE ACTION DIRECTOR XU JIZHOU CAST DENG CHAO (The Mermaid), ETHAN JUAN (The Assassin)
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Madrid’s deep foundations Finding the perfect location can be a challenge. Film Madrid offers the international industry a wealth of services, while putting its local audiovisual industry at the heart of its operations
Plaza Mayor in Chinchon is located just 45km from Madrid
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ilm Madrid — also known as the Region of Madrid Filming Promotion Office — is a public service with a goal to support the audiovisual industry in Madrid. It does this through the provision of co-ordination services and practical information for any production company choosing the Region of Madrid as an ideal location for shooting its productions. The Region of Madrid stands out for the variety and versatility of its locations. Urban, rural, historic and natural landscapes are found throughout the area, which is the geographical centre and communications hub of the Iberian peninsula. In its capacity as a production advisory office, Film Madrid has serviced a total of 52 projects over the course of 2017 — a 35% increase from 2016 — and has provided extensive information and telephone assistance to more than 60 industry professionals. Among the productions for which Film Madrid provided advisory services during their pre-production and production phases are feature films The Warning (El Aviso), The Tribe (La Tribu) and Everybody Knows (Todos Lo Saben) and TV shows Giants (Gigantes), Times Of War (Tiempos De Guerra), Velvet and The Minister Of Time (El Ministerio Del Tiempo). Film Madrid developed its interna-
Castillo De Manzanares El Real is a popular filming location in Madrid
MAIN OBJECTIVES OF FILM MADRID An advisory service specialising in filming permits in the Region of Madrid ■ Helps to seek out shooting locations ■ Provides information on the logistics of production ■ Provides information on grants, tenders/competitions and subsidies for audiovisual productions ■ An international platform promoting the Region of Madrid as a film and audiovisual destination suited to any kind of production
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Film Madrid has serviced a total of 52 projects over the course of 2017 – a 35% increase from 2016 San Sebastián International Film Festival, Mipcom and Location Expo, which is part of the American Film Market in Santa Monica. This year, Film Madrid will attend the 68th Berlinale, with its own space in the Cinema From Spain pavilion, and will present its Fostering of New Talent initiative, designed to support young and rising talents in Madrid’s cinematography sector. As part of this initiative, Inés de León, Jonás Trueba and Pablo Maqueda will participate in the Berlin event, discussing their upcoming projects in the region. For further information visit www.madrid.org/filmmadrid
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BERLIN VENUES ACUDKINO Veteranenstrasse 21 10119 Berlin (Mitte) AKADEMIE DER KUNSTE (HANSEATENWEG) Hanseatenweg 10 10557 Berlin ARSENAL CINEMA Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785 Berlin AUDI BERLINALE LOUNGE Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1 10785 Berlin BERLINALE PALAST Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1 10785 Berlin EMBASSY OF CANADA Leipziger Platz 17 10117 Berlin KINO CASABLANCA Friedenstrasse 12/13 12489 Berlin (Adlershof) CINEMAXX POTSDAMER PLATZ Potsdamer Strasse 5 Entrance Voxstrasse 10785 Berlin CINESTAR IN THE SONY CENTRE Potsdamer Strasse 4 10785 Berlin
GROPIUS MIRROR RESTAURANT Niederkirchnerstrasse 10963 Berlin HAU HEBBEL AM UFER (HAU1, HAU2, HAU3) HAU1: Stresemannstrasse 29 HAU2: Hallesches Ufer 32 HAU3: Tempelhofer Ufer 10 10963 Berlin HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE Schaperstrasse 24 10719 Berlin HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin KINO INTERNATIONAL Karl-Marx-Allee 33 10178 Berlin MARRIOTT HOTEL Inge-Beisheim-Platz 1 10785 Berlin MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU (MGB) Niederkirchnerstrasse 7 10963 Berlin NEUE KAMMERSPIELE Karl-Marx-Strasse 18 14532 Kleinmachnow
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COLOSSEUM Schonhauser Allee 123 10437 Berlin
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CUBIX Alexanderplatz Rathausstrasse 1 10178 Berlin DELPHI FILMPALAST Kantstrasse 12a 10623 Berlin DELPHI LUX Yva-Bogen at Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten Kantstrasse 10 10623 Berlin DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK FILMHAUS Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785 Berlin DFBB CINEMA (FILMHOUSE) Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785 Berlin FILMKUNST 66 Bleibtreustrasse 12 10623 Berlin FILMTHEATER AM FRIEDRICHSHAIN Botzowstrasse 1-5 10407 Berlin FRIEDRICHSTADT-PALAST Friedrichstrasse 107 10117 Berlin
SAVVY CONTEMPORARY Plantagenstrasse 31 13347 Berlin SILENT GREEN KULTURQUARTIER Gerichtstrasse 35 13347 Berlin TILSITER LICHTSPIELE Richard-Sorge-Str. 25A 10249 Berlin (Friedrichshain) TONI & TONINO Antonplatz 1 13086 Berlin VR CINEMA AT MARRIOTT HOTEL Inge-Beisheim-Platz 1 10785 Berlin ZEUGHAUSKINO Unter den Linden 2 10117 Berlin ZOO PALAST Hardenbergstrasse 29a 10623 Berlin » Screening times and
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resistance on the part of the town’s conservative inhabitants and soon faces considerable opposition. Berlinale Special Gala Zoo Palast 1
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(Germany, Uruguay) 237mins. Dir: Kristina Konrad. At the end of the 1980s, Konrad took to the streets of Uruguay to collect opinions on the upcoming referendum on an amnesty law which guaranteed impunity for those who committed crimes under the military dictatorship: an exercise in democracy in action.
(Paraguay, Uruguay, Germany, Brazil, Norway, France) Acrobates Films. 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, her introverted girlfriend Chela is left to her own devices. Chela offers rich women a taxi service in her old Daimler. As she explores the outside world she also starts to focus on her own desires.
Forum Press only CinemaxX 6
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09:30 ONE OR TWO QUESTIONS
THE BOOKSHOP
(Spain, UK, Germany) Ret-Film. 113mins. Dir: Isabel Coixet. Cast: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson, James Lance, Honor Kneafsey, Frances Barber, Jorge Suquet, Charlotte Vega, Hunter Tremayne, Reg Wilson. At the end of the 1950s, widow Florence Green realises her dream and opens a bookshop in an English coastal town. But she doesn’t bargain for
10:00 BLUE WIND BLOWS
(Japan) 88mins. Dir: Tetsuya Tomina. Cast: Hizuki Tanaka, Yayako Uchida, Tsubaki Tanaka, Masato Hagiwara, Ninon, Yuya Uchida, Kaiji Moriyama, Rumika. Ao lives with his mother and little sister on Sado Island in Japan. His father recently disappeared without a trace. At school, the mysterious Sayako catches Ao’s eye. She is just like him and seems to be
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(Russian Federation, Poland, Serbia) Lita Stantic Producciones. 126mins. Dir: Alexey German Jr. Cast: Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovsky, Helena Sujecka, Artur Beschastny, Elena Lyadova, Anton Shagin, Svetlana Khodchenkova, even more of an outsider. Generation Kplus HKW
HUMAN, SPACE, TIME AND HUMAN
(South Korea) 122mins. Dir: Kim Ki-duk. Cast: Mina Fujii, Jang Keunsuk, Ahn Sung-ki, Lee Sung-jae, Ryoo Seungbum, Sung Ki-youn, Joe Odagiri. A journey on an old warship with an unknown destination. When a group of very different people set sail, violence soon turns into anarchy. Panorama Special Press only CineStar 3
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,
Piotr Gasowski, Eva Gerr, Hanna Sleszynska. A few days in the life of the Russian-Jewish writer Sergei Dovlatov (1941– 1990), whose brilliantly ironic texts were forbidden from being printed in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev. Competition Press only Berlinale Palast
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 Haus der Berliner Festspiele
STYX
(Germany, Austria) 93mins. Dir: Wolfgang Fischer. Cast: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa. Somewhere between Africa and Europe, the sailing trip of a doctor comes to a sudden end. The dramatic struggle for survival that ensues makes palpable the cruel rules that govern the lives of people in dire straits » www.screendaily.com
Supporting Voices in Cinema Worldwide
Doha Film Institute congratulates its funding recipients selected for the 68th Berlinale
What Comes Around by Reem Saleh Feature Documentary Panorama, World Premiere 2015 Qumra Project
Land by Babak Jalali Feature Narrative Panorama, World Premiere 2017 Qumra Project
Our Madness by JoĂŁo Viana Feature Narrative 48th Forum, World Premiere
Stateless by Narjiss Nejjar Feature Narrative 48th Forum, World Premiere
What Walaa Wants by Christy Garland Feature Narrative Generation 14plus, World Premiere
The Seen and Unseen by Kamila Andini Feature Narrative Generation Kplus, European Premiere
Doha Film Institute continues its commitment to nurturing emerging filmmakers through its Grants Programme. First- and second-time filmmakers from around the world, as well as established directors from the MENA region, are invited to apply for funding, subject to eligibility criteria. For complete information regarding eligibility and guidelines, please visit: www.dohafilminstitute.com/financing/grants/guidelines
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whose fate is determined by others. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
SYSTEM ERROR
(Germany) 96mins. Dir: Florian Opitz. Why are we so obsessed with economic growth, even if we know that endless growth will kill ourselves in the end? ‘System Error’ looks for answers to this big contradiction of our time. LOLA at Berlinale Accreditation only Delphi LUX 2
WHEN GOD SLEEPS
(Germany, US) 90mins. Dir: Till Schauder. Depicts the journey of Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi, who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death, incensed by one of his songs. LOLA at Berlinale Accreditation only Delphi LUX 1
11:00 AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL
(China) 230mins. Dir: Hu Bo. Cast: Zhang Yu, Peng Yuchang, Wang Yuwen, Liu Congxi. 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. Forum CineStar 8
11:30 USEDOM — CLEAR VIEW AT THE SEA
(Germany) 95mins. Dir: Heinz Brinkmann. Imperial spas and fishing villages, sea bridges and a border between two states: this is the island of Usedom. Heinz Brinkmann explores conservation and change, architecture and ecology.
A discursive tour through a fractured paradise. Berlinale Special International
12:00 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’s the lady who lays down the law.
away. Her investigation into her family’s past escalates into an argument with her parents about loyalty, post-communist arrogance and the right to one’s own history. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
ONCE UPON A TIME — INDIANERLAND
(Germany) Lailaps Pictures. 97mins. Dir: Ilker Catak. Cast: Leonard Scheicher. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his stepmother and flees. Mauser embarks on a journey to find him.
Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast
LOLA at Berlinale Accreditation only Delphi LUX 1
I SEE RED PEOPLE
ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME
(France, Bulgaria) 83mins. Dir: Bojina Panayotova. Bojina returns to her native Bulgaria after 20 years
(Germany). micro_scope 101mins. Dir: Ozgur Yildirim. Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit
Minichmayr, Edin Hasanovic, Kida Khodr Ramadan. Three heroes. Heroes who are actually anything but that. Heroes who just want to do the right thing but who must first do evil to get out of the corners they have been backed into by the system. LOLA at Berlinale Accreditation only Delphi LUX 2
REGINA, OR THE SINS OF THE FATHER
(Germany) 124mins. Dir: Gerhard Lamprecht. Cast: Lissy Arna, Jack Trevor, Andreas BehrensKlausen, Louise Woldera, Max Maximilian, Rudolf Lettinger. In 1813 Prussia, a junior officer, the son of a baron who was a Napoleon sympathiser, faces a self-righteous village community. Retrospective Zeughauskino
12:15 TRANSIT
(Germany, France) 101mins. Dir: Christian Petzold. Cast: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt. Georg flees to Marseille to escape the German army. Assuming a false identity, he tries to obtain passage on a ship bound for Mexico. But then he meets Marie and his plans change. Competition Press only Berlinale Palast
12:20 PROFILE
(US, UK, Cyprus, Russian Federation) 105mins. Dir: Timur Bekmambetov. Cast: Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Christine Adams, Amir Rahimzadeh, Morgan Watkins. Posing as a convert named Melody, a British journalist
TRANSILVANIA PITCH STOP invites 1st and 2nd time filmmakers (from selected countries) with feature-length fiction films in development to submit their projects to be presented during the industry event organized in Cluj, during Transilvania International Film Festival on June 1-2, 2018.
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contacts an ISIS fighter in Syria by using a fake Facebook profile. Caught between reality and a tapestry of lies, she becomes enthralled by him. Panorama Special Press only CineStar 3
12:30 AWAY YOU GO
FESTIVAL & PRESS 12:30 WHAT WALAA WANTS
(Canada, Denmark) Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion. 89mins. Dir: Christy Garland. Walaa dreams of a job with the Palestinian National Authority, where
she can carry a gun. Getting there demands strength — which is something Walaa has in abundance. Her mother knows that the military training could completely change her way of thinking. Generation 14plus Zoo Palast 2
(Germany) 77mins. Dir: Philipp Eichholtz. Cast: Victoria Schulz, Aleksandar Radenkovic, Daniel Zillmann, Angelika Waller, Karin Hanczewski, Amelie Kiefer, Claudius von Stolzmann, Martina Schöne-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 Colosseum 1
GIRLS ALWAYS HAPPY
(China) 117mins. Dir: Yang Mingming. Cast: Nai An, Yang Mingming, Zhang Xianmin, Li Qinqin, Huang Wei, Yuan Li, Li Wenbo. Wu lives with her mother in one of Beijing’s hutongs. The daily lives of these two unsuccessful writers is characterised by mutual reproaches. Portrayal of a fragile mother-daughter relationship. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
GORDON & PADDY
(Sweden) Hi Film Productions. 65mins. Dir: Linda Hamback. Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Melinda Kinnaman, Felix Herngren, Mingus Broman, Tove Sacklen, Tova Magnusson, Janne Vierth. The little inhabitants of the forest have always been frightened of the nasty old fox. When
two animal children go missing, it looks like a case for the investigative talents of work-weary frog detective Gordon and his aspiring mouse assistant Paddy. Generation Kplus Zoo Palast 1
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 Colosseum 1
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13:00 CLEO & PAUL
(France) 60mins. Dir: Stéphane Demoustier. Cast: Cleo Demoustier, Paul Demoustier, Vimala Pons, Anders Danielsen Lie, Elsa Wolliaston. Three-and-a-half-year-old Cleo is brilliant at hideand-seek: her brother Paul and their nanny have no chance of finding her. At some point Paul also discovers what Paris is like when one is out and about without any adults. Generation Kplus HKW
THE HEIRESSES
(Paraguay, Uruguay, Germany, Brazil, Norway, France) Acrobates Films. 95mins. Dir: Marcelo Martinessi. Cast: Ana Brun, Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova, Nilda Gonzalez, Maria Martins. Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele
LIFE BEGINS TOMORROW
(Germany) 77mins. Dir: Werner Hochbaum. Cast: Erich Haussmann, Hilde von Stolz, Harry Frank, Walter von Lennep, Edith Schollwer, Etta Klingenberg, Alfred Beierle, Gustav Puttjer. A musician is released from prison and roams Berlin looking for his wife. Retrospective CinemaxX 8
13:30 THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE GIANT PEAR
(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 Zhelde. 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. Generation Kplus CinemaxX 3
14:00 THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR LIFE
(Germany, Mexico) 93mins. Dir: Zita Erffa. A brother who joined the religious order of the Legionaries of Christ and a sister who is studying film. It’s been years since they’ve really communicated. This film is an attempt to reconnect and understand each other.
autistic daughter, Nada’s daily life is chaotic. With compelling immediacy, this charming debut taps into Nada’s desire to escape the stress and restrictions of the everyday, which take the pair on a journey across the country. Forum Press only CinemaxX 6
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DON’T. GET. OUT!
Perspektive Deutsches Kino Press + accreditation CinemaxX 5
(Germany) micro_scope. 107mins. Dir: Christian Alvart. Cast: Wotan Wilke Möhring, Christiane Paul, Hannah Herzsprung. Driving his kids to school, Berlin property developer Karl gets a call from a blackmailer: if he doesn’t pay, the car will blow up.
THE CHAOTIC LIFE OF NADA KADIC
LOLA at Berlinale Accreditation only Delphi LUX 2
(Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina) 85mins. Dir: Marta Hernaiz. Cast: Aida Hadzibegovic, Hava Dombic. As the single mother of an
90mins. Dir: Robert Fischer. This series of radical stories about the nosy, uncompromising and improper Kubelkind was shown at the very first Forum in 1971. Freshly restored, it now makes a return 47 years on.
FILM BEYOND CINEMA: THE DUMPSTER KID EXPERIMENT AND OTHER UTOPIAS
(Germany) Little Monster.
MAGICAL MYSTERY — OR: THE RETURN OF KARL SCHMIDT
(Germany) Baraki Films. 111mins. Dir: Arne Feldhusen. Cast: Charly Hübner, Annika Meier, Detlev Buck, Marc Hosemann. Bus driver Karl takes a bunch of techno DJs on a road trip through Germany to clubs and parties of the 1990s, bursting with energy and likely to destroy, but also heal through sheer joy.
OBSCURO BARROCO
(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. Panorama Dokumente International
STORIES OF THE DUMPSTER KID
(Germany) Little Monster. 100mins. Dir: Edgar Reitz, Ula Stockl. Cast: Kristine de Loup, Bruno Bendel, Alf Brustellin, Ilse Brustellin, HansHeinrich Brustellin, Antje Ellermann. Forum Delphi Filmpalast
14:20 M.I.A.
LOLA at Berlinale Accreditation only Delphi LUX 1
(US, UK, Sri Lanka) 97mins. Dir: Steve
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SINO-EU NETWORKING PARTY 中欧影人交流派对 单色印刷使用
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PRODUCTION SEMINAR 中欧电影研讨会 (Panels and workshop to understand better the Chinese market) 22 & 23 February
SINO-EU PROJECT LAB 中欧合拍项目实验室 Bridging the Dragon is an association connecting European and Chinese film industries
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RED COW (PARA ADUMA) Director: Tsvia Barkai Yacov Producers: Itai Tamir Co Producers: Ronen Ben Tal, Ami Livne Production: Laila Films Sales Contact: Itai Tamir, Laila Films Email: laila.films2010@gmail.com SUN FEB 18 17:00 HKW (PREMIERE) TUE FEB 20 15:30 CUBIX 8 FRI FEB 23 13:30 CINEMAXX3 SUN FEB 25 15:30 FILMTHEATER AM FRIEDRICHSHAIN
BERLINALE CLASSICS LIFE ACCORDING TO AGFA (HA-CHAIM AL-PI AGFA) Director: Assi Dayan Producers: Yoram Kislev, Rafi Bukaee Restoration by Jerusalem Cinematheque - Israel Film Archive, in cooperation with United King Films, Ramat Hasharon, Israel and the support of the Israel Film Fund Contact: Jerusalem Cinematheque, Israel Film Archive, Daniel Cohen Email: daniel@jff.org.il MON FEB 19 21:30 CINEMAXX 8 SUN FEB 25 19:00 CINEMAXX 8
Loveridge. Cast: Maya Arulpragasam. Charting her experiences of civil war and migration to her rise as a popular but controversial star, this documentary film traces the life, motivations and politics of the singer, composer and pop icon M.I.A. Panorama Dokumente Press only CineStar 3
BERLINALE SERIES SLEEPING BEARS Director: Keren Margalit Producers: Eilon Ratzkovsky, Ezequiel Sakson, Yochanan Kredo, Guy Jacoel, Lisa Shiloach Uzrad, Yossi Uzrad Production: July August Productions World Sales: Keshet International Email: Alona.Blank@keshet-tv.com MON FEB 19 16:15 ZOO PALAST 2 (EPISODES 1&2) MARKET SCREENINGS: WED FEB 21 17:45 ZOO PALAST 3 (EPISODES 1&2) TUE FEB 20 10:00 ZOO PALEST 5
BERLINALE SHORTS (III) THE MEN BEHIND THE WALL Director / Producer / Production: Ines Moldavsky, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Sales Contact: Ines Moldavsky / ines.Moldavsky@gmail.com SUN FEB 18 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 TUE FEB 20 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 WED FEB 21 17:30 COLOSSEUM 1 FRI FEB 23 21:30 CINEMAXX 3
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14:30 COMRADESHIP
(Germany, France) 90mins. Dir: Georg Wilhelm Pabst. Cast: Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Daniel Mendaille, Ernst Busch, Elisabeth Wendt, Gustav Puttjer, Oskar Hocker. When a gas leak in a French mine sets off a raging fire, German miners rush to help their trapped counterparts. With realistic imagery and the use of two languages, the film was a clarion call for cross-border reconciliation. Retrospective Zeughauskino
THE LIGHT OF ASIA (PREM SANYAS)
(Germany, India) 98mins. Dir: Franz Osten. Cast: Himansu Rai, Seeta Devi, Sarada Ukil, Rani Bala. The early life of Prince Gautama who would become the Buddha and founder of Buddhism,
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as he faces the choice between wealth and inner greatness. A magnificent, monumental film shot on location in India, with German support. Berlinale Goes Kiez Toni & Tonino
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.
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) Friedrichstadt-Palast
CHRISTIAN WAHNSCHAFFE, PART 1: WORLD AFIRE
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(Germany) 80mins. Dir: Urban Gad. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Lillebil Christensen, Hermann Vallentin, Hugo Flink, Fritz Kortner, Ernst Matray, Theodor Loos, Helga Molander, Leopold von Ledebur. The son of an industrialist joins the Nihilist movement planning a revolution in Russia in 1905. A wideranging panorama of society set in Paris and St Petersburg.
WHAT COMES AROUND
Retrospective CinemaxX 8
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(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
(Russian Federation, Poland, Serbia) Lita Stantic Producciones. 126mins. Dir: Alexey German Jr. Competition Berlinale Palast
JIBRIL
(Germany) Center Stage Productions. 83mins. Dir: Henrika Kull. Cast: Susana Abdulmajid, Malik Adan, Doua Rahal, Emna
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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. Filmmaker Saleh has created an intimate portrait about solidarity and support in an inhospitable environment. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
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When Roger agrees to be Kat and Eva’s donor, the three friends set out on an unconventional journey to start a family.
“It’s clear that [Bertuccelli has] major star power (...) A tour-de-force turn.” - The Hollywood Reporter WINNER
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VALERIA BERTUCCELLI (XXY)
(Japan) 140mins. Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Cast: Kaho, Shota Sometani, Masahiro Higashide, Ren Osugi. El-Aouni, Regina Schulte am Hulse, Tobias MüllerMonning. 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?
In a constant state of anxiety, a celebrated actress obsessively distracts herself from preparing for her career-defining one-woman show. BERLIN OFFICE: MGB #14 +1 617 835 6307 info@visitfilms.com
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Panorama Colosseum 1
WILD RELATIVES
Competition Press only CinemaxX 7 & 9
(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.
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Panorama Special Zoo Palast 2
(France, Belgium) Channel Four Films. 102mins. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Julia Roy, Marc Barbé, 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.
Forum Arsenal Cinema 1
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Inexplicable events are occurring more frequently in Etsuko’s life and it appears a higher power is heralding the end of the world.
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. Generation Kplus Zoo Palast 1
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THE BOOKSHOP
DIE TOMORROW
(Spain, UK, Germany) Ret-Film. 113mins. Dir: Isabel Coixet. Cast: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson, James Lance, Honor Kneafsey, Frances Barber, Jorge Suquet, Charlotte Vega.
(Thailand) 75mins. Dir: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit. Cast: Patcha Poonpiriya, Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Morakot Liu, Chonnikan Netjui, Koramit Vajrasthira, Sirat Intarachote, Sunny Suwanmethanont,
Berlinale Special Gala Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Rattanarat Aurthaveekul, Jarinporn Joonkiat, Violette Wautier. Death frequently arrives unannounced; the day before can still be perfectly ordinary. Girlfriends celebrate graduating, siblings are reunited, a couple separates. Six reflections on life’s finite nature and the value of the everyday. Forum Press only CinemaxX 6
INLAND SEA
(Japan, US) 122mins. Dir: Kazuhiro Soda. Ushimado is a fishing village on the Seta Inland Sea whose population is dwindling. Catching and delivering fish, looking after graves and feeding the cats, dreams of retirement: the captivating, tender blackand-white portrait of an ageing community. Forum CineStar 8
FOREBODING (YOCHO) See box, above
16:30 THE CAPTAIN
(Germany, France, Poland) 118mins. Dir: Robert Schwentke. Cast: Max Hubacher, Milan Peschel, Frederick Lau, Alexander Fehling. In the last moments of the Second World War, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds www.screendaily.com
a Nazi captain’s uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators from which he is escaping.
Cast: Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, Alexandra Schmitt. An Alpine action thriller about the first ascent of the Matterhorn.
LOLA at Berlinale Accreditation only Delphi LUX 2
Retrospective Zeughauskino
HUMAN FLOW CASANOVA GENE
(Germany) 67mins. Dir: Luise Donschen. Cast: Wolfgang Forstmeier, John Malkovich, Elija Pott. A monk, a sex worker, an evolutionary biologist at work; young people in a bar; and Casanova: slyly shifting between fiction and documentary, this debut film examines questions of the body and desire. Forum Akademie der Kunste
FIGHT FOR THE MATTERHORN
(Germany) 117mins. Dir: Mario Bonnard, Nunzio Malasomma.
(Germany) Filipa Cesar. 140mins. Dir: Ai Weiwei. Portrays the international crises that gave rise to 60 million refugees today. LOLA at Berlinale Accreditation only Delphi LUX 1
17:00 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 International
CHRISTIAN WAHNSCHAFFE, PART 2: THE ESCAPE FROM THE GOLDEN PRISON
(Germany) 85mins. Dir: Urban Gad. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Rose Muller, Werner Krauss, Esther Hagan, Magda Madeleine, Ernst Prockl, Margarete Kupfer. Wealthy heir Christian Wahnschaffe dedicates his life to the poor, provoking a crime against a Good Samaritan. Retrospective CinemaxX 8
in the country, where Fan uses scary fairy tales to help impose her self-made rules. Generation Kplus HKW
THE SILENCE OF OTHERS
(US, Spain) 95mins. Dir: Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar. Passed in 1977, Spain’s amnesty law continues to prohibit prosecution of any of the crimes committed by Franco’s dictatorship. This investigative documentary paints a picture of a society torn between forgetting and coming to terms with its past. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
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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 during a road trip across Western Europe.
ideals such as unity, fraternity and collectivism? Panorama Dokumente Cubix 7
MARIPHASA
Competition FriedrichstadtPalast
(Portugal) 86mins. Dir: Sandro Aguilar. Cast: Antonio Julio Duarte, Albano Jeronimo, Isabel Abreu, Eduardo Aguilar. Paulo works as a night watchman. After losing his daughter in an accident, it’s not just his professional life that is governed by darkness. Aguilar’s metaphorical drama creates an indescribable sense of tension, full of brutal beauty. Forum Press only CinemaxX 6
Berlinale Goes Kiez Toni & Tonino
DAMSEL
(US) 113mins. Dir: David & Nathan Zellner. Cast: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Robert Forster, Joe Billingiere.
THE ENDLESS DAY
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HOTEL JUGOSLAVIJA
(Argentina, France) 98mins. Dir: Alessia Chiesa. Cast: Lara Rogora, Mateo Baldasso, Mila Marchisio. Eight-year-old Fan and her younger siblings live all alone in a house out
(Germany) micro_scope. 145mins. Dir: Hans Weingartner. Cast: Mala Emde, Anton Spieker, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Thomas Schmuckert, Jörg Bundschuh, Steven Lange. Does capitalism turn
(Switzerland) 78mins. Dir: Nicolas Wagnieres. Using the story of the iconic modernist Hotel Jugoslavija in Belgrade, this essayistic film explores the changes in post-Yugoslavian Serbia. What has remained of
17:45 HORIZON
(Georgia, Sweden) 105mins. Dir: Tinatin Kajrishvili. Cast: George Bochorishvili, Ia Sukhitashvili, Jano Izoria,
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Soso Gogichaishvili. Giorgi’s life is in pieces when his wife leaves him. He forsakes the city and his family and exchanges his old life for the barren solitude of a hut by the sea. Panorama CineStar 3
18:30 BLACK 47
(Ireland, Luxembourg) Iris Productions. 96mins. Dir: Lance Daly. Cast: Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox.
ANA BY DAY by Andrea Jaurrieta
screening TOMORROW Feb. 18th • 11:00 AM CinemaxX 17
Competition (out of competition) Haus der Berliner Festspiele
HUMAN, SPACE, TIME AND HUMAN
(Korea) 122mins. Dir: Kim Ki-duk. Cast: Mina Fujii, Jang Keunsuk, Ahn Sung-ki, Lee Sung-jae, Ryoo Seungbum, Sung Ki-youn, Joe Odagiri. Panorama Special Zoo Palast 1
MONSTER HUNT 2
(China, Hong Kong, China) Warner Bros Film Productions Germany. 110mins. Dir: Raman Hui. Cast: Tony Chiu Wai
Leung, Baihe Bai, Boran Jing, Chris Lee, Yo Yang. In ancient China, a bounty is put on a little monster named Wuba who has big round eyes and green hair. To save him, his martial arts- savvy parents join a legendary troupe of monster hunters. Berlinale Special Gala Press only CinemaxX 5
THE SILENT REVOLUTION
19:00 OUR MADNESS
(Mozambique, GuineaBissau, Qatar, Portugal, France) 90mins. Dir: Joao Viana. Cast: Ernania Rainha, Bernardo Guiamba, Hanic Corio. Committed to a psychiatric institution in Mozambique, Ernania makes beguiling music with her bed. After an escape attempt, she wanders across the country.
(Germany) Xi’an Qujiang Shangguozhixiong Publishing and Audio & Visual Development. 111mins. Dir: Lars Kraume. Cast: Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke, Isaiah Michalski, Jonas Dassler. The true story of a GDR high-school class in 1956 that stirs up the political system by observing a minute’s silence for the victims of the Hungarian Uprising. Despite pressure from the regime and their families, they commit their own act of resistance.
Forum Zoo Palast 2
Berlinale Special Gala Press only CinemaxX 9
Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 3
PLATOON
(US) 120mins. Dir: Oliver Stone. Cast: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker. A realistic depiction of the US military ‘in-country’ during the Vietnam War. Homage Zeughauskino
THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR LIFE
(Germany, Mexico) 93mins. Dir: Zita Erffa.
THE WALDHEIM WALTZ
(Austria) Pimienta Films. 93mins. Dir: Ruth
TRANSIT See box, below
DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAIN by Isa Prahl Feb. 18th • 2:00 PM CinemaxX 5
FESTIVAL & PRESS
A DYSFUNCTIONAL CAT by Susan Gordanshekan
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(Germany, France) 101mins. Dir: Christian Petzold. Cast: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Sebastian Hülk.
Georg flees to Marseille to escape the German army. Assuming a false identity, he tries to obtain passage on a ship bound for Mexico. But then he meets Marie and his plans change. Competition Berlinale Palast
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Beckermann. The scandal surrounding the Nazi past of former Austrian president and UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim made worldwide headlines in the 1980s, not least because of his repeated denials. Forum Delphi Filmpalast
TOKYO TWILIGHT
(Japan) Johan Hagelback Tecknad Film. 140mins. Dir: Yasujiro Ozu. Cast: Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima, Chishu Ryu. A young woman is broken by her father’s harsh nature and silence. A sombre family drama set in a barren, cold Tokyo.
FESTIVAL & PRESS 20:00 COBAIN
(Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) 94mins. Dir: Nanouk Leopold. Cast: Bas Keizer, Naomi Velissariou, Wim Opbrouck, Dana Marineci, Cosmina Stratan, Maria Kraakman.
MARISA TOMEI
(Academy Award Winner, My Cousin Vinny)
Cobain has the chance to start a new life but he can’t stop worrying about his drug-addicted mother. A tender though brutally direct portrait of a modern hero who is forced to grow up much too young. Generation 14plus HKW
CHARLIE PLUMMER
(All the Money in the World)
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT (Justified)
Berlinale Classics CinemaxX 8
19:15 OLD LOVE
(South Korea) 90mins. Dir: Park Kiyong. Cast: Yoo Jung-ah, Kim Taehoon, Kim Moonhee. After many years apart, a former couple from student days bump into one another at the airport. She’s only visiting Korea and he’s just saying goodbye to his daughter. The two of them get slowly reacquainted, but is a new beginning possible? Forum Press only CinemaxX 6
YOUNG SOLITUDE
(France) 100mins. Dir: Claire Simon. A school in a Paris suburb: 10 ordinary teenagers grow closer in a series of astonishingly intimate conversations about their backgrounds, parents, loves, longings and fears for the future.
BEHOLD
MY HEART
After the tragic death of his dad, 16-year-old Marcus must look after his self-destructive mother while navigating the difficulties of adolescence.
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TODAY / 18:15 / CineStar 5
Forum CineStar 8
19:30 FACING THE WIND
(Spain, Argentina, France) 108mins. Dir: Meritxell Colell Aparicio. Cast: Monica Garcia, Concha Canal, Ana Fernandez, Elena Martin. A dancer named Monica returns to her home village after many years away to attend her father’s burial. The sale of the family home prolongs her stay, setting an emotional journey in motion that examines
where she comes from and the events of the past. Forum CinemaxX 4
the supernatural powers of the rain forest to save his village’s life blood. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
INTERCHANGE
(Canada) 62mins. Dir: Brian M Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky. A traffic interchange on the edge of Montreal, where city becomes suburb: signs, passers-by, vehicles of all kinds. Both staged and observed, this documentary collects impressions of an in-between zone in images full of contrast and reflection. Forum CineStar IMAX
THE WEAK ONES
(Mexico) 65mins. Dir: Raul Rico, Eduardo Giralt Brun. Cast: Jose Luis Lizarraga, Eduardo Martinez, Javier Diaz Dalannais. 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 expectations. Forum Arsenal Cinema 1
20:00 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. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1
M.I.A.
(US, UK, Sri Lanka) 97mins. Dir: Steve Loveridge. Cast: Maya Arulpragasam. Panorama Dokumente International
THE OMISSION
(Argentina, Netherlands, Switzerland) 90mins. Dir: Sebastián Schjaer. Cast: Sofia Brito, Lisandro Rodriguez, Malena Hernandez Diaz, Victoria Raposo, Pablo Sigal, Laura Lopez Moyano. Paula is in her midtwenties. She’s come to Argentina’s cold south to work as a casual labourer during the winter season. Her thick clothing protects her against the snow, but also the expectations to which this young mother refuses to subjugate herself. 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
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 Colosseum 1
COBAIN See box, above
EX SHAMAN
(Brazil) UFA Fiction. 81mins. Dir: Luiz Bolognesi. Cast: Perpera Surui, Kabena Cinta Larga, Agamenon Surui, Kennedy Surui, Ubiratan Surui, Mopidmore Surui, Arildo Gapame Surui. In the Amazon basin, the church and the modern Western world threaten to rob the indigenous Paiter Surui of their cultural identity. A Christianised former shaman trusts in
TOWER. A BRIGHT DAY.
(Poland) 106mins. Dir: Jagoda Szelc. Cast: Anna Krotoska, Malgorzata Szczerbowska, Rafal Cieluch,. 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, more mysterious tones start seeping into the summer idyll. Forum Cubix 9
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20:15 GARBAGE
(India) 105mins. Dir: Q. Cast: Tanmay Dhanania, Trimala Adhikari, Satarupa Das, Gitanjali Dang, Shruti Viswan. An Indian taxi driver keeps a woman as his slave while secretly stalking another, who is hiding from reactions to an online video. A controversial, drastic revenge drama unfolds. Panorama CineStar 3
21:00
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. Berlinale Special Gala Friedrichstadt-Palast
DAMSEL
(US) 113mins. Dir: David & Nathan Zellner. Cast: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Robert Forster, Joe Billingiere. Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele
THE HAPPY PRINCE
(Germany, Belgium,
JAHILYA
(Morocco, France) 95mins. Dir: Hicham Lasri. Cast: Mostapha Houari, Salma Eddlimi, Hassan Ben Badida, Rami Fijjaj, Zoubir Abou Al Fadl, Moulay Hassan Alaoui, Malek Akhmiss, Zoubida Akif, Nissrine Erradi.
While cockroaches dream of not getting trampled on, people are happy to crush each other every day. A furious condemnation of a society full of malice, where dependency leads to humiliation and submissiveness only increases the misery. Forum Press only CinemaxX 6
21:30 DAMSEL
(US) 113mins. Dir: David & Nathan Zellner. Cast: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Robert Forster. Berlinale Goes Kiez Toni & Tonino
engagement to a barmaid and marry for money to keep the family business afloat. Retrospective Zeughauskino
INVASION
(Iran) Wanda Vision. 102mins. Dir: Shahram Mokri. Cast: Abed Abest, Elaheh Bakhshi, Babak Karimi, Behzad Dorani, Pedram Sharifi. Someone’s been murdered. The police have already identified the culprit. When the crime is re-enacted at the stadium where it took place, more secrets are revealed. Suddenly, all those involved find themselves in a time warp. Panorama CineStar IMAX
HER MAJESTY, LOVE
(Germany) 101mins. Dir: Joe May. Cast: Kathe von Nagy, Franz Lederer, Otto Wallburg, Szoke Szakall, Ralph Arthur Roberts. A charming playboy is pressured to cancel his
MADELINE’S MADELINE
(US) The Nest Collective. 93mins. Dir: Josephine Decker. Cast: Helena Howard, Miranda July, Molly Parker, Okwui Okpokwasili.
Madeline doesn’t enjoy spending time with her mother and feels happier attending her theatre group sessions. Yet her personality and the role she’s playing soon become increasingly blurred: only a fine line separates performance and madness. Forum CinemaxX 3
PROFILE
(US, UK, Cyprus, Russian Federation) 105mins. Dir: Timur Bekmambetov. Cast: Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Christine Adams, Amir Rahimzadeh, Morgan Watkins. Panorama Special Zoo Palast 1
THE REAL ESTATE
(Democratic Republic of the Congo, France) NiKo Film. 78mins. Dir: Macherie Ekwa Bahango. Cast: Amour Lombi, Fideline Kwanza, Serge Kanyinda, Deborah Tshisalu, Plotin Dianani. 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.
(Sweden, UK) 88mins. Dir: Axel Petersen, Mans Mansson. Cast: Leonore Ekstrand, Christer Levin, Christian Saldert, Olof Rhodin, Carl Johan Merner, Don Bennechi. After a life of luxury financed by her father, 68-year-old Nojet inherits one of his apartment buildings in Stockholm city centre. Her future seems secure but the house turns out to be a surreal curse for this lady accustomed to a life of leisure.
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THE END OF MEAT Imagine a society in which animals are no longer exploited for human use. This documentary explores the idea of a world without meat. Philosophers, scientists, artists and activists offer their insight and progressive ideas about the role of animals in our society.
DANIEL HOPE THE SOUND OF LIFE Daniel Hope is one of the greatest violinist of our age and part of the avant-garde of a new generation of classical musicians. His biography is a story of an extraordinary carrer, a story of escape, expulsion and desire for self-discovery.
Directed by Marc Pierschel, Germany 2017 Documentary – 95 min. & 52 min. (TV version) English & German with english subtitles
Directed by Nahuel Lopez, Germany 2017 Documentary – 100 min. & 52 min. (TV version) German & English with english subtitles
ME & YOU INCLUSIVE SCHOOLING
FROM BUSINESS TO BEING
A long-term documentary which takes an open and honest look at the everyday school activities of five elementary school students – with and without special needs – and at what happens when inclusive ideals meet reality. Directed by Thomas Binn, Germany 2017 Documentary – 90 min. (TV version upon request) German with english & dutch subtitles available
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How do we want to live and work? Can mediation and awareness-training help to free people from stress provoking patterns of thinking and behaving? In the search for answers we meet experts from economy, science and mediation.
Directed by Hanna Henigin & Julian Wildgruber, Germany 2016 Documentary – 89 min. (TV version upon request) German & English with english & span. subtitles available
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SCREENINGS
STATELESS
(Morocco, France, Qatar) 94mins. Dir: Narjiss Nejjar. Cast: El Ghalia Ben Zaouia, Avishay Benazra, Aziz Fadili, Nadia Niazi. 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 Delphi Filmpalast
22:00
car is stolen he becomes obsessed with tracking down the thief. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Press only CinemaxX 2
ANTICHRIST
(Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland) 109mins. Dir: Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Storm Acheche Sahlstrom. After the accidental death of their young son, a couple withdraw to a secluded cabin in the woods.
(South Korea) 66mins. Dir: Hong Sangsoo. Cast: Kim Minhee, Jung Jinyoung, Ki Joobong, Seo Younghwa, Kim Saebyuk, Ahn Jaehong. 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. Forum CineStar 8
SHAKEDOWN
(France, Belgium) Channel Four Films. 102mins. Dir: Benoit Jacquot. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Julia Roy, Marc Barbé, Richard Berry.
(US) 82mins. Dir: Leilah Weinraub. Loud hip-hop beats, and it’s raining dollars in the club. A chronicle and portrait of the lesbian underground strip scene of the noughties in Los Angeles and its protagonists who celebrate their freedom and self-determination.
Competition Berlinale Palast
Panorama Dokumente Zoo Palast 2
Homage CinemaxX 8
AFTER-WORK BEER
(Germany) 113mins. Dir: Ben Brummer. Cast: Tilman Strauss, Julia Dietze, Johann Jürgens, Christian Tramitz. Barkeeper Magnus and his mate Dimi are a couple of prize hipsters. When Magnus’ beloved classic
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22:30 AFTER-WORK BEER
(Germany) 113mins. Dir: Ben Brummer. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1
BOYS CRY
(Italy) 96mins. Dir: Damiano & Fabio D’Innocenzo. Cast: Andrea Carpenzano, Matteo Olivetti, Milena Mancini, Max Tortora. After an accident, Manolo and Mirko, two high-school boys from the outskirts of Rome, are sucked into a maelstrom of violence, drugs and prostitution. Panorama International
CLASSICAL PERIOD
(US) 62mins. Dir: Ted Fendt. Cast: Calvin Engime, Evelyn Emile, Sam Ritterman, Christopher Stump. 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. Forum CinemaxX 4
INFINITE FOOTBALL
(Romania) Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema. 70mins. Dir: Corneliu Porumboiu. A municipal official in provincial Romania wants to make the beautiful game that bit more beautiful.
XIAO MEI
(Taiwan) 95mins. Dir: Maren Hwang. Cast: Chen Yi-Wen, Liu Kuan-Ting, Na Dow, Wu Chien-Ho, Yin Shin. A young woman suddenly disappears. Nine people from her immediate surroundings try to solve the mystery of her disappearance only to find themselves caught up in a vortex of disorientation. Panorama CinemaxX 7
22:45 MALAMBO, THE GOOD MAN
(Czech Republic, Croatia) FFP New Media. 76mins. Dir: Jan Gebert. An insight into the structures of an anti-liberal youth movement gearing up for a clash of cultures.
(Argentina) 71mins. Dir: Santiago Loza. Cast: Gaspar Jofre, Fernando Munoz, Nubecita Vargas, Pablo Lugones, Gabriela Pastor, Carlos Defeo. A young dancer named Gaspar has dedicated his life to his passion but his devotion takes its toll on his body.
Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
Panorama CineStar 3
Forum Cubix 9
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Kore-eda. Cast: Fukuyama Masaharu, Yakusho Koji, Hirose Suzu. The moving story of a man struggling to find the truth while questioning his own faith in the law.
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08:50 TOUCH ME NOT
CinemaxX 14
(Romania, Germany, Czech Republic) Doc & Film International, 125mins. Dir: Adina Pintilie. Cast: Laura Benson, Tomas Lemarquis, Christian Bayerlein, Hanna Hofmann. Questions our preconceived ideas about intimacy: a film on how human beings can touch each other in the most unexpected ways. CineStar 5
08:55 IMPOSED PIECE
(Belgium) Wide House, 82mins. Dir: Brecht Vanhoenacker. A documentary about the final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition for violin in 2015, considered one of the most challenging and prestigious competitions for instrumentalists. CinemaxX 5
09:00
VENUS
(Canada) Wide, 95mins. Dir: Eisha Marjara. Cast: Debargo Sanyal, Jamie Mayers, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Zena Daruwalla. Sid is under family pressure to marry a nice Indian girl and have children. When he finally finds the courage to come out as a woman, a 14-year-old boy named Ralph claims to be his son. Sid isn’t ready to accept him but Ralph is.
MARKET 09:20 HAYFLOWER, QUILTSHOE AND THE RUBENS BROTHERS
(Finland) SF Studios, 89mins. Dir: Anna Dahlman. Cast: Nina Lahtinen, Joonas Nordman, Emily Shipway, Ella Kangas. When the Cowbell family go on a summer vacation to a rented cottage, the local police
FLAMMABLE CHILDREN
constables Bellybutton and Goggleclock are joyful. Their joy doubles when they win a rent-free summer cottage for one week. What they don’t know is that these two cottages are next to each other. When the truth comes out, the constables are forced to masquerade as the Rubens Brothers to remain incognito.
(Australia) WestEnd Films, 97mins. Dir: Stephan Elliott. Cast: Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce, Radha Mitchell, Julian McMahon. Set on the sunny beaches of Australia in the mid-1970s: hit by the sexual revolution, and the body of a 200-ton whale, the lives of three unique families are about to be turned upside down.
CinemaxX 10
CineStar 1
A PARIS EDUCATION
(France) Les Films du Losange, 136mins. Dir: Jean-Paul Civeyrac. Cast: Andranic Manet, Corentin Fila, Gonzague Van Bervesseles, Diane Rouxel. Etienne comes to Paris to study filmmaking at the Sorbonne. He meets Mathias and Jean-Noe. As they spend the year studying, they have to face friendship and love challenges as well as choosing their artistic battles.
Norway) Beta Cinema, 90mins. Dir: Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza. Cast: Veronica Lynn, Alden Knight, Philipp Hochmair. The 1990s: Cuba is drowning in hunger, cigars and rum. In this grim landscape, the life of Candelaria and Victor Hugo, a couple who stayed together out of inertia, takes a surprising turn the day Candelaria finds a video camera.
THE DISCOVERER OF NEW WORLDS
CinemaxX 4
CinemaxX 11
Arsenal Cinema 1
KINGS FOR A DAY
(Turkey) Turkish Cinema, 57mins. Dir: Burhan Gun. Cast: Selay Tasdogen, Burhan Gun, Nihan Omuz. A fish named Renkli is maintaining his routine life in the aquarium with other marine animals. The aquarium world is very boring for him — he wants to escape this world and discover new ones.
BEFORE SUMMER ENDS
COMIC SANS
DOVLATOV
(France Switzerland) Upside Distribution, 80mins. Dir: Maryam Goormaghtigh. After five years of studying in Paris, Arash has struggled to adapt to life in France and has decided to return to Iran. In the hope of changing his mind, his two friends take him on one last trip across France.
CANDELARIA
(Croatia) Croatian Audiovisual Centre, 103mins. Dir: Nevio Marasovic. Cast: Janko Popovic Volaric, Zlatko Buric, Natasa Janjic. Successful designer Alan Despot goes to the island of Vis after trying in vain to renew a broken relationship with his girlfriend, and finds himself torn between his eccentric father, another ex-girlfriend and her fiance.
(Russian Federation, Poland, Serbia) Alpha Violet, 126mins. Dir: Alexey German Jr. Cast: Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovsky, Helena Sujecka, Artur Beschastny, Elena Lyadova. The life of an insightful, brilliant, ironic and very talented individual who tries to preserve decency and talent in spite of the will of the state machinery.
(Colombia, Germany,
CinemaxX 8
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(France) FranceTV Distribution, 85mins. Dir: Xabi Molia. Cast: Kad Merad, Kacey Mottet Klein, Sylvie Testud. Micka is dragged into his father Joseph’s small-time scams. They have huge rent arrears and the landlord is getting nasty. So Joseph needs his son more than ever but Micka’s dream is to escape both the grifting and his father.
Tatum Hall, Max Casella. Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10-year-old sister that could destroy their future. CineStar IMAX
THE PLACE
(Italy) True Colours, 105mins. Dir: Paolo Genovese. A mysterious man sits at the same table of the same restaurant every day granting his visitors’ wishes and assigning them peculiar tasks in return. What will they be ready to do to get what they want?
CinemaxX 1
09:15 MIRACLE SEASON
(US) Annapurna International, 120mins. Dir: Sean McNamara. Cast: Helen Hunt, Nesta Cooper, William Hurt, Danika Yarosh. After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline ‘Line’ Found, a team of dispirited highschool girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in the hope of winning the state championship. Marriott Studio
WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE
(France) Pathé International, 85mins. Dir: Gilles de Maistre. Chef Alain Ducasse’s quest for culinary excellence.
(Canada) MPI Media Group, 98mins. Dir: Colin Minihan. Cast: Hannah Emily Anderson, Brittany Allen. On their one-year anniversary, Jackie reveals the brutal psychopath she really is to her wife Jules.
CinemaxX 9
Arsenal Cinema 2
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MAIL ORDER MONSTER
ROLLING TO YOU
(US) Film Mode Entertainment, 87mins. Dir: Paulina Lagudi. Cast: Charisma Carpenter, Josh Hopkins, Emma Rayne Lyle. A girl seeks the help and guidance from a robot monster to help cope with the bullies at school and her father’s new girlfriend.
(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. How could he imagine that he would fall in love with her sister who is in a wheelchair?
CinemaxX 13
CineStar 4
THE QUEST OF ALAIN DUCASSE
CinemaxX 3
NIGHT COMES ON
(US) Cercamon, 86mins. Dir: Jordana Spiro. Cast: Dominque Fishback,
THE THIRD MURDER
(Japan) Wild Bunch, 124mins. Dir: Hirokazu
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(Norway) LevelK, 105mins. Dir: Thea Hvistendahl. Cast: Magdi Ytreeie Abdelmaguid, Chirag Rashmikant Patel. One Muslim and one Hindu dedicate their lives to Norwegian rap and challenge freedom of speech. CinemaxX 12
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raising a teenager, he stumbles from blunder to blunder.
09:30 DOG
(France, Belgium) Films Boutique, 93mins. Dir: Samuel Benchetrit. Cast: Vincent Macaigne, Bouli Lanners, Vanessa Paradis. Jacques Blanchot just lost everything: his wife, his son, his house, his work. Abandoned by all, he gets picked up by a zealous petshop owner who, unable to see him as a friend, offers to train him as his dog.
Arsenal Cinema 2
THE WITCH HUNTERS
(Serbia) Pluto Film, 90mins. Dir: Rasko Miljkovic. Cast: Mihajlo Milavic, Silma Mahmuti. Ten-year-old Jovan has partial cerebral palsy since birth. To escape the reality, he immerses himself into a fantasy world. It all changes when he befriends his new classmate and the adventure to hunt her ‘witch’ stepmother begins.
Dffb Cinema
ELECTRIC HEART
(US) Bob’s Your Uncle, 77mins. Dir: Benjamin Mattingly. Cast: Matt Ciociolo, David Hanson, Kaye L Morris. When the woman Bryan has always loved invites him to attend an EDM festival in Las Vegas, he and his best friend take a road trip from Portland. CinemaxX 19
LEO DA VINCI: MISSION MONA LISA
(Italy, Poland) All Rights Entertainment, 82mins. Dir: Sergio Manfio. Life is peaceful in Vinci: Leonardo struggles with his incredible inventions, Lorenzo helps him and Gioconda observes them, mockingly. When a mysterious storyteller comes to town and speaks of a hidden treasure, an adventure begins. MGB Cinema
THE LOST LAND
(China) Ori Pictures/Ori Animation, 104mins. Dir: Xiaoli Xu. CinemaxX 15
NORMANDIE NUE
(France) SND — Groupe M6, 110mins. Dir: Philippe Le Guay. Cast: Francois Cluzet, Toby Jones, FrancoisXavier Demaison. Mele-sur-Sarthe is a charming village in Normandy, but for years, this rural community has been facing major issues and the mayor, Georges Balbuzard, is doing his best to fight and raise awareness.
CinemaxX 9
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10:35 DUMPED
(France, UK) WestEnd Films, 100mins. Dir: Eloise Lang. Cast: Camille Cottin, Camille Chamoux, Miou Miou, Johan Heldenbergh. Two sisters take their 97mins. Dir: Jean-Claude Brisseau. Cast: Fabienne Babe, Isabelle Prim, Anna Sigalevitch, Fabrice Deville. Camille, a 40-something woman, finds the cellphone of Suzy, a sexy young woman. CineStar 7
VERAS MANTEL
(Germany) Reyonimages, 111mins. Dir: Ronald Unterberger. Cast: Lea Fassbender, Nico Zitek, Charlotte Ullrich, Leif Evers. A successful writer is prevented from leaving her house by agoraphobia. Sinister threats from a fan eventually lead to her uncovering the secret of her illness. Zoo Palast Club A
WORLD OF DARKNESS: THE DOCUMENTARY
TEMPTING DEVILS
(Sweden) Java Films, 58mins. Dir: Kevin Lee, Giles Alderson. Cast: Stewart Wieck, Steve Wieck, Mark Rein-Hagen, Justin Achilli. A profile of the cult games that changed pop culture forever.
(France) WTFilms,
Parliament Studio
CineStar 2
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mother out of Paris and to the tropical island of Réunion for her 60th birthday. But when a sexy bartender and cheap margaritas get into the mix, their fun in the sun starts to get out of hand. CineStar IMAX
09:45 ONE STEP BEHIND THE SERAPHIM
(Romania) Indie Sales, 147mins. Dir: Daniel Sandu. Cast: Stefan Iancu, Vlad Ivanov. A group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that’s not the way one’s life should be led. CinemaxX 16
09:50 ALLURE
(Canada) Seville International, 105mins. Dir: Carlos & Jason Sanchez. Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Julia Sarah Stone, Denis O’Hare. An unstable woman persuades a 16-year-old girl to move in with her in secret. Despite illusions of love, their relationship teeters on the edge of captor and captive. CinemaxX 2
10:00 SYSTEM ERROR
(Germany) Port-Au-Prince Pictures, 96mins. Dir: Florian Opitz.
Why are we so obsessed with economic growth, even if we know that endless growth will kill us in the end? Delphi LUX 2
WHEN GOD SLEEPS
(Germany, US) Ro Co Films International, 90mins. Dir: Till Schauder. Depicts the journey of Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi, who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death. Delphi LUX 1
10:20 THE GREEN LIE
(Austria) Wide House, 97mins. Dir: Werner Boote. Cast: Werner Boote, Kathrin Hartmann, Raj Patel, Noam Chomsky, Feri Irawan. Eco-friendly electric cars, sustainably produced palm oil, fair trade goods… trust the corporations that tell you we can save the world by buying the right things? Werner Boote shows that that is a popular and dangerous lie. CinemaxX 5
10:30 TEENOSAURUS REX
(Germany) Picture Tree International, 94mins. Dir: Leander Haussmann. Cast: Jan Josef Liefers, Heike Makatsch, Harriet Herbig-Matten, Detlev Buck. Carla is going through puberty: her father tries his best to keep her away from boys and alcohol. Proving totally inept at
GASPARD AT THE WEDDING
(France) Pyramide International, 105mins. Dir: Antony Cordier. After years of keeping a careful distance, Gaspard, 25, has to renew contact with his family when his father announces he is getting remarried. He’s not aware that he is preparing to live the last days of his childhood. CinemaxX 18
THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE GIANT PEAR
(Denmark) LevelK, 79mins. Dir: various. Life peacefully passes by in Sunnytown until Mitcho and Sebastian find a message in a bottle. It contains a message from the missing mayor, and they have to set out on an adventurous rescue mission. CinemaxX 13
10:40 GURRUMUL
(Australia) Cinephil, 96mins. Dir: Paul Williams. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was one of the most acclaimed voices to ever come out of Australia. Blind from birth, he found purpose through music inspired by his Indigenous community on Elcho Island. Parliament Studio
STUDIO 54
(US) Dogwoof, 98mins. Dir: Matt Tyrnauer. Studio 54 was the epicenter of 1970s hedonism, a monumental magnet for
beautiful stars, casual sex, and mounds of cocaine, a den of excess that defined its own rules and enshrined the ostracised, queer and the fabulous. CinemaxX 17
10:45 ADVENTURES IN PUBLIC SCHOOL
(Canada) Kaleidoscope Film Distribution, 86mins. Dir: Kyle Rideout. Cast: Judy Greer, Russell Peters, Grace Park, Daniel Doheny. When socially awkward homeschooled kid Liam falls for one-legged beauty Anastasia, he abandons his mother’s suffocating love and enrols in public school — entering an eye-opening world of sex, drugs and social mayhem. CinemaxX 11
GOLD SEEKERS
(Paraguay) FilmSharks International, 102mins. Dir: Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori. Cast: Tomas Arredondo, Christian Ferreira, Cecilia Torres. A story that digs up one of the ancients legends in Paraguay. Manu, Ilu, Fito, Lili and Don Elio embark on a search in Asuncion and other cities, following a map that indicates where buried treasure is hidden. CinemaxX 8
HELP, I SHRUNK MY PARENTS
(Germany) ARRI Media, 98mins. Dir: Tim Trageser. Cast: Oskar Keymer, Anja Kling, Andrea Sawatzki. Cheeky 11-year-old Felix returns, this time shrinking his parents. CineStar 1
IN BLUE
(Netherlands) Wide, 102mins. Dir: Jaap van Heusden. Cast: Maria Kraakman, Bogdan Iancu. A flight attendant has to deliver a child in mid-air and gets involved in a confusing mother/lover relationship with a boy who is living under the streets of Bucharest. CinemaxX 1
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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: TODAY / 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: TODAY / 18:15 / CineStar 5
THE QUEEN OF FEAR
WINNER
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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: TODAY / 16:05 / CinemaxX 14 Feb 19 / 11:05 / CinemaxX 14
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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: TODAY / 14:00 / CinemaxX 16 Feb 20 / 9:00 / CinemaxX 14
MESSI AND MAUD
“Nuanced in its emotions.” –Screen International
MARKET SCREENING: Feb 19 / 17:30 / CinemaxX 17
“Riveting (...) As bewitching as it is mysterious.” –Moveable Fest
Director: Marleen Jonkman Cast: Rifka Lodeizen (Tonio, Disappearance)
BARLEY FIELDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN
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
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SCREENINGS
60mins. Dir: various.
Singapore to find out the truth about his past.
VR Cinema at Marriott
CinemaxX 5
COLETTE
12:15
(US, UK) HanWay Films, 112mins. Dir: Wash Westmoreland. Cast: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Fiona Shaw, Robert Pugh. The fascinating story of the woman behind the scandalous Claudine novels.
A KID LIKE JAKE
CineStar 5
LORDS OF CHAOS
(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 113mins. Dir: Jonas Akerlund. A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1980s results in a very violent outcome. MGB Cinema
MCKELLEN: PLAYING THE PART
(UK) Independent, 92mins. Dir: Joe Stephenson. Cast: Ian McKellen. Feature documentary on the life and work of actor Sir Ian McKellen.
MARKET 11:30 LITTLE WHITE LIE
(Chile) Summerside International, 80mins. Dir: Tomas Alzamora. Cast: Rodrigo Salinas, Ernesto Melendez, Catalina Saavedra, Daniel Antivilo.
(Taiwan) Ablaze Image, 111mins. Dir: Sung HsinYin. Cast: Wei Te-Sheng, Gwei Lun-Mei. Following her grandmother’s death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she starts to contemplate the meaning of life and home. Cinemobile
CinemaxX 12
ON HAPPINESS ROAD
THE RUSSIAN BRIDE
(US) VMI Worldwide, 100mins. Dir: Michael Ojeda. Cast: Corbin Bernsen. A Russian woman travels to America with her daughter to marry a reclusive billionaire, who turns out to be a psycho who makes their lives a living hell. Zoo Palast Club B
11:10 FRONTIER
(Russia) Central Partnership, 100mins. Dir: Dmitri Tyurin. Cast: Pavel Priluchny, Stanislav Druzhinnikov, Christina Brodskay. Michael’s perfect life changes dramatically when he discovers a portal that allows him to travel in time. Dffb Cinema
Marriott Studio
Gere, Walton Goggins, Peter Dinklage, Bradley Whitford. Based on an extraordinary experiment that began in 1959 at Michigan’s Ypsilanti State Hospital: the story of Dr Alan Stone and his three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are Jesus Christ. Zoo Palast Club A
THE ETERNAL ROAD
(Finland) Eyewell, 104mins. Dir: AJ Annila. Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Tommi Korpela, Ville Virtanen, Helen Soderqvist. During the 1930s great depression, Stalin invites all the workers of the world to build a new society based on justice, equality and freedom. As the political climate changes, they become unwanted and people start disappearing.
CinemaxX 10
A small-town journalist in southern Chile realises he just ran out of good news so he starts making up gossip and fake stories in order to keep his job in the local newspaper he works for.
11:15 ANA BY DAY
(Spain, France) Media Luna, 105mins. Dir: Andrea Jaurrieta. Cast: Ingrid Garcia Jonsson, Maria Jose Alfonso, Mona Martinez, Alvaro Ogalla. Ana is a young woman about to finish her PhD and get married. One day, a lookalike appears and takes her place. For the first time anonymous and free, Ana decides to test her limits. CinemaxX 14
The story of the last days of Oscar Wilde in exile. CineStar 6
11:20 GENERATION WEALTH
(US) Dogwoof, 106mins. Dir: Lauren Greenfield. An epic and intimate portrait of a materialistic, image-based culture and the people who have embraced and embodied it. CinemaxX 15
(UK, Ireland) Metro International Entertainment, 96mins. Dir: Colin McIvor. Cast: Art Parkinson, Penelope Wilton, Toby Jones. Based on a true story, young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941. Zoo Palast 3
L’ANIMALE
(Austria) Films Boutique, 97mins. Dir: Katharina Muckstein. Cast: Sophie Stockinger, Kathrin Resetarits, Dominik Warta, Julia Franz Richter. About the contradictory forces that guide ourlives: desire, passion and reason. CinemaxX 4
SPEAK UP
(France) MK2 Films, 122mins. Dir: Amandine Gay. Black women discuss what it means to belong to the black community and to be a woman today. CineStar 2
11:30
THE HAPPY PRINCE
LITTLE WHITE LIE
(Germany, Belgium, Italy) Beta Cinema, 105mins. Dir: Rupert Everett. Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas, Colin Firth.
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ZOO
THREE CHRISTS
(US) Highland Film Group, 108mins. Dir: Jon Avnet. Cast: Richard
11:40
11:55
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T 34 — PROMO
(Russia) Mars Media, 45mins. Dir: Alexey Sidorov. Cast: Alexsandr Petrov, Vinzenz Kiefer, Irina Starshenbaum, Viktor Dobronravov. In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. CinemaxX 2
Arsenal Cinema 2
MISSING!
(Netherlands) Princ Films, 90mins. Dir: Paul Ruven. Cast: Sanneke Bos, Mark van Euwen, Yes-R. The story of a mother in a desperate search for her missing daughter, who may have become a victim of an organised sex-trafficking ring. CinemaxX 13
12:00 ONCE UPON A TIME — INDIANERLAND
(Germany) Morefilms GmbH, 97mins. Dir: Ilker Catak. Cast: Leonard Scheicher. A wild-genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab suburbian neighbourhood. Delphi LUX 1
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.
(US) Bankside Films, 90mins. Dir: Silas Howard. Cast: Jim Parsons, Claire Danes, Octavia Spencer. Alex and Greg Wheeler are forced to navigate the difficult role of parenthood when their son’s gender variant expression becomes a key factor in finding him a private school scholarship.
ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME
(Germany) Global Screen, 101mins. Dir: Ozgur Yildirim. Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr, Edin Hasanovic. When Ricky gets out of jail, his buddy Latif already has the next heist planned. But their sure-fire scheme soon turns into a cat-and-mouse game with crooked cop Diana, who wants a share of the loot for herself. Delphi LUX 2
RAMEN SHOP
(Singapore, Japan, France) MK2 Films, 90mins. Dir: Eric Khoo. Cast: Takumi Saitoh, Mark Lee, Jeanette Aw, Tsuyoshi Ihara. Masato, a young ramen chef, leaves his home town in Japan to embark on a culinary journey to
TRANSIT
(Germany, France) The Match Factory, 101mins. Dir: Christian Petzold. Cast: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman. The story of a nearly impossible great love amid escape, exile and a longing for a place one can call home. Berlinale Palast
12:20 DEADTECTIVES
(US) Odin’s Eye Entertainment, 90mins. Dir: Tony West. Cast: Chris Geere, Martha Higareda, Jose Maria de Tavira, Tina Ivlev. Follows a team of hapless paranormal detectives on a reality TV series, who go on a quest to a haunted house in Mexico in order to get better ratings. However, the house they find turns out to actually be haunted and they must find a way to escape with their lives. CinemaxX 16
DON’T TALK TO IRENE
(Canada) The Film Sales Company, 86mins. Dir: Pat Mills. Cast: Michelle McLeod, Geena Davis, Anastasia Phillips. Irene — the fattest girl in high school — gets suspended. Given two weeks of community service at a retirement home, she follows her passion for cheerleading and enlists the seniors to audition for a talent-search reality show. CinemaxX 11
12:25 MUSE
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SCREENINGS
Filmax International, 108mins. Dir: Jaume Balaguero. Cast: Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, Joanne Whalley. A literature professor has to battle against his greatest love — poetry.
Entertainment, 100mins. Dir: Paul Bushe, Brian O’Neill. With her son being held by a criminal gang, policeofficer Amanda Doyle, takes part in a desperate plot to hold a wealthy family to ransom in order to pay off the gang. But this is no ordinary family.
Parliament Studio
SILENT NIGHT
(Poland) Intramovies, 101mins. Dir: Piotr Domalewski. Cast: Dawid Ogrodnik, Tomasz Zietek, Arkadiusz Jakubik. Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit. CinemaxX 17
12:30 JIBRIL
(Germany) Pluto Film, 83mins. Dir: Henrika Kull. Cast: Susana Abdulmajid, Malik Adan, Doua Rahal. Single mother Maryam plunges enthusiastically into a 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? CinemaxX 18
ONCE UPON A TIME IN NOVEMBER
(Poland) Wide, 93mins. Dir: Andrzej Jakimowski. Cast: Grzegorz Palkowski, Agata Kulesza, Edward Hogg. Warsaw, November 2013: Marky and his mother used to have a home until housing policies brutally changed. They now struggle to survive in the streets of an ever more violent society. CinemaxX 2
12:35 SILENCE OF THE WIND
(France, Puerto Rico) Cercamon, 86mins. Dir: Alvaro AponteCenteno. Cast: Israel Lugo, Elia Enid Cadilla, Amanda Lugo Alvarado, Kairiana Nunez Santaliz. While dealing with the sudden disappearance of his sister, Rafito needs to continue with the illegal business of bringing undocumented people from
CinemaxX 12
LUNA
(France) Pyramide International, 94mins. Dir: Elsa Diringer. During an evening of party drinking, Luna and her friends assault a young unknown male. A few weeks later, he reappears in Luna’s life.
MARKET 13:35 LONGING
(Israel) Films Boutique, 103mins. Dir: Savi Gabizon. Cast: Shai Avivi, Asi Levi, Neta Riskin. Ariel, a well-off, childless
Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. CinemaxX 1
12:40 COUPLE THERAPY FOR CHEATERS
(Italy) True Colours, 97mins. Dir: Alessio Maria Federici. Cast: Ambra Angiolini, Pietro Sermonti, Sergio Rubini. What happens if it is not a married couple that goes to a marriage counsellor but a pair of cheaters? Reckless and in love, Viviana and Modesto are bound by an uncontrollable passion. CineStar 4
THE ESCAPE
(UK) Independent, 105mins. Dir: Dominic Savage. Cast: Gemma Arterton, Dominic Savage, Jalil Lespert. The story of an ordinary woman who makes an extraordinary decision that will change her life forever. CineStar 1
POSSUM
(UK) Bankside Films, 90mins. Dir: Matthew Holness. Cast: Sean Harris, Alun Armstrong, Simon Bubb.
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man, gets a phone call from his college girlfriend. When they meet for the first time after 20 years, she surprisingly tells him that he is the father of a lovely boy. CinemaxX 13
A children’s entertainer with a troubled past returns to his childhood home to destroy Possum, a terrifying puppet he keeps concealed inside a leather bag. CinemaxX 10
12:45 VIKING DESTINY
(UK) Film Mode Entertainment, 81mins. Dir: David L.G. Hughes. Cast: Terence Stamp, Anna Demetriou, Martyn Ford, Will Mellor. A Viking princess is forced to flee her kingdom after being framed for the murder of her father. Under the guidance of the god Odin, she travels the world gaining wisdom and building the army she needs to win back her throne. CinemaxX 19
12:55 BLOODY RICHARD
(Italy, France) Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, 90mins. Dir: Roberta Torre. Cast: Massimo Ranieri, Sonia Bergamasco. A pop revisiting of Shakespeare’s Richard III set in the undergound of Rome’s crime world. Dffb Cinema
(Taiwan) MandarinVision, 104mins. Dir: HsinYao Huang. Cast: Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chen, Leon Dai. Pickle works as a security guard at a Buddha statue factory. Urged by his best friend Belly Button, he grabs his boss’s dashcam. As they watch the recordings, they find out some dirty secrets that will trigger a chain reaction.
FUTURE WORLD
Zoo Palast 4
THE SOWER
(US) Cercamon, 87mins. Dir: Christina Choe. Cast: Andrea Riseborough, J Smith-Cameron, Ann Dowd, John Leguizamo, Steve Buscemi. Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing 30 years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
13:00
Zoo Palast Club A
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BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, FRIENDS FOR LIFE
NANCY – CERCAMON PRIVATE SCREENING
MGB Cinema
(Taiwan, Croatia, Netherlands) Flash Forward Entertainment, 100mins. Dir: David Verbeek. Cast: David Verbeek, Lucia, ChenHung Chung. A Dutch photographer takes a photo of a girl in Taipei. The memory of his own childhood starts to come back and becomes intertwined with the identity of the girl.
(France) Gaumont, 91mins. Dir: Lovis Cornillac. Cast: Felix Bossuet, Clovis Cornilliac, Tcheky Karyo. In the final chapter of the trilogy, Sebastien will try anything to protect Belle from her previous owner.
13:05
CineStar 5
(France) Celluloid Dreams, 98mins. Dir: Marine Francen. Cast: Pauline Burlet, Geraldine Pailhas, Alban Lenoir. 1850: a mountain village is brutally deprived of all its men following the repression of the Republicans ordered by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. The young women take an oath: if a man comes, he will be shared by all the women.
AN IMPOSSIBLY SMALL OBJECT
(US) AMBI Distribution, 88mins. Dir: James Franco, Bruce Thierry Cheung. Cast: James Franco, Suki Waterhouse, Milla Jovovich, Lucy Liu. In a post-apocalyptic world, a prince from the oasis must venture out to find medicine for the ailing queen, but when he gets mixed up with the warlord and his robot, it leads to a daring journey through the desolate wastelands.
CinemaxX 14
THE GREAT BUDDHA+
13:30
CineStar 6
13:15 SOME FREAKS
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13:40 ROCK STEADY ROW
(US) Gunpowder & Sky, 78mins. Dir: Trevor Stevens. Cast: Heston Horwin, Diamond White, Isaac Alisma, Larry Miller. Centres around a young college freshman who, after his bike is stolen, lands on a college campus and is compelled to take action against the reigning fraternities and, ultimately, the dean. Marriott Studio
KILLERS WITHIN
(US) Electric Entertainment, 97mins. Dir: Ian MacAllisterMcDonald. Cast: Thomas Mann, Lily Mae Harrington. A charming romance develops between a boy with one eye and an overweight girl. When she loses her weight after going to college, their relationship is tested in devastating ways they never dreamed would happen.
(France) Pathé International, 130mins. Dir: Éric Barbier. Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Pierre Niney. Based on Romain Gary’s autobiographic novel, the epic life-journey of the famous French novelist is, above all, a homage to the dreams his mother harboured for her child.
(Ireland) The Annex
CinemaxX 15
CinemaxX 11
COBAIN
(Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) Beta Cinema, 94mins. Dir: Nanouk Leopold. Cast: Bas Keizer, Naomi Velissariou, Wim Opbrouck, Dana Marineci. The moving story of a teenage boy giving all the love he has to give to try and save his mother. CinemaxX 4
13:50 PROMISE AT DAWN
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Karen Shakhnazarov. Cast: Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Maksim Matveev, Vitaly Kishchenko. The tragic story of Anna Karenina presented in a new perspective, as recollected by Alexey Vronsky many years after Anna’s death.
13:55 CARNIVORES
(France, Belgium) Elle Driver, 87mins. Dir: Jérémie Renier, Yannick Renier. Cast: Leila Bekhti, Zita Hanrot, Johan Heldenbergh. Mona is struggling with her acting career. Her sister Sam is a shining star of French cinema. What seems to be a dream life for Mona becomes unbearable for Sam.
Dffb Cinema
CinemaxX 10
DECISION: LIQUIDATION
CineStar IMAX
DEAD IN A WEEK (OR YOUR MONEY BACK)
(UK) Altitude Film Sales, 88mins. Dir: Tom Edmunds. Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard, Marion Bailey. After seven unsuccessful suicide attempts, William outsources the task to Leslie, an ageing hitman. But with the contract signed and death assured within a week (or his money back) William finally discovers a reason to live. Arsenal Cinema 2
14:00 ANCHOR AND HOPE
(Spain, US, UK) Visit Films, 114mins. Dir: Carlos Marques-Marcet. Cast: Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin, David Verdaguer, Geraldine Chaplin. When Roger agrees to be Kat and Eva’s donor, the three friends set out on an unconventional journey to start a family. CinemaxX 16
DON’T. GET. OUT!
(Germany) Global Screen, 107mins. Dir: Christian Alvart. Cast: Wotan Wilke Mohring, Christiane Paul, Hannah Herzsprung. 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. Delphi LUX 2
MAGICAL MYSTERY — OR: THE RETURN OF KARL SCHMIDT
(Germany) Razor Film Produktion, 111mins. Dir: Arne Feldhusen. Cast: Charly Hubner, Annika Meier, Detlev Buck. Years after a nervous breakdown, Karl goes on tour with old friends and
Factory, 96mins. Dir: Damiano D’Innocenzo, Fabio D’Innocenzo. Cast: Matteo Olivetti, Andrea Carpenzano, Milena Mancini, Max Tortora. After an accident, Manolo and Mirko, two high-school boys from the outskirts of Rome, are sucked into a maelstrom of violence, drugs and prostitution.
MARKET 14:40 ARTHUR & CLAIRE
(Germany, Austria, Netherlands) ARRI Media, 98mins. Dir: Alexandre Miguel. Cast: Josef Hader,
upcoming electronic music DJs. Being the only sober person in a environment full of drugs and alcohol starts to bring back demons. Delphi LUX 1
WHEN MARGAUX MEETS MARGAUX
(France) Indie Sales, 97mins. Dir: Sophie Fillieres. Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Agathe Bonitzer, Melvil Poupaud. Margaux, 20, meets Margaux, 45. They can’t help but be drawn to each other as they are the exact same person at two different ages. CinemaxX 18
14:05
14:20
Hannah Hoekstra. The chance meeting of two people at the darkest moments of their lives leads to a bright new beginning. MGB Cinema
14:10 MR. KNOW-IT-ALL
(France) Gaumont, 100mins. Dir: Stephan Archinard, Francois Prevot-Leygonie. Cast: Arnaud Ducret, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Alice David. Leo is a ‘special’ kid. Too smart for his own good, he is affected by the Asperger syndrome. One day he crushes into his uncle’s perfect bachelor life. Vincent will quickly discover Leo’s unexpected and unique talent for football. CinemaxX 1
14:15 GET LOST!
(Lithuania, Bulgaria, Poland) Wide, 91mins. Dir: Egle Vertelyte. Cast: Egle Mikulionyte, Vyto Ruginis, Daniel Olbrychski. The lives of the owners of a nationalised pig farm in a small village are turned upside-down when a handsome American arrives, pledging to save the struggling enterprise. But his intentions may not be entirely innocent.
(Netherlands) Dutch Features Global Entertainment, 80mins. Dir: Mirjam de With. Cast: Anna Raadsveld, Willem Voogd, Set Sjostrand. Instead of making the planned trip to India, the 27-year-old Fem becomes a backpacker in her hometown Amsterdam. Fem does not dare to tell her boyfriend the truth and she gets tangled up in a crazy lie.
CinemaxX 2
CinemaxX 17
MIRACLE
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EAT ME
(US) Blue Fox Entertainment, 96mins. Dir: Adrian Cruz. Cast: Brad Carter, Michael Shamus Wiles, Jacqueline Wright. Over the course of one torturous night, a suicidal woman and the violent home intruder that saved her life test the limits of human endurance and the boundaries of forgiveness. Parliament Studio
THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING
(US) Submarine Entertainment, 99mins. Dir: Nathaniel Kahn. Dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a funhouse mirror up to our values and our times. CinemaxX 19
14:25
(Russia) Mosfilm Cinema Concern, 21mins. Dir: Aleksand Aravin. Cast: Igor Petrenko, Aleksey Vertkov, Dmitry Parastaev, Ayub Tsingyev. The ruthless extremist Bazgaev responsible for terrorist attacks which led to the death of hundreds of civilians, among them school children, is planning new actions. A group of security officers is to track and destroy him. Dffb Cinema
MOSFILM PROMOREEL
(Russia) Mosfilm Cinema Concern. Dffb Cinema
14:35 CINDERELLA THE CAT
(Italy) Rai Com, 86mins. Dir: Alessandro Rak, Marino Guarnieri. Cast: Alessandro Gassmann, Maria Pia Calzone, Massimiliano Gallo, Mariano Rigillo. Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples. CinemaxX 14
THE FAMILY HOUSE
(Italy) True Colours, 90mins. Dir: Augusto Fornari. Cast: Lino Guanciale, Stefano Fresi, Matilde Gioli, Libero De Rienzo. Four siblings decide to sell their family house while their father is in a coma after a heart attack. But when the man suddenly wakes up, they’ll have to pretend that the villa was never sold. CineStar 4
14:30
THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER
(US) Protagonist Pictures. Dir: Sara Colangelo. Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rosa Salazar, Michael Chernus, Parker Sevak. A kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students, who she believes is a child prodigy. CineStar 6
14:40 ARTHUR & CLAIRE
14:45 FORTUNA
(Switzerland, Belgium) Loco Films, 106mins. Dir: Germinal Roaux. Cast: Kidist Siyum Beza, Bruno Ganz, Patrick D’Assumcao, Yoann Blanc. Like many refugees, 14-year-old Fortuna’s new home is a monastery, far away from all she knew before. Lost between violence and love, she has to make a decision that might bring a clash or a new hope for life. Cinemobile
HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING
(US) Doc & Film International, 76mins. Dir: RaMell Ross. Cast: Robb Moss, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sarah Dhanens, Anita Yu. An emotive impression of the Historic South. CinemaxX 12
THE KEYS TO YOUR SOUL
(China) Polyhedron VR Studio, 60mins. Dir: Gianluigi Perrone. Cast: Lama Louzian. An immersive trip into meditation through the universe, and into the womb of creation. VR Cinema at Marriott
14:50 ANCHORS UP
(Norway) Sola Media, 75mins. Dir: Simen Alsvik, William John Ashurst. After a brave rescue mission in stormy weather, a young rescue boat is headhunted to a larger harbor where he realises that bigger is not always better. CineStar 5
15:00
ANNA KARENINA. VRONSKY’S STORY
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(Russia) Mosfilm Cinema Concern, 21mins. Dir:
BOYS CRY
(Italy) Celluloid Dreams, 116mins. Dir: Silvio Soldini. Cast: Valeria
(Italy) The Match
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LAST CALL FOR WORK IN PROGRESS PROJECTS Work in Progress Day: Thursday, April 5th, 2018 at the BIF MARKET How to finish your film with quality and a bigger budget thanks to Belgian investors and VFX studios…
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Submit your Work In Progress to the BIF MARKET ( romainroll@bifff.net )
Deadline: 1 March 2018
Meet the people of the Tax Shelter Department and Creative Media Desk Belgium Since 2004 : 1 billion €, 600 films, 2000 investors.
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THEIR SLOGAN? “Each year we have too much money and not enough projects!”
In 2018, five international genre film co-productions were financed through the Belgian Tax Shelter:
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Mandy ( Umedia ) * I Kill Giants ( Umedia ) * The Year of the Plague ( Casa Kafka Pictures ) The Man Who Killed Don Quixote ( Taxshelter.be ) Muse ( Frakas Production )
Meet Belgian VFX Companies :
BeNuts ( What Happened to Monday ) FilmMore ( Frankenstein's Army ) FridgeTV ( Iron Sky )
Meet Belgian co-producers such as :
Umedia ( I Kill Giants, Mandy )
BE TV ( Muse )
Studio L’Équipe ( Bullhead )
Frakas Production ( Grave, Muse )
Nozon ( Perfect Drug )
Potemkino ( Welp, Iron Sky )
Mikros ( Muse )
Umedia ( I Kill Giants, Mandy )
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Entre Chien et Loup ( Colt 45, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote ) Artemis Production ( Dark Touch, Incident, Red Nights )
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And finally…
find a Belgian co-producer who can submit your project via the tax shelter in order to finance the gap with the best Belgian post-production companies.
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SCREENINGS
Golino, Adriano Giannini. An unexpected relationship between a womaniser and a blind woman.
VR FROM THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
(Australia) Sundance Institute, 60mins. Dir: various. Cast: Dash Autio Parke, Jem Autio Parke.
CinemaxX 15
15:05
VR Cinema at Marriott
AMBER
(UK) American Cinema International, 92mins. Dir: David Newton. Cast: Jack Jagodka, Kevin Mangar, David Cheung. After an assignment goes wrong, hitman Jack gives up his life to protect his daughter Amber. Moments before his fate he is offered a second chance, providing he takes down the deadly assassins who have been sent to stop him. Marriott Studio
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16:05 DJON AFRICA
(Portugal, Brazil) Still Moving, 99mins. Dir: Filipa Reis, Joao Miller Guerra. A chance meeting sets young rasta Djon Africa back to his roots in Cape Verde. He hopes to finally find his father, whom he has never met. CinemaxX 11
MARKET 16:00
FINDING STEVE MCQUEEN
THE LADYBUG
(US) AMBI Distribution, 90mins. Dir: Mark Steven Johnson. Cast: Travis Fimmel, Forest Whitaker, Racheal Taylor. In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio, attempt to steal $30m in illegal campaign-contributions from President Nixon’s secret fund.
(Hong Kong, China) Golden Network Asia, 76mins. Dir: Shi Ding. On a quest for insect
Zoo Palast 4
HOUSE OF WAR
(Australia) MultiVisionnaire Pictures, 132mins. Dir: Lliam Worthington. Cast: Joseph Mahler Taylor, SukhRaj Deepak, Mihika Rao. Based on the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks in which a terrorist cell went on the rampage. For 96 hours, the guests must battle to survive. Zoo Palast Club A
15:25 CARGO
(Bahamas) The Annex Entertainment, 113mins. Dir: Kareem Mortimer. Cast: Warren Brown. A Bahamian fisherman with a gambling addiction takes a job smuggling Haitians to Florida. CinemaxX 13
(US) Archstone Distribution, 86mins. Dir: Chris Bouchard. Cast: Poppy Drayton, Gina Gershon, William Moseley. A young reporter and his niece discover a beautiful
paradise, a courageous ladybug scales new heights for bug-kind, riding on a jet plane, and descaling a giant lizard. CinemaxX 19
CinemaxX 1
16:00 DZIDZIO CONTRABASS
and enchanting creature they believe to be the real little mermaid. Zoo Palast Club B
15:30 DARK RIVER
(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 89mins. Dir: Clio Barnard. Cast: Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Sean Bean. A bitter dispute between a brother and sister over the tenancy of their family farm unearths traumatic memories that have lain dormant for years. Arsenal Cinema 2
Zellner, Nathan Zellner. An affluent pioneer travels to frontier country to marry the love of his life. CineStar 2 No press
15:40 POUND FOR POUND
(Denmark, Croatia, Iceland) Dutch Features Global Entertainment, 97mins. Dir: Mikkel Serup. Cast: Mikkel Boe Folsgaard, Lene Maria Christensen, Arnold Oceng, Soren Malling. The story of one of the most sensational wins in Danish sports history. CinemaxX 17
RETURN OF THE HERO
(France) Studiocanal, 91mins. Dir: Laurent Tirard. Cast: Jean Dujardin, Mélanie Laurent. 1809, France: Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up. But it all goes south when Neuville reappears. CineStar IMAX
THE LITTLE MERMAID
THE QUEEN OF FEAR
Set in the Paris suburbs in high school, teenagers chat about their personal history, their family but also passions and loneliness.
15:35 DAMSEL
(US) Great Point Media, 113mins. Dir: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner. Cast: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David
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15:45 PLACE PUBLIQUE
(France) Le Pacte, 98mins. Dir: Agnes Jaoui. Cast: Agnes Jaoui, JeanPierre Bacri, Léa Drucker. Castro used to be a famous TV host but his popularity is in decline. Today, he attends the housewarming party of his producer and longtime friend Nathalie. Everyone is there, but under the smooth surface, things are heating up. CinemaxX 2
15:55
(Ukraine) Reason8 Films, 85mins. Dir: Oleg Borshchevskyi. Cast: Mykhaylo Khoma, Olena Lavrenyuk, Orest Galitsky. A struggling entertainer and his friends decide to pose as priests to sneak contraband items across the border. Parliament Studio
JEEPERS CREEPERS 3
(US) Myriad Pictures, 102mins. Dir: Victor Salva. Cast: Jonathan Breck, Gabrielle Haugh, Meg Foster. Sheriff Dan Tashtego and a team of creeper hunters enlist officer Davis Tubbs to help stop the monster’s eating spree. CinemaxX 16
PERMANENT GREEN LIGHT
(France) MPM Premium, 92mins. Dir: Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley. Cast: Benjamin Sulpice, Théo Cholbi, Julien Fayeulle. Roman wants to explode. He’s not nihilist, religious or suicidal. His goal is to vanish, dying is unimportant and he’s only interested in the act’s spectacular effect.
YOUNG SOLITUDE
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(France) Wide House, 105mins. Dir: Claire Simon.
THE LADYBUG See box, above
(Argentina, Denmark) Visit Films, 108mins. Dir: Valeria Bertuccelli, Fabiana Tiscornia. Cast: Valeria Bertuccelli, Puma Goity, Dario Grandinetti, Diego Velazquez. A celebrated actress obsessively distracts herself from preparing for her career-defining one-woman show. CinemaxX 14
16:10 A JAR FULL OF LIFE
(Germany) Picture Tree International, 85mins. Dir: Florian Ross. Cast: Jella Haase, Matthias Schweighofer, Uwe Ochsenknecht. In her early twenties, Marleen lives at home and prefers working in the little movie theatre around the corner rather than making big plans for the future. CinemaxX 12
THE FULL HOUSE
(France) SND — Groupe M6, 105mins. Dir: Emmanuel Gillibert. Cast: Arnaud Ducret, Louise Bourgoin. A long-time bachelor and womaniser cannot wait for his new roommate to arrive. Expecting the director of a modelling agency, he meets Jeanne instead, a divorced mother of two. CineStar 4
16:15 BLACK 47
(Ireland, Luxembourg) Altitude Film Sales, 96mins. Dir: Lance Daly. Cast: Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville,
Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan. Ireland, 1847: during the Great Famine, Feeney, a hardened ranger, deserts his post with the British army and returns home to find his family slain by the brutal hand of the English. CineStar 6
LAND
(Italy, France, Netherlands) Bac Films, 111mins. Dir: Babak Jalali. Cast: Rod Rondeaux, Florence CM Klein, James Coleman, Wilma Pelly. A native American family stuggles with violence and alcohol when news reaches the reservation that one of them has died during military service in Afghanistan. CineStar 5
16:25 SPARRING
(France) EuropaCorp, 94mins. Dir: Samuel Jouy. Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivia Merilahti, Souleymane M’baye. An ageing boxer with more losses than wins becomes a sparring partner for an emerging champion in a last-ditch attempt to stay relevant. CinemaxX 10
16:30 THE CAPTAIN
(Germany, France, Poland) Alfama Films, 118mins. Dir: Robert Schwentke. Cast: Max Hubacher, Milan Peschel, Frederick Lau, Alexander Fehling. In the last moments of th Second World War, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain’s uniform. Impersonating an officer, he quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators from which he is trying to escape. Delphi LUX 2
HUMAN FLOW
(Germany) Human Flow UG, 140mins. Dir: Ai Weiwei. Portrays the international crises that gave rise to 60 million refugees today. Delphi LUX 1
PIERCING
(US) Memento Films
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SCREENINGS
International, 82mins. Dir: Nicolas Pesce. Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Christopher Abbott. Reed calls an escort service from a hotel room with the intention of killing a prostitute. MGB Cinema
SACHIN: A BILLION DREAMS
(India) Basil Content Media, 138mins. Dir: James Erskine. A tale of a small boy with dreams and his journey to becoming a god of cricket and the most celebrated sportsperson in his country. Zoo Palast 5
16:40 LIKE A CAT ON A HIGHWAY
(Italy) True Colours, 98mins. Dir: Riccardo Milani. Cast: Antonio Albanese, Paola Cortellesi. What happens when the teenage children of the most diverse people on earth fall in love? He is an intellectual and she is a former cashier with a common goal: this love story — with the life expectation of a cat on a highway — must end! Cinemobile
16:45 KOYAA
(Slovenia) Summerside International, 31mins. Dir: Kolja Saksida. Koyaa and his friend, the wise Mr Raven, live on a rocky ledge high above the clouds. Koyaa stumbles into comical adventures when the everyday objects that surround him come to life and begin to act in all sorts of weird ways. Marriott Studio
17:05 NICO, 1988
(Italy) Celluloid Dreams, 93mins. Dir: Susanna Nicchiarelli. Cast: Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Sandor Funtek. A road-movie dedicated to the last years of Christa Päffgen, the cult singer of The Velvet Underground. CinemaxX 15
17:10 BEAST
(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 107mins. Dir: Michael Pearce. Cast: Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn,
Geraldine James. An emotionally isolated woman comes under the spotlight of an island community when she falls in love with a man who may not be what he seems. CineStar IMAX
17:20 MR MOLL & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
(Switzerland) ARRI Media, 90mins. Dir: Manuel Flurin Hendry. Cast: Stefan Kurt, Isabella Schmid, Martin Rapold, Luna Paiano. When Mr Moll is home alone with the kids, absolute chaos ensues. While working overtime in the chocolate factory his kids get into a fight with the neighbours’ kids about sweets, homework and the most famous Circus Dog. Arsenal Cinema 2
17:25 BAD SAMARITAN
get him back to the North Pole in time for Christmas. CinemaxX 19
17:35 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 A
THE STOLEN PRINCESS
(Ukraine) FILM.UA Group, 90mins. Dir: Oleg Malamuzh. Mila, a Kyiv princess, falls in love with a wondering artist named Ruslan. When the evil sorcerer Chernomor kidnaps Mila, Ruslan sets out on a mission to rescue his loved one.
(US) Electric Entertainment, 107mins. Dir: Dean Devlin. Cast: David Tennant, Robert Sheehan. Two young car valets use their business as a front to burgle the houses of their unsuspecting patrons. Life is good until they target the wrong house.
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THE CYBORGS
OCCUPATION
(Ukraine) The Annex Entertainment, 113mins. Dir: Ahtem Seitablaev. Depicts the wartime lives of five Ukrainian brothers in arms fighting for control of Donetsk International Airport.
(Australia) Film Mode Entertainment, 120mins. Dir: Luke Sparke. Cast: Temuera Morrison, Dan Ewing, Rhiannon Fish. A group of residents have to band together after a devastating ground invasion.
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17:30 THE FOREST OF WOOL AND STEEL
(Japan) Toho, 134mins. Dir: Kojiro Hashimoto. A young piano tuner forges his own path. Parliament Studio
KIWI CHRISTMAS
(New Zealand) The Yellow Affair, 90mins. Dir: Tony Simpson. Fed up with the materialism of Christmas, Santa runs away to New Zealand for a summer holiday. When two Kiwi kids figure out who he is, they have to find a way to
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17:40 BLUE IGUANA
(UK) AMP International, 105mins. Dir: Hadi Hajaig. Cast: Sam Rockwell, Ben Schwartz, Phoebe Fox. They have a plan but they don’t have a clue.
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17:45
Steven Strait. A psychological thriller about three people in search of identity, purpose and humanity. CinemaxX 16
THE PILLAR OF SALT
(Turkey) Turkish Cinema, 70mins. Dir: Burak Cevik. Cast: Zinnure Ture, Dila Yumurtaci, Esme Madra, Banu Fotocan. A reclusive woman in her thirties leads a life stuck in time in a cave-like room. CinemaxX 1
PROVENANCE
(UK) Parkland Pictures, 93mins. Dir: Ben Hecking. Cast: Christian McKay, Charlotte Vega, Harry Macqueen. A classical musician travels to the south of France to escape the pressures of his life and career. There he awaits his young lover. CinemaxX 11
18:00 CRUCIBLE OF THE VAMPIRE
(UK) Screenbound International Pictures, 97mins. Dir: Iain Ross McNamee. Cast: Neil Morrissey, Katie Goldfinch, Charles O’Neill, Brian Croucher. An ancient, cursed artefact draws a young researcher to an old house, which holds a terrible secret. Marriott Studio
JOAO, O MAESTRO
(Brazil) Saboteur Media, 116mins. Dir: Mauro Lima. Cast: Alexandre Nero, Rodrigo Pandolfo, Caco Ciocler. Based on the true-life story of Brazilian classical pianist Joao Carlos Martins. CinemaxX 14
DARCY
THE LEGEND OF AKAM
(France) Wide, 87mins. Dir: Pierre Meynadier. Cast: Romane Portail, Paul Born, Kaycie Chase. Arach is a baby caiman. His father is the greatest hunter of the Great Kingdom. As Arach tells his story, we set off on a magical journey through the Amazon. CinemaxX 2
LOVE THY KEEPERS
(US) Saboteur Media, 95mins. Dir: Josh Janowicz. Cast: Drew Van Acker, Addison Timlin,
A man with a number, a woman with words and a vagabond with a country run in and out of the light of the others. CinemaxX 16
MGB Cinema
(US) Crogan Filmworks, 98mins. Dir: Heidi Philipsen, Jon Cring. Cast: Gus Birney, Johnathan Tchaikovsky,. A coming-of-age tale about an innocent teenage girl living in a seedy motel and the stranger who changes her world. CinemaxX 12
Zulu, Mandisa Nduna, Khanyi Mbau. A talented young performer travels from her rural home to Johannesburg to become a star.
SHE IS KING
(South Africa) The Griot, 106mins. Dir: Gersh Kgamedi. Cast: Gugu
18:10 RUST
(Brazil) Be For Films, 100mins. Dir: Aly Muritiba. Cast: Giovanni De Lorenzi, Tiffanny Dopke, Enrique Diaz. Tati and Renet were already trading pics, videos and music on their phones when, on the last school trip, they start making eye contact. But what could be the start of a love story turns out to be the end. CineStar 1
18:15 BEHOLD MY HEART
(Canada) Visit Films, 82mins. Dir: Joshua Leonard. Cast: Marisa Tomei, Charlie Plummer, Timothy Olyphant. In the aftermath of tragedy, a woman and her teenage son must forge into uncharted territory. CineStar 5
18:25 THE PRIZE
(Italy, Denmark) True Colours, 100mins. Dir: Alessandro Gassmann. Cast: Gigi Proietti, Alessandro Gassmann, Anna Foglietta. A cynical and selfish writer drives to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize, together with his two children — losers in his eyes. Cinemobile
18:45 INCIDENT IN A GHOST LAND
(France) Kinology, 89mins. Dir: Pascal Laugier. Cast: Crytal Reed, Anastasia Phillips, Emilia Jones. Daughters and mother finally reunite at the house where they have faced a traumatic night 16 years earlier. Then strange events begin to take place. CinemaxX 15
19:25 THE OTHERS
(India) Custard Apple Pictures, 71mins. Dir: Debesh Chatterjee. Cast: Debshanker Halder, Nitya Ganguly, Arpita Ghosh.
THE WHISKEY BANDIT
(Hungary) Hungarian National Film Fund, 126mins. Dir: Nimrod Antal. Cast: Bence Szalay, Piroska Moga. Between 1993 and 1999, one man robbed 29 financial institutions in Budapest and the police had no leads as to his identity. CinemaxX 12
19:30 DAMASCUS TIME
(Iran) Ayat Media, 114mins. Dir: Ebrahim Hatamikia. Cast: Babak Hamidian, Hadi Hejazifar, Pierre Dagher. Two Iranian pilots are on a special mission to save the people of a Syrian city. Dffb Cinema
19:50 LIZZIE
(US) The Solution Entertainment, 106mins. Dir: Craig MacNeill. Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Jamey Sheridan. A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family. MGB Cinema
19:55 ICE
(Russia) Art Pictures Studio, 108mins. Dir: Oleg Trofim. Cast: Aglaya Tarasova, Alexander Petrov, Milosh Bykovich, Maria Antonova. Talented figure skater Nadia has attracted the attention of a legend in the sport and seems one step away from realising her dream, but a mistake on the part of her partner lands Nadia in hospital. CinemaxX 10
SARA’S NOTEBOOK
(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 115mins. Dir: Norberto Lopez Amado. Cast: Belen Rueda, Marian Alvarez. Laura decides to travel to the Congo in search of her missing sister. CineStar 1
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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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