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Our Patriots finds ally in Other Angle

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Paris-based Other Angle has boarded Gabriel Le Bomin’s Second World War drama Our Patriots, about real-life Senegalese resistance fighter Addi Ba. Marc Zinga plays Ba, who was nicknamed ‘Der Schwarze Terrorist’ (the black terrorist) by the Germans for his role in a French resistance division operating in the Vosges in eastern France.

Louane Emera, who shot to fame in the role of the talented musical daughter in box-office hit La Famille Belier, and Alexandra Lamy are also in the cast as women who helped hide Ba from the Germans.

Other cast members include Pierre Deladonchamps.

“There aren’t that many films looking at the role Africans played in fighting the Germans and none, as far as I know, about black resistance fighters during the war,” says Other Angle chief Olivier Albou.

The company is also rolling out

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BY JEREMY KAY

In perhaps the most startlingly original high-level package at EFM, Rocket Science has announced that Taika Waititi will direct the stopmotion feature Bubbles, a comingof-age story about Michael Jackson’s celebrity pet chimpanzee.

Waititi, the hotshot New Zealand director behind Hunt For The Wilderpeople and upcoming Marvel Studios tentpole Thor: Ragnarok, will work alongside co-director

the 2015 Black List and recounts the life of the late superstar’s pet.

Adamson serves as executive producer with Lee Stobby.

Rocket Science’s Thorsten Schumacher said: “You think you’ve seen it all and then you read Bubbles, which is just so deeply original. Add Dan Harmon and Starburns Industries and you think it couldn’t get any better. But it does [with] Taika joining as director, bringing his warmth, empathy and humour.”

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BREAKING DEALS Adding Redivider Saban Films has acquired North American rights to Tim Smit’s sci-fi Redivider starring Dan Stevens.

Buyers find Inseperables FilmSharks has secured deals on Inseparables, the Intouchables remake, for the US (Film Movement), Spain (Isaan Entertainment) and Italy (Movies Inspired).

Kino Lorber opens Wound

BY JEREMY KAY

Actor Richard Gere embraces The Dinner writer/director Oren Moverman at the Competition title’s world premiere here last night. Co-stars Laura Linney and Steve Coogan were also in town.

Lunchbox actress is Tip Top

BY LIZ SHACKLETON

C International Sales has picked up international rights, excluding Australia and New Zealand, to Tip Top Taj Mahal, starring The Lunchbox actress Nimrat Kaur.

New Zealand producer John Barnett (Whale Rider) is producing the English-language project with Sally Campbell (Evil Dead). Bharat Nalluri will direct. Based on Jacob Rajan’s play Krishnan’s Dairy, the film tells the story of an Indian couple living in New Zealand; the homesick wife escapes into a fantasy world telling her son stories

Mark Gustafson, who served as animation director on Fantastic Mr Fox. Andrew Kortschak and Walter Kortschak of End Cue are producing with Dan Harmon’s Starburns Industries, the animators behind 2016 Oscar nominee Anomalisa.

Rocket Science has soft-launched Bubbles to international buyers here ahead of a major push in Cannes.

CAA represents US rights.

The project is based on Isaac Adamson’s screenplay that topped

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about the building of the Taj Mahal.

C International chief Marina Fuentes describes the project as “a magical love story in the same vein as The Lunchbox”. Production is scheduled to start in New Zealand and India this summer.

Content signs Lynn’s Pre-Nup Emile Hirsch, Alice Eve and Vanessa Hudgens have joined rom-com The Pre-Nup for director Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny).

David Koechner and rising comedy star Sebastian Maniscalco have also come on board the film to join previously announced Hugh Bonneville.

Content Media president of film Jamie Carmichael and senior vicepresident of sales and distribution Jonathan Ford are leading worldwide sales efforts at the EFM.

Production is set for June in the UK on the story of an American investment banker whose womanising father pressures him into suggesting a pre-nuptial agreement to his fiancée on the eve of their wedding.

Content’s EFM sales slate includes comedy An Actor Prepares starring Jeremy Irons; Sundance documentary premieres Cries From Syria and Legion Of Brothers ; and sci-fi mystery Origin Unknown.

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Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights from Pyramide International to John Trengove’s Sundance and Berlinale Panorama selection The Wound.

A summer theatrical release is planned for the film, about a closeted gay factory worker in South Africa, after key festivals, followed

by VoD and home entertainment roll-out in the fourth quarter.

“The Wound is cinema that transcends national borders and asks urgent questions about human nature and sexuality,” said Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber.

Schepisi’s Andorra moves for Celluloid

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Celluloid Dreams has widely presold on Fred Schepisi’s Andorra, due to start shooting in April.

Sales include Austria and Germany (Weltkino), Switzerland (Praesens), Italy (01), Greece (Seven), ex-Yugoslavia (Discovery), China (DDDream), India, Singapore and Malaysia (Viswaas), Australia (Madman), Middle East (Prime), Israel (Shoval) and Latin America (Impacto).

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Archstone sprouts Wings Archstone Distribution is selling drama On Wings Of Eagles starring Joseph Fiennes as ‘Flying Scotsman’ Eric Liddell. The drama charts the adult life of the athlete and is styled as an unofficial sequel to Chariots Of Fire. The film screens again tomorrow.

Boogie for Little Film Little Film Company has boarded world sales on GlobalWatch Film Productions’ Boogie Man. Andy Morahan’s coming-of-age story stars Ankush Khanna as a BritishAsian teen obsessed with disco.

Fanning channels Spirit Elle Fanning will star in Max Minghella’s directorial debut Teen Spirit, which Mister Smith is selling here.

New Europe breathes Air New Europe Film Sales has picked up Shady Srour’s Israeli comedy Holy Air, about a man who tries to make money in Nazareth selling bottled air to tourists.

Korean epic Ode adapts to India

BY JEAN NOH

CJ Entertainment has sold remake rights for South Korean epic Ode To My Father to India’s Reel Life Production. Korea’s second biggest hit to date, the original grossed more than $96.6m at the local box office.

Directed by JK Youn and starring Hwang Jung-min, the film is about a young boy’s promise made during the chaos of the Korean War to take care of his family, which ends up spanning 60 years of turbulent modern history.

Atul Agnihotri, who picked up the Hindi-language rights to the film, will produce. Reel Life Production CEO Nikhil Namit confirmed Ali Abbas Zafar will direct, with Salman Khan in the cast.

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the August 1947 partitioning of the British Indian Empire into India and Pakistan. Yoonhee Choi, head of International Sales and Distribution at CJ Entertainment, said: “It was so impressive to learn that a story based on Korean history can be adapted to India’s history as well.”

Reel Life currently has another remake of a Korean film, Scandal Makers, in pre-production.

Spotlight accesses Areas

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Italian sales company True Colours has boarded English-language extreme-sports drama Ride, Italian box-office hit It’s The Law and Generation Kplus title Two Irenes.

Ride, from writing and directing duo Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro, is a horror thriller shot entirely on GoPro cameras.

Brazilian filmmaker Fabio Meira’s Two Irenes is about two girls with an unexpected connection.

The company has acquired sales on Italian comedy duo Ficarra and Picone’s It’s The Law. True Colours is also handling international remake rights for the film, produced by Tramp Limited and distributed in Italy by Medusa Film.

Dogwoof moves Citizen, Dries

BY TOM GRATER

UK documentary specialist Dogwoof has racked up a series of deals on its EFM slate.

Alexandre O Philippe’s 78/52 has gone to Scandinavia (Non Stop) and Spain (A Contracorriente). Reiner Holzemer’s fashion film Dries has gone to Japan (New Select), Hong Kong (Edo), Belgium (Dalton) and Australia and

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Spotlight Pictures has acquired international sales, excluding the UK, to coming-of-age tale Access All Areas. Bryn Higgins directs from a script by Oliver Veysey, who produces with Bill Curbishley.

Movement moves on Moka Film Movement has picked up North American rights to Frédéric Mermoud’s French psychological thriller Moka from Pyramide International.

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New Zealand (Madman). Matt Tyrnauer’s Citizen Jane: Battle For The City has sold to Hong Kong (Edko), CIS (Beat Films), Italy (Wanted) and Thailand (Documentary Club), along with previously announced deals in Scandinavia and the Baltics (Non Stop), and Australia and New Zealand (Madman). IFC will release in the US in the spring.

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This first image from anticipated drama On Chesil Beach shows Saoirse Ronan and 2015 Screen Star Of Tomorrow Billy Howle. Dominic Cooke’s 1960s-set story is about virgin newlyweds on honeymoon, adapted from the Ian McEwan novel.

Rocket Science handles international sales on the Number 9 production, which Lionsgate will release in the UK. Andreas Wiseman

An eclectic array of international producers are assembling on intriguing EFM market script See How We Are, the new project from Gregory Widen, creator of the Highlander and The Prophecy franchises.

Producers on the fantasy include Stephen L’Heureux (Sin City: A Dame To Kill For) of Solipsist Films, Phin Glynn of Bad Penny Productions, and Wild Tales and Neruda producer Axel Kuschevatzky.

Widen, who also wrote Backdraft (1991), has penned the script and will direct, marking only his second feature as director after the first instalment of The Prophecy (1995), which starred Christopher Walken, Viggo Mortensen and Elias Koteas.

Bad Penny Productions, the fledgling UK outfit whose slate includes David Tennant projects Mad To Be Normal and You, Me And Him, will also finance the film.

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Buyers feel Attraction Art Pictures has sold Russian director Fedor Bondarchuk’s sci-fi epic Attraction to Latin America (Conquest Filmes) and India (RD Films). The feature has been sold to 74 countries.

M-Line moves Missing Korea’s M-Line Distribution has sold E.Oni’s mystery thriller Missing to Klockworx for Japan and MATV for several Southeast Asian territories. The company’s other deals include Derailed to Japan (Maxam), China (Lemon Tree), Hong Kong (Deltamac) and Taiwan (AV-jet); and Part-Time Spy to Taiwan (Longshong).

Maths whizz tale adds up

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Jakub Gierszal, an EFP Shooting Star in 2012, has been cast to play Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam in Thor Klein’s Adventures Of A Mathematician.

Also, Mary Young Leckie’s Solo Productions, the Canadian producer of Maudie, has boarded as co-producer with German producer Lena Vurma’s Dragonfly Films and Polish producer Joanna Szymanska’s Shipsboy.

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Mindjazz on a roll New German seller Mindjazz has done a deal with Netflix for worldwide rights to docs Trainer! and Live And Let Live. KMBO took all rights for France to Silentium — From Life In The Convent.

The mostly English-language project, which has secured funding from the Polish-German Film Fund, is scheduled to start shooting in early 2018. It will be Klein’s second feature following 2013 science-themed mystery thriller Lost Place.

Gierszal is also starring in Agnieszka Holland’s Berlin Competition title Spoor and has credits including 2016 Sundance hits The Lure and Morris From America.

Paris-based WTFilms has released this image of Sarah Gadon and Raoul Trujillo in Canadian director Sook-Yin Lee’s ghost story Octavio Is Dead!, which is currently shooting. “The dailies are electric,” said WTFilms co-founder Gregory Chambet.

Born in Poland, Ulam moved to the US in the 1930s and his ideas helped to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.

“Stan lived in a world that wasn’t so different from today,” said Klein. “There was the same financial crisis, there was a wave of refugees landing on the shores of the US and there were rightwing forces rising everywhere in Europe.

That makes this story so accessible and interesting to follow.”

MPI adds trio MPI Media Group has bolstered its slate with zombie thriller It Stains The Sands Red. The film, a Sitges award winner, was directed by Colin Minihan.

MPI will also screen two documentaries: Meat, about passionate food producers; and 100 Men, about changing attitudes towards homosexuality.

Doc Mode finds its Hero

BY JEREMY KAY

Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment has launched documentary arm Doc Mode at the EFM with Hero With A Thousand Faces.

The film, about the ebola crisis, is narrated by Bruce Davison. It is directed by Joel Clark and hails from the producers of Blackfish.

Tony Blair, Bono, Stephen Colbert, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart and Jeffrey Wright are featured in the film, which The Orchard recently released in the US. “We look forward to showing footage to buyers in Berlin and to opening up Doc Mode to present exceptional, commercially driven documentaries,” Epstein said.

The initial Doc Mode slate includes Wildbear Entertainment’s Ballerina (formerly Ella) about renowned Indigenous Australian dancer Ella Havelka.

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Gurinder Chadha, whose feature Viceroy’s House — about the Partition of India in 1947 — has its world premiere here tomorrow, is next moving into Second World War territory. The UK director told Screen she is developing a 1943-set movie about an Indian woman who is a spy.

Farrukh Dhondy is writing the project, called Song For A Spy. “It’s history that is familiar but from a completely different perspective,” Chadha said.

Chadha also has another feature project in development with writer Sarfraz Manzoor, Luton Actually, adapted from Manzoor’s memoir Greetings From Bury

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Park. The BFI Film Fund is supporting development.

Chadha revealed Viceroy’s House is being dubbed by backers Reliance into the Hindi language — and will be released in India in both English-language and Hindi-language versions.

The English version will screen in big-city multiplexes and the Hindi version will show in small-town cinemas. Chadha also hopes to

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secure a release in Pakistan.

“It is quite a sad episode in their history. People prefer not to talk about it [Partition] and just to move on,” Chadha said. “My film is one of the few films that have been made about it.

Reliance feel that people will be eager to see it, young people in par ticular, because they will be able to learn about their past and their background in a very accessible way.”

Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick was one of the first to see Viceroy’s House. “He absolutely snapped it up for Berlin because of what is happening in Germany and now what has been happening since Trump in the US as well,” Chadha added.

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Heinzels finds voice German actor Louis Hofmann, one of this year’s EFP Shooting Stars, is set to lend his voice to one of the characters in The Heinzels. The animated feature will be the next collaboration by Dirk Beinhold’s Akkord Film and director Ute von MünchowPohl after Rabbit School — Guardians Of The Golden Egg. Sola Media sells. » Full stories on ScreenDaily.com

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Toronto’s Marina Cordoni Entertainment is in Berlin with the world market premiere of the Butler brothers’ heist comedy First Round Down.

The feature centres on a former ice-hockey prodigy turned hitman whose past catches up with him.

Dylan Bruce, Rachel Wilson and Rob Ramsay star.

Substance Productions produced First Round Down in association with Marina Cordoni Entertainment, Telefilm Canada and Unobstructed View.

Cordoni has just licensed worldwide rights excluding Canada on Gail Harvey’s upcoming thriller Never Saw It Coming to Jay Firestone’s Prodigy Pictures.

The EFM sales slate includes Connor Gaston’s drama The Devout, Adam Garnet Jones’s Fire Song, Jordan Canning’s We Were Wolves and Sami Khan’s Khoya.

UK co-production specialist Film & Music Entertainment (F&ME) has boarded several films to shoot in 2017 including The Dream Girl written and directed by Maurizio Braucci, the screenwriter for Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah and Reality.

Braucci co-wrote the film with Ida writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

The UK-Ireland co-production is set to shoot from September.

F&ME is also working with Lenkiewicz on The Disciple, to be directed by Ivan Ostrochovsky and written by Lenkiewicz, Marek Lescak and Ostrochovsky.

Also shooting by the end of 2017 will be documentary Streetkids United III — The Road To Moscow, co-produced with Jamillah van der Hulst and Conrad Alleblas at JaJa Film Productions.

F&ME also has Mariam Khatchvani’s debut feature Dede,

which is sold by Wide and is now in post; and Fatmir Koci’s Elvis Walks Home, a UK-Albania coproduction.

After working on Imagine, F&ME reteamed with Poland’s Andrzej Jakimowski on Once Upon A Time In November (working title), which is being sold by Wide.

F&ME has also joined as executive producer on Bodo Kox’s The Man With The Magic Box, produced by Alter Ego productions.

AMBI flies with Guardian Angel

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AMBI Distribution has acquired worldwide sales rights (excluding Scandinavia, Iceland and former Yugoslavia) to thriller The Guardian Angel.

Writer-director Arto Halonen is currently shooting the Finnish-

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Pilou Asbaek, Josh Lucas, Rade Serbedzija and Cyron Melville lead the cast.

The English-language film is based on the true story of Copenhagen’s ‘hypnosis murders’ of 1951, when a criminal used hyp-

nosis to turn someone into a murderer.

Halonen also produces for Finland’s Art Films Production AFP alongside Timo T Lahtinen of Copenhagen-based Smile Entertainment and Igor A Nola of Croatia’s MP Film Production.

M-Appeal seals major sales

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German world sales outfit M-Appeal has announced a raft of deals on its slate early in the market.

Russian auteur Yuri Bykov’s two features The Fool and The Major have gone to Turkey (Filmarti).

Israeli title Barash has gone to France’s Optimale Distribution, which is planning a theatrical release in the summer.

Another M-Appeal title, Lorcan Finnegan’s Without Name has sold to Element Pictures for the UK & Ireland.

Body Electric by Marcelo Caetano, a world premiere at Rotterdam last month, has gone to Germany (Salzgeber).

Jérome Reybaud’s 4 Days In France has been acquired by Matchbox Films for the UK and Ireland, and to Film Buro Producciones for Spain.

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STANLEY TUCCI (Final Portrait, out of competition) With a career in front of the camera that has seen an Oscar nomination for The Lovely Bones and roles in Spotlight and The Hunger Games franchise, Stanley Tucci returns to directing after a decade-long absence with Final Portrait. The film, his fifth as a director, stars Geoffrey Rush as Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti and Armie Hammer as a US critic who becomes the artist’s subject.

It receives its world premiere at the Berlinale today.

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a musical,” he says. “But there is quite a naturalistic musical link between the ways in which emos and Christian groups express themselves in high school — that was my experience.”

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Neue Visionen Film Distribution founder and CEO Torsten Frehse was honoured by the French film industry at the Berlinale last night.

Export body Unifrance presented the German distributor with its French Cinema Award for his “exceptional contribution to making French cinema shine internationally”.

Recent French films on Neue Visionen’s German slate include Eric Besnard’s The Sense Of Wonder (Le Gout Des Merveilles) and Ivan Calbérac’s The Student And Mister Henri, which performed better at the German box office than in France.

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After his 16-minute short Emo The Musical received a special mention at the Berlinale in 2014, Australian director Neil Triffett returns this year with a feature-length version, premiering today in the Generation 14plus strand (see review, page 18).

The feature builds on the short’s tale of an emo high-schooler who pursues a secret romance with a Christian girl, while also seeking to join the line-up of the school’s alternative rock band Worst Day Ever.

Emo The Musical stars Australian TV regular Benson Jack Anthony, in his feature debut, as Ethan, while Jordan Hare plays his devout crush Trinity. Both leads were recast from the short, although Harry Borland — the short’s Ethan — appears in the feature in a different role. “After we played at the Berlinale in 2014, we started working on a feature-length version with funding from organisations including Screen Victoria and Screen Australia, which appointed a script editor to help with ongoing development,” says Triffett, who says the film’s musical elements were a good fit for the story.

“I don’t like to think Caption to go here of Emo as strictly

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How did you attract such a strong cast?

It was always going to be Geoffrey Rush [as Giacometti]. Originally we cast Colin Firth in Armie Hammer’s role but that didn’t work out for scheduling reasons.

Ultimately, there can be a big age difference between your choices but it’s all about the essence of the actor. Armie has a sweetness and openness to him. He was perfect.

You were Oscar-nominated for The Lovely Bones. How was it playing such a dark character?

It was a horrible experience.

I don’t know that I would want to play a serial-killing child rapist again. As a parent, it’s your worst nightmare. You distance yourself from the role, but it can’t help but get inside of you — there’s still residue there.

You’ve also taken roles in blockbusters like Transformers.

How do those experiences compare?

You’ll go broke if you’re doing only independent films, but it’s also fun to go make those really big movies. They help put food on the table and you can work with some great people. I don’t feel more comfortable in one than the other — they’re both equally uncomfortable.

Is it true that your most expensive possession is an artwork?

Probably. My dad was an artist and I grew up surrounded by art.

I considered being an artist when I was younger but thought I’d make even less money than as an actor.

Are you planning to direct again soon?

Gail Egan and I are talking about a couple of projects. There’s a TV series I’d like to do that takes place in Berlin during the Second World War. It’s based on a book called City Of Women by David R Gillham, which tells the story of a woman living in Berlin as the Wall is starting to come down.

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On Body And Soul Reviewed by Jonathan Romney

The Dinner Reviewed by Lee Marshall

COMPETITION

While this is the third time Dutch author Herman Koch’s 2009 novel has been adapted for the screen (after efforts

by Koch’s compatriot Menno Meyjes and Italian director Ivano De Matteo), Oren Moverman’s follow-up to Time Out Of Mind seems particularly timely. Koch’s story about two couples who meet for dinner — to discuss an unsolved crime they know was committed by their sons — was a dark, barbed satire of hypocritical Euro-elites. In Moverman’s hands, it becomes a contemporary US fable about the savagery that lurks behind civilised facades, class and racial divisions in a country that calls itself united, and ethical vacuums in a connected, online society.

It is also an unbalanced, uneven ride; a distracting hotand-cold shower of intense scenes featuring four terrific actors and long, meandering passages of flashback filler.

The meat of the story is in the titular meal, here transposed to a fancy New England restaurant where diners are supposed to listen in hushed silence to the maître d’s adjective-clogged, provenance-stuffed description of each dish. Though this raises a giggle it parallels some of the frustrations of Moverman’s film, which feels like an endless string of amuse-bouches with no main course.

Steve Coogan’s character, Paul, suffers from mentalhealth issues, while his wife Claire (Laura Linney) is a rock of support and affection. His older brother Stan (Richard Gere) is a canny, well-coiffed congressman running for governor, while Kate (Rebecca Hall) is Stan’s second wife, a former intern exasperated by her husband’s fragmented moments of intimacy and attention.

One of main problems is Paul, the film’s narrator and mood channel. While Coogan acquits himself honourably in the role, it is a character that ruins a potentially good film by, as it were, talking all over it.

Moverman’s decision to pretty much mount his camera inside Paul’s head turns The Dinner into a film that is as much about mental illness, and US history, as it is about present-day WASP hypocrisy.

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US. 2017. 121mins Director Oren Moverman Production companies Chubbco, Blackbird Production International sales Protagonist Pictures, info@protagonistpictures. com Producers Cotty Chubb, Lawrence Inglee, Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev Executive producers Leonid Lebedev, Angel Lopez, Olga Segura, Eva Maria Daniels Screenplay Oren Moverman, based on the novel by Herman Koch Cinematography Bobby Bukowski Editor Alex Hall Production design Kelly McGehee Main cast Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, Adepero Oduye, Michael Chernus, Charlie Plummer, Chloe Sevigny, Seamus DaveyFitzpatrick, Miles J Harvey

COMPETITION

The divisions between humanity and animality are picked over to appealingly poetic, if sometimes perplexing effect in On Body And Soul, by Hungarian writerdirector Ildiko Enyedi. The story of two damaged souls trying to make contact in an uncomprehending world is one of the oldest in the book, but delicate psychological insight, a strong aesthetic signature and affecting, restrained performances overcome any familiarity.

A definite auteur item with strong emotional pull, this unconventional but accessible piece should guarantee Enyedi her biggest international exposure since 1989’s My Twentieth Century.

The film begins enigmatically with shots of two deer in a snowy forest, some kind of intermediate point between humans and the cattle we then see being killed in a slaughterhouse, where ageing loner Endre (Geza Morcsanyi) presides as finance manager. One day, Endre notices new arrival Maria (Alexandra Borbely), a standoffish quality inspector whose cold personality alienates her fellow workers. It turns out Maria is deeply damaged and unable to make physical contact with others.

A theft at the slaughterhouse causes police to pay a visit, with Endre being advised to call in staff for psychological appraisal. In the sessions it emerges Endre and Maria have been sharing the same dreams; something that gets them tentatively sparking.

From this point, there is some delicate tragi-comedy ahead, and no small amount of bleakness, plus a minor degree of mawkishness. The film’s most considerable achievement, however, is to sustain its drama on a finely poised level of emotional intimacy, while sometimes hitting us with intense imagistic charges. The ensemble cast is terrific, with vivid, economically realised characterisations among the support players. The film walks a delicate line between life-affirming relationship drama and something rather more troubling and resonant.

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Bye Bye Germany Reviewed by Lee Marshall

Close-Knit Reviewed by Wendy Ide Gentle, empathetic and deliberately non-confrontational, Close-Knit is on the mild-mannered end of the spectrum when it comes to movies dealing with transgender issues.

But the fact it comes from Japan, a culture that has traditionally shied away from LGBT subject matter in the past, means the cuddly approach makes sense for the intended market.

Having lived in the US and then returned to Japan, director Naoko Ogigami was struck by the invisibility of the trans community in her home country. The result is this story about 11-year-old Tomo (Rinka Kakihara), who lives among piles of drying washing and dirty dishes. Her mother, largely absent, lurches in at night and falls asleep in her clothes, somewhat the worse for wear. The following morning, she blinks blearily through her hangover to see her daughter heading off to school.

Then one day Tomo’s mother simply doesn’t come home. This is not the first time this has happened and Tomo knows the drill. She trots off to the bookstore where her Uncle Makio (Kenta Kiritani) works, and is invited to stay with him. But Makio cautions that he is now living with someone. Someone unusual. Rinko (Toma Ikuta) is a transgender woman. Tomo’s initial reserve is soon won over by Rinko’s warm nature. Rinko keeps a spotless home, and creates cute bento boxes full of rice pandas and sausages sculpted into sea creatures. In a rather reductive reading, femininity is equated with domesticity.

The casting of heartthrob actor Ikuta as Rinko is slightly challenging as he does not always seem at ease in the role. It would perhaps have been interesting to see what a transgender actress could have brought to the film.

The three soon settle into a de facto family unit that, inevitably, faces some external challenges. Tomo’s mocking fellow students, the judgmental mother of one of her close friends and the welfare department all encroach on their peace. But Rinko teaches Tomo, and ultimately Makio, to channel anger and frustration into knitting.

The technical package is competent, if a little on-thenose in its interpretation of the material. A pensive piano score matches the soulful sentiment of the story; meanwhile the murky cinematography that captures the home Tomo shares with her mother gives way to a pastel-tinged glow once she shacks up with Rinko and Makio.

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PANORAMA SPECIAL Jap. 2017. 127mins Director-screenplay Naoko Ogigami Production company Suurkiitos International sales Nikkatsu Corporation, international@nikkatsu. co.jp Producers Kumi Kobata, Mayumi Amano, Noriaki Takagi, Masashi Igarashi, Kenzo Ishiguro Executive producers Takashi Iguchi, Satoshi Hayakawa Cinematographer Kozo Sibasaki Editor Shinichi Fushima Music Naoko Eto Main cast Toma Ikuta, Rinka Kakihara, Kenta Kiritani

Sam Garbarski’s latest film is unique in focusing on a group of German Jews who, in 1946 and 1947, found themselves living and working in the country that sent them to the death camps. The material sounds potentially dour, but in the hands of Garbarski and co-scripter Michel Bergmann, whose novels inspired the film, it becomes a bittersweet Yiddish yarn about a band of camp survivors who become linen salesmen, often exploiting guilty German consciences to score sales.

A little too jaunty and picaresque at times, Bye Bye Germany is, nevertheless, entertaining and watchable when it hits its stride. Using a mix of location and studio sets, it takes an old-fashioned approach to period colour, evoking a 1946 Frankfurt still devastated by Allied bombing and war shortages.

In a UN displaced-persons settlement outside the city — then in the US sector of occupied Germany — the well-dressed David Bermann (Bleibtreu) already stands out from the background of desperation. A born trader and the only survivor of a Frankfurt Jewish drapery dynasty, Bermann is soon assembling, Ocean’s-style, a team of fellow deathcamp survivors as door-to-door salesmen of ‘dowry’ linens to suspicious German gentiles at a time of enforced austerity. They use various mild scams to seal the deal — such as combing the newspapers for death notices, then spinning a tale to the widow of orders already made and deposits put down by the dear deceased.

All the while, there is a hint that Bermann may not quite be the victim he appears. This is where bankable co-star Antje Traue comes in, as a US military intelligence officer tasked with getting the truth out of him in a series of recorded interrogation sessions, which are threaded into the main story. These are initially engaging, as the story that Bermann begins to recount — opening with the assertion that, as a talented joke-teller, he became a favourite of the camp commandant — touches chords that are poignant, funny and bitter.

Scored by a sprightly/melancholic klezmer-style soundtrack, this is also a film about guilt — both the passive-aggressive German gentile variety and Jewish survivor guilt. And, finally, it is about life in migrant limbo — communities full of refugees dreaming of elsewhere.

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101mins Director Sam Garbarski Production companies IGC Films, Samsa Film, Entre Chien et Loup International sales The Match Factory, info@matchfactory.de Producer Jani Thiltges, Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, Sébastien Delloye Screenplay Michel Bergmann, Sam Garbarski; based on Michel Bergmann’s novels Die Teilacher and Machloikes Cinematography Virginie Saint-Martin Editor Peter R Adam Production designer Véronique Sacrez Music Renaud GarciaFons Main cast Moritz Bleibtreu, Antje Traue, Tim Seyfi, Mark Ivanir, Anatole Taubman, Hans Löw, Pal Macsai, Vaclav Jakoubek

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Barrage Reviewed by Lisa Nesselson

Emo The Musical Reviewed by Sarah Ward It might seem several years too late to skewer the emo subculture with the appropriate bite or relevance, but a combination of good intentions and energetic execution largely pays off in Neil Triffett’s Emo The Musical. Headed to Generation 14plus as a feature-length expansion of the 2013 short that received a special mention in the same strand, this upbeat parody boasts enough zest, laughterinducing lines and memorable songs to prove modestly enjoyable, even if it does overstretch its concept and lose steam during the mid-section.

The film’s Berlin berth marks its international premiere after first bowing at Melbourne and, if crowds respond even halfway as enthusiastically as they did on home turf, further festival play is a definite possibility.

Like fellow teen-focused effort Glee, however, the feature could also be well served on the small screen.

Pitched as a High School Musical-type comedy and featuring Saved!-like humour, streaming platforms could give Emo The Musical a longer lifespan as well as a broader audience.

With his dark fringe flopping over dark-rimmed eyes, and his grey shirt emblazoned with the word ‘lonely’, there’s no guessing which clique Ethan (Benson Jack Anthony) fits into; certainly not the placidly smiling, hope, faith and chastity-peddling Christians at Seymour High. Still, it takes a gritty guitar ditty about how much he doesn’t want to belong and a tale about suicide to earn the acceptance of the resident emo group, Worst Day Ever, led by the moody Bradley (Rahart Adams).

Preparing for the local school rock competition is not Ethan’s only worry, though, after sparks fly with pretty, perky bible basher Trinity (Jordan Hare).

Triffett’s irreverent handling of universal coming-ofage troubles keeps the film suitably buoyant and, while the overall messages of tolerance, acceptance, being yourself and embracing self-expression are easy to spot from the outset, they are served up with the right balance of satire and earnestness.

Of course, a healthy dose of that zeal stems from more than the film’s playlist of catchy tracks; plenty also springs from the young cast. Most have a number of local drama and soap credits to their name and take to the material with youthful exuberance, with Hare a standout.

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GENERATION 14PLUS Australia. 2016. 94mins Director-screenplay Neil Triffett Production company Matthewswood Productions International sales XYZ Films, info@xyzfilms.com Producer Lee Matthews Executive producers Yael Bergman, Shaun Miller, Jonathan Page Cinematographer Ellery Ryan Editor Ian Carmichael Music Charlotte Nicdao, Craig Pilkington, Neil Triffett Production designer Simon McCutcheon Costume designer Andrew Infanti Cast Benson Jack Anthony, Jordan Hare, Rahart Adams, Jon Prasida, Bridie Carter

A very leisurely road movie with a diffuse itinerary, Barrage is noteworthy for its central performances. Lolita Chammah (also in another Forum title, Strange Birds, see page 20) is gamely discombobulated as Catherine, who left Luxembourg without explanation and, now back without warning, wants to have a relationship with the 12-year-old daughter she left behind. Since Catherine’s mother Elisabeth (Chammah’s real-life mother, Isabelle Huppert) has been raising Alba (the outstanding Thémis Pauwels) for the past 10 years, the perhaps irreparable gaps and emotional obstacles are considerable.

However faint Catherine’s maternal instincts may have been as a too-young mother, she seems sincere about wanting to connect with her daughter. But Alba, who is following a strenuous training regime for an upcoming tennis tournament — with Elisabeth coaching her as, it is implied, she coached Catherine — does not welcome this disruption of her routine one bit.

Pauwels gives the standout performance; her reactions to the strange events unfolding around her are effortlessly convincing. She is a girl on the cusp of puberty but she is also self-contained and emotionally resourceful in interesting ways — when Catherine flushes some medication down the toilet, Alba seems to have a better grasp of how plumbing works than her pouty, impetuous mother.

Chafing at how the reunion is not going as she planned, Catherine more or less kidnaps Alba in hope of forming some sort of bond.

This is a very visual endeavour, with minimal talk.

The first memorable snippet of dialogue takes place at the side of an improvised grave for a character whose departure casts a pall over the subsequent proceedings.

The squarish 1:33 screen ratio contributes to the notion that Catherine and Alba are stuck with each other despite no shared frame of reference, but also registers as needlessly trendy.

Vaguely sinister from the outset, the film sustains a tense, mysterious mood for much of its running time, which viewers may find either compelling or irritating.

The style is minimalist and meandering but does eventually add up to an unsettling portrait of three generations connected by blood if not affection.

FORUM Lux-Bel-Fr. 2017. 110mins Director Laura Schroeder Production companies Red Lion, Entre Chien et Loup, Mact Productions, Proximus International sales Luxbox, fiorella@ luxboxfilms.com Producers Pol Cruchten, Jeanne Geiben, Sébastien Delloye, Sebastian Schelenz, Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre Screenplay Laura Schroeder, Marie Nimier Cinematography Hélene Louvart Editor Damien Keyeux Production design Christina Schaffer Music Petra Jean Phillipson Main cast Lolita Chammah, Thémis Pauwels, Isabelle Huppert

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Strong Island Reviewed by David D’Arcy

Strange Birds Reviewed by Lisa Nesselson A lilting ode to serendipity and the consequences of longago actions, writer-director Elise Girard’s bittersweet comedy Strange Birds (Droles d’oiseaux) is a modest but delightful mystery that interweaves romance, literature, ecological concerns and the eternal beauty of Paris with a light touch.

At her best, Girard deploys a deadpan humour of attrition, as if Jim Jarmusch had a French cousin. Already sold to Japan, where Girard’s Belleville Tokyo was appreciated, this Forum premiere is a compact treat for viewers who enjoy fanciful behaviour in appealing settings.

Wide-eyed provincial Mavie (Lolita Chammah), freshly arrived in Paris from her native Tours, is sleeping on the couch of her childhood friend (Virginie Ledoyen) whose gung-ho lovemaking reverberates through the walls.

Mavie keeps a journal, passages of which are heard in voiceover, filling us in on the details of her life. Strident bird sounds can be heard and, now and then, a dead seagull drops from the sky with a disconcerting thump.

Mavie spots an ad in the cafe she frequents, offering a studio apartment in exchange for working in a bookstore in the Latin Quarter. With no qualifications to speak of, Mavie falls into a position in the dusty but charming bookshop, which has plenty of stock but no customers. This is no doubt a result of owner Georges, pushing 80, scaring away customers with his misanthropic, contrarian ways.

What’s keeping this business afloat, anyway?

A tentative romance emerges between Georges and Mavie, although the five-decade age difference makes them both a little sad. Then there is the matter of Georges’ mysterious past and the sudden increase in gunslingerstyle men barging into the store.

Newspaper headlines provide casual clues to ecological mischief, while film references are subtle and warranted; particularly a showing of a specific Sidney Lumet movie at which Mavie meets her male seatmate (Pascal Cervo) when he loans her a handkerchief.

The non-intrusive and wonderfully varied score by Bertrand Burgalat is a plus, and cinematographer Renato Berta manages to skirt cliché while rendering the casual magnificence of workaday Paris, including evocative shots of bridges at dusk. The use of iris in and iris out is a nice touch.

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FORUM Fr. 2017. 72mins Director Elise Girard Production companies KinoElektron, co-produced with Reborn Production and Mikino International sales MPM Films, rmonastier@mpmfilm. com Producers Janja Kralj, Marc Simoncini Screenplay Elise Girard, Anne-Louise Trividic Cinematography Renato Berta Editor Thomas Glaser Production design Caroline Leroy Music Bertrand Burgalat Main cast Lolita Chammah, Jean Sorel, Virginie Ledoyen, Pascal Cervo

Strong Island is a relentless documentary that reconstructs the killing of a young black man by a white teenager in the New York suburbs. The title plays on the name of Long Island, where the killing took place in April 1992, and the film’s timeliness, as rage mounts over the killings of black men by police in the US, is sure to revive media interest in yet another case where justice was denied.

That moral urgency could earn Strong Island awards on the festival circuit, plus a limited theatrical run. Television is where the film will play most widely but there is also enough drama here for a feature remake.

The murdered man was William Ford, and the film’s narrator and director is Yance Ford, born William’s sister and now a man. William was shot at the age of 24 in a dispute over a car in a repair shop near his home; the killer, a mechanic whose truck had driven into William’s car, was never charged with a crime after a grand jury of 23 white citizens chose not to indict him.

If that description feels like a contemporary American template, this is not a tale of inevitable fatalism.

Ford builds this story on the strength of his middleclass family. His parents, who had good jobs, left the American South and then abandoned New York City for the dream of a home in the suburbs, which turned out to be racially segregated.

As glowing family pictures form a leitmotif running through Strong Island, Ford never shows us the killer (who said feared for his life) or the owner of his garage (where stolen cars were taken apart and sold). What we do see, covering the entire screen, is the face of Ford at point-blank range, retelling the story and enduring the futility of trying to bring the young killer to justice.

Ford cannot escape the pain of a brother’s death, and the frame becomes a confining enclosure for palpable sibling anguish. The extreme HD tactility of these firstperson close-ups is not designed to make the audience feel comfortable — it is the personal aesthetic of this painful film. By the end, you remember this family and its loss, and Ford’s war of attrition. Ford cannot bring William back but is a powerful witness for a journey that finds truth, but no redemption, through the legal system.

Strong Island is a tribute to the memory of a man who becomes more noble the better we know him.

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BERLINALE On The Beach At Night Alone Dir Hong Sangsoo Award-winning auteur Hong Sangsoo (Right Now, Wrong Then) returns to Competition with the world premiere of On The Beach At Night Alone. The film stars Kim Minhee (The Handmaiden) as a celebrated actress who is trying to reconcile her romantic feelings for a married man. She travels to Hamburg and then to Gangneung, a seaside town in South Korea, where she drinks with old friends and offends them in the course of the night, ending up alone on a beach.

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Autumn, Autumn Dir Jang Woo-jin Co-winner of the Vision Director Award at last year’s Busan Interna-

tional Film Festival, Autumn, Autumn is making its international premiere in the Forum section. The second feature from Jang Woo-jin (A Fresh Start) stars Yang Heung-ju, Lee Se-rang and Woo Ji-hyeon, and follows a young man on his way home to the small tourist town of Chuncheon after a job interview in Seoul. On the train he sees a man and a woman travelling together who do not seem to know each other well. By the evening of his return, he has already heard he has not got the job and his hopes for escape from his hometown are dashed. He drifts through the night while the couple from the train share memories of past loves.

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An audience hit at the recent International Film Festival Rotterdam where it made its world premiere, Bamseom Pirates, Seoul Inferno is a documentary directed by Jung Yoon-suk (Non-Fiction Diary). Kwon Yong-man and Jang Sung-gun are the Bamseom Pirates — a metal band with punk roots who garnered attention with their humorous and controversial lyrics for songs including ‘All Hail Kim Jong-il’, dealing with ironic and absurd issues in South Korean society. But when their friend and producer Park Jung-geun is charged with breaking the National Security Law, the Bamseom Pirates face the biggest crisis of their musical career.

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The Mayor Dir Park In-je Directed by Park In-je (Moby Dick), The Mayor stars Choi Min-sik as the mayor of Seoul in his second term. His wily campaign manager and an advertising prodigy mobilise their efforts to get him elected a third time. But his opposing candidate is formidable and the politics get dirty. Kwak Do-won and Shim Eun-kyung co-star in the film, which is now in post-production.

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In Generation Kplus, documentary Becoming Who I Was follows Angdu, who the villagers in the highlands of northern India where he lives know to have been a venerated Buddhist master in a past life. Co-directed by ChangYong Moon (Nadia’s Mountain) and Jin Jeon (Golden Ratio Unveiled), the documentary spans eight years of the boy’s life as he travels back to his troubled homeland of Tibet, accompanied by the village doctor.

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Hit director Ryoo Seung-wan, whose credits include Veteran and The Berlin File, is in post-production on The Battleship Island, set in the Japanese occupation era. With a top-flight cast of Hwang Jung-min (Veteran), So Ji-sub (A Company Man), Song Joong-ki (A Werewolf Boy) and Kim Su-an (Train To Busan), the film follows three men as they stage a daring escape with 400 of their fellow prisoners from a forcedlabour camp on the infamous Battleship Island.

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New Trial follows a man who is unjustly charged with murder and serves 10 years in jail. When he is released, the journey to prove his innocence begins. Jung Woo and Kang Haneul star in the film, directed by Kim Tae-yun (Another Family). New Trial is in post-production.

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One-Line working title Dir Yang Kyung-mo This action heist film, working title One-Line, stars Yim Si-wan, Jin Goo, Lee Dong-hwi and Park Byung-eun.

Directed by Yang Kyung-mo, it follows a college student who is drawn into a mortgage swindling scheme and discovers hidden talents, rivalries and deadly results. In post-production, the film is due for delivery in spring.

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CENTRE OF THE WORLD Argentina is poised to step to the next level with ambitions to launch its first nationwide incentive, booming theatrical admissions and a new generation of innovators bringing technical know-how to the art of film

he talent and depth of ambition that course through the creative community in Argentina are inspiring world-class storytelling. The country’s content creators find themselves on the threshold of what could be a historic year.

Film commissioner Ana Aizenberg and her backers at the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to establish the country’s first national film and TV incentive.

While it remains to be seen what form the incentive will take, the energy and desire to bring it into being speak to the dynamic nature of the local entertainment business.

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centre-right government of Mauricio Macri to stimulate business in Argentina. The industry is hopeful these encouraging noises will translate into action and reward the leading lights of the business and artistic communities, who remain unbowed by Argentina’s financial woes of the past few decades.

The country enjoyed an impressive 2016.

Oscar Martinez won the best actor prize at Venice for The Distinguished Citizen, Disney recorded its best year at the local box office — 16.9 million admissions and 34.6% market share as year-end approached — and total admissions in the first six months reached new heights.

Production powerhouse Patagonik continues to make local box-office hits including I Married A Dumbass (Me Casé Con Un

Boludo) and eye-catching arthouse fare, co-producing Lucrecia Martel’s anticipated Zama from Rei Cine and Bananeira Filmes.

The creative talents at 3dar are at the vanguard of young Argentinians making forays into Hollywood, where established compatriots such as Damian Szifron and Pablo Trapero are already well-known. The time has never seemed more right for a national incentive to complement local impetuses and champion Argentina’s rich potential.

As the territory emerges as a lucrative international market, popular co-production partner and a rich source of content, Screen talks to some of the people shaping the future of its film industry and selects seven local films to look out for this year.

Jeremy Kay, Americas editor

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ARGENTINA THE PRODUCERS

From strength to strength Patagonik is not only Argentina’s leading production outfit but one of the world’s most exciting film companies. Artistic director Juan Vera talks to Jeremy Kay

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roduction powerhouse Patagonik played a muscular role in driving admissions to record levels in the first half of 2016 and delivered the biggest local hit of the year in I Married A Dumbass (Me Casé Con Un Boludo). Yet artistic director Juan Vera, a genial man who straddles commerce and creativity as one of two managing partners, is not one for resting on his laurels. Vera knows Patagonik’s reputation as Argentina’s biggest producer, and the years of success that has brought — with such films as 2 + 2 (Dos Mas Dos), Vulture (Carancho) and A Boyfriend For My Wife (Un Novio Para Mi Mujer) — cannot distract from the mission of continued improvement.

Last year, I Married A Dumbass became the eighth biggest local release ever on 2 million admissions, topping the Argentinian charts and ranking fourth overall ahead of Hollywood blockbusters Captain America: Civil War, Zootopia and Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice.

Since producer Pablo Bossi launched Patagonik in 1994, fittingly enough with Alan Parker’s Evita, the company has produced or co-produced around 70 films and aims to fully develop and produce at least two a year.

“We try to mix it up,” says Vera, whose screenwriting credits include 2 + 2 and Just Like Me (Igualita A Mi). “I love all kinds of movies, so long as they’re well done. We’ve worked with Pablo Trapero [Vulture] and Lucrecia Martel and are in development on a project with Diego Lerman.”

Among a 2017 roster that includes presummer release Mama Se Fue De Viaje from Ariel Winograd, the director of Patagonik’s hit No Kids (Sin Hijos), Patagonik is co-producing Martel’s upcoming Zama with Rei Cine, Bananeira from Brazil and Spain’s El Deseo.

In post-production now, it promises to be a sumptuous period drama and would seem a good fit for Cannes. Pushed to describe how it is turning out, Vera smiles: “It’s Lucrecia Martel but in another world.”

Reinventing the reel Patagonik is also in the remakes business, working closely with Guido Rud’s Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks, the company’s sales agent of choice, on such films as A Boyfriend For My Wife, which has spawned local versions in South Korea, Brazil, Chile and Italy.

Vera moved over from Pol-ka Cine, where he had been running the film division and producing shows for HBO, when Bossi moved on from Patagonik about a decade

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ago. “In 2006, the owners of the company called me and we started with new management, with Juan Pablo Galli and Alejandro Cacetta,” Vera recalls.

He now runs the company with Galli, after Cacetta became president of Argentina’s film institute, INCAA, in late 2015. Disney, Cinecolor Argentina and Artear are the co-owners and Disney just recorded its biggest year in the territory. It also distributes all Patagonik films theatrically in Argentina and Uruguay, also handling Latin American pay-TV. Having three deep-pocketed owners does not preclude Patagonik from applying to INCAA for subsidies on each project. “It is impossible to make films without state funding,” admits Vera. “We’re competing with American films that spend millions of dollars.”

Indeed Vera admits the company might not have enjoyed the success it did on I Married A Dumbass were it not for state support: “It’s a very small market.”

Fortunately for a country that has had its share of political and economic upheaval — annual inflation in Argentina hovers around 40% — INCAA subsidies and credit appear robust. “It’s always difficult [to produce (Right) Vulture

‘The country is in a difficult place right now, but people like movies’ Juan Vera, Patagonik

films] because costs are increasing more than the subsidies, but there are a lot of new players like Netflix and now Amazon that are very interested in buying content,” says Vera.

“Last year and the year before were very good for Argentinian films in theatres. We also had Allowed (Permitidos), which did 300,000 admissions, and others. The Argentinian people are receiving our films in a good mood right now. [The country] is in a difficult place in general, but people like movies.”

And they like watching them on Netflix, which is building out a formidable presence in Latin America. “The way of watching TV that we know from the past doesn’t exist [with the younger generation],” says Vera.

“It’s a big change… [but] I think the experience of watching a big screen with other people is incomparable.”

The hope is that state support can go further than what INCAA already provides, and indeed the national film institute — spurred on by a centre-right government that wants to stimulate business — is working with film commissioner Ana Aizenberg to set up a national film incentive. “We want it,” affirms Vera. “A lot of countries have incentives… Puerto Rico has it, Brazil has it, Colombia has it.”

He is confident it will happen. “The [Mauricio] Macri government is interested in getting people to invest s » here.” ■

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ARGENTINA ANNA AIZENBERG

A tireless champion Experienced producer Ana Aizenberg has taken on the role of Argentina’s first film commissioner.

She talks Jeremy Kay through what the territory has to offer the world

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n April, Argentina’s film commissioner will travel to Los Angeles for the AFCI Locations Show, a significant move that promises an even more portentous development. “Reborn after many years,” is how Ana Aizenberg put it to Screen at the Ventana Sur market in Buenos Aires last December. The longtime producer and now her country’s new film commissioner was in typically ebullient mood. “We’re open to the world and we can have a presence at festivals and markets,” she says.

It has been quite the undertaking for Aizenberg and her cohorts to reach this point. Argentina finally has a highly qualified representative who is widely known and respected within the industry. Still, there is much work ahead. The goal is to establish Argentina’s first national film and TV incentive. Intense consultation is ongoing with business, the industry, national and regional government and the country’s film institute INCAA, which backs the commission and provides subsidies and loans to Argentinian content producers.

Calling card Aizenberg emphasises she is not the centre of this story, and it is true she would not be where she is without the support of a passionate network of public and private individuals who work in the culture sector. Yet her role as tireless champion of Argentina, its talent base and resources deserves recognition. And it all came into sharp focus 20 years ago, while she worked on Seven Years In Tibet.

It is not widely known that JeanJacques Annaud’s adventure film shot almost entirely in Argentina. The country’s diverse geography and population doubled for the story’s Himalayan setting. Aizenberg’s producer colleagues on the film were so enamoured of the country and its services they pressed her to establish a film commission.

The production had been a success, boosting the economy of the locales where it shot. But the commission itself did not take off as planned. “During the next 20 years, there have been many intentions to create film commissions in different states and towns of Argentina,” says Aizenberg, who adds that while it took time for local commissions to

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‘In 2016 we achieved more things than in the last 20 years. Argentina now has an active national film commission’ Ana Aizenberg

commission issue and ask us how to get one in their area.”

A special training programme to set up local commissions was developed at INCAA and is expected to continue into 2018. States have created benefits and it is anticipated several — including San Luis — will launch cash rebates later in the year.

launch, Seven Years In Tibet raised awareness of the need for an industry infrastructure.

Eventually, grassroots support for the local and national audiovisual industry birthed several local commissions in Buenos Aires, San Luis, Misiones, Neuquen and Tucuman. That activity dovetailed into a broader mission to build a commission infrastructure at the behest of INCAA, while Mauricio Macri’s centre-right government, elected in late 2015, declared its mandate to put Argentina’s national finances in order and stimulate economic growth.

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Last year, with the support of INCAA and its new president Alejandro Cacetta, the former co-head of prolific producer Patagonik, the country’s regional secretaries of culture signed into existence a national film commission, state commissions and a national film commission network.

“In 2016 we achieved more things than in the last 20 years,” says Aizenberg, who runs a modest staff in the Buenos Aires headquarters of INCAA. “Argentina now has an active national film commission. Cities and towns are calling us daily to find out more about this film

Plugging the brain drain “Argentina is getting more competitive [internally] with these new local incentives flourishing all over the country,” says Aizenberg, who hopes the local apparatus will prevent a brain drain.

“Everybody wants to go back and work in the local province. But people come to Buenos Aires [to get trained and educated] because it’s the only possibility for the future and they go abroad. Those people are gone and we want them back.”

Aizenberg also plays a big role in the Latin American Film Commission Network, a body she helped to launch in 2010. One of her other roles is as INCAA’s co-ordinator of the network, which has paid dividends. “I was able to keep my support [of film commissions] strong and at the beginning of the year with the new [INCAA] president Cacetta and [vice-president] Ralph Hayek, and the political decision to have a film commission, they called me and said they wanted to have a film commission.”

There has, however, been no national incentive. Aizenberg and INCAA are working hard to change that, lobbying the government and co-ordinating with business, local authorities and industry figures to “boost production, help local businesses and have a positive cultural impact across the country”.

“We’re trying to make an organisation that will not collapse with the next changes, for good or bad,” she says. “We s » want this to have continuity.” n

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Meet the Hellers Art and technology collide at innovative Buenos Aires 3D content creator 3dar.

Jeremy Kay talks to its founders, brothers Federico and German Heller

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ince it launched in 2003, 3dar — the ambitious content producer nestled in the affluent San Isidro enclave a short drive outside Buenos Aires — has earned a wide industry following. Now the company, run by CEO German Heller, liveaction director Federico Heller and creative director and first employee Jorge Tereso, wants to grow its profile in the US and global industry.

Consumers may already be familiar with 3dar’s work, even if they don’t know the brains behind it. Content created by the company has generated more than 2.7 million views on YouTube and Vimeo. The privately backed company has produced original animation Play Doh, more than 250 commercials for clients such as DELL, Sony and Ben & Jerry’s, visual effects for the Aliados series that aired on Fox Latam and Telefe, and VR experiences for Samsung and Harley-Davidson.

Federico, who studied film at the University of Buenos Aires, was working in visual effects when he teamed up with his brother, German, to launch a 3D visualisation company. Since then, 3dar has earned a reputation for quality and dynamism. Now the focus is shifting towards the creation of original IP. “Over the years, we’ve managed to go deeper into the earlier stages and today we can say we can take a project from very early on and develop it all the way,” Federico explains.

To this end the brothers are developing a feature version of Federico’s 2014 short Uncanny Valley with Atlas Entertainment, the company run by The Dark Knight trilogy producer Charles Roven.

Uncanny Valley was 3dar’s third foray into shorts after an experimental piece in 2007 called Violent Graffiti and 2012’s Shave It, a satirical tale about a financially savvy monkey.

It was through Shave It that 3dar met Carlos Bobadilla of the Los Angelesbased Valor Entertainment Group.

Bobadilla became their manager and introduced the company to Hollywood.

Uncanny Valley, an adventure set in the world of virtual reality, leaked online before it was released, sparking a wave of attention from Los Angeles before it won multiple awards from Berlin Inter-

‘This group is basically all made of directors…

What motivates us the most is the talent of the people here’ German Heller, 3dar

like a collective where we try to share most of the weight and the responsibility of the decisions we make both creatively and on the business side,” says German.

“What motivates us the most is the talent of the people here.”

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‘We can take a project from very early on and develop it all the way’ Federico Heller, 3dar

national Cinefest, Sci-Fi-London and others. Hollywood came knocking and eventually 3dar decided to work on the feature version with Atlas.

Creative collaborators Collaboration is in the DNA of the Hellers, whose expansive vision has also led to a producing and effects supervision role on Cinema Seven’s feature Numb, At The Edge Of The End, which stars Hayden Christensen and Harvey Keitel and wrapped in Buenos Aires in December.

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German explains 3dar usually deploys small teams of two or three people to each project, except on larger assignments, when freelancers may be brought in. “This is a very compact team but people [here] are very experienced and they also have their own ideas,” he says. “This group is basically all made of directors.”

“3dar is a collective of creatives with a shared passion for storytelling,” Federico adds. “Our goal is conceiving projects that explore unique combinations of art and technology.”

At the centre is the creative core of experienced staff who strive to enable the team of around 20 to realise passion projects in Shave It their spare time. “It’s

Virtual horizons German, a former IBM programmer, speaks at length about his fascination with VR and augmented reality (AR).

He acknowledges there is a way to go before creators can settle on the optimal storytelling approach and format, let alone revenue models.

“Everybody is talking about VR but not everybody knows what to do with it.

It’s going to be huge and it’s coming,” he says. 3dar is working on a series about a teenage zombie called Gloomy Eyes and a pre-school IP called Playground VR. While the Hellers love the creative community in Buenos Aires, they are keen to broaden horizons. “Artistically it’s an amazing community,” says Federico. “In our office a lot of people aren’t from Buenos Aires, but they came to the city because this is where it’s happening.

It’s very competitive but at the same time we’re friends with other studios.”

Yet globalisation has created an unusual dynamic, and many of the agencies and large investors in Argentina tend to underestimate the creative potential of the local studios.

“The US, Europe and Asia have enormous respect for the potential of Latin creatives and sometimes we even feel more comfortable with their codes and approach to handling projects,” says Federico. He anticipates establishing a Los Angeles outpost this year and already has his directing visa.

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ARGENTINA BUZZ TITLES

Made to measure up This year’s crop of Argentinian releases demonstrates the vibrancy and variety of filmmaking in the country. Jeremy Kay selects some of the highlights Black Snow

Sos Mi Pasion

Dir Martin Hodara Cast Ricardo Darin, Leo Sbaraglia Production companies Pampa Films, Gloriamundi, Amiguetes Ent, A Contracorriente Films, DIRECTV

Dir Marcos Carnevale Cast Adrian Suar, Julieta Diaz Production company Patagonik

Black Snow (Nieve Negra), a thriller from Fabian Bielinsky protégé Hodara, shot in Spain and Argentina. It stars local superstar Darin as a man living in self- imposed exile in Patagonia after being accused of killing his brother. Things heat up when he is visited many years later by his other brother and sister-in- law, who propose a land sale. Pablo Bossi, whose credits include Nine Queens, produced.

Suar plays a football-crazy family man who fails to see the warning signs until it is too late and finds himself divorced, out of a job and feeling disconnected from his daughters. Finally he admits to his addiction and seeks help. Sos Mi Pasion is Carnevale’s follow-up to his 2016 hit Inseparables, the remake of French smash Intouchables.

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Contact Guido Rud, FilmSharks guido_rud@filmsharks.com

Dir Alejandro Maci Cast Guillermo Francella, Luisana Lopilato, Juan Minujin Production company Patagonik

La Cordillera Dir Santiago Mitre Cast Ricardo Darin, Dolores Fonzi, Paulina Garcia, Elena Anaya, Alfredo Castro, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Leonardo Franco, Christian Slater Production companies K&S Films, La Union De Los Rios, MOD Producciones, Maneki Films

El Corillera is Mitre’s follow-up to his 2015 Cannes Critics’ Week grand prix winner Paulina. It was selected for the Cinefondation’s l’Atelier on the Croisette last year, where it won the Arte International award for best project. Production wrapped in November after shooting in Buenos Aires, Bariloche, parts of Chile and the Andes. Darin plays an Argentinian president who becomes embroiled in an event during an international summit that could ruin his career and destroy his family. Hugo Sigman produces and Warner Bros will distribute in Latin America and Spain. The film is scheduled to open in Argentina in August.

Contact Leticia Cristi, K&S Films lcristi@ks-films.com

The Last Suit Dir Pablo Solarz Cast Miguel Angel Sola, Angela Molina, Martin Piroyansky Production companies Patagonik, Haddock Films, Tornasol

Sola plays an 88-year-old Jewish tailor who embarks on a journey back to

Guillermo Francella switches from his chilling turn in Pablo Trapero’s 2015 hit The Clan to something a little different as a heartbroken homeopathic doctor who visits an old hotel on a lonely beach.

There he encounters the woman he was trying to forget. Maci has been busy writing and directing TV since his breakout feature The Imposter some 20 years ago.

The Last Suit

Poland to honour a promise to find the old friend who saved his life more than seven decades ago during the Nazi occupation. The Last Suit (El Ultimo Traje) is a serious change of pace for Solarz, who wrote last year’s comedy smash I Married A Dumbass (Mi Casé Con Un Boludo), directed the 2010 comedy Together Forever (Juntos Para Siempre) and wrote local hit A Boyfriend For My Wife (Un Novio Para Mi Mujer).

Contact Juan Vera, Patagonik juan.vera@patagonik.com.ar

Mama Se Fue De Viaje Dir Ariel Winograd Cast Diego Peretti, Carla Peterson, Martin Piroyansky Production company Patagonik

Winograd directed Patagonik hit No Sin Hijos) Kids (Sin and is back in the fold with this story of a fortysomething married couple with

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four children. When the exhausted fulltime mother takes a trip to clear her head, her self-absorbed, workaholic husband must find a way to take care of the family and bond with his children. Mariano Vera wrote the screenplay.

Contact Juan Vera, Patagonik juan.vera@ patagonik.com.ar

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Dir Lucrecia Martel Cast Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Lola Duenas, Juan Minujin Production companies Rei Cine, Bananeira Filmes, El Deseo, MPM Film, Patagonik, Canana, Louverture Films

Acclaimed director Martel is poised to return with her first narrative feature since The Headless Woman nine years ago. Patagonik artistic director Juan Vera promises Zama is unlike anything Martel has ever done. Based on the novel by Argentinian writer Antonio Di Benedetto, the story takes place in the late 18th century as a South American-born colonial officer awaits news of a promotion and anticipates a return to his family after several years. Cannes beckons.

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THALIA PROGRAMMKINO POTSDAM Rudolf-Breitscheid-Str. 50 14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg TONI & TONINO Antonplatz 1 13086 Berlin VOLKSBUHNE AM ROSALUXEMBURG-PLATZ Linienstrasse 227 10178 Berlin

FILMTHEATER AM FRIEDRICHSHAIN Botzowstrasse 1-5 10407 Berlin

WOLF Weserstrasse 59 12045 Berlin (Neukolln)

FRIEDRICHSTADT-PALAST Friedrichstrasse 107 10117 Berlin

ZEUGHAUSKINO Unter den Linden 2 10117 Berlin

GROPIUS MIRROR RESTAURANT Niederkirchnerstrasse 10963 Berlin

ZOO PALAST Hardenbergstrasse 29a 10623 Berlin

HAU HEBBEL AM UFER (HAU1, HAU2, HAU3) HAU1: Stresemannstrasse 29 HAU2: Hallesches Ufer 32 HAU3: Tempelhofer Ufer 10

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FESTIVAL & PRESS

FESTIVAL

AND PRESS

09:00 FELICITE

(France, Senegal, Belgium, Germany, Lebanon) 123mins.

Dir: Alain Gomis.

Cast: Vero Tshanda Beya, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka.

Felicite is a proud and independent woman who works as a singer in a bar. When her son has a terrible accident she has to find the money to pay for an operation. A breathless tour through the richly diverse city of Kinshasa and the world of music.

Competition Press only Berlinale Palast

09:30 GREEN RIVER. THE TIME OF THE YAKURUNAS

(Peru) Ram Bergman Productions. 70mins.

Dir: Alvaro Sarmiento, Diego Sarmiento.

This documentary travels to the Peruvian Amazon to examine the lives of its indigenous inhabitants. In unhurried images suffused with the sounds of the rainforest, a portrait of everyday existence unfolds

that seems governed by the water’s gentle flow.

10:00

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

RABBIT SCHOOL — GUARDIANS OF THE GOLDEN EGG

ON BODY AND SOUL

(Germany) Gullane.

76mins. Dir: Ute von Munchow-Pohl. Cast: Noah Levi, Jenny Melina Witez, Senta Berger, Friedrich von Thun, Jule Bowe, Dirk Petrick, Ben

(Hungary) 116mins.

Dir: Ildiko Enyedi.

Cast: Alexandra Borbely, Geza Morcsanyi, Reka Tenki, Zoltan Schneider, Ervin Nagy.

Work colleagues Maria and Endre prefer to keep to themselves. They are surprised to learn that they have the same dreams at night. They begin to discover the realm of emotions and physical desire, at first individually and then together.

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

T2 TRAINSPOTTING

TIGER GIRL

(Germany) 90mins.

Dir: Jakob Lass. Cast: Ella Rumpf, Maria Dragus.

Margarete’s life is turned upside down when tough girl Tiger appears and starts saving her from pushy men.

A friendship develops but things soon turn criminal.

Panorama Special CinemaxX 7

10:00

(UK) 118mins.

Dir: Danny Boyle.

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald.

After an absence of 20 years, Renton returns to Edinburgh, the place he once called home. Much has changed, some things have not. His old friends have been waiting for him.

(Germany) 102mins.

Dir: Sven Taddicken. Cast: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Tukur, Johannes Krisch.

Desperately trapped in a failing marriage, Helene Brindel finally loses all hope when she feels she has been abandoned by God. She sees the key to her liberation in the form of the celebrated psychologist Eduard Gluck.

Competition (out of competition) Zoo Palast 1

LOLA at Berlinale Accreditation only Zoo Palast 2

ORIGINAL BLISS

Boxberg, Maxi Boguth, Valentina Bonalana, Gustav Hacke.

By accident, city rabbit Max lands up in the rabbit school. He cannot wrap his head around how fusty and proper everything is.

Generation Kplus HKW

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11:00 CLOSE UP

(Iran) Shellac Sud. 99mins.

Dir: Abbas Kiarostami.

Cast: Hossein Sabzian, Hassan Farazmand, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mehrdad Ahankhah.

Unemployed cineaste Sabzian poses as director Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

When his true identity is discovered, he is put on trial. Documentary footage of the trial is interwoven with dramatised scenes.

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(India) 102mins.

Dir: Amit V Masurkar.

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Tripathi, Raghubir Yadav.

A young bureaucrat is sent to the jungle to monitor an election there. But Maoist blockades, forced police protection and indifferent voters make defending democracy no easy task.

Forum CineStar 8

STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE]

(Germany) 132mins. Dir: Heinz Emigholz. Cast: John Erdman, Jonathan Perel, Natja Brunckhorst.

A fictionalised dialogue between a film director and his therapist, based on the protocols of Emigholz’s own psychoanalysis sessions and filmed in buildings by Julio Vilamajo, Eladio Dieste and Arno Brandlhuber in Uruguay and Berlin.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

11:30 EOLOMEA

(German Democratic

Republic) 82mins.

Dir: Herrmann Zschoche.

Cast: Cox Habbema, Ivan Andonov, Rolf Hoppe, Vsevolod Sanayev, Peter Slabakov, Wolfgang Greese, Holger Mahlich.

A young scientist searches for answers in the disappearance of several spaceships. With its psychedelic colours and easy-listening music, ‘Eolomea’ is trendy proof that a cinematic ‘policy of detente’ had reached even East Germany.

Retrospective International

12:00 BACK FOR GOOD

(Germany) 91mins.

Dir: Mia Spengler.

Cast: Kim Riedle, Juliane Kohler, Leonie Wesselow, Nicki von Tempelhoff, Emma Drogunova.

Fresh out of rehab, realityTV star Angie has to move back in with her mother.

When the latter suffers a

nervous breakdown, Angie is suddenly landed with her teenage sister when all she really wants to do is get back onto TV. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1

GABI

(Germany) 30mins.

Dir: Michael Fetter Nathansky. Cast: Gisa Flake, Florian Kroop, Britta Steffenhagen, Martin Neuhaus, Dela Dabulamanzi, Werner Priess, Anja Karnstedt.

This is a film about truthfulness. Wait! Let’s try that again. With more pauses and a different emphasis. Here we go!

This … is … a film … about truthfulness. Does that sound convincing? Not really. Or does it?

Licht, Alexander Horbe, Mehdi Nebbou.

HC’s wife has left him, so his two best friends decide to whisk him away on a holiday to Ireland. But the facade of their friendship begins to crumble and we have to ask ourselves, what does friendship mean anyway?

LOLA at Berlinale Zoo Palast 2

PILOT PIRX’S INQUEST

HAPPY HOUR

(Poland, USSR) 99mins.

Dir: Marek Piestrak.

Cast: Sergiej Desnitski, Boleslaw Abart, Wladimir Iwaszow, Aleksandr Kajdanowski, Zbigniew Lesien, Ferdynand Matysik, Igor Przegrodzki, Tonu Saar.

The crew of a spaceship includes several robots.

Commander Pirx’s mission is to evaluate whether the androids can soon replace their human counterparts.

(Germany) 95mins. Dir: Franz Muller. Cast: Simon

Retrospective Zeughauskino

Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1

POLITICS, INSTRUCTIONS MANUAL

(Spain) 120mins.

Doc: Fernando Leon de Aranoa.

A documentary about the Podemos activist party founded in spring 2014, which provides an extraordinary inside view of the strategies and media it used to mobilise new voters and enter Spanish parliament in 2015 as the country’s third strongest party.

Panorama Documents CineStar 7

SECONDS

(US) 107mins. Dir: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Jeff Corey, Richard Anderson, Murray Hamilton, Karl Swenson.

A middle-aged banker is reborn as a young painter. The nightmarish depiction of a ‘brave new world’, in which individual

personality appears to be no more than an arbitrary construct of plastic surgery.

Retrospective CinemaxX 8

VAZANTE

(Brazil, Portugal) 116mins. Dir: Daniela Thomas. Cast: Adriano Carvalho, Luana Nastas, Sandra Corveloni, Juliana Carneiro de Cunha, Roberto Audio, Jai Baptista, Toumani Kouyate, Vinicius dos Anjos, Fabricio Boliveira, Adilson Magha, Geisa Costa.

Brazil, 1821. A mine owner lives on his estate with his slaves. After the death of his wife and child he marries his wife’s 12-year-old niece.

Race and gender relations begin to unravel.

Panorama Special CinemaxX 7

12:15 FINAL PORTRAIT

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Pictures. 95mins.

Dir: Stanley Tucci.

Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clemence Poesy, Tony Shalhoub, James Faulkner, Sylvie Testud.

A comedy about the friendship between Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti and his biographer James Lord, who posed for him.

A peek at the workshop and personality of a genius — his strengths, his weaknesses and his doubts.

Competition (out of competition) Press only Berlinale Palast

FESTIVAL & PRESS 13:00 KAISA’S ENCHANTED FOREST

(Finland) Tarantula Belgique.

82mins. Dir: Katja Gauriloff.

Cast: Elli Saaskilahti, Matleena Fotonoff, Elmeri Harkonen, David Mauffret, Sirkka Sanila.

The Swiss author Robert Crottet visits

12:30

the Skolt Sami and records the unique storytelling gift of spirited Kaisa.

Handmade animation and rare archival footage illustrate the full world of the Skolt Sami, from magical moments to the hardships of war.

NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema Cubix 8

THE DINNER

(US) International Dog Productions. 120mins.

Dir: Oren Moverman.

Cast: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, Chloe Sevigny.

How far are parents

prepared to go to protect their children? In his starstudded thriller-cum-family drama based on the novel

by Dutch author Herman Koch, Oren Moverman poses some fundamental moral questions.

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

LOVING PIA

(Denmark) 100mins.

Dir: Daniel Borgman.

Cast: Pia Skovgaard, Celine Skovgaard, Jens Jensen, Putte Jensen.

Sixty-year-old Pia is intellectually disabled and lives with her mother in the country. Afraid of being alone one day, she begins her first relationship with a man. Drawing heavily on real life, Borgman traces an emotional journey with great sensitivity.

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STONEHEAD

(China) Cinemaundici.

90mins. Dir: Zhao Xiang.

Cast: Zhu Hongbo, Cai Jiakun, Deng Shuo, Luo Xiaolan, Yan Hongsheng.

Zhu Hongbo, whom everyone calls ‘Stonehead’, is one of the district’s top pupils. For this he is not only awarded a certificate, but also receives a brandnew football. Yet his joy over the ball does not last long.

Generation Kplus Zoo Palast 1

13:00 KAISA’S ENCHANTED FOREST See box, left

SUMMER 1993

(Spain) Hi Film Productions. 96mins.

Dir: Carla Simon.

Cast: Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusi, David Verdaguer, Fermi Reixach.

When her mother dies from an Aids-related illness, sixyear-old Frida is forced to

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SCREENINGS

start a new life under the guardianship of her uncle.

An impressive portrait of a strong little personality plays out against the backdrop of a family tragedy.

Generation Kplus HKW

13:45 TINSELWOOD

(Congo, France) IllingKlett. 82mins. Dir: Marie Voignier.

The everyday lives of the inhabitants of a verdant corner of south-eastern Cameroon: a cinematic exploration of a remote region where a brutal colonial past underpins a present where everything remains in stasis.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

14:00 THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS

(Germany, Austria) 103mins. Dir: Adrian Goiginger. Cast: Verena Altenberger, Jeremy

Miliker, Lukas Miko, Michael Pink, Michael Fuith.

The story of the inviolable love shared by a boy and his mother. A boy whose fun-loving and cheerful nature gives him a special glow, and a mother who idolises her son but is mired in her addiction to drugs.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino Press and Accreditation CinemaxX 5

CITY OF THE SUN

(Georgia, US, Qatar, Netherlands) 100mins.

Dir: Rati Oneli.

Chiatura was once a proud ore-mining centre but today its remaining inhabitants eke out their livelihoods among the ruins of Soviet ambition. Work in the mines, darkness, music and theatre: the post-utopian portrait of life in the city of the sun.

Forum Akademie der Kunste

DAYVEON

(US) Son et Lumiere.

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

Thirteen-year-old Dayveon has lost direction following the death of his brother, and being initiated into a local gang now seems a necessary step towards becoming a man. A search for brotherhood in an African American community in the rural South.

Forum Delphi Filmpalast

MORRIS FROM AMERICA

(Germany, US) 87mins.

Dir: Chad Hartigan.

Cast: Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson, Lina Keller, Carla Juri.

Morris is from America.

He is black, fat and 13.

His biggest problem: he just moved to Heidelberg.

Making friends is not easy.

But then Morris meets Katrin.

LOLA at Berlinale Accreditation only Zoo Palast 2

PENDULAR

(Brazil, Argentina, France) 105mins. Dir: Julia Murat.

Cast: Raquel Karro, Rodrigo Bolzan, Neto Machado, Marcio Vito, Felipe Rocha, Renato Linhares, Larissa Siqueira, Carlos Eduardo Santos, Valeria Berreta, Martina Revollo, Jorge Alencar.

An empty industrial loft: in playful yearning for a sense of belonging, a dancer and a sculptor drift between intimacy and rivalry. The past and their desires threaten to dissolve their identities both as artists and as a couple.

Panorama International

RED DOG: TRUE BLUE

(Australia) 89mins.

Dir: Kriv Stenders.

Cast: Phoenix, Levi Miller, Bryan Brown, Jason Isaacs, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Thomas Cocquerel, John Jarratt, Justine Clarke, Zen McGrath, Winta McGrath.

Mick’s friendship with his dog means the world to him. Growing up in the Australian Outback, they go through everything together, from magical adventures to Mick’s first love.

Generation Kplus CinemaxX 3

SO LONG ENTHUSIASM

(Argentina, Colombia) 79mins. Dir: Vladimir Duran. Cast: Camilio Castiglione, Laila Maltz, Mariel Fernandez, Martina Juncadella, Rosario Blefari, Valeria Valente, Veronica Llinas, Vladimir Duran, Lucas Besasso, Silvia Cobelo.

Ten-year-old Axel lives with his mother and three

sisters in a flat in Buenos Aires. If the mother weren’t imprisoned in one of the rooms, they’d be a perfectly normal family. Arguments are hardly unusual, but what happens when there’s no way out?

Forum CineStar 8

14:30 BLADE RUNNER

(US) 117mins. Dir: Ridley Scott. Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James.

In 2019 Los Angeles, Harrison Ford plays a Blade Runner hunting down replicants. With its production design of a dystopian cityscape and its references to film noir, this Ridley Scott classic set the scene for the ‘neo noir’ genre of sci-fi.

Retrospective Zeughauskino

Market Screening: Saturday, Feb 11th, 3pm, CinemaxX 13

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. But his exceptional biography is also a story of escape, expulsion and desire for self-discovery.

Market Screening:

Directed by Nahuel Lopez Documentary – 100 min. – Germany 2017 German & English with english subtitles German theatrical release: September 2017

Sunday, Feb 12th, 5:30pm, CinemaxX 11

EL VIAJE

A ROAD TRIP INTO CHILES MUSICAL HERITAGE A vibrant journey through Chile and its musical tradition, the “Nueva Cancion Chilena”. We encounter Macha (Chico Trujillo), Alonso Nunez, Camila Moreno, Mauricio “Chinoy” Castillo, Eduardo Carasco, Eduardo Yanez, Gaston Avila and more.

NACH TOM MEETS ZIZOU DER NEUE FILM VON aljoscha PaUse

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SCREENINGS

CHAVELA

huge new challenges.

(US) 90mins.

Dir: Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi. Numerous interviews with Chavela Vargas as well as her contemporaries, partners and fellow musicians paint a captivating portrait of this charismatic rancheras singer who was openly lesbian throughout her life.

Panorama Cubix 9

Panorama Documents CineStar 7

GOD’S OWN COUNTRY

(UK) International Dog Productions. 104mins.

Dir: Francis Lee. Cast: Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu, Ian Hart, Gemma Jones.

Johnny is running his ailing father’s farm in Yorkshire. A young Romanian, Gheorghe, is hired for the spring season.

Initial tensions between these two men soon give way to passion, which means Johnny is faced with

insight into this microcosm caught between the cult of the body and the need to find a place in the world.

THX 1138

(US) 88mins. Dir: George Lucas. Cast: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce.

In an underground city in the future, the workers attempt to escape the total control of the state. With his vision of a technocratic Big Brother state George Lucas radically challenged the American Way of Life.

Retrospective CinemaxX 8

14:45 DREAM BOAT

(Germany) 90mins. Dir: Tristan Ferland Milewski.

A cruise ship with 3,000 gay men on board. It’s all about sun, parties and sex. Five protagonists from Europe, India and the Middle East provide an

Panorama Documents Colosseum 1

15:00 THE TRIAL: THE STATE OF RUSSIA VS OLEG SENTSOV

(Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic) 80mins. Dir: Askold Kurov.

August, 2015. Ukrainian filmmaker and Maidan activitist Oleg Sentsov is sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for allegedly planning acts of terrorism against Russia. This film investigates the background to his political show trial. A polemic of solidarity.

Berlinale Special Haus der Berliner Festspiele

WILD MOUSE

(Austria) 103mins. Dir: Josef Hader. Cast: Josef Hader, Pia Hierzegger, Georg Friedrich, Jorg Hartmann, Denis

Moschitto, Crina Semciuc, Nora von Waldstatten, Maria Hofstatter, Thomas Schubert, Murathan Muslu.

When Viennese music critic Georg suddenly loses his job he is hell-bent on revenge. A dryly humorous tragi-comedy about the Austrian middle-class’s private fears of failure and social decline.

Competition Press only CinemaxX 7

15:30 NALU ON THE BORDER

(Brazil, Uruguay) 94mins. Dir: Cristiane Oliveira. Cast: Maria Galant, Marat Descartes, Veronica Perrotta, Amelia Bittencourt, Aurea Baptista, Jorge Esmoris, Fabiana Amorim, Liane Venturella, Diego Trinidad, Renan Goulart.

After her grandmother’s death, 16-year-old Nalu is left to care for her blind father, who also suffers

from depression. Any hope of leaving her bleak village and one day leading an exciting, fulfilling life seems to have receded far off into the distance.

Generation 14plus Zoo Palast 1

SIMULATION

(Iran) Wanda Vision.

84mins. Dir: Abed Abest.

Cast: Abed Abest, Vahid Rad, Majid Yousefi, Danial Khojasteh, Shahrzad Seifi, Asghar Piran, Javad Pourheidari, Javad Pouladi, Hananeh Shahrokhi, Alireza Saveh Doroudi, Iman Basim.

Three uninvited friends, an unwilling host, a gun: at the police station later, each will give their own version of what actually happened on the drunken evening. In highly artificial fashion, Abest stages a smart simulation about the need to keep face.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

T2 TRAINSPOTTING

(UK) 118mins. Dir: Danny Boyle. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Shirley Henderson, James Cosmo, Anjela Nedyalkova.

Competition (out of competition) Friedrichstadt-Palast

16:00 FELICITE

(France, Senegal, Belgium, Germany, Lebanon) 123mins. Dir: Alain Gomis. Cast: Vero Tshanda Beya, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka.

Competition Berlinale Palast

16:15 HEART OF STONE

(Germany) 119mins.

Dir: Johannes Naber. Cast: Frederick Lau, Henriette Confurius, David Schutter, Moritz Bleibtreu.

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CRAZY IN LOVE A film by Jacky Katu

11/02 9.15AM

KINO ARSENAL 2

SECRET INGREDIENT A film by Gjorce Stavreski

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ROMANS

A film by Ludwig Shammasian & Paul Shammasian 11/02 5.15PM

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MIRACLE

A film by Egle Vertelyte 12/02 9.15AM

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A WINTER TO REMEMBER A film by Cecilia Valenzuela Gioia

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century. To marry the love of his life, Peter — a poor charcoal burner — needs to become rich and respected.

So he makes a pact with the devil whereby his heart is replaced by a stone.

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16:30 2+2=22 [THE ALPHABET] See box, below

AIMLESS BULLET

(South Korea) Paris Film.

108mins. Dir: Yu Hyunmok. Cast: Kim Jin-kyu, Choi Moo-ryung, Seo Ae-ja, Kim Hye-jeong, Noh Hae-sin, Moon Jungsuk.

In the aftermath of the Korean War, a large family attempts to escape the poverty, destruction and depression that the fighting left behind. Regarded as a milestone in Korean cinema due to its realistic depiction of the period.

Forum CineStar 8

ALGOL. TRAGEDY OF POWER

(Germany) 99mins. Dir: Hans Werckmeister.

Cast: Emil Jannings, Ernst Hofmann, Gertrud Welcker, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hanna Ralph, Kate Haack.

Thanks to renewable energy from the planet Algol, the founder of the ‘Bios Works’

transforms himself into Earth’s ruler. But then fortune deserts the former coal miner.

Retrospective CinemaxX 8

16:45 IN THE INTENSE NOW

(Brazil) 127mins.

Dir: Joao Moreira Salles.

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s.

From the military coup in Brazil to China’s Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.

Panorama Documents CineStar 7

17:00 EMO THE MUSICAL

(Australia) Cloud Eight Films. 94mins. Dir: Neil Triffett. Cast: Benson Jack Anthony, Jordan Hare, Rahart Adams, Jon Prasida, Bridie Carter.

The story of the unlikely bond between depressive Emo kid Ethan, who plays in a gloomy rock band, and ever-chipper true believer Trinity. Their impossible love story sets a number of events in motion at their totally crazy school.

Generation 14plus HKW

GHOST IN THE SHELL

(Japan) 79mins.

Dir: Mamoru Oshii.

A female cyborg and member of an elite assault team chases down a hacker who ‘ghost hacks’ other people’s minds and manipulates them. This anime feature about data theft and love inspired the ‘Matrix’ trilogy.

Retrospective Zeughauskino

MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN

(Germany) MinMamma Produktion. 90mins.

Dir: Jochen Hick.

Cast: Romy Haag, Maximilian Lenz, Ades Zabel.

An absorbing journey through time to explore queer lifestyles in former West Berlin and the beginnings of the postwar gay movement.

Protagonists of the time paint a dynamic portrait of a city that is still considered a refuge — and not just for gay men.

Panorama Documents International

REQUIEM FOR MRS J

(Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Russian Federation, France) American Zoetrope/ Osiris Films. 94mins.

Dir: Bojan Vuletic.

Cast: Mirjana Karanovic, Jovana Gavrilovic, Danica Nedeljkovic, Vucic Perovic, Mira Banjac,

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(Germany) 88mins.

Dir: Heinz Emigholz.

A documentary of the recording sessions for the album ABC by German electronic

music group Kreidler in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Sequences in the sound studio alternate with 26 street scenes and 26 views of the director’s notebooks.

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(France, China) 90mins. Dir: Song Chuan. Cast: Liang Xueqin, Zhang Yu, Hong Chang, Zhou Lin, Wang Laowu, Zhou Quan.

For this portrait of fashionable city girl Ciao Ciao, who vehemently Boris Isakovic, Srdjan Todorovic.

Jelena wants to end her life and she’s only got a week to sort things out. But this proves to be extremely difficult in a country caught between stagnation and change: a Kafkaesque tale full of black humour.

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(Lebanon) 99mins.

Dir: Mary Jirmanus Saba.

The protests held at two Beirut factories in the early ’70s could have kicked off a revolution had the civil war and its divisions not stifled this burgeoning social movement. A study of the possibilities for militant action in both cinema and society.

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FROM A YEAR OF NONEVENTS

(Germany) 83mins.

Dir: Ann Carolin Renninger, Renc Frolke.

This documentary shows one year in the life of a north German farmer, a 90-year-old who lives alone on his farmstead near the

struggles against the rural life that threatens to suffocate her, director Song Chuan has found powerful images. A modern drama of Tennessee Williams proportions takes its course.

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Baltic Sea. Observations of the everyday and the natural surroundings merge into a portrait of an almost bygone way of life.

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SMALL TALK

(Taiwan) 88mins.

Dir: Hui-chen Huang.

For as long as she can remember, Anu has been a tomboy. As one of her daughters attempts to understand her better, subjects such as maternal love, trust and abuse are explored, and the changing living conditions for three generations of women in Taiwan.

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18:00 THE BOMB

(US) 55mins. Dir: Kevin Ford, Smriti Keshari, Eric Schlosser.

An associative rather than chronological history of the atom bomb using archive footage. An experimental montage that encourages us to think and aims to keep alive the dream of a world free of nuclear weapons.

Berlinale Special Cubix 8

18:30 THE DINNER

(US) International Dog

Productions. 120mins.

Dir: Oren Moverman.

Cast: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, Chloe Sevigny.

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast and Haus der Berliner Festspiele

19:00 1984

(UK, US) 90mins.

Dir: Michael Anderson.

Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling, David Kossoff, Mervyn Johns, Donald Pleasence, Carol Wolveridge.

Nineteen years after a nuclear holocaust, two lovers rebel against Big Brother. This first film version of the best-known dystopian novel in the world consciously paints a quotidian picture of the all-encompassing horror.

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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

(UK, US) 136mins.

Dir: Stanley Kubrick.

Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, James Marcus, Michael Tarn, Carl Duering.

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DAYVEON

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

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

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

– Indiewire

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“A gorgeous mix of emotional sincerity and pure cinema.” – RogerEbert.com

FAMILY LIFE

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

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

“A sharply observed and poignant parable.” – The Hollywood Reporter “A tragicomic Chilean drama, this droll study (...) unfolds in a distinct triptych structure.” – Screen Daily

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COLUMBUS

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

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

“Imbued with warmth and humanity (…) simply gorgeous.” – Variety

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“A remarkable first film from new and exciting director Kogonada.” – Vanity Fair

THE BOMB

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

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

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

– Entertainment Weekly

“Sordid and gut-wrenching.” – Newsweek

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

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

“Powerfully resonant (...) Arango keeps this ambitious project spinning with impressive confidence.” – Screen International MARKET SCREENING: TODAY / 10:45 / CinemaxX 11

RAT FILM

“A well made morality tale.” – Toronto Film Scene

TANNA

Director: Theo Anthony

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

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

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

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

“A beautiful odyssey.” – Screen Daily

“Yields a multiplicity of offbeat insights.”

“Richly cinematic (...) a haunting love story.”

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(Germany) 91mins.

Dir: Nicolas Wackerbarth.

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

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

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19:15 RIFLE

(Brazil, Germany) 88mins. Dir: Davi Pretto. Cast: Dione Avila de Oliveira, Evaristo Goularte, Andressa Goularte.

A taciturn former soldier is employed to guard a small landholder’s estate. When an agricultural company seeks to buy up the land, he reacts in drastic fashion. A modern Western that plays out across the empty plains of southern Brazil.

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FINAL PORTRAIT

(UK, France) Escapade Pictures. 95mins. Dir: Stanley Tucci. Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clemence Poesy, Tony Shalhoub, James Faulkner, Sylvie Testud.

Competition (out of competition) Berlinale Palast

(Germany, Austria) 103mins. Dir: Adrian Goiginger. Cast: Verena Altenberger, Jeremy Miliker, Lukas Miko, Michael Pink, Michael Fuith.

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ONE THOUSAND ROPES

(New Zealand) Filmadora Producciones. 97mins.

Dir: Tusi Tamasese.

Cast: Frankie Adams, Uelese Petaia, Sima Urale, Beulah Koale, Ene Petaia, Anapela Polataivao.

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(Israel, France) 74mins.

Dir: Daniel Mann. Cast: Gal Hoyberger, Susanne Gschwendtner, Amnon Wolf, Eran Ivanir, Oleg Levin, Amit Berlowitz.

After losing his job and an unhappy divorce, a

history teacher signs up as a reserve soldier, yet keeps putting off his period of duty, while a foreign journalist is looking for a way to get to Gaza. The story of two drifters in a land at constant war.

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OCCIDENTAL

(France) 73mins. Dir: Neil Beloufa. Cast: Idir Chender, Anna Ivacheff, Paul Hamy, Louise OrryDiquero, Hamza Meziani, Brahim Tekfa.

As protests rage on the Paris streets, two suspicious men rent the bridal suite at the Hotel Occidental, which feels stuck in the ’70s.

When the maelstrom of events threatens to envelop staff and guests alike, hotel manager Diana tries to maintain order.

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THE TUNDRA BOOK. A TALE OF VUKVUKAI — THE LITTLE ROCK.

(Russian Federation) Testfirma. 105mins.

Dir: Aleksei Vakhrushev.

Jovial and as energetic as a teenager, the wise Vukvukai guides his nomadic Chukchi community. These tough reindeer herders survive in their snowy wonderland despite the harsh threats posed by

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FESTIVAL & PRESS 19:30 JUST LIKE OUR PARENTS

(Brazil) 102mins. Dir: Lais Bodanzky.

Cast: Maria Ribeiro, Paulo Vilhena, Clarisse Abujamra, Jorge Mautner, Sophia Valverde, Annalara Prates, Herson Capri, Felipe Rocha.

Rosa is in her late 30s, a child of the

1970s with divorced parents. She lives with her own family in Sao Paulo.

Overwhelmed by an eruption of individual passions, lies and the expectations of three generations, she tries to discover who she really is.

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FESTIVAL & PRESS 20:00 INSYRIATED

(Belgium, France, Lebanon) 85mins.

Dir: Philippe Van Leeuw. Cast: Hiam Abbass, Diamand Abou Abboud, Juliette Navis, Mohsen Abbas, Moustapha Al Kar, Alissar Kaghadou, Ninar Halabi, Mohammad Jihad Sleik.

In Damascus, energetic Oum Yazan is trying to keep her family life together while the war is raging outside. Trapped in their apartment, the family is faced with a decision: should they sacrifice the life of one to protect the rest?

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the weather and Russian politics.

Bhutanese men wear skirts and knee-high socks.

NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema CineStar IMAX

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THREE LIGHTS

(Japan) 100mins. Dir: Kohki Yoshida. Cast: Ryo Ikeda, Hiroshi Suzuki, Kazuha Komiya, Emi Maki, Natsumi Ishibashi.

Four people alienated from their everyday lives come together, generating hope that things might now be different. They decide to record a song in a studio on an industrial estate, but one of them then threatens the harmony of this fragile community.

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19:45 HONEYGIVER AMONG THE DOGS

(Bhutan) 132mins.

Dir: Dechen Roder.

Cast: Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, Sonam Tashi Choden, Kunga T Dorji, Cencho Dorji, Deki Yangchen.

A policeman is looking for a suspect in mountainous Bhutan. This enchanted tour de force traversing religion and rationality is an unconventional, feminist interpretation of film noir — and not just because www.screendaily.com

20:00 BACK FOR GOOD

(Germany) 91mins.

Dir: Mia Spengler.

Cast: Kim Riedle, Juliane Kohler, Leonie Wesselow, Nicki von Tempelhoff, Emma Drogunova.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1

BUTTERFLY KISSES

(UK) Rachel Mayeri.

90mins. Dir: Rafael Kapelinski. Cast: Theo Stevenson, Liam Whiting, Byron Lyons, Rosie Day, Thomas Turgoose.

Jake can survey the whole housing block from the hallway window on the top floor. The solitude of this place exerts a particular attraction. There are certain things you can’t tell anyone — not even your best friends.

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ERASE AND FORGET

(UK) 90mins. Dir: Andrea Luka Zimmerman.

‘Bo’ Gritz is one of the highest decorated Vietnam veterans in the US. Using impressive visual

material, this film explores how militarism and the propensity for violence have affected this contradictory personality and politics in the United States.

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GABI

(Germany) 30mins.

Dir: Michael Fetter Nathansky. Cast: Gisa Flake, Florian Kroop, Britta Steffenhagen, Martin Neuhaus, Dela Dabulamanzi.

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STRANGE BIRDS

(France) A Contracorriente Films.

70mins. Dir: Elise Girard.

Cast: Lolita Chammah, Jean Sorel, Virginie Ledoyen, Pascal Cervo.

Mavie moves to Paris from the provinces. After seeing an ad in a cafe, she lands both a flat and a job from Georges, a cynical old bookshop owner who’s never actually sold a book.

Everything would be fine if dead seagulls weren’t falling from the sky.

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THE SEA STARES AT US FROM AFAR

(Spain, Netherlands) 93mins. Dir: Manuel Mucoz Rivas.

Past and present flow together in this documentary portrait of a coastal landscape and its inhabitants. The sand, sea and grass look just as they did when minerals were taken from the earth, when there was still talk of the mythical city of Tartessos.

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WEREWOLF

(Canada) 78mins.

Dir: Ashley McKenzie.

Cast: Bhreagh MacNeil, Andrew Gillis, Mark Woodland, Donald Campbell, Barry Wall.

Nessa and Blaise are homeless, in heroin withdrawal and on a methadone programme.

Blaise reacts to their situation with aggression, Nessa silently endures but they stick together. Starting a new life is a decision everyone must take for themselves.

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THE WOUND

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

In a remote mountainous region of South Africa, a group of young men undergo a circumcision ritual of initiation. Their guardian Xolani, from Johannesburg, struggles

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with the contradiction between his people’s tradition and his own sexuality.

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21:00 EIGHT HOURS DON’T MAKE A DAY

(Germany) seenfilms.

204mins. Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Cast: Gottfried John, Hanna Schygulla, Luise Ullrich, Werner Finck, Irm Hermann.

Combining his typically melodramatic tone with trenchant social realistic insights, Fassbinder interweaves the daily lives and private relationships of a family of toolmakers in this portrait of three generations and their differing attitudes to life.

Berlinale Special Volksbuhne am RosaLuxemburg-Platz

HETZJAGD IN CANOA

(Mexico) 115mins.

Dir: Felipe Cazals.

Cast: Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sanchez, Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Roberto Sosa, Arturo Alegro.

In 1968, at the height of the student unrest, young university employees become victims of a violent attack in a small town.

Felipe Cazal’s realistic and intense thriller is a masterpiece of Mexican cinema.

Berlinale Classics CinemaxX 8

21:30 A FANTASTIC WOMAN

(Chile, US, Germany)

104mins. Dir: Sebastian Lelio. Cast: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Kuppenheim.

Marina and Orlando are in love and planning for the future. After Orlando suddenly dies, Marina is forced to confront his family and society to defend her identity as a complex, strong, forthright, fantastic woman.

Competition Press (T badge holders only) CinemaxX 9

BYE BYE GERMANY

(Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium) 101mins. Dir: Sam Garbarski. Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Antje Traue, Mark Ivanir, Hans Low, Tim Seyfi.

Frankfurt, 1946. David and other Holocaust survivors are trying to set up a business selling linen to German women. Their ruse: ludicrous tricks and chutzpah. Their experiences create a picture of the immediate post-war period from a Jewish perspective.

1980s.

SKINS

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(Spain) Deutsche Filmund Fernsehakademie Berlin. 77mins.

Dir: Eduardo Casanova.

Cast: Ana Polvorosa, Candela Peca, Carmen Machi, Macarena Gomez, Secun de la Rosa.

An episodic film that merges the lives of people with very different kinds of deformities who, living on the margins of society, are rarely granted places in which they feel secure. However, their situation is not as hopeless as it at first seems.

(France) 126mins.

Dir: Luc Besson.

Cast: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker.

A beautiful female alien is charged with saving the planet from destruction by absolute evil. Based on designs by French cartoonists, Luc Besson made an extravagant sci-fi spectacle touting the slogan ‘the future is fun’.

LADY OF THE LAKE

(India) 71mins. Dir: Haobam Paban Kumar.

Cast: Ningthoujam Sanatomba, Sagolsam Thambalsang.

Loktak Lake in northeastern India is a place of unique natural beauty, but now resettlement plans threaten its inhabitants’ everyday existence. A gun and a mysterious old woman bring ever-greater uncertainty into the life of fisherman Tomba.

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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

Berlinale Special Gala Haus der Berliner Festspiele

(US) 96mins. Dir: George A Romero. Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne.

Undead cannibals are launching attacks all over the US. A handful of survivors have barricaded themselves inside a farmhouse. With this horror movie classic, George A Romero created the zombie genre.

EXPERIMENTAL SUMMER

Berlinale Classics Bundesplatz-Kino

(Egypt) 69mins.

Dir: Mahmoud Lotfy.

Cast: Zainab Magdy, Essam Esmail, Ahmed Magdy, Mahmoud Eissa, Amr Wishahy.

A fantasy journey into the world of filmmaking, which follows Mahmoud and Zeinab in their search for the original version of the first Egyptian independent film, ‘Seif ’, produced in the

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THE THEATRE OF DISAPPEARANCE

(Argentina) 120mins.

Dir: Adrian Villar Rojas.

The surreal daily life on the border between North and South Korea, a pottery in Morocco, art spaces, industrial facilities, farflung landscapes: a sensual, mysterious survey of the Earth and all it holds, which observes and invents in equal measure.

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MALIGLUTIT (SEARCHERS)

(Canada) 94mins.

Dir: Zacharias Kunuk.

Cast: Benjamin Kunuk, Jocelyne Immaroitok, Karen Ivalu, Joseph Uttak, Joey Sarpinak.

The tranquil life of a nomadic family in Nunavut is torn apart by a marauding gang of hunters looking for wives. Kuanana, the head of the family, goes looking for revenge. A poetic Inuit Western.

NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema CineStar IMAX

EL MAR LA MAR

(Hungary) 116mins.

Dir: Ildiko Enyedi. Cast: Alexandra Borbely, Geza Morcsanyi, Reka Tenki, Zoltan Schneider, Ervin Nagy, Itala Bekes, Ava Bata, Pal Macsai, Zsuzsa Jaro, Nora RainerMicsinyei.

(Mexico, Chile) 71mins.

Dir: Camila Josc Donoso.

At Casa Roshell, men learn to be women during the day, before the parties get going at night. All manner of boundaries blur in this tiny utopia: between gay, straight and bi, male and female, past and present, reality and fiction.

(US) 94mins. Dir: Joshua Bonnetta, JP Sniadecki.

The Sonoran Desert between Mexico and the US: 16mm footage of vegetation, weather phenomena, animals, people and the traces they leave behind merge with a polyphonic soundtrack to create a panoramic study of a highly politicised landscape.

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

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ON BODY AND SOUL

CASA ROSHELL

Filmmaker Alex lives in a van and appears to be stranded in Texas — caught between his work beneath highway overpasses and anonymous sex with male strangers. But then he learns a terrible secret from his mother that brings back the past.

to the test and search for a way forward amid the shattered values of a multi-ethnic country with a faltering economy.

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(Kyrgyzstan, France, Germany, Netherlands) 89mins. Dir: Aktan Arym Kubat. Cast: Aktan Arym Kubat, Nuraly Tursunkojoev, Zarema Asanalieva, Taalaikan Abazova, Ilim Kalmuratov, Bolot Tentimyshov, Maksat Mamyrkanov.

Former horse thief Centaur lives with his deaf wife and young son on the outskirts of Bishkek in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan.

When the locals’ horses start disappearing, people begin to harbour suspicions.

OH THE DAYS!

(Morocco) 87mins.

Dir: Ahmed El Maanouni.

Following the death of his father, Abdelwahed hopes to support his nine-person family by working in France. As the visa fails to appear, the everyday life and lack of perspectives in rural Morocco come into focus.

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FESTIVAL & PRESS 22:00 WILD MOUSE

(Austria) 103mins.

Dir: Josef Hader.

Cast: Josef Hader, Pia Hierzegger, Georg Friedrich, Jorg Hartmann, Denis Moschitto, Crina Semciuc, Nora von Waldstatten, Maria Hofstatter, Thomas

VAYA

(South Africa) 110mins.

Dir: Akin Omotoso.

Cast: Mncedisi Shabangu, Sibusiso Msimang, Sihle Xaba, Warren Masemola, Zimkhita Nyoka.

A journey to Johannesburg has an unexpected ending

WILD MOUSE

Schubert, Murathan Muslu.

When Viennese music critic Georg loses his job, he is hellbent on revenge.

A dryly humorous tragi-comedy about the Austrian middle-class’s private fears of failure and social decline.

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for the four protagonists.

Their paths cross as one attempts to find work in the corrupt metropolis, another tries to collect his father’s corpse and a third seeks to deliver a little girl to her mother.

(Luxembourg, Belgium, France) Acrobates Films.

112mins. Dir: Laura Schroeder. Cast: Lolita Chammah, Themis Pauwels, Isabelle Huppert, Charles Muller, Elsa Houben.

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

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22:30 BELINDA

(France) 107mins.

Dir: Marie Dumora.

For years, Belinda’s life has been attentively captured by the camera. She’s a defiant bundle of energy who doesn’t make things easy for herself or others. But she loves life and her Thierry, currently behind bars, to whom she writes moving love letters.

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DISCREET

(US) Rachel Mayeri.

81mins. Dir: Travis Mathews. Cast: Jonny Mars, Joy Cunningham, Bob Swaffar, Atsuko Okatsuka, Joao Federici.

T2 TRAINSPOTTING

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22:45 CENTAUR

(UK) 118mins. Dir: Danny Boyle. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald.

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Competition (out of competition) International

(Germany) 94mins.

Dir: Christian von Brockhausen, Timo Grocpietsch. Cast: Maze Exler, Michael Borwitzky, Ole Fries, Markus Krieg.

A handful of boys from small-town Germany make it to LA with their band. A dream comes true — but so does the nightmare when they fail abysmally. Now grown men, they face their demons to begin making music again. And to remain friends.

WHEN THE DAY HAD NO NAME

(Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia) 82mins.

Dir: Teona Strugar Mitevska. Cast: Leon Ristov, Hanis Bagashov, Stefan Kitanovic, Dragan Mishevski, Ivan Vrtev Soptrajanov.

Six Macedonian teenagers set out on a fishing expedition. They toy with each other’s emotions, put their sexual magnetism

23:00 WE WERE KINGS

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09:00 AMATEURS IN SPACE

(Denmark) Autlook Filmsales, 89mins.

Dir: Max Kestner.

Over a six-year period, award-winning director Max Kestner follows two best friends and top engineers building a DIY rocket against all odds to travel into space. A story of mankind’s greatest dreams and reaching for the stars.

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BYE BYE GERMANY

(Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium) The Match Factory, 103mins. Dir: Sam Garbarski. Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Antje Traue, Mark Ivanir, Anatole Taubman.

In post-war Frankfurt, David Bermann and his

surviving Jewish friends use their charms selling bed linen to make money to emigrate to America.

He meets his match when US officer Sara Simon interrogates him about his wartime past.

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Carre, Ramzy Bedia, Maria Duplaa, Virginia Mendez.

Sylvie tracks down her son in Uruguay, abducted four years ago by her ex-husband. With the help of Mehdi, a social worker, she leaves to get him back.

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GUARDIANS

(Russia) Planeta Inform Film Distribution, 94mins. Dir: Sarik Andreasyan. Cast: Alina Lanina, Sebastian Seesak, Sanjar Madiev, Anton Pampushniy.

Guardians — a group of superheroes created in the secret labs during the Cold War — gather to save the world from the villainous maniac August Kuratov and prevent nuclear disaster.

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NITRO RUSH

(Canada) Attraction Distribution, 97mins.

Dir: Alain Desrochers.

Cast: Guillaume LemayThivierge, Antoine Desrochers, Madeleine Peloquin, Antoine-Olivier Pilon.

We find Max in jail, after losing his young wife.

When he learns that his son Theo has just been hired by a criminal organisation, Max will risk everything to save him.

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LIFE BEYOND ME

(France) The Bureau Sales, 95mins. Dir: Olivier Peyon. Cast: Isabelle

THE POISONING ANGEL

(France, Belgium) Le Pacte, 100mins. Dir:

Stephanie Pillonca.

Cast: Deborah Francois, Benjamin Biolay, Jonathan Zaccai, Catherine Mouchet.

Brittany, 19th century: Convinced she must serve Ankou, the spirit of Death, Helene poisons her mother and spends the rest of her life spreading death — becoming one of the biggest serial killers in history.

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STRAY NIGHTINGALE

(Japan) Village, 134mins.

Dir: Hidenori Inoue, Takuji Izumi. Cast: Arata Furuta, Izumi Inamori, Shunsuke Daitoh.

Juzaburo, known as a chivalrous robber, is betrayed by his henchman and his entire gang is slaughtered. The gravely wounded Juzuaburo escapes and is saved by Inspector Sadaemon and a couple that runs a tavern.

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THE WAR OF THE YOKELS

PRESENTS “A medieval convent comedy for the megaplex crowd” - Peter Debruge, VARIETY

“A winning ensemble brings present-day attitude to Boccaccio’s irreverent sex comedy” - John De Fore, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

(Italy) Rai Com, 100mins.

Dir: Davide Barletti, Lorenzo Conte. Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Ernesto Mahieux, Pasquale Patruno, Donato Paterno.

Summer 1975: in a village on the eastern coast of Puglia, a war is rekindled between the sons of the well-to-do familes and the children of the local fishermen, shepherds and farmers: the so-called “cafoni” or bumpkins.

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WHERE IS KYRA?

“Subversive comedy that delivers where it counts” -Eric Kohn, INDIEWIRE

starring ALISON BRIE D AV E F R A N C O AUBREY PLAZA J O H N C . R E I L LY

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(US) Great Point Media 97mins. Dir: Andrew Dosunmu. Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Michelle Pfeiffer.

Kyra loses her job and struggles to survive on her ailing mother’s income. As the weeks and months go on, her problems worsen.

This leads her on a risky and enigmatic path that threatens her life.

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09:15 CRAZY IN LOVE

(France) Wide, 80mins.

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

Nurse Felicia meets Dimitri, a war reporter.

Their physical attraction is

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

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MENASHE

(US) Mongrel International, 81mins.

Dir: Joshua Weinstein.

Within Brooklyn’s ultraorthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.

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SUMMER LIGHTS

(France) MPM Film, 83mins. Dir: Jean-Gabriel Periot. Cast: Hiroto Ogi, Akane Tatsukawa, Yuzu Horie, Keiji Izumi.

Akihiro has come from Paris to Hiroshima to make a documentary about survivors of the A-bombing.

He meets Michiko, a merry and enigmatic young woman, dressed traditionally, with outdated manners.

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WITH OPEN ARMS

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

Jean Etienne Fougerole is a left-wing intellectual.

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

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09:20 AN ORDINARY MAN

(US, UK) Electric Entertainment, 90mins.

Dir: Brad Silberling.

Cast: Ben Kingsley, Hera Hilmar, Peter Serafinowicz.

An infamous war criminal in hiding is moved to a new safe house, where he forms a relationship with his maid. When he discovers that she is actually an agent hired to protect him, he makes a decision that will change their lives.

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DRONE

(US) Myriad Pictures, 89mins. Dir: Jason Bourque. Cast: Sean Bean, Patrick Sabongui.

Neil is a cog in the wheel of America’s war on terror. A private drone operator, he spends his workdays flying covert missions for the CIA then returns to a family life of suburban mediocrity.

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09:30 CORPORATE

(France) Indie Sales, 95mins. Dir: Nicolas Silhol. Cast: Celine Sallette, Lambert Wilson.

Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in human resources. One day, an employee commits suicide in front of her.

Admid the investigation, she is stuck between her traumatised colleagues and her ambition, eager to save her head.

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THE DIVINE ORDER

(Switzerland) TrustNordisk, 96mins.

Dir: Petra Volpe. Cast: Marie Leuenberger, Max Simonischek.

1970: Nora is a young housewife, living with her husband and their two sons. She is liked by everybody until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.

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ON BODY AND SOUL

(Hungary) Films Boutique, 116mins.

Dir: Ildiko Enyedi.

Cast: Alexandra Borbely, Geza Morcsanyi, Reka Tenki, Zoltan Schneider.

Out of pure chance, two introverted people share the same dream every night.

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WALK WITH ME

(UK) WestEnd Films, 94mins. Dir: Marc J Francis, Max Pugh.

Cast: Thich Nhat Hanh, Benedict Cumberbatch.

A cinematic journey into the world of mindfulness — the practice of bringing one’s attention to the present moment — and world-famous Thich Nhat Hanh.

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his father, Grom, who has turned to stone and had his tail stolen.

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UNCERTAIN GLORY

(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 115mins.

Dir: Agusti Villaronga.

Cast: Marcel Borras, Nuria Prims, Oriol Pla, Bruna Cusi.

Luis is a soldier, a loner who doesn’t believe in the war he’s fighting. He falls madly in love with Carlana. She drags him into a downward spiral of passion and betrayal that will have devastating consequences for everyone.

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MARKET 09:30 I DREAM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE

(Mexico) Mundial, 100mins. Dir: Ernesto Contreras. Cast: Fernando clvarez Rebeil, Eligio Melendez, Manuel Poncelis, Fatima Molina.

The last two speakers of

WALKING OUT

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

Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people. dffb-Kino

WEIRDOS

a millenary language have not conversed in 50 years. A young linguist will try to bring them together. Yet hidden in the past, in the core of the jungle, lies a secret to the fate of the Zikril language.

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Hawco, Julia Sarah Stone, Dylan Authors.

Nova Scotia. 1976: a teenager runs away from home with his girlfriend on the weekend of the American Bicentennial, but they find their relationship tested when he approaches a realisation that will change his life forever.

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(Canada) Holdfast Pictures, 85mins. Dir: Bruce McDonald. Cast: Molly Parker, Allan

09:45 THE TRAMPOLINE

(Croatia) Everything

Works, 82mins. Dir: Katarina Zrinka Matijevic.

Cast: Lana Baric, Franka Mikolaci, Tena Nemet Brankov, Frano Maskovic.

A blue trampoline, the junction at which the stories of three women intertwine: a girl in search of motherly love; a girl running away from it; and a young woman who is trying to overcome her fear of motherhood.

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10:00 ORIGINAL BLISS

(Germany) Picture Tree International, 102mins.

Dir: Sven Taddicken. Cast: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Tukur, Johannes Krisch.

Desperately trapped in a failing marriage, Helene Brindel finally loses all hope when she feels she has been abandoned by God. She sees the key to her

liberation in the form of the celebrated psychologist Eduard Gluck.

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ROOM(H)ATES

(France) EuropaCorp, 94mins. Dir: Dominique Farrugia. Cast: Gilles Lellouche, Louise Bourgoin, Manu Payet, Marilou Berr.

Yvan and Louise are getting divorced. The separation unfolds pretty calmly for both them and their kids… until the two exes realise that they cannot afford to get their own places.

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TROLL: THE TALE OF A TAIL

(Norway, China, US) Global Genesis Group, 50mins. Dir: Kevin Munroe, Krisitan Camp.

An adventure of a different size. The Troll prince Trym has only three days to save

MOLLY

(Canada) The Annex Entertainment, 94mins.

Dir: Thijs Meuwese.

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a young woman with supernatural abilities tries to protect a scavenging child while fighting off a group of dangerous marauders who want her to fight in their arena.

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10:15 CAN HITLER HAPPEN HERE?

(US) Pilgrims 7 Corp, 75mins. Dir: Saskia Rifkin. Cast: Laura Esterman, Tracy Shayne, John Pirkis, Mark Mccullough Thomas.

Meddling neighbours, ambitious social-workers and real estate vultures conspire to torment an eccentric old lady. Or maybe they’re just trying to help?

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10:30 DARK FORTUNE

(Switzerland) Wide, 114mins. Dir: Stefan Haupt. Cast: Eleni Haupt, Noe Ricklin, Elisa Pluss, Chiara Carla Bar. A story about belonging and love.

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THE TRUTH LIES IN HEAVEN

(Italy) Amadeus Entertainment, 98mins.

Dir: Roberto Faenza.

Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Greta Scarano, Maya Sansa, Valentina Lodovini.

In 1983, Emanuela Orlandi, a teenager and a Vatican citizen, disappears. The event has heinous ramifications that are still pertinent today in a typically Italian fabric involving politics, organised crime and part of the Church.

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10:40 KING OF THE BELGIANS

(Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria) Be For Films, 94mins. Dir: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth. Cast: Peter van den Begin, Lucie Debay, Titus de Voogdt, Bruno Georis.

Nicolas III, King of the Belgians, is forced to escape a state visit in Istanbul incognito in order to save is kingdom.

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10:45 THE MAN

(Denmark, Czech Republic, Norway) SF Studios, 93mins.

Dir: Charlotte Sieling.

Cast: Soren Malling,

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Jakob Oftebro, Ane Dahl Torp.

Simon, successful and rich, is the king of the Danish art scene. His son Casper, whom he never knew, shows up and takes everyone in his father’s posse by storm. This provokes and challenges Simon deeply.

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Mexico) Visit Films, 108mins. Dir: Juan Andres Arango. Cast: Jembie Almazan, Jonathan Diaz Angulo, Bernardo Garnica Cruz.

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

MOTHERLAND (BAYANG INA MO)

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(US, Philippines) Dogwoof, 94mins.

Dir: Ramona S Diaz.

The Phillipines, one of the world’s poorest and most populous countries, struggles with reproductive health policy, both in legislature, where laws are debated, and in a hospital with the busiest maternity ward on the planet.

YOU CHOOSE

X500

(France) Pathe International, 100mins.

Dir: Eric Lavaine.

Cast: Alexandra Lamy, Arnaud Ducret, Anne Marivin, Sabrina Ouazan.

Fries or salad? Right or left? Friends or lovers?

Living is deciding. Juliette’s big problem is that she is unable to make the slightest choice. Even at 40, she asks her father and her best friends to decide everything for her.

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10:55 LET YOURSELF GO!

(Italy) Rai Com, 103mins.

“Imbued with warmth and humanity... simply gorgeous.” - VARIETY

Dir: Francesco Amato.

Cast: Toni Servillo, Veronica Echegui, Carla Signoris, Luca Marinelli.

Elia is a Jewish psychoanalyst from a purely Freudian school.

After a minor illness, his doctor prescribes a physical activity. That is how he meets Claudia, a personal trainer with the cult of physique but not of mind.

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11:00 HOME SWEET HOME

(Kosovo) Morea, 92mins.

Dir: Faton Bajraktari.

Cast: Donat Qosja, Arta Mucaj, Shkumbin Istrefi.

Agron was long considered dead. His army buddies saw him die during the Kosovo conflict and thus his return home is beyond surprising. Joy, however, soon shifts to a consideration of practical problems.

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IN SEARCH OF FELLINI

COLUMBUS In an American town built on the promise of modern architecture, a local 19-year-old girl reluctant to leave home forms a close bond with a son visiting his dying father.

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(US) AMBI Media Group, 103mins. Dir: Taron Lexton. Cast: Maria Bello, Ksenia Solo, Beth Riesgraf, Mary Lynn Rajskub.

Follows a girl named Lucy and her journey to search for legendary Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini.

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WATER AND SUGAR. CARLO DI PALMA THE COLOURS OF LIFE

(Italy) Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, 90mins.

10:50 UNTITLED

(Austria, Germany) Autlook Filmsales, 107mins. Dir: Michael Glawogger, Monika Willi.

Michael Glawogger died of malaria in 2014 while he was filming in Europe

and Africa. Monika Willi has edited his material into a fascinating chronicle of an aimless journey, creating a visually stunning film about the poetry of the arbitrary.

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Dir: Fariborz Kamkari.

A galaxy of cinema luminaries — from Ken Loach to Wim Wenders and Bernardo Bertolucci — pay tribute to the great Italian cinematographer Carlo di Palma.

wizard Chernomor. Ruslan embarks on a search for his beloved princess, but she is not so helpless herself.

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

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

THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY

(Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia) Punk Film, 116mins. Dir: Vladimir Blazevski. Cast: Igor Angelov, Marija Kohn, Reshad Behreda, Elena Trajkovska.

The main protagonists of this black comedy are Tsobe and Coco, a warden and a chimpanzee at the Skopje Zoo. When Coco escapes, Tsobe gets fired but he might get his job back if he manages to return the fugitive.

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11:10 THE STOLEN PRINCESS

(Ukraine) FILM.UA Group, 60mins. Dir: Oleg Malamuzh.

Travelling bard Ruslan falls in love with King’s daughter Mila, but their happiness is marred when Mila is stolen by evil

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THOUSAND CUTS

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WORLDLY GIRL

(Italy, France) Intramovies, 104mins.

Dir: Marco Danieli.

Cast: Sara Serraiocco, Michele Riondino, Marco Leonardi, Stefania Montorsi.

Giulia’s world, made of rigour and sacred texts, is too small for her dreams. When she meets Libero she realises maybe there is a chance to change her life.

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11:15 BACK TO BURGUNDY

(France) Studiocanal, 114mins. Dir: Cedric Klapisch. Cast: Pio Marmai, Ana Girardot, Francois Civil.

Jean has spent the past decade travelling, cutting all ties with his family and with Burgundy. Now settled abroad, he is called back home to the bedside of his terminally ill father.

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INSIDE

(Spain) Embankment Films, 89mins.

Dir: Miguel Angel Vivas.

Cast: Rachel Nichols, Laura Harring.

There is nothing fiercer than a mother’s love.

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MAJOR GROM

(Russia) Bubble Studios, 60mins. Dir: Vladimir Besedin. Cast: Alexander Gorbatov, Ivan Fominov,

Anton Kuznetsov, Danila Yakushev.

Igor Grom, a skilled detective from Russia, tries to hunt down a serial killer disguised as the Middle Ages plague doctor.

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11:20 COLUMBUS

(US) Visit Films, 104mins.

Dir: Kogonada Kogonada.

Cast: John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey, Michelle Forbes.

In an American town built on the promise of modern architecture, a 19-year-old local girl who is reluctant to leave home forms a close bond with a son visiting his dying father.

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MR STEIN GOES ONLINE

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

Fanny Valette, Stephanie Crayencour, Stephane Bissot.

Pierre, 75, rediscovers love through online dating, but under Alex’s identity, his young computer teacher. Asked on a date,

Pierre sends Alex in his place.

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11:30 PAST IMPERFECT See box, right

11:40 ONE THOUSAND ROPES

(New Zealand) Mongrel International, 97mins.

Dir: Tusi Tamasese.

Cast: Ulese Petaia, Frankie Adams, Vaele Sima Urale, Ene Petaia.

When a father reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter, he is given a rare chance to reshape the future of his family in unexpected ways.

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11:45 GHOST HUNTING

(France, Palestine, Switzerland) UDI, 95mins.

Dir: Raed Andoni. Cast: Nicolas Becker, Francois Musy, Luc Perez.

Together with an eclectic group of Palestinian ex-prisoners, Raed Andoni builds the replicate of the Israeli investigation centre in which they were all imprisoned once, and attempts to reenact its stories.

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Mourning the death of his older brother, 13-year-old Dayveon becomes drawn to the camaraderie of a local gang while spending his days roaming around his rural Arkansas town.

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MR HAPPINESS

(Italy) Filmsharks, 95mins. Dir: Alessandro Siani. Cast: Alessandro Siani, Diego Abatantuono, Carla Signoris.

When Martino’s sister, Caterina, can no longer work for health reasons, he

11:30 PAST IMPERFECT

(Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands) Attraction Distribution, 111mins.

Dir: Nathalie Teirlinck.

Cast: Evelyne Brochu, Zuri Francois, Eriq Ebouaney, Arieh Worthalter.

replaces her as a cleaner for Dr Guglielmo Gioia.

When the doctor leaves, Martino pretends to be his assistant.

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12:00 HAPPY HOUR

(Germany, Ireland) Gringo Films, 95mins.

Dir: Franz Muller.

Cast: Simon Licht, Alexander Horbe, Mehdi Nebbou.

HC’s wife has left him, so his two best friends decide to whisk him away on a holiday to Ireland. But the facade of their friendship begins to crumble.

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12:10 TO EACH HIS OWN

(Japan) Kadokawa Corporation, 113mins.

Dir: Izuru Narushima.

Cast: Sota Fukushi, Asuka Kudo, Haru Kuroki, Kotaro Yoshida.

A burned-out businessman loses consciousness on the train platform and topples over. He is saved by a stranger claiming to be his childhood friend but as they become closer, he finds

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

a shocking truth about the “friend”.

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12:15 EVERYDAY HEROES

(France) TF1 Studio, 80mins. Dir: AnneDauphine Julliand.

A feature-length documentary about the power of life and resiliency.

The documentary features five children who are willing to share with us their everyday life, their doubts and their joys.

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12:20 1898 OUR LAST MEN IN THE PHILIPPINES

(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 130mins.

Dir: Salvador Calvo.

Cast: Luis Tosar, Eduard Fernandez, Javier Gutierrez, Alvaro Cervantes.

As the sun sets on the Spanish Empire, 50 of its men, as brave as they are ill-prepared, barricade themselves in a church in order to defend what they believe is still a Spanish colony.

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PAST LIFE

(Israel) Bleiberg Entertainment, 109mins.

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

Two Israeli sisters delve into the mystery of their father’s former life in Poland during the Second World War. CinemaxX 17

12:25 VAMPIRE SISTERS 3 — JOURNEY TO TRANSYLVANIA

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(US) Voltage Pictures, 90mins.

Dir: Ronnie Thompson. Cast: Matthew Goode, Stephen Moyer, Joely Richardson, Clive Russell.

A thriller in the vein of ‘The Italian Job’ and ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, based on the amazing true story of the biggest robbery in British history.

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(Germany) ARRI Media, 99mins. Dir: Tim Trachter.

Cast: Laura Roge, Marta Martin, Christiane Paul, Stipe Erceg.

The Vampire Sisters are back! This time they have a new baby brother, Franz.

But he is in danger. Evil vampire queen Antanasia wants him in her castle, as her heir, and kidnaps baby Franz. The sisters set out to help him.

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12:30 DALIDA

“A sharply observed and poignant parable.”

- The Hollywood Reporter

(France) Pathe International, 127mins.

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

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

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HOUSE IN THE FIELDS

(Morocco) Alpha Violet, 86mins. Dir: Tala Hadid.

Cast: Khadija Elgounad, Fatima Elgounad.

A creative documentary that examines the life of an isolated rural Amazigh community in the High Atlas Mountains, following two teenage sisters who struggle with tradition and their dreams.

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12:40 ONE LAST HEIST

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

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12:45 COLD HELL

(Austria, Germany) Beta Cinema, 92mins.

Dir: Stefan Ruzowitzky.

Vienna: a young woman

witnesses a brutal murder.

The offender seems to be a crazed serial killer, inspired

by Islam. A life-and-death struggle ensues.

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GOD’S OWN COUNTRY

(UK) Protagonist Pictures, 104mins. Dir: Francis Lee. Cast: Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart.

Francis Lee’s feature film debut is a contemporary tale of self-discovery and sexual awareness set on the sheep farming fields of rural England.

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PLANETA INFORM PROMO REEL

(Russia) Planeta Inform Film Distribution, 60mins. Dir: various.

Cast: various.

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POWER TO CHANGE — THE ENERGY REBELLION

(Germany) fechnerMedia, 94mins. Dir: Carl A Fechner.

A behind-the-scenes journey to the heart of an historic, unique event.

The transformation of the world’s energy supply to decentralised systems, fuelled exclusively by renewable sources of energy.

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THE SECOND TIME AROUND

(Canada) The Little Film Company, 108mins. Dir: Leon Marr. Cast: Linda Thorson, Stuart Margolin, Laura de Carteret, Louis Del Grande.

Two seniors meet and discover that it’s never too late to fall in love again.

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12:50 VISITING OURS

Dir: various.

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13:00 AFTERIMAGE

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

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

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

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BLACK SNOW

(Spain, Argentina) Filmsharks, 90mins.

Dir: Martin Hodara.

Cast: Ricardo Darin, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Laia Costa, Federico Luppi.

Salvador lives isolated in Patagonia after being falsely accused of murdering his own brother.

Decades later a visit by his brother rekindles their rivalry and conflicting ideas about murder, innocence and guilt.

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BLIND SPOT

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

Jan Verbeek, popular commissionner of the Antwerp drug squad, leaves the police force just before the elections to join the extreme right party.

On his last day as a cop, he leads a drug lab raid, which sets off a series of violent events.

(France) Wild Bunch, 82mins. Dir: Rachida Brakni. Cast: Zita Hanrot, Samira Brahmia, Judith Caen, Fabienne Babe.

Every month, women go to a prison on the outskirts of Paris to visit their loved ones.

It’s the middle of August.

Fatma and her daughter Nora, and her friends wait uncomfortably.

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LAND OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE

(US) Submarine Entertainment, 105mins.

IT STAINS THE SANDS RED

(Canada, US) MPI Media Group, 92mins. Dir: Colin Minihan. Cast: Brittany Allen, Juan Riedinger.

A troubled woman from Las Vegas with a dark past finds herself stranded in the desert with a ravenous zombie on her tail.

(Israel) Pluto Film, 83mins. »

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Dir: Yaniv Berman. Cast: Maor Schweitzer, Ofer Hayun, Lior Rochman, Mishel Pruzansky.

Four kids from military officers’ families play at an abandoned army base. Their seemingly innocent games turn into a ruthless struggle when they find two deserted soldiers hiding in their camp. Another war begins.

her. As bodies pile up, she realises too late the horrible consequences her unworldly deal has unleashed.

Together with their friends, they plan a future without old people’s homes. But that’s easier said than done.

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BABY BUMP(S)

(Ireland) Autlook Filmsales, 81mins.

Dir: Frankie Fenton.

The incredible story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a young filmmaker who becomes completely paralysed from Motor Neurone Disease, but goes on to direct an awardwinning feature film through the use of his eyes.

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DEVIL’S DOMAIN

RUSTY BOYS

DRIES

(US) Bob’s Your Uncle, 93mins. Dir: Jared Cohn.

Cast: Madi Vodane, Michael Madsen, Linda Bella.

A bullied teen deals with the devil for revenge upon those who torment

(Luxembourg) Moonrise Pictures, 110mins. Dir: Andy Bausch. Cast: Andre Jung, Fernand Fox, Marco Lorenzini, Pol Greisch.

Four elderly men are fed up with being walked all over and treated like children.

(Germany, Belgium) Dogwoof, 90mins.

Dir: Reiner Holzemer.

An insight into the life, mind and creative heart of Dries Van Noten, who, for more than 25 years, has remained independent

SUBMARINE SECRET PROJECTS

(US) Submarine Entertainment, 90mins.

Dir: various.

Zoo Palast Club A By invitation only

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dffb-Kino By invitation only

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(France) Gaumont, 94mins. Dir: Noemie Saglio. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Camille Cottin, Lambert Wilson.

Avril, 30, announces to her mother Mado, 47, that she’s pregnant. When Mado discovers that she’s also expecting a baby, the delicate balance of their relationship starts to inexorably unravel.

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in a landscape of fashion consolidation and globalisation.

IT’S NOT YET DARK

HAPPY FAMILY

(Germany) Timeless Films, 96mins. Dir: Holger Tappe. Cast: Emily Watson, Jason Isaacs, Nick Frost, Catherine Tate.

An animated, actionpacked, family adventure starring the Wishbone Family, who despite the title are far from happy.

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13:50 RABBIT SCHOOL — GUARDIANS OF THE GOLDEN EGG

(Germany) Sola Media, 76mins. Dir: Ute von Munchow-Pohl.

Rabbits against foxes — what an uneven battle.

Until a city rabbit joins the famous Rabbit School, where time stood still and legend meets street credibility.

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JUST TO BE SURE

(France) SND — Groupe M6, 95mins. Dir: Carine Tardieu. Cast: Francois Damiens, Cecile de France, Andre Wilms, Alice de Lencquesaing.

Erwan, 45, finds out his father is not his biological father. His real father is Joseph, a man his mother briefly knew. Unfortunately, Erwan had just fallen in love with Anna, Joseph’s daugther.

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MORRIS FROM AMERICA

(Germany, US) Visit Films, 91mins. Dir: Chad Hartigan. Cast: Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson, Lina Keller, Carla Juri.

Morris is from America.

He is black, fat and 13.

His biggest problem: he just moved to Heidelberg.

Making friends is not easy.

But then Morris meets Katrin.

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

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THE MYSTERY OF GREEN HILL

(Croatia) Croatian Audiovisual Centre, 82mins. Dir: Cejen Cernic.

Cast: Marko Tocilj, Alex Rakos, Jan Pentek,

Tin Gregoric.

Koko and his friends spend the summer vacation in the Green Hill village.

The magic is disturbed by unusual events: each night burglars break into one house after another.

The children decide to take matters into their own hands.

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14:15 MANIFESTO

(Germany) The Match Factory, 95mins.

Dir: Julian Rosefeldt.

Cast: Cate Blanchett.

Can historic art manifestos apply to contemporary society? An homage to the 20th century’s most impassioned artistic statements.

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14:20 BIG BIG WORLD

(Turkey) Picture Tree International, 101mins.

Dir: Reha Erdem.

Cast: Ecem Uzun, Berke Karaer, Melisa Akman, Murat Deniz.

When Ali and Zuhal take their first step out of the orphanage into the big world and commit a crime, it becomes impossible for them to live among people, and they take shelter in a forest.

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14:30 HEARTBEATS

(US) Myriad Pictures, 108mins. Dir: Duane Adler. Cast: Krystal Ellsworth, Amitash Pradhan, Daphne Zuniga, Justin Chon.

This is the story of a feisty American hip hop dancer who travels to India with her family for a wedding and falls in love — both with a new style of dance, and with the determined young man who introduces her to it.

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PORNOCRACY: THE NEW SEX MULTINATIONALS

(France) Java Films, 80mins. Dir: Ovidie.

Cast: Ovidie.

This is the unknown story of how five computer programmers hijacked the adult industry. Of the opaque multinational that came to own Pornhub,

YouPorn and 35 other companies and transformed the way porn is made and consumed.

Marriott Studio

SECRET INGREDIENT

(Macedonia) Wide, 105mins. Dir: Gjorce Stavreski. Cast: Blagoj Veselinov, Anastas Tanovski, Aksel Mehmet, Aleksandar Mikic.

A young man is on a quest to save his ill father with the help of one secret ingredient.

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14:40 I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

(France, Belgium, US) Wide House, 93mins.

Dir: Raoul Peck. Cast: James Baldwin, Samuel L Jackson.

Raoul Peck goes back to the tragic deaths of Malcolm X, M-L King and Medgar Evers to shed light on how the image (and reality) of black people in America today is built and reinforced.

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MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH

(UK) The Exchange, 104mins. Dir: Daniel Jerome Gill. Cast: Josh Whitehouse, Freya Mavor, Tom Riley, Ian Hart.

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

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14:45 DJANGO

(France) Pathe International, 117mins. Dir: Etienne Comar. Cast: Reda Kateb, Cecile de France, Beata Palya, Bim Bam Merstein, Gabriel Mirete.

Paris, 1943. The occupying Nazis pressure swing guitarist Django Reinhardt to go on tour in Germany.

Faced with the question of whether or not to allow his art to be misused for political purposes, he has to make a decision of vital significance.

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FAMILY LIFE

(Chile) Visit Films, 81mins. Dir: Alicia

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Scherson, Cristian Jimenez.

Cast: Jorge Becker, Gabriela Arancibia, Blanca Lewin.

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

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THE WORKERS CUP

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

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

For the first time ever a film team gained access to the most controversial construction site — the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

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Board of Canada, 89mins.

Dir: Ann Marie Fleming.

Cast: Sandra Oh, Nancy Kwan, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Camyar Chaichian.

A feature animation about love.

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15:20 POP AYE

(Singapore) Cercamon, 102mins. Dir: Kirsten Tan. Cast: Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Penpak Sirikul.

On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok.

Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together.

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THAT’S NOT CHEATING

US & THEM

(Argentina) Filmsharks, 106mins. Dir: Ariel Winograd. Cast: Lali Esposito, Martin Piroyanski, Liz Solari, Benjamin Vicuea.

At dinner with friends, a couple contemplate the idea of a “one night pass” with a famous star — free of guilt.

But what if you unexpectedly meet your one night pass?

(UK) Parkland Pictures, 83mins. Dir: Joe Martin.

Cast: Jack Roth, Tim Bentick, Sophie Colquhoun, Andrew Tiernan.

When disenfranchised Danny confronts wealthy banker Conrad, he plans to teach him a lesson. Forced to gamble with the lives of his family, Conrad has the tables turned on him.

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15:00 HOPE — THE SOUND OF LIFE

(Germany) mindjazz pictures international, 100mins. Dir: Nahuel Lopez.

Cast: Daniel Hope, Zakhar Bron, Menahem Pressler, Zamira Menuhin.

Daniel Hope is one of the greatest violinists of our age and part of the avantgarde of a new generation of classical musicians. But his exceptional biography is also a story of escape, expulsion and desire for self-discovery.

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15:25 HANDLE WITH CARE

(Norway) Films

Distribution, 103mins.

Dir: Arild Andresen. Cast: Kristoffer Joner, Kristoffer Bech, Marlon Moreno, Patricia Castaeeda.

Kjetil, an offshore worker and recent widower, is left alone to take care of his adopted son, Daniel. Unable to deal with his single parent role, Kjetil decides to bring Daniel back to Colombia and look for his biological mother.

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15:45 A BRIEF EXCURSION

(Croatia) Croatian Audiovisual Centre, 75mins. Dir: Igor Bezinovic.

Cast: Ante Zlatko Stolica, Mladen Vujcic, Josip Viskovic.

A group of friends venture on a mission to discover medieval frescoes in the forests of Istria.

However, their brief excursion turns into an allegorical journey into the unknown.

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stereotypes, destruction. At the same time, it is about love, forgiveness and self-devotion.

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SWINGER

(Denmark) SF Studios, 99mins. Dir: Mikkel MunchFals. Cast: Mille Dinesen, Martin Buch, Rasmus Botoft.

Adam is 40 and thinks his life is over. He has given up all hope and feels like he is living in a mental vacuum when he falls in love with a young girl in the only place where it’s not allowed to fall in love — in a swingers club.

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16:10 THE LONG EXCUSE

(Japan) Elle Driver, 124mins. Dir: Miwa Nishikawa. Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara.

Sachio, a writer, loses his wife in a bus crash. With any love for her since their marriage long gone, he has to fake his grief. When he meets the truly devastated husband of his wife’s friend, he offers to look after his children.

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5 THERAPY

(Ukraine) Antipode Sales & Distribution, 75mins. Dir: Alisa Pavlovskaya. Cast: Stas Dombrovskiy, Victor Brevis, Sonia Kulagina.

A film about convicts, those living with Aids, drug-addict

16:15 CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP 20172018 LINE-UP

(Russia) Central Partnership, 60mins.

Dir: various.

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PILGRIMAGE

(US) XYZ Films, 100mins.

Dir: Brendan Muldowney.

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

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

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MOUNTAIN MIRACLE — AN UNEXPECTED FRIENDSHIP

WINDOW HORSES — THE POETIC PERSIAN EPIPHANY OF ROSIE MING

(Germany, Italy) ARRI Media, 97mins.

Dir: Tobias Wiemann. Cast: Mia Kasalo, Samuel Girardi.

Amelie struggles with asthma and is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured — her personal hell. She runs away and with her friend Bart tries to reach the mountain peak, which is said to have healing powers.

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HEART OF STONE

THE SWEET LIFE

(Germany) Picture Tree International, 119mins.

Dir: Johannes Naber. Cast: Frederick Lau, Henriette Confurius, David Schutter, Moritz Bleibtreu.

The Black Forest in the 17th century: to marry the love of his life, Peter — a poor charcoal burner — needs to become rich and respected. So he makes a pact with the devil.

(US) WestEnd Films, 92mins. Dir: Rob Spera.

Cast: Chris Messina, Abigail Spencer.

The love story of Kenny and Lolita, who first meet by chance in Chicago and form a pact to travel across the country to commit suicide.

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THE VILLAGE OF NO RETURN

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LITTLE HARBOUR

(Slovakia, Czech Republic) Loco Films, 85mins.

Dir: Iveta Grofova. Cast: Vanessa Szamuhelova, Matus Bacisin.

Jarka, aged 10 and living with a mother who is not yet ready to be a mum, spends most of her time alone. Pushed by her desire for love, she finds herself substituting a “mother” to raise two twin babies.

MARKET 16:20 BOYS IN THE TREES

(US) Myriad Pictures, 113mins. Dir: Nicholas Verso.

On Halloween 1997, two

estranged teen skaters embark on a surreal journey through their memories, dreams and fears.

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16:20 BOYS IN THE TREES See box, above

SANTA SWAP — MERRY CHRISTMAS MR ANDERSEN

(Norway) Sola Media, 70mins. Dir: Terje Rangnes. Cast: Trond Espen Seim, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Ingeborg Sundrehagen Raustol, Erik Hivju.

A heartwarming Christmas adventure.

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SMALL TOWN KILLERS

(Denmark) TrustNordisk, 90mins. Dir: Ole Bornedal. Cast: Ulrich

Thomsen, Nicolas Bro, Lene Mara Christiansen, Mia Lyhne.

Ib and Edward are tired of their lifeless marriages.

After a fight with their wives, they get drunk and hire a Russian hitman to kill the women.

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16:25 EAGLES OF DEATH METAL: NOS AMIS (OUR FRIENDS)

(US) Submarine Entertainment, 86mins.

Dir: Colin Hanks.

After surviving the Bataclan terrorist attack, Jesse Hughes, charismatic front man of the Eagles Of Death Metal, is not the

same. But with the help of friends he prepares to return to Paris.

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16:30 FLY AWAY HOME

(Austria) Autlook Filmsales, 100mins.

Dir: Mirjam Unger.

Cast: Ursula Strauss, Gerald Votava, Zita Gaier, Hein Marecek.

Vienna 1945: the powder keg of war and the Russian occupation as seen through the innocent eyes of nineyear-old Christine.

International Sales & Distribution, 103mins.

Dir: John Stephenson.

Cast: Aneurin Barnard, James Purefoy, Samantha Barks, Morfrydd Clark.

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

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16:40 CORNICHE KENNEDY

INTERLUDE IN PRAGUE

(France) Jour 2 Fete, 94mins. Dir: Dominique Cabrera. Cast: Lola Creton, Alain De Maria, Aissa Maiga.

Mariam just wanted to enjoy the night, when a tragic event occurs. The pretty Tunisian student is determined to go to the police. But what can be done when your persecutor is your only chance?

(UK) Carnaby

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Marriott Studio

(Taiwan, China) Ablaze Image, 116mins.

Dir: Yu-Hsun Chen.

Cast: Shu Qi, Qianyuan Wang, Hisao-Chuan Chang, Yo Yang.

It is an ordinary day for the isolated Yu Wang Village. A mysterious Taoist priest brings a magical instrument that can erase one’s memory.

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16:50 ROCK’N ROLL

(France) Pathe International, 123mins.

Dir: Guillaume Canet.

Cast: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard.

Guillaume has everything a man could want. On a movie set, he is informed that he is no longer “rock ’n’ roll”, that he never was. He realises radical changes must be made. His entourage can only watch his crazy makeover.

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17:00 ACCIDENTAL FAMILY

(France) Gaumont, 94mins. Dir: Gerard Jugnot. Cast: Gerard Jugnot, Francois Deblock,

Isabelle Mergault, Bernard Le Coq. Loic’s life is turned upsidedown the day his teenage son dies in a car accident.

When he discovers his son was a heart donor, he decides to find the person who received his son’s heart.

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BARRAGE

(Luxembourg, Belgium, France) Luxbox, 112mins.

Dir: Laura Schroeder.

Cast: Lolita Chammah, Isabelle Huppert, Themis Pauwels.

After 10 years abroad Catherine returns to Luxembourg to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine’s mother Elisabeth.

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CANADA: NOT SHORT ON TALENT

(Canada) Telefilm Canada, 115mins. Dir: various.

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

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17:10 SNOW QUEEN 3. FIRE AND ICE

(Russia) Wizart, 89mins.

Dir: Alexey Tsitsilin.

This is a story which encompasses everything you love about Wizart: kindness, bravery, friendship, mystery, love of one’s family, and a happy ending!

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17:15 THE LEGEND OF MUAY THAI: 9 SATRA

(Thailand) Arclight Films,

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98mins. Dir: Pongsa Kornsri, Nat Yoswatananont, Gun Phansuwon.

When the mystical kingdom of Ramathep is besieged by a monstrous army of the Yaksa Clan, the fate of the kingdom lies in a young Muay Thai warrior.

Cruz, Michael De Mesa, Shamaine CenteneraBuencamino.

Horacia has spent the past 30 years in a women’s correctional facility. She leads a quiet existence helping others — until another inmate confesses to the original crime and she is released.

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ROMANS

(UK) Wide, 91mins.

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

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

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SUNSET CONTRACT

(Netherlands) Indiepend Pictures, 102mins. Dir: Marc Conen. Cast: Peter Nicholas, Paris Jefferson, Anna Nightingale.

Businessman Brad runs into trouble when the mysterious Ms Eve confronts him with a contract he can’t remember agreeing to. When his girlfriend Mary appears, things spiral out of control.

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17:20 SEX DOLL

(France, UK) Wild Bunch, 100mins. Dir: Sylvie Verheyde. Cast: Hafsia Herzi, Ash Stymest, Karole Rocher, Paul Hamy.

The story of London-based French escort Virginie, and Rupert, a man who rescues trafficked girls — a tale of modern love.

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17:30 ON THE ROAD

(UK) Independent, 121mins. Dir: Michael Winterbottom. Cast: James McArdle, Leah Harvey.

Michael Winterbottom follows acclaimed British rock band Wolf Alice on tour recording their gigs as well as the romance and routine of daily life backstage.

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TE ATA

(US) Bob’s Your Uncle, 105mins. Dir: Nathan Frankowski. Cast: Q’orianka Kilcher, Gil

18:45 THE EAVESDROPPER

MARKET 18:20 FROGS

(Spain) Filmax International, 97mins.

Dir: Patxo Telleria. Cast: Gorka Otxoa, Miren Gaztaeaga, Josean Bengoetxea.

Birmingham, Graham Greene, Mackenzie Astin.

The inspiring story of Mary Thompson Fisher, who traversed cultural barriers to become one of the greatest Native American performers.

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TOUR DE FRANCE

(France) Cite Films, 94mins. Dir: Rachid Djaidani. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Sadeck, Louise Grinberg, Nicolas Maretheu.

Despite the age gap and culture clash, an unlikely friendship forms between a talented rapper and an amateur painter. dffb-Kino

17:40 I STILL HIDE TO SMOKE

(France, Greece, Algeria) Les Films du Losange, 90mins. Dir: Rayhana.

Cast: Hiam Abbas, Biyouna, Nadia Kaci.

In the heart of the hammam, far from the accusing gaze of men, mothers, lovers, virgins and Islamic fanatics, butts and burqas, mingle and mix, confront one another, with laughter, tears, rage, the Bible and the Koran.

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of them it is an opportunity.

Pello, a local bank manager, is arrested on charges of embezzlement.

After being double-crossed by his boss, Pello escapes from the courthouse and goes on the run.

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18:15 FEATHER

(Italy) True Colours, 108mins. Dir: Roan Johnson. Cast: Luigi Fedele, Blu Yoshimi, Michela Cescon, Sergio Pierattin.

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THE WORKS PROMO

THE INVISIBLE GUEST

(UK) The Works, 60mins.

Dir: Michael Woodward.

11 July 2013, 3am: after months of training and under the cover of darkness, six women begin their illegal ascent of the tallest building in Europe.

(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 106mins.

Dir: Oriol Paulo. Cast: Mario Casas, Barbara Lennie, Jose Coronado, Ana Wagener.

Accused of a murder, Adrian hires the services of Virginia Goodman, a prestigious lawyer who prepares witnesses.

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17:55 HONEY BUNNY

(France) TF1 Studio, 98mins. Dir: Frederic Forestier. Cast: Isabelle Nanty, Pierre Francois Martin-Laval, Thomas Soliveres.

Vincent may be 18, but he’ll always be his parents’ little Honey Bunny. So when his first love breaks up with him, it feels like the end of the world.

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18:00 THE FURLOUGH

(Italy) Intramovies, 95mins. Dir: Claudio Amendola. Cast: Claudio Amendola, Luca Argentero, Valentina Belle, Giacomo Ferrara.

After years behind bars, four convicts benefit from a 48-hour furlough. For each

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18:20 FROGS See box, above

(France) WTFilms, 93mins. Dir: Thomas Kruithof. Cast: Francois Cluzet, Alba Rohrwacher, Denis Podalydes, Sami Bouajila.

A burned-out man is hired to transcribe phone conversations and gets sucked into the dangerous underworld of espionage.

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18:50 COLLISION

(South Korea) Mirovision, 87mins. Dir: Lee Yun-ho, Heo Seo-hyung. Cast: Lee Seung-jun, Lee Ik-jun, Kim Beom-tae, Heo Minjin.

Three guys steal a notorious gangster’s black money and hole up in a hillside cottage. After they let a strange couple stay in the cottage, they end up doing everything to survive.

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18:55 THE PRISON

(South Korea) Showbox, 125mins. Dir: Na Hyun.

Cast: Han Seok-kyu, Kim Rae-won.

An ex-cop infiltrates a prison running a secret crime syndicate.

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ORPHAN

(France) Le Pacte, 111mins. Dir: Arnaud des Pallieres. Cast: Adele Haenel, Adele Exarchopoulos, Gemma Arterton, Solene Rigot.

Through four moments in the lives of four female characters of various ages, we come to know the different sides of the same woman.

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THE WOMAN WHO LEFT

(Philippines) Films Boutique, 226mins.

Dir: Lav Diaz. Cast: Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd

19:00 I MARRIED A DUMBASS

(Argentina) Filmsharks, 110mins. Dir: Juan Taratuto. Cast: Adrian Suar, Valeria Bertucelli.

Fabian and Florencia fall in love when working as actors on a film set and immediately get married.

Returning from their honeymoon, Florencia realises she’s fallen in love with an irreparable idiot.

110mins. Dir: Kim Jeongjung. Cast: Lee Jin-uk, Ryu Hye-young.

Escaping the past, a man and a woman rent a car to travel to Utah, planning to commit suicide together. dffb-Kino

WRATH

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

Cast: Urko Olazabal, Nacho Marraco.

Iker Velez is a journalist who records the preparation and execution of a murder commited by a father seeking justice.

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19:30 AXOLOTL OVERKILL

(Germany) The Match Factory, 94mins. Dir: Helene Hegemann. Cast: Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Arly Jover, Mavie Hörbiger, Laura Tonke.

Mifti, 16, lives in Berlin with a cast of characters including her half-siblings; their rich, self-involved father; and her junkie friend Ophelia. As she mourns her recently deceased mother, she begins to develop an obsession with Alice, a whitecollar criminal.

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THREE LIGHTS

(Japan) Forum Office, 101mins. Dir: Kohki Yoshida. Cast: Ryo Ikeda, Hiroshi Suzuki, Kazuha Komiya, Emi Maki.

Four people start distancing themselves from their everyday lives and gradually drift together, deciding to record a song as a group in an abandoned warehouse district. But one of them soon endangers this fragile community.

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19:40 MARCH COMES IN LIKE A LION

ROAD TO UTAH

(Japan) Toho, 135mins.

Dir: Keishi Otomo. Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Kasumi Arimura.

A seventeen-year-old professional shogi (Japanese chess) player who lives in the fierce world of the games finds a place where he feels he belongs, after he meets three sisters, who live in his neighbourhood.

(South Korea) Mirovision,

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

WILD MOUSE (Austria) Josef Hader

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

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SPOOR (Pol-Ger-Cze-Swe-Slov) The acclaimed director describes Spoor as “something between a black comedy and a thriller, touching on ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★ Agnieszka Holland ecological, feminist and anarchist issues”. The cast features Agnieszka Mandat as a woman hellbent on revenge.

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

BRIGHT NIGHTS (Ger-Nor) Thomas Arslan

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

THE PARTY (UK) Sally Potter

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

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

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

THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE (Fin) Aki Kaurismaki

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

BEUYS (Ger) Andres Veiel

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

COLO (Por-Fr) Teresa Villaverde

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

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

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

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

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

JOAQUIM (Bra-Por) Marcelo Gomes

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

HAVE A NICE DAY (China) Liu Jian

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

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

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

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