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Indies feel major heat

BY JEREMY KAY

Manifesto

Blanchett’s Manifesto inks key sales

BY TOM GRATER & GEOFFREY MACNAB

The Match Factory’s Cate Blanchett film Manifesto has racked up further sales following on from the North American deal announced on Friday with FilmRise.

Soda Pictures has acquired the film for the UK and Ireland, and Non-Stop has come on board for Scandinavia.

Manifesto, directed by Julian Rosefeldt and feted in Sundance last month, has now sold to a raft of territories. Further deals include I Wonder Pictures for Italy, Madman for Australia/New Zealand, A-One for CIS, and Baltics and Front Row for the Middle East.

The film questions the role of the artist in society today, with Blanchett portraying 13 different characters, among them a school teacher, a puppeteer, a newsreader, a factory worker and a homeless man.

A muted start to EFM punctuated by one headline-grabbing worldwide buy has only reinforced the belief that this is a precarious time to be in the independent business.

While top sellers with shiny packages talk stoically about Brexit and the cyclical nature of production and exchange rates, the deeper rumblings pose a far more confronting challenge.

MGM’s lavish deal with WME Global and Bloom for worldwide rights to wrestling drama Fighting With My Family — for about $15m or $17.5m depending on who you talk to — has thrown into sharp focus the divide between the haves and have-nots.

Only the studios, Netflix and

Netflix is in Berlin looking for genres of all types and is circling Sundance entry My Happy Family from Georgia. The Eastern European country is enjoying its moment in the sun and Rezo Gigineishvili’s Panorama selection Hostages is already one of the more buzzed-about films in town.

Beyond that, the chatter is all about Donald Trump. Attending Berlinale talent such as Django star Reda Kateb, Competition juror Diego Luna and Richard Gere have not shied away from expressing their concerns in this most political of festivals. It remains to be seen whether or not the US president’s ban on certain countries, and by extension their films and filmmakers, will be in effect by Cannes.

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Final Portrait star Geoffrey Rush and director Stanley Tucci on the red carpet at last night’s world premiere.

Sami Blood continues to travel LevelK has closed several more deals on Sami Blood, Amanda Kernell’s feature debut that screens here in the NATIVe programme.

The film has been acquired for Switzerland (Xenix), Poland (ITI Neovision/Ale Kino Plus) Australia/ New Zealand (Palace Films) and Russia (Maywin).

Sami Blood recently won the $114,000 Dragon Award in Goteborg. It premiered in Venice

Amazon Studios can afford the biggest titles in the US. The overpaying in evidence at Sundance has segued into unreasonable pricing levels in Berlin — the ask on US rights for Studiocanal’s coveted Hard Powder is reportedly $17.5m.

It is very hard to get a seat at the table for an independent distributor without the resources to match the heavyweights or acquire at script stage. Still, there is less ostentatious business to be done on smaller packages.

And to compound things, the digital titans are staking claim to the arthouse space. Amazon Studios has the appetite and taste to become the most deep-pocketed arthouse buyer on the planet and it may not be alone in that ambition.

and also screened in Toronto, Tokyo and Rotterdam.

The film is produced by Lars G Lindstrom for Nordisk Film Production, and backed by the Swedish Film Institute, Danish Film Institute and ISFI. Previously LevelK has sold Sami Blood to the US (Synergetic Distribution), Japan (Uplink) and China (Lemon Tree) among other territories.

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Trier’s Thelma lands for Memento

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Paris-based Memento Films International has unveiled first sales on Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s supernatural thriller Thelma. The film has sold to Italy (Teodora), Benelux (Imagine), Baltics (Scanorama), Portugal (Alambique), Greece (Seven), Turkey (Bir Film), Poland (Gutek), ex-Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom), Hungary (Vertigo), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Aerofilms), Romania (Macondo) and Taiwan (Maison Motion).

Eili Harboe (The Wave) stars as a woman who falls in love and discovers she has terrifying powers. It marks a return to the Norwegian language for Trier after his English-language debut Louder Than Bombs, which played in Competition at Cannes in 2015.

The film, which shot in Oslo last September, is due to be delivered in late spring with SF Norge planning a Halloween 2017 release in Norway. Thomas Robsahm at Oslobased Motlys is the lead producer.

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Bold Films expands global output deals

BY JEREMY KAY

Bold Films chairman Michel Litvak and CEO Gary Michael Walters have added the latest pieces to their international output jigsaw. The Los Angeles-based company behind EFM sales title Vox Lux and the upcoming Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger with Jake Gyllenhaal has tied up deals with a further three distributors.

Eagle will distribute Bold releases in the Middle East; CDC will handle in Latin America and South Africa; while Anton will distribute across Scandinavia and Benelux with its partners SF Studios and The Searchers. The deals follow previously announced partnerships with Icon in the UK and Elevation Pictures in Canada.

Nick Meyer’s Sierra/Affinity represents international rights on the Bold Films slate and will service the output partnerships.

“We are very gratified these terrific distributors support Bold Films’ slate so aggressively,” Walters said.

“These new output deals accelerate and enhance Bold’s ability to sell, finance and distribute around the world.”

Meyer and his team are in Berlin introducing buyers to Vox Lux, in which Rooney Mara will play Celeste, a young woman who becomes a global pop superstar after surviving a life-changing event. Her 15-year journey reflects key contemporary events.

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The Hungarian Film Fund (HFF) is to pump $5.4m (¤5m) into Sunset, the second feature from Son Of Saul director Laszlo Nemes. “It is again a huge Hungarian production, a period film that takes place at the beginning of the 20th century,” fund CEO Agnes Havas said of the $9m (¤8.5m) budgeted pro-

ject, which will be 90% financed out of Hungary, with the rest coming from France.

Written and directed by Nemes, the project is produced by Gabor Sipos and Gabor Rajna through Laokoon Filmgroup. Set in Budapest in 1915, the film tells the story of Iris, an orphaned young woman raised to become a seamstress

who ends up working in a ladies’ hat store that once belonged to her late parents.

Sunset is being sold and co-produced by French outfit Films Distribution. The project is in pre-production and due to shoot in the spring. The substantial support for Sunset comes as the HFF has seen its annual budget increase

from $19m (¤18m) to $21m (¤20m). The fund has also invested $7.4m (¤7m) in horseracing drama Kincsem.

Hungary is out in force in Berlin.

Ildiko Enyedi’s On Body And Soul (sold by Films Boutique) is in Competition, while Ferenc Török’s 1945 is screening in Panorama. Both films were backed by HFF.

Revenge is served hot in Laurent’s Galveston as shoot gets underway

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Production has started in the US state of Georgia on Galveston, the feature from Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds) that is adapted by Nic Pizzolatto (True Detective) from his novel of the same name.

Screen can reveal the first image from the thriller, starring Ben Fos-

ter and Elle Fanning. Foster plays Roy, a cancer-ridden debt collector and sometime killer. Fanning plays Rocky, a sex worker who flees with Roy when an attempt on his life ends in violence.

Beau Bridges, Maria Valverde and Robert Aramayo also star.

Embankment Films is handling international sales.

Jerusalem launches pro strand Megaton swaps action for conman doc

BY TOM GRATER

Jerusalem Film Festival (JFF) is launching a new industry initiative for its 2017 edition. ‘Think Fest’ will invite festival professionals from around the world to discuss the burning issues affecting the film festival business.

International festival directors, programmers and organisers will gather in Jerusalem for a threeday programme at the start of the festival, which runs July 13-23 this year.

JFF directors Noa Regev and Elad Samorzik said they believed there is a gap in the market for an event specifically focused on film festival workers, and reported strong early feedback to the idea from festival professionals.

They commented: “We felt the opportunity existed for a new platform to provide festivals with their own space for a wider-ranging exchange, as well as to work on new synergies and promoting our mutual interests.”

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

French action director Olivier Megaton is hitting the EFM this weekend for a teaser screening of his upcoming documentary Roc: The World’s Greatest Con Artist, about infamous French conman Christophe Rocancourt, which is in post-production.

“I’ve been making fiction for 20 years but I started out as a painter, and documentary helps me return to something more human and artisanal,” says the

director of action thrillers Taken 2 and Taken 3.

“As time goes by, the films I make are more and more heavy, complicated and pressured.

When I’m not making films, I need to do something different as I’m addicted to work and find it impossible to stop.”

Canal Plus head of documentary Diego Buñuel commissioned Megaton to make the feature doc as part of his drive to produce a slate of high-end, theatrical style

documentaries for the channel.

Megaton has interviewed 50 people for the work, ranging from Rocancourt’s family members to his defence lawyers, victims and acquaintances.

Behind the scenes, Rocancourt’s cinema connections run deep. He was the inspiration for French director Catherine Breillat’s Abuse Of Weakness, after the conman swindled the filmmaker out of ¤700,000 when she was unwell.

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Paris-based Loco Films has taken on sales of German director Chris Miera’s debut Paths ahead of its premiere on Monday in the Perspective Deutsches Kino. The film revolves around partners Martin and Andreas, who appraise their relationship while on holiday on the Baltic coast. Miera has just graduated from Berlin Filmuniversität Konrad Wolf.

“Paths is the revelation of a sincere young talent,” said Loco Films founding co-chief Laurent Danielou. “We were touched by the two characters and the questions the film sensitively investigates. It is a classic love story, but like we’ve never seen before.”

Other Berlin titles on Loco’s slate include Little Harbour and Nalu On The Border.

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Swen hits up Stonehead Sao Paulo-based distributor Swen Group has picked up international rights to Zhao Xiang’s Stonehead, which is receiving its world premiere in Berlin’s Generation Kplus section. The film is produced by award-winning Chinese writer-director Liu Jie.

Rapper for Summerside Summerside International, the sales outfit launched last year by Francesca Manno and Nicola Tassoni, has taken rights to Finnish hit Ricky Rapper And The Nighthawk, which Disney released locally. Summerside also has rights to the two previous films based on author Sinikka Nopola’s kids’ series about a ginger-haired boy who gets into various scrapes.

Reindeer cast takes flight Morena Baccarin (Homeland) has joined the voice cast on Awesometown Entertainment’s animation Elliott: The Littlest Reindeer, which DDI is selling. She joins Josh Hutcherson, Samantha Bee and John Cleese on the film, which is directed by Jennifer Westcott.

Selling Keener’s House Film Mode is in talks with buyers on Little Pink House starring Catherine Keener, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Callum Keith Rennie. The story is based on Jeff Benedict’s fact-based book about a nurse who rallies her neighbours to confront a corporation that threatens to destroy their workingclass neighbourhood.

Still Moving takes to Reports, Feathers

BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW

Paris-based sales and production company Still Moving has boarded two upcoming Arabic-language pictures: Palestinian filmmakers Muayad and Rami Alayan’s The Reports On Sarah And Saleem and Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy’s Feathers Of A Father.

Reports is the second feature from the Alayan brothers, former Berlinale Talents who premiered debut Love, Theft And Other Entanglements at the 2015 festival.

Reports revolves around an affair between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman.

Feathers Of A Father is El Zohairy’s debut feature, following a series of award-winning shorts.

Still Moving is co-producing alongside Cairo-based production

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powerhouse New Century. The film is a blackly comic critique of patriarchal society in which a father is turned into a chicken.

The Arabic titles mark a new direction for Menahem and Juliette Lepoutre’s company, which has focused mainly on Latin American films since launching at the 2014 Berlinale. Still Moving is at EFM selling Panorama title Pendular.

Suspects sells Sun to Shudder

Truffle wrangles Hippopotamus

BY TOM GRATER

London-based sales agent Truffle Pictures has scored key deals on The Hippopotamus, an adaptation of Stephen Fry’s novel. The comedy, which stars Roger Allam (The Lady In The Van), Matthew Modine and Fiona Shaw, has gone to Lightyear Entertainment for all rights for North America.

Further deals have been struck for Australia/New Zealand (Rialto Distribution), Scandinavia (Rialto Film Entertainment), Benelux (One 2 See Movies), airlines (Terry Steiner International), CIS (Russian Report) and Eastern Europe (HBO Europe). Truffle reported that several more territories are in final negotiations.

Nitrogen boards animated Arkie

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

Leading Canadian animation outfit Nitrogen Studios has come on board animated feature Arkie, to co-produce with Passion Pictures Australia (The Lost Thing). Odin’s Eye is selling here at the EFM, with the film set for delivery in 2018. The film has support from Film Victoria and Screen Australia.

Based on the Scarygirl character

created by artist Nathan Jurevicius, the film is being directed by his brother Luke Jurevicius. The cult brand includes toys, a graphic novel and web Flash game.

Odin’s Eye has already struck deals for Italy (Notorious), Australia/New Zealand (Madman), Baltic states (Best), former Yugoslavia (Dexin), Middle East (Phoenicia) and Philippines (Captive).

EFP SHOOTING STARS 2017 Big break?

BY GEOFFREY MACNAB

Matteo Lovadina’s Reel Suspects has clinched an eye-catching deal for its horror movie Blind Sun with online platform Shudder, the so-called ‘Netflix of Horror’.

The deal comes as Reel Suspects basks in the success of Sexy Durga, a market premiere at the EFM. The film, directed by Indian director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, has just won the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) Tiger award. This is the second year in a row that a Reel Suspects title picked up IFFR’s top award,

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by Babak Jalali.

Reel Suspects has closed deals on several other titles, including The House to the UK (Kaleidoscope), Germany (Donau) and Turkey (MedyaVizyon), while Adventurers’ Club has been bought

by Turkey (MediaVision) and China (Hy Media).

Kept Boy has gone to the US (Breaking Glass) and Germanspeaking Europe (Profun). Along with the Shudder deal, Blind Sun has gone to Germany/Austria (Eksystent Distribution).

Marc Brummund’s 2015 drama Sanctuary was my first role not as a child. I’ve always been very ambitious but that movie gave me the confidence and push I needed.

I also had roles in Land Of Mine and Alone In Berlin.

Louis Hofmann Germany Biggest inspiration?

I am stunned by the performances of Tom Schilling, Eddie Redmayne and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Next up?

Christian Zübert’s comedy Lommbock and the first German Amazon series You Are Wanted.

I am also shooting the Netflix original series Dark, directed by Baran bo Odar.

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September marches on with Penguins sequel

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Alessandro Borghi Italy Biggest inspiration?

Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel DayLewis and Joaquin Phoenix.

Big break?

When Stefano Sollima called me to tell me, “I’m casting you as number 8 [in Suburra].” I realised for the first time that I had the opportunity to do this job exactly the way I wanted.

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Biggest challenge?

The need to get as close as possible to reality. I’m not afraid of changing my weight or look.

Benelux distributor September Films has confirmed details of its latest acquisitions. One of the most eye-catching pick-ups is Luc Jacquet’s March Of The Penguins 2, the English-language version again narrated by Morgan Freeman, and sold by Wild Bunch.

September boss Pim Hermeling confirmed the film will be released in Belgium next month

and at a later date in the Netherlands. September has also picked up Lumiere!, Cannes director Thierry Frémaux’s film about early film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumiere, which Wild Bunch is also selling.

The company continues to handle selected Dutch titles, among them International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) competition entry Quality Time and forthcom-

ing portmanteau picture Rotterdam, I Love You. It is also boarding projects at an earlier stage, for example The Wife Of The Pilot from director Anne Zohra Berrached, a project recently pitched at IFFR’s co-production market Cinemart.

Together with other Benelux distributors, September is looking to set up a VoD platform akin to the UK’s Curzon Home Cinema.

Western Edge schedules Fell-Holden’s Incident

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Prevenge producers Western Edge Pictures and Gennaker Group are on board to produce and finance Toby Fell-Holden’s feature debut Incident. Fell-Holden, a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2016, received

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acclaim for his short film Balcony, which won a Silver Bear at last year’s Berlinale and was supported

by Western Edge and Gennaker.

Incident is the story of a teenage girl returning home from a foreign country, and will tackle

themes of radicalisation, sexuality and how a community deals with an outsider.

Tom Kimberley and Ali Mansuri will produce the film, which will be executive produced by Vaughan Sivell (Mr Calzaghe).

BERLIN BRIEFS Werk works for Beta Beta has sold Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Werk Ohne Autor to major European territories, including the UK (Curzon), France (Diaphana) and Italy (Rai Cinema).

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Escape to Optimale UK-based Wavelength Pictures has sold all rights for Frenchspeaking territories to Optimale for You Can’t Escape Lithuania, the second feature by Lithuanian filmmaker Romas Zabarauskas.

Slingshot for Ivan Manuela Buono’s Trieste-based sales company Slingshot Films has picked up Slovenian filmmaker Janez Burger’s latest feature Ivan, starring Marusa Majer (an EFP Shooting Star this year), as a woman finding her identity in a world made for men.

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Zofia Wichlacz Poland Biggest inspiration?

I’ve always been infatuated with the work of actors. I often follow the truth of one character, rather than the overall plot.

Hong Kong-based Good Move Media has picked up international rights to Malaysian filmmaker Saw Teong Hin’s You Mean The World To Me, which has Christopher Doyle on board as cinematographer. Malaysia’s Astro Shaw produced the film with Saw’s Real Films. The cast is headed by Yann Yann Yeo (Ilo Ilo), Swee Lin Neo and Frederick Lee. Good Move, which is screening

the film at the EFM today, has rights outside of Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore. Astro Shaw is handling Malaysia, where a May release is scheduled, while MM2 Entertainment is handling Taiwan and Singapore.

Set in 1970s Penang, the Hokkien-language drama tells the story of a mother and her son who has mental-health issues. Crew on the film also includes pan-Asian talents such as editor Liao Ching

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The experience I had with Warsaw 44, a big-budget movie in which I made my screen acting debut.

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Each role I have played offered plenty of questions. I’m driven by those uncertainties and excited to find answers.

Song (The Assassin), while Taiwanese singer Zhao Chuan has contributed to the soundtrack.

Good Move’s slate also includes Taiwanese filmmaker Wang Ye Min’s upcoming drama My Surprise Girl, about a girl searching for her biological father. Astro’s upcoming slate of Malaysian releases also includes romantic comedy Kimchi Untuk Awak, action sequel Abang Long Fadil 2 and action thriller Tombiruo.

FilmSharks will handle international sales excluding Latin America on Fox International Productions’ family animation Lino 3D. Rafael Ribas directs the tale of a children’s entertainer who is turned into his cat costume.

The film opens theatrically in Latin America in the third quarter.

Raven Banner has licensed deals on The Evil In Us led by the US with RLJ Entertainment and UK with Studiocanal. Jason William Lee’s cannibal horror film has also gone for Germany (Tiberius), Japan (Curioscope) and South Korea (TSN). Dalj Brar and Michael Gyori produced.

Indie Vision makes its bow

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New Russian sales outfit Indie Vision, the arthouse label of Moscow-based Russian World Vision, has announced deals on its inaugural Berlin slate. The company has closed a multi-picture deal with Chinese outfit Hugoeast, which includes Alisa Khazanova’s romantic drama Middleground, Guillaume Protsenko’s Moscowbased thriller Wake Me Up and Petersburg, A Selfie, a portmanteau ode to the city by seven female filmmakers. One of the producers is Sergey Selyanov (Mongol).

The company’s eclectic slate also includes religious-themed road movie Salvation, about a Polish Catholic nun sent as a missionary to the Himalayas, and English-language Scandinavianset feature documentary Aestetik, from director Maxi Shilov, looking at the impact of the environment on human activities.

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GREENLAND CRANKS UP VOLUME A delegation of filmmakers from Greenland is in town to raise the country’s production profile with a pair of documentaries.

Aka Hansen’s short Half&half looks at how others perceive the filmmaker’s mixed heritage. Feature SUMÉ — The Sound Of A Revolution tells the story of Greenland’s progressive rock band SUMÉ (‘Where?’ in English, perhaps appropriately), an act that became a major inspiration to many Greenlanders in the mid-1970s.

Both films are showing at the Berlinale as part of the festival’s NATIVe programme, a series of screenings that showcase Indigenous movies from the Arctic. “Last year, when we were at the European Film Market for the first time, we could feel the word spreading around the Martin-Gropius-Bau,” says producer Emile Peronard. “There were Greenlanders in town and there was a place to go to ask specific questions — and to get concrete answers — about filming in Greenland.”

He adds: “When we do international promotion in a place like the Berlinale, we always have a pretty simple story to tell: ‘We exist!’ If we can simply achieve that more people will know about Greenlandic filmmaking, then I’m satisfied.”

“I hope everyone gets new inspiration and ideas of how to raise their next film to a new level by meeting people from around the world and seeing how they make their films,” says Inuk Silis Hoegh, director of SUMÉ.

Greenland’s film industry comprises just a few dozen people and the result is a lot of multitasking and production flexibility. The sector benefits from annual government subsidies worth around $425,000.

“We operate on low budgets and big enthusiasm,” says Peronard. “Luckily we have a lot of local momentum these years from the government and from society in general. People are keen to support filmmaking initiatives with sponsorships or a helping hand.”

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Boots on the ground Industry execs gathered on Friday for the annual festival five-a-side football tournament. Members of the winning team included (from left) Wild Bunch’s Olivier Barbier, Sideways Film’s Juan Solera, Monzon Films’ Manuel Monzon, FilmSharks’ Guido Rud, producer Andy Paterson, Sony Pictures Classics’ Dylan Leiner, Pandastorm Pictures’ Justus Peter and Studiocanal’s Jed Benedict.

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UK-based publicity consultant Charles McDonald takes time out to share his Berlin treats. Titles he represents here include Sally Potter’s The Party, Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country and Etienne Comar’s Django.

NOLA’S A delightful bit of fondue action in the middle of a rather dodgy park in Berlin.

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RAOUL PECK (The Young Karl Marx, Competition) [Friedrich] Engels and [his wife] Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck Jenny. It was the approach that we returns to the city of his student wanted because you really days for the world premiere of his discovered their characters latest film The Young Karl Marx. through that correspondence. But While studying at the Free it takes time to construct and you University of Berlin in the 1970s, can’t take short cuts. an 18-year-old Peck was first introduced to the political and How does the story reflect economic thinker Marx. The wider society? director’s Oscar-nominated When I started both documentary I Am Not projects, I felt we Your Negro — an needed to return to exploration of a basic what it means explanation and to be black in structural the US analysis of through the society. We’re in a writings of time when there is James Baldwin Raoul Peck a push back against — is also screening everything intellectual, in Panorama against theory and research.

Documentaries.

We’re in a world of opinions.

You worked on both films Three of the documentaries concurrently. Was it difficult shortlisted for the Oscar are by juggling two such different black filmmakers. Is Hollywood stories? waking up to diversity?

Yes, they are different but at the It’s a coincidence rather than the same time, funnily enough, both result of structural change. It’s the men are the two feet I stand on. biggest elephant in the room. The I learned about Marx around the Academy changed some of its age of 18. Baldwin came to me a rules, which is a good thing but it little bit younger but these two can only reward the films that are men became important produced. You need to change the monuments for me and made me power structure that greenlights the person I am. They frame who I films. Until that becomes more am, my way of thinking and the diverse there will be no changes in way I analyse society. the western world. It’s a totally superficial discussion all the time; Why did it take you a decade to there are not enough films being make The Young Karl Marx ? produced by minorities, women In the beginning we built the and the LGBT community. screenplay out of the correspondence between Marx, Melanie Goodfellow

KIM-KARAOKE Inevitably, the karaoke option. This Korean one has an especially kitsch series of backgrounds.

True inspiration for extra riffing.

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Félicité Reviewed by Lee Marshall

COMPETITION

A gritty, music-infused drama about a Kinshasa bar singer who comes out of her emotional shell gradually morphs into a dreamlike mood piece — and a tentative romance — in French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis’ fourth feature. Undemonstrative but at the same time oddly compelling — rather like its eponymous main character — Félicité is a challenging, perhaps overlong, but also quietly resonant slice of new African cinema.

Characters are its main weakness; other than the proud, self-sufficient single mother whose point of view is so fused with the film’s that others occasionally look into the camera at her, we are given few incentives to invest. But as Gomis’ layered audiovisual Kinshasa builds, frustration at the total lack of backstory gives way to an alternative kind of authority, one that is more about communities than individuals.

Played by newcomer Vero Tshanda Beya with a touch of emotional reticence that suits her character, tough, touch-me-not Félicité is first seen preparing to sing in a Kinshasa dive bar whose denizens include the harddrinking, womanising Tabu (Papi Mpaka). Homing in on faces, catching fragments of arguments and lewd chat-up lines, the camera and microphone are gradually drawn to Félicité herself, who starts singing awkwardly but gradually holds the room’s attention as the beat builds and she enters a trance-like state. This is the first of several run-ins with the Congolese spirit world.

In the here-and-now, Félicité’s teenage son Samo (Gaetan Claudia) is hospitalised with serious leg injuries following a motorbike accident, forcing her to go on a begging, cajoling, borrowing mission in the urban jungle of Africa’s third-largest conurbation to raise the money to pay for an operation. At the same time, she warily begins to let Tabu into her life — initially to repair her fridge, a long, drawn-out affair that brings the film as close as it dares to comedy.

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Fr-Sen-Bel-Ger-Leb. 2017. 123mins Director Alain Gomis Production companies Andolfi, Granit Films, Cinekap Worldwide distribution Jour2Fête, sales@jour2fete.com Producers Arnaud Dommerc, Oumar Sall, Alain Gomis Screenplay Alain Gomis, Delphine Zingg, Olivier Loustau Cinematography Céline Bozon Editor Fabrice Rouaud Production design Oumar Sall Music Kasai Allstars Main cast Vero Tshanda Beya, Papi Mpaka, Gaetan Claudia

This film about the art of portraiture shows how the process of creation can be as agonising for the sitter as for the painter. The encounter between Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush) and US writer James Lord (Armie Hammer) takes as its springboard a principle captured in the artist’s comment, “The more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.”

Actor-director Stanley Tucci has demonstrated light brushstrokes before — notably in Big Night (co-directed with Campbell Scott) and Joe Gould’s Secret, but this relatively concise passion project will not stop viewers getting the cramps that come with much longer sittings.

Based on a memoir by Lord, the film is set in 1964 and starts with Lord recounting in voiceover an invitation from Giacometti to paint his portrait.

Hovering in the background are Giacometti’s longsuffering wife Annette (Sylvie Testud) and his put-upon but cheerfully resilient brother, sculptor Diego Giacometti (Tony Shalhoub). And making occasional frenzied irruptions is the painter’s muse and mistress, prostitute Caroline (Clémence Poésy, in a display of neurotic irrepressibility that is grating from the start).

Rush’s mannered, ostentatious eccentricity is something that viewers will either swallow or not. His Giacometti fluctuates wildly between despair and a faint trace of impish hedonism, but it is a showily theatrical performance. Testud, by contrast, brings composed nuance to Annette, and Shalhoub contributes a welcome light note of quizzical irony, while Hammer’s Zen-like calm brings Final Portrait the relaxed, solid baseline it needs.

Effectively a chamber piece spiked with musings on art, Final Portrait is by nature a little stagey as well as talky, and Tucci’s script takes a knowing risk in teasing us with comments on the duration of the process at hand: “We could always just stop,” suggests Lord at one point. The problem is that, when the story ends, the final product of the sittings is simply a picture of a man sitting in a chair — and the film never persuades us that we might be dealing with something sublime, rather than just a prop for an amusing art-world anecdote.

OUT OF COMPETITION UK-Fr. 2017. 90mins Director-screenplay Stanley Tucci Production companies Potboiler Films, Riverstone Pictures, Arsam International, Olive Productions, Lowsun Productions Worldwide distribution HanWay Films, info@hanwayfilms.com Producers Gail Egan, Nik Bower, Ilann Girard Cinematography Danny Cohen Editor Camilla Toniolo Production design James Merifield Music Evan Lurie Main cast Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clémence Poésy, Tony Shalhoub, Sylvie Testud

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Chavela Reviewed by Jonathan Romney

Hostages Reviewed by Wendy Ide A real-life event provides the subject for this impressive fourth feature from Georgia-born director Rezo Gigineishvili. A botched aircraft hijacking perpetrated by a group of privileged youngsters in Soviet Georgia in 1983 shocked the nation. Rather than probing their motives for the escape attempt, Gigineishvili instead crafts a taut, meticulously researched account of the events and their aftermath. It is a breathlessly tense piece of work, which suggests Gigineishvili is developing into a talent to watch in the arthouse circuit.

Powerhouse ensemble performances from an attractive cast make this thriller a sellable prospect. But it is in the cinematography, shot by Vladislav Opelyants (The Student) and infused with a nervy paranoia, that the film finds its standout feature.

The title, one assumes, refers not to the passengers on Aeroflot flight 6833 from Tbilisi to Batumi but to the hijackers themselves. Within Georgian society, they are members of the intellectual elite: artists, actors and sons of doctors. But the stifling scrutiny of the KGB and restrictions on travel make this a gilded cage. For young men who reverently handle a Beatles album as if it were a treasured artefact, a new life in the West is the ultimate aim.

To this end, this band of friends uses the marriage of two of their party, Nika (Irakli Kvirikadze) and Anna (Tina Dalakishvili), as a cover for the venture. Even before the plan starts to unfold, there is a sense the gaze of the authorities is resting on these youngsters — the KGB calls in one of their fathers for a quietly menacing chat, sending the respective parents into a scuttling panic.

The wedding, partly captured with one of several audacious and energetic tracking shots, marks the point at which the tension starts to ratchet. Things begin to go wrong before the gang has even entered the plane. Particularly effective is the oppressive sense of claustrophobia, first at a party held in Nika and Anna’s honour at his mother’s apartment, and later in the plane itself when the hijack spirals out of control. Opelyants’ restless lens captures every bead of sweat, every panicked glance.

Perhaps the boldest decision is the resolutely nonjudgmental stance toward the hijackers. It remains to be seen whether Georgian audiences are ready for the human side of the story given the loss of innocent lives that resulted from this desperate, reckless act. Gigineishvili makes the case that it was a tragedy for all involved.

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103mins Director Rezo Gigineishvili Production companies Ink TV, 20 Steps Production, Kinocompania Nebo Worldwide distribution WestEnd Films, info@ westendfilms.com Producers Mikhail Finogenov, Tamara Tatishvili, Vladimir Katcharava, Rezo Gigineishvili Screenplay Lasha Bughadze, Rezo Gigineishvili Cinematography Vladislav Opelyants Main cast Merab Ninidze, Darejan Kharshiladze, Tina Dalakishvili, Irakli Kvirikadze, Giga Datiashvili, Giorgi Grdzelidze, George Tabidze, Giorgi Khurtsilava, Vakhtang Chachanidze, Ekaterine Kalatozishvili

‘Solitude’, ‘pain’ and ‘desolation’ are key words in the repertoire of Mexican singing legend Chavela Vargas but — as an admirer comments in documentary Chavela — dark feelings can be hugely cathartic. And indeed this depiction of the singer’s chequered life turns out to be intensely celebratory, and will send fans and newcomers alike rushing to the back catalogue of a great vocalist whose international reputation received a boost when Pedro Almodovar started featuring her songs in his work.

Comprising interviews, archive footage and stills, Chavela is a vivid portrayal of an artistic, social and sexual rebel whose difficult but finally triumphant progress proved there are sometimes second acts in showbiz lives.

The film traces Chavela’s life from her birth in 1919 as Isabel Vargas Lozano in Costa Rica, to her death in 2012.

She moved to Mexico City as a young woman, where her career really took off once she rejected the conventional feminine mannerisms of Mexican female singers, dressing in a more masculine style with trousers and her trademark poncho, and establishing the persona that allowed her to be a deeply moving interpreter of songs of love and loss.

The film is not always as informative as it might be about Vargas’s dark side — although long-term lover Alicia Elena Perez talks about a propensity to violence — but it is clear she had one. The singer, emerging as witty and acute in her self-knowledge, says she sees ‘Chavela’, her persona that emerged in the early 1940s, as “a bull… kicking against life”. Vargas’s hard living emerges vividly, whether it is the lifelong drinking or her career as a formidable lesbian seducer with a penchant for the wives of eminent men, as well as celebrities.

For quite a stretch, Vargas’s story looks set to be a classic showbiz tragedy, as drink and poverty lead her into reclusion in the town of Tepoztlan. But after 12 years’ silence, she returned triumphantly to the stage in Mexico, then visited Spain, where she was discovered by Almodovar, among others.

The performances show just what the qualities were that made Vargas’s singing so moving. The sheer intensity of her vocals would certainly seem to testify to the life of suffering she experienced but whether that intensity is the result of an agonised soul, or more simply an effect of phrasing and consummate performance skills, is a matter for listeners to decide.

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Tiger Girl Reviewed by Wendy Ide

The Trial: The State Of Russia Vs Oleg Sentsov Reviewed by David D’Arcy Vladimir Putin is undergoing a media makeover thanks to his admirer, Donald Trump. For sceptics of Trump’s esteem for the Russian leader, The Trial: The State Of Russia Vs Oleg Sentsov offers a grim picture of Kremlin justice, no less scathing given its minimal budget.

Askold Kurov, a friend of video gamer turned filmmaker Sentsov who shot the film’s original footage himself, finds no evidence for charges that Sentsov conspired to bomb Soviet-era monuments in Crimea in 2014. Sentsov was implicated in a plot that seems to have originated within the Russian FSB. Several witnesses testified against him after being tortured by the police and Sentsov, who describes his own ghastly torture, is serving a 20-year term in Siberia The current focus on Russia could make The Trial a natural television doc and it is likely to play all over Europe (except Russia, where it could be a black-market hit). In the US, where Sentsov’s case has received little attention, the film could be welcomed by anti-Russian conservatives, who already represent a rift in the Trump camp.

Rather than deliver secret documents or anonymous testimony, The Trial relies on sources that are available to the public, like Sentsov’s court appearances. A gifted orator, the wry and confident Sentsov gives a speech at his sentencing that is an aria of truth. No wonder officials are not rushing to free him.

Putin is caught on camera addressing the Sentsov case when he is asked at a press event whether Sentsov and others might be exchanged for captured Russian soldiers in Crimea, where Putin insists there are not any Russian troops. It is a Trumpian moment when the Russian leader equivocates, saying that he never said that Russians in the Crimea were not “engaged in particular matters, in dealing with particular issues, even military ones… but this doesn’t mean that the regular Russian army is there.”

The Trial is not a film you watch for the style, unless bluntness is your aesthetic, but the details in this intrigue are fascinating. Sentsov’s sister, who will not defend him (and is not interviewed), is married to an FSB officer, and their son is in the FSB. When police raid Sentsov’s office, they find two films in his collection of 500 that deal with fascism; proof enough for the regime that he is masterminding plots by Ukrainian nationalists.

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BERLINALE SPECIAL Est-Pol-Cz. 2017. 70mins Director/ cinematography Askold Kurov Production companies Marx Film, Message Film, Czech Television, Polish Film Institute, B2B Doc Worldwide distribution Rise and Shine World Sales, info@riseandshineberlin.de Producers Maria Gavrilova, Max Tuula, Dariusz Jablonski, Izabela Wojcik, Violetta Kaminska Editors Michal Leszczylowski, Evgeny Zaozernykh Music Sorin Apostol

With its nervy, caffeinated camerawork, saturated palette of day-glo and neon, stylised violence and good-girlgone-bad trajectory, this feels like an adrenalised blend of Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood, Thelma And Louise and just a touch of Tank Girl.

Director Jakob Lass, who scored a hit in 2013 with his second feature Love Steaks, here follows the ‘Fogma’ manifesto he developed while working on that film.

Loosely based on the Danish Dogme movement, Fogma emphasises risk-taking and teamwork in filmmaking, and one of the main tenets is that the dialogue is improvised. The result is a naturalism in the performances that provides an interesting contrast to some of the film’s more cartoonish elements. It all adds up to a breakneck pace and the kind of fizzing, unpredictable energy that should connect with a younger audience.

Maggie (Maria Dragus) has failed the entrance test for the police force and downgraded her aspirations to training as a security guard for the time being. She is a pushover in day-to-day life, and her powerlessness occasionally puts her at risk. Then she meets Tiger (Ella Rumpf ), a baseball bat-wielding guardian angel who rechristens her Vanilla the Killer. And not only does Maggie start to stand up for herself, she begins to get a kick out of violence.

Tiger is so ubiquitous that, after a shoplifting incident, you start to wonder if she is a Tyler Durden-style alternate personality. But it becomes clear Tiger is a character in her own right. And a music video-style montage of shots of Tiger looking impossibly cool ensures the audience is as smitten as Maggie by this boyish free spirit who steals and fights and parties with abandon.

Empowered by security guard uniforms, the girls run riot. Their activities run the gamut from petty theft and sexual harassment of young men to a booze-sodden heist in an art gallery. Vanilla embraces her new identity, displaying an addict’s hunger for new and stronger highs.

And unlike her partner in crime, Vanilla does not always need a reason for violence, just an opportunity.

The propulsive energy of the first hour disintegrates a little in the second when the double act of Tiger and Vanilla share less screen time. And a glib final scene leads us to question what exactly the film is trying to say. Still, this particular brand of twisted feminism makes for an undeniably entertaining, if lurid, 90 minutes of escapism.

PANORAMA SPECIAL Ger. 2017. 90mins Director Jakob Lass Production company Fogma Worldwide distribution Picture Tree International, pti@picturetreeinternational.com Producers Ines Schiller, Golo Schultz Screenplay Jakob Lass, Ines Schiller, Hannah Schopf, Nico Woche, Eva-Maria Reimer Cinematography Timon Schappi Main cast Ella Rumpf, Maria Dragus, Enno Trebs, Orce Feldschau, Swiss, Benjamin Lutzke, Franz Rogowski, Ulrik Bruchholz, Lana Cooper, Robert Gwisdek

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One Thousand Ropes Reviewed by Allan Hunter

Butterfly Kisses Reviewed by Jonathan Romney South London drama Butterfly Kisses attempts to handle a considerably darker topic than its coming-of-age setup initially leads you to expect, and it is a mark of the film’s class that it does so with a visual elegance that is well above par for low-budget UK estate realism. An assured feature debut for director Rafael Kapelinski, Butterfly Kisses, made through Film London’s Microwave project, features a strong young cast headed by Theo Stevenson, plus striking black-and-white camerawork from Nick Cooke. The film’s stylistic polish is arguably the flip side of a certain reticence in giving its narrative the definition it deserves, leaving this a memorable, individual production but too understated to make a strong mark outside festivals.

The film starts off in a familiar downbeat Britpic vein, with three teenage boys hanging out and swapping hormonal banter: they are cocksure Kyle (Liam Whiting), affable Jarred (Byron Lyons) and relatively shy Jake (Stevenson). While the other boys boast about their success with girls, handsome but bashful Jake is fondly mocked for still being a virgin.

The first section of the film sees the boys being stereotypically laddish — gasping at horse-themed porn with their schoolmates and hanging out at a local snooker hall, where manager Shrek (Shane Meadows regular Thomas Turgoose), a goofy but volatile character, doubles as their drugs connection.

The film steps beyond familiar territory as we see Jake mooching around a high window in his block of flats, spying on neighbours. He is simply interested in people, he says, and he certainly seems to have an interest in a tough-acting new girl in the area, Zara (Rosie Day). But Zara also has a young sister, and Jake earns extra cash as a babysitter.

It becomes apparent quite early just where Butterfly Kisses is going, and because its real theme is so dark — especially in the unconventional context of a teenage boy’s traumas — the film is caught in a delicate dilemma.

It can either be more explicit, at the risk of sensationalism, or underplay things, but then seem to be coy. Greer Taylor Ellison’s script pretty much hits the appropriate balance, but the moody aestheticism of the visuals tends to lessen the impact of a drama that eventually comes to a somewhat awkward close.

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GENERATION 14PLUS UK. 2017. 89mins Director Rafael Kapelinski Production companies Blue Shadows Films, Grump Films, Rocha World Films, Solopan Worldwide distribution m-appeal/Raspberry & Cream, films@m-appeal. com Producers Merlin Merton, Jacek Szumlas Screenplay Greer Taylor Ellison Cinematography Nick Cooke Main cast Theo Stevenson, Liam Whiting, Byron Lyons, Rosie Day, Thomas Turgoose

One Thousand Ropes has all the potential of a horror film, as a traditional healer is haunted by the restless spirit of a long-dead woman. Samoa-born writer-director Tusi Tamasese transforms that genre potential into a brooding tale of fractured families and generational conflict that builds towards a reckoning with the past, delivering enough intrigue, craft and slow-burning command of mood and atmosphere to win festival-circuit favour and enhance his international reputation in the wake of New Zealand Oscar contender The Orator (2011).

One Thousand Ropes is very much a filling-in-the-gaps film as audiences are left to piece together the clues and fragments about the life of the central character Maea.

Uelese Petaia plays him as a gentle, snowy-haired veteran who lives a peaceful, purposeful existence. He massages pregnant women and assists at home births. He also works in a bakery, kneading dough with the same care and diligence that he lavishes on his clients. He seems kindly and caring but the stark walls of his home have been stripped of any family portraits and he has no contact with his daughters. One wary client confesses that “people say you are not a good man”.

There is clearly violence and heartache in his past.

There is also an element of flintiness in Petaia’s performance, especially in the understated menace he conveys when confronting an unruly neighbour. Maea’s daughter Ilisa (Frankie Adams) arrives at his home seeking shelter from her abusive boyfriend. She is pregnant and as Maea agrees to bring her child into the world there is a sense of hope in new life and restored connections.

One Thousand Ropes is very much about the tensions between the traditional and modern. Tamasese balances the social-realist drama of Ilisa’s plight with the kind of mystical elements more familiar from the work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The ghost of Siepua (Vaele Sima Urale) has taken up residence in Maea’s home and is visible to both him and Ilisa.

One Thousand Ropes may be a little too enigmatic and guarded for some tastes but Tamasese does succeed in bringing all the aspects of the story together and conveying the notion that Maea is at a crossroads, caught in the dilemma of whether to channel the violence of his past or find the inner strength to rise above such easy solutions.

PANORAMA NZ. 2017. 98mins Director-screenplay Tusi Tamasese Production company Blueskin Films Worldwide distribution Mongrel International, international@ mongrelmedia.com Producer Catherine Fitzgerald Cinematography Leon Narbey Main cast Uelese Petaia, Frankie Adams, Vaele Sima Urale

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Divine inspiration Francis Lee, winner of the best director prize in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition, talks to Wendy Mitchell about God’s Own Country, screening here in Panorama

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“When I wrote this script, I wasn’t seeing stories on screen that reflected where I came from; that’s not just as a gay man, but also as someone from a workingclass background,” says Lee. “When you see working-class stories, it’s usually urban — estates, drugs, teen pregnancies. I didn’t think I’d seen a proper ­working-class depiction of a rural area.”

Lee himself is not the usual stereotype of a debutant filmmaker. He is now 47 years old and grew up on his family’s Yorkshire sheep farm before moving to London to be an actor for more than 20 years. He had success in TV and films — even appearing in Mike Leigh’s TopsyTurvy — but always had an eye on being a storyteller. When he hit 40, he quit acting and worked in a scrapyard to pay for three self-financed short films: The Farmer’s Wife, Bradford Halifax London and The Last Smallholder.

Writing his first feature after gaining life experience had its benefits. “One ­advantage for starting a bit older is I had

stories in my head for years,” he says.

“One thought was, ‘What would my life have been if I never left Yorkshire?’ The landscape and people were never out of my head.”

The story that coalesced for God’s Own Country is about Johnny, played by Josh O’Connor in a breakthrough role. He is a young man working on his family’s struggling farm who starts an intense relationship with a Romanian labourer, Gheorge, played by Alec Secareanu. “It is not autobiographical,” Lee explains.

“This situation didn’t happen to me, but we all know what it feels like to fall in love for the first time, how ­difficult and scary that can be.”

Keeping it real Lee is a writer-director with a stickler for authenticity. There is a scene where Gheorge shows Johnny a remarkable trick for having a sheep adopt an abandoned lamb, which showcased Lee’s intimate knowledge of life on a real farm. “I have to get it absolutely right in terms of the world and the place,” he says.

God’s Own Country is produced by two first-time feature producers: Manon Ardisson for Magic Bear Productions and Jack Tarling for Shudder Films. It

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‘I wanted it to feel immersive, that we’re inside this guy’s head’ Francis Lee

was supported by the BFI Film Fund and developed — although not eventually produced — as part of Creative England’s iFeatures scheme. Financing also came from Met Film Post and Paul Webster’s PW Pictures. The executive producers are Diarmid Scrimshaw and Anna Duffield for Inflammable Films, and Protagonist Pictures came on board as the international sales agent.

Ahead of the 30-day shoot, Lee prepared with his actors by imagining the characters beyond the script. “We talked about who they are, what they’ve done in their lives, this huge biography of a character. And they could be as proficient at the jobs as their characters,” he says, pointing to Mike Leigh as obvious inspiration for this way of working.

O’Connor and Secareanu were committed to learning the physical side of farming, and had a strong chemistry despite their differing acting styles. “Josh is like a sponge, open and brave in being vulnerable, with his emotions and physically,” Lee says. “Alec is cerebral, he thinks everything through and is very focused.

He could nail everything in one take.”

Working with DoP Joshua James Richards, whose credits include Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Lee was aiming for an intimate look to the film, not shots of gorgeous rolling Yorkshire dales.

“I wanted it to feel immersive, that we’re inside this guy’s head,” Lee explains.

“Films about Yorkshire have massive shots of the land, but growing up I never looked up; it was cold, my hands were in my pockets. The only landscape I wanted was when Johnny is shown it for the first time, if you like, through Gheorge’s eyes.”

Lee is now working on two new scripts. The first is also set partly in Yorkshire and is about “the end of relationships”, but, he clarifies, it is not too much of a downer. “However bad the end of a relationship can be, there is always something else to come. You can learn from something ending. I will never write a s film without hope in it.” n

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10963 Berlin HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE Schaperstrasse 24 10719 Berlin HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin KINO INTERNATIONAL Karl-Marx-Allee 33 10178 Berlin MARRIOTT HOTEL Inge-Beisheim-Platz 1 10785 Berlin MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU (MGB) Niederkirchnerstrasse 7 10963 Berlin ODEON Hauptstrasse 116 10827 Berlin (Schoneberg) PREUSSISCHER LANDTAG (BERLIN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES) Niederkirchnerstrasse 5 10111 Berlin

CITY KINO WEDDING (in the Centre Francais de Berlin) Mullerstrasse 74 13349 Berlin

SILENT GREEN KULTURQUARTIER Gerichtstrasse 35 13347 Berlin

COLOSSEUM Schonhauser Allee 123 10437 Berlin

SPUTNIK KINO Hasenheide 54 10967 Berlin (Kreuzberg)

CUBIX Alexanderplatz, Rathausstrasse 1, 10178 Berlin

THALIA PROGRAMMKINO POTSDAM Rudolf-Breitscheid-Str. 50 14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg

DELPHI FILMPALAST Kantstrasse 12a 10623 Berlin DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK Filmhaus, Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785 Berlin EISZEIT KINO Zeughofstrasse 20 10997 Berlin (Kreuzberg)

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

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ZOO PALAST Hardenbergstrasse 29a 10623 Berlin

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09:00 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, Wolfgang Zerlett, Wolfgang Schenck, Peter Gauhe, Renate Roland, Kurt Raab.

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

SPOOR

(Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, Slovak Republic) 128mins. Dir: Agnieszka Holland. Cast: Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Miroslav Krobot, Jakub Gierszac, Patricia Volny, Borys Szyc.

Several hunters are mysteriously killed in a village in the mountains.

Retired engineer Duszejko suspects that the animal kingdom is taking revenge.

Deeply rooted in the reality of rural Poland, the film is as anarchic as its heroine.

Competition Press only Berlinale Palast

09:30 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 Friedrichstadt-Palast

FINAL PORTRAIT

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

A comedy about the encounter and 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) Zoo Palast 1

10:00 LITTLE HARBOUR

(Slovak Republic, Czech Republic) 85mins. Dir: Iveta Grofova. Cast: Vanessa Szamuhelova, Matus Bacisin, Katarina Kamencova, Johanna Tesacova.

Ten-year-old Jarka dreams of having a real

SPELL REEL

(Germany, Portugal, France, Guinea-Bissau) 96mins. Dir: Filipa Cesar.

At the start of the 1970s, a militant cinema movement recorded the battle for liberation in Guinea-Bissau and the country’s first years of independence. This experimental documentary reveals the traces left behind by this film practice today.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

STONEHEAD

family and a house by the sea. Together with her neighbour Kristian, she assumes the role of a parent in caring for two abandoned babies. Her grandmother’s enchanted garden becomes their safe haven.

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10:00 LITTLE HARBOUR See box, above

ONE THOUSAND ROPES

(New Zealand) Filmadora Producciones. 97mins.

Dir: Tusi Tamasese.

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

Panorama Special CinemaxX 7

11:00

(China) Cinemaundici.

90mins. Dir: Zhao Xiang.

Cast: Zhu Hongbo, Cai Jiakun, Deng Shuo, Luo Xiaolan, Yan Hongsheng, Wei Tao, Hu Guineng.

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 at receiving the ball does not last long.

(US) 93mins. Dir: Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon.

Alvy Singer, a New York comedian who has been on the psychiatrist’s couch for 15 years, analyses his relationship with singer Annie Hall. Woody Allen’s putative self-portrait is full of loosely constructed scenes, gags and pithy one-liners.

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by Stefanie Visjager & Katinka Baehr Prod: Radiomaker Desmet Tue Feb 14, 10:00 HKW Wed Feb 15, 15:00 CinemaxX 1 Fri Feb 17, 09:30 Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

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(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, far-flung landscapes: a sensual, mysterious survey of the Earth and all it holds which observes and invents in equal measure.

Miliker, Lukas Miko, Michael Pink, Michael Fuith, Reinhold G. Moritz, Philipp Stix, Georg Veitl, Gabriel Marian Skowerski, Fritz Egger.

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.

Forum CineStar 8

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THE THEATRE OF DISAPPEARANCE

11:30

FESTIVAL & PRESS 12:30 FINAL PORTRAIT

(UK, France) Escapade 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) Friedrichstadt-Palast

1984

MY WONDERFUL WEST BERLIN

(UK, US) 90mins.

Dir: Michael Anderson.

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

Nineteen years after a nuclear holocaust, two lovers rebel against Big Brother.

(Germany) MinMamma Produktion. 90mins.

Dir: Jochen Hick. Cast: Romy Haag, Maximilian Lenz, Ades Zabel.

An absorbing journey through time to explore gay lifestyles in former West Berlin and the beginnings of the post-war gay movement.

Retrospective Zeughauskino

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CITY OF THE SUN

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MARGHERITA BUY

(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 Press only CinemaxX 6

12:00 A TRIP TO MARS

(Denmark) 81mins.

Dir: Holger-Madsen.

Cast: Nicolai Neiiendam, Gunnar Tolnaes, Zanny Petersen, Alf Blutecher, Svend Kornbeck.

On Mars, the captain of the spaceship ‘Excelsior’ encounters a model society of pacifists and vegetarians — and the love of his life.

In the era of the First World War, this Danish ‘blockbuster’ depicted a peaceful alternative world.

Retrospective CinemaxX 8

THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS

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

12:15 VICEROY’S HOUSE

(India, UK) ASAP Films.

106mins. Dir: Gurinder Chadha. Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri.

At the end of British rule, Lord Mountbatten is tasked with overseeing India’s transition to independence.

This romantic historical drama tells the story of the religious and ethnic conflicts and the effects of partition that still endure today.

Competition (out of competition) Press only Berlinale Palast

12:30 FINAL PORTRAIT See box, above

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 Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

RICHARD THE STORK

(Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway) microcscope. 84mins.

Dir: Toby Genkel. Cast: Tilman Dcbler, Christian Gaul, Nicolette Krebitz, Marco Ecer, Marcus Off. A little sparrow undertakes an enormous journey: When Richard wakes up alone in his stork nest one morning, he resolves to follow his adopted family to Africa on his own in order to prove, against all odds, that he’s one of them.

Generation Kplus Zoo Palast 1

12:45 SKINS

(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.

Panorama Special CinemaxX 7

13:00 MALIGLUTIT (SEARCHERS)

(Canada) 94mins. Dir: Zacharias Kunuk. Cast: Benjamin Kunuk, Jocelyne Immaroitok, Karen Ivalu, Joseph Uttak, Joey Sarpinak, Jonah Qunaq.

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, sets out for revenge.

NATIVe — Indigenous Cinema Cubix 8

TWO IRENES

(Brazil) Ayyam Gallery.

89mins. Dir: Fabio Meira.

Cast: Priscila Bittencourt, Isabela Torres, Marco Ricca, Ines Peixoto, Susana Ribeiro.

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29th GALWAY FILM FLEADH the same town. When they start talking about their fathers, they notice that they have more in common than they thought.

Generation Kplus HKW

13:30 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND

Galway Film Fleadh 11th-16th July 2017

(US) 135mins.

Dir: Steven Spielberg.

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey.

In Steven Spielberg’s magical film, extraterrestrials land in the US. The peaceful encounter between humans and aliens was an onscreen reflection of the detente policies of the 1970s.

Retrospective Zeughauskino

13:45 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 reallife, Borgman traces an emotional journey with great sensitivity.

Forum CineStar 8

14:00 ALL OF A SUDDEN

Galway Film Fair 13th–16th July 2017

(Germany, Netherlands) Revolution Films.

112mins. Dir: Asli Ozge.

Cast: Sebastian Hulk, Julia Jentsch, Hanns Zischler, Sascha Alexander Gersak.

Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy and evil gradually unfolds.

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in Sao Paulo forms the starting point for Emigholz’s exploration of the architecture of Samuel Bickels, who designed numerous kibbutz buildings and museums in Israel from the 1950s into the 1970s.

Forum Akademie der Kunste

DARK BLUE GIRL

(Germany) 103mins.

Dir: Mascha Schilinski.

Cast: Helena Zengel, Karsten Antonio Mielke, Artemis Chalkidou.

Seven-year-old Luca’s parents separated some time ago. At first it was awful but then she made herself at home in the second best of all worlds.

Now, everything is about change again — back to how it used to be.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino Press and Accreditation CinemaxX 5

(Germany, Israel) 92mins.

Dir: Heinz Emigholz.

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Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

VAZANTE

(Brazil, Portugal) 116mins. Dir: Daniela Thomas. Cast: Adriano Carvalho, Luana Nastas, Sandra Corveloni, Juliana Carneiro de Cunha, Roberto Audio.

Brazil, 1821. A mine owner is living on his estate with his slaves. After the death of his wife and child he marries his wife’s 12-yearold niece. Race and gender relations begin to unravel.

Shot in atmospheric blackand-white images.

Panorama Special Cubix 9

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

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LETTERS FROM A DEAD MAN

(USSR) 95mins. Dir: Konstantin Lopuschanski.

Cast: Rolan Bykow, Jossif Ryklin, Viktor Michailow, Alexander Sabinin, Swetlana Smirnowa.

A nightmarish vision of a post-nuclear society.

Survivors of nuclear war wait it out in the basement of a museum. An example of Soviet cinema in the tradition of Andrei Tarkovsky, made in the same year as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Retrospective CinemaxX 8

RAILWAY SLEEPERS BICKELS [SOCIALISM]

observational documentary breaks down the two-day journey from north to south into a series of everyday moments whose quiet beauty often still seems to belong to the past.

(Thailand) 102mins.

Dir: Sompot Chidgasornpongse.

Thailand’s first railway line was opened in 1980. This

(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.

Forum Delphi Filmpalast

14:30 CHAVELA

(US) 90mins.

Dir: Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi. A captivating portrait of Chavela Vargas, the charismatic rancheras singer who was openly lesbian.

Panorama Documents Colosseum 1

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 »

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personality and politics in the United States.

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15:00 A FANTASTIC WOMAN

(Chile, US, Germany, Spain) Velvet Film.

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

Marina is a transgender woman. When her partner dies she finds herself faced with his family’s anger and prejudice. She fights for her right to grieve — with the same unbroken energy she displayed when she fought to live as a woman.

Competition Press only CinemaxX 7

CROSSING THE SEVENTH GATE

(Morocco) 80mins.

Dir: Ali Essafi.

Before Ahmed Bouanani died in 2011, he created a small, yet highly influential oeuvre against considerable odds. Drawing on conversations and archival images, Essafi traces out the contours of a truly independent artist.

Victims and perpetrators of Mexico’s drug war have their say. Everyone is wearing a mask to preserve their anonymity.

Their detailed, shocking testimonials provide a portrait of a society governed by fear and deep insecurity.

Berlinale Special Haus der Berliner Festspiele

THE FOOLISH BIRD

(China) 118mins.

Dir: Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka. Cast: Yao Honggui, Xiao Liqiao, Yao Fang, Huang Zifan, Yan Shixiang.

In a world that doesn’t offer much of anything to hold on to, 16-year-old Lynn applies for admission to the police academy in a small Chinese city. Together with her friend May she traffics stolen cell phones. One day May stops responding to her calls.

Generation 14plus Zoo Palast 1

WILD MOUSE

DEVIL’S FREEDOM

(Austria) 103mins.

Dir: Josef Hader.

Cast: Josef Hader, Pia Hierzegger, Georg Friedrich, Jorg Hartmann, Denis Moschitto.

When Viennese music critic Georg suddenly loses his job he is hell-bent on revenge.

(Mexico) 74mins.

Dir: Everardo Gonzalez.

Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast

Forum Kino Arsenal 1

15:30 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 Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

NALU ON THE BORDER

(Brazil, Uruguay) 94mins. Dir: Cristiane Oliveira. Cast: Maria Galant, Marat Descartes, Veronica Perrotta, Amelia Bittencourt, Aurea Baptista.

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 Cubix 8

16:00 SPOOR See box, below

FESTIVAL & PRESS 16:00 SPOOR

(Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, Slovak Republic) 128mins.

Dir: Agnieszka Holland. Cast: Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Miroslav Krobot, Jakub Gierszac, Patricia Volny.

Several hunters are mysteriously killed

in a village in the mountains. Retired engineer Duszejko suspects that the animal kingdom is taking revenge.

Deeply rooted in the reality of rural Poland, the film is as anarchic as its heroine.

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STRANGE DAYS

(US) 142mins.

Dir: Kathryn Bigelow.

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott.

Los Angeles at the turn of the millennium. An ex-cop is on the trail of a black rapper’s murderers. Set in the near future, this ‘tech noir thriller’ effectively used a concept of virtual reality that was very advanced for its time.

Retrospective CinemaxX 8

16:15 ALGOL. TRAGEDY OF POWER

(Germany) 99mins.

Dir: Hans Werckmeister.

Cast: Emil Jannings, Ernst Hofmann, Gertrud Welcker, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hanna Ralph, Kate Haack, Erna Morena, John Gottowt, Sebastian Droste.

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 Zeughauskino

THE BLOOM OF YESTERDAY

(Germany, Austria) 125mins. Dir: Chris Kraus.

Cast: Lars Eidinger, Adele Haenel.

In the midst of his most severe life crisis, Toto, a Holocaust researcher, meets Zazie, his future assistant who is of FrenchJewish origin and has a curious attraction for Germans.

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INMATES

(China) 280mins.

Dir: Ma Li. Everyday life in a closed psychiatric clinic in northern China: Qui throws up numerous

questions about the illdefined border between sanity and madness.

Forum Press only CinemaxX 6

democracy no easy task.

Forum Delphi Filmpalast

SUMMER 1993

16:30 MOTHERLAND (BAYANG INA MO)

(US, Philippines) 94mins.

Dir: Ramona S Diaz.

This absorbing documentary shows the daily grind on one of the world’s biggest maternity wards in Manila.

Forum CineStar 8

16:30 NEWTON

(India) 102mins. Dir: Amit V Masurkar. Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Anjali Patil, Pankaj Tripathi, Raghubir Yadav.

A young bureaucrat named Newton is sent to the jungle to monitor an election there. But Maoist blockades, forced police protection and indifferent voters make defending

(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 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 CinemaxX 3

17:00 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.

Panorama Documents Cubix 7

DON’T SWALLOW MY HEART, ALLIGATOR GIRL!

(Brazil, Netherlands, France) 108mins.

Dir: Felipe Braganca.

Cast: Eduardo Macedo, Adeli Gonzales, Caua Reymond, Zahy Guajajara.

Thirteen-year-old Joca is desperately trying to win the love of mysterious alligator girl Basano.

This powerful modern Romeo and Juliet story is set against the backdrop of the recent attacks on the Indigenous Guarani people in Brazil.

Generation 14plus HKW

IF I THINK OF GERMANY AT NIGHT

(Germany) 108mins. Dir:

Romuald Karmakar.

Cast: Ricardo Villalobos, Sonja Moonear, Ata, Roman Flugel, David Moufang/Move D. Documentary about five pioneers of today’s electronic dance music and their work as DJs. In long, unedited takes the protagonists have their say. A film that provides us with a window on their daily working lives and the party scene.

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JUST LIKE OUR PARENTS

(Brazil) 102mins. Dir: Lais Bodanzky. Cast: Maria Ribeiro, Paulo Vilhena, Clarisse Abujamra, Jorge Mautner.

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

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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.

Directed by Nahuel Lopez Documentary – 93 min. – Germany 2016 Spanish & German with engl. / span. subtitles German theatrical release: August 2016

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.

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

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three generations, she tries to discover who she really is.

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STRONG ISLAND

(US, Denmark) 107mins.

Dir: Yance Ford.

Yance Ford comes to terms with the murder of his own brother 25 years ago by creating a documentary that is as personal as it is political. A freeform examination of racist terror, grief and simmering rage against inequality.

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17:30 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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17:45 DISCREET

(US) Rachel Mayeri.

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

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.

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18:00 FINAL PORTRAIT

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

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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.

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19:00 THE GODFATHER. PART III

(US) Gunjo-iro. 165mins.

Dir: Francis Ford Coppola. Cast: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, George Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, Sofia Coppola.

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IKARIE XB 1

(Czechoslovakia) 88mins.

Dir: Jindcich Polak.

Cast: Zdenck Stepanek, Frantisek Smolik, Dana Mednicka, Irena Kacirkov, Radovan Lukavsky.

The spaceship Ikarie XB 1 is searching for life in the Alpha Centauri star system when the crew falls into a deep sleep.

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INFLAME

(Turkey) Rachel Mayeri.

94mins. Dir: Ceylan Ozgun Ozcelik. Cast: Algi Eke, Ozgur Cevik, Kadir Cermik, Boncuk Yilmaz, Selen Ucer.

A young TV editor for a news channel experiences how the truth is increasingly manipulated. She also suspects that her parents did not die in a traffic accident but must have been killed another way. A study in paranoia as a metaphor for political trauma.

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OIL GOBBLERS

(Czechoslovakia) 22mins.

Dir: Jan Sverak. Cast: Emil Nedbal, Lubomir Benec, Ivo Kaspar, Jan Rokyta, Jin Nemec.

A team of researchers set out to northern Bohemia’s coalfields to prove the

existence of a new species of animal that feeds primarily on polyethylene.

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SOMNILOQUIES

(France, US) 73mins.

Dir: Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

Dion McGregor became famous in the mid-1960s for talking in his sleep. Blurry images of sleeping bodies accompany recordings of his voice whilst asleep: a hypnotising exploration of the liminal state between wakefulness and dream.

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WILD MOUSE

(Austria) 103mins.

Dir: Josef Hader.

Cast: Josef Hader, Pia Hierzegger, Georg Friedrich, Jorg Hartmann, Denis Moschitto.

Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele

19:15 GOLDEN EXITS

(US) 94mins.

Dir: Alex Ross Perry.

Cast: Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, MaryLouise Parker.

An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.

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HOSTAGES

(Russian Federation, Georgia, Poland) Interior XIII. 103mins.

Dir: Rezo Gigineishvili.

Cast: Merab Ninidze, Darejan Kharshiladze, Tina Dalakishvili, Irakli Kvirikadze, Giga Datiashvili.

A tense, atmospheric retelling of the Tbilisi hijacking of November 18, 1983 that shows how the fierce desire for freedom and independence in a group of young Soviets turned into a readiness to use violence.

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MENASHE

(US, Israel) Filmadora Producciones. 81mins.

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Dir: Joshua Z Weinstein.

Cast: Menashe Lustig.

Menashe hopes to retain custody of his son following the death of his wife.

Yet Brooklyn’s Hasidic community demands he lead a more ordered life and find a new spouse, neither of which come easy to the kind but awkward loner.

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19:30 BOY AND LAKE

(Russian Federation) 25mins. Dir: Prokopyi Nogovitsyn. Cast: Slava Titov, Roman Danilov, Vladimir Krivoshapkin, Anatolyi Solomonov, Semen Konstantinov.

A Sakha boy sets out on a lyrical journey through the boreal forest to catch fish in a secluded icebound lake.

He performs the laborious task as a meditative ritual, at the same time drifting into a magical oneiric world.

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DARK BLUE GIRL

(Germany) 103mins.

Dir: Mascha Schilinski.

Cast: Helena Zengel, Karsten Antonio Mielke, Artemis Chalkidou.

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GOD JOHOGOI

(Russian Federation) Yu Cheng-Ta. 60mins.

Dir: Sergei Potapov.

Cast: Pavel Chenyanov, Alya Poiseyeva.

The young horse herder Johogoi feels summoned by the equine deity to attend the celebrated summer festival of Sakha.

His excitement radiates through his smile as he participates in the rituals, believing he will find the woman who appears in his dreams.

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RUSTLERS

(Argentina) 85mins.

Dir: Albertina Carri.

The life of Isidro Velazquez, a bandit and political dissident active in the 1960s, has previously formed the basis of a sociology book and a feature never shown.

Carri now wants to make her own version of his story, but which images are the right ones?

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SOUL

(Spain) 79mins.

Dir: Angel Parra, Jose Antonio Blanco. Cast: Eneko Atxa, Jiro Ono. Soul joins Basque chef Eneko Atxa on his journey to meet Jiro Ono and explores the secrets of gastronomy where two

cuisines apparently so opposite in their philosophy and conception have both earned the famous culinary recognition of three Michelin stars.

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20:00 CASTING JONBENET

(US, Australia) 81mins.

Dir: Kitty Green.

Twenty years have passed since the violent death of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey and the case remains unsolved.

Continued speculation about the possible perpetrator and their motives is examined in this spectacular mix of facts and fiction.

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EL MAR LA MAR

(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.

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FROM THE BALCONY

(Norway) 85mins.

FESTIVAL & PRESS 19:15 VICEROY’S HOUSE

(India, UK) ASAP Films. 106mins.

Dir: Gurinder Chadha. Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri.

At the end of British rule, Lord

Mountbatten is tasked with overseeing India’s transition to independence. This romantic historical drama tells the story of the religious and ethnic conflicts and the effects of Partition that still endure today.

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FESTIVAL & PRESS 21:00 THE YOUNG KARL MARX

(France, Belgium, Germany) 118mins.

Dir: Raoul Peck. Cast: August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Olivier Gourmet, Michael Brandner, Alexander Scheer, Hannah Steele.

Director Raoul Peck presents two Dir: Ole Giaever.

Combining reflections, visions, documentary footage and video clips of everyday life in his family with his own sense of humour and curiosity, Ole Giaever creates an impressive cinematic cosmos which plumbs the depths of human existence.

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(France, Switzerland, Palestine) Cicero Films.

92mins. Dir: Raed Andoni. Cast: Ramzi Maqdisi, Mohammed ‘Abu Atta’ Khattab, Raed Andoni, Atef Ai-Akhras, Wadee Hanani.

A set-up for an experiment in an empty room. Former inmates reconstruct an Israeli secret service interrogation centre. These Palestinian men use role play to come to terms with their memories and the humiliation they have experienced.

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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,

impetuous young men determined to change the world — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels — who hold fast to their vision of a better world in spite of conservative resistance and internal power struggles within the political Left.

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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.

the Holocaust, arrive.

Repressed memories and recent crimes come to the fore. A parable about guilt, atonement and the failure of an entire society.

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THOSE WHO MAKE REVOLUTION HALFWAY ONLY DIG THEIR OWN GRAVES

CENTAUR

(Canada) 183mins.

Dir: Mathieu Denis, Simon Lavoie. Cast: Charlotte Aubin, Laurent Bclanger, Emmanuelle Lussier Martinez, Gabrielle Tremblay.

In the wake of the Maple Spring, four young people in Quebec form an avantgarde faction. This political epic, radical in its diverse formal aesthetics, tells a story of ideals and doubts, of a life on the fringe that is destined to fail.

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20:15 1945

(Hungary) Universal Pictures International.

93mins. Dir: Ferenc Torok. Cast: Peter Rudolf, Bence Tasnadi, Tamas Szabo Kimmel, Dora Sztarenki, Agi Szirtes.

A Hungarian village in the summer of 1945: two men, survivors of

(Kyrgyzstan, France, Germany, Netherlands) 89mins. Dir: Aktan Arym Kubat. Cast: Aktan Arym Kubat, Nuraly Tursunkojoev, Zarema Asanalieva.

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.

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20:30 THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS

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

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21:30 FELICITE

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

Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele

FOR AHKEEM

(US) 89mins. Dir: Jeremy S Levine, Landon Van Soest.

Daje lives with her mother in St Louis. Like many black teenagers in the neighbourhood, she struggles in school, as her everyday life is shaken again and again by her friends being killed around her.

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HEADBANG LULLABY

(Morocco, France, Qatar, Lebanon) 111mins. Dir: Hicham Lasri. Cast: Aziz Hattab, Latefa Ahrrare, Zoubir Abou el Fadl, El Jirari Benaissa, Salma Eddlimi, Adil Abatorab, Zoubida Akif, Jaouad Sayeh, Nacer Mdaghri, Saadia Marrakchia.

1986: a government official secures a bridge between two hostile communities near Casablanca ahead of

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the king’s visit. A visually stunning fairy-tale in which euphoria and hope lift the spirits of a mercilessly oppressed people.

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‘spinning’ in the field of tension of experimental physics (science) and Sufism (mysticism/Islam).

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A FANTASTIC WOMAN

(Japan, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Germany) 129mins. Dir: Sabu. Cast: Chen Chang, Sho Aoyagi, Yiti Yao, Junyin Bai, Masashi Arifuku.

A Taiwanese hitman finds his new calling running a successful mobile food stall in Japan. He also looks after a small boy. But then his past brutally catches up with him.

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THE SHINING

(UK, US) 119mins. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel, Anne Jackson.

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SPIN

(Germany) 80mins.

Dir: Ginan Seidl.

Cast: Susanne Sachsse, Norman Sierok.

An experimental film about

ALIEN

(UK, US) 117mins.

Dir: Ridley Scott.

Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt.

A gigantic reptile decimates the crew of a spaceship, until stopped by female officer Ripley. The film established the first female science fiction action hero; its vision of a ‘run-down’ future would influence the style of many films that followed.

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ANGRY INUK

(Canada) Fonderia Artistica Battaglia.

85mins. Dir: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril.

A vivid depiction of the quiet anger of a people whose very subsistence is being threatened from many angles.

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(Chile, US, Germany, Spain) Velvet Film. 104mins. Dir: Sebastian Lelio.

Cast: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Kuppenheim.

Marina is a transgender woman. When

her partner dies, she finds herself faced with his family’s anger and prejudice.

She fights for her right to grieve — with the same unbroken energy she displayed when she fought to live as a woman.

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AT THE FORK

(US) Touchstone Pictures/ Silver Schreen Partners.

94mins. Dir: John Papola.

Filmmaker and omnivore John Papola and his vegetarian wife Lisa give a timely, unbiased look at how farm animals are raised for consumption.

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AUTUMN, AUTUMN

(South Korea) Cold Iron Pictures. 77mins. Dir: Jang Woo-jin. Cast: Yang Heung-ju, Lee Se-rang, Woo Ji-hyeon.

A young man and an older couple take a train from Seoul. Across two separate threads, the film follows these protagonists to the temple of Cheongpyeong, a place full of memories.

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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 portrait of a coastal landscape and its inhabitants.

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22:30 CIAO CIAO

(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 struggles against the rural life that threatens to

suffocate her, director Song Chuan has found powerful images.

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turns out to be more of a curse than a blessing.

Forum Kino Arsenal 1

RIFLE FELICITE

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

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GHOST IN THE MOUNTAINS

(China) 136mins. Dir: Yang Heng. Cast: Tang Shenggang, Liang Yu, Shang Yutong, Zhang Shujun, Shi Kaixuan.

A man returns home after many years.

Masterfully composed images transform these godforsaken Chinese highlands into a hypnotic space in which the protagonist finds himself entering a world of emotions he once sought to escape.

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(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.

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(Brazil) 127mins. Dir: Joao Moreira Salles.

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

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THE MIRAGE

(Morocco) 100mins.

Dir: Ahmed Bouanani.

Cast: Mohamed Habachi, Mohamed Said Afifi, Fatima Regragul.

When the jobless Mohamed finds a roll of banknotes, it

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(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.

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(Belgium, France, Lebanon) 85mins. Dir: Philippe Van Leeuw. Cast: Hiam Abbass, Diamand Abou Abboud, Juliette Navis, Mohsen Abbas, Moustapha Al Kar. 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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MEMOIRS OF A MURDERER

(US) Dogwoof, 101mins.

Dir: Antonio Santini, Daniel Sickles. Cast: Dina Buno, Scott Levin.

An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story.

(Japan) Nippon TV, 117mins. Dir: Yu Irie.

Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Hideaki Ito, Toru Nakamura.

In 1995, detective Koh chased a serial murderer who killed his boss.

However, Koh missed him by one step. Twenty-two years later, the murderer suddenly appears in public and starts confessing.

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How Chinese general Qi Jiguang defeated Japanese pirates that proliferated along the Chinese coastline during the 16th century.

(Egypt, France) Loco Films, 98mins. Dir: Sherif El Bendary. Cast: Ali Sobhy, Ahmed Magdy, Nahed El Sebai, Salwa Mohamed Aly. Ali believes his late girlfriend’s soul has been reincarnated in a goat.

Ali, his goat and his friend Ibrahim embark on a journey of friendship and self-discovery across Egypt.

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

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

(Belgium, Luxembourg, France) Pathe International, 90mins.

Dir: Bavo Defurne. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Kevin Azais, Johan Leysen.

Liliane had her moment of glory when she finished second in the 1974 Song Contest behind Abba.

Today, everyone has forgotten her. But when she meets Jean, a 21-year-old boxer, her dreary life is turned upside down.

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GOD OF WAR

(China) Media Asia Film Distribution, 130mins.

Dir: Gordon Chan.

Cast: Sammo Hung, Vincent Zhao.

MOVE! DANCE YOUR LIFE

(France) Wide House, 76mins. Dir: Fanny Jean-Noïl. Cast: Anna Maria Garcia-Perez, Taniora Kidwell, Tako Chumburidze, Dai Matsuoka.

A unique, poetic and aesthetic film about dance around the world.

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STEP BY STEP

(France) Gaumont, 115mins. Dir: Fabien Marsaud, Mehdi Idir.

Cast: Pablo Pauly, Soufiane Guerrab, Moussa Mansaly, Nailia Harzoune.

What happens when an athletic college student becomes a quadriplegic following an accident.

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STRANGLED

(Hungary) Hungarian National Film Fund/ Magyar Filmuni, 120mins.

Dir: Arpad Sopsits. Cast: Peter Barnai, Zsolt Anger, Karoly Hajduk, Monika Balsai.

Based on real-life events, this psycho-thriller is set in the provincial Hungary of the 1960s, when a series of atrocious murders shock the small town of Martfu.

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THE WAR OF THE YOKELS

(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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(Austria) The Match

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(France, Belgium) Le Pacte, 116mins.

Dir: Lucas Belvaux.

Cast: Emilie Dequenne, Andre Dussollier, Guillaume Gouix.

Pauline, a devoted nurse in northern

France, raises her two children alone and struggles with an increasingly harsh social reality. A nationalist party is going to take advantage of her popularity by making her its candidate.

Kong, So-hee Ahn. Promising fund manager Jae-hoon takes an impulsive trip to Australia, where his wife and son live for the son’s education, after his company goes bankrupt.

There, he confronts a shocking secret that shatters everything.

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Factory, 103mins.

Dir: Josef Hader.

Cast: Josef Hader, Pia Hierzegger, Georg Friedrich, Jorg Hartmann.

Famous music critic Georg’s tame, bourgeois life gets completely out of hand when he secretly begins a revenge campaign against the editor who fired him.

107mins. Dir: Jose Maria Cabral. Cast: Jean Jean, Judith Rodriguez, Ramon Emilio Candelario.

Julian finds love in the last place he imagined: Najayo Prison in the Dominican Republic.

FLOWER AND SWORD

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A SINGLE RIDER

WOODPECKERS

(Dominican Republic) Film Factory Entertainment,

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09:15

(South Korea) M-Line Distribution, 96mins.

Dir: Zoo-young Lee. Cast: Byung-Hun Lee, Hyo-Jin

(Japan) Toei Company, 127mins. Dir: Tetsuo Shinohara. Cast: Mansai Nomura, Ennosuke Ichikawa, Koichi Sato, Kiichi Nakai.

In 16th-century Kyoto, a legendary flower artist attempts a battle of wits with the tyrannic Shogunate.

Poland) Wide, 91mins.

Dir: Egle Vertelyte.

Cast: Egle Mikulionyte, Vyto Ruginis, Andrius Bialobzeskis, Daniel Olbrychski.

The lives of the owners of a nationalised pig farm are turned upside-down when a handsome American arrives.

Lacheau, Elodie Fontan, Nathalie Baye, Didier Bourdon.

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

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

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SUMMER 1993

FANTASTIC JOURNEY TO OZ

(Spain) New Europe Film Sales, 96mins. Dir: Carla Simon. Cast: Bruna Cusi, David Verdaguer, Laia Artigas, Paula Robles.

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

(Russia) Wizart, 77mins.

Dir: Vladimir Toropchin.

Urfin, a troubled carpenter, discovers a magical powder that brings his creations to life. With an army of wooden soldiers, he captures the Emerald City.

Ellie and her friends come to the rescue.

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09:25 FOREIGN BODY

(Tunisia, France) UDI, 97mins. Dir: Raja Amari.

Cast: Hiam Abbass, Sarra Hannachi, Salim Kechiouche.

After reaching France illegally, Samia is hired

by Mrs Bertaud, a well-off widow. Their professional relationship soon turns into an intimate bond which troubles her friend Imed.

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ALIBI.COM

MIRACLE

(France) TF1 Studio, 90mins. Dir: Philippe Lacheau. Cast: Philippe

(Lithuania, Bulgaria,

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MR HAPPINESS

(Italy) Filmsharks, 95mins.

Dir: Alessandro Siani.

Cast: Alessandro Siani, Diego Abatantuono, Carla Signoris.

Martino has no job nor prospects and is supported by his sister. When he causes an accident that puts her in hospital, Martin covers her job as housekeeper for a doctor.

Martino takes advantage of a misunderstanding and pretends to be the doctor’s assistant, Mister Happiness, and is hired to assist figureskating champion Arianna Croft regain her selfconfidence after an accident on the ice.

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NELLY

(Canada) Seville International, 101mins.

Dir: Anne Emond. Cast: Mylene Mackay, Mylia Corbeil-Gauvreau, Mickaïl Gouin, Sylvie Drapeau.

A portrait of a fragmented woman, lost between irreconcilable identities.

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NEVER EVER

(France, Portugal) Alfama Films, 86mins.

Dir: Benoit Jacquot.

Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Julia Roy, Jeanne Balibar.

Laura and Rey live in a big, secluded house by the sea. He dies. Accident?

Suicide? She is left alone in the house. But soon she is no longer by herself.

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09:45 EL INVIERNO

(Argentina, France) Cite Films, 98mins.

Dir: Emiliano Torres.

Cast: Alejandro Sieveking, Cristian Salguero, Adrian Fondari, Pablo Cedron.

After working his whole life on an isolated ranch in Patagonia, an old foreman is forced to retire and is replaced by a younger man.

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I WAS A DREAMER

(Italy) True Colours, 110mins. Dir: Michele Vannucci. Cast: Mirko Frezza, Alessandro Borghi, Milena Mancini.

Mirko is back home after eight years in jail, wanting a second chance with his wife and daughters and also trying to do something good for himself, but it’s not easy when you’ve been a criminal for so long.

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10:20 SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE 2

(Ukraine) Kvartal 95, 100mins. Dir: Olexiy Kiruschenko. Cast: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Stanislav Boklan, Yevgen Koshoviy.

In his attempts to build a better country and fight corruption, the president of Ukraine tours the country, encountering adventures and surprises.

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THEIR FINEST

83mins. Dir: Luc Jacquet.

A young penguin is about to embark on his first journey.

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LA VALLEE DES LOUPS

NIGHTWORLD

(France) Pathe International, 95mins.

Dir: Jean-Michel Bertrand.

The story of crazy gamble taken by a passionate dreamer to encounter wild wolves in their natural habitat.

(US) VMI Worldwide, 92mins. Dir: Patricio Valadares. Cast: Robert Englund, Jason London.

When a former cop takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in Sofia, he immediately begins to experience a series of terrifying events.

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11:00

(UK) HanWay Films, 116mins. Dir: Lone Scherfig. Cast: Gemma Arterton, Bill Nighy, Jack Huston, Jeremy Irons.

In 1940, a married woman and a screenwriter develop a growing attraction while working together on a propaganda film about the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk.

(Argentina) Wide, 64mins.

Dir: Cecilia Valenzuela Gioia. Cast: Cecilia Valenzuela Gioia, Mercedes Burgos, Gonzalo Romero.

During a winter stay in Salta, Lucia meets Olivia, who helps her to recognise her sexuality and free herself from the traumas of her past.

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10:30 CHURCHILL

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

The untold story of Britain’s iconic leader.

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10:40 OSKAR’S AMERICA

(Norway, Sweden) LevelK, 79mins. Dir: Torfinn Iversen. Cast: Odin Eikre, Jorgen Langhelle, Marie Blokhus, Bjorn Sundquis.

Ten-year-old Oskar has to spend his summer on his bad-tempered grandfather’s farm. Together with the nutty Levi he sets up a plan to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a rowboat.

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10:45 THE DINNER

(US) Protagonist Pictures, 120mins. Dir: Oren Moverman. Cast: Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall.

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PLAYGROUND

(Poland) Latido Films, 85mins. Dir: Bartosz Kowalski. Cast: Michalina Swistun, Nicolas Przygoda, Przemek Balinski, Pawel Brandys.

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The final day of school is the last chance for Gabrysia to tell her classmate she is in love with him.

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A WINTER TO REMEMBER REY

(France, Netherlands, Germany) Momerade, 91mins. Dir: Niles Atallah.

Cast: Rodrigo Lisboa, Claudio Vargas.

In 1860, a French lawyer dreamed of becoming the King of Patagonia. And he did just that… or so it seems.

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11:10

DARKLAND

1945

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

One night Zaid’s younger brother, Yasin, knocks on his door and asks for money. A few days later Yasin is killed. Zaid embarks on a mission to take on the criminal underworld.

(Hungary) Hungarian National Film Fund/ Magyar Filmunio, 91mins.

Dir: Ferenc Torok. Cast: Peter Rudolf, Eszter NagyKalozy, Bence Tasnadi.

On a sweltering August day in 1945 in Hungary, villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk’s son. Meanwhile, two strangers arrive at the train station with mysterious boxes labelled “fragrances”.

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FREE AND EASY

STALIN’S COUCH

(Hong Kong, China) Blackfin Production, 97mins. Dir: Jun Geng.

Cast: Gang Xu, Zhiyong Zhang, Baohe Xue, Xuxu Wang.

When a travelling soap salesman arrives in a desolate Chinese town, a crime occurs, setting the strange residents against each other.

(France, Portugal) Alfama Films, 92mins. Dir: Fanny Ardant. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Emmanuelle Seigner, Paul Hamy.

Stalin and his longtime mistress Lidia come to stay at a castle where they meet young painter Danilov. A troubled, dangerous and perverse relationship binds the three together.

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IMCINE VISIONS PROGRAMME

(Mexico) Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), 120mins. Dir: Maria Monserrat Sanchez Soler.

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MARCH OF THE PENGUINS 2: THE CALL

(France) Wild Bunch,

11:15 A STROKE OF LUCK

(Spain) Filmsharks, 91mins. Dir: Nacho G Velilla. Cast: Carmen Machi, Leo Harlem, Carlos Santos, Belen Cuesta.

Inspired by true events, a town called Sin-City (Villaviciosa) happens to have a group of husbands that have www.screendaily.com

(or had) the winning ticket of the major lottery prize.

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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, who has been brought up

by Catherine’s mother.

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KISS ME LIKE A LOVER

(Canada) Filmoption International, 106mins.

Dir: Andre Forcier.

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

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

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PARTNERS IN CRIME

(Italy) Minerva Pictures, 84mins. Dir: Alex Infascelli. Cast: Margherita Buy, Sergio Castellitto.

A noir story which redefines truth and love through lies.

87mins. Dir: Harry Davenport. Cast: Phillip Sayers, Bernice Stegers, Maryam d’Abo. The original British horror classic remastered for the big screen. A father who was abducted by aliens returns to his family three years later and his presence affects them negatively.

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100 MEN

(New Zealand) MPI Media Group, 94mins.

Dir: Paul Oremland.

Charts four decades of changing attitudes to homosexuality as director Paul Oremland tracks down and recalls 100 of the most memorable men he’s met through sex.

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DAY O T G NIN E E R C S

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11:35

(Georgia) WestEnd Films, 104mins. Dir: Rezo Gigineishvili.

Cast: Merab Ninidze, Darejan Kharshiladze, Tina Dalakishvili, Irakli Kvirikadze.

A group of rebellious young people attempt to hijack an aircraft in Soviet Georgia.

This is the true story of their failure and the aftermath.

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11:30

11:45

A DARK SONG

(Ireland) Kaleidoscope Film Distribution, 99mins.

Dir: Liam Gavin. Cast: Steve Oram, Catherine Walker.

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that threatens to blur the boundaries between this world and the next.

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TRUE CRIME

(UK) Bob’s Your Uncle,

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XTRO

95mins. Dir: Alexandros Avranas. Cast: Jim Carrey, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Martin Csokas.

The murder investigation of a slain businessman turns to clues found in a book about an eerily similar crime.

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(Brazil, Argentina, France) Still Moving, 105mins.

Dir: Julia Murat. Cast: Raquel Karro, Rodrigo Bolzan.

Through the trajectory of a couple of contemporary artists, ‘Pendular’ reveals how the limits, contradictions and obsessions of a romantic relationship are reflected in each of their

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(UK) Independent, 103mins. Dir: Roger Goldby. Cast: Joan Collins, Pauline Collins, Franco Nero, Ronald Pickup.

A repressed British housewife and a washed-up Hollywood actress team up on a road trip that will change their lives forever.

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(Belgium) Doc & Film International, 107mins. Dir: Fien Troch.

Cast: Sebastian Van Dun, Mistral Guidotti, Loic Batog, Lena Suijkerbuijk.

Seventeen-year-old Kevin, sentenced for

artistic endeavours.

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12:15 SHIVERSTONE CASTLE

(Germany) Beta Cinema, 93mins. Dir: Ralf Huettner.

Eleven-year-old Stephan transfers to the boarding school at Shiverstone Castle.

There he takes part in a prank competition between the boys of Shiverstone and the neighbouring girls’ school. dffb-Kino

12:30 ALL EYEZ ON ME

(US) Voltage Pictures, 131mins. Dir: Benny Bloom. Cast: Demetrius Shipp Jr., Danai Gurira, Kat Graham, Annie Ilonze.

The epic story of Tupac Shakur, the legendary rapper, poet, actor and revolutionary who sold more than 80 million albums worldwide.

CineStar IMAX No press

HOME See box, above

STRANGE BIRDS

(France) MPM Film, 70mins. Dir: Elise Girard.

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

Mavie, 30 years old, clumsy, beautiful and full of doubts, is looking erratically for her own 46 Screen International at Berlin February 12, 2017

violent behaviour, is let out of prison.

To start anew, he moves in with his aunt and her family. Quickly he adapts to his new home and gets along well with his cousin Sammy and his friend John.

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way. She moves to Paris and meets Georges, an old cynic librarian. Their unconventional relationship will shift Mavie’s path.

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12:40 LIGHT THEREAFTER

(Bulgaria, Belgium) Latido Films, 107mins.

Dir: Konstantin Bojanov.

Cast: Barry Keoghan, Kim Bodnia, Lubna Azabal, Solene Rigot.

An exploration of the complex mind of an emotionally volatile and socially alienated young man, Pavel, who sets off across Europe in search of his idol, the painter Arnaud.

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12:45 CEASEFIRE

(France) Indie Sales, 104mins. Dir: Emmanuel Courcol. Cast: Romain Duris, Celine Salette, Gregory Gadebois.

Traumatised by trench warfare, Georges Laffont travels to West Africa to rebuild his life. But his adventure leads him to a dead-end.

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ON WINGS OF EAGLES

(China, US) Archstone Distribution, 102mins.

Dir: Michael Parker, Stephen Shin.

Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Shawn Dou, Richard Sanderson, Jesse Kove.

Gold medalist Eric Liddell returns to war-torn China where he is imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp.

His courage and conviction give hope to the other prisoners.

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SCALES: MERMAIDS ARE REAL

(US) VMI Worldwide, 93mins. Dir: Kevan Peterson. Cast: Elisabeth Rohm, Morgan Fairchild, Emmy Perry.

Siren Phillips has lived her life thinking she’s an ordinary girl, in an ordinary town. On the eve of her 12th birthday, however, she learns that she is to turn into a mermaid.

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12:50 DRIB

(Norway, US) TrustNordisk, 94mins.

Dir: Kristoffer Borgli.

Cast: Amir Asgharnejad, Brett Gelman, Adam Pearson, Annie Hamilton.

Amir is a performance artist and stand-up comedian who creates real characters and stories that unfold online in real time. When his staged fight videos go viral, an advertising agency thinks it’s real.

CineStar 6 No press

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JEFFREY

AT WAR FOR LOVE

(Dominican Republic) Loco Films, 78mins.

Dir: Yanillys Perez.

Jeffrey is a kid from the streets of Santo Domingo who dreams of becoming a reggaeton singer but in order to achieve his goals he must first overcome the tough realities of the world around him.

(Italy) Rai Com, 102mins.

Dir: Pierfrancesco Diliberto. Cast: Andrea Di Stefano, Sergio Vespertino, Maurizio Bologna.

New York 1943: Arturo, a Sicilian immigrant, is in love with Flora and they would like to get married.

He enrolls in the US Army in order to start a journey to Sicily, where Flora’s father is living, to get his blessing.

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VIKING

(Russia) Central Partnership, 138mins.

Dir: Andrey Kravchuk.

Cast: Danila Kozlovsky, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Maksim Sukhanov.

From the Dark Ages comes the story that changed Russia forever.

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12:55 BACK IN BUSINESS

(France) TF1 Studio, 87mins. Dir: Gerard Pautonnier. Cast: JeanPierre Bacri, Arthur Dupont, Olivier Gourmet, Sam Karmanb.

When a mismatched pair of undertakers set off for a last-chance burial, an unexpected twist turns their lives upside down.

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13:00 A WEDDING

(Belgium) Jour 2 Fete, 98mins. Dir: Stephan Streker. Cast: Lina El Arabi, Sebastien Houbani.

Zahira is very close to everyone in her family, until she is forced into a traditional marriage. Torn between the demands of her parents, her Western lifestyle and desire to be free, she counts on the support of her brother.

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ANIMALS

(Switzerland, Austria, Poland) Be For Films, 95mins. Dir: Greg Zglinski. Cast: Birgit Minichmayr, Philipp Hochmair, Mona Petri.

A collision with a sheep initiates a series of weird experiences for Anna and Nick, which leave them incapable of being certain exactly where they are: in the real world, in their own imaginations — or in someone else’s.

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NEW TRIAL

(South Korea) United Pictures, 119mins.

Dir: Kim Tae-Yun. Cast: Jung Woo, Kang Ha-Neul.

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

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The story of an unusual friendship between a hunter obsessed with finding a missing caribou herd and a teenage rebel who gets lost while on the run.

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(France) Wild Bunch, 128mins. Dir: Emmanuelle Bercot. Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoit Magimel, Charlotte Laemel.

A lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and stateapproved medicine.

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THE LITTLE HOURS

(US) Gunpowder & Sky Distribution, 90mins. Dir: Jeff Baena. Cast: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Aubrey Plaza, Kate Micucci.

A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages.

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OPEN AT NIGHT

(France) Le Pacte, 96mins. Dir: Edouard Baer. Cast: Edouard Baer, Audrey Tautou, Sabrina Ouazani, Gregory Gadebois.

Luigi, a dashing theatre director, has to find a monkey for the opening of his new play. He takes his young trainee to Paris for a night full of surprises, where the absurd turns into an initiatory journey.

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VAZANTE

(Brazil, Portugal) Films Boutique, 116mins. Dir: Daniela Thomas. Cast: Adriano Carvalho, Luana Nastas, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Sandra Corveloni.

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

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13:10 THE SUN AT MIDNIGHT

(Canada) Jill and Jackfish Productions, 93mins.

Dir: Kirsten Carthew.

Cast: Devery Jacobs, Duane Howard, Sarah Jerome, William Greenland.

THE OTHER HALF

(Canada) AMBI Media Group, 103mins. Dir: Joey Klein. Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Tom Cullen, Diana Bentley.

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

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13:25 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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(Germany, Netherlands) Memento Films International, 112mins.

Dir: Asli Ozge. Cast: Sebastian Hulk, Julia Jentsch, Hanns Zischler.

Karsten apparently has it

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settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.

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takes her pet mouse to a school camp. The mouse is unfortunately snatched by an owl. Together, the girl and her friends will experience what nature has to offer, and what true friendship represents. dffb-Kino

ENOUGH!

(Netherlands) Incredible Film, 99mins. Dir: Tessa Schram. Cast: Toko Bossen, Bente Fokkens, Joes Brauers, Timo Wils.

About how friendship and love change as you grow up, and handling peer pressure when the wrong kind of friends threaten to upset the balance of your safe world.

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OWLS & MICE

(Netherlands) Attraction Distribution, 80mins. Dir: Simone van Dusseldorp.

Cast: Hiba Ghafry, Jashayra Oehlers, Felix van de Weerdt, Mathieu Hinzen.

A seven-year-old girl

THE VILLAGE OF NO RETURN

(Taiwan, China) Ablaze Image, 116mins.

Dir: Yu-Hsun Chen.

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

It is a normal day in the isolated Yu Wang Village.

A mysterious Taoist priest brings a magical instrument that can erase one’s memory, causing the villagers to forget the past and live “happily ever after”. But a dangerous plot is being hatched.

91mins. Dir: Aasne Vaa Greibrokk. Cast: Ann Eleonora Jorgensen, Magnus Krepper, Andrea Braein Hovig.

Four decades, one love. Even after all these years Sarah and David, despite anguish and dispute, recognise their relationship is still deeply grounded in humour, respect and affection.

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BLACK SNOW

ALL THE BEAUTY

(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.

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

(Norway) Pluto Film,

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14:30 BAMSE AND THE WITCH’S DAUGHTER

(Sweden) SF Studios, 65mins. Dir: Christian Ryltenius.

Croesus Vole finds gold in the beavers’ dam. To demolish the dam and get the gold he tricks the witch’s daughter Lova to enchant Bamse. With Bamse gone, it is up to the children to help each other to stop Croesus.

THE GIRL FROM THE SONG

(Spain) Film Factory Entertainment, 100mins.

Dir: Ibai Abad. Cast: Lewis Rainer, Josephine Berry, Charlie MacGechan, Charlotte Atkinson.

Eric would do anything to win Jo back, even travelling to ‘Burning Man Festival’.

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RESTRICTED AREA (BARON PALACE)

(Ireland) Autlook Filmsales, 81mins.

Dir: Sean O Cualain.

For a fleeting moment in the early ’80s, Tommy Byrne was the world’s greatest driver, the motor racing equivalent of George Best and Muhammad Ali all rolled into one. His rise was meteoric and his fall spectacular.

(Egypt) Elnasr Films Company, 85mins.

Dir: Mohamed Osman.

Cast: Yasmen Omar, Mohamed Fakry, Sarah Nakhla, Tarek Obaed.

A film team decides to make a documentary about the famous Baron Palace but after several failed attempts to get the necessary shooting permits, the team members decide to break into the palace, causing serious problems.

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CRASH & BURN

14:45 5 WOMEN

(Germany) The Yellow Affair, 98mins. Dir: Olaf Kraemer. Cast: Anna Konig, Odine Johne, Korinna Krauss, Kaya Marie Moller.

Five women meet up for their annual getaway in the south of France but soon find themselves caught up in unexpected violence that pushes each of them way beyond their own boundaries.

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THE BRIDE

(Russia) Planeta Inform Film Distribution, 120mins. Dir: Svyatoslav Podgayevskiy. Cast: Victoria Agalakova, Vyacheslav Chepurchenko, Aleksandra Rebenok, Igor Khripunov.

Nastya, a small town girl, goes to meet the family of her husband. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she

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made the wrong decision.

She struggles to calm herself down hoping they will live happily ever after… if she stays alive.

stealing a racehorse.

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(Australia) Global Screen, 84mins. Dir: Cris Jones.

Cast: Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown, Rachel Ward.

The chronicle of the life and great love of Otto Bloom, an extraordinary man who experienced time in reverse, passing backwards through the years while remembering the future.

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FOR AHKEEM THE DEATH AND LIFE OF OTTO BLOOM

MARJORIE PRIME

(US) Fortitude International, 100mins.

Dir: Michael Almereyda.

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

With the help of a service that provides holographic projections of lost loved ones, an ageing woman reconnects with those she was closest to.

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SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD

(Australia, US) Versatile, 88mins. Dir: Chris Peckover. Cast: Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Ed Oxenbould, Dacre Montgomery.

On a quiet suburban street tucked within a “safe neighborhood”, a babysitter must defend a 12-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.

CineStar 4

15:00 ALLEY CAT

(Japan) Toei Company, 129mins. Dir: Hideo Sakaki. Cast: Yosuke Kubozuka, Kenji Furuya, Yui Ichikawa.

Former boxing champion Maru, who is asked

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I CAN QUIT WHENEVER I WANT — MASTERCLASS

SHAMBLES

(Canada) Stray Dogs, 95mins. Dir: Karl Lemieux.

Caught stealing drugs, 27-year-old Vincent is in trouble and on the run from the local mob. Vincent unexpectedly reconnects with his brother Michel, with whom he had cut ties many years ago.

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SOMETHING NEW

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(Italy) Fandango Sales, 129mins. Dir: Sydney Sibilia. Cast: Edoardo Leo, Valerio Aprea, Pietro Sermonti, Paolo Calabresi.

The most highly cultured gang of criminals of all time is back.

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REMEMORY

(US) Great Point Media, 112mins.

to fulfil a duty as bodyguard for a single mother, combats an unknown force together with automobile mechanic Lily, who happened to hit the mother’s stalker.

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Dir: Mark Palansky.

The widow of a genius professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that is able to record and play a person’s memory.

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15:10 CAUSE OF DEATH: UNKNOWN

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

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

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15:15 CENTAUR

TIGER GIRL

(Germany) Picture Tree International, 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.

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(Kyrgyzstan, France, Germany) The Match Factory, 89mins.

Dir: Aktan Arym Kubat.

Cast: Nuraly Tursunkojoev, Zarema Asanalieva, Aktan Arym Kubat.

Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he becomes the centre of attention when one night he is caught

(Italy) True Colours, 103mins. Dir: Cristina Comencini. Cast: Paola Cortellesi, Micaela Ramazzotti, Eduardo Valdarnini.

Lucia and Maria are best friends but have opposite personalities: while one has given up on men, the other is addicted to them.

One night, the perfect man shows up in Maria’s bed, but he is just 19.

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15:30 REQUIEM FOR MRS J

(Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia) Soul Food, 94mins. Dir: Bojan Vuletic. Cast: Mirjana Karanovic, Jovana Gavrilovic, Danica Nedeljkovic, Mira Banjac.

Mrs J wants to settle all private and administrative work so she can commit suicide. In a country that is going through social transition, this will be highly complicated.

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(US) Wide House, 89mins. Dir: Jeremy Levine, Landon Van Soest.

Cast: Iyabo Boyd, Jeff Truesdell.

After a school fight lands Daje Shelton in a courtsupervised high school, she is determined to fight for her future.

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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 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.

CineStar 6

HURRICANE POLIMAR

(Japan) Kadokawa Corporation, 108mins.

Dir: Koichi Sakamoto.

Cast: Junpei Mizobata, Yuki Yamada, Mikie Hara, Yurina Yanagi.

In the future, Japanese police forces develop ‘polimar suits’ to combat armed groups, but the suits are stolen and used in crime. To defeat the criminals, they deploy a former street fighter who can activate the last such suit.

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15:50 THE ART OF LOVING

(Poland) Be For Films, 120mins. Dir: Maria Sadowska. Cast:

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A film by EMELIE LINDBLOM When twelve-year-old Elvira goes to summer camp, strange things start to happen in her room. Things that cannot be explained - unless you believe in ghosts.

A film by REBEKAH FORTUNE Teenager Charlie is destined for football stardom. But what do you do when you are divided between a desire to live up to expectations and a compulsion to be true to yourself?

A film by MENNO MEYJES Sara Silverstein suddenly finds herself involved in various violent attacks. She realizes she needs to unravel her father‘s past to stop this threat.

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SCREENINGS

Magdalena Boczarska, Eryk Lubos, Piotr Adamczyk, Justyna Wasilewska.

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

Everyone would benefit.

CineStar 5

THE PEARL

(US) Cinephil, 97mins.

Dir: Jessica Dimmock, Christopher Lamarca.

Follows four middle-aged transgender women as they struggle to find recognition, refuge and love.

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16:00 ACCIDENT

(US) The Exchange, 95mins.

Dir: Dan Tondowski.

Cast: Roxane Hayward, Stephanie Shields, Tyrone Keogh, Keenan Arrison.

When four teenagers borrow a car for one night of fun, what starts as a wild joy ride turns into a nightmare.

Zoo Palast Club A

CASPER AND EMMA GO HIKING

(Norway) Attraction Distribution, 84mins.

Dir: Arne Lindtner-Ness.

Cast: Oliver Dahl, Alba Orbeck-Nilssen, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Janne Formoe.

Casper and Emma are two adorable and mischievous five-year-olds. During a family hiking vacation, they will learn about love and that all families are different.

LET YOURSELF GO!

(Italy) Rai Com, 103mins.

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 physical activity. That is how he meets Claudia, a personal trainer with the cult of physique but not of mind.

Banderas, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Piper Perabo.

Paul, a down-on-his luck screenwriter, picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.

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PARIS PRESTIGE

(Germany) Rushlake Media, 119mins. Dir: Heidi Specogna.

Follows the Central African women who courageously recorded the war crimes committed against them by Congolese mercenaries.

(France) Memento Films International, 106mins.

Dir: Hame Bourokba, Ekoue Labitey. Cast: Reda Kateb, Slimane Dazi, Melanie Laurent.

Fresh out of jail, Nas starts working at Le Prestige, his brother’s bar located next to the Moulin Rouge. Their collaboration goes from bad to worse when Nas uses the bar to get back in the game.

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RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD

YOU MEAN THE WORLD TO ME

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16:30 CAHIER AFRICAIN

(Canada) Films Transit International, 104mins. Dir: Catherine Bainbridge. Cast: Tim Johnson, Stevie Salas.

The story of a profound, essential and, until now, missing chapter in the history of American music — the Indigenous influence.

(Malaysia) Good Move Media, 99mins. Dir: Teong Hin Saw. Cast: Yann Yann Yeo, Frederick Lee, Swee Lin Neo, Gregg Koa. Sunny leaves Penang to become a director. Returning years later, he struggles to re-evaluate his boyhood and the deep, dark shades of love.

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ON THE ROAD

(US) AMBI Media Group, 93mins. Dir: Brian Goodman. Cast: Antonio

(UK) Independent, 121mins.

Dir: Michael Winterbottom.

Cast: James McArdle,

Leah Harvey.

Michael Winterbottom follows acclaimed British rock band Wolf Alice on tour.

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ONE BUCK

(US) All Rights Entertainment, 87mins.

Dir: Fabien Dufils. Cast: John Freeman, Will Green, Peter Tahoe, Katie Ryan.

Shifting from one pocket to another, a lowly dollar bill takes us on an odyssey through the heart of a forgotten town in Louisiana.

MGB-Kino

TEVYE’S DAUGHTERS

(Ukraine) Lert Karnovsky, 120mins. Dir: Vladimir Lert.

Cast: Evgeniy Knyazev, Andrey Kaykov, Vladimir Dolinskiy, Anton Shagin.

Early 20th century in a Jewish village in the Ukraine: a poor milkman has five daughters. Their successful marriage is the only chance to escape from poverty. But their plans for the future are radically different.

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17:10 DARK MERIDIAN

(US) Reason8 Films, 92mins.

Dir: Rankin Hickman. Cast: Billy Slaughter, Dave Davis, James Moses Black, David Kallaway.

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

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16:05 JUSTICE

(US) VMI Worldwide, 92mins. Dir: Richard Gabai. Cast: Stephen Lang, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Jackson Rathbone, Nathan Parsons.

A US marshal seeking justice for his brother’s murder defends a small town from a corrupt mayor and his henchmen who intend to revive the civil war.

Parliament

16:15 THE BLOOM OF YESTERDAY

(Germany, Austria) Beta Cinema, 125mins. Dir: Chris Kraus.

A love story programmed to self-destruct.

MARKET

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(Turkey, Italy) Cite Films, 117mins. Dir: Ferzan Ozpetek. Cast: Halit Ergenc, Nejat Isler, Tuba Buyukustun, Mehmet Gunsur.

A Turkish novelist is coming back to Istanbul to help a local writer put the finishing touches to his book. But the latter disappears mysteriously.

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155mins. Dir: Michio Koshikawa. Cast: Hikari Mitsushima, Kento Nagayama.

Set in the remote southern island in Japan, the story follows Captain Saku of a special attack unit who waits to go on a mission, and a school teacher, Toe, with a Second World War background.

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

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DIVORCE FRENCH STYLE

(France) Pathe International, 86mins.

Dir: Martin Bourboulon.

Cast: Marina Fois, Laurent Lafitte.

Vincent and Flo are neighbours trying to start their lives over again. Things would be manageable if their children hadn’t decided to wage a war to eliminate their soon-to-be step-parents.

CineStar 1

17:15 ROOFTOP STORY

(Kosovo) Ikone Studio, 77mins. Dir: Gazmend Nela. Cast: Xhevdet Doda, Mona Mustafa, Art Lokaj.

Lumi loses his family in a traffic accident and meets Yllka, who is in search of the son she gave up for adoption at birth. They decide to kidnap the child.

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VENUS

(Denmark, Sweden) DR Sales, 82mins. Dir: Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrecthsen.

An honest portrait of young women in sexually liberated Denmark.

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17:20 THE KING’S CHOICE

(Norway, Denmark, Ireland) Beta Cinema, 130mins. Dir: Erik Poppe.

Cast: Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Karl Markovics.

Erik Poppe’s commanding take on the true events that turned a brave man into the people’s king.

CineStar 4

17:30 DO IT RIGHT

(France) Films Distribution, 97mins.

Dir: Chad Chenouga.

Cast: Khaled Alouach, Yolande Moreau, Laurent Xu, Daouda Keita.

When Nassim, 16, is placed in Madame Cousin’s foster care in a social project, he refuses to be assimilated with the other low-life residents. He invents for himelf a whole other life.

CineStar 6

124mins. Dir: Rodrigo Sorogoyen. Cast: Antonio De la Torre, Roberto Alamo, Maria Ballesteros.

Madrid, 2011: 1.5 million pilgrims are awaiting the Pope’s visit. When several elderly women are brutally murdered, two inspectors receive a clear order: solve the case and keep it quiet.

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(Brazil) True Colours, 95mins. Dir: Fabio Meira.

Irene is 13. One day she discovers that her father has a second family and

EL VIAJE — A ROAD TRIP INTO CHILE’S MUSICAL HERITAGE

(Germany) Mindjazz Pictures International, 93mins. Dir: Nahuel Lopez. Cast: Rodrigo Gonzalez, Aldo Macha Asenjo, Camila Moreno, Alonso Nunez.

A vibrant journey through Chile and its musical tradition, the Nueva Cancion Chilena.

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FRITZ LANG

(Germany) Wide House, 104mins. Dir: Gordian Maugg. Cast: Heino Ferch, Thomas Thieme, Samuel Finzi, Johanna Gastdorf.

He was regarded a genius, an egocentric sex maniac and a sadist. Violence and love became subjects that would not let go of Fritz Lang for the rest of his life.

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GUILTY MEN

(Colombia) Films Boutique, 115mins.

Dir: Ivan D Gaona.

Cast: Willington Godillo, Heriberto Palacio, Rene Diaz, Alfonso Lopez.

2005: while the demobilisation process of an illegal armed group is taking place in rural Colombia, a town leader plays a risky game with the

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another daughter of the same age, also called Irene. The two become friends and Irene repeats the double life of her father in a game of secrets and lies.

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musician Shahin Najafi, who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death.

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18:00 LUMIERE!

(France) Wild Bunch, 90mins. Dir: Louis Lumiere, Auguste Lumiere, Thierry Fremaux.

A journey into the universe of the founders of cinema.

CineStar 5

NIGHT OF A 1000 HOURS

(Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria) Picture Tree International, 92mins. Dir: Virgil Widrich. Cast: Laurence Rupp, Amira Casar, Barbara Petritsch, Lukas Miko.

As the members of the Ullich family gather at their palace in Vienna, their deceased ancestors suddenly appear.

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17:40 MUSTAFA

(Ukraine) CrimeaSOS — Public Organization, 90mins. Dir: Ahmed Sarykhalil. Cast: Vakhtang Kipiani, Maxim Pasichnik, Masha Khomyakova, Anna Morozpva.

Mustafa Dzhemilev’s history is a symbol of peaceful resistance against injustice and discrimination in the post-Soviet region.

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WHEN GOD SLEEPS

(US, Germany) Partner Pictures, 92mins. Dir: Till Schauder. Cast: Majid Kazemi, Shahryar Ahadi, Michael Krol, Ben Travinsky, Niko Stallmann.

The story of Iranian

18:15 MEAT

(New Zealand) MPI Media Group, 76mins.

Dir: David White. Cast: Samuel Scott, Conrad Wedde, Phil Fairclough.

A modern story about the animals we eat.

CineStar 2

18:20 IN LOCO PARENTIS

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

For nearly 50 years, an eccentric couple have taught reading, ’rithmetic and rock ’n’ roll at an Irish boarding school but now their term is drawing to a close.

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RED DOG: TRUE BLUE

(Australia) Myriad Pictures, 88mins. Dir: Kriv Stenders. Cast: Levi Miller, Bryan Brown, Jason Isaacs, Hanna Mangan Lawrence.

An story of family, friendship and adventure between a young boy and a dog.

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(Argentina) Filmsharks, 109mins. Dir: Marcos Carnevale. Cast: Oscar Martinez, Rodrigo De la Serna, Alejandra Flechner, Carla Peterson.

Felipe is a wealthy businessman who becomes quadriplegic after an accident and is looking for a therapeutic assistant. He decides to hire Tito.

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18:50 THE HANNAS

(Germany) Pluto Film, 102mins. Dir: Julia Kaiser.

Cast: Anna Konig, Till Butterbach, Ines Marie Westernstreer, Julia Becker.

Anna and Hans belong together; they are the Hannas. A new life begins, when they meet two sisters with ADHD. A humourous story about couples, bodies, food and love in your 30s.

THE PRIME MINISTER

(Belgium) The Works, 115mins. Dir: Erik Van Looy. Cast: Koen de Bouw, Saskia Reeves, Adam Godley.

On his way to a meeting, the car of the Belgian prime minister is hijacked.

The PM learns his wife and children are being held hostage. They will only survive if the PM kills the woman he will meet later that afternoon.

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19:15 GHOST HOUSE

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

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

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IT’S THE LAW MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA

(US) Cinetic Media, 77mins. Dir: Dash Shaw.

No matter your age, part of you never outgrows high school, for better or worse.

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19:10 THE CASE FOR CHRIST

(US) Pure Flix/Quality Flix, 126mins. Dir: Jonn Gun. Cast: Mike Vogel, Erika Christensen, Faye Dunaway, Frankie Faison.

An atheist reporter sets out to prove Christianity is a cult, only to discover the truth himself.

(Italy) True Colours, 99mins. Dir: Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone.

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19:20 IF I THINK OF GERMANY AT NIGHT

(Germany) Stray Dogs, 105mins. Dir: Romuald Karmakar. Cast: Ricardo Villalobos, Roman Flugel, Ata Macias, Sonja Moonear.

Looks at five pioneers of electronic music.

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19:40 MANIFESTO

LIFE AND DEATH ON THE SHORE

MAY GOD SAVE US

(Germany) The Match Factory, 95mins.

Dir: Julian Rosefeldt.

Cast: Cate Blanchett.

(Japan) Open Sesame,

(Spain) Latido Films,

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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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A FANTASTIC WOMAN (Chile-Ger-US-Sp) Sebastian Lelio

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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