Compiled by Paul Lindsell
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SCREENINGS BERLIN THEATRES
ADRIA Schlossstrasse 48 12165 Berlin (Steglitz)
CINEMA ARSENAL Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785 Berlin
BERLINALE PALAST Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1 10785 Berlin
CINEMAXX POTSDAMER PLATZ Potsdamer Strasse 5/ Entrance Voxstrasse 10785 Berlin
CINESTAR IN THE SONY CENTRE Potsdamer Strasse 4 10785 Berlin
FESTIVAL 09:30
ABSENT (Argentina) Drama. 87mins. Dir: Marco Berger. Key cast: Carlos Echevarria, Javier De Pietro, Antonella Costa. Martin finds a whole series of excuses to subtly invade his sports teacher Sebastian’s privacy, ending up spending a
SCREENINGS
FESTIVAL & PRESS
09:OO MARGIN CALL (US) Thriller. 110mins. Dir: JC Chandor. Key cast: Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore. New York’s Wall Street at the time of the financial crisis of 2008. Set in the offices of a major investment bank during the decisive 24 hours that precedes its bankruptcy announcement. Competition press screening Berlinale Palast
09:30
ABSENT See box, above
11:15
night in his apartment. But when Martin’s intentions dawn on him, the teacher has already been compromised. It takes a tragic accident for Sebastian to become aware of his own feelings for Martin. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6
09:50
ELITE SQUAD 2 — THE ENEMY WITHIN (Brazil) Thriller. 116mins. Dir: Jose Padilha. Key cast: Wagner Moura, Sandro Rocha, Maria Ribeiro. Capitano Nascimento’s special force once again uses all admissible — and sometimes inadmissible — means at its disposal to combat the rampant crime that sweeps through the favelas and Rio de Janeiro’s middle-class districts. Panorama Special press screening CineStar 3
11:00
HEAVEN AND EARTH (Austria) Documentary. 285mins. Dir: Michael Pilz. Life in a mountain village in Austria. Forum CineStar 8
LOOKING FOR SIMON (Germany) Thriller. 89mins. Dir: Jan Kruger. Key cast: Corinna Harfouch, Nico Rogner, Mehdi Dehbi. Valerie has not been able to get hold of her son, who is a doctor in Marseille, for some time now. She goes to the French port city and finds an abandoned apartment. She asks Simon’s ex-lover Jens to come too so he can support her quest in the strange city. Why does somebody disappear without a trace? How can somebody one thought one knew so well suddenly become so unknown? And who is Simon really? As it unfolds, Jan Kruger’s film develops into an unconventional psycho- thriller. Forum press screening Cinemax X 6
11:30
THE CHILDREN OF DIYARBAKIR (Germany) Drama. 102mins. Dir: Miraz Bezar. Key cast: Senay Orak.
One night, on an empty road near Diyarbakir, life for 10-year-old Gulistan and her brother takes an abrupt change. Their parents are killed in front of their eyes. The children
are forced to survive on their own. German Cinema CinemaxX 1
12:00
THE PRIZE (Germany) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Paula Markovitch. Key cast: Paula Galinelli Hertzog, Sharon Herrera, Laura Agorreca. Architect Alexander Beck wins competition to refurbish a number of concrete prefabs in Thuringia, a particular challenge for Alexander, for the small town in question is none other than his home town and the tower blocks he is to remodel are those where he grew up. Competition press screening Berlinale Palast
TRUE GRIT (US) Western. 111mins. Dir: Joel and Ethan Coen. Key cast: Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin. Arkansas in 1872. Indian country. This is where Tom Chaney has sought refuge. He’s on the run from 14-year-old Mattie Ross, the daughter of the farmer he has just shot dead. She is determined to bring her
COLOSSEUM Schonhauser Allee 123 10437 Berlin
CINESTAR CUBIX Alexanderplatz Rathausstrasse 1 10778 Berlin
DELPHI FILMPALAST Kantstrasse 12a 10623 Berlin
EVA LICHTSPIELE Blissestrasse 18 10713 Berlin (Wilmersdorf)
FILMTHEATER AM FRIEDRICHSHAIN Botzowstrasse 1-5 10407 Berlin
father’s murderer before a court of law — and her determination is unshakable. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast
12:30
THE MAGICIAN (Sweden) Drama. 100mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand. Sweden in 1846. The small troupe of Vogler’s Magnetic Health Theatre is called to perform at the grand manor house of Consul Abraham Egerman. The magician Albert Emanuel Vogler is
FRIEDRICHSTADTPALAST Friedrichstrasse 107 10117 Berlin
HAUS DER KULTURENT DER WELT John-Foster-Dulles-Alle 10 10557 Berlin
KINO INTERNATIONAL Karl-Marx-Allee 33 10178 Berlin
DIE KURBEL Giesebrechstrasse 4 10629 Berlin (Charlottenburg)
PASSAGE Karl-Marx-Strasse 131 12043 Berlin (Neukolln)
TONI & TONINO Max-Steinke-Str. 43 / Antonplatz 13086 Berlin (Weissensee)
UNION FILMTHEATER Bolschestrasse 69 12587 Berlin (Friedrichshagen)
URANIA An der Urania 17 10787 Berlin-Schoneberg
YORCK Yorckstrasse 86 10965 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
ZEUGHAUSKINO Unter den Linden 2 10117 Berlin
subjected to a humiliating interrogation in the name of science. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8
13:00
THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (Belgium) Thriller. 108mins. Dir: Lee Tamahori. Key cast: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier. Baghdad 1987. Iraq is a breeding ground for corruption and fraud. Someone who knows better than anyone how to make use of such things is Uday Hussein, the oldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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