SCREENINGS
A short documentary film about the‘Bloody Friday’ massacre, which took place on September 8 1979. Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 1
MINOR
(US) Documentary. 25mins. Dir: Patty Chang. Shot in Xinjiang province in Western China two months after the riots between Uighur and Han Chinese that left more than 200 people dead, ‘Minor’ is a video about the indefinable properties of history, language, geological formations and adolescence. Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 1
NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT: SIRMILIK (Canada) Documentary. 10mins. Dir: Zacharias Kunuk. Explores the changes in the Arctic’s icy expanses, skies and Inuit communities, and the beauty of the Canadian north. Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 1
PAROLE A LA FEMME (Estonia) Documentary. 8mins. Dir: Eleonore de Montesquiou. ‘Parole A La Femme’ is a radio broadcast in Togo devoted to women. Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 1
THE FLIGHT (Germany) Drama. 94mins. Dir: Roland Graf. Key cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jenny Grollmann, Erika Pelikowsky. Schmith, a doctor at a GDR clinic, develops a therapy that could improve premature babies’ chances of survival. When the head of the clinic turns down his project, Schmith decides to continue his work in the Federal Republic and approaches agents to help him escape. Homage CinemaxX 8
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when a female figure appears behind him. Bergman wants them to play and fantasise together, and so the figure called Marianne begins to tell her story, the story of her affair with the director David, a close friend of the couple who, like Markus, works at the state theatre. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8
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ROMEOS (Germany) Drama. 94mins. Dir: Sabine Bernardi. Key cast: Rick Okon, Liv Lisa Fries, Maximilian Befort. Lukas has just turned 20. He’s going through hormone replacement
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ELITE SQUAD 2 — THE ENEMY WITHIN (Brazil) Thriller. 116mins. Dir: Jose Padilha. Key cast: Wagner Moura, Sandro Rocha, Maria Ribeiro. Panorama Special Friedrichstadtpalast
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THE SALT OF LIFE (Italy) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Gianni Di Gregorio. Key cast: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis Bendoni, Alfonso Santagata. There are plenty of things that Gianni, a married man who has recently retired, needs to think about, but love certainly isn’t one of them. Gianni lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in Rome. Then one day Gianni’s old friend Alfonso tells him some astonishing things about his recent sexual
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therapy-induced male puberty because he was born a girl. Ready for action, he launches into his new life in the big city, but things don’t exactly get off to a good start. Panorama press screening CineStar 3
escapades. Somehow Gianni seems to have ignored the fact that all his contemporaries are in the throes of reliving their youth. Berlinale Special press screening CinemaxX 9
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ART HISTORY (US) Dir: Joe Swanberg, 74mins. Key cast: Josephine Decker, Joe Swanberg, Kent Osborne.
A small film team shoots sex scenes while the protagonists themselves embark on an affair in private. The jealous director reacts by beginning to sabotage his own project. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6
FOLLOW ME (Austria) Drama. 109mins. Dir: Johannes Hammel. Key cast:
Daniela Holtz, Roland Jaeger, Simon Jung, Karl Fischer, Charlotte Ullrich, Oskar Fischer. A family of four live on the edge of a city, in an apartment with a view of the port. The everyday order and strictness of the family are succeeded by collapse and disintegration. Forum
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WHATSOEVERLY (Italy) Comedy. 96mins. Dir: Giulio Manfredonia. Key cast: Antonio Albanese, Sergio Rubini, Lorenza Indovina. Cetto La Qualunque describes himself as a businessman, a profession he practises without a shred of scruples. After some serious soul- searching Cetto comes to the conclusion that the time has come for him to repay his town for all the support he has received over the years. And so our businessman decides to enter politics; he sees it as his duty to avert disaster, namely, the election of a squeaky clean democrat as mayor. Panorama press screening CinemaxX 7
SILVER BULLETS (US) Drama. 70mins. Dir: Joe Swanberg.
Key cast: Kate Lyn Sheil, Ti West, Joe Swanberg. After his girlfriend is given the leading role in a new film by a renowned horror film director, a jealous young film-maker responds by casting her best friend in his own film. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6
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EASTERN PROMISES (US) Thriller. 100mins. Dir: David Cronenberg. Key cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller- Stahl. Anna is a midwife working in a hospital in east London. When a Russian teenager dies in childbirth, Anna decides to take care of the baby. The dead girl’s diary reveals her life of forced prostitution and drug addiction. Homage Zeughauskino
FAITHLESS (Sweden) Drama. 156mins. Dir: Liv Ullmann. Key cast: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson. Bergman’s alter ego, is listening to a music box playing the tune of Papageno’s entrance song from ‘The Magic Flute’
GRIFF THE INVISIBLE (Australia) Action. 93mins. Dir: Leon Ford. Key cast: Ryan Kwanten, Maeve Dermody, Patrick Brammall. By day, Griff works in a boring office in a boring town. His life is a dull routine in which his colleagues bully him and his brother, Griff ’s only friend, protects him. But at night, Griff lives a different life, wandering down the gloomy streets, watching over the innocent and defenceless, protecting them from all manner of dangers that lurk in the dark. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
HEAVEN’S STORY (Japan) Drama, 278mins. Dir: Zeze Takahisa. Key cast: Tsuruoka Moeki, Hasegawa Tomoharu, Oshinari Shugoo. Eight-year-old Sato, whose family was wiped out by a psychopath who then went on to kill himself, learns by chance of a man who has sworn to take revenge on the person who murdered his wife and daughter. For eight long years she waits in vain for him to keep his promise, then takes the initiative herself, setting in motion a chain of tragic events that gradually plunges everyone involved into misery. Forum CinemaxX 4
HI-SO
(Thailand) Drama, 110mins. Dir: Aditya Assarat. Key cast: Ananda Everingham, Cerise Leang, Sajee Apiwong.
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