Compiled by Paul Lindsell
paullindsell@gmail.com
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:OO
SLEEPING SICKNESS (Germany) Drama. 91mins. Dir: Ulrich Kohler. Key cast: Pierre Bokma, Jean-Christophe Folly, Jenny Schily. A young French doctor
SCREENINGS 09:OO
FESTIVAL & PRESS
SLEEPING SICKNESS See box, above
09:30
DAY IS DONE (Switzerland) Documentary. 111mind. Dir: Thomas Imbach. A young woman picks up her mail and newspaper every day. She never notices the man standing at his window with a camera watching her, recording life as it unfolds in front of his studio. It is only through the messages on the film-maker’s answering machine that the viewer notes the passage of time. In the beginning these messages seem a bit funny: calls from happy or disappointed girlfriends,
of Congolese origin travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project and encounters a destructive, lost man. Competition press screening Berlinale Palast
holiday greetings and congratulations. Their context soon becomes clear. From then on, every message takes on a historical significance. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6
09:45
SUICIDE ROOM (Poland) Drama. 110mins. Dir: Jan Komasa. Key cast: Jakub Gierszal, Roma Gasiorowska, Krzysztof Pieczynski. Unable to bear the thought of school any more, Dominik withdraws, drifting into a virtual world where there are no hateful classmates. Online he meets Sylwia, who tells him she plans to commit suicide. She also introduces him to her friends in the ‘suicide room’, a chat room for people with suicidal tendencies. Dominik allows Sylwia to lure him into a dangerous game that before long begins
to get out of control. Panorama Special press screening CineStar 3
10:00AM
ON THE SLY (Belgium, France) Drama, 77 mins. Dir: Olivier Ringer. Key cast: Wynona Ringer, Olivier Ringer, Macha Ringer. Generation Kplus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
10:30
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 their disposal to combat the rampant crime that sweeps through the favelas and Rio de Janeiro’s middle-class districts. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
11:00
CRIMSON GOLD (Iran) Thriller. 95mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi. Key cast: Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji. A commotion in a jeweller’s shop: the
indistinct contours of two men locked in a fight can be seen, then there’s the sound of several shots… Recounts the story of what led up to the robbery. Forum Special Screening CineStar 8
THE MAGIC FLUTE (Sweden) Musical. 138mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Josef Kotlinger, Irma Urrila. Rarely has Mozart’s magical musical comedy about Tamino and Pamina, Papageno and Papagena, Sarastro and the Queen of the Night been put on as delightfully and as clearly as in this Swedish TV production. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8
THE MARQUIS OF GRILLO (Italy) Drama. 135mins. Dir: Mario Monicelli. Key cast: Alberto Sordi, Caroline Berg. Onofrio, the Marquis del Grillo, is a member of the nobility close to His Holiness Pius VII. Boredom prompts him to make regular forays among the common people, accompanied by his friend Ricciotti with whom, in disguise, he frequents Rome’s taverns. Berlinale Special International
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
11:45
E-LOVE (France) Drama. 97mins. Dir: Anne Villaceque. Key cast: Anne Consigny, Antoine Chappey, Carlo Brandt. Paule is pushing 50. When she — a philosophy lecturer with a 10-year marriage and a 15-year- old daughter — learns that her husband is having an affair with a 28-year-old, this number takes on a special weight. An internet site is supposed to help Paule get through her burgeoning midlife crisis. Although she doesn’t find any soulmates there, she does
FRIEDRICHSTADTPALAST Friedrichstrasse 107 10117 Berlin
HAUS DER KULTUREN 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
discover a great number of opportunities for personal rediscovery and sexual exploration. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6
12:00
ALMANYA (Germany) Drama. 97mins. Dir: Yasemin Samdereli. Key cast: Vedat Erincin, Fahri Yardim, Aylin Tezel. On September 10, 1964, Germany’s one millionth ‘guest worker’ was welcomed. Spanning a period of no less than 45 years, this film tells the story of guest worker number
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