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Key cast: Michael Elmgreen, Ingar Dragset. Charts the careers of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, their relationship and their work. Panorama Dokumente Cubix 7
OFFSIDE (Iran) Drama. 88mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi. Key cast: Sima Mobarak Shahi, Safar Samandar. Competition Special Screening Urania
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(Germany) The Match Factory, 119mins. Dir: Tom Tykwer. Key cast: Devid Striesow, Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper. A bittersweet attempt to describe the feeling that people have today as life brings them further away from birth and ever closer to death. German Cinema CinemaxX 1
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WILD STRAWBERRIES (Sweden) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Victor Sjostrom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin. The old medical doctor Isak Borg travels by car with his daughter-in-law Marianne to the university town of Lund, where he is to be honoured for his scientific achievements. On the way he falls asleep and experiences a series of dreams and nightmares in which his life passes in review. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman Zeughauskino
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DANCE TOWN (South Korea) Drama. 95mins. Dir: Jeon Kyu- hwan. Key cast: Ra Mir- an, Oh Seong-tae. Rhee Jung-Nim lives with her husband Jung Man- il in North Korea. Jung Man-il, who goes back and forth to China on business, gets arrested by the North Korean security forces for possessing foreign products and
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family. The contents of the bag help him in his search for clues. This voyage into another person’s life leads him to discover the outside world. Forum CinemaxX 4
THE EDUCATION (Germany) Drama. 85mins. Dir: Dirk Lutter. Key cast: Joseph K. Bundschuh, Anke Retzlaff, Anja Beatrice Kaul. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 3
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WEST IS WEST (UK) Drama. 102mins. Dir: Andy De Emmony. Key cast: Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett. This sequel to the British-Pakistani family chronicle ‘East Is East’ is just as turbulent as Damien O’Donnell’s successful 1999 cinema
pornography. He barely manages to get his wife out of the country beforehand. She arrives safely in South Korea and, after being interrogated, is given citizenship. She finds a job and tries to adapt as best she can. But she cannot forget her husband. Panorama press screening CineStar 3
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 lives on the edge of a city, in an apartment with a view of the port. They are all battered souls.
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hit. However, this time, the story is not confined to Salford in the northwest of England. Rather, the Khan family’s twisting paths lead them back to father George’s roots in rural Pakistan. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
The everyday order and strictness of the family are succeeded by collapse and disintegration. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6
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LIFE IN A DAY (UK) Documentary. 95mins. Dir: Kevin Macdonald. Panorama Special Friedrichstadtpalast
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FAMILIAR GROUND (France) Comedy. 89mins. Dir: Stephane Lafleur. Key cast: Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Sylvain Marcel. Berlinale goes Kiez Die Kurbel
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HERE (US) Drama. 120mins.
Dir: Braden King. Key cast: Ben Foster, Lubna Azabal. A road movie set in the craggy mountains of Armenia. Tells the story of the brief but emotive relationship between a young American, who has come to the Caucasus to take geographic measurements for satellite images, and an Armenian photographer, who has left her country and is now returning for the first time in years. Panorama press screening CinemaxX 7
SWANS (Germany) Drama. 126mins. Dir: Hugo Vieira da Silva. Key cast: Kai Hillebrand, Ralph Herforth, Maria Schuster. A man travels to Berlin because his ex-girlfriend is in a coma. He has brought their son Manuel with him; the two stay in the ailing woman’s apartment. Forum Delphi Filmpalast
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AMNESTY (Albania) Drama. 83mins. Dir: Bujar Alimani. Key cast: Luli Bitri, Karafil Shena, Todi
Llupi. A man and a woman in Albania. Their two partners are both in prison but reforms in the penal system allow married couples conjugal visits. The two meet by chance in the prison and start an affair that looks set to end when their partners are freed in an amnesty. Forum CineStar 8
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ALMANYA (Germany) Drama. 97mins. Dir: Yasemin Samdereli. Key cast: Vedat Erincin, Fahri Yardim, Aylin Tezel. Competition Berlinale Palast
GOOD MORNING TO THE WORLD!! (Japan) Drama. 81mins. Dir: Hirohara Satoru. Key cast: Koizumi Yoichiro, Arai Miho. Yuta has adjusted to his life as a loner. Every day his walk to school leads him through a tunnel, where a homeless man resides. One day Yuta steals his bag — the next day he is found dead. Now the boy sets out to find the dead man’s
ART HISTORY (US) Drama. 74mins. Dir: Joe Swanberg. 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 Kino Arsenal 1
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 (Sweden) Documentary. 94mins. Dir: Goran Hugo Olsson. Key cast: Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, Erykah Badu. Documentary examining the Black Power movement in the US in the late 1960s. Panorama Dokumente press screening CineStar 7
THE HOUSE (Slovak Republic) Drama. 97mins. Dir: Zuzana Liova. Key cast: Judit Bardos, Miroslav Krobot, Marian Mitas. Forum Colosseum 1
MARGIN CALL (US) Thriller. 110mins. Dir: JC Chandor. Key cast: Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore. Competition Urania
THE MOUNTAIN (Norway) Drama. 73mins. Dir: Ole Giaever. Key cast: Ellen
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