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
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INNOCENT SATURDAY (Russia, Germany, Ukraine) Drama. 99mins. Dir: Alexander Mindadze. Key cast: Anton Shagin, Svetlana Smirnova- Marcinkevich, Stanislav Rjadinsky. Saturday, April 26, 1986. A reactor tower at Chernobyl power station has exploded. The party
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INNOCENT SATURDAY See box, above
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SING YOUR SONG (US) Documentary. 98mins. Dir: Susanne Rostock. Key cast: Harry Belafonte. As well as being a singer and performer, Harry Belafonte was one of the most popular propagandists of the American civil rights movement. Belafonte is still politically active today, and Susanne Rostock’s film follows
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heads play things down but Valery Kabysh, sometime drummer and now a faithful young party official, has seen the panic written on the faces of those in charge and senses that every second counts. This is the true story of his failed escape. Competition press screening Berlinale Palast
the personal trajectory of this extraordinary artist. Berlinale Special Gala Friedrichstadtpalast
TWIGSON TIES THE KNOT (Norway) Animation. 78mins. Dir: Martin Lund. Key cast: Adrian Gronnevik Smith, Petrus Andreas Christensen. About a twig — who falls in love. Generation Kplus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
THE YOUNG BUTLER (Chile) Documentary. 70mins. Dir: Marcela Said, Jean de Certeau. Documentary focusing on the life of a man who served as an errand boy in a prison during Pinochet’s regime. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6
A CAT IN PARIS (France, Belgium, Netherlands) Animation. 64mins. Dir: Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli. An exciting animated mystery set on the rooftops of Paris and in the dark alleyways of the French capital. Tomcat Dino lives a double life. By day he’s the docile kitten belonging to little Zoe, a mute six- year-old girl whose mother, Jeanne, is chief constable of the police. Dino spends his nights with Nico, a good-natured burglar. Generation Kplus Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
TALES OF THE NIGHT (France) Animation. 84mins. Dir: Michel Ocelot. Every night, a boy, a girl and an elderly technician meet in a closed, rather dilapidated old cinema. But the old picture palace harbours a secret. If truth be known, the cinema is a magical place where the three friends enjoy rummaging about, fantasising, dressing up and playing parts in make-believe stories which, at night, become all too real for the three friends. Competition Urania
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ABOVE US ONLY SKY (Germany) Drama. 88mins. Dir: Jan Schomburg. Key cast: Sandra Huller, Georg Friedrich, Felix Knopp. Martha is in a happy relationship, she has a home, knows just where she belongs and shares her life with Paul, the man she trusts and knows inside out. She looks ahead and sees the future. But then one day two policewomen appear at her door and all at once everything changes. Panorama Special press screening CineStar 3
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THE GUARD (Ireland, UK) Drama. 96mins. Dir: John Michael McDonagh. Key cast: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong. A country policeman’s routine is shattered when an FBI agent arrives and involves him in a dangerous drugs bust. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
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THE DYNAMITER (US) Drama. 73mins. Dir: Matthew Gordon. Key cast: William Ruffin, John Alex Nunnery,
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
Patrick Rutherford. It’s summertime in Glen Allan, Mississippi, but 14-year-old Robbie Hendrick is not exactly in a holiday mood. Worried about having a breakdown, his problematic mother has left them in the lurch again. Robbie and their old gran are now responsible for looking after his younger step- brother, Fess. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2
KAREN CRIES ON THE BUS (Colombia) Drama. 98mins. Dir: Gabriel Rojas Vera. Key cast:
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
Angela Carrizosa Aparicio, Juan Manuel D’az. Karen has left her husband after 10 years of marriage. She wants to make a fresh start, find out who she is. With her younger and, at first glance, stronger friend by her side, Karen takes her first steps towards independence. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6
UTOPIANS Drama. 84mins. Dir: Zbigniew Bzymek. Key cast: Jim Fletcher, Courtney Webster, Lauren Hind. Roger teaches yoga. The
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