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Dir: Chen Kaige. Key cast: Ge You, Wang Xue Qi, Fan Bing Bing. Historical epic: when the powerful Zhao clan is massacred, only the one baby survives. This last son is raised as a doctor’s son, but must eventually fulfil his destiny. Berlinale Special Gala Friedrichstadtpalast
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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 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 CinemaxX 4
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OUR GARDEN OF EDEN (Switzerland) Documentary. 97miins. Dir: Mano Khalil. Like a mosaic, the film ‘Our Garden of Eden’ shows the everyday life in an allotment garden area that reflects the multi- ethnic and multicultural modern Swiss society today. Culinary Cinema MGB-Kino
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(Germany, France) Documentary. 100mins. Dir: Wim Wenders. Competition Urania
RIGHTEOUSNESS (Japan) Drama. 91mins. Dir: Shibuya Minoru. Key cast: Miyoshi Eiko, Taura Masami, Sada Keiji. Okyo is a headstrong black marketer who lives with her son, Seitaro, a mechanic for a local bus company. She also looks after the bus driver Fujita, a colleague of her
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As every morning, Francois, who is a bailiff, leaves his apartment and his irascible wife to begin his day of evictions. But fate has something else in store for this official on this particular morning, September 11. As he enters the apartment where he is to serve the eviction order, Francois is inadvertently taken hostage by a drug dealer and his father. Panorama CineStar 3
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AMADOR (Spain) Drama. 112mins. Dir: Fernando Leon De Aranoa. Key cast: Magaly Solier, Celso Bugallo, Pietro Sibille. Drama about life and
son’s. One day, Fujita causes an accident. Seitaro has moral qualms and testifies against him, thereby getting his firm into trouble. Forum CineStar 8
THE SHAME (Sweden) Drama. 103mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand. Civil war prevails on the mainland. The former musicians Eva and Jan Rosenberg have withdrawn to the seeming security of an island and eke out a modest existence as farmers. Suddenly bombs are dropped on the island and enemy troops march in. Eva and Jan try to flee but are arrested and charged with collaboration. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman Zeughauskino
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death: Marcela is a young, secretly pregnant woman tasked with looking after a dying old man. The pair soon become close. Panorama Special International
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HOUSEHOLD X (Japan) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Yoshida Koki. Key cast: Minami Kaho, Taguchi Tomoroo, Kaku Tomahiro. Forum Cubix 9
LIFE AND WORK (Sweden) Documentary. 103mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. A follow up to Bergman’s earlier documentary about his adopted home, the bleak and beautiful isle of Faro. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8
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THE BENGALI DETECTIVE (UK) Documentary. 91mins. Dir: Phil Cox. Kolkata is one of the largest megacities in the world. The population of this seething metropolitan region, the capital of the Indian state
of West Bengal, exceeds 15 million. Faced with an infrastructure which is complex and diffuse, many people who live here have lost faith in the authorities and so a new profession comes to the fore — namely that of the private detective. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
INTO THE WHITE NIGHT (Japan) Thriller. 149mins. Dir: Yoshihiro Fukagawa. Key cast: Maki Horikita, Kengo Kora, Eiichiro Funakoshi. Murder thriller in which a detective reopens a case from 19 years previously — and in doing so some old psychological wounds as well. Panorama Cubix 7 & 8 Interlock
THE MOUNTAIN (Norway) Drama. 73mins. Dir: Ole Giaever. Key cast: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Marte Magnusdotter Solem. Two years ago, Nora and Solveig’s five-year-old son, Vetle, died on a mountain hike. Their grief over his death has weighed heavily on their relationship since. The boy’s death has changed Solveig and she now finds that she can’t
imagine a life without a child any more. But how would Nora react? Would it ruin their relationship if Solveig were to have a child? Together, the two women set off on a journey back to the mountain. Panorama Special Colosseum 1
PORT OF CALL (Sweden) Drama. 96mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Nine-Christine Jonsson, Bengt Eklund, Mimi Nelson. Bergman’s empathetic portrait of the worries and humilities of the lower classes. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 6
SERVICE ENTRANCE (France) Drama. 100mins. Dir: Philippe Le Guay. Key cast: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Carmen Maura. Competition Berlinale Palast
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TOP FLOOR LEFT WING (France, Luxembourg) Drama. 93mins. Dir: Angelo Cianci. Key cast: Hippolyte Girardot, Fellag.
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? Forum Kino Arsenal 1
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AMONG WOLVES (Spain, Germany) Wanda Vision, 114mins. Dir: Gerardo Olivares. Key cast: Manuel Camacho, Juan Jose Ballesta, Sancho Gracia. At the age of seven, Marcos is sold by his father to a goatherd and taken to a remote area of the Sierra Morena Mountains in Spain. There Marcos survives alone in the woods for 12 years, becoming the leader of a pack of wolves. CinemaxX 5
THE PRIZE (Mexico, France, Poland, Germany) Umedia,
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