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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


NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION (Iran) Drama. 123mins. Dir: Asghar Farhadi. Key cast: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi,


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FESTIVAL & PRESS


NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION See box, above


09:15


TARGET (Russia) Drama. 154mins. Dir: Alexander Zeldovich. Key cast: Maksim Sukhanov, Justine Waddell, Danila Kozlovsky, Daniela Stoyanovich. Russia in the year 2020. The four protagonists of this film are members of the country’s elite. Victor is a minister responsible for the state’s natural resources. Zoya is his wife. Her brother, Mitya, is a well-known television celebrity and Nicolai is a colonel assigned to the Guangzhou–Paris


Shahab Hosseini. An Iranian marriage falls apart, witnessed by the children. Competition press screening Berlinale Palast


rail corridor. They have everything that money can buy. What they lack is youth and happiness. But they are determined to recover both. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7


09:30


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 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 Friedrichstadtpalast


THE TERRORISTS (Thailand, Germany) Documentary. 105mins. Dir: Thunska Pansittivorakul. Focusing on the aftermath and psychological fallout of the protests and uprising of early 2010. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6


10:30


MEDIANERAS (Argentina, Germany, Spain) Drama. 91mins. Dir: Gustavo Taretto. Key cast: Javier Drolas, Rafael Ferro. Mariana, Martin and the city of Buenos Aires. Martin and Mariana live across from each other in the same block, but never meet. They pass each other, not knowing about the other’s existence. She goes up the stairs as he goes down them; he gets on the bus just as she gets off it; they go to the same video rental shop, but a video rack separates them; they sit in the same row at the cinema, but the auditorium is dark. The city brings them together, and, at the same time, keeps them apart. Panorama Special press screening CineStar 3


11:00


AGAINST ALL ODDS (Switzerland) Documentary. 93mins. Dir: Anka Schmid. Sandra, Jasmine and Jennifer live in the Lucerne hinterland district, in Basel. They have one thing in common: they were all underage when they fell pregnant and were no more than 18 years old when they gave birth. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2


CRISIS (Sweden) Drama. 93mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Inga Landgre, Marianne Lofgren, Dagny Lind. Bergman’s very first film is set in a small town, where a family’s peaceful idyll is suddenly shattered. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8


FIT (Japan) Drama. 106mins. Dir: Hirosue Hiromasa. Key cast: Hirosue Hiromasa, Namiki Akie, Shine Midori. Sagawa works for a mail-order company and is obsessed with the idea of doing something


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


for others. Nitta, a dissatisfied customer, lives alone with her dog. Tahara, the ex-fiance of Sagawa’s friend Shimizu, lives with her mentally challenged brother Masaru, who sees the world through 3D blue-red-tinted glasses and keeps ants as pets. They all suffer from the pressure of social conventions that leave them isolated and lonely. Forum CineStar 8


11:30


A SERIES OF THOUGHTS (Germany) Documentary. 91mins.


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


Dir: Heinz Emigholz. Psycho-documentary. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6


TWIGSON TIES THE KNOT (Norway) Animation. 78mins. Dir: Martin Lund. Key cast: Adrian Gronnevik Smith, Petrus Andreas Christensen. Heartwarming sequel about a twig — who falls in love. Generation Kplus CinemaxX 3


VINCENT WANTS TO SEA (Germany) 95mins. Dir: Ralf Huettner. Key cast: Florian David Fitz, Johannes Allmayer, Karoline Herfurth.


February 15, 2011 Screen International in Berlin 17 n


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