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FESTIVAL 15:30
KINSHASA SYMPHONY (Germany) 95mins. Dirs: Claus Wischmann, Martin Baer. A study of people in one of the world’s most chaotic cities doing their best to maintain one of the most complex systems of joint human endeavour: a symphony orchestra. German Cinema Berlinale Palast
The mayor of Zemplinske drives a bright yellow sports car. When he goes to work he always parks his car in the same position, lighting up the otherwise pretty gloomy village like a spotlight. The car, like the communal loudspeakers left over from the socialist era and the aggressively patterned dresses his secretary wears, are the main props in the ex-army general’s battle against the inevitable: the gradual extinction of the village as a result of an aging population and people moving elsewhere. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
SERVICE ENTRANCE (France) Drama. 100mins. Dir: Philippe Le Guay. Key cast: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Carmen Maura. Paris in 1960. Jean-Louis and Suzanne Joubert are no longer exactly youthful. This stockbroker and his wife live a quiet, middle-class existence in an elegant tenement building. Things are a good deal livelier on the sixth floor of their building where all the female staff live. The most recent arrivals are ‘guest workers’ from Spain: six women of different ages from Burgos. Jean-Louis
finds himself increasingly drawn into their world — a world that is so different to his own. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast
THE TURIN HORSE (Hungary) Drama. 146mins. Dir: Bela Tarr. Key cast: Janos Derzsi, Erika Bok, Mihaly Kormos. Historial piece focusing on Nietzche’s mental breakdown and those who witnessed it. Competition press screening CinemaxX 7
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BRASCH — WORDS OF WANT, WORDS OF FEAR (Germany) Documentary. 92mins. Dir: Christoph Ruter. Documentary about the writer Thomas Brasch and his experiences in the German Democratic Republic. Panorama Dokumente Colosseum 1
CHEONGGYECHEON MEDLEY: A DREAM OF IRON (South Korea) Doucmentary. 79mins. Dir: Kelvin Kyung Kun Park. The Cheonggye stream runs through the centre of Seoul. Today a popular urban recreation area with clear water, promenades
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and leafy plants, the Cheonggyecheon was, until only eight years ago, a filthy rivulet under a busy freeway. The film lingers over the people who work the metal: the foundrymen, cutters, welders and so on, with patient observation showing us how the iron shapes the workmen no less than the workmen shape the iron. Forum Cubix 7
THE FLOOD (Israel) Drama. 101mins. Dir: Guy Nattiv. Key cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Michael Moshonov, Yoav Rotman. A child’s own pubescent troubles are put into perspective when his autistic brother returns to the family home. Generation Kplus Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
KINSHASA SYMPHONY See box, above
LOST LAND (France, Belgium) Documentary. 75mins. Dir: Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd. The Western Sahara is divided: since 1989, a 2,400 km long wall of sand has separated the area occupied by Morocco from that which is controlled by
the Polisario Front, a national liberation movement fighting for an independent state. More than 100,000 Sahrawi are living in exile in refugee camps in the Algerian desert — once nomads, now condemned to immobility. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6
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NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION (Iran) Drama. 123mins. Dir: Asghar Farhadi. Key cast: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Shahab Hosseini. Competition Berlinale Palast
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ANGRY HARVEST (Germany) Drama. 105mins. Dir: Agnieszka Holland. Key cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak. Upper Silesia in 1943. Rosa, a Jew, escapes from the freight train that was deporting her to a concentration camp. She finds refuge on a farm owned by Leon. Although the farmer nurses the distraught woman back to health, Rosa doesn’t know what to make of him. Leon may be an obliging man, but he is also a profiteer, whose prosperity is based on the
suffering of others. Homage CinemaxX 8
INTIMATE GRAMMAR (Israel) Drama. 110mins. Dir: Nir Bergman. Key cast: Orly Zilbershatz, Roee Elsberg, Yehuda Almagor. Based on the novel, ‘The Book of Intimate Grammar’ by David Grossman, the film tells the story of three years in the life of Aron Kleinfeld. The hero is a young misfit growing up in the early 1960s. Generation Kplus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2
RED DOG (Australia) Drama. 88mins. Dir: Kriv Stenders. Key cast: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Noah Taylor, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Luke Ford. Children’s film about a town dog that brings everyone in a harsh mining community together. Generation 14plus CinemaxX 3
THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE (US, France,) Documentary. 75mins. Dir: Marie Losier. Documentary charting the life, work and love of alternative musicians
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Lady Jaye. Forum
Delphi Filmpalast 16:45
EIGHTY LETTERS (Czech Republic) Drama. 75mins. Dir: Vaclav Kadrnka. Key cast: Zuzana Lapcikova, Martin Pavlus. A mother and son want to go to the UK to reunite with the father who has emigrated there ahead of them. Excerpts from letters from the mother to the father spoken off- screen give insights into the family history and testify to the close bond between the parents. Forum CineStar 8
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… BUT FILM IS MY MISTRESS (Sweden) Documentary. 66mins. Dir: Stig Bjorkman. Key cast: Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann. Reflective documentary on the life and work of Ingmar Begrman, from those who knew him. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman Zeughauskino
THE BIG EDEN (Germany) Documentary. 90mins. Dir: Peter Dorfler. Key cast: Rolf Eden, Brigitte,
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