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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 09:00


COME RAIN, COME SHINE (South Korea) Drama. 105mins. Dir: Lee Yoon-ki. Key cast: Lim Soo-jung, Hyun Bin. A severe storm sweeps through the city. A couple are spending


SCREENINGS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 18


FESTIVAL & PRESS


09:00


COME RAIN, COME SHINE See box, above


09:20


7 SINS FORGIVEN (India) Drama. 143mins. Dir: Vishal Bhardwaj. Key cast: Priyanka Chopra, John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh. Beautiful Susanna has gone through no fewer than six husbands in 35 years of married life. Sadly, none of these better halves has survived marriage to this elegant and attractive woman; it seems this merry widow has simply loved them all to death.


their last day together at the house where they have spent the past three years. Small things remind them of shared memories and the life they once led. Competition press screening Berlinale Palast


Panorama Special press screening CineStar 3


09:30


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 when they gave birth. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1


ANIMALS UNITED (Germany) 93mins. Dir: Holger Tappe, Reinhard Klooss. Key cast: Ralf Schmitz, Thomas Fritsch, Christoph Maria Herbst A group of animals


n 10 Screen International in Berlin February 17, 2011


waiting for the annual flood discovers that the humans have built a dam for a leisure resort. The animals endeavour to save the delta and send a message to the humans not to interfere with nature. German Cinema CinemaxX 1


IDLENESS (Argentina) Drama. 70mins. Dir: Juan Villegas, Alejandro Lingenti. Key cast: Namuel Viale, Francisco Grassi, German de Silva. Two young men live together with their father in an apartment. The absence of the recently deceased mother can still clearly be felt. The three do not talk much. Taciturn and introverted, Andres, the younger of the two, drifts from one day to the next. He is unemployed, has a lot of time on his hands and very little money. After purchasing a motorcycle, he winds up in trouble. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6


OUR GRAND DESPAIR (Turkey, Germany, Netherlands) Drama. 102mins. Dir: Seyfi Teoman. Key cast: Ilker Aksum, Fatih Al,


Baki Davrak. Ender and Cetin — both in their late thirties — have been friends since they were at school and now live together. When a friend’s sister is orphaned, she moves in, creating an uneasy menage a trois. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast


10:00


THE GREAT BEAR (Denmark) Animation. 73mins. Dir: Esben Toft Jacobsen. Key cast: Markus Rygaard, Alberte Blichfeldt. Jonathan was always quite content to travel alone to spend his holidays with his grandfather, his sister being too small for such an adventure. But this summer, Sophie is old enough to accompany him to the country. Bad luck for Jonathan, who does everything he can to get rid of this irritating little shrimp. But no sooner does he succeed than things go terribly awry — for now Sophie has been abducted by a huge bear. Generation Kplus Filmtheater am Friedrichshain


10:30


SUICIDE ROOM (Poland) Drama.


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


110mins. Dir: Jan Komasa. Key cast: Jakub Gierszal, Roma Gasiorowska, Krzysztof Pieczynski. Unable to bare the thought of school any more, Dominik withdraws, drifting into a virtual world where there are no hateful classmates. Online he meets Sylwia who tells him she plans to commit suicide. She introduces him to her friends in the ‘suicide room’, a chat room for people with suicidal tendencies. Dominik allows Sylwia to lure him into a dangerous game, but before long things begin


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


to get out of control. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7


11:00


A SHIP TO INDIALAND (Sweden) Drama. 98mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Birger Malmsten, Gertrud Fridh. After seven years at sea Johannes Blom returns to Sweden to claim his beloved Sally and take her away with him. However, the seven years as a singer in a music hall have weakened and embittered Sally. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8


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