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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 press screening CinemaxX 6
FANNY AND ALEXANDER (Sweden, France, Germany) Drama. 188mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin. Framed by two festivities — the annual Christmas party of the theatre people and the celebration of the birth of two babies — the eventful saga of the Ekdahl family unfurls. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2
MADE IN POLAND (Poland) Drama. 84mins. Dir: Przemyslaw Wojcieszek. Key cast: Piotr Wawer Jr, Janusz Chabior, Przemyslaw Bluszcz. Two days in the life of a hatred-fueled boy from a run-down district. He leaves his post as an altar boy and rushes off through the residential development with “fuck off” tattooed on his forehead, inciting people to rebel. Forum CineStar 8
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BEDWAYS (Germany) 76mins. Dir: RP Kahl Key cast: Miriam Mayet, Matthias Faust German Cinema CinemaxX 1
THE STRONGEST MAN IN HOLLAND (Netherlands) Drama. 80mins. Dir: Mark de Cloe. Key cast: Bas van Prooijen, Suzan Boogaerdt, Loek Peters. Teen drama in which a child searches for a faith figure, in the mistaken
belief that his dad is the world’s strongest man. Generation Kplus CinemaxX 3
12:00
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
IF NOT US, WHO (German) Drama. 124mins. Dir: Andres Veiel. Key cast: August Diehl, Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling. Growing up in the arts scene in West Germany in the 1960s. Competition press screening Berlinale Palast
MY BEST ENEMY (Austria) Drama. 109mins. Dir: Wolfgang Murnberger. Key cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Georg Friedrich, Ursula Strauss. War-time drama dealing with artwork plundered by the Nazis. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast
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HARVEST (Germany) Drama. 85mins. Dir: Benjamin Cantu. Key cast: Lukas Steltner, Kai-Michael Muller, Cristina Do Rego. Marko is an apprentice working on a large agricultural complex. If he passes his final examinations he will be a fully fledged farmer. That is, if he really wants to. But he’s not sure. He doesn’t have many friends outside the workplace and the 11 other apprentices see him as a rather uncommunicative guy
and something of a loner. But when a new apprentice named Jacob joins them, Marko slowly begins to come out of his shell. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
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 Cubix 7
THE RESIDENTS (Brazil) Drama. 120mins. Dir: Tiago Mata Machado. Key cast: Melissa Dullius, Gustavo Jahn, Jeane Doucas. The residents of a soon-to- be demolished building have set up a temporary autonomous zone to declare war on a world where utopia and poetry have gone astray. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6
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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 death: Marcela is a young, secretly pregnant woman tasked with looking after a dying old man. The pair soon become close. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
LESSON IN LOVE (Sweden) Comedy. 96mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Bjornstrand,
Yvonne Lombard. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8
THE PRIZE (Germany) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Paula Markovitch. Key cast: Paula Galinelli Hertzog, Sharon Herrera, Laura Agorreca. Architect Alexander Beck wins a competition to refurbish a number of concrete prefabs in Thuringia, a particular challenge for Alexander, for the small town in question is none other than his home town and the tower blocks he is to remodel are those where he grew up. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1
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DAVID WANTS TO FLY (Germany) 96mins. Dir: David Sieveking. Inspired by his idol, David Lynch, young director Sieveking submerges himself into the strange world of transcendental meditation. In doing so he gets a look into more than just his own abyss. German Cinema CinemaxX 1
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THE KITE (India) Drama. 105mins. Dir: Prashant Bhargava. Key cast: Seema Biswas, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sugandha Garg. Forum CineStar 8
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BATTLE OF THE QUEENS (Germany, Switzerland) Documentary. 70mins. Dir: Nicolas Steiner. Not a bullfight but a cow fight is the traditional event that takes place in southern Switzerland in particular and attracts large crowds every year. Perspektive Deutsches Kino press screening CinemaxX 5
DRUNKARD’S PARADISE (Japan) Drama. 93mins. Dir: Shibuya Minoru. Key cast: Ryu Chishu, Ishihama Akira, Baisho Chieko. The office worker Atsumi Kozi and his adult son
are both heavy drinkers. A grave accident occurs during one of their drinking bouts. Forum
Delphi Filmpalast
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 on the same block, but never meet. The city brings them together and, at the same time, keeps them apart. Panorama Special International
SAMPAGUITA, NATIONAL FLOWER
(Philippines) Documentary. 78mins. Dir: Francis Xavier E. Pasion.
Can a plant embody the uniqueness of a country? Is there such a thing as a national flower? In the Philippines the sampaguita (also known as jasminum sambac or Arabian jasmine) is a national symbol. This film tells the story of a group of children whose lives are inexorably bound up with this flower and the myths that surround it. Generation Kplus CinemaxX 3
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MAN AT SEA (Greece) Drama. 93mins. Dir: Constantine Giannaris. Key cast: Antonis Karystinos, Theodora Tzimou, Konstantinos Avarikiotis. Tense drama in which a marriage falls apart on the confines of a boat carrying African refugees. Panorama Special Cubix 9
MONDO LUX — THE VISUAL WORLDS OF WERNER SCHROETER (Germany) Documentary. 97mins. Dir: Elfi Mikesch. Key cast: Isabelle Huppert, Ingrid Caven, Wim Wenders. Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of
New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. At the time, he was working for the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf gallery on a musical piece entitled ‘The Beauty of Shadows’ based on the works of Robert Schumann and Heinrich Heine. For Schroeter,, it marked the beginning of a race against time. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
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A MYSTERIOUS WORLD (Argentina, Germany, Uruguay) Drama. 107mins. Dir: Rodrigo Moreno. Key cast: Esteban Bigliardi, Cecilia Rainero. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast
BROWNIAN MOVEMENT (Netherlands, Germany, Belgium) Drama. 102mins. Dir: Nanouk Leopold. Key cast: Sandra Huller, Dragan Bakema, Sabine Timoteo. Charlotte is married with one son and is a doctor in a clinic in Brussels. She has sex with patients in an apartment, selecting the men as if setting up a scientific experiment: they are all unusual, very hirsute, coarse, fat or old. The marriage teeters when her husband finds out. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
NIGHT ON EARTH (US, UK, Japan) Comedy. 129mins. Dir: Jim Jarmusch. Key cast: Armin Mueller- Stahl, Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder. Five cities, five taxis. All kinds of individuals in cabs during the course of a single night. Homage CinemaxX 8
SELF REFERENTIAL TRAVERSE: ZEITGEIST AND ENGAGEMENT (South Korea) Documentary. 73mins. Dir: Kim Sun. Key cast: Podori, Jung Ayoung, Kang Suk. Blistering attack on South Korean politics. Forum Cubix 7
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