SCREENINGS
THE STOOL PIGEON (Hong Kong) Thriller. 112mins. Dir: Dante Lam. Key cast: Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, Kwai Lun-Mei. Inspector Don Lee often works with informants to solve his cases, with stool pigeons. In a ploy to convict the notorious jewel thief Barbarian, Don smuggles Ghost Jr, recently released from jail, into his gang. Forum press screening CinemaxX 6
STREET KIDS UNITED (UK, South Africa) Documentary. 75mins. Dir: Tim Pritchard. Generation Extra Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
15:30
THE ADVOCATE FOR FAGDOM (France) Documentary. 92mins. Dir: Angelique Bosio. Key cast: Bruce LaBruce, Gus Van Sant, John Waters. Documentary about cult gay film director Bruce LaBruce. Panorama Dokumente Colosseum 1
LIFE ISN’T A GAME (Germany) 90mins. Dir: Frank Pfeiffer, Rouven Rech. Delves into the social milieu of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and takes a humorous look at the way the small football club stormed Germany’s top Bundesliga football division. A movie about money, tradition and the love for football. German Cinema CinemaxX 1
THE LIVERPOOL GOALIE (Norway) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Arild Andresen. Key cast: Ask van der Hagen, Susanne Boucher, Kyrre Hellum, Tore Sagen. Magical realist coming- of-age drama as a 13-year-old boy falls for a girl in his class. Generation Kplus Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
SKYSCRAPER (Denmark) Drama. 85mins. Dir: Rune
Schjott. Key cast: Lukas Schwarz Thorsteinsson, Marta Holm, Morten Suurballe. A teenager falls for a blind girl. Generation 14plus Cubix 8
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LIPSTIKKA (Israel, UK) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Jonathan Sagall. Key cast: Clara Khoury, Nataly Attiya, Moran Rosenblatt. Lara is Palestinian. She left Ramallah 13 years ago to begin a new life in London where she married Michael and had a child. She, her husband and her seven- year-old son James lead a pleasant, albeit somewhat dispassionate, life in one of the city’s better districts. But there’s nothing that a good slug of vodka won’t help her to cope with. Competition press screening CinemaxX 7
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THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE (US, France,) Documentary. 75mins. Dir: Marie Losier. Documentary charing the life, work and love of alternative musicians Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Lady Jaye. Forum CineStar 8
COME RAIN, COME SHINE (South Korea) Drama. 105mins. Dir: Lee Yoon- ki. Key cast: Lim Soo- jung, Hyun Bin. Competition Berlinale Palast
SHE MONKEYS (Sweden) Drama. 83mins. Dir: Lisa Aschan. Key cast: Mathilda Paradeiser, Linda Molin, Isabella Lindqvist. A clash between two girls at a riding stables. Emma joins a group that is learning how to perform acrobatic exercises on horseback. Here she meets Cassandra, good looking and strong-willed with a vibrant personality. The two young women find themselves drawn
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to each other. Before long, their mutual attraction turns into a symbiotic friendship. But then things begin to get complicated. All at once the two girlfriends’ relationship is pervaded by jealousy and power and this turns into a struggle for supremacy. Generation 14plus CinemaxX 3
TOMBOY (France) Drama. 84mins. Dir: Celine Sciamma. Key cast: Zoe Heran, Malonn Raffin, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy. Laure is moving into a new neighbourhood with her sister. Because she is in need of new friends and doesn’t know anybody, she decides to pretend she’s a boy. She meets Lisa, but Lisa doesn’t know her new best friend is not a boy. Generation Kplus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2
WAYS OF THE SEA (Philippines) Drama. 78mins. Dir: Sheron Dayoc. Key cast: Romeo John Arcilla, Maria Isabel Lopez, Arnalyn Ismael. Drama focusing on a group of outcasts trying to travel illegally to Malaysia to start a new life by boat. Forum
Delphi Filmpalast 17:00
BOMBAY BEACH (US) Drama. 80mins. Dir: Alma Har’el. Documentary charting the lives of residents of Bombay Beach, a faded resort on the shores of the inland lake, the Salton Sea, in south California. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
HOUSE OF SHAME / CHANTAL ALL NIGHT LONG (Germany) Documentary. 93mins. Dir: Johanna Jackie Baier. Key cast: Chantal Lehner, Andreas Schwarz, Joey Arias. Chantal is the manager, hostess and stage-hogging frontwoman of ‘House of Shame — Party’. In this
documentary, film-maker Johanna Jackie Baier tells her story. It begins with Chantal’s escape to Berlin from the confines of a small country town in southwest Germany in the autumn of 1980. Interweaving interviews and portraits, but also on- and off-stage stories, backstage gossip, copious amounts of music and excerpts from her shows, the film allows Chantal’s story to unfold. Panorama Dokumente press International
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 Zeughauskino
TOMBOY (France) Drama. 84mins. Dir: Celine Sciamma. Key cast: Zoe Heran, Malonn Raffin, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy. Panorama Cubix 9
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THE BIG EDEN (Germany) Documentary. 90mins. Dir: Peter Dorfler. Key cast: Rolf Eden, Brigitte, Ursula Buchfellner, Joram Kaniuk. Documentary about Berlin night club impresario and ageing playboy Rolf Eden. Panorama Dokumente Cubix 7
THE DEVIL’S EYE (Sweden) Drama. 87mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Nils Poppe. At the beginning it is explained that the title comes from an Irish saying (in reality made up by Bergman): “A young woman’s chastity is a sty in the devil’s eye.” The Prince of Darkness does in fact have a swollen eye, because it
bugs him that the pretty vicar’s daughter Britt- Marie is planning to enter marriage still a virgin. Who could remedy the situation? Only Don Juan, of course, says Satan. He decides to send the world’s greatest seducer up to Earth to put an end to Britt-Marie’s chastity. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 6
JEW SUESS — RISE AND FALL
(Germany) 114mins. Dir: Oskar Roehler. Key cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Tobias Moretti, Gudrun Landgrebe Berlin 1939. Ferdinand Marian is an actor, one of the best of his generation. One day, he is offered the starring role in the anti- Semitic propaganda film ‘Jud Suess’, which will become his destiny. German Cinema CinemaxX 1
THE KING’S SPEECH (UK, Australia) Drama. 117mins. Dir: Tom Hooper. Key cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter. Moving drama charting the struggles of King George VI to overcome his stammer. Berlinale Special Gala Urania
ON THE ICE (US) Drama. 96mins. Dir: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean. Key cast: Josiah Patkotak, Frank Qutuq Irelan, Teddy Kyle Smith. Drama set in the northernmost town in North America. Two boys attempt to cover up the accidental killing of their friend, with further tragic consequences. Generation 14plus CinemaxX 3
TWENTY CIGARETTES (US) Documentary. 97mins. Dir: James Benning. ‘Twenty Cigarettes’ is a game with its own rules and a game with film history: In Benning’s ‘Screentests’ we watch 20 individuals, each of them smoking a cigarette. Some
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of them are familiar, like Sharon Lockhart. Others we’ve never seen before. But they all give us time to read their body language. We embark on a journey across foreign facial landscapes, through long inhalations into the inside of their bodies, and into the invisible world of their thoughts as we imagine them to be. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
17:45
7 SINS FORGIVEN (India) Drama. 143mins. Dir: Vishal Bhardwaj. Key cast: Priyanka Chopra, John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh. Panorama Special Friedrichstadtpalast
THE CIRCLE (Iran) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Jafar Panahi. Several women are in troubled situations. Their guilt or innocence is unimportant. Their paths cross, and the suspense rises in their intrigue-filled lives. But this stifling world cannot extinguish the spirit, strength and courage of the circle of women. Panorama Special Screening CineStar 3
18:00
JOURNEY INTO AUTUMN (Sweden) Drama. 87mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand. Susanne Frank, a seemingly sober-minded head of a Stockholm fashion studio, is obsessed with her love for a married man from Gothenburg with whom she had broken up seven months earlier. Her young photo model Doris dreams only of clothes, career and luxury. After the shoot in Stockholm, Susanne decides to continue their work in Gothenburg on the following day. Bergman uses the train ride to Gothenburg to illustrate the inner feelings of the figures. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8
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