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LATE AUTUMN (South Korea) Drama. 113mins. Dir: Kim Tae- Yong. Key cast: Tang Wei, Hyun Bin. Anna, sentenced to prison for murdering her brutal husband, is granted a brief leave of absence to attend her mother’s funeral in Seattle. On her way there she meets Hoon, a Korean immigrant who makes his living as a callboy. Both are outsiders — Anna as the outcast of her Chinese family, Hoon as a man being hunted down by a jealous husband. Two lonely souls who suddenly find what they had no longer dared to seek: a great love. Forum Colosseum 1


LIGHTFLIGHT (Germany) Documentary. 82mins. Dir: Annette Frick. Panorama Dokumente press screening CineStar 7


THE SILENCE (Sweden) Drama. 95mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Gunnel Lindblom, Ingrid Thulin. While returning to Sweden Ester and Anna, together with Anna’s young son Johan, have to interrupt their trip in the city of Timoka, because Ester feels ill in the oppressive heat of the train. They find a room in a once noble hotel. There a bitter battle ensues between the sisters: Anna feels threatened and dominated by Ester. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8


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EVEN THE RAIN (Spain, France, Mexico) Drama. 104mins. Dir: Iciar Bollain. Key cast: Luis Tosar, Gael Garcia Bernal, Juan Carlos Aduviri. Set during the time of the Water War in Bolivia and demonstrating how the indigenous population have continued to be exploited long after the arrival of Columbus. Panorama Cubix 7 & 8 Interlock


OFF BEAT (Switzerland) Drama. 95mins. Dir: Jan Gassmann. Key cast: Hans-Jakob Muhlethaler, Domenico Pecoraio, Manuel Neuburger. A pair of rapping brothers compete for the affections of their older music producer. Panorama CineStar 3


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NO, GLOBAL TOUR (Spain) Documentary. 120mins. Dir: Santiago Sierra. Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 2


THE PRIZE (Germany) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Paula Markovitch. Key cast: Paula Galinelli Hertzog, Sharon Herrera, Laura Agorreca. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1


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THE RESIDENTS (Brazil) Drama. 120mins. Dir: Tiago Mata Machado. Key cast: Melissa Dullius, Gustavo Jahn, Jeane Doucas. Forum


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BEATS BEING DEAD (Germany) Drama. 88mins. Dir: Christian Petzold. Key cast: Jacob Matschenz, Luna Mijovic, Vijessna Ferkic. Three individual stories revolving around the same “fait divers”: the escape of a convicted criminal from police custody. Berlinale goes Kiez Adria


ROMEOS (Germany) Drama. 94mins. Dir: Sabine Bernardi. Key cast: Rick Okon, Liv Lisa Fries, Maximilian Befort. Lukas has just turned 20. He’s going through hormone replacement therapy-induced male puberty, because he was born a girl. Ready for action, he launches into his new life in the big city, but things don’t exactly get off to a good start.


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Panorama press screening CinemaxX 7


TAXI DRIVER (US) Thriller. 114mins. Dir: Martin Scorsese. Key cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks. Scorsese’s legendary film about angry, delusional taxi driver Travis Bickle. Berlinale Special Gala Friedrichstadtpalast


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A GOOD MAN, A GOOD DAY (Japan) Drama. 88mins. Dir: Shibuya Minoru. Key cast: Ryu Chishu, Awashima Chikage, Iwashita Shima. The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi is considered by those around him to be an eccentric. When his daughter Tokiko receives a marriage proposal from a colleague, she and her mother are ecstatic. Hitoshi, however, is less than pleased. Forum CineStar 8


ALL THESE WOMEN (Sweden) Comedy. 80mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson. Bergman’s first film shot in colour. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8


E-LOVE (France) Drama. 97mins. Dir: Anne Villaccque. Key cast: Anne Consigny, Antoine Chappey, Carlo Brandt. Paule is pushing 50. When she — a philosophy lecturer with a 10-year marriage and a 15-year- old daughter — learns that her husband is having an affair with a 28-year-old, this number takes on a special weight. An internet site is supposed to help Paule get through her burgeoning midlife crisis. Although she doesn’t find any soulmates there, she does discover a great number of opportunities for personal rediscovery and sexual exploration. Forum CinemaxX 4


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STATE OF VIOLENCE (South Africa, France) Drama. 79mins. Dir: Khalo Matabane. Key cast: Fana Mokoena, Presley Chweneyagae, Neo Ntlatleng. Bobedi is the newly appointed CEO of


FOOD AND THE MAIDEN (Japan) Drama. 75mins. Dir: Minoru Kurimura. Key cast: Mayu Sakuma, Rie Tamaka, Takae Okamura. A story about three couples, each having a problem around eating. Culinary Cinema MGB-Kino


SAWDUST AND TINSEL (Sweden) Drama. 93mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Ake Gronberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman. At the break of dawn a tawdry travelling circus makes its way through the Swedish countryside, a silhouette against the grey sky. The circus people have no money, nothing to eat, and had to leave their costumes in payment at their last stopover. Circus director Albert has an idea: Albert and his pretty mistress Anne will go into town and borrow costumes from the theatre. The director insults them, however, and compares theatre to art and circus to artifice — a meditation


a company but his wife is murdered during the celebrations. Frustrated by the pace of justice, he chooses revenge. But when he catches the killer, he comes face to face with a terrible secret. Forum Cubix 9


on the boundaries ensues. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman Zeughauskino


WINTER LIGHT (Sweden) Drama. 80mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin, Max von Sydow. For widower Pastor Tomas Ericsson the divine service has become mere routine. Only a few guests appear in church on this cold Sunday morning. Since the death of his wife the Pastor has lost his belief and his ability to love. When Karin Persson begs him to help her husband, who has suicidal thoughts, he can only talk about his own problems and doubts. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 6


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ASHAMED (South Korea) Drama. 129mins. Dir: Kim Soo- hyun. Key cast: Kim Hyo-jin, Kim Khobbi. Three women drift through life, coming together and talking


about love — then falling for each other. Panorama Colosseum 1


ASSHOLE (India) Drama. 85mins. Dir: Kaushik Mukherjee. Key cast: Anubrata, Joyraj, Rii, Shilajit, Kamalika. Coming-of-age drama about a young man growing up in Kolkata, who aspires to be a rapper, and becomes mixed up in drugs and crime in the process. Panorama Cubix 7 & 8 Interlock


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(Latvia) Documentary. 70mins. Dir: Kaspars Goba. Documentary looking at the hostility Gay Pride participants in Latvia suffer. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7


LIPSTIKKA (Israel, UK) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Jonathan Sagall. Key cast: Clara Khoury, Nataly Attiya, Moran Rosenblatt. Competition Berlinale Palast


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