SCREENINGS
More than the story about the successful competition of a team from a little village. It’s a movie about money, tradition and the love for football. CinemaxX 1
SHOW MUST GO ON (Croatia) Croatian Audiovisual Centre, 80mins. Dir: Nevio Marasovic. Key cast: Sven Medvesek, Natasa Dorcic, Filip Juricic. Zagreb, 10 years into the future: a global war breaks out while a successful reality TV show “Housed” is on air. The ratings for the show hit the roof, simply because the contestants have no idea that a war is raging outside. CinemaxX Studio 18
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JEW SUESS — RISE AND FALL
(Germany-Austria) TF1 International, 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. CinemaxX 1
SCREENINGS FEBRUARY 18
FESTIVAL & PRESS
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THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD (US, Albania, Denmark, Italy) Drama. 109mins. Dir: Joshua Marston. Key cast: Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, Refet Abazi. Something of a go-getter, Nik has decided that, as soon as he has his school graduation in his hands, he wants to open an internet cafe. He has also recently started having feelings for girls — and has fallen in love with a girl in his class at school. Nik’s sister Rudina is 15; she too has a clear idea of
what she wants from life and dreams of attending university. But then their family becomes embroiled in a fight over ownership of some land and their father is accused of murder. All at once, Nik and Rudina find themselves drawn into a terrible vendetta. Competition press screening Berlinale Palast
09:30
COME RAIN, COME SHINE (South Korea) Drama. 105mins. Dir: Lee Yoon- ki. Key cast: Lim Soo- jung, Hyun Bin. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast
TASTE THE WASTE (Germany) Documentary. 88mins. Dir: Valentin Thurn. More than half of our food goes to waste. Most of it is already lost on its way from the field to the store before it ever even arrives on our tables. All around the world people are trying to find alternatives to this insane wastefulness. Generation 14plus MGB Kinosaal/Spiegelzelt
WEST IS WEST (UK) Drama. 102mins. Dir: Andy De Emmony. Key cast: Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett. This sequel to the British- Pakistani family chronicle ‘East Is East’ is just as turbulent as Damien O’Donnell’s 1999 cinema hit. However, this time, the story is not confined to Salford in the northwest of England, rather, the Khan family’s twisting paths lead them back to father George’s roots in rural Pakistan. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
10:00
WIND & FOG (Iran) Drama. 74mins. Dir: Mohammad Ali Talebi. Key cast: Payam Eris, Masume Shakori, Asadolah Asadnia. Sahand’s father has found work at an oil field and so the family must leave the fertile north and move to hot and arid southern
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Iran. But then the Iraq War breaks out, their house is destroyed in an Iraqi bombing raid and the boy’s mother is killed. Generation Kplus Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
10:30
7 SINS FORGIVEN (India) Drama. 143mins. Dir: Vishal Bhardwaj. Key cast: Priyanka Chopra, John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
11:00
STATE OF VIOLENCE (South Africa, France) Drama. 79mins. Dir: Khalo Matabane. Key cast: Fana Mokoena, Presley Chweneyagae, Neo Ntlatleng. Forum CineStar 8
STUTTGART 21 — THINK TO REMEMBER! (Germany) Documentary. 75mins. Dir: Lisa Sperling, Florian Klager. The protagonists of this grass-roots initiative against the controversial Stuttgart 21 transport project describe the goings-on and their reasons for protesting. Perspektive Deutsches Kino press screening CinemaxX 4
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THE END IS MY BEGINNING (Germany) 98mins. Dir: Jo Baier. Key cast: Bruno Ganz, Elio Germano, Erika Pluhar. A critically ill journalist recounts the story of his life to his son. German Cinema CinemaxX 1
MUSIC AND SHADOWS (Sweden) Drama. 88mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Bengt Eklund. Class conflict plays a key role in this wartime drama. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8
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BOMBAY BEACH (US) Drama. 80mins. Dir: Alma Har’el.
Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
IF NOT US, WHO (German) Drama. 124mins. Dir: Andres Veiel. Key cast: August Diehl, Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast
UNKNOWN (Germany, UK, France) Drama. 111mins. Dir: Jaume Collet-Serra. Key cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones. Competition press screening Berlinale Palast
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A CAT IN PARIS (France, Belgium, Netherlands) Animation. 64mins. Dir: Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli. Tomcat Dino lives a double life. By day he’s the docile kitten belonging to little Zoe, a mute six-year- old girl whose mother, Jeanne, is chief constable of the police. Dino spends his nights with Nico, a good-natured burglar. Generation Kplus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
FAMILIAR GROUND (France) Comedy. 89mins. Dir: Stephane Lafleur. Key cast: Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Sylvain Marcel. Quebec. When a messenger from the future arrives, Maryse and Benoit leave their familiar grounds and the question of how predictable the future actually is resolves itself on their journey. Forum Cubix 7
SWANS (Germany) Drama. 126mins. Dir: Hugo Vieira da Silva. Key cast: Kai Hillebrand, Ralph Herforth, Maria Schuster. A man travels to Berlin because his ex-girlfriend is in a coma. He has brought their son Manuel with him. The two stay in the ailing woman’s apartment. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
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BATTLE OF THE QUEENS (Germany, Switzerland) Documentary. 70mins. Dir: Nicolas Steiner. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1
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THE DEVIL’S WANTON (Sweden) Drama. 78mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Doris Svedlund, Birger Malmsten, Eva Henning. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8
IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS (Germany) 93mins. Dir: Hajo Schomerus. A flat-sharing community in the holiest place of Christianity where the room mates share the same religion but do not get along with each other. German Cinema CinemaxX 1
THE SLEEPING GIRL (Germany) Drama. 105mins. Dir: Rainer Kirberg. Key cast: Jakob Diehl, Natalie Krane, Christoph Bach. Dusseldorf, beginning of the 1970s. Hans, a young, introverted student, meets Ruth, a young homeless woman living in a park. Fascinated by her, he takes Ruth in and makes her the subject of his video work. When she quickly settles into the artist scene and Hans fears that he’s losing control over her, he locks her up in his workshop. Forum Expanded CineStar 8
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AMADOR (Spain) Drama. 112mins. Dir: Fernando Leon De Aranoa. Key cast: Magaly Solier, Celso Bugallo, Pietro Sibille. Panorama Special International
BULLHEAD (Belgium, Netherlands) Drama. 129mins. Dir: Michael R. Roskam. Key cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
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KAMAKIA — THE HEROES OF THE ISLAND (Germany) Documentary. 37mins. Dir: Jasin Challah. Kosta Rapadopoulos travels his homeland to ask older men about their amorous exploits with the female tourists who came en masse to Greece in the 1970s. Perspektive Deutsches Kino press screening CinemaxX 5
THE RADISH AND THE CARROT (Japan) Drama. 107mins. Dir: Shibuya Minoru. Key cast: Ryu Chishu, Otowa Nobuko, Kaga Mariko. This work was made to celebrate the achievements of film-maker Ozu Yasujiro, who died in 1963. Based on a story by Ozu, the film features a cast of actors from his films in the story of a man with four daughters who disappears from one day to the next. Forum
Delphi Filmpalast
TWIGSON TIES THE KNOT (Norway) Animation. 78mins. Dir: Martin Lund. Key cast: Adrian Gronnevik Smith, Petrus Andreas Christensen. About a twig — who falls in love. Generation Kplus CinemaxX 3
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HOUSE OF SHAME / CHANTAL ALL NIGHT LONG (Germany) Documentary. 93mins. Dir: Johanna Jackie Baier. Key cast: Chantal Lehner, Andreas Schwarz, Joey Arias. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
SUICIDE ROOM (Poland) Drama. 110mins. Dir: Jan Komasa. Key cast: Jakub Gierszal, Roma Gasiorowska, Krzysztof Pieczynski. Panorama Special Cubix 9
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LIPSTIKKA (Israel, UK) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Jonathan Sagall. Key cast: Clara
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