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Khoury, Nataly Attiya, Moran Rosenblatt. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast


UTOPIANS Drama. 84mins. Dir: Zbigniew Bzymek. Key cast: Jim Fletcher, Courtney Webster, Lauren Hind. Roger teaches yoga. The relationship with his daughter Zoe, who has just finished her military service, is put under strain by her love for Maya, a young woman who is allegedly a certified schizophrenic. Forum Cubix 7


15:15


LATE AUTUMN (South Korea) Drama. 113mins. Dir: Kim Tae- Yong. Key cast: Tang Wei, Hyun Bin. Forum Kino Arsenal 1


15:30


THE LAST NICE DAY OF AUTUMN (Germany) 85mins. Dir: Ralf Westhoff. Key cast: Julia Koschitz, Felix Hellmann, Katharina Marie Schubert, Leopold Hornung. A young man and woman question their relationship. They try to find out if their love has a future. German Cinema CinemaxX 1


RENT BOYS (Germany) Documentary. 84mins. Dir: Rosa von Praunheim. Key cast: Sergiu Grimalschi, Lutz Volkwein, Wolfgang Werner. Documentary investigating male prostitution in Germany. Panorama Dokumente Colosseum 1


THE STRONGEST MAN IN HOLLAND (Netherlands) Drama. 80mins. Dir: Mark de Cloe. Key cast: Bas van Prooijen, Suzan Boogaerdt, Loek Peters. Generation Kplus Filmtheater am Friedrichshain


UTZ


(UK) Drama. 97mins. Dir: George Sluizer. Key cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Paul Scofield. Prague in 1989. Outside on the streets the people are wresting power from the government. Inside his villa, Baron Kaspar Joachim von Utz is dying. In exquisitely interwoven flashbacks, the film tells the life story of this eccentric scholar and charming aesthete who has devoted himself entirely to his personal obsessions: precious Meissen figurines and corpulent women. Homage CinemaxX 8


16:00


JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI (Japan) Documentary. 83mins. Dir: David Gelb. In the basement of a Tokyo office building, 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono works tirelessly in his world-renowned restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro. As his son Yoshikazu faces the pressures of stepping into his father’s shoes and taking over the legendary restaurant, Jiro — san relentlessly pursues his lifelong quest to create the perfect piece of sushi. Culinary Cinema MGB-Kino


16:30


AN ANGEL IN DOEL (Netherlands, Belgium) Documentary. 77mins. Dir: Tom Fassaert. Forum CineStar 8


MADE IN POLAND (Poland) Drama. 84mins. Dir: Przemyslaw Wojcieszek. Key cast: Piotr Wawer Jr, Janusz Chabior, Przemyslaw Bluszcz. Forum


Delphi Filmpalast


STUTTGART 21 — THINK TO REMEMBER! (Germany) Documentary. 75mins. Dir: Lisa Sperling, Florian Klager. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Special Screening CinemaxX 3


THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD (US, Albania, Denmark, Italy) Drama. 109mins. Dir: Joshua Marston. Key cast: Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, Refet Abazi. Competition Berlinale Palast


17:00


LIGHTFLIGHT (Germany) Documentary. 82mins. Dir: Annette Frick. Documentary about German photographer Herbert Tobias. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7


THE FATHERLESS (Austria) Drama. 105mins. Dir: Marie Kreutzer. Key cast: Andrea Wenzl, Philipp Hochmair, Andreas Kiendl. Although Niki, a doctor living and working in Munich, manages to arrive at his father’s deathbed just in time, the man who spawned him fails to give him the belated acknowledgement and love for which he so longs. Shortly after the father dies, his other grown-up children arrive and reflection on their family ties begins. Panorama Special Cubix 9


TOP FLOOR LEFT WING (France, Luxembourg) Drama. 93mins. Dir: Angelo Cianci. Key cast: Hippolyte Girardot, Fellag. As every morning, Francois, who is a bailiff, leaves his apartment and his irascible wife to begin his day of evictions. But fate has something else in store for this official on this particular morning, September 11. As he enters the apartment where he is to serve the eviction order, Francois is inadvertently taken hostage by a drug dealer and his father. Panorama International


17:30


THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 (Sweden) Documentary. 94mins. Dir: Goran Hugo Olsson. Key cast: Stokely Carmichael,


Angela Davis, Erykah Badu. Documentary examining the Black Power movement of the US in the late 1960s and 1970s. Panorama Dokumente Cubix 7


WE ARE THE NIGHT (Germany) 96mins. Dir: Dennis Gansel. Key cast: Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Karoline Herfurth.


One night 18-year-old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio as deadly as they are beautiful. German Cinema CinemaxX 1


PINA


(Germany, France) Documentary. 100mins. Dir: Wim Wenders. Documentary shot in 3D about the work of the late choreographer Pins Bausch. Competition Urania


17:45


WAITING WOMEN (Sweden) Drama. 107mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Anita Bjork, Eva Dahlbeck, Maj-Britt Nilsson. Four sisters-in-law wait in a summer house for the arrival of their husbands, four brothers from the Lobelius family who together have inherited a company. To kill the time, the women tell each other important incidents from their lives. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8


18:00 DIRTY EYES


(US) Documentary. 49mins. Dir: Lawrence Weiner. Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 1


ELITE SQUAD 2 — THE ENEMY WITHIN (Brazil) Thriller. 116mins. Dir: Jose Padilha. Key cast: Wagner Moura, Sandro Rocha, Maria Ribeiro. Capitano Nascimento’s special force once again uses all admissible — and


sometimes inadmissible — means at its disposal to combat the rampant crime that sweeps through the favelas and Rio de Janeiro’s middle-class districts. Panorama Special Friedrichstadtpalast


FARO-DOKUMENT (Sweden) Documentary. 58mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Bergman originally wanted to make a documentary with cameraman Sven Nykvist on the island’s sheep, but the more he spoke with the inhabitants, the more interested he became in their lives and problems. So he conducted many interviews with them, to which he added images of the austere countryside, the birth of lambs in the icy winter, the gigantic rocks on the coast, and the agricultural production of the islanders. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman Zeughauskino


SUMMER INTERLUDE (Sweden) Drama. 92mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin. A ballerina finds herself after having devoted her life entirely to her art following the tragic death of her first great love, Henrik. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 6


TOAST (UK) Drama. 96mins. Dir: SJ Clarkson. Key cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Ken Stott, Victoria Hamilton. Berlinale Special Cubix 8


18:30


IF NOT US, WHO (German) Drama. 124mins. Dir: Andres Veiel. Key cast: August Diehl, Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling. Berlinale goes Kiez Eva Lichtspiele


19:00


EIGHTY LETTERS (Czech Republic) Drama. 75mins. Dir:


Vaclav Kadrnka. Key cast: Zuzana Lapcikova, Martin Pavlus. Forum


Delphi Filmpalast


GRIFF THE INVISIBLE (Australia) Action. 93mins. Dir: Leon Ford. Key cast: Ryan Kwanten, Maeve Dermody, Patrick Brammall. By day, Griff works in a boring office in a boring town. His life is a dull routine in which his colleagues bully him and his brother, Griff ’s only friend, protects him. But at night, Griff lives a completely different life, wandering down the gloomy streets, watching over the innocent and defenceless, protecting them from all manner of dangers that lurk in the dark. Panorama CinemaxX 7


TARGET (Russia) Drama. 154mins. Dir: Alexander Zeldovich. Key cast: Maksim Sukhanov, Justine Waddell, Danila Kozlovsky, Daniela Stoyanovich. Russia in the year 2020. The four protagonists of this film are members of the country’s elite. Victor is a minister responsible for the state’s natural resources. Zoya is his wife. Her brother, Mitya, is a well-known television celebrity and Nicolai is a colonel assigned to the Guangzhou–Paris rail corridor. They have everything that money can buy. What they lack is youth and happiness. But they are determined to recover both. Panorama Special CineStar 3


19:15


BROWNIAN MOVEMENT (Netherlands, Germany, Belgium) Drama. 102mins. Dir: Nanouk Leopold. Key cast: Sandra Huller, Dragan Bakema, Sabine Timoteo. Forum CineStar 8


19:30


A SERIES OF THOUGHTS (Germany) Documentary. 91mins.


February 17, 2011 Screen International in Berlin 17 n


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