SCREENINGS
Dir: Heinz Emigholz. Psycho-documentary. Forum CinemaxX 4
INVINCIBLE LOVE (Germany) Drama. 89mins. Dir: Frank Beyer. Key cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Annekathrin Burger, Ulrich Thein. Three young people in 1930s Berlin. Magdalena and Michael are in love. The third, Jurgen, has come to terms with the Nazis, whereas Michael and Magdalena want to resist. During the war Michael is sentenced to a penal battalion. On the front he meets Jurgen and both decide to defect to the Red Army, which Magdalena has already joined. Homage Zeughauskino
KAMAKIA — THE HEROES OF THE ISLAND (Germany) Documentary. 37mins. Dir: Jasin Challah. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 3
TURKISH KRAUT (Germany) Documentary. 60mins. Dir: Anna Hepp. Documentary portrait of two families with German and Turkish backgrounds living in Germany’s Ruhr district. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 3
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20:00 BARZAKH
(Finland) Drama. 59mins. Dir: Mantas Kvedaravicius. A man disappears in Chechnya. Although there are witnesses who observed state police taking him away, nobody seems to know where he is. His relatives receive conflicting information. As time goes by, the fate of the missing man becomes increasingly uncertain. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
EVEN THE RAIN (Spain, France, Mexico) Drama. 104mins.
GHOSTS#9
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UNKNOWN (Germany, UK, France) Drama. 111mins. Dir: Jaume Collet-Serra. Key cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones. Dr Martin Harris has come to rain- soaked Berlin for a biotechnology conference. But no sooner does he step into a taxi than he is involved in a bad accident. When Dr Harris wakes up from his coma, he finds
Dir: Iciar Bollain. Key cast: Luis Tosar, Gael Garcia Bernal, Juan Carlos Aduviri. Panorama International
JOURNEY INTO AUTUMN (Sweden) Drama. 87mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 6
KAREN CRIES ON THE BUS (Colombia) Drama. 98mins. Dir: Gabriel Rojas Vera. Key cast: angela Carrizosa Aparicio, Juan Manuel Diaz. Forum Colosseum 1
LIPSTIKKA (Israel, UK) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Jonathan Sagall. Key cast: Clara Khoury, Nataly Attiya, Moran Rosenblatt. Competition Urania
n 18 Screen International in Berlin February 17, 2011
(UK) Documentary. 42mins. Dir: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. These cans, salvaged in 1980 by P-Orridge from the office of the then recently deceased film-maker Anthony Balch, contained not only prints of the previously released Beatfilms, but also footage shot in and around the Beat Hotel at 9 Rue Git le Coeur in Paris. Calling on the help of his friend Derek Jarmann, Breyer P-Orridge was able to identify and catalogue the footage, subsequently editing parts of it into the film ‘Ghosts#9’. Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 2
himself bandaged up in a hospital bed. ‘Identity unknown’ says the sign at the foot of his bed. For Harris this marks the beginning of a nightmare: his wife Liz no longer recognises him and another man has taken his place — claiming to be not just her husband but also the renowned scientist who is to hold an important lecture at the conference. Competition Berlinale Palast
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES
(US) Documentary. 114mins. Dir: Jonas Mekas. For two hours (or more) we stroll with Jonas Mekas through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars and clubs. We meet old acquaintances like Ken and Flo Jacobs, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Carolee Schneemann, Marina Abramovic, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pip Chodorov, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and we also make many new acquaintances. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
SO CLOSE TO LIFE (Sweden) Drama. 85mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson. Four very different women share a room in a maternity ward.
Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8
SUBMARINE (UK) Comedy. 94mins. Dir: Richard Ayoade. Key cast: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, Noah Taylor. Coming-of-age comedy set in Wales. Forum Cubix 9
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MOTHERS (Macedonia, France, Bulgaria) Drama. 123mins. Dir: Milcho Manchevski. Key cast: Ana Stojanovska, Vladimir Jacev, Dimitar Gjorgjievski. Panorama Cubix 7 & 8 Interlock
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BATTLE OF THE QUEENS (Germany, Switzerland) Documentary. 70mins. Dir: Nicolas Steiner. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1
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LATE BLOOMERS (France, UK, Belgium) Drama. 95mins. Dir: Julie Gavras. Key cast: Isabella Rossellini, William Hurt, Joanna Lumley. Berlinale Special Gala Friedrichstadtpalast
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ABOVE US ONLY SKY (Germany) Drama. 88mins. Dir: Jan Schomburg. Key cast: Sandra Huller, Georg Friedrich, Felix Knopp. Martha is in a happy relationship, she has a home, knows just where she belongs and shares her life with Paul, the man she trusts and knows inside out. She looks ahead and sees the future. But then one day two policewomen appear at her door. Berlinale goes Kiez Eva Lichtspiele
THE GUARD (Ireland, UK) Drama. 96mins. Dir: John Michael McDonagh. Key cast: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong. A country policeman’s routine is shattered when an FBI agent arrives and involves him in a dangerous drugs bust. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
THE TERRORISTS (Thailand, Germany)
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Documentary. 105mins. Dir: Thunska Pansittivorakul. Focusing on the aftermath and psychological fallout of the protests and uprising of early 2010. Forum
Delphi Filmpalast 22:00
DRUNKARD’S PARADISE (Japan) Drama. 93mins. Dir: Shibuya Minoru. Key cast: Ryu Chishu, Ishihama Akira, Baisho Chieko. Forum CineStar 8
FRENZY (Sweden) Drama. 101mins. Dir: Alf Sjoberg. Key cast: Stig Jorrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling. Ingmar Begrman’s first ever screenplay to be filmed. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8
HOUR OF THE WOLF (Sweden) Drama. 89mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin. Alma, the wife of the artist Johan Borg, recalls the time when her husband had suddenly disappeared. Johan had been increasingly haunted by hallucinations, which he sketched in his notebook. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman Zeughauskino
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (Sweden) Drama. 91mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow. Karin, who in the words of her physician suffers from an “almost incurable mental illness”, is on an island recuperating from her latest stay at a sanatorium. Karin, who suffers from insomnia, sneaks up to the attic, where she experiences visions of God that verge on the ecstatic. In the shimmering light of the summer night the old patterned wallpaper
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