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SCREENINGS


TOMBOY (France) Drama. 84mins. Dir: Celine Sciamma. Key cast: Zoe Heran, Malonn Raffin, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy. Panorama CineStar 3


20:30 DIRTY EYES


(US) Documentary. 49mins. Dir: Lawrence Weiner. Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 2


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


KAMAKIA — THE HEROES OF THE ISLAND (Germany) Documentary. 37mins. Dir: Jasin Challah. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1


TURKISH KRAUT (Germany) Documentary. 60mins. Dir: Anna Hepp. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1


21:30


AMNESTY (Albania) Drama. 83mins. Dir: Bujar Alimani. Key cast: Luli Bitri, Karafil Shena, Todi Llupi.


A man and a woman in Albania. Their two partners are both in prison but reforms in the penal system allow married couples conjugal visits. The two meet by chance in the prison and start an affair that looks set to end when their partners are freed in an amnesty. Forum


Delphi Filmpalast 22:00


PERSONA (Sweden) Drama. 83mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Margaretha Krook. Nurse Alma is being informed about a patient she is to take care of:


the actress Elisabet Vogler. In the middle of a performance Elisabet stopped speaking and has remained speechless ever since. The doctor sends the two women to her own summer house, where Elisabet is to recuperate. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 6


THE RADISH AND THE CARROT (Japan) Drama. 107mins. Dir: Shibuya Minoru. Key cast: Ryu Chishu, Otowa Nobuko, Kaga Mariko. Forum CineStar 8


TWENTY CIGARETTES (US) Documentary. 97mins. Dir: James Benning. Forum CinemaxX 4


THE VIRGIN SPRING (Sweden) Drama. 89ins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Pettersson, Gunnel Lindblom. Sweden in the middle ages: a young girl is raped and killed, triggering her father’s remorseless revenge. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman Zeughauskino


VAMPIRE (US, Canada) Drama. 120mins. Dir: Iwai Shunji. Key cast: Kevin Zegers, Rachael Leigh Cook, Keisha Castle- Hughes. Simon Wade is an average young man who goes about his profession as a teacher with the same kind of dedication that he exhibits when taking care of his ailing mother. But under the seemingly obliging surface lurks an entirely different side. His unquenchable thirst for fresh blood forces the young teacher to trawl websites in search of suicidal young women. Panorama CinemaxX 7


22:15


LATE AUTUMN (South Korea) Drama. 113mins. Dir: Kim Tae- Yong. Key cast: Tang


Wei, Hyun Bin. Forum Cubix 9


THE DEVIL’S EYE (Sweden) Drama. 87mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Nils Poppe. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8


22:30


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


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


INVISIBLE (Israel, Germany) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Michal Aviad. Key cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Evgenia Dodina. More than 20 years ago, Nira and Lily were victims of the same rapist. Their attacker was a serial offender who was never caught. A coincidence now brings the two women together. Panorama Colosseum 1


LATE BLOOMERS (France, UK, Belgium) Drama. 95mins. Dir: Julie Gavras. Key cast: Isabella Rossellini, William Hurt, Joanna Lumley. Berlinale Special Gala International


LOST LAND (France, Belgium) Documentary. 75mins. Dir: Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd. Forum Kino Arsenal 1


THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (Belgium) Thriller. 108mins. Dir: Lee Tamahori. Key cast:


Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier. Baghdad 1987. Iraq is a breeding ground for corruption and fraud. Someone who knows better than anyone how to make use of such things is Uday Hussein, the oldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. To protect himself, he decides to use a double. He chooses Latif Yahia, a former schoolmate. The dictator’s son has no qualms about forcing Latif to do his bidding. Panorama Special Cubix 7 & 8 Interlock


22:45


ROMEOS (Germany) Drama. 94mins. Dir: Sabine Bernardi. Key cast: Rick Okon, Liv Lisa Fries, Maximilian Befort. Panorama CineStar 3


23:00


UNKNOWN (Germany, UK, France) Drama. 111mins. Dir: Jaume Collet-Serra. Key cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast


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FESTIVAL & PRESS


10:00


MY BEST ENEMY (Austria) Drama. 109mins. Dir: Wolfgang Murnberger. Key cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Georg Friedrich, Ursula Strauss. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast


TALES OF THE NIGHT (France) Animation. 84mins. Dir: Michel Ocelot. Every night, a boy, a girl and an elderly technician meet in a closed, rather dilapidated old cinema. But the old picture palace harbours a secret. If truth be known, the cinema is a magical place where the three friends


enjoy rummaging about, fantasising, dressing up and playing parts in make-believe stories which, at night, become all too real for the three friends. Competition Berlinale Palast


TWIGSON TIES THE KNOT (Norway) Animation. 78mins. Dir: Martin Lund. Key cast: Adrian Gronnevik Smith, Petrus Andreas Christensen. Generation Kplus Filmtheater am Friedrichshain


YELLING TO THE SKY (US) Drama. 96mins. Dir: Victoria Mahoney. Key cast: Zoe Kravitz, Gabourey Sidibe, Tim Blake Nelson. Life is anything but sweet for 17-year-old Sweetness O’Hara. Her family life lacks warmth and, at school and on the street, she finds herself the target of naked aggression. When her father gets violent, her mother leaves home and sister Ola decides to join her. From now on Sweetness must look after herself. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1


11:00


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


SUBMARINE (UK) Comedy. 94mins. Dir: Richard Ayoade. Key cast: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, Noah Taylor. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2


11:15


THE SEVENTH SEAL (Sweden) Drama. 96mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Bibi Andersson. The film deals with


sacrifice, salvation and the search for God. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8


12:00


THE PRIZE (Germany) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Paula Markovitch. Key cast: Paula Galinelli Hertzog, Sharon Herrera, Laura Agorreca. Competition Berlinale Palast


12:30


CORIOLANUS (UK) Drama. 122mins. Dir: Ralph Fiennes. Key cast: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave. Shakespeare’s Roman tragedy transposed to the present day. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast


KAREN CRIES ON THE BUS (Colombia) Drama. 98mins. Dir: Gabriel Rojas Vera. Key cast: angela Carrizosa Aparicio, Juan Manuel D’az. Forum Cubix 7


THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE (US, France,) Documentary. 75mins. Dir: Marie Losier. Forum Kino Arsenal 1


WIND & FOG (Iran) Drama. 74mins. Dir: Mohammad Ali Talebi. Key cast: Payam Eris, Masume Shakori, Asadolah Asadnia. Generation Kplus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1


13:30


PERSONA (Sweden) Drama. 83mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Margaretha Krook. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8


13:45


VIVA RIVA! (Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Belgium) Crime.


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