SCREENINGS


Dir: Djo Tunda Wa Munga. Key cast: Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Hoji Fortuna. Kinshasa is running out of gas. A band of smugglers from neighboring Angola has stashed some but this is only supposed to be sold when the prices have risen even further — and it is clear whose pockets the money will end up in. A wild, crazy struggle for the position of king of the underworld breaks out. Forum CineStar 8


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BEATS BEING DEAD (Germany) Drama. 88mins. Dir: Christian Petzold. Key cast: Jacob Matschenz, Luna Mijovic, Vijessna Ferkic. Panorama Special Screening International


DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Germany) Drama. 89mins. Dir: Dominik Graf. Key cast: Jeanette Hain, Misel Maticevic, Susanne Wolff. The story of a police psychologist who meets old acquaintances while investigating a case. Panorama Special Screening International


JESS + MOSS (US) Drama. 84mins. Dir: Clay Jeter. Key cast: Sarah Hagan, Austin Vickers. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2


ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS (Germany) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Christoph Hochhausler. Key cast: Stefan Kurt, Eberhard Kirchberg. An indefatigable policeman hunting the escaped prisoner begins to doubt false certainties. Panorama Special Screening International


THE LIVERPOOL GOALIE (Norway) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Arild Andresen. Key cast: Ask van der Hagen, Susanne


Boucher, Kyrre Hellum, Tore Sagen. Generation Kplus CinemaxX 3


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


Delphi Filmpalast


WHATSOEVERLY (Italy) Comedy. 96mins. Dir: Giulio Manfredonia. Key cast: Antonio Albanese, Sergio Rubini, Lorenza Indovina. Panorama Cubix 9


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TOAST (UK) Drama. 96mins. Dir: SJ Clarkson. Key cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Ken Stott, Victoria Hamilton. Berlinale Special CinemaxX 7


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SKYSCRAPER (Denmark) Drama. 85mins. Dir: Rune Schjott. Key cast: Lukas Schwarz Thorsteinsson, Marta Holm, Morten Suurballe. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1


THE TURIN HORSE (Hungary) Drama. 146mins. Dir: Bela Tarr. Key cast: Janos Derzsi, Erika Bok, Mihaly Kormos. Historial piece focusing on Nietzche’s mental breakdown and those who witnessed it. Competition Berlinale Palast


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ABSENT (Argentina) Drama. 87mins. Dir: Marco Berger. Key cast: Carlos Echevarria, Javier De Pietro, Antonella Costa. Martin finds a whole series of excuses to subtly invade his sport teacher Sebastian’s privacy, ending up spending a night in his apartment. But when Martin’s intentions dawn on him, the teacher has already been compromised. It takes a tragic accident for Sebastian to become


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aware of his own feelings for Martin. Forum Cubix 7


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FANNY AND ALEXANDER (Sweden, France, Germany) Drama. 188mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman Zeughauskino


KHODORKOVSKY (Germany) Documentary. 111mins. Dir: Cyril Tuschi. Key cast: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Marina Khodorkovskaya, Lena Khodorkovskaya. Documentary investigating the truth behind fallen Russian oligarch Borisovich Khodorkovsky. Panorama Dokumente Colosseum 1


THE KID WHO LIES (Venezuela, Peru) Drama. 99mins. Dir: Marite Ugas. Key cast: Iker Fernandez, Maria Fernanda Ferro, Francisco Denis. A 13-year-old boy is searching for his mother. Ten years ago his childhood was brought to an end by a natural disaster. Many people have been missing ever since — including his mother. The boy still has a long way to go, but, in time, his wounds will heal. Generation 14plus Cubix 8


MUSIC BOX (US) Drama. 125mins. Dir: Costa-Gavras. Key cast: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest. Homage CinemaxX 8


ON THE SLY (Belgium, France) Drama. 77mins. Dir: Olivier Ringer. Key cast: Wynona Ringer, Olivier Ringer, Macha Ringer. A child runs away from home — she’s aiming for a fantasy land away from authority, but instead discovers just how terrifying reality can be.


Generation Kplus Filmtheater am Friedrichshain


RED DOG (Australia) Drama. 88mins. Dir: Kriv Stenders. Key cast: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Noah Taylor, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Luke Ford. Children’s film about a town dog that brings everyone in a harsh mining community together. Generation Kplus Filmtheater am Friedrichshain


SERVICE ENTRANCE (France) Drama. 100mins. Dir: Philippe Le Guay. Key cast: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Carmen Maura. Paris in 1960. Jean-Louis and Suzanne Joubert are no longer exactly youthful. This stockbroker and his wife live a quiet, middle-class existence in an elegant tenement building. Things are a good deal livelier on the sixth floor of their building where all the female staff live. The most recent arrivals are ‘guest workers’ from Spain: six women of different ages from Burgos. Jean-Louis finds himself increasingly drawn into their world — a world that is so different to his own. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast


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HARVEST (Germany) Drama. 85mins. Dir: Benjamin Cantu. Key cast: Lukas Steltner, Kai-Michael Muller, Cristina Do Rego. Generation 14plus CinemaxX 3


SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES


(US) Documentary. 114mins. Dir: Jonas Mekas. Forum


Delphi Filmpalast


STATE OF VIOLENCE (South Africa, France) Drama. 79mins. Dir: Khalo Matabane. Key cast: Fana Mokoena,


Presley Chweneyagae, Neo Ntlatleng. Forum CineStar 8


TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER (Poland, Japan) Drama. 118mins. Dir: Dorota Kedzierzawska. Key cast: Oleg Ryba, Evgeny Ryba, Akhmed Sardalov. Coming-of-age drama about two destitute brothers and a young girl. Generation Kplus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2


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!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION — A SECRET HISTORY (US) Documentary. 83mins. Dir: Lynn Hershman Leeson. Key cast: Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Guerilla Girls, B. Ruby Rich. American artist Lynn Hershman Leeson has Documentary describing the history of the feminist art movement. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7


THE UNJUST (South Korea) Thriller. 120mins. Dir: Ryoo Seung-wan. Key cast: Hwang Jung-min, Ryoo Seung-bum, Yoo Hae-jin. A series of murders holds the nation in its sway and the longer the police fail to catch the murderer, the more the public begins to panic. Choi, a highly successful investigator whose methods have always held him back from promotion, senses that this case might be his last chance to make something of his career. He and his old mentor Jang agree to arrest the next best suspect as the serial killer — whatever it might cost. Panorama Cubix 9


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


REBOUNCE (Denmark) Drama.


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90mins. Dir: Heidi Maria Faisst. Key cast: Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Anne Sofie Espersen, Dar Salim. Louise, a teenager girl recently reunited with her imprisoned mother, is taken through the underworld of drugs and crime and forced to make a difficult decision. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1


WILD STRAWBERRIES (Sweden) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Victor Sjostrom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin. The old medical doctor Isak Borg travels by car with his daughter- in-law Marianne to the university town of Lund, where he is to be honoured for his scientific achievements. On the way he falls asleep and experiences a series of dreams and nightmares in which his life passes in review. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 6


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


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COME RAIN, COME SHINE (South Korea) Drama. 105mins. Dir: Lee Yoon- ki. Key cast: Lim Soo- jung, Hyun Bin. Competition Berlinale Palast


FREE HANDS (France) Drama. 100mins. Dir: Brigitte Sy. Key cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Carlo Brandt, Camille Figuereo. Barbara is a director who makes films in prison. Michel is a prisoner who takes part in her film workshop. They fall in love. Their seemingly controlled relationship goes off the rails. Forum Kino Arsenal 1


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