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THE MOUNTAIN (Norway) Drama. 73mins. Dir: Ole Giaever. Key cast: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Marte Magnusdotter Solem. Two years ago, Nora and Solveig’s five-year-old son, Vetle, died on a mountain hike. Their grief over his death has weighed heavily on their relationship since. The boy’s death has changed Solveig and she now finds that she can’t imagine a life without a child any more. But how would Nora react? Would it ruin their relationship if Solveig were to have a child? Together, the two women set off on a journey back to the mountain. Panorama Special Friedrichstadtpalast


THE SALT OF LIFE (Italy) Drama. 90mins. Dir: Gianni Di Gregorio. Key cast: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis Bendoni, Alfonso Santagata. There are plenty of things that Gianni, a married man who has recently retired, needs to think about, but love certainly isn’t one of them. Gianni lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in Rome. Then one day Gianni’s old friend Alfonso tells him some astonishing things about his recent sexual escapades. Somehow Gianni seems to have ignored the fact that all his contemporaries are in the throes of reliving their youth. Berlinale Special Cubix 8


THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (Sweden) Drama. 91mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8


19:15


LOOKING FOR SIMON (Germany) Thriller. 89mins. Dir: Jan Kruger. Key cast: Corinna Harfouch, Nico Rogner, Mehdi Dehbi. Valerie has not been


able to get hold of her son, who is a doctor in Marseille, for some time now. She goes to the French port city and finds an abandoned apartment. She asks Simon’s ex-lover Jens to come too so he can support her quest in the strange city. Why does somebody disappear without a trace? How can somebody one thought one knew so well suddenly become so unknown? And who is Simon really? Forum


Delphi Filmpalast


MADE IN POLAND (Poland) Drama. 84mins. Dir: Przemyslaw Wojcieszek. Key cast: Piotr Wawer Jr., Janusz Chabior, Przemyslaw Bluszcz. Forum CineStar 8


19:30


THE ALBANIAN (Germany, Albania) Drama. 104mins. Dir: Johannes Naber. Key cast: Nik Xhelilaj, Xhejlane Terbunja, Ivan Shvedoff. A young Albanian illegal gets caught up in human trafficking in Germany’s underbelly. Winner Max-Ophuls-Preis CinemaxX 3


AUTUMN SONATA (Germany) Drama. 92mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Bergman, Halvar Bjork. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 6


THE FLIGHT (Germany) Drama. 94mins. Dir: Roland Graf. Key cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jenny Grollmann, Erika Pelikowsky. Schmith, a doctor at a GDR clinic, develops a therapy which could improve premature babies’ chances of survival. When the head of the clinic turns down his project Schmith decides to continue his work in the Federal Republic and approaches agents to help him escape. Homage Zeughauskino


TARGET (Russia) Drama. 154mins. Dir: Alexander Zeldovich. Key cast: Maksim Sukhanov, Justine Waddell, Danila Kozlovsky, Daniela Stoyanovich. Panorama Special Cubix 7 & 8 Interlock


20:00


A MYSTERIOUS WORLD (Argentina, Germany, Uruguay) Drama. 107mins. Dir: Rodrigo Moreno. Key cast: Esteban Bigliardi, Cecilia Rainero. Competition Berlinale Palast


BOMBAY BEACH (US) Drama. 80mins. Dir: Alma Har’el. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7


IDLENESS (Argentina) Drama. 70mins. Dir: Juan Villegas, Alejandro Lingenti. Key cast: Namuel Viale, Francisco Grassi, German de Silva. Forum Kino Arsenal 1


INNOCENT SATURDAY (Russia, Germany, Ukraine) Drama. 99mins. Dir: Alexander Mindadze. Key cast: Anton Shagin, Svetlana Smirnova-Marcinkevich, Stanislav Rjadinsky. Competition Urania


RED DOG (Australia) Drama. 88mins. Dir: Kriv Stenders. Key cast: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Noah Taylor, Keisha Castle-Hughes. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1


SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT (Sweden) Romantic comedy. 108mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Ulla Jabobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 8


THE STOOL PIGEON (Hong Kong) Thriller. 112mins. Dir: Dante


Lam. Key cast: Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, Kwai Lun-Mei. Forum Colosseum 1


UNDER CONTROL (Germany) Documentary. 98mins. Dir: Volker Sattel. Forum Cubix 9


20:15


OUR GRAND DESPAIR (Turkey, Germany, Netherlands) Drama. 102mins. Dir: Seyfi Teoman. Key cast: Ilker Aksum, Fatih Al, Baki Davrak. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast


THE MORTICIAN (UK) Thriller. 92mins. Dir: Gareth Maxwell Roberts. Key cast: Method Man, Edward Furlong, Dash Mihok. The mortician processes corpses with steely disregard. His work is conducted with a ritualistic eye for detail and an unyielding adherence to routine. The only interpersonal contact he has is with a prostitute named Ava. An insomniac, the mortician wanders the streets of the ghetto, emotionally isolated and lonely. One day his boss introduces him to his new colleague, a young offender currently on probation. But before long, a gangster named Carver turns up on the mortician’s doorstep. Panorama CineStar 3


20:30


CET HOMME (Germany) Drama. 44mins. Dir: Markus Ruff. Key cast: Birgit Ludwig, Antoine Davenne. Forum Expanded Kino Arsenal 2


CHARITY SALESMEN (Germany) Documentary. 73mins. Dir: Stefan Ludwig. Winner First Steps Award Documentary CinemaxX 1


21:30


THE HOUSE (Slovak Republic)


Drama. 97mins. Dir: Zuzana Liova. Key cast: Judit Bardos, Miroslav Krobot, Marian Mitas. Stone by stone, Imrich is building a small house for his daughter Eva almost entirely on his own. But for Eva, who is about to graduate from school, the prospect of moving into the house is about as appealing as being imprisoned in a jail she herself has helped to build. Forum


Delphi Filmpalast


SAWDUST AND TINSEL (Sweden) Drama. 93mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Ake Gronberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman CinemaxX 6


SUMMER WITH MONIKA (Sweden) Drama. 96mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg. Retrospective Ingmar Bergman Zeughauskino


22:00


EIGHTY LETTERS (Czech Republic) Drama. 75mins. Dir: Vaclav Kadrnka. Key cast: Zuzana Lapcikova, Martin Pavlus. Forum Kino Arsenal 1


MATCHMAKING MAYOR (Czech Republic) Documentary. 72mins. Dir: Erika Hnikova. Forum CineStar 8


22:15


THE SERPENT’S EGG (Germany) Drama. 119mins. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Key cast: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine. Berlin, November 1923. Inflation has enveloped the poverty-stricken city. The out-of-work Jewish trapeze artist Abel Rosenberg prefers gets drunk every night. One day he finds his brother Max dead in the flat with a bullet in his head. Inspector Bauer


takes over the case, and is dawn into the lethal world of “scientific” experimentation. 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 International


THE FUTURE (Germany, US) Drama. 91mins. Dir: Miranda July. Key cast: Hamish Linklater, Miranda July, David Warshofsky. Competition Berlinale Palast


MARGIN CALL (US) Thriller. 110mins. Dir: JC Chandor. Key cast: Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore. Set in the offices of a major investment bank during the decisive 24 hours that precedes its bankruptcy announcement. Competition Friedrichstadtpalast


MEDIANERAS (Argentina, Germany, Spain) Drama. 91mins. Dir: Gustavo Taretto. Key cast: Javier Drolas, Rafael Ferro. Panorama Special Colosseum 1


NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION (Iran) Drama. 123mins. Dir: Asghar Farhadi. Key cast: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Shahab Hosseini. An Iranian marriage falls apart, witnessed by the children. Competition Urania


THE YOUNG BUTLER (Chile) Documentary. 70mins. Dir: Marcela Said, Jean de Certeau. Focusing on the life of a man who served as an errand boy in a prison during Pinochet’s regime. Forum Cubix 9


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