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SCREENINGS Edited by Paul Lindsell paullindsell@gmail.com BERLIN THEATRES


CINEMA ARSENAL Potsdamer Strasse 2 10785 Berlin


BABYLON KREUZBERG Dresdener Strasse 126 10999 Berlin


BERLINALE PALAST Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1 10785 Berlin


BUNDESPLATZ-KINO Bundesplatz 14 10715 Berlin


CINEMAXX POTSDAMER PLATZ Potsdamer Strasse 5/ Entrance Voxstrasse 10785 Berlin


FESTIVAL & PRESS 09:00


CAESAR MUST DIE (Italy) 76mins. Dir: Paolo & Vittorio Taviani. Key cast: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri. Observes rehearsals for a production of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ at the Roman


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maximum security prison Rebbibia. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s film follows the inmates as they prepare for their performance and draws parallels between this classical drama and the world of today. Competition Press Berlinale Palast


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CAESAR MUST DIE See box, above


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NORMAL SCHOOL (Argentina) 88mins. Dir: Celina Murga. Documentary. By observing the student council elections at an elite school in Parana, Argentina, Murga examines the political state of Argentina as a whole today. Forum Press CinemaxX 6


TODAY (AUJOURD’HUI) (France, Senegal) 86mins. Dir: Alain Gomis. Key cast: Saul


Williams, Aissa Maiga, Djolof M’bengue. The last day in the life of a Senegalese man who returns to his home country from America. Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast


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THE WOMAN WHO BRUSHED OFF HER TEARS (Macedonia, Germany, Slovenia, Belgium) 103mins. Dir: Teona Strugar Mitevska. Key cast: Victoria Abril, Labina Mitevska, Jean Marie Galey. Helena’s son dies in Paris and in Macedonia Aysun fights to retain custody of her child. Both women must try to hold their own in a male-dominated world. A portrait of two very different cultures interwoven with fairy- tale-like elements. Panorama Special Press CineStar 3


n 30 Screen International at the Berlinale February 11, 2012


THE ICE DRAGON (Sweden) 77mins. Dir: Martin Hogdahl. Key cast: Philip Olsson, Malin Morgan, Feline Andersson. Miko’s father is a successful musician, but a neglectful parent. When the welfare people send Miko away to a remote village, he has to start anew. Generation Kplus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1


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INDIGNADOS (France) 88mins. Dir: Tony Gatlif. Key cast: Isabel Vendrell Cortes. Tells the story of a young illegal immigrant named Betty who arrives in Europe to discover a continent in the throes of turmoil. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7


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FORMENTERA (Germany) 93mins. Dir: Ann-Kristin Reyels. Key cast: Sabine Timoteo, Thure Lindhardt. Ben and Nina are on holiday in Formentera, having left their three- year-old daughter at home for the first time. It quickly becomes clear that their expectations of the


days to be spent on the island are as different as their respective ideas for the future. Forum CineStar 8


THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (UK) 164mins. Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Key cast: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook. The story of a conservative English military officer who tries to practise his profession in a gentlemanly, fair and sportsmanlike manner but finds himself inevitably faced with the demands of modern warfare. A beautifully restored sumptuous Technicolor classic of British cinema. Berlinale Special International


THE MONKEY KING – UPROAR IN HEAVEN 3D (China) 90mins. Dir: Da Su, Zhihong Chen. Animated classic restored in 3D. Monkey King Sun Wukong uses all his cunning and artfulness to bring heaven into disarray so that he himself can ascend the Emperor’s jade throne. Out of Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele


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CINESTAR EVENT CINEMA BERLIN Potsdamer Strasse 4 10785 Berlin


CINESTAR IN THE SONY CENTRE Potsdamer Strasse 4 10785 Berlin


COLOSSEUM Schonhauser Allee 123 10437 Berlin


DELPHI FILMPALAST Kantstrasse 12a 10623 Berlin


FILMKUNST 66 Bleibtreustrasse 12 10623 Berlin


FILMTHEATER AM FRIEDRICHSHAIN Botzowstrasse 1-5 10407 Berlin


FRIEDRICHSTADTPALAST Friedrichstrasse 107 10117 Berlin


HACKESCHE HOFE KINO Rosenthaler Strasse 40-41 10178 Berlin


HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE Schaperstrasse 24 10719 Berlin


HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin


INTERNATIONAL Karl-Marx-Allee 33 10178 Berlin


DIE KURBEL Giesebrechstrasse 4 10629 Berlin (Charlottenburg)


PASSAGE Karl-Marx-Strasse 131 12043 Berlin (Neukolln)


THALIA PROGRAMMKINO POTSDAM Rudolf Breitscheid Str. 50 14482 Potsdam – Babelsberg


TONI & TONINO Max-Steinke-Str. 43 / Antonplatz 13086 Berlin (Weissensee)


ZEUGHAUSKINO Unter den Linden 2 10117 Berlin


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HEMEL (Netherlands, Spain) 80mins. Dir: Sacha Polak. Key cast: Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Dagelet, Rifka Lodeizen. Hemel changes her sexual partners in rapid succession. The film of the same name takes a painfully precise, empathetic look at the life of this troubled young woman, who deploys her sexuality as a


means of provocation. Forum Press CinemaxX 6


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BARBARA (Germany) 105mins. Dir: Christian Petzold. Key cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christiana Hecke. Barbara, a doctor, submits an application to leave the GDR and is punished by being sent to work in a hospital


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