SCREENINGS
in a small town. While her Western lover is busy planning her escape, Barbara meets a colleague who makes her less sure of her plans. Competition Press Berlinale Palast
ST. JORGEN’S DAY (USSR) 92mins. Dir: Jakow Protasanow. Key cast: Anatoli Ktorow, Igor Iljinski, Michail Klimow. A film rich in anti- religious signals and ironic attacks on the clergy, its managers and their beneficiaries. Soviet satire. Retrospective CinemaxX 8
FESTIVAL & PRESS 12:00
THE RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARY (UK, Ireland) 70mins. Dir: Sean McAllister. Key cast: Quais Al-Qalisi. When a friend is shot in the Arab
YOKO
Spring uprisings, tour operator Kais decides to rise up against the president and join the revolution. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
(Germany, Austria, Sweden) 103mins. Dir: Franziska Buch. Key cast: Tobias Moretti, Justus von Dohnanyi, Jessica Schwarz. Kids’ fantasy. One day an 11-year-old child discovers the creature Yoko in her treehouse. A friendship is kindled, but an evil hunter is after Yoko. LOLA@Berlinale CinemaxX 1
12:00
THE IDIOT
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE (US) 129mins. Dir: Stephen Daldry. Key cast: Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock. Having lost his father during the terror attacks of 9/11, a traumatised boy embarks on an odyssey across New York. Out of Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast
THE RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARY See box, above left
12:15
n 32 Screen International at the Berlinale February 11, 2012
BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW (Japan) 120mins. Dir: Kawashima Yuzo. Key cast: Tsuruta Koji, Tsukoka Yumeji, Awashima Chikage. A young man leaves his job and girlfriend to follow his dream of founding an airline. In visually exuberant images, Kawashima depicts a post-war Japan committed to
nervous change. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
12:30
KAUWBOY (Netherlands) 81mins. Dir: Boudewijn Koole. Key cast: Rick Lens, Loek Peters, Susan Radder. Ten-year-old Jojo is all but abandoned and left to his own devices. The only thing that keeps him going is his tender raising of a young jackdaw chick. Generation Kplus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
13:00
MAN FOR A DAY (Germany, UK, Finland) 96mins. Dir: Katarina Peters. Documentary observations of a workshop held by performance artist and gender activist Diane Torr. Precisely when and where is gender identity formatted? An open- ended experiment in social behaviour. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1
WHAT IS LOVE (Austria) 79mins. Dir: Ruth Mader. Five stringently composed, documentary- like vignettes from the Austrian provinces explore different manifestations of love, all of which are threatened by the suffocating routines of the everyday. Forum Press CinemaxX 6
13:30
ELLES (France, Poland, Germany) 99mins. Dir: Malgoska Szumowska. Key cast: Juliette Binoche, Anais Demoustier, Joanna Kulig. An established Parisian journalist is researching an article about young women working as prostitutes in order to pay for their studies. As she investigates the interplay between money, sex, love, freedom and enforcement, she discovers her own fetishes and desires. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
THE ROAD TO LIFE (USSR) 104mins. Dir: Nikolai Ekk. Key cast: Nikolai Batalow, Iywan Kyrlja, Michail Dschagofarow. The education of the ‘new human being’ through work is demonstrated on a homeless group of young Moscovites, commanded by a resolute instructor. The first Soviet film with sound. Retrospective Zeughauskino
WESTWIND (Germany, Hungary) 90mins. Dir: Robert Thalheim. Key cast: Friederike Becht, Luise Heyer, Franz Dinda. Hungary 1988 – the ‘Winds of Change’ are about to rise when the 17-year-old twins Doreen and Isabel from Eastern Germany arrive at a summer training camp. LOLA@Berlinale CinemaxX 1
13:45
WINTER NOMADS (Switzerland) 90mins. Dir: Manuel von Sturler. Documentary. Two shepherds journey across Switzerland in the deep winter. Forum CineStar 8
13:50
IRON SKY (Finland, Netherlands, Australia, Germany) 93mins. Dir: Timo Vuorensola. Key cast: Christopher Kirby, Gotz Otto, Julia Dietze. Future sci-fi in which a secret sect of Nazis living on the moon in 2018 plan to return to power on earth. Panorama Special Press CineStar 3
14:00
BEFORE TOMORROW (Germany) 83mins. Dir: Joachim Schoenfeld. Key cast: Axel Buchholz, Axel Sichrovsky, Regine Zimmermann. Two policemen on security detail have to watch a recently released murderer, but nothing is as they expected. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Press CinemaxX 5
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