SCREENINGS
FESTIVAL & PRESS 12:00
DON – THE KING IS BACK (India, Germany) 140mins. Dir: Farhan Akhtar. Key cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani.
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 CinemaxX 3
REVOLT OF THE FISHERMEN (USSR) 60mins. Dir: Erwin Piscator, Michail Doller. Key cast: Aleksej Diki, Dmitri Konsowski, Nikolai Gladkow. Social conflict depicting a brutal Soviet-era strike. Retrospective CinemaxX 8
SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS (Germany) 82mins. Dir: Stefan Butzmuhlen, Cristina Diz. Key cast: Raul Godoy, Jaime Pedruelo. Two men meet in the heat of summer, as the traditional customs of the area and the older generation’s re-enactments in full knight garb take place. Forum Press CinemaxX 6
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DON – THE KING IS BACK See box, above
MARINA ABRAMOVIC THE ARTIST IS PRESENT (US) 106mins. Dir: Matthew Akers. Key cast: Marina Abramovic. Documentary following performance artist
n 28 Screen International at the Berlinale February 12, 2012
Dodging assassination, Indian master criminal Don prepares a spectacular counterattack in Berlin that will make him king of the European underworld. Berlinale Special Gala Friedrichstadt-Palast
Marina Abramovic during and after her solo exhibition at New York’s legendary MoMA. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
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SUZAKI PARADISE: RED LIGHT (Japan) 81mins. Dir: Kawashima Yuzo. Key cast: Aratama Michiyo, Mihashi Tatsuya, Todoroki Yukiko. A penniless young couple are looking for work and somewhere to live between the red-light district and Tokyo’s middle-class quarters. A story of the fight for survival on the fringes of Japanese post- war society. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
TAKING CHANCES (Netherlands, Belgium) 87mins. Dir: Nicole van Kilsdonk. Key cast: Pippa Allen, Johnny de Mol, Rifka Lodeizen. Nine-year-old Kiek is extremely worried about her father, a doctor who travels to a distant war- torn country where he is urgently needed. Kiek’s anxiety prompts strange thoughts: can she save her father if she sacrifices her dog? Generation Kplus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
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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. In the end nothing is as one might have thought – at work or at home. Nobody gets what they want, but something may have changed for everyone. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1
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FRIENDS AFTER 3.11 (Japan) 120mins. Dir: Iwai Shunji. In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and subsequent meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power station, director Iwai Shunji discusses with friends and experts the political, economic and social situation of a country in a state of dependence. Forum Press CinemaxX 6
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BURNOUT (Germany) 103mins. Dir: Verena S. Freytag. Key cast: Maryam Zaree Pellin is a young single tatoo artist with three children. She loves her
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