KEYHOLE (Canada) 93mins. Dir: Guy Maddin. Key cast: Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier. Returning home after a long absence, the head of the house must travel through the rooms to reach his wife upstairs. A surreal journey through a house of nightmares. Berlinale Special Press CinemaxX 9
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REVISION (Germany) 106mins. Dir: Philip Scheffner. Reconstructs the circumstances that led to the death of two men near the German-Polish border in 1992. Forum CineStar 8
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 Delphi Filmpalast
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THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA (Germany) 90mins. Dir: Marten Persiel. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 3
THE WALL (Austria, Germany) 108mins. Dir: Julian Roman Polsler. Key cast: Martina Gedeck. Panorama Special International
CAPTIVE (France, Philippines, Germany, UK) 120mins. Dir: Brillante Mendoza. Key cast: Isabelle Huppert, Katherine Mulville, Marc Zanetta. Competition Berlinale Palast
THE CHEF (France) 84mins. Dir: Daniel Cohen. Key cast: Jean Reno, Michael Youn, Raphaelle Agogue. Star chef Alexandre Lagarde is in serious conflict with the new CEO
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HORIZON (USSR) 102mins. Dir: Lew Kuleschow. Key cast: Nikolai Batalow, Jelena Kusmina, Michail Doronin. Part of the ‘Red Dream Factory’ retrospective. Retrospective Zeughauskino
FESTIVAL & PRESS 21:30
HEMEL (Netherlands, Spain) 80mins. Dir: Sacha Polak. Key cast: Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Dagelet, Rifka Lodeizen. Hemel changes her sexual partners in rapid
of the group that owns his restaurant. The latter is plotting to have him replaced with a ‘modern’ chef who advocates molecular cuisine, which is more profitable for the food industry. Culinary Cinema Film & Food MGB Kinosaal/Spiegelzelt
NORMAL SCHOOL (Argentina) 88mins. Dir: Celina Murga. Observing the student council elections at an elite school in Parana, Argentina. Forum CinemaxX 4
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BESTIARY (Canada, France) 72mins. Dir: Denis Cote. Documentary examining our relationship with animals. Forum CineStar Event Cinema
COMES A BRIGHT DAY (UK) 91mins. Dir: Simon Aboud. Key cast: Craig Roberts, Imogen Poots, Kevin McKidd.
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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 Delphi Filmpalast
All he wanted to do was ask the girl from the jewellers out to a concert. But now they’ve been taken hostage by two thieves after some diamonds. A romantic love story – in spite of everything. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK – AN INTERVENTION (Germany) 102mins. Dir: Romuald Karmakar. Ten journalists, artists and intellectuals speak their mind about the dangers to our democracy in the wake of the Euro crisis, and make an appeal to intervene in the current dismantling of our justice system. Panorama Dokumente Press CineStar 7
SECRET (Poland) 82mins. Dir: Przemyslaw Wojcieszek. Key cast: Tomasz Tyndyk, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Marek Kepinski.
When a Jewish friend demands to know the truth about Kwasery’s beloved grandfather, the gay performer is forced to wrestle both with his relationship with his relative as well as his own identity. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
SPAIN (Austria) 102mins. Dir: Anja Salomonowitz. Key cast: Gregoire Colin, Tatjana Alexander, Cornelius Obonya. Depicts the lives of several people in Austria, unhappy in love and luck and looking for a solution. Forum Cubix 9
THE WOMAN IN THE SEPTIC TANK
(Philippines) 87mins. Dir: Marlon Rivera. Key cast: Eugene Domingo, JM De Guzman, Kean Cipriano. Satire. Three young film- makers do everything in their power to obtain international fame, all too aware of foreign audiences’ expectations of Philippine cinema: prostitution, abuse, rubbish heaps and slums. Forum Colosseum 1
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DEATH FOR SALE (Belgium, France, Morocco) 117mins. Dir: Faouzi Bensaidi. Key cast: Fehd Benchemsi, Fouad
Labiad, Mouhcine Malzi. Three young men living in Tetouan, Morocco: Malik is in love with Dounia and wants to help her give up her job as a prostitute. Soufiane spends his days pilfering. Allal is a drug runner. The three friends hope that a raid on a jewellery shop will be their path to a new life. Panorama CineStar 3
HIGHWAY (Nepal, US) 80mins. Dir: Deepak Rauniyar. Key cast: Dayahang Rai, Asha Magarati, Shristi Ghimire. A cross section of Nepalese society is stuck on a bus in a traffic jam. Panorama Cubix 7 & 8
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BEFORE TOMORROW (Germany) 83mins. Dir: Joachim Schoenfeld. Key cast: Axel Buchholz, Axel Sichrovsky, Regine Zimmermann. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1
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 Haus der Berliner Festspiele
A NIGHT TOO YOUNG (Czech Republic, Slovenia) 65mins. Dir: Olmo Omerzu. Key cast: Martin Pechlat, Jiri Cerny, Natalie Rehorova. After becoming the unexpected guests at a strangely charged New Year’s party, two barely adolescent boys take their first glimpse at the confusing sexual dynamics of the adult world. Forum Press CinemaxX 6
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BARBARA (Germany) 105mins. Dir: Christian Petzold. Key cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christiana Hecke. Competition Toni & Tonino
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THE KISS OFMARY PICKFORD (USSR) 79mins. Dir: Sergej Komarow. Key cast: Igor Iljinski, Anel Sudakewitsch, Mary Pickford. Retrospective CinemaxX 8
LEAVE IT ON THE FLOOR (US, Canada) 106mins. Dir: Sheldon Larry. Key cast: Ephraim Sykes, Miss Barbie-Q, Phillip Evelyn. Whisks us away to the vibrant subculture of Los Angeles’ vogue balls where Brad, newly ostracised by his mother on account of his homosexuality, finds solidarity, acceptance and self-confidence. Panorama Press CinemaxX 7
MARLEY (UK, US) 144mins. Dir: Kevin Macdonald. Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald’s cinematic monument
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