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 Delphi Filmpalast
PEOV CHOUK SOR (Cambodia) 110mins. Dir: Tea Lim Koun. Key cast: Chea Yuthorn, Dy Saveth, Rosanna, Mongdolin. Love story between an angel who comes to earth in human form and the peasant she falls for who is unaware of her celestial status. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
FESTIVAL & PRESS 20:15
MOMMY IS COMING (Germany) 64mins. Dir: Cheryl Dunye. Key cast: Papi Coxxx, Lil Harlow, Maggie Tapert. Claudine and Dylan enjoy a happy relationship. But Dylan, in particular, wants
XINGU (Brazil) 102mins. Dir: Cao Hamburger. Key cast: Joao Miguel, Felipe Camargo, Caio Blat Panorama Special International
20:15
MOMMY IS COMING See box, above
WILAYA (Spain) 88mins. Dir: Pedro Perez Rosado. Key cast: Nadhira Mohamed, Memona Mohamed, Aziza Brahim. After living in Spain for 16 years, Fatimetu returns to the Saharan refugee camp where she lived as a child and where she and her sister find a way of earning a living together. But Fatimetu is torn between life in the desert and her memories of Spain. Panorama Cubix 7 & 8
20:30
REPORTED MISSING (Germany) 86mins. Dir: Jan Speckenbach.
21:30
more than lesbian monogamy from the gay capital, Berlin. The two women set off on a journey of discovery. When Dylan’s mother suddenly arrives, everything and everyone comes together. Panorama CineStar 3
Key cast: Andre M. Hennicke, Luzie Ahrens, Sylvana Krappatsch. Perspektive Deutsches Kino CinemaxX 1
21:00
DER BLAUE ENGEL (Germany) 105mins. Dir: Josef von Sternberg. Key cast: Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron. Consumed by his passion for a variety singer named Lola, a strict schoolteacher loses his job and winds up as a tomfool on the stage, at the mercy of the taunting audience. Happy Birthday, Studio Babelsberg Filmmuseum Potsdam
STORMOVER ASIA (USSR) 127mins. Dir: Wsewolod Pudowkin. Key cast: Waleri Inkischinjow, Lew Dedinzew, L. Belinskaja. Drama depicting the life and revolutionary struggles of a Mongolian soldier. Retrospective Zeughauskino
n 16 Screen International at the Berlinale February 15, 2012
AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT (Spain, France) 98mins. Dir: Alex de la Iglesia. Key cast: Salma Hayek, Jose Mota, Fernando Tejero. An unemployed copywriter finds himself in a very public life- or-death situation. Caustic satire on today’s sensation-hungry media. Berlinale Special Gala Friedrichstadt-Palast
CHOCO (Colombia) 80mins. Dir: Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza. Key cast: Karent Hinestroza, Esteban Copete, Fabio Garcia. Choco lives in Columbia. She has two children, an underpaid job and a husband who forces himself on her whenever he’s drunk too much. When her daughter asks for a birthday cake the shop owner tells Choco: “If you want the cake, I want you.” Panorama Press CinemaxX 7
THE IRON LADY See box, right
JAYNE MANSFIELD’S CAR (Russia, US) 122mins. Dir: Billy Bob Thornton. Key cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon. Story of a culture clash between an American and
FESTIVAL & PRESS 21:30
THE IRON LADY (UK) 104mins. Dir: Phyllida Lloyd. Key cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Roger Allam.
Margaret Thatcher biopic. Using historical events as a backdrop, the film concentrates on the personality of Britain’s former prime minister. Competition Special Screening Thalia Programm Kino Potsdam
a British family set in the turbulent era of the Civil Rights movement and anti-Vietnam protests of the late 1960s. Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele
MISS MEND (3) (USSR) 77mins. Dir: Fjodor Ozep, Boris Barnet. Third and final part of Soviet silent trilogy. Retrospective CinemaxX 8
NORMAL SCHOOL (Argentina) 88mins.
21:45
THE END OF PUBERTY (Japan) 116mins. Dir: Kimura Shoko. Key cast: Wagatsuma Miwako, Saito Yoichiro, Satsukawa Aimi. Shy teacher Madoka is the object of desire of his eccentric pupil Tsubura. When their sexual organs are miraculously switched during sex, the question arises as to whether gender roles are biologically determined. Forum CinemaxX 4
22:00
HINDSIGHT See box, right
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 CineStar 8
22:15
EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY (Romania, Netherlands) 107mins. Dir: Radu Jude. Key cast: Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Mihaela Sirbu. When the longed-for outing with his young daughter risks being cancelled, Marius pulls out all the stops. The futile arguments with his ex-wife and her family eventually lead him to take drastic measures. Forum Cubix 9
22:30
ATOMIC AGE (France) 67mins.
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