SCREENINGS
many people throughout the world. CinemaxX Studio 17
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THE STORAGE (Finland) Kinosto OY/ Kinosto, 97mins. Dir: Taru Makela. Key cast: Kari-Pekka Toivonen, Minttu Mustakallio, Aku Hirviniemi. With a sharp gaze it reavels an unknown Finland behind the cliches: the poor and work-ridden people, full of life and energy and love and compassion CineStar 1
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FESTIVAL & PRESS 22:00
HINDSIGHT (South Korea) 122mins. Dir: Lee Hyeon-seung. Key cast: Song Gang- ho, Shin Se-kyung, Chun Jeong-myung. Doo-heon, once a legendary gangster, wants to live a quiet and
Dir: Helena Klotz. Key cast: Eliott Paquet, Dominik Wojcik. The story of a night: in a nightmarish Paris, two young men are looking for amusement, sex, drugs, love and intimacy. Panorama Cubix 7 & 8
BLISS
(Germany) 112mins. Dir: Doris Dorrie. Key cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Vinzenz Kiefer, Matthias Brandt. A young refugee and an unemployed punk fall in love in dire circumstances. Berlinale Special International
DETLEF (Germany). 90mins. Dir: Stefan Westerwelle, Jan Rothstein. Key cast: Detlef Stoffel, Anneliese Stoffel, Gustav-Peter Wohler. A look at the early Gay Rights movement and its place in West German history. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
normal life running his own restaurant. Se-bin, hired to keep an eye on Doo-heon, approaches him at a cooking class. He, hiding his past, and she, hiding her identity, grow close to each other. Culinary Cinema MGB-Kino
SHARQIYA (Israel, France, Germany) 85mins. Dir: Ami Livne. Key cast: Adnan Abu Wadi, Maysa Abed- Alhadi. Kamel lives with what’s left of his Bedouin family in a camp on the edge of the Negev desert. Their hut is to be pulled down. Although Bedouins have lived in the region for centuries they have no deeds to prove they own the land. The film describes the hopelessness of Kamel’s situation. Panorama Colosseum 1
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RENT-A-CAT (Japan) 110mins. Dir: Naoko Ogigami. Key cast: Mikako Ichikawa, Reiko Kusamura, Ken Mitsuishi. Sayoko rents cats. Every day she walks along the riverbank towing a small handcart containing her feline friends, but then a young man from her past
appears and Sayoko’s life changes. Panorama CineStar 3
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HAYWIRE (US) 93mins. Dir: Steven Soderbergh. Key cast: Gina Carano, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender. Competition Special Screening Berlinale Palast
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IN DARKNESS (Germany, Poland, Canada) Beta Cinema, 144mins. Dir: Agnieszka Holland. Key cast: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Furmann, Agnieszka Grochowska. Lvov, Poland, 1943. Hiding Jews from the Nazis in the city sewers, a petty thief must decide between saving himself or the Jews. Kino Arsenal 1
IN TURMOIL (France) Wild Bunch 109mins. Dir: Christophe Ruggia. Key cast: Yvan Attal, Clovis Cornillac, Mathilde Seigner. When corrupt bosses
close a factory without warning, childhood friends Franck, Helene and Max are forced into desperate action. MGB-Kino
LESSONS FOR AWAR (Mexico) IMCINE – Mexican Film Institute 100mins. Dir: Juan Manuel Sepulveda M. A film about survival, a celebration of the defence of life by people preparing to resist a new war. A song of hope in the face of a war that is not exclusive to them, but is faced by
GLOBAL HOME (Germany, UK, France) dffb – German Film and Television Academy Berlin, 92mins. Dir: Eva Stotz. Key cast: Mamatal Ag Dahmane, Casey Fenton, Michiko Sato. Director Eva Stotz meets interesting people whom she found through online-hosting-networks: A music-lover in Mali, a wildlife enthusiast in Japan, an ecologist from the Westbank and a dancer from Turkey are her inspiring hosts. dffb-Kino
HATED (US) Reel Suspects, 90mins. Dir: Lee Madsen.
Key cast: Matthew Hutchinson, Genevieve Cortese, Chris Riggi. NYC post 9/11: not since the 1980s has the underground music scene attracted so much attention. A young rock group finds itself on the verge of making it big. They need to choose: go with a big-time manager or stick with the past. CinemaxX Studio 12
IRIS
(Finland, Sweden) Interprod Oy, 82mins. Dir: Ulrika Bengts. Key cast: Agnes Koskinen, Maria Salomaa, Tobias Zilliacus. An unusual coming-of- age tale. Set in 1890, Iris’ artist mother leaves Stockholm for the summer and sends her nine-year- old daughter to stay with an uncle in the Finnish archipelago. CinemaxX Studio 11
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SOUTHWEST (Brazil) Superfilmes, 128mins. Dir: Eduardo Nunes. Key cast: Simone Spoladore, Raquel Bonfante, Julio Adriao. In a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her whole life in
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SNACKBAR (Netherlands) Lemming Film, 84mins. Dir: Meral Uslu. Key cast: Ali Cifteci, Nazmye Oral, Dileria Horuz. The snackbar, owned by Ali, is a
refuge for the local Moroccan youth. They are young and ferocious. To them Ali is like an old, trustworthy Turkish uncle; understandig, funny and strict. What if Ali jeopordises all of this? CinemaxX Studio 16
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