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of Oss was caught in a web of crime. A young woman tries to break free from this criminal environment. The harder she tries, the more she gets stuck in fraud, prostitution, manslaughter and even murder. CineStar 4


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XINGU (Brazil) Rezo, 102mins. Dir: Cao Hamburger. Key cast: Joao Miguel, Felipe Camargo, Caio Blat. Tells the amazing story of the Villas Boas


a single day. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the people around, in a circular time that haunts and disorients. CinemaxX Studio 14


THE PHANTOM FATHER (Romania) Generic Audiovizual Romania, (GAV), 93mins. Dir: Lucian Georgescu. Key cast: Marcel Iures, Mihaela Sirbu. American professor Robert Traum takes a sabbatical and turns his back on the present without surprise, to live an adventure from the past. CineStar 6


THE VIRGIN, THE COPTS ANDME (France, Qatar, Egypt) Doc & Film International, 85mins. Dir: Namir Abdel Messeeh. After watching a videotape of the virgin’s apparition in Egypt with his mother, who sees the virgin like millions of other Copts, Namir travels back to Egypt to make a film about the


brothers and their journey to create the National Xingu Park. A dramatic and forgotten part of Brazilian history that remains current and urgent. CinemaxX 10


bizarre occurrence of these apparitions. Kino Arsenal 2


XINGU See box, above


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AMILLION COLOURS (US) Fries Films, 110mins. Dir: Peter Bishai. Key cast: Wandile Molebatsi, Jason Hartman. The true-life epic journey of South Africa’s once most famous teen movie star who, in the aftermath of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, is separated from the love of his life, becomes a fugitive and struggles to survive Apartheid. Marriott 2


BERG FIDEL (Germany) dffb – German Film and Television Academy Berlin, 88mins. Dir: Hella Wenders. Key cast: David Leonhard, Jakob Leonhard, Lucas Niehues. David, his brother Jakob, Anita and Lucas visit the elementary school Berg


n 18 Screen International at the Berlinale February 15, 2012


Fidel. This school accepts every child, no matter what race, religion or handicap. After 4th grade they will be separated and sent to different schools. dffb-Kino


CHERRY ON THE CAKE (France) Films Distribution, 85mins. Dir: Laura Morante. Key cast: Pascal Elbe, Laura Morante, Isabelle Carre. Amanda has complex relationships with men. A friend of hers would like to see her settle down in a stable relationship, but it seems she suffers from androphobia, a genuine fear of men that causes her to destroy relationships. CineStar 1


FATHER’S CHAIR (Brazil) O2 Filmes, 93mins. Dir: Luciano Moura. Key cast: Wagner Moura, Lima Duarte, Mariana Lima. On the weekend of his 15th birthday, Pedro takes a trip and disappears. His father goes in pursuit and in the process of tracking him down he is transformed. CinemaxX Studio 19


FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING See box, right


GOLDEN SLUMBERS (France, Cambodia) Doc & Film International, 96mins. Dir: Davy Chou.


Cambodian cinema flourished in the 1960s, drawing huge crowds to theaters around the country, until the industry was destroyed by the Khmer Rouge in 1975. Resurrects the myths and legends of this lost cinema. CinemaxX Studio 11


THE GANG OF OSS (Netherlands) Sigma Pictures, 111mins. Dir: Andre van Duren. Key cast: Sylvia Hoeks, Matthias Schoenaerts, Frank Lammers. In the 1930s, the city


HOW BIG IS YOUR LOVE (Algeria, Morocco) Z et Compagnie Productions, 98mins. Dir: Zamoum Fatma Zohra. Key cast: Zennadi Racim, Debbahi-Laaraf Nadjia, Tadjer Abdelkader. Algiers nowadays. Adel, aged eight, has been taken to his grandparents because his parents have been quarreling. Adel was supposed to stay with his grandparents for one weekend; then another week begins, then he misses school. CinemaxX Studio 12


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15 YOUNG BY YOUNG (Latvia, France) Avantis Promo 95mins. Dir: Svetlana Strelnikova, Salome Jashi, Dzintars Dreibergs, Andrei Kutsila. Contemporary young life in post-Soviet countries. Creative documentary series made by local film-


makers from Armenia. CinemaxX Studio 18


LEA AND DARIJA (Croatia) Croatian Audiovisual Centre 100mins. Dir: Branko Ivanda. Key cast: Klara Naka, Tammy Zajec, Zrinka Cvite. True story about two 13-year-old girls who were, on the eve of the Second World War, dancing and acting as stars in Zagreb. During the Nazi persecution of Jews and the later German nationals’ flight from communists, a dramatic friendship was born. CinemaxX Studio 16


SUSKIND (Netherlands) Beta Cinema, 118mins. Dir: Rudolf van den Berg. Key cast: Jeroen Spitzenberger, Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Katja Herbers The Second World War. Walter Suskind, who worked for the Jewish Council in Amsterdam, managed to save almost a thousand Jewish children from deportation playing a cat-and-mouse game. CineStar 6


TABU (Portugal, Germany, Brazil, France) The Match Factory, 111mins.


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FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING (Russia) Intercinema Agency, 83mins. Dir: Leonid Fomin. Key cast: Zhenya Filichkin, Alexander Bobrov, Yuris Lautsinsh.


A little boy, Kolya, accidentally meets his father for the first time. Father and son will discover each other, overcoming inner misunderstandings as well as numerous obstacles in their paths. CinemaxX Studio 17


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