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FESTIVAL & PRESS 09:30


GATTU (India) 80mins. Dir: Rajan Khosa. Key cast: Mohammad Samad, Naresh Kumar, Bhura. ‘Truth always triumphs’ is the motto of the local school that Gattu is too poor to attend. He’s not


very truthful either. But he is a really good kite flyer. Even so, there’s always one that sails up higher than all the others: the mysterious kite, Kali.. Generation Kplus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1


FESTIVAL & PRESS


09:00


JUST THE WIND (Hungary, Germany, France) 91mins. Dir: Bence Fliegauf. Key cast: Lajos Sarkany, Katalin Toldi, Gyongyi Lendvai. The murder of a Romany family in a Hungarian village confirms the family’s Romany neighbours’ worst fears. Now they live in fear that they too will be the target of terror. Competition Press Berlinale Palast


09:30


GATTU See box, above


POSTCARDS FROMTHE ZOO (Indonesia, Germany, Hong Kong, China) 95mins. Dir: Edwin. Key cast: Ladya Cheryl, Nicholas Saputra. Lana is abandoned as a child in Jakarta zoo and raised by zoo keepers. The zoo is the only place she knows. Finally, she enters the wider world. Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast


10:00


ABOVE US ONLY SKY (Germany) 88mins. Dir: Jan Schomburg. Key cast: Sandra Huller, Georg Friedrich, Felix Knopp. After her husband disappears, Martha begins to realise how little she knew him, and how his life with her was a charade. But instead of coming to terms with her


n 10 Screen International at the Berlinale February 16, 2012


loss, she meets another man. Further films longlisted for the LOLA CinemaxX 4


WHITE DEER PLAIN (China) 188mins. Dir: Wang Quan’an. Key cast: Zhang Fengyi, Zhang Yuqi, Wu Gang. China in 1912. The collapse of imperial China unleashes a fierce struggle for land ownership. Director Wang Quan’an’s epic uses the fortunes of two landowning farming families to explore the fate of the Chinese people throughout different historical periods. Competition Haus der Berliner Festspiele


10:10


CHERRY (US) 102mins. Dir: Stephen Elliott. Key cast: Ashley Hinshaw, James Franco, Heather Graham. Eighteen-year-old Angelina escapes the confines of her dysfunctional family and drifts into the San Francisco porn industry. Using the moniker ‘Cherry’, this confident young woman must now come to terms with her


own sexuality and the prejudice that her job engenders. Panorama Special Press CineStar 3


10:30


MY BROTHER THE DEVIL (UK) 112mins. Dir: Sally El Hosaini. Key cast: James Floyd, Said Taghmaoui, Nasser Memarzia. Coming-of-age drama set in London. Two Arab brothers struggle to escape from a life of crime. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7


11:00


CONDITION (German) 74mins. Dir: Thomas Heise. Thomas Heise documents the preparations for the Pope’s 2011 visit to Thuringen in laconic black and white images: the meticulous rehearsal of the reception, the huge police presence, a whole region in the grip of exceptional circumstances. Forum CineStar 8


DAS KANINCHEN BIN ICH (German Democratic Republic) 118mins. Dir: Kurt Maetzig. Key cast: Angelika Waller, Alfred Muller.


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Maria is refused a place at university on account of her brother’s ‘seditious agitation’ – only to fall in love with the judge who convicted her brother. Happy Birthday, Studio Babelsberg CinemaxX 8


DEATH ROW. PORTRAITS: JAMES BARNES, HANK SKINNER (US, UK, Austria) 188mins. Dir: Werner Herzog.


Werner Herzog interviews four condemned individuals on Death Row in the US. Berlinale Special CineStar 2


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FAMOUS FIVE (Germany) 94mins. Dir: Mike Marzuk. Key cast: Valeria Eisenbart, Quirin Oettl, Justus Schlingensiepen. When George’s dad is kidnapped, the kids


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