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take up the trail of the gangsters and uncover a breathtaking conspiracy. LOLA@Berlinale CinemaxX 1
JUST PRETENDED TO HEAR (Japan) 99mins. Dir: Kaori Imaizumi. Key cast: Hana Nonaka, Meru Gouda, Takayuki Sugiki. Modern-day ghost story. Generation Kplus CinemaxX 3
12:00
HAYWIRE (US) 93mins. Dir: Steven Soderbergh. Key cast: Gina Carano, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender. Top agent Mallory Kane is betrayed by one of her own colleagues. If she wants to save her skin, she must find out who is behind the plot. Competition Special Screening Friedrichstadt-Palast
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SLEEPING SICKNESS (Germany, France, Netherlands) 91mins. Dir: Ulrich Kohler. Key cast: Pierre Bokma, Jean-Christophe Folly, Jenny Schily. Ebbo and Vera have been living in Africa for years. Ebbo manages a sleeping sickness programme; his work is fulfilling, but Vera becomes increasingly uncomfortable with her life. Further films longlisted for the LOLA CinemaxX 4
ULRIKE OTTINGER – NOMAD FROMTHE LAKE (Germany) 86mins. Dir: Brigitte Kramer. Key cast: Ulrike Ottinger, Ingvild Goetz, Irm Hermann. Biographical documentary about celebrated artist and film- maker Ulrike Ottinger. Panorama Dokumente CineStar 7
12:30
NIGHT OF SILENCE (Turkey) 92mins.
ingenuity to transcend one’s lot in life. Generation 14plus CinemaxX 3
REPORTING… A REVOLUTION (Egypt) 62 mins. Dir: Bassam Mortada. Documentary about six young journalists reporting from Egypt’s streets on the revolt at the beginning of 2011. Berlinale Special Haus der Berliner Festspiele
FESTIVAL & PRESS 12:00
(Germany, Norway) 132mins. Dir: Matthias Glasner. Key cast: Jurgen Vogel, Birgit Minichmayr, Henry Stange. A fatal hit-and-run
Dir: Reis Celik. Key cast: Ilyas Salman, Dilan Aksut. An arranged marriage in rural Turkey. Things come to a head on the night of the wedding, in which both bride and groom do not want to participate, but have agreed to their society’s norms. Generation 14plus Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
TOMORROW (Russia) 90mins. Dir: Andrey Gryazev. The Voina group’s radical political performance art aims to mobilise opposition to the Russian system. The film follows the group at their protests and shows the toll taken by political persecution and the constant threat of arrest. Forum Kino Arsenal 1
13:00
WESTERLAND (Germany) 90mins. Dir: Tim Staffel. Key cast:
accident changes forever the life of a German couple who had hoped for a new beginning in the Norwegian town of Hammerfest. Competition Press Berlinala Palast
Wolfram Schorlemmer, Burak Yigit, Muri Seven. Off-kilter love story. Perspektive Deutsches Kino Colosseum 1
13:10 LOVE
(China, Taiwan) 127mins. Dir: Doze, Niu Chen-Zer. Key cast: Shu Qi, Vicky Zhao, Ethan Juan. Episodic film comprising several loosely connected stories that describe the zeitgeist of young urbanites in today’s Taipei. Panorama Special Press CineStar 3
13:15
NUCLEAR NATION (Japan) 145mins. Dir: Funahashi Atsushi. After the Fukushima catastrophe, a mayor whose town no longer exists tries to hold together a community scattered across different Toyko emergency shelters. Forum CineStar 8
XINGU (Brazil) 102mins. Dir: Cao Hamburger. Key cast: Joao Miguel, Felipe Camargo, Caio Blat. Tells the amazing story of the Villas Boas brothers and their journey to create the National Xingu Park. A dramatic and forgotten part of Brazilian history. Panorama Special CinemaxX 7
13:30
THISWILL BE THE LIFE (Germany) 92mins. Dir: Alexander Riedel. Key cast: Ulrike Arnold, Judith al Bakri, Jochen Strodthoff. Three forty-somethings begin to feel lost and unsatisfied with their lives. LOLA@Berlinale CinemaxX 1
14:00
BELIEF, LOVE, DEATH (Austria) 64mins. Dir: Peter Kern. Key cast: Traute Furthner, Peter Kern, Joao Moreira Pedrosa. A mother, 82, and her son, 63, board a houseboat for a trip that is soon dominated by smouldering generational conflict. The situation escalates when they discover an African refugee on their disabled boat and the fear of the
other grows into pure terror. Panorama Special International
THE BIG EDEN (Germany) 90mins. Dir: Peter Dorfler. Documentary about Rolf Eden, the impresario who popularised striptease in prudish West Germany. Further films longlisted for the LOLA CinemaxX 4
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 Delphi Filmpalast
PUNCH (South Korea) 110mins. Dir: Han Lee. Key cast: Aine Yu, Yun-seok Kim. Wan-deuk has no friends and a teacher he hates with a passion. But the teacher’s constant provocations are intended to prepare him for life’s knocks. A film about the art of using humour and
THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY 1 + 2 (UK) 420mins. Dir: Mark Cousins. In his epic documentary director Mark Cousins sets out to explore the history of cinema’s evolution. Berlinale Special CineStar 2
THREE SONGS OF LENIN (USSR) 62mins. Dir: Dsiga Wertow. Documentary that marked the tenth anniversary of Lenin’s death. A milestone in the history of sound documentary film. Retrospective CinemaxX 8
14:15
WHITE DEER PLAIN (China) 188mins. Dir: Wang Quan’an. Key cast: Zhang Fengyi, Zhang Yuqi, Wu Gang. Competition Friedrichstadt-Palast
14:30
10+10 (Taiwan) 114mins. Dir: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and 19 additional directors. Twenty five-minute shorts by 20 Taiwanese directors. Panorama Special Cubix 9
AUDRE LORDE – THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 TO 1992
(Germany) 84mins. Dir: Dagmar Schultz. This documentary recalls celebrated Afro-American lesbian poet and writer Audre Lorde and her contribution to feminist politics in Berlin.
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