Berlinale / EFM
Feb 10 - 17
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Dear friends,
We are happy to present
you our EFM & Festival Line Up.
Meet us during the entire festival either online or onsite at the Fitzroy from 2pm onwards, every market
day.
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Thank you for getting in touch!
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TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER
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by Annika Pinske
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2022 - Germany - Drama - 2.39 - 90 min
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with Anne Schäfer, Anne-Kathrin Gummich,
Judith Hofmann, Marcel Kohler, Max Riemelt, Sandra Hüller
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Clara has made it: she has got away from her
native provincial East Germany, now living an independent life in
Berlin, teaching philosophy while finishing her Ph. D. Between her
professional ambitions, an affair with one of her students and her
demanding friendship with her thesis advisor Margot, she barely has time
for her family. When Clara visits her mother for a weekend with her
15-year-old daughter Emma, she finds herself confronted with her ideal
of an unfettered, self-determined life and the price she must pay for
it.
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A LOVE SONG
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by Max Walker-Silverman
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2022 - USA - Drama - 1.85 - 82 min
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with Dale Dickey (WINTER’S BONE, PALM
SPRINGS), Wes Studi (THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, HOSTILES)
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At an idyllic campground in the Colorado
Mountains, Faye camps in her trailer. She spends her days listening to
birds, catching crawfish from the lake, and scanning her old radio for a
station. But most of all, Faye is waiting for Lito, a childhood
sweetheart she hasn’t seen in decades...
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UPCOMING - PRIVATE
SCREENING
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A TASTE OF WHALE
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by Vincent Kelner
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2022 - France - Documentary - 1.78 - 85
min
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Every summer, hundreds of pilot whales are
hunted in the fjords of the Faroe Islands. It’s locally known as the
“Grind”, a spectacular and bloody tradition. International activists
would like to put an end to it, so that these mammals will stop
suffering. Knife in hand, the Faroese denounce the hypocrisy of those
who eat meat without looking at what is happening in slaughterhouses and
at the industries polluting our planet.
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GENTLE
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by László Csuja and Anna Nemes
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2022 - Hungary - Drama - 2.39 - 92 min
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with Eszter Csonka, György Turós, Csaba
Krisztik
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Edina, a female bodybuilder is ready to
sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with her life partner and
trainer Adam: to win the world championship. The expensive steroids and
supplements, force Edina to take a side gig as an escort. New ways of
desire and the odd love she finds on her way, make her see the
difference between her dreams and her true self.
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WILDHOOD
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by Bretten Hannam
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2021 - Canada - Drama - 2.39 - 108 min
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with Philip Lewitski, Joshua Odjick, Avery
Winters-Anthony
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When Link discovers his Mi’kmaw mother is still
alive, he runs away from home with his younger brother Travis, in a
desperate gamble to start a new life. They’re soon joined by Pasmay, a
pow wow dancer drawn to Links story. Together they embark on a
Two-Spirit odyssey, reconnecting with culture and the territory of
Mi’kma’ki in Nova Scotia, Canada, while trying to find Links mother,
Sarah.
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107 MOTHERS
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by Peter Kerekes
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2021 - Slovakia/Czech Rep./Ukraine -
Documentary/Drama - 93 min
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with Maryna Klimova, Iryna Kiryazeva, Lyubov
Vasylyna
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Lesya has committed a crime of passion which
brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s correctional
facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is
entering a world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and wardens,
women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women,
and women with children too. If not for the color of the uniform, it
would sometimes be hard to tell who is who.
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2021 - France - Documentary - 1.85 - 90
min
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In Donbas Ukraine, while precarious truces and
ceasefires are negotiated far away by diplomats, Ukrainian soldiers
fight against separatists supported by Russia.
At an age when some are experiencing the best years of their lives, in
the frontline men and women are fighting, condemned to dig and dig up
again the trenches, while bombs keep on falling on them.
French war journalist and first-time director Loup Bureau takes us on an
immersive and stunning cinematic journey revealing the naked truth and
roughness of survival, in what is called to be the last conflict on
European soil.
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THE DEVIL’S DRIVERS
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by Daniel Carsenty & Mohammed Abugeth
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2021 - Germany - Documentary - 2.39 - 90
min
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In the southern West Bank, Hamouda and his
cousin Ismail are among the Bedouin drivers who risk their lives
smuggling illegal workers over the border. Between them and the
destination, there is the desert - of which they know every inch - and
the heavy presence of the Israeli military patrols. If they are caught,
they go to jail. Yet only those fares can help them provide for their
families, so they keep on driving and enjoying each day of freedom as it
might just be the last.
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LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM
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by Pawo Choyning Dorji
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Bhutan - Drama/Family - 2.35 - 109 min
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with Sherab Dorji, Ugyen Norbu Lhendup, Kelden
Lhamo Gurung
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Struggling with his profession as a teacher,
Ugyen is sent to Lunana in northern Bhutan for his final year of
training. The high altitude and the lack of amenities make Ugyen want to
leave as soon as he arrives. With a warm welcome the local children try
to win him over but they don’t have much time as the harsh winter is
about to arrive in the glacial parts of the Himalaya…
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