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BOOTH #28 AT MGB
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We’re happy to share our Berlinale & EFM Line Up!
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BERLINALE - OFFICIAL COMPETITION
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THE SHADOWLESS TOWER
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by Zhang Lu (DESERT DREAM, GRAIN IN EAR)
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2023 - China - Drama - 1.85 - 144 min
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with Xin Baiqing, Huang Yao, Tian Zhuangzhuang
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Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A divorcé with a 6-year-old daughter and estranged from his father for decades, he is looking for a new perspective on life while reconsidering his failings as a father, a son, and a lover.
While the seasons come and go, people get together and move apart. Only one thing will remain the same: The White Pagoda where they all meet sooner or later...
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Screenings:
FRI 17 FEB 16:20 Gropius Bau Cinema Private
SAT 18 FEB 08:45 Berlinale Palast Press & Industry
SAT 18 FEB 15:30 Berlinale Palast Premiere
SUN 19 FEB 09:30 Zoo Palast 1 Public
SUN 19 FEB 16:45 Haus der Berliner Festspiele Public
MON 20 FEB 09:00 CinemaxX 6 Market
WED 22 FEB 13:15 Zoo Palast 3 & 4 Public
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WHITE PLASTIC SKY
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Tibor Bánóczki & Sarolta Szabó (DEBUT FEATURE)
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2023 - Hungary/Slovakia - Animation Sci-Fi - 2.39 - 112 min
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with Tamás Keresztes, Zsófia Szamosi
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2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen is gradually turned into a tree.
When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to save her at all costs.
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Screenings:
THU 16 FEB 19:00 CinemaxX 7 Press
FRI 17 FEB 09:00 CinemaxX 4 Private
FRI 17 FEB 16:15 Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg Premiere
SAT 18 FEB 13:00 Cubix 7 Public
SAT 18 FEB 14:00 Virtual Cinema 15 Online
SAT 18 FEB 21:30 Cubix 9 Public
SUN 19 FEB 09:00 CinemaxX 3 Market
SUN 19 FEB 10:30 Cubix 5 Public
SUN 19 FEB 12:00 Virtual Cinema 17 Online
SAT 25 FEB 13:00 Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg Public
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THE KLEZMER PROJECT
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Paloma Schachmann & Leandro Koch (DEBUT FEATURE)
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2023 - Austria/Argentina - Docu-Fiction - 1.85 - 115 min
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Argentinian cameraman Leandro makes a living from filming Jewish weddings. At one of his jobs, he falls in love with Paloma, the clarinetist of the Klezmer band. To seduce her he pretends to be shooting a documentary film about traditional Yiddish folk music.
What Leandro does not know is that his “fake” film project will take him on an unscripted journey throughout Eastern Europe in search of the last remaining Klezmer melodies.
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Screenings:
SAT 18 FEB 12:30 CinemaxX 14 Private
MON 20 FEB 13:00 CinemaxX 6 Private
TUE 21 FEB 09:00 Cinemaxx 12 Private
TUE 21 FEB 11:30 CinemaxX 7 Press
WED 22 FEB 14:30 Virtual Cinema 6 Online
WED 22 FEB 18:30 Virtual Cinema 4 Online
THU 23 FEB 16:30 Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg Premiere
FRI 24 FEB 10:30 Zoo Palast 3 & 4 Public
FRI 24 FEB 12:30 Cubix 7 Public
FRI 24 FEB 19:00 Zoo Palast 3 & 4 & 5 Public
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THE BURDENED
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by Amr Gamal (10 DAYS BEFORE THE WEDDING)
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2023 - Yemen - Drama - 1.85 - 91 min
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with Khaled Hamdan, Abeer Mohammed, Isra'a Abeer
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Aden, Yemen. Isra’a and Ahmed put all their efforts into offering a normal life and education to their three young children. When they find out that Isra'a is pregnant again, they have to make difficult decisions guided only by their family's interest.
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Screenings:
FRI 17 FEB 18:20 CinemaxX 18 Private
SAT 18 FEB 11:00 Virtual Cinema 12 Online
SAT 18 FEB 18:30 Cubix 2 Press & Industry
SUN 19 FEB 10:50 CinemaxX 6 Private
SUN 19 FEB 16:40 Virtual Cinema 16 Online
MON 20 FEB 16:00 Kino International Premiere
TUE 21 FEB 22:00 Cubix 7 Public
WED 22 FEB 9:00 Cinemaxx 2 Market
WED 22 FEB 16:00 Cubix 5 Public
THU 23 FEB 18:30 Cubix 9 Public
SUN 26 FEB 16:00 Cubix 5 Public
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OUR BODY
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by Claire Simon (GOD’S OFFICES)
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2023 - France - Documentary - 1.85 - 168 min
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In a Parisian public hospital, Claire Simon questions what it means to live in women’s bodies, filming their diversity, singularity and their beauty in all stages throughout life.
Unique stories of desires, fears and struggles unfold, including the one of the filmmaker herself.
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Screenings:
THU 16 FEB 11:00 Arsenal Cinema 1 Press
FRI 17 FEB 19:00 Delphi Filmpalast am Zoo Premiere
SAT 18 FEB 09:00 Parliament Studio Market
SAT 18 FEB 14:00 Silent Green Public
SAT 18 FEB 17:05 Virtual Cinema 14 Online
WED 22 FEB 15:40 Cinemaxx 11 Market
FRI 24 FEB 17:00 Cubix 7 Public
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LUKA
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by Jessica Woodsworth (THE FIFTH SEASON, KING OF THE BELGIANS)
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2023 - Belgium/Italy/Netherlands/Bulgaria/Armenia - Sci-fi - 1.85 - 35 mm - 94 min
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with Jonas Smulders, Geraldine Chaplin, Samvel Tadevossian, Jan Bijvoet, Sam Louwyck
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Luka, a young and ambitious soldier, embeds himself in the legendary Fort Kairos where heroic warriors defend the remains of civilization. His hopes to serve as an elite sniper are crushed when he is assigned to maintenance and must submit to the code of Kairos: obedience-endurance-sacrifice. As he rises through the ranks, Luka finds joy and strength in friendships with Konstantin, an enigmatic radar engineer, and Geronimo, a light-hearted private.
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Screenings:
THU 16 FEB 17:20 CinemaxX 2 Market
THU 16 FEB 18:45 Virtual Cinema 8 Online
SUN 19 FEB 14:10 CinemaxX 13 Market
SUN 19 FEB 18:05 Virtual Cinema 12 Online
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SUBTRACTION
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by Mani Haghighi (A DRAGON ARRIVES!, PIG)
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2022 - Iran/France - Drama/Thriller - 2.1 - 107 min
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with Taraneh Alidoosti, Navid Mohammadzadeh
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In downtown Tehran, Farzaneh, a young driving instructor, spots her husband, Jalal, walking into a woman’s apartment. When she confronts him, Jalal claims he was out of town for work. He decides to check out the building for himself. There, he meets a woman who is the spitting image of Farzaneh. Her name is Bita. Stunned, the two compare family photos: Bita’s husband also looks identical to Jalal.
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Screenings:
THU 16 FEB 14:10 CinemaxX 11 Market
THU 16 FEB 16:00 Virtual Cinema 6 Online
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JUNE ZERO
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by Jake Paltrow (DE PALMA, YOUNG ONES)
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USA/Israel - Historical Drama - 1.66 - 105 min
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with Noam Ovadia, Tzahi Grad, Yoav Levi, Tom Hagi
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Written by Jake Paltrow and Tom Shoval
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In 1962, the world witnesses the execution of Adolf Eichmann in an emotional public trial. And in Israel, three characters are intimately involved in this historical, nation-defining event.
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Screenings:
SAT 18 FEB 16:00 CinemaxX 17 Market
MON 20 FEB 11:00 Virtual Cinema 17 Online
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WHEN THE WAVES ARE GONE
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by Lav Diaz (THE WOMAN WHO LEFT, A LULLABY TO THE SORROWFUL MYSTERY)
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2022 - Philippines/France/Portugal/Denmark - Drama - 1.67 - 187 min
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with John Lloyd Cruz, Ronnie Lazaro, Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino, Dms Boongaling
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Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators of the Philippines, is in a deep moral crossroad. As a member of the police forces, he is a first-hand witness of the murderous anti-drug campaign that his institution is implementing with dedication.The atrocities are corroding Hermes physically and spiritually, causing him a severe skin disease resulting from anxiety and guilt. As he tries to heal, a dark past haunts him and has eventually come back for a reckoning.
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Screenings:
MON 20 FEB 16:30 Virtual Cinema 16 Online
TUE 21 FEB 13:45 CinemaxX 13 Market
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DOMINGO AND THE MIST
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by Ariel Escalante Meza (THE SOUND OF THINGS)
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2022 - Costa Rica/Qatar - Supernatural Drama -
1.51 - 86 min
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with Carlos Ureña, Sylvia Sossa, Esteban
Brenes Serrano, Aris Vindas
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In the tropical mountains of Costa Rica,
widower Domingo owns a piece of land which is coveted to build a new
highway. When the contractors send in thugs to intimidate the community,
the neighbours leave one by one, but Domingo refuses to give in,
especially as the land hides a special and mystical secret...
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Screening:
FRI 17 FEB 12:45 Virtual Cinema 10 Online
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