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Happy to share our Berlinale and EFM lineup!
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PROMO REEL SCREENING WED 12 FEB 15:00 (CinemaxX 12)
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WORLD PREMIERE - BERLINALE COMPETITION
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GIRLS ON WIRE
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by Vivian Qu
(ANGELS WEAR WHITE)
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2025 - China - Drama/Thriller - 114 min
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with Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao, Zhou You
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Cousins Tian Tian and Fang Di were raised like sisters until family struggles pushed them apart. Fang Di moves away to work as a stuntwoman in China's largest film studios to clear her family's debts. Tian Tian remains behind, forced to deal with her father's addiction, and falls prey to the local mafia. Forced to escape to the big city, Tian Tian seeks out her cousin. Thrown together against their will and followed by the mob, they will need to combine their strength and resilience to escape a dramatic fate that threatens to consume them both.
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Screenings:
FRI 14 FEB 16:30 CinemaxX 7 Private Market Screening (Buyers Only)
SUN 16 FEB 09:00 CinemaxX 4 Private Market Screening (Buyers Only)
MON 17 FEB 08:45 Berlinale Palast P&I
MON 17 FEB 15:00 Berlinale Palast World Premiere
TUE 18 FEB 09:45 Urania Public
TUE 18 FEB 17:30 Uber Eats Music Hall Public
WED 19 FEB 11:10 CinemaxX 5 Market
WED 19 FEB 20:30 Haus der Berliner Festspiele Public
SUN 23 FEB 21:00 Berlinale Palast Public
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DJ AHMET
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by Georgi M. Unkovski (Debut)
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2025 - North Macedonia/Czech Republic/Serbia/Croatia - Comedy/Drama - 99 min
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with Arif Jakup, Agush Agushev, Aksel Mehmet & Dora Akan Zlatanova
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Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father's expectations in a conservative community and his first experience with love - for a girl already promised to someone else.
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Screenings:
THU 13 FEB 17:20 Arsenal 2 Market
THU 13 FEB 17:30 Virtual Cinema 2 Online Market
SAT 15 FEB 09:00 CinemaxX 19 Market
SAT 15 FEB 12:45 Virtual Cinema 4 Online Market
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WHERE THE WIND COMES FROM
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by Amel Guellaty (Debut)
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2025 - Tunisia/France/Qatar - Drama - 99 min
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with Eya Bellagha, Slim Baccar
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Fearless spirit Alyssa and sensitive artist Mehdi, best friends since childhood, feel cramped in their life in the outskirts of Tunis. When Alyssa discovers an artist contest in Djerba that might be their ticket out, she pulls Mehdi into a fantastical journey across Tunisia which will put their friendship to the test.
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Screenings:
FRI 14 FEB 11:00 CinemaxX 12 & 13 Market
FRI 14 FEB 14:00 Virtual Cinema 6 Online Market
SAT 15 FEB 11:00 Virtual Cinema 4 Online Market
SAT 15 FEB 14:45 CinemaxX 12 Market
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AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE
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by Albert Serra
(PACIFICTION, THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV)
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2024 - Spain/France/Portugal - Non-fiction - 125 min
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with Andrés Roca Rey, Antonio Gutiérrez, Francisco Durán, Francisco Gómez, Manuel Lara
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SAN SEBASTIAN IFF 2024
GOLDEN SHELL
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Portrait of an active bullfighting star, Andrés Roca Rey, which allows us to reflect on the intimate experience of the bullfighter who assumes the risk of facing the bull as a personal duty out of respect for tradition and as an aesthetic challenge. This challenge creates a form of ephemeral beauty through the material and violent confrontation between human rationality and the brutality of the wild animal.
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Screening:
SUN 16 FEB 14:30 CinemaxX 11 Market
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WISHING ON A STAR
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by Peter Kerekes
(107 MOTHERS)
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2024 - Italy/Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/Croatia - Documentary/Non Fiction - 99 min
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Luciana, a Neapolitan astrologer, has a method to make her clients' wishes come true. All they need to do is take a trip on their birthday to a precise destination to be reborn under a new sky. Whether it's Taipei, Beirut, or a nearby village, during these birthday journeys, the protagonists will go through unexpected transformations to help them discover what they truly desire.
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Screenings:
THU 13 FEB 09:00 CinemaxX 11 Market
THU 13 FEB 10:50 Virtual Cinema 3 Online Market
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JANUARY 2
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by Zsófia Szilágyi
(ONE DAY)
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2024 - Hungary - Drama - 86 min
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with Csenge Jóvári, Zsuzsanna Konrád
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Klára moves out from her husband. Her friend, Ági, helps her. They make a total of seven turns by car. Although they take the same route there and back every time, each round is different. “January 2” is a realist story about a separation from the wife's perspective with all the challenges she faces following this tough decision.
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Screenings:
SUN 16 FEB 16:00 Virtual Cinema 4 Online Market
MON 17 FEB 09:20 CinemaxX 13 Market
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TARIKA
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by Milko Lazarov
(ÁGA)
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2024 - Bulgaria/Germany/Luxembourg - Drama - 86 min
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with Vesela Valcheva, Zachary Baharov, Ivan Savov
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Tarika lives with her father and her grandmother in a small hut near the border far away from the local village. Marked by her “butterfly wings”, a rare bone condition she inherited from her mother, the girl has been the source of the community's superstition forever. When the local cattle is struck down by a mysterious disease, fear starts spreading among the villagers...
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Screenings:
MON 17 FEB 11:00 CinemaxX 18 Market
MON 17 FEB 16:30 Virtual Cinema 4 Online Market
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For information on upcoming films, visit us at booth MGB #32 from Feb 13 - 19
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