Berlin International Film Festival | 9 - 20 February

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-- The Forum
-- The Panorama

-- Retrospective
-- Kinderfilmfest
-- New German Films




Parallel: The Forum

European diversity is the focus of the 30th International Forum of Young Cinema, a sideline feature during the Berlinale. Many of the films in this year's Forum programme reflect the state of mankind at the end of a century of upheaval. They explore strange and different worlds in the face of threats to our own existence, involving the audience as confidents and reminding us that more often than not, the answers to the most burning questions are more likely to be found on society's fringes than at its centre.

The tour of films includes Finland's Markku Lehmuskallio and Anastasia Lapsui's ethnographic feature film Seitsemän Laulua Tunralta (Seven Songs from the Tundra), Dutch filmmaker Johan van der Keuken considers his response to getting cancer in De grote vakantie (The Long Holiday), the story of Chechnya in The Making of a New Empire by Jos de Putter, the Croatian satire Marsal (Marshal Tito's Spirit) by Vinko Bresan, the three hour-long Greek film I earini synaxis ton agrofylakon (The Four Seasons of the Law) by Dimos Avdeliodis, Italy is represented by Alessandro Piva's Lacapagira (Theheadisspinning), the Austrian film Heimkehr der Jäger (Return of the Hunters) by Michael Kreihsl skirts the edges of insanity, Switzerland presents a new film by Clemens Klopfenstein, a daring cross-cut montage entitled WerAngstWolf (WhoAfraidWolf). Eastern Europe brings one entry from each of Poland, Bulgaria and Russia this year, France is present with Claire Denis' Beau Travail (Good Work) and Claire Devers' La Voleuse de Saint Lubin (The Thief of Saint Lubin)...

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A Comme Adrienne - Boris Lehman (Belgium)
Abendland - Fred Kelemen (Germany)
Across a Golden Prairie (Kinpatsu no Sogen) - Isshin Inudo (Japan)
Arise! Walk Dog Eat Donut - Ken Kobland (USA)
Atarashii Kamisama (The New God) - Tsuchiya Yutaka (Japan)

 

Bariwali (Lady of the House) - Rituparno Ghosh (India)
Benjamin Smoke - Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen (USA)
Blumen Lieben Oben - Erwin Michelberger (Germany)
The Books and the Nights (Los Libros Y la Noche) - Tristán Bauer (Argentina/Spain)
Boulevard Of Passion (Strastnoj Bulwar) - Vladimir Chotinenko (Russia)
Buenos Aires Zero Degree - Amos Lee, Kwan Pun-Leung (Hongkong/China)
Bullets Over Summer (Bao Lie Xing Jing) - Wilson Yip (Hong Kong)

 

Cinema Verite: Defining The Moment - Peter Wintonick (Canada)
Composition for Bandoneon and Three Brothers - Daniel Rosenfeld (Argentina)
Cross Harbour Tunnel (Guo Hai Suidao) - Lawrence Wong (Hong Kong)

 

Deutsche Polizisten - Aysun Bademsoy (Germany)

 

Ein Fluechtiger Zug Nach Dem Orient - Ruth Beckermann (Austria)

 

The Four Seasons of the Law (I Earini Synaxis Ton Agrofylakon) - Dimos Avdeliodis (Greece)
Fragments of Life (Fragments de vies) - François Woukoache (Cameroon/Belgium)

 

Geography Of Fear (Pelon Maantide) - Auli Mantila (Finland)
George Washington - David Gordon Green (USA)
Gespraech Im Gebirg - Mattias Caduff (Germany)
Glass Marbles (Stakieni Topcheta) - Ivan Cherkelov (Bulgaria)
Good Work (Beau Travail) - Claire Denis (France)
A Guy like Dieter - Native of Golzow (Ein Mensch Wie Dieter - Golzower) - Barbara und Winfried Junge (Germany)

 

Havanna, Mi Amor - Uli Gaulke (Germany)
The Himmler-Project (Das Himmler Projekt) - Romuald Karmakar (Germany)
Hunters in the Snow (Heimkehr Der Jaeger) - Michael Kreihsl (Austria)
Homesick - Mito Hineki (Japan)
Hubad Sa Ilalim Ng Buwan - Lav Diaz

I Could Read The Sky - Nicholas Bruce (UK)

 

Jiang Hu: Life On The Road - Wu Wenguang (China)
A Journey to Geneva (Eine Reise Nach Genf ) - Irene Loebell (Switzerland)

 

Kumar Talkies - Pankaj Rishi Kumar (India)

 

Lecons De Tenebres - Vincent Dieutres (French)
Litter on the Breeze - First Love - Eric Kot (HongKong)
The Long Holiday (De Grote Vakantie) - Johan van der Keuken (Netherlands)
Long Night's Journey Into Day -South Africa's Search for Truth & Reconciliation - Deborah Hoffmann, Frances Reid (USA)

 

The Making Of A New Empire - Jos de Putter (Netherlands)
Making Sun-Dried Red Peppers - Hee-Sun Jang (Korea)
Martin - Ra'anan Alexandrovich (Israel)
Marsal (Marshal Tito's Spirit) - Vinko Breöan (Croatia)
The Mission - Johnnie To (HongKong)
Monday - Sabu (Japan)
MyHead'sSpinning (Lacapagira) - Alessandro Piva (Italy)

 

Nabbie's Love (Nabbe No Koi) - Yuji Nakae (Japan)
Nach dem Fall - Frauke Sandig, Eric Black (Germany)
Naked Under The Moon (Hubad Sa Ilalimj Ng Buwan) - Lav Diaz (Philippines)
Neustadt (Stau - Der Stand der Dinge) - Thomas Heise (Germany)
Norae-ro Taeyang-ul Ssoda - Cho Jai-Hong (Korea)

 

One Piece! - Shinobu Yaguchi and Takiji Suzuki (Japan)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenewitsch (Une Journee d'Andrei Arsenewitsch) - Chris Marker (France)

 

The Punishment - Goran Rebic (Austria)

 

Rendez-vous - Yamamoto Kosuke (Japan)
Running Out Of Time - Johnnie To (Hong Kong)
Russlands Wunderkinder - Irene Langemann (Germany)
Ruang Talok 69 - Pen-ek Ratanaruang

 

Seven Songs from the Tundra (Seitsemän Laulua Tundralta) - Markku Lehmuskallio and Anastasia Lapsui (Finland)
Shine - Gidi Dar (Israel)
Shiro - The White - Hirano Katsuyuki (Japan)
Straight From The Heart (Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam) - Sanjay Leela Bhansali (India)
A Sudden Loss of Gravity - Todd Verow (USA)

 

 

Teatro Amazonas - Sharon Lockhart (Brazil/US)
The Thief of Saint Lubin (La Voleuse De Saint Lubin) - Claire Devers (France)
There's a Strong Wind in Beijing - Ju An Qi (China)
Third Known Nest - Tom Kalin (USA)
Tuvalu - Veit Helmer (Germany)

 

El Valley Centro - James Benning (US)
Verzeihung, Ich Lebe - Andrzej Klamt (Germany)

 

WerAngstWolf - Clemens Klopfenstein (Switzerland)
Wojacek - Lech Kajewski (Poland)
Wotenick - Axel Kalhorn (Germany)
Wueste - Ebbo Demant (Germany)
Where A Good Man Goes - Johnny To
The Worlds of Mei Lanfang - Chen Mei-Juin (China)

 

Zoe - Maren-Kea Freese (Germany)
Zone M - Eduard Schreiber (Germany)

 

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