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 Berlinale: Panorama 2016 Complete:
Indignation / Panorama 2016 USA 2015 DIRECTOR: James Schamus Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon © Winesburg Productions, LLC.
Opening Films of Main Programme and Panorama Dokumente, Strong Showing from Latin America, and Films from Korea and China
The selection for this year’s Panorama is now complete: 51 films from 33 countries have been picked, of which 17 will screen in Panorama Dokumente, and 34 fiction features in the main programme and Panorama Special. 33 films are world premieres, nine are international premieres and nine, European premieres. The 30th Teddy Award is also being celebrated with an anniversary series of 17 films (see press releases from Dec 17, 2015 and Jan 14, 2016).
The Panorama main programme will open on Thursday, February 11 with the Czech directorial debut Já, Olga Hepnarová (I, Olga Hepnarova) by Tomas Weinreb and Petr Kazda. The film shows how a young woman in the former Czechoslovakia feels so cornered that she tries to liberate herself in a devastating act – she then faces the death penalty, which was still in effect there until 1989. Two other films also revolve around the death penalty: Shepherds and Butchers from South Africa, which is set during apartheid, and the Brazilian documentary Curumim, about an inmate on death row in Indonesia.
Europe, She Loves, a Swiss-German co-production, opens Panorama Dokumente. It examines the states of mind of heterosexual couples from Seville, Tallinn and Dublin to Thessaloniki. In passing, it also - laconically, humorously, pensively, sexily – measures the temperature of a patient called Europe.
A burning issue is introduced into the programme by Rachid Bouchareb’s La route d’Istanbul (Road to Istanbul): a Belgian mother sets out to find and bring home her daughter who has joined the jihad in Syria. Bouchareb has already presented six of his works in Berlin (five fiction features and one short film). He last participated in the 2014 Competition with Two Men in Town.
Following Hayatboyu (Lifelong, Panorama 2013), director Aslı Özge will show her first German-language film, Auf Einmal (All of a Sudden), in which one wrong decision jeopardises a young man’s entire existence. A strong first film: the Danish-Swedish co-production Shelley by Ali Abbasi uses genre-specific means to interweave one of this year’s Panorama themes - the desire to have children - with the situation of eastern Europeans migrating for jobs.
Three Films from Brazil, Two Films from Chile
In the Brazilian film Mãe só há uma (Don’t Call Me Son), it’s a matter of blood ties versus conditioning and the discovery of a baby’s earlier abduction: director Anna Muylaert won the Panorama Audience Award in 2015 for A que horas ela volta (The Second Mother). In Antes o tempo não acabava (Time Was Endless), a young man has to deal with the cultural clash between his tribe’s Amazonian Indian rituals and the self-determined urban life which he finds so alluring. Brazilian human rights activist Yvonne Bezerra de Mello was the protagonist of Kriegerin des Lichts (Warrior of Light) 15 years ago. In Zona Norte, filmmaker Monika Treut visits de Mello again to see what has come of her alternative educational methods for working with street kids. Two films from Chile complete this year’s selection from Latin America: Alejandro Fernández Almendras observes in Aquí no ha pasado nada (Much Ado About Nothing) the consequences of class society and corruption on a group of privileged teenagers. And in Alex Anwandter’s first feature, Nunca vas a estar solo (You'll Never Be Alone), a father seeks help in vain when his gay son becomes the victim of a hate crime in their neighbourhood.
South Korea and China, Three Films Each
E J-yong, a frequent guest of the Berlinale, depicts in Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja (The Bacchus Lady) the story of a gentle heroine: she has devoted her life and now, in old age, her death to men - yet within the workings of patriarchy, she had more say and freedom than her clients’ wives were ever given. The Lovers and the Despot about the dream couple of South Korea’s movie scene who were kidnapped one after the other to North Korea, provides engrossing documentary insights into the lives of Koreans, as does WEEKENDS, which reveals the swift progress and growing pitfalls of the gay emancipation movement. Shanghai: the dramatic story of a stolen baby in San Fu Tian (Dog Days) takes a modern and intimate look at a new China and its middle class – that vigorously growing segment of society which in the documentary Wu Tu (My Land) squabbles over every square meter owned by vegetable farmers and thus makes gentrification palpable. The baby theme comes up again in Inside the Chinese Closet: marriages of convenience and other societal constructions are invented to satisfy conservative family structures, whether those concerned want them or not.
The situation is similar for the young Israeli in Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?. He flees to London but then HIV makes his relationship with his family even more complicated – a topic hardly pursued in recent years but which is now the focus of several productions in the Panorama 2016: for instance, Strike a Pose about the dancers of Madonna’s legendary Blond Ambition Tour; Brüder der Nacht (Brothers of the Night) and Kiki; as well as some previously announced films: The GDR Complex, Uncle Howard, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, and the fiction feature Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau. AIDS is still with us!
The Panorama Audience Award – for which more than 32,000 votes were cast in 2015 – will be presented for the 18th time together with radioeins to the best fiction and the best documentary features on the last day of the festival (Berlinale Publikumstag), Feb. 21, 2016 at 5.00 pm in CinemaxX 7. The winning films will be screened afterwards.
Conceived to promote German cinematic art, the Heiner Carow Prize will be awarded for the fourth time to a documentary, fiction or essay film from the Panorama section in cooperation with the DEFA Foundation. After the ceremony, which will be held at 5.00 pm on Feb 18, Heiner Carow’s Die Russen kommen (The Russians Are Coming, GDR 1968) will screen at Kino International.
Panorama 2016 By Sérgio Andrade, Fábio Baldo With Anderson Tikuna, Rita Carelli, Begê Muniz, Emanuel Aragão World premiere
Auf Einmal (All of a Sudden) – Germany / Netherlands / France By Aslı Özge With Sebastian Hülk, Julia Jentsch, Hanns Zischler, Sascha Alexander Gerşak World premiere
Aquí no ha pasado nada (Much Ado About Nothing) - Chile By Alejandro Fernández Almendras With Agustín Silva, Paulina García, Alejandro Goic, Luis Gnecco, Daniel Alcaíno European premiere
Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja (The Bacchus Lady) – Republic of Korea By E J-yong With Youn Yuh-jung, Chon Moo-song, Yoon Kye-sang, An A-zu, Choi Hyun-jun World premiere
La Route d'Istanbul (Road to Istanbul) – Algeria / France / Belgium With Rachid Bouchareb Mit Astrid Whettnall, Pauline Burlet, Patricia Ide, Abel Jafri World premiere
Mãe só há uma (Don’t Call me Son) – Brazil By Anna Muylaert With Naomi Nero, Dani Nefussi, Matheus Natchergaele, Daniel Botelho, Luciana Paes World premiere
Nunca vas a estar solo (You'll Never Be Alone) – Chile By Alex Anwandter With Sergio Hernández, Andrew Bargsted, Jaime Leiva World premiere
San Fu Tian (Dog Days) – Hong Kong, China / People’s Republic of China By Jordan Schiele With Huang Lu, Tian Mu Chen, Luo Lan Shan World premiere
Shelley – Denmark / Sweden By Ali Abbasi With Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Cosmina Stratan, Peter Christoffersen World premiere
Shepherds and Butchers – South Africa / USA / Germany By Oliver Schmitz With Steve Coogan, Andrea Riseborough, Garion Dowds World premiere
Panorama Dokumente
Brüder der Nacht (Brothers of the Night) - Austria By Patric Chiha World premiere
Curumim - Brazil By Marcos Prado World premiere
By Jan Gassmann World premiere Inside the Chinese Closet - Netherlands By Sophia Luvarà International premiere
Kiki – Sweden / USA By Sara Jordenö European premiere
Strike a Pose - Netherlands By Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan World premiere
The Lovers and the Despot – United Kingdom By Rob Cannan, Ross Adam European premiere
WEEKENDS – Republic of Korea By Lee Dong-ha World premiere
Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? – Israel / United Kingdom By Tomer Heymann, Barak Heymann, Alexander Bodin Saphir World premiere
Wu Tu (My Land) - People’s Republic of China By Fan Jian European premiere
Zona Norte - Germany By Monika Treut World premiere
Previously announced titles:
Aloys – Swiss / France, by Tobias Nölle, World premiere El rey del Once (The Tenth Man) – Argentina, by Daniel Burman – International premiere Goat – USA, by Andrew Neel - International premiere Grüße aus Fukushima (Fukushima, mon Amour) – Germany, by Doris Dörrie – World premiere Indignation – USA, by James Schamus - International premiere – Debut film Já, Olga Hepnarová (I, Olga Hepnarová) – Czech Republic / Poland / Slowak Republic / France, by Tomas Weinreb, Petr Kazda - World premiere Jonathan – Germany, by Piotr J. Lewandowski – World premiere – Debut film Junction 48 – Israel / Germany / USA, by Udi Aloni – World premiere Kater (Tomcat) – Austria, by Händl Klaus - World premiere Les premiers, les derniers (The First, the Last) – France / Belgium, by Bouli Lanners - International premiere La helada negra (The Black Frost) – Argentina, by Maximiliano Schonfeld - World premiere Lantouri – Iran, by Reza Dormishian - International premiere Little Men – USA, by Ira Sachs - International premiere (Cross-Section Generation) Maggie's Plan – USA, by Rebecca Miller – European premiere Nakom – Ghana / USA, by Kelly Daniela Norris, TW Pittman - World premiere Ranenyy Angel (The Wounded Angel) – Kazakhstan / France / Germany, by Emir Baigazin - World premiere Remainder – United Kingdom / Germany, by Omer Fast - International premiere S one strane (On the Other Side) - Croatia / Serbia, by Zrinko Ogresta - World premiere Starve Your Dog – Marocco, by Hicham Lasri – European premiere Sufat Chol (Sand Storm) – Israel, by Elite Zexer - European premiere – Debut film Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau (Paris 05:59) – France, by Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau - World premiere The Ones Below – United Kingdom, by David Farr – European premiere - Debut film War on Everyone – United Kingdom, by John Michael McDonagh - World premiere While the Women Are Sleeping – Japan, by Wayne Wang – World premiere
Panorama Dokumente
Der Ost-Komplex (The GDR Complex) – Germany, by Jochen Hick - World premiere Don't Blink - Robert Frank – USA / France, by Laura Israel - International premiere Hotel Dallas – Romania / USA, by Livia Ungur, Sherng-Lee Huang - World premiere – Debut film Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures – USA / Germany, by Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato - International premiere Mariupolis – Lithuania / Germany / France / Ukraine, by Mantas Kvedaravicius - World premiere Uncle Howard – United Kingdom / USA, by Aaron Brookner – European premiere
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1 Berlin Harlem – Germany (Federal Republic), 1974, by Lothar Lambert, Wolfram Zobus Anders als die Andern - Germany, 1919, by Richard Oswald Before Stonewall – USA, 1984, by Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg Die Betörung der Blauen Matrosen (The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors) - Germany (Federal Republic), 1975, by Ulrike Ottinger Die Wiese der Sachen (The Meadow of Things) - Germany (Federal Republic), 1974-1987, by Heinz Emigholz Je, tu, il, elle (I, You, He, She) – France / Belgium, 1974, by Chantal Akerman Looking for Langston – United Kingdom, 1989, by Isaac Julien Marble Ass – Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1995, by Želimir Žilnik The Watermelon Woman – USA, 1996, by Cheryl Dunye Tongues Untied – USA, 1989, by Marlon Riggs 21.01.2016 | Berlin's blog Cat. : FILM
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