Berlin

OFFICIAL COMPETITION
The Mad Half Hour
Leonardo Brzezicki

Definition: The mad half hour refers to a condition usually indoor housecats experience once a day. They are about expanding energy in one concentrated burst that goes from 15 to 30min, without any apparent reason.
The Mad Half Hour is an off beat comedy following Juan (30) who is going through a period similar to the one of these cats.

07.02    SAT      22:00       CinemaxX 3 (Press screening)
11.02    WED    16:00       CinemaxX 5 (Premiere)
12.02    THU     22:00       CinemaxX 3
14.02    SAT      17:45       Colosseum 1

Extra screenings
“Queer Shorts”
08.02       SUN          22:00     CinemaxX 3 (not open to the public)
“Teddy Rolle”
15.02       SUN          17:00     Kino International
“Berlinale Shorts Go West”
15.02       SUN          19:30     Zoo Palast 2

PANORAMA
Butterfly
Marco Berger

The flapping of a butterfly’s wings splits Romina’s universe into two parallel and plausible realities: In one of them, the newly born Romina is abandoned by her mother, and then raised by another family with Germán as siblings. There, fate makes them build a relationship of love and desire where sexual relief is forbidden. In the other possible world, Romina and Germán meet each other and develop an allowed yet clumsy relationship as friends. This story alternates with the other reality building up an awkward game of endless posibilites.

07.02      SAT       20:30      Kino International
08.02      SUN     20:15      CineStar 3
09.02      MON     23:00      Cubix 7&8
14.02      SAT       19:00      Zoo Palast 1

PANORAMA
The Fire
Juan Schnitman

On the way to closing the contract on their first home, Lucía and Marcelo withdraw a hundred thousand dollars in cash from their bank. The seller can’t make it to the signing and it gets postponed to the next day. Frustrated, they head back to their old place and put the money away. The next 24 hours will unveil the true nature of their love, the crisis they are in, and the violence within themselves.

06.02       FRI       22:30       CinemaxX 7 (Premiere)
07.02       SAT      20:15        CineStar 3
08.02       SUN     23:00       Cubix 7 & 8
09.02       MON    16:30        CinemaxX 15 (Market)
13.02       FRI       19:00        Zoo Palast 1

FORUM
H.
Rania Attieh and Daniel García

H. is a mysterious, modern interpretation of a classic tragedy in which two women, each named Helen, live mirrored lives in the town of Troy, NY. The first Helen is in her 60s, lives with her husband, and takes care of an eerily lifelike baby doll called a “Reborn Doll,” which she cares for as though it were alive. The second Helen is in her 30s, has a successful art career and is four months pregnant. One night, something unexplainable falls out of the sky and explodes over the town. In the aftermath of this event, bizarre and unexplainable things begin to happen. As people in the town go missing en masse and unnatural cloud formations begin appearing in the sky, the two women find themselves and their lives spinning out of control.

07.02        SAT          16:30          CinemaxX6 (Press screening) GER
10.02        TUE         19:15          CineStar 8 GER
11.02        WED         22:15         Cubix 9 GER
13.02        FRI           19:30          Zoo Palast 2 GER
14.02        SAT           20:00         Colosseum 1 GER

FORUM
Sea
Dominga Sotomayor

Martin (33) goes on vacation to the beach with his girlfriend. Everything seems normal, until his mother arrives. Lightning strikes and there is a car to disappear.

06.02         FRI           22:00         Zoo Palast 2 EN
07.02         SAT          19:30         CinemaxX4 EN
08.02         SUN         09:30        CinemaxX6 (Press screening) EN
09.02         MON        19:00         CineStar 8 EN
15.02         SUN         22:15        Cubix 9 EN

FORUM
The Mud Woman
Sergio Castro San Martín

Maria (42) looks after her daughter Teresa (10) only a few kilometers from the border between Chile and Argentina. Ten year have passed since she last worked as a seasonal worker. This season she decided to return to save enough money to go and live with her brother in the capital. Not knowing she will face to face her unresolved past.

06.02         FRI 09:30          CinemaxX6 (Press screening) EN
06.02         FRI 22:00          Arsenal 1  EN
07.02         SAT 11:00          CineStar 8  EN
08.02         SUN 22:00        CinemaxX4  EN
11.02         WED 15:00        CinemaxX 11 (Market)
15.02         SUN 21:30        Delphi Filmpalast  EN

GENERATION
#Rise
Florencia Rovlich and Ygor Gama

This is all about how to make things happen, publicly, without permissions. A film made out of different urban interventions, made of this sense of urgency and uncontrol, that comes from them. Collective #disobedience and empowerment turned as global and incendiary as the markets. How to link those so different voices? We didn’t know through the status quo of narrative film.

09.02         MON        15:00         CinemaxX 1
11.02         WED        14:30         CinemaxX 1
13.02         FRI           10:00         Haus der Kulturen der Welt
14.02         SAT          14:30         CinemaxX 1

GENERATION
Catalina and the Sun
Anna Paula Hönig

Once upon a time there was a girl named Catalina who lived in Jujuy, Northern Argentina. Her grandmother Rosa is one of the last remaining storytellers from the Anden. Grandmother Rosa is already very old, and still everyday she tells a story to the sun Tata Inti. But what would happen to Tata Inti if she stopped telling her tales? Catalina is very afraid. She fears the sun will not return and the world will be in complete darkness. She likes playing with her friend the little spirit so much, but she knows that she has to prepare for the day when she must resume her grandmother’s duty, telling the stories and legends of her people so that the sun may always shine in the sky and awaken all life on earth.

10.02        TUE          15:00        CinemaxX 1
11.02        WED         10:00        Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
12.02        THU          17:30        CinemaxX 1
13.02        FRI            10:30        CinemaxX 1

GENERATION
The Kid
Sergio Mazza

Set in the loneliness and harshness of a fishing village, this crude drama discusses about shredded love. El Gurí tells the story of Gonzalo, a 10-year-old boy whose mother is about to die and is left alone to take care of his 8-month-old sister. Adrift, he looks around for options of a home with his young sister.

10.02        TUE          13:00          Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1
11.02        WED         15:30          Cubix 8
12.02        THU          14:00          CinemaxX 3
13.02        FRI            14:30          CinemaxX 1

GENERATION
Videogames
Cecilia Kang

Rocío can’t deal with the idea of separating herself from Melina, her best friend, who is about to move out and switch schools. Her pain and frustration quickly turn into fierce rivalry and anger. The growing tension between the two friends arrives at a critical point when they decide to face each other in a “Pump It Up” challenge at the arcade where they meet everyday.

08.02        SUN          14:00           CinemaxX 3
10.02        TUE           10:00           Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
11.02        WED          17:30           CinemaxX 1
13.02        FRI             17:30           CinemaxX 1

NATIVE, A JOURNEY INTO INDIGENOUS CINEMA
Sip’ohi - Manduré Place
Sebastián Lingiardi

Gustavo Salvatierra, a researcher of the Wichí people and their culture, returns to his hometown, Sip’ohi, in the impenetrable forest of Chaco in northern Argentina. His aim is to listen to and gather stories of that ancient tradition, stories which have been transmitted orally from generation to generation. The Culture is alive in language, in the faces and in the singular mood of wichí men and women.

09.02          MON          19:30           Cinestar IMAX
12.02          THU           14:00           Cubix 7

NATIVE, A JOURNEY INTO INDIGENOUS CINEMA
Gerónima
Raúl Tosso

Based on real events that occurred in 1976, the film tells the story of the consequences of the transculturation suffered by a Mapuche mother of four, living her joys and sorrows in a deserted part of Patagonia, on the land that once belonged to her ancestors.

07.02           SAT           19:30      Cinestar IMAX
08.02           SUN         14:00      Cubix 7