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BERLINALE 2016

24 WEEKS by Anne Zohra Berrached . SAND STORM by Elite Zexer . WELCOME TO NORWAY by Rune Denstad Langlo . THE WEATHER INSIDE by Isabelle Stever . HEVN (REVENGE) by Kjersti G. Steinsbø . COCONUT HERO by Florian Cossen . THE KIND WORDS by Shemi Zarhin . ALI’S WEDDING by Jeffrey Walker . SCARRED HEARTS by Radu Jude . THE KING‘S CHOICE by Erik Poppe . THE BLOOM OF YESTERDAY by Chris Kraus . VINCENT AND THE END OF THE WORLD by Christophe Van Rompaey

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COMPETITION24 WEEKS by Anne Zohra Berrached ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Page 4

PANORAMASAND STORM by Elite Zexer ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Page 8

MARKET PREMIEREWELCOME TO NORWAY by Rune Denstad Langlo ......................................................................................................................................................................................Page 12

THE WEATHER INSIDE by Isabelle Stever ........................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 16

MARKETHEVN (REVENGE) by Kjersti G. Steinsbø ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 18

COCONUT HERO by Florian Cossen ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................0

THE KIND WORDS by Shemi Zarhin ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 22

UPCOMINGSALI’S WEDDING by Jeffrey Walker ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 24

SCARRED HEARTS by Radu Jude .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 25 THE KING‘S CHOICE by Erik Poppe ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 26

THE BLOOM OF YESTERDAY by Chris Kraus ..................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 27

VINCENT AND THE END OF THE WORLD by Christophe Van Rompaey...........................................................................................................................................Page 28

LOLA @ BERLINALECOLONIA by Florian Gallenberger ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 29

LOOK WHO’S BACK by David Wnendt .............................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 29

THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER by Lars Kraume ..........................................................................................................................................................................................Page 29

CONTENT SCREENING SCHEDULE

24 WEEKS

Fri Feb 12th 3:10 pm CinemaxX 10 PRIVATE

Sun Feb 14th 12:00 pm Berlinale Palast PRESS

Sun Feb 14th 7:00 pm Berlinale Palast PREMIERE

Mon Feb 15th 10:00 am Haus der Berliner Festspiele COMPETITION

Mon Feb 15th 11:30 am CinemaxX 10 COMPETITION

Mon Feb 15th 12:15 pm Friedrichstadt-Palast COMPETITION

Mon Feb 15th 6:00 pm Zoo Palast 1 COMPETITION

Sun Feb 21st 10:00 pm Haus der Berliner Festspiele COMPETITION

COCONUT HEROSat Feb 13th 12:00 pm Zoo Palast 2 LOLA@BERLINALE

Tue Feb 16th 2:30 pm CineStar 1 MARKET

COLONIA Fri Feb 12th 12:00 pm Zoo Palast 2 LOLA@BERLINALE

HEVN (REVENGE)Sat Feb 13th 4:45 pm CinemaxX Studio 18 MARKET

Mon Feb 15th 9:30 am CinemaxX Studio 18 MARKET

LOOK WHO'S BACK Wed Feb 17th 4:00 pm Zoo Palast 3 LOLA@BERLINALE

SAND STORM

Fri Feb 12th 5:45 pm CineStar 3 PRE-PREMIERE

Sun Feb 14th 9:30 am CineStar 2 MARKET

Wed Feb 17th 8:00 pm CinemaxX 7 PREMIERE

Fri Feb 18th 10:45 pm CineStar 3 PANORAMA

Sat Feb 19th 8:15 pm Cubix 7&8 PANORAMA

THE KIND WORDS Sun Feb 14th 10:45 am CinemaxX Studio 18 MARKET

THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER Wed Feb 17th 2:00 pm Zoo Palast 2 LOLA@BERLINALE

THE WEATHER INSIDEFri Feb 12th 9:15 am CinemaxX Studio 18 MARKET PREMIERE

Wed Feb 17th 12:00 pm Zoo Palast 2 LOLA@BERLINALE

WELCOME TO NORWAYThu Feb 11th 5:00 pm CineStar IMAX MARKET PREMIERE

Sun Feb 14th 5:00 pm CineStar 5 MARKET PREMIERE

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The stage lights, the applause – Astrid loves being a cabaret performer, and loves her tolerant and supportive husband Markus.Every decision is taken together, and this one is no different: what will they do with the child that Astrid is carrying, now, six months into the pregnancy, that she learns it will be severely disabled? She and Marcus

have a choice, but little time…A strong nature with a witty answer to everything, Astrid now feels lost, on her own, impossible to continue her comedy routine. Ultimately only she who is bearing the child can take this weighty decision. What will she do? Who decides whether the child will have a life worth living?

DIRECTOR'S NOTE

In 24 WEEKS I describe the conflict of a woman in an extreme situation: she must decide between the life and death of her unborn child. My film neither condemns nor advocates.

In Germany it is possible to abort an ailing or disabled child up to shortly before its birth. The mere fact is that 90% of all women do so after the 12th week. The constant, progressive technical progress leads to an ever more precise observation of the fetus before its birth. As soon as the prenatal diagnostic establishes a deformity among the unborn, a medicinal indication for an abortion is possible. A prenatal diagnostician then asks the mother whether she can imagine herself getting the child or not? The parents must decide whether the life of their embryo is worth living. "Fate" becomes a legal, ethical, philosophical matter. The parents have the choice between life and death. What they do not have is the choice to elude this decision.

Generations of women have fought major battles for the right of abortion and self-determination over one's own body. It is an integral component of our definition of independence as a woman with equal rights and shaping her own life. The equality of the sexes can't help us in a moral dilemma, however. What interests me is the moral conflict as the result of our modern, medicated world. We have to keep assuring ourselves again and again that we must defend what we have accomplished. And we must insist that what happens is not just what actually does happen; but also what we truly want. 24 WEEKS confronts the viewer with a question that can only be answered by those who are affected, and only them.

THE DIRECTOR

Anne Zohra Berrached was born in Erfurt, East Germany, in 1982. Her mother was a dental technician and her father, who originated from Algeria, owned a restaurant. After she got her degree in socialeducation, with a focus on psychology in Frankfurt, she worked as a drama teacher in London for two years. She spent several months in Madrid, Spain and Yaoundé, Cameroon before she became a director’s assistant at the Hansatheater and Ballhaus Ost in Berlin. In 2009, she began to study directing at the Film Academy,

Baden-Württemberg. Her second year movie SAINT & WHORE was invited to over 80 film festivals around the globe. In her third year, she completed her first feature film TWO MOTHERS. It premiered at the 63rd International Film Festival in Berlin in 2013. The feature was released in five countries, and has earned the “First Steps No Fear Award” and the “Dialogues en Perspective” of the section “Perspective German Cinema” at the Berlin Film Festival. 24 WEEKS is her second feature film.

CABARET PERFORMER ASTRID IS SIX MONTHS PREGNANT WHEN SHE LEARNS THAT HER UNBORN CHILD WILL BE SEVERELY DISABLED. SHE AND HER HUSBAND HAVE LITTLE TIME

TO TAKE A DECISION OF ENORMOUS SIGNIFICANCE.

DRAMA / GERMAN / 102 MIN / COMPLETED

ORIGINAL TITLE 24 WOCHEN

DIRECTOR Anne Zohra Berrached

DOP Friede Clausz

CAST Julia Jentsch (SOPHIE SCHOLL – THE FINAL DAYS) Bjarne Mädel Johanna Gastdorf Emilia Pieske

PRODUCER Thomas Kufus, Melanie Berke and Tobias Büchner

PRODUCED BY zero one film GmbH in co-production with ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

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As wedding festivities get underway in a Bedouin village in Israel, Jalila finds herself in the awkward position of hosting her husband Suliman’s marriage to a second, much younger wife. During the celebration, Jalila stumbles across eldest daughter Layla’s involvement with a boy from her university – a strictly forbidden liaison that would shame the family. Burying the indignity of Suliman and his new bride living next door, Jalila also tries to contain Layla’s situation by clamping down on her. But younger and possessed of a boundless spirit, Layla sees a different life for herself.

A story of tradition, modernity, and divided family, Sand Storm upends expectations. At its core, Elite Zexer’s mesmerizing debut feature portrays the emotionally layered relationship between mother and daughter, both bound by custom while struggling to adapt to a changing world. Zexer’s artful storytelling derives its authenticity – its complexity of character, rich detail, and subtle humor – from the 10 years she’s spent interacting with Bedouin women. Her fidelity to their experience allows her to beautifully convey the spirit of profound ambivalence Jalila and Layla share.

DIRECTOR‘S NOTE

Ten years ago my mother, who is among many other things, a stills photographer, began photographing Bedouin women from various villages in the Israeli Negev desert. One day she asked me to join her. I immediately said yes, not knowing that going on this one day adventure with her, would turn into the wildest ride of my life.I‘ve spent years meeting incredible women, whose stories went deep into my heart, until I realized there is no way I could avoid making this film. This understanding set off years of writing, and rewriting, again and again, and I didn‘t stop until I felt like my script was accurately enough conveying two main principals: one is that, although I‘m an outsider to the Bedouin culture, the script must be as authentic and genuine to their way of perceiving the world as possible. Two, is that although the circumstances the film is portraying are quite extreme, the basic themes, are very universal. In that sense, anyone could relate to it, and even if the society and locations play a big role in the story - they do not make it a local tale.

After four years of perfecting these two principals, I finally declared my script was ready and set off to shoot the film. The end result - and given how this all began, how could it be anything else but this - is a story of mother and daughter.

THE DIRECTOR

Elite Zexer graduated from Tel Aviv University, where she received both a BFA and MFA, the latter in film directing. Her previous films include the shorts TAKE NOTE, which won the Best Fiction Film Award at the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, and TASNIM, which participated in over 120 film festivals around the world and won several international awards. She also directed the documentary short FIRE DEPARTMENT BNEI BRAK before helming her first feature.

WHEN THEIR ENTIRE LIVES ARE SHATTERED, TWO BEDOUIN WOMEN STRUGGLE TO CHANGE THE UNCHANGEABLE RULES, EACH IN HER OWN INDIVIDUAL WAY.

DRAMA / ARABIC / 88 MIN / COMPLETED

ORIGINAL TITLE SUFAT CHOL

DIRECTOR Elite Zexer

DOP Shai Peleg

CAST Lamis Ammar Ruba Blal-Asfour Hitham Omari

PRODUCER Haim Mecklberg and Estee Yacov-Mecklberg

PRODUCED BY 2team Productions with the support of the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts - Cinema Project and Gesher Multicultural Film Fund


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PANORAMA PANORAMA

SAND STORM“This emotionally intelligent first feature boasts alluring desert visuals, muscular acting and intricate psychology...”

(Ella Taylor - VARIETY)

“Moving” (Kenneth Turan - LA TIMES)

“The ending is one of the most heartbreaking, beautiful sacrifices in recent cinema.” (THE FILM STAGE)

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DIRECTOR‘S NOTE

I initially got the idea for Welcome to Norway in 2010 then it evolved over several years. I saw a news report about a shady character who started a refugee asylum center in a dilapidated hotel and became a millionaire. I filmed a documentary in an asylum center where I met a young Libyan who despite his terrible background and experiences was an eternal optimist. A friend of mine was working with refugees, trying to find jobs for them, and he told me about a racist boss who became friends with a young Somali at their workplace. All of this became a story and I started writing the script three years ago.During the same period it became apparent to me that Anders BaasmoChristiansen should play Primus, the racist hotel owner. Anders also played the main role in my first film NORTH (NORD) and a small role in my second film CHASING THE WIND (JAG ETTER VIND). We know each other well and aside from the fact he isn’t a racist, there is a great deal of Anders in Primus. The optimistic refugee Abedi is played by Olivier Mukuta who arrived at the audition without any particular film experience. Olivier is originally from the Congo and lived in a refugee camp in Malawi before coming to Norway ten years ago.The extras in the film have also previously been refugees from Syria, among other places, and many of them have experienced unimaginable horrors. Nevertheless all of them thought making a comedy about a refugee asylum center was a great idea. Their experiences were invaluable to me and several of them garnered speaking roles in the film. We shot the film over thirty days in the spring of 2015 in a shuttered alpine lodge in a mountainous area between Norway and Sweden.

All together we were a group of around hundred people from twenty different nations, speaking fourteen different languages. And we had no idea how topical the film would become.When the refugee crisis began some months later we were sitting in the editing room watching our film play out in the Norwegian news media. Refugees were streaming over the border and being lodged in temporary accommodations and in closed-down hotels. Some of the owners of these asylum centers made a lot of money from the crisis; the refugees complained and several asylum centers were trashed. Now the film is finished; it is January 2016 and reality looks even bleaker. But when all seems hopeless and tragedy becomes most terrible, then one must be allowed to laugh – at oneself, at others, and at each other. This is what I want from Welcome to Norway.

THE DIRECTOR

Rune Denstad Langlo, born in 1972, is a Norwegian director, most known for directing the feature film NORTH from 2009. NORTH received tribute at festivals from Moscow to New York and won the Critic’s Award in Berlinale Panorama in 2009, the same year as Langlo was voted ”Best Emerging Filmmaker” at the Tribeca Film Festival. His second feature film CHASING THE WIND (2013) received great reviews and screened at festivals throughout the world. Runes background comes from documentaries. Among them THE LAST MATCH from 2011, 99% HONEST from 2008 and the documentary series TOO MUCH NORWAY from 2005.

A COMEDY ABOUT A RACIST AND BROKE HOTEL OWNER WHO STARTS A REFUGEE RECEPTION CENTER AT THE FAMILY‘S MOUNTAIN RESORT IN ORDER TO SAVE THEIR BUSINESS.

MARKET PREMIERE MARKET PREMIERE

WELCOME TO NORWAY

DRAMATIC COMEDY / NORWEGIAN / 90 MIN / COMPLETED

ORIGINAL TITLE WELCOME TO NORWAY

DIRECTOR Rune Denstad Langlo (NORTH)

DOP Philip Øgaard

CAST Anders Baasmo Christiansen (KON-TIKI) Slimane Dazi (ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE, A PROPHET) Henriette Steenstrup Olivier Mukata Ninni Bakke Kristiansen

PRODUCER Sigve Endresen

PRODUCED BY Motlys AS


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Per Primus is a fourth generation mountain resort hotel owner; he‘s born and raised far up in the Norwegian mountians and lives there with his wife and daughter. Primus is a bit more racist than most, and is hopeless with money. Since the tourists haven‘t been coming to the mountains anymore, he decides to go into the business of running a state-funded asylum reception center. But it‘s

not going to be as easy as he first expected. Because along with 50 unruly refugees, most of them muslims and Arabic speaking, comes Abedi, an endlessly annoying optimist from Congo. He annoys the hell out of Primus, but eventually Abedi changes Primus‘ life completely. And in the end he has to make a choice: his friend or the money.

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MARKET PREMIERE

DRAMA / GERMAN, ENGLISH & ARABIAN / 96 MIN / COMPLETED

ORIGINAL TITLE DAS WETTER IN GESCHLOSSENEN RÄUMEN

DIRECTOR Isabelle Stever

DOP Philip Kaminiak

CAST Maria Furtwängler Mehmet Sözer Barbara Bouchet (GANGS OF NEW YORK) Anne von Keller Dorka Gryllus (SOUL KITCHEN, IRINA PALM) Jim Broadbent (IRIS, ANOTHER YEAR, LE WEEK-END)

PRODUCER Ingmar Trost and Jörg Schulze

PRODUCED BY Sutor Kolonko Filmproduktion in co-production with cine plus Filmproduktion, WDR, BR and NDR


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A SURPRISING LOOK AT THE BUSINESS OF FOREIGN AID WORK WITH A POWERFUL PERFORMANCE BY MARIA FURTWÄNGLER AND THE SUPPORT OF JIM BROADBENT.

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TheWeatherInside

Dorothea, an aid worker with a humanitarian organization, has launched a project to help the people escaping a neighboring land menaced by civil war. The luxury of her wealthy world finds a cynical reflection in the poverty evident all around. She embarks upon an affair with the much younger Alec, who seems to be simply an attractive Arab drifter. Their two worlds collide, impelled by their mutual lust for adventure. What appears to be reality becomes unbalanced, raising the question of having and being. Who exactly is helping whom? As her passion increases, Dorothea loses control, jeopardizing not only the project but also her life.

DIRECTOR‘S NOTE

I once met a woman who worked for a UN affiliated development aid organization. She vividly described to me how a colorful assortment of aid workers, war reporters, politicians and PR managers on the “conflict hot-spot circuit” would meet up in the lounges of international hotels, where they’d self-medicate with drugs and have wild parties. These people are in the poverty business: their networking, rivalries and sycophantic

strategies are all played out against the backdrop of the “real” horrors of crisis zones as portrayed by the media. An idea began to germinate within me about the connection between this absurd reversal of expectation – the aid worker’s existential dependency on crisis – and an amour fou as a partnership of convenience; a relationship in which mutual dependencies are repeatedly turned on their heads, finally escalating to preposterous proportions: the story of Dorothea and a lover half her age, Alec. The result is a disillusioning look at a decadent parallel world that is finding it increasingly difficult to cut itself off from the rest of humanity and to justify its own existence. It is a polished world of pomp and perfect manners, a key ingredient of which is a conscientious “care for the poor” – including the missionary ambition of converting “them” to one’s own lifestyle. It’s already become impossible for Dorothea to maintain the façade without giant blinkers on. Actually, not even then, because the lone object of her aid program – Sukaina, the refugee girl with a scholarship to London – literally goes her own way. At the very end Dorothea finally leaves this bubble. But by this time she has herself already been deserted by that to which she had so frantically clung: her clearly ordered world; her idea of love; her definition of beauty; her belief in her own unconditional entitlement to wealth and pleasure; and her youth.

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"A nerve-wracking drama that stays with you long after you have left the cinema» (Cinema)

"A thrilling film that raises the eternal questions of guilt and punishment" (Vårt Land)

"Kjersti G. Steinsbø shows that she was made for this and is ready for more" (Filmfront)

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LIKE A LONE COWBOY SHE RODE INTO TOWN SEEKING HER KIND OF JUSTICE, AND WHEN SHE RIDES BACK OUT, SHE LEAVES BEHIND A MAN AND A VILLAGE IN CHAOS.

Based on Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s best-selling crime novel “DOLL IN THE CEILING”.

Rebekka’s younger sister has committed suicide after spending years in a psychiatric institution. After the funeral, Rebekka gets into her car and drives off – bringing nothing

but a kitchen knife. Set within the majestic back drop of the fjords of Western Norway, she is looking for retribution. Under a false identity, she seeks out her deceased sister’s violator and embeds herself into his idyllic family to now destroy his life…

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PSYCHODRAMA / NORWEGIAN / 104 MIN / COMPLETED

ORIGINAL TITLE HEVN

DIRECTOR Kjersti G. Steinsbø

DOP Anna Myking

CAST Frode Winther Maria Bock (MERCY) Anders Bassmo Christiansen (KON-TIKI) Trond Espen Seim

PRODUCER Kristine Knudsen, Paul Barkin

PRODUCED BY Den siste skilling AS in co-production with Alcina Pictures


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“Touching, funny and beautifully crafted.” (THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

“Enchanting.” (Sueddeutsche Zeitung)b y F l o r i a n C o s s e n

THE STORY OF MIKE TYSON. NOT THE BOXER, A DIFFERENT ONE.

Mike Tyson is 16 ½ years old and lives with his overbearing mother in Faintville, a small crappy town in the wilds of northern Canada. His single greatest wish is to be dead.

One afternoon, after many failed attempts, Mike finally gets serious. After writing his obituary for the local newspaper, Mike digs out an old hunting rifle left by his absentee dad and shoots himself in the head.

To his great dismay, Mike wakes up in the local hospital. Turns out his inexperience with guns led him to confuse blanks for bullets, and his quest is thwarted yet again.

While still in the hospital, however, Mike’s luck miraculously changes. Answering his prayers, Mike’s doctor finds a lethal walnut-sized malignant

brain tumour. Realizing he no longer has to finish the job himself, the fatal news cheers Mike up immediately. Provided Mike can keep his diagnosis secret from his mother and avoid a life-saving surgical operation, his own demise is in the bag!

With the pressure of killing himself off, Mike’s outlook on life changes dramatically and, so does his life. Having read the obituary, Mike’s absentee father re-emerges and wants to be in his life. Even better, Mike gets to know Miranda, the new girl in town, who teaches him how to drive a car, bury a deer and kiss a girl.

When Mike finally decides to call off his deal with death, things get out of control. Once you’ve been blessed by a wish granted, is it ever possible to take the wish back?

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TRAGICOMEDY, LOVE STORY / ENGLISH / 101 MIN / COMPLETED

ORIGINAL TITLE COCONUT HERO

DIRECTOR Florian Cossen (THE DAY I WAS NOT BORN)

DOP Brendan Steacy

CAST Alex Ozerov (BLACKBIRD) Krista Bridges (HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET) Sebastian Schipper (RUN LOLA RUN) Bea Santos

PRODUCER Jochen Laube, Fabian Maubach and Paul Scherzer

PRODUCED BY Ufa Fiction and Six Island Productions in co-production with SWR/arte, UFA Cinema and Cine Plus


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With more than 150,000 admissions one of the biggest box office hits in Israel.

Nominated for 12 Israeli Academy Awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Script and Best Actors.

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FROM THE PRODUCERS OF THE FAREWELL PARTY

A bitter sweet story about the search for identity, longing for love, and the illusive line between lies and truth.Three siblings joined by the death of their mother, and a revelation about the identity of their „real“ father, who to their shock and shagrin may have

been an Algerian Muslem. They set off on a quirky journey from Israel through Paris and Marseile, but ultimately into the past, and their own confusing selves.

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DRAMA, COMEDY / HEBREW, FRENCH / 118 MIN / COMPLETED

ORIGINAL TITLE HAMILIM HATOVOT

DIRECTOR Shemi Zarhin (AVIVA MY LOVE)

DOP Ronald Plante

CAST Rotem Zisman-Cohen Roy Assaf (GOD‘S NEIGHBOURS) Asaf Ben-Shimon Tsahi Halevi (BETHLEHEM) Sasson Gabay (THE BAND‘S VISIT)

PRODUCER Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Handelsman- Keren, Martin Paul-Hus, Moshe Edery and Leon Edery

PRODUCED BY Pie Films, United Films and Amerique Film


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KINDWORDS

THE

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SCARRED HEARTSALI’S WEDDING

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early 20ies, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis.

The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed.

Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to

the fullest. He makes friends and engages in conversations, political for the most part. He reads, he writes, he smokes and drinks, interacts with doctors, nurses and stretcher-bearers. He observes how healing seems to be happening transiently, following mysterious laws: some patients get better, some worse, others die.

He even has a romantic relationship, while outside Romania doesn‘t have much to offer him, turning more and more into an extreme right-wing society...

BASED ON MAX BLECHER‘S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL; CONSIDERED BY WORLDWIDE CRITICS “A MASTERPIECE” OR “LOST CLASSIC”

Ali is the charming son of a much-loved Muslim cleric who has migrated to Australia from Iraq and attempts to juggle two very different worlds.Desperate to please his family and community, Ali sets off a calamitous

chain of events that sees him attending medical school despite not being enrolled, and falling in love despite being promised to another. As his wedding day draws ever closer, Ali’s double life is on the brink of exposure.

LOVE, DUTY AND COMIC DECEPTION.

UPCOMING UPCOMING

COMEDY / ENGLISH & ARABIAN / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE ALI‘S WEDDING

DIRECTOR Jeffrey Walker

DOP Don McAlpine

CAST Osamah Sami Don Hany (LUCKY MILES)

PRODUCER Sheila Jayadev and Helen Panckhurst

PRODUCED BY Matchbox Pictures


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SCRIPT AVAILABLE DRAMA / ROMANIAN / APPROX. 110 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION SCRIPT AVAILABLE

ORIGINAL TITLE INIMI CICATRIZATE

DIRECTOR Radu Jude (AFERIM!)

DOP Marius Panduru

CAST Lucian Teodor Rus Ivana Mladenovic Ilinca Harnut Bogdan Cotlet Marian Olteanu

PRODUCER Ada Solomon

PRODUCED BY Hi Film Productions in co-production with Komplizen Film GmbH


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THE BLOOM OF YESTERDAYTHE KING’S CHOICE

A renowned German Holocaust researcher, grandson of a prominent Nazi war criminal, is struggling with his family history, his career and his hatred of people in general. At the height of his personal crisis, he encounters a passionate, manic French

Jewess with a Teutonic complex. Her remarkably frank and unconventional manner turns his professional and family life upside down and helps him finally break down the barriers he has built around his life. An impossible romantic comedy, in effect, a love story programmed to self-destruct.

On the night of 9th of April 1940, a fleet of Nazi warships attack Oslo. The biggest of them all, the “Blücher”, Hitler’s pride, is sunk. When Germany presents an ultimatum for surrender, the Norwegian Prime Minister hands in his resignation. The country is falling apart but two men stand up for what they believe in, King Haakon of Norway (Jesper Christensen) and the German diplomat Curt Bräuer (Karl Markovics).

A race against time between mediation and warfare ensues. The Nazis have commanded German soldiers to hunt down the King and his family. While King Haakon doesn’t know whether his son and his democratically elected parliament are behind him, he is faced with a choice that will change his nation forever.

UPCOMING UPCOMING

WAR DRAMA / NORWEGIAN & GERMAN / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE KONGENS NEI

DIRECTOR Erik Poppe (1,000 TIMES GOOD NIGHT, TROUBLED WATER)

DOP John Christian Rosenlund (O‘HORTEN)

CAST Jesper Christensen (QUANTUM OF SOLACE) Anders Baasmo Christiansen (KON-TIKI) Tuva Novotny (JALLA! JALLA!) Karl Markovics (THE COUNTERFEITERS) Katharina Schüttler (GENERATION WAR) Juliane Köhler (NOWHERE IN AFRICA)

PRODUCER Madeleine Ekman

PRODUCED BY Paradox Film 1 AS, Finn Gjerdrum & Stein B. Kvae


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PROMO & SCRIPT AVAILABLE ROMANTIC COMEDY / GERMAN / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE DIE BLUMEN VON GESTERN

DIRECTOR Chris Kraus (FOUR MINUTES)

DOP Sonja Rom

CAST Adèle Haenel (LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT) Lars Eidinger (CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA, EVERYONE ELSE) Hannah Herzsprung (FOUR MINUTES, THE READER) Jan Josef Liefers (THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX)

PRODUCER Kathrin Lemme, Chris Kraus, Gerd Huber & Danny Krausz

PRODUCED BY Dor Film and Four Minutes in collaboration with SWR, ARD Degeto, NDR, ORF, BR and HR


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PROMO & SCRIPT AVAILABLE

ERIK POPPE'S COMMANDING TAKE ON THE TRUE EVENTS THAT TURNED A BRAVE MAN INTO THE PEOPLE'S KING

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ALL OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE IS NOTHING BUT MEMORY.

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VINCENT AND THE END OF THE WORLD

VINCENT is a 17-year old ecologist who drives his family crazy with his attempts to reduce their carbon footprint.

Vincent‘s giddy French aunt NIKKI takes him on a trip to France, convinced that the boy‘s obsession is related to his suffocating mother. But on their road-trip, Vincent proves to be much more than Nikki can handle.

UPCOMING

DRAMA, COMEDY / FLEMISH & FRENCH / 102 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION

ORIGINAL TITLE VINCENT ET LA FIN DU MONDE

DIRECTOR Christophe Van Rompaey

DOP David Williamson

CAST Spencer Bogaert Alexandra Lamy Barbara Sarafian Emma Reynaert Kimke Desart Jan Hammenecker

PRODUCER Dries Phlypo

PRODUCED BY A Private View Productions in co-production with Les Films de la Croisade


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PROMO & SCRIPT AVAILABLE

LOLA @ BERLINALE

COLONIA

LOOK WHO'S BACK

THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER

EMMA WATSON, DANIEL BRÜHL AND MIKAEL NYQVIST IN A NAILBITING THRILLER

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