BERLINBERLIN 20142014 BERLIN 2014 LINE-UP

official selection - competition BLACK COAL, THIN ICE by Diao Yinan - WORLD PREMIERE

official selection - panorama LOVE IS STRANGE by Ira Sachs - INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE THE MIDNIGHT AFTER by - WORLD PREMIERE UNFRIEND by Joselito Altarejos - WORLD PREMIERE

official selection - culinary cinema FINAL RECIPE by Gina Kim

european film market DJINN by Tobe Hooper iNUMBER NUMBER by Donovan Marsh RIGOR MORTIS by Juno Mak SIDDHARTH by Richie Mehta

upcoming films CAMERA by James Leong DRIVING BACK FROM DUBBO by Sue Brooks FOODIES by Thomas Joackson, Charlotte Landelius, Henrik Stockare HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES by John Cameron Mitchell by SUNSET SONG by Terence Davies

current films BORGMAN by Alex van Warmerdam KISS THE WATER by Eric Steel LINSANITY by Evan Jackson Leong WORLD PREMIERE

Sun 9-FEB 5:30 PM Zoo Palast 3 Market (private) Mon 10-FEB 9:30 AM Zoo Palast 3 Market (private) Wed 12-FEB 10:00 PM Berlinale Palast World Premiere Thu 13-FEB 9:30 AM Friedrichstadspalast Festival Thu 13-FEB 6:00 PM Friedrichstadspalast Festival BLACK COAL, THIN ICE Diao Yinan China, Hong Kong / 2014 / 106’ / Mandarin / Crime Thriller, Drama

CAST: LIAO Fan, GWEI Lun Mei, WANG Xuebing, Now five years have passed and the killer strikes again. WANG Jingchun, YU Ailei, NI Jingyang Zhang, now a miserable factory security guard is determined to redeem himself and solve the case on DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY: his own. After his investigation, he discovers that all of BLACK COAL, THIN ICE (2014) the victims seem to be related to a mysterious woman NIGHT TRAIN (2007) named Wu Zhizhen who works in a laundrette. UNIFORM (2003)

SYNOPSIS: Ex-cop Zhang Zili, seriously wounded five Hoping to find more clues, Zhang starts going to the years earlier while working on a gruesome coal-plant shop to talk to Wu, and ends up falling in love with her. murder case, was forced to retire from the police force However, in uncovering the truth he finds himself in due to his injuries, and yet the case was never solved. great danger. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Fri 7-FEB 9:00 PM ZOO Palast 1 International Premiere Sat 8-FEB 12:30 PM CinemaxX 7 Festival Sun 9-FEB 9:15 AM CinemaxX 4 Market Sun 9-FEB 5:00 PM Cubix 9 Festival Mon 10-FEB 5:00 PM CinemaxX 2 Market Sun 16-FEB 7:00 PM ZOO Palast 1 Festival LOVE IS STRANGE Ira Sachs USA / 2014 / 100' / English / Dramatic Comedy

CAST: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, however, and on account of their publicized vows, Charlie Tahan, Cheyenne Jackson, Manny Perez George gets fired from his longtime job as a choir director for a co-ed Catholic school. DIRECTOR'S SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: LADY (1993), BOY-GIRL, BOY-GIRL (1996) Suddenly, with no real income nor savings to count on, THE DELTA (1996), FORTY SHADES OF BLUE (2005) the couple finds that they can’t afford the mortgage MARRIED LIFE (2007), KEEP THE LIGHTS ON (2012) on their small Chelsea apartment and they have to sell and move out only days after they have gathered SYNOPSIS: After 39 years together, Ben (73) and to celebrate the happy occassion. Their tight-knit George (63) take advantage of the new marriage community of family and friends now has to come laws and tie the knot in a garden wedding in lower together again to help figure out how to help their two Manhattan. On the return from their honeymoon, friends. WORLD PREMIERE

Fri 7-FEB 7:30 PM Cinestar IMAX World Premiere Sun 9-FEB 2:10 PM Zoo Palast Club A Market Mon 10-FEB 7:30 PM ZOO Palast 2 Festival Tue 11-FEB 5:00 PM Cubix 9 Festival Thu 13-FEB 7:00 PM Zoo Palast 1 Festival Sat 15-FEB 7:30 PM CinemaxX 7 Festival THE MIDNIGHT AFTER Fruit Chan Hong Kong / 2014 / 124’ / / Thriller

CAST: , Kara HUI, CHUI Tien-you, WONG You-nam, Adapted from the 2012 best-selling novel ‘Lost On A DIRECTOR'S SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: Red Minibus To Taipo’, The Midnight After is a dark, DUMPLINGS (2004), (2000) tightly paced thriller revolving around an overnight LITTLE CHUENG (1999), MADE IN HONG KONG (1997) minibus and its 17 passengers. It visualizes Hong Kong’s contemporary society in a post-apocalyptic SYNOPSIS: Imagine if the whole population on Earth setting and explores themes of destiny, faith and the had vanished except for you and 16 other people. Do relationship between mankind and their surrounding every-day moral principles and long-standing religious environment. Stripping the drama back to its basics, orders still apply? How do we handle survival with the this story fundamentally explores the inner monsters of collapse of civilization? And how far are you willing to human nature. go in order to return to normal life? WORLD PREMIERE

Thr 6-FEB 5:00 PM Cinestar 6 Market Sat 8-FEB 8:00 PM Cinestar X7 World Premiere Sun 9-FEB 10:45 PM Cinestar 3 Festival Mon 10-FEB 8:15 PM Cubix 7 & 8 Festival Tue 11-FEB 12:50 PM CinemaxX 2 Market Thu 13-FEB 5:45 PM Cinestar 3 Festival Sat 15-FEB 12:00 AM Cinestar 7 Festival UNFRIEND Joselito Altarejos Philippines / 2014 / 93’ / Filipino / Queer Drama

CAST: Sandino Martin, Angelo Ilagan, Boots Anson-Roa boyfriend, Jonathan, 17, has dumped him and found another boyfriend. The discovery leads him to the DIRECTOR'S SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: brink of depression making him think of ways to get UNFRIEND (2013), PINK HALO-HALO (2010) him back at all costs. A few days later, David invites THE GAME OF JUAN’S LIFE (2009) Jonathan to meet him in the mall, so he could see ANTONIO’S SECRET (2008) him again for the last time. Through the frenzy of his SYNOPSIS: First love is always the most painful and preparations prior to meeting Jonathan, we discover yet beautiful and memorable experience in one's David's traits and personality; the ‘worlds’ he lives in- life. UNFRIEND tells a bitter sweet story of first love virtual and real; and, we will witness how he prepares between two adolecents. for his most personal and shocking statement that he will make not only in his Facebook wall, but, on his life. On Christmas Day, David, 15, finds out that his UNFRIEND is a painful story based on true events. GERMAN PREMIERE

Sun 9-FEB 7:30 PM MGB KINO German Premiere Tue 11-FEB 2:00 PM Koreanisches Kulturzentrum Market FINAL RECIPE Gina Kim South Korea / 2013 / 98’ / English / Drama

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: In order to save the restaurant, Mark enters a TV Opening film of Culinary Zinema, San Sebastian; cooking contest in Shanghai, called Final Recipe. He Opening film of the Hawaii Film Festival competes against talented young chefs from around the region and freely shows off ravishing cooking skills CAST: Michelle YEOH, Henry LAU, CHIN Han, that he has accumulated from his grandfather over CHANG Tseng, Lori Tan CHINN the years. Meanwhile, contest producer Julia (Michelle SYNOPSIS: Once a famous chef, Hao’s Chinese Yeoh) hopes that her husband and world-renowned restaurant is now on the verge of bankruptcy, and he chef David (Chin Han) enters the contest and has become a bitter old man. Hao’s only hope is that rediscovers his love for cooking. As Mark wins round his grandson Mark enters a prestigious university, but after round and gains attention, Julia slowly realizes Mark’s dream is to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps that Mark and her husband David shares a secret that and become a chef. they don’t yet know. european film market

DJINN by Tobe Hooper iNUMBER NUMBER by Donovan Marsh

RIGOR MORTIS by Juno Mak

SIDDHARTH by Richie Mehta european film market Sat 8-FEB 3:00 PM Cinestar 6 Market DJINN by Tobe Hooper Tue 11-FEB 10:15 PM Cinemax X9 Market iNUMBER NUMBER by Donovan Marsh

RIGOR MORTIS by Juno Mak DJINN Tobe Hooper SIDDHARTH by Richie Mehta UAE / 2013 / 86' / English, Arabic / Supernatural, Horror, Thriller

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Abu Dhabi SYNOPSIS: Renowned genre master Tobe Hooper returns to form with Djinn, a powerful story of a young CAST: Khalid Laith (THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE), Emirati couple returning home to the U.A.E. from the Razane Jammal (CARLOS) U.S. to discover that their new apartment in a luxury DIRECTOR'S SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: high-rise is also home to the malevolent beings known POLTERGEIST(1982) as Djinn. A unique new take on the haunted house tale, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE(1974) Djinn is a tale of possession, nightmarish dreams and a fearsome story not unlike ROSEMARY’S BABY set in QUOTE: "...delivering some nicely sustained spooky the Middle East. When evil wants an heir, there is little shocks, a shrewd sense of place and atmosphere ” that can be done to stop it. - SCREEN INTL., Mark Adams, chief film critic Fri 7-FEB 9:30 AM CinemaxX 14 Market Mon 10-FEB 10:40 AM CinemaxX 15 Market iNUMBER NUMBER Donovan Marsh South Africa / 2013 / 96’ / Zulu / Police Action, Thriller

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Toronto SYNOPSIS: When honest undercover cop Chili Ngcobo (winner of the TV Talent show, ‘Class Act’, S’dumo CAST: S'dumo Mtshali, Presley Chweneyagae, Israel Mtshali), and his by-the-book partner, Sello ‘Shoes’ Makoe, Owen Sejake Moshoeshoe (lead actor of the Oscar Winning film DIRECTOR'S SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: ‘Tsotsi’, Presley Chweneyagae), are cheated out of SPUD (2010) a large reward by their corrupt superiors, Chili finds SPUD 2: THE MADNESS CONTINUES (2013) another way of getting the money he feels they deserve. Chili penetrates a cash-in-transit heist gang, QUOTE: “iNUMBER NUMBER Brings Reservoir Dogs and instead of busting them, convinces his partner to To South Africa. A bristling action movie with stunning participate in a once off score. performances, beautifully staged action moments, and an elegantly simple plot.” - Twitch.com, Jason Gorber Sat 8-FEB 5:35 PM Cinestar 4 Market Sun 9-FEB 7:40 PM Cineart 6 Market RIGOR MORTIS Juno Mak Hong Kong / 2013 / 101’ / Cantonese / Action, Horror, Drama

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: Venice, Toronto, Fantastic SYNOPSIS: In this eerie and chilling, contemporary, Fest-Austin, Sitges, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong Asia FF action/special effects laden homage to the classic Chinese vampire movies of the 1980’s, writer-director- CAST: CHIN Siu-Ho, , Antony "Friend" CHAN, producer, Juno Mak makes his feature directorial debut. Nina PAW, LO Hoi Pang, Richard NG, CHUNG Fat Co-produced by J-Horror icon Takashi Shimizu, and QUOTE: "Hong Kong horror Rigor Mortis is a brilliant reuniting some of the original cast members of the mix of all the best vampire movies. It’s beautifully classic MR. VAMPIRE series, RIGOR MORTIS is set in a shot, frequently thrilling, often moving, and it’s a creepy and moody Hong Kong public housing tower smörgåsbord of horror references for genre lovers, whose occupants we soon discover, run the gamut from who will have a blast.” - Sifinow, Jonathan Hatfull the living to the dead, to the undead, along with ghosts, vampires and zombies. Sat 8-FEB 12:40 PM CinemaxX 13 Market

SIDDHARTH Richie Mehta Canada, India / 2013 / 96’ / Hindi / Drama

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: Venice, Toronto, London, SYNOPSIS: After sending away his 12 year-old son Mumbai, Reunion Island FF, Abu Dhabi Siddharth for work, Mahendra (a chain-wallah who fixes broken zippers on the streets) is relieved - his financial AWARD: Audience Award at the Reunion Island FF burdens will be alleviated. But when Siddharth fails CAST: Rajesh Tailang, Tannishtha Chatterjee to return home, Mahendra learns he may have been taken by childtraffickers. With little resources and no QUOTE: “Richie Mehta's engrossing, multi-layered film connections, he travels across India in pursuit, with the is a movingly handled story of a child's disappearance.” hope that whatever force arbitrarily took his child away - VARIETY, Jay Weissberg will return him unharmed. DIRECTOR'S SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: I WILL FOLLOW YOU DOWN (2013), THE SPIRIT OF SOUTH ASIA (2010), AMAL (2007), AMAL (2004 –Short Film) upcoming films

CAMERA by James Leong

DRIVING BACK FROM DUBBO by Sue Brooks

FOODIES by Thomas Joackson, Charlotte Landelius, Henrik Stockare

HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES by John Cameron Mitchell

NED RIFLE by Hal Hartley

SUNSET SONG by Terence Davies CAMERA James Leong Singapore, Hong Kong / 2014 / Cantonese, Mandarin / Suspense, Thriller

STATUS: Post Production SYNOPSIS: Ming is a surveillance expert with an obsession - he wants to film everything he sees. It’s a CAST: Sean Li, Venus Wong, Calvin Poon Yuen Leung compulsion born of a childhood accident, which left DIRECTOR'S SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: him blind in one eye. Following a design he believes PASSABE (2005, Documentary) his father left him, Ming builds a miniature camera AKI RA’S BOYS (2006, Documentary) which he installs in his bad eye, restoring his sight and HOMELESS FC (2007, Documentary) allowing him to record everything he sees. He becomes THE GREAT NORTH KOREAN PICTURE SHOW (2012, the perfect surveillance device. While working on a Documentary) case, his eye-camera begins to malfunction, throwing his neatly-ordered world into disarray, and sending him on a path that could threaten his very existence. DRIVING BACK FROM DUBBO Sue Brooks Australia / English / Coming of Age

STATUS: Pre-production SYNOPSIS: Cassie, a free spirited fifteen year old, runs away with her best friend. Her parents Denise and Dan CAST: Sam Neill, Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh enlist the help of an aging private detective to find their DIRECTOR'S SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: daughter. But life is unraveling faster than anyone can SUBDIVISION (2009) put it back together. A wry drama about lies, secrets, JAPANESE STORY (2003) - Cannes Un Certain Regard grief and love. ROAD TO NHILL (1997) AN ORDINARY WOMAN (short, 1988) THE DROVER'S WIFE (short, 1984) FOODIES Thomas Jackson, Charlotte Landelius, Henrik Stockare Sweden / 2014 / Approx. 90' / English / Documentary

STATUS: Post Production SYNOPSIS: A new power player on the food scene is the so called FOODIE. This subculture consists of FEATURING: Aiste Miseviciute, Perm Paitayawat, people from all over the world with a mission to visit Andy Hayler, Katie Keiko, Steven Plotnicki the best restaurants around the globe. In FOODIES, we follow some of the most influential international food fanatics on their world tours to Michelin restaurants. HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES John Cameron Mitchell USA / English / Romance, Sci-Fi, Music

STATUS: Pre-production SYNOPSIS: Based on a science fiction short story by Neil Gaiman, HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES is Based on a short story by Neil Gaiman about a couple of British 1970s wannabe punk rocker SCREENWRITER: Philippa Goslett teenage boys, Enn and Vic, who head to a party to PRODUCER: Howard Gertler meet girls, only to find that the girls there are much DIRECTOR'S SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: different than they could have ever imagined. Full of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001) music, energy, testosterone and romance as only John SHORTBUS (2006) Cameron Mitchell can portray it. RABBIT HOLE (2010) NED RIFLE Hal Hartley USA / English / Drama

STATUS: Pre-production SYNOPSIS: Henry and Fay’s son, Ned, sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother’s life. But CAST: , Liam Aiken, his aims are frustrated by the troublesome, sexy, and Thomas Jay Ryan, hilarious Susan, whose connection to Henry predates DIRECTOR'S SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family. TRUST (1990), (1992), AMATEUR (1994), FLIRT (1994), A funny, sad, and sexy adventure, Ned Rifle is an (1997), (2006), intellectually stimulating and compassionate satire. NO SUCH THING (2001), (2005) SUNSET SONG Terence Davies UK / English / Epic Drama SYNOPSIS: Set in the early 20th century, SUNSET SONG begins with a suicide attempt; that of a poverty stricken STATUS: Pre- production woman in Scotland, broken by repeated childbirths, CAST: Peter Mullan, Agyness Deyn who kills herself and poisons her twin babies. The story follows one of the woman’s daughters, Chris Guthrie, Based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibson who must manage the farm after her mother’s death PRODUCED BY: Trevor Ingman and after her father, who ultimately has had a stroke, becomes bedridden (though also eager for an incestuous SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: relationship with her). But when love comes to Chris she THE NEON BIBLE (1995) must send her man off to the Great War and manage the THE HOUSE OF MIRTH (2000) farm in a land about to be changed forever by the onset THE DEEP BLUE SEA (2011) of technology and war. How can we bear time, or subdue nature? We cannot. We can only endure... current films

BORGMAN by Alex van Warmerdam

KISS THE WATER by Eric Steel

LINSANITY by Evan Jackson Leong BORGMAN Alex van Warmerdam The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark / 2013 / 113’ / Dutch / Drama

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: Cannes, Toronto, Tokyo, Sitges, CAST: Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval Moscow, London BFI, Athens, Bergen, Brisbane, Busan, SYNOPSIS: Borgman’s arrival in the tree-lined avenues Chicago, Fantastic Fest, Filmfest Hamburg, Haifa, Lund of an exclusive residential area is the beginning of Int. Fantastic, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Taipei, Golden Horse, a series of unsettling events around the carefully Tallinn Black Nights. constructed facade of a wealthy couple, their three AWARDS: Best International Feature Film at the Lund children and their nanny. Int'l Fantastic FF, Best European Fantastic Film at the QUOTE: “In an era where there are very few truly Strasbourg European Fantastic FF, Life Achievement surprising films, “Borgman” is one of the rare movies and Best Film at the Sitges Int'l Fantastic FF, Best Film that manages to find something entirely new to say, at Haifa Int'l FF, and Best Film, Best Actress and Best with original, oddly drawn characters.” - The WRAP, Screenplay at the Netherlands FF. Sasha Stone KISS THE WATER Eric Steel USA / 2013 / 80’ / English / Documentary

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: Tribeca, Edinburgh, SYNOPSIS: In a cottage in northern Scotland, Megan Vancouver, Woods Hole, Hot Springs, Hamptons Boyd twirled bits of feather, fur, silver and gold into elaborate fishing flies - at once miniature works of art QUOTES: and absolutely lethal. Wherever men and women cast SCREEN DAILY "An elegant and fascinating delight, their lines for the mighty Atlantic salmon, her name is Kiss The Water is made with insight, intelligence and whispered in mythic reverence, and stories about her a painterly delight…" surface and swirl like fairy tales. With breathtaking TIME OUT LONDON “‘KISS THE WATER’ was a cinematography and expressive, hand painted animation, magical film about Megan Boyd, a world-famous KISS THE WATER adheres to and escapes from maker of salmon fishing flies (she supplied Prince traditional documentary form, spinning the facts and Charles). The film is an exquisite achievement ..." fictions of one woman life into a stunning film about craft, devotion, love, and its illusions. LINSANITY SYNOPSIS: In February 2012, the New York Knicks, Evan Jackson Leong mired in a disappointing season and out of desperation, USA / 2013 / 88' / English / Documentary looked to the end of their bench and found Jeremy Lin, an undrafted free agent from Harvard. On the FEATURING: Jeremy Lin verge of seeing his lifelong NBA dream vanish, Lin - OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: Sundance, Hong Kong IFF, at, or near what was believed to be his last chance SXSW, Zurich, Asean IFF & Awards, New Zealand as an NBA professional, underwent a now-legendary IFF, Tallinn Black Nights FF, Toronto Reel Asian FF, run, obliterating stereotypes along the way, and in Vancouver Asian FF the process birthed a global phenomenon known as “Linsanity.” Basketball - and the world - was never the QUOTE: "A sports doc. with abundant heart same. Director Evan Jackson Leong chronicles Jeremy persuasively chronicles the emergence of a global Lin’s inspirational story long before that fateful month phenomenon." - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER and at a time when Lin was still struggling to find a place in a league that didn’t want him while never wavering on his faith and hope for an opportunity. HEAD OFFICE BERLIN OFFICE ATTENDING EXECUTIVES Van Diemenstraat 100 MGB STAND 2 Michael J. Werner Ellis Driessen 1013 CN Amsterdam Nelleke Driessen Niloufar Siassi The Netherlands Nicole Mackey Laura Talsma Phone: +31 20 627 3215 Winnie Lau Will Lin Fax: +31 20 626 1155 Berenice Fugard E-mail: [email protected]