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Newsletter Berlinale 2014 {09015536-2938-E411-944A 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 Fruit Chan - 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 NED RIFLE by Hal Hartley 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’ / Cantonese / Thriller CAST: Janice MAN, Kara HUI, CHUI Tien-you, WONG You-nam, Simon YAM 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), DURIAN DURIAN (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.
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