Friday, April 25
| 1 p.m. Thalia 2 |
Producer`s Award 2 Robin Feature| Germany| 20' |
Eight year old Robin returns to his family after a longer stay in a home and can’t find his place in the difficult familial relationships. When his parents severely injure his three month old sister Marlene during an argument, Robin desperately tries to shield his mother and himself from the consequences.
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Berliner Reigen Berlin Round Dance Feature | Germany | 85' |
This film describes a round dance through Berlin society in ten episodes with changing partners: A hooker is cheated out of her money by a dealer who then seduces a domestic servant who in turn gets hit on by her employer’s son and so forth up through the actress who begins an affair with a count who – and thus ends the round dance – lands in bed with the hooker.
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| 2 p.m. Thalia 1 |
Grüne Türen in Hetzeldorf Behind Green Doors Dokumentarfilm | Germany | 45' |
Transylvania experienced a massive wave of emigration in the 1990s. The Transylvanian Saxons left their homeland and whole villages immigrated to Germany. The film spends nearly a year with those who remained. They grapple with life as it now is and abandon traditional cultures. A film about farmers and their labors, about the passage of time, about standing still and letting go.
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Von Hasen und Schnitzeln About Rabbits and Schnitzels Feature | Germany | 15' |
After thirty years of marriage, Charlotte’s husband Erwin refuses to display any affection. While his only interest appears to be rabbit breeding, her life takes place between the factory, stove and television tearjerkers. The everyday routine smothers their lives like a tenacious secretion. Even the birth of a grandchild doesn’t bring Erwin to forget his rabbits just for a moment.
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Flatshare Feature | UK | 18' |
Life in a shared apartment as one knows it: Dishes sometimes lie about and somebody forgets to go shopping or take out the trash. One morning, trivial matters evolve into major points of contention and the four apartment mates find themselves at loggerheads over vegetables, bills and dirty dishes. This prompts one apartment mate to throw out another who enjoyed disposing of the others’ things from time to time.
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Aprilwetter - April Weather Feature | Switzerland | 15' |
Ralph and Annette are friends and live together. Ralph is actually secretly in love with his housemate. In this point, she utterly ignores him and prefers enjoying one affair to the next. However, one evening Annette is stood up and Ralph is her loyal port in a storm. Sometimes the wind just seems to shift and for a moment everything becomes possible. Just April weather…
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| 3 p.m. Thalia 2 |
Focus 1: Fated? Chill Pill Experimental | Nigeria | 4' |
A brief glimpse into an unemployed young man’s living situation where frustration leads to foolish behavior. In the end, he’s worse off than before. A few minutes of observation make clear that one can’t always blame others. Sometimes one contributes to one’s own misery.
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Hawass El Omq Depth Wish Feature | Egypt | 15' |
A young artist’s first exhibition ends for her with a shock. An important critic proclaims that her work lacks “depth”. Devastated by this news, the painter sets off on a search for depth. The film is based on a story by Patrick Süsskind.
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Qui Voodoo Documentary | Nigeria | 30' |
Theophane is a modern African man from the Republic of Benin. The journalist doesn’t consider himself to be spiritual until suddenly confronted by an unexpected situation: A seer advises him to appease the gods of his ancestors or else he would soon face a precarious future. His dilemma is a metaphor for the modern African’s spiritual conflict.
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Mama Put Feature | Nigeria | 30' |
Angela is a young single mother who sells meals on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. She struggles daily to makes sure her children are well off. When a band of robbers descends on her family one day, her struggle for survival intensifies. She makes many sacrifices to protect her family and is confronted with difficult moral questions.
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Mummy Lagos Experimental | Nigeria | 4' |
Why do Nigerians play soccer so well? Mummy Lagos has the answer. She sells food and knows its properties. Nigerian cuisine and above all its ingredients are unique. To prove her theory, Mummy Lagos lists some top international soccer players who have already profited from its said properties.
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Commando Feature | South Africa | 17' |
The Boer War in South Africa: The young Boer Deneys has already been at war for two long years. His luck abandons him when the British kill two of his best friends. Deneys is thrown into a serious crisis. However, a fateful encounter with a British officer provides him answers to many questions. His enemy’s compassion restores his belief in humanity…
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Falling in Line Animation | Nigeria | 2' |
Order and monotony prevail day in and day out in the world of ants. Yet one stands out from the rest in this ant colony. It has independent thoughts and decides to be innovative. True to the motto “work smart and not hard!”
This film is not entered in the competition. |
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| 4 p.m. Thalia 1 |
Im Wandel Post von Sally - Mail from Sally Feature | Germany | 15' |
“Mail from Sally” is another kind of road movie and tells the tale of the aging transvestite Alfred who has devoted his life to the stage. Shut away in a retirement home, he bribes the attendant Nils to make a short trip with him. The film describes an unusual life that is perhaps not as out of the ordinary as it first appears.
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Herrengedeck - Boilermaker Feature | Germany | 20' |
The brothers Oswald and Bernd are genuine Mecklenburg natives: taciturn, emotionally reserved and skeptical of anything new. Their life is completely regulated. They run a workshop together, have the same acquaintances and go to their regular bar every evening. Then the self-confident Josy enters the brothers’ studied bachelor life and sets it thoroughly topsy-turvy.
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Under Construction Documentary | France | 10' |
City planners have resolved to redevelop and revitalize parts of Shanghai. However, to do so, the old neighborhoods will have to go. Every year, several thousand families are forced to leave their homes and move to the outskirts of the city. This film embarks on a two and three-dimensional journey through the demolished areas and shows the brutal impact such decisions can have on people’s lives.
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My Happy End Animation | Germany | 5' |
Searching for someone with which he can share his little world, a dog discovers a loyal companion. They quickly agree that they have surely found their best friends. They share meals and the spot where they sleep, can play together wonderfully and know exactly that cats are actually the enemy. The two are joined by more than just friendship though…
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Kilka Prostych Slów A Few Simple Words Feature | Poland | 35' |
Krystyna is an attractive, independent woman full of energy who doesn’t let herself get tied down anyplace for long. One day, her daughter brings her against her will to a casting for a girl band. She would rather go her own way though. However, when her car unexpectedly breaks down, Krystyna is forced to accept help from a man she hasn’t seen in years. This reunion changes all their lives immensely.
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| 5 p.m. Thalia 2 |
Commuters Splinter Animation | Germany/ Poland | 16'25" |
Given the odd characters in the municipal park who lower themselves onto it every day, a little wooden bench doesn’t have an easy life. One day it falls in love with a young woman but this love story proves to be difficult... This fanciful animated film visually unites stirring 3D animation with oil painting. |
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Die Vögelein Schweigen im Walde The Birdies Keep Still in the Forest Documentary| Belgien | 18' |
A man, who works as a forklift driver in a warehouse during the week, finds peace and fulfillment on the weekends as a hunter in nature. Tim de Keersmaecker’s remarkable documentary gets by entirely without dialog. Instead he finds highly aesthetic images with which he tells of solitude and the search for meaning in our life.
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Risk, Stretch, or Die Documentary | Germany | 60' |
The French Drag King Océan LeRoy has been a star of Berlin’s transgender scene for years. The attractive dandy on the stage at night is however a stylish business consultant by day… In a personal film, Saskia Heyden profiles a life between day and night, woman and man, public and private. |
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| 6 p.m. Thalia 1 |
Borderland Lainer Feature | China | 8'04" |
A mockumentary about the German Rainer who moved to China to work in a factory there. Rainer tells about his life in Asia, his contact to his new colleagues and his friends and relatives back home.
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Illusion Feature | Germany | 9'34" |
Lena puts her heart and soul into her job as a ticket inspector in the Berlin subway system. She has internalized the rules and regulations of inspection. Nonetheless, she gets carried away one day and knocks down a fleeing passenger. She loses her job and with that her footing in life too.
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Sans Papiers - Without Papers Feature | Germany | 12' |
Hassan, a Bosnian snack vendor in the train, who lost his son in the war, experiences an unusual encounter with the illegal immigrant Demba from Africa and with the federal policeman Schmidt who has reported for his last shift on this special evening.
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Garçons Manqués - Tomboys Documentary | Germany | 34' |
Imane is fifteen years old and lives with her family in the high-rise apartment complex “Les Bosquets” in the suburb of Paris where the urban unrest began two years ago. She and her friend Sephora play on a soccer team and are labeled boys in disguise. Soccer is the girls’ daily activity, provides an outlet for aggression and creates a bond. |
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Roads Feature | Israel | 21'30" |
Thirteen year old Ismayil is searching for a new beginning for his younger brother and himself. While trying to escape the quagmire of drugs where he lives, he receives help from the traumatized ex soldier Daniel.
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| 7 p.m. Thalia 2 |
Focus 2: Spirit The Power of the Spirits Documentary | Uganda | 17'30" |
In Uganda, where the majority of people live in remote areas without access to healthcare, many sick people visit healers. Such services are very much in demand even in the capital Kampala where there are hospitals on every corner. This film provides insight into the secrets of traditional healers in Uganda. You’ll be surprised at what all one can make from an egg…
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Well of Fate: Mists of Misfortune Feature | Nigeria | 86' |
To win back his wife’s freedom, the hunter Jäger Abija sets off on a dangerous journey. Together with three companions, he must free the Kingdom of Ilu Le from a curse from the past. Giants, gods and other supernatural apparitions evoke Nigeria’s ancient folklore. Only the gods of fate know the real reason this quest remains a secret. |
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| 8 p.m. Thalia 1 |
Doubtless Der Verdacht - Suspect Feature | Germany | 26' |
If you don’t know a thing, you are forced to believe everything. A sex murder in the southern German hinterland. The murderer could be your next door neighbor – there are rumors and murmurings. Conny’s husband falls under suspicion yet she stands by him. For her, he is innocent despite a fair share of circumstantial evidence. The villagers know what they believe though. The pressure mounts and so does Conny’s doubt…
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Tässä Lepää Aino Koski Here Lies Aino Koski Feature | Finland | 59'58" |
Aino Koski has decided to die. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, she moves back to her parents’ little town where everyone already knows about her before her arrival. Aino’s absolute longing to die develops a dynamic of its own after a short time and she begins to unknowingly show the people around her the way. Yet, who will show her the future she doesn’t believe she has?
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| 9 p.m. Thalia 2 |
Bedazzled Mellan Oss Between You and Me Feature | Sweden | 19'36" |
Is it possible to suddenly stop loving a person? If so, was it ever really love? When, Annie and Jonas meet up shortly after their separation in what used to be their apartment, their wounds are still fresh. Painful memories of the life they once shared resurface and force them to confront their failed relationship...
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Miraslava Documentary | Canada | 7'25" |
“Me, My Movie Camera and My Monkey” |
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Marla Feature | Germany | 58' |
Marla believes that mythical forces compel her to repeat the relationships in her life. Yet she decides to fight this and believe in herself. The film is a portrait of a rebel who, for love’s sake, refuses to conform and searches for a point of reference in her life. In the process, she meets a young man who has gone from throwing stones to a quarrying them.
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Wianbu – Comfort Woman Feature | USA | 11' |
Carried off to a Japanese military base during the Second World War, Sohee is now a comfort woman who must endure the worst every day when dozens of soldiers have their way with her. Her memories are her only escape from this place and so she thinks back on Jin, once her lover in a place far away from the comfort station...
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| 10 p.m. Thalia 1 |
Clandestine Der Herrscher von Edessa The Lord of Edessa Feature | Germany | 52' |
The student Tom interns for the successful author Eric who has made Tom increasingly dependent on him and surreptitiously manipulates him. Even Tom’s affair with his wife Camilla seems to leave Eric unfazed. This unstable love triangle sustained by lies culminates in an outing to a little mountain cabin. Tom suddenly finds himself suspected of murder.
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Das Leuchten - Reverence Feature | Germany | 30' |
The near future: At night, war rages in the cities. While nearly all the front yards are already equipped with the newest bunkers, young Alex still sits “defenseless” in his father’s house. When the alarm sirens suddenly sound and the illumination from exploding missiles is visible, it is too late. Alex must face his fear and uncovers a sinister conspiracy.
“Reverence” is also entered in the competition for the Producer’s Award. |
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Frequenz Morphogenese Frequency Morphogenesis Animation | Germany | 4'40" |
In the amorphous realm of pure thought, a golden tonal embryo appears for the first time, a sound that resonated through nothingness and returned to itself. The crisscrossing of the sound waves produced water and wind, which effortlessly began to weave the world’s nebulous body together.
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| 11 p.m. Thalia 2 |
Special: Music Videos Free entrance. Dreh Dich Um und Geh Turn Around and Go Musicvideo| Germany | 5' |
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Mainstreaming Music Video| Germany, Norwegen | 4' |
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Action Action - A Journey to the Dark Ages Music Video| Germany | 3'20" |
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Monitor Music Video| Germany | 4'19" |
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Zuviel Auswahl Too Many Choices Music Video| Germany | 2'51" |
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If You Want To Music Video| Germany | 4' |
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Freedom of Speech Music Video| Germany | 3'44" |
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Time Is Running Out Music Video| Germany | 3'39" |
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Mama Music Video| Austria | 3'40'' |
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BAR-B-Q Music Video| Germany | 4'30'' |
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Mon Bébé Music Video| Switzerland | 4'55'' |
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Geboren im Winter Born in Winter Music Video| Germany | 3'55'' |
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Pro Radii Music Video| Germany | 3' |
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she vs. „Glamour Dilemma“ Music Video| Germany | 7' |
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