Berlin Screening Times
EFM Market Screening - Thu 15 Feb - 15:45 - CinemaxX 19
European Premiere - Sat 17 Feb - 13:00 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Public Screening - Wed 21 Feb - 16:00 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Public Screening - Thu 22 Feb - 12:30 - Filmtheater Am Friedrichshain
Public Screening - Sun 25 Feb - 09:30 - Zoo Palast 1

REINAS

Directed by: Klaudia Reynicke
Genres: Drama
Cast: Abril Gjurinovic, Luana Vega, Gonzalo Molina, Jimena Lindo, Susi Sánchez
Written by: Klaudia Reynicke, Diego Vega
Produced by: Britta Rindelaub, Thomas Reichlin, Daniel Vega, Diego Vega, Valérie Delpierre
Production Company: Alva Film (Switzerland)
Co-Production Companies: Maretazo Cine (Peru), Inicia Films (Spain)
Production year: 2023
Release year: 2024
Country: Switzerland, Peru, Spain
Language: Spanish
Subtitled Versions: English
Duration: 104 min

Synopsis:

Everything happens very fast in Lima in the summer of 1992. Lucia, Aurora and their mother Elena are about to leave. They are apprehensive about saying goodbye to a country, to family and friends, but above all to Carlos, a father and ex-husband who has all but disappeared from their lives. In the midst of Peru's social and political chaos, this announced departure will give rise to contradictory feelings, reviving old regrets and generating new illusions. Facing the uncertainty of their future head on, their frustrations and fears are mixed with excitement and expectation, as the family faces the difficult truth about the losses this departure implies. REINAS is an intense, choral and moving tale of initiation, in the spirit of the 90s.

"A Sundance world premiere should provide an ideal launch pad for this accessible, tenderly observed heartwarmer"
"a touching account of the ties that bind and the challenges of change"
"Reynicke's light handling of these delicate emotions is what makes Reinas so endearing"
Allan Hunter - Screendaily

"This masterfully directed third feature by Swiss-Peruvian filmmaker Klaudia Reynicke catapults us back to Lima in the early Nineties"
"an intimate and dazzling film. which depicts the memories of the director back when she was a child"
"the real protagonist of this story is the warmth characterising the family's ties. 
Giorgia Del Don - Cineuropa

“…a charming film, a marvel of simplicity, made profound by the director’s subtle cinematic dexterity.”
“a memento of a time and place, a space where imagination thrives, no matter the reality.” “
“In Reinas, Reynicke displays the subtlety of a master as she crafts a profound experience using deceptively simple means.”
Barbara Goslawski - That Shelf

UNMOORED

Directed by: Caroline Ingvarsson
Genres: Psychological Thriller
Cast: Mirja Turestedt (Millennium, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Barracuda, Queens), Thomas W. Gabrielsson (Margrete - Queen of the North, Borgen, A Royal Affair), Kris Hitchen (Sorry We Missed You, Trigger Point, The North Water), Sven Ahlström, Anna Próchniak, Martha Marta Zmuda Trzebiatowska, Ia Langhammer
Written by: Michèle Marshall, adapted from the novel The Living and the Dead in Winsford by Håkan Nesser (winner of the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy and the Rosenkrantz Prize for Best Crime Novel of the Year)
Produced by: Naomi Despres, Michèle Marshall, Mariusz Włordarski
Production Company: Desmar PTE Ltd.
Production year: 2023
Release year: 2023
Country: UK, Poland, Sweden
Language: Swedish, English, Polish
Subtitled Versions: English
Duration: 93 min

Synopsis:

Maria is a successful Swedish TV presenter whose life is turned upside down by shocking accusations made against her husband. To avoid the media attention, they head south on sabbatical. However, an unexpected confrontation triggers a desperate chain of events. Alone, Maria flees to the solitude of the English moors, but her new idyll soon turns to paranoia. As her guilt grows, she is forced to examine the depths of her own self-deception in this psychological suspense drama.

“…echoes of page-turner adaptations like Girl On The Train and Woman In The Window in this story’s twisting perspectives, and overall it is a package that should attract attention following its London Film Festival debut”
Screendaily

“Unmoored is a stellar debut feature from Caroline Ingvarsson…”
Film Carnage

BROTHERS

Directed by: Tomas Masin
Genres: Fast-Paced Drama
Cast: Oskar Hes, Jan Nebdal, Stefan Konarske
Written by: Marek Epstein
Produced by: Petr Bilek, Benny Drechsel, Zuzana Mistrikova
Production Companies: Film Brigade, Rohfilm Productions, PubRes
Release Year: 2023
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Language: Czech
Duration: 135 min

Synopsis:
Based on a true story. 

The Year is 1953 and the Masin family is persecuted for its bourgeoisie ancestry under communist ruled Czechoslovakia. Stripped of their assets, brothers Radek and Josef believe, like their father, a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance, that the only way to fight oppression is with guns in their hands. 

The brothers, with their three friends, form an underground boy army that is responsible for a series of violent acts leading to an investigation by State Security Captain Koller, which results in the Masin Brothers becoming the most wanted men in the country. They attempt to emigrate to West Berlin to join the US Army and help liberate Czechoslovakia from the communists, but Captain Koller has not given up and mobilises a military operation, the size of which has not been seen since World War II, resulting in one of the largest manhunts in modern history.

JE’VIDA

Directed by: Katja Gauriloff
Genres: Drama
Cast: Agafia Niemenmaa (Je’vida as a child) Heidi Juliana Gauriloff (Je’vida as an adult) Sanna-Kaisa Palo, Seidi Haarla, Erkki Gauriloff, Matleena Fofonoff
Written by: Katja Gauriloff, Niillas Holmberg
Produced by: Joonas Berghäll, Satu Majava, Anna Nuru
Production Company: Oktober Oy
Release year: 2023
Country: Finland
Language: Skolt Sámi, Finnish
Subtitled Versions: English
Duration: 99 min

Synopsis:

An aunt and her niece who’ve never met before drive to Lapland to empty a house they’ve inherited. It turns out the withdrawn and distrusting aunt had been a victim of the assimilation policies and the niece has to make a big decision. By taking an interest in each other they find value in themselves and their roots.

CHUCK CHUCK BABY

Directed by: Janis Pugh
Genres: Musical, Comedy, Drama
Cast: Louise Brealey (Brian and Charles, Sherlock), Annabel Scholey (The Split), Sorcha Cusack (Mrs Brown’s Boys), Celyn Jones (The Almond and the Seahorse)
Written by: Janis Pugh
Produced by: Anne Beresford, Adam Partridge, Andrew Gillman, Peggy Cafferty
Production Company: Artemisia Films Ltd
Co-Producers: Delta Pictures
Financiers: BFI, BBC Film, Ffilm Cymru Wales, Moment Film Group
Release year: 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Duration: 101 min

Synopsis:
A film of love, loss and music set amongst the falling feathers of a chicken factory.  

Present day, industrial North Wales. Helen, late 30’s, spends her nights packing chickens and her days caring for dying mother-figure Gwen.  

Helen’s mundane world takes a surprising turn with Joanne’s return; they were the objects of the other’s secret teenage passions. Encouraged by Helen, Joanne starts a playful wooing game.  As they fall in love, Helen’s zest for life returns but Joanne feels the walls close in as she faces something darker from her past. Helen’s world shatters when Gwen dies and Joanne’s painful memories make her flee.

Separated and alone, both women reflect on their unfulfilled chance. But they find the courage to let go of the past and allow their love to win.

“the delightful - and potential breakout hit - Chuck Chuck Baby”
“A bighearted, crowd-pleasing tale of love, liberation and female empowerment, it might well chime with the mood of post-Barbie cinemagoers.”
Review from Screendaily

“Janis Pugh’s musical still manages to be an audience-pleasing winner.”
”The performances are excellent, with Brealey in particular embodying such a sympathetic tone that you can’t help but root for her throughout.”
Review from Cineuropa

THE ROOSTER

Directed by: Mark Leonard Winter
Genres: Drama, Mystery
Cast: Hugo Weaving (Lord of the Rings, The Matrix), Phoenix Raei (The Night Agent, Clickbait, Below)
Written by: Mark Leonard Winter
Produced by: Geraldine Hakewill, MahVeen Shahraki
Production Company: Don’t Crow! Pty Ltd, Thousand Mile Productions Pty Ltd
Co-Producers: David Kelly
Release year: 2024
Country: Australia
Language: English
Duration: 101 min

Co-Financed by the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund

Synopsis:
Dan, an introverted police officer in a small country town, begins to unravel after he fails to follow police protocol when dealing with an incident involving his childhood friend Steve. The next day Steve’s body is found in the bush, buried in a shallow grave. Unfit to work and haunted by guilt, Dan spirals. When his pet rooster is killed by a fox, Dan lets go of the fragile tether he has on his sanity and retreats to camp out in the forest where Steve was found. After a chance encounter with an eccentric hermit living amongst the trees, Dan suspects that this man may have been the last person to see Steve alive. As Dan seeks answers, an unusual bond forms between the two men over games of table tennis. But all is not as it seems when Dan discovers that the hermit may have been responsible for a terrible act of violence.

WINNER
Best Direction in a Debut Feature Film - Australian Directors’ Guild Awards 2023

DELIRIUM

Directed by: Arró Stefánsson
Genre: Horror
Cast: Hjörtur Jóhann Jónsson, Heiddis Chadwick Hlynsdottir, Kristbjörg Kjeld (Driving Mum), Jóhann Sigurdsson (The Minister)
Written by: Arró Stefánsson
Produced by: Arnar Benjamín Kristjánsson, Arró Stefánsson, Claudia Grevsmühl, Stefán Lárus Stefánsson, Gu∂rún Bryndis Har∂ardóttir
Production Company: Delirium Films, Fenrir Films & 1801 Film Productions
Co-Producers: Freyr Árnason, Kári Steinarsson, Kristín Ósk Sævarsdóttir, Ottó Gunnarsson
Release year: 2023
Country: Iceland
Language: Icelandic
Status: Completed
Duration: 83 min

Synopsis:
A young father is haunted by an evil force that threatens to tear his life apart after he finds a mysterious box inside his rental apartment where the previous guest killed himself. 

ORENDA

Directed by: Pirjo Honkasalo
Cast: Alma Pöysti (Fallen Leaves), Pirkko Saisio, Juhan Ulfsak, Hannu-Pekka Björkman
Written by: Pirkko Saisio
Produced by: Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff
Production Company: Bufo
Co-Production Companies: All Film (Estonia), Plattform Produktion (Sweden)
Release year: 2024
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Subtitled Versions: English
Status: Post-Production

Synopsis:

Orenda means an invisible force, a life spirit that inhabits everything living and lifeless: people, wind, birds, rabbits, stone. The one who serves Orenda and sings to it may receive its power. Exploring the themes of guilt and grace, the destinies of two women intertwine into a tense emotional thriller set on a remote island. The new film by highly established director Pirjo Honkasalo stars a recent Golden Globe nominee Alma Pöysti and Pirkko Saisio.

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