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EFM LINE-UP 2025
DREAMERS
Written & Directed by: Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor (Screen International Star of Tomorrow, BAFTA Breakthrough)
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ronke Adékoluejo (Alex Rider, Chevalier, Rain Dogs), Ann Akinjirin (I May Destroy You, Moon Knight), Diana Yekinni, Aiysha Hart, Harriet Webb
Produced by: Emily Morgan (I Am Not a Witch, Supernova)
Production Company: Quiddity Films
Financed by: BBC Film, Newen Connect, Finite Films and OnSight
Synopsis:
Dreamers is a love story set in the most unlikely of places, a removal centre. We follow Isio, who is caught working without papers, trapped inside Hatchworth, where she learns that finding love, friendship and freedom sometimes means doing the wrong things. It is a story about one woman's epic journey to finding herself and her power guided by love.
EFM SCREENINGS
Fri 14 Feb - 09:00 - CinemaxX 2
Sun 16 Feb - 13:10 - CinemaxX 12
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
Tue 18 Feb - 15:30 - Zoo Palast 1
Wed 19 Feb - 22:00 - Cubix 9
Thu 20 Feb - 11:00 - Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Fri 21 Feb - 10:00 - Cubix 5
Sun 23 Feb - 10:00 - Cubix 9
Genre: Drama | Release Year: 2025 | Country: United Kingdom | Language: English | Duration: 78min
PUNCHING THE WORLD
Original Title: Mit Der Faust in Die Welt Schlagen
Directed by: Constanze Klaue
Cast: Anton Franke, Camille Moltzen, Anja Schneider, Christian Näthe, Sammy Scheuritzel, Johannes Scheidweiler
Written by: Constanze Klaue
Produced by: Alexander Wadouh, Gabriele Simon, Roxana Richters, Martin Heisler
Production Companies: Flare Film & Chromosom Film
Synopsis:
“Punching the world” is the adaptation of the highly acclaimed novel by Lukas Rietzschel.
Philipp and Tobias grow up in the province of Saxony. Their childhood is marked by a lack of prospects in an otherwise vast landscape. Years later, when their hometown is to take in refugees, the situation escalates. While one brother withdraws into himself, the other seeks an outlet for his rage. And finds it.
EFM SCREENINGS
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Wed 19 Feb - 09:30 - CinemaxX 6
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
Sun 16 Feb - 18:30 - Blue Max Theater
Mon 17 Feb - 13:00 - Cubix 9
Tue 18 Feb - 21:30 - Cubix 8
Thu 20 Feb - 15:30 - Colosseum 1
Fri 21 Feb - 14:45 - Cubix 9
Genre: Drama | Release Year: 2025 | Country: Germany | Language: German | Duration: 110min
ORENDA
Directed by: Pirjo Honkasalo
Cast: Alma Pöysti (Fallen Leaves), Pirkko Saisio, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Luca Leino
Written by: Pirkko Saisio
Produced by: Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff
Production Company: Bufo
Co-Production Companies: All Film (Estonia), Plattform Produktion (Sweden)
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.
EFM SCREENING
Sat 15 Feb - 16:30 - CinemaxX 12
Genre: Drama | Release Year: 2025 | Country: Finland | Language: Finnish | Duration: 117min
ELLIS PARK
Directed by: Justin Kurzel (The Order, True History of the Kelly Gang, The Snowtown Murders, Nitram)
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Warren Ellis, Justin Kurzel
Written by: Justin Kurzel and Nick Fenton
Produced by: Nick Batzias, Charlotte Wheaton
Production Company: GoodThing Productions
Synopsis:
A key member of iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis has cut a brilliant and unorthodox figure in music for over three decades. Far from the international concert halls in which he has plied his craft lies a very different passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. Co-founded by Ellis and spearheaded by the indomitable Femke den Haas, whose dedicated team of conservationists rescues trafficked and mistreated animals and then devotes years to nursing them back to health.
This fly-on-the-wall documentary offers both a deeply personal insight into one artist’s life through the act of creating and an inspiring reminder of how much can be achieved when working together.
“Justin Kurzel’s film about the Bad Seeds and Dirty Three musician, and the animal sanctuary he founded in Indonesia with activist Femke den Haas, is richly cinematic”
“Hats off to editor Nick Fenton for crafting wonderfully intuitive rhythms.”
Luke Buckmaster - The Guardian
★★★★
”a vital, heartbreaking story”
”It's a profoundly moving film of an artist looking at another and uncovering the person behind the act”
Joonatan Itkonen - Toisto.net
★★★★★
EFM SCREENING
Sun 16 Feb - 09:00 - CinemaxX 11
Genre: Documentary | Release Year: 2024 | Country: Australia | Language: English | Duration: 105min
LONG GOOD THURSDAY
Original Title: Mielensäpahoittajan rakkaustarina
Directed by: Mika Kaurismäki
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Cast: Heikki Kinnunen, Jaana Saarinen, Iikka Forss, Ville Tiihonen, Silu Seppälä, Ona Huczkowski, Pertti Sveholm
Written by: Sami Keski-Vähälä
Produced by: Jukka Helle, Markus Selin, Hanna Virolainen
Production Company: Solar Films Inc.
Synopsis:
While shopping for groceries, the old man is pulled out of his grumpiness by an irresistibly attractive scent - a mixture of chainsaw oil, pine bark and sawdust. The scent belongs to the free spirit of Saimi. Drawn to her, The Grump is struggling to believe that, in his heart, he could ever feel like a young boy again. He can’t help but admit that he enjoys Saimi’s company. The words, gaze and touch of another person awaken long-lost feelings and shed light on the loneliness of a long-term widower.
His sons are skeptical, even jealous of their father, and don’t trust Saimi’s intentions. Who knows, maybe she’s after his inheritance? Family meetings, misunderstandings, swimming in the moonlight and sleepless nights show that the power of love can pierce through even the oldest of flannel shirts.
Genre: Romantic Comedy | Release Year: 2024 | Country: Finland | Language: Finnish | Duration: 97min
KONTRA
Directed by: Jonas Risvig
Cast: Andrea Ølbye Hjejle, Anna Lehrmann, Safina Coster-Waldau
Written by: Jonas Risvig
Produced by: Jasmine Hermann Naghizadeh
Production Company: Nimbus
Synopsis:
The extrovert, yet slightly naive FANNY (18) has just relocated to a new high school and is struggling to navigate the social hierarchy where status and likeability seems to be measured only by cute outfits, going to the right parties, and having enough followers. Fanny desperately tries to find acceptance but after a humiliating night, she decides to join forces with LILJA (18), the class’s unapproachable, yet confident outsider. The encounter with Lilja turns Fanny’s world upside down, marking the beginning of a whirlwind friendship journey between the two.
With a defiant attitude and without looking back, the girls venture out of their high school microcosm and embarks on a fast-paced journey. But climbing the social ladder requires sacrifices, and the girls struggle to not lose themselves in the process.
Genre: Drama | Release Year: 2024 | Country: Denmark | Language: Danish | Duration: 104min
QUEENS
Original Title: REINAS
Directed by: Klaudia Reynicke
Genre: Drama
Cast: Abril Gjurinovic, Luana Vega, Gonzalo Molina, Jimena Lindo, Susi Sánchez
Written by: Klaudia Reynicke, Diego Vega
Produced by: Britta Rindelaub, Thomas Reichlin, Valérie Delpierre, Daniel Vega, Diego Vega
Production Companies: Alva Film (Switzerland),
Inicia Films (Spain), Maretazo Cine (Peru)
Executive Producers: Jessica Alba, Tracey Nyberg (Lady Metalmark Entertainment)
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
"Director Klaudia Reynicke combines grounded wonder and realism for a cleverly written family story embedded into a larger historical context".
Carlos Aguilar - Variety
"In Reinas, Reynicke offers a quietly sad portrait of an unexpected effort to make a family feel whole."
"Klaudia Reynicke’s compact feature Reinas deals in intimate moments with an understated charm."
Lovia Gyarkye - The Hollywood Reporter
Genre: Drama | Release Year: 2024 | Country: Switzerland, Spain, Peru | Language: Spanish | Duration: 104min
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