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Berlin International Film Festival · 2013

Berlin International Film Festival 2013

Berlinale Goes Kiez

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20 films · 1 review

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About Ndugu

An African boy sets out to find a new wife for his recently bereaved American foster father.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2013; Director: David Muñoz; Stars: Daniel Itumo)

Ashura

The Shi'ite community in Istanbul prepares for Ashura.

(Country: Turkey, Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Köken Ergun)

Berlin Ecke Bundesplatz - A Baker on the Bread Line (Berlin Ecke Bundesplatz - Bäckerei Im Kiez)

When a baker dies his wife faces financial hardship but never loses her optimism.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Hans-Georg Ullrich, Detlef Gumm)

Berlin Ecke Bundesplatz - Chimney Sweeps (Berlin Ecke Bundesplatz - Schornsteinfegerglück)

Friendship endures between two very different men who are master chimney sweeps.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Hans-Georg Ullrich, Detlef Gumm)

Berlin Ecke Bundesplatz - Happy Family

A portrait of a family living by the Bundesplatz.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Hans-Georg Ullrich, Detlef Gumm)

Berlin Ecke Bundesplatz - Life Of Leisure (Berlin Ecke Bundesplatz - Feine Leute)

A look at the lives of the rich people who live around the Bundesplatz.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Hans-Georg Ullrich, Detlef Gumm)

Dream Girl (Traumfrau)

A lengthy search for the perfect woman ends somewhere between reality and dream.

(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2012; Director: Oliver Schwarz; Stars: Dirk H)

Everyday Objects (Halbschatten)

Waiting for her lover at his luxury villa, a woman interacts awkwardly with his uncertain children.

(Country: Germany, France; Year: 2013; Director: Nicolas Wackerbarth; Stars: Anne Ratte-Polle, Leonard Proxauf, Emma Bading, Nathalie Richard, Maren Kroymann)

Free Fall (Freier Fall)

Life turns upside down for a young man whose partner is expecting their fiest chld when he goes on a training course and falls in love with a male colleague.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2013; Director: Stephan Lacant; Stars: Hanno Koffler, Max Riemelt, Katharina Schüttler, Maren Kroymann)

Gold

German settlers in Canada underestimate the dangers of the wilderness through which they are travelling.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2013; Director: Thomas Arslan; Writer: Thomas Arslan; Stars: Nina Hoss, Marko Mandic, Peter Kurth)

I Used To Be Darker

A runaway seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore, only to find their marriage ending and her cousin in crisis. In the days that follow, the family struggles to let go while searching for things to sustain them.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Matthew Porterfield; Writer: Amy Belk, Matthew Porterfield; Stars: Deragh Campbell, Hannah Gross, Kim Taylor, Ned Oldham, Geoff Grace, Nick Petr)

Layla Fourie

A young woman who accepts a job as a polygraphist soon becomes a suspect herself.

(Country: Germany, South Africa, France, Netherlands; Year: 2013; Director: Pia Marais; Writer: Horst Markgraf, Pia Marais; Stars: Rayna Campbell, August Diehl, Jeroen Kranenburg, Rapulana Seiphemo)

Maladies

A disillusioned actor, a cross dresser and a woman who barely speaks form a complex friendship.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Carter; Stars: James Franco, Catherine Keener, Fallon Goodson, David Straithairn, Alan Cumming)

Mystery (Misterio)

Can the Virgin speak?

(Country: Spain; Year: 2013; Director: Chema García Ibarra; Stars: Angelita López, Antonio Blas Molina, José Manuel Ibarra)

Night Train To Lisbon (Nachtzug Nach Lissabon)

The lives of two very different men collide when they embark on journeys of self discovery across Lisbon.

(Country: Germany, Switzerland, Portugal; Year: 2013; Director: Bille August; Writer: Greg Latter, based on the book by Pascal Mercier.; Stars: Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston)

Satellite Boy

A boy embarks on a daring journey to save the land he shares with his grandfather.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2012; Director: Catriona McKenzie; Stars: David Gulpilil, Cameron Wallaby, Joseph Pedley)

Wasteland - So That No One Becomes Aware Of It (Ödland - Damit Keiner Das So Mitbemerkt)

A documentary about refugee children who have no possessions or security but all the time in the world.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2013; Director: Anne Kodura)

The Weight Of Elephants (Das Gewicht Der Elefanten)

The arrival of two new girls in the neighbourhood prompts a lonely boy to step out of his imaginary world and try real life fun and adventure.

(Country: New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden; Year: 2013; Director: Daniel Joseph Borgman; Stars: Demos Murphy, Angelina Cottrell, Matthew Sunderland, Catherine Wilkin)

Whaled Women

Two women from the Department of Development are tasked with dealing with strange creatures that emerge from the sea.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2012; Director: Ewa Einhorn, Jeuno JE Kim; Stars: Anna Blomberg, Inga Cristina Campos, Magnus Mark)