Berlin International Film Festival - Forum (2010-2019)
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- DirectorIgor VoloshinStarsArtur SmolyaninovAndrey KhabarovOksana AkinshinaA young man who writes avant-garde plays in the Russian province tells the story of how he voluntarily let himself be admitted to a psychiatric ward to avoid military service.
- DirectorDebra GranikStarsJennifer LawrenceJohn HawkesGarret DillahuntAn unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
- DirectorPhilip ScheffnerDAY OF THE SPARROW is a political wildlife film. It centers around a country where the border between war and peace fades. On November 14, 2005, a sparrow is shot dead in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, after it toppled over 23000 domino stones. A German soldier dies in Kabul as a result of a suicide bombing. With these headlines appearing side by side, Philip Scheffner is induced to use ornithological methods in his quest for the war. In Germany, not in Afghanistan.
- DirectorMarietta KestingAljoscha WeskottStarsHelen BodigeloSimon FidelThato MatholeSun City in South Africa is a huge resort with a disco, casino and swimming pools just two hours north of Johannesburg. Opened in 1979, Sun City was not only the "disco of apartheid" but also an imitation Las Vegas. It became notorious as the epitome of apartheid culture. The film SUNNY LAND by director team Aljoscha Weskott and Marietta Kesting is a drama-documentary essay that examines Sun City, and with it, the culture of apartheid. Sun City was built when the apartheid system was still in full swing. It unwittingly became a laboratory for radical political experiments: a zone which was simultaneously real and unreal. "SUNNY LAND is the exact opposite of a conventional documentary about a dark place from South Africa's past. Instead, it works like a psychedelic drug in cinematic form, expanding consciousness in the here and now." (Dorothee Wenner, Catalogue Berlinale/International Forum of New Cinema)
- DirectorYong-hi YangDocumentary focuses on 'Sona', the daughter of the director's brother who moved to North Korea from Japan in the early 1970s. Through Sona, the film shows the generation that migrated from Japan to North Korea and their offspring who were born and raised in North Korea. Sona's upbringing is quite normal, but the special aspects within North Korean society make their presence known in a subtle way. By showing the process of the migratory people establishing their identities within North Korean society, North Korea becomes a region that shows a universal view of human society in general and not just a closed society. This approach is a special feature of Yang. She adds normalcy through her depiction of a family to 'North Korea'; a name that we have come to regard as something quite special.
- DirectorGamma BakStarsGamma BakJanos M. BakPolly M. Bak
- DirectorYûya IshiiStarsHikari MitsushimaKôtarô ShigaRyô IwamatsuAfter 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill she have to take over his struggling factory. Gradually she becomes the decider of her own life.
- DirectorMatthew PorterfieldStarsSky FerreiraZoe VanceJames Siebor Jr.A young man's untimely death unites a fractured family and their community through shared memory and loss.
- DirectorTayfun PirselimogluStarsMehmet AvciBirol EngelerSerkan KeskinResat lives with his sick mother in one of the suburbs of Istanbul. His only dream is to own a motorcycle. He also likes a girl who lives in his apartment. However, he cannot open up to the girl. Resat is a kleptomaniac. He makes petty thefts, rummages through the garbage.
- DirectorConstantin PopescuStarsConstantin DitaBogdan DumitracheIonut CarasThe story of anti-communist partisans in post-World War II Romania.
- DirectorHyung-ki RyuStarsBo-eun ChoiGilles CollotSu-yun HanA young woman who was just betrayed by her boyfriend comes across a moneylender, and she needs some money.
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsJosse De PauwMaren EggertNatacha RégnierAmidst the impersonal hubbub of Paris' Orly Airport, strangers meet, secrets are revealed, and sudden intimacies develop in this beautifully observed mosaic of lives in transit.
- DirectorChi-jan HouStarsBryan Shu-Hao ChangNikki HsiehGwen YaoA visual love poem of magical realism.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsOsama bin LadenSalim HamdanAbu JandalTells the story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
- DirectorLaxmikant ShetgaonkarStarsChittaranjan GiriVeena JamkarPrasanthi TalpankerA recently widowed forest ranger in India strikes up an unlikely relationship with a woman he finds lost and alone in the woods.
- DirectorSabuStarsRyûhei MatsudaHidetoshi NishijimaKengo Kôra(Japanese with English subtitles) Aboard the Japanese crab ship 'Kanikosen' equipped with a cannery facility, workers are forced to labor under pitiful conditions at minimum wages. Sick of being ruled by their harsh Superintendent, one of the workers, Shinjo, urges his peers to rise up and start a revolution on board of the Kanikosen.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsSharunas BartasKlavdiya KorshunovaErwan RibardA drug smuggler is betrayed by his partner and is then forced to seek help from Russian mobsters.
- DirectorCaroline KamyaStarsPhilip BuyiRehema NanfukaStephen OcenOne day in the life of three people, a 12 year old former child soldier, a hip hop dancer and a maid taking us from the city of Kampala, Uganda to northern Uganda post-war.
- DirectorThomas ArslanStarsMisel MaticevicKaroline EichhornUwe BohmReleased from prison, Trojan begins to plan an armored car robbery. But things don't go according to said plan.
- DirectorSang-min SoStarsLee Eun-jooLee Hee-joonSang-kyeong HwangThe main character's incessant loving and breaking up clearly illustrates the nature of a third rate poet. He is destined for predicaments, and we watch his journey. This paradox provides a true comedy hard to find nowadays.
- DirectorLuis SampieriStarsRamia ChaouiIrene GarrésSergi GibertThree youths that don't know each other get together to spend their last 12 hours before coming to their End.
- DirectorÓscar Ruiz NaviaStarsKarent HinestrozaArnobio Salazar RivasRodrigo VélezA drama set in the black communities of Colombia's Pacific coast, where a man looking to flee the country by boat encounters a local fisherman.
- DirectorInés de Oliveira CézarStarsEva BiancoSantiago GobernoriMarcelo D'AndreaA young man and a mature woman who has just been widowed find themselves in an unthinking relationship. The young man ignores the possibility that this woman is his mother and the dead man, his father.
- DirectorTatjana TuranskyjStarsMira ParteckeLaura TonkeFranziska DickBerlin in the summer: Greta. 40, architect, mother of the 12-year-old son, recently unemployed. She does everything in her power to keep hanging on in there, torn between the pressure to conform and the spirit of contradiction.
- DirectorSharon LockhartWatching & observing. A meditation.