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Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale 2008: Panorama lineup This year’s Panorama will present 17 feature films in its main program, 15 in Panorama Special and 18 in its Panorama Dokumente series. 31 of these films are world premieres and 17 directorial debuts. Opening films The Panorama main program will open with "Rusalka" ("Mermaid"), the second work of Russian director Anna Melikyan, whose first film, “Mars,” screened in the Panorama in 2005. The story imaginatively pursues the childhood experiences of a little girl up into the turbulent and excessive reality of present-day Moscow. The Panorama Special will open with the Israeli-German-French co-production “Lemon Tree” by Eran Riklis. Leading actress Hiam Abbass, (International Jury Berlinale 2007) can also be seen in a French entry, “La Fabrique des Sentiments” (The Feelings Factory) by Jean-Marc Moutout. In “Lemon Tree” Abbass plays a Palestinian woman who has inherited a lemon grove bordering directly on territory occupied by Israel. The tragic dimensions of what she experiences make the current complexity of the region palpable. Panorama Dokumente Panorama Dokumente will open with Parvez Sharma’s “A Jihad For Love,” which introduces a central topic: the emergence of a new combative attitude among queers in countries where they are denied basic rights, legally and/or morally. Produced by Sandi Dubowski, who confronted orthodox Judaism with human rights issues in his “Trembling Before G-d” and won the 2001 TEDDY for it. “A Jihad for Love” confronts the Islamic world and its advocates with similar questions. Other films addressing this central topic are “Das Andere Istanbul” (The Other Side of Istanbul) by Döndü Kilic, “EAST/WEST- Sex & Politics” by Jochen Hick, “Improvvisamente l’Inverno Scorso” (Suddenly, Last Winter) by Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi, as well as Rosa von Praunheim’s “Tote Schwule - Lebende Lesben.” In addition, there’s Julian Shaw’s “Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story,” an essay on political activist and comedian Pieter-Dirk Uys, who has for years been fighting against apartheid and AIDS in South Africa; and Yunus Vally’s “The Glow of White Women.” The following Panorama Dokumente films concentrate on music, a focal point of all Berlinale sections: “Bananaz” by Ceri Levy follows Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, the creators of Gorillaz - the first virtual cartoon band - as they brainstorm and implement their ideas. In “Café de Los Maestros” by Argentinian director Miguel Kohan, master musicians and singers from the golden days of the tango come together for an extraordinary big event. Oscar-winner Gustavo Santaolalla co-produced this film with Lita Stantic and Walter Salles. “Heavy Metal in Baghdad” by Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi documents the dramatic life of the Iraqi band Acrassicauda. “Patti Smith: Dream of Life” by Steven Sebring chronicles over eleven years in the life of this singer, poet and painter. Known as the godmother of punk, Patti Smith narrates the film herself. “Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell” by Matt Wolf revives the avant-garde composer, singer, songwriter and disco producer, who died from AIDS in 1992. Manfred Salzgeber Prize Three outstanding international film experts have been won for this year’s jury: Mirsad Purivatra, director of the Sarajevo International Film Festival Bee Thiam Tan, founder of the Asian Film Archive in Singapore Susanne Pfeffer, curator of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin The Manfred Salzgeber Prize is awarded in memory of the former director of the Panorama, who also helped shape the Berlin Film Festival. It goes to a film “that broadens the boundaries of cinema today” and is a non-cash prize for technical services required for cinema screenings. The TEDDY – Queer Film Award will be presented at the Berlinale on Thursday, February 14, at the House of World Cultures. The nine-member jury, made up of festival organisers from around the world, will present the award in Berlin for the 22nd time. Here is the complete list of the films of this year’s Panorama: Panorama main program film / country / director / cast “Tout Est Parfait” (Everything Is Fine) / Canada / Yves-Christian Fournier / starring Maxime Dumontier, Chloé Bourgeois, Maxime Bessette, Jean-Noël Raymond-Jetté, Niels Schneider “Genenet Al Asmak” (The Aquarium) / Egypt, France, Germany / Yousry Nasrallah / Hend Sabry, Amr Waked, Gamil Rateb, Bassem Samra, Ahmed Al Fichawy, Dorra Zarouk, Menha Al Batraoui, Tamim Abdou “The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela” / Iceland / Olaf de Fleur Johannesson / Raquela Rios, Stefan Schaefer, Olivia Galudo, Brax Villa, Valerie Grand Einarsson, Markus Kalberer “Piao Lang Qing Chun” (Drifting Flowers) / Taiwan / Zero Chou / Serena Fang, Pai Chih-ying, Chao Yi-lan, Lu Yi-ching, Sam Wang, Herb Hsu, Ma Yi-hang “Otto; Or, Up With Dead People” / Germany, Canada / Bruce LaBruce / Jey Crisfar, Katharina Klewinghaus, Susanne Sachsse “Megane” (Glasses) / Japan / Naoko Ogigami / Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ryo Kase, Ken Mitsuishi, Masako Motai “Le Ring” (The Fight) / Canada / Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette / Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay, Maxime Dumontier, Julianne Côté, Jason Roy Léveillée, Jean-François Casabonne, Stéphane Demers, Suzanne Lemoine, René-Daniel Dubois “Jerusalema South Africa” / Ralph Ziman / Rapulana Seiphemo, Jeffery Zekele, Ronnie Nyakale, Jafta Mamabolo, Malusi Skenjana “Rusalka” / Russian Federation / Anna Melikian / Masha Shalaeva, Yevgeniy Tsyganov, Maria Sokova, Nastya Doncova, Irina Scrinichenko “Jas Sum Od Titov Veles (I Am From Titov Veles) / Macedonia, France, Belgium, Slovenia / Teona Strugar Mitevska / Labina Mitevska, Ana Kostovska, Nikolina Kujaca, Xhevdet Jasari “Maré, Nossa Historia de Amor” (Another Love Story) / Brazil, France, Uruguay / Lúcia Murat / Cristina Lago, Vinicius D'Black, Marisa Orth, Jefchander Lucas, Anjo Lopes, Elisa Lucinda, Flávio Bauraqui, Malu Galli, Babu Santana “Hatsu Koi” (First Love) / Japan / Imaizumi Koichi / Murakami Hiroshi, Matsunoki Teppen, Kawashima Ryoya, Horie Shinji, Shibata Kei “Dream Boy” / USA / James Bolton / Max Roeg, Stephan Bender, Diana Scarwid “Eskalofrio” (Shiver) / Spain / Isidro Ortiz / Junio Valverde, Mar Sodupe, Francesc Orella, Roberto Enríquez, Andrés Herrera “Boy A” / UK / John Crowley / Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Katie Lyons, Shaun Evans “Corazones de Mujer” (Woman's Hearts) / Italy, Morocco / Kiff Kosoof / Aziz Ahmari, Ghizlane Waldi “Coupable” (Guilty) / France / Laetitia Masson / Hélène Fillières, Jérémie Rénier, Amira Casar, Denis Podalyds, Anne Consigny, Marc Barbé, Dinara Droukarova Panorama Special “3 Días” (Before the Fall) / Spain / F. Javier Gutiérrez / Víctor Clavijo, Mariana Cordero, Eduard Fernández, Juan Galván, Elvira de Armiñán, Ana de las Cuevas, Daniel Casadellá “3 Zan” (Three Women) / Iran / Manijeh Hekmat / Niki Karimi, Pegah Ahangarani, Maryam Boubani, Reza Kianian, Babak Hamidian, Atila Pessiani “Arumdabda” (Beautiful) / South Korea / Jaihong Juhn / Cha Soo-Yeon, Lee Chun-Hee “Chiko” / Germany / Özgür Yildirim / Denis Moschitto, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volkan Özcan, Reyhan Sahin, Ogün Yardim “Det Som Ingen Ved” (What No One Knows) / Denmark, Sweden / Søren Kragh-Jacobsen / Anders W. Berthelsen, Maria Bonnevie, Ghita Nørby, Marie Louise Wille “Filth And Wisdom” / UK / Madonna / Eugene Hutz, Holly Weston, Vicky McClure, Richard E. Grant, Stephen Graham, Inder Manocha, Shobu Kapoor “Hu Tieh” (Soul of a Demon) / Taiwan / Chang Tso-Chi / Tseng Yi-Che, Chen Pei-Chun, Cheng Yu-Jen, Chan Cheng-Yun, Tsai Chieh-De, Hsieh Yueh-Hsia “La Fabrique des Sentiments” (The Feelings Factory) / France, Belgium / Jean-Marc Moutout / Hiam Abbas, Elsa Zylberstein, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Putzulu “La Rabia Argentina” / Albertina Carri / Analía Couceyro, Javier Lorenzo, Victor Hugo Carrizo “Lemon Tree” / Israel, Germany, France / Eran Riklis / Hiam Abbass, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Doron Tavory, Ali Suliman, Tarik Copty “Love And Other Crimes” / Germany, Serbia, Austria, Slovenia / Stefan Arsenijevic / Anica Dobra, Milena Dravic, Fedja Stojanovic, Hanna Schwamborn, Vuk Kostic “Revanche Austria” / Götz Spielmann / Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Ursula Strauss, Andreas Lust, Hannes Thanheiser “Sleep Dealer” / USA, Mexico / Alex Rivera / Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas, Tenoch Huerta, Metztli Adamina “Sonetàula” / Italy / Salvatore Mereu / Francesco Falchetto, Manuela Martelli, Antonio Crisponi, Serafino Spiggia “Transsiberian” / Spain, Germany, UK, Lithuania / Brad Anderson / Woody Harrelson, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Thomas Kretschmann, Eduardo Noriega, Kate Mara Supporting Film “No Bikini” / Canada / Claudia Morgado Escanilla / Matrya Fedor, Apollonia Vanova, Christine Lippa, Cole McLeod “Tá” / Brazil / Felipe Sholl / Fernando São Thiago, João Ferreira Documentary Film “A Jihad For Love” / USA, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Australia / Parvez Sharma “Bananaz” / UK / Ceri Levy / Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett “Café de los Maestros” / Argentinia / Miguel Kohan “Sharon” / Israel, Germany / Dror Moreh “Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story” / Australia / Julian Shaw / Pieter-Dirk Uys, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu “Das Andere Istanbul (The Other Side of Istanbul) / Germany / Döndü Kilic “Derek” / UK / Isaac Julien / Tilda Swinton 'EAST/WEST - Sex & Politics / Germany / Jochen Hick “Erika Rabau - Der Puck von Berlin” (Erika Rabau - Puck of Berlin) / Germany / Samson Vicent / Erika Rabau “Full Battle Rattle” / USA / Tony Gerber, Jesse Moss “Heavy Metal In Baghdad” / USA / Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi “Improvvisamente l'Inverno Scorso” (Suddenly, Last Winter) / Italy / Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi / Veronica Pivetti “Jesus Christus Erlöser” (Jesus Christ Savior) / Germany / Peter Geyer / Klaus Kinski “Patti Smith: Dream of Life” / USA / Steven Sebring “Sag Mir, Wo Die Schönen Sind...” (The Beauties From Leipzig) / Germany / Gunther Scholz “The Glow of White Women” / South Africa / Yunus Vally “The Living End: Remixed and Remastered” / USA / Gregg Araki / Mike Dytri, Craig Gilmore, Mary Woronov, Mark Finch, Johanna Went / Panorama 1992; digitally remastered “Tote Schwule - Lebende Lesben” (Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians) / Germany / Rosa von Praunheim “Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell” / USA / Matt Wolf “With Gilbert & George” / UK / Julian Cole © Preems.com |
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