22 films from 14 countries, not counting the coproducing countries, among them four German premieres and one world premiere. 16 feature films and five documentary films plus one art film. More films, more international festival hits and more promising film debuts are present in this section in 2013 than in previous years. Absolute front runner in numbers is Austria – with the wonderful art film SHIRLEY – VISIONS OF REALITY, the taboo-breaking documentary OUTING, going under your skin and the two music documentaries ELEKTRO MOSKVA about Soviet electronic music and WELCOME TO THE MACHINE casting a glance behind the scenes of the global music industry. Three contributions come from France: the German premiere of the film celebrated in Cannes YOU AND THE NIGHT, in which a young couple is waiting for the guests of the midnight orgy. In TIP TOP Isabelle Huppert investigates and searches for the "mole" in the French province, and rock icon Iggy Pop is the "conscience" in the mystical drama set in a circus: MORNING STAR starring Béatrice Dalle and Denis Lavant. Another three films are from Asia, among them two premieres from the Philippines: the documentary MAGDALENA shows the life of a midwife working traditionally, the feature film TERMITARIA evolves around a pregnant nine-year-old. Critical of society is the Chinese film A TOUCH OF SIN, denouncing the social deficits in the country – workers answering back. The Mexican WORKERS as well as the Turkish film THE PARTICLE also revolve around the working world. In the first one two people feel duped by working life – in the second one in contrast Zeynep can’t find work. In the Irish film LOVE ETERNAL a young man feels drawn much more towards the dead rather than the living, whereas the protagonist in HALLEY has to lead a dead man’s life. Also reputed to be dead was the hip rock star from JASON BECKER: NOT DEAD YET after the devastating diagnosis of ALS; but he is still alive and composes with his eyes. MATTERHORN, VIC+FLO SAW A BEAR and FLOATING SKYSCRAPERS are lesbian and gay films, which already won awards in Moscow, Berlin and Karlovy Vary. With BETHLEHEM we have the winner of six Israeli film awards and the country’s Oscar entry as German premiere. The political thriller shows the complicated relationship between a secret agent and his informer.
Film overview:
A TOUCH OF SIN
by Jia Zhangke
China/Japan 2013 133 min. Chinese original version with German subtitles
BETHLEHEM
by Yuval Adler
Israel/Belgium/Germany 2013 99 min. Hebrew-Arabic original version with German subtitles
ELEKTRO MOSKVA
by Elena Tikhonova and Dominik Spritzendorfer
Austria 2013 89 min. Russian original version with English subtitles
FLOATING SKYSCRAPERS
by Tomasz Wasilewski
Poland 2013 93 min. original version with English subtitles
HALLEY
by Sebastián Hofmann
Mexico/The Netherlands 2012 83 min. Spanish original version with English subtitles
JASON BECKER: NOT DEAD YET
by Jesse Vile
Great Britain 2012 87 min. original version
LOVE ETERNAL
by Brendan Muldowney
Ireland/Luxembourg/ The Netherlands /Japan 2013 94 min. English original version
MAGDALENA
by Anna Isabelle Matutina
Philippines 2013 49 min. original version with English subtitles
MATTERHORN
by Diederik Ebbinge
The Netherlands 2013 87 min. original version with English subtitles
MORNING STAR
by Sophie Blondy
France 2013 100 min. original version with English subtitles
MY DOG KILLER
by Mira Fornay
Slovakia/Czechia 2013 90 min. Slovakian original version with English subtitles
OUTING
by Sebastian Meise und Thomas Reider
Austria 2012 76 min. original version with English subtitles
SHIRLEY – VISIONS OF REALITY
by Gustav Deutsch
Austria 2013 93 min. English original version
TERMITARIA
by Joseph Israel Laban
Philippines 2013 91 min. original version with English subtitles
THE LAST ELVIS
by Armando Bo
Argentina/USA 2012 90 min. Spanish original version with English subtitles
THE PARTICLE
by Erdem Tepegöz
Turkey 2012 80 min. original version with German subtitles
TIP TOP
by Serge Bozon
France/Luxembourg 2013 106 min. French original version with English subtitles
VIC+FLO SAW A BEAR
by Denis Côté
Canada 2013 95 min. French original version with English subtitles
WATCHTOWER
by Pelin Esmer
Turkey/France/Germany 2012 96 min. Turkish original version with English subtitles
WELCOME TO THE MACHINE
by Andreas Steinkogler
Austria 2012 90 min. German-English original version with German subtitles
WORKERS
by José Luis Valle
Mexico/Germany 2013 120 min. Spanish original version with German subtitles
YOU AND THE NIGHT
by Yann Gonzalez
France 2013 92 min. original version with English subtitles
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