Posts Tagged ‘Berlin International Film Festival’

Some of Team Cinereach will be at the Berlin International Film Festival for the next several days to cheer on these six films, all supported through various Cinereach programs.

Please check them out if you’re in the neighborhood!

The Cold Lands
The Cold Lands (Generation)

Cinereach production

Dir Tom Gilroy

After his mother’s sudden death, a young boy disappears into the deep woods of upstate New York and takes up with an unpredictable and mysterious drifter.

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Concussion (Panorama)

Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute grantee

Dir Stacie Passon

After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can’t do it anymore. Her life just can’t be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor.

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Leviathan

Leviathan (Forum Expanded)

Cinereach grantee

Dir Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel

WThe collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine — a cosmic portrait of one of mankind’s oldest endeavors. Shot on a dozen cameras — tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker.

Wisconsin – birthplace of the Republican Party, government unions, “cheeseheads” and Paul Ryan – becomes a test market in the campaign to buy Democracy, and ground zero in the battle for the future of the GOP

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Narco-Cultura

Narco Cultura (Panorama Dokumente)

Cinereach grantee

Dir Shaul Schwarz

An explosive look at drug cartels’ pop culture influence on both sides of the border as experienced by an LA narcocorrido singer dreaming of stardom and a Juarez crime scene investigator on the front line of Mexico’s Drug War.

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On the Ice (Native – Indigenous Cinema)

Cinereach grantee

Dir Andrew MacLean

On the snow-covered Arctic tundra, at the top of the world in Barrow, Alaska, two Inuit teenagers try to get away with murder.

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Powerless (Forum)

Cinereach grantee

Fahad Mustafa & Deepti Kakkar

In Kanpur, India, hundreds of people risk their lives to climb up electricity poles to steal electricity. As police vehicles roll in to stop the theft, the lines are drawn for battle over electricity.

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The Berlin International Film Festival takes place from February 9th through the 19th this year, and we’re proud that the lineup includes five films that Cinereach has supported in various capacities.

Cinereach Grantee:

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Call Me Kuchu nonfiction
Directors: Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright

As state-sanctioned homophobia reaches new heights in Uganda, David Kato, the country’s first openly gay man, will stop at nothing to liberate the LGBT community.

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Films Supported by the Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute:

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry nonfiction
Director: Alison Klayman

The inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics.

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Keep the Lights On fiction
Director: Ira Sachs

The story of a tumultuous, decade-long relationship between two men in New York City, chronicling the bonds that keep them together and the addictions that tear them apart.

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Postcards from the Zoo fiction
Director: Edwin

The zoo – a place of yearning. The zoo animals are yearning for freedom and many of the visitors long for adventure and the call of the wild. It is in these surroundings, where imagining yourself into other world is easy, that Lana grows up.

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Words of Witness
Words of Witness nonfiction
Director: Mai Iskandar

A few months before Mubarak’s resignation, a young journalist named Heba Afify began working for the English-language edition of an independent Egyptian daily newspaper called Al-Masry Al-Youm. Words of Witness follows the protests on Tahrir Square and Heba’s impassioned efforts to reflect the diversity of people’s opinions and their new-found voice.

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