More than half of the programme of this year's International Forum of New Cinema are world premieres, and particular attention is being paid to little-known filmmaking countries like South Africa and Thailand.
As the Berlinale is casting a spotlight on South Africa this year, the Forum will be featuring a series of ten documentaries under the banner of Project 10 - Real Stories From a Free South Africa, which were developed together with broadcaster SABC1 and the Amsterdam-based Maurits Binger Film Institute, and the three-hour German-South African documentary Memories Of Rain by Gisela Albrecht and Angela Mai, which looks back at the struggle against apartheid.
The Forum programme will be presenting no less than three films from Thailand: Nonzee Nimibutr's melodrama Baytong, the joint project by six young directors Fan Chan (My Girl), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's garish transvestite comedy The Adventures Of Iron Pussy.
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Status Yo! (Germany) Dir: Till Hastreiter
Jarmark Europa (Germany) Dir: Minze Tummescheit
Dieses Jahr in Czernowitz (Germany) Dir: Volker Koepp
Twelve Chairs (Germany) Dir: Ulrike Ottinger
E.K.G. EXPOSITUS (Germany) Dir: Michael Brynntrup
Sign of Escape (Austria) Dir: Nina Kusturica
The Wind, in the Evening (Italy) Dir: Andrea Adriatico
After Midnight (Italy) Dir: Davide Ferrario
Paradise Now (France) Dir: Yolande Zauberman
Folle Embellie (France) Dir: Dominique Cabrera
A Bride of the Seventh Heaven (Finland) Dirs; Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio
Roads to Koktebel (Russia) Dirs: Boris Chlebnikow, Alexej Popogrebskij
All the Truth About Schelps (Russia) Dir: Alexei Muradov
Touch Me (Poland) Dirs: Anna Jadowska, Ewa Stankiewicz
Dealer (Hungary) Dir: Benedek Fliegauf
Campfire (Israel) Dir: Joseph Cedar
Out of the Forest (Israel) Dirs; Limor Pinhasov Ben Yosef, Yaron Kaftori Ben Yosef
Dying At Grace (Canada) Dir: Allan King
Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army (US) Dir: Robert Stone
Buildings and Grounds (US) Dir: Ken Kobland
The Time We Killed (US) Dir: Jennifer Reeves
Chain (US) Dir: Jem Cohen
The White Train (Arg) Dirs; Nahuel Garcia, Sheila Perez Gimenez, Ramiro Garcia
B-Happy (Chile) Dir: Gonzalo Justiniano
Project 10 - Real Stories from a Free South Africa (South Africa) Dirs; Various
Al'lèèssi' Une Actrice Africaine (Niger) Dir: Rahmatou Keita
Agadez nomade FM (France-Niger) Dirs: Christian Lelong, Pierre Mortimore
A Thousand Dreams Such as These (India) Dir: Sudhir Mishra
Maqbool (India) Dir: Vishal Bhardwaj
Let The Wind Blow (India) Dir: Partho Sen Gupta
Final Solution (India) Dir: Rakesh Sharma
Tomorrow May Not Be (India) Dir: Nikhil Advani
My Girl (Thailand) Dirs: Komgrit Threewimol, Songyos Sugmakanan, Nithiwat Tharatorn, Vijja Kojew, Vithaya Thongyuyong, Adisorn Tresirikasem
The Adventure of Iron Pussy (Thailand) Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Baytong (Thailand) Dir: Nonzee Nimibutr
Capitalist Manifesto: Working Men of all Countries, Accumulate! (South Korea) Dirs: Kim Gok, Kim Sun
A Tale of Two Sisters (South Korea) Dir: Kim Jee-Woon
Hard Luck Hero (Japan) Dir: Sabu
Barefoot Chicken (Japan) Dir: Morisaki Azuma
One Missed Call (Japan) Dir: Miike Takashi
South Of The Clouds (China) Dir: Zhu Wen
Good Morning Beijing (China) Dir: Pan Jian Lin
Darkness Bride (China) Dirs: William Kwok Wai Lun, China
Goddess of Mercy (China) Dir: Ann Hui
Baober in Love (China) Dir: Li Shaohong
Infernal Affairs 2 (Hong Kong) Dirs; Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Infernal Affairs 3 (Hong Kong) Dirs: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Running on Karma (Hong Kong) Dir: Johnnie To
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