2016 Berlin Film Festival - Out of Competition/Panorama
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1. Hail, Caesar! (2016)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes
Votes: 143,151 | Gross: $30.50M
2. Chi-Raq (2015)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett
Votes: 10,719 | Gross: $2.65M
3. News from Planet Mars (2016)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
Philippe Mars is a pleasant 40-something whose meeting with a psychotic college friend who is in search of love profoundly changes his life.
Director: Dominik Moll | Stars: François Damiens, Vincent Macaigne, Veerle Baetens, Jeanne Guittet
Votes: 1,345
4. The Patriarch (2016)
103 min | Drama
From the author of "The Whale Rider", a tale of family rivalry and reconciliation, set against the stunning backdrop of rural New Zealand in the 1960s.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Temuera Morrison, Akuhata Keefe, Nancy Brunning, Jim Moriarty
Votes: 1,028
5. Saint Amour (2016)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Chaos ensues when a father and son travel to a farm festival via the Wine Trail in a Parisian taxi.
Directors: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste, Céline Sallette
Votes: 1,558
6. I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.
Directors: Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb | Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlát, Klára Melísková, Marika Soposká
Votes: 2,720
7. Junction 48 (2016)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Set against a backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music in their crime-ridden ghetto and Tel Aviv's hip-hop club scene.
Director: Udi Aloni | Stars: Tamer Nafar, Samar Qupty, Salwa Nakkara, Said Dasuki
Votes: 738 | Gross: $0.01M
8. The First, the Last (2016)
98 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Two bounty hunters (Albert Dupontel and Bouli Lanners) are looking for a cell phone in the french countryside. They meet cowboys, fools and Jesus.
Director: Bouli Lanners | Stars: Albert Dupontel, Bouli Lanners, Suzanne Clément, Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 1,064
9. Maggie's Plan (2015)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Maggie wants to have a baby, raising him on her own, but when she gets romantically involved with John, a married man, things get complicated and all the balance of Maggie's plans may collapse.
Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Maya Rudolph
Votes: 18,314 | Gross: $3.35M
10. Nakom (2016)
90 min | Drama
Upon his father's sudden death, a talented medical student must return to his home village in Ghana to fight for his family's survival.
Directors: Kelly Daniela Norris, T.W. Pittman | Stars: Jacob Ayanaba, Grace Ayariga, Justina Kulidu, Shetu Musah
Votes: 183
11. Remainder (2015)
103 min | Drama, Mystery
A large black box crashes through the sky, landing on a man's head. He spends months recovering, having lost all memory. After a multi-million pound settlement, he becomes increasingly extravagant in enacting fragments of memory.
Director: Omer Fast | Stars: Cush Jumbo, Ed Speleers, Tom Sturridge, Nicholas Farrell
Votes: 1,130
12. On the Other Side (2016)
85 min | Drama
20 years ago, Vesna moved her family to Zagreb, away from the events that almost destroyed their lives. However, an unexpected call will bring back the memory of a secret that she has been trying to hide all these years.
Director: Zrinko Ogresta | Stars: Ksenija Marinkovic, Lazar Ristovski, Tihana Lazovic, Robert Budak
Votes: 762
13. Starve Your Dog (2015)
94 min | Drama
After 15 years of isolation, a great Moroccan politician gets out of the shadows. To make his confessions he calls a great director from the old time with her wobbly technical crew.
Director: Hicham Lasri | Stars: Jirari Ben Aissa, Latifah Ahrar, Fehd Benchemsi, Adil Abatourab
Votes: 44
14. Sand Storm (2016)
87 min | Drama
When their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.
Director: Elite Zexer | Stars: Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal, Hitham Omari, Khadija Al Akel
Votes: 3,977 | Gross: $0.08M
15. Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (2016)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Two men meet in a sex club, become entangled in a passionate embrace, and spend the night getting to know each other. As they wander through the empty streets of Paris, they must confront the feelings that are growing between them.
Directors: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau | Stars: Mario Fanfani, Geoffrey Couët, François Nambot, Bastien Gabriel
Votes: 3,903
16. The Ones Below (2015)
R | 87 min | Drama, Thriller
A couple expecting their first child discover an unnerving difference between themselves and the couple living in the flat below them who are also having a baby.
Director: David Farr | Stars: Clémence Poésy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore, Laura Birn
Votes: 11,064 | Gross: $0.01M
17. War on Everyone (2016)
R | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two corrupt cops set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Events, however, are complicated by the arrival of someone who appears to be even more dangerous than they are.
Director: John Michael McDonagh | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Theo James, Tessa Thompson
Votes: 20,362
18. Aloys (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy
A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as 'telephone walking'. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.
Director: Tobias Nölle | Stars: Georg Friedrich, Tilde von Overbeck, Kamil Krejcí, Yufei Li
Votes: 2,252
19. The Tenth Man (2016)
Unrated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After years away, Ariel (Alan Sabbagh) returns to Buenos Aires seeking to reconnect with his father Usher, who founded a charity foundation in Once, the city's bustling Jewish district ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Burman | Stars: Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg, Usher Barilka, Elvira Onetto
Votes: 1,230 | Gross: $0.06M
20. Goat (2016)
R | 96 min | Drama
Reeling from a terrifying assault, a 19 year-old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there in the name of "brotherhood" tests him and his loyalty to his brother in brutal ways.
Director: Andrew Neel | Stars: Ben Schnetzer, Nick Jonas, Gus Halper, Danny Flaherty
Votes: 8,108 | Gross: $0.02M
21. Greetings from Fukushima (2016)
108 min | Drama
A young German woman bonds with an elderly Japanese woman while touring the Fukushima region of Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake.
Director: Doris Dörrie | Stars: Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Nami Kamata, Moshe Cohen
Votes: 829
22. Indignation (2016)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.
Director: James Schamus | Stars: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tijuana Ricks, Sue Dahlman
Votes: 12,621 | Gross: $3.40M
23. Jonathan (2016)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young man learns that his dying father was once deeply in love with a man.
Director: Piotr J. Lewandowski | Stars: Jannis Niewöhner, André Hennicke, Julia Koschitz, Thomas Sarbacher
Votes: 1,176
24. Tomcat (2016)
Unrated | 124 min | Drama
Andreas and Stefan lead a happy and passionate life: Together with their beloved tomcat Moses, they live in a beautiful old house in Vienna's vineyards. They work as a musician and as a ... See full summary »
Director: Klaus Händl | Stars: Toni, Lukas Turtur, Philipp Hochmair, Sebastian Löschberger
Votes: 1,107
25. La helada negra (2015)
90 min | Drama
A young woman arrives at a farm threatened by a plague. The bewildered farmers yield to her interventions and the immediate neighborhood come to think of Alejandra as their great hope and she starts to be revered like a saint.
Director: Maximiliano Schonfeld | Stars: Rubén Deming, Florencia Domínguez, Elio Guerra, Sheila Kliphan
Votes: 95
26. Lantouri (2016)
111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Girl, Maryam, is attacked with Acid by Pasha, a young man who is madly in love with her.
Director: Reza Dormishian | Stars: Baran Kosari, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Maryam Palizban, Reza Behbudi
Votes: 3,803
27. Little Men (2016)
PG | 85 min | Drama
A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease.
Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina García, Theo Taplitz
Votes: 7,814 | Gross: $0.70M
28. The Wounded Angel (2016)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
In a godforsaken Kazakh village four adolescent teenagers try to find their place in the world.
Director: Emir Baigazin | Stars: Omar Adilov, Timur Aidarbekov, Madiyar Aripbay, Anzara Barlykova
Votes: 291
29. While the Women Are Sleeping (2016)
103 min | Drama, Mystery
While on vacation with his wife, a writer begins following another man and woman who are guests at the resort hotel where he stays.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Sayuri Oyamada, Shioli Kutsuna
Votes: 476
30. Time Was Endless (2016)
85 min | Drama
Anderson, a young indigenous man, with 20 years of age, clashes with archaic traditions and ends up leaving the community where he lives and going to Manaus.
Directors: Sergio Andrade, Fábio Baldo | Stars: Anderson Tikuna, Rita Carelli, Begê Muniz, Emanuel Aragão
Votes: 108
31. All of a Sudden (2016)
112 min | Drama, Mystery
Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.
Director: Asli Özge | Stars: Sebastian Hülk, Julia Jentsch, Hanns Zischler, Sascha Alexander Gersak
Votes: 972
32. Much Ado About Nothing (2016)
94 min | Drama
Carefree college student Vicente ends up in a desperate fight for freedom when a well-connected friend falsely accuses him of a hit-and-run accident.
Director: Alejandro Fernández Almendras | Stars: Agustín Silva, Paulina García, Daniel Alcaíno, Alejandro Goic
Votes: 720
33. The Bacchus Lady (2016)
110 min | Drama
The Bacchus Lady looks into the issue of elderly prostitution in South Korea. So-Young, an elderly lady who provides sex services to the male senior citizens using the pretext of selling ... See full summary »
Director: Je-yong Lee | Stars: Youn Yuh-jung, Nash Ang, Hyun-jun Choi, Kim Han-na
Votes: 1,124
34. Road to Istanbul (2016)
92 min | Drama, Thriller
Elisabeth lives with her daughter Elodie in Belgium. When the police inform her that her daughter has left the country to join the ranks of Islamic State in Syria, she begins to investigate.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Astrid Whettnall, Pauline Burlet, Patricia Ide, Abel Jafri
Votes: 225
35. Don't Call Me Son (2016)
Unrated | 82 min | Drama
After discovering the truth about being stolen by the woman he thought was his mother as a child, Pierre (AKA Felipe) must deal with the consequences of his mother's actions and must try to cope with his biological family.
Director: Anna Muylaert | Stars: Naomi Nero, Daniel Botelho, Dani Nefussi, Matheus Nachtergaele
Votes: 1,569 | Gross: $0.01M
36. You'll Never Be Alone (2016)
TV-14 | 81 min | Action, Drama
When his cross-dressing teenage son suffers a brutally violent attack, a mannequin-factory manager desperately seeks help and, when none can be found, is forced to take matters into his own hands. Based on a true story.
Director: Alex Anwandter | Stars: Sergio Hernández, Andrew Bargsted, Jaime Leiva, Roberto Cayuqueo
Votes: 524
37. Shelley (2016)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Louise and Kasper want to become parents but Louise is unable to have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear Louise's child, but things don't turn out as they planned.
Director: Ali Abbasi | Stars: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Cosmina Stratan, Peter Christoffersen, Björn Andrésen
Votes: 4,076
38. Shepherds and Butchers (2016)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
Director: Oliver Schmitz | Stars: Steve Coogan, Andrea Riseborough, Garion Dowds, Eduan van Jaarsveldt
Votes: 3,136
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