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TEDDY TODAY: 20.02.2022

Today marks the end of the 72nd edition of the Berlinale.

What a terrific time we had with all the film premieres, interviews and of course, the award ceremonies for the GOLDEN BEARS and the TEDDY AWARDS. In spite of all the restrictions we faced, we’re extremely happy to have been able to send a clear message to our community and beyond: no pandemic will keep us from celebrating queer talent, creativity and solidarity!

It has been a tremendous honour to be able to share this experience with you. May the next TEDDY AWARD edition be once again the glamourous event we’ve come to know and love.

Stay safe and stay optimistic – see you in February 2023! ❤️

RERUNS:

Aos dezasseis (At Sixteen)
20.02. / 15:00 CinemaxX 1
20.02. / 15:00 CinemaxX 2
20.02. / 17:30 International

Bashtaalak sa’at (Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?)
20.02. / 21:00 CinemaxX 5

Berdreymi (Beautiful Beings)
20.02. / 20:00 CinemaxX 3

Blaues Rauschen (Blue Noise)
20.02. / 15:00 CinemaxX 1
20.02. / 15:00 CinemaxX 2
20.02. / 17:30 International

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
20.02. / 14:30 CinemaxX 4

Calcinculo (Swing Ride)
20.02. / 15:00 Zoo Palast 1

Concerned Citizen
20.02. / 20:30 CinemaxX 4

Diva
20.02. / 17:30 International

Dreaming Walls
20.02. / 21:00 Zoo Palast 2

Jail Bird in a Peacock Chair
20.02. / 17:30 International

Ladies Only
20.02. / 11:00 International

A Love Song
20.02. / 12:30 Zoo Palast 1

Nel mio nome (Into My Name)
20.02. / 11:00 Cubix 9

Peter von Kant
20.02. / 18:00 Friedrichstadt-Palast

Queens of the Qing Dynasty
20.02. / 18:00 Akademie der Künste

The Rising
20.02. / 13:45 CinemaxX 9

Sab changa si (All Was Good)
20.02. / 20:00 Werkstattkino@silent green

Soum
20.02. / 15:30 Titania Palast
20.02. / 17:30 International

Starfuckers
20.02. / 15:30 Titania Palast
20.02. / 17:30 International

Le variabili dipendenti (The Dependent Variables)
20.02. / 15:30 Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

West by God
20.02. / 15:00 CinemaxX 1
20.02. / 15:00 CinemaxX 2

THE 2022 TEDDY WINNERS

As this unique and challenging edition is swiftly approaching its end, we have saved the best for last: the winners of the 2022 TEDDY AWARD have finally been chosen! 🤩

We’re overjoyed to see their work being praised and appreciated by the entire community and beyond. Congratulations to all of you!

And the TEDDY AWARD goes to…

FEATURE FILM:

TRES TIGRES TRISTES (Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter)
directed by Gustavo Vinagre

Film still Três tigres tristes, © Cris Lyra

also nominated:

BASHTAALAK SA’AT (Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?)
directed by Mohammad Shawky Hassan

TYTÖT TYTÖT TYTÖT (Girl Picture)
directed by Alli Haapasalo

SHORT FILM:

MARS EXALTÉ (Exalted Mars)
directed by Jean-Sébastien Chauvin

Film still Mars Exalté | Exalted Mars, © Venin Films

also nominated:

STARFUCKERS
directed by Antonio Marziale

WEST BY GOD
directed by Scott Lazer

DOCUMENTARY FILM:

ALIS
directed by Clare Weiskopf & Nicolás van Hemelryck

Film still Alis, © Casatarantula, deFilm, Pantalla Cines

also nominated:

NEL MIO NOME (Into My Name)
directed by Nicoló Bassetti

NELLY & NADINE
directed by Magnus Gertten

JURY AWARD:

NELLY & NADINE
directed by Magnus Gertten

Film still Nelly & Nadine © Auto Images

THE TEDDY AWARDS 2022: LIVE FROM VOLKSBÜHNE

Today’s the big day: the TEDDY AWARDS are being given out at the Volksbühne – and you can join us via live stream!

We’re so excited for tonight’s show, and even though there can’t yet be an audience, we have a wonderful program prepared for you. In spite of all the restrictions, we’re more than happy to be able to set a sign: no virus will keep us from celebrating queer life and queer creativity and solidarity.

There will be live performances by GEORGETTE DEE as well as by RASHA NAHAS. For the first time, BRIX SCHAUMBURG is going to host the TEDDY AWARDS and MICHAEL STÜTZ (Head of Panorama) will join us for a little chat with ZSOMBOR BOBÁK. Last but not least, our fantastic TEDDY JURY will be there to award four brilliant filmmakers for their work.

So open a little bottle of bubbly and join us for the party! 🥳

RERUNS:

Alis
18.02. / 18:00 Titania Palast

Ask, Mark ve Ölüm (Love, Deutschmarks and Death)
18.02. / 14:00 Cubix 9

Berdreymi (Beautiful Beings)
18.02. / 11:00 Cubix 9

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
18.02. / 20:00 CinemaxX 3

Concerned Citizen
18.02. / 17:30 CinemaxX 4

Dreaming Walls
18.02. / 17:00 CinemaxX 3

Fogaréu
18.02. / 21:00 Titania Palast

If from Every Tongue It Drips
18.02. / 11:00 Kino Arsenal 1

Jail Bird in a Peacock Chair
18.02. / 17:00 Werkstattkino@silent green

Ladies Only
18.02. / 14:00 International
18.02. / 21:00 CinemaxX 1
18.02. / 21:00 CinemaxX 2

A Love Song
18.02. / 15:00 Zoo Palast 2

Nel mio nome
Into My Name
18.02. / 20:30 CinemaxX 4

Nelly & Nadine
18.02. / 11:30 CinemaxX 4

Peter von Kant
18.02. / 21:00 Berlinale Palast

Terminal Norte
North Terminal
18.02. / 11:00 Cubix 5
18.02. / 11:00 Cubix 6

Tytöt tytöt tytöt
Girl Picture
18.02. / 12:30 Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

Viens je t’emmène
Nobody’s Hero
18.02. / 12:00 Zoo Palast 2

TEDDY TODAY: 17.02.2022

Today is the start of Berlinale’s “Publikumstag” (Audience Day), which usually only happens on the last Sunday of the festival. This year, there’s four days to catch up on all the movies you haven’t seen yet. 🎞

As always, you can find all the times and cinemas below.

And don’t forget: tomorrow at 9 pm CET you can watch the live ceremony of the TEDDY AWARDS via our livestream. You can find our fabulous lineup here.

RERUNS:

Alis
17.02. / 15:30 Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

Bashtaalak sa’at (Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?)
17.02. / 21:00 Cubix 7

Berdreymi (Beautiful Beings)
17.02. / 19:00 Zoo Palast 1

Calcinculo (Swing Ride)
17.02. / 17:00 CinemaxX 3

Concerned Citizen
17.02. / 21:00 Zoo Palast 2

Diva
17.02. / 14:00 Werkstattkino@silent green

Dreaming Walls
17.02. / 20:30 CinemaxX 4

Home When You Return
17.02. / 14:00 Werkstattkino@silent green

Jet Lag
17.02. / 15:00 Delphi Filmpalast

Ladies Only
17.02. / 18:00 CinemaxX 1
17.02. / 18:00 CinemaxX 2

Lay Me by the Shore
17.02. / 20:00 Cubix 8

A Love Song
17.02. / 21:00 Titania Palast

Mars Exalté (Exalted Mars)
17.02. / 15:30 Titania Palast

Nel mio nome (Into My Name)
17.02. / 14:00 CinemaxX 3

Nelly & Nadine
17.02. / 20:00 Cubix 9

The Rising
17.02. / 18:00 Zoo Palast 2

Soum
17.02. / 19:00 CinemaxX 9

Starfuckers
17.02. / 19:00 CinemaxX 9

Três tigres tristes (Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter)
17.02. / 17:00 Kino Arsenal 1

Le variabili dipendenti (The Dependent Variables)
17.02. / 11:00 Urania

Viens je t’emmène (Nobody’s Hero)
17.02. / 22:00 Zoo Palast 1

TEDDY TODAY: 16.02.2022

Tonight’s the big night and the Golden Bears of the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival will be awarded. The TEDDY team is also getting antsy – only two more days until our very own award show, which will be streamed LIVE from Berlin’s Volksbühne on Friday at 9pm CET.

And while you’re getting hyped up for our show, you can still catch some of the movies premiering today. Discover all the times and cinemas below – plus the re-runs! 🎬

PREMIERES:

CONCERNED CITIZEN

Directed by: Idan Haguel
Israel, 2022
82′

Film still , Concerned Citizen © Idan Haguel

Synopsis: Ben plants a tree on the street in front of his house in Neve Sha’anan, a migrant neighbourhood in the south of Tel Aviv. The district is on the up, and Ben has bought and upgraded a flat here together with his partner Raz. This gay couple now enjoys a settled existence, their days are structured by a well-established routine and everything is in its proper place. Time then, to tackle their desire to have children. And so, assiduously and conscientiously, they set about searching for a suitable egg donor and surrogate mother. One day, when a neighbourly conflict escalates over the tree he has planted, Ben becomes witness to brutal police violence against an Eritrean. The incident upsets his self-image and his plans for a life together with Raz.

SCREENING TIMES:

16.02. / 16:00 Zoo Palast 1

DIVA

Directed by: Nicolas Cilins
Switzerland, 2021
29′

Film still Diva© Nicolas Cilins

Synopsis: Diva is a fan letter to Diva Cat Thy, a Vietnamese transwoman, street food vendor, and performer, who openly shares her life and struggles daily on social media. Trying to bridge distances of both geography and language, the French director uses found footage posted online by Diva and her community to get in touch with her. He has never met her, cannot travel to Vietnam due to COVID-19 restrictions, and relies on his boyfriend, an Australian of Vietnamese origins, who helps translate the footage and acts as an intermediary. In a conversation constructed through subtitles and surtitles, the film not only reveals the filmmaker’s adoration for Diva, but also his and his partner’s process of understanding and making meaning of Diva’s life as well as their own in relation to it. Diva’s life, on the streets of Saigon as a transitory street food vendor, online as a social media celebrity, and on stage as a bingo singer and circus performer, is interwoven with the processes of looking at (or watching) her and of translation, as well as with a reflection about queer identity, distance, intimacy, and incoherent histories. Diva is a fleeting moment in a woman’s life, one that promises to reach out to a wider queer and solidarity community, blurring the spheres of the online and the real. 

SCREENING TIMES:

16.02. / 20:00 Kino Arsenal 1

16.02. / 21:30 Cubix 9

HOME WHEN YOU RETURN

Directed by: Carl Elsaesser
USA, 2021
30′

Film still Home When You Return, © Carl Elsaesser

Synopsis: A double exposure, a portrait of a body, a house that oscillates between its narrative past and its literal presence. The melodramatic, 1950s films of amateur filmmaker Joan Thurber Baldwin are psychically projected onto the house in which my grandmother raised seven kids as it is cleaned out and put up for sale after she passed away. Upholding the narrative structures of melodrama that often center around men, even when the films are about women, the film asks the viewer, as Thurber says in her introduction, to pay attention to the peripheries. (Carl Elsaesser) 

SCREENING TIMES:

16.02. / 20:00 Kino Arsenal 1

THE RISING

Directed by: Ed Lilly, Thora Hilmarsdottir, Paul Walker and Carl Tibbetts
United Kingdom, 2022
85′

Filmstill The Rising,© Sky UK Limited
Filmstill The Rising © Sky UK Limited

Synopsis: “I’m still here!” shouts 19-year-old Neve Kelly at her mother, but she does not react. Neve is horrified to discover that she herself is dead. Realising that people can’t see her, she looks on as friends and family worry why she has not come home after the party last night and form search parties to comb the forest for her. Neve takes care of her battered body, washes the blood off the back of her head and changes her dirty clothes. She has no memory of last night. What on earth happened to her? Determined to find her killer, she starts investigating her own death. She uncovers deeply buried secrets and is forced to re-examine everything about her life and the people she cared about.

SCREENING TIMES:

16.02. / 18:45 Zoo Palast 1

RERUNS:

Alis
16.02. / 20:00 Urania

Aos dezasseis (At Sixteen)
16.02. / 14:00 Urania
16.02. / 21:30 Cubix 9

Ak, Mark ve Ölüm (Love, Deutschmarks and Death)
16.02. / 17:00 Titania Palast

Blaues Rauschen (Blue Noise)
16.02. / 14:00 Urania
16.02. / 21:30 Cubix 9

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
16.02. / 15:00 Zoo Palast 2

Fogaréu
16.02. / 12:00 Zoo Palast 2

If from Every Tongue It Drips
16.02. / 14:00 Werkstattkino@silent green

Jail Bird in a Peacock Chair
16.02. / 21:30 Cubix 9

Ladies Only
16.02. / 14:30 Cubix 6

Lay Me by the Shore
16.02. / 11:00 Urania

Queens of the Qing Dynasty
16.02. / 15:00 Cubix 7

Soum
16.02. / 21:30 Cubix 9

Starfuckers
16.02. / 21:30 Cubix 9

Terminal Norte (North Terminal)
16.02. / 17:00 CinemaxX 2

Três tigres tristes (Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter)
16.02. / 20:00 Werkstattkino@silent green

Tytöt tytöt tytöt (Girl Picture)
16.02. / 20:30 Cubix 8

West by God
16.02. / 14:00 Urania