{"id":909,"date":"2015-02-09T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/?p=909"},"modified":"2015-02-11T02:56:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T00:56:03","slug":"ay-6-halftime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2015\/02\/09\/ay-6-halftime\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 6: Halftime!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Golden Globes \u2013 over, Critics&#8217; Choice Awards \u2013 done, The Oscars \u2013 There is enough time. No, at these days two other Awards are in the focus. Who gets the Golden Bear, this is top secret as always. We from the TEDDY are more transparent in the things likes that \u2013 we do not conceal anything. But of course we also can allow ourself some secretiveness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/day_6_ahhhhhmazing.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1674 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/day_6_ahhhhhmazing.gif\" alt=\"day_6_ahhhhhmazing\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It&#8217;s halftime at the Berlinale. In the last days, we could see amazing stories, weird characters and exciting popcorn movies. The international film is a guest of Berlin. And now the best is coming: This continues! According to the motto &#8216;The glass\/ isn&#8217;t half-empty, it&#8217;s half-full&#8217; The second halftime of the Berlinale is still ahead of us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Just the TEDDY AWARD CEREMONY isn&#8217;t that far away anymore. So everyone who has not bought a ticket yet should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.komische-oper-berlin.de\/spielplan\/teddy-award-2015\/1206\/karten-kaufen\/#shop\" target=\"_blank\">get one immediatelly<\/a>. After all, who wants to miss the party of the year?!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=622\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kumu Hina<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A Place in the Middle<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">USA 2014<br \/>\n25&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Place in the Middle Trailer Trailer\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xg_JRA6cp2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">She feels more like a boy than even most boys. This documentary follows eleven-year-old Hawaiian girl Ho\u2019onani who dreams of leading her school\u2019s traditional hula group. Hula is a mixture of dance and theatrical performance that is central to the culture of the Hawaiian people and requires a lot of practice. Here too, Ho\u2019onani would like to dance on the boys\u2019 side. Normally she wouldn&#8217;t be allowed to do so but Ho\u2019onani is fortunate to have as her teacher the charismatic Kumu Hina, who assigns Ho\u2019onani a special place in the middle. In ancient Hawaii there was always a life between genders, and a place for those who embrace both men and women. Kumu Hina knows what she is talking about for, twenty years ago, she was a man. Kumu Hina uses her profound knowledge to convey to her pupils the culture of their ancestors \u2013 a culture that has not been forgotten, in spite of years of influence by Christian missionaries. The magic word is \u2018aloha\u2019, meaning a life in harmony with nature. It also means that every man and every woman should be loved, respected and valued.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/kumu_hina_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1451 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/kumu_hina_b.jpg\" alt=\"kumu_hina_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>10.00 am, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=625\">Daniel\u016fv Sv\u011bt<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Daniel&#8217;s World<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Czech Republic 2014<br \/>\n74&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Veronika Li\u0161kov\u00e1<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daniel\u016fv sv\u011bt \/ Daniel&#039;s World\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/reJUWSHwgwc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Daniel, a 25-year-old student of literature, lies in the bath. Off-screen we hear his voice: \u2018Although\u00a0I\u2019ve never been with either a boy or a girl, I can\u2019t say my life lacks love.\u2019 But what is it like for a young<br \/>\nman who loves boys; a man who, unable to ever fulfil his desire, either has to content himself with\u00a0sexual fantasies or use medication to suppress his feelings? This film accompanies Daniel in his\u00a0struggle to accept himself, and his desperate search for a partner. While we watch simple yet wellcomposed\u00a0images of Daniel at the hairdressers, ice skating, or taking his mother\u2019s dog out for a walk,<br \/>\nhis off-screen commentary continues to probe and find a way to handle both his coming out and his\u00a0unfulfilled desires and live a fulfilled life. Not wanting to distort her protagonist\u2019s voice, nor make his\u00a0face unrecognisable, Veronika Li\u0161kov\u00e1 met over twenty paedophiles before choosing to work with\u00a0Daniel who, in spite of being aware of how vulnerable he is making himself, is exceptionately open\u00a0about his condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/daniels_world_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1435 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/daniels_world_b.jpg\" alt=\"daniels_world_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>12.00 pm, CineStar 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=599\" target=\"_blank\">How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Thailand\/USA\/Indonesia 2015<br \/>\n80&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Josh Kim<br \/>\nCast: Thira Chutikul, Ingarat Damrongsakkul, Iirah Wimonchailerk, Arthur Navarat<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The poor outlying districts of Bangkok are a world where you grow up very quickly. After both their\u00a0parents die, eleven-year-old Oat, his little sister and his older brother Ek move in with their aunt. Ek<br \/>\nworks in a bar for male prostitutes and transvestites. His relationship with Jai, the son of rich parents,\u00a0began when he was still at school. Their uneven love for one another is put to the test when the\u00a0day of the annual conscription arrives; this is when a lottery decides who must do military service\u00a0and who can stay at home. Young Oat steals money from the local mafia boss in order to buy their\u00a0beloved brother and family breadwinner out of the army. His actions have dramatic and traumatic\u00a0consequences.Told from the younger brother&#8217;s point of view, the film takes a refreshingly unadorned\u00a0and impartial look at an essentially loving environment where social conditions are governed by\u00a0venality, corruption and false ideals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/How_to_win_at_checkers_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1447 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/How_to_win_at_checkers_b.jpg\" alt=\"How_to_win_at_checkers_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>14.00 pm, Kino International<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=628\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Al Bahr Min Ouaraikoum<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThe Sea is Behind<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Marocco 2014<br \/>\n88&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Hicham Lasri<br \/>\nCast: Malek Akhmiss, Hassan Badida, Yassine Sekkal, Mohammed Aouragh<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Berlinale 2015: Al bahr min ouaraikoum (The Sea Is Behind) - Teaser trailer\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QMw4l4neGSQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tarik is unable to shed a tear about the loss of his children, or that his life is in ruins. Instead he shrouds his moustache under a veil and sways his hips to the music as the procession moves down the street. Tarik is a H\u2019Dya, a traditional dancer who appears in women\u2019s clothes. Tarik\u2019s father, who leads the parade down the empty Moroccan streets, bawls his eyes out when his beloved cart horse Larbi refuses to go on, and combs his mane lovingly with his dentures. Tarik\u2019s ex-wife\u2019s bruiser of a partner installs himself in Tarik\u2019s toilet. And Tarik\u2019s friend Murad is threatened and insulted on account of his homosexuality. Was there really something in the water, as everyone claims? Or is\u00a0it all in Tarik\u2019s mind?In his third feature film, Hicham Lasri tells us, in surreally beautiful black-andwhite images, about traditions and trance, intolerance and violence, friendship and flesh and blood. And about animal love \u2013 albeit possibly inappropriate. Aided by raucous Moroccan rock music, Lasri composes a David Lynch-like state of intoxication to produce a truly modern Maghrebi cinematic experience.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/the_sea_is_behind.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1469 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/the_sea_is_behind.jpg\" alt=\"Malek Akhmiss\" width=\"700\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>14. 30 pm, Cubix 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=583\" target=\"_blank\">I am Michael<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>I am Michael<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">USA 2015<br \/>\n100&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Justin Kelly<br \/>\nCast: James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">San Francisco in 1998. Queer activist Michael is passionately committed to supporting gay and\u00a0lesbian youths. His own deep longing to belong means that he is tirelessly engaged in redefining his own existence, absorbing with apparent ease young Tyler into his long-term relationship with his\u00a0friend Bennett. The trio decides to travel America to record on film the lives of gay teenagers. They<br \/>\nsubsequently manage to raise the cash to launch Michael\u2019s own LGBT magazine. But Michael isn\u2019t\u00a0happy with the way he\u2019s living his life. Following a suspected heart attack he strives to find a way to balance sexuality and spirituality and decides to leave his chosen family and friends. After engaging\u00a0in meditative contemplation and heterosexual experiments, he firmly embraces Christianity.In his sensitive directorial debut, Justin Kelly deftly juxtaposes different periods of time to describe the\u00a0unusual transformation of Michael Glatze, the co-founder of the magazine \u2018Young Gay America\u2019 and a one-time inspirational figure of the LGBT community who, after prolonged and persistent soulsearching,\u00a0decided to reject homosexuality and become a preacher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/I_Am_Michael_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1448 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/I_Am_Michael_b.jpg\" alt=\"I_Am_Michael_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>15.30 pm, CinemaxX 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=591\" target=\"_blank\">Blood Below the Skin<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Blood Below the Skin<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">USA 2015<br \/>\n32&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Jennifer Reeder<br \/>\nCast: Jennifer Estlin, Kelsey Ashby-Middleton, Morgan Reesh, Marissa Castillo<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8216;Blood Below the Skin&#8217; chronicles a week in the lives of three teenage girls who attend the same\u00a0high school class. Coming from different social circles, the girls prepare for the most important\u00a0night of their life \u2013 Prom Night. They have formed a dance group and rehearse the choreography.\u00a0Two of the girls are drawn to one another and fall in love. The third is forced to take care of her\u00a0distraught mother in the wake of her father\u2019s disappearance. Each girl finds refuge in her room and\u00a0bed, comfort and a place to explore new feelings. The music blasting from the turntable provides a\u00a0magical synchronicity between them all \u2013 the space-time continuum is expanded by the dimension of\u00a0music.Jennifer Reeder tells everyday stories with stylistic elements of magic realism that recall Latin\u00a0American cinema. All it takes is the power of thought in order to express your love to another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Blood_below_the_Skin_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1431 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Blood_below_the_Skin_b.jpg\" alt=\"Blood_below_the_Skin_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>16.00 pm, CinemaxX 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=581\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fassbinder &#8211; lieben ohne zu fordern<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Fassbindern &#8211; to love without demands<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Denmark 2015<br \/>\n109&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Christian Braad Thomsen<br \/>\nCast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Irm Hermann, Harry Baer, Andrea Schober<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany\u2019s most significant post-war director. His swift and\u00a0dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that\u00a0has yet to be filled, as well as a body of unique, multi-layered and multifarious work of astonishing\u00a0consistency and rigour. From 1969 onwards, Danish director and film historian Christian Braad\u00a0Thomsen maintained a close yet respectfully distanced friendship with Fassbinder. Fassbinder &#8211;\u00a0Lieben ohne zu fordern is based on his personal memories as well as a series of conversations and\u00a0interviews he held with Fassbinder and his mother Lilo in the 1970s. The film also contains current\u00a0interviews with Irm Hermann and Harry Baer, both of whom were close to Fassbinder. Beginning with\u00a0Fassbinder\u2019s extraordinary childhood in traumatised post-war Germany, the film, which is divided\u00a0into seven chapters, provides an illuminating, intimate and moving tribute that bears witness to the<br \/>\nenduring relevance of both the man and his work. Today in particular his oeuvre continues to provoke us to engage with controversy and tension \u2013 be it aesthetical, creative or critical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fassbinder_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1441 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fassbinder_b.jpg\" alt=\"Fassbinder_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"505\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong> 07.02.2015, 17:00, Cubix 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>16.30 pm, Kino International<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=604\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nasty Baby<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Nasty Baby<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">USA 2014<br \/>\n100&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Sebasti\u00e1n Silva<br \/>\nCast: Kristen Wiig, Sebasti\u00e1n Silva, Tunde Adebimpe, Agustin Silva<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Freddy is an artist whose desire for a baby has become something of an obsession. He surrounds\u00a0himself with photographs of his childhood and is working feverishly on a fresh piece about new-borns.\u00a0He and his partner Mo have even managed to persuade their best friend Polly to have their baby.\u00a0However, after numerous failed attempts to conceive, this proves to be more difficult than they first envisaged. Freddy\u2019s planned video installation also turns out to be rather more complicated than\u00a0he thought. And then, when the \u2018Bishop\u2019, their rather deranged neighbour, begins tormenting them with his serious chicanery, their hitherto carefree existence starts to go dangerously awry. A series\u00a0of surprising events bring their frustrations to a head and before long, Freddy and his friends begin to lose their grip on reality.Sebasti\u00e0n Silva\u2019s savagely satirical film is an angry portrait of a group of\u00a0presumptuous and self-absorbed bohemians. The director himself plays the role of Freddy, infusing his performance with the complacency, doggedness, ignorance and egomania of a social circle which\u00a0is in the process of becoming estranged from their original visions and dreams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nasty_Baby_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1456 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nasty_Baby_b.jpg\" alt=\"Nasty_Baby_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>17.00 pm, Nasty Baby<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=620\" target=\"_blank\">Untitled (Human Mask)<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Untitled (Human Mask)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">France 2014<br \/>\n19&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Pierre Huyghe<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A macaque monkey, trained to work as a waitress at a restaurant in Japan, sits alone in a deserted dining hall. Waiting amid the\u00a0dystopian setting for her moment to perform, the monkey seems trapped within her role, forced to enact the human condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Untiteld_human_mask_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1477 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Untiteld_human_mask_b.jpg\" alt=\"Untiteld_human_mask_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>19.00 pm, AKD Hanseatenweg<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=627\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>54: The Director&#8217;s Cut<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>54: The Director&#8217;s Cut<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">USA 2015<br \/>\n106&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Mark Christopher<br \/>\nCast: Ryan Philippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell, Mike Myers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We\u2019ve revolutionised going out\u2018, pronounces club owner Steve Rubell. At the legendary Studio 54, the mother of all nightclubs since the invention of disco, clubbing was much more than just socialising to music. In 1998, director Mark Christopher created a cinematic monument to this ostentatious mixture of Art Deco and plush, frivolous 1970s hedonism and drug-induced 24-hour party people. At the producers\u2019 behest his film about this up-market disco in New York was changed considerably prior to its theatrical release and an extra 25 minutes of new material was added \u2013 including an ending that differed from the one in the original screenplay. Now, seventeen years after the premiere of the producers\u2019 version, the Panorama is presenting for the first time the painstakingly reconstructed original version telling the story of young, curly-haired blond Jersey boy Shane O\u2019Shea\u00a0who loses himself in the bewitchingly glamorous world of sex, drugs and disco and who only just manages to jump ship before the club is closed down by the police. This reintegrated version is weightier, darker, more drug-addled and above all queerer than the version that received the nod at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/54_the_directors_cut_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1421 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/54_the_directors_cut_b.jpg\" alt=\"54_the_directors_cut_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>19.30 pm, Kino International<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=586\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<strong>The Yes Men Are Revolting<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The Yes Men Are Revolting<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">USA\/Germany\/France\/Denmark\/Netherlands<br \/>\n2014<br \/>\n92&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Laura Nix, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LqjYjiCZSUw<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After almost two decades of humorous guerrilla activism against economic greed and political corruption as The Yes Men, everyday life and a crisis of identity seem to have caught up with the duo: Mike Bonanno now has a wife and children, and Andy Bichlbaum has not given up hope of a lasting relationship with his male partner. Their critical interventions, in which amongst other ruses they pretended to be spokespeople for the US Chamber of Commerce or for Shell and announced a change of tack to nonplussed members of the press have fizzled out without having had the desired effect. Growing responsibilities in their private lives have influenced their ability to stage interventions\u00a0together. In spite of this they still feel a duty to oppose climate change \u2013 which far overshadows any of humanity\u2019s other problems \u2013 with all they have. Alternating between Andy and Mike\u2019s diary-like perspectives, this third film about The Yes Men (2009 Panorama Audience Award), describes the ups and downs of a creative friendship and takes an amusing look at the duo\u2019s successful and not so successful interventions from 2009 to the present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/the_yes_men_are_revolting_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1476 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/the_yes_men_are_revolting_b.jpg\" alt=\"the_yes_men_are_revolting_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>20.00 pm, CineStar7 <\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=616\" target=\"_blank\">IEC Long<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>IEC Long<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Portugal 2014<br \/>\n31&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Jo\u00e3o Pedro Rodrigues, Jo\u00e3o Rui Guerra da Mata<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Who inhabits the ancient Iec Long Firecracker Factory? A search for the traces of the history of china crackers, child labour and the\u00a0ghosts of a majestic ruin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IEC_Long_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1449 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IEC_Long_b.jpg\" alt=\"IEC_Long_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>20.30 pm, AKD Hanseatenweg<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=612\" target=\"_blank\">Cancelled Faces<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Cancelled Faces<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>South Korea\/Germany 2014<br \/>\n80&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Lior Shamriz<br \/>\nCast: Kim Won-mok, Lee Je-yeon, Ye Soo-jeong, Won Tae-hee<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A man, striving for autonomy, lives in fear of being absorbed by his lover. Korea, the now: When Unk hits Boaz on his scooter, an\u00a0amour fou takes its course in a performative ballad of dependency, which is intertwined with the staging of an ancient story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cancelled_faces_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1433 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cancelled_faces_b.jpg\" alt=\"cancelled_faces_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>22.00 pm, AKD Hanseatenweg<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=590\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bad at Dancing<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Bad at Dancing<\/em><\/p>\n<p>USA 2015<br \/>\n11&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Joanna Arnow<br \/>\nCast: Eleanore Pienta, Keith Poulson, Joanna Arnow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Interior, Day. Matt and Isabel lie in bed, naked. They have sex. She sits on top of him; they surrender to one another passionately. Joanna, the flatmate, enters the room and sits on the corner of the bed, close to them. Isabel and her boyfriend continue undeterred. Matt (after a while, without glancing sideways): What is she doing here?Joanna: &#8220;I can\u2019t sleep.&#8221;Isabel (without stopping having sex): &#8220;Were we too loud?&#8221;Joanna (without moving to leave): &#8220;No.&#8221; Bad at Dancing is a chamber piece and a comedy. A sex game. Isabel and Matt are together, Joanna would like to be with Matt. Joanna tries out various approaches to achieve her aim. The three move together, embracing from body to body \u2013 dressed and naked. Always introversive. Always direct. Envy and emotion are given a surreal context. The question of borders and their necessity is raised anew. A rickshaw always drives on\u00a0three wheels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Bad_at_Dancing_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1426 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Bad_at_Dancing_b.jpg\" alt=\"Bad_at_Dancing_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>22.00 pm, CinemaxX 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=608\" target=\"_blank\">Zui Sheng Meng Si<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u00a0Thontos Drunk<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taiwan 2015<br \/>\n178&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Chang Tso-Chi<br \/>\nCast: Lee Hong-Chi, Chen Jen-Shuo, Huang Shang-Ho, Lu Hsueh-Feng<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The camera follows closely on the heels of two brothers \u2013 one gay, the other straight. Both are\u00a0looking for a job in order to survive. But both are also looking for themselves and long to find a\u00a0foothold in life. The younger brother sells vegetables at the market where he meets a young woman\u00a0who cannot speak but who gets up to all sorts of crazy things. The older brother is attracted to a\u00a0dancer at a nightclub and finds himself drawn into some shifty business. Taking its cue from the\u00a0rhythm of their wanderings, the film stays very close to its protagonists, showing them in lonely\u00a0moments at the river, rambling boisterously through Taipei\u2019s club scene by night, among barkers at\u00a0the market, and in quiet moments together. Again and again the tone and hence the mood of the\u00a0film changes. Zui Sheng Meng Si proves once again that young Taiwanese cinema does not have\u00a0to avail itself of classical storytelling to fascinate its audience. These are lives in limbo, without fixed\u00a0coordinates. In this way the film evolves into a portrait of manners, and a panorama of a society that\u00a0does not appear to welcome its next generation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/zui_sheng_meng_si_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1483 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/zui_sheng_meng_si_b.jpg\" alt=\"zui_sheng_meng_si_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>22.30 pm, CineStar 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=595\" target=\"_blank\">Aus\u00eancia<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Absence<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Brazil\/Chile\/France 2014<br \/>\n87&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Chico Teixeira<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Cast: Matheus Fagundes, Irandhir Santos, Gilda Nomacce, Francisca Gavil\u00e1n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ever since his father left his family in the lurch, 15-year-old Serginho has been trying hard to cope with the new challenges of his daily life. He works with his uncle at the market, supports his depressed mother as best he can, and takes care of his little brother. But how can he find his place in a world that compels him to grow up in such a hurry? Full of longing for affection, he drifts through S\u00e3o Paulo with his friends Mudinho and Sivinha, visits an aunt who works in a circus on the edge of the city and spends as much time as possible with Ney, who gives private lessons, and to whom he feels especially close. But Serginho is consistently disappointed. He wants more from his mother, his friends, his future \u2013 and from Ney. Unfazed by the machismo that pervades his environment, he\u00a0refuses to give up searching for a path between being responsible and caring and finding emotional security.Matheus Fagundes, who is just 17, lends both charismatic charm and a touching sense of self-confident ease to the role of the emotionally and sexually troubled Serginho. This enables his character to bear the weight of social expectations with profound faith in the possibility of happiness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ausencia_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1425 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ausencia_b.jpg\" alt=\"Ausencia_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>22.30 pm, Colosseum 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=596\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bizarre<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Bizarre<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">France\/USA 2015<br \/>\n98&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: \u00c9tienne Faure<br \/>\nCast: Pierre Prieur, Adrian James, Raquel Nave, Rebekah Underhill<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Maurice, a reticent young homeless man somehow manages to get by in Brooklyn; he spends his nights in parked cars until he finds himself at \u2018Bizarre\u2019, an underground club renowned for its burlesque shows. Maurice is fascinated by the club\u2019s playful revues celebrating self-determined sexuality and creative otherness, and the two female club owners both adore him. He soon becomes a part of their chosen family, and begins to bond with introverted Luka. But Maurice turns his back on Luka\u2019s growing affection. Running away from his true emotions he drifts aimlessly through the city. He tries to find his feet at a boxing club, where he meets Charlie. Unable to withstand the pressure of his repressed feelings, Maurice unleashes a mounting foment of emotions, pervaded by tenderness and menace. \u00c9tienne Faure shot his film on location at \u2018Bizarre\u2019. Illuminating the promise of an independent future for his aimless escapees in the resplendent creations of \u2018Bizarre\u2019s\u2019 artistes, Faure moulds his keenly sensitive observations of these lost, disturbed souls to form a mesmerising trance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Bizarre_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1429 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Bizarre_b.jpg\" alt=\"Bizarre_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong> 07.02.2015, 22:30, Cubix 7&amp;8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>22.30 pm, CinemaxX 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.teddyaward.tv\/en\/program\/?a-z=0&amp;id_film=605\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Onthakan<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The Blue Hour<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">2015<br \/>\n97&#8242;<br \/>\nDirector: Anucha Boonyawatana<br \/>\nCast: Atthaphan Poonsawas, Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang, Duangjai Hirunsri, Panutchai Kittisatima<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tam, a timid loner, is bullied regularly by his fellow pupils at school. He is met with similar rejection\u00a0and suspicion within the narrow confines of his parents\u2019 dingy home, where his father beats him. One day Tam arranges online to meet Phum at a derelict swimming pool. They are both looking for\u00a0sex, but their encounter leaves them with a feeling of comfort and security. A close bond develops between the two boys and, before long, they are roaming the rubbish heaps and dark corners of the\u00a0city together, day and night. Phum opens a door for Tam, revealing a fantastical parallel universe full of spirits and dangerous encounters. Although he feels safe and loved for the first time in his\u00a0life, Tam can no longer differentiate between dream and reality and finds himself increasingly drawn into a spiral of paranoia and violence.In his feature debut Boonyawatana leads his protagonist into\u00a0an ambiguous microcosm full of chasms, at the same time cleverly toying with the conventions of\u00a0different genres.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/onthakan_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1458 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/onthakan_b.jpg\" alt=\"onthakan_b\" width=\"700\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>23.00 pm, Cubix 7 &amp; 8<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Globes \u2013 over, Critics&#8217; Choice Awards \u2013 done, The Oscars \u2013 There is enough time. No, at these days two other Awards are in the focus. Who gets the Golden Bear, this is top secret as always. We from the TEDDY are more transparent in the things likes that \u2013 we do not conceal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2015\/02\/09\/ay-6-halftime\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 6: Halftime!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,19,20,31,18],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-29th-teddy-award","tag-berlinale","tag-internationale-filmfestspiele-berlin","tag-program","tag-queer-film-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}