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COMPETITION
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15 FILMS EYEING FOR BEARS

This year’s competition, all world premieres, showcases French titles and many France backed
coproductions. The palette of films also includes a strong German contingent

and promising first features. ■ FRANÇOIS-PIER PELINARD-LAMBERT

Drift Away Fabian - Going to the Dogs
by Xavier by Beauvois (France) by Dominik Graf (Germany)
Xavier Beauvois latest feature stars Jérémie Rénier, Fabian oder der gang vor die hunde (its german title)
Marie-Julie Maille, Victor Belmondo, Iris Bry, Olivier is based on Erich Kästner’s novel Der Gang vor
Pequery and Madeleine Beauvois. The screenplay, die Hunde, on which Dominik Graf and Constantin Lieb
which the filmmaker co-wrote with Frédérique Moreau wrote the screenplay. In Berlin, 1931, Jakob Fabian
and Marie-Julie Maille, follows Laurent, a brigade (Tom Schilling) works in advertising during the day
commander of the gendarmerie in Etretat. He plans and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios
to marry Marie, mother of his daughter. He loves his job with his wealthy friend Labude (Albrecht Schuch) Ballad of a White Cow by Behtash Sanaeeha © AMIN JAFARI
despite a daily confrontation with social misery. at night. When Jakob meets the self-confident and Maryam Moghaddam.
While trying to save a farmer who threatens to commit Cornelia (Saskia Rosendahl), he falls in love but then
suicide, he kills him… Sylvie Pialat and Benoît Quainon falls victim to a large wave of layoffs, while Cornelia
of Films du Worso are producing alongside Pathé. makes a career as an actress thanks to her boss
Drift Away is also co-produced by Orange Studio, and admirer. An arrangement that Jakob finds
France 3 Cinéma and Scope Pictures. It was pre- difficult to come to terms with…
purchased by Canal+, Ciné+ and France Télévisions. The film was co-produced by Lupa Film (Felix
International sales: Pathé von Boehm) with ZDF, Arte and in cooperation
with Amilux Film and Studio Babelsberg. DCM Film © AKOS NYOSZOLI-MATYAS GYURICZA
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Distribution will distribute it across Germany in 2021.
by Radu Jude (Rumania, Luxemburg, Croatia, International sales: Les Films du Losange
Czech Republic) Forest - I See you Everywhere by Bence Fliegauf.
Radu Jude received the Silver Bear for Best Director Forest - I See you Everywhere
for Aferim! in 2015. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn by Bence Fliegauf (Hungary)
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follows a video that goes viral, showing a man This is the 7 full-length film offered up
and a woman having sex while wearing masks. by the Hungarian director whose body of work includes
The woman, however, is identified: a teacher who is Dealer (2004), the experimental flick Milky Way
meant to be a role model. Everyone has an opinion (Locarno’s Filmmaker of the Present in 2007)
on this story and the debate turns into a tribunal… and Womb (in competition in Locarno in 2010).
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Radu Jude’s 9 feature is an Ada Solomon’s production It’s the Hungarian helmer’s 4 visit in Berlin. © MADONNEN FILM
through Micro Film, in co-production with Paul Thiltges He first came with Forest in 2003, won the Grand Jury Mr. Bachmann and his Class by Maria Speth.
Distributions (Luxembourg), Endorfilm (Czech Republic) Prize in 2012 with Just The Wind, and showed
and Kinorama (Croatia). Lily Lane in 2016. Forest - I See you Everywhere
International sales: Heretic Outreach leads us to the labyrinth of our everyday life
and our relationships. The characters of the drama
Ballad of a White Cow are trying to solve maybe the biggest mystery
by Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam of their life: the other humans.
(Iran, France) International sales: Films Boutique
Iran has a rich but recent history with Berlin. Mr. Bachmann and his Class
With Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation (2011),
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi (2015) and Mohammad Rasoulof’s by Maria Speth (Germany) © CHRISTINE FENZL
There Is No Evil (2020), Iran has won Berlin’s top award, The new documentary by the Berlin director Maria I’m your Man by Maria Schrader.
(a Golden Bear for best feature), more times in the last Speth (Madonnen, 9 lives), Herr Bachmann und seine
decade than any other country in the world. klasse, portrays the relationship between a teacher
Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha co-wrote and 6 grade students. With an engaging openness,
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and co-directed 2018’s multi-prized doc feature Mr. Bachmann meets the children with their different
The Invincible Diplomacy of Mr Naderi. social and cultural experiences and thus creates
Ballad of a White Cow is their second joint feature a space of trust. Music is an omnipresent language
as co-directors. It is produced by Gholamreza Moosavi here, which naturally surrounds the subject matter
and Étienne de Ricaud. Exploring themes of guilt to be completed. Based on the social relationships
and atonement, the film follows a woman in the class, the film casually tells of the structures © JEONWANSA FILM CO. PRODUCTION
whose husband has been unjustly executed of a small, West German industrial city, whose history
in contemporary Iran. has been shaped by migration back to the Nazi era.
International sales: Totem Films International sales: Films Boutique Introduction by Hong Sangsoo.

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