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The Morelia International Film Festival announces the 2016 Berlinale Spotlight program

As part of the celebrations of the Dual Year of Mexico-Germany 2016, the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) is honored to present Berlinale Spotlight 2016, a splendid selection of films from one of the indispensable cinematographic events of our time: the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).

Berlinale Spotlight 2016 is a special program dedicated entirely to the Berlinale and it arrives at Morelia to enrich our lineup. We would like to give special thanks to Dieter Kosslick, Director of the Berlinale, and to his great team. We are also very grateful to the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their invaluable support and to the Goethe-Institut‎ for their help in the organization and realization of this great event.

This program is an extraordinary overview of the different sections that compose the Berlinale: Competition, Panorama, Forum, Generation, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale Shorts and Retrospective; with feature-length fiction films, documentaries and short films that include the winners of the Golden Bear and of the Teddy Award 2016. The program also comprises a retrospective dedicated to the director, screenwriter, actor and producer Reinhold Schünzel, one of the most popular German filmmakers from the first half of the 20th century.

The Morelia International Film Festival will also count with the presence of the director and actor Sebastian Schipper, who gained international recognition for his fourth feature film Victoria (2015), winner of the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the Berlinale; Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Cinematography and Best Music at the German Film Awards (Deutscher Filmpreis); and presented at a number of festivals, including the 2015 FICM.

Berlinale Spotlight 2016 in Morelia is composed of the following films:

Competition

Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) by Gianfranco Rosi, Golden Bear for Best Film (Italy, France)
L‘avenir (Things to Come) by Mia Hansen-Løve, Silver Bear for Best Director (France, Germany)
Inhebbek Hedi (Hedi) by Mohamed Ben Attia, Best First Feature Film, Silver Bear for Best Actor for Majd Mastoura (Tunisia, Belgium, France)

Panorama

Kater (Tomcat) by Händl Klaus, Teddy Award for Best Feature Film (Austria)
Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja (The Bacchus Lady) by E J-Yong (South Korea)
Lantouri by Reza Dormishian (Iran)

Forum

Barakah yoqabil Barakah (Barakah Meets Barakah) by Mahmoud Sabbagh (Saudi Arabia)
Yarden (The Yard) by Måns Månsson (Sweden, Germany)

Generation

Rauf by Barış Kaya and Soner Caner (Turkey)
Royahaye Dame Sobh (Starless Dreams) by Mehrdad Oskouei (Iran)

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

Meteorstraße (Meteor Street) by Aline Fischer (Germany)

Berlinale Shorts

Balada de um Batráquio (Batrachian’s Ballad) by Leonor Teles (Portugal)
Jin Zhi Xia Mao (Anchorage Prohibited) by Wei Liang Chiang (Taiwan)
Notre héritage (Our Legacy) by Jonathan Vinel (France)
personne by Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller (Germany)
Reluctantly Queer by Akosua Adoma Owusu (Ghana, USA)

Retrospective

Karla (1966) by Herrmann Zschoche (Germany)

Retrospective dedicated to Reinhold Schünzel

Viktor und Viktoria (Victor and Victoria) (1933) by Reinhold Schünzel (Germany)
Amphitryon. Aus den Wolken kommt das Glück (Amphitryon. Happiness From the Clouds) (1935) by Reinhold Schünzel (Germany)
The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939) by Reinhold Schünzel (USA)
Beim nächsten Kuß knall ich ihn nieder! (One More Kiss And He’s Dead!) (1996) by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg (Germany)

Special guest: Sebastian Schipper

As an actor: