Sun, Feb 13
TEDDY TODAY
Column by Andrea Winterdeutsch
The 20th Year of Panorama is going to challenge the medicine studies. In normal life mammals react in a pretty negative way of stress. Nothing like that happens within the BERLINALE. In the lab Panorama you only meet happy people, although most of them work for more than 14 hours the day. Even after midnight these though guys have to open a premier screening or to give a speech on this party or that reception. Stress is making you sexy, stress is making you pretty - to this conclusion one has to come if one’s visiting the Panorama offices.
Let besides the natural born beauty Wieland Speck – we don’t even want to talk about him anymore. But what happened to Margaret von Schiller? Over the moon does she seem almost to glide around the Potsdamer Platz for days now. Manuela Kay reports about the first catastrophes with a bright smile on her face. And Claudia Rische from the PR-Team has have shaken hands with Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and keeps dreaming just about shellfish all the time. On which drug are these people? It’s celluloid, the stuff films are made off. Doesn’t cost that much and gets you addicted in a less dangerous way than alcohol or cigarettes. Therefore I’m actually wondering why the pacifists didn’t take the motto “make (good) films, not war” on yet, to cheer up the world. Tanja Horstmann from the Forum is happy as well and can’t actually believe that the films of her section are being that attended this year. She feels sorry that the Forum couldn’t contribute more films for the Teddy this year, whereby one excellent social drama was just overviewed. “On the Outs” by Lori Silverbush, located in the No Go- areas of New Jersey City. In focus are three female teens. Oz, one of them, deals, goes more than once into jail, watches girls and their butts, tells the boys what’s going on and kicks in the end somebody’s ass, because he’s calling her a “fucking dyke”. On top of that: the cool sound of the music of the ghetto - definitely a must!!This day was the day of the French beauties anyway. All of the sexual liberties which Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi gets in
"CRUSTACES ET COQUILLAGES", in the competition movie "LES TEMPS QUI CHANGENT" (by André Téchiné) Catherine Deneuve doesn’t get any one them. The fast and furious gay comedy by the Teddy winner Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau is probably going to be the sex movie of the BERLINALE of this year. In the beginning, oysters get slurped and this juiciness keeps going on. Almost every second dialog line is loaded with sex. Guys do piecework masturbating in the shower if they aren’t in the dark – cruising. Valeria dances and plays just lovely; the amazed premier audience spent more than once applause in particular.
"FUCKING DIFFERENT!": with a title like that no one has to wonder that the tickets for the premier were sold out already 4 days in advance. The teams of the 18 Berlin filmmakers couldn’t almost make it on the stage – certainly there were gay’s voices in the audience who seemed to have a closer cover to lesbian sex than some of the gay characters in the movie.
Last but not least: The Party for the short filmmakers at the Panorama Home Base. Bastian Schweitzer was there. His film “Gigolo” with Amanda Lear is running in the competition and located in Paris. But he could imagine Gigolos in Berlin as well.
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The Australian Craig Boreham (“TRANSIENT” and the N.Y. Jay Duplass (“THE INTERVENTION”) are in Berlin for their first time, still jet lagged but very happy. The jewish N.Y. Cynthia Madansky shows her film “Still lives”, her political contribution about Palestine. She has to leave for N.Y.C. already on Monday due to the fact that one of her works is going to be presented at the MoMA there. Meanwhile her partner’s movie ("Zero Degrees of Separation" by Elle Flanders) is shown at the Forum. The young Israely filmmaker who just graduated, Adi Halfin, got her debut with the short “Be’einaim Atsumot”, the end of a lesbian couple. She feels kinda guilty, because she doesn’t contribute a more political film from her homeland, although she was in Cannes last spring with another – political – movie. But Wieland Speck comforts her: “We still live in times where all lesbian movies are political of some kind.”.
I almost forgot: I met the Argentinian director Anahi Berneri ("UN ANO SIN AMOR") in the ladies’ room of the CineStar. Pregnant in the eight month she still made it on stage within the first two completely packed screenings. There are some doctors in the Panorama team, well prepared for the possibly first live birth in the history of the BERLINALE. But Senora Berneri has still got a few weeks in advance. She doesn’t think that her baby is going to show up at the cinema; she leaves already on Monday. Her second son’s name will be Leon. All the best for both! Today's Screenings
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