Golden Bear Competition: RIMINI by Ulrich Seidl, Feb 11 | 22:00 | Berlinale Palast
Encounters:
A LITTLE LOVE PACKAGE by Gastón Solnicki, Feb 14 | 18:00 | CinemaxX 7
MUTZENBACHER by Ruth Beckermann, 
Feb 13 | 18:00 | CinemaxX 7
SONNE by Kurdwin Ayub,  Feb 12 | 21:30 | CinemaxX 7
Forum: FOR THE MANY – THE VIENNA CHAMBER OF LABOUR by Constantin Wulff Feb 11| 17:30 | Delphi

For Seidl’s film, a shiveringly precise slow burn that continues to burrow new tunnels in the mind long after it ends, no such renewal is in the cards. In RIMINI low season can always get lower. Read more of Variety-critic Jessica Kiang’s remarkable thoughts on Ulrich Seidl’s Golden Bear contender RIMINI or Peter Bradshaw’s 4-star-review in The Guardian.

Five Austrian Films celebrated their worldpremiere, respectively in the Golden Bear competition, the Encounters competition and the Forum: RIMINI by Ulrich Seidl, SONNE by Kurdwin Ayub, MUTZENBACHER by Ruth Beckermann, A LITTLE LOVE PACKAGE by Gastón Solnicki, FOR THE MANY by Constantin Wulff.

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Richie Bravo has certainly enjoyed more glamorous times. Today he appears in small venues in the Italian seaside resort of Rimini during the winter, attempting to preserve something from the best days of his life as a singer of schlager, German easy-listening, sentimental pop songs. He is a restless spirit, constantly in motion, always a few steps ahead of himself, until suddenly the daughter he had almost forgotten appears in front of him. In RIMINI Ulrich Seidl presents a loose family group through three generations, evoking a sensation of time passing and transformations to the beat of middle-of-the-road sentimentality.
 

Marie Kreutzer’s CORSAGE and Ruth Mader’s SERVIAM – I WILL SERVE, both released at top festivals this spring and summer, will also be vying for the Heart of Sarajevo. Thomas Fürhapter’s LIVING TOGETHER is a contender in the Documentary competion. Ulrich Seid’s Golden Bear entry RIMINI will be presented In Focus.

The 70^th San Sebastián IFF (September 16 to 24) has unveiled its competiton line-up including Ulrich Seidl’s SPARTA in the Golden Shell competition. SPARTA, with Austrian actor Georg Friedrich in the lead, completes Ulrich Seidl’s brother diptych; its first part RIMINI was a Golden Bear contender earlier this year.