Sept. 30th - Oct. 9th 2010
Germany | 52 min | OV
Hamburg’s HafenCity (lit: Harbour City) is the largest building site in Europe. It will increase the size of Hamburg’s inner city by 40 percent, and is celebrated as a pinnacle of modern urbanity. No other European city boasts such a large-scale ...
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Kazakhstan | 95 min | OV with English s.t.
“Karoy” composes a tableau of cruelty, brutality and forgiveness, set against the backdrop of the sheer endless landscapes of central Asia. It centres on the unscrupulous Azat, who leaves a trail of blood in his wake through humble Kazakh ...
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Belgium | 120 min | OV with English s.t.
Thierry Michel portrays the bitter struggle over precious natural resources such as cobalt, ore, wolfram and copper in the Congo. Governor Moïse Katumbi, “a capitalist-populist mixture of Silvio Berlusconi and Hugo Chávez”, is at logger ...
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Germany | 89 min | OV
Theatre director Jürgen Flimm has revamped Heinrich von Kleist’s „Käthchen von Heilbronn“ (1810) into a modern-day mixture of a corporate crime thriller and love story. The story: 16-year-old Käthchen stalks successful entrepreneur Strahl an ...
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USA | 90 min | OV with German s.t.
In Paul Lynch’s psycho-thriller, „The Keeper“, Dennis Hopper once again plays a convincing role as a dark character. He abducts a stripper (Asia Argento), then keeps her in captivity with the aim of putting her back onto the straight and narrow ...
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Sweden | 91 min | OV with English s.t.
13-year-old Sofie and her best friends Emma and Amanda have made it: They are finally attending high school and will thus enter the realm of cool parties, new friends and cute boys!
As a matter of fact, the three manage to get invited to the coolest ...
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112 min | OV with engl. st
Redouan has Moroccan roots, lives in the Netherlands and dreams of being a rap star. One night he is shot by a policeman. The latter maintains it was in self-defence and public opinion is split. Policewoman Aaliyah and Redouan's brother Said launch i ...
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France, Irak | 96 min | OV with German s.t.
A journey through Iraq turns into a journey to oneself when a disenchanted Kurdish-Iraqi soldier and an Arab driver are sent to deliver the body of a dead colleague to his family. Ex-Dictator Sadam Hussein is omnipresent: on the radio, on television ...
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South Korea, USA, France | 74 min | OV with English s.t.
The world knows near to nothing of North Korea. Kim Jong’s “democratic” republic is a totalitarian nightmare. When director N.C. Heikin heard refugee Kang Chol-hwan tell the story of his childhood marked by concentration camps, impo ...
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USA, United Kingdom | 105 min | OV
A stifling atmosphere of fear and violence hangs over this film. The 21-year-old Elvis has never met his father. He discovers that he is living as a vicar in Texas and sets off to meet him. However, when the illegitimate son realises he doesn’t ...
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Croatia | 122 min | OV with English s.t.
Guilt. Desire. Thirst. A godforsaken village in the mountains of Croatia is home to a young footballer (Kresimir Mikic), a miserly peasant farmer (Ivo Gregurevic) and an overweight young woman (Areta Curkovic). As the region makes up its mind as to w ...
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Germany | 93 min | OV
Based on the motto, “School was yesterday – life is now!”, director Marco Petry’s “Class of 99” is a sensitive film about friendship and love, trust and loyalty, centred on a group of young people in a small German town who finished
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France, United Kingdom | 97 min | OV with Engl. s.t.
Peter, the hero of this noir-ish drama with droll undertones, describes himself as a living dead. The action really gets going when he wakes up in a mortuary. How did he get there? Who is he anyway? Peter (great: Belgian popstar Arno) steals the I.D. ...
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Germany | 91 min | OV
Single dad and caretaker Otto wins a holiday in Africa and reluctantly hits the road to a seemingly wild and adventurous continent with daughter Anna. And adventures come, although not in the form of safaris: physical heavyweight Otto arrives in a vi ...
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Sweden, Denmark | 90 min | OV with German s.t.
Over a million people have been to see this film in Sweden, a country with a population of 8.6 million. Högboträsk is a sleepy provincial town where the police spend their days knitting and killing time. When head office in Stockholm
announces the ...
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88 min | OV
A house, a dog, a garden patch, two cars. everything is just like it ought to be. And when Claudia's credit card suddenly doesn't work, she sees no reason to fret. What she doesn't know is that her husband Jens has just gone broke and her marriage wi ...
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Germany | 101 min | OV
Inspector Pokorny prefers his rum and tea without the tea. He has been transferred against his will and a series of murders is interrupting his hate of the petit bourgeoisie. No one has investigated the abysmal depths of the Austrian soul as assiduou ...
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