24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
Amons Tochter
Germany | 2003 | 80 min. | OV
Amon G�th was a mass murderer. As the commander of Plaszow concentration camp, he killed prisoners at will, shooting them from the balcony of his villa overlooking the camp. His
daughter, Monika, was born in 1945, by which time her father had been h ...
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Alpengl�hen
Germany | 2003 | 88 min. | OV
Rosa Mayrhofer (Christiane H�rbiger) lives high up in the Alps, and makes wonderful chocolates. She comes down from her mountain to participate in an international confectionery competition in Hamburg, where she meets the
attractive (but almost penn ...
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Any Way the Wind Blows
Belgium | 2003 | 127 min. | OV with English s.t.
Former Belgian rock band dEUS front-man Tom Barman�s directorial debut is a film about a group of eight singles. On a hot Friday afternoon in Antwerp, they are all getting ready to go to a party. The most remarkable of them is Windman (Sam Louwyck), ...
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Abjad
Iran | 2003 | 110 min. | OV with English s.t.
In the 1970s in the deeply religious town of Saveh, a two hours� drive from Tehran, 16-year old Emkan (Mehdi Morady) dreams of music, art and literature, but none of these activities is permitted. Ejected from the mosque for sketching, his father bur ...
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A Good Night to Die
USA | 2003 | 98 min. | OV
Two hit men in New York � but each of an entirely different calibre. The one, Ronnie (Gary Stretch), is elegantly British and professional; the other, August (Michael Rappaport) is nothing but trouble. August has become a real
problem for some of th ...
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Afgrunden
Denmark | 2003 | 95 min. | OV with English s.t.
In 1964 a young film director (Ole Lemmeke)sets out to make a documentary about the almost forgotten silent film goddess Asta Nielsen (played by 87-year-old Vera Gebuhr).
The film star welcomes him with open arms, but the further he penetrates behin ...
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A Selva
Portugal | 2003 | 104 min. | OV with English s.t.
Set in Brazil in 1912, �A Selva� tells the story of
Portuguese monarchist Alberto (Diogo Morgado) who goes into exile on a rubber plantation in the heart of the Brazilian jungle, where he is confronted with the social squalor in which the workers ar ...
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Antikiller
Russia | 2003 | 110 min. | OV with English s.t.
Former criminal investigator, Major �Fox� Korenev (Yuri �Gosha� Kutsenko), returns to Moscow having spent several years in a prison camp for using illegal methods of investigation.
He finds a city in a state of lawlessness, run by the mob, and when ...
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Arven
Denmark | 2003 | 107 min. | OV with German s.t.
Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen) is heir to a Danish steel company in the fourth generation. He married in Sweden and has a restaurant in Stockholm. When his father dies, his mother (Ghita N�rby) insists that he return and take
over the company. To the ...
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Anruf nach Afrika
Germany | 2003 | 20 min. | OV
Human drama: Little black Marvin has to call his mum in Africa. But the hospitality in Hamburg seems as cold as the weather. ...
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Auf kleiner Fahrt
Germany | 2003 | 3 min. |
The very heart of Hamburg presented in a fast-moving collection of unusual sights and sounds: the harbour as a 2-minute-and-30-second audiovisual sightseeing event. ...
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Alla fine de la notte
Italy | 2003 | 93 min. | OV with English s.t.
Actor and director Bruno (Ennio Fantastichini) is a celebrated man, but he�s caught up in a serious midlife-crisis. �The film is the story of a man who, at the age of 50, decides to face the demons that possess him,� says director Salvatore Piscicell ...
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Aaltra
Belgium | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
Ben and Gus (played by the film�s directors) live in the same village and hate each other. But they have one thing in common: they are both paralysed from the waist down after an accident with a farming machine. In their wheelchairs, they set off for ...
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Achtung, fertig, Charlie!
Switzerland, Germany | 2004 | 88 min. | OV with english s.t.
READY, STEADY, CHARLIE! The first ever Swiss teen
military comedy! Snatched from the wedding altar by military police to do his military service, Antonio (European Shooting Star Michael Koch) is prepared to go to any lengths to get himself thr ...
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Ang Huling Birhen Sa Lupa
Philippines | 2004 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
Archaic myths, Catholicism and 50 years as
a US colony have made for a unique mixture in the Philippines. In Joel Lamangan’s latest drama, a false priest triggers a wave of religious fanaticism with fake miracles on an island. Overnight, the p ...
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Axensprung
Germany | 2004 | 80 min. | OV
Godard�s 1977 question, �Is it possible to make films in Germany?� is still valid today. As is the wish to make films without an eye to the audience. Christian Bau quizzes friends and filmmakers, looks at strategies for artistic survival. �With the d ...
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Ah-Hop-Sal-In-Saeng
Korea | 2004 | 105 min. | OV with English s.t.
Yeo Min is a Korean boy who lives with his family in a small mountain village. Although only nine years old, he already carries quite a heavy load of responsibilities on his slim shoulders. He is spokesman and leader of a swarm of children, class cap ...
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Alexandrie... New York
Egypt, France | 2004 | 128 min. | OV with German s.t.
78-year-old Youssef Chahine�s latest work is the fourth fi lm he has dedicated to his home city. �Alexandrie...New York� is a cosmopolitan masterwork. The Egyptian fi lm
director Yehia meets his old love, Ginger, in New York for the fi rst time in f ...
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A Home at the End of the World
USA | 2004 | 96 min. | OV
An ode to life, love and the family. In this case, however, the family consists of the gay chef, Bobby (Colin Farrell), the journalist, Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) and their friend Clare (Robin Wright Penn). Broadway director Michael Mayer’s @ ...
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Alosha Popovich i Tugarin Zmey
Russia | 2005 | 75 min. | OV with English s.t.
When the Tartar army threatens to ransack Alosha�s city, he comes up with a smart idea. The inhabitants hide the gold in a cave above the complex, lure the enemy into the city and seal the entrance with a bolder. Unfortunately, the bolder rolls back ...
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A Boy called Twist
South Africa | 2005 | 115 min. | OV with English s.t.
Tim Greene�s adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel is set in South Africa. Street urchin �Twist�, who grew up in an orphanage, has to work on farms and at a funeral parlour. Eventually, Twist takes things into his own hands and heads for Ca ...
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A Ty?
Poland | 2005 | 7:30 min. | OV with English s.t.
Enthralling search for the truth, based on the memory of three different people who have witnessed the same incident. ...
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Ambulancen
Denmark | 2005 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
The brothers Tim and Frank generate the necessary funds for their mother�s lifesaving operation by robbing a bank. When the police block their getaway path however, they hijack an ambulance � complete with dying patient and female nurse. The minutes ...
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A Good Woman
United Kindom, Italy, Spain | 2005 | 95 min. | OV
�A Play about a Good Woman� is the subtitle of Oscar Wilde�s �Lady Windermere�s Fan�. Director Mike Barker relocates the story to the Italian seaside resort of Amalfi, in the 1930s. Lady Windermere (Scarlett Johansson) believes her husband is having ...
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Adams �bler
Denmark | 2005 | 93 min. | OV with English s.t.
Adam, a Neo-Nazi, arrives at the vicarage to fulfil his community service. When the vicar enquires about his skills, Adam ironically suggests that he bake an apple cake. However, when the churchyard apple-tree is successively attacked by birds, worms ...
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Atash bas
Iran | 2006 | 110 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
If a woman mistakes the shrink for the divorce lawyer, this can only mean one thing: a comedy of the sexes. A rather turbulent one this is, too, coming from Iranian's feminist filmmaker who showed "Two Women" at Filmfest Hamburg in 1999. This time, s ...
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Agrypnia
Greece | 2006 | 99 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
In just one night, a cat and mouse game unfolds between two brothers who couldn't be more different. Andr�as is a policeman on the run. Nikos is a priest and the brother he turns to for help. Which can be hard if you haven't been talking for a decade ...
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Auf Wiedersehen Herr Snuggles
United Kingdom | 2006 | 6 min. | OV
Two gentlemen, the English countryside and a clown going berserk: a funny murder-mystery.
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Agua
Argentina, France | 2006 | 89 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
This film possesses the meditative qualities of a quiet ocean and still settles the score with the mercilessness of modern competitive sports. Goyo is 34 and never made it as a pro swimmer. Now he's the trainer of Chino, 20, who wants success. When t ...
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Am Fu� der Rocky Mountains - Ein Medizinmann auf B�ffeljagd
Germany | 2006 | 44 min. | OV
The portrait of Gojko Mitic, "Der Berufsindianer - Gojko Mitic in der Pr�rie" is shown as supplement to "Am Fu� der Rocky Mountains", a film about of Tom Crawford, a rancher who leads a double-life as Blackfoot Indian, powwow and sweat lodge included ...
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Aviva Ahuvati
Israel | 2006 | 107 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Aviva is a cook in a hotel. But what she really wants to be is an author. Her sister introduces her to the famous and rather arrogant writer Oded who takes her under his wings. Too bad his rather unconventional visions of Aviva collide with her reali ...
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Aria
Japan | 2007 | 105' | OV with engl. st
After his wife's death, piano-tuner Ota (M. Shionoya) desperately seeks a particular beach to scatter her ashes. He meets puppeteer Kuzo (M. Komatsu) and his life-like puppet "Aria". On Kuzo's deathbed, Ota promises to look for a mysterious piano tha ...
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Alter Ego
Greece | 2007 | 99' | OV with engl. st
Those who think Greek music is limited to Sirtaki will be quite surprised when they hear the band "Alter Ego" filling concert halls and rocking the Peleponnese. The band members have it all: money, fame� But what's behind the successful fa�ade? Can t ...
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Avant que j'oublie
France | 2007 | 108' | OV with engl. st
Pierre (Jacques Nolot) is gay, has been HIV-positive for 24 years, and is approaching his 60th birthday. After the premiere of "Before I Forget" at the Quinzaine des r�alisateurs in Cannes, "Variety" magazine wrote: "If you ever wondered how to order ...
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A Season of Madness
USA | 2007 | 16' | OV
A woman is attempting to escape the golden cage of her arranged marriage in this fairy tale gone wrong. ...
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Akher Film
Tunesia, Marocco | 2007 | 115' | OV with engl. st
Bahta dreams of fame as a breakdancer but the reality is that he has no education, is unemployed and is constantly fighting with his girlfriend. The war in Iraq means he cannot leave Tunisia, and his passion for breakdance is not shared by the author ...
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Ai no Yokan
Japan | 2007 | 102' | OV with engl. st
A man and a woman meet in a town far from Tokyo. She is a housekeeper in the hostel in which he lives; they recognize each other, but between them there can be nothing but silence. Her daughter killed his daughter when they were still young. Masahiro ...
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Atonement
USA, United Kingdom | 2007 | 125' | OV with german st
Based on an Ian McEwan's novel and adapted by Oscar winner Christopher Hampton, this gripping story is set in the upper-class England of the late 30s. 13-year-old Briony is infatuated with the housekeeper's son, whom her flash sister (Keira Knightley ...
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Auf dem Vulkan
Germany | 2007 | 90' | OV
The relationship of a middle-aged couple (international stars Maria Schrader and Sebastian Koch) is severely troubled by the accidental death of their son. He is unable to talk about what happened, she is unable to accept this. When he is offered a s ...
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A Via l�ctea
Brazil | 2007 | 88' | OV with engl. st
After an all-or-nothing fight over the phone with his girlfriend J�lia, Heitor, a writer, dives straight into the pulsating nightlife of S�o Paulo. His declared aim is to win her back, but it seems as though the city refuses to let him arrive. The tr ...
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Afghan Muscles
Denmark | 2007 | 58' | OV with engl. st
Bodybuilding poses an honourable way out of the dregs of post-Taliban Afghan society. But it�s a long slog to the coveted title of Mr. Afghanistan. Where others beef themselves up with protein mixes and steroids, the poor are restricted to 15 hard-bo ...
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Armando
Italy | 2007 | 15' | OV with engl. st
How much does an unhappy soul weigh? But when a heavy heart sinks in Rome, a happy ending is near. Romantic comedy. ...
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Alles Moet Weg
Belgium | 2007 | 105' | OV with engl. st
Failed law student Tony (Stany Crets) dreams of making the big money as a salesman, even if it means selling people useless junk; after all, people are asking to be ripped off, aren't they? When he chances upon Andr� (Peter Van den Begin), a small-ti ...
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