24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
Calendar Girls
United Kingdom | 2003 | 108 min. | OV
Much to the horror of the main office in London, the Rylstone Women�s Institute in North Yorkshire is planning a very special fund-raising exercise for the local hospital in memory of Annie�s (Julie Walters) late husband: her friend Chris (Helen Mirr ...
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Conspiracy of Silence
United Kingdom | 2003 | 87 min. | OV
Inspired by a true story, debut director John Deery tells a controversial tale of a young Irish priest, Daniel (Jonathan Forbes), accused of homosexual practice following another priest�s suicide. Forced to leave the seminary, he
returns to his home ...
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Chamesh Dakot Be-Halicha
Israel | 2003 | 85 min. | OV with English s.t.
Four year�s labour, his apartment turned into a movie set, borrowed money, three failed relationships: young Israeli director Itai Lev put everything he had into making his debut film. Shot in black and white, it tells of love, trust, horror and dece ...
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Carandiru
Brasil | 2003 | 148 min. | OV with English s.t.
The overcrowded �Carandiru� prison with its 7000 prisoners is slap bang in the centre of S�o Paulo. In a series of episodes loosely linked by the figure of the prison doctor, Drauzio (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos), Hector Babenco shows an
apocalyptic wor ...
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Cautiva
Argentina | 2004 | 108 min. | OV with English s.t.
CAPTIVE Having worked for years as a sound editor in Hollywood, Gast�n Biraben�s directorial debut takes him back to his home country of Argentina. 15-year-old Cristina is taken from her Catholic boarding school to discover that her parents were left ...
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Casablanca Driver
France | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
CASABLANCA DRIVER A burlesque, fast-moving „mockumentary“
about Casablanca Driver, the world’s worst boxer in 1969, when the film is set. A chain of unfortunate circumstances leads to the fi ghter at the bottom of the world ranking ...
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Comme une Image
France | 2004 | 110 min. | OV with German s.t.
LOOK AT ME! 20-year-old Lolita (Marilou Berri) battles for her father�s love while dreaming of a career as a singer. But her father (co-author Jean-Pierre Bacri), a vain writer with an appetite for younger women, shows little interest in his daughter ...
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Crying Ladies
Philippines | 2004 | 111 min. | OV with Englisch s.t.
CRYING LADIES Mark Meily’s debut, a major box-offi ce hit in the Philippines, is an hilarious comedy centred on three women from Manila’s Chinatown - one is a thief, the next a strict Catholic having an affair with a married man, an ...
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Choking Hazard
Czech Republic | 2004 | 81 min. | OmeU
„Choking Hazard“ is described by director Marek Dobeš and screenwriter Stepan Kopriva as the „first Czech zombie
comedy“. Participants in the „Meaning of Life“ seminar at the remote Halali Hotel really are in ...
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Cosas que hacen que vida valga la pena
Spain | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with engl. s.t.
Manuel Gomez Pereira�s erotic thriller, �Between Your Legs�, received rave reviews. Now he gives love another chance. Unemployment offi ce worker, Hortensia (Ana Bel�n), falls head-over-heels in love with unemployed Jorge (Eduard Fern�ndez). Jorge wo ...
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Cavite
USA, Philippines | 2005 | 80 min. | OV with English s.t.
Adam is on his way to the Philippines to attend his father�s funeral when he receives an anonymous phone call at the airport. A wanted terrorist has abducted his mother and sister. Adam is soon confronted with an appalling decision: He either has to ...
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Charms Zwischenf�lle
Austria | 2005 | 88 min. | OV
The succession of surreal events that lead author Juvacev from one calamity to the next, are so poetic, ambivalent, charming and bizarre that they periodically leave the narrator speechless. Director Michael Kreihsl weaves the stories and biography o ...
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Cache-cache
France | 2005 | 91 min. | OV with English s.t.
Raymond, the son of the former owner, has been hiding in his childhood home for thirty years. When the new tenants move in � a family with two children � he is forced to flee to the barn and eventually ends up hiding in the well. Director Yves Caumon ...
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Cinema, aspirinas e urubus
Brazil | 2005 | 99 min. | OV with English s.t.
Sales rep Johann drives a van through the north Brazilian wilderness, peddling aspirin to unsuspecting peasants. He has fl ed his native country, which has been responsible for starting a global war. Ranulpho is fleeing from the drought in the south ...
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Cidade Baixa
Brazil | 2005 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
Deco and Naldinho are petty thieves. The two friends share a motorboat, which serves as headquarters for their �business�. However, the friendship becomes strained when stripper Karinna enters their lives. Both men inevitably fall in love and a furio ...
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Chinese Take Away
Germany | 2006 | 11 min. | OV
In this sweet comedy, saving a Chinese cook from choking turns Anna's life upside down.
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China Blue
USA | 2006 | 87 min. | OV with German s.t.
What have our jeans got to do with the plight of teenagers in the third world? "We are complices in exploiting the third world by wanting everything on the cheap", says Micha X. Peled who knows his stuff, after his documentary on retail giant Wal-Mar ...
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Cecilie
Denmark | 2006 | 100 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Although he came to prominence with a kids flick, "Catch that Girl", Hans Fabian Wullenweber now tells a creepy story, about 33-year-old Cecilie who worries about losing her mind. When she is raped one night, no one believes her because there are no ...
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Casa
Spain | 2006 | 6 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
An empty house, a frightened girl, vanished
people: An engaging thriller en miniature.
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Chahar Shanbeh Souri
Iran | 2006 | 104 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
"Psychologically complex and captivating" says "Variety" about a film whose title refers to the Iranian New Year's Eve which is accompanied by the explosive sound of jumping jacks. Equally explosive are the collisions of various social strata and the ...
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Cabra-Cega
Brazil | 2006 | 107 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
What do we know about Brazil? Soccer, bossa nova, caipirinha come to mind but even few young Brazilians will think of its recent past, of the 60's and 70's when a military dictatorship ruled the land with an iron fist. This Brazil is the topic of a p ...
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Camping
France | 2006 | 95 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
When women show off their cleavage on a campingground, is there a deeper (if not to say bigger) reason behind such behaviour? Mais oui, there is, in the form of plastic surgeon Michel who got stranded on his way into the plush French South. While he ...
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Crimen Delicado
Brazil | 2006 | 87 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
In his fourth film, Beto Brant ventures away from the pistol-heavy atmosphere of his urban underworlds. Theatre critic Ant�nio comes under the spell of the mysterious nude model In�s with her amputated leg. Their relationship is passionate, terrifyin ...
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Conversations with Other Women
USA | 2006 | 84 min. | OV
There is something in the air between bride and groom but also between their witnesses at the marriage ceremony. They spend the night together, regret it, fight themselves, fight the other person, and go through an emotional and amusing tour de force ...
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Come l'ombra
Italy | 2006 | 87 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
It is summer in Milan. The city is deserted. Claudia searches for an acquaintance, who comes from the Ukraine. They were introduced by a mutual friend who now also seems lost. Ultimately, she contacts the police who do not believe a word. A fi lm tha ...
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Cr�nica de una fuga
Argentina | 2006 | 103 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A special unit of the military regime which held Argentina in an iron grip in 1977, abducts a second league soccer keeper and keeps him in an internment camp in the middle of nowhere. A purgatory of interrogations, beatings, and humiliations follows. ...
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Chamam�
Germany | 2007 | 104' | OV with german st
While far less famous than Tango, Chamam� is Argentine's traditional music. More than 200 years old, it is a mixture of Creole, native Guarai, and European sounds. Chamam� is more than music and pastime: it is a lifestyle; an identity. The film shows ...
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Chak De India
India | 2007 | 151' | OV with engl. st
Bollywood legend Shah Rukh Khan stars as a famous Indian hockey player who fell from grace at the climax of his career. His chance at rehabilitation comes when he is offered to coach the national ladies team. Easier said than done as the ladies lack ...
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Crazy Love
Belgium | 2007 | 86' | OV with engl. st
Based on three short stories by American author Charles Bukowski, Flemish director Dominique Deruddere's film tells the tragic story of Harry Voss (Josse de Pauw), a man looking for love. Dreamy as a boy and acne-ridden as an adolescent, Harry's fate ...
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Copacabana
Germany | 2007 | 88' | OV
The 35th wedding anniversary of Maria (Nicole Heesters) and Herbert (Bruno Ganz) is coming closer - and the whole family is invited. But behind the harmonious beachhouse fa�ade, trouble is looming in paradise. The eldest daughter has marital problems ...
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Control
United Kingdom | 2007 | 117' | OV
Post-punk band "Joy Division" captured their audience with hammering guitars and dark lyrics. They became immortalized with lead singer Ian Curtis' death in 1980. Photography legend Anton Corbijn shot the singer's biography, which is based on the mem ...
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Cabale � Kaboul
France, Belgium | 2007 | 87' | OV with engl. st
Isaac Levy and Zabulon Simantov are Afghanistan's last remaining Jews. They hate each other with a vengeance and haven't spoken to each other in ten years. While one works as an exorcist, the other sells self-distilled alcohol. This tragicomic docume ...
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