24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
El Ultimo Tren
Argentine, Spain, Uruguay | 2003 | 93 min. | OV with German s.t.
Three veterans of the �Friends of the Rail Association� in Uruguay are livid: a Hollywood studio has bought up the historical steam engine, �Heart of Fire�. Proclaiming �Our national heritage is not for sale!�, the professor with a heart condition (H ...
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Elephant
USA | 2003 | 81 min. | OV
Winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes, 2003. Director Gus van Sant here turns his hand to a highly explosive topic: a high-school shooting.
Shot in a semi-documentary, lyrical style, van Sant�s camera floats down the school corridors, showing the ever ...
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Engelein
Germany | 2003 | 1617 meter / ca. 60 min. | OV / without dialogues
Asta Nielsen had long wanted to play the part of a child, and her husband and director, Urban Gad, fulfilled that wish with �Engelein� (Little Angel, 1913). Nielsen plays the part of 17-year old Jesta, who has to pretend to her rich uncle (Max Landa) ...
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Effroyables jardins
France | 2003 | 95 min. | OV with English s.t.
Lucien�s (Damien Jouillerot) adolescent problems with his father (Jacques Villeret) are cast in a new light when his father�s best friend (Andr� Dussollier) tells him the story of how he and his father were faced with being executed when caught in a ...
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Emma och Daniel - M�tet
Sweden | 2003 | 85 min. | OV with English s.t.
Since the death of her mother 12-year-old Emma has been living alone with her father Anders up in the north of Sweden. In that secluded region the mail is brought by helicopter. Emma still mourns her mother and is not enthusiastic at all when her fat ...
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Empire - Two Worlds Collide
USA | 2003 | 90 min. | OV with German s.t.
Victor Rosa (John Leguizamo) is a tough drug dealer who controls the South Bronx streets, where his runners push the popular heroin-mix, �Empire�. A successful Wall Street broker, Jack Wimmer (Peter Sarsgaard), offers him a promising deal and the opp ...
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Eject
Germany | 2003 | 12 min. | OV with English s.t.
Necessity knows no justice: Cinematic story of down-and-out-film-makers using public surveillance cameras for filming and stealing the tapes. ...
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Equestrian
Netherlands | 2003 | 4 min. | without dialogue
Rotterdam time slices: An experimental composition of fairytale-like pictures of a horsewoman shot simultanously by 32 digital video camneras. ...
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Einmal so wie ich will
Germany | 2004 | 87 min. | OV
On holiday in Africa, Emma (Senta Berger) leaves her husband after an argument and ends up on an ostrich farm run by the gruff German emigrant, John (G�tz George) and his daughter (Jeanette Hain). Emma, whose life has been held together by middle-cla ...
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El Destino No Tiene Favoritos
Peru | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
DESTINY HAS NO FAVORITES Ana is a rich housewife. To her annoyance, her husband rents out her garden to a soap-opera production and then disappears on a business trip. Erring on to the set, she gets mistaken for an actress and is given a part in the ...
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En Garde
Germany | 2004 | 95 min. | OV
They are both outsiders: Alice (Maria Kwiatkowsky),
handicapped by her hypersensitive hearing, and Kurdish refugee Berivan (Pinar Erincin) meet in a home for girls. Berivan misses her home country, while Alice has a complicated relationship to her y ...
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El penalti m�s largo del mundo
Spain | 2005 | 101 min. | OV with English s.t.
Penalty! The goalkeeper lies injured on the ground and irate fans invade the pitch. The match is abandoned and the penalty postponed. Reserve keeper Fernando, who is actually more interested in romantic conquests, has exactly one week in which to lea ...
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Eruv - The Wire
Germany, USA | 2005 | 70 min. | OV with German s.t.
Eruv documents life in an Orthodox-Jewish community in the American town of Teaneck. The community lives within an �eruv�, a wire symbolising a wall, which spans the entire neighbourhood and delineates a private zone that grants special rights during ...
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Exit...Nur keine Panik
Germany, Austria | 2005 | 95 min. | OV
Viennese crook and would-be playboy Kirchof dreams of owning his own coffee house and having lots of beautiful women. In order to reach his goal, he is sometimes compelled to leave the straight and narrow. Comedy, violence, sex and vandalism are the ...
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Eine andere Liga
Germany | 2005 | 110 min. | OV
When passionate soccer player Hayat (Karoline Herfurth) is diagnosed with cancer, her father cancels her club membership. She joins the local team, SC Schanze, a grimy hobby-outfit. The team�s coach (Ken Duken) proceeds to fall in love with her, and ...
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Erik(A)
Austria | 2005 | 86 min. | OV with English s.t.
In 1966, the 18-year-old Erika Schinegger wins the world championship title in women�s downhill skiing. However, she is as astonished as everyone else when medical tests reveal that she is in fact � a man. The gold medal is rescinded and Erika�s worl ...
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Ein ganz gew�hnlicher Jude
Germany | 2005 | 89 min. | OV
Emanuel Goldfarb, a German Jew, receives an invitation to lecture schoolchildren on his relationship to German society. Goldfarb thinks it�s a ridiculous idea: �Hasn�t there been enough said about it already?� However, his letter of refusal swells in ...
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Emiterio
Argentina | 2006 | 27 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Each path has a story. This is Emiterio
Gutti�rrez's one whose looms weave a tale around the beauty of the Oriental Mountain Range of Salta.
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Ein Freund von mir
Germany | 2006 | 83 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Karl (Daniel Br�hl) is a guarded mathematician working in insurance, Hans (J�rgen Vogel) a happy-go-lucky type who keeps afl oat with odd jobs. They meet at a rental car agency. The unlikely friendship which develops teaches Karl spontaneity, humour, ...
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Ezra
France, Nigeria, Austria | 2007 | 102' | OV with german st
Ezra is one of an estimated 300,000 child soldiers that fought in the year 2000. Drugged beyond comprehension, he attacked his own village, which led to his parents' death and the mutilationof his sister. Brought in front of the "Truth and Reconcilia ...
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Eastern Promises
United Kingdom, Canada | 2007 | 100' | OV with german st
When a Russian prostitute dies under mysterious circumstances after giving birth, her midwife Anna (Naomi Watts) holds on to the woman's diary to find out more about her. Her research leads her to the local mafia, where she meets killer Nikolai (Vigg ...
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Enfances
France | 2007 | 82' | OV with engl. st
Seven young directors and scriptwriter Yann Le Gal are tracing the lives of legends of directing Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Jacques Tati, Jean Renoir, Alfred Hitchcock and Ingmar Bergman back as far as they can. The question: can an incident in his ch ...
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Eine gute Mutter
Germany | 2007 | 88' | OV
A happy family with a son sees their whole world suddenly collapsing around them. A former neighbour, who was pregnant around the same time but lost her child to a fire in her apartment, claims that their son Paul is in fact her child Robin. In order ...
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Ekko
Denmark | 2007 | 80' | OV with engl. st
Simon is a divorced policeman who loses custody for his six-year-old son. He abducts him and takes him to a secluded house in the country for a last holiday as father and son. But the ghosts of his past threaten to drive him mad. An emotional, someti ...
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El asaltante
Argentina | 2007 | 70' | OV with engl. st
Why does a well-dressed older gentleman rob two schools at gunpoint? In between, a waitress accidentally spills hot water on him and becomes suspicious. She follows him only to have the gun pointed at her. But is the suspect always the criminal? Fend ...
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Ebbe
Germany | 2007 | 11' | OV with engl. st
Low tide at the sea - low tide in love? A trip to the sea confronts a young couple with the complexity of relationships. ...
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