United Kingdom, Ireland, USA | 2003 | 105 min. | OV
Emma (6) and Sarah Bolger (10) play the sisters Ariel und Christy, who emigrate from Ireland to New York with their parents, Sarah (Samantha Morton) and Johnny (Paddy Considine). Their move is ostensibly to help Johnny�s acting
career, but it is mor ...
Kathrin (Anneke Kim Sarnau), a young hospital surgeon, and her boyfriend, Daniel (Roman Knizka), find their plans for a life together in America disrupted by the results of an Aids test: Kathrin is diagnosed as being HIV-positive,
while Daniel is ne ...
�I can�t bake myself one!� is a single woman�s typical answer when asked when she�ll find herself a new man. Hanna (Nina Petri), widowed mother of 8-year-old Leonie (Laura und Sarah Bellini), works as an editor for children�s books.
As Christmas app ...
In this social satire inspired by sci-fi movies of the 50s, the USA is hit by a major new epidemic, MOODS (Maternal Organic Operating Dysfunction Syndrome). Milk products from genetically-modifi ed cows turn mothers into murderers.
Susan Emshwiller ...
�August Sun� interweaves the stories of three people
in August 1996 as the Sri Lankan cricketers approach the World Cup final in Lahore and peace talks with the rebel Tamil Tigers are fl oundering. A Muslim boy is driven from his home by the rebels. ...
Netherlands | 2004 | 93 min | OV with English s.t.
To play in the orange jersey of the Dutch national soccer team one day! Remco is crazy about soccer and dreams of being selected for the Dutch U12-team for young players under the age of 12. His father and coach Erik shares this dream of his 11-year- ...
�IRON JAWED ANGELS� tells the story of the American suffragettes Alice Paul (Oscar-winner Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O�Connor), who resorted to radical means such as hunger strikes to fight for women�s right to vote in the USA in the early ...
RUNAWAY The story of Massimo Carlotto, one of Italy�s greatest legal scandals. In 1976, aged 19 and extremely left-wing, Carlotto was falsely convicted of having murdered a woman. Andrea Manni tells the tale of his
fi ght for justice as a grip ...
France, United Kingdom, Belgium | 2005 | 115 min. | OV with English s.t.
Five-year�old Iris has to find her way in new surroundings: a few buildings surrounded by dense woodland and isolated from the outside world by a wall. Thirty girls between the ages of 5 and 12 live in these claustrophobic surroundings. Why are they ...
When radio DJ Reed plans to wed rich girl Kate in smalltown U.S.A., the party is suddenly thrown into limbo by the arrival of his high school sweetheart (wonderful: Sissy Spacek's daughter Schuyler Fisk). Torn between two women, Reed finds his whole ...
Anna and Matti loved each other in their youth but were separated during WWII. Years later - she a widow, he a married man - they meet again. The autobiographical novel of Finnish nobel prize winner Frans Emil Sillanp�� is rendered to the big screen ...
The GDR collapsed 17 years ago. But the infamous files on people still exist. When journalist Meike Marndorfer begins her research, she agrees to meet an informer who desperately wants to talk to her. But this person dies before the meeting, in an ac ...
7-year-old Anne-Kathrin and her brothers live on a tiny islet in the tidal shallows of the North Sea. Their adventure lies not in cinemas, zoos or shopping malls, but in the regular flooding of the island, when only the five houses remain above water ...
Our knowledge of Iran is limited by what we see and read in the media. Mohammad Farokhmanesh lives in Hamburg by choice and is Iranian by birth. He visits its capital Tehran and encounters the reality of modern Muslim society, torn between prejudice ...
Working-class Hamburg meets Austria in this grotesque comedy starring Austrian cabaret artists Stermann and Grissemann and entertainer Heinz Strunk from Hamburg. As their armoured car swerves off the road, it gets stuck between two trees, blocking th ...