24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
Le soleil assassin�
France | 2003 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
Following Algeria�s independence from its colonial rulers in 1962, author Jean S�nac (Charles Berling), a gay Christian writing in French, is seen by the Islamic fundamentalists as the epitome of a �foreigner�. Abdelkrim Bahloul�s film tells of the l ...
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Le Pacte du Silence
France | 2003 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
On a humanitarian mission in Northern Brazil, the young Carmelite nun, Sarah (�lodie Bouchez), is rushed to hospital in extreme pain. Father Joachim Ferrer (G�rard Depardieu), doctor and priest, cannot, however, find anything wrong with her. Fascinat ...
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La myst�rieuse Mademoiselle C.
Canada | 2003 | 110 min. | OV
Class d of the sixth-graders drives their teachers to despair. The pupils are neither willing to learn nor do they follow their teachers' orders. When another teacher gives up, Miss C. takes her place. She is a highly unusual person who speaks to a s ...
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La grande s�duction
Canada | 2003 | 108 min. | OV with English s.t.
The Canadian village of Sainte-Marie-La-Mauderne is on the verge of ruin. The only hope for Mayor Germain (Raymond Bouchard) is if the plans to build a rubber factory go ahead.
But for this, the village must be twice the size. So the residents are f ...
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Les triplettes de Belleville
France, Canada, Belgoium | 2003 | 82 min. | without dialogues
�Les triplettes de Belleville� is the first fulllength feature film by French caricaturist, Sylvain Chomet. Champion, a lonely orphan who lives with his grandma, Mme Souza, has only two pleasures in life: a puppy called Bruno
and his tricycle. He gr ...
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Le temps du loup
France, Germany, Austria | 2003 | 113 min. | OV with English s.t.
Michael Haneke�s latest work is a dark, apocalyptic drama centering on the question as to how an individual reacts if the conventions of civilisation no longer apply and all that is left is the will to survive. A married couple with children travel t ...
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Le Collectionneur
Canada | 2003 | 110 min. | OV with German s.t.
Based on a novel by the popular Canadian author, Chrystine Brouillet, the film tells the tale of an experienced policewoman, Maud Graham (Maude Gu�rin), who hides her fragility behind a shell of cynicism and a professional air. Called to investigate ...
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Laws of Attraction
United Kingdom | 2004 | 90 min. | OV
LAWS OF ATTRACTION Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore
star in this romantic comedy as two rival divorce lawyers whose clients are a womanizing British rockstar (Michael Sheen) and his gaudy designer wife (Parker Posey). The case takes the quarrelsome ...
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Lu Cha
China | 2004 | 89 min. | OV with English s.t.
Every time she has a date with a man, the student
Wu Fong (Zhao Wei from „Shaolin Soccer“) reads his tea leaves. Chen, a cynical macho, makes life hard for her - he drinks coffee. But then Chen meets the seductive Langlang (Zhao We ...
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Land of Plenty
Germany | 2004 | 123 min. | OV with German s.t.
A portrait of a traumatised nation: America after 9/11. Having witnessed a crime, the idealist Lana (Michelle Williams) and her uncle, Paul (John Diehl), a Vietnam vet, join forces to see that justice is done. Their quest becomes a journey into the n ...
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Loved Gun
Japan | 2004 | 111 min. | OV with English s.t.
�If you had to choose, who would you want to kill you?� the girl asks the contract killer. �Someone who hates me,� he replies. There is no lack of candidates in this fast-moving drama about life, love, death, crime and punishment in a fantasy setting ...
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Lapsia ja aikuisia - kuinka niit� tehd��n?
Finland, Sweden | 2004 | 102 min. | OV with engl. s.t.
PRODUCING ADULTS Psychologist Venla (Minna Haapkyl�)
works at a clinic specialising in artificial insemination and desperately longs for a child of her own. Her fi anc�, however, is determined not to become a father. Venla decides to hav ...
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L`Autre
France, Belgium | 2004 | 73 min. | OV with English s.t.
L�AUTRE tells the story of Clair (Dominique Baeyens) and Pierre (Philippe Grand�Henry). Learning that she is pregnant with twins, Clair feels she will be incapable of loving two children and decides to have one of the 12-week-old embryos aborted. The ...
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La moustache
France | 2005 | 86 min. | OV with English s.t.
Parisian architect Marc decides to shave off his moustache, after ten years. Suspecting droll, or perhaps critical, remarks from his wife and friends, he is off-balanced by their lack of reaction. Indeed, no one seems to recall the fateful facial-hai ...
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Les petits fils
France | 2005 | 87 min. | OV with English s.t.
The twenty-four-year-old homosexual Guillaume is trying to emancipate himself from two women: his recently deceased mother and his grandmother R�gine, who has been his guardian. Only after the young gay housekeeper Maxime has entered their lives, do ...
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La nuit de la v�rit�
France, Burkina Faso | 2005 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
They accused her uncle of planning a coup d��tat, tortured him and barbecued him alive. These are the events that director Fanta R�gina Nacro tries to come to terms with in her dramatic debut. Set in an undefined West African country, the film tells ...
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La sombra del caminante
Colombia | 2005 | 89 min. | OV with English s.t.
One-legged Ma�e meets the �Stool Man�, whose job consists of carrying people through the streets of Bogot�. A relationship develops that blurs the boundaries between good and evil. For the young director Ciro Guerra, the �silleteros� (workers who car ...
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Le prince
Tunisia | 2005 | 108 min. | OV with English s.t.
The male florist Abel falls in love with a wealthy female banker. He finds himself unable to communicate his feelings due to their different social status. Instead, he sends her a fresh bouquet every day. Will the flowers help overcome the social bar ...
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La terre vue du ciel. Te amo
France | 2005 | 67 min. | OV with English s.t.
In 2000, the renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand presented sensational aerial-photographs from around the world. Director Renaud Delourme has embedded these intoxicating images into a story plotting the course of world history � from its very ...
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L�annulaire
France, Germany | 2005 | 100 min. | OV with German s.t.
Iris, a young French girl, loses a piece of her ringfinger. This is the starting point of this enchanted and captivating film. Iris finds work with an obscure scientist and a relationship defined by subservience, desire and risk ensues. �The Ringfing ...
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L�iceberg
Belgium | 2005 | 84 min. | OV with English s.t.
Fiona works in a fast-food restaurant and, after an involuntary overnight stay in the cool-room, dreams of seeing a real iceberg. With the Eskimo guide Nattikuttuk at her side, her dream eventually becomes reality. A poetic and funny movie about mode ...
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La m�moire des autres
Switzerland | 2006 | 90 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Chilean director Pilar Anguita-MacKay relates a traumatic return of three siblings to their past. When their mother is dying, they visit her and delve back into tragedy that once resulted in their father's death. This accident continues to overshadow ...
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Laid Off
United Kingdom | 2006 | 11 min. | OV
If you thought life was shit wait till you get a load of death: A laconic comedy.
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Lili et le baobab
France | 2006 | 90 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Two worlds collide in Chantal Richard's vivid big-screen debut: plain life in smalltown France and life in an African village. During an assignment in Senegal, French photographer Lili (Romane Bohringer) befriends Aminata (Aminata Zaaria).
Once back ...
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Little Miss Sunshine
USA | 2006 | 99 min. | OV with German s.t.
Grandpa takes coke, 15-year-old Dwayne does not speak, Uncle Frank is suicidal, Pops a hapless selfmade-man, Mummy thinks nutrition is fast food with a salad, and seven-year-old Olive wears spectacles as grand as her dreams. Welcome to the Hoovers, t ...
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Londres - London
United Kingdom, Singapour | 2007 | 11' | OV with engl. st
Elegiac drama about a love triad where everybody is caught in the struggle between love and lust on a night in the city. Carefully lensed ode to urban melancholy. ...
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L' Homme qui r�vait d'un enfant
France | 2007 | 89' | OV with engl. st
Alfred has a girlfriend and is desperate for a child. Which in itself would not be too difficult, but Alfred cannot bring himself to even kiss his girlfriend, let alone sleep with her. He feels much closer to his mother. Therefore, Alfred decides for ...
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Ledsaget udgang
Denmark | 2007 | 90' | OV with engl. st
This Danish box-office hit has a nostalgic 70s feel to it, situated between "The Olsen Gang" and "The Sting." It centres on the criminal John, sitting in jail because he was framed by drug dealers. When his son gets married, John is allowed to take p ...
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La fille coup�e en deux
Germany, France | 2007 | 115' | OV with engl. st
Claude Chabrol has devoted his entire cinematic life to attacking the bourgeoisie. This time, trouble lies in Lyon for Gabrielle, a weather outlook announcer torn between two lovers. One is an attractive heir with a number of dark secrets and the oth ...
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