24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
Musikk for bryllup og begravelser
Norway | 2003 | 97 min. | OV with English s.t.
Successful author, Sara (Lena Endre), is distraught over the death of her only child and lives alone in the house designed by her ex-husband, Peter (Bj�rn Floberg), whose walls are like a prison to her. When she rents out the
basement to the Serbian ...
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M�rderische Elite
Germany | 2003 | 93 min. | OV
Intelligent school graduate, Jenny (Mina Tander), not only has a place at an elite university, but an attractive fellow student, Henning (Philipp Hochmair), as a boyfriend to boot. Then Jenny realises that Henning merely seduced her
to benefit from ...
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Mensch Mutter
Germany | 2003 | 88 min. | OV
Real-life mother and daughter Suzanne von Borsody and Rosemarie Fendel star in this comedy about family relations. 43-year-old Vreni (Borsody) is faced with a moral dilemma when her mother (Fendel) has a stroke. Should
she have her tyrannical mother ...
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Manden Bag D�ren
Denmark | 2003 | 97 min. | OV with English s.t.
Bouncer Svend (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is traumatised by his parents� unhappy marriage and feels himself torn between his mother and his alcoholic, tyrannical father. It is with horror that Svend begins to recognize similarities to his
father�s behav ...
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Massa ot James Be� Eretz Hakodesh
Israel | 2003 | 87 min. | OV with English s.t.
The young Christian, James (Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe) is sent by his African village on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but Israel is no longer the Holy Land of their imagination. James is jailed as an illegal immigrant, then released on
bail put up by ...
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Maria
Romania | 2003 | 97 min. | OV with German s.t.
The Romania portrayed by director Calin Peter Netzer is a society full of doubt, a twilight zone caught between the blackness of the totalitarian regime it has overcome and the glittering fantasies of the liberalism it hopes to embrace. Maria lives w ...
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Mein Bruder ist ein Hund
Germany, The Netherlands, Great Britain | 2004 | 96 min | German Version
When the family comedy �Rennschwein Rudi Ruessel� (translates as �Rudy the Racing Pig�) hit the big screen in 1995, thousands of children turned vegetarian over night. Director Peter Timm seems to have a penchant for cute four-legged friends, with or ...
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Mail Order Wife
USA | 2004 | 90 min. | OV
Documentary filmmaker Andrew Gurland helps a New York concierge pay a marriage agency�s fees on condition that he can film what happens from then on. Mail-order wife Lichi�s dreams of a better life are shattered on her first night i ...
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Mushin Bey
Turkey | 2004 | 145 min. | OV with English s.t.
MUHSIN BEY Mushin Bey, played by Turkish superstar Sener Sen, is an unsuccessful music producer. Obsessed with classical Turkish folk music, he rejects any modern �Arabesques�. No wonder, then, that he is
constantly at loggerheads with Ali (Ugur Y�c ...
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Mord am Meer
Germany | 2004 | 89 min. | OV
Inspector Anton Glauberg (Heino Ferch) and his East-German colleague, Paula Reinhardt (Nadja Uhl), are investigating a mysterious murder case in Husum. Recent German history forms the backdrop to this cross between political thriller and love story, ...
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Machuca
Spain, Chile, France, United Kingdom | 2004 | 120 | OV with English s.t.
MACHUCA Chilean director Andr�s Wood tells the story of an exceptional friendship set against the backdrop of the 1973 military coup in Chile: Gonzalo and Pedro are eleven years old � one of them is from a wealthy district, the other from an illegal ...
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Marmoulak
Iran | 2004 | 115 min. | OV with English s.t.
A commercial comedy from Iran, which did exceptionally well at the box-offi ce there before being withdrawn. Reza (Parviz Parastouie) is known as Lizard because he can run up walls - a talent which serves him well when he breaks out of pr ...
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Main Hoon Na
Indien | 2004 | 179 min. | OV with Englisch s.t.
MAIN HOON NA Bollywood at its best - and a huge hit at the
Indian box-offi ce. Shahrukh Khan stars as army commando Major Ram, ordered to pose as a high-school student to protect Sanjana (Amrita Rao), a general’s daughter. But the ...
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Masumiyet
Turkey | 2004 | 110 min. | OV with English s.t.
INNOCENCE After being released from prison, Yussuf gets to know the singer, Ugur, her husband, Bekir, and their daughter. Bekir takes his own life when he realises that Ugur is in love with another man. Shortly after, Ugur disappears. Yussuf sets out ...
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Mistři
Czech Republic | 2004 | 83 min. | OV with English s.t.
CHAMPIONS A village pub on the German-Czech border. A handful of people meet up to watch the World Ice Hockey Championships. Marek Najbrt�s grandiose directorial debut is a fi lm about missed opportunities and post-Communist traumata, reminiscent of ...
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Misa Mi
Sweden | 2004 | 83 min | OV with English s.t.
After the death of her mother Misa stays with her grandmother up in the Northern tip of Sweden. In the dense forests she not only finds comfort and refuge but also becomes friends with a female wolf. When Misa learns that poachers are roaming about t ...
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Mur
France, Israel | 2004 | 98 min. | OV with english s.t.
WALL is a cinematic meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the filmmaker blurs the lines of hatred by asserting her double identity as Jew and Arab.
In an original documentary approach, the film follows the separation fence that is ...
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Manya!
Germany | 2004 | 75 min. | OV
MANYA! �1929 marked the advent of sound in films and thousands of musicians were made redundant!� Manya was 18, and a cellist. She switched to the accordeon and the variet� stage, then entertained the troops during the war. In the 50s she founded �Th ...
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M�rke
Denmark | 2005 | 124 min. | OV with English s.t.
When Jacob learns of his handicapped sister�s suicide during the wedding night, he follows the freshly widowed groom Anker to the godforsaken village of M�rke. There, he arrives in time to witness his brother-in-law�s next betrothal and, much to his ...
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Masj�vlar
Sweden | 2005 | 98 min. | OV with English s.t.
Mia (Sofi a Helin) travels home to a small village in the Swedish province of Dalarna to attend her father�s 70th, birthday celebrations. It�s not a good idea: The villagers think she�s snooty and her sisters are jealous. Old conflicts re-emerge, peo ...
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Mad Hot Ballroom
USA | 2005 | 105 min. | OV with German s.t.
MAD HOT BALLROOM A group of, mostly deprived, 11-year-olds from three different New York schools discover the fascinating world of � ballroom dancing. Initially, the kids are torn between teenie-cool and childish fun but a
fierce rivalry soon ...
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Models
Austria | 2005 | 118 min. | OV
Ulrich Seidel�s film follows the fortunes of three Viennese models: castings, parties, coke, vomit and career-promoting sex with photographers. According to the director, it was diffi cult to work with the models as they are not used to people being ...
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Mickybo and Me
United Kindom, Ireland, Australia | 2005 | 98 min. | OV
If �Billy Eliot� had had little brothers, they would have been like Mickybo and Jon Jo. The two heroes are growing up in segregated Belfast at the beginning of the seventies. One of them is Protestant; the other is Catholic. Since watching �Butch Cas ...
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M�moires affectives
Canada | 2005 | 101 min. | OV with English s.t.
Alexander Tourneur emerges from a lengthy coma after having been declared clinically dead. He is suffering from total amnesia and is increasingly plagued by disturbing images during the re-socialisation process. Are they just dreams or is something s ...
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Murderball
USA | 2005 | 86 min. | OV
Ruthless attacks, furious counterattacks and crashing body-checks � no wonder they call it �Murderball�. This award-winning documentary film follows the fortunes of the US-Rugby-Paralympicsteam on its path to Athens 2004. It is an extraordinary ...
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Manuale d�amore
Italy | 2005 | 120 min. | OV with English s.t.
How does love work? Director Giovanni Veronesi poses the �lifestyle question of questions� in his lively comedy �Manual of Love�. Whether you�ve just been smitten, just been abandoned or you�re just toying with an affair, the film provides good advic ...
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My Date with Drew
USA | 2005 | 90 min. | OV
Brian Herzlinger has been in love with Drew Barrymore since his early schooldays. The financially destitute short-film director borrows a video camera and sets off to meet the object of his desire. 30 days of �premier-crashing�, phone cal ...
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Manderlay
Denmark, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Sweden | 2005 | 139 min. | OV
Manderlay is the second instalment of the trilogy that started with �Dogville�. The story is set in the 1930s in the American town of Manderlay, Alabama. Grace is the daughter of a white gangster and is engaged in the fight against racial segregation ...
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Mathilde liebt
Germany | 2005 | 85 Min. | OV
It�s one of the most successful film equations: �girl meets boy�. In this case, it�s the recently widowed Mathilde whose first ever orgasm is facilitated by a handsome man called Carlo. A touchingly vulnerable and vivacious melodrama. ...
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Muttergl�ck
Germany | 2005 | 90 Min. | OV
The farmer Joachim has recently married the Yugoslavian Anna, who came to live in his village with her 5-year-old son. When the youngster dies in an accident, Joachim becomes suspicious� A menacing and multifaceted drama. ...
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Ma Hameh Khoubim
Iran | 2005 | 91 min. | OV with English s.t.
Jamshid, like so many other Iranians, is living in exile. A friend offers to bring news from �back home� and Jamshid�s relatives in Teheran decide to hire a camera to record video messages. Speaking into the camera however, inspires an entirely new f ...
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Meng ying tong nian
China | 2005 | 95 min. | OV with German and English s.t.
Xiao Jiang�s debut film takes us to rural China before and after the Cultural Revolution. Ling Ling is the illegitimate daughter of a designated counter-revolutionary mother. The girl finds happiness for the first time when her mother marries the loc ...
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Mein Name ist Eugen
Switzerland | 2006 | 100 min. | OV
A battered knight's helmet and a leak collapsible boat, which breaks through all storeys of a multiple dwelling, brings Eugen's and Wrigley's days as rascals in Bern in the 60s to an abrupt end. On an odyssey across Switzerland the two boys make stra ...
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Matti
Finland | 2006 | 130 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Matti Nyk�nen was Sweden's skijumping icon and is Sweden's laughed-at wannabe VIP. The career of the seven-times Olympic champion spiraled into freefall after drug abuse, alcohol excesses, and a rather publicly lived private life. This touching tragi ...
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Maa on syntinen laulu
Finland | 2006 | 108 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A remote village in post-war years becomes the scene for a bloody, naturalistic melodrama about love, death, and suicide. The director won the prize for best newcomer at the Festival of Locarno in 1973 with his portrait of a poor, repressive and back ...
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Marta und der fliegende Gro�vater
Germany | 2006 | 60 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Nine-year-old Marta is sent to her beloved grandfather Janosch in the country for a while. But the formerly familiar surroundings have changed: Marta is confronted with a grandfather who keeps forgetting things, dresses in a strange way and sometimes ...
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Me az she Halachta
Israel | 2006 | 60 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Can art change the course of history? Are documentaries capable of showing reality as it is? Will films change the world? In the case of Israeli/Arab actor/director Mohammad Bakri, a film can change one person's life. How, is told in his complex docu ...
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Madeinusa
Peru, Spain | 2006 | 100 min. | OV with German s.t.
"That's my name", says the girl and points to the label in the pullover she received from charity. "Made in USA". She lives in a remote village in the Andes and has just been selected to lead the annual procession as The Holy Virgin. But there is a g ...
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Mashalla
Israel | 2006 | 80 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A captivating sombre ballad about crime and punishment, revenge, and poetry. When a Palestinian taxidriver is murdered in Jerusalem, three upper-class-kids are indicted. Newspapers start publishing poems which turn out to be written by the victim, an ...
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M�rderische Erpressung
Germany | 2006 | 88 min. | OV
The first post of young policewoman Eva Mann is in a rural area close to Hamburg. Her colleague Klaus is not as obsessed as she is about always following rules and regulations; after all, he knows everybody in the place. But things spiral out of hand ...
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Mi t�o Paco
Spain | 2007 | 12' | OV with engl. st
Summer comedy about a boy and innumerable beautiful women who distract his uncle Paco on a day on a Spanish beach.
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Magic Radio
Switzerland, France | 2007 | 83' | OV with german st
It was dubbed the FM revolution and is an apt description of the role radio plays in the Republic of Niger. More influential than newspapers, radio educates the masses and reaches out to the most distant places. And with the advent of private radio s ...
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Miehen Ty�
Finland | 2007 | 103' | OV with engl. st
Family man Juha (T. Korpela) loses his job. He is so worried about his depressive wife that he keeps it a secret while hatching out a plan. He becomes a callboy, and his first job is brushing a woman's hair, naked. He now makes more in two hours than ...
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Michael Clayton
USA | 2007 | 119' | OV
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a ruthless New York lawyer whose greed for money and power takes a wrong turn when his partner Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) can no longer stand the guilt of winning cases for the guilty. Eden links up with public p ...
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Man zkt vrouw
Belgium, Netherlands | 2007 | 107' | OV with engl. st
A classic grumpy old man, the protagonist of this film, is tired of living alone. A search on the Internet for a suitable woman soon turns into a casting show of considerable proportions. He cannot decide between the numerous contenders, but when his ...
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M
Argentina | 2007 | 150' | OV with engl. st
The Ernesto Che Guevara award went to this documentary, in which Nicol�s Prividera traces his mother's fate as one of the so-called missing people who simply disappeared after the Argentine coup d'�tat. He seeks out old governmental agents, and old c ...
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My Blueberry Nights
Hongkong, France | 2007 | 111' | OV
Lizzie (Norah Jones) has lost her love. Reminiscing over blueberry pie on Coney Island, she finds a patient listener in caf�-owner Jeremy (Jude Law). One day she disappears, embarking on a journey through America, just to forget. "The story of a woma ...
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Manuale d'amore 2 (Capitoli Successivi)
Italy | 2007 | 120' | OV with engl. st
Four episodes form the sequel to "Manual of Love": paralyzed in an accident, Nicola falls in love with physio Lucia; Franco and Marco fly to Barcelona for fertility treatment; gay couple Filippo and Fosco decide to get married; and waiter Ernesto beg ...
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Moment de gloire
Belgium | 2007 | 8' | OV
A Belgian Universe: The meticulously planned moment of glory can be your last one.
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Mogari No Mori
Japan | 2007 | 97' | OV with engl. st
The ageing widower Shigeki is lovingly cared for by young Machiko, who recently lost her only child. On a trip to the country, Shigeki runs off into the forest to seek his wife's grave. Machiko follows him and after several days they actually find it ...
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Monsieur
Belgium, France | 2007 | 89' | OV with engl. st
A master of words, Jean-Philippe Toussaint won the Junior Scrabble World Championship in 1973. 12 years later, he wrote "Monsieur", a novel about someone nameless who "would be lost for words at having to explain why he and his fianc�e had broken up. ...
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Meduzot
Israel, France | 2007 | 78' | OV with german st
Three young women in Tel Aviv: Keren breaks her leg at her wedding reception, spoiling her plans for a honeymoon in the Caribbean; Bayta is haunted by a spooky girl on the beach until it makes her change her life; and Joy is a servant from the Philip ...
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Moonpie
USA | 2007 | 87' | OV
School principal Mitch (Michael McDonald) is suffering a midlife crisis when he meets the mentally disordered new teacher Candy (Stephnie Weir). They both spend their evenings at school, she watching the stars, he escaping his marriage, and a relatio ...
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Mang shan
China, Hongkong | 2007 | 102' | OV with engl. st
Bai is a student looking for a summer job. Travelling through the Szechuan province, she is kidnapped and sold to a childless peasant. All attempts to escape fail - she is beaten, raped, and kept as a slave. This is reality in the remote areas of Sou ...
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