24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
Pere et fils
France | 2003 | 97 min. | OV with English s.t.
�No matter whether you love him or hate him, you only have one father. It�s better to love him or hate him while he�s alive,� says first-time director Michel Boujenah. Widower L�o (Philippe Noiret) has raised his three sons to live happy lives. In ac ...
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Norway | 2003 | 85 min. | OV with English s.t.
A group of drama students spend their last weekend before graduation in a remote country house. It is a weekend they will never forget, as a series of dramatic events permanently changes their view of life. American documentary
director, John Sulliv ...
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Podgjvane Na Vcherastnija Obed
Bulgaria | 2003 | 98 min. | OV with English s.t.
Changing political regimes are a bit like warming up yesterday�s lunch, or so claims the ageing Macedonian, Katerina (Svetlana Yancheva). �It�s just the same, but tastes a bit different.� From 1941-1944, Macedonia was occupied by Bulgaria, before Tit ...
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Poppitz
Austria | 2003 | 99 min. | OV
Car salesman Gerry (Roland D�ringer) is faced with a serious predicament in this mad-satirical comedy from Austria. Just when the death of his boss sets the career roulette in motion, Gerry has to go on annual vacation with his wife and teenage daugh ...
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Pahat Pojat
Finland | 2003 | 120 min. | OV with English s.t.
Otto (Peter Franz�n), Matti (Niko Saarela), Ilkka (Lauri Nurkse) and Eero (Jasper P��kk�nen) are every mother�s dream. The brothers don�t drink, don�t smoke and don�t swear. Except that the quartet has carried out over a hundred robberies. Their stri ...
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Paanch
India | 2003 | 130 min. | OV with English s.t.
�The Parasites� are five wannabe rock stars (Vijay L. Maurya, Joy Fernandez, Aditya Shrivastav, Kay Kay and Tejaswini Kolhapure) who live together and are prepared to go to any lengths to make their breakthrough. Unsuspectingly, they find themselves ...
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Pupendo
Czech Republic | 2003 | 114 min. | OV with English s.t.
Prague in the 1980s. The anti-communist sculptor, Bedrich (Bolek Pol�vka), is to make a mosaic for the school at which Brecka (Jaroslav Dusek), who follows the party line, is headmaster. The two men go out drinking together, and
Bedrich manages to g ...
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Przemiany
Poland | 2003 | 78 min. | OV / English s.t.
When Adam meets his girlfriend Wanda�s family, he sees a country house by a lake and a large family enjoying a late summer. Having come through a divorce, drug addiction and unemployment, he now aims to make a fresh start with Wanda. But this setting ...
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Pu�os Rosas
Mexico | 2004 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
PINK PUNCH The young boxer Jimmy Morales� dreams of a golden
future are shattered when he is witness to a horrible murder and recognises the perpetrator as being the contract killer, Germ�n Corona. A relationship develops between the gangster and th ...
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Podium
France | 2004 | 95 min. | OV with english s.t.
Claude Fran�ois was the French Gary Glitter � a 70s pop sensation. True to his legendary status, he lectrocuted himself in the bath. Bernard Fr�deric (Ben�it Poelvoorde) is the world-best Claude Fran�ois imitator, and aims to win the title in the �Gr ...
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Phileine zegt sorry
The Netherlands | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with english s.t.
PHILEINE SAYS SORRY Phileine is self-confi dent, bitchy and
jealous. And saying sorry is simply not her thing. Secretly pursuing her actor boy-friend Max to New York, she finds him, as Romeo, having sex on stage with Juliet, and disrupts ...
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Planta 4a
Spain | 2004 | 100 min | OV with English s.t.
Miguel, Izan, Dani & Jorge are quick-witted, cheeky, wild - and they suffer from cancer. This bitter-sweet coming-of-age drama which is overshadowed by a fatal disease is from the renowned Spanish director Antonio Mercero and is based on Albert ...
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Pueblo Chico
Argentina | 2004 | 70 min. | OV with English s.t.
Like his debut, �El nadador inm�vil�, Fern�n Rudnik�s latest fi lm does not tread conventional paths. It is set on the remote beach of Pueblo Chico, which foreign investors would like to develop. The mayor opposes the plans, but only becomes aware of ...
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Paha Maa
Finland | 2005 | 130 min. | OV with English s.t.
A film adaptation by Roger Bresson (1983), as well as the original story from Tolstoy, served as inspiration for �Frozen Land�. The film is set in Helsinki and shows how a counterfeit banknote dramatically influences the lives of various people in th ...
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Paradise Now
France, Germany, Netherlands | 2005 | 91 min. | OV with German s.t.
Two Palestinian friends, Khaled and Said, have been chosen to perform a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The plan fails however, and they are forced to reschedule. The delay offers them an opportunity to reconsider and the suspense is almost unbearable a ...
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Papa
France | 2005 | 77 min. | OV with English s.t.
A Volvo, a father and an eight-year-old son is apparently all that is needed to make an excellent film. �Papa� is already being heralded as �film of the year� in France. The father (Alain Chabat) tries to conceal his pain by telling jokes and the son ...
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Pru Urvu
Israel | 2006 | 50 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Imagine this: you�ve been married for 26 years and for 25 years of your marriage you were pregnant or breast feeding. Because you, as a Jewish orthodox woman, serve God with your uterus. How does it feel to bring twelve, 16 children into the world? P ...
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Paulas Geheimnis
Germany | 2006 | 94 min. | OV
Paula is in love � with a fairytale prince, who only exists in her diary. Her fellow student Tobi loves to be her friend but is simply being ignored. When a children�s gang steals Paula�s diary, Tobi pursues the gang courageously and becomes Paula�s ...
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Portrecista
Poland | 2006 | 52 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
On 31 September 1940, Wilhelm Brasse, Polish soldier and portrait photographer, becomes inmate No. 3444 in Auschwitz. The SS made him photograph thousands of fellow inmates for the camp files. Now the 80-year-old Brasse was tracked down in the Carpat ...
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Put Lubenica
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2006 | 90 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A Chinese girl and a former Kroatian soldier with PTSS and a history of drug abuse are the heroes in this unusual love-story which takes its title from the sometimes lethal illegal immigrants trail cutting straight through the Balkans. Based on a re ...
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Palais royal!
France | 2006 | 110 min. | OV with German s.t.
The Queen is not amused. Or rather, she is pas amus�e, since she's very French and rather annoyed at daughter-in-law Armelle who allows her tiara to fall into the soup de peas. But Armelle is a speech therapist and came from rags to riches into the r ...
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Performer
United Kingdom | 2006 | 4 min. | OV
Background projection in every shot: A particular chase, a perpetual loop that you cannot escape from.
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Parinawa la ghobar
Irak, France | 2007 | 74' | OV with engl. st
Saddam Hussein is overthrown and unrest rules the day. Two Kurdish soldiers stumble upon a five-year-old, utterly alone. While Asad feels sorry for him, Rashid refuses to help, especially as the boy is called Saddam. Eventually they overcome their pr ...
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P�ginas del diario de Mauricio
Cuba | 2007 | 135' | OV with engl. st
As the rest of the world revels in the cool summer Olympics in Australia. Widower Mauricio celebrates his 60th birthday alone in Havana, reflecting on the crises that have rattled his life. He left his family to study in Moscow; now with the downfall ...
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Pr�te-moi ta main
France | 2007 | 89' | OV with engl. st
Perfumer Luis' (Alain Chabat) mother and sisters are set on seeing him get married. He develops a plan: he will present them with the perfect bride who will leave him before the altar. This should suffice to allow him to stay single henceforth. He fi ...
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Plac Zbawiciela
Poland | 2007 | 105' | OV with engl. st
In order to make their dream of an own apartment come true, Beata and Bartek borrow money from Bartek's mother Teresa. Then the real estate company goes bankrupt and the money is gone. A psychological battle full of domestic violence ensues between t ...
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P�rpados azules
Mexiko | 2007 | 98' | OV with engl. st
Employee Marina (Cecilia Su�rez) wins a ten-day dream voyage for two to the paradisiacal island of Playa Salamandra. As she is single, she decides to take her old school-friend Victor (Enrique Arroela), as introverted and lonely as she is herself. Bu ...
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Persepolis
France | 2007 | 96' | OV with german st
Marjane is a young girl when the Mullahs gain power in Iran, imprisoning thousands and forcing women to wear headscarves. But Marjane listens to punk music and Abba and shows interest in boys. Little does she realize how much she puts herself and her ...
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Polizeiruf 110 - Jenseits
Germany | 2007 | 89' | OV
How did little Timmi really die? Why would anyone murder him and run over this child just to make sure he's dead? His mother Nina is first sick with worry and then begins a bizarre fight with the people from forensics who refuse to let her see her de ...
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