24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
Reconstruction
Denmark | 2003 | 89 min. | OV with English s.t.
A perfectly staged surreal mystery, �Reconstruction� covers 24 hours in the life of the photographer, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kaas). Alex betrays his girlfriend (Maria Bonnevie) by seducing Aimee (also Bonnevie), who is married to an older novelist, August ...
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Rosen, Dornen und Tr�ume
Germany | 2003 | 75 min. | OV with German s.t.
The �House of Stage Veterans� in St. Petersburg is home to ninety-five retired actors, stage directors, dancers and opera singers. They continue to work and rehearse, putting on shows and concerts in the old people�s home. Hamburg documentary makers ...
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Return of the T�delband
Germany | 2003 | 82 min. | OV with German s.t.
Jens Huckeriede retraces the history of the Gebr�der Wolf, popular German-Jewish musichall artists of the early 20th century. His starting point is a visit by rap-artist and actor, Dan Wolf, from San Francisco to Hamburg, the city where his grandfath ...
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Ricordati di me
Italy | 2003 | 125 min. | OV with English s.t.
Teeny Valentina (Nicoletta Romanoff) learns the true meaning of the term �casting couch� at a casting date for �Superstars�. Her brother, Paolo (Silvio Muccino), doesn�t know what to do or who he is. Their frustrated mother (Laura Morante) joins a th ...
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Raja
France | 2003 | 112 min. | OV with English s.t.
Jacques Doillon returns to his favourite subject of love for this intensive emotional drama shot in Marrakesh. Beautiful young Raja (Najat Benssallem) lives on the streets. Fred (Pascal Greggory), a Frenchman in Morocco, takes her on as his housekeep ...
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Ranarna
Sweden | 2004 | 97 min. | OV German s.t.
The introverted police inspector Klara investigates a series of brutal bank robberies and finds herself involved in a case of life and death. When she attempts to rescue a child caught up in the crossfire, memories of her own child�s deat ...
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Room
USA | 2005 | 80 min. | OV
Julia Barker is an average, overworked mother-of-two. However, she has been suffering disturbing visions of an empty room for some time. Suddenly, she flees her previous life and heads for New York, where she is convinced she�ll find the ...
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Ru�evine
Slovenia | 2005 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
Theatre director Herman nostalgically invites everyone he has ever worked with, including his ex-lover, to take part in his new production. The rehearsals prove to be a nerve shredding tour-de-force of shattered dreams. Reality and drama become incre ...
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Raft�ci
Czech Republic | 2006 | 104 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Two kids spend horribly boring holidays with their parents until 12 girls appear on the scene and all hell breaks loose in the testosterone-driven world of Dany and Filip who can't believe their luck on one hand and are out of their depth on the othe ...
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Roi Rotze Lirkod
Israel | 2006 | 20 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Roi goes his one way against all prejudices.
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Red Road
United Kingdom | 2006 | 104 min. | OV
Advance Party is this year's Dogma. The story developed by from the directors Lone Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen unfolds in Glasgow where Jackie works in CCTV and discovers a guy on her videoscreen she had hoped she would never see again. She fol ...
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Romance & Cigarettes
USA | 2006 | 105 min. | OV with German & French s.t.
Great cast (from Susan Sarandon to Christopher Walken) and songs galore - director John Turturro calls this a "workingclass opera". Set in New York, is this the tale of an not all too ordinary family, where Daddy's infaturation with a flaming redhead ...
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Roots Germania
Germany | 2007 | 76' | OV with german st
43 million Germans know Mo Asumang, black TV presenter and actress. Some are her enemies: in one of their songs, neo-Nazi band White Aryan Rebels encourage her murder and tell her to go back to Africa. She takes them by their word and flies to Ghana; ...
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Rio Reiser: La� uns 'n Wunder sein
Germany | 2007 | 90' | OV
Eleven years after his death, Rio Reiser, lead singer of the legendary band "Ton Steine Scherben", still does not cease to fascinate filmmaker Stefan Paul. He pieces together old live material, a tribute concert and interviews with friends and musici ...
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Roma wa la n'touma
Algeria, France, Germany | 2007 | 111' | OV with engl. st
Kamel dreams of leaving Algeria with his girlfriend Zina and finding work in an Italian pizzeria. Zina has no papers and can only obtain them illegally. In what director Tariq Teguia describes as a "slow motion road movie", the pair ambles through st ...
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requiem f�r Frau H.
Germany | 2007 | 5' | OV
Unpathetic cinematic farewell to a deceased old lady. Shot in black and white. ...
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R�ves de Poussi�re
France, Canada, Burkina Faso | 2007 | 86' | OV with engl. st
Mocktar is a farmer from Nigeria who hopes to strike it rich in the gold mines of Burkina Faso. But he enters a hellhole of sand and wind. Greed has stripped the gold-seekers of their humanity and dignity, whole families are sacrificed to the pursuit ...
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Rozhovor s nepriatel'om
Slowak Republic | 2007 | 90' | OV with engl. st
Towards the end of WWII, a German soldier is ordered to kill a Slovakian freedom fighter. He spares him, but they both wind up before a Slovakian partisan war trial. Enemies that spare one another cannot be. A philosophical drama about confrontation. ...
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