24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
Calendar Girls
United Kingdom | 2003 | 108 min. | OV
Much to the horror of the main office in London, the Rylstone Women�s Institute in North Yorkshire is planning a very special fund-raising exercise for the local hospital in memory of Annie�s (Julie Walters) late husband: her friend Chris (Helen Mirr ...
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Die wilden Kerle
Germany | 2003 | 96 min. | OV
The "Devil's Pot" is the training ground of the "Wild Guys" and until this summer holiday it was exclusively their territory. The young soccer enthusiasts with their leader Leon only had one plan for the holidays - to play soccer. But a nasty continu ...
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Till Eulenspiegel
Germany | 2003 | 84 min. | OV
Boomtown celebrates little King Rupert's birthday with a big party - musicians, travelling entertainers and magicians included. But strange things are happening: Till Eulenspiegel's grandfather Marcus vanishes for good during a magic trick and the to ...
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Kaante
India | 2003 | 195 min. | OV with English s.t.
Six hit men with a single aim: to pull off the perfect crime. When their planned heist turns out to be a trap, it is clear that one of them must be a cop. But which one? �Kaante� is the first Indian film shot entirely outside India, in New York. The ...
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Amons Tochter
Germany | 2003 | 80 min. | OV
Amon G�th was a mass murderer. As the commander of Plaszow concentration camp, he killed prisoners at will, shooting them from the balcony of his villa overlooking the camp. His
daughter, Monika, was born in 1945, by which time her father had been h ...
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Den Talende Muse
Denmark | 2003 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
With her huge eyes, thin lips, mask-like face and her slim, boyish figure, Asta Nielsen was the first big screen diva. She starred in 74 films from 1920 to 1932. This documentary shows archive footage from various periods in her life (she died in 197 ...
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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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Natale sul Nilo
Italy | 2003 | 106 min. | OV with English s.t.
Neri Parenti�s Italian box-office hit �Natale sul Nilo� sold over four million tickets in Italy between Christmas 2002 and Easter 2003. It is a fast-moving boulevard comedy in which a host of characters, including a widowed police chief and his 15-ye ...
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Zona Zamfirova
Yugoslavia | 2003 | 97 min. | OV with English s.t.
Based on a novel by Stevan Sremac, �Zona� is a Romeo-and-Juliet-type story set in the ancient town of Nis in the late 19th century. Goldsmith Mane (Vojin C�etkovic�) and the beautiful Zona (Katarina Radivojevic�) are made for each other, but Zona�s w ...
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De Gr�nne Slagtere
Denmark | 2003 | 95 min. | OV with English s.t.
Bjarne (Shooting Star, Nikolaj Lie Kaas) and Svend (Mads Mikkelsen) are buddies and butchers. Svend is ambitious but has a marked inferiority complex, while Bjarne doesn�t really give a damn about anything � except his girlfriend,
Astrid (Line Kruse ...
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Wisegirls
USA | 2003 | 96 min. | OV with German s.t.
Women against the Mob: Meg (Mira Sorvino), Kate (Melora Walters) and Rachel (Mariah Carey) all work as waitresses in a New York restaurant. While the pragmatic Kate and the
shy Rachel are able to shut their eyes to the Mafia dealings going on there, ...
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El Ultimo Tren
Argentine, Spain, Uruguay | 2003 | 93 min. | OV with German s.t.
Three veterans of the �Friends of the Rail Association� in Uruguay are livid: a Hollywood studio has bought up the historical steam engine, �Heart of Fire�. Proclaiming �Our national heritage is not for sale!�, the professor with a heart condition (H ...
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part I: The Moab Story
United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Luxembourg a.o. | 2003 | 127 min. | OV
Part one of Greenaway�s multi-media project, �The Tulse Luper Suitcases�, to encompass films, a TV series, books, the internet and 92 DVDs, each filled with the contents of one of the suitcases packed by adventurer Tulse Luper (JJ Feild) on his trave ...
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Alpengl�hen
Germany | 2003 | 88 min. | OV
Rosa Mayrhofer (Christiane H�rbiger) lives high up in the Alps, and makes wonderful chocolates. She comes down from her mountain to participate in an international confectionery competition in Hamburg, where she meets the
attractive (but almost penn ...
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Goldfish Memory
Ireland | 2003 | 85 min. | OV
When Clara (Fiona O�Shaughnessy) catches her boyfriend Tom (Sean Campion) kissing Isolde (Fiona Glascott), she starts seeing Dublin�s men through different eyes. Tom might now be more interested in Angie (Ireland�s 2003 Shooting Star, Flora Montgomer ...
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Nafas-E Amigh
Iran | 2003 | 82 min. | OV with English s.t.
Award-winning director and screenwriter Parviz Shahbazi�s third film is a coming-of-age drama and a frank, naturalistic portrait of the younger generation of Iranis. Mansur (Mansour Shahbazi) and Kamran (Saeid Amini) drift aimlessly from day to day, ...
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Hoy y ma�ana
Argentine | 2003 | 87 min. | OV with English s.t.
The gutter is closer than you think. And a lot can happen between Today and Tomorrow. Set against a background of economic crisis in Argentine, Alejandro Chomski�s debut film tells the story of Paula (Antonella Costa), a young
woman from a middle-cl ...
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Kops
Sweden, Denmark | 2003 | 90 min. | OV with German s.t.
Over a million people have been to see this film in Sweden, a country with a population of 8.6 million. H�gbotr�sk is a sleepy provincial town where the police spend their days knitting and killing time. When head office in Stockholm
announces the i ...
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Der M�rder ist unter uns
Germany | 2003 | 88 min. | OV
Criminal psychologist Bach (Christoph Waltz) and state prosecutor Stein (Susanne Sch�fer) reopen an old case, convinced that the sex murderer sentenced nine years ago is innocent. But in the village where another similar crime has
since taken place, ...
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Night at the Golden Eagle
USA | 2003 | 87 min. | OV
Two stories on an extremely hot day in L. A.: in one, ex-cons, Tommy (Donnie Montemarano) and Mic (Vinny Argiro), think they have a fresh chance, with the offer of a great job in Vegas. In the other, a pimp, Rodan (Vinnie Jones), and a streetwalker, ...
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Hafi�
Iceland | 2003 | 104 min. | OV with English s.t.
After the success of his debut, �101 Reykjavik�, Baltasar Korm�kur here turns his talent for breakneck comedy, dark dramatics and sharp sarcasm to a family saga in the fishing world with a film that received eight Icelandic Film
Prizes. �The Sea� le ...
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Die, Mommie Die!
USA | 2003 | 89 min. | OV
Mark Rucker�s debut film is an homage to the melodramas of the sixties which starred ageing heroines such as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, while brilliantly maintaining the
balance between comedy and melodrama. Former Hollywood diva, Angela Arden ( ...
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Any Way the Wind Blows
Belgium | 2003 | 127 min. | OV with English s.t.
Former Belgian rock band dEUS front-man Tom Barman�s directorial debut is a film about a group of eight singles. On a hot Friday afternoon in Antwerp, they are all getting ready to go to a party. The most remarkable of them is Windman (Sam Louwyck), ...
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Onna Rihatsushi No Koi
Japan | 2003 | 103 min. | OV with English s.t.
A young man travelling through a town in Northern Japan falls in love with a hairdresser. She is, however, married � to a notorious gambler. In an act of desperation, the stranger kidnaps her to rescue her from her husband. Scared at coming too close ...
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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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Na v�gre itt a ny�r!
Hungary | 2003 | 97 min. | OV with English s.t.
Every year the grandchildren spent their summer holiday in the country at their grandparent's house. The children between six and sixteen love this holiday not least because of the unusual ideas their grandparents, who formerly were circus clowns, te ...
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Karlik Nos
Russia | 2003 | 82 min. | OV with English s.t.
A new adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff's well-known fairy tale. The evil witch has selected the shoemaker's son Jacob for her sinister plans. She takes advantage of his helpfulness to lure him into her castle. When Jacob refuses to serve her, the witch ro ...
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Abjad
Iran | 2003 | 110 min. | OV with English s.t.
In the 1970s in the deeply religious town of Saveh, a two hours� drive from Tehran, 16-year old Emkan (Mehdi Morady) dreams of music, art and literature, but none of these activities is permitted. Ejected from the mosque for sketching, his father bur ...
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Donna Leon - Venezianisches Finale
Germany | 2003 | 86 min. | OV
In the interval before the final act of La Traviata at the Venice opera house, La Fenice, worldfamous German conductor Helmut Wellauer (Rudolf Wessely) is found dead. A difficult case for Commissario Guido Brunetti (Uwe Kockisch). The dead man leaves ...
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4 Freunde und 4 Pfoten - Ein tierisches Abenteuer
Germany | 2003 | 76 min. | OV
10-year-old Robby is glad to find some friends right after he has moved into the new neighbourhood: Alexander, his little sister Lilly and Hedwig. All of them are having trouble with that mean caretaker Franz Bommer and that welds together. The four ...
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Elephant
USA | 2003 | 81 min. | OV
Winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes, 2003. Director Gus van Sant here turns his hand to a highly explosive topic: a high-school shooting.
Shot in a semi-documentary, lyrical style, van Sant�s camera floats down the school corridors, showing the ever ...
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Play
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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Engelein
Germany | 2003 | 1617 meter / ca. 60 min. | OV / without dialogues
Asta Nielsen had long wanted to play the part of a child, and her husband and director, Urban Gad, fulfilled that wish with �Engelein� (Little Angel, 1913). Nielsen plays the part of 17-year old Jesta, who has to pretend to her rich uncle (Max Landa) ...
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Die arme Jenny
Germany | 2003 | 858 meter / ca. 40 min. | OV / without dialogues
Originally prohibited by the censors, it is today difficult to see what could have caused such offence when �Die arme Jenny� (Poor Jenny) was released in 1912. Asta Nielsen plays a simple girl who falls prey to an elegant seducer and
then pays for t ...
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Die Sch�nste aus Bitterfeld
Germany | 2003 | 90 min. | OV
Bitterfeld, GDR, spring 1989. Chemical factory worker Gisela (Astrid Meyerfeldt) � three children from three different fathers, an ex-boyfriend (Oliver Korittke) and a girlfriend preparing to head for the West � won�t be deterred: she is determined t ...
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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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Szerelemt�l S�jtva
Hungary | 2003 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
24-year-old Eva (Patr�cia Kov�cs) lives in the apartment which was once her deceased parents�. For more than eleven years, she has been the lover of her adopted father, Tibor (G�bor M�t�). Tam�s Sas� disturbing psychodrama centres on Eva during a few ...
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The Stroll
Russia | 2003 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
�I had the idea for �The Stroll� on New Year�s Eve in Prague,� says screenwriter, Dunya Smirnova, �when I suddenly realized how similar 22-yearold Germans, French, Italians and Russians are.� The three characters we see are Russians, out for a walk i ...
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The United States of Leland
USA | 2003 | 108 min. | OV
Produced by Kevin Spacey, who also features in a central role, this film tells the story of the young murderer Leland Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling), imprisoned in a juvenile detention facility for killing a retarded boy. Here he comes
into contact with ...
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The Night We Called it a Day
United Kingdom, Australia | 2003 | 97 | OV
In 1974, troubled Australian concert promoter, Rod Blue (Joel Edgerton), takes one big gamble to save his skin and persuades Frank Sinatra (Dennis Hopper) to go on tour in Australia. But when Sinatra insults a journalist at the opening press conferen ...
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Conspiracy of Silence
United Kingdom | 2003 | 87 min. | OV
Inspired by a true story, debut director John Deery tells a controversial tale of a young Irish priest, Daniel (Jonathan Forbes), accused of homosexual practice following another priest�s suicide. Forced to leave the seminary, he
returns to his home ...
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Effroyables jardins
France | 2003 | 95 min. | OV with English s.t.
Lucien�s (Damien Jouillerot) adolescent problems with his father (Jacques Villeret) are cast in a new light when his father�s best friend (Andr� Dussollier) tells him the story of how he and his father were faced with being executed when caught in a ...
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Thirteen
USA/United Kingdom | 2003 | 100 min. | OV
The relationship between 13-year-old Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) and her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter), is put to the test when Tracy becomes acquainted with sex, drugs and petty
crime through her �cool� friend, Evie (Nikki Reed). A close, uncompromis ...
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Tod im Park
Germany | 2003 | 89 min. | OV
As a child, police psychologist Hannah Schwarz (Barbara Rudnik), escaped with her mother from East Germany to the West. When her father, Leo, a former police inspector, gets in touch with her after a 30-year interval, she travels back to Schwerin. Ha ...
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A Good Night to Die
USA | 2003 | 98 min. | OV
Two hit men in New York � but each of an entirely different calibre. The one, Ronnie (Gary Stretch), is elegantly British and professional; the other, August (Michael Rappaport) is nothing but trouble. August has become a real
problem for some of th ...
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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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Neko No Ongaeshi
Japan | 2003 | 75 min. | OV with English s.t.
When the girl Haru saves the life of a cat on a busy street, she cannot foresee what unusual events are set into motion by this. The fortunate animal is nobody less than cat prince Lune from the mythical kingdom of the cats. On the very next day Haru ...
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Afgrunden
Denmark | 2003 | 95 min. | OV with English s.t.
In 1964 a young film director (Ole Lemmeke)sets out to make a documentary about the almost forgotten silent film goddess Asta Nielsen (played by 87-year-old Vera Gebuhr).
The film star welcomes him with open arms, but the further he penetrates behin ...
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Dann kamst Du
Germany | 2003 | 86 min. | OV
TV presenter Corinna (Katharina B�hm) has got over her last boyfriend with the help of her gay friend, B�b� (Jophie Ries) and her Granny (Gisela Trowe), and now has eyes for men again. Her Granny might be long dead, but in Corinna�s imagination she l ...
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Dogville
Denmark, France, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands | 2003 | 178 min. | OV
The most hotly disputed film at this year�s Cannes Festival, �Dogville� is set in a small town in the Rocky Mountains during the Depression. Nicole Kidman plays the part of Grace, a mysterious stranger on the run from the mob and granted leave by the ...
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In America
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 ...
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Gesichter einer Probe
Germany | 2003 | 21 min. | OV / without dialogues
Reality strikes back: This is not Federico Fellini's fictious Orchestra Rehearsal (1978), but a real rehearsal. Brahm's opus 8 performed by the Eurus Trio. ...
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On The Nose
Canada, Ireland | 2003 | 100 min. | OV with German s.t.
Robbie Coltrane stars in this entertaining comedy as the Dublin college janitor, Brendan, whose love of the horses has taken his family to the verge of ruin. Having sworn to give up his habit, he comes across an old Aborigine skull
in a college cupb ...
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G�nderilmemiş Mektuplar
Turkey | 2003 | 111 min. | OV with English s.t.
Yusuf Kur�enli�s drama centres on the tragic love story between Cem (Kadir Inanir) and G�lfem (T�rkan Soray), set against a turbulent political background. Cem returns home to his dying father, having fled the area years ago and
had himself reported ...
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Between Strangers
Canada, Italy, USA | 2003 | 95 min. | OV with German s.t.
For Sophia Loren, it is her 100th screen appearance, while her son, 29-year-old Edoardo Ponti, here makes his debut as screenwriter and director.
The film centres on the lives of three women from the same neighbourhood in Toronto. Olivia (Sophia Lor ...
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Chamesh Dakot Be-Halicha
Israel | 2003 | 85 min. | OV with English s.t.
Four year�s labour, his apartment turned into a movie set, borrowed money, three failed relationships: young Israeli director Itai Lev put everything he had into making his debut film. Shot in black and white, it tells of love, trust, horror and dece ...
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Bella Block - Das Gegenteil von Liebe
Germany | 2003 | 92 min. | OV
When two red-headed boys are found dead within a short space of time, Inspector Bella Block (Hannelore Hoger) and her team come under pressure to come up with some results.
Bella starts to show the strain, particularly as she is having problems at h ...
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A Selva
Portugal | 2003 | 104 min. | OV with English s.t.
Set in Brazil in 1912, �A Selva� tells the story of
Portuguese monarchist Alberto (Diogo Morgado) who goes into exile on a rubber plantation in the heart of the Brazilian jungle, where he is confronted with the social squalor in which the workers ar ...
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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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Emma och Daniel - M�tet
Sweden | 2003 | 85 min. | OV with English s.t.
Since the death of her mother 12-year-old Emma has been living alone with her father Anders up in the north of Sweden. In that secluded region the mail is brought by helicopter. Emma still mourns her mother and is not enthusiastic at all when her fat ...
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Carandiru
Brasil | 2003 | 148 min. | OV with English s.t.
The overcrowded �Carandiru� prison with its 7000 prisoners is slap bang in the centre of S�o Paulo. In a series of episodes loosely linked by the figure of the prison doctor, Drauzio (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos), Hector Babenco shows an
apocalyptic wor ...
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Hamangalistim
Israel | 2003 | 102 min. | OV with English s.t.
Independence Day, 1988, in Israel. Barbecuing in the park is a family tradition for Haim (Victor Ida) and his wife, Naima (Raymonde Abecasis). The party forms the backdrop for a look at the different people�s desires and the conflicts in this Iraqi-J ...
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Ich liebe das Leben
Germany | 2003 | 93 min. | OV
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 ...
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100 + Eyes
USA | 2003 | 9 min. | OV
Short film at its shortest. 8.5 seconds packed full of insight. Blink and you'll miss it. ...
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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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Empire - Two Worlds Collide
USA | 2003 | 90 min. | OV with German s.t.
Victor Rosa (John Leguizamo) is a tough drug dealer who controls the South Bronx streets, where his runners push the popular heroin-mix, �Empire�. A successful Wall Street broker, Jack Wimmer (Peter Sarsgaard), offers him a promising deal and the opp ...
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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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Gori Vatra
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2003 | 105 min. | OV with English s.t.
Teshanj is a town in Bosnia with a market place, pleasant people and traditions. But beneath the surface there is ethnic intolerance, criminality, prostitution and corruption. The news that US President Clinton will visit the town and be made an hono ...
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Vivre me tue
France/Germany | 2003 | 86 min. | OV with English s.t.
Following Sinapi�s celebrated debut, �Nationale 7�, this is a tale of second-generation outsiders. Paul (Sami Bouajila) and his younger brother, Daniel (Jalil Lespert), of Moroccan descent, were born and raised in France. Despite a good education, Pa ...
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Tatort: V�ter
Germany | 2003 | 90 min. | OV
The latest film in a long-running police series. In this episode, set in Kiel, the central character is Inspector Klaus Borowski (Axel Milberg). Having narrowly escaped being suspended for his unorthodox investigation methods, Borowski is called to t ...
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Kleine Freiheit
Germany | 2003 | 99 min. | OV with German s.t.
The 16-year-old boys, Baran (Cagdas Bozkurt), from Kurdistan and Chernor (Leroy Delmar), from Africa, are illegal immigrants living in Hamburg. Chernor is a small-time drug dealer, while Baran works in a snack bar in St. Pauli. One day Baran encounte ...
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The Principles of Lust
United Kingdom | 2003 | 108 min. | OV
A party guest desirously licking a woman�s feet. � A naked man imprisoned in an aquarium struggling for air. � A bloody fistfight between two 11-year-olds, with their unscrupulous fathers taking bets on the winner. An uncompromising look at a group o ...
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Fernweh
Germany | 2003 | 12 min. | without dialogue
He has never left his village, she travels the globe. When they meet, the world takes on a different look in this atmospheric black and white short drama. ...
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Her Majesty
New Zealand | 2003 | 105 min. | OV
New Zealand 1953. 13-year-old Elizabeth is an ardent admirer of the young Queen of England. The girl dreams of actually meeting her namesake some day. What a wonderful surprise that the queen plans a visit to New Zealand, including Elizabeth's hometo ...
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Die Klasse von
Germany | 2003 | 93 min. | OV
Based on the motto, �School was yesterday � life is now!�, director Marco Petry�s �Class of 99� is a sensitive film about friendship and love, trust and loyalty, centred on a group of young people in a small German town who finished
school three yea ...
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Ich back mir einen Mann
Germany | 2003 | 92 min. | OV
�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 ...
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The Gathering Storm
United Kingdom, USA | 2003 | 120 min. | OV
He was a politician, writer (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953) and painter: England�s most famous prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965). In this film biography, director Richard Loncraine concentrates
on the period betwee ...
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Wo ist Zuhause
Germany, France | 2003 | 52 min. | OV
At the age of twenty, Bettina Clasen left her home city of Hamburg and moved to Paris. She wanted to find out �where the world, my world� is, but without knowing what she was looking for. Twenty years later, she returns to Hamburg, and starts a new s ...
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Die Fabrik
France/Germany | 2003 | 22 min. | OV with English & French s.t.
The smart way of fighting the economical crises: employees of a brewery sell their sperm to prevent the factory from going bankrupt. ...
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Neko No Ongaeshi
Japan | 2003 | 75 min. | OV with English s.t.
An animated film from the Japanese Ghibli Studios, �The Cat Returns� is the story of a teenage girl, Haru, who saves a cat�s life, only to discover that he is Prince Lune from the legendary Kingdom of Cats. Haru is invited to accompany him there in g ...
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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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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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The Other Final
Netherlands | 2003 | 70 min. | OV
June 30th, 2002. The eyes of the world are focussed on Yokohama, where Brazil will play Germany in the World Cup Final. Meanwhile, in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, 22000 spectators gather to watch the �Other Final� � between
the two countries at t ...
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Fear X
Denmark | 2003 | 91min. | OV
Security guard Harry Cain�s (John Turturro) wife is killed by a stray bullet during a robbery at the shopping mall where Harry is employed. Convinced that there is more to the case than meets the eye, Harry sets out on the trail of a dubious cop (Jam ...
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Un Homme sans l�Occident
France | 2003 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
�Black and white underlines the simplicity of my story,� states the world-famous photographer and film-maker, Raymond Depardon. Loosely based on a novel by Diego Brosset,
Depardon�s film takes us to the Sahara desert and its nomad inhabitants. The y ...
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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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Don�t Forget
Germany | 2003 | 9 min. | OV
In this comedy, the act of cleaning up the apartment has some surprises in store. After all, the heroine has locked herself in and a male choir drops by..... ...
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Antikiller
Russia | 2003 | 110 min. | OV with English s.t.
Former criminal investigator, Major �Fox� Korenev (Yuri �Gosha� Kutsenko), returns to Moscow having spent several years in a prison camp for using illegal methods of investigation.
He finds a city in a state of lawlessness, run by the mob, and when ...
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Northern Star
Germany | 2003 | 82 min. | OV
29-year-old Felix Randau�s debut film is a coming-of-age story. Anke (Julia Hummer) is an 18-year-old outsider whose life is overshadowed by her father�s suicide when she was five. She blames his death on her mother (Lena Stolze). The news that her m ...
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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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Arven
Denmark | 2003 | 107 min. | OV with German s.t.
Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen) is heir to a Danish steel company in the fourth generation. He married in Sweden and has a restaurant in Stockholm. When his father dies, his mother (Ghita N�rby) insists that he return and take
over the company. To the ...
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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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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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Tadpole
USA | 2003 | 78 min. | OV
Oscar Grubmann (Aaron Stanford) is 15, speaks fluent French, is an expert on Voltaire, and completely obsessed with the opposite sex. �Tadpole� Oscar is madly in love with Eve (Sigourney Weaver), a woman in her midforties, who happens to have married ...
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Jayee Deegar
Iran | 2003 | 84 min. | OV with English s.t.
Mehdi Karampour describes his debut film as a �mixture of drama, cartoon and clip, an experiment in form and context�. Five characters are stuck on an island, from where they hope to escape to �somewhere else�, the utopia of their dreams. Dr. Tavussi ...
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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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Tes�
Hungary | 2003 | 85 min. | OV / English s.t.
A high-rise development on the outskirts of Budapest, home to 23-year-old music freak, Artin (G�bor Welker), and his brother, Nate (Zolt�n Schmied), a porn writer obsessed with
sex. This is where they hang out with their buddies, smoking, drinking, ...
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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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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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Anruf nach Afrika
Germany | 2003 | 20 min. | OV
Human drama: Little black Marvin has to call his mum in Africa. But the hospitality in Hamburg seems as cold as the weather. ...
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Se til venstre, der er en svensker
Denmark | 2003 | 89 min. | OV with English s.t.
On the day before she marries, Katrine (Sidse Babett Knudsen) sets off across Copenhagen to find something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue, accompanied by her sister Mette�s (Lotte Andersen) ex-boyfriend, Thomsen (Bj�rn Kjel ...
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Himmelfahrt
Germany | 2003 | 13 min. | OV with English s.t.
Black comedy about two unlike brothers who fulfill their promise to their Polish granny to get her to grandpa's funeral. Unfortunately, dies right before crossing the border... but a promise is a promise. ...
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Auf kleiner Fahrt
Germany | 2003 | 3 min. |
The very heart of Hamburg presented in a fast-moving collection of unusual sights and sounds: the harbour as a 2-minute-and-30-second audiovisual sightseeing event. ...
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50 Euro
Germany | 2003 | 6 min. | OV
Slice of life: Three fans of Hamburg's St. Pauli soccer team celebrate in the city's red light district. A one-night stand brings a surprise to one of them. ...
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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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Der Dorfsheriff
Germany | 2003 | 12 min. | OV
Measure for measure: In this comedy, getting revenge takes all day for the village cop. But while there is life, there is hope. ...
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Eject
Germany | 2003 | 12 min. | OV with English s.t.
Necessity knows no justice: Cinematic story of down-and-out-film-makers using public surveillance cameras for filming and stealing the tapes. ...
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Alla fine de la notte
Italy | 2003 | 93 min. | OV with English s.t.
Actor and director Bruno (Ennio Fantastichini) is a celebrated man, but he�s caught up in a serious midlife-crisis. �The film is the story of a man who, at the age of 50, decides to face the demons that possess him,� says director Salvatore Piscicell ...
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Sa-rin-eui Chu-eok
Korea | 2003 | 127 min. | OV with English s.t.
Based on the true story of South Korea�s first serial killer, Bong has composed a fascinatingly atmospheric thriller with touches of black humour. Between 1986 and 1991, ten women were brutally murdered south of Seoul. The victims included both schoo ...
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Summer with the ghosts
Canada, Austria | 2003 | 85 min. | German Version
A Canadian director shoots a film at the castle Finsterstein in Austria. His 10-year-old daughter Caroline joins him during her holidays and passes the time partly on the set. It is actually quite boring there, since she is always in the way and nobo ...
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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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Wie krieg ich meine Mutter gro�?
Germany | 2003 | 86 min. | OV
Ginger (Katja Flint), a single mother, lives and works as a waitress in a trendy part of Hamburg. The last thing she hopes to find is a father to her 14-year-old daughter Nico and her 5-year-old son Max. When she starts an affair with Nico�s dancing ...
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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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Taxi 3
France | 2003 | 84 min. | OV with German s.t.
Daniel (Samy Naceri), the Marseilles taxi driver who has already successfully maneouvred his way past evil Germans in �Taxi 1� and evil Japanese in �Taxi 2�, now takes on some evil Chinese in this high-paced action movie produced
and scripted by Luc ...
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Vert Paradis
France | 2003 | 98 min. | OV with English s.t.
Lucas (Denis Podalyd�s), Isabelle (Natacha R�gnier) and Simon (Clovis Cornillac) grew up in the same village. Isabelle and Simon used to be a couple. Then she left for Paris, where Lucas now also tries to make a living, while Simon has taken over his ...
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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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Die fremde Frau
Germany | 2003 | 91 min. | OV
Alexander (Ulrich Tukur), the creative head of the Brandenburg dynasty of jewellers, lives the satisfied life of the upper class in Hamburg with his wife, Konstanze (Judith Engel). Then one day he falls for the mysterious Helen (Corinna Harfouch). Po ...
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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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Equestrian
Netherlands | 2003 | 4 min. | without dialogue
Rotterdam time slices: An experimental composition of fairytale-like pictures of a horsewoman shot simultanously by 32 digital video camneras. ...
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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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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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Die Souvenirs des Herrn X
Austria, Germany | 2004 | 98 min. | OV with English s.t.
A filmmaker comes across an unknown hobby film-maker�s Super-8 fi lms at a fleamarket and sets out in search of the man who made them. In the process, he slips deeper and deeper into the world of amateur filmmakers, who have their own sub-culture wit ...
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Einmal so wie ich will
Germany | 2004 | 87 min. | OV
On holiday in Africa, Emma (Senta Berger) leaves her husband after an argument and ends up on an ostrich farm run by the gruff German emigrant, John (G�tz George) and his daughter (Jeanette Hain). Emma, whose life has been held together by middle-cla ...
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Terkel i knibe
Denmark | 2004 | 78 min. | OV with English s.t.
TERKEL IN TROUBLE Anarchic humour combines with topquality
3D-animation from Denmark in this mixture of motion capture,
traditional CG animation and brilliant compositing. The fi lm�s hero is 11-year-old Terkel. His classmates make fun of him ...
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Black Friday
India | 2004 | 161 min. | OV with English s.t.
BLACK FRIDAY When fanatical Hindus destroyed the Babri
Mosque in Ayodhya in northern India in 1992, battles ensued between Hindu and Moslem communities all over India. Only three weeks later, a series of bombings put Bombay into a state of emergency ...
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In the Land of Milk and Money
USA | 2004 | 90 min. | OV
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 ...
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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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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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Sakenine Sarzamine Sokoot
Iran | 2004 | 70 min. | OV with Englisch s.t.
FROM LAND OF SILENCE Two young brothers in an inhospitable
region in the Iranian steppes survive by doing „dirty“ jobs - feeding opium to camels carrying smuggled goods across the desert, stealing oil and petrol from the trucks at ...
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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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S�perseks
Germany | 2004 | 96 min. | OV
S�PERSEKS 23-year-old Elvis (Denis Moschitto) comes up with a crazy way of making the 30,000 euros he has to repay his uncle - „S�perseks“, the first Turkish-speaking telephone sex hotline. It is an immediate success. But then ...
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Cautiva
Argentina | 2004 | 108 min. | OV with English s.t.
CAPTIVE Having worked for years as a sound editor in Hollywood, Gast�n Biraben�s directorial debut takes him back to his home country of Argentina. 15-year-old Cristina is taken from her Catholic boarding school to discover that her parents were left ...
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Aaltra
Belgium | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
Ben and Gus (played by the film�s directors) live in the same village and hate each other. But they have one thing in common: they are both paralysed from the waist down after an accident with a farming machine. In their wheelchairs, they set off for ...
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Ira Madiyama
Sri Lanka | 2004 | 108 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
�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. ...
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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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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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Or
Israel, Frankreich | 2004 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
OR 17-year-old Or is trying to get her mother, who works as a prostitute, off the streets. Or does everything she can to avoid her mother’s fate, which fi lm-maker and political activist Keren Yedaya describes as „the
worst form of ...
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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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In Oranje
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- ...
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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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Boldog Sz�let�snapot
Hungary | 2004 | 99 min. | OV with English s.t
Budapest music teacher Andr�s is turning
30, but has none of the things he always felt he should have at that age: no wife, no car, no house, no children. Instead, he lives with his mother and walks everywhere… With a whirlwind of visual ideas ...
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Hip Hip Hora!
Sweden | 2004 | 91 min | OV with English s.t.
13-year-old Sofie and her best friends Emma and Amanda have made it: They are finally attending high school and will thus enter the realm of cool parties, new friends and cute boys!
As a matter of fact, the three manage to get invited to the coolest ...
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Kajmak in Marmelada
Slovenia | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t,
CHEESE AND JAM Actor Branko Djuric, known to an international audience through his performance in Kusturica�s �Time of the Gypsies�, makes a powerful and emotional debut as screenwriter and director.
The unemployed Bosnian, Bozo, lives with his Slov ...
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Dear Enemy
Albania, Germany, France | 2004 | 92 min. | OV with Englisch s.t..
DEAR ENEMY Following the success of �Slogans�, Gjergj Xhuvani�s new film delves deeper into his home country�s history. It tells the true story of the director�s grandfather, who became friendly with a German officer during the German occ ...
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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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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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Babae sa Breakwater
Philippines | 2004 | 124 min. | OV with English s.t.
WOMAN OF BREAKWATER In search of a better life, Basilio
(Kristoffer King) ends up on the rubbish-filled beach of Manila, where social outcasts live from fi shing and collecting fl otsam and jetsam, or garbage from the beach. Here h ...
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Achtung, fertig, Charlie!
Switzerland, Germany | 2004 | 88 min. | OV with english s.t.
READY, STEADY, CHARLIE! The first ever Swiss teen
military comedy! Snatched from the wedding altar by military police to do his military service, Antonio (European Shooting Star Michael Koch) is prepared to go to any lengths to get himself thr ...
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Vieraalla Maalla
Finland | 2004 | 92 min. | OV with English s.t.
A Finnish romantic comedy bursting with passion, laughs and vices. To fi nd out how foreigners are treated in Finland, Tuomas (Ville Haapasalo is more popular in Russia than in his home country of Finland) borrows the identity of his friend Omar, fro ...
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Tatort - M�rchenwald
Germany | 2004 | 89 min. | OV
Police inspector Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtw�ngler) is faced with a mystery about love, guilt and revenge, deep in the �Fairytale Forest�, where a young man has been shot from behind. Was the dead man wanted for robbery?
Was the shot meant for s ...
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Tudo Isto � Fado
Portugal, Brasil, Luxembourg | 2004 | 101 min. | OV with English s.t.
FADO BLUES Lu�s Galv�o Teles� latest film is a life-affirming crime comedy with new faces: the Portuguese Amadeu (European Shooting Star �ngelo Torres) and the Brazilian Leonardo (Danton Mello) are small-time criminals whose motto is �Crime means equ ...
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Croatia | 2004 | 85 min. | OV with English s.t.
HERE Six stories, seemingly unrelated. A dozen fi gures drifting along, their lives touching each other, moving apart again. A pensioner, an exsoldier, a junkie � all people on the fringes of society, stuck in hopeless
situations with an uncertain f ...
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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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Tid til forandring
Denmark | 2004 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
WHAT�S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Lotte Svendsen�s
latest fi lm is an ironic look at the comfortable Danish life. A week in the life of Inge, desperate to get her house into a lifestyle glossy; Erik, her husband, having to drink his wine in the ...
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Wilby Wonderful
Canada | 2004 | 99 min. | OV
WILBY WONDERFUL A normal Thursday in the Canadian island
town of Wilby: real-estate agent Carol is selling her late mother-in-law’s house to the mayor, while her husband is putting the moves on the nextdoor neighbour. Then there’s Duck, ...
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Fyra Nyanser av Brunt
Sweden, Denmark | 2004 | 192 min. | OV with English s.t.
A 192-minute epic with surprising visual effects, which presents Sweden as a universally valid human nightmare. Four storylines are interwoven: a successful man meets his fate in the form of a small wooden fi gure; a father and son bury a pet; a grou ...
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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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Tatort - Verlorene T�chter
Germany | 2004 | 89 min. | OV
The murder of a 14-year-old girl takes Hamburg police inspector Casstorff (Robert Atzorn) and his team (Tilo Pr�ckner, Julia Schmidt) into the city�s social troublespots. The suspects are as young as the victim:
lost daughters, cold-hearted girls fr ...
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Casablanca Driver
France | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
CASABLANCA DRIVER A burlesque, fast-moving „mockumentary“
about Casablanca Driver, the world’s worst boxer in 1969, when the film is set. A chain of unfortunate circumstances leads to the fi ghter at the bottom of the world ranking ...
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Nacktschnecken
Austria | 2004 | 86 min. | OV with English s.t.
SLUGS �A playful sex comedy,� is how director Michael Glawogger describes his latest fi lm. Three student drop-outs from Graz take up the offer of shooting an amateur porno fi lm, hoping for plenty of money, sexual
adventure and fun. But ...
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Born Rich
USA | 2004 | 75. min. | OV
BORN RICH „One day my uncle took me into Grand Central Station and said: This is yours,“ says a young man, clearly embarrassed. This interview film by Jamie Johnson, millionaire heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, looks at the problems ...
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Buena Vida Delivery
Argentina | 2004 | 94 min. | OV with English s.t.
BUENA VIDA DELIVERY Leonardo Di Cesare�s directorial debut
is a parable about the survival of the increasingly impoverished middle classes in Argentina. The story of Hernan, a courier, who thinks he has found a nice new girlfriend, only to end up wi ...
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The Football Factory
United Kingdom | 2004 | 90 min | OV
THE FOOTBALL FACTORY Nick Love�s big-screen debut is a
controversial fi lm on British football hooligans. Tommy (Danny Dyer) is a Chelsea fan who spends every Saturday in a cloud of tear-gas, punch-ups, drugs and alcohol. Before the game again ...
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Survive Styles 5+
Japan | 2004 | 120 min. | OV with English s.t.
SURVIVE STYLE 5+ „This film is made like a commercial,“
says award-winning advertising director and feature-fi lm debutant Gen Sekiguchi. „My aim is to show all audiences that there are strange films in Japan!R ...
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Tatort - Stirb und werde
Germany | 2004 | 89 min. | OV
Police Inspector Borowski (Axel Milberg) is faced with the biggest challenge of his career. A serial killer, whose motto is �Die and Live On�, has already claimed two victims, found embalmed. Then a third body is discovered. When a young boy disappea ...
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Blind Flight
United Kingdom | 2004 | 92 min. | OV
Two men in a prison cell, day and night. Based on the true story of an Irish teacher and an English journalist who were kidnapped and held hostage by Lebanese terrorists and forced to share a cell for four years. As they live through darkness and lig ...
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Dar De Nuevo
Argentina | 2004 | 83 min. | OV with Englisch s.t.
DEAL AGAIN Four pensioners from Venado Tuerto, a small town in the province of Santa Fe in Argentina, meet regularly to play truco or boccia. The desolate state of the country�s economy leads them to come up with the idea of kidnapping an industry ma ...
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Stray Dogs
| 2004 | 93 min. | OV with engl. s.t.
STRAY DOGS Kabul. They are called „night prisoners“. When the sun goes down, the two children are allowed to share their mother’s cell. But a new warder puts a stop to it: „Prisons aren’t orphanages, they’re for cr ...
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The Hunting of the President
USA | 2004 | 89 min. | OV
THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT examines the campaign waged by the conservative press in America against former president Bill Clinton, from the initial attacks on his election as Governor of Arkansas in 1990 to his downfall over the Lewinsky incident. ...
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Ang Huling Birhen Sa Lupa
Philippines | 2004 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
Archaic myths, Catholicism and 50 years as
a US colony have made for a unique mixture in the Philippines. In Joel Lamangan’s latest drama, a false priest triggers a wave of religious fanaticism with fake miracles on an island. Overnight, the p ...
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Felix The Cat Saves Christmas
USA | 2004 | 70 min. | German Version
Christmas is coming, and Felix will have his paws full if he is to save it. A bit of snow is all very well, but this much can only be an obstacle to Santa. To make sure he�s able to deliver his presents, Felix and his smart friend Pointdexter set off ...
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5x2 (CINQ FOIS DEUX)
France | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with German s.t.
5X2 or How to live with someone else: Five moments in the life of a modern couple. Intelligently structured and with human depth, Ozon‘s latest work is undoubtedly one of the most exciting French fi lms this year. ...
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Axensprung
Germany | 2004 | 80 min. | OV
Godard�s 1977 question, �Is it possible to make films in Germany?� is still valid today. As is the wish to make films without an eye to the audience. Christian Bau quizzes friends and filmmakers, looks at strategies for artistic survival. �With the d ...
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K�thchens Traum
Germany | 2004 | 89 min. | OV
Theatre director J�rgen Flimm has revamped Heinrich von Kleist�s �K�thchen von Heilbronn� (1810) into a modern-day mixture of a corporate crime thriller and love story. The story: 16-year-old K�thchen stalks successful entrepreneur Strahl and convinc ...
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Doble Juego
Peru, Spain, Chile, Cuba, Argentina | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
THE CON GAME looks at the urban Peruvian middle classes in
late 2000, caught up in a political climate of resignation, fear and hysteria. A film-maker, a pianist, a real-estate agent, an accountant and an interior designer, all unemployed, fall prey ...
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Koirankynnen leikkaaja
Finland | 2004 | 104 | OV with English s.t.
DOG NAIL CLIPPER Markku P�l�nen�s latest fi lm is set in the
early 1950s. Merti (Peter Franz�n) has been retarded since receiving a head wound in the war, and is lost in the uncertainties of post-war Finland.
Hearing about a dog a friend left ...
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Kad Porastem Biću Kengur
Serbia and Montenegro | 2004 | 99 min. | OV with English s.t.
WHEN I GROW UP I�LL BE A KANGAROO Andric tells
three inter-related tales of young people on the verge of an adulthood which holds no promise � �slackers�, with no plans or ideas of what to do, just a vague feeling that happiness is not something you ...
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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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�nat H�k�yeler�
Turkey, Germany | 2004 | 88 min. | OV with German s.t
Reis �elik�s original docu-drama takes us to a remote village in Eastern Anatolia. One day, the village�s
horse-drawn sleigh fi nds itself faced with exotic competition: a small, red bus. Knowing that the bus cannot take the short-cut across the fro ...
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Die Bergkatze
Germany | 2004 | 85 min | OV
DIE BERGKATZE This year�s retrospective is devoted to the legendary vamp, Pola Negri. Polish by birth, she rose to fame in Germany and was one of the fi rst actresses to move to Hollywood, in 1922. Ernst Lubitsch�s silent comedy, �Die Bergkatze ...
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Visions of Europe - 25 Directors, 25 Countries
div. | 2004 | 140 min. | OV with German s.t.
VISIONS OF EUROPE Twenty-fi ve European directors present
their individual visions of Europe in short fi lms. Produced by Michael Olsen (Zentrope Entertainment), and funded primarily by ZDF and arte, with the support of various national ...
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Der Stich des Skorpion
Germany | 2004 | 89 min. | OV
OPERATION SKORPION Imprisoned by the Stasi (State Security
Police) for trying to escape from East Germany, Stein endures years of torture. Bought out by the West in the early 70s, he runs an organisation helping others flee the GDR - so succes ...
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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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El Destino No Tiene Favoritos
Peru | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
DESTINY HAS NO FAVORITES Ana is a rich housewife. To her annoyance, her husband rents out her garden to a soap-opera production and then disappears on a business trip. Erring on to the set, she gets mistaken for an actress and is given a part in the ...
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En Garde
Germany | 2004 | 95 min. | OV
They are both outsiders: Alice (Maria Kwiatkowsky),
handicapped by her hypersensitive hearing, and Kurdish refugee Berivan (Pinar Erincin) meet in a home for girls. Berivan misses her home country, while Alice has a complicated relationship to her y ...
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Das Zimmerm�dchen und der Million�r
Germany | 2004 | 92 min. | OV
Sophie, an employee at a fi rst-class hotel, takes the shirt-sleeved man in the hotel lobby for Hannes, a temporary waiter who is late for work. In actual fact, he is the hotel�s owner, and he immediately falls for Sophie. In
true romantic com ...
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Fresh Art Daily
Germany | 2004 | 78 min. | OV with German s.t
The painter Steve Keene is a rebel on the international art scene, mass-producing works which he sells for a few dollars each. �Buying one of my paintings should be like buying a CD. It�s cheap, it�s art and it can change your life. But it�s no statu ...
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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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Comme une Image
France | 2004 | 110 min. | OV with German s.t.
LOOK AT ME! 20-year-old Lolita (Marilou Berri) battles for her father�s love while dreaming of a career as a singer. But her father (co-author Jean-Pierre Bacri), a vain writer with an appetite for younger women, shows little interest in his daughter ...
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September Tapes
USA | 2004 | 95 min. | OV
SEPTEMBER TAPES In July 2002, US journalist Don Larson
(George Calil) travels to Afghanistan to document the hunt for Bin Laden. Accompanied by translator and guide, Wali (producer Wali Razqi), he enters the war zone. On September 3, Larson’s ...
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Three Way
USA | 2004 | 85 min. | OV with Englisch s.t.
Based on a pulp novel by Gil Brewer, Scott Ziehl�s film is a cocktail of lust, blackmail and murder. Small-time criminal Lew (Dominic Purcell) gets wind of a million-dollar kidnapping plan and is determined to get a piece of the action. But he ...
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Crying Ladies
Philippines | 2004 | 111 min. | OV with Englisch s.t.
CRYING LADIES Mark Meily’s debut, a major box-offi ce hit in the Philippines, is an hilarious comedy centred on three women from Manila’s Chinatown - one is a thief, the next a strict Catholic having an affair with a married man, an ...
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Genesis
France | 2004 | 80 min. | OV with German s.t
In �Microcosmos� (1996), we were shown the world through
the eyes of a dragonfl y. Now biologist-directors Nuridsany and P�rennou take us back to the origins of life on earth. The story of the blue planet and a mystic African shaman (Sotigui Kouyat� ...
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Umut
Turkey | 2004 | 100 min. | OV with German s.t.
HOPE �Hope� is undoubtedly one of the milestones of Turkish cinema.
In brilliantly composed black and white images, G�ney shows shocking perspectives of hopeless poverty. The film tells the tale of the poor horsecab driver, Cabbar (played by G ...
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The Clearing
USA | 2004 | 94 min. | OV
THE CLEARING Wayne (Robert Redford) and Eileen (Helen Mirren)Hayes have raised two children and run a successful business - but have lost sight of each other. When Wayne is kidnapped by the unemployed Mack (Willem Dafoe), their relationship fac ...
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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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Tatort - Minenspiel
Germany | 2004 | 88 min. | OV
Inspectors Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Freddy Schenk (Dietmar B�r) are on a puzzling case. An entrepreneur has stepped on a mine in the Cologne woods. The dead man had business links to Africa, where he met
his wife (Sheri Hagen). Her frien ...
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Choking Hazard
Czech Republic | 2004 | 81 min. | OmeU
„Choking Hazard“ is described by director Marek Dobeš and screenwriter Stepan Kopriva as the „first Czech zombie
comedy“. Participants in the „Meaning of Life“ seminar at the remote Halali Hotel really are in ...
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Familia Rodante
Argentine | 2004 | 103 | OV with German s.t.
31-year-old director Pablo Trapero�s work draws comparisons to Roberto Rossellini for his naturalistic but poetic
style. Trapero�s own grandmother plays the lead role of an 85-year-old who sets off in a camper, accompanied by her extended family, to ...
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Fuera de Juego
Ecuador | 2004 | 87 min. | OmeU
�Six out of ten Ecuadorians live in extreme poverty,� says director Victor Manuel Arregui. The rich hide themselves away behind walls in �ciudadelas�, where beggars and day labourers are not tolerated. Ten per cent of the country�s population have em ...
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Spooked
Neu Zealand | 2004 | 93 min. | OV
SPOOKED Based on Ian Wishart’s best-seller, „The Paradise Conspiracy“, and directed by Geoff Murphy („Goodbye Pork Pie“), who was second unit director on „Lord of the Rings“, „Spooked“ is a taut c ...
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Homerun
Republic of Singapore | 2004 | 110 min. | OV with English s.t.
Because of a stupid mishap the boy Ah Kun loses his little sister’s only pair of shoes. The desperation is enormous: How is Seow Fang supposed to go to school without them? There is no replacement for them in sight and their poor parents must n ...
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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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Khab E Talkh
Iran | 2004 | 87 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
For 40 years, Esfandiari has been preparing corpses for burial in the central Iranian town of Sedeh, where gravestones from the 12th century stand alongside recent ones from the Iran-Irak war. One day, Esfandiari suddenly feels ill when making prepar ...
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Der wei�e Afrikaner
Germany | 2004 | 2 x 90 min. | OV
An opulent two-part TV drama based on the life of the geologist, Hans Merenksy. Born and raised in South Africa, Hans (Tim Bergmann) moves to Berlin in the 1910s when his father dies. After university, he returns to Africa, to fi nd it overrun ...
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Gib mich die Kirsche! - die 1. deutsche Fu�ballrolle
Germany | 2004 | 85 min. | OV
First came the Miracle of Bern, then the Bundesliga. Its
first ten years (1963 to 1974) are the subject of this comprehensive documentary by Oliver Gieth and Peter H�ls. The debut directors spent two years researching in archives, bringing to light ...
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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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H�ctor
Spain | 2004 | 105 | OV with English s.t.
H�CTOR Following the death of his mother, 16-year-old H�ctor ends up with his aunt in an impoverished apartment on the outskirts of Madrid. When his wealthy father appears and offers him the chance to live a life of luxury in Mexico, H�ctor is faced ...
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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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Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalim
Turkey | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
THE GIRL WITH THE RED SCARF Aysa is married to Ilya,
a truck driver who is an alcoholic. He loses his job and Aysa�s love. She starts a new life with Cemsit. Years later, Ilya appears on her doorstep and Aysa has to choose between the two men. Atif ...
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Iron Jawed Angels
USA | 2004 | 123 min. | OV with German s.t.
�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 ...
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Dastan Natamam
Iran, Ireland | 2004 | 83 min. | OV with English s.t.
STORY UNDONE A bus with darkened windows drives through the
Iranian mountains into border country. Two men hand over money and get on board, joining masked illegal refugees hoping for a better life beyond the border. The new passengers are a directo ...
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Sil-Mi-Do
South Korea | 2004 | 135 min. | OV with English s.t.
SILMIDO An action drama seen by over 10 million Koreans, more than saw „Titanic“ or „Lord of the Rings“. On government orders, 31 men on death row are trained as killing machines for a suicide mission. Shot in CinemaScope,
it ...
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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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The Purifiers
United Kingdom | 2004 | 85 min. | OV
THE PURIFIERS A martial arts fi lm from Scotland, set in the near future. Gangs rule the inner cities, leaving other gangs in peace under the terms of a national truce. Power-hungry Moses (Kevin McKidd) wants to unite the gangs as an all-powerf ...
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Nussknacker und Mausek�nig
Germany | 2004 | 82 min. | German Version
Once upon a time, there was a little, spoiled prince, who lived with his humble servants and his uncle Drosselmeier - a real magician - in a legendary castle. The naughty prince had everything one could wish for or purchase but no compass ...
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Br�dere
Danmark | 2004 | 110 min. | OV with English s.t.
Michael (Ulrich Thomsen) has his life under control: an army career, a wife (Connie Nielsen), two daughters. His younger brother, Yannik (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), however, is a drifter. When Michael is reported missing on a UN mission to Afghanistan, Yanni ...
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Der Mann von nebenan lebt
Germany | 2004 | 93 min. | OV
It�s been a year since Kate (Lisa Martinek) and her friends Inge and Malise drowned their psychopathic neighbour (Axel Milberg) in a forest pond. Kate and Malise have moved into a new house; Kate is now romantically involved with police inspector Lan ...
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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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O Milagre Segundo Salome
Portugal, France | 2004 | 96 min. | OV with Englisch s.t.
THE MIRACLE ACCORDING TO SALOME Mario Barroso�s romantic melodrama is set in 1917. In the village of Fatima, the
Virgin Mary appears to three shepherd children, calling for world peace.
Salom� is a young prostitute who still dreams of creating a be ...
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The Terminal
USA | 2004 | 128 min. | OV
TERMINAL While he is on a trip to the USA, Viktor Navorski’s (Tom Hanks) Eastern European home country is wiped off the map by a war.
His passport is thus invalid and he is unable to depart from the airport or enter the USA. So he makes his ho ...
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The Touch
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | 2004 | 103 min. | OV with English s.t.
Cinematographer Peter Pau from Hong Kong was responsible for the visual magnetism of �Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon�. �The Touch�, also a major martial-arts action spectacle, is both photographed and directed by Pau. Tong and Yin are a brother-and-s ...
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Uzak
Turkey | 2004 | 110 min. | OV with English s.t.
DISTANT Nuri Bilge Ceylan not only writes and directs his fi lms, but produces and edits them himself as well. �Uzak� received the Grand Jury Award at the 2003 Cannes Festival. Mahmut, a photographer, lets his unemployed cousin Yusuf stay with ...
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Bella Block- Die Freiheit der W�lfe
Germany | 2004 | 98 min. | OV
Popular TV police inspector Bella Block (Hannelore Hoger) is having problems: she�s accused of being cynical at work, and of being selfish at home. And she�s completely in the dark in the case of an escaped serial killer who seems to have commi ...
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Hair High
USA | 2004 | 78 min. | OV
Probably the most popular independent American animator,
Bill Plympton’s latest work contains his usual sex and violence in what he terms „a gothic high-school comedy with a ‘Carrie’-like story.“ Cherri and Rod are the ...
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Cosas que hacen que vida valga la pena
Spain | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with engl. s.t.
Manuel Gomez Pereira�s erotic thriller, �Between Your Legs�, received rave reviews. Now he gives love another chance. Unemployment offi ce worker, Hortensia (Ana Bel�n), falls head-over-heels in love with unemployed Jorge (Eduard Fern�ndez). Jorge wo ...
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Ve Lakachta Lecha Isha
Israel, France | 2004 | 97 min. | OV with Englisch s.t.
Ronit Elkabetz, who also stars in �Or�, has three parts to play here: as main actress, screenwriter and director, the latter two in conjunction with her brother, Shlomi. Vivian and her husband, Eliyahoo, are looking divorce in the eye. Vivian dreams ...
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Ah-Hop-Sal-In-Saeng
Korea | 2004 | 105 min. | OV with English s.t.
Yeo Min is a Korean boy who lives with his family in a small mountain village. Although only nine years old, he already carries quite a heavy load of responsibilities on his slim shoulders. He is spokesman and leader of a swarm of children, class cap ...
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Alexandrie... New York
Egypt, France | 2004 | 128 min. | OV with German s.t.
78-year-old Youssef Chahine�s latest work is the fourth fi lm he has dedicated to his home city. �Alexandrie...New York� is a cosmopolitan masterwork. The Egyptian fi lm
director Yehia meets his old love, Ginger, in New York for the fi rst time in f ...
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A Home at the End of the World
USA | 2004 | 96 min. | OV
An ode to life, love and the family. In this case, however, the family consists of the gay chef, Bobby (Colin Farrell), the journalist, Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) and their friend Clare (Robin Wright Penn). Broadway director Michael Mayer’s @ ...
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Il Fuggiasco
Italy | 2004 | 102 min. | OV with English s.t.
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 ...
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Zwei Wochen f�r uns
Germany | 2004 | 92 | OV
Ina (Barbara Rudnik) and Klaus (G�tz Schubert) can�t wait for their children to go away on horseriding holidays. Two weeks for just the two of them! The way it used to be. But is it really possible to turn the clock back? All too quickly, they ᤙ ...
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The Keeper
USA | 2004 | 90 min. | OV with German s.t.
In Paul Lynch�s psycho-thriller, �The Keeper�, Dennis Hopper once again plays a convincing role as a dark character. He abducts a stripper (Asia Argento), then keeps her in captivity with the aim of putting her back onto the straight and narrow. Bad ...
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Gelin
Turkey | 2004 | 97 min. | OV with English s.t.
THE BRIDE It is said that Istanbul�s streets are paved with gold. Sufficient reason for a poor family to move from Anatolia to the capital. The young son becomes ill, but the money an operation would cost is needed for their new shop. The boy d ...
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Brodeuses
France | 2004 | 88 min. | OV with German s.t.
When 17-year-old Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers that she is pregnant, she decides to keep it a secret. She finds a place to stay with the Armenian embroidress, Madame Melikian (Ariane Ascaride). As Claire�s pregnancy advances, a singular frien ...
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Bush s Brain
USA | 2004 | 80 min. | OV
He is barely known, but everything he says is likely to be of consequence for the whole world: Karl Rove, conservative strategist and US-President Bush’s chief advisor, or „Bush’s Brain“. Based on the book by reporters James C ...
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Der Fischer und seine Frau - Warum Frauen nie genug bekommen
Germany | 2005 | 102 min. | OV with English s.t.
Ida, like the fairytale character Ilsebill, who repeatedly sends her husband to the magic flounder to fulfil her wishes, wants more. She wants more than her fish-enthusiast husband Otto can offer. According to the director, women have been like Ilseb ...
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Der Schatz der wei�en Falken
Germany | 2005 | 92 min. | OV
Jan, Basti und Stevies� summer holiday is marred by the news that Jan is moving to the city in two weeks time. The friends decide to examine the mysteriously barricaded �Kattervilla� and find a treasure map deposited by a gang called the �Wei�e Falke ...
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Die blaue Grenze
Germany | 2005 | 102 min. | OV with English s.t.
The �blue border� (die blaue Grenze) is the border between life and death. Momme can�t face telling his grandfather that his son - Momme�s father � has suddenly died. The old man is still suffering from the loss off his wife. Director Till Franzen de ...
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Die Nachrichten
Germany | 2005 | 90 Min. | OV
The TV-News reader Jan Landers is under suspicion of having worked for the East German secret-police (Stasi). Two journalists are competing for the informers, rumours and missing documents necessary to expedite a huge scandal. Landers is removed from ...
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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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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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Yi Ge Mo Sheng Nv Ren De Lai Xin
China | 2005 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
The film is an adaptation of Stefan Zweig�s classic novella relocated to Peking during the 1930s and 40s. After reading the last words of an anonymous admirer the man sifts frantically through his memory in order to put a name to the mysterious woman ...
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Simon
Netherlands | 2005 | 104 min. | OV with German s.t.
The film focuses on the easy-go-lucky macho Simon and his companions. When Simon is diagnosed with cancer, it�s the shy homosexual Camiel who proves to be the proverbial friend in need. Eddy Terstall�s award-winning film is full of charm, humour and ...
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Cavite
USA, Philippines | 2005 | 80 min. | OV with English s.t.
Adam is on his way to the Philippines to attend his father�s funeral when he receives an anonymous phone call at the airport. A wanted terrorist has abducted his mother and sister. Adam is soon confronted with an appalling decision: He either has to ...
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Die Diebin und der General
Germany | 2005 | 90 Min. | OV
Jessie is an unemployed single-parent who has been ordered 100 hours of community service for shoplifting. Whilst on duty at an old-peoples-home, she meets the grumpy old �General�, and the two of them develop an unlikely friendship. Miguel Alexandre ...
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Synchronicity
Japan | 2005 | 133 min. | OV with English s.t.
The protagonists of this rollercoaster-ride film include: a model, a cameraman, a girl called �Devil� and a private detective. A murder in a �love-hotel� is the first in a series of events that ensnare the heroes in a web of baffling and brutal crime ...
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Der siebente Kontinent
Austria | 2005 | 108 min. | OV
Michael Haneke�s �The Seventh Continent� catapulted Austrian film to the top of the cinematic ladder overnight. The film follows a married couple as they plan their joint suicide and the murder of their daughter. As with all Haneke films, �The Sevent ...
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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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El penalti m�s largo del mundo
Spain | 2005 | 101 min. | OV with English s.t.
Penalty! The goalkeeper lies injured on the ground and irate fans invade the pitch. The match is abandoned and the penalty postponed. Reserve keeper Fernando, who is actually more interested in romantic conquests, has exactly one week in which to lea ...
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Delwende, L�ve-toi et Marche
Burkina Faso, France, Switzerland | 2005 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
A woman is banished from her village for allegedly practicing witchcraft. Her daughter rebels against the decision and goes in search of her mother. Director S. Pierre Yameogo uses typically calm visuals to trace the story of a young woman�s fight ag ...
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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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Terra Incognita
Switzerland | 2005 | 15 min. | OV with English s.t.
Genius or charlatan: playful mockumentary with historic film sequences. Physicist Igor Leschenko is on a secret expedition to the point of zero gravity. ...
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Jan Plewka singt Rio Reiser - Eine Reminiszenz an den K�nig von Deutschland
Germany | 2005 | ca. 90 min. | OV
The 20th of August 2006 will mark the tenth anniversary of the death of German rock star Rio Reiser. At the beginning of 2005, Jan Plewka put together a concert performance using Reiser�s songs, and reanimated the ideals of a generation. Director Ste ...
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Alosha Popovich i Tugarin Zmey
Russia | 2005 | 75 min. | OV with English s.t.
When the Tartar army threatens to ransack Alosha�s city, he comes up with a smart idea. The inhabitants hide the gold in a cave above the complex, lure the enemy into the city and seal the entrance with a bolder. Unfortunately, the bolder rolls back ...
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A Boy called Twist
South Africa | 2005 | 115 min. | OV with English s.t.
Tim Greene�s adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel is set in South Africa. Street urchin �Twist�, who grew up in an orphanage, has to work on farms and at a funeral parlour. Eventually, Twist takes things into his own hands and heads for Ca ...
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Brice de Nice
France | 2005 | 98 min. | OV with English s.t.
Comedian Jean Dujardin broke box-office records in France with his slapstick comedy �The Brice Man�. The inveterate big-mouth Brice is a passionate surfer. Unfortunately, he lives in Nice, which has many attractions but is not renowned for its enormo ...
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A Ty?
Poland | 2005 | 7:30 min. | OV with English s.t.
Enthralling search for the truth, based on the memory of three different people who have witnessed the same incident. ...
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Sperling und die Katze in der Falle
Germany | 2005 | 89 Min. | OV
Christmas is coming. However, when a child mysteriously disappears, the festive-season turns into a dramatic race against the clock for Superintendent Hans Sperling. When the child�s parents� employer Georg Gie�en is questioned, he contradicts himsel ...
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Guernsey
Netherlands, Belgium | 2005 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
30-year-old aid-worker Anna finds her colleague hanged in the shower. �I thought she was happy�, is the only sentence her distraught (ex)husband has to offer. Anna is thrown into a crisis and starts to spy on her own husband and sister. When her fath ...
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Sunday @ Seoul
South Korea | 2005 | 72 min. | OV with English s.t.
A student falls in love with a call-girl on the internet. A woman adopts the chatroomidentity of her neighbour. A professor searches in vain for his lover. Stalkers, suicides, cyberspace-masseuses: Director Myung-hoon Oh fits the pieces together like ...
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Nachtschicht 3 - Tod im Supermarkt
Germany | 2005 | 89 Min. | OV
The KDD Hamburg (Continuous Criminal Investigation Department) is comprised of Chief Superintendent Paula Bloom, Chief Superintendent Erichsen, Superintendent Mimi Hu and Constable Teddy Schrader. Hamburg Filmfest will be showing two episodes: In �To ...
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Keine Lieder �ber Liebe
Germany | 2005 | 98 min. | OV with English s.t.
Director Lars Kraume sends a group of German actors on a tour of northern Germany. The plot follows the fortunes of the Hansen Band - formed specifically for the film - and the filmmaker Tobias, who believes his girlfriend Ellen is having an affair w ...
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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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Bag det stille ydre
Denmark | 2005 | 92 min. | OV with English s.t.
Signe and Tommy fulfil a dream when they move to a house in the country with their daughter Bianca. However, the dream is cut short by strange goings-on. At first, Signe and Tommy refuse to believe that their house might be cursed. Alas, when Bianca ...
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Jazireh Ahani
Iran | 2005 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
A leaky freighter is drifting offshore somewhere on the Persian Gulf. While the captain is still trying to persuade the owner to give up the ageing vessel, poverty-stricken locals have claimed it for themselves. Births, deaths and marriages take plac ...
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Boy s tenyu
Russia | 2005 | 132 min. | OV with English s.t.
He grew up in the backstreets of Moscow and used his fists to get to the top. Now, at the pinnacle of his success, he has to face another challenge. Artem Kolchin returns to the streets, where he has three days to track down a traitor, rescue his gir ...
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Tain� 2 - A Aventura Continua
Brazil | 2005 | 79 min. | OV with English s.t.
Little �Catiti�, from the Yanomami tribe, wants to be as brave and strong as Tain�, her best friend and role model. She soon gets the opportunity when the two friends discover animal traps in their beloved jungle. They decide to foil the poacher�s pl ...
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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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These Foolish Things
United Kindom | 2005 | 106 min. | OV
Set against a background of the approaching Second World War, These Foolish Things illustrates the fluctuating fortunes of a young actress as she struggles to emulate her famous mother�s glittering career on the London stage. Her life is further comp ...
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Die gl�cklichsten Menschen der Welt
Germany, Bangladesh | 2005 | 95 min. | OV with German s.t.
According to a survey run by the London School of Economics, the happiest people in the world live in - Bangladesh. In order to substantiate this claim, Shaheen Dill-Riaz, a Bangladeshi living in Germany, travels to the mega city of Bhaka to conduct ...
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Hamburg damals � Die Jahre 1965-69
Germany | 2005 | 75 min. | OV
Director and historian Christian Mangels presents the fourth instalment of the popular Hamburg docu-series. Prominent locals, including politicians, artists and rock stars, are asked to add their personal memories to the archive footage. Hamburg witn ...
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Santa Santita
Philippines | 2005 | 113 min. | OV with English s.t.
The plot revolves around a love-story between the vivacious Magdalena and the gigolo Mike. Magdalena�s devout mother makes a living as a �Prayer Warrior� offering auxiliary prayers for paying clients. When she dies, however, her sceptical daughter ta ...
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Drei Schwestern - Made in Germany
Germany | 2005 | 89 Min. | OV
1947, three sisters are searching for happiness in a small south German town. Freya wants to marry a US army colonel, Guddi is enjoying single life and Nora is secretly in love with a former concentration camp prisoner. A stranger appears on Freya�s ...
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Variet�
Germany | 2005 | 86 min. |
For the third year in succession, this year�s Film Festival pays tribute to one of the stars of the silent-movie era. This time, it�s the mysterious and equally glamorous Hungarian Lya de Putti. She plays a lascivious dancer caught between two men in ...
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S� som i himmelen
Sweden | 2005 | 125 min. | OV with German s.t.
Daniel, a famous conductor, returns to his native village after suffering a nervous breakdown. As a violin playing youth he was an outsider, and now, as a star, he finds himself in the same position. The villagers meet him with rejection, even when h ...
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Derb Moulay Cherif
Morocco | 2005 | 112 min. | OV with English s.t.
Airport worker Kemal dreams of nothing more than a future with his girlfriend Najat. Alas, when the authorities unearth his Marxist engagement as a student, he is arrested, interrogated and tortured. He seals his own fate by refusing to name his form ...
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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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Die Mandantin
Germany | 2005 | 90 Min. | OV
The prominent defence lawyer Ariena Lenhardt is suffering from MS and as a consequence, is increasingly forced to withdraw from professional life. However, when a mysterious young woman implores her to take on her case, Ariena accepts - quite unaware ...
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Charms Zwischenf�lle
Austria | 2005 | 88 min. | OV
The succession of surreal events that lead author Juvacev from one calamity to the next, are so poetic, ambivalent, charming and bizarre that they periodically leave the narrator speechless. Director Michael Kreihsl weaves the stories and biography o ...
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Die Nacht der gro�en Flut
Germany | 2005 | 90 Min. | OV
Helmut Schmidt, the freshly ordained Interior Minister of that time, explained 25 years later that the city of Hamburg was not prepared for a catastrophe of that scale. The 1962 flood, which took the city and its inhabitants by surprise, claimed 300 ...
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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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Separate Lies
United Kingdom | 2005 | 86 min. | OV
The London lawyer James Manning thinks he�s happily married. What he doesn�t know is that his wife Anne is having an affair with the attractive Bill. He finds this out when a man from their village is killed in a car accident and Bill was probably dr ...
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Noriko no Shokutaku
Japan | 2005 | 158 min. | OV with English s.t.
54 schoolgirls jump under a train. This scene from Sion Sono�s �Suicide Club� (2002) is used as a quote in his new movie �Noriko�s Dinner Table�. 17-year-old runaway Noriko becomes involved with the bizarre �Family Circle�, which provides actors for ...
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Die Spielerin
Germany | 2005 | 89 Min. | OV
At the request of Friedrich, her lawyer boyfriend, divorcee Polina goes to a casino for the first time, and wins surprisingly a large amount of money. The win leads to a gambling habit that will ruin her life; having already ruined her boyfriend�s. B ...
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Janem Janem
Israel, France | 2005 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
When 40-year-old teacher Aldi returns traumatised from his military service, he decides to have a break. Having arrived at the airport, however, he cancels his flight to Paris and disappears among Tel Aviv�s Turkish immigrant community. He experience ...
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Der Weibsteufel
Austria | 2005 | 92 min. | OV
A policeman flirts with the wife of a smuggler in order to gain information. Her husband sees through the plan and uses his wife to lead the investigator astray. Eventually, however, the woman reverses the game and starts to play the two men off agai ...
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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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Ambulancen
Denmark | 2005 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
The brothers Tim and Frank generate the necessary funds for their mother�s lifesaving operation by robbing a bank. When the police block their getaway path however, they hijack an ambulance � complete with dying patient and female nurse. The minutes ...
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Gleich geschieht ein Mord
Germany | 2005 | 13:39 min. | OV with Engl. subtitles
Multi-layered murder mystery with a surprising twist: the husband get killed, but his wife thinks she is the victim. ...
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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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Cache-cache
France | 2005 | 91 min. | OV with English s.t.
Raymond, the son of the former owner, has been hiding in his childhood home for thirty years. When the new tenants move in � a family with two children � he is forced to flee to the barn and eventually ends up hiding in the well. Director Yves Caumon ...
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Kinamand
Denmark | 2005 | 88 min. | OV with English s.t.
Keld�s wife has left him after 25 years of marriage. Confronted with a cold kitchen, he decides to soothe his frustration by working his way through the menu at the local Chinese takeaway. The proprietor eventually decides Keld should marry his siste ...
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Eruv - The Wire
Germany, USA | 2005 | 70 min. | OV with German s.t.
Eruv documents life in an Orthodox-Jewish community in the American town of Teaneck. The community lives within an �eruv�, a wire symbolising a wall, which spans the entire neighbourhood and delineates a private zone that grants special rights during ...
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Noch einmal lieben
Germany | 2005 | 90 Min. | OV
A young woman finds herself at the beginning of a nightmare. Diagnosis: breast cancer. Her illness compels Andrea (Marie Zielcke) to deal with herself, her dreams and her great longing to love and to be loved. A friend (Jasmin Tabatabai, also featuri ...
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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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100% Menneske
Norway | 2005 | 73 min. | OV with English s.t.
Luckily, Morten�s mother committed a deadly sin when he was a teenager: she read his diary. Morten was desperately unhappy in his male body until the day he could pronounce his desire to become Monica. The film follows Morten�s long path from an unha ...
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Cinema, aspirinas e urubus
Brazil | 2005 | 99 min. | OV with English s.t.
Sales rep Johann drives a van through the north Brazilian wilderness, peddling aspirin to unsuspecting peasants. He has fl ed his native country, which has been responsible for starting a global war. Ranulpho is fleeing from the drought in the south ...
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Kilom�tre z�ro
France, Kurdistan | 2005 | 96 min. | OV with German s.t.
A journey through Iraq turns into a journey to oneself when a disenchanted Kurdish-Iraqi soldier and an Arab driver are sent to deliver the body of a dead colleague to his family. Ex-Dictator Sadam Hussein is omnipresent: on the radio, on television ...
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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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Keisarikunta
Finland | 2005 | 98 min. | OV with English s.t.
Summer 1957, and the merchant ships docking at the Finnish port of Kotka are loaded with some hot goods: jazz, swing and blues. Rempo and his fellow music-fan friends decide to open a jazz-bar Fennia. However, Rempo�s fianc�e is not amused and he has ...
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Sieben Himmel
Germany | 2005 | 90 min. | OV
Christoph Bach, Lars L�llmann, Inga Busch and Daniela Schulz � anyone wishing to see the new generation of young German acting talent, need look no further than this fi lm. Director Michael Busch and cameraman Marcus Winterbauer (�Rhythm is it�) have ...
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Fremde Haut
Germany, Austria | 2005 | 97 min. | OV with German s.t.
Iranian translator Fariba (Jasmin Tabatabai) has fled her own country, where she is under threat of execution for having had an affair with a woman. However, having reached Germany, her asylum request is turned down. She is forced to adopt the identi ...
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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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Obaba
Spain, Germany | 2005 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
Basque director Montxo Armend�riz tells the story of Maestra, a filmmaker, who is making a film about the (fictitious) Basque town of Obaba. We view the town from her perspective and get to know its inhabitants. Isolation, ethnic identity and brutali ...
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Iceland | 2005 | 15 min. | OV with English s.t.
A laconic drama about the last days of an ageing widowed farmer, who has his own ideas about leaving this planet. ...
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Tout un hiver sans feu
Switzerland | 2005 | 91 min. | OV with German s.t.
It is winter in Jura, the beams of the burnt-down barn lie in the snow. Jean und Laure have lost their five-year-old daughter in the fire. It is every parent�s nightmare but Jean is determined to carry on� Greg Zglinski�s debut bares the signature of ...
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Kurzer Proze�
Germany | 2005 | 101 min. | OV
Inspector Pokorny prefers his rum and tea without the tea. He has been transferred against his will and a series of murders is interrupting his hate of the petit bourgeoisie. No one has investigated the abysmal depths of the Austrian soul as assiduou ...
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Swimmers
USA | 2005 | 90 min. | OV
Every so often, someone comes up with one of those little cinematic gems that seem to shed new light on our existence. This is one of them. The story is told through the eyes of the 12-year-old Emma, who is forced to give up swimming due to illness. ...
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De Indringer
Belgium | 2005 | 110 min. | OV with English s.t.
When Louise suddenly vanishes, her father Tom starts a desperate search. On the trail of a sixteen-year-old runaway, he eventually arrives at a small village in the Ardennes. He finds the mysterious girl with her parents, and although they refuse to ...
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Wet
USA | 2005 | 16 min. | OV
Coming-of-age drama about 12-year-old Jane discovering her sexuality, and being forced to decide between her grandmother and mother. ...
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Green Street Hooligans
UK, USA | 2005 | 106 min. | OV
From �Frodo� to fanatics: Hobbit actor Elijah Wood plays the American student Matt, who goes to live with his sister in London for a while. There, he meets members of the hooligan group �Green Street Elite� and is soon confronted with the brutal real ...
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Nyfes
Greece | 2005 | 128 min. | OV with english s.t.
1922, the poor Greek dressmaker Niki is on her way to the USA to meet her unknown groom. She is one of 700 so-called �mail order brides� travelling on board the �SS King Alexander�. During the voyage, she falls in love and starts a passionate affair ...
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Freunde
Germany | 2005 | 86 min. | OV
On a school trip to London in 1980, a group of seventeen-year-old friends pledged to reunite at Piccadilly Circus twenty years later. Would anyone actually turn up? Director Thorsten Kirves (Hamburg) unfolds seven different lives; with the attending ...
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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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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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Stop!
Netherlands | 2005 | 6:10 min. | OV with English s.t.
A cleverly constructed film-in-film-in-film-in-film about reality and fiction: life is a stage! ...
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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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Brudermord
Germany, France | 2005 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
This is the story of Azad, a young Kurd who goes to stay with his brother in Germany. However, the hatred between Turks and Kurds lives on here, too. In an argument with two Turks he kills their aggressive dog which leads to an avalanche of revenge. ...
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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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Odete
Portugal | 2005 | 101 min. | OV with English s.t.
Delusion, reality or obsession? The supermarket worker Odete is convinced she�s carrying the baby of her recently deceased neighbour Pedro � a claim that throws Pedro�s gay lover Rui into even deeper despair. Director Rodrigues ignores conventions an ...
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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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Cidade Baixa
Brazil | 2005 | 100 min. | OV with English s.t.
Deco and Naldinho are petty thieves. The two friends share a motorboat, which serves as headquarters for their �business�. However, the friendship becomes strained when stripper Karinna enters their lives. Both men inevitably fall in love and a furio ...
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Das beste Jahr meines Lebens
Germany | 2005 | 89 Min. | OV
Laura, the wife of an entrepreneur, is somewhat surprised when her husband is arrested and put in prison. The good-life is over: She is forced to trade the villa for a council flat and her �wellness-weekend� for a grinding, low-wage canteen job. Afte ...
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Exit...Nur keine Panik
Germany, Austria | 2005 | 95 min. | OV
Viennese crook and would-be playboy Kirchof dreams of owning his own coffee house and having lots of beautiful women. In order to reach his goal, he is sometimes compelled to leave the straight and narrow. Comedy, violence, sex and vandalism are the ...
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Fluerne P� V�ggen
Denmark | 2005 | 92 min. | OV with English s.t.
Documentary-filmmaker My Larsen is contracted by the Conservative Party Headquarters to make an image-film about the mayor of Ravnborg. It doesn�t take long before she realises that, behind the idyllic fa�ade, the town is teeming with corruption. Eve ...
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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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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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The King
USA, United Kingdom | 2005 | 105 min. | OV
A stifling atmosphere of fear and violence hangs over this fi lm. The 21-year-old Elvis has never met his father. He discovers that he is living as a vicar in Texas and sets off to meet him. However, when the illegitimate son realises he doesn�t fit ...
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Bashing
Japan | 2005 | 82 min. | OV with English s.t.
Japanese aid worker Yoko is taken hostage in Iraq. She is eventually liberated, but on her return to Japan she is accused of egoism and comes under fire for getting Japan involved. Director Masahiro Kobayashi explains: �One could call Japanese societ ...
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Eine andere Liga
Germany | 2005 | 110 min. | OV
When passionate soccer player Hayat (Karoline Herfurth) is diagnosed with cancer, her father cancels her club membership. She joins the local team, SC Schanze, a grimy hobby-outfit. The team�s coach (Ken Duken) proceeds to fall in love with her, and ...
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Innocence
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 ...
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A Good Woman
United Kindom, Italy, Spain | 2005 | 95 min. | OV
�A Play about a Good Woman� is the subtitle of Oscar Wilde�s �Lady Windermere�s Fan�. Director Mike Barker relocates the story to the Italian seaside resort of Amalfi, in the 1930s. Lady Windermere (Scarlett Johansson) believes her husband is having ...
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Zozo
Sweden | 2005 | 103 min. | OV with English s.t.
The 12-year-old orphan Zozo is forced to leave his native Beirut to live with his grandparents in Sweden. There, he is confronted with rejection, disorientation and outright hostility. Director Josef Fares processes his own biography in this film, as ...
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Die sch�nsten Jahre
Germany | 2005 | 88 | OV
Nina hasn�t told her mother that she has started a lesbian relationship. Then, just when she�s fallen in love with Flora, her mother decides to accompany her on a business trip to Budapest. The trip turns out to be a journey into the past through goo ...
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Free Zone
Israel, France, Belgium, Spain | 2005 | 90 min. | OV with English s.t.
After having a blazing row with her mother-in-law, Rebecca (Natalie Portman) runs out of the hotel and jumps into a taxi. The taxi is driven by Hanna, an Israeli, who is on her way to the �free zone� between Israel and Jordan. Together with the Pales ...
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Ouaga Saga
Burkina Faso, France | 2005 | 85 min. | OV with English s.t.
This vivacious comedy is set in �Ouagadougou�, the capital of Burkina Faso - and the designated capital of African cinema. It follows the plight of a gang of youths from the poorest area of the city in their daily struggle for survival. With a cheerf ...
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Sefr Darajeh
Iran | 2005 | 8 min. |
Dramatic story about a computer-animated soldier who first kills a man and then gets trapped in the camera display-screen. ...
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Adams �bler
Denmark | 2005 | 93 min. | OV with English s.t.
Adam, a Neo-Nazi, arrives at the vicarage to fulfil his community service. When the vicar enquires about his skills, Adam ironically suggests that he bake an apple cake. However, when the churchyard apple-tree is successively attacked by birds, worms ...
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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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Ha Shfanfana Ha Zionit Ha Rishona
Israel | 2005 | 75 min. | OV with English s.t.
In 2003, the �Playboy Channel� started broadcasting erotic films in Israel. 600 girls applied for the job of hostess. The film follows the plight of ten finalists and affords a revealing insight into the psyche and culture of this extraordinary natio ...
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Un homme ordinaire
Belgium, France | 2005 | 95 min. | OV with English s.t.
George is an average guy: furniture salesman, family man, faithful friend and talented DIY enthusiast. George�s life is irrevocably changed, however, when he kills a stranger in a fit of anger. The stranger�s girlfriend is the only witness and to his ...
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Erik(A)
Austria | 2005 | 86 min. | OV with English s.t.
In 1966, the 18-year-old Erika Schinegger wins the world championship title in women�s downhill skiing. However, she is as astonished as everyone else when medical tests reveal that she is in fact � a man. The gold medal is rescinded and Erika�s worl ...
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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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Despu�s del mar
Argenina | 2005 | 67 min. | OV with english s.t.
He is an author and is obsessed with his piano; she, a captivatingly austere prostitute seeking to understand her past. Two people who have apparently lost everything and who are now travelling to an undefined destination somewhere beyond the horizon ...
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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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Habana Blues
Spain, Cuba, France | 2005 | 110 min. | OV with German s.t.
There�s more to Havana than �Buena Vista Social Club�. Ruy and Tito belong to an entirely different kind of music-scene and they are determined to make the big-time. Alas, recording a demo-CD or organising a concert can quickly turn into a nerve-wrac ...
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Himmel oder H�lle
Austria | 2005 | 75 min. | OV with English s.t.
The ten-year-old hero finds inspiration for �dangerous games� at the paternal cinema and on his excursions to the butcher: he performs �horror shows and decapitations� in order to relieve the youngsters of their pennies. The film is set between Austr ...
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Sea Change
United Kingdom | 2005 | 5:28 min. |
A meditative study of a caravan park. The changing lights, colours and time, echo the transcience of human existence. ...
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Telefono
Poland | 2005 | 2:40 Min. | OV with English s.t.
Absurd comedy about Pedro Almodovar's creation: erotic film star Patty Diphusa, who begs the director for a better story for her character. ...
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Ein ganz gew�hnlicher Jude
Germany | 2005 | 89 min. | OV
Emanuel Goldfarb, a German Jew, receives an invitation to lecture schoolchildren on his relationship to German society. Goldfarb thinks it�s a ridiculous idea: �Hasn�t there been enough said about it already?� However, his letter of refusal swells in ...
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Factotum
Norway, USA, Germany | 2005 | 93 min. | OV with German s.t.
According to Hank, the most important thing is to live the life of a poet. This necessitates a steady diet of alcohol, cigarettes, women and writing. Matt Dillon (�Drugstore Cowboy�) plays Hank Chinaski, the alter ego of iconoclastic street-poet Char ...
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Ginga
Brazil | 2005 | 63 min. | OV with English s.t.
Forget everything you�ve ever associated with the term �Documentary Film�. The directors and producer (Ferndando Meirelles) seem to have employed Ginga, the mysterious quality describing the technical and artistic lightness of Brazilian soccer player ...
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The Fourth
USA | 2005 | 15 min. | OV
Ironic drama about a three-man 400-meter relay team's search for the fourth athlete - and their extremely Scandinavian track-rivals. ...
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V Gradinata Na Raia
Bulgaria | 2005 | 1 min. |
Bittersweet snapshot of an insect travelling through the living-hell of a poor family into the bright colours of the garden outside. ...
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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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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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Jiang cheng xia ri
People | 2006 | 100 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Village schoolteacher Li is searching for his lost son. He goes to the big city Wuhan, where his daughter lives in the red-light district, as the girl-friend of a brothel keeper. Li finds an aide in an old policeman but tragedy ensues in this subtle ...
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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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Sportman van de Eeuw
Germany, Netherlands, Sweden | 2006 | 95 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Love is a many-splendoured thing and can make small men grow as tall as mountains. Or at least tall enough to climb a pole to compete in the pole-sitting competition which Taefke tries to win in order to impress his loved one. It turned him into a lo ...
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Chinese Take Away
Germany | 2006 | 11 min. | OV
In this sweet comedy, saving a Chinese cook from choking turns Anna's life upside down.
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The Last Kiss
USA | 2006 | 104 min. | OV
You're thirty. You're a grown-up. Does that mean wedding-bells, kids, pension plans, and never kissing another beautiful stranger again? This tender good-bye to youth adapted by Oscar-winner Paul Haggis ("L.A. Crash") delves into the life of Michael ...
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Gabra2
Germany | 2006 | 10 min. | OV
An acerbic satire: These days everything belongs to a global corporate player, even your genes.
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New York Waiting
USA, Sweden | 2006 | 92 min. | OV
Sometimes, happiness means having a talent for destiny. Like Sidney and Amy whom Swedish director Joachim Hed�n accompanies on their enchanting stroll through New York. They have just met in a caf�. He's waiting for his old flame to show up, she left ...
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The House is Burning
Germany | 2006 | 97 min. | OV
A day and a night in the life of five teenagers in a dreary American suburb. Breathlessly and visually rough, the film revolves deals with a violent father, an escape into the army, drugdealing and drug-taking, casual sex. An episodes-film reminding ...
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The Shore
Canada, Cyprus | 2006 | 100 min. | OV
On a beautiful summer's day near the water, five-year-old Anna disappears forever. Who's to blame? The grandparents who were supposed to watch over the child? The single mum who preferred to be with her new lover? The lifeguard? Zervos cites Krzyszto ...
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Jezile
South Africa, United Kingdom | 2006 | 86 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Love, hope, and betrayal: in powerful images the life of Jesus is transported into a country torn apart by civil war, military dictatorship, and revolt. British theatre and opera director Mark Dornford-May won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2005 wi ...
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Hamaca Paraguaya
Paraguay, France, Netherlands, Argentina, Germany, Austria | 2006 | 78 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A clearing in the jungle, an old couple, the heat. Waiting for something. From such sparse elements Paz Encina created one of the most vivid South American fi lms of the season, set in the 1930s during the military confl ict with Bolivia. When it pre ...
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Valley of Flowers
India, France, Japan, Germany | 2006 | 120 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A legend from the Himalaya spanning two centuries, love, death, and immortality, no less, is brought to the screen by Pan Nalin ("Samsara"). The colour-saturated, sensual epic revolves around Jalan, a brigand and Ushna, his bride, a mysterious beauty ...
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Komma
France, Belgium | 2006 | 97 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Peter, the hero of this noir-ish drama with droll undertones, describes himself as a living dead. The action really gets going when he wakes up in a mortuary. How did he get there? Who is he anyway? Peter (great: Belgian popstar Arno) steals the I.D. ...
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Tempelriddernes Skat
Denmark | 2006 | 89 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
There are not that many secrets, so if you get onto one, you should not give up. That is the motto of the friends Katrine, Nis, Mathias and Fies. Nis is convinced that one of his books contains a lead for the legendary treasure of the Knights Templar ...
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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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Die Pamir - Untergang eines Gro�seglers
Germany | 2006 | 45 min. | OV
An intensively felt documentary accompanies the feature film account of the sinking of the German training ship Pamir which cost many lives. The visual look is new: a sleek mix of black and white images from the 30s and 50s, computer animation, new f ...
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Bang Bang Orangutang
Denmark | 2006 | 100 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
When he unintentionally kills his son in a freak accident, self-possessed businessman �ke finds his life unravelling. In sheer desperation he attaches himself to a bar acquaintance only to find out that love cannot be forced. The legendary The Clash ...
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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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Emiterio
Argentina | 2006 | 27 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Each path has a story. This is Emiterio
Gutti�rrez's one whose looms weave a tale around the beauty of the Oriental Mountain Range of Salta.
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The Influence of Ocular Light Perception on Metabolism in Man And in Animal
Germany | 2006 | 6 min. | no s.t.
Award-winning, mesmerizing footage accidently found, with an Italian 60�s softporn soundtrack.
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Heartbreak Hotel
Sweden | 2006 | 98 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
"Sex and the City" on blond wood � In his homeland Sweden, this film with captivating actresses Helena Bergstr�m and Maria Lundquist was a box offi ce hit and proof that there is life after 40, especially life after marriage which is the time when yo ...
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�a br�le
France | 2006 | 111 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
15-year-old Livia thrives on one emotion: fury. She is furious about their parents who talk about divorce, furious about her body, her friends, her life, the world. Her horse is her only friend. When she falls in love with a married firefighter, infa ...
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China Blue
USA | 2006 | 87 min. | OV with German s.t.
What have our jeans got to do with the plight of teenagers in the third world? "We are complices in exploiting the third world by wanting everything on the cheap", says Micha X. Peled who knows his stuff, after his documentary on retail giant Wal-Mar ...
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V�ter, denn sie wissen nicht was sich tut
Germany | 2006 | 89 min. | OV
One kid, two dads and not a single bright idea of how to deal with an adolescent who doesn't seem to do much besides eating fastfood and watching television. And it's not exactly as though that these dads haven't got problems of their own to sort out ...
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The Conclave
Canada, Germany | 2006 | 100 min. | OV
Rome, 1458. The Pope is dead, the mob is alive in the streets, and there is turmoil brewing in the Sixtine Chapel over who's next to wield the biggest power of the Renaissance. A member of the Borgia clan is interested. Based on a secret diary of Pop ...
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Ein Freund von mir
Germany | 2006 | 83 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Karl (Daniel Br�hl) is a guarded mathematician working in insurance, Hans (J�rgen Vogel) a happy-go-lucky type who keeps afl oat with odd jobs. They meet at a rental car agency. The unlikely friendship which develops teaches Karl spontaneity, humour, ...
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Cecilie
Denmark | 2006 | 100 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Although he came to prominence with a kids flick, "Catch that Girl", Hans Fabian Wullenweber now tells a creepy story, about 33-year-old Cecilie who worries about losing her mind. When she is raped one night, no one believes her because there are no ...
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Spur der Hoffnung
Germany | 2006 | 88 min. | OV
A dinghy drifts ashore on some forsaken beach. Its passenger is a Sri Lankan boy. Ben, a former Stasi-prisoner, saves and decides to hide him. But nothing escapes the small island community for long and soon the local policeman becomes suspicious. He ...
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Casa
Spain | 2006 | 6 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
An empty house, a frightened girl, vanished
people: An engaging thriller en miniature.
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When the Road Bends
USA | 2006 | 109 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A vibrating documentary - small wonder, given the high-strung musical context of flamenco, brass band music, Roumanian violins, Indian (dots, not feathers) folk. This is what happens when "The Gypsy Caravan" comes to town, and the musicians hailing f ...
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Chahar Shanbeh Souri
Iran | 2006 | 104 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
"Psychologically complex and captivating" says "Variety" about a film whose title refers to the Iranian New Year's Eve which is accompanied by the explosive sound of jumping jacks. Equally explosive are the collisions of various social strata and the ...
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K�py sel�n alla
Finland | 2006 | 89 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A dreamy summer breeze of a film about two student couples holidaying on a remote Finnish lake. It is a sensitive and equally vigorous coming of age-portrait in the fabled 60's and the struggles with problems and inhibitions so typical of that genera ...
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Cabra-Cega
Brazil | 2006 | 107 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
What do we know about Brazil? Soccer, bossa nova, caipirinha come to mind but even few young Brazilians will think of its recent past, of the 60's and 70's when a military dictatorship ruled the land with an iron fist. This Brazil is the topic of a p ...
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Offscreen
Denmark | 2006 | 93 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Danish actor Nicolas Bro plays a Danish actor by the name of Nicolas Bro. It gets even more confusing when his attempt at making a film about himself prompts his director friend Christoffer Boe to recommend recording everything. Everything and anythi ...
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Knetter
Netherlands | 2006 | 84 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Nine-year-old Bonnie grows up in a rather
unconventional female household. Together with her resolute grandmother she looks after Lis, her mother, who keeps oscillating between feeling on top of the world or down in the dumps. When the grandmother d ...
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Zaina Cavali�re de l'Atlas
France | 2006 | 100 min. | OV
A brave girl, f ery Arab horses, proud riders, the most famous Moroccan horse race and the endless vastness of the Moroccan Atlas ridge: The touching story of the 12-year-old Za�na and her horse Zingal takes us away to an exciting, exotic world. Due ...
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Halim
Egypt | 2006 | 148 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
How an orphan became one of the most
popular singers of the Arabic world is movingly and equally lavishly told in the biopic of Abdel Halim Hafez (1929-77) who died of bilharzia at 48. Ahmad Zaki, the "De Niro of the Nile", plays Halim who lived onl ...
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Bosta
Lebanon | 2006 | 105 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A whirl of colours, movement, and music: Welcome to Lebanon! Yes. Even now: "I wanted to make a light-hearted film that got nothing to do with war", comments director Philippe Aractingi his road musical. Dancer Kamal (eyecatching: Rodney el Haddad br ...
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Hamburg damals � Die Jahre 1970-74
Germany | 2006 | 80 min. | OV
Hamburg in the 1970s: the Star Club which made stars out of the Beatles closes down, "Onkel P�", another charismatic live venue, opens, the so-called Hamburger Szene is gingerly blossoming. Germany in the 1970s: terrorism, oil crisis. A perfect mix o ...
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Der Untergang der Pamir
Germany | 2006 | 180 min. | OV
Unsinkable was the verdict on the German training ship "Pamir". At least before 21 September 1957. One hurricane later it had sunk in the Atlantic, in an incident that is among the most tragic in the history of maritime shipping. alone 50 cadets drow ...
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Vom Ende der Eiszeit
Germany | 2006 | 90 min. | OV
Policewoman Lena J�rning finds her first corpse, drifting like pack ice in the Ostsee. Rather more shocking is the fact that this is her estranged sister who ventured out into the big world while Lena stayed behind in the village to take care of thei ...
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Fang xiang zhi lu
People | 2006 | 114 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Li is a ticket conductor, Cui is a busdriver. He loves her but she loves a doctor. So, what's the big story? Well, back in the 1970s when the cultur al revolution was raging in China, feelings for intellectuals were forbidden. The doctor - aka the in ...
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Salvador
Spain | 2006 | 138 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Spain, early 70's. the young militant of the Iberian Liberation Movement, Salvador Puig Antich, became the last political prisoner to be executed in Spain by the garrotte. This is his story and that of the desperate attempts of his family, colleagues ...
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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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Unter anderen Umst�nden
Germany | 2006 | 88 min. | OV
Detective superintendent Jana Winter's new case proves a nervewracking assignment. A baby was stolen from his pram and found dead soon after. Jana, herself in the last stages of pregnancy, bungles the investigation and is taken off the case. She star ...
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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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B�rn
Iceland | 2006 | 120 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A social drama unfolds in a Reykjavik slum. There is a single mum with four kids. A dubious thug. A kid who is hazed and has only one friend, his schizophrenic neighbour. Ragnar Bragason shot in black and white and created a powerful symphony, orches ...
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...More Than 1000 Words
Germany | 2006 | 77 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A photograph says more than a thousand words. How else can one describe war with all its horrors? Famous Israeli photographer Ziv Koren ventures into the terror zone and director Solo Avital accompanied him for two years. This is a portrait of a man ...
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Atash bas
Iran | 2006 | 110 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
If a woman mistakes the shrink for the divorce lawyer, this can only mean one thing: a comedy of the sexes. A rather turbulent one this is, too, coming from Iranian's feminist filmmaker who showed "Two Women" at Filmfest Hamburg in 1999. This time, s ...
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Nachtschicht - Der Ausbruch
Germany | 2006 | 89 min. | OV
Two violent criminals escape from Hamburg's notorious Santa Fu jail only to run into all sorts of troubles around the next corner. Such as suicide, money, hostages, fatherly love, alcoholism - all in an action-packed mix of funny dialogue and humour, ...
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Junebug
USA | 2006 | 106 min. | OV with German s.t.
Journalists at Cannes this year were gushing over this eccentric and deeply human family history remindful of John Irving. Chicago-based art dealer Madeleine visits her husband's family in the sticks for the first time, also, because an interesting p ...
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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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Verschlossen
Germany | 2006 | 3 min. | no s.t.
Playful animation about a bullhead and how his attempts at opening a closed door blow up on the screen.
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Nafaka
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2006 | 115 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Sarajevo, 1992. They are called Ahmed, Lana, Sado, Saba, Sahbey, Beba, Nemanja, Marx, Matan. They live in and between wartimes. They have "nafaka", the destiny which was bestowed on them by God Almighty. And they have enough gallows humour and courag ...
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I'm Reed Fish
USA | 2006 | 93 min. | OV
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 ...
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The Architect
USA | 2006 | 82 min. | OV
An ensemble film with an impressive cast and a tension-driven story line: An activist and an architect meet when a social housing complex, that he originally built, needs to be demolished. Based on a theater play by dramatist David Greig who honed hi ...
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Camping
France | 2006 | 95 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
When women show off their cleavage on a campingground, is there a deeper (if not to say bigger) reason behind such behaviour? Mais oui, there is, in the form of plastic surgeon Michel who got stranded on his way into the plush French South. While he ...
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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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Der Wirt, die Kneipe und das Fest
Germany | 2006 | 76 min. | OV
Once a year traditions run overboard and alcohol flows freely deep in Dithmarschen, in the German hinterland. Publican Friedemann Braun of the "Hohnbeerkrog" calls upon every man (not woman!) . By the end of these rambunctious and rather convivial ce ...
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Bloch - Der Mann im Smoking
Germany | 2006 | 88 min. | OV
What is more terrifying - forgetting or remembering? Who am I? What is my name? Where do I come from? A man in a tuxedo wanders aimlessly through fields and woods, throws away his passport, then his wedding ring. He meets a psychologist who takes him ...
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Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
India | 2006 | 210 min. | OV with German s.t.
At last the follow-up to Bollywood's box office hit "Sometimes happy, sometimes sad", full of drama, romance, passion, not to mention music! Dev and Maya fall in love, but they are both married. A decision needs to be taken that will change their liv ...
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Germany | 2006 | 71 min. | no s.t.
Truth or delusion? The most likely candidate for most famous German silent film of all times deals with the big issue, no less. During Filmfest Hamburg, the fantastic story of hypnotist, showman and killer Caligari, is accompanied by the live sounds ...
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Die letzten Tage des Sommers
Germany | 2006 | 15 min. | OV
With the sale of the co-owned house the loss of the dear-won home looms threatingly. Fears of debonding lead to an open controversy between mother and son.
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Day Night Day Night
USA | 2006 | 94 min. | OV
Nervewracking dramabeyond standard filmschool conventions. Small wonder, since the plot is involving a nineteen-year-old girl turning herself into a human bomb ready to explode on Times Square. The director hails from St. Petersburg and received acco ...
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Agrypnia
Greece | 2006 | 99 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
In just one night, a cat and mouse game unfolds between two brothers who couldn't be more different. Andr�as is a policeman on the run. Nikos is a priest and the brother he turns to for help. Which can be hard if you haven't been talking for a decade ...
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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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Ha Otzar Shel Elia
Israel | 2006 | 4 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Part of MOMENTS 2005 - JERUSALEM
A journey following the photographs by Ilia Kavidan, an Armenian photographer, who documented Jerusalem from 1925 onwards.
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Tiul
Israel | 2006 | 5 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Part of MOMENTS 2005 - JERUSALEM
The Wailing Wall is Jerusalem's eternal symbol, but was this always the case? What have we done to preserve this situation? ...
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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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Zuneigung - Die Filmemacherin Gisela Tuchtenhagen
Germany | 2006 | 84 min. | OV
"I survived because I discovered photography and film as mediums of expression", says Gisela Tuchtenhagen, a camerawoman, who left her mark on an industry which in the 1960s was almost male-dominated. Her flight into this medium was a successful one ...
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Fast Food Nation
USA | 2006 | 114 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Why are so many Americans obese? What is the link between illegal immigration, brutal slaughterhouse methods and hamburgers? Based on Eric Schlosser's bestseller, Richard Linklater is hot on the trail of a fastfood chain marketing boss who tries to f ...
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Botell�n
Spain | 2006 | 14 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Touching melodrama about old Rosa, an alcoholic who is left alone with her shattered lonely life.
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Freundinnen f�rs Leben
Germany | 2006 | 88 min. | OV
Germans have stopped making babies. But why? Buket Alakus brings a lighthanded approach to this difficult topic and made an open-minded and realistic comedy about men, women, and best friends who discuss their plight while they should be singing in t ...
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Fade to Black
United Kingdom, Italy, Serbia | 2006 | 104 min. | OV
The story: sex, corruption, murder. The hero: Orson Welles. Director Oliver Parker co-wrote (with John Sayles) the script with noir undertones. Rome, 1948. Orson Welles (Danny Huston) wants to revive his floundering film career and recuperate from hi ...
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Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
Finland | 2006 | 96 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
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 ...
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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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Un Franco 14 Pesetas
Spain | 2006 | 96 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Elsewhere, the 60�s are synonymous with The Beatles and the miniskirt but in Switzerland, the cuckoo clocks tick to a different rhythm, especially for Spanish workers coming here because one Swiss franc is worth 14 pesetas. That may be true but, for ...
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Berale, Berale
Israel | 2006 | 5 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Part of MOMENTS 2005 - JERUSALEM
Moshe, the cantor, and Avner, the rap singer, live next door to each other but don�t seem to have anything in common.
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Ha Tabu Shel Yaacov
Israel | 2006 | 4 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Part of MOMENTS 2005 - JERUSALEM
Yaacov discovers he is the legal owner of the Wailing Wall. Now he must do something with it�
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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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Crimen Delicado
Brazil | 2006 | 87 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
In his fourth film, Beto Brant ventures away from the pistol-heavy atmosphere of his urban underworlds. Theatre critic Ant�nio comes under the spell of the mysterious nude model In�s with her amputated leg. Their relationship is passionate, terrifyin ...
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De hel van Tanger
Belgium | 2006 | 105 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A true, scary story about two innocent bus-drivers who get caught in Morocco driving 700 pounds of dope around. Although their employer admits both had no idea of their illegal cargo, they wander into the slammer for five years out of pure negligence ...
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Sommer ' 04
Germany | 2006 | 97 min. | OV
It was Germany's big sensation when it was shown at the "Quinzaine" in Cannes. A plain
sailing-trip on the river Schlei stirs up deep feelings of responsibility and jealousy when 12-year-old Livia falls in love with a much older man whom the forty-y ...
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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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Bihisht faqat baroi murdagon
Germany, France, Switzerland | 2006 | 98 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Kamal is twenty and comes to the pulsating
Tadjikistan capital. Here, he hopes to rid himself of his impotence. He soon meets beautiful Vera who looks as though she could be of help in this department. But Vera is married to the mob and soon, becomi ...
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Der Tote am Strand
Germany | 2006 | 89 min. | OV
After ten years in America, Rosa returns to her family on the occasion of her father's seventieth birthday. She wanted to take the opportunity to talk it out with her dominating father but she's too late. Somebody killed him. When Rosa's exlover star ...
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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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Auf Wiedersehen Herr Snuggles
United Kingdom | 2006 | 6 min. | OV
Two gentlemen, the English countryside and a clown going berserk: a funny murder-mystery.
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Agua
Argentina, France | 2006 | 89 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
This film possesses the meditative qualities of a quiet ocean and still settles the score with the mercilessness of modern competitive sports. Goyo is 34 and never made it as a pro swimmer. Now he's the trainer of Chino, 20, who wants success. When t ...
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NAF � Yeled Rehov
Israel | 2006 | 80 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Naftali is 14 years old and a street kid; his parents, ultra-orthodox Jews, considered him the bad apple who would spoil the bunch of good. He is at the mercy of sexual assault, violence, crime, he is traumatized, he is bitter. Fighting is the only w ...
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Ninas resa
Poland, Sweden | 2006 | 125 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Lena Einhorn tells the story of her mother's life Nina. First there was the German invasion, life in the Warshaw Ghetto, deportation, then an escape and the journey towards a new life. Based on her own award-winning novel she tells a moving story in ...
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Sot-e sokout
Iran, United Kingdom, Germany | 2006 | 86 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Mention Iran and few will think of rock music, rap or hiphop. The censorship from above makes life hard for those into indie music and it's all the more fascinating to see how alive and worth hearing the outcome is. Rockband O-Hum, rapper Sorouh or t ...
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Shortbus
USA | 2006 | 102 min. | OV with German s.t.
"Unquestionable the most sexually graphic American narrative feature ever made outside the realm of the porn industry..." says trade mag "Variety". This film is about a relationship-coach who never had an orgasm, a homosexual couple, their third guy ...
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Ich wollte nicht t�ten
Germany | 2006 | 87 min. | OV
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 ...
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Figner, The End of a Silent Century
Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Russian Federation | 2006 | 90 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Figner works as foley artist in the St. Petersburg film studios. He is so good that he does not need computers to create sounds. He can imitate the sound of a snapping neck by crushing a cabbage head. But he no longer knows his way around modern-day ...
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Conversations with Other Women
USA | 2006 | 84 min. | OV
There is something in the air between bride and groom but also between their witnesses at the marriage ceremony. They spend the night together, regret it, fight themselves, fight the other person, and go through an emotional and amusing tour de force ...
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Underbara kvinnor vid Vatten
Finland | 2006 | 102 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A summer in the early 60's when American culture, Chet Baker, Bikinis, and Chevrolets came to Finland and when a young boy spends his holidays on the beach, with parents and friends. But deception lurks behind the candy coloured party world when a fl ...
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Come l'ombra
Italy | 2006 | 87 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
It is summer in Milan. The city is deserted. Claudia searches for an acquaintance, who comes from the Ukraine. They were introduced by a mutual friend who now also seems lost. Ultimately, she contacts the police who do not believe a word. A fi lm tha ...
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Nivdal
Israel | 2006 | 16 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Ishaq just wants to play soccer with his friends but the political situation turns his home into a prison.
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Haosef Shel Yedidyah
Israel | 2006 | 18 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
An unusual collection of Yedidyah - a 10 year old Yewish boy.
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Bein Kariera Le Ahava
Israel | 2006 | 20 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
The portraits of two children, who follow their gift down to self-denial.
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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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Don
Netherlands | 2006 | 90 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Don Kerbosch is smart, pugnacious and a damn good soccer player. After his expulsion from school he ends up in a school full of migrants, which brings him into the unfamiliar position of an outsider. A student soccer championship seems to bring about ...
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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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Der Liebeswunsch
Germany, South Africa | 2006 | 112 min. | OV
Marlene leaves Leonhard for his best friend Jan. Leonhard falls in love with Anja who also falls in love with Jan. Everybody could be so happy but is not in this touching melodrama about passion and loss which gets under the audience's skin. Excellen ...
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K�nig Otto
Germany | 2006 | 91 min. | OV
Single dad and caretaker Otto wins a holiday in Africa and reluctantly hits the road to a seemingly wild and adventurous continent with daughter Anna. And adventures come, although not in the form of safaris: physical heavyweight Otto arrives in a vi ...
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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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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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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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Budjenje iz mrtvih
Serbia | 2006 | 136 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Not a zombie film but a film about the �buried generation� who was forced to waste their lives in the hail of bombs hitting them during the Balkan war. Forty-year-old Mickey, university lecturer and author, loses his life early on in the conflict. Bu ...
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Der Berufsindianer - Gojko Mitic in der Pr�rie
Germany | 2006 | 44 min. | OV
The portrait of Gojko Mitic, "Der Berufsindianer - Gojko Mitic in der Pr�rie" is shown as supplement to "Am Fu� der Rocky Mountains", a film about of Tom Crawford, a rancher who leads a double-life as Blackfoot Indian, powwow and sweat lodge included ...
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India | 2006 | 134 min. | OV with German s.t.
Could this be the mother of all Bollywood films? Well, it might could. Babbar Subhash is a seasoned director whose 1982 answer to "Saturday Night Fever" delivered a throbbing introduction to the genre, alongside stories of revenge what party is happe ...
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Cr�nica de una fuga
Argentina | 2006 | 103 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A special unit of the military regime which held Argentina in an iron grip in 1977, abducts a second league soccer keeper and keeps him in an internment camp in the middle of nowhere. A purgatory of interrogations, beatings, and humiliations follows. ...
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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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Joki
Finland | 2006 | 106 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
An hour in a small town on a Saturdaymorning � and one of the best European fi lms in recent years. Life�s big issues are tackled with a casualness reminding of �Short Cuts�. Every character is at a crossroad contemplating suicide, love or a date or ...
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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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Am Fu� der Rocky Mountains - Ein Medizinmann auf B�ffeljagd
Germany | 2006 | 44 min. | OV
The portrait of Gojko Mitic, "Der Berufsindianer - Gojko Mitic in der Pr�rie" is shown as supplement to "Am Fu� der Rocky Mountains", a film about of Tom Crawford, a rancher who leads a double-life as Blackfoot Indian, powwow and sweat lodge included ...
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Obreras Saliendo de la F�brica
Chile | 2006 | 21 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Cinematic meditation about silence, noise, water, happiness, and the emotion of feeling alive.
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Svyaz
Russian Federation | 2006 | 80 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Is it permissable to fall in love although you're married? In this award-winning cinematic debut two people who lead happy, married lives are doing just that. An assured feeling for the filigree of human relations, a deep understanding of what it fee ...
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Du jour au lendemain
France | 2006 | 93 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Another day where everything goes wrong? Cinema just loves these sorts of stories! But when everything that one hates is going well � emerges a new chalange. Of course, Beno�t Poelvoorde who already enchanted Hamburg moviegoers with "Podium" (2004, F ...
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Quand j'�tais chanteur
France | 2006 | 112 min. | OV with German s.t.
"His best role since 'Cyrano'" was the Cannes critics' verdict of G�rard Depardieu's performance as a nightclub singer crooning after hours in run-down bars. He falls for a much younger woman (captivating: C�cile De France) and this dalliance adds br ...
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Aviva Ahuvati
Israel | 2006 | 107 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Aviva is a cook in a hotel. But what she really wants to be is an author. Her sister introduces her to the famous and rather arrogant writer Oded who takes her under his wings. Too bad his rather unconventional visions of Aviva collide with her reali ...
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Bella Block - Blackout
Germany | 2006 | 92 min. | OV
After an alcohol-infused party in Hamburg's high society, Bella Block a wakes in the middle of the woods with a fuzzy head and a blackout. Before she is able to retrace her steps, the body of a young woman is discovered close by, in a wrecked car, wi ...
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Dosar
India | 2006 | 127 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Is an affair justifiable if a marriage is unhappy? Can one condemn infidelity wholesale? Is fidelity merely a matter of discretion? A stylish black-and-white drama unfolds when a married man and his lover get into an accident; she dies, he survives b ...
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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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Karaula
United Kingdom, Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary | 2006 | 90 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
The last days of Jugoslawia are played out at a border post with Albania. The border commander declares a state of emergency to cure his syphilis because during R&R; his wife would surely find out. Not another film about the war, but "a comedy about t ...
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Guide Dog
USA | 2006 | 6 min. | OV
What about the stress of a guide dog? Tragicomical animation about a four-legged hero.
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Kenen joukoissa seisot
Finland | 2006 | 75 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
Love, peace and music... what happened to the ideals of the 70's when socialism was considered a true alternative for Finland? Bands emerged in their hundreds to support the cause of the third-largest communist party in Europe (yes, Finland). This fa ...
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Umur
Finland | 2006 | 96 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
The opening shot is the eye of a bird. And quite as if he were a bird of passage, Poika falls in love with shy Umur only to lose her again. Their bittersweet drama is acted out against the backdrop of the disturbingly beautiful landscape of Lapland, ...
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Dame Sobh
Iran | 2006 | 85 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
This was supposed to be the last day in the life of murderer Mansour. Islamic laws holds the victim's relatives responsible for taking him from this life to the next. But on the set date, they simply don't show up. An excruciating wait ensues. A powe ...
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Odette Toulemonde
France, Belgium | 2007 | 100' | OV with german st
Odette is a lovely, unassuming sales assistant in a department store. She has two loves: Josephine Baker's chansons and Balthasar Balsan's novels. When she meets him at a reading, she is star-struck and smitten. He ignores her until several simultane ...
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Aria
Japan | 2007 | 105' | OV with engl. st
After his wife's death, piano-tuner Ota (M. Shionoya) desperately seeks a particular beach to scatter her ashes. He meets puppeteer Kuzo (M. Komatsu) and his life-like puppet "Aria". On Kuzo's deathbed, Ota promises to look for a mysterious piano tha ...
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Ezra
France, Nigeria, Austria | 2007 | 102' | OV with german st
Ezra is one of an estimated 300,000 child soldiers that fought in the year 2000. Drugged beyond comprehension, he attacked his own village, which led to his parents' death and the mutilationof his sister. Brought in front of the "Truth and Reconcilia ...
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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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Nachtschicht - Ich habe Angst
Germany | 2007 | 90' | OV
Gritty Hamburg is the backdrop to a new murder mystery directed by acclaimed Lars Becker. The investigators are planning a raid on a sweatshop which specializes in faking brand names. Detective Mimi Hu is working undercover there as a seamstress. Thi ...
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Alter Ego
Greece | 2007 | 99' | OV with engl. st
Those who think Greek music is limited to Sirtaki will be quite surprised when they hear the band "Alter Ego" filling concert halls and rocking the Peleponnese. The band members have it all: money, fame� But what's behind the successful fa�ade? Can t ...
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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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13m2
France | 2007 | 84' | OV with engl. st
Provincial crook Jos� plans to rob an armoured car but the heist goes wrong. He and his two mates hide in a bunker measuring all but 13 square meters. Soon, every movement triggers hysterical paranoia. Any thought of escape seems pointless. Their fri ...
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V2 - J��tynyt enkeli
Finland | 2007 | 92' | OV with engl. st
The most successful Finnish film of the year tells the story of private detective Jussi Vares' latest case. This time he travels to the port of Pori to solve the murder of a young woman. But wherever he turns, he is met by a wall of silence. Trouble ...
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Avant que j'oublie
France | 2007 | 108' | OV with engl. st
Pierre (Jacques Nolot) is gay, has been HIV-positive for 24 years, and is approaching his 60th birthday. After the premiere of "Before I Forget" at the Quinzaine des r�alisateurs in Cannes, "Variety" magazine wrote: "If you ever wondered how to order ...
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O Cheiro do Ralo
Brazil | 2007 | 99' | OV with engl. st
Louren�o�s shop stinks to high heaven. Poor people sell him their junk and he just about gets by. When he falls in love with the waitress across the road, he is in need of a currency he knows little of: affection. This film cleverly mixes the grotesq ...
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Eastern Promises
United Kingdom, Canada | 2007 | 100' | OV with german st
When a Russian prostitute dies under mysterious circumstances after giving birth, her midwife Anna (Naomi Watts) holds on to the woman's diary to find out more about her. Her research leads her to the local mafia, where she meets killer Nikolai (Vigg ...
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D�j� s'envole la fleur maigre
Belgium | 2007 | 85' | OV with engl. st
In the late 1950s, director Paul Meyer was commissioned by the Belgian government to make a film about the successful integration of immigrants in the Walloon coal mining area. Inspired by Italian Neorealism, Meyer filmed grievant working conditions, ...
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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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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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Fur - An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
USA | 2007 | 117' | OV with german st
Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman) is a successful fashion photographer from a wealthy family. Her neighbour Lionel Sweeny (Robert Downey Jr.) wears a mask that covers his entire head. Diane is intrigued, and her focus as a photographer shifts from fashion ...
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Nosferatu
Germany | 2007 | 84' | OV
F.W. Murnau's expressionist classic marks the birth of the horror genre. Based on Bram Stoker's Dracula (for which Murnau was denied the rights), the twisted figure of Count Orlock (Max Schreck) is an unforgettable image from the silent film era. Car ...
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Ta Ra Rum Pum
India, USA | 2007 | 155' | OV with engl. st
RV used to be a brilliant racing-car driver until an accident traumatized him. Himself, his beautiful wife, and their two children are forced to move to a poor neighborhood. Rather than telling their children the truth, they explain the move as part ...
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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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Han Nyeohaksaengeui Ilgi
North Korea | 2007 | 94' | OV with engl. st
Su-ryeon from communist North Korea is a girl like any other. She wishes her parents had more time for her, but realizes her selfishness when her mother's health falters. The first film from North Korea to reach the Western world is rumoured to have ...
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Enfances
France | 2007 | 82' | OV with engl. st
Seven young directors and scriptwriter Yann Le Gal are tracing the lives of legends of directing Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Jacques Tati, Jean Renoir, Alfred Hitchcock and Ingmar Bergman back as far as they can. The question: can an incident in his ch ...
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Inselkind
Germany | 2007 | 61' | OV with engl. st
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 ...
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Valuri
Rumania | 2007 | 16' | OV with engl. st
A day at the beach turns into a nightmare for a carefree young man when a mother has an accident and leaves her handicapped child behind ...
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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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A Season of Madness
USA | 2007 | 16' | OV
A woman is attempting to escape the golden cage of her arranged marriage in this fairy tale gone wrong. ...
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Ficci�
Spain | 2007 | 107' | OV with engl. st
A man, a woman, and a remote, idyllic spot. Director Alex (Eduard F�rnandez) seeks inspiration in a house in the Pyrenees, far away from his family. Violinist Monica (Montse Germ�n) has the same idea. It is the beginning of an unusual relationship se ...
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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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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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Final Cut
United Kingdom | 2007 | 93' | OV
Actor and scriptwriter Jude (Jude Law) suddenly dies under mysterious circumstances. After the funeral, a group of friends comfort his widow Sadie (Sadie Frost) and discover that Jude had regularly filmed them in intimate situations. Furthermore, Jud ...
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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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Der Champagner Spion
Germany, Israel | 2007 | 90' | OV with engl. st
In 1960, 12-year-old Oded Gur Arie discovers his father is an agent for Mossad. Ordered to infiltrate a circle of German scientists working on weapons of mass destruction in Egpyt, he loses himself in his feigned identity as ex-Nazi millionaire. In 1 ...
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Chamam�
Germany | 2007 | 104' | OV with german st
While far less famous than Tango, Chamam� is Argentine's traditional music. More than 200 years old, it is a mixture of Creole, native Guarai, and European sounds. Chamam� is more than music and pastime: it is a lifestyle; an identity. The film shows ...
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Nichts als Gespenster
Germany | 2007 | 123' | OV with engl. st
Based on a serial novel by Judith Hermann, the film's five episodes are set in five countries: Ellen and Felix are travelling in the USA, where their relationship seems to have reached its end; Christine visits Nora in Jamaica and disturbs their host ...
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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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Take
USA | 2007 | 99' | OV
Two days determine the action in this film: one day in the present, one day in the past. Ana (Minnie Driver) drives through the desert to witness Saul's (Jeremy Renner) execution, after he destroyed her life the day they met. Director Oliver explains ...
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De Man Die Zijn Haar Kort Liet Knippen
Belgium | 2007 | 94' | OV with german st
Family man Govert Miereveld (Senne Rouffaer) is a teacher at a girls' school, secretly in love with his pupil Fran (Beata Tyszkiewicz). One day she disappears and his fancy becomes an obsession. When asked to an autopsy several years later, he identi ...
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Tokyo shikkaku
Japan | 2007 | 91' | OV with engl. st
After their friend's funeral, two disillusioned men in their mid-thirties go on a drinking spree in Tokyo. Another round, another game of pool, more reminiscing of their student rock band, all the while looking for something that might have an impact ...
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Windkracht 10
Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdom | 2007 | 117' | OV with engl. st
Rick is a Navy diver, transferred to an Airforce rescue helicopter for disciplinary reasons. Also on board: the tough female doctor Alex, who initially tries to mob him off the team. But during an action-packed rescue operation she questions her true ...
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Die Familie
Germany | 2007 | 60' | OV
For generations an industrialist family has successfully shrouded the origins of its wealth in mystery. They do not talk to the press, and their archives are not available to the public. More than four years of painstaking research went into this doc ...
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Hamburg Damals - Die Jahre 1975-1979
Germany | 2007 | 79' | OV
A nostalgic return to the 70s, and the sixth instalment of a highly successful series depicting life in post-war Hamburg. The era features punk rock, anti-nuclear power demonstrations and a new tunnel under the River Elbe. Are the record-breaking flo ...
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Hula g�ru
Japan | 2007 | 110' | OV with engl. st
Based on a true story set in the provincial Japan of 1965, a mining village is set to overcome obsolescence by becoming
a tourist attraction as Japan's first Hawaiian village, Hula girls and all. But how to dance the Hula? Not everyone is convinced. ...
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Waitress
USA | 2007 | 107' | OV
A bittersweet comedy about waitress Jenna (Keri Russell) with a boring husband and a penchant for baking and naming phantastic cakes. When she is pregnant she comes up with an "I Don't Want Earl's Baby" cake, which she enters in a competition. Then s ...
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Zu Fuss nach Santiago de Compostela
Switzerland, Poland | 2007 | 95' | OV with german st
2300 kilometers of pilgrimage lie ahead of Roman Weishaupt. Fresh out of university, he embarks on the trail to Santiago de Compostela, regularly accompanied by filmmaker Bruno Moll. Surprizing acquaintances are made with landlords, bugs and fellow p ...
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God Grew Tired of Us
USA, Kenya | 2007 | 89' | OV
Of the estimated 25,000 orphans in Sudan, many team up with kids their own age to fight off hunger, disease and attacks by wild animals or rebels. Director Christopher Dillon Quinn accompanies three of them over the course of five years, as they leav ...
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The Go-Getter
USA, Mexico | 2007 | 93' | OV
A classic roadmovie with a classic rock'n'roll soundtrack. 19-year-old Mercer (Lou Taylor Pucci) steals a car and encounters mad potters, burnt-out buddhists, and his zany puppy love Joely (Jena Malone). All the while he calls the car owner Kate (Zoo ...
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Ha'Ulpan
Israel | 2007 | 123' | OV with engl. st
A Chinese cleaning lady in Israel, a Russian who never wanted to come, but followed his family, a Peruvian Jewish princess in need of a reality check. They all meet in a Hebrew language course, which becomes a microcosmos of modern-day Israel. Direct ...
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Un lugar en el cine
Spain | 2007 | 104' | OV with engl. st
A documentary about the relationship between cinema, television, and reality. Historical material is juxtaposed with Greek cineast Theo Angelopoulos on the beach where Pasolini was killed, Victor Erice on Pasolini's tracks in Spain and Tonino Guerra, ...
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Chak De India
India | 2007 | 151' | OV with engl. st
Bollywood legend Shah Rukh Khan stars as a famous Indian hockey player who fell from grace at the climax of his career. His chance at rehabilitation comes when he is offered to coach the national ladies team. Easier said than done as the ladies lack ...
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Eine gute Mutter
Germany | 2007 | 88' | OV
A happy family with a son sees their whole world suddenly collapsing around them. A former neighbour, who was pregnant around the same time but lost her child to a fire in her apartment, claims that their son Paul is in fact her child Robin. In order ...
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WWW - What a Wonderful World
France, Marocco, Germany | 2007 | 99' | OV with german st
Casablanca is a magical world oscillating between high tech and tradition. It is also the workplace of Kamel, a professional killer for hire over the Internet. He has fallen in love with a voice he heard on the phone and becomes obsessed with finding ...
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10 Items or Less
USA | 2007 | 82' | OV
"You are who you meet" could be the tagline to this urban roadmovie about a nameless actor (Morgan Freeman), whose driver dumps him in Latino L.A. to do research for a new role. Standing at a '10 items or less' supermarket checkout, he meets streetwi ...
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Bis zum Ellenbogen
Germany | 2007 | 84' | OV
A black comedy reminiscent of "The Trouble with Harry". Achim, a junior shipping tycoon, is biking through the Swiss Alps when he literally bumps into Willi, unemployed. They find refuge in the mountain hut of bank employee Sven, when another acciden ...
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Gruz 200
Russia | 2007 | 90' | OV with engl. st
Perestroika looms and the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse when the daughter of a party functionary disappears in a provincial town and a woman is brutally murdered in the suburbs. A policeman is the prime suspect in both cases. The film is d ...
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Screamers
United Kingdom | 2007 | 94' | OV
System of a Down are a rarity in today's music industry: a band with a real concern. Its members have Armenian roots and they write lyrics about mass murders in Ruanda or Darfur and the Armenian genocide of 1915. The magazine "Hollywood Reporter" pra ...
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Flawless
United Kingdom, Luxembourg | 2007 | 105' | OV with german st
London in the swinging 60s. Michael Caine plays a caretaker who wants to strike it lucky before retiring. The company he works for has just fired a charming and highly intelligent manager played by Demi Moore. He has the plan, she has the motive. Tog ...
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Kuckuckszeit
Germany | 2007 | 88' | OV
A house, a dog, a garden patch, two cars. everything is just like it ought to be. And when Claudia's credit card suddenly doesn't work, she sees no reason to fret. What she doesn't know is that her husband Jens has just gone broke and her marriage wi ...
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N�madak TX
Spain | 2007 | 86' | OV with engl. st
The txalaparta is a traditional Basque instrument. Its special appeal is the fact that it is played by two people simultaneously and its sound thrives on this relationship. In search of similar authentic sounds, the musicians travel across the world ...
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Ekko
Denmark | 2007 | 80' | OV with engl. st
Simon is a divorced policeman who loses custody for his six-year-old son. He abducts him and takes him to a secluded house in the country for a last holiday as father and son. But the ghosts of his past threaten to drive him mad. An emotional, someti ...
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Hofshat Kaits
Israel | 2007 | 73' | OV with engl. st
In this modern-day interpretation of the story of Abraham and his son Isaac, a Jewish Rabbi travels to the Dead Sea with his family. The initially light atmosphere becomes increasingly threatening as the Rabbi must chose between his religious duty an ...
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Akher Film
Tunesia, Marocco | 2007 | 115' | OV with engl. st
Bahta dreams of fame as a breakdancer but the reality is that he has no education, is unemployed and is constantly fighting with his girlfriend. The war in Iraq means he cannot leave Tunisia, and his passion for breakdance is not shared by the author ...
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Sieben Mulden und eine Leiche
Switzerland | 2007 | 81' | OV
After their mother's death, journalist Thomas Haemmerli and his brother Erik open the door to her apartment and discover how messy family secrets can be: their mother was a compulsive hoarder. The things they find range from unpleasant (mum's vibrato ...
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Home Sweet Home
Belgium, France | 2007 | 91' | OV with engl. st
A mutiny in a retirement home! Old-age pensioner Jules is tired of being treated like a child. Especially as new entrant Flore stirs up manly feelings in him, behaving as if the place is a hotel. Both of them become a pain in the management's neck an ...
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Darling
Sweden | 2007 | 93' | OV with engl. st
Eva is in her twenties and blows the money her mother gives her on clubbing and a flat in the hippest part of Stockholm. Then her boyfriend leaves her and her mother cancels her payments. When she ultimately finds work at McDonald's, she meets the ol ...
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Der Kommissar und das Meer - N�her als du denkst
Germany | 2007 | 90' | OV
Scandinavian actresses of current and past fame like Paprika Steen ("Festen") and Inger Nilsson ("Pippi Longstocking") play in this preview of a 2008 television series based on novels by Mari Jungstedt. Superintendent Anders is investigating the murd ...
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Tajnosti
Czech Republik | 2007 | 94' | OV with engl. st
A story about love, life and lies. When translator Julie (played by Czech singer and violinist Iva Bittov�) hears of the death of her favourite singer Nina Simone, she decides to change her life completely. The first thing she does is buy a piano. "A ...
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Jasminum
Poland | 2007 | 107' | OV with engl. st
A magical lovestory for grown-ups enfolds in an idyllic setting where monks exude scents that mirror their names - Brother Plum is one, Brother Cherry another. When a restaurator who dabbles in love potions arrives at the monastery, with her five-yea ...
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El asaltante
Argentina | 2007 | 70' | OV with engl. st
Why does a well-dressed older gentleman rob two schools at gunpoint? In between, a waitress accidentally spills hot water on him and becomes suspicious. She follows him only to have the gun pointed at her. But is the suspect always the criminal? Fend ...
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Vienna's Lost Daughters
Austria | 2007 | 87' | OV with german st
The film centres on eight 80-year-old ladies, deported by the Nazis from Vienna as children, via London to New York where they still live today. Mirjam Unger accompanies them in their everyday life, painting the portrait of a lively Jewish community ...
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Qu� tan lejos
Ecuador | 2007 | 92' | OV with engl. st
Spanish backpacker Esperanza (Tania Martinez) meets cynical student Tristeza (Cecilia Vallejo) on an Ecuadorian bus. Then a strike requires them to hitchhike and meet a very thin man carrying his grandmother's ashes. The Andes are a suitably impressi ...
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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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Ai no Yokan
Japan | 2007 | 102' | OV with engl. st
A man and a woman meet in a town far from Tokyo. She is a housekeeper in the hostel in which he lives; they recognize each other, but between them there can be nothing but silence. Her daughter killed his daughter when they were still young. Masahiro ...
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Bruno Manser - Laki Penan
Switzerland | 2007 | 94' | OV
Bruno Manser lived with the Penan tribe in Sarawak (Borneo). He learned their language and defended their rainforests, creating international awareness for ecological and humanitarian disasters and making powerful enemies in the process. In 2000 he d ...
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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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Zeit zu leben
Germany | 2007 | 88' | OV
A drama develops into a thriller when a suicide pact between an ageing couple who both suffer from ill health turns sinister. Their hesitant children agree to accompany them to the Netherlands where somebody will administer euthanasia. But only the w ...
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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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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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Forfeit
USA | 2007 | 84' | OV
In his youth, Frank (Billy Burke) committed a heinous crime. When his life seems back on track, he returns home and makes up with his ex Karen (Sherry Springfield). Soon, however, the friendship with a charismatic TV evangelist (Gregory Itzin) brings ...
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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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Underbara �lskade
Sweden | 2007 | 96' | OV with engl. st
Life can change completely in an instant. One day Lasse (Michael Nyqvist), happily married with two kids, loses his wife and younger son in a car accident. While his older son Jonas (Anastasios Soulis) tries to get back on track, Lasse has a nervous ...
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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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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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Die Z�rcher Verlobung
Germany, Switzerland | 2007 | 88' | OV
A remake of a classic, as German as the Ealing comedies are English. Young authoress falls in love with charmingly disinterested guy but draws the vested interests of his aptly named mate Buffalo instead. A romance enfolds, a love-story ends in tears ...
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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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Underdogs
Germany | 2007 | 96' | OV
Brutal prison inmate Mosk enters a rehabilitation programme, training guide dogs for the blind. Mosk develops a close attachment to the dog and also opens up to prison director Gloria. But when he is required to give over the dog, it comes to a deed ...
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Im Reich des B�sen
Germany | 2007 | 90' | OV with german st
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 ...
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Foreldrar
Iceland | 2007 | 96' | OV with engl. st
A thematic sequel to "Children" (which ran at Filmfest Hamburg 2006), Ragnar Bragason's "Parents" is an ironic symphony of dreams and lies and ways of life, questioning the softened roles of parents and children in family settings: a stepfather yearn ...
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Den man �lskar
Sweden | 2007 | 92' | OV with engl. st
Fishmonger Alf (Rolf Lassg�rd) is happily married to Lena (Sofia Ledarp), but it bothers him to be constantly compared to her violent ex-husband Hannes (Jonas Karlsson). When Hannes is released from prison, Lena proves to be sexually dependent of him ...
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Atonement
USA, United Kingdom | 2007 | 125' | OV with german st
Based on an Ian McEwan's novel and adapted by Oscar winner Christopher Hampton, this gripping story is set in the upper-class England of the late 30s. 13-year-old Briony is infatuated with the housekeeper's son, whom her flash sister (Keira Knightley ...
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Immer nie am Meer
Austria | 2007 | 88' | OV
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 ...
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Tatort - Wem Ehre geb�hrt
Germany | 2007 | 88' | OV
Charlotte is pregnant and upset about being treated more like a sick patient. But even more upsetting is her new case: a suicide by a young Turkish woman which Charlotte clearly sees as a case of an honour killing. This gets her into politically unco ...
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Vratn� lahve
Czech Republik | 2007 | 103' | OV with german st
The third part of Jan Sver�k's trilogy on human ageing tells the story of retired literature teacher Josef. In an attempt to escape his apartment and his wife Eliska, he finds new friends and acceptance working at a supermarket bottle-bank, while bac ...
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Happiness
USA | 2007 | 11' | OV
You can't buy happines in a box, but you can buy a pair of red shoes to change your life. Emotional drama with a twist. ...
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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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Savage Grace
USA, Spain, France | 2007 | 89' | OV
In the 1940s, Tony (Eddie Redmayne) is born into the unhappy marriage of Barbara (Julianne Moore) and Bakelite heir Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane). When Tony turns out to be homosexual, his father cuts off all ties, while his mother creates a cla ...
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Crazy Love
Belgium | 2007 | 86' | OV with engl. st
Based on three short stories by American author Charles Bukowski, Flemish director Dominique Deruddere's film tells the tragic story of Harry Voss (Josse de Pauw), a man looking for love. Dreamy as a boy and acne-ridden as an adolescent, Harry's fate ...
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Der blinde Fleck
Germany | 2007 | 91' | OV
Eckhard, a policeman, and his wife Marianne live in a small town with their daughter Laura. When Laura is accused of the murder of two policemen, their happy life derails. As Laura maintains her silence, Eckhard's colleagues begin to distrust him, an ...
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Ebbe
Germany | 2007 | 11' | OV with engl. st
Low tide at the sea - low tide in love? A trip to the sea confronts a young couple with the complexity of relationships. ...
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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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Forestillinger
Denmark | 2007 | 350' | OV with engl. st
The six episodes of this unusual TV series centre on the stage of a small theatre, each episode told from a different protagonist's perspective. A charismatic director in a crisis, a hopeful young actor, a heart-broken actress, the director's daughte ...
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Copacabana
Germany | 2007 | 88' | OV
The 35th wedding anniversary of Maria (Nicole Heesters) and Herbert (Bruno Ganz) is coming closer - and the whole family is invited. But behind the harmonious beachhouse fa�ade, trouble is looming in paradise. The eldest daughter has marital problems ...
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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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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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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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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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Kicks
Netherlands | 2007 | 112' | OV with engl. st
Redouan has Moroccan roots, lives in the Netherlands and dreams of being a rap star. One night he is shot by a policeman. The latter maintains it was in self-defence and public opinion is split. Policewoman Aaliyah and Redouan's brother Said launch i ...
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Die Todesautomatik
Germany | 2007 | 89' | OV
The GDR in 1961 was a rather joyless place. When two kids establish a fan club for a rock'n'roll musician, authorities prick up their ears. The youngsters protest against the Berlin Wall, scribble graffiti, even burn down a barn. The government puts ...
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The Savages
USA | 2007 | 114' | OV
There is a day in most people's lives that causes them to grow up. One day John (Philip Seymour Hoffmann) and Wendy Savage (Laura Linney) receive a telephone call: their father Lenney (Philip Bosco) has just smeared the walls of his apartment with fa ...
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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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Swopnodanay
Bangladesh | 2007 | 88' | OV with engl. st
Fazlu peddles ointments on a Bangladeshi market. One night he brings home a pair of second-hand trousers which reveal bundles of foreign currency. Initial elation soon makes way for strained relationships with his wife and his best friend as they tra ...
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Die Katze
Germany | 2007 | 93' | OV with engl. st
Margret, a middle-class widow, and Siegmar a former foreman, meet and decide to get married for fear of growing old alone. As they move in together, Siegmar brings his cat, which puts Margret on the warpath. The ensuing war of nerves destroys all fee ...
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Auf dem Vulkan
Germany | 2007 | 90' | OV
The relationship of a middle-aged couple (international stars Maria Schrader and Sebastian Koch) is severely troubled by the accidental death of their son. He is unable to talk about what happened, she is unable to accept this. When he is offered a s ...
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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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Control
United Kingdom | 2007 | 117' | OV
Post-punk band "Joy Division" captured their audience with hammering guitars and dark lyrics. They became immortalized with lead singer Ian Curtis' death in 1980. Photography legend Anton Corbijn shot the singer's biography, which is based on the mem ...
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Who Loves the Sun
Canada | 2007 | 94' | OV
Will (Lukas Haas) and Daniel (Adam Scott) grew up as best friends, sharing a taste in music and girls. Daniel was best man when Will married Maggie (Molly Parker), then one day Will disappeared without trace. When he shows up five years later at Dani ...
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Baixio das Bestas
Brazil | 2007 | 82' | OV with engl. st
A young girl lives with her grandfather in a sugar cane plantation in the bogs of Brazil. Here she is kept naked as a slave for men to abuse. Women are worth nothing, even to the educated men. There is no hope for the girl in this oppressive social s ...
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A Via l�ctea
Brazil | 2007 | 88' | OV with engl. st
After an all-or-nothing fight over the phone with his girlfriend J�lia, Heitor, a writer, dives straight into the pulsating nightlife of S�o Paulo. His declared aim is to win her back, but it seems as though the city refuses to let him arrive. The tr ...
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Fabricando Tom Z�
Brazil | 2007 | 90' | OV with engl. st
Tom Z� is one of the founding members of the Tropicalia movement of the 60s. Still active today, he brought out an album on his 70th birthday in 2006. The film accompanies Z� on his recent European tour, switching between film, video and animated seq ...
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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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Afghan Muscles
Denmark | 2007 | 58' | OV with engl. st
Bodybuilding poses an honourable way out of the dregs of post-Taliban Afghan society. But it�s a long slog to the coveted title of Mr. Afghanistan. Where others beef themselves up with protein mixes and steroids, the poor are restricted to 15 hard-bo ...
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Armando
Italy | 2007 | 15' | OV with engl. st
How much does an unhappy soul weigh? But when a heavy heart sinks in Rome, a happy ending is near. Romantic comedy. ...
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Alles Moet Weg
Belgium | 2007 | 105' | OV with engl. st
Failed law student Tony (Stany Crets) dreams of making the big money as a salesman, even if it means selling people useless junk; after all, people are asking to be ripped off, aren't they? When he chances upon Andr� (Peter Van den Begin), a small-ti ...
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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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Tanghi Argentini
Belgium | 2007 | 13' | English, French
It takes two to tango...or three in this charming ballroom comedy.
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Cabale � Kaboul
France, Belgium | 2007 | 87' | OV with engl. st
Isaac Levy and Zabulon Simantov are Afghanistan's last remaining Jews. They hate each other with a vengeance and haven't spoken to each other in ten years. While one works as an exorcist, the other sells self-distilled alcohol. This tragicomic docume ...
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S�gisball
Estland | 2007 | 120' | OV with engl. st
Writer Mati (European Shooting Star Rain Tolk) drinks heavily since his wife left him. Kask, a hairdresser, befriends a little girl and is suspected of paedophilia. The girl�s mother is married to a violent alcoholic and wired to the television set. ...
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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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The 11th Hour
USA | 2007 | 91' | OV
Droughts, hunger, severe flooding and acid rain all make it onto the news, but rarely as part of the greater whole which determines how mankind will exist in the future. A dialogue with scientists and politicians including Stephen Hawkings and Mikhai ...
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