24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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