24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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