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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...