24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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