24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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