24th Sept - 1st Oct 2009
Vivre me tue
France/Germany | 2003 | 86 min. | OV with English s.t.
Following Sinapi�s celebrated debut, �Nationale 7�, this is a tale of second-generation outsiders. Paul (Sami Bouajila) and his younger brother, Daniel (Jalil Lespert), of Moroccan descent, were born and raised in France. Despite a good education, Pa ...
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Vert Paradis
France | 2003 | 98 min. | OV with English s.t.
Lucas (Denis Podalyd�s), Isabelle (Natacha R�gnier) and Simon (Clovis Cornillac) grew up in the same village. Isabelle and Simon used to be a couple. Then she left for Paris, where Lucas now also tries to make a living, while Simon has taken over his ...
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Vieraalla Maalla
Finland | 2004 | 92 min. | OV with English s.t.
A Finnish romantic comedy bursting with passion, laughs and vices. To fi nd out how foreigners are treated in Finland, Tuomas (Ville Haapasalo is more popular in Russia than in his home country of Finland) borrows the identity of his friend Omar, fro ...
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Visions of Europe - 25 Directors, 25 Countries
div. | 2004 | 140 min. | OV with German s.t.
VISIONS OF EUROPE Twenty-fi ve European directors present
their individual visions of Europe in short fi lms. Produced by Michael Olsen (Zentrope Entertainment), and funded primarily by ZDF and arte, with the support of various national ...
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Ve Lakachta Lecha Isha
Israel, France | 2004 | 97 min. | OV with Englisch s.t.
Ronit Elkabetz, who also stars in �Or�, has three parts to play here: as main actress, screenwriter and director, the latter two in conjunction with her brother, Shlomi. Vivian and her husband, Eliyahoo, are looking divorce in the eye. Vivian dreams ...
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Variet�
Germany | 2005 | 86 min. |
For the third year in succession, this year�s Film Festival pays tribute to one of the stars of the silent-movie era. This time, it�s the mysterious and equally glamorous Hungarian Lya de Putti. She plays a lascivious dancer caught between two men in ...
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V Gradinata Na Raia
Bulgaria | 2005 | 1 min. |
Bittersweet snapshot of an insect travelling through the living-hell of a poor family into the bright colours of the garden outside. ...
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Valley of Flowers
India, France, Japan, Germany | 2006 | 120 min. | OV with Engl. s.t.
A legend from the Himalaya spanning two centuries, love, death, and immortality, no less, is brought to the screen by Pan Nalin ("Samsara"). The colour-saturated, sensual epic revolves around Jalan, a brigand and Ushna, his bride, a mysterious beauty ...
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V�ter, denn sie wissen nicht was sich tut
Germany | 2006 | 89 min. | OV
One kid, two dads and not a single bright idea of how to deal with an adolescent who doesn't seem to do much besides eating fastfood and watching television. And it's not exactly as though that these dads haven't got problems of their own to sort out ...
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Vom Ende der Eiszeit
Germany | 2006 | 90 min. | OV
Policewoman Lena J�rning finds her first corpse, drifting like pack ice in the Ostsee. Rather more shocking is the fact that this is her estranged sister who ventured out into the big world while Lena stayed behind in the village to take care of thei ...
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Verschlossen
Germany | 2006 | 3 min. | no s.t.
Playful animation about a bullhead and how his attempts at opening a closed door blow up on the screen.
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V2 - J��tynyt enkeli
Finland | 2007 | 92' | OV with engl. st
The most successful Finnish film of the year tells the story of private detective Jussi Vares' latest case. This time he travels to the port of Pori to solve the murder of a young woman. But wherever he turns, he is met by a wall of silence. Trouble ...
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Valuri
Rumania | 2007 | 16' | OV with engl. st
A day at the beach turns into a nightmare for a carefree young man when a mother has an accident and leaves her handicapped child behind ...
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Vienna's Lost Daughters
Austria | 2007 | 87' | OV with german st
The film centres on eight 80-year-old ladies, deported by the Nazis from Vienna as children, via London to New York where they still live today. Mirjam Unger accompanies them in their everyday life, painting the portrait of a lively Jewish community ...
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Vratn� lahve
Czech Republik | 2007 | 103' | OV with german st
The third part of Jan Sver�k's trilogy on human ageing tells the story of retired literature teacher Josef. In an attempt to escape his apartment and his wife Eliska, he finds new friends and acceptance working at a supermarket bottle-bank, while bac ...
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