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Germany 2003 | 6 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Matthias Stähle
Slice of life: Three fans of Hamburg's St. Pauli soccer team celebrate in the city's red light district. A one-night stand brings a surprise to one of them. ...
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Germany 2003 | 88 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Hajo Gies
Rosa Mayrhofer (Christiane Hörbiger) lives high up in the Alps, and makes wonderful chocolates. She comes down from her mountain to participate in an international confectionery competition in Hamburg, where she meets the
attractive (but almost pen ...
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Japan 2003 | 103 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Masahiro Kobayashi
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 clo ...
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Germany 2003 | 80 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Matthias Kessler
Amon Göth was a mass murderer. As the commander of Plaszow concentration camp, he killed prisoners at will, shooting them from the balcony of his villa overlooking the camp. His
daughter, Monika, was born in 1945, by which time her father had been ...
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Russia 2001 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Yegor Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky
Former criminal investigator, Major “Fox” Korenev (Yuri “Gosha” Kutsenko), returns to Moscow having spent several years in a prison camp for using illegal methods of investigation.
He finds a city in a state of lawlessness, run by the mob, a ...
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Belgium 2003 | 127 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Tom Barman
Former Belgian rock band dEUS front-man Tom Barman’s directorial debut is a film about a group of eight singles. On a hot Friday afternoon in Antwerp, they are all getting ready to go to a party. The most remarkable of them is Windman (Sam Louwyck) ...
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Germany 1912 | 858 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Urban Gad
Originally prohibited by the censors, it is today difficult to see what could have caused such offence when “Die arme Jenny” (Poor Jenny) was released in 1912. Asta Nielsen plays a simple girl who falls prey to an elegant seducer and
then pays f ...
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Germany 2003 | 3 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Klaas Dierks
The very heart of Hamburg presented in a fast-moving collection of unusual sights and sounds: the harbour as a 2-minute-and-30-second audiovisual sightseeing event. ...
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Finland 2003 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Aleksi Mäkelä
Otto (Peter Franzén), Matti (Niko Saarela), Ilkka (Lauri Nurkse) and Eero (Jasper Pääkkönen) are every mother’s dream. The brothers don’t drink, don’t smoke and don’t swear. Except that the quartet has carried out over a hundred robberies ...
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Germany 2003 | 92 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Dagmar Hirtz
When two red-headed boys are found dead within a short space of time, Inspector Bella Block (Hannelore Hoger) and her team come under pressure to come up with some results.
Bella starts to show the strain, particularly as she is having problems at h ...
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France, Canada, Belgium 2002 | 82 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Sylvain Chomet
“Les triplettes de Belleville” is the first fulllength feature film by French caricaturist, Sylvain Chomet. Champion, a lonely orphan who lives with his grandma, Mme Souza, has only two pleasures in life: a puppy called Bruno
and his tricycle. H ...
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Canada, Italy, USA 2002 | 95 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Edoardo Ponti
For Sophia Loren, it is her 100th screen appearance, while her son, 29-year-old Edoardo Ponti, here makes his debut as screenwriter and director.
The film centres on the lives of three women from the same neighbourhood in Toronto. Olivia (Sophia Lor ...
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Denmark 2003 | 97 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jesper W. Nielsen
Bouncer Svend (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is traumatised by his parents’ unhappy marriage and feels himself torn between his mother and his alcoholic, tyrannical father. It is with horror that Svend begins to recognize similarities to his
father’s b ...
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Hungary 2003 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Zsombor Dyga
A high-rise development on the outskirts of Budapest, home to 23-year-old music freak, Artin (Gábor Welker), and his brother, Nate (Zoltán Schmied), a porn writer obsessed with
sex. This is where they hang out with their buddies, smoking, drinking ...
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United Kingdom 2002 | 108 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Nigel Cole
Much to the horror of the main office in London, the Rylstone Women’s Institute in North Yorkshire is planning a very special fund-raising exercise for the local hospital in memory of Annie’s (Julie Walters) late husband: her friend Chris (Helen ...
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Germany 2002 | 20 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Lukasz Roszak
Human drama: Little black Marvin has to call his mum in Africa. But the hospitality in Hamburg seems as cold as the weather. ...
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Brazil 2003 | 148 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Hector Babenco
The overcrowded “Carandiru” prison with its 7000 prisoners is slap bang in the centre of São Paulo. In a series of episodes loosely linked by the figure of the prison doctor, Drauzio (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos), Hector Babenco shows an
apocalypti ...
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Japan 2002 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Hiroyuki Morita
An animated film from the Japanese Ghibli Studios, “The Cat Returns” is the story of a teenage girl, Haru, who saves a cat’s life, only to discover that he is Prince Lune from the legendary Kingdom of Cats. Haru is invited to accompany him ther ...
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Poland 2003 | 78 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Lukasz Barczyk
When Adam meets his girlfriend Wanda’s family, he sees a country house by a lake and a large family enjoying a late summer. Having come through a divorce, drug addiction and unemployment, he now aims to make a fresh start with Wanda. But this setti ...
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Italy 2002 | 106 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Neri Parenti
Neri Parenti’s Italian box-office hit “Natale sul Nilo” sold over four million tickets in Italy between Christmas 2002 and Easter 2003. It is a fast-moving boulevard comedy in which a host of characters, including a widowed police chief and his ...
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Canada 2002 | 110 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jean Beaudin
Based on a novel by the popular Canadian author, Chrystine Brouillet, the film tells the tale of an experienced policewoman, Maud Graham (Maude Guérin), who hides her fragility behind a shell of cynicism and a professional air. Called to investigate ...
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United Kingdom 2002 | 87 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: John Deery
Inspired by a true story, debut director John Deery tells a controversial tale of a young Irish priest, Daniel (Jonathan Forbes), accused of homosexual practice following another priest’s suicide. Forced to leave the seminary, he
returns to his ho ...
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Germany 2003 | 86 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Susanne Hake
TV presenter Corinna (Katharina Böhm) has got over her last boyfriend with the help of her gay friend, Bébé (Jophie Ries) and her Granny (Gisela Trowe), and now has eyes for men again. Her Granny might be long dead, but in Corinna’s imagination ...
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Iran 2003 | 82 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Parviz Shahbazi
Award-winning director and screenwriter Parviz Shahbazi’s third film is a coming-of-age drama and a frank, naturalistic portrait of the younger generation of Iranis. Mansur (Mansour Shahbazi) and Kamran (Saeid Amini) drift aimlessly from day to day ...
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USA 2003 | 89 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Mark Rucker
Mark Rucker’s debut film is an homage to the melodramas of the sixties which starred ageing heroines such as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, while brilliantly maintaining the
balance between comedy and melodrama. Former Hollywood diva, Angela Arden ...
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Denmark, France, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands 2002 | 178 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Lars von Trier
The most hotly disputed film at this year’s Cannes Festival, “Dogville” is set in a small town in the Rocky Mountains during the Depression. Nicole Kidman plays the part of Grace, a mysterious stranger on the run from the mob and granted leave ...
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Germany 2003 | 86 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Sigi Rothemund
In the interval before the final act of La Traviata at the Venice opera house, La Fenice, worldfamous German conductor Helmut Wellauer (Rudolf Wessely) is found dead. A difficult case for Commissario Guido Brunetti (Uwe Kockisch). The dead man leaves ...
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Germany 2003 | 9 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Tom Meyer
In this comedy, the act of cleaning up the apartment has some surprises in store. After all, the heroine has locked herself in and a male choir drops by..... ...
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Hungary 2003 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Tamás Sas
24-year-old Eva (Patrícia Kovács) 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 (Gábor Máté). Tamás Sas’ disturbing psychodrama centres on Eva du ...
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Germany 2003 | 12 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Stefan Hering
Necessity knows no justice: Cinematic story of down-and-out-film-makers using public surveillance cameras for filming and stealing the tapes. ...
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USA 2003 | 81 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Gus Van Sant
Winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes, 2003. Director Gus van Sant here turns his hand to a highly explosive topic: a high-school shooting.
Shot in a semi-documentary, lyrical style, van Sant’s camera floats down the school corridors, showing the ev ...
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Sweden 2003 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Ingela Magner
Since the death of her mother 12-year-old Emma has been living alone with her father Anders up in the north of Sweden. In that secluded region the mail is brought by helicopter. Emma still mourns her mother and is not enthusiastic at all when her fat ...
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USA 2002 | 90 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Franc Reyes
Victor Rosa (John Leguizamo) is a tough drug dealer who controls the South Bronx streets, where his runners push the popular heroin-mix, “Empire”. A successful Wall Street broker, Jack Wimmer (Peter Sarsgaard), offers him a promising deal and the ...
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Italy 2003 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Salvatore Piscicelli
Actor and director Bruno (Ennio Fantastichini) is a celebrated man, but he’s caught up in a serious midlife-crisis. “The film is the story of a man who, at the age of 50, decides to face the demons that possess him,” says director Salvatore Pis ...
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Germany 1913 | 1617 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Urban Gad
Asta Nielsen had long wanted to play the part of a child, and her husband and director, Urban Gad, fulfilled that wish with “Engelein” (Little Angel, 1913). Nielsen plays the part of 17-year old Jesta, who has to pretend to her rich uncle (Max La ...
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Netherlands 2003 | 4 min | | FF 2003
Regie: Michiel van Bakel
Rotterdam time slices: An experimental composition of fairytale-like pictures of a horsewoman shot simultanously by 32 digital video camneras. ...
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France, Germany 2003 | 22 min | OV with English and French ST | FF 2003
Regie: Olivier Vinuesa
The smart way of fighting the economical crises: employees of a brewery sell their sperm to prevent the factory from going bankrupt. ...
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Germany 2002 | 12 min | | FF 2003
Regie: Pia Strietmann
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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France 2003 | 97 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Michel Boujenah
“No matter whether you love him or hate him, you only have one father. It’s better to love him or hate him while he’s alive,” says first-time director Michel Boujenah. Widower Léo (Philippe Noiret) has raised his three sons to live happy liv ...
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Denmark 2002 | 91 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Nicolas Winding Refn
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 (J ...
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India 2002 | 130 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Anurag Kashyap
“The Parasites” are five wannabe rock stars (Vijay L. Maurya, Joy Fernandez, Aditya Shrivastav, Kay Kay and Tejaswini Kolhapure) who live together and are prepared to go to any lengths to make their breakthrough. Unsuspectingly, they find themsel ...
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Israel 2003 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Itai Lev
Four year’s labour, his apartment turned into a movie set, borrowed money, three failed relationships: young Israeli director Itai Lev put everything he had into making his debut film. Shot in black and white, it tells of love, trust, horror and de ...
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Germany 2003 | 91 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Matthias Glasner
Alexander (Ulrich Tukur), the creative head of the Brandenburg dynasty of jewellers, lives the satisfied life of the upper class in Hamburg with his wife, Konstanze (Judith Engel). Then one day he falls for the mysterious Helen (Corinna Harfouch). Po ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina 2003 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Pjer Zalica
Teshanj is a town in Bosnia with a market place, pleasant people and traditions. But beneath the surface there is ethnic intolerance, criminality, prostitution and corruption. The news that US President Clinton will visit the town and be made an hono ...
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Germany 2003 | 21 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Werner Grassmann
Reality strikes back: This is not Federico Fellini's fictious Orchestra Rehearsal (1978), but a real rehearsal. Brahm's opus 8 performed by the Eurus Trio. ...
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Ireland 2003 | 85 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Liz Gill
When Clara (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) catches her boyfriend Tom (Sean Campion) kissing Isolde (Fiona Glascott), she starts seeing Dublin’s men through different eyes. Tom might now be more interested in Angie (Ireland’s 2003 Shooting Star, Flora Mon ...
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USA 2003 | 98 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Craig Singer
Two hit men in New York – but each of an entirely different calibre. The one, Ronnie (Gary Stretch), is elegantly British and professional; the other, August (Michael Rappaport) is nothing but trouble. August has become a real
problem for some of ...
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Denmark 2003 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Anders Thomas Jensen
Bjarne (Shooting Star, Nikolaj Lie Kaas) and Svend (Mads Mikkelsen) are buddies and butchers. Svend is ambitious but has a marked inferiority complex, while Bjarne doesn’t really give a damn about anything – except his girlfriend,
Astrid (Line K ...
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France 2003 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Emmanuel Bourdieu
Lucas (Denis Podalydès), Isabelle (Natacha Régnier) 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 h ...
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New Zealand 2002 | 105 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Mark J. Gordon
New Zealand 1953. 13-year-old Elizabeth is an ardent admirer of the young Queen of England. The girl dreams of actually meeting her namesake some day. What a wonderful surprise that the queen plans a visit to New Zealand, including Elizabeth's hometo ...
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Germany, France 2003 | 52 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Bettina Clasen
At the age of twenty, Bettina Clasen left her home city of Hamburg and moved to Paris. She wanted to find out “where the world, my world” is, but without knowing what she was looking for. Twenty years later, she returns to Hamburg, and starts a n ...
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Germany 2003 | 92 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Andrea Katzenberger
“I can’t bake myself one!” is a single woman’s typical answer when asked when she’ll find herself a new man. Hanna (Nina Petri), widowed mother of 8-year-old Leonie (Laura und Sarah Bellini), works as an editor for children’s books.
As C ...
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Germany 2003 | 93 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Anna Justice
Kathrin (Anneke Kim Sarnau), a young hospital surgeon, and her boyfriend, Daniel (Roman Knizka), find their plans for a life together in America disrupted by the results of an Aids test: Kathrin is diagnosed as being HIV-positive,
while Daniel is ne ...
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United Kingdom, Ireland, USA 2002 | 105 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Jim Sheridan
Emma (6) and Sarah Bolger (10) play the sisters Ariel und Christy, who emigrate from Ireland to New York with their parents, Sarah (Samantha Morton) and Johnny (Paddy Considine). Their move is ostensibly to help Johnny’s acting
career, but it is m ...
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Hungary 2002 | 97 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Gergely Fonyó
Every year the grandchildren spent their summer holiday in the country at their grandparent's house. The children between six and sixteen love this holiday not least because of the unusual ideas their grandparents, who formerly were circus clowns, te ...
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Israel 2003 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Ra´ anan Alexandrowicz
The young Christian, James (Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe) is sent by his African village on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but Israel is no longer the Holy Land of their imagination. James is jailed as an illegal immigrant, then released on
bail put up by ...
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Germany 2003 | 84 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Eberhard Junkersdorf
Boomtown celebrates little King Rupert's birthday with a big party - musicians, travelling entertainers and magicians included. But strange things are happening: Till Eulenspiegel's grandfather Marcus vanishes for good during a magic trick and the to ...
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France 2002 | 85 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Danièle Thompson
France is loved for its romanticism, good food and its remaining vestiges of class struggle – its strikes. Danièle Thompson’s romantic comedy combines all three, as Felix (Jean Reno), a wornout businessman, and Rose (Juliette Binoche), a beautic ...
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Germany, Canada, Poland, USA 2002 | 113 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Agnieszka Holland
Julie’s (Miranda Otto) life is irreversably shaken when she discovers that her husband and father of her twin children, Henry (William Fitchner), is having an affair – and that her ten-year-old son Nicolas (Ryan Smith) is terminally ill with canc ...
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Portugal 2002 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Leonel Vieira
Set in Brazil in 1912, “A Selva” tells the story of
Portuguese monarchist Alberto (Diogo Morgado) who goes into exile on a rubber plantation in the heart of the Brazilian jungle, where he is confronted with the social squalor in which the worker ...
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Germany 2003 | 93 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Marco Petry
Based on the motto, “School was yesterday – life is now!”, director Marco Petry’s “Class of 99” is a sensitive film about friendship and love, trust and loyalty, centred on a group of young people in a small German town who finished
scho ...
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Sweden, Denmark 2003 | 90 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Josef Fares
Over a million people have been to see this film in Sweden, a country with a population of 8.6 million. Högboträsk is a sleepy provincial town where the police spend their days knitting and killing time. When head office in Stockholm
announces the ...
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Argentina, Spain, Uruguay 2002 | 93 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Diego Arsuaga
Three veterans of the “Friends of the Rail Association” in Uruguay are livid: a Hollywood studio has bought up the historical steam engine, “Heart of Fire”. Proclaiming “Our national heritage is not for sale!”, the professor with a heart ...
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Turkey 2003 | 111 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Yusuf Kurçenli
Yusuf Kurçenli’s drama centres on the tragic love story between Cem (Kadir Inanir) and Gülfem (Türkan Soray), set against a turbulent political background. Cem returns home to his dying father, having fled the area years ago and
had himself rep ...
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France, Germany 2002 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jean-Pierre Sinapi
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 educati ...
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Germany 2002 | 99 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Yüksel Yavuz
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 ...
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Russia 2003 | 82 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Ilya Maximov
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 ...
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Brazil 2003 | 123 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jorge Furtado
Money plays a leading role in this fast-moving cinematic experiment. André (Lázaro Ramos), a 19-year-old working in a copyshop, is in love with Silvia (Leandra Leal), a salesgirl who he watches through his telescope. To impress her, he goes to buy ...
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Rumania 2003 | 97 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Calin Peter Netzer
The Romania portrayed by director Calin Peter Netzer is a society full of doubt, a twilight zone caught between the blackness of the totalitarian regime it has overcome and the glittering fantasies of the liberalism it hopes to embrace. Maria lives w ...
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Republic of Korea 2003 | 127 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Joon-ho Bong
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 sch ...
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Germany 2003 | 88 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Florian Gärtner
Real-life mother and daughter Suzanne von Borsody and Rosemarie Fendel star in this comedy about family relations. 43-year-old Vreni (Borsody) is faced with a moral dilemma when her mother (Fendel) has a stroke. Should
she have her tyrannical mother ...
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Germany 2003 | 88 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Markus Imboden
Criminal psychologist Bach (Christoph Waltz) and state prosecutor Stein (Susanne Schäfer) reopen an old case, convinced that the sex murderer sentenced nine years ago is innocent. But in the village where another similar crime has
since taken place ...
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Germany 2003 | 93 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Florian Baxmeyer
Intelligent school graduate, Jenny (Mina Tander), not only has a place at an elite university, but an attractive fellow student, Henning (Philipp Hochmair), as a boyfriend to boot. Then Jenny realises that Henning merely seduced her
to benefit from ...
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Norway 2002 | 97 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Unni Straume
Successful author, Sara (Lena Endre), is distraught over the death of her only child and lives alone in the house designed by her ex-husband, Peter (Bjørn Floberg), whose walls are like a prison to her. When she rents out the
basement to the Serbia ...
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USA 2002 | 87 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Adam Rifkin
Two stories on an extremely hot day in L. A.: in one, ex-cons, Tommy (Donnie Montemarano) and Mic (Vinny Argiro), think they have a fresh chance, with the offer of a great job in Vegas. In the other, a pimp, Rodan (Vinnie Jones), and a streetwalker, ...
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United Kingdom, Australia 2003 | 97 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Paul Goldman
In 1974, troubled Australian concert promoter, Rod Blue (Joel Edgerton), takes one big gamble to save his skin and persuades Frank Sinatra (Dennis Hopper) to go on tour in Australia. But when Sinatra insults a journalist at the opening press conferen ...
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Germany 2003 | 82 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Felix Randau
29-year-old Felix Randau’s debut film is a coming-of-age story. Anke (Julia Hummer) is an 18-year-old outsider whose life is overshadowed by her father’s suicide when she was five. She blames his death on her mother (Lena Stolze). The news that h ...
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Denmark 2003 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Natasha Arthy
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 (Björn K ...
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Canada, Ireland 2001 | 100 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: David Caffrey
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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Germany 2003 | 13 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Ulrike Grote
Black comedy about two unlike brothers who fulfill their promise to their Polish granny to get her to grandpa's funeral. Unfortunately, dies right before crossing the border... but a promise is a promise. ...
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Netherlands 2002 | 70 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Johan Kramer
June 30th, 2002. The eyes of the world are focussed on Yokohama, where Brazil will play Germany in the World Cup Final. Meanwhile, in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, 22000 spectators gather to watch the “Other Final” – between
the two countrie ...
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France 2003 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Graham Guit
On a humanitarian mission in Northern Brazil, the young Carmelite nun, Sarah (Élodie Bouchez), is rushed to hospital in extreme pain. Father Joachim Ferrer (Gérard Depardieu), doctor and priest, cannot, however, find anything wrong with her. Fascin ...
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Norway 2003 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: John Sullivan
A group of drama students spend their last weekend before graduation in a remote country house. It is a weekend they will never forget, as a series of dramatic events permanently changes their view of life. American documentary
director, John Sulliv ...
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Austria 2002 | 99 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Harald Sicheritz
Car salesman Gerry (Roland Düringer) is faced with a serious predicament in this mad-satirical comedy from Austria. Just when the death of his boss sets the career roulette in motion, Gerry has to go on annual vacation with his wife and teenage daug ...
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Australia 2003 | 8 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Anna Fraser
Once upon a time your options were limited these days the options are
endless… Getting out the door can be the hardest thing to do. ...
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United Kingdom 2002 | 108 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Penny Woolcock
A party guest desirously licking a woman’s feet. – A naked man imprisoned in an aquarium struggling for air. – A bloody fistfight between two 11-year-olds, with their unscrupulous fathers taking bets on the winner. An uncompromising look at a g ...
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Czech Republik 2003 | 114 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jan Hřebejk
Prague in the 1980s. The anti-communist sculptor, Bedrich (Bolek Polívka), is to make a mosaic for the school at which Brecka (Jaroslav Dusek), who follows the party line, is headmaster. The two men go out drinking together, and
Bedrich manages to ...
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France 2003 | 112 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jacques Doillon
Jacques Doillon returns to his favourite subject of love for this intensive emotional drama shot in Marrakesh. Beautiful young Raja (Najat Benssallem) lives on the streets. Fred (Pascal Greggory), a Frenchman in Morocco, takes her on as his housekeep ...
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Denmark 2003 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Christoffer Boe
A perfectly staged surreal mystery, “Reconstruction” covers 24 hours in the life of the photographer, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kaas). Alex betrays his girlfriend (Maria Bonnevie) by seducing Aimee (also Bonnevie), who is married to an older novelist, Au ...
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Italy 2002 | 125 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Gabriele Muccino
Teeny Valentina (Nicoletta Romanoff) learns the true meaning of the term “casting couch” at a casting date for “Superstars”. Her brother, Paolo (Silvio Muccino), doesn’t know what to do or who he is. Their frustrated mother (Laura Morante) ...
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Germany 2003 | 82 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jens Huckeriede
Jens Huckeriede retraces the history of the Gebrüder Wolf, popular German-Jewish musichall artists of the early 20th century. His starting point is a visit by rap-artist and actor, Dan Wolf, from San Francisco to Hamburg, the city where his grandfat ...
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Germany 2003 | 75 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Tatjana Yankina, Ralf Brings
The “House of Stage Veterans” in St. Petersburg is home to ninety-five retired actors, stage directors, dancers and opera singers. They continue to work and rehearse, putting on shows and concerts in the old people’s home. Hamburg documentary m ...
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Germany 2003 | 90 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Matthias Tiefenbacher
Bitterfeld, GDR, spring 1989. Chemical factory worker Gisela (Astrid Meyerfeldt) – three children from three different fathers, an ex-boyfriend (Oliver Korittke) and a girlfriend preparing to head for the West – won’t be deterred: she is determ ...
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Canada 2003 | 108 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jean-François Pouliot
The Canadian village of Sainte-Marie-La-Mauderne is on the verge of ruin. The only hope for Mayor Germain (Raymond Bouchard) is if the plans to build a rubber factory go ahead.
But for this, the village must be twice the size. So the residents are f ...
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Switzerland 2002 | 2 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: François Rossier
Ein Mädchen, ein Spiegel und Jean-Luc. ...
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Germany 2003 | 12 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Marco Giese
Measure for measure: In this comedy, getting revenge takes all day for the village cop. But while there is life, there is hope. ...
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Iran 2003 | 84 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Mehdi Karampour
Mehdi Karampour describes his debut film as a “mixture of drama, cartoon and clip, an experiment in form and context”. Five characters are stuck on an island, from where they hope to escape to “somewhere else”, the utopia of their dreams. Dr. ...
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Republic of Korea 2003 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Kim Ki-Duk
Following “The Isle” (2000) and “Bad Guy” (2002), Korean director Kim-Ki-Duk’s latest work is set in a remote monastical retreat in the Korean mountains. A young boy is raised by an old monk. When a woman enters their secluded
world, the y ...
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France 2002 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jean Becker
Lucien’s (Damien Jouillerot) adolescent problems with his father (Jacques Villeret) are cast in a new light when his father’s best friend (André Dussollier) tells him the story of how he and his father were faced with being executed when caught ...
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Russia 2003 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Alexey Uchitel
“I had the idea for ‘The Stroll’ on New Year’s Eve in Prague,” says screenwriter, Dunya Smirnova, “when I suddenly realized how similar 22-yearold Germans, French, Italians and Russians are.” The three characters we see are Russians, ou ...
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Canada, Austria 2003 | 85 min | German Version | FF 2003
Regie: Bernd Neuburger
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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France 2002 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Abdelkrim Bahloul
Following Algeria’s independence from its colonial rulers in 1962, author Jean Sénac (Charles Berling), a gay Christian writing in French, is seen by the Islamic fundamentalists as the epitome of a “foreigner”. Abdelkrim Bahloul’s film tells ...
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USA 2002 | 78 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Gary Winick
Oscar Grubmann (Aaron Stanford) is 15, speaks fluent French, is an expert on Voltaire, and completely obsessed with the opposite sex. ‘Tadpole’ Oscar is madly in love with Eve (Sigourney Weaver), a woman in her midforties, who happens to have mar ...
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Denmark 2003 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Torben Skjødt Jensen
With her huge eyes, thin lips, mask-like face and her slim, boyish figure, Asta Nielsen was the first big screen diva. She starred in 74 films from 1920 to 1932. This documentary shows archive footage from various periods in her life (she died in 197 ...
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Germany 2003 | 90 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Thomas Freundner
The latest film in a long-running police series. In this episode, set in Kiel, the central character is Inspector Klaus Borowski (Axel Milberg). Having narrowly escaped being suspended for his unorthodox investigation methods, Borowski is called to t ...
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France 2003 | 84 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Gérard Krawczyk
Daniel (Samy Naceri), the Marseilles taxi driver who has already successfully maneouvred his way past evil Germans in “Taxi 1” and evil Japanese in “Taxi 2”, now takes on some evil Chinese in this high-paced action movie produced
and scripte ...
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Denmark 2002 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Torben Skjødt Jensen
In 1964 a young film director (Ole Lemmeke)sets out to make a documentary about the almost forgotten silent film goddess Asta Nielsen (played by 87-year-old Vera Gebuhr).
The film star welcomes him with open arms, but the further he penetrates behin ...
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Israel 2002 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: David Ofek, Joseph Madmony
Independence Day, 1988, in Israel. Barbecuing in the park is a family tradition for Haim (Victor Ida) and his wife, Naima (Raymonde Abecasis). The party forms the backdrop for a look at the different people’s desires and the conflicts in this Iraqi ...
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Japan 2002 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Hiroyuki Morita
When the girl Haru saves the life of a cat on a busy street, she cannot foresee what unusual events are set into motion by this. The fortunate animal is nobody less than cat prince Lune from the mythical kingdom of the cats. On the very next day Haru ...
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Iran 2003 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Abolfazl Jalili
In the 1970s in the deeply religious town of Saveh, a two hours’ drive from Tehran, 16-year old Emkan (Mehdi Morady) dreams of music, art and literature, but none of these activities is permitted. Ejected from the mosque for sketching, his father b ...
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United Kingdom, USA 2002 | 120 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Richard Loncraine
He was a politician, writer (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953) and painter: England’s most famous prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965). In this film biography, director Richard Loncraine concentrates
on the period betw ...
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Denmark 2003 | 107 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Per Fly
Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen) is heir to a Danish steel company in the fourth generation. He married in Sweden and has a restaurant in Stockholm. When his father dies, his mother (Ghita Nørby) insists that he return and take
over the company. To the ...
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Canada 2002 | 110 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Richard Ciupka
Class d of the sixth-graders drives their teachers to despair. The pupils are neither willing to learn nor do they follow their teachers' orders. When another teacher gives up, Miss C. takes her place. She is a highly unusual person who speaks to a s ...
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Iceland 2002 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Baltasar Kormákur
After the success of his debut, “101 Reykjavik”, Baltasar Kormákur here turns his talent for breakneck comedy, dark dramatics and sharp sarcasm to a family saga in the fishing world with a film that received eight Icelandic Film
Prizes. “The ...
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USA, United Kingdom 2003 | 100 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Catherine Hardwicke
The relationship between 13-year-old Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) and her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter), is put to the test when Tracy becomes acquainted with sex, drugs and petty
crime through her “cool” friend, Evie (Nikki Reed). A close, uncompr ...
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India 2003 | 195 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Sanjay Gupta
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. ...
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France, Germany, Austria 2003 | 113 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke’s latest work is a dark, apocalyptic drama centering on the question as to how an individual reacts if the conventions of civilisation no longer apply and all that is left is the will to survive. A married couple with children travel ...
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Germany 2003 | 89 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Martin Eigler
As a child, police psychologist Hannah Schwarz (Barbara Rudnik), escaped with her mother from East Germany to the West. When her father, Leo, a former police inspector, gets in touch with her after a 30-year interval, she travels back to Schwerin. Ha ...
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Argentina 2003 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Alejandro Chomski
The gutter is closer than you think. And a lot can happen between Today and Tomorrow. Set against a background of economic crisis in Argentine, Alejandro Chomski’s debut film tells the story of Paula (Antonella Costa), a young
woman from a middle- ...
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Germany 2002 | 6 min | | FF 2003
Regie: André F. Nebe
Die attraktive und gewiefte Taschendiebin Anna (Ursula Buschhorn) macht
auf einer Vernissage erfolgreich Beute. Doch diesmal ist sie nicht
allein. Ein unbekannter Konkurrent wildert in ihrem Revier. Selbst Anna
wird bestohlen! Sie setzt alles daran, ...
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United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Luxembourg 2003 | 127 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Peter Greenaway
Part one of Greenaway’s multi-media project, “The Tulse Luper Suitcases”, to encompass films, a TV series, books, the internet and 92 DVDs, each filled with the contents of one of the suitcases packed by adventurer Tulse Luper (JJ Feild) on his ...
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USA 2002 | 108 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Matthew Ryan Hoge
Produced by Kevin Spacey, who also features in a central role, this film tells the story of the young murderer Leland Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling), imprisoned in a juvenile detention facility for killing a retarded boy. Here he comes
into contact with ...
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France 2002 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Raymond Depardon
“Black and white underlines the simplicity of my story,” states the world-famous photographer and film-maker, Raymond Depardon. Loosely based on a novel by Diego Brosset,
Depardon’s film takes us to the Sahara desert and its nomad inhabitants. ...
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Bulgaria 2002 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Kostadin Bonev
Changing political regimes are a bit like warming up yesterday’s lunch, or so claims the ageing Macedonian, Katerina (Svetlana Yancheva). “It’s just the same, but tastes a bit different.” From 1941-1944, Macedonia was occupied by Bulgaria, be ...
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Germany 2002 | 86 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Stephan Wagner
Ginger (Katja Flint), a single mother, lives and works as a waitress in a trendy part of Hamburg. The last thing she hopes to find is a father to her 14-year-old daughter Nico and her 5-year-old son Max. When she starts an affair with Nico’s dancin ...
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Germany 2003 | 96 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Joachim Masannek
The Devil's Pot is the training ground of the Wild Guys and until this summer holiday it was exclusively their territory. The young soccer enthusiasts with their leader Leon only had one plan for the holidays - to play soccer. But a nasty continuous ...
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USA 2002 | 96 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: David Anspaugh
Women against the Mob: Meg (Mira Sorvino), Kate (Melora Walters) and Rachel (Mariah Carey) all work as waitresses in a New York restaurant. While the pragmatic Kate and the
shy Rachel are able to shut their eyes to the Mafia dealings going on there, ...
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Yugoslavia 2002 | 97 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Zdravko Šotra
Based on a novel by Stevan Sremac, “Zona” is a Romeo-and-Juliet-type story set in the ancient town of Nis in the late 19th century. Goldsmith Mane (Vojin C´etkovic´) and the beautiful Zona (Katarina Radivojevic´) are made for each other, but Z ...
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