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Denmark 2005 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Anders Thomas Jensen
Adam, a Neo-Nazi, arrives at the vicarage to fulfil his community service. When the vicar enquires about his skills, Adam ironically suggests that he bake an apple cake. However, when the churchyard apple-tree is successively attacked by birds, worms ...
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Argentina 2004 | 67 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Israel Adrián Caetano
He is an author and is obsessed with his piano; she, a captivatingly austere prostitute seeking to understand her past. Two people who have apparently lost everything and who are now travelling to an undefined destination somewhere beyond the horizon ...
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Russia 2004 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Konstantin Bronzit
When the Tartar army threatens to ransack Alosha’s city, he comes up with a smart idea. The inhabitants hide the gold in a cave above the complex, lure the enemy into the city and seal the entrance with a bolder. Unfortunately, the bolder rolls bac ...
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Denmark 2005 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Laurits Munch-Petersen
The brothers Tim and Frank generate the necessary funds for their mother’s lifesaving operation by robbing a bank. When the police block their getaway path however, they hijack an ambulance – complete with dying patient and female nurse. The minu ...
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Poland 2004 | 7 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Szymon Jakubowski
Enthralling search for the truth, based on the memory of three different people who have witnessed the same incident. ...
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Sweden 2004 | 125 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Kay Pollak
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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Japan 2005 | 82 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Masahiro Kobayashi
Japanese aid worker Yoko is taken hostage in Iraq. She is eventually liberated, but on her return to Japan she is accused of egoism and comes under fire for getting Japan involved. Director Masahiro Kobayashi explains: “One could call Japanese ...
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Germany 2005 | 89 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Olaf Kreinsen
Laura, the wife of an entrepreneur, is somewhat surprised when her husband is arrested and put in prison. The good-life is over: She is forced to trade the villa for a council flat and her “wellness-weekend” for a grinding, low-wage canteen job. ...
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South Africa 2004 | 115 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Tim Greene
Tim Greene’s adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel is set in South Africa. Street urchin “Twist”, who grew up in an orphanage, has to work on farms and at a funeral parlour. Eventually, Twist takes things into his own hands and heads ...
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France 2005 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: James Huth
Comedian Jean Dujardin broke box-office records in France with his slapstick comedy “The Brice Man”. The inveterate big-mouth Brice is a passionate surfer. Unfortunately, he lives in Nice, which has many attractions but is not renowned fo ...
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Greece 2004 | 128 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Pantelis Voulgaris
1922, the poor Greek dressmaker Niki is on her way to the USA to meet her unknown groom. She is one of 700 so-called “mail order brides” travelling on board the „SS King Alexander“. During the voyage, she falls in love and sta ...
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USA, Philippines 2005 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Ian Gamazon, Dela Llana Neill
Adam is on his way to the Philippines to attend his father’s funeral when he receives an anonymous phone call at the airport. A wanted terrorist has abducted his mother and sister. Adam is soon confronted with an appalling decision: He either has t ...
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Austria 1996 | 88 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Michael Kreihsl
The succession of surreal events that lead author Juvacev from one calamity to the next, are so poetic, ambivalent, charming and bizarre that they periodically leave the narrator speechless. Director Michael Kreihsl weaves the stories and biography o ...
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Denmark 2005 | 88 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Henrik Ruben Genz
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 sis ...
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Brazil 2005 | 99 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Marcelo Gomes
Sales rep Johann drives a van through the north Brazilian wilderness, peddling aspirin to unsuspecting peasants. He has fl ed his native country, which has been responsible for starting a global war. Ranulpho is fleeing from the drought in the south ...
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98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Maria Blom
Mia (Sofi a Helin) travels home to a small village in the Swedish province of Dalarna to attend her father’s 70th, birthday celebrations. It’s not a good idea: The villagers think she’s snooty and her sisters are jealous. Old conflicts re-emerg ...
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Burkina Faso, France, Switzerland 2005 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: S. Pierre Yameogo
A woman is banished from her village for allegedly practicing witchcraft. Her daughter rebels against the decision and goes in search of her mother. Director S. Pierre Yameogo uses typically calm visuals to trace the story of a young woman’s fight ...
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Austria 1966 | 92 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Georg Tressler
A policeman flirts with the wife of a smuggler in order to gain information. Her husband sees through the plan and uses his wife to lead the investigator astray. Eventually, however, the woman reverses the game and starts to play the two men off agai ...
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Germany 2004 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Miguel Alexandre
Jessie is an unemployed single-parent who has been ordered 100 hours of community service for shoplifting. Whilst on duty at an old-peoples-home, she meets the grumpy old “General”, and the two of them develop an unlikely friendship. Miguel Alexa ...
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Germany 2005 | 6 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Marc Brummund
Ein alter Mann wird nach langer Zeit aus dem Gefängnis entlassen. Auf
dem Weg zu seiner Frau wird er mit der neuen Welt konfrontiert, die
erst wieder zuhause für ihn schön wird. Gewinner des Preis der Fachjury
und Nachwuchspreis des 1.PSP Filmund5 ...
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Germany 2005 | 89 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Oliver Storz
1947, three sisters are searching for happiness in a small south German town. Freya wants to marry a US army colonel, Guddi is enjoying single life and Nora is secretly in love with a former concentration camp prisoner. A stranger appears on Freya’ ...
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France 2004 | 67 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Renaud Delourme
In 2000, the renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand presented sensational aerial-photographs from around the world. Director Renaud Delourme has embedded these intoxicating images into a story plotting the course of world history – from its ver ...
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China 2004 | 95 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Xiao Jiang
Xiao Jiang’s debut film takes us to rural China before and after the Cultural Revolution. Ling Ling is the illegitimate daughter of a designated counter-revolutionary mother. The girl finds happiness for the first time when her mother marries the l ...
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Austria 2005 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Kurt Mayer
In 1966, the 18-year-old Erika Schinegger wins the world championship title in women’s downhill skiing. However, she is as astonished as everyone else when medical tests reveal that she is in fact – a man. The gold medal is rescinded and Erika’ ...
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Germany, USA 2004 | 70 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Kai Wiesinger
Eruv documents life in an Orthodox-Jewish community in the American town of Teaneck. The community lives within an “eruv”, a wire symbolising a wall, which spans the entire neighbourhood and delineates a private zone that grants special rights du ...
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Germany, Austria 1980 | 95 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Franz Novotny
Viennese crook and would-be playboy Kirchof dreams of owning his own coffee house and having lots of beautiful women. In order to reach his goal, he is sometimes compelled to leave the straight and narrow. Comedy, violence, sex and vandalism are the ...
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Norway, USA, Germany 2005 | 93 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Bent Hamer
According to Hank, the most important thing is to live the life of a poet. This necessitates a steady diet of alcohol, cigarettes, women and writing. Matt Dillon (“Drugstore Cowboy”) plays Hank Chinaski, the alter ego of iconoclastic street-poet ...
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Israel 2004 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Shiri Shahar
In 2003, the “Playboy Channel” started broadcasting erotic films in Israel. 600 girls applied for the job of hostess. The film follows the plight of ten finalists and affords a revealing insight into the psyche and culture of this extraordinary n ...
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Germany 2005 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Doris Dörrie
Ida, like the fairytale character Ilsebill, who repeatedly sends her husband to the magic flounder to fulfil her wishes, wants more. She wants more than her fish-enthusiast husband Otto can offer. According to the director, women have been like Ilseb ...
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Denmark 2005 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Åke Sandgren
Documentary-filmmaker My Larsen is contracted by the Conservative Party Headquarters to make an image-film about the mayor of Ravnborg. It doesn’t take long before she realises that, behind the idyllic façade, the town is teeming with corruption. ...
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USA 2004 | 15 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Jared Varava
Ironic drama about a three-man 400-meter relay team's search for the fourth athlete - and their extremely Scandinavian track-rivals. ...
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Germany, France 2005 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Yilmaz Arslan
This is the story of Azad, a young Kurd who goes to stay with his brother in Germany. However, the hatred between Turks and Kurds lives on here, too. In an argument with two Turks he kills their aggressive dog which leads to an avalanche of revenge. ...
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Israel, France, Belgium, Spain 2005 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Amos Gitaï
After having a blazing row with her mother-in-law, Rebecca (Natalie Portman) runs out of the hotel and jumps into a taxi. The taxi is driven by Hanna, an Israeli, who is on her way to the “free zone” between Israel and Jordan. Together with the P ...
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Germany 2005 | 86 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Thorsten Kirves
On a school trip to London in 1980, a group of seventeen-year-old friends pledged to reunite at Piccadilly Circus twenty years later. Would anyone actually turn up? Director Thorsten Kirves (Hamburg) unfolds seven different lives; with the attending ...
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Finland 2004 | 130 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Aku Louhimies
A film adaptation by Roger Bresson (1983), as well as the original story from Tolstoy, served as inspiration for “Frozen Land”. The film is set in Helsinki and shows how a counterfeit banknote dramatically influences the lives of various ...
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Brazil 2005 | 63 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Hank Levine, Marcelo Machado Tocha Alves,
Forget everything you’ve ever associated with the term “Documentary Film”. The directors and producer (Ferndando Meirelles) seem to have employed Ginga, the mysterious quality describing the technical and artistic lightness of Brazilian soccer ...
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United Kingdom, Italy, Spain 2004 | 95 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Mike Barker
“A Play about a Good Woman” is the subtitle of Oscar Wilde’s “Lady Windermere’s Fan”. Director Mike Barker relocates the story to the Italian seaside resort of Amalfi, in the 1930s. Lady Windermere (Scarlett Johansson) believes her husban ...
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France 2004 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Ilan Duran Cohen
The twenty-four-year-old homosexual Guillaume is trying to emancipate himself from two women: his recently deceased mother and his grandmother Régine, who has been his guardian. Only after the young gay housekeeper Maxime has entered their lives, do ...
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United Kingdom, USA 2005 | 106 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Lexi Alexander
From “Frodo” to fanatics: Hobbit actor Elijah Wood plays the American student Matt, who goes to live with his sister in London for a while. There, he meets members of the hooligan group “Green Street Elite” and is soon confronted with the bru ...
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Netherlands, Belgium 2005 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Nanouk Leopold
30-year-old aid-worker Anna finds her colleague hanged in the shower. “I thought she was happy”, is the only sentence her distraught (ex)husband has to offer. Anna is thrown into a crisis and starts to spy on her own husband and sister. When her ...
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Germany 2005 | 75 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Christian Mangels
Director and historian Christian Mangels presents the fourth instalment of the popular Hamburg docu-series. Prominent locals, including politicians, artists and rock stars, are asked to add their personal memories to the archive footage. Hamburg witn ...
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Germany, Bangladesh 2004 | 95 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Shaheen Dill-Riaz
According to a survey run by the London School of Economics, the happiest people in the world live in - Bangladesh. In order to substantiate this claim, Shaheen Dill-Riaz, a Bangladeshi living in Germany, travels to the mega city of Bhaka to conduct ...
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Finland 2004 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Pekka Mandart
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 fiancée is not amused and he ...
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Spain, Cuba, France 2005 | 110 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Benito Zambrano
There’s more to Havana than “Buena Vista Social Club”. Ruy and Tito belong to an entirely different kind of music-scene and they are determined to make the big-time. Alas, recording a demo-CD or organising a concert can quickly turn into a nerv ...
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Austria 1990 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Wofgang Murnberger
The ten-year-old hero finds inspiration for “dangerous games” at the paternal cinema and on his excursions to the butcher: he performs “horror shows and decapitations” in order to relieve the youngsters of their pennies. The film is set betwe ...
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Belgium 2005 | 84 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy Fiona Gordon,
Fiona works in a fast-food restaurant and, after an involuntary overnight stay in the cool-room, dreams of seeing a real iceberg. With the Eskimo guide Nattikuttuk at her side, her dream eventually becomes reality. A poetic and funny movie about mode ...
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Bulgaria 2005 | 1 min | | FF 2005
Regie: Svetoslav Vladimirov
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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France, United Kingdom, Belgium 2004 | 115 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Five-year–old Iris has to find her way in new surroundings: a few buildings surrounded by dense woodland and isolated from the outside world by a wall. Thirty girls between the ages of 5 and 12 live in these claustrophobic surroundings. Why are the ...
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Belgium 2004 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Frank van Mechelen
When Louise suddenly vanishes, her father Tom starts a desperate search. On the trail of a sixteen-year-old runaway, he eventually arrives at a small village in the Ardennes. He finds the mysterious girl with her parents, and although they refuse to ...
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Iran 2005 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Mohammad Rasoulof
A leaky freighter is drifting offshore somewhere on the Persian Gulf. While the captain is still trying to persuade the owner to give up the ageing vessel, poverty-stricken locals have claimed it for themselves. Births, deaths and marriages take plac ...
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Germany 2005 | 95 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Stefan Paul
The 20th of August 2006 will mark the tenth anniversary of the death of German rock star Rio Reiser. At the beginning of 2005, Jan Plewka put together a concert performance using Reiser’s songs, and reanimated the ideals of a generation. Director S ...
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Israel, France 2005 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Haïm Bouzaglo
When 40-year-old teacher Aldi returns traumatised from his military service, he decides to have a break. Having arrived at the airport, however, he cancels his flight to Paris and disappears among Tel Aviv’s Turkish immigrant community. He expe ...
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Germany 2005 | 89 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Emanuel Goldfarb, a German Jew, receives an invitation to lecture schoolchildren on his relationship to German society. Goldfarb thinks it’s a ridiculous idea: “Hasn’t there been enough said about it already?” However, his letter of refusal s ...
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France, Irak 2005 | 96 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Hiner Salem
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 ...
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USA, United Kingdom 2005 | 105 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: James Marsh
A stifling atmosphere of fear and violence hangs over this film. The 21-year-old Elvis has never met his father. He discovers that he is living as a vicar in Texas and sets off to meet him. However, when the illegitimate son realises he doesn’t ...
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Germany 1967 | 101 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Michael Kehlmann
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 ...
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Iceland 2004 | 15 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Runar Runarsson
A laconic drama about the last days of an ageing widowed farmer, who has his own ideas about leaving this planet. ...
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China 2004 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Xu Jinglei
The film is an adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s classic novella relocated to Peking during the 1930s and 40s. After reading the last words of an anonymous admirer the man sifts frantically through his memory in order to put a name to the mysterious wom ...
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Spain 2005 | 101 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Roberto Santiago
Penalty! The goalkeeper lies injured on the ground and irate fans invade the pitch. The match is abandoned and the penalty postponed. Reserve keeper Fernando, who is actually more interested in romantic conquests, has exactly one week in which to lea ...
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Canada 2004 | 101 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Francis Leclerc
Alexander Tourneur emerges from a lengthy coma after having been declared clinically dead. He is suffering from total amnesia and is increasingly plagued by disturbing images during the re-socialisation process. Are they just dreams or is something s ...
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Brazil 2005 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Sérgio Machado
Deco and Naldinho are petty thieves. The two friends share a motorboat, which serves as headquarters for their “business”. However, the friendship becomes strained when stripper Karinna enters their lives. Both men inevitably fall in love and a f ...
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USA 2005 | 105 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Marilyn Agrelo
A group of, mostly deprived, 11-year-olds from three different New York schools discover the fascinating world of – ballroom dancing. Initially, the kids are torn between teenie-cool and childish fun but a
fierce rivalry soon develops, ...
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Philippines 2004 | 113 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Laurice Guillen
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 daugh ...
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Germany 2005 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Markus O. Rosenmüller
The prominent defence lawyer Ariena Lenhardt is suffering from MS and as a consequence, is increasingly forced to withdraw from professional life. However, when a mysterious young woman implores her to take on her case, Ariena accepts - quite unaware ...
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Denmark, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Sweden 2005 | 139 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Lars von Trier
Manderlay is the second instalment of the trilogy that started with “Dogville”. The story is set in the 1930s in the American town of Manderlay, Alabama. Grace is the daughter of a white gangster and is engaged in the fight against racial segrega ...
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Italy 2004 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Giovanni Veronesi
How does love work? Director Giovanni Veronesi poses the “lifestyle question of questions” in his lively comedy “Manual of Love”. Whether you’ve just been smitten, just been abandoned or you’re just toying with an ...
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Germany 2005 | 85 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Wolfram Paulus
It’s one of the most successful film equations: “girl meets boy”. In this case, it’s the recently widowed Mathilde whose first ever orgasm is facilitated by a handsome man called Carlo. A touchingly vulnerable and vivacious melodrama. ...
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United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia 2005 | 98 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Terry Loane
If “Billy Eliot” had had little brothers, they would have been like Mickybo and Jon Jo. The two heroes are growing up in segregated Belfast at the beginning of the seventies. One of them is Protestant; the other is Catholic. Since watching “But ...
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Austria 1998 | 118 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Seidel’s film follows the fortunes of three Viennese models: castings, parties, coke, vomit and career-promoting sex with photographers. According to the director, it was diffi cult to work with the models as they are not used to people bein ...
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France 2004 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Emmanuel Carrere
Parisian architect Marc decides to shave off his moustache, after ten years. Suspecting droll, or perhaps critical, remarks from his wife and friends, he is off-balanced by their lack of reaction. Indeed, no one seems to recall the fateful facial-hai ...
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Germany 2005 | 13 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Andreas Wecker
Multi-layered murder mystery with a surprising twist: the husband get killed, but his wife thinks she is the victim. ...
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USA 2005 | 86 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Dana Adam Shapiro, Rubin Henry Alex
Ruthless attacks, furious counterattacks and crashing body-checks – no wonder they call it “Murderball”. This award-winning documentary film follows the fortunes of the US-Rugby-Paralympicsteam on its path to Athens 2004. It is an extraor ...
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Denmark 2005 | 124 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Jannik Johansen
When Jacob learns of his handicapped sister’s suicide during the wedding night, he follows the freshly widowed groom Anker to the godforsaken village of Mørke. There, he arrives in time to witness his brother-in-law’s next betrothal and, much to ...
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Germany 2005 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Christian Görlitz
The farmer Joachim has recently married the Yugoslavian Anna, who came to live in his village with her 5-year-old son. When the youngster dies in an accident, Joachim becomes suspicious… A menacing and multifaceted drama. ...
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USA 2004 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Jon Gunn, Brett Winn Brian Herzlinger
Brian Herzlinger has been in love with Drew Barrymore since his early schooldays. The financially destitute short-film director borrows a video camera and sets off to meet the object of his desire. 30 days of “premier-crashing”, phone ...
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Germany 2005 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Matti Geschonneck
The TV-News reader Jan Landers is under suspicion of having worked for the East German secret-police (Stasi). Two journalists are competing for the informers, rumours and missing documents necessary to expedite a huge scandal. Landers is removed from ...
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Germany 2005 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Raymond Ley
Helmut Schmidt, the freshly ordained Interior Minister of that time, explained 25 years later that the city of Hamburg was not prepared for a catastrophe of that scale. The 1962 flood, which took the city and its inhabitants by surprise, claimed 300 ...
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Germany 2002 | 89 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Lars Becker
Ein Sommerabend in Hamburg, 17.30 Uhr. Die Hauptkommissare Erich Bo
Erichsen, Paula Bloom und Jung-Kommissar Teddy Schrader vom
Kriminaldauerdienst treten ihre Nachtschicht an. Das Telefon klingelt,
Paula nimmt ab. Rosa, eine junge Frau aus einer Hoc ...
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Germany 2004 | 89 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Lars Becker
The KDD Hamburg (Continuous Criminal Investigation Department) is comprised of Chief Superintendent Paula Bloom, Chief Superintendent Erichsen, Superintendent Mimi Hu and Constable Teddy Schrader. Hamburg Filmfest will be showing two episodes: In “ ...
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France, Burkina Faso 2004 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Fanta Régina Nacro
They accused her uncle of planning a coup d’état, tortured him and barbecued him alive. These are the events that director Fanta Régina Nacro tries to come to terms with in her dramatic debut. Set in an undefined West African country, the fil ...
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Germany 2004 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Lars Kraume
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 ...
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Germany 2005 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Anna Justice
A young woman finds herself at the beginning of a nightmare. Diagnosis: breast cancer. Her illness compels Andrea (Marie Zielcke) to deal with herself, her dreams and her great longing to love and to be loved. A friend (Jasmin Tabatabai, also featuri ...
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Japan 2005 | 158 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Sion Sono
54 schoolgirls jump under a train. This scene from Sion Sono’s “Suicide Club” (2002) is used as a quote in his new movie “Noriko’s Dinner Table”. 17-year-old runaway Noriko becomes involved with the bizarre “Family Circle”, which prov ...
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Spain, Germany 2005 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Montxo Armendáriz
Basque director Montxo Armendáriz 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 brutal ...
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Portugal 2005 | 101 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: João Pedro Rodrigues
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 conventi ...
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Germany 2005 | 110 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Buket Alakus
When passionate soccer player Hayat (Karoline Herfurth) is diagnosed with cancer, her father cancels her club membership. She joins the local team, SC Schanze, a grimy hobby-outfit. The team’s coach (Ken Duken) proceeds to fall in love with her, an ...
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Switzerland 2004 | 91 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Greg Zglinski
It is winter in Jura, the beams of the burnt-down barn lie in the snow. Jean und Laure have lost their five-year-old daughter in the fire. It is every parent’s nightmare but Jean is determined to carry on… Greg Zglinski’s debut bare ...
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Belgium, France 2005 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Vincent Lannoo
George is an average guy: furniture salesman, family man, faithful friend and talented DIY enthusiast. George’s life is irrevocably changed, however, when he kills a stranger in a fit of anger. The stranger’s girlfriend is the only witness and to ...
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Burkina Faso, France 2004 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Dani Kouyaté
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 ch ...
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France 2004 | 77 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Maurice Barthélemy
A Volvo, a father and an eight-year-old son is apparently all that is needed to make an excellent film. “Papa” is already being heralded as “film of the year” in France. The father (Alain Chabat) tries to conceal his pain by telling jokes and ...
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France, Germany, Netherlands 2004 | 91 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Hany Abu-Assad
Two Palestinian friends, Khaled and Said, have been chosen to perform a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The plan fails however, and they are forced to reschedule. The delay offers them an opportunity to reconsider and the suspense is almost unbearable a ...
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France 2005 | 91 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Yves Caumon
Raymond, the son of the former owner, has been hiding in his childhood home for thirty years. When the new tenants move in – a family with two children – he is forced to flee to the barn and eventually ends up hiding in the well. Director Yves Ca ...
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Tunesia 2004 | 108 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Mohamed Zran
The male florist Abel falls in love with a wealthy female banker. He finds himself unable to communicate his feelings due to their different social status. Instead, he sends her a fresh bouquet every day. Will the flowers help overcome the social bar ...
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Germany 2005 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Till Franzen
The “blue border” (die blaue Grenze) is the border between life and death. Momme can’t face telling his grandfather that his son - Momme’s father – has suddenly died. The old man is still suffering from the loss off his wife. Director Till ...
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Denmark 2005 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Martin Schmidt
Signe and Tommy fulfil a dream when they move to a house in the country with their daughter Bianca. However, the dream is cut short by strange goings-on. At first, Signe and Tommy refuse to believe that their house might be cursed. Alas, when Bianca ...
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France, Germany 2005 | 100 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Diane Bertrand
Iris, a young French girl, loses a piece of her ringfinger. This is the starting point of this enchanted and captivating film. Iris finds work with an obscure scientist and a relationship defined by subservience, desire and risk ensues. “The Ringfi ...
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USA 2005 | 80 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Kyle Henry
Julia Barker is an average, overworked mother-of-two. However, she has been suffering disturbing visions of an empty room for some time. Suddenly, she flees her previous life and heads for New York, where she is convinced she’ll find th ...
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Slovenia 2004 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Janez Burger
Theatre director Herman nostalgically invites everyone he has ever worked with, including his ex-lover, to take part in his new production. The rehearsals prove to be a nerve shredding tour-de-force of shattered dreams. Reality and drama become incre ...
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Germany 2004 | 88 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Gabi Kubach
Nina hasn’t told her mother that she has started a lesbian relationship. Then, just when she’s fallen in love with Flora, her mother decides to accompany her on a business trip to Budapest. The trip turns out to be a journey into the past through ...
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United Kingdom 2005 | 5 min | | FF 2005
Regie: Joe King, Rosie Pedlow
A meditative study of a caravan park. The changing lights, colours and time, echo the transcience of human existence. ...
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United Kingdom 2005 | 86 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Julian Fellowes
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 probabl ...
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Germany 2005 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Michael Busch
Christoph Bach, Lars Löllmann, 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 ...
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Austria 1989 | 108 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke’s “The Seventh Continent” catapulted Austrian film to the top of the cinematic ladder overnight. The film follows a married couple as they plan their joint suicide and the murder of their daughter. As with all Haneke films, “Th ...
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Russia 2005 | 132 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Alexei Sidorov
He grew up in the backstreets of Moscow and used his fists to get to the top. Now, at the pinnacle of his success, he has to face another challenge. Artem Kolchin returns to the streets, where he has three days to track down a traitor, rescue his gir ...
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Netherlands 2004 | 104 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Eddy Terstall
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, ...
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Germany 2005 | 89 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Friedemann Fromm
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 Gießen is questioned, he contradicts h ...
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Germany 2004 | 89 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Erhard Riedlsperger
At the request of Friedrich, her lawyer boyfriend, divorcee Polina goes to a casino for the first time, and wins surprisingly a large amount of money. The win leads to a gambling habit that will ruin her life; having already ruined her boyfriend’s. ...
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Netherlands 2004 | 6 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Mathijs Geijkes
A cleverly constructed film-in-film-in-film-in-film about reality and fiction: life is a stage! ...
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Republic of Korea 2004 | 72 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Myung-hoon Oh
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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USA 2005 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Doug Sadler
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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Japan 2005 | 133 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Tezuka Makoto
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 brut ...
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Brazil 2004 | 79 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Mauro Lima
Little “Catiti”, from the Yanomami tribe, wants to be as brave and strong as Tainá, her best friend and role model. She soon gets the opportunity when the two friends discover animal traps in their beloved jungle. They decide to foil the poacher ...
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Poland 2004 | 2 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Marcin Wrona
Absurd comedy about Pedro Almodovar's creation: erotic film star Patty Diphusa, who begs the director for a better story for her character. ...
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Switzerland 2005 | 15 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Peter Volkart
Genius or charlatan: playful mockumentary with historic film sequences. Physicist Igor Leschenko is on a secret expedition to the point of zero gravity. ...
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Marocco 2004 | 112 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Hassan Benjelloun
Airport worker Kemal dreams of nothing more than a future with his girlfriend Najat. Alas, when the authorities unearth his Marxist engagement as a student, he is arrested, interrogated and tortured. He seals his own fate by refusing to name his form ...
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United Kingdom 2005 | 106 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Julia Taylor-Stanley
Set against a background of the approaching Second World War, These Foolish Things illustrates the fluctuating fortunes of a young actress as she struggles to emulate her famous mother’s glittering career on the London stage. Her life is furthe ...
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Germany 2005 | 92 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Christian Zübert
Jan, Basti und Stevies’ summer holiday is marred by the news that Jan is moving to the city in two weeks time. The friends decide to examine the mysteriously barricaded “Kattervilla” and find a treasure map deposited by a gang called the “Wei ...
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Germany 2005 | 74 min | | FF 2005
Regie: Frank Otto, Bernt Köhler-Adams
Trip - das sind vier verschiedene Filme gleichzeitig auf mehreren
Leinwänden und im Splitscreen-Verfahren. Trip, das sind 74 Minuten
Rock-Jazz-Avantgarde-Musik, von vier Filmteams cinematographisch
interpretiert. Die Reise führt den Zuschauer von H ...
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Germany, Austria 2005 | 97 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Angelina Maccarone
Iranian translator Fariba (Jasmin Tabatabai) has fled her own country, where she is under threat of execution for having had an affair with a woman. However, having reached Germany, her asylum request is turned down. She is forced to adopt the identi ...
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Germany 1925 | 86 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Ewald André Dupont
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 me ...
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Germany 2005 | 6 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Andreas Schäfer
Der Taxifahrer Alex hat eigentlich Schichtende als er noch zu einer
letzten Fahrt gebeten wird. Als die gut gelaunte Sylvie in seinen Wagen
steigt, erklärt sie ihm, daß sie gerne zu einem hohen Kirchturm
gefahren werden möchte, um sich von dort in ...
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Columbia 2004 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Ciro Guerra
One-legged Mañe meets the “Stool Man”, whose job consists of carrying people through the streets of Bogotá. A relationship develops that blurs the boundaries between good and evil. For the young director Ciro Guerra, the “silleter ...
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Iran 2005 | 91 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Bizhan Mirbagheri
Jamshid, like so many other Iranians, is living in exile. A friend offers to bring news from “back home” and Jamshid’s relatives in Teheran decide to hire a camera to record video messages. Speaking into the camera however, inspires an entirely ...
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USA 2005 | 16 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Hannah Beth King
Coming-of-age drama about 12-year-old Jane discovering her sexuality, and being forced to decide between her grandmother and mother. ...
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Iran 2005 | 8 min | | FF 2005
Regie: Omid Khoshnazar
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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Sweden 2005 | 103 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Josef Fares
The 12-year-old orphan Zozo is forced to leave his native Beirut to live with his grandparents in Sweden. There, he is confronted with rejection, disorientation and outright hostility. Director Josef Fares processes his own biography in this film, as ...
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