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Israel 2006 | 123 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: David Ofek, Ron Rotem
A Chinese cleaning lady in Israel, a Russian who never wanted to come, but followed his family, a Peruvian Jewish princess in need of a reality check. They all meet in a Hebrew language course, which becomes a microcosmos of modern-day Israel. Direct ...
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Finland 2007 | 103 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Aleksi Salmenperä
Family man Juha (T. Korpela) loses his job. He is so worried about his depressive wife that he keeps it a secret while hatching out a plan. He becomes a callboy, and his first job is brushing a woman's hair, naked. He now makes more in two hours than ...
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Belgium, Netherlands 2007 | 107 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Miel Van Hoogenbemt
A classic grumpy old man, the protagonist of this film, is tired of living alone. A search on the Internet for a suitable woman soon turns into a casting show of considerable proportions. He cannot decide between the numerous contenders, but when his ...
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Spain 2007 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Alberto Morais
A documentary about the relationship between cinema, television, and reality. Historical material is juxtaposed with Greek cineast Theo Angelopoulos on the beach where Pasolini was killed, Victor Erice on Pasolini's tracks in Spain and Tonino Guerra, ...
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Republic of Korea 2006 | 94 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Jang In-hak
Su-ryeon from communist North Korea is a girl like any other. She wishes her parents had more time for her, but realizes her selfishness when her mother's health falters. The first film from North Korea to reach the Western world is rumoured to have ...
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Denmark 2006 | 58 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Andreas Mol Dalsgaard
Bodybuilding poses an honourable way out of the dregs of post-Taliban Afghan society. But it’s a long slog to the coveted title of Mr. Afghanistan. Where others beef themselves up with protein mixes and steroids, the poor are restricted to 15 hard- ...
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Greece 2006 | 99 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Nicholas Dimitropoulos
Those who think Greek music is limited to Sirtaki will be quite surprised when they hear the band Alter Ego filling concert halls and rocking the Peleponnese. The band members have it all: money, fame… But what's behind the successful façade? Can ...
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Japan 2007 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Takushi Tsubokawa
After his wife's death, piano-tuner Ota (M. Shionoya) desperately seeks a particular beach to scatter her ashes. He meets puppeteer Kuzo (M. Komatsu) and his life-like puppet Aria. On Kuzo's deathbed, Ota promises to look for a mysterious piano that ...
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Italy 2006 | 15 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Massimiliano Camaiti
How much does an unhappy soul weigh? But when a heavy heart sinks in Rome, a happy ending is near. Romantic comedy. ...
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United Kingdom 2007 | 125 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Joe Wright
Based on an Ian McEwan's novel and adapted by Oscar winner Christopher Hampton, this gripping story is set in the upper-class England of the late 30s. 13-year-old Briony is infatuated with the housekeeper's son, whom her flash sister (Keira Knightley ...
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Estland 2007 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Veiko Ounpuu
Writer Mati (European Shooting Star Rain Tolk) drinks heavily since his wife left him. Kask, a hairdresser, befriends a little girl and is suspected of paedophilia. The girl’s mother is married to a violent alcoholic and wired to the television set ...
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France 2007 | 108 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Jacques Nolot
Pierre (Jacques Nolot) is gay, has been HIV-positive for 24 years, and is approaching his 60th birthday. After the premiere of Before I Forget at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes, Variety magazine wrote: If you ever wondered how to order a r ...
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Germany 2007 | 84 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Justus von Dohnányi
A black comedy reminiscent of The Trouble with Harry. Achim, a junior shipping tycoon, is biking through the Swiss Alps when he literally bumps into Willi, unemployed. They find refuge in the mountain hut of bank employee Sven, when another accident ...
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China, Hongkong 2007 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Li Yang
Bai is a student looking for a summer job. Travelling through the Szechuan province, she is kidnapped and sold to a childless peasant. All attempts to escape fail - she is beaten, raped, and kept as a slave. This is reality in the remote areas of Sou ...
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Mexiko 2007 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Ernesto Contreras
Employee Marina (Cecilia Suárez) wins a ten-day dream voyage for two to the paradisiacal island of Playa Salamandra. As she is single, she decides to take her old school-friend Victor (Enrique Arroela), as introverted and lonely as she is herself. B ...
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Brazil 2006 | 82 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Cláudio Assis
A young girl lives with her grandfather in a sugar cane plantation in the bogs of Brazil. Here she is kept naked as a slave for men to abuse. Women are worth nothing, even to the educated men. There is no hope for the girl in this oppressive social s ...
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Switzerland 2007 | 94 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Christoph Kühn
Bruno Manser lived with the Penan tribe in Sarawak (Borneo). He learned their language and defended their rainforests, creating international awareness for ecological and humanitarian disasters and making powerful enemies in the process. In 2000 he d ...
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France, Belgium 2007 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Dan Alexe
Isaac Levy and Zabulon Simantov are Afghanistan's last remaining Jews. They hate each other with a vengeance and haven't spoken to each other in ten years. While one works as an exorcist, the other sells self-distilled alcohol. This tragicomic docume ...
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Russia 2007 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Alexej Balabanow
Perestroika looms and the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse when the daughter of a party functionary disappears in a provincial town and a woman is brutally murdered in the suburbs. A policeman is the prime suspect in both cases. The film is d ...
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India 2007 | 151 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Shimit Amin
Bollywood legend Shah Rukh Khan stars as a famous Indian hockey player who fell from grace at the climax of his career. His chance at rehabilitation comes when he is offered to coach the national ladies team. Easier said than done as the ladies lack ...
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Germany 2007 | 104 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Cosima Lange
While far less famous than Tango, Chamamé is Argentine's traditional music. More than 200 years old, it is a mixture of Creole, native Guarai, and European sounds. Chamamé is more than music and pastime: it is a lifestyle; an identity. The film sho ...
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France 2007 | 82 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Yann Le Gal, Isild Le Besco, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Corinne Garfin, Ismael Ferroukhi, Safy Nebbou
Seven young directors and scriptwriter Yann Le Gal are tracing the lives of legends of directing Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Jacques Tati, Jean Renoir, Alfred Hitchcock and Ingmar Bergman back as far as they can. The question: can an incident in his ch ...
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United Kingdom 2007 | 117 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Anton Corbijn
Post-punk band Joy Division captured their audience with hammering guitars and dark lyrics. They became immortalized with lead singer Ian Curtis' death in 1980. Photography legend Anton Corbijn shot the singer's biography, which is based on the memor ...
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Germany 2006 | 88 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Xaver Schwarzenberger
The 35th wedding anniversary of Maria (Nicole Heesters) and Herbert (Bruno Ganz) is coming closer - and the whole family is invited. But behind the harmonious beachhouse façade, trouble is looming in paradise. The eldest daughter has marital problem ...
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Belgium 1987 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Dominique Deruddere
Based on three short stories by American author Charles Bukowski, Flemish director Dominique Deruddere's film tells the tragic story of Harry Voss (Josse de Pauw), a man looking for love. Dreamy as a boy and acne-ridden as an adolescent, Harry's fate ...
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Irak, France 2006 | 74 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Shwakat Amin Korki
Saddam Hussein is overthrown and unrest rules the day. Two Kurdish soldiers stumble upon a five-year-old, utterly alone. While Asad feels sorry for him, Rashid refuses to help, especially as the boy is called Saddam. Eventually they overcome their pr ...
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Sweden 2007 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Johan Kling
Eva is in her twenties and blows the money her mother gives her on clubbing and a flat in the hippest part of Stockholm. Then her boyfriend leaves her and her mother cancels her payments. When she ultimately finds work at McDonald's, she meets the ol ...
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Germany 2006 | 90 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Christiane Balthasar
Scandinavian actresses of current and past fame like Paprika Steen (Festen) and Inger Nilsson (Pippi Longstocking) play in this preview of a 2008 television series based on novels by Mari Jungstedt. Superintendent Anders is investigating the murder o ...
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Germany 2006 | 89 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Niki Stein
The GDR in 1961 was a rather joyless place. When two kids establish a fan club for a rock'n'roll musician, authorities prick up their ears. The youngsters protest against the Berlin Wall, scribble graffiti, even burn down a barn. The government puts ...
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Brazil 2007 | 99 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Heitor Dhalia
Lourenço’s shop stinks to high heaven. Poor people sell him their junk and he just about gets by. When he falls in love with the waitress across the road, he is in need of a currency he knows little of: affection. This film cleverly mixes the grot ...
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France, Canada, Burkina Faso 2006 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Laurent Salgues
Mocktar is a farmer from Nigeria who hopes to strike it rich in the gold mines of Burkina Faso. But he enters a hellhole of sand and wind. Greed has stripped the gold-seekers of their humanity and dignity, whole families are sacrificed to the pursuit ...
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United Kingdom, Canada 2007 | 100 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: David Cronenberg
When a Russian prostitute dies under mysterious circumstances after giving birth, her midwife Anna (Naomi Watts) holds on to the woman's diary to find out more about her. Her research leads her to the local mafia, where she meets killer Nikolai (Vigg ...
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Germany 2007 | 11 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Arthur Oleszczuk
Low tide at the sea - low tide in love? A trip to the sea confronts a young couple with the complexity of relationships. ...
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Denmark 2007 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Anders Morgenthaler
Simon is a divorced policeman who loses custody for his six-year-old son. He abducts him and takes him to a secluded house in the country for a last holiday as father and son. But the ghosts of his past threaten to drive him mad. An emotional, someti ...
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Germany 2006 | 88 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Matthias Glasner
A happy family with a son sees their whole world suddenly collapsing around them. A former neighbour, who was pregnant around the same time but lost her child to a fire in her apartment, claims that their son Paul is in fact her child Robin. In order ...
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Czech Republik 2007 | 103 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Jan Sverák
The third part of Jan Sverák's trilogy on human ageing tells the story of retired literature teacher Josef. In an attempt to escape his apartment and his wife Eliska, he finds new friends and acceptance working at a supermarket bottle-bank, while ba ...
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Belgium 1996 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Jan Verheyen
Failed law student Tony (Stany Crets) dreams of making the big money as a salesman, even if it means selling people useless junk; after all, people are asking to be ripped off, aren't they? When he chances upon André (Peter Van den Begin), a small-t ...
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France, Nigeria, Austria 2007 | 102 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Newton I. Aduake
Ezra is one of an estimated 300,000 child soldiers that fought in the year 2000. Drugged beyond comprehension, he attacked his own village, which led to his parents' death and the mutilationof his sister. Brought in front of the Truth and Reconciliat ...
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Brazil 2006 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Decio Matos Jr.
Tom Zé is one of the founding members of the Tropicalia movement of the 60s. Still active today, he brought out an album on his 70th birthday in 2006. The film accompanies Zé on his recent European tour, switching between film, video and animated s ...
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Slowak Republic 2007 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Patrik Laancaric
Towards the end of WWII, a German soldier is ordered to kill a Slovakian freedom fighter. He spares him, but they both wind up before a Slovakian partisan war trial. Enemies that spare one another cannot be. A philosophical drama about confrontation. ...
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Spain 2006 | 107 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Cesc Gay
A man, a woman, and a remote, idyllic spot. Director Alex (Eduard Férnandez) seeks inspiration in a house in the Pyrenees, far away from his family. Violinist Monica (Montse Germán) has the same idea. It is the beginning of an unusual relationship ...
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United Kingdom 1998 | 93 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Actor and scriptwriter Jude (Jude Law) suddenly dies under mysterious circumstances. After the funeral, a group of friends comfort his widow Sadie (Sadie Frost) and discover that Jude had regularly filmed them in intimate situations. Furthermore, Jud ...
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United Kingdom, Luxembourg 2007 | 105 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Michael Radford
London in the swinging 60s. Michael Caine plays a caretaker who wants to strike it lucky before retiring. The company he works for has just fired a charming and highly intelligent manager played by Demi Moore. He has the plan, she has the motive. Tog ...
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Austria 2007 | 88 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Antonin Svoboda
Working-class Hamburg meets Austria in this grotesque comedy starring Austrian cabaret artists Stermann and Grissemann and entertainer Heinz Strunk from Hamburg. As their armoured car swerves off the road, it gets stuck between two trees, blocking th ...
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USA 2007 | 84 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Andrew Shea
In his youth, Frank (Billy Burke) committed a heinous crime. When his life seems back on track, he returns home and makes up with his ex Karen (Sherry Springfield). Soon, however, the friendship with a charismatic TV evangelist (Gregory Itzin) brings ...
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Belgium 1960 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Paul Meyer
In the late 1950s, director Paul Meyer was commissioned by the Belgian government to make a film about the successful integration of immigrants in the Walloon coal mining area. Inspired by Italian Neorealism, Meyer filmed grievant working conditions, ...
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USA 2006 | 117 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Steven Shainberg
Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman) is a successful fashion photographer from a wealthy family. Her neighbour Lionel Sweeny (Robert Downey Jr.) wears a mask that covers his entire head. Diane is intrigued, and her focus as a photographer shifts from fashion ...
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USA, Kenya 2007 | 89 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Christopher Dillon Quinn, Tommy Walker
Of the estimated 25,000 orphans in Sudan, many team up with kids their own age to fight off hunger, disease and attacks by wild animals or rebels. Director Christopher Dillon Quinn accompanies three of them over the course of five years, as they leav ...
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Germany 2007 | 79 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Christian Mangels
A nostalgic return to the 70s, and the sixth instalment of a highly successful series depicting life in post-war Hamburg. The era features punk rock, anti-nuclear power demonstrations and a new tunnel under the River Elbe. Are the record-breaking flo ...
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USA 2006 | 11 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Sophie Barthes
You can't buy happines in a box, but you can buy a pair of red shoes to change your life. Emotional drama with a twist. ...
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Belgium, France 1973 | 91 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Benoit Lamy
A mutiny in a retirement home! Old-age pensioner Jules is tired of being treated like a child. Especially as new entrant Flore stirs up manly feelings in him, behaving as if the place is a hotel. Both of them become a pain in the management's neck an ...
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Ecuador 2006 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Tania Hermida
Spanish backpacker Esperanza (Tania Martinez) meets cynical student Tristeza (Cecilia Vallejo) on an Ecuadorian bus. Then a strike requires them to hitchhike and meet a very thin man carrying his grandmother's ashes. The Andes are a suitably impressi ...
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Japan 2006 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Lee Sang-il
Based on a true story set in the provincial Japan of 1965, a mining village is set to overcome obsolescence by becoming
a tourist attraction as Japan's first Hawaiian village, Hula girls and all. But how to dance the Hula? Not everyone is convinced. ...
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France 2006 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Eric Lartigau
Perfumer Luis' (Alain Chabat) mother and sisters are set on seeing him get married. He develops a plan: he will present them with the perfect bride who will leave him before the altar. This should suffice to allow him to stay single henceforth. He fi ...
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Germany 2006 | 61 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Cristina Amrein
7-year-old Anne-Kathrin and her brothers live on a tiny islet in the tidal shallows of the North Sea. Their adventure lies not in cinemas, zoos or shopping malls, but in the regular flooding of the island, when only the five houses remain above water ...
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Poland 2006 | 107 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Jan Jakub Kolski
A magical lovestory for grown-ups enfolds in an idyllic setting where monks exude scents that mirror their names - Brother Plum is one, Brother Cherry another. When a restaurator who dabbles in love potions arrives at the monastery, with her five-yea ...
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Israel, France 2007 | 78 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret
Three young women in Tel Aviv: Keren breaks her leg at her wedding reception, spoiling her plans for a honeymoon in the Caribbean; Bayta is haunted by a spooky girl on the beach until it makes her change her life; and Joy is a servant from the Philip ...
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Netherlands 2007 | 112 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Albert Ter Heerdt
Redouan has Moroccan roots, lives in the Netherlands and dreams of being a rap star. One night he is shot by a policeman. The latter maintains it was in self-defence and public opinion is split. Policewoman Aaliyah and Redouan's brother Said launch i ...
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Germany 2007 | 88 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Johannes Fabrick
A house, a dog, a garden patch, two cars. everything is just like it ought to be. And when Claudia's credit card suddenly doesn't work, she sees no reason to fret. What she doesn't know is that her husband Jens has just gone broke and her marriage wi ...
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Czech Republik 2007 | 94 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Alice Nellis
A story about love, life and lies. When translator Julie (played by Czech singer and violinist Iva Bittová) hears of the death of her favourite singer Nina Simone, she decides to change her life completely. The first thing she does is buy a piano. A ...
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United Kingdom, Singapour 2006 | 11 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Eva Tang
Elegiac drama about a love triad where everybody is caught in the struggle between love and lust on a night in the city. Carefully lensed ode to urban melancholy. ...
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Japan 2006 | 91 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Kotaro Ikawa
After their friend's funeral, two disillusioned men in their mid-thirties go on a drinking spree in Tokyo. Another round, another game of pool, more reminiscing of their student rock band, all the while looking for something that might have an impact ...
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Argentina 2007 | 150 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Nicolás Prividera
The Ernesto Che Guevara award went to this documentary, in which Nicolás Prividera traces his mother's fate as one of the so-called missing people who simply disappeared after the Argentine coup d'état. He seeks out old governmental agents, and old ...
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Switzerland, France 2007 | 83 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Luc Peter, Stéphanie Barbey
It was dubbed the FM revolution and is an apt description of the role radio plays in the Republic of Niger. More influential than newspapers, radio educates the masses and reaches out to the most distant places. And with the advent of private radio s ...
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Tunesia, Marocco 2006 | 115 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Nouri Bouzid
Bahta dreams of fame as a breakdancer but the reality is that he has no education, is unemployed and is constantly fighting with his girlfriend. The war in Iraq means he cannot leave Tunisia, and his passion for breakdance is not shared by the author ...
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Italy 2007 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Giovanni Veronesi
Four episodes form the sequel to Manual of Love: paralyzed in an accident, Nicola falls in love with physio Lucia; Franco and Marco fly to Barcelona for fertility treatment; gay couple Filippo and Fosco decide to get married; and waiter Ernesto begin ...
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Cuba 2006 | 135 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Manuel Pérez Paredes
As the rest of the world revels in the cool summer Olympics in Australia. Widower Mauricio celebrates his 60th birthday alone in Havana, reflecting on the crises that have rattled his life. He left his family to study in Moscow; now with the downfall ...
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USA 2007 | 119 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Tony Gilroy
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a ruthless New York lawyer whose greed for money and power takes a wrong turn when his partner Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) can no longer stand the guilt of winning cases for the guilty. Eden links up with public p ...
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Brazil 2007 | 88 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Lina Chamie
After an all-or-nothing fight over the phone with his girlfriend Júlia, Heitor, a writer, dives straight into the pulsating nightlife of São Paulo. His declared aim is to win her back, but it seems as though the city refuses to let him arrive. The ...
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Belgium 2006 | 8 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Hendrik Moonen
A Belgian Universe: The meticulously planned moment of glory can be your last one. ...
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Belgium, France 1989 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Jean-Philippe Toussaint
A master of words, Jean-Philippe Toussaint won the Junior Scrabble World Championship in 1973. 12 years later, he wrote Monsieur, a novel about someone nameless who would be lost for words at having to explain why he and his fiancée had broken up. H ...
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USA 2006 | 87 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Drake Doremus
School principal Mitch (Michael McDonald) is suffering a midlife crisis when he meets the mentally disordered new teacher Candy (Stephnie Weir). They both spend their evenings at school, she watching the stars, he escaping his marriage, and a relatio ...
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Hongkong, France 2007 | 111 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Wong Kari-Wai
Lizzie (Norah Jones) has lost her love. Reminiscing over blueberry pie on Coney Island, she finds a patient listener in café-owner Jeremy (Jude Law). One day she disappears, embarking on a journey through America, just to forget. The story of a woma ...
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Israel 2007 | 73 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: David Volach
In this modern-day interpretation of the story of Abraham and his son Isaac, a Jewish Rabbi travels to the Dead Sea with his family. The initially light atmosphere becomes increasingly threatening as the Rabbi must chose between his religious duty an ...
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Spain 2006 | 12 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Tacho González
Summer comedy about a boy and innumerable beautiful women who distract his uncle Paco on a day on a Spanish beach. ...
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Germany 2007 | 90 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Lars Becker
Gritty Hamburg is the backdrop to a new murder mystery directed by acclaimed Lars Becker. The investigators are planning a raid on a sweatshop which specializes in faking brand names. Detective Mimi Hu is working undercover there as a seamstress. Thi ...
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Germany 2007 | 123 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Martin Gypkens
Based on a serial novel by Judith Hermann, the film's five episodes are set in five countries: Ellen and Felix are travelling in the USA, where their relationship seems to have reached its end; Christine visits Nora in Jamaica and disturbs their host ...
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Spain 2006 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Raúl de la Fuente
The txalaparta is a traditional Basque instrument. Its special appeal is the fact that it is played by two people simultaneously and its sound thrives on this relationship. In search of similar authentic sounds, the musicians travel across the world ...
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Germany 1921 | 84 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
F.W. Murnau's expressionist classic marks the birth of the horror genre. Based on Bram Stoker's Dracula (for which Murnau was denied the rights), the twisted figure of Count Orlock (Max Schreck) is an unforgettable image from the silent film era. Car ...
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France, Belgium 2006 | 100 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Odette is a lovely, unassuming sales assistant in a department store. She has two loves: Josephine Baker's chansons and Balthasar Balsan's novels. When she meets him at a reading, she is star-struck and smitten. He ignores her until several simultane ...
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Switzerland, Poland 2007 | 95 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Bruno Moll
2300 kilometers of pilgrimage lie ahead of Roman Weishaupt. Fresh out of university, he embarks on the trail to Santiago de Compostela, regularly accompanied by filmmaker Bruno Moll. Surprizing acquaintances are made with landlords, bugs and fellow p ...
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Bangladesh 2007 | 88 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Golam Rabbany Biplob
Fazlu peddles ointments on a Bangladeshi market. One night he brings home a pair of second-hand trousers which reveal bundles of foreign currency. Initial elation soon makes way for strained relationships with his wife and his best friend as they tra ...
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Germany, Spain 2007 | 90 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Claudia Garde
The relationship of a middle-aged couple (international stars Maria Schrader and Sebastian Koch) is severely troubled by the accidental death of their son. He is unable to talk about what happened, she is unable to accept this. When he is offered a s ...
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Iceland 2006 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Ragnar Bragason
A thematic sequel to Children (which ran at Filmfest Hamburg 2006), Ragnar Bragason's Parents is an ironic symphony of dreams and lies and ways of life, questioning the softened roles of parents and children in family settings: a stepfather yearns fo ...
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Denmark 2007 | 350 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Per Fly
The six episodes of this unusual TV series centre on the stage of a small theatre, each episode told from a different protagonist's perspective. A charismatic director in a crisis, a hopeful young actor, a heart-broken actress, the director's daughte ...
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France 2007 | 96 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Marjane is a young girl when the Mullahs gain power in Iran, imprisoning thousands and forcing women to wear headscarves. But Marjane listens to punk music and Abba and shows interest in boys. Little does she realize how much she puts herself and her ...
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Germany 2006 | 89 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Eoin Moore
How did little Timmi really die? Why would anyone murder him and run over this child just to make sure he's dead? His mother Nina is first sick with worry and then begins a bizarre fight with the people from forensics who refuse to let her see her de ...
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102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Masahiro Kobayashi
A man and a woman meet in a town far from Tokyo. She is a housekeeper in the hostel in which he lives; they recognize each other, but between them there can be nothing but silence. Her daughter killed his daughter when they were still young. Masahiro ...
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Germany 2007 | 5 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Philipp Hartmann
Unpathetic cinematic farewell to a deceased old lady. Shot in black and white. ...
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Germany 2007 | 90 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Stefan Paul
Eleven years after his death, Rio Reiser, lead singer of the legendary band Ton Steine Scherben, still does not cease to fascinate filmmaker Stefan Paul. He pieces together old live material, a tribute concert and interviews with friends and musician ...
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Algeria, France, Germany 2006 | 111 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Tariq Teguia
Kamel dreams of leaving Algeria with his girlfriend Zina and finding work in an Italian pizzeria. Zina has no papers and can only obtain them illegally. In what director Tariq Teguia describes as a slow motion road movie, the pair ambles through stre ...
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Germany 2007 | 76 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Mo Asumang
43 million Germans know Mo Asumang, black TV presenter and actress. Some are her enemies: in one of their songs, neo-Nazi band White Aryan Rebels encourage her murder and tell her to go back to Africa. She takes them by their word and flies to Ghana; ...
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USA, Spain, France 2007 | 89 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Tom Kalin
In the 1940s, Tony (Eddie Redmayne) is born into the unhappy marriage of Barbara (Julianne Moore) and Bakelite heir Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane). When Tony turns out to be homosexual, his father cuts off all ties, while his mother creates a cla ...
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Poland 2006 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Krzysztof Krauze, Joanna Kos-Krauze
In order to make their dream of an own apartment come true, Beata and Bartek borrow money from Bartek's mother Teresa. Then the real estate company goes bankrupt and the money is gone. A psychological battle full of domestic violence ensues between t ...
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United Kingdom 2006 | 94 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Carla Garapedian
System of a Down are a rarity in today's music industry: a band with a real concern. Its members have Armenian roots and they write lyrics about mass murders in Ruanda or Darfur and the Armenian genocide of 1915. The magazine Hollywood Reporter prais ...
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USA 2006 | 16 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Katja Esson
A woman is attempting to escape the golden cage of her arranged marriage in this fairy tale gone wrong. ...
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Switzerland 2007 | 81 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Thomas Haemmerli
After their mother's death, journalist Thomas Haemmerli and his brother Erik open the door to her apartment and discover how messy family secrets can be: their mother was a compulsive hoarder. The things they find range from unpleasant (mum's vibrato ...
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Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdom 2006 | 117 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Hans Herbots
Rick is a Navy diver, transferred to an Airforce rescue helicopter for disciplinary reasons. Also on board: the tough female doctor Alex, who initially tries to mob him off the team. But during an action-packed rescue operation she questions her true ...
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Sweden 2006 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Johan Brisinger
Life can change completely in an instant. One day Lasse (Michael Nyqvist), happily married with two kids, loses his wife and younger son in a car accident. While his older son Jonas (Anastasios Soulis) tries to get back on track, Lasse has a nervous ...
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India, USA 2007 | 155 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Siddharth Anand
RV used to be a brilliant racing-car driver until an accident traumatized him. Himself, his beautiful wife, and their two children are forced to move to a poor neighborhood. Rather than telling their children the truth, they explain the move as part ...
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USA 2007 | 99 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Charles Oliver
Two days determine the action in this film: one day in the present, one day in the past. Ana (Minnie Driver) drives through the desert to witness Saul's (Jeremy Renner) execution, after he destroyed her life the day they met. Director Oliver explains ...
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Belgium 2006 | 13 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Guido Thys
It takes two to tango...or three in this charming ballroom comedy. ...
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Germany 2007 | 88 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Angelina Maccarone
Charlotte is pregnant and upset about being treated more like a sick patient. But even more upsetting is her new case: a suicide by a young Turkish woman which Charlotte clearly sees as a case of an honour killing. This gets her into politically unco ...
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Denmark 2007 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Erik Clausen
This Danish box-office hit has a nostalgic 70s feel to it, situated between The Olsen Gang and The Sting. It centres on the criminal John, sitting in jail because he was framed by drug dealers. When his son gets married, John is allowed to take part ...
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USA 2006 | 91 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Nadia Conners, Leila Conners Petersen
Droughts, hunger, severe flooding and acid rain all make it onto the news, but rarely as part of the greater whole which determines how mankind will exist in the future. A dialogue with scientists and politicians including Stephen Hawkings and Mikhai ...
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Germany 2007 | 91 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Tom Zenker
Eckhard, a policeman, and his wife Marianne live in a small town with their daughter Laura. When Laura is accused of the murder of two policemen, their happy life derails. As Laura maintains her silence, Eckhard's colleagues begin to distrust him, an ...
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Germany 2007 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Kaspar Heidelbach
Margret, a middle-class widow, and Siegmar a former foreman, meet and decide to get married for fear of growing old alone. As they move in together, Siegmar brings his cat, which puts Margret on the warpath. The ensuing war of nerves destroys all fee ...
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Germany, Israel 2006 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Nadav Schirman
In 1960, 12-year-old Oded Gur Arie discovers his father is an agent for Mossad. Ordered to infiltrate a circle of German scientists working on weapons of mass destruction in Egpyt, he loses himself in his feigned identity as ex-Nazi millionaire. In 1 ...
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Germany 2007 | 90 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Mohammad Farokhmanesh
Our knowledge of Iran is limited by what we see and read in the media. Mohammad Farokhmanesh lives in Hamburg by choice and is Iranian by birth. He visits its capital Tehran and encounters the reality of modern Muslim society, torn between prejudice ...
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Germany 2007 | 60 min | OV | FF 2007
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For generations an industrialist family has successfully shrouded the origins of its wealth in mystery. They do not talk to the press, and their archives are not available to the public. More than four years of painstaking research went into this doc ...
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France, Germany 2007 | 115 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol has devoted his entire cinematic life to attacking the bourgeoisie. This time, trouble lies in Lyon for Gabrielle, a weather outlook announcer torn between two lovers. One is an attractive heir with a number of dark secrets and the oth ...
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USA, Mexiko 2006 | 93 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Martin Hynes
A classic roadmovie with a classic rock'n'roll soundtrack. 19-year-old Mercer (Lou Taylor Pucci) steals a car and encounters mad potters, burnt-out buddhists, and his zany puppy love Joely (Jena Malone). All the while he calls the car owner Kate (Zoo ...
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Belgium 1965 | 94 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: André Delvaux
Family man Govert Miereveld (Senne Rouffaer) is a teacher at a girls' school, secretly in love with his pupil Fran (Beata Tyszkiewicz). One day she disappears and his fancy becomes an obsession. When asked to an autopsy several years later, he identi ...
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France 2006 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Delphine Gleize
Alfred has a girlfriend and is desperate for a child. Which in itself would not be too difficult, but Alfred cannot bring himself to even kiss his girlfriend, let alone sleep with her. He feels much closer to his mother. Therefore, Alfred decides for ...
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Japan 2007 | 97 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Naomi Kawase
The ageing widower Shigeki is lovingly cared for by young Machiko, who recently lost her only child. On a trip to the country, Shigeki runs off into the forest to seek his wife's grave. Machiko follows him and after several days they actually find it ...
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Argentina 2007 | 70 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Pablo Fendrik
Why does a well-dressed older gentleman rob two schools at gunpoint? In between, a waitress accidentally spills hot water on him and becomes suspicious. She follows him only to have the gun pointed at her. But is the suspect always the criminal? Fend ...
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USA 2007 | 114 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Tamara Jenkins
There is a day in most people's lives that causes them to grow up. One day John (Philip Seymour Hoffmann) and Wendy Savage (Laura Linney) receive a telephone call: their father Lenney (Philip Bosco) has just smeared the walls of his apartment with fa ...
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Germany, Switzerland 2007 | 88 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Stephan Meyer
A remake of a classic, as German as the Ealing comedies are English. Young authoress falls in love with charmingly disinterested guy but draws the vested interests of his aptly named mate Buffalo instead. A romance enfolds, a love-story ends in tears ...
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Sweden 2007 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Ake Sandgren
Fishmonger Alf (Rolf Lassgård) is happily married to Lena (Sofia Ledarp), but it bothers him to be constantly compared to her violent ex-husband Hannes (Jonas Karlsson). When Hannes is released from prison, Lena proves to be sexually dependent of hi ...
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Germany 2007 | 96 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Jan Hinrik Drevs
Brutal prison inmate Mosk enters a rehabilitation programme, training guide dogs for the blind. Mosk develops a close attachment to the dog and also opens up to prison director Gloria. But when he is required to give over the dog, it comes to a deed ...
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Finland 2007 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Aleksi Mäkelä
The most successful Finnish film of the year tells the story of private detective Jussi Vares' latest case. This time he travels to the port of Pori to solve the murder of a young woman. But wherever he turns, he is met by a wall of silence. Trouble ...
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Austria 2007 | 87 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Mirjam Unger
The film centres on eight 80-year-old ladies, deported by the Nazis from Vienna as children, via London to New York where they still live today. Mirjam Unger accompanies them in their everyday life, painting the portrait of a lively Jewish community ...
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USA 2007 | 107 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Adrienne Shelly
A bittersweet comedy about waitress Jenna (Keri Russell) with a boring husband and a penchant for baking and naming phantastic cakes. When she is pregnant she comes up with an I Don't Want Earl's Baby cake, which she enters in a competition. Then she ...
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Rumania 2007 | 16 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Adrian Sitaru
A day at the beach turns into a nightmare for a carefree young man when a mother has an accident and leaves her handicapped child behind ...
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Canada 2006 | 94 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Matt Bissonnette
Will (Lukas Haas) and Daniel (Adam Scott) grew up as best friends, sharing a taste in music and girls. Daniel was best man when Will married Maggie (Molly Parker), then one day Will disappeared without trace. When he shows up five years later at Dani ...
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France, Marocco, Germany 2006 | 99 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Faouzi Bensai'di
Casablanca is a magical world oscillating between high tech and tradition. It is also the workplace of Kamel, a professional killer for hire over the Internet. He has fallen in love with a voice he heard on the phone and becomes obsessed with finding ...
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Germany 2006 | 88 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Matti Geschonneck
A drama develops into a thriller when a suicide pact between an ageing couple who both suffer from ill health turns sinister. Their hesitant children agree to accompany them to the Netherlands where somebody will administer euthanasia. But only the w ...
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