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Germany 2005 | 77 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Solo Avital
A photograph says more than a thousand words. How else can one describe war with all its horrors? Famous Israeli photographer Ziv Koren ventures into the terror zone and director Solo Avital accompanied him for two years. This is a portrait of a man ...
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Argentina, France 2006 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Verónica Chen
This film possesses the meditative qualities of a quiet ocean and still settles the score with the mercilessness of modern competitive sports. Goyo is 34 and never made it as a pro swimmer. Now he's the trainer of Chino, 20, who wants success. When t ...
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Germany 2006 | 44 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Ramon Kramer
The portrait of Gojko Mitic, Der Berufsindianer - Gojko Mitic in der Prärie is shown as supplement to Am Fuß der Rocky Mountains, a film about of Tom Crawford, a rancher who leads a double-life as Blackfoot Indian, powwow and sweat lodge included. ...
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Finland 1998 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Claes Olsson
A summer in the early 60's when American culture, Chet Baker, Bikinis, and Chevrolets came to Finland and when a young boy spends his holidays on the beach, with parents and friends. But deception lurks behind the candy coloured party world when a fl ...
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USA 2006 | 82 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Matt Tauber
An ensemble film with an impressive cast and a tension-driven story line: An activist and an architect meet when a social housing complex, that he originally built, needs to be demolished. Based on a theater play by dramatist David Greig who honed hi ...
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Italy 2006 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Marina Spada
It is summer in Milan. The city is deserted. Claudia searches for an acquaintance, who comes from the Ukraine. They were introduced by a mutual friend who now also seems lost. Ultimately, she contacts the police who do not believe a word. A fi lm tha ...
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Israel 2006 | 107 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Shemi Zarhin
Aviva is a cook in a hotel. But what she really wants to be is an author. Her sister introduces her to the famous and rather arrogant writer Oded who takes her under his wings. Too bad his rather unconventional visions of Aviva collide with her reali ...
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Serbia 2004 | 136 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Miloš Radivojevic
Not a zombie film but a film about the “buried generation” who was forced to waste their lives in the hail of bombs hitting them during the Balkan war. Forty-year-old Mickey, university lecturer and author, loses his life early on in the ...
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Denmark 2005 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Simon Staho
When he unintentionally kills his son in a freak accident, self-possessed businessman Åke finds his life unravelling. In sheer desperation he attaches himself to a bar acquaintance only to find out that love cannot be forced. The legendary The Clash ...
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Israel 2005 | 50 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Shosh Shlam
Imagine this: you’ve been married for 26 years and for 25 years of your marriage you were pregnant or breast feeding. Because you, as a Jewish orthodox woman, serve God with your uterus. How does it feel to bring twelve, 16 children into the world? ...
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Germany 2006 | 92 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Rainer Kaufmann
After an alcohol-infused party in Hamburg's high society, Bella Block a wakes in the middle of the woods with a fuzzy head and a blackout. Before she is able to retrace her steps, the body of a young woman is discovered close by, in a wrecked car, wi ...
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Israel 2005 | 5 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Yehuda Groveis
Part of MOMENTS 2005 - JERUSALEM
Moshe, the cantor, and Avner, the rap singer, live next door to each other but don’t seem to have anything in common. ...
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Germany 2002 | 44 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Ramon Kramer
The portrait of Gojko Mitic, Der Berufsindianer - Gojko Mitic in der Prärie is shown as supplement to Am Fuß der Rocky Mountains, a film about of Tom Crawford, a rancher who leads a double-life as Blackfoot Indian, powwow and sweat lodge included. ...
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Israel 2005 | 20 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Linora Asa
The portraits of two children, who follow their gift down to self-denial. ...
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Germany 2006 | 88 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: René Heisig
What is more terrifying - forgetting or remembering? Who am I? What is my name? Where do I come from? A man in a tuxedo wanders aimlessly through fields and woods, throws away his passport, then his wedding ring. He meets a psychologist who takes him ...
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Netherlands 2005 | 84 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Martin Koolhoven
Nine-year-old Bonnie grows up in a rather
unconventional female household. Together with her resolute grandmother she looks after Lis, her mother, who keeps oscillating between feeling on top of the world or down in the dumps. When the grandmother d ...
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United Kingdom, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina , Hungary 2006 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Rajko Grlic
The last days of Jugoslawia are played out at a border post with Albania. The border commander declares a state of emergency to cure his syphilis because during R&R his wife would surely find out. Not another film about the war, but a comedy abou ...
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Lebanon 2005 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Philippe Aractingi
A whirl of colours, movement, and music: Welcome to Lebanon! Yes. Even now: I wanted to make a light-hearted film that got nothing to do with war, comments director Philippe Aractingi his road musical. Dancer Kamal (eyecatching: Rodney el Haddad brin ...
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Spain 2005 | 14 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Tomás Silberman
Touching melodrama about old Rosa, an alcoholic who is left alone with her shattered lonely life. ...
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Argentina 2006 | 103 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Israel Adrian Caetano
A special unit of the military regime which held Argentina in an iron grip in 1977, abducts a second league soccer keeper and keeps him in an internment camp in the middle of nowhere. A purgatory of interrogations, beatings, and humiliations follows. ...
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Germany 1919 | 71 min | | FF 2006
Regie: Robert Wiene
Truth or delusion? The most likely candidate for most famous German silent film of all times deals with the big issue, no less. During Filmfest Hamburg, the fantastic story of hypnotist, showman and killer Caligari, is accompanied by the live sounds ...
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France 2006 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Fabien Onteniente
When women show off their cleavage on a campingground, is there a deeper (if not to say bigger) reason behind such behaviour? Mais oui, there is, in the form of plastic surgeon Michel who got stranded on his way into the plush French South. While he ...
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Iran 2006 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Tahmineh Milani
If a woman mistakes the shrink for the divorce lawyer, this can only mean one thing: a comedy of the sexes. A rather turbulent one this is, too, coming from Iranian's feminist filmmaker who showed Two Women at Filmfest Hamburg in 1999. This time, she ...
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Denmark 2006 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Hans Fabian Wullenweber
Although he came to prominence with a kids flick, Catch that Girl, Hans Fabian Wullenweber now tells a creepy story, about 33-year-old Cecilie who worries about losing her mind. When she is raped one night, no one believes her because there are no tr ...
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Iceland 2006 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Ragnar Bragason
A social drama unfolds in a Reykjavik slum. There is a single mum with four kids. A dubious thug. A kid who is hazed and has only one friend, his schizophrenic neighbour. Ragnar Bragason shot in black and white and created a powerful symphony, orches ...
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USA 2005 | 87 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Micha X. Peled
What have our jeans got to do with the plight of teenagers in the third world? We are complices in exploiting the third world by wanting everything on the cheap, says Micha X. Peled who knows his stuff, after his documentary on retail giant Wal-Mart. ...
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Germany 2005 | 11 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Felix Binder
In this sweet comedy, saving a Chinese cook from choking turns Anna's life upside down. ...
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Germany 2006 | 3 min | | FF 2006
Regie: Albert Radl
Playful animation about a bullhead and how his attempts at opening a closed door blow up on the screen. ...
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India 2006 | 127 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Rituparno Ghosh
Is an affair justifiable if a marriage is unhappy? Can one condemn infidelity wholesale? Is fidelity merely a matter of discretion? A stylish black-and-white drama unfolds when a married man and his lover get into an accident; she dies, he survives b ...
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Canada, Germany 2006 | 100 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Christoph Schrewe
Rome, 1458. The Pope is dead, the mob is alive in the streets, and there is turmoil brewing in the Sixtine Chapel over who's next to wield the biggest power of the Renaissance. A member of the Borgia clan is interested. Based on a secret diary of Pop ...
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USA 2005 | 84 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Hans Canosa
There is something in the air between bride and groom but also between their witnesses at the marriage ceremony. They spend the night together, regret it, fight themselves, fight the other person, and go through an emotional and amusing tour de force ...
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96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Carlos Iglesias
Elsewhere, the 60’s are synonymous with The Beatles and the miniskirt but in Switzerland, the cuckoo clocks tick to a different rhythm, especially for Spanish workers coming here because one Swiss franc is worth 14 pesetas. That may be true but ...
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Iran 2005 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Hamid Rahmanian
This was supposed to be the last day in the life of murderer Mansour. Islamic laws holds the victim's relatives responsible for taking him from this life to the next. But on the set date, they simply don't show up. An excruciating wait ensues. A powe ...
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USA 2006 | 94 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Julia Loktev
Nervewracking dramabeyond standard filmschool conventions. Small wonder, since the plot is involving a nineteen-year-old girl turning herself into a human bomb ready to explode on Times Square. The director hails from St. Petersburg and received acco ...
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Brazil 2005 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Beto Brant
In his fourth film, Beto Brant ventures away from the pistol-heavy atmosphere of his urban underworlds. Theatre critic Antônio comes under the spell of the mysterious nude model Inês with her amputated leg. Their relationship is passionate, terrify ...
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India 1982 | 134 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Babbar Subhash
Could this be the mother of all Bollywood films? Well, it might could. Babbar Subhash is a seasoned director whose 1982 answer to Saturday Night Fever delivered a throbbing introduction to the genre, alongside stories of revenge what party is happeni ...
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Finland 1973 | 108 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Rauni Mollberg
A remote village in post-war years becomes the scene for a bloody, naturalistic melodrama about love, death, and suicide. The director won the prize for best newcomer at the Festival of Locarno in 1973 with his portrait of a poor, repressive and back ...
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Israel 2005 | 4 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Nimrod Shanit
Part of MOMENTS 2005 - JERUSALEM
A journey following the photographs by Ilia Kavidan, an Armenian photographer, who documented Jerusalem from 1925 onwards. ...
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Argentina 2006 | 27 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Diego Seppi, José Tabarelli
Each path has a story. This is Emiterio
Guttiérrez's one whose looms weave a tale around the beauty of the Oriental Mountain Range of Salta. ...
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United Kingdom, Italy, Serbia 2005 | 104 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Oliver Parker
The story: sex, corruption, murder. The hero: Orson Welles. Director Oliver Parker co-wrote (with John Sayles) the script with noir undertones. Rome, 1948. Orson Welles (Danny Huston) wants to revive his floundering film career and recuperate from hi ...
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USA 2006 | 114 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Richard Linklater
Why are so many Americans obese? What is the link between illegal immigration, brutal slaughterhouse methods and hamburgers? Based on Eric Schlosser's bestseller, Richard Linklater is hot on the trail of a fastfood chain marketing boss who tries to f ...
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Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Russia 2006 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Nathalie Alonso Casale
Figner works as foley artist in the St. Petersburg film studios. He is so good that he does not need computers to create sounds. He can imitate the sound of a snapping neck by crushing a cabbage head. But he no longer knows his way around modern-day ...
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Iran 2006 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Asghar Farhadi
Psychologically complex and captivating says Variety about a film whose title refers to the Iranian New Year's Eve which is accompanied by the explosive sound of jumping jacks. Equally explosive are the collisions of various social strata and their l ...
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Germany 2005 | 88 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Buket Alakus
Germans have stopped making babies. But why? Buket Alakus brings a lighthanded approach to this difficult topic and made an open-minded and realistic comedy about men, women, and best friends who discuss their plight while they should be singing in t ...
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Germany 2006 | 83 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Sebastian Schipper
Karl (Daniel Brühl) is a guarded mathematician working in insurance, Hans (Jürgen Vogel) a happy-go-lucky type who keeps afl oat with odd jobs. They meet at a rental car agency. The unlikely friendship which develops teaches Karl spontaneity, humou ...
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Germany 2006 | 10 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Jan Karpinski
An acerbic satire: These days everything belongs to a global corporate player, even your genes. ...
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Finland 1988 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Matti Kassila
Anna and Matti loved each other in their youth but were separated during WWII. Years later - she a widow, he a married man - they meet again. The autobiographical novel of Finnish nobel prize winner Frans Emil Sillanpää is rendered to the big scree ...
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United Kingdom 2005 | 6 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Jonathan Hopkins
Two gentlemen, the English countryside and a clown going berserk: a funny murder-mystery. ...
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USA 2006 | 6 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Bill Plympton
What about the stress of a guide dog? Tragicomical animation about a four-legged hero. ...
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Egypt 2006 | 148 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Sherif Arafa
How an orphan became one of the most
popular singers of the Arabic world is movingly and equally lavishly told in the biopic of Abdel Halim Hafez (1929-77) who died of bilharzia at 48. Ahmad Zaki, the De Niro of the Nile, plays Halim who lived only ...
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Germany 2006 | 80 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Christian Mangels
Hamburg in the 1970s: the Star Club which made stars out of the Beatles closes down, Onkel Pö, another charismatic live venue, opens, the so-called Hamburger Szene is gingerly blossoming. Germany in the 1970s: terrorism, oil crisis. A perfect mix of ...
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Sweden 2006 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Colin Nutley
Sex and the City on blond wood … In his homeland Sweden, this film with captivating actresses Helena Bergström and Maria Lundquist was a box offi ce hit and proof that there is life after 40, especially life after marriage which is the time wh ...
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Belgium 2006 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Frank van Mechelen
A true, scary story about two innocent bus-drivers who get caught in Morocco driving 700 pounds of dope around. Although their employer admits both had no idea of their illegal cargo, they wander into the slammer for five years out of pure negligence ...
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Spain 2006 | 6 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Manuel Sánchez
An empty house, a frightened girl, vanished
people: An engaging thriller en miniature. ...
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Germany 2006 | 97 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Holger Ernst
A day and a night in the life of five teenagers in a dreary American suburb. Breathlessly and visually rough, the film revolves deals with a violent father, an escape into the army, drugdealing and drug-taking, casual sex. An episodes-film reminding ...
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USA 2006 | 93 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Zackary Adler
When radio DJ Reed plans to wed rich girl Kate in smalltown U.S.A., the party is suddenly thrown into limbo by the arrival of his high school sweetheart (wonderful: Sissy Spacek's daughter Schuyler Fisk). Torn between two women, Reed finds his whole ...
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Germany 2006 | 87 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Dagmar Hirtz
The GDR collapsed 17 years ago. But the infamous files on people still exist. When journalist Meike Marndorfer begins her research, she agrees to meet an informer who desperately wants to talk to her. But this person dies before the meeting, in an ac ...
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Germany 2005 | 6 min | | FF 2006
Regie: Thomas Draschan, Stella Friedrichs
Award-winning, mesmerizing footage accidently found, with an Italian 60’s softporn soundtrack. ...
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Israel 2005 | 4 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Daniel Sivan
Part of MOMENTS 2005 - JERUSALEM
Yaacov discovers he is the legal owner of the Wailing Wall. Now he must do something with it… ...
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USA 2005 | 106 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Phil Morrison
Journalists at Cannes this year were gushing over this eccentric and deeply human family history remindful of John Irving. Chicago-based art dealer Madeleine visits her husband's family in the sticks for the first time, also, because an interesting p ...
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France, United Kingdom 2006 | 97 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Martine Doyen
Peter, the hero of this noir-ish drama with droll undertones, describes himself as a living dead. The action really gets going when he wakes up in a mortuary. How did he get there? Who is he anyway? Peter (great: Belgian popstar Arno) steals the I.D. ...
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Germany 2006 | 91 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Zoltan Spirandelli
Single dad and caretaker Otto wins a holiday in Africa and reluctantly hits the road to a seemingly wild and adventurous continent with daughter Anna. And adventures come, although not in the form of safaris: physical heavyweight Otto arrives in a vi ...
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United Kingdom 2006 | 11 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Zam Salim
If you thought life was shit wait till you get a load of death: A laconic comedy. ...
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Germany 2006 | 15 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Klaas Dierks
With the sale of the co-owned house the loss of the dear-won home looms threatingly. Fears of debonding lead to an open controversy between mother and son. ...
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104 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Tony Goldwyn
You're thirty. You're a grown-up. Does that mean wedding-bells, kids, pension plans, and never kissing another beautiful stranger again? This tender good-bye to youth adapted by Oscar-winner Paul Haggis (L.A. Crash) delves into the life of Michael wh ...
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France 2005 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Chantal Richard
Two worlds collide in Chantal Richard's vivid big-screen debut: plain life in smalltown France and life in an African village. During an assignment in Senegal, French photographer Lili (Romane Bohringer) befriends Aminata (Aminata Zaaria).
Once back ...
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USA 2006 | 99 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Grandpa takes coke, 15-year-old Dwayne does not speak, Uncle Frank is suicidal, Pops a hapless selfmade-man, Mummy thinks nutrition is fast food with a salad, and seven-year-old Olive wears spectacles as grand as her dreams. Welcome to the Hoovers, t ...
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Germany 2005 | 112 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Torsten C. Fischer
Marlene leaves Leonhard for his best friend Jan. Leonhard falls in love with Anja who also falls in love with Jan. Everybody could be so happy but is not in this touching melodrama about passion and loss which gets under the audience's skin. Excellen ...
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Denmark 2005 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Kasper Barfoed
There are not that many secrets, so if you get onto one, you should not give up. That is the motto of the friends Katrine, Nis, Mathias and Fies. Nis is convinced that one of his books contains a lead for the legendary treasure of the Knights Templar ...
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China, France 2006 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Wang Chao
Village schoolteacher Li is searching for his lost son. He goes to the big city Wuhan, where his daughter lives in the red-light district, as the girl-friend of a brothel keeper. Li finds an aide in an old policeman but tragedy ensues in this subtle ...
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Peru, Spain 2005 | 100 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Claudia Llosa
That's my name, says the girl and points to the label in the pullover she received from charity. Made in USA. She lives in a remote village in the Andes and has just been selected to lead the annual procession as The Holy Virgin. But there is a guy f ...
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Germany 2006 | 60 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Christian Schwochow
Nine-year-old Marta is sent to her beloved grandfather Janosch in the country for a while. But the formerly familiar surroundings have changed: Marta is confronted with a grandfather who keeps forgetting things, dresses in a strange way and sometimes ...
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Israel 2004 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Eytan Harris
A captivating sombre ballad about crime and punishment, revenge, and poetry. When a Palestinian taxidriver is murdered in Jerusalem, three upper-class-kids are indicted. Newspapers start publishing poems which turn out to be written by the victim, an ...
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Finland 2006 | 130 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Aleksi Mäkelä
Matti Nykänen was Sweden's skijumping icon and is Sweden's laughed-at wannabe VIP. The career of the seven-times Olympic champion spiraled into freefall after drug abuse, alcohol excesses, and a rather publicly lived private life. This touching trag ...
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Croatia 2006 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Branko Schmidt
A Chinese girl and a former Kroatian soldier with PTSS and a history of drug abuse are the heroes in this unusual love-story which takes its title from the sometimes lethal illegal immigrants trail cutting straight through the Balkans. Based on a re ...
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Switzerland 2006 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Pilar Anguita-MacKay
Chilean director Pilar Anguita-MacKay relates a traumatic return of three siblings to their past. When their mother is dying, they visit her and delve back into tragedy that once resulted in their father's death. This accident continues to overshadow ...
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Germany 2006 | 88 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Markus Imboden
The first post of young policewoman Eva Mann is in a rural area close to Hamburg. Her colleague Klaus is not as obsessed as she is about always following rules and regulations; after all, he knows everybody in the place. But things spiral out of hand ...
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Switzerland 2004 | 100 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Michael Steiner
A battered knight's helmet and a leak collapsible boat, which breaks through all storeys of a multiple dwelling, brings Eugen's and Wrigley's days as rascals in Bern in the 60s to an abrupt end. On an odyssey across Switzerland the two boys make stra ...
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Germany 2005 | 89 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Lars Becker
Two violent criminals escape from Hamburg's notorious Santa Fu jail only to run into all sorts of troubles around the next corner. Such as suicide, money, hostages, fatherly love, alcoholism - all in an action-packed mix of funny dialogue and humour, ...
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Israel 2006 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Moshe Alafi
Naftali is 14 years old and a street kid; his parents, ultra-orthodox Jews, considered him the bad apple who would spoil the bunch of good. He is at the mercy of sexual assault, violence, crime, he is traumatized, he is bitter. Fighting is the only w ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006 | 115 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Jasmin Durakovic
Sarajevo, 1992. They are called Ahmed, Lana, Sado, Saba, Sahbey, Beba, Nemanja, Marx, Matan. They live in and between wartimes. They have nafaka, the destiny which was bestowed on them by God Almighty. And they have enough gallows humour and courage ...
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India 2006 | 210 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Karan Johar
At last the follow-up to Bollywood's box office hit Sometimes happy, sometimes sad, full of drama, romance, passion, not to mention music! Dev and Maya fall in love, but they are both married. A decision needs to be taken that will change their lives ...
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USA, Sweden 2006 | 92 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Joachim Hedén
Sometimes, happiness means having a talent for destiny. Like Sidney and Amy whom Swedish director Joachim Hedén accompanies on their enchanting stroll through New York. They have just met in a café. He's waiting for his old flame to show up, she le ...
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Poland, Sweden 2005 | 125 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Lena Einhorn
Lena Einhorn tells the story of her mother's life Nina. First there was the German invasion, life in the Warshaw Ghetto, deportation, then an escape and the journey towards a new life. Based on her own award-winning novel she tells a moving story in ...
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Netherlands 2005 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Arend Steenbergen
Don Kerbosch is smart, pugnacious and a damn good soccer player. After his expulsion from school he ends up in a school full of migrants, which brings him into the unfamiliar position of an outsider. A student soccer championship seems to bring about ...
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Denmark 2006 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Christoffer Boe
Danish actor Nicolas Bro plays a Danish actor by the name of Nicolas Bro. It gets even more confusing when his attempt at making a film about himself prompts his director friend Christoffer Boe to recommend recording everything. Everything and anythi ...
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Israel 2005 | 16 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Daniela Sivan, Dorit Tadir
Ishaq just wants to play soccer with his friends but the political situation turns his home into a prison. ...
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France 2006 | 111 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Claire Simon
15-year-old Livia thrives on one emotion: fury. She is furious about their parents who talk about divorce, furious about her body, her friends, her life, the world. Her horse is her only friend. When she falls in love with a married firefighter, infa ...
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France 2006 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Philippe Le Guay
Another day where everything goes wrong? Cinema just loves these sorts of stories! But when everything that one hates is going well … emerges a new chalange. Of course, Benoît Poelvoorde who already enchanted Hamburg moviegoers with Podium (2004, ...
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France 2005 | 110 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Valérie Lemercier
The Queen is not amused. Or rather, she is pas amusée, since she's very French and rather annoyed at daughter-in-law Armelle who allows her tiara to fall into the soup de peas. But Armelle is a speech therapist and came from rags to riches into the ...
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Germany 2006 | 45 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Karsten Wohlrab
An intensively felt documentary accompanies the feature film account of the sinking of the German training ship Pamir which cost many lives. The visual look is new: a sleek mix of black and white images from the 30s and 50s, computer animation, new f ...
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Paraguay, France, Netherlands, Argentina, Germany, Austria 2006 | 78 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Paz Encina
A clearing in the jungle, an old couple, the heat. Waiting for something. From such sparse elements Paz Encina created one of the most vivid South American fi lms of the season, set in the 1930s during the military confl ict with Bolivia. When it pre ...
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Germany 2006 | 94 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Gernot Krää
Paula is in love – with a fairytale prince, who only exists in her diary. Her fellow student Tobi loves to be her friend but is simply being ignored. When a children’s gang steals Paula’s diary, Tobi pursues the gang courageously and becomes Pa ...
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United Kingdom 2006 | 4 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Olaf Wendt
Background projection in every shot: A particular chase, a perpetual loop that you cannot escape from. ...
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Brazil 2005 | 107 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Toni Venturi
What do we know about Brazil? Soccer, bossa nova, caipirinha come to mind but even few young Brazilians will think of its recent past, of the 60's and 70's when a military dictatorship ruled the land with an iron fist. This Brazil is the topic of a p ...
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Poland 2005 | 52 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Ireneusz Dobrowolski
On 31 September 1940, Wilhelm Brasse, Polish soldier and portrait photographer, becomes inmate No. 3444 in Auschwitz. The SS made him photograph thousands of fellow inmates for the camp files. Now the 80-year-old Brasse was tracked down in the Carpat ...
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Germany 2006 | 84 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Quinka F. Stoehr
I survived because I discovered photography and film as mediums of expression, says Gisela Tuchtenhagen, a camerawoman, who left her mark on an industry which in the 1960s was almost male-dominated. Her flight into this medium was a successful one - ...
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Germany 2006 | 76 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Margot Neubert-Maric
Once a year traditions run overboard and alcohol flows freely deep in Dithmarschen, in the German hinterland. Publican Friedemann Braun of the Hohnbeerkrog calls upon every man (not woman!) . By the end of these rambunctious and rather convivial cele ...
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Czech Republik 2005 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Karel Janák
Two kids spend horribly boring holidays with their parents until 12 girls appear on the scene and all hell breaks loose in the testosterone-driven world of Dany and Filip who can't believe their luck on one hand and are out of their depth on the othe ...
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United Kingdom 2006 | 104 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Andrea Arnold
Advance Party is this year's Dogma. The story developed by from the directors Lone Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen unfolds in Glasgow where Jackie works in CCTV and discovers a guy on her videoscreen she had hoped she would never see again. She fol ...
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Russia 2006 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Avdotya Smirnova
Is it permissable to fall in love although you're married? In this award-winning cinematic debut two people who lead happy, married lives are doing just that. An assured feeling for the filigree of human relations, a deep understanding of what it fee ...
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Finland 2006 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Jouko Aaltonen
Love, peace and music... what happened to the ideals of the 70's when socialism was considered a true alternative for Finland? Bands emerged in their hundreds to support the cause of the third-largest communist party in Europe (yes, Finland). This fa ...
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Finland 2001 | 106 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Jarmo Lampela
An hour in a small town on a Saturdaymorning … and one of the best European fi lms in recent years. Life’s big issues are tackled with a casualness reminding of “Short Cuts”. Every character is at a crossroad contemplating suicide, love or a ...
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China 2006 | 114 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Zhang Jiarui
Li is a ticket conductor, Cui is a busdriver. He loves her but she loves a doctor. So, what's the big story? Well, back in the 1970s when the cultur al revolution was raging in China, feelings for intellectuals were forbidden. The doctor - aka the in ...
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Israel 2005 | 20 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Noa Aharoni
Roi goes his one way against all prejudices. ...
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USA 2005 | 105 min | OV with German and French ST | FF 2006
Regie: John Turturro
Great cast (from Susan Sarandon to Christopher Walken) and songs galore - director John Turturro calls this a workingclass opera. Set in New York, is this the tale of an not all too ordinary family, where Daddy's infaturation with a flaming redhead g ...
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Spain 2006 | 138 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Manuel Huerga
Spain, early 70's. the young militant of the Iberian Liberation Movement, Salvador Puig Antich, became the last political prisoner to be executed in Spain by the garrotte. This is his story and that of the desperate attempts of his family, colleagues ...
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Canada, Cyprus 2005 | 100 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Dionysius Zervos
On a beautiful summer's day near the water, five-year-old Anna disappears forever. Who's to blame? The grandparents who were supposed to watch over the child? The single mum who preferred to be with her new lover? The lifeguard? Zervos cites Krzyszto ...
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USA 2005 | 102 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: John Cameron Mitchell
Unquestionable the most sexually graphic American narrative feature ever made outside the realm of the porn industry... says trade mag Variety. This film is about a relationship-coach who never had an orgasm, a homosexual couple, their third guy and ...
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Israel 2005 | 60 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Mohammad Bakri
Can art change the course of history? Are documentaries capable of showing reality as it is? Will films change the world? In the case of Israeli/Arab actor/director Mohammad Bakri, a film can change one person's life. How, is told in his complex docu ...
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France 2005 | 112 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Xavier Giannoli
His best role since 'Cyrano' was the Cannes critics' verdict of Gérard Depardieu's performance as a nightclub singer crooning after hours in run-down bars. He falls for a much younger woman (captivating: Cécile De France) and this dalliance adds br ...
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Finland 1966 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Mikko Niskanen
A dreamy summer breeze of a film about two student couples holidaying on a remote Finnish lake. It is a sensitive and equally vigorous coming of age-portrait in the fabled 60's and the struggles with problems and inhibitions so typical of that genera ...
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South Africa, United Kingdom 2005 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Mark Dornford-May
Love, hope, and betrayal: in powerful images the life of Jesus is transported into a country torn apart by civil war, military dictatorship, and revolt. British theatre and opera director Mark Dornford-May won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2005 wi ...
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Iran, United Kingdom, Germany 2006 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Amir Hamz, Mark Lazarz
Mention Iran and few will think of rock music, rap or hiphop. The censorship from above makes life hard for those into indie music and it's all the more fascinating to see how alive and worth hearing the outcome is. Rockband O-Hum, rapper Sorouh or t ...
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Germany, Netherlands, Sweden 2006 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Mischa Alexander
Love is a many-splendoured thing and can make small men grow as tall as mountains. Or at least tall enough to climb a pole to compete in the pole-sitting competition which Taefke tries to win in order to impress his loved one. It turned him into a lo ...
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Germany 2006 | 88 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Hannu Salonen
A dinghy drifts ashore on some forsaken beach. Its passenger is a Sri Lankan boy. Ben, a former Stasi-prisoner, saves and decides to hide him. But nothing escapes the small island community for long and soon the local policeman becomes suspicious. He ...
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Germany 2006 | 97 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Stefan Krohmer
It was Germany's big sensation when it was shown at the Quinzaine in Cannes. A plain
sailing-trip on the river Schlei stirs up deep feelings of responsibility and jealousy when 12-year-old Livia falls in love with a much older man whom the forty-yea ...
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Germany, France, Switzerland 2006 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Djamshed Usmonov
Kamal is twenty and comes to the pulsating
Tadjikistan capital. Here, he hopes to rid himself of his impotence. He soon meets beautiful Vera who looks as though she could be of help in this department. But Vera is married to the mob and soon, becomi ...
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Germany 2005 | 89 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Martin Enlen
After ten years in America, Rosa returns to her family on the occasion of her father's seventieth birthday. She wanted to take the opportunity to talk it out with her dominating father but she's too late. Somebody killed him. When Rosa's exlover star ...
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Israel 2005 | 5 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Hadas Rehes
Part of MOMENTS 2005 - JERUSALEM
The Wailing Wall is Jerusalem's eternal symbol, but was this always the case? What have we done to preserve this situation? ...
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Finland 2001 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Kai Lehtinen
The opening shot is the eye of a bird. And quite as if he were a bird of passage, Poika falls in love with shy Umur only to lose her again. Their bittersweet drama is acted out against the backdrop of the disturbingly beautiful landscape of Lapland, ...
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Germany 2006 | 88 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Judith Kennel
Detective superintendent Jana Winter's new case proves a nervewracking assignment. A baby was stolen from his pram and found dead soon after. Jana, herself in the last stages of pregnancy, bungles the investigation and is taken off the case. She star ...
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Germany 2005 | 180 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Kaspar Heidelbach
Unsinkable was the verdict on the German training ship Pamir. At least before 21 September 1957. One hurricane later it had sunk in the Atlantic, in an incident that is among the most tragic in the history of maritime shipping. alone 50 cadets drowne ...
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India, France, Japan, Germany 2006 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Pan Nalin
A legend from the Himalaya spanning two centuries, love, death, and immortality, no less, is brought to the screen by Pan Nalin (Samsara). The colour-saturated, sensual epic revolves around Jalan, a brigand and Ushna, his bride, a mysterious beauty w ...
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Germany 2006 | 89 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Hermine Huntgeburth
One kid, two dads and not a single bright idea of how to deal with an adolescent who doesn't seem to do much besides eating fastfood and watching television. And it's not exactly as though that these dads haven't got problems of their own to sort out ...
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Germany 2006 | 90 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Friedemann Fromm
Policewoman Lena Jörning finds her first corpse, drifting like pack ice in the Ostsee. Rather more shocking is the fact that this is her estranged sister who ventured out into the big world while Lena stayed behind in the village to take care of the ...
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Greece 2005 | 99 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Nikos Grammatikos
In just one night, a cat and mouse game unfolds between two brothers who couldn't be more different. Andréas is a policeman on the run. Nikos is a priest and the brother he turns to for help. Which can be hard if you haven't been talking for a decad ...
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USA 2006 | 109 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Jasmine Dellal
A vibrating documentary - small wonder, given the high-strung musical context of flamenco, brass band music, Roumanian violins, Indian (dots, not feathers) folk. This is what happens when The Gypsy Caravan comes to town, and the musicians hailing fro ...
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Chile 2005 | 21 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: José Luis Torres Leiva
Cinematic meditation about silence, noise, water, happiness, and the emotion of feeling alive. ...
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Israel 2005 | 18 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Noam Demsky, Mordi Kershner
An unusual collection of Yedidyah - a 10 year old Yewish boy. ...
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France 2005 | 100 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Bourlem Guerdjou
A brave girl, f ery Arab horses, proud riders, the most famous Moroccan horse race and the endless vastness of the Moroccan Atlas ridge: The touching story of the 12-year-old Zaïna and her horse Zingal takes us away to an exciting, exotic world. Due ...
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