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Canada 2009 | 132 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Ricardo Trogi
In 1981, the Trogi family moves into a new home. At eleven years-old, Ricardo doesn't understand the meaning of the word "mortgage" but fully feels its impact. He is the new kid in a class where the other students are from wealthier backgro ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina 2009 | 88 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Saša Hajduković
We follow three stories between December 31st and January 1st. Stuck in between communism and capitalism, desires and reality, which affect each other, collide and corrupt each other’s dreams and expectation. Piksi, owner of a bar, falls in lov ...
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Germany 2010 | 91 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Sebastian Vigg
The engineer Anja (Ann Kathrin Kramer) is responsible for the energy supply of Berlin. During a nightshift a sudden power cut throws the whole of Berlin into chaos: hospital surgery is about to be suspended. Youths are taking over the streets, countl ...
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Greece 2010 | 79 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Stratos Tzitzis
Christina belongs to what the Greeks call “the €700 generation” - the young people who work for the minimum wage and live with their parents, because they can’t afford to move out. But Christina has had enough. With the little ...
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Poland 2010 | 77 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Krzysztof Nowiński, Dominika Długokęcka
A young man, Krzysztof Nowiński, decides to record a video journal documenting his stay at the hospital while waiting for HIV test results. In the beginning, wishing to hide from everyone, he is secretly taping conversations with himself in the toil ...
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Iran 2010 | 8 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Jafar Panahi
The Accordion is focused on two young musicians playing the accordion and the tablas to earn their living. One day, while they are playing in front of a mosque, a mullah commandeers their accordion, their only means of survival. They begin to look fo ...
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Vietnam 2009 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Bùi Thạc Chuyên
Soon after her wedding, newlywed Duyen’s excitement begins to fade as she realizes her husband is not only sexually naïve, but overly occupied by his job and doting mother. As her marriage goes unconsummated, she reaches out to her closest gir ...
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Germany 2010 | 59 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Falko Korth
Documentary by Reinhold Beckmann and Falko Korth: In 1983 the well known West German Rock phenomenon Udo Lindenberg and his band the ‘Panik Orchester‘ finally got permission to play at the FDJ-Peace Concert in East Berlin. A cheeky docume ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Lars Becker
Federal criminal investigator Fredo Kovas (Jürgen Prochnow) has traced RAF terrorist Amigo Steiger (Tobias Moretti) to Italy, but manages to loose him. Amigo reappears in Hamburg at the Bosch family who have financial problems. In Lars Becker’ ...
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United Kingdom 2009 | 88 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Clio Barnard
A street in Bradford, Northern England known as „The Arbor“ left an indelible impression on playwright Andrea Dunbar. She grew up there, named her first play after it and based all of her subsequent work there, of which her best known Rit ...
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Denmark, Sweden 2010 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Janus Metz
In February 2009 two Danish soldiers, Mads and Daniel, accompanied by documentary filmmaker Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives o ...
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Slowak Republic 2009 | 23 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Miro Remo
The Story of a mother and her son who live in a world turned upside-down, or, arsy-versy. Lubos made his escape from the world as we know it, to live symbiotically with nature. He flew to a planet inhabited only by butterflies.
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Germany 2010 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Pia Marais
Ellen has to change something about her life. Since she is constantly travelling around the globe as a flight attendant, her privat life has become something like a placebo that provides the security she badly needs. But then she suffers a panic atta ...
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Sweden 2010 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Josef Fares
Three friends; Jörgen is afraid of being left alone, Juan is worried about his pet labrador, but Aziz is in top form. Good looking, he is also a brilliant cook and a man who knows what women want. Soon he is going to be the grandfather of a perfect ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Rainer Kaufmann
The body of a Swedish woman who disappeared seven years earlier is pulled from the Wandsekanal. At the time, her husband, the main suspect was not convicted. Despite her continued panic attacks retired Inspector Bock travels to Sweden to discover the ...
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Serbia, Slovenia, France, Hungary, Croatia 2009 | 106 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Srđan Karanović
At the very beginning of the First World War, FILIP, a Serb and the principal of a gymnasium in a small Serbian town, is summoned urgently to Belgrade to serve in the war effort. He has no one to leave his wife, LEA, with. She is a young and pretty S ...
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Sweden 2010 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Pernilla August
A morning just before christmas, Leena, 34, receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has faug ...
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Belgium 2010 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Hans Herbots
Fifteen year old Deborah wants to escape her dull suburb and enjoy the luring city of Antwerp. Her new eighteen year old friend Jennifer leads her into the sparkling downtown nightlife. When Jennifer admits she’s an escort girl, Deborah is intr ...
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Spain 2010 | 94 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Rodrigo Cortés
Paul is a U.S. contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it‘s a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap. ...
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Denmark 2009 | 52 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Mikala Krogh
Once upon a time there was a city that was neat and tidy, and which was home to only 12 million people. Today, however, Cairo has a population estimated at 20 million. Garbage is piling up in the streets and the piles are growing. Everyone in Cairo h ...
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Argentina 2010 | 107 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Pablo Trapero
In Argentina, more than eight thousand people die every year in road accidents at a daily average of twenty-two. Only the last decade has seen one hundred thousand deaths. Behind every tragedy, there is an industry. Sosa is a lawyer specialised in ro ...
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France 2010 | 84 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Yasmina Reza
One Sunday in Paris, Pilar welcomes her daughters and son-in-law to her apartment to introduce them to her new boyfriend. An unlikely assembly, in which everyone tries to behave appropriately. A variation on exile and destiny is played out in this si ...
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Canada 2010 | 101 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Luc Dionne
On the keyboard, the young hands fly rapidly and the melody rises. For the child, nothing is easier; he hears the sounds in his head. These hands belong to 6 years old André Mathieu. He won his audiences and fired up concerts halls in London, New Yo ...
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Germany 2009 | 4 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Jana-Magdalena Keuchel, Daniel Wacker
Sometimes there is no need for a deeper meaning. Sometimes it’s just all
about having fun. And about the hangover the day after, the melancholy,
a coffee and a smoke. Sensations turn into reality and become a funny,
happy dance spectacle.
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Ireland 2009 | 83 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Ross McDonnell, Carter Gunn
The unexplainable phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder has left landscapes of empty beehives all across America, threatening not only the beekeeping industry, but our food supply. As scientists and beekeepers search for the cause, Colony capt ...
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Canada 2010 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Denis Côté
Set on the fringe of society, in a remote part of the countryside, Curling takes a keen look at the unusual private life of a father and his daughter. Between his unremarkable jobs, Jean-François Sauvageau devotes an awkward energy to Julyvonne. The ...
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USA 2009 | 92 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Cyrus is the story of a lonely divorcée John, who upon finding about his ex-wife‘s impending nuptials has the unlikely fortune of getting caught with his pants down in a drunken act of buffoonery by the enchanting Molly. Strangely enough Molly ...
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Turkey 2009 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Theron Patterson
After the loss of his wife, Adnan could not recover while his ties with his son Burak weakens. In the midst of his father’s perpetual melancholy, Burak looks for the warmth of home with his uncle Can, aunt Deniz and cousin Berk. Concerned with ...
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Italy 2010 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Marco Righi
1984. In the sultry, still sunny September of that Emilian rural district most soaked with catholicism and homegrown socialism, Elia lives with his parents: William, his father, who has got a strong ideological tendency to marxism, Maddalena, his mot ...
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Iceland 2010 | 91 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Hilmar Oddsson
December is a present-day tale set in Reykjavik during the holiday season. Tomas Lemarquis, the star of NOI ALBINOI, plays Jonni, a musician who after a long time living abroad returns to home Iceland to spend Christmas with his family and record an ...
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Argentina 1969 | 82 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Leonardo Favio
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams and her family. ...
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USA 2010 | 94 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Monteith McCollum
A Different Path follows a sidewalk activist senior, a critical mass trumpeter, city kayak-er, and others, as they struggle to make their way through the modern automobile-centric urban environment. The film is an artistic and poetic treatment of per ...
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90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Þorfinnur Gudnason, Andri Snær Magnasson
How much unspoiled nature should we preserve and what do we sacrifice for clean, renewable energy? Dreamland gradually turns into a disturbing picture of corporate power taking over small communities. Dreamland is a film about a nation standing at cr ...
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Czech Republik 2009 | 114 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Irena Pavlásková
The Film tells the story of Martha ,her two adolescent daughters and their successively arriving and departing “daddies”. The tale is totally apolitical at first but due to Martha’s ex-husband and her further partners, gradually her ...
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France, Germany 2010 | 101 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Géraldine Bajard
In tyro scribe-helmer Geraldine Bajard‘s The Edge, an attractive French doctor moves to a mysterious gated community where the spotty youngsters seem obsessed with sex, death and, before long, the newly arrived medico himself. The handsome, aut ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Kai Wessel
Johanna is celebrating with friends. The morning after she wakes up in a park. Despite being unable to remember anything she realises that she has been raped. During the investigation it becomes clear that her drink had been spiked. The perpetrator h ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Nicole Weegmann
Crooner Alexander Ludwig (Peter Lohmeyer) is suffering from severe memory loss after a heart attack. It is as if the last ten years had not happened. He does not even recognise his wife. In the sanatorium he meets Heinrich (Paul Kuhn). Together with ...
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USA 2009 | 105 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
A sophisticated and moving comedy, The Extra Man follows Louis Ives (Paul Dano), a lonely dreamer who fancies himself the hero of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. When a deeply embarrassing incident forces him to leave his job at an exclusive Princeton ...
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Italy 2010 | 124 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Paolo Virzì
Summer 1971: The youthful, stunning Anna Nigiotti is dubbed Miss Mamma of Livorno’s most famous bath house. Unaware of rousing the unwelcome attention of the male population, the suspicions of her husband Mario, the hidden embarrassment of her ...
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Germany 2010 | 80 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Darío Aguirre
Following his true love several years ago, Dario Aguirre left Ecuador behind for Germany and there he stayed. Deeply influenced by feelings of life lived between two worlds, this director now takes a closer look at his cultural identity. For this he ...
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France 2010 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: David Dusa
Paris – Tehran. A rootless love story between Gecko, young and free, and Anahita, an Iranian in exile – tangled up in history and steeped in internet, unique and spontaneous.Paris – Tehran. A rootless love story between Gecko, young ...
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Spain 2010 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Jon Garaño, José María Goenaga
Axun, a 70 year old woman, is called from the hospital to take care of her daughter‘s ex-husband, who was seriously injured in a car accident. To her surprise, the woman who takes care of the other patient in the same hospital room turns out to ...
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USA, France 2010 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Verena Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki
A hidden enclave in the shadow of baseball‘s new Mets Stadium, the neighborhood of Willets Point, Queens, is an industrial zone fated for demolition. Filled with scrapyards and auto salvage shops, lacking sidewalks or sewage lines, the area see ...
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Argentina 2009 | 78 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Israel Adrián Caetano
I gave this pretentious, arch examination of a contemporary urban dysfunctional family unit my usual two-reel minimum before bailing out. Story concerns a winsome, introverted little girl Mariana – as played by young Milagros Caetano, presumabl ...
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Germany 2010 | 89 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Martin Enlen
Lukas Schauttner‘s (Oliver Stokowski) job is taking him to Romania. Ever since he left his home in Transylvania in 1987 he had been trying to dispel the past. As soon as he arrives he runs into his first love. Memories of the entanglement of hi ...
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France 2009 | 121 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Joann Sfar
OPENING FILM
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
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Indonesia 2009 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Ifa Isfansyah
Bayu, 12-years-old kid, has a dream to become a great soccer player. Everyday, he dribbles the ball through small alleys of the neighborhood to practice the football. Heri, the best friend of Bayu, is very confident on Bayu‘s talent. He is tryi ...
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France 2010 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Laure Charpentier
George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover‘s eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting an ...
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Iceland, Denmark, USA 2009 | 95 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Dagur Kári
Jacques, the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already ...
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Germany 2010 | 80 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Ali Samadi Ahadi
Since the 2009 elections, nothing is like it once was in Iran. The demonstrations and brutal repressions have pushed the country into a state of paralysis. Where does Iran go from here? Will the current system prevail or is the opposition gaining eno ...
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Germany 2010 | 75 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Christian Mangels
Using selected film documentaries from the NDR archives, the author describes the Zeitgeist and emotional climate in the Hansestadt at the beginning of the 1990s: He remembers the celebration of Germany´s reunification in front of the town hall, the ...
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Japan 2010 | 134 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Masahiro Kobayashi
April 2009, the old man Tadao and his granddaughter Haru (Spring) go on a trip. Tadao, who lives in a lonely fishing village Mashike in Hokkaido, is a man who has spent his life catching pacific herring. He has retired after injuring his leg, and liv ...
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Canada 2010 | 95 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Xavier Dolan
CLOSING FILM
Francis and Mary are good friends. One night, they meet Nick, a young man from the country who has just settled in Montreal. From encounter to encounter, from moment to moment, troubled by innumerable signs – some real, some imagin ...
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United Kingdom, Australia 2009 | 7 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Jessica Dickenson
The Australian outback. Helmut, a 89-year-old German, has been living in his self-built house for 40 years. A portrait of an original character leading a truly unconventional life in the wilderness. A document of a unique encounter with a remarkable ...
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Germany 2010 | 26 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Florian Riegel
Janis has lived in Seaside for 20 years and most of the residents know her name. However, almost nobody has met her in person. Since she doesn‘t participate in the everyday life of the town, Janis calls herself an ‘invisible person’ ...
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Argentina 1982 | 115 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: David José Kohon
A bachelor dreams of a career as a photographer. His big chance comes when he meets a man called Mephi who puts a hole in the wall and introduces the young man to a world of wild fantasies. To fullfill his wishes the young man throws all of his moral ...
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Norway, Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Bent Hamer
In the small fictional Norwegian town Skogli, a puzzle of characters intersects with each other in different stories. These characters represent a wide range of ages and social classes, blending humor and tragedy, tenderness and desperation; but alwa ...
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Czech Republik, Japan 2009 | 74 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Jiří Barta
The purpose of the full-length animated film In the Attic: Who Has a Birtday Today? says the director Jiří Barta, is to evoke a sense of creative imagination with the help of improvised games that we all surely knew as children. We have shown how e ...
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Denmark 2010 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Kasper Holten
A story about a man who loved and loathed women, a heartless seducer who took great delight in enticing and abandoning his prey. In his film – an adaptation of W. A. Mozart‘s opera “Don Giovanni”, Kasper Holten‘s focus i ...
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Germany 2010 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Wolf Wolff
Money is hot. Especially four youngsters think so. They want billions. And they have the perfekt plan. They kidnap themselves. For the handover of the ransom they sail to a small island in the North Sea. Island policeman Ludger is in dire need of a c ...
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Germany 2010 | 59 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Timo Großpietsch
Documentary by Timo Großpletsch, who is using an inconspicuous camera to observe decisive moments in the lives of children in sheltered housing. He is present at the last English test, careers advise sessions and witnesses serious conversations betw ...
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Germany 0 | 89 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Raymond Ley
This is the story of twenty Jewish children, who have survived the concentration camp of Bergen Belsen and the war as orphans. They are travelling to Hamburg in 1945 to spend time in the villa of the Warburg family. While experiencing first love, ope ...
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Germany 2010 | 85 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Quinka F. Stoehr
The documentary filmmaker Quinka F. Stoehr shot this very personal portrait of her fellow filmmaker Klaus Wildenhahn, who introduced the “uncontrolled” and “direct cinema” in Germany: He counts among the most important documen ...
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France 2009 | 111 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Tony Gatlif
A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents „left and never returned”. Upon reaching a town where they traditionally stop for a few mon ...
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Germany, Finland 2009 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Zaida Bergroth
A family drama about unfortunate brothers who are a Finnish version of Cain and Abel. Eighteen year old Rupert still suffers from the nightmares of what his abusive father made him do when he was little. To him, his father is a curse. To his younger ...
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Armenia 2009 | 72 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Inna Sahakyan, Arman Yeritsyan
Zhora, 78-years-old, and Knyaz, 77-years-old, were once the most celebrated tightrope dancers in Armenia. Today they are the only masters who can keep this art alive against the currents of contemporary society. Envious rivals throughout their lives, ...
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Sweden 1996 | 3 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Per Carleson
He should be here any minute. She will cook him something tasty. The
radio is playing. But what is that? Have the news gone interactive now?
Will be short film before Simple Simon
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Argentina 2001 | 74 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Lisandro Alonso
Misael lives in the inmensity of the country side in the Argentinian province of La Pampa, working with his axe. He gets by only with the minimum necessary and almost no contact with other people. We follow him minute by minute, as we try to discover ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Niki Stein
In the summer of 1945 Gesa (Katharina Wackernagel) is working on a peninsula for the British occupying forces, while boyfriend Friedrich (Stephan Kampwirth), a former Wehrmacht officer is interned on the mainland. Gesa falls in love with a British ca ...
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Germany, South Africa 2010 | 102 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Oliver Schmitz
Life, Above All is a South African film tackling the taboo of AIDS in the poor rural areas of the country. It centres around Chanda, a 12-year-old girl who has to hold her family together amidst the fear of her neighbours after her baby sister dies a ...
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Argentina 2010 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Ivan Fund, Santiago Loza
Three women travel to a distant place to do welfare work. They assist, listen, stay with the unprotected. An old hospital in ruins accommodates them. The imposed group life gets more complex as they start to know each other. The relationship with the ...
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Czech Republik 2009 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Karel Janák
The story of the Little Knights‘ Tale adventure comedy brings us to the dark recesses of a mighty castle and a nearby manor which loom defiantly in close neighbourhood, surrounded by a deep forest. The peaceful living is disturbed by an unexpec ...
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Switzerland 2010 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Paul Riniker
After a lengthy spell in prison, Res, an aging biker, finds himself as an odd-job man on a camping site – straight in the dreamworld of Greta, a 33-years-old, mentally challenged woman. She still lives at home with her parents who are over prot ...
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Argentina 1987 | 82 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Alejandro Agresti
In this complex political drama, set in Argentina after the demise of its military dictatorship, a young journalist‘s preference for writing leftist articles endangers his job. His editor assigns him to follow the filming of an American movi ...
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Croatia 2009 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Pavo Marinkovic
Life may be good for others, but the only milk and honey in Saša‘s life is in his father‘s special recipe for lamb. Saša is an unexceptional guy. He wants to write novels, but he‘s a Zagreb food critic. Divorced, he can on ...
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Chile 2010 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Niles Atallah
Lucía is a young woman who works as a seamstress in a factory and lives with her father in an old house in Santiago, Chile. The film occurs in December 2006 during the weeks that take place from the ex-dictator Pinochet‘s funeral to Christmas. ...
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Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom 2010 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
A film director‘s personal journey experiencing his mother‘s disappearance into the Alzheimer disease, a film with essential Fridriksson’s ingredients, humor, compassion and strong visual style. Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elde ...
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France 2010 | 72 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Christophe Honoré
Between the Paris suburbs and New York, Omar and Emmanuel do everything they can to prove to each other that they are no longer in love. The original title Homme au bain is a reference to a painting of Gustave Caillebotte with the same name. On that ...
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Philippines 2009 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Raymond Red
Inspired by a true event, Himpapawid (Manila Skies) tackles the astounding story of a lone deranged hijacker who is pushed to the edge as he struggles with the oppression of surviving in modern Philippine society. The film dwells on the common story ...
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Australia, USA, China 2009 | 117 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Bruce Beresford
Dance superstar Chi Cao plays another dance superstar in the true tale of Mao‘s Last Dancer. Chi, the principal dancer with the Birmingham Royal Ballet in England, is making his acting debut in Mao‘s Last Dancer, a film based on the true ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Jan Ruzicka
Stefan Kortmann (Benno Fürmann) is burdened with guilt: In the spring of 1988 as a soldier of the Volksarmee he shot and killed a young man who was trying to escape from the GDR with his pregnant wife. Despite having made a success of his life he is ...
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Germany 2010 | 89 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Christiane Balthasar
Helen (Iris Berben) is perfect. She is attractive, has two children and runs a garden centre with her husband (August Zirner). Doubts are starting to creep in: Is he unfaithful? Are the problems with her daughter serious? Is she growing old and unatt ...
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Czech Republik 2009 | 109 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Robert Sedláček
The story unravels in the village of Mourinov, which lies “at the end of the road”. The inhabitants naturally long to become a “through-road” village and they realize they must draw attention to themselves. As they have among ...
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Egypt 2010 | 133 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Daoud Abdel Sayed
Alexandria, the cosmopolitan city on the northern shore of Egypt, was once home to a multi-cultural society. Egyptians, Greeks, Italians, Christians, Muslims and Jews, were all living in harmony. But now, a new form of Islamic driven capitalism is tr ...
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France 2009 | 82 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Jean Becker
This is a story of one of those unlikely encounters that can change the course of somebody‘s life: The encounter in a park between Germain, an almost illiterate man in his fifties, and Margueritte, a little old lady who is passionate about read ...
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Germany, Ukraine, Netherlands 2010 | 127 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Sergei Loznitsa
My Joy is a tale of the truck driver Georgy. He leaves his home town with a load of goods, but he is forced to take a wrong turning on the motorway, and finds himself in the middle of nowhere. Georgy tries to find his way, but gradually, against his ...
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Germany 2010 | 89 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Christian Baumeister
Documentary 2 x 45 minutes. The Amazonian Rainforest is the largest on earth. It still seems impenetrable, mysterious and dangerous. As well as amazing close-ups of Jaguars, tapirs or leaf-cutter ants and spectacular areal views we get to know the su ...
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Germany 2009 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Lars Becker
A body dressed in the bathrobe of a beauty clinic is found in a sunken car. The dead woman turns out to have been an expensive Russian prostitute. In her appointment schedule the police finds a notice: client 7. Jürgen Prochnow and Dietmar Bär play ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Hermine Huntgeburth
This is the first part of the “Lehmann” Trilogy by bestseller author and musician Sven Regener. Twenty-yearold Frank Lehmann is about to leave the countryside where his life constituted national service and a chaotic shared house. An ente ...
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Uruguay, Argentina 2010 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Daniel Hendler
Norberto (36) has an ordered life until he loses his job, a good administrative position. Before telling his wife, he prefers to prove his luck at a real estate company, where he manages to be hired on trial. His new boss advises him to take an asser ...
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Argentina 1962 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Manuel Antin
Two brothers quarrel for the love of a woman. One of them falls ill and dies; the other one marries her. The couple relocates to Paris running away from his reproaching mother. Nevertheless, she writes them letters bringing up the dead brother as if ...
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Denmark 2009 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Nikolaj Steen
Vagn is a middle-aged man whose life has slowly ground to a halt. He lives by himself, has a job and plays old boys‘ football. On the annual team trip to Sweden, the other members of the team forget him at a gas station. As Vagn well knows, he ...
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Ireland, USA 2009 | 102 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Neil Jordan
The story of Syracuse an Irish fisherman, whose life is transformed when he catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his nets. She says her name is Ondine, which means “she came from the sea”. His daughter Annie comes to believe that t ...
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USA 2009 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Evgeny Afineevsky
This is the story of the Hirschs‘, a Jewish family living in the North Shore of Long Island, where every Friday night Shirley Hirsch invites another “perfect” girl for Shabbat dinner in hopes that her son, Nelson, will marry a nice ...
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South Korea 2009 | 18 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Ran-hee Lee
No sooner does Loan arrive in Korea from Vietnam to live with her Korean husband than her mother-in-law takes her to a beauty salon to get a perm.
Will be the short film before Wärst du lieber tot?
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Germany 2009 | 80 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Henrik Peschel
“Madboy” director Henna Peschel tells the actionpacked, humorous tale of male friendship in times of a major crisis. Paradise is called San Pigro and is situated on the border of the Carribbean. The natives call their island the “is ...
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56 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Klaus Wirbitzky, Stephan Rick
Episode "Das Silbergebiss"
In "Das Silbergebiss" (script: Anja Jabs) the Pefferkörner get track of a criminal dentist. Sophie never thought that she might need braces. And nobody exept for Themba believes her that something at th ...
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Republic of Korea 2010 | 139 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Changdong Lee
Mija lives with her school-age grandson in a small suburban city located along the Han River. She is a dandy old lady who likes to dress up in flower-decorated hats and fashionable outfits, but she is also an unpredictable character with an inquisiti ...
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Belgium 2010 | 94 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Alex Stockman
A young man gradually loses grip on reality, due to his obsession with a mysterious computer hacker. Samuel works in Brussels as a pharmaceutical delivery man. His gorgeous girlfriend Mireille heads off to New York to intern a ...
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Poland 2009 | 101 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Borys Lankosz
The plot takes places on two temporal plains: early 1950s and the present. The main character is Sabina, an unassuming woman who just turned thirty. Clearly, she lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and at all costs tries to find he ...
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Iran 2010 | 76 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Amin Farajpour
Milad, a rebellious teenager at high school is unwillingly involved in drug dealings and this makes serious problems for him both at school and at home with his single mother. He‘s in debt with the drug dealers and he keeps escaping from them. ...
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Serbia 2010 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Srđan Spasojević
To secure money for his family, aging ex-porn star Milos (Srđan Todorović) plunges into the depths of hardcore production, only this time his diabolical employer has unthinkable terror in store for him.
This movie contents transboundering sex-and ...
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Denmark 2009 | 60 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Nanna Frank Møller
Documentary. Shanghai is an explosion of transformation. Every other day a new building is completed, and every year the city‘s population grows by half a million people. Authorities are desperately seeking out more space, while the city‘ ...
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Argentina 1995 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Ricardo Wullicher
In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts to defend himself. Locked up, he waits for the arrival of “Caleuche”, the Ship (Nave) of F ...
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Israel 2010 | 65 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Shalom Hager
Nachum, a 31-year religious, begins a training period in order to eventually become a certified undertaker. A year ago his baby, died while sleeping at her crib. Since, haunted by the guilt feelings, Nachum decides to touch death daily. His struggle ...
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Russia 2010 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Aleksei Fedorchenko
When Miron‘s beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merya culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero, a picturesque region in West-Central Russia. Al ...
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Sweden 2010 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Andreas Öhman
The 18 years old Simon (Bill Skarsgård) has Aspergers syndrome. He likes space, science and circles but can‘t understand feelings. Simon‘s life turns into chaos when his brother Sam (Martin Walström) gets dumped by his girlfriend. Simon ...
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Germany 2010 | 86 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Michael O'Connor
Sixty years old Jim, haunted by visions of his own death, wants to reconcile with his son Tom before he dies. This stirs up events he thought long buried. Tom’s mother died when he was twelve years old – and Jim left him alone. Can Jim un ...
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France 2009 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Eric Flandin
Does Columbia owe the preservation of its primary forests to war? This is one of the crucial questions posed by this documentary, which follows Franz Florez in his old bus full of snakes across a rural Columbia that is generally inaccessible. A Colum ...
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Russia 2010 | 88 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Svyatoslav Ushakov, Inna Evlannikova
The exciting story of Belka and Strelka, two dogs that were sent to space by the Soviet Union in 1960. A circus dog and a stray dog go on out-of-this-would adventures to become the world‘s most famous canine cosmonauts! The story is told by Flu ...
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USA 2010 | 86 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: J.B. Ghuman Jr.
From
writer-director J.B. Ghuman Jr. comes this colorful and foul-mouthed feature
musical comedy, a film about a frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked outcast named Spork
who is trying to navigate her way through the annuals of junior high. When a school danc ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Andreas Prochaska
Interrogator at the Viennese police force, Richard Brock (Heino Ferch), is in charge of solving a murder. Brock soon discovers that the victim, an employee of a building firm, was about to give evidence against the executive board. Did a fellow emplo ...
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Portugal, Spain, France, Brazil 2010 | 97 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Manoel de Oliveira
Isaac is a young photographer living in a boarding house in Régua. In the middle of the night, he receives an urgent call from a wealthy family to come and take the last photograph of their daughter, Angelica, who died just a few days after her wedd ...
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Greece 2010 | 68 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Kimon Tsakiris
The mayor of Sugar Town is a man on a mission. A self-proclaimed hero, he will stop at nothing to rebuild his constituency after the biggest wildfires in Greece‘s history swept through the area, burning everything to the ground. His vice mayor ...
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France 2010 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Olivier Coussemacq
Céline, a fifteen year-old girl, is constantly on the move since her mother‘s imprisonment. After escaping her tutors, a well-known couple Mr. and Mrs. Van Eyck take her in. Céline becomes determined to stay with the couple and tries quite su ...
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Germany 2009 | 25 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Anna Hepp
At the age of 93, Dorothea says she has lived a full life. She shares with us the thoughts that keep her busy and make her ponder. Memories of the past are her only constant companions in the present.
Will be the short film before The Last Tightrope ...
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Turkey 2010 | 78 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Ozcan Alper, Zehra Derya Koc, Ulku Oktay, Ahu Ozturk, Emre Akay
Five stories from the Turkish city of Kars: 12-years-old Yusuf has to cycle miles every day to get to school. But he knows that he‘ll catch a glimpse of Leyla. Nazli‘s childhood is a period of her life she has never come to terms with. Th ...
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United Kingdom 2010 | 111 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Stephen Frears
London columnist Tamara Drewe (Gemma Aterton) reappears in a small and isolated village in the English countryside. Three males fall for the young and very attractive woman: cheating husband Nicholas (Roger Allam), rock star Ben (Dominic Cooper) and ...
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Germany 2010 | 89 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Claudia Garde
Body parts have been discovered in the woods of a manor house near Kiel. The victim seems to have been part of an illegal hunting party, shooting bears. Everything points to a militant animal rights defender. When a further body part turns up, police ...
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Germany 2010 | 89 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Johannes Grieser
The body of an unidentified woman is discovered. No one seems to miss her. Could she have been an illegal immigrant? Inspectors Lannert (Richy Müller) and Bootz (Felix Klare) are starting their investigation among organised crime. Soon they discover ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Nils Willbrandt
Undercover agent Cenk Batu (Mehmet Kurtulus) is the driver of a criminal gang of organ dealers. He is to collect a 14-years-old girl, who is to be killed for her organs. The girl manages to escape and Cenk is under pressure: the gang wants the girl, ...
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New Zealand, USA 2010 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Briar March
What if your community had to decide whether to leave it‘s homeland forever? This is the reality for the culturally unique Polynesian community of Takuu, a tiny lowlying atoll in the South Western Pacific. As a terrifying tidal flood rips throu ...
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France 2010 | 113 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Coline Serreau
Films full of warnings and disasters have been made and have served their purpose, but now it is time to show that solutions do exist. “It is time to hear what farmers, philosophers and economists have to say. While explaining why our social mo ...
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Canada 2010 | 88 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Bruce McDonald
Unbelievable: Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she‘s off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight – tonight is Bruno̵ ...
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Ukraine, USA 2010 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Olha Onyshko, Sarah Farhat
A Jewish man whose family chose to save the life of its worst enemy. An Ukrainian woman who endured the theft of her children to save her country. A Polish priest who risked everything to end the sectarian hatred that tore at his parish. They all cam ...
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Chile 2010 | 60 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: José Luis Torres Leiva
This film is a visual meditation on the landscape after a catastrophe. Shot for 8 days in the area most affected by the February 2010 earthquake in Chile, the film narrates a journey that covers with subjectivity all the images and sounds experienced ...
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Malaysia, Japan 2010 | 84 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Ming Jin Woo
Ping Ping is 19 and wants to go to Japan to work in a car parts company. She’s under the guardian of her aunt, Madame Tien, who shuffles her between two jobs; working in a pig farm, and cleaning dishes in a rundown restaurant. Tien is also invo ...
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Argentina 1981 | 112 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Adolfo Aristarain
A union organizing demolition worker and a friend of his decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for setting up a fake accident. Because of a miscalculation the friend dies, but he sticks with the plan and demands a big sum of money as inde ...
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Tajikistan 2009 | 83 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Nosir Saidov
Kirill (Yuri Nazarov) is a Russian meteorologist stationed in Safedobi, a small village in the Central Asian nation of Tajikstan. Kirill is waiting for the day he can hand his duties over to Nilufar (Nashiba Sharipova). Just as things seem poised for ...
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Rumania 2010 | 99 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Radu Muntean
In his second Cannes entry after Boogie, Radu Muntean tells the story about Paul (Mimi Branescu) who is married to Adriana (Mirela Oprisor) for 10 years. They have a daughter, a car, an apartment and they still seem to be in love. Paul also has an af ...
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Belgium 2009 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Kadir Balci
Having buried their father in Istanbul, Timur (28) and his two brothers, Ediz (36) and Bora (16), return to Ghent. Their mother remains in Istanbul. The three brothers resume their lives but need to find a new balance. While Ediz plays the dominant f ...
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Norway 2009 | 71 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Åsleik Engmark
Twigs like Twigson don‘t grow on trees. They exist in fantasies and play with you in the woods when you find it hard to be with everyone else. Twigson is Junior‘s faithful companion on all his adventures. Mother and father are worried abo ...
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Columbia, France, Germany, Peru 2009 | 103 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Javier Fuentes-León
In a tiny Peruvian seaside village, where traditions run deep, Miguel (Cristian Mercado), a young fisherman, and his beautiful bride, Mariela (Tatiana Astengo), are about to welcome their first child. But Miguel harbors a scandalous secret. He‘ ...
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Uruguay, Spain 2010 | 67 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Federico Veiroj
Fortyfive-years-old Jorge lives with his parents and has been working at a Film Archive for 25 years. He is a film programmer, he makes technical support, and he conducts the film news show at a radio station in Montevideo. Without any other job expe ...
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Germany 2010 | 83 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Josef Rusnak
Roger Willemsen wrote the screenplay from his first novel “Kleine Lichter” (“Small Lights”). He tells us about the thin line between life and death: For six months Valerie‘s (Franka Potente) lover has been in a coma. In ...
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Turkey 2009 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Yağmur Taylan, Durul Taylan
The latest film Taylan Brothers have directed is a noir comedy that delicately tells the story of a small town family. Engin Günaydin, who has also scripted the film, plays Celal, a despondent man, unhappily married with a child to Sevilay. He works ...
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Poland 2010 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Jan Jakub Kolski
The movie is based on a series of short novels, written by Włodzimierz Odojewski: Venice is the story of an 11-years-old Marek, whose dreams of a summer trip to Venice are brutally cut short by the outbreak of war in 1939. To escape the cruel realit ...
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Argentina 2009 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: José Celestino Campusano
Viking is a story that exposes, powerful and deep as life itself, the conflict between two groups from Buenos Aires suburbs. Vikingo is a motorcyclist. Though his way of life may be licentious somehow, his code is based in the concepts of honor and r ...
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United Kingdom 2010 | 88 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Patrick McGrady
Actor and writer Stephen Fry explores his passion for the world‘s most controversial composer – Richard Wagner. But Stephen is Jewish and lost family members in the Holocaust, so can he salvage the music he loves from its dark association ...
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Germany 2010 | 69 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Christina Seeland
Documentary. Director Christina Seeland accompanied six severely disabled individuals for a year. She attended therapy sessions, went on trips and had detailed conversations with the disabled, their relatives and the nursing staff. This documentary n ...
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Rumania 2009 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Dan Chișu
In a world where any teenager can film with his own mobile phone and post all kinds of things on the internet, Laura, an 18-years-old girl, spends a night in a club with her friend Mira. She gets drunk and smokes her first joint. In the morning she d ...
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Germany 2010 | 89 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Florian Baxmeyer
When successful estate agent Carla (Christiane Hörbinger) is retiring she suddenly realises, that she is alone. Her husband (Friedrich von Thun) divorced her years ago, her daughter (Susanna Simon) stays away. Carla turns to drink. It starts with a ...
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Argentina 2010 | 94 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Gonzalo Castro
A documentarian film essay with and about the writer Mario Bellatin, who was born 1960 in Mexiko. After living in Peru and Cuba for some time, Bellatin is now back again in his home country. He himself says in Winter-house that he is already dead, an ...
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Germany, Hungary, France 2010 | 112 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Benedek Fliegauf
The film is located at the German North Sea cost in the nearer future. Rebecca (Eva Green) returns to the home of her grandfather and meets again her friend from childhood, Thomas (Matt Smith). But since Thomas died by an accident, Rebecca‘s co ...
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Spain, Germany 2010 | 91 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Pedro Aguilera
Robinson is shipwrecked off the South Spain coast. He manages to reach the safety of the shore, but he is an anonymous exile now, just like so many other thousands of Africans. Robinson manages to find some work in a large greenhouse that grows fruit ...
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