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Egypt 2011 | 125 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Sherif Arafa, Kamla Abou Zikri, Marwan Hamed, Mohamed Aly, Sherif El Bendari, Khaled Marei, Mariam Abou Ouf, Ahmad Abdallah, Yousry Nasrallah, Ahmad Alaa
A group of ten directors, twenty or so actors, six writers, eight directors of photography, eight sound engineers, five set designers, three costume designers, seven editors, three post-production companies, and about ten technicians have agreed to ...
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Argentina, Spain 2011 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Pablo Giorgelli
Somewhere in Paraguay, middle-aged trucker Ruben picks up first a load of lumber bound for Buenos Aires way down south, and then countrywoman Jacinta, who's headed for the city in search of employment, with her 5-month-old daughter Anahi in tow. Alt ...
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Switzerland, USA 2010 | 89 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Jarreth Merz, Kevin Merz (Co-Regie)
The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa, serve as a backdrop for this behind-the-scenes look at the complex political machinery of a third world democracy. At stake are the fates of two political parties that will do almost anything to ...
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Iceland, Germany, Denmark 1995 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Egill Eðvarðsson
Agnes, a servant in the house of the county sheriff, is constantly sexually harrassed by him and treated with contempt by his wife, who believes Agnes is seducing him. Agnes falls in love with Natan, a young homeopathic doctor, hated by the sheriff ...
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Mexiko 2010 | 67 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Elisa Miller
Vete más lejos, Alicia is the story of Alicia, a nineteen-year-old who sets out on a solitary journey to the end of the world only to come face-to-face with the immensity of the universe. Alicia’s journey is indubitably a rite of initiation, ...
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Denmark 2011 | 82 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Rasmus Heide
A Danish Ocean's Eleven-comedy. Four rogues, best friends as kids, have one big problem: Martin is a policeman, while Nikolaj, Ralf, and Timo can't distinguish between what's yours, and what's mine, whether it's flash cars or girls. When all four fi ...
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Ireland, UK, Belgium, France 2010 | 80 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Alicia Duffy
After the death of their mother, Irish youngsters Dara and Eoin are moved to France to stay with their aunt for the summer. There, the boys befriend a local English family and the impressionable Dara falls under the spell of their young flirtatious ...
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France 2011 | 85 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Emmanuel Mouret
At the very moment, the precise instant, we fall in love, a particular music plays within us. For each of us, it's different and it can occur when least expected…Emmanuel Mouret follows a group of love-crazy Parisians through their trials and ...
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Mexiko, Netherlands, USA 2011 | 83 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Yulene Olaizola
Luisa, a 25-year-old woman addicted to chiva (heroin) travels to a beach in the coastal State of Veracruz with the idea of quitting her habit once she gets there. Luisa eventually grows ties with the locals and in particular with Salomon, a 63-year- ...
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Bulgaria 2011 | 86 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Konstantin Bojanov
While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Avé, a 17-year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch, Avé invents new identities for them, and her compulsive lies get Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this advent ...
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Netherlands 2010 | 94 min | OV with English ST and German voice over | FF 2011
Regie: Sander Francken
Three traditional bardsongs tell the story of three kids. In India Sahir and his father pick up trash for a living. While his father, a quiet man, accepts his fate without any judgement, Sahir often feels he is treated unfairly. In Mali Bouba is sea ...
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Germany 2011 | 88 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Stephan Wagner
For the first time Bella Block knows the dead victim: it is the pregnant niece of one of her closest friends. This fact makes her more vulnerable but she also tends to think that aging is responsible for her heightened sensitivity. It is just that w ...
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USA 2010 | 84 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Richard Press
Bill Cunningham is the 80+ New York Times photographer who, for decades, has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for his two weekly columns. Still, no one knows a thing about Bill, the man hi ...
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Germany 2011 | 84 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Margot Neubert-Maric
The documentary traces the lives of five courageous country women as they grow older: their wishes, their dreams, and their hopes for the big winnings at Bingo. Born between 1933 and 1945; they belong to the ‘forgotten generation’. They ...
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France 2011 | 64 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Emmanuel Gras
The true life of a cow: grazing, ruminating, gazing - but also feeling - mooing with grief, or simply enjoying an apple...
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Germany, France 2011 | 94 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Angelina Maccarone
Breaker of taboos, icon avant-gardist – to capture the persona Rampling is a cinematic adventure that can only succeed by being as brave as she has been throughout her career. Staged in countless films and photographs as the classic "object of de ...
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France, Germany, Belgium 2011 | 90 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
The great violinist Nasser Ali Khan is shattered: his beloved instrument is destroyed. But he cannot imagine a life without music. He embarks on a journey into his past to unveil the secret, that unites music and love. After her international succes ...
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Argentina 2010 | 95 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Rosendo Ruiz
Juan Cruz, an upper class photographer, has an assignment to take some pictures at a concert of one of the most popular singers of Córdoba, La Mona Jimenez. In this environment, full of unusual customs for him, he will discover another world when h ...
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USA 2010 | 90 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Peter Brown
Boldly exposing the truth, humor and despair behind activism at sea, this documentary reveals the true 30-year odyssey of the most wanted environmentalist today, Captain Paul Watson. The founder of Greenpeace, Watson was ousted in 1977 from the orga ...
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France 2010 | 111 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Xavier Durringer
The film, framed as a series of flashbacks, charts Nicolas Sarkozy's life between the reelection of previous president Chirac in 2002 and his own successful bid for the presidency in 2007. As he awaits the result of his electoral duel with Ségolèn ...
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USA, United Arab Emirates 2011 | 105 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Steven Soderbergh
Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving pandemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the s ...
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Chile, USA 2011 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Alberto Fuguet
Alejandro Tazo, a Chilean thirty-something, is wandering around Nashville, USA. Tazo wants to make a failed "love trip" worthwhile, so he wants to work, meet people and hang in Music City, while he licks his emotional wounds. But he will s ...
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Brazil 2010 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Gustavo Pizzi
What’s the importance of luck in life? How much effort and talent is enough to guarantee a solid acting career? Is luck part of the craft? Bianca is an excellent actress, but theater doesn’t pay the bills yet. In order to make a living, ...
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Mali 2010 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Sidy F. Diabaté
Huge kingdoms once fought for supremacy in the region of today's Mali. Bambara was the mightiest of them and Da Monzon, son of Monzon Diarra, the most famous king, ever to inhabit the throne in Ségou. His victory against the army of King Bassi Diak ...
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Germany 2011 | 63 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Felix Grimm
A lot of booing and insulting takes place in a football stadium, especially directed at the umpire and the opponent. This also goes for the FC St. Pauli. Yet, the character and the aim of the attacks have changed. Fans are increasingly angered by th ...
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USA 2011 | 100 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Tony Kaye
Director Tony Kaye creates a unique and stylized portrait of the American education system through the eyes of teacher Henry Barthes, who wanders in and out of students’ lives, imparting knowledge where and when he can. When a new assignment p ...
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France 2010 | 80 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Florent Tillon
The automobile industry jumpstarted Detroit’s rise and made it the most industrialized city in the United States. But because of changes in American society and population demographics, the city lay deserted for decades and urban prairies comp ...
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Russia 2011 | 89 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Alexandra Strelyanaya
The Dry Valley is based on the famous novel written by Nobel Prize laureate Ivan Bunin.The story takes place in Dry Valley, a village owned by the noble family of Khrushevs. Natalia, a young and naive peasant girl, works as servant in their country ...
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Germany 2010 | 11 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Matthias Bruhn
In this moving animation the death visits a duck at her pond and an unexpected friendship evolves.
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Turkey, Germany 2011 | 93 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: İmre Azem
Istanbul wants to play in the big leagues. Last year it was the European City of Culture. It has its heart set on winning the 2020 Olympic bid. And the government wants it to be the financial centre of the region. At fifteen million, its population ...
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Germany 2011 | 90 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Franziska Meletzky
How reliable are memories, how credible are accusations triggered by the sound of a voice? After a failed attempt to escape from Eastern Germany, a musician is transferred to the infamous women's prison Hoheneck. There she is tortured so badly that ...
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Israel, Germany 2011 | 94 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Eran Kolirin
A man comes home at a time of day he’s never been there before. A time when the light hits differently, when the humming of the fridge is the only audible sound. For a moment it seems to him like he has walked into the house of a stranger. All ...
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Iceland, Sweden 1980 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
Father's Estate caused more public controversy than any other Icelandic film before. It struck out against the long-held romantic view of the countryside, the pervasive power of the cooperative societies, the bondage of the land and the great decepti ...
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Germany 2010 | 1 min | | FF 2011
Regie: Anselm Belser
Every action has its consequences.
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52 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Marc Brummund
350 years ago, the reformation of the Russian Orthodox Church turned those who did not want to follow the new religious currents into outlaws. Many were killed, their villages burned, and those who managed, escaped to other countries. Some of them s ...
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Germany 2010 | 7 min | | FF 2011
Regie: Susann Maria Hempel
An experimental sequel of Hitchcock’s ›The Birds‹. Filmed with a high-speed camera system in Greiz, the birthplace of Oskar Sala, who made the sound and music of ›The Birds‹
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Belgium 2010 | 21 min | | FF 2011
Regie: Rachel Lang
A
young woman loses her way. She tries to still her need of stability and
security in joining the army. The loss of individuality, living within
the group and the discipline seem to give her new confidence. But the
question of her own belonging ...
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Estland 2011 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Mart Kivastik
Mati (70), is a passionate bibliophile whose hobby is his work – he's got a job at the library. What is left of his time he shares with his sweet wife. When she suddenly dies his life seems to fall apart. Neither his adolescent daughter nor hi ...
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Germany 2011 | 6 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Alla Churikova
Frog and Rabbit are best friends. But lately there hasn't been much to do. All they can think of, is sitting at the lake and thinking about how bored they are. Terribly bored, to be precise. But suddenly there's a whiff and this thing almost hits th ...
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Iceland 2010 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Henry Bateman
A character driven documentary following individuals that strive to change the world of consumerism, a system of credit and debt that the Icelandic economy was built upon for the past 10 years or more. Focusing on sustainable developments in nature, ...
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Iceland 2010 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Gaukur Úlfarsson
A few years ago, when the developed world was booming, bankers and stockbrokers did not envision the inevitable crash. No country epitomized this rise and fall better than Iceland. An economic supernova, too rich to fail and totally incorruptible, Ic ...
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Iran 2011 | 104 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Mohammad Rasoulof
OPENING FILM
Noura is a young lawyer in Tehran in search of a visa to leave the country. She recently had her license to practice law revoked for participating in activist campaigns against the government. Her husband was exiled to work in the deser ...
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USA 2011 | 73 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Sophia Takal
Geneviève, a New York intellectual, moves to the rural South with her self involved journalist boyfriend, Sebastian, while he works on his latest project about sustainable farming. Bored and neglected, Geneviève turns to Robin, a working class lo ...
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Germany 2011 | 75 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Jan Peter Gehrckens
Miniskirts, contraception, passionate kissing in public: The sexual revolution hit Hamburg at the end of the Sixties. 1967 the first "Love In" took place, 1968 the erotic newspaper "St. Pauli News" was born and 1972 sexual scient ...
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Japan 2011 | 91 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Naomi Kawase
In ancient times, there were three small mountains that people believed were inhabited by gods. In those days, a powerful official used the mountains as a metaphor for a struggle inside his own heart. The mountains were an expression of human karma. ...
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Brazil 2011 | 99 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas
Young housewife Helena is on the verge of fulfilling a dream as she prepares to open her own grocery store. She hires a maid, Paula, to take care of her house and daughter. But when her husband Otávio is suddenly fired from his job, Helena is left ...
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Norway 2011 | 102 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Morten Tyldum
Roger Brown appears to have it all. He is a successful headhunter, married to a beautiful gallery owner and owns a magnificent house. But he is financing his lifestyle by stealing art. When he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate ...
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USA 2011 | 146 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Tate Taylor
Set in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s, The Help chronicles the relationship between three extraordinary women – a white aspiring writer and two African-American housemaids - who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing proj ...
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Iran 2011 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Bahram Tavakoli
The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. A single mother is trying to steer her two children through life's trials and tribulations, but small events disarrange all her plans.
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France 2011 | 77 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Pascal Rabaté
Weekend! In France this means that everybody travels to the seaside. And so we see all kinds of characters embarking on their trip: two hitchhiking punks, an elderly couple in a Goggomobil, a family with two teenage daughters in a caravan. Each pro ...
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Germany 2010 | 30 min | | FF 2011
Regie: Olaf Held
Heiko,
a peasant’s son in his early thirties, loses his job in his village and
moves to the city. Once there, however, he becomes a mere observer of
city life and remains alone despite his new job. When he realizes his
replaceability once ...
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Luxembourg, Belgium, Austria 2011 | 93 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Beryl Koltz
Ferdinand is a long-standing employee at Fish Land, the aquatic centre within the leisure complex “Worlds Apart”. He’s a small, bald forty year-old, and a solitary, anxious introvert, devoted to his passion for fish. When Fish Land ...
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Argentina 2010 | 62 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Mauro Andrizzi
Difficult to classify, and that is only one of the attractive elements of this episodic film about the many manifestations of love, sex and film. An affair between confession documentary and ghost story, between expressive black-and-white and faded ...
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Iceland, Germany, Finland 1992 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Ásdís Thoroddsen
The fishing boat Matthildur comes to the small town where the 18-year-old Ingalo lives with her parents and younger brother. Tired of poverty and her despotic father, Ingalo leaves home and she and her brother sign up on the Matthildur. After years ...
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Belgium 2011 | 95 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Nicolas Provost
Amadou, a strong and charismatic African man, is washed up on a beach in southern Europe. Fate leads him to Brussels where, exploited by traffickers, his daily life is slowly drained of hope, until he meets Agnès, a beautiful and brilliant business ...
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UK, USA 2011 | 120 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Cary Fukunaga
Young orphan Jane Eyre is shipped off to a stark boarding school by her vicious aunt and suffers greatly at the hands of the cold, unusually strict administration. After completing her education, Jane finds work as a governess for Adèle, the ward o ...
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Norway, Sweden, France, Poland 2010 | 115 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Marius Holst
Located on a remote island in the Oslo fjord, the prison camp-style Bastøy Boys Home functions as a reform school for "maladjusted" youth. With the stated goal of turning out "humble, useful Christians," the school officials sys ...
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Norway 2010 | 85 min | OV with English ST and German voice over | FF 2011
Regie: Arild Andresen
Jo's life is not exactly ideal: Since his dad died, his mum is overprotective. She won't even let him run downstairs, least of all allow him to play football. She also desperately tries to keep her affair with neighbour Steinar secret from her son. ...
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Australia 2010 | 82 min | OV with German voice over | FF 2011
Regie: Belinda Chayko
Lou lives in rural Australia with her mother Rhia and two little sisters. Her father has left the family. As Lou blames her mother for the situation, she is not on good terms with her ever since. Around Christmas Doyle, Rhia's father-in-law, tempora ...
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Belgium 2010 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Hilde Van Mieghem
Madly In Love is a tribute to modern romance. The liveliness, beautiful settings, fresh style and indulgent love scenes are the perfect ingredients for a spicy comedy.
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Germany 2011 | 90 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Rolf Silber
Alice Tanner is a young successful woman. But suddenly the analyst's career comes to a halt. Her boss employs hot shot Michael to enliven competition in the rating agency; her male colleagues would like to get rid of her period. What ensues is a mad ...
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Iceland, Germany 1997 | 92 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Einar Heimisson
Maria is a young woman from Eastern Germany, who, after her flight from the Red Army to a refugee-camp in Lubeck, is invited to move to Iceland to work on an isolated farm and – unbeknownst to her – possibly marry the farmer. On the traw ...
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France 2011 | 112 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Pierre Schoeller
The Minister for Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is woken in the middle of the night by his personal private secretary. A bus has crashed into a ravine. He goes there, he has no choice. Thus begins the odyssey of a State official through an increasi ...
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Germany 2011 | 90 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Andreas Prochaska
When three year old Katharina is checked into a Hospital in Carinthia, she seems to be a hopeless case. The girl had been under water for thirty minutes before she was found. A young doctor nevertheless embarks on a struggle for her life always on t ...
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Serbia 2011 | 20 min | | FF 2011
Regie: Dragan Zivancevic, Dragan Matic, Zeljko Piskoric
Serbia
has a very distinct problem of insufficient energy efficiency and
irrational use of existing sources that are under exploitation. This
film aims to point out the insufficient utilization of geothermal energy
resources in Serbia and propos ...
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Canada 2011 | 94 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Philippe Falardeau
CLOSING FILM
Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant in Canada, is hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically. While the class goes through a long healing process, nobody in the school is aware of Bachir's painful former life; no ...
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Belgium 2010 | 4 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Wouter Bongaerts
A mouse that lives in a pet store wants nothing more than to belong to a child that loves it.
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USA, UK, Russia 2010 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Robin Hessman
Robin Hessman’s feature documentary debut tells the stories of five Moscow schoolmates who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain, witnessed the joy and confusion of glasnost, and reached adulthood right as the world changed around them. Thro ...
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Venezuela 2011 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Atahualpa Lichy
A remote region of the Venezuelan Andes. A group of isolated villages inhabited by peasants, artisans and shamans. Listening to their stories we will travel backwards in time, following the thread that created the legends. Through oral tradition and ...
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Germany 2011 | 65 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Timo Großpietsch
A butcher, a post office worker, a taxi driver, a nurse and a deejay are accompanied during their night in Hamburg. Documentary filmmaker and cameraman Timo Großpietsch observes with his camera in such a way that involves the audience immediately. ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Lars Becker
At the center of Lars Becker's tenth "Nightshift" episode we find the team of the 24/7 criminal police squad. This time they are dealing with a young African woman who is violently abused by her employer. Also part of the package is traffi ...
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France, Tunesia 2011 | 75 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Nadia El Fani
August 2010: Tunisia is still under Ben Ali’s régime. Despite censorship, Nadia El Fani films a country which seems liberal towards Islam… Three months later, the Tunisian Revolution breaks out, Nadia is out in the field. While the Arab ...
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Paraguay, Netherlands 2010 | 95 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Enrique Collar
Painter and filmmaker Collar allows his uncle Juan de Dios and his Paraguayan fellow villagers to more or less play themselves in this authentic portrait of rural culture. During nine days of mourning ('novena') for his deceased mother, uncle Juan & ...
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Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2011 | 157 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
In this long, slow, hypnotic film about a bunch of men looking for a body in the endless eerie Anatolian landscape, Turkey's star director Nuri Bilge Ceylan explores the human condition through side glances and offhand remarks, caring very little ab ...
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Ireland, Netherlands, Hungary 2011 | 88 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Rebecca Daly
Arlene is like a ghost in her life. She lives in a small town in the midlands – surrounded by field after field and endless woodlands. One morning Arlene wakes in the woods beside the body of a young woman. The body is soon discovered and susp ...
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Lebanon 2011 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Samer Daboul
Out Loud is a tale of unusual friendship and love in Lebanon, a nation that has been plagued by civil war for decades and where untraditional relationships and ideas are met with violence and hatred. Struggling against their pasts, challenged ...
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Denmark 2010 | 72 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Frederikke Aspöck
A desolate, windswept island. Stella and Oskar, a young couple, visit her father Nathan, who lives a lone life in the company of his labrador dog. Stella is pregnant and looking forward to the birth of her baby, but Oskar appears to be in doubt. Whe ...
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Iceland 1981 | 108 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Ágúst Guðmundsson
The medieval Icelandic Saga of Gísli is still popular today for its gripping story and swift action. Gísli Súrsson's sworn brother, is murdered and Gísli believes the murderer to have been Thorgrím the Chieftain, who is married to Gísli's sist ...
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USA 2011 | 88 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Andrew Rossi
Page One goes inside the newsroom at The New York Times during one of the most tumultuous eras for journalism since the printing press was invented to reveal a disarmingly candid portrait of the paper of record. Over the course of a year when WikiLe ...
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France, Burkina Faso 2011 | 68 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Eleonore Yameogo
The reality of failure is hard to admit for us immigrants, in western coutries. The Parisian Africans keep that image of a dream and myth of Eldorado alive. But it’s a deformation of reality. Maintaining the myth of a western paradise is respo ...
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Turkey 2010 | 100 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Sedat Yilmaz
In the first half of the 1990’s, on those days when intense skirmish between the Kurdish guerillas and the Turkish government took place, a handful of young journalists were struggling to proclaim the ongoing violations of human rights to the ...
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Germany 2011 | 15 min | | FF 2011
Regie: Albert Radl
Prince Rat is in love with a beautiful princess. She is the most amazing creature on earth and she even gave him her mirror. Everything would be perfect, if it wasn't for prince charming who showers the beauty with presents. When a fierce dragon kid ...
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Germany, Switzerland 2011 | 84 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Bettina Borgfeld, David Bernet
When Paraguayan farmer Geronio looks around on his piece of land, all he sees are soy plantations. Year after year, the mono cultures increase. Wherever genetically engineered soy grows, the pesticides that protect it destroy all other plants, which ...
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Iceland 1984 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's first Viking film, where he presents a new concept of the Viking era, destroying the stereotypical Hollywood image. Gest, an Irishman, witnessed as a child the murder of his parents and the taking of his sister as a slave by two ...
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Greece 2011 | 78 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Christos Karakepelis
Three Roma from Albania, two Indians, a Turk and a Greek: a mere sample of the endless army of desperados who live in a string of shanty towns in the shadow of the Acropolis, recycling the metal of an entire nation; heroes of Raw Material and raw ma ...
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Iceland 1992 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Óskar Jónasson
Axel drives a big American car, works at a petrol station and lives in a small room in his mother's flat. His sister Mæja has lots of friends and loves going to nightclubs and parties. One day she accidentally takes the remote control her mother ne ...
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USA 2010 | 91 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Gus Van Sant
Annabel Cotton is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents. When ...
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Israel 2011 | 105 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Joseph Madmony
Yakov Fidelman's antique furniture restoration workshop is in deep financial trouble after the sudden death of his old associate Malamud. Noah, an ambitious young lawyer, urges his father to close the workshop, but Yakov does not want to let go of i ...
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Latvia 2010 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Gatis Smits
After recovering from an overseas mission, Krists Lapiņš moves into a quiet neighbourhood in Riga. His hopes for a new, peaceful life are disrupted when an unexpected visitor arrives one night. Krists soon finds himself in a swirl of events involvi ...
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Iceland 1985 | 80 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson’s Ring Road is a renowned experimental film presenting a full tour of Iceland in 80 minutes. A 16 mm camera was mounted atop a car and set to shoot at 10-meter intervals. As the film rolls, we see Iceland circumnavi ...
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Iceland 2011 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Marteinn Thorsson
Boddi hates the materialism of modern society. He attacks everything and everybody in his blog -humorously, but also with verve. No wonder he soon becomes an outlaw in the small town in Northern Iceland, where he lives. Boddi almost feels like his i ...
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Germany 2011 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Markus Busch
In the beginning of winter, 43-year old actress Tania comes to Jankwarden, a village at the far end of North-Western Germany. On her first day she goes to the seaside and meets 15-year old Thore, who is much different from the other boys in the vill ...
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France 2011 | 111 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
An American journalist's research for an article about the Vel’d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up as a journey towards self-discovery as she stumbles upon a terrible secret and discovers the heartbreaking story of a Jewish family forced ou ...
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Netherlands 2010 | 80 min | OV with English ST and German voice over | FF 2011
Regie: Simone van Dusseldorp
Eva is quite happy with her life. It's summer, the weather is nice and she gets along fine with her two best friends Thomas and Jackie. There is just one thing: Her parents won't stop fighting. To scare them, Eva decides to hide for a day. She is su ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Robert Dornhelm
Vera became fund manager of the year, her husband and daughter are very proud of her. At an exclusive party that is thrown for her, Kurt, who has known Vera for a long time, appears. In the old days they were known as Lola and Alex. "Then" ...
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Netherlands 2011 | 71 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Jan van den Berg
The Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature’s untouched beauty: an endless nothing in which only few know how to survive. But a silent assassin is destroying the Inuit community. By ocean currents and attached to snow, pesticides like D ...
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Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands 2011 | 120 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Lisa Ohlin
Simon has had a loving childhood, but still feels alien in the working class neighbourhoods of 1940’s Gothenburg. Against his parents’ will the intellectually gifted boy turns to an education otherwise reserved for young men of academic ...
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Serbia 2010 | 98 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Stevan Filipovic
Sometimes a small step in he wrong direction leaves your whole life in shambles. In this coming-of-age drama young Belgrade teen and math genius Novica joins the neighborhood skinhead gang in search of respect and love. Soon enough he overtakes both ...
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Australia 2011 | 101 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Julia Leigh
“You will go to sleep: you will wake up. It will be as if those hours never existed.” Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek a ...
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Germany 2011 | 90 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Ingo Haeb
Only when 83 year old Grandma Hilde is kidnapped from an old people's home by her grandson, it dawns on her happy-go-lucky son that he should really take care of her. What ensues is a ridiculous competition for the right to looking after Hilde. Whil ...
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Sweden 2011 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Simon Kaijser da Silva
When Anna meets Johan "accidentally" in a train station in Stockholm, she doesn't have a clue about the tragedy linking their fates in a most brutal way. Since this initial catastrophe in both their lives, Johan feels magically attracted t ...
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Germany 2011 | 110 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Andreas Dresen
Forty-year-old Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and suddenly has only a few months to live. It’s a shock to him, whose life was seemingly on track with a steady job and a new house in the suburbs. But Frank and his family carr ...
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Austria 2011 | 11 min | | FF 2011
Regie: Remo Rauscher
30
years later Mike Stone and Steve Keller are back on today’s streets to
catch a homicidal maniac. The famous police drama of the 70s in Google’s
Street View.
In cooperation with:
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Argentina 2011 | 110 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Santiago Mitre
Roque comes to Buenos Aires to study and waists his time at parties and with girls until he falls in love with Paula, an assistant professor. From her he gains insight in university politics. Roque, who never held a lot of interest in official acade ...
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Germany 2010 | 80 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Klaus Wyborny
Images of electric poles, conveyor belts, skyscrapers, palm trees, the sea, sometimes repeatedly exposed or dipped in red. The internationally renowned film artist from Hamburg, Klaus Wyborny, took them in the last 30 years in places all over the wo ...
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Germany 2011 | 90 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Matthias Glasner
Rebecca escapes from a psychiatric ward to the Ore Mountains. She wants to find out why her husband Henry suffers from depression. She suspects that the key to the truth lies in the past, of which he doesn't like to speak. In the dark mystical world ...
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Germany 2011 | 96 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Hendrik Handloegten
A summer in Finland. Juliane spends her first vacation together with August, her great love, for whom she left her longtime partner. A time lapse causes her to suddenly wake up in wintry snowed in Berlin. Was this summer only a dream? Torn between h ...
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USA 2011 | 120 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Jeff Nichols
Take Shelter follows Curtis LaForche, a working class husband and father, as he deals with the panic that arises from a series of terrifying dreams. For Curtis, these dreams are either harbingers of a supernatural storm, or early symptoms of somethin ...
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Germany 2011 | 90 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Christian Alvart
A man is staked underwater by purposely placed bamboo sticks, when he jumps head first into a lake. Police inspector Borowski and his colleague Sarah Brandt are convinced that only a madman could have done this. When the post mortem shows that the m ...
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Germany 2011 | 90 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Thomas Bohn
Police inspector Klara Blum and her assistant Kai Perlmann are working on a case in an artist's colony on the Bodensee. The seemingly creative idyll is heavily disturbed when painter Martin Neumann gets killed in cold blood by an electric shock. Whe ...
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Singapour 2011 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Eric Khoo
Tatsumi celebrates the life and work of Japanese comics artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Already published as a teenager, talented Tatsumi finds even greater inspiration after meeting his idol, famous Disneyesque animator Osamu Tezuka. In 1957, Tatsumi coi ...
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USA 2011 | 105 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Azazel Jacobs
A hit at the Sundance 2011 Film Festival, Terri is a moving and often funny coming-of-age story about the relationship between Terri, an oversized teen misfit, and the garrulous but well-meaning vice principal (John C. Reilly) who takes an interest ...
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Denmark, Austria 2011 | 59 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Christoffer Guldbrandsen
Special interests, alliances and rules of the game are on the agenda when the 27 Heads of State elected the first President of the EU. The ambition was to find a strong leader, but the result turned out completely different: The new guy in power is ...
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Iran 2011 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Jafar Panahi, Mojaba Mirtahmab
Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in jail and banned from filmmaking for 20 years by the Iranian government – the appeal is hanging. This film, which is accounting for the precarious situation of the director with its title, is less a pr ...
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Germany 2011 | 94 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Christian Zübert
This is a bittersweet comedy about taxi driver Hartmut Mackowiak, a ranting bad tempered guy, who dislikes anything that is new or alien to him. His wife leaves him for another man. To make things worse, six-year-old Hayat appears in his taxi. She do ...
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8 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: J?nis Cimermanis
A circus drives through a small village at night. The next morning the locals find a tigress and her cub in a carrier box and immediately welcome them. But then the circus returns for the animals and the villagers have to give them back in the custo ...
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Denmark 2010 | 43 min | OV with English ST and German voice over | FF 2011
Regie: Karla von Bengtson
Maj lives with her uncle Sonny in his tattoo studio. Although both of them like their life together, they keep dreaming about finding a „real family“ for the girl. After all, in Sonny‘s opinion tattoos and children don‘t fit ...
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Germany 2011 | 90 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Johannes Fabrick
Nina's brother is dead. The 16-year-old had much too much to drink at a fire brigade party and later collapsed due to cardiac arrest on his way home. The police closes the case but not Nina. She wants to know what exactly happened that night. In her ...
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Germany 2011 | 109 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Hermine Huntgeburth
Tom Sawyer and his best friend Huckleberry Finn are usually up to no good. They steal, cheat and play tricks. And it's usually Tom's brother Sid who gets the blame. One night they roam through the cemetery and witness criminal “Injun Joe” ...
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Norway 2010 | 80 min | German Version | FF 2011
Regie: Anne Sewitsky
Anne is weird. At least, that's what everybody tells her. Just because she prefers playing viking games instead of dressing up as a princess. And she is not interested in love. All the others constantly talk about it, but Anne is actually quite happ ...
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Germany 2011 | 88 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Hans Horn
A young woman moves to her mother's native village. She is looking for her father whose identity her mother never revealed before she died. The swamps around the village are dark and brooding like the places and the people. Only her strange neighbou ...
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Slovenia 2011 | 85 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Nejc Gazvoda
Ziva, Andrej and Gregor are best friends since high school. Gregor is a soldier who is about to embark on a mission to Afghanistan and Ziva is going to study abroad. Andrej is their gay friend who hates everything, himself included. They decide to g ...
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Germany 2010 | 80 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Wilma Pradetto
Two portraits of two people who became addicted to heroin in the 1980s. Journalist Jörg Böckern was a junkie for over twenty years and nearly lost his life to the drug. He is clean now and wonders how he could hide his addiction at work. Christian ...
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Germany 2010 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Xiaolu Guo
One day, simple countrywoman Kwok Yun sees a UFO - a giant glowing thing in the shape of a dumpling! Later that same day, she also helps a snake-bitten American, who disappears as mysteriously as the UFO. The ambitious village leader Chief Chang use ...
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Germany 2011 | 89 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Judith Kennel
A teenager is found dead at the beach with hands and feet tied up. The post mortem reveals that he was still alive before the tide came in. The mysterious part is that in Hamburg a similar crime was committed. Is this the work of serial killer? To f ...
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UK 2011 | 70 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Adam Wakeling
This is a film about a technique that could save more carbon emissions annually than all global aviation combined. It is a film about one of the biggest contributors to tropical deforestation and global warming: slash and burn agriculture. The film ...
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Netherlands 2011 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Will Koopman
The TV series Gooische Vrouwen is Netherlands answer to Sex and the City: Four women who live in the Gooi, where the sun always shines. Cheryl, Claire, Roelien and Anouk are happily facing their everyday trials and tribulations that look like they a ...
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Germany 2011 | 88 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Joachim Bornemann
Kay and Bernd want to travel from Hamburg to South Africa in an 18 year old Volkswagen van. All on their own they want to cross the dark continent to get to the World Championship of football. On the road they do everything to get live reports of th ...
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Burkina Faso 2010 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Missa Hebié
In a ficticious „gulf republic“ president Koyaga rules. His countless lies and crimes are revealed in the songs of the griot, the West African story-teller. After 21 years of dictatorship his rule finds an end through a coup d'état. Koyaga fle ...
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Spain 2011 | 94 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Alberto Morais
Miguel sets out on a journey that he has been anticipating for sixty years, from Valencia to a small town in the south of France called Argelès-sur-Mer, the last stop for thousands of refugees not so long ago. Journeying in his old car through an u ...
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UK, Spain 2010 | 91 min | OV with German voice over | FF 2011
Regie: Gustavo Ron
Sam has leukaemia. Since he is too ill to go to school, he and his best friend Felix are home-schooled by Mrs Willis. In one of their lessons she makes them think of ways to become immortal. So Sam starts to write a diary. After all: Living forever ...
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Canada, Germany 2010 | 112 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Larysa Kondracki
Kathy Bolkovac is a Nebraskan police officer who takes a job working for the United Nations as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she unveils a different reality: corruption ...
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Sweden 2011 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Peter Gerdehag
79-year-old Britt Georgsson has devoted her entire life to cows. She’s been tending them since the age of four and, despite health problems, she has no intention of abandoning her strenuous work caring for her twelve pets on the rundown family ...
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Argentina 2011 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Hermes Paralluelo
Three children who live in Villa Urquiza, an urban area in Córdoba City, Argentina.There, most of the inhabitants work as “cartoneros”, collecting used cardboard and paper from the dump in order to sell it, recycle it or use it. Yatasto ...
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Canada 2011 | 95 min | OV with German voice over | FF 2011
Regie: Tara Johns
Elizabeth Gray lives in the 1970s in rural Canada. She leads the typical life of a pre-teen, has a loving family and her best friend Belle lives just across the street. In biology class Elizabeth has to indicate the family's blood types. And there i ...
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