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India 2008 | 152 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Siddharth Anand
Why do women always fall for the wrong men? Set in Australia, this colourful, Bollywood-style romance centres on Raj (Ranbir Kapoor), a dream man of whom they say “it’s not his fault he’s a heartbreaker, but that of his DNA.” Mahi (Minissha L ...
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Iceland, France 2008 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Sólveig Anspach
Single mother Anna (poet and rock musician Didda Jonsdottir) from Reykjavík is fed up with Icelandic cold weather. She decides to sell her business and emigrate. Her “business” is selling dope. Unfortunately her successor is low on cash but prom ...
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Russia 2009 | 84 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Stanislav Mitin
16-year-old Mikhail falls in love with his new teacher Anna Nikolaevna, who returns his love. However, their carefree romance does not go undetected. Soon Anna is obliged to leave the school. But her passionate affair has changed something within her ...
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Finland 2003 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Aleksi Mäkelä
Otto (Peter Franzén), Matti (Niko Saarela), Ilkka (Lauri Nurkse) and Eero (Jasper Pääkkönen) are every mother’s dream. The brothers don’t drink, don’t smoke and don’t swear. Except that the quartet has carried out over a hundred robberies ...
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USA 2009 | 121 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Werner Herzog
Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendez, Val Kilmer– the thriller Werner Herzog boasts a veritable star cast. Detective Terence McDonagh (Cage), of New Orleans Homicide, saves an inmate from drowning in the midst of hurricane “Katrina”, and is promoted to lie ...
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USA 2008 | 84 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
A crossover between“The Blair Witch Project”, “Clerks” and “Fargo”, “Baghead” tells the tale of friends who retreat to the wilderness to write a screenplay. Their plans are foiled by a creepy man with a ...
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Lithuania 2008 | 48 min | OV with English ST and German voice over | FF 2009
Regie: Giedre Beinoriute
11-year old Emiljia lives in the suburbs with her sister and her parents. One day Rolanas and his father move in next door. Timidly, Emiljia and Rolanas begin to communicate, first over the balcony, then through the wall of their adjoining rooms. Soo ...
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Denmark 2011 | 81 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Christian Bonke, Andreas Koefoed
Slavik is a former World Champion in Latin American Dance. He is about to make his final comeback as a professional dancer with his partner and lover Anna. Slavik is addicted to the limelight and the dance. His body, however, is causing him aches and ...
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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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Norway 2011 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Øystein Stene
Veronica and Cecilie met on the Internet and are together pursuing a common goal. They drive to Veronica's parents' holiday home at the seaside with the intention of not coming back. Instead of a suicide note, however, the pair record the events of t ...
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Denmark 2005 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Simon Staho
When he unintentionally kills his son in a freak accident, self-possessed businessman Åke finds his life unravelling. In sheer desperation he attaches himself to a bar acquaintance only to find out that love cannot be forced. The legendary The Clash ...
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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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Japan 2005 | 82 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Masahiro Kobayashi
Japanese aid worker Yoko is taken hostage in Iraq. She is eventually liberated, but on her return to Japan she is accused of egoism and comes under fire for getting Japan involved. Director Masahiro Kobayashi explains: “One could call Japanese ...
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Israel 2005 | 50 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Shosh Shlam
Imagine this: you’ve been married for 26 years and for 25 years of your marriage you were pregnant or breast feeding. Because you, as a Jewish orthodox woman, serve God with your uterus. How does it feel to bring twelve, 16 children into the world? ...
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France 2007 | 108 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Jacques Nolot
Pierre (Jacques Nolot) is gay, has been HIV-positive for 24 years, and is approaching his 60th birthday. After the premiere of Before I Forget at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes, Variety magazine wrote: If you ever wondered how to order a r ...
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Germany, Turkey 2009 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Miraz Bezar
10-year-old Gülistan and her little brother Firat watched their parents being shot by state security. Forced to live in the street, they are destined to a life of thievery and prostitution. One day Gülistan accompanies the prostitute Dilara and rec ...
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Poland 2009 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Jacek Blawut
They used to be stars. On stage and on the big screen. Now they bide their time in an old people’s home. Then Jerzy (Jan Nowicki) moves into the home and brings life into the group. What is there to do with so many actors in one place but stage Goe ...
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Lebanon 2008 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Samir Habchi
Beirut in the 1990s, under Syrian occupation. An Egyptian documentary filmmaker wants to make a film about secret service interrogations of dissidents and gets caught in a net of intrigues and corruption. Meanwhile a young, married Lebanese is shot b ...
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Germany 2006 | 92 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Rainer Kaufmann
After an alcohol-infused party in Hamburg's high society, Bella Block a wakes in the middle of the woods with a fuzzy head and a blackout. Before she is able to retrace her steps, the body of a young woman is discovered close by, in a wrecked car, wi ...
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Germany 2003 | 92 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Dagmar Hirtz
When two red-headed boys are found dead within a short space of time, Inspector Bella Block (Hannelore Hoger) and her team come under pressure to come up with some results.
Bella starts to show the strain, particularly as she is having problems at h ...
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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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Germany 2007 | 89 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Julian Roman Pölsler
Inspector Bella Block (Hannelore Hoger) is taken in by her new acquaintance. Bernhard Hansen (Peter Simonischek) is charming, generous and full of savoirvivre.
Bella’s partner in life, Simon Abendroth (Rudolf Kowalski), also thrives on Hansen’s ...
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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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Germany 2009 | 89 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Max Färberböck
Mother and father kneel on the floor, their daughter faces the wall. Shots ring out. Only the girl survives. 17 years ago, inspector Bella Block (Hannelore Hoger) was on that case. Now she is retired. At an art exhibition she recognizes the sculptor ...
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Germany 2003 | 98 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Christian von Castelberg
Popular TV police inspector Bella Block (Hannelore Hoger) is having problems: she’s accused of being cynical at work, and of being selfish at home. And she’s completely in the dark in the case of an escaped serial killer who seems to have c ...
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France, Canada, Belgium 2002 | 82 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Sylvain Chomet
“Les triplettes de Belleville” is the first fulllength feature film by French caricaturist, Sylvain Chomet. Champion, a lonely orphan who lives with his grandma, Mme Souza, has only two pleasures in life: a puppy called Bruno
and his tricycle. H ...
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Israel 2005 | 5 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Yehuda Groveis
Part of MOMENTS 2005 - JERUSALEM
Moshe, the cantor, and Avner, the rap singer, live next door to each other but don’t seem to have anything in common. ...
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Germany 1921 | 85 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Ernst Lubitsch
This year’s retrospective is devoted to the legendary vamp, Pola Negri. Polish by birth, she rose to fame in Germany and was one of the fi rst actresses to move to Hollywood, in 1922. Ernst Lubitsch’s silent comedy, „Die Bergk ...
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Germany 2008 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Hannes Stöhr
Electro composer Martin (Paul Kalkbrenner), aka DJ Ickarus, tours the international club scene with his girlfriend and manager Mathilde (Rita Lengyel): jet-lag, raves, drugs, permanent high tension. Just before the release of his new album, Ickarus i ...
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Germany 2002 | 44 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Ramon Kramer
The portrait of Gojko Mitic, Der Berufsindianer - Gojko Mitic in der Prärie is shown as supplement to Am Fuß der Rocky Mountains, a film about of Tom Crawford, a rancher who leads a double-life as Blackfoot Indian, powwow and sweat lodge included. ...
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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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Spain 2007 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Roser Aguilar
Radio speaker Raquel’s (Marian Álvarez) world collapses when her boyfriend Tomas (Juan Sanz) is diagnosed terminally ill. Only a liver transplant can save his life. Raquel could help, but at high risk. Besides, Tomas is questioning their relat ...
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Germany 2005 | 89 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Olaf Kreinsen
Laura, the wife of an entrepreneur, is somewhat surprised when her husband is arrested and put in prison. The good-life is over: She is forced to trade the villa for a council flat and her “wellness-weekend” for a grinding, low-wage canteen job. ...
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Canada 2012 | 72 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Denis Côté
A drawing course for students, a taxidermist's workshop, a safari park in Québec: Bestiaire is no classical nature documentary or zoo portrait.It is a visually outstanding study of domesticated wildlife and our relationship with it.Director Denis Co ...
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Israel 2005 | 20 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Linora Asa
The portraits of two children, who follow their gift down to self-denial. ...
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Canada, Italy, USA 2002 | 95 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Edoardo Ponti
For Sophia Loren, it is her 100th screen appearance, while her son, 29-year-old Edoardo Ponti, here makes his debut as screenwriter and director.
The film centres on the lives of three women from the same neighbourhood in Toronto. Olivia (Sophia Lor ...
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USA 2009 | 81 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Paola Mendoza, Gloria La Morte
Mariana (Paola Mendoza) follows the father of her children from Columbia to New York. But then he leaves them for good and she finds herself alone with her 10-yearold son Gabriel and her six-year-old daughter Andrea, in the middle of a foreign city, ...
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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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Rumania 2012 | 150 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Cristian Mungiu
Voichita lives in a Rumanian convent.An unexpected visit sends ripples into her
remote world: Alina has come to collect her best friend.Voichita and Alina grew up in a Rumanian
orphans' home and had sworn everlasting love.Voichita assures Alina tha ...
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Belgium, Canada, France 2012 | 98 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: David Lambert
Paulo und Ilir are in seventh heaven. The two young men have fallen head over heels for each other and are enjoying the first flush of romance. Paolo, the younger and also the weaker and needier of the two, swears his undying love. Then, out of nowhe ...
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Germany 2012 | 60 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Oliver Schwabe
Wolfgang Joop is a fan, Karl Lagerfeld waxes lyrical about her: from the mid-1950s to 90s, Hamburg journalist Antonia Hilke made TV history with her programmes Neues vom Rond Point and Neues vom Kleidermarkt (The Latest from Rond Point and The Latest ...
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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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Germany 2008 | 5 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Romeo Grünfelder
It’s there, all of a sudden. Everyone can see it. But what is it? A black and white philosophy lesson.
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Germany 2007 | 84 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Justus von Dohnányi
A black comedy reminiscent of The Trouble with Harry. Achim, a junior shipping tycoon, is biking through the Swiss Alps when he literally bumps into Willi, unemployed. They find refuge in the mountain hut of bank employee Sven, when another accident ...
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Iran 2004 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Mohsen Amiryoussefi
For 40 years, Esfandiari has been preparing corpses for burial in the central Iranian town of Sedeh, where gravestones from the 12th century stand alongside recent ones from the Iran-Irak war. One day, Esfandiari suddenly feels ill when making prepar ...
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Turkey 2008 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Mehmet Bahadir Er, Maryna Gorbach
They’re young and always on the move. Selim and Çaça, who cruise the streets of Istanbul in their tuned car named “My Orange Angel”, want to open a parking lot near a large shopping mall. But their enemies also want a piece of the action and ...
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India 2004 | 161 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Anurag Kashyap
BLACK FRIDAY When fanatical Hindus destroyed the Babri
Mosque in Ayodhya in northern India in 1992, battles ensued between Hindu and Moslem communities all over India. Only three weeks later, a series of bombings put Bombay into a state of emergency ...
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United Kingdom 2003 | 92 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: John Furse
Two men in a prison cell, day and night. Based on the true story of an Irish teacher and an English journalist who were kidnapped and held hostage by Lebanese terrorists and forced to share a cell for four years. As they live through darkness and lig ...
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