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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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98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Maria Blom
Mia (Sofi a Helin) travels home to a small village in the Swedish province of Dalarna to attend her father’s 70th, birthday celebrations. It’s not a good idea: The villagers think she’s snooty and her sisters are jealous. Old conflicts re-emerg ...
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Nepal, France 2012 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Subarna Thapa
This film breaks a taboo in Nepalese society: the love of two women. The story revolves around 22-year old Diya, who dreams of being a professional dancer and is encouraged in her ambition by her best friend Kiran. Although her parents ha ...
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France 2012 | 90 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Carine Tardieu
The heroine of this charming comedy sparkling with Jewish humour is 9 years old. Her name is Rachel Gladstein and she suffers from the excessive quantities of love and meatballs lavished on her by her over-caring parents. She can hardly wait for scho ...
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Germany 2003 | 86 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Susanne Hake
TV presenter Corinna (Katharina Böhm) has got over her last boyfriend with the help of her gay friend, Bébé (Jophie Ries) and her Granny (Gisela Trowe), and now has eyes for men again. Her Granny might be long dead, but in Corinna’s imagination ...
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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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Japan 2008 | 101 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Takatsugu Naito
Fisherman Manzo (Shinya Kote) is very lonely, failing to hook up even at flirt parties. Then the incredible happens: Kanzo discovers the beautiful Mitsuko (Yuko Miyamoto) and her son Masao hiding in his kitchen cupboard. Where do they come from? Manz ...
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France 2007 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Christine Carrière
As a nine-year-old, Catherine Nicolle gave herself the name Darling and swore never to become a farmer. To her, the trucks that thunder past her house symbolize the big wide world, and she dreams of marrying a trucker. Her dream comes true – and tu ...
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Sweden 2007 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Johan Kling
Eva is in her twenties and blows the money her mother gives her on clubbing and a flat in the hippest part of Stockholm. Then her boyfriend leaves her and her mother cancels her payments. When she ultimately finds work at McDonald's, she meets the ol ...
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Germany 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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Germany 2009 | 12 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Klaus Frevert
Desperate hacker Eric (Wotan Wilke Möhring) goes to make one last deal before becoming an honest man for the sake of the woman he loves.
But everything goes wrong that night… ...
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Iran 2005 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Hamid Rahmanian
This was supposed to be the last day in the life of murderer Mansour. Islamic laws holds the victim's relatives responsible for taking him from this life to the next. But on the set date, they simply don't show up. An excruciating wait ensues. A powe ...
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USA 2006 | 94 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Julia Loktev
Nervewracking dramabeyond standard filmschool conventions. Small wonder, since the plot is involving a nineteen-year-old girl turning herself into a human bomb ready to explode on Times Square. The director hails from St. Petersburg and received acco ...
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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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Argentina 2003 | 83 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Atilio Perin
Four pensioners from Venado Tuerto, a small town in the province of Santa Fe in Argentina, meet regularly to play truco or boccia. The desolate state of the country’s economy leads them to come up with the idea of kidnapping an industry magnate ...
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Albania, Germany, France 2004 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Gjergj Xhuvani
Following the success of „Slogans“, Gjergj Xhuvani’s new film delves deeper into his home country’s history. It tells the true story of the director’s grandfather, who became friendly with a German officer du ...
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Serbia 2012 | 80 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Miroslav Momčilović
A lonely composer commits suicide in his flat. The pistol shot alarms the other inhabitants of the house. Neighbour Aca is first on the scene and calls the police, but they are delayed in traffic. One by one, other tenants turn up and pass the time w ...
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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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Iran 2003 | 82 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Parviz Shahbazi
Award-winning director and screenwriter Parviz Shahbazi’s third film is a coming-of-age drama and a frank, naturalistic portrait of the younger generation of Iranis. Mansur (Mansour Shahbazi) and Kamran (Saeid Amini) drift aimlessly from day to day ...
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Brazil 2005 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Beto Brant
In his fourth film, Beto Brant ventures away from the pistol-heavy atmosphere of his urban underworlds. Theatre critic Antônio comes under the spell of the mysterious nude model Inês with her amputated leg. Their relationship is passionate, terrify ...
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Burkina Faso, France, Switzerland 2005 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: S. Pierre Yameogo
A woman is banished from her village for allegedly practicing witchcraft. Her daughter rebels against the decision and goes in search of her mother. Director S. Pierre Yameogo uses typically calm visuals to trace the story of a young woman’s fight ...
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Japan 2008 | 130 min | OV with German ST | FF 2009
Regie: Yôjirô Takita
The unfortunate Daigo has lost his position as a cellist and returns to Japan’s north with his wife. Unwittingly, he applies for a job with an undertaker’s, mistaking it for a travel agent’s. But an ample salary and a grotesque self-experiment ...
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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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Germany 2009 | 12 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Philipp Hartmann
A medley composed of three short films about “der Anner”, which translates to “the other” in a Karlsruhe dialect. Learn more about “gmietlich” (cozy) and “Flübberle” (cigarettes) in this wild, ethnic c ...
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Germany 2006 | 90 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Christiane Balthasar
Scandinavian actresses of current and past fame like Paprika Steen (Festen) and Inger Nilsson (Pippi Longstocking) play in this preview of a 2008 television series based on novels by Mari Jungstedt. Superintendent Anders is investigating the murder o ...
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Mexiko 2007 | 112 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Rodrigo Plá
In the midst of the 1920s revolution in Mexico, Farmer Elias (Mario Zaragoza) accidentally kills a priest. Henceforth he is convinced that his family is doomed and he takes them to a remote place where he begins to build a church. The youngest son ...
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Peru 2003 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Alvaro Velarde
Ana is a rich housewife. To her annoyance, her husband rents out her garden to a soap-opera production and then disappears on a business trip. Erring on to the set, she gets mistaken for an actress and is given a part in the series. The boundaries be ...
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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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Austria 1966 | 92 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Georg Tressler
A policeman flirts with the wife of a smuggler in order to gain information. Her husband sees through the plan and uses his wife to lead the investigator astray. Eventually, however, the woman reverses the game and starts to play the two men off agai ...
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Germany 2009 | 80 min | OV with German ST | FF 2009
Regie: Henrik Peschel, Miles Terheggen
Sleepy is a rapping pizza deliveryman from the quarter of Altona in Hamburg. He starts off with 300 euros and a rusty bicycle and ends up a famous music producer. Shrewd and lippy, the“King of Schnack” takes up the battle with the reigning “Acr ...
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Germany 2006 | 89 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Niki Stein
The GDR in 1961 was a rather joyless place. When two kids establish a fan club for a rock'n'roll musician, authorities prick up their ears. The youngsters protest against the Berlin Wall, scribble graffiti, even burn down a barn. The government puts ...
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USA 2003 | 89 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Mark Rucker
Mark Rucker’s debut film is an homage to the melodramas of the sixties which starred ageing heroines such as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, while brilliantly maintaining the
balance between comedy and melodrama. Former Hollywood diva, Angela Arden ...
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Germany 2004 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Miguel Alexandre
Jessie is an unemployed single-parent who has been ordered 100 hours of community service for shoplifting. Whilst on duty at an old-peoples-home, she meets the grumpy old “General”, and the two of them develop an unlikely friendship. Miguel Alexa ...
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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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Estland 2009 | 78 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Jaak Kilmi
In 1971 a new television tower in Helsinki enabled the Estonian neighbours to receive Finnish TV. As a result, antennas sprouted from the rooftops in and around Tallinn by the thousands. Estonians were introduced to disco shows, freestyle dancing and ...
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India 1982 | 134 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Babbar Subhash
Could this be the mother of all Bollywood films? Well, it might could. Babbar Subhash is a seasoned director whose 1982 answer to Saturday Night Fever delivered a throbbing introduction to the genre, alongside stories of revenge what party is happeni ...
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Turkey 2002 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan not only writes and directs his fi lms, but produces and edits them himself as well. „Uzak“ received the Grand Jury Award at the 2003 Cannes Festival. Mahmut, a photographer, lets his unemployed cousin Yusuf stay w ...
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Finland 2004 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Markku Pölönen
Markku Pölönen’s latest film is set in the
early 1950s. Merti (Peter Franzén) has been retarded since receiving a head wound in the war, and is lost in the uncertainties of post-war Finland.
Hearing about a dog a friend left behind, ...
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Denmark, France, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands 2002 | 178 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Lars von Trier
The most hotly disputed film at this year’s Cannes Festival, “Dogville” is set in a small town in the Rocky Mountains during the Depression. Nicole Kidman plays the part of Grace, a mysterious stranger on the run from the mob and granted leave ...
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USA 2009 | 90 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Jake Goldberger
25 years after their high school romance, Sonny (Elisabeth Shue) writes Don McKay (Thomas Haden Church) a letter, telling him of her terminal disease and asking him to return to her. Don does so, still loving her, but finds that Sonny has changedR ...
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Germany 2003 | 86 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Sigi Rothemund
In the interval before the final act of La Traviata at the Venice opera house, La Fenice, worldfamous German conductor Helmut Wellauer (Rudolf Wessely) is found dead. A difficult case for Commissario Guido Brunetti (Uwe Kockisch). The dead man leaves ...
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Germany 2003 | 9 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Tom Meyer
In this comedy, the act of cleaning up the apartment has some surprises in store. After all, the heroine has locked herself in and a male choir drops by..... ...
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Germany 2009 | 99 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Anno Saul
David Andernach (Mads Mikkelsen) is a successful artist, when a tragic accident changes his entire life. As he visits his beautiful neighbour, his daughter Leonie drowns in the pool. Plagued by guilt, David loses control of his life; his wife Maja (J ...
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Germany 2008 | 90 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Walter Weber
Back in the day, he used to demonstrate against nuclear power. Now writer Martin Seelig (August Zirner) lives peacefully in a village near Gorleben, fighting only his writer’s block. His lover, pastor Maria (Corinna Harfouch), sometimes finds w ...
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Hungary 2003 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Tamás Sas
24-year-old Eva (Patrícia Kovács) lives in the apartment which was once her deceased parents’. For more than eleven years, she has been the lover of her adopted father, Tibor (Gábor Máté). Tamás Sas’ disturbing psychodrama centres on Eva du ...
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Brazil 2007 | 99 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Heitor Dhalia
Lourenço’s shop stinks to high heaven. Poor people sell him their junk and he just about gets by. When he falls in love with the waitress across the road, he is in need of a currency he knows little of: affection. This film cleverly mixes the grot ...
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Germany 2005 | 6 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Marc Brummund
Ein alter Mann wird nach langer Zeit aus dem Gefängnis entlassen. Auf
dem Weg zu seiner Frau wird er mit der neuen Welt konfrontiert, die
erst wieder zuhause für ihn schön wird. Gewinner des Preis der Fachjury
und Nachwuchspreis des 1.PSP Filmund5 ...
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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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France, Canada, Burkina Faso 2006 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Laurent Salgues
Mocktar is a farmer from Nigeria who hopes to strike it rich in the gold mines of Burkina Faso. But he enters a hellhole of sand and wind. Greed has stripped the gold-seekers of their humanity and dignity, whole families are sacrificed to the pursuit ...
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