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France 2006 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Eric Lartigau
Perfumer Luis' (Alain Chabat) mother and sisters are set on seeing him get married. He develops a plan: he will present them with the perfect bride who will leave him before the altar. This should suffice to allow him to stay single henceforth. He fi ...
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Canada 2009 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Xavier Dolan
Canadian Xavier Dolan is 20 years old. Not only does he star in this generation drama, he also wrote, directed and produced it. Authenticity does not pose a challenge as he easily relates to his 16 year old protagonist Hubert. Hubert struggles with h ...
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USA 2006 | 93 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Zackary Adler
When radio DJ Reed plans to wed rich girl Kate in smalltown U.S.A., the party is suddenly thrown into limbo by the arrival of his high school sweetheart (wonderful: Sissy Spacek's daughter Schuyler Fisk). Torn between two women, Reed finds his whole ...
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Sweden 2011 | 77 min | OV with English ST and German voice over | FF 2012
Regie: Martin Högdahl
Mik likes cooking, whales and heavy metal. And he's proud of his Dad who plays drums in a band, but drinks too much and one day collapses. Mik's brother isn't that reliable, so the youth welfare office sends Mik to his aunt's. But she lives in the mi ...
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Belgium 2005 | 84 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy Fiona Gordon,
Fiona works in a fast-food restaurant and, after an involuntary overnight stay in the cool-room, dreams of seeing a real iceberg. With the Eskimo guide Nattikuttuk at her side, her dream eventually becomes reality. A poetic and funny movie about mode ...
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Germany 2003 | 92 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Andrea Katzenberger
“I can’t bake myself one!” is a single woman’s typical answer when asked when she’ll find herself a new man. Hanna (Nina Petri), widowed mother of 8-year-old Leonie (Laura und Sarah Bellini), works as an editor for children’s books.
As C ...
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Germany 2003 | 93 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Anna Justice
Kathrin (Anneke Kim Sarnau), a young hospital surgeon, and her boyfriend, Daniel (Roman Knizka), find their plans for a life together in America disrupted by the results of an Aids test: Kathrin is diagnosed as being HIV-positive,
while Daniel is ne ...
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Turkey, Germany 2012 | 74 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Emine Emel Balcı
Ich liebe Dich accompanies the inhabitants of a remote Kurdish village in their efforts to learn a foreign language. Since 2007, German immigration law has required that foreigners speak adequate German before they can acquire a residence permit. Eac ...
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Germany 2006 | 87 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Dagmar Hirtz
The GDR collapsed 17 years ago. But the infamous files on people still exist. When journalist Meike Marndorfer begins her research, she agrees to meet an informer who desperately wants to talk to her. But this person dies before the meeting, in an ac ...
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USA 2008 | 78 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton is a Filmfest Hamburg veteran, five of whose films have run at the festival. Plympton’s animated films explicitly target adults, and rumour has it that he turned down a seven figure offer by the Walt Disney Company in the 1990s. His f ...
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United Kingdom, Ireland, USA 2002 | 105 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Jim Sheridan
Emma (6) and Sarah Bolger (10) play the sisters Ariel und Christy, who emigrate from Ireland to New York with their parents, Sarah (Samantha Morton) and Johnny (Paddy Considine). Their move is ostensibly to help Johnny’s acting
career, but it is m ...
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Irak, Netherlands, United Kingdom 2011 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji, Atia Jabarah Al-Daradji
In one of the most dangerous parts of Baghdad, Husham has taken several dozen
orphans off the streets and put them up in a provisional home. Here he tries to give the traumatised
children a feeling of normality again. The
film-makers spent 9months ob ...
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Netherlands 2004 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Joram Lürsen
To play in the orange jersey of the Dutch national soccer team one day! Remco is crazy about soccer and dreams of being selected for the Dutch U12-team for young players under the age of 12. His father and coach Erik shares this dream of his 11-year- ...
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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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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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Bulgaria 2005 | 1 min | | FF 2005
Regie: Svetoslav Vladimirov
Bittersweet snapshot of an insect travelling through the living-hell of a poor family into the bright colours of the garden outside. ...
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USA 2004 | 90 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Susan Emshwiller
In this social satire inspired by sci-fi movies of the 50s, the USA is hit by a major new epidemic, MOODS (Maternal Organic Operating Dysfunction Syndrome). Milk products from genetically-modifi ed cows turn mothers into murderers.
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Germany 2005 | 6 min | | FF 2006
Regie: Thomas Draschan, Stella Friedrichs
Award-winning, mesmerizing footage accidently found, with an Italian 60’s softporn soundtrack. ...
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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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Turkey 1997 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Zeki Demirkubuz
After being released from prison, Yussuf gets to know the singer, Ugur, her husband, Bekir, and their daughter. Bekir takes his own life when he realises that Ugur is in love with another man. Shortly after, Ugur disappears. Yussuf sets out to ᤙ ...
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France, United Kingdom, Belgium 2004 | 115 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Five-year–old Iris has to find her way in new surroundings: a few buildings surrounded by dense woodland and isolated from the outside world by a wall. Thirty girls between the ages of 5 and 12 live in these claustrophobic surroundings. Why are the ...
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Germany 2006 | 61 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Cristina Amrein
7-year-old Anne-Kathrin and her brothers live on a tiny islet in the tidal shallows of the North Sea. Their adventure lies not in cinemas, zoos or shopping malls, but in the regular flooding of the island, when only the five houses remain above water ...
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Turkey 2012 | 107 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Zeki Demirkubuz
In Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky portrayed one of literature's most famous anti-heroes. In Inside, Zeki Demirkubuz puts him on the screen and in the present. Like Dostoevsky's hero, Muharrem is an outsider, locked into a world of hate and ...
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Belgium 2004 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Frank van Mechelen
When Louise suddenly vanishes, her father Tom starts a desperate search. On the trail of a sixteen-year-old runaway, he eventually arrives at a small village in the Ardennes. He finds the mysterious girl with her parents, and although they refuse to ...
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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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Netherlands, Israel 2012 | 68 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Yariv Mozer
They are the invisible ones,
trapped between a world where they're seen as enemies and a home where their
lives are in danger. Gay Palestinians
who flee across the border to Israel are in a hopeless situation. Their only chance is to apply for asylum ...
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Iran 2005 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Mohammad Rasoulof
A leaky freighter is drifting offshore somewhere on the Persian Gulf. While the captain is still trying to persuade the owner to give up the ageing vessel, poverty-stricken locals have claimed it for themselves. Births, deaths and marriages take plac ...
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USA 2004 | 123 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Katja von Garnier
„Iron Jawed Angels“ tells the story of the American suffragettes Alice Paul (Oscar-winner Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O’Connor), who resorted to radical means such as hunger strikes to fight for women’s right to vote ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina , Germany, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Serbia 2007 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Srdjan Vuletić
In Sarajevo, 40-year-old taxi driver Fudo would be content to live in peace with his wife Azra (Daria Lorenci) and his little boy. Were it not for his criminal past and his debts with gangster Sejo (Emir Hadžihafizbegovic). As Azra threatens to leav ...
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Hungary 2002 | 97 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Gergely Fonyó
Every year the grandchildren spent their summer holiday in the country at their grandparent's house. The children between six and sixteen love this holiday not least because of the unusual ideas their grandparents, who formerly were circus clowns, te ...
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