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Argentina 2007 | 150 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Nicolás Prividera
The Ernesto Che Guevara award went to this documentary, in which Nicolás Prividera traces his mother's fate as one of the so-called missing people who simply disappeared after the Argentine coup d'état. He seeks out old governmental agents, and old ...
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Italy, Germany, Sri Lanka 2008 | 109 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Uberto Pasolini
On 15th September 2004, a news report stated: “National team missing – A supposed handball team from Sri Lanka on its way West”. In his directing debut, Uberto Pasolini tells the true story of a group of slum inhabitants from Colomb ...
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Germany 2008 | 89 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Marco Petry
Eternal intern Annika (Jasmin Schwiers) is given the opportunity of a paid position at a record company. Prerequisite: she must bring the Finnish band “Ripili” to Germany and prepare them for a band contest. Unwittingly, she books the dea ...
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Spain, Chile, France, United Kingdom 2003 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Andrés Wood
Chilean director Andrés Wood tells the story of an exceptional friendship set against the backdrop of the 1973 military coup in Chile: Gonzalo and Pedro are eleven years old – one of them is from a wealthy district, the other from an illegal p ...
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USA 2005 | 105 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Marilyn Agrelo
A group of, mostly deprived, 11-year-olds from three different New York schools discover the fascinating world of – ballroom dancing. Initially, the kids are torn between teenie-cool and childish fun but a
fierce rivalry soon develops, ...
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Germany 2007 | 75 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Henrik Peschel
At least two opinions prevail on Henrik “Henna” Peschel. For some he is the king of Hanseatic underground cult cinema, for others the inventor of German prole trash cinema. Schäffke’s hardcore band “Madboy” cancels its ...
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Hungary 2009 | 109 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Gergely Fonyó
Petticoats! Elvis quiffs! Rock’n’ roll! The 60s provide the backdrop for this musical comedy from Hungary. While the West may have had its problems understanding 60s teenagers, in Hungary they presented a threat to the great cause! This is the cl ...
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Peru, Spain 2005 | 100 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Claudia Llosa
That's my name, says the girl and points to the label in the pullover she received from charity. Made in USA. She lives in a remote village in the Andes and has just been selected to lead the annual procession as The Holy Virgin. But there is a guy f ...
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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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Hongkong, China 2008 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Nicolas Chin
Nicolas Chin’s debut film is set in Hong Kong high society. The Magazine Gap Road leads up to Victoria Peak – an idyllic rich people’s enclave. But the well-kempt facade hides dark secrets. Samantha (Jessey Meng) is curator of a pri ...
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USA 2004 | 6 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Chel White
A first love is corrupted as a man recalls his affair with a beautiful
circus contortionist in this stop-motion animation of wooden manikins.
At its heart, "Magda" is an off-center parable about lost innocence and
the corruptibility of huma ...
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Philippines 2004 | 113 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Laurice Guillen
The plot revolves around a love-story between the vivacious Magdalena and the gigolo Mike. Magdalena’s devout mother makes a living as a “Prayer Warrior” offering auxiliary prayers for paying clients. When she dies, however, her sceptical daugh ...
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Switzerland, France 2007 | 83 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Luc Peter, Stéphanie Barbey
It was dubbed the FM revolution and is an apt description of the role radio plays in the Republic of Niger. More influential than newspapers, radio educates the masses and reaches out to the most distant places. And with the advent of private radio s ...
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USA 2004 | 90 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Andrew Gurland, Huck Botko
Documentary filmmaker Andrew Gurland helps a New York concierge pay a marriage agency’s fees on condition that he can film what happens from then on. Mail-order wife Lichi’s dreams of a better life are shattered on her fi ...
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India 2004 | 179 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Farah Khan
Bollywood at its best – and a huge hit at the
Indian box-offi ce. Shahrukh Khan stars as army commando Major Ram, ordered to pose as a high-school student to protect Sanjana (Amrita Rao), a general’s daughter. But the classroom hol ...
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Tunesia, Marocco 2006 | 115 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Nouri Bouzid
Bahta dreams of fame as a breakdancer but the reality is that he has no education, is unemployed and is constantly fighting with his girlfriend. The war in Iraq means he cannot leave Tunisia, and his passion for breakdance is not shared by the author ...
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Germany 2012 | 84 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Suzan Şekerci
In reality, coca is just a plant.But the cocaine made from coca leaves is the reason for an never-ending war with countless victims.The film goes to where the conflict is at its bloodiest -- Columbia.It shows farmers, paramilitaries, guerillas and de ...
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Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom 2010 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
A film director‘s personal journey experiencing his mother‘s disappearance into the Alzheimer disease, a film with essential Fridriksson’s ingredients, humor, compassion and strong visual style. Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elde ...
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France 2010 | 72 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Christophe Honoré
Between the Paris suburbs and New York, Omar and Emmanuel do everything they can to prove to each other that they are no longer in love. The original title Homme au bain is a reference to a painting of Gustave Caillebotte with the same name. On that ...
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Brazil 2003 | 123 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jorge Furtado
Money plays a leading role in this fast-moving cinematic experiment. André (Lázaro Ramos), a 19-year-old working in a copyshop, is in love with Silvia (Leandra Leal), a salesgirl who he watches through his telescope. To impress her, he goes to buy ...
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Germany 2005 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Markus O. Rosenmüller
The prominent defence lawyer Ariena Lenhardt is suffering from MS and as a consequence, is increasingly forced to withdraw from professional life. However, when a mysterious young woman implores her to take on her case, Ariena accepts - quite unaware ...
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Denmark, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Sweden 2005 | 139 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Lars von Trier
Manderlay is the second instalment of the trilogy that started with “Dogville”. The story is set in the 1930s in the American town of Manderlay, Alabama. Grace is the daughter of a white gangster and is engaged in the fight against racial segrega ...
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Poland 2012 | 96 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Marcin Krzyształowicz
Late autumn 1943. Wydra (Otter), a Polish partisan, catches an informer in a nearby village and brings him to his starving unit in the forest. Here, he discovers all his comrades with their throats cut. While he is still under shock, his prisoner esc ...
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Philippines 2009 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Raymond Red
Inspired by a true event, Himpapawid (Manila Skies) tackles the astounding story of a lone deranged hijacker who is pushed to the edge as he struggles with the oppression of surviving in modern Philippine society. The film dwells on the common story ...
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Germany 2004 | 93 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Miguel Alexandre
It’s been a year since Kate (Lisa Martinek) and her friends Inge and Malise drowned their psychopathic neighbour (Axel Milberg) in a forest pond. Kate and Malise have moved into a new house; Kate is now romantically involved with police inspector L ...
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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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Italy 2004 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Giovanni Veronesi
How does love work? Director Giovanni Veronesi poses the “lifestyle question of questions” in his lively comedy “Manual of Love”. Whether you’ve just been smitten, just been abandoned or you’re just toying with an ...
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Italy 2007 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Giovanni Veronesi
Four episodes form the sequel to Manual of Love: paralyzed in an accident, Nicola falls in love with physio Lucia; Franco and Marco fly to Barcelona for fertility treatment; gay couple Filippo and Fosco decide to get married; and waiter Ernesto begin ...
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Germany 2004 | 75 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Silke Schütze, Armin Plöger
„1929 marked the advent of sound in films and thousands of musicians were made redundant!“ Manya was 18, and a cellist. She switched to the accordeon and the varieté stage, then entertained the troops during the war. In the 50s she found ...
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Australia, USA, China 2009 | 117 min | OV with German ST | FF 2010
Regie: Bruce Beresford
Dance superstar Chi Cao plays another dance superstar in the true tale of Mao‘s Last Dancer. Chi, the principal dancer with the Birmingham Royal Ballet in England, is making his acting debut in Mao‘s Last Dancer, a film based on the true ...
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Rumania 2003 | 97 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Calin Peter Netzer
The Romania portrayed by director Calin Peter Netzer is a society full of doubt, a twilight zone caught between the blackness of the totalitarian regime it has overcome and the glittering fantasies of the liberalism it hopes to embrace. Maria lives w ...
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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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Germany, United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Turkey 2008 | 94 min | OV with German ST | FF 2008
Regie: Ben Hopkins
Mihram is a black market merchant in a Turkish village. When he is offered a job involving the illegal acquisition of expensive medicine, he senses a great opportunity. With luck he can build up the business he has been dreaming of. But luck is not p ...
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Germany 2006 | 60 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Christian Schwochow
Nine-year-old Marta is sent to her beloved grandfather Janosch in the country for a while. But the formerly familiar surroundings have changed: Marta is confronted with a grandfather who keeps forgetting things, dresses in a strange way and sometimes ...
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Israel 2004 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Eytan Harris
A captivating sombre ballad about crime and punishment, revenge, and poetry. When a Palestinian taxidriver is murdered in Jerusalem, three upper-class-kids are indicted. Newspapers start publishing poems which turn out to be written by the victim, an ...
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Germany 2005 | 85 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Wolfram Paulus
It’s one of the most successful film equations: “girl meets boy”. In this case, it’s the recently widowed Mathilde whose first ever orgasm is facilitated by a handsome man called Carlo. A touchingly vulnerable and vivacious melodrama. ...
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Finland 2006 | 130 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Aleksi Mäkelä
Matti Nykänen was Sweden's skijumping icon and is Sweden's laughed-at wannabe VIP. The career of the seven-times Olympic champion spiraled into freefall after drug abuse, alcohol excesses, and a rather publicly lived private life. This touching trag ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Jan Ruzicka
Stefan Kortmann (Benno Fürmann) is burdened with guilt: In the spring of 1988 as a soldier of the Volksarmee he shot and killed a young man who was trying to escape from the GDR with his pregnant wife. Despite having made a success of his life he is ...
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Cuba 2006 | 135 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Manuel Pérez Paredes
As the rest of the world revels in the cool summer Olympics in Australia. Widower Mauricio celebrates his 60th birthday alone in Havana, reflecting on the crises that have rattled his life. He left his family to study in Moscow; now with the downfall ...
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Norway, Denmark, Germany 2008 | 118 min | OV with German ST | FF 2009
Regie: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Max Manus (1914 - 1996) was a famous Norwegian resistance fighter. This epic film follows Manus from the outbreak of WW II to the summer of 1945. When the Nazis occupy Norway, he joins the“Oslo-Gang”, whose primary aim is the destruction ...
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Marocco, Switzerland 2012 | 88 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Mohcine Besri
On their way to a performance in Marrakesh, a group of young actors is kidnapped by three fundamentalist terrorists, whose spiritual leader orders that they be taken to a secret place.Once there, however, the terrorists can no longer reach their lea ...
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France 2009 | 90 min | OV with German ST | FF 2009
Regie: Lucien Jean-Baptiste
Jean-Gabriel, an amiable Caribbean silly billy, sits in a bar and dreams of fame rather than getting a job. He promises his family their first ever ski holiday despite having gambled away his last money. His wife sets him an ultimatum, and he must ma ...
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Germany 2010 | 89 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Christiane Balthasar
Helen (Iris Berben) is perfect. She is attractive, has two children and runs a garden centre with her husband (August Zirner). Doubts are starting to creep in: Is he unfaithful? Are the problems with her daughter serious? Is she growing old and unatt ...
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Thailand 2012 | 57 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
A hotel on the banks of the Mekong River that separates Thailand from Laos. Its bedrooms and terraces are the setting for little stories, told as slowly and gently as the river flows. The starting point is a film project by Apichatpong Weerasethakul ...
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Croatia 2006 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Branko Schmidt
A Chinese girl and a former Kroatian soldier with PTSS and a history of drug abuse are the heroes in this unusual love-story which takes its title from the sometimes lethal illegal immigrants trail cutting straight through the Balkans. Based on a re ...
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Republic of Korea 2003 | 127 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Joon-ho Bong
Based on the true story of South Korea’s first serial killer, Bong has composed a fascinatingly atmospheric thriller with touches of black humour. Between 1986 and 1991, ten women were brutally murdered south of Seoul. The victims included both sch ...
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Czech Republik 2009 | 109 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Robert Sedláček
The story unravels in the village of Mourinov, which lies “at the end of the road”. The inhabitants naturally long to become a “through-road” village and they realize they must draw attention to themselves. As they have among ...
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Germany 2003 | 88 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Florian Gärtner
Real-life mother and daughter Suzanne von Borsody and Rosemarie Fendel star in this comedy about family relations. 43-year-old Vreni (Borsody) is faced with a moral dilemma when her mother (Fendel) has a stroke. Should
she have her tyrannical mother ...
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Norway, Germany 2012 | 131 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Matthias Glasner
Hammerfest is a Norwegian city on the Arctic Ocean. In winter, life alternates between pitch-black night and endless twilight.A German couple (Birgit Minichmayr, Jürgen Vogel) and their son live here: Nils is an engineer on a gas liquification plant ...
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