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Germany 2005 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Matti Geschonneck
The TV-News reader Jan Landers is under suspicion of having worked for the East German secret-police (Stasi). Two journalists are competing for the informers, rumours and missing documents necessary to expedite a huge scandal. Landers is removed from ...
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Germany 2005 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Raymond Ley
Helmut Schmidt, the freshly ordained Interior Minister of that time, explained 25 years later that the city of Hamburg was not prepared for a catastrophe of that scale. The 1962 flood, which took the city and its inhabitants by surprise, claimed 300 ...
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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 2008 | 90 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Lars Becker
KDD agents Erichsen (Armin Rohde), Mimi Hu (Minh-Kai Phan-Ti) and Lisa Brenner (Barbara Auer) bury their colleague Teddy. They receive administrative assistance
when Aykut Özdemir (Stipe Erceg) is murdered in his travel agency, whose clients include ...
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Germany 2009 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Lars Becker
A body dressed in the bathrobe of a beauty clinic is found in a sunken car. The dead woman turns out to have been an expensive Russian prostitute. In her appointment schedule the police finds a notice: client 7. Jürgen Prochnow and Dietmar Bär play ...
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Germany 2005 | 89 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Lars Becker
Two violent criminals escape from Hamburg's notorious Santa Fu jail only to run into all sorts of troubles around the next corner. Such as suicide, money, hostages, fatherly love, alcoholism - all in an action-packed mix of funny dialogue and humour, ...
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Germany 2007 | 90 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Lars Becker
Gritty Hamburg is the backdrop to a new murder mystery directed by acclaimed Lars Becker. The investigators are planning a raid on a sweatshop which specializes in faking brand names. Detective Mimi Hu is working undercover there as a seamstress. Thi ...
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Germany 2002 | 89 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Lars Becker
Ein Sommerabend in Hamburg, 17.30 Uhr. Die Hauptkommissare Erich Bo
Erichsen, Paula Bloom und Jung-Kommissar Teddy Schrader vom
Kriminaldauerdienst treten ihre Nachtschicht an. Das Telefon klingelt,
Paula nimmt ab. Rosa, eine junge Frau aus einer Hoc ...
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Germany 2004 | 89 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Lars Becker
The KDD Hamburg (Continuous Criminal Investigation Department) is comprised of Chief Superintendent Paula Bloom, Chief Superintendent Erichsen, Superintendent Mimi Hu and Constable Teddy Schrader. Hamburg Filmfest will be showing two episodes: In “ ...
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Germany 2012 | 90 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Lars Becker
An unpleasant end to a boys' night out. Lawyer Quante is found shot dead in front of a St. Pauli nightclub. Although he was part of the group that night, Inspector Erichsen (Armin Rohde) can't remember a thing.But photos on the victim's mobile leave ...
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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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Germany 2009 | 90 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Lars Becker
A wily plan: dress up as a policeman, wave speeding motorists to the curb and cash in. But wearing a police uniform brings obligations with it: a little girl asks for help, seeking protection for her parents. Their well-intentioned help catapults the ...
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Israel 2006 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Moshe Alafi
Naftali is 14 years old and a street kid; his parents, ultra-orthodox Jews, considered him the bad apple who would spoil the bunch of good. He is at the mercy of sexual assault, violence, crime, he is traumatized, he is bitter. Fighting is the only w ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006 | 115 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Jasmin Durakovic
Sarajevo, 1992. They are called Ahmed, Lana, Sado, Saba, Sahbey, Beba, Nemanja, Marx, Matan. They live in and between wartimes. They have nafaka, the destiny which was bestowed on them by God Almighty. And they have enough gallows humour and courage ...
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Germany 2011 | 90 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Walter Weber
Hans-Uwe Petersen (Peter Heinrich Brix) has the chance of becoming pastor of the dioceses of Toestrup and Norderup. There is. however, one condition: he has to
marry his partner of many years Petra (Ulrike Kriener). The woman from the Ruhr district f ...
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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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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Hermine Huntgeburth
This is the first part of the “Lehmann” Trilogy by bestseller author and musician Sven Regener. Twenty-yearold Frank Lehmann is about to leave the countryside where his life constituted national service and a chaotic shared house. An ente ...
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India 2006 | 210 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Karan Johar
At last the follow-up to Bollywood's box office hit Sometimes happy, sometimes sad, full of drama, romance, passion, not to mention music! Dev and Maya fall in love, but they are both married. A decision needs to be taken that will change their lives ...
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Israel 2011 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Ido Fluk
After his military service, Herzl went to S America for 8 years and now returns to Israel, burnt out and without any plans for the future. He takes a job as bill sticker for a dating agency whose slogan is "Never too late". With a pile of Israeli fol ...
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Estland 2011 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Jaan Tootsen
A group of young people in the Estonian capital Tallinn call themselves "The New World" and challenge the establishment with subversive activities against the motorised city: they paint zebra crossings on streets at night, organize cycling ...
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USA, Sweden 2006 | 92 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Joachim Hedén
Sometimes, happiness means having a talent for destiny. Like Sidney and Amy whom Swedish director Joachim Hedén accompanies on their enchanting stroll through New York. They have just met in a café. He's waiting for his old flame to show up, she le ...
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New Zealand 1987 | 93 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Barry Barclay
Community, strength and joie de vivre are the central themes of the feature film debut by renowned documentary filmmaker Barry Barclay. When Greg, a young Australian, comes to visit, he is confronted with a multicultural society in mid-upheaval. The ...
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Germany 2007 | 123 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Martin Gypkens
Based on a serial novel by Judith Hermann, the film's five episodes are set in five countries: Ellen and Felix are travelling in the USA, where their relationship seems to have reached its end; Christine visits Nora in Jamaica and disturbs their host ...
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USA 2002 | 87 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Adam Rifkin
Two stories on an extremely hot day in L. A.: in one, ex-cons, Tommy (Donnie Montemarano) and Mic (Vinny Argiro), think they have a fresh chance, with the offer of a great job in Vegas. In the other, a pimp, Rodan (Vinnie Jones), and a streetwalker, ...
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France, Burkina Faso 2004 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Fanta Régina Nacro
They accused her uncle of planning a coup d’état, tortured him and barbecued him alive. These are the events that director Fanta Régina Nacro tries to come to terms with in her dramatic debut. Set in an undefined West African country, the fil ...
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United Kingdom, Australia 2003 | 97 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Paul Goldman
In 1974, troubled Australian concert promoter, Rod Blue (Joel Edgerton), takes one big gamble to save his skin and persuades Frank Sinatra (Dennis Hopper) to go on tour in Australia. But when Sinatra insults a journalist at the opening press conferen ...
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Canada 1987 | 115 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Jean-Claude Lauzon
After his release from prison, Marcel is pursued by two corrupt policemen who are after the money and cocaine that Marcel stashed before his arrest. They use his ex-girlfriend as a means of putting pressure on him. But the dealer has a di ...
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Israel 2008 | 11 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Yael Bartana
Left-wing Polish activist Slawomir Sierakowski delivers a speech on contemporary anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Poland and the desire among
a new generation of Poles to be fully accepted as Europeans. ...
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Finland, Germany, Denmark, Ireland 2008 | 75 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Kari Juusonen, Michael Hegner
The little reindeer Niko believes it can fly. But the other reindeer believe neither this nor his claim that his father was one of the magical reindeer that pulled Santa Clause’s sleigh. Niko and his friend, Julius the flying squirrel, embark o ...
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Germany, Finland 2012 | 75 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Kari Juusonen, Jørgen Lerdam
The young reindeer Niko is happy: he has finally met his father and learned to fly. Soon it will be Christmas again. In secret, he dreams of reuniting his parents.But his mother marries another reindeer and soon Niko has a little half-brother! Jonni ...
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Poland, Sweden 2005 | 125 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Lena Einhorn
Lena Einhorn tells the story of her mother's life Nina. First there was the German invasion, life in the Warshaw Ghetto, deportation, then an escape and the journey towards a new life. Based on her own award-winning novel she tells a moving story in ...
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USA, Mexiko, Chile 2012 | 110 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Pablo Larraín
In 1988 the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet gives way to international pressure and allows a referendum on his presidency. Chileans have the choice of voting Yes or No to another 8 years of Pinochet. The leaders of the opposition persuade Renè Sav ...
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Iran, Germany 2009 | 106 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Bahman Ghobadi
A familiar story, though highly improbable in Iran: young people get together and form a band. Rock music is illegal in Iran, as is the spirit that comes with it. A complicated censoring system has driven the scene underground. And in“No One Knows ...
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Germany 2004 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Lars Kraume
Director Lars Kraume sends a group of German actors on a tour of northern Germany. The plot follows the fortunes of the Hansen Band - formed specifically for the film - and the filmmaker Tobias, who believes his girlfriend Ellen is having an affair w ...
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Canada 2008 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Francis Leclerc
1969: the first manned rocket starts for the moon. But 12-year-old Martin hopes to make it onto the baseball A team. He ends up on the B team, which his father calls into life. Martin becomes friends with Sophie, the only girl on the team and daughte ...
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Germany 2005 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Anna Justice
A young woman finds herself at the beginning of a nightmare. Diagnosis: breast cancer. Her illness compels Andrea (Marie Zielcke) to deal with herself, her dreams and her great longing to love and to be loved. A friend (Jasmin Tabatabai, also featuri ...
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Israel 2012 | 71 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Dan Geva, Noit Geva
An intelligent and funny fairy-tale about a man who left home to free himself from noise. The man is the film-maker. He suffers from a pathological oversensitivity to noise, so-called hyperakusis. His problem is the fact that he lives in Tel Aviv, on ...
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Spain 2006 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Raúl de la Fuente
The txalaparta is a traditional Basque instrument. Its special appeal is the fact that it is played by two people simultaneously and its sound thrives on this relationship. In search of similar authentic sounds, the musicians travel across the world ...
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Israel 2007 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Ayelet Menahemi
All stewardess Miri (Mili Avital) wants to do after work is sleep. But not only is her Chinese cleaning lady spinning round her flat, Miri’s sister Gila (Anat Waxman) has also moved in to flee her marriage crisis. When the cleaning lady asks Mi ...
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Mexiko 2008 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Mariana Chenillo
Nora is preparing for death. Her ex-husband is to manage the funeral, the whole family is to gather at the table: her suicide is planned for the Passover feast. But her plan has weak points: the cemetery administration won’t bury suicides and t ...
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Uruguay, Argentina 2010 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Daniel Hendler
Norberto (36) has an ordered life until he loses his job, a good administrative position. Before telling his wife, he prefers to prove his luck at a real estate company, where he manages to be hired on trial. His new boss advises him to take an asser ...
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Japan 2005 | 158 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Sion Sono
54 schoolgirls jump under a train. This scene from Sion Sono’s “Suicide Club” (2002) is used as a quote in his new movie “Noriko’s Dinner Table”. 17-year-old runaway Noriko becomes involved with the bizarre “Family Circle”, which prov ...
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Germany, Austria, Switzerland 2008 | 121 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Philipp Stölzl
Germany 1936: The Olympic Games are close at hand and Nazi Germany is lusting for new idols. Mountaineers from all over Europe head for the north face of the Eiger, in hope of a gold medal. Among them, climbing aces Toni Kurz (Benno Fürmann) and And ...
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Germany 2003 | 82 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Felix Randau
29-year-old Felix Randau’s debut film is a coming-of-age story. Anke (Julia Hummer) is an 18-year-old outsider whose life is overshadowed by her father’s suicide when she was five. She blames his death on her mother (Lena Stolze). The news that h ...
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Germany 1921 | 84 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
F.W. Murnau's expressionist classic marks the birth of the horror genre. Based on Bram Stoker's Dracula (for which Murnau was denied the rights), the twisted figure of Count Orlock (Max Schreck) is an unforgettable image from the silent film era. Car ...
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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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Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg 2008 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Patrice Toye
Ever dreamed of dropping out of your life? Tomas is in his mid-forties, has a good job and lives in the suburbs with his beautiful, gentle wife Sara. He has long since dreamed of escaping from his life. But when he stages his own suicide, the freedom ...
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France 2008 | 94 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Emmanuel Finkiel
Three journeys through our seemingly boundless Europe. Under the protest of former employees, a young manager supervises the relocation of a factory from France to Hungary. At the same time, Kurdish families are hidden in a lorry, half-dead, trying t ...
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Germany 2012 | 90 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Thorsten Näter
Popstar Marc Simon has just one night to finally get the cast together for the music show which is
designed to relaunch his career. Just one night to win back his ex-wife Ina (Yvonne Catterfeld). Just one night for Oliver, Annika and the others to si ...
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Germany 2004 | 82 min | German Version | FF 2004
Regie: Michael Johnson, Tatjana Ilyina
Once upon a time, there was a little, spoiled prince, who lived with his humble servants and his uncle Drosselmeier – a real magician – in a legendary castle. The naughty prince had everything one could wish for or purchase but no compass ...
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