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France 2003 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Graham Guit
On a humanitarian mission in Northern Brazil, the young Carmelite nun, Sarah (Élodie Bouchez), is rushed to hospital in extreme pain. Father Joachim Ferrer (Gérard Depardieu), doctor and priest, cannot, however, find anything wrong with her. Fascin ...
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USA 2011 | 88 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Andrew Rossi
Page One goes inside the newsroom at The New York Times during one of the most tumultuous eras for journalism since the printing press was invented to reveal a disarmingly candid portrait of the paper of record. Over the course of a year when WikiLe ...
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France 2005 | 110 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Valérie Lemercier
The Queen is not amused. Or rather, she is pas amusée, since she's very French and rather annoyed at daughter-in-law Armelle who allows her tiara to fall into the soup de peas. But Armelle is a speech therapist and came from rags to riches into the ...
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Germany 2006 | 45 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Karsten Wohlrab
An intensively felt documentary accompanies the feature film account of the sinking of the German training ship Pamir which cost many lives. The visual look is new: a sleek mix of black and white images from the 30s and 50s, computer animation, new f ...
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Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium 2008 | 112 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Yesim Ustaoglu
Nusret suffers from Alzheimer’s, no longer able to care for herself in her village on the Black Sea. Her children deem it best for her to move into a nursing home in Istanbul. When grandchild Murat suggests an outing to her, she asks him to help he ...
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France 2004 | 77 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Maurice Barthélemy
A Volvo, a father and an eight-year-old son is apparently all that is needed to make an excellent film. “Papa” is already being heralded as “film of the year” in France. The father (Alain Chabat) tries to conceal his pain by telling jokes and ...
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Serbia 2007 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Marko Kostic
Hard times for 8-year-old Julija: bad grades, a secretive mother and Ana is blackmailing her. Ana knows that Julija let in the friendly thief Nikola when her parents were out. Because he was such good fun, she gave him her mother’s earrings and her ...
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USA 1973 | 150 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Franklin J. Schaffner
Henri Charrière (Steve McQueen) wears the symbol of his absolute will to be free on his chest: a butterfly. The tattoo led him to be nicknamed Papillon. In the 1930s, he is sent to a prison camp in French Guyana for a murder he didn‘t commit. On t ...
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Argentina 2011 | 74 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Gastón Solnicki
Fashioning nearly 200 hours of footage shot over a decade into a family portrait at once epic and intimate, the young Argentinian filmmaker Solnicki (whose previous film was the music documentary Süden) elevates the home movie to an art. Four genera ...
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France, Germany, Netherlands 2004 | 91 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Hany Abu-Assad
Two Palestinian friends, Khaled and Said, have been chosen to perform a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The plan fails however, and they are forced to reschedule. The delay offers them an opportunity to reconsider and the suspense is almost unbearable a ...
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Paraguay, France, Netherlands, Argentina, Germany, Austria 2006 | 78 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Paz Encina
A clearing in the jungle, an old couple, the heat. Waiting for something. From such sparse elements Paz Encina created one of the most vivid South American fi lms of the season, set in the 1930s during the military confl ict with Bolivia. When it pre ...
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Argentina 2008 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Gabriel Medina
Luciano (Daniel Hendler) is a neurotic, persistently unsuccessful scriptwriter. He has been working on an unfinished script for years, lives in constant fear of terrible diseases and earns a living as a children’s birthday party entertainer. His fr ...
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Iceland 2006 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Ragnar Bragason
A thematic sequel to Children (which ran at Filmfest Hamburg 2006), Ragnar Bragason's Parents is an ironic symphony of dreams and lies and ways of life, questioning the softened roles of parents and children in family settings: a stepfather yearns fo ...
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France, Burkina Faso 2011 | 68 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Eleonore Yameogo
The reality of failure is hard to admit for us immigrants, in western coutries. The Parisian Africans keep that image of a dream and myth of Eldorado alive. But it’s a deformation of reality. Maintaining the myth of a western paradise is respo ...
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Spain 2008 | 13 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Arturo Ruiz Serrano
150,000 Spaniards were killed during the civil war. This intensive drama tells the story of three of them.
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Columbia 2009 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Luis Alberto Restrepo
The well-meaning catholic priest Gabriel (Andrés Parra) makes one mistake after another when he moves to a community in the Colombian backcountry. He insists on having a tumbledown bridge repaired, convinced that it will enable the inhabitants to se ...
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United Kingdom 2008 | 7 min | OV with German ST | FF 2008
Regie: Robert Hackett
Right up to the end of this moving parable, things turn out differently than expected for two old ladies.
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New Zealand 1983 | 113 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Merata Mita
For many people in New Zealand, the year 1981 is synonymous for the“Springbok Tour”, in which the South African national rugby team toured the country. The tour split the nation, one side condemning it as support for the apartheid regime in South ...
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Germany 2006 | 94 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Gernot Krää
Paula is in love – with a fairytale prince, who only exists in her diary. Her fellow student Tobi loves to be her friend but is simply being ignored. When a children’s gang steals Paula’s diary, Tobi pursues the gang courageously and becomes Pa ...
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France 2005 | 91 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Yves Caumon
Raymond, the son of the former owner, has been hiding in his childhood home for thirty years. When the new tenants move in – a family with two children – he is forced to flee to the barn and eventually ends up hiding in the well. Director Yves Ca ...
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Poland 2008 | 39 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Dagmara Drzazga
This Peking has nothing to do with the capital of China. It refers to a quarter in the Polish industrial town of Katowice in Upper Silesia. Its inhabitants refer to it as“Miracle Quarter”. It consists of derelict apartment blocks, home to ...
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Latvia 2012 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Aik Karapetian
Jan is a Russian of about 20 who lives with his grandfather in a desolate high-rise suburb on the edge of Riga. Most of the time he hangs out with his best friend Cracker, smoking grass and getting by with petty theft. There
seems no way out of the g ...
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Germany 2009 | 60 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Andrea Katzenberger
On occasion of Filmfest Hamburg, Studio Hamburg Production is screening two brandnew episodes of the ARD tv show THE PEPPERCORNS. In " The Boy Without Name" the "old" Peppercorns will solve their last mysterious case about a boy w ...
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Denmark 2007 | 350 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Per Fly
The six episodes of this unusual TV series centre on the stage of a small theatre, each episode told from a different protagonist's perspective. A charismatic director in a crisis, a hopeful young actor, a heart-broken actress, the director's daughte ...
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United Kingdom 2006 | 4 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Olaf Wendt
Background projection in every shot: A particular chase, a perpetual loop that you cannot escape from. ...
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South Korea 2009 | 18 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Ran-hee Lee
No sooner does Loan arrive in Korea from Vietnam to live with her Korean husband than her mother-in-law takes her to a beauty salon to get a perm.
Will be the short film before Wärst du lieber tot?
In cooperation with
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France 2007 | 96 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Marjane is a young girl when the Mullahs gain power in Iran, imprisoning thousands and forcing women to wear headscarves. But Marjane listens to punk music and Abba and shows interest in boys. Little does she realize how much she puts herself and her ...
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Germany 2009 | 80 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Henrik Peschel
“Madboy” director Henna Peschel tells the actionpacked, humorous tale of male friendship in times of a major crisis. Paradise is called San Pigro and is situated on the border of the Carribbean. The natives call their island the “is ...
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Germany 2012 | 56 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Andrea Katzenberger
While her friends are on a round-the-world trip, Emma
is on her own in Hamburg. Plenty of time
for her to find some new Peppercorns, but The
First Step is Always the Hardest (book: Anja Jabs).Fortunately, classmate Max and new neighbour
Henri are on ...
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56 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Klaus Wirbitzky, Stephan Rick
Episode "Das Silbergebiss"
In "Das Silbergebiss" (script: Anja Jabs) the Pefferkörner get track of a criminal dentist. Sophie never thought that she might need braces. And nobody exept for Themba believes her that something at th ...
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Netherlands 2003 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Robert Jan Westdijk
Phileine is self-confi dent, bitchy and
jealous. And saying sorry is simply not her thing. Secretly pursuing her actor boy-friend Max to New York, she finds him, as Romeo, having sex on stage with Juliet, and disrupts the performance ...
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Indonesia 2007 | 94 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Nan Achnas
A country girl forced into prostitution and an ageing photographer tormented by the shadows of his past are the protagonists in this emotional drama. After she is raped, 25-year-old Sita (Shanty) finds shelter with photographer Johan (Lim Kay Tong). ...
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USA 2003 | 13 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Miha Mazzini
In this truly demented comedy,
a singing orphan beloved by all Slovene mothers reproduces exponentially
and must be stopped! ...
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South Korea 2012 | 104 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Kim Ki-duk
Kang-do works for a ruthless loan shark. Those who don’t pay their debts at once are mutilated. What remains are broken limbs and lives. The victims are small businesses, workmen in a poor quarter that is gradually giving way to high-rise complexes ...
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Israel 2008 | 32 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Pini Tavger
Nine-year-old Russian immigrant Pinhas wants to become a religious Jew. But a kippah is just the beginning.
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Mexiko 2004 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Beto Gómez
The young boxer Jimmy Morales’ dreams of a golden
future are shattered when he is witness to a horrible murder and recognises the perpetrator as being the contract killer, Germán Corona. A relationship develops between the gangster and the bo ...
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Germany 2008 | 88 min | OV with German ST | FF 2008
Regie: Andreas Kannengießer
13-year-old Carlos lives with his mother and sister in a settlement near Léon, Nicaragua. He earns his living with a traditional dance group. Because he prefers reciting poetry to dancing, he is thrown out of the troupe and his mother forces him to ...
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Germany 2004 | 2 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Martin Enlen
An opulent two-part TV drama based on the life of the geologist, Hans Merenksy. Born and raised in South Africa, Hans (Tim Bergmann) moves to Berlin in the 1910s when his father dies. After university, he returns to Africa, to fi nd it overrun ...
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Norway 2003 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: John Sullivan
A group of drama students spend their last weekend before graduation in a remote country house. It is a weekend they will never forget, as a series of dramatic events permanently changes their view of life. American documentary
director, John Sulliv ...
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Japan 2012 | 113 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Sho Miyake
Haji dreams of his own death. Not a good omen for an actor in his late 30s, but understandable in his situation: his health isn’t good, his divorce is getting him down and his career seems to have hit a dead end. So the invitation to a friend’s w ...
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Brazil 2005 | 107 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Toni Venturi
What do we know about Brazil? Soccer, bossa nova, caipirinha come to mind but even few young Brazilians will think of its recent past, of the 60's and 70's when a military dictatorship ruled the land with an iron fist. This Brazil is the topic of a p ...
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Finland 2007 | 99 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Lauri Nurkse
At the centre of the Finnish ‘eurovisuell’-contribution stands young reporter Emma, who must interview the acclaimed conductor Joel Abrahamsson. Although the interview flops, Emma and Joel fall in love. Before she knows it, she is living ...
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France 2004 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Yann Moix
Claude François was the French Gary Glitter – a 70s pop sensation. True to his legendary status, he lectrocuted himself in the bath. Bernard Fréderic (Benôit Poelvoorde) is the world-best Claude François imitator, and aims to win the title in t ...
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Republic of Korea 2010 | 139 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Changdong Lee
Mija lives with her school-age grandson in a small suburban city located along the Han River. She is a dandy old lady who likes to dress up in flower-decorated hats and fashionable outfits, but she is also an unpredictable character with an inquisiti ...
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USA 2012 | 53 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Katja Esson
They are poets and have survived some of the worst catastrophes of the 20th century: Hiroshima, the Holocaust, the Cultural Revolution, the genocide against the Kurds in Iraq and the Tutsis in Rwanda and the persecution in the wake of the revolution ...
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Rumania 2009 | 113 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Corneliu Porumboiu
Policeman Cristi (Dragos Bacur) is ordered to follow a 16-year-old on suspicion of dealing at school. The more he learns about the boy, the more he questions of his mission. If he were to arrest the boy, he would spend years in prison. Ruin a boyR ...
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Germany 2006 | 89 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Eoin Moore
How did little Timmi really die? Why would anyone murder him and run over this child just to make sure he's dead? His mother Nina is first sick with worry and then begins a bizarre fight with the people from forensics who refuse to let her see her de ...
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Germany 2012 | 90 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Hendrik Handloegten
After being badly wounded in a police operation that went wrong, Inspector Hanns von Meuffels (Matthias Brandt) needs an emergency operation to save his life. When several patients on his ward die without apparent reason, von Meuffels assumes a crime ...
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Germany 2012 | 98 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Fatih Akin
Çamburnu is a village in the mountains of North-Eastern Turkey. Its inhabitants have lived in harmony with nature for generations from tea cultivation and fishing. 10 years ago the idyll came under threat when the government decided to build a waste ...
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