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Israel 2008 | 58 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Amit Goren
Around 1000 people seek Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Firer’s advice every day. He can ‘admit’ 100 patients on the phone, by fax or in person. Without any academic medical knowledge, the 54-year-old orthodox Jew has been voluntarily worki ...
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Czech Republik 2005 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Karel Janák
Two kids spend horribly boring holidays with their parents until 12 girls appear on the scene and all hell breaks loose in the testosterone-driven world of Dany and Filip who can't believe their luck on one hand and are out of their depth on the othe ...
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Germany, Switzerland 2011 | 84 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Bettina Borgfeld, David Bernet
When Paraguayan farmer Geronio looks around on his piece of land, all he sees are soy plantations. Year after year, the mono cultures increase. Wherever genetically engineered soy grows, the pesticides that protect it destroy all other plants, which ...
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France 2003 | 112 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jacques Doillon
Jacques Doillon returns to his favourite subject of love for this intensive emotional drama shot in Marrakesh. Beautiful young Raja (Najat Benssallem) lives on the streets. Fred (Pascal Greggory), a Frenchman in Morocco, takes her on as his housekeep ...
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Senegal 2009 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Léandre-Alain Baker
The beautiful Ramata (the late top model Katoucha Niane) is in her early fi fties, was married to the former minister of justice, living in the elegant quarter of Dakar. The charming petty thief Ngor Ndong is 25. When Ramata gets into the taxi he hap ...
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Iceland 1984 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's first Viking film, where he presents a new concept of the Viking era, destroying the stereotypical Hollywood image. Gest, an Irishman, witnessed as a child the murder of his parents and the taking of his sister as a slave by two ...
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Greece 2011 | 78 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Christos Karakepelis
Three Roma from Albania, two Indians, a Turk and a Greek: a mere sample of the endless army of desperados who live in a string of shanty towns in the shadow of the Acropolis, recycling the metal of an entire nation; heroes of Raw Material and raw ma ...
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Switzerland, Germany 2003 | 88 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Mike Eschmann
The first ever Swiss teen
military comedy! Snatched from the wedding altar by military police to do his military service, Antonio (European Shooting Star Michael Koch) is prepared to go to any lengths to get himself thrown out of the army and ...
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102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Masahiro Kobayashi
A man and a woman meet in a town far from Tokyo. She is a housekeeper in the hostel in which he lives; they recognize each other, but between them there can be nothing but silence. Her daughter killed his daughter when they were still young. Masahiro ...
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Denmark 2003 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Christoffer Boe
A perfectly staged surreal mystery, “Reconstruction” covers 24 hours in the life of the photographer, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kaas). Alex betrays his girlfriend (Maria Bonnevie) by seducing Aimee (also Bonnevie), who is married to an older novelist, Au ...
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United Kingdom 2006 | 104 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Andrea Arnold
Advance Party is this year's Dogma. The story developed by from the directors Lone Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen unfolds in Glasgow where Jackie works in CCTV and discovers a guy on her videoscreen she had hoped she would never see again. She fol ...
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Russia 2006 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Avdotya Smirnova
Is it permissable to fall in love although you're married? In this award-winning cinematic debut two people who lead happy, married lives are doing just that. An assured feeling for the filigree of human relations, a deep understanding of what it fee ...
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Italy 2002 | 125 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Gabriele Muccino
Teeny Valentina (Nicoletta Romanoff) learns the true meaning of the term “casting couch” at a casting date for “Superstars”. Her brother, Paolo (Silvio Muccino), doesn’t know what to do or who he is. Their frustrated mother (Laura Morante) ...
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Iceland 1992 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Óskar Jónasson
Axel drives a big American car, works at a petrol station and lives in a small room in his mother's flat. His sister Mæja has lots of friends and loves going to nightclubs and parties. One day she accidentally takes the remote control her mother ne ...
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Canada 1992 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Robert Morin
Reggie Savoie manages to escape from prison. While the police dragnet tightens around him, he alternates between being ultra-violent and carefree: he threatens and abuses lawyers, hangs out with his girlfriend, consumes huge quantities of coke with h ...
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Germany 2007 | 5 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Philipp Hartmann
Unpathetic cinematic farewell to a deceased old lady. Shot in black and white. ...
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Germany 2009 | 93 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Jonas Grosch
When Til (Hannes Wegener) is offered yet another prolongation of his internship, he turns the tables and founds a consulting agency for interns. It helps“voluntary” workers to their rights. Then the left-wing activist Sydelia (Katharina Wackernac ...
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USA 2010 | 91 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Gus Van Sant
Annabel Cotton is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents. When ...
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Denmark 2005 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Martin Schmidt
Signe and Tommy fulfil a dream when they move to a house in the country with their daughter Bianca. However, the dream is cut short by strange goings-on. At first, Signe and Tommy refuse to believe that their house might be cursed. Alas, when Bianca ...
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Israel 2011 | 105 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Joseph Madmony
Yakov Fidelman's antique furniture restoration workshop is in deep financial trouble after the sudden death of his old associate Malamud. Noah, an ambitious young lawyer, urges his father to close the workshop, but Yakov does not want to let go of i ...
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Latvia 2010 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Gatis Smits
After recovering from an overseas mission, Krists Lapiņš moves into a quiet neighbourhood in Riga. His hopes for a new, peaceful life are disrupted when an unexpected visitor arrives one night. Krists soon finds himself in a swirl of events involvi ...
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Germany 2003 | 82 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jens Huckeriede
Jens Huckeriede retraces the history of the Gebrüder Wolf, popular German-Jewish musichall artists of the early 20th century. His starting point is a visit by rap-artist and actor, Dan Wolf, from San Francisco to Hamburg, the city where his grandfat ...
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Poland 2009 | 101 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Borys Lankosz
The plot takes places on two temporal plains: early 1950s and the present. The main character is Sabina, an unassuming woman who just turned thirty. Clearly, she lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and at all costs tries to find he ...
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Finland 2006 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Jouko Aaltonen
Love, peace and music... what happened to the ideals of the 70's when socialism was considered a true alternative for Finland? Bands emerged in their hundreds to support the cause of the third-largest communist party in Europe (yes, Finland). This fa ...
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Iceland 2008 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Óskar Jónasson
After Kristófer (Baltasar Kormákur) was caught smuggling alcohol on a freight ship, he spent some time in jail. Upon his release, he works as a security guard. When he is offered to make one last turn with his old freighter, he takes up the offer. ...
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Iceland 1985 | 80 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson’s Ring Road is a renowned experimental film presenting a full tour of Iceland in 80 minutes. A 16 mm camera was mounted atop a car and set to shoot at 10-meter intervals. As the film rolls, we see Iceland circumnavi ...
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France, Germany 2005 | 100 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Diane Bertrand
Iris, a young French girl, loses a piece of her ringfinger. This is the starting point of this enchanted and captivating film. Iris finds work with an obscure scientist and a relationship defined by subservience, desire and risk ensues. “The Ringfi ...
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Germany 2007 | 90 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Stefan Paul
Eleven years after his death, Rio Reiser, lead singer of the legendary band Ton Steine Scherben, still does not cease to fascinate filmmaker Stefan Paul. He pieces together old live material, a tribute concert and interviews with friends and musician ...
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Finland 2001 | 106 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Jarmo Lampela
An hour in a small town on a Saturdaymorning … and one of the best European fi lms in recent years. Life’s big issues are tackled with a casualness reminding of “Short Cuts”. Every character is at a crossroad contemplating suicide, love or a ...
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China 2006 | 114 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Zhang Jiarui
Li is a ticket conductor, Cui is a busdriver. He loves her but she loves a doctor. So, what's the big story? Well, back in the 1970s when the cultur al revolution was raging in China, feelings for intellectuals were forbidden. The doctor - aka the in ...
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Spain 2009 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Roberto Santiago
Nacho is a photographer, Pilar is a journalist and they absolutely despise one another. Then they receive the order to make a reportage together on a guru named Olmo, who exclusively treats couples on a six-day hike on the Camino de Santiago. In orde ...
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Israel 2005 | 20 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Noa Aharoni
Roi goes his one way against all prejudices. ...
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Iceland 2011 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Marteinn Thorsson
Boddi hates the materialism of modern society. He attacks everything and everybody in his blog -humorously, but also with verve. No wonder he soon becomes an outlaw in the small town in Northern Iceland, where he lives. Boddi almost feels like his i ...
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Argentina 2004 | 103 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Pablo Trapero
31-year-old director Pablo Trapero’s work draws comparisons to Roberto Rossellini for his naturalistic but poetic
style. Trapero’s own grandmother plays the lead role of an 85-year-old who sets off in a camper, accompanied by her extended family ...
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USA 2005 | 105 min | OV with German and French ST | FF 2006
Regie: John Turturro
Great cast (from Susan Sarandon to Christopher Walken) and songs galore - director John Turturro calls this a workingclass opera. Set in New York, is this the tale of an not all too ordinary family, where Daddy's infaturation with a flaming redhead g ...
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Algeria, France, Germany 2006 | 111 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Tariq Teguia
Kamel dreams of leaving Algeria with his girlfriend Zina and finding work in an Italian pizzeria. Zina has no papers and can only obtain them illegally. In what director Tariq Teguia describes as a slow motion road movie, the pair ambles through stre ...
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USA 2005 | 80 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Kyle Henry
Julia Barker is an average, overworked mother-of-two. However, she has been suffering disturbing visions of an empty room for some time. Suddenly, she flees her previous life and heads for New York, where she is convinced she’ll find th ...
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USA 2012 | 104 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Rodney Ascher
For some, Kubrick’s film The Shining is a milestone in horror films, for others it is an aberration, not worthy of the master director. In between lie conspiracy theories from people who see hidden messages in the 1980 classic. Room 237 gives five ...
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Russia 2008 | 130 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Andrey Khrzhanovsky
In 1940 Josef Brodsky was born in Leningrad to intellectual Jewish parents. In the 50s he worked as a writer. In 1964 he was condemned to five years of forced labour. In 1972 he was expatriated and moved to USA, where he was awarded the Nobel Prize f ...
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Iran 2012 | 93 min | OV with English ST and German voice over | FF 2012
Regie: Maryam Milani
Amir and his sister Maryam's family is poor. To support his single mother, he sells newspapers in the street.One day Amir reads of a painting competition and decides he'd like to take part. He has talent, but no implements to practise with. A neighbo ...
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Germany 2007 | 76 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Mo Asumang
43 million Germans know Mo Asumang, black TV presenter and actress. Some are her enemies: in one of their songs, neo-Nazi band White Aryan Rebels encourage her murder and tell her to go back to Africa. She takes them by their word and flies to Ghana; ...
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Germany 2003 | 75 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: Tatjana Yankina, Ralf Brings
The “House of Stage Veterans” in St. Petersburg is home to ninety-five retired actors, stage directors, dancers and opera singers. They continue to work and rehearse, putting on shows and concerts in the old people’s home. Hamburg documentary m ...
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Germany 2012 | 78 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Fabian Daub
Beneath Roșia Montană, a Rumanian village in the Carpathians, lie the greatest reserves of gold in Europe. A mining company with powerful Canadian stakeholders want to extract 300 million tons and a gold rush to the poor region begins. Many inhabit ...
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Germany 2011 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Markus Busch
In the beginning of winter, 43-year old actress Tania comes to Jankwarden, a village at the far end of North-Western Germany. On her first day she goes to the seaside and meets 15-year old Thore, who is much different from the other boys in the vill ...
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USA 2012 | 104 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Writer Calvin had a best-seller right at the beginning of his career and not much since. His psychiatrist advises the loner to create a fictional character as an inspiration. Calvin invents Ruby Sparks and then falls in love with his own creation. It ...
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Slovenia 2004 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Janez Burger
Theatre director Herman nostalgically invites everyone he has ever worked with, including his ex-lover, to take part in his new production. The rehearsals prove to be a nerve shredding tour-de-force of shattered dreams. Reality and drama become incre ...
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Italy 2003 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Andrea Manni
The story of Massimo Carlotto, one of Italy’s greatest legal scandals. In 1976, aged 19 and extremely left-wing, Carlotto was falsely convicted of having murdered a woman. Andrea Manni tells the tale of his
fi ght for justice as a grippi ...
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New Zealand 1964 | 102 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: John O'Shea
Nine years after“Rebel Without a Cause” (1955) the figure of the young rebel has reached New Zealand. John O’Shea sends his bored and frustrated protagonist David on a trip from Auckland through Northland and into the mountains of the South. Af ...
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Iran 2010 | 76 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Amin Farajpour
Milad, a rebellious teenager at high school is unwillingly involved in drug dealings and this makes serious problems for him both at school and at home with his single mother. He‘s in debt with the drug dealers and he keeps escaping from them. ...
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