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France 2008 | 117 min | OV with German ST | FF 2008
Regie: Diane Kurys
Sylvie Testud plays the title role of French author Françoise Sagan (1935 – 2004), literary wunderkind of the grande nation. Sagan wrote her worldwide success “Bonjour Tristesse” (1954) when she was but 18 years old, and many films have been m ...
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Spain 2006 | 138 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Manuel Huerga
Spain, early 70's. the young militant of the Iberian Liberation Movement, Salvador Puig Antich, became the last political prisoner to be executed in Spain by the garrotte. This is his story and that of the desperate attempts of his family, colleagues ...
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Australia 2012 | 101 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Wayne Blair
Australia in 1968: four young, talented Aborigine women are discovered by talent scout Dave Lovelace. True to his motto "90% of all music is shit, the rest is soul", he forms the girl group into Australia's answer to the Supremes. The Sap ...
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France 2011 | 111 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
An American journalist's research for an article about the Vel’d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up as a journey towards self-discovery as she stumbles upon a terrible secret and discovers the heartbreaking story of a Jewish family forced ou ...
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USA, Spain, France 2007 | 89 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Tom Kalin
In the 1940s, Tony (Eddie Redmayne) is born into the unhappy marriage of Barbara (Julianne Moore) and Bakelite heir Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane). When Tony turns out to be homosexual, his father cuts off all ties, while his mother creates a cla ...
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Poland 2006 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Krzysztof Krauze, Joanna Kos-Krauze
In order to make their dream of an own apartment come true, Beata and Bartek borrow money from Bartek's mother Teresa. Then the real estate company goes bankrupt and the money is gone. A psychological battle full of domestic violence ensues between t ...
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Germany 2008 | 11 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Kathrin Albers, Jim Lacy
Stop-trick puppet animation comedy about three former state railway employees who take revenge for losing their jobs because of privatization. ...
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Germany 2008 | 100 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Lars Jessen
Some adore the beauty of Northern Germany, others die of boredom and just want out. Ever cheerful Fuchs (Peter Jordan) is a government inspector who checks takeaway restaurants. Tillmann (Axel Prahl) didn’t make it abroad and has returned to Dithma ...
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Germany 2003 | 90 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Matthias Tiefenbacher
Bitterfeld, GDR, spring 1989. Chemical factory worker Gisela (Astrid Meyerfeldt) – three children from three different fathers, an ex-boyfriend (Oliver Korittke) and a girlfriend preparing to head for the West – won’t be deterred: she is determ ...
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Germany 2004 | 88 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Gabi Kubach
Nina hasn’t told her mother that she has started a lesbian relationship. Then, just when she’s fallen in love with Flora, her mother decides to accompany her on a business trip to Budapest. The trip turns out to be a journey into the past through ...
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United Kingdom 2006 | 94 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Carla Garapedian
System of a Down are a rarity in today's music industry: a band with a real concern. Its members have Armenian roots and they write lyrics about mass murders in Ruanda or Darfur and the Armenian genocide of 1915. The magazine Hollywood Reporter prais ...
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United Kingdom 2005 | 5 min | | FF 2005
Regie: Joe King, Rosie Pedlow
A meditative study of a caravan park. The changing lights, colours and time, echo the transcience of human existence. ...
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Bulgaria 2007 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Ludmil Todorov
The story of three young seamstresses (Alexandra Surchadzhieva, Elen Koleva, Violeta Markovska) who attempt to flee a lack of perspective in the province and seek their fortune in Sofia. Bulgarian directing icon Ludmil Todorov paints a no-nonsense po ...
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UK, Sweden 2011 | 83 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Malik Bendjelloul
In some quarters, people saw Rodriguez as a potentially greater talent than Bob Dylan. The US folk musician’s only album was critically acclaimed, but didn’t sell. Thereafter, Rodriguez disappeared and there were rumours he had committed suicide ...
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USA 2006 | 16 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Katja Esson
A woman is attempting to escape the golden cage of her arranged marriage in this fairy tale gone wrong. ...
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Netherlands 2010 | 80 min | OV with English ST and German voice over | FF 2011
Regie: Simone van Dusseldorp
Eva is quite happy with her life. It's summer, the weather is nice and she gets along fine with her two best friends Thomas and Jackie. There is just one thing: Her parents won't stop fighting. To scare them, Eva decides to hide for a day. She is su ...
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France 2011 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Christine François
Cécil, a 30-something French woman, is on a visit to Benin, when suddenly a woman appears, pushes a baby into her arms and disappears. All Cécil's efforts to find out who the parents are fail. The locals recoil from the boy and the orphanage won't ...
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Canada 2003 | 108 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Jean-François Pouliot
The Canadian village of Sainte-Marie-La-Mauderne is on the verge of ruin. The only hope for Mayor Germain (Raymond Bouchard) is if the plans to build a rubber factory go ahead.
But for this, the village must be twice the size. So the residents are f ...
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United Kingdom 2005 | 86 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Julian Fellowes
The London lawyer James Manning thinks he’s happily married. What he doesn’t know is that his wife Anne is having an affair with the attractive Bill. He finds this out when a man from their village is killed in a car accident and Bill was probabl ...
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USA 2003 | 95 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Christian Johnston
In July 2002, US journalist Don Larson
(George Calil) travels to Afghanistan to document the hunt for Bin Laden. Accompanied by translator and guide, Wali (producer Wali Razqi), he enters the war zone. On September 3, Larson’s tapes are found ...
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Serbia 2010 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Srđan Spasojević
To secure money for his family, aging ex-porn star Milos (Srđan Todorović) plunges into the depths of hardcore production, only this time his diabolical employer has unthinkable terror in store for him.
This movie contents transboundering sex-and ...
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Switzerland 2007 | 81 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Thomas Haemmerli
After their mother's death, journalist Thomas Haemmerli and his brother Erik open the door to her apartment and discover how messy family secrets can be: their mother was a compulsive hoarder. The things they find range from unpleasant (mum's vibrato ...
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Germany 2005 | 90 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Michael Busch
Christoph Bach, Lars Löllmann, Inga Busch and Daniela Schulz – anyone wishing to see the new generation of young German acting talent, need look no further than this fi lm. Director Michael Busch and cameraman Marcus Winterbauer (“Rhythm is it ...
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Israel, France, Hungary 2008 | 94 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Omri Givon
Galia (Reymonde Amsellem) and her friend Oren fall victim to a suicide bombing in a bus in Jerusalem. Oren dies, while Galia survives, severely traumatized. Givon’s film, half love story, half thriller, tells of Galia’s return to life. Af ...
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Netherlands 2008 | 86 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Lourens Blok
11-year-old Jimmy from England lives in South Africa and is often alone when his mother works. He hears that a war is to break out between two tribes near Pareo Rock. When a speaking giraffe prompts him to prevent the war, he embarks on the most thri ...
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Austria 1989 | 108 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke’s “The Seventh Continent” catapulted Austrian film to the top of the cinematic ladder overnight. The film follows a married couple as they plan their joint suicide and the murder of their daughter. As with all Haneke films, “Th ...
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Russia 2005 | 132 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Alexei Sidorov
He grew up in the backstreets of Moscow and used his fists to get to the top. Now, at the pinnacle of his success, he has to face another challenge. Artem Kolchin returns to the streets, where he has three days to track down a traitor, rescue his gir ...
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Germany 2010 | 90 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Robert Dornhelm
Vera became fund manager of the year, her husband and daughter are very proud of her. At an exclusive party that is thrown for her, Kurt, who has known Vera for a long time, appears. In the old days they were known as Lola and Alex. "Then" ...
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China 2008 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Chi Zhang
Three episodes depict the life of a miners’ family in the mighty mountains of Western China. Daughter Jingshui wants to begin a new life but must choose between love and living her dream. Her brother Jingsheng wants to become a singer rather th ...
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Denmark 2009 | 60 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Nanna Frank Møller
Documentary. Shanghai is an explosion of transformation. Every other day a new building is completed, and every year the city‘s population grows by half a million people. Authorities are desperately seeking out more space, while the city‘ ...
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United Kingdom, China, France, Germany 2009 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Xiaolu Guo
The young Chinese woman Mei is on a quest: to find herself, to find work, to find love, to find her place in life. First she travels to Chongqing, then to London, into the arms of old Mr Hunt. Ultimately she meets Rachid, a young man from India. But ...
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Canada 1982 | 128 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Pierre Perrault
An unusual film about a group of city dwellers who go moose hunting. Their base is a log cabin in the forests of Québec. This is where the human pack forms, led by the posers, big-mouths and jokers. From here, the men undertake forays into the wilde ...
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USA 1980 | 119 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Stanley Kubrick
Even after three decades, Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's horror classic has lost none of its disturbing effect. The film is a nightmare, with an axe-wielding Jack Nicholson as writer Jack Torrance, lost in the black hole of his soul.&nb ...
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Argentina 1995 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Ricardo Wullicher
In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts to defend himself. Locked up, he waits for the arrival of “Caleuche”, the Ship (Nave) of F ...
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Canada, Cyprus 2005 | 100 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Dionysius Zervos
On a beautiful summer's day near the water, five-year-old Anna disappears forever. Who's to blame? The grandparents who were supposed to watch over the child? The single mum who preferred to be with her new lover? The lifeguard? Zervos cites Krzyszto ...
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USA 2005 | 102 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: John Cameron Mitchell
Unquestionable the most sexually graphic American narrative feature ever made outside the realm of the porn industry... says trade mag Variety. This film is about a relationship-coach who never had an orgasm, a homosexual couple, their third guy and ...
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Turkey 2008 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Ismail Necmi
At the centre of“Should I Really Do it?” stands Petra, a German woman living in Istanbul. She tells the story of her life to the mysterious, masked Herold: Germany, Turkey, friends, family, drugs and death. In a mixture of docu-fiction and real-l ...
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Israel 2010 | 65 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Shalom Hager
Nachum, a 31-year religious, begins a training period in order to eventually become a certified undertaker. A year ago his baby, died while sleeping at her crib. Since, haunted by the guilt feelings, Nachum decides to touch death daily. His struggle ...
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Chile, Spain 2012 | 94 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Teresa Arredondo
The young Chilean director tells the story of her aunt Sibila Arredondo, widow of the famous Peruvian writer José María Arguedas, with whom she shared important moments in her childhood. After Pinochet seized power in 1973, she had to go into exile ...
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Netherlands 2011 | 71 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Jan van den Berg
The Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature’s untouched beauty: an endless nothing in which only few know how to survive. But a silent assassin is destroying the Inuit community. By ocean currents and attached to snow, pesticides like D ...
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Russia 2010 | 75 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Aleksei Fedorchenko
When Miron‘s beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merya culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero, a picturesque region in West-Central Russia. Al ...
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Republic of Korea 2003 | 135 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Woo-Suk Kang
An action drama seen by over 10 million Koreans, more than saw „Titanic“ or „Lord of the Rings“. On government orders, 31 men on death row are trained as killing machines for a suicide mission. Shot in CinemaScope,
it is base ...
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Netherlands 2004 | 104 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Eddy Terstall
The film focuses on the easy-go-lucky macho Simon and his companions. When Simon is diagnosed with cancer, it’s the shy homosexual Camiel who proves to be the proverbial friend in need. Eddy Terstall’s award-winning film is full of charm, ...
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Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands 2011 | 120 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Lisa Ohlin
Simon has had a loving childhood, but still feels alien in the working class neighbourhoods of 1940’s Gothenburg. Against his parents’ will the intellectually gifted boy turns to an education otherwise reserved for young men of academic ...
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Sweden 2010 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Andreas Öhman
The 18 years old Simon (Bill Skarsgård) has Aspergers syndrome. He likes space, science and circles but can‘t understand feelings. Simon‘s life turns into chaos when his brother Sam (Martin Walström) gets dumped by his girlfriend. Simon ...
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Israel 2005 | 60 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Mohammad Bakri
Can art change the course of history? Are documentaries capable of showing reality as it is? Will films change the world? In the case of Israeli/Arab actor/director Mohammad Bakri, a film can change one person's life. How, is told in his complex docu ...
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France 2005 | 112 min | OV with German ST | FF 2006
Regie: Xavier Giannoli
His best role since 'Cyrano' was the Cannes critics' verdict of Gérard Depardieu's performance as a nightclub singer crooning after hours in run-down bars. He falls for a much younger woman (captivating: Cécile De France) and this dalliance adds br ...
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Israel 2012 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Dover Kosashvili
Zehava is well over 30 and has neither husband nor child. Her mother would like nothing better than to be a grandmother. When she’s diagnosed with cancer, she issues an ultimatum: either Zehava gets pregnant or she will refuse to have chemotherapy. ...
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Finland 1966 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Mikko Niskanen
A dreamy summer breeze of a film about two student couples holidaying on a remote Finnish lake. It is a sensitive and equally vigorous coming of age-portrait in the fabled 60's and the struggles with problems and inhibitions so typical of that genera ...
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