Sept 26 - Oct 5, 2013
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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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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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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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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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UK, USA, France 2009 | 109 min | OV | FF 2009
Regie: Joe Wright
Los Angeles, 2005. Journalist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) is in a crisis. He is suffering from writer’s block and his marriage is in ruins. Then he meets the highly talented street musician Nathaniel Ayers. Lopez finds out that the schizophreni ...
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Germany 2009 | 99 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Fatih Akin
Director Fatih Akin loves Hamburg – and Filmfest Hamburg loves Fatih Akin. The best prerequisite for presenting his sixth feature film as the opening film of the 17th Filmfest Hamburg. Akin describes “Soul Kitchen” as his “fir ...
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Poland 2008 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Maciej Pieprzyca
An unwilling bride, a thief out of desperation, a student about to jump the career ladder. Marta, Bartek and Robert are like splinters: painful and solitary. Yet they are also wishful dreamers, spontaneous and passionate. Marta elopes in her wedding ...
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