Take Shelter follows Curtis LaForche, a working class husband and father, as he deals with the panic that arises from a series of terrifying dreams. For Curtis, these dreams are either harbingers of a supernatural storm, or early symptoms of somethin ...
A man is staked underwater by purposely placed bamboo sticks, when he jumps head first into a lake. Police inspector Borowski and his colleague Sarah Brandt are convinced that only a madman could have done this. When the post mortem shows that the m ...
Police inspector Klara Blum and her assistant Kai Perlmann are working on a case in an artist's colony on the Bodensee. The seemingly creative idyll is heavily disturbed when painter Martin Neumann gets killed in cold blood by an electric shock. Whe ...
Singapour 2011 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Eric Khoo
Tatsumi celebrates the life and work of Japanese comics artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Already published as a teenager, talented Tatsumi finds even greater inspiration after meeting his idol, famous Disneyesque animator Osamu Tezuka. In 1957, Tatsumi coi ...
A hit at the Sundance 2011 Film Festival, Terri is a moving and often funny coming-of-age story about the relationship between Terri, an oversized teen misfit, and the garrulous but well-meaning vice principal (John C. Reilly) who takes an interest ...
Denmark, Austria 2011 | 59 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Christoffer Guldbrandsen
Special interests, alliances and rules of the game are on the agenda when the 27 Heads of State elected the first President of the EU. The ambition was to find a strong leader, but the result turned out completely different: The new guy in power is ...
Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in jail and banned from filmmaking for 20 years by the Iranian government – the appeal is hanging. This film, which is accounting for the precarious situation of the director with its title, is less a pr ...
This is a bittersweet comedy about taxi driver Hartmut Mackowiak, a ranting bad tempered guy, who dislikes anything that is new or alien to him. His wife leaves him for another man. To make things worse, six-year-old Hayat appears in his taxi. She do ...
A circus drives through a small village at night. The next morning the locals find a tigress and her cub in a carrier box and immediately welcome them. But then the circus returns for the animals and the villagers have to give them back in the custo ...
Denmark 2010 | 43 min | OV with English ST and German voice over | FF 2011
Regie: Karla von Bengtson
Maj lives with her uncle Sonny in his tattoo studio. Although both of them like their life together, they keep dreaming about finding a „real family“ for the girl. After all, in Sonny‘s opinion tattoos and children don‘t fit ...
Nina's brother is dead. The 16-year-old had much too much to drink at a fire brigade party and later collapsed due to cardiac arrest on his way home. The police closes the case but not Nina. She wants to know what exactly happened that night. In her ...
Tom Sawyer and his best friend Huckleberry Finn are usually up to no good. They steal, cheat and play tricks. And it's usually Tom's brother Sid who gets the blame. One night they roam through the cemetery and witness criminal “Injun Joe” ...
Anne is weird. At least, that's what everybody tells her. Just because she prefers playing viking games instead of dressing up as a princess. And she is not interested in love. All the others constantly talk about it, but Anne is actually quite happ ...
A young woman moves to her mother's native village. She is looking for her father whose identity her mother never revealed before she died. The swamps around the village are dark and brooding like the places and the people. Only her strange neighbou ...
Slovenia 2011 | 85 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Nejc Gazvoda
Ziva, Andrej and Gregor are best friends since high school. Gregor is a soldier who is about to embark on a mission to Afghanistan and Ziva is going to study abroad. Andrej is their gay friend who hates everything, himself included. They decide to g ...
Two portraits of two people who became addicted to heroin in the 1980s. Journalist Jörg Böckern was a junkie for over twenty years and nearly lost his life to the drug. He is clean now and wonders how he could hide his addiction at work. Christian ...