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Germany 2010 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Xiaolu Guo
One day, simple countrywoman Kwok Yun sees a UFO - a giant glowing thing in the shape of a dumpling! Later that same day, she also helps a snake-bitten American, who disappears as mysteriously as the UFO. The ambitious village leader Chief Chang use ...
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Chile, Argentina 2011 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Oscar Godoy
Just as the hero of the saga Odysseus had only one goal, namely to get back to his beloved wife, so too in Julio's life there is only one constant: the phone calls to his mother back home in Peru and the money he sends her. Julio moved to ...
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Finland 2001 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Kai Lehtinen
The opening shot is the eye of a bird. And quite as if he were a bird of passage, Poika falls in love with shy Umur only to lose her again. Their bittersweet drama is acted out against the backdrop of the disturbingly beautiful landscape of Lapland, ...
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Germany 2009 | 53 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Sophie Haarhaus, Kullar Viimne
Sophie and Simon sit on the floor of an abandoned hut. The young woman holds the 17-year old’s hand, listening to his story. He was kidnapped at the age of ten. Now he has returned. He is one of 30,000 children made to become child soldiers in Nort ...
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Germany 2007 | 96 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Jan Hinrik Drevs
Brutal prison inmate Mosk enters a rehabilitation programme, training guide dogs for the blind. Mosk develops a close attachment to the dog and also opens up to prison director Gloria. But when he is required to give over the dog, it comes to a deed ...
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Columbia, France, Germany, Peru 2009 | 103 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Javier Fuentes-León
In a tiny Peruvian seaside village, where traditions run deep, Miguel (Cristian Mercado), a young fisherman, and his beautiful bride, Mariela (Tatiana Astengo), are about to welcome their first child. But Miguel harbors a scandalous secret. He‘ ...
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USA 2002 | 108 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Matthew Ryan Hoge
Produced by Kevin Spacey, who also features in a central role, this film tells the story of the young murderer Leland Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling), imprisoned in a juvenile detention facility for killing a retarded boy. Here he comes
into contact with ...
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Germany 2006 | 88 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Judith Kennel
Detective superintendent Jana Winter's new case proves a nervewracking assignment. A baby was stolen from his pram and found dead soon after. Jana, herself in the last stages of pregnancy, bungles the investigation and is taken off the case. She star ...
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Germany 2011 | 89 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Judith Kennel
A teenager is found dead at the beach with hands and feet tied up. The post mortem reveals that he was still alive before the tide came in. The mysterious part is that in Hamburg a similar crime was committed. Is this the work of serial killer? To f ...
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Germany 2012 | 89 min | OV | FF 2012
Regie: Andreas Herzog
Tony Schiermeier (Friedrich von Thun), head of the Brunnharting water works, has been burgled. Apparently though nothing has been stolen, merely the safe door forced open. Inspectors Prohacek (Senta Berger) and Langner (Rudolf Krause) inv ...
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Germany 2005 | 180 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Kaspar Heidelbach
Unsinkable was the verdict on the German training ship Pamir. At least before 21 September 1957. One hurricane later it had sunk in the Atlantic, in an incident that is among the most tragic in the history of maritime shipping. alone 50 cadets drowne ...
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France 2002 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Raymond Depardon
“Black and white underlines the simplicity of my story,” states the world-famous photographer and film-maker, Raymond Depardon. Loosely based on a novel by Diego Brosset,
Depardon’s film takes us to the Sahara desert and its nomad inhabitants. ...
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Germany, Austria 2005 | 97 min | OV with German ST | FF 2005
Regie: Angelina Maccarone
Iranian translator Fariba (Jasmin Tabatabai) has fled her own country, where she is under threat of execution for having had an affair with a woman. However, having reached Germany, her asylum request is turned down. She is forced to adopt the identi ...
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UK 2011 | 70 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Adam Wakeling
This is a film about a technique that could save more carbon emissions annually than all global aviation combined. It is a film about one of the biggest contributors to tropical deforestation and global warming: slash and burn agriculture. The film ...
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Uruguay, Spain 2010 | 67 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Federico Veiroj
Fortyfive-years-old Jorge lives with his parents and has been working at a Film Archive for 25 years. He is a film programmer, he makes technical support, and he conducts the film news show at a radio station in Montevideo. Without any other job expe ...
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