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Finland 2007 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Aleksi Mäkelä
The most successful Finnish film of the year tells the story of private detective Jussi Vares' latest case. This time he travels to the port of Pori to solve the murder of a young woman. But wherever he turns, he is met by a wall of silence. Trouble ...
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Germany 2010 | 83 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Josef Rusnak
Roger Willemsen wrote the screenplay from his first novel “Kleine Lichter” (“Small Lights”). He tells us about the thin line between life and death: For six months Valerie‘s (Franka Potente) lover has been in a coma. In ...
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India, France, Japan, Germany 2006 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Pan Nalin
A legend from the Himalaya spanning two centuries, love, death, and immortality, no less, is brought to the screen by Pan Nalin (Samsara). The colour-saturated, sensual epic revolves around Jalan, a brigand and Ushna, his bride, a mysterious beauty w ...
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India, USA 2012 | 82 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Musa Syeed
OPENING FILM
Clothing made from cashmere is now available almost everywhere, but the region that this fine material comes from is almost unknown. Is it at peace or war? How do the people live there? Answers are offered in Valley of ...
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Luxembourg, Belgium, France 2008 | 89 min | OV with German ST | FF 2008
Regie: Stephen Cafiero, Vincent Lobelle
A magnificent castle outside of Paris, an exclusive party, handpicked guests. A location to die for! This last is meant quite seriously by the party’s organizers – much to the horror of the guests and gatecrashers, who are the intended bu ...
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Russia 2008 | 106 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Elena Nikolaeva
17-year-old Nadeshda (Elena Velikanova) moves to Moscow and dreams of going to acting school. But her only friends die in an accident and she must look after
their nine-month-old baby son Vanechka. It seems the only way to save Vanechka from forced a ...
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Germany 1925 | 86 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Ewald André Dupont
For the third year in succession, this year’s Film Festival pays tribute to one of the stars of the silent-movie era. This time, it’s the mysterious and equally glamorous Hungarian Lya de Putti. She plays a lascivious dancer caught between two me ...
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Israel 2007 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Mushon Salmona
Vasermil is the name of a football stadium in Beersheba, Southern Israel, and stands for three young boys’ dream. Russian immigrant Dima deals drugs. Half-orphan Shlomi is a pizza delivery boy. Adiel, with Ethiopian roots, looks after his mothe ...
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Germany 2006 | 89 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Hermine Huntgeburth
One kid, two dads and not a single bright idea of how to deal with an adolescent who doesn't seem to do much besides eating fastfood and watching television. And it's not exactly as though that these dads haven't got problems of their own to sort out ...
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Turkey 2009 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Yağmur Taylan, Durul Taylan
The latest film Taylan Brothers have directed is a noir comedy that delicately tells the story of a small town family. Engin Günaydin, who has also scripted the film, plays Celal, a despondent man, unhappily married with a child to Sevilay. He works ...
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Croatia 2012 | 84 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Branko Schmidt
Danko Babic is a gynaecologist in his mid-thirties who has no scruples when it comes to furthering his career. He has excellent connections to the world of sex and drugs. Illegal abortins on prostitutes are part of everyday life. When his colleague B ...
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Poland 2010 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Jan Jakub Kolski
The movie is based on a series of short novels, written by Włodzimierz Odojewski: Venice is the story of an 11-years-old Marek, whose dreams of a summer trip to Venice are brutally cut short by the outbreak of war in 1939. To escape the cruel realit ...
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France 2008 | 113 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Pierre Schöller
The homeless Nina (Judith Chemla) leaves her son Enzo (Max Baisette de Malglaive) with Damien (Guillaume Depardieu), a hermit who lives in a forest near the palace of Versailles. An initially demure relationship builds up into familiar tenderness. Bu ...
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Austria 2007 | 87 min | OV with German ST | FF 2007
Regie: Mirjam Unger
The film centres on eight 80-year-old ladies, deported by the Nazis from Vienna as children, via London to New York where they still live today. Mirjam Unger accompanies them in their everyday life, painting the portrait of a lively Jewish community ...
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Argentina 2009 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: José Celestino Campusano
Viking is a story that exposes, powerful and deep as life itself, the conflict between two groups from Buenos Aires suburbs. Vikingo is a motorcyclist. Though his way of life may be licentious somehow, his code is based in the concepts of honor and r ...
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Argentina 2008 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: José Celestino Campusano
The young gay Roberto lives with his mother and sister until he moves in with the older, sexually experienced Raúl. But when the latter stays increasingly away from home, Roberto begins a parallel relationship. Raúl reacts with jealousy and severe ...
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Chile, Argentina, Brazil 2011 | 110 min | OV with German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Andrés Wood
The song „Gracias a la vida“ made Violeta Parra immortal. It was covered by Mercedes Sosa and Joan Baez and is seen as an important example of the Nueva Canción Chilena movement, which combined Chilean folk music with social criticism in ...
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Netherlands 2011 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Will Koopman
The TV series Gooische Vrouwen is Netherlands answer to Sex and the City: Four women who live in the Gooi, where the sun always shines. Cheryl, Claire, Roelien and Anouk are happily facing their everyday trials and tribulations that look like they a ...
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France 2008 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Cédric Venail
The Israeli artist Absalon passed away in 1993, aged 28. His project “Cellules” (1992) brought him international fame. Prototypes of living units measuring between four and eight square meters. These contained all the basic necessities fo ...
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140 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
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Twenty-five European directors present
their individual visions of Europe in short films. Produced by Michael Olsen (Zentrope Entertainment), and funded primarily by ZDF and arte, with the support of various national fi lm funding ...
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USA 2007 | 103 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Thomas McCarthy
Bored by everyday life, 62-year-old Walter (Richard Jenkins), professor and widower, reluctantly attends a congress in New York, where he owns an apartment.
To his surprise, he finds two illegal aliens living there: the Syrian Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) an ...
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Germany 2009 | 9 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Gabriele Schwark
This documentary essay is a journey through time and memory, fantasy and reality: a cosmos of remembrance via compositing, back projection, animation, collage and repainting. ...
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Germany 2006 | 90 min | OV | FF 2006
Regie: Friedemann Fromm
Policewoman Lena Jörning finds her first corpse, drifting like pack ice in the Ostsee. Rather more shocking is the fact that this is her estranged sister who ventured out into the big world while Lena stayed behind in the village to take care of the ...
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Germany 2011 | 88 min | OV | FF 2011
Regie: Joachim Bornemann
Kay and Bernd want to travel from Hamburg to South Africa in an 18 year old Volkswagen van. All on their own they want to cross the dark continent to get to the World Championship of football. On the road they do everything to get live reports of th ...
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