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Mexiko 2008 | 60 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Matías Meyer
A young man seeks extremes. Alone in the Mexican desert, he takes mescaline which he extracts from Peyote cactuses, following a centuries-old, Indian tradition.“My films always centre on a lack of communication, on death and solitude,” says direc ...
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Germany 2005 | 6 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Andreas Schäfer
Der Taxifahrer Alex hat eigentlich Schichtende als er noch zu einer
letzten Fahrt gebeten wird. Als die gut gelaunte Sylvie in seinen Wagen
steigt, erklärt sie ihm, daß sie gerne zu einem hohen Kirchturm
gefahren werden möchte, um sich von dort in ...
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United Kingdom 2010 | 88 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Patrick McGrady
Actor and writer Stephen Fry explores his passion for the world‘s most controversial composer – Richard Wagner. But Stephen is Jewish and lost family members in the Holocaust, so can he salvage the music he loves from its dark association ...
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Burkina Faso 2010 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Missa Hebié
In a ficticious „gulf republic“ president Koyaga rules. His countless lies and crimes are revealed in the songs of the griot, the West African story-teller. After 21 years of dictatorship his rule finds an end through a coup d'état. Koyaga fle ...
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USA 2007 | 107 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Adrienne Shelly
A bittersweet comedy about waitress Jenna (Keri Russell) with a boring husband and a penchant for baking and naming phantastic cakes. When she is pregnant she comes up with an I Don't Want Earl's Baby cake, which she enters in a competition. Then she ...
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Greece 2005 | 99 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Nikos Grammatikos
In just one night, a cat and mouse game unfolds between two brothers who couldn't be more different. Andréas is a policeman on the run. Nikos is a priest and the brother he turns to for help. Which can be hard if you haven't been talking for a decad ...
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France, Israel 2004 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Simone Bitton
WALL is a cinematic meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the filmmaker blurs the lines of hatred by asserting her double identity as Jew and Arab.
In an original documentary approach, the film follows the separation fence that is ...
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Belgium 2008 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Patric Jean
A documentary film that leads through Europe like a road movie. It ranges from the Berlin Wall to Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish enclaves on African soil, whose city
walls are designed to deter migrants from Black Africa. Patric Jean paints the portrait ...
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Columbia 2004 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Ciro Guerra
One-legged Mañe meets the “Stool Man”, whose job consists of carrying people through the streets of Bogotá. A relationship develops that blurs the boundaries between good and evil. For the young director Ciro Guerra, the “silleter ...
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Russia 2009 | 83 min | OV with German ST | FF 2009
Regie: Karen Shakhnazarov
Karen Shakhnazarov already thought of making a film of Anton Chekhov’s “Ward No. 6” more than 20 years ago. He had even decided on a main actor: Marcello Mastroianni. 20 years later his wish has come true, this time with Vladimir Ilyin in the l ...
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Bulgaria 2002 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2003
Regie: Kostadin Bonev
Changing political regimes are a bit like warming up yesterday’s lunch, or so claims the ageing Macedonian, Katerina (Svetlana Yancheva). “It’s just the same, but tastes a bit different.” From 1941-1944, Macedonia was occupied by Bulgaria, be ...
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Sweden 2008 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Simon Staho
Simon Staho describes his film as “a tribute to excessive love. To a love that demands sacrifices, scars and gunshot wounds.” It centres on the young, lesbian couple Ida and Karin. Karin wants to face her past, in which her father used to ...
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Germany 2010 | 69 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Christina Seeland
Documentary. Director Christina Seeland accompanied six severely disabled individuals for a year. She attended therapy sessions, went on trips and had detailed conversations with the disabled, their relatives and the nursing staff. This documentary n ...
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Germany 2008 | 85 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Susan Gluth
Wet napkins are put through the mangle, entangled bras are removed from the washing net, tumble dryers hum amongst the steaming and the hissing. Tanja, Gerti
and Monika combat dirty laundry with water and soap. After 20 years of toiling in the laundr ...
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Spain 2011 | 94 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Alberto Morais
Miguel sets out on a journey that he has been anticipating for sixty years, from Valencia to a small town in the south of France called Argelès-sur-Mer, the last stop for thousands of refugees not so long ago. Journeying in his old car through an u ...
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Rumania 2007 | 16 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Adrian Sitaru
A day at the beach turns into a nightmare for a carefree young man when a mother has an accident and leaves her handicapped child behind ...
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Netherlands 2012 | 80 min | OV with English and German ST | FF 2012
Regie: Jeroen van Velzen
The Kenyan Masoud was once a legendary shark hunter. His body carries the marks of decades of hunting. Despite his 70 years, the fisherman dreams of one last big catch. With his grandson Yuma, he ventures ever further out into the ocean i ...
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UK, Spain 2010 | 91 min | OV with German voice over | FF 2011
Regie: Gustavo Ron
Sam has leukaemia. Since he is too ill to go to school, he and his best friend Felix are home-schooled by Mrs Willis. In one of their lessons she makes them think of ways to become immortal. So Sam starts to write a diary. After all: Living forever ...
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Iran 2005 | 91 min | OV with English ST | FF 2005
Regie: Bizhan Mirbagheri
Jamshid, like so many other Iranians, is living in exile. A friend offers to bring news from “back home” and Jamshid’s relatives in Teheran decide to hire a camera to record video messages. Speaking into the camera however, inspires an entirely ...
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Rumania 2009 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Dan Chișu
In a world where any teenager can film with his own mobile phone and post all kinds of things on the internet, Laura, an 18-years-old girl, spends a night in a club with her friend Mira. She gets drunk and smokes her first joint. In the morning she d ...
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France 2007 | 106 min | OV with German ST | FF 2008
Regie: Dany Boon
For someone from the South of France to live in the North of France is unthinkable – and in this case unspeakably funny. Postman Philippe (Kad Merad) is involuntarily relocated to the rough North – to the ‘Ch’tis’, as th ...
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Germany 2011 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Tim Staffel
Simon is a brooder and an oddball who's currently preoccupied with several problems at once: his sexuality, for which he can find no way of letting off steam, and everyday life on the farm: for his father, he can never so anything right. Simon' ...
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USA 2005 | 16 min | OV | FF 2005
Regie: Hannah Beth King
Coming-of-age drama about 12-year-old Jane discovering her sexuality, and being forced to decide between her grandmother and mother. ...
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Canada 2011 | 111 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Guy Édoin
Simon is a brooder and an oddball who’s currently preoccupied with several problems at once: his sexuality, for which he can find no way of letting off steam, and everyday life on the farm: for his father, he can never do anything right. Simon& ...
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USA 2009 | 92 min | OV with German ST | FF 2009
Regie: Woody Allen
After five touristy years, Woody Allen is finally telling another of his typical New York stories. It centres on the eccentric quantum physician Boris Yellnikof (Larry David), who is bemoaning his life. He was almost awarded the Nobel Prize, his wife ...
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Denmark 2004 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Lotte Svendsen
Lotte Svendsen’s
latest film is an ironic look at the comfortable Danish life. A week in the life of Inge, desperate to get her house into a lifestyle glossy; Erik, her husband, having to drink his wine in the out-house; Svend, Copenhage ...
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Serbia 2003 | 99 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Radivoje Andric
Andric tells
three inter-related tales of young people on the verge of an adulthood which holds no promise – „slackers“, with no plans or ideas of what to do, just a vague feeling that happiness is not something you should have to ...
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Republic of Korea 2004 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Yun In-ho In-ho
Yeo Min is a Korean boy who lives with his family in a small mountain village. Although only nine years old, he already carries quite a heavy load of responsibilities on his slim shoulders. He is spokesman and leader of a swarm of children, class cap ...
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USA 2006 | 109 min | OV with English ST | FF 2006
Regie: Jasmine Dellal
A vibrating documentary - small wonder, given the high-strung musical context of flamenco, brass band music, Roumanian violins, Indian (dots, not feathers) folk. This is what happens when The Gypsy Caravan comes to town, and the musicians hailing fro ...
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Japan 2008 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Masahiro Kobayashi
Kobyashi’s seventh film at Filmfest Hamburg, “Where Are You?”, tells the story of 16-year old pupil Ryo, who must cover the hospital costs for his mother. When she dies, his financial situation is worsened still, as a worthy funeral proves much ...
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USA 2008 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Morgan Spurlock
Radical filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has made a film of his radical reaction to his wife’s notifying him of his imminent fatherhood. To ensure his child can live in a safe
world, he embarks on a quest to find the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, mo ...
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Canada, Germany 2010 | 112 min | OV with German ST | FF 2011
Regie: Larysa Kondracki
Kathy Bolkovac is a Nebraskan police officer who takes a job working for the United Nations as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she unveils a different reality: corruption ...
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Argentina 2012 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2012
Regie: Pablo Trapero
The Argentinian Julián and the Belgian Nicolás are priests in a Buenos Aires slum, where drug gangs are involved in a bitter turf war.The skeleton of a hospital towers over the desolate quarter -- home to the priests and some poor families.While Ni ...
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Iran 2009 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Mohammad Rasoulof
In 2005 Mohammad Rasoulof won the Hamburg Film Critic’s Award for his film “Iron Island”. This time he presents a visually impressive fairy tale: an old tear collector rows across a salt lake, from one village to the next, to collect people’s ...
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Canada 2006 | 94 min | OV | FF 2007
Regie: Matt Bissonnette
Will (Lukas Haas) and Daniel (Adam Scott) grew up as best friends, sharing a taste in music and girls. Daniel was best man when Will married Maggie (Molly Parker), then one day Will disappeared without trace. When he shows up five years later at Dani ...
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Germany 2010 | 89 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Florian Baxmeyer
When successful estate agent Carla (Christiane Hörbinger) is retiring she suddenly realises, that she is alone. Her husband (Friedrich von Thun) divorced her years ago, her daughter (Susanna Simon) stays away. Carla turns to drink. It starts with a ...
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Germany 2002 | 86 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Stephan Wagner
Ginger (Katja Flint), a single mother, lives and works as a waitress in a trendy part of Hamburg. The last thing she hopes to find is a father to her 14-year-old daughter Nico and her 5-year-old son Max. When she starts an affair with Nico’s dancin ...
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Canada 2003 | 99 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Daniel Maclvor
A normal Thursday in the Canadian island
town of Wilby: real-estate agent Carol is selling her late mother-in-law’s house to the mayor, while her husband is putting the moves on the nextdoor neighbour. Then there’s Duck, a signwriter who ...
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Germany 2003 | 96 min | OV | FF 2003
Regie: Joachim Masannek
The Devil's Pot is the training ground of the Wild Guys and until this summer holiday it was exclusively their territory. The young soccer enthusiasts with their leader Leon only had one plan for the holidays - to play soccer. But a nasty continuous ...
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Netherlands 2007 | 13 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Ricky Rijneke
Thinking about life and death, a Chinese girl who was born in the West and has never been to Asia mixes fantasy and reality in this charming drama about grandmother and fish.
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Argentina 2010 | 94 min | OV with English ST | FF 2010
Regie: Gonzalo Castro
A documentarian film essay with and about the writer Mario Bellatin, who was born 1960 in Mexiko. After living in Peru and Cuba for some time, Bellatin is now back again in his home country. He himself says in Winter-house that he is already dead, an ...
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USA 2002 | 96 min | OV with German ST | FF 2003
Regie: David Anspaugh
Women against the Mob: Meg (Mira Sorvino), Kate (Melora Walters) and Rachel (Mariah Carey) all work as waitresses in a New York restaurant. While the pragmatic Kate and the
shy Rachel are able to shut their eyes to the Mafia dealings going on there, ...
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Republic of Korea 2007 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Soo-il Jeon
In the mining town of Kanwon, single father Hye-geon loses his job due to pneumoconiosis. Also, the loss of the family home is immanent due to a restructuring of the village. As Hye-geon turns to drink, his nine-year-old daughter Yeong-lim looks afte ...
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France 2009 | 80 min | OV with English ST | FF 2009
Regie: Axelle Ropert
Simon (François Damiens), mayor of a small town in the Basque region of France, wants to keep his family together. He has trouble coping with the fact that his wife Marianne (Valerie Benguigui), his vivacious teenage daughter Delphine and his shy li ...
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Sweden 2007 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Daniel Alfredson
Klemens (Peter Stormare) and his nephew Nejla belong to the Sami people. They own a herd of reindeer, which they mind on the border between Norway and Sweden. When a wolf threatens their herd, they take the law into their hands. One well-aimed blow o ...
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Philippines 2003 | 124 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Mario O' Hara
In search of a better life, Basilio
(Kristoffer King) ends up on the rubbish-filled beach of Manila, where social outcasts live from fi shing and collecting fl otsam and jetsam, or garbage from the beach. Here he gets to know Paqui ...
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Germany, Hungary, France 2010 | 112 min | OV | FF 2010
Regie: Benedek Fliegauf
The film is located at the German North Sea cost in the nearer future. Rebecca (Eva Green) returns to the home of her grandfather and meets again her friend from childhood, Thomas (Matt Smith). But since Thomas died by an accident, Rebecca‘s co ...
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Sweden 2011 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2011
Regie: Peter Gerdehag
79-year-old Britt Georgsson has devoted her entire life to cows. She’s been tending them since the age of four and, despite health problems, she has no intention of abandoning her strenuous work caring for her twelve pets on the rundown family ...
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