Sept 26 - Oct 5, 2013
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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