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France 2004 | 90 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: François Ozon
5X2 or How to live with someone else: Five moments in the life of a modern couple. Intelligently structured and with human depth, Ozon‘s latest work is undoubtedly one of the most exciting French fi lms this year. ...
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Belgium 2004 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Ben and Gus (played by the film’s directors) live in the same village and hate each other. But they have one thing in common: they are both paralysed from the waist down after an accident with a farming machine. In their wheelchairs, they set o ...
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Egypt, France 2004 | 128 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Youssef Chahine
78-year-old Youssef Chahine’s latest work is the fourth fi lm he has dedicated to his home city. „Alexandrie...New York“ is a cosmopolitan masterwork. The Egyptian fi lm
director Yehia meets his old love, Ginger, in New York for the fi rst tim ...
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Belgium 2004 | 19 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Micha Wald
Simon has to drive his old aunt Mala and two of her friends, Lydia and
Colette, to the seaside. While driving, he gets a call from his
girlfriend, Alice, which turns into an argument. Being the Jewish
grandmothers that they are, the three women slowl ...
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Sri Lanka 2003 | 108 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Prasanna Vithanage
„August Sun“ interweaves the stories of three people
in August 1996 as the Sri Lankan cricketers approach the World Cup final in Lahore and peace talks with the rebel Tamil Tigers are fl oundering. A Muslim boy is driven from his home by the reb ...
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Germany 2004 | 80 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Christian Bau
Godard’s 1977 question, „Is it possible to make films in Germany?“ is still valid today. As is the wish to make films without an eye to the audience. Christian Bau quizzes friends and filmmakers, looks at strategies for artistic survival. „Wi ...
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Germany 2003 | 98 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Christian von Castelberg
Popular TV police inspector Bella Block (Hannelore Hoger) is having problems: she’s accused of being cynical at work, and of being selfish at home. And she’s completely in the dark in the case of an escaped serial killer who seems to have c ...
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Germany 1921 | 85 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Ernst Lubitsch
This year’s retrospective is devoted to the legendary vamp, Pola Negri. Polish by birth, she rose to fame in Germany and was one of the fi rst actresses to move to Hollywood, in 1922. Ernst Lubitsch’s silent comedy, „Die Bergk ...
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Iran 2004 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Mohsen Amiryoussefi
For 40 years, Esfandiari has been preparing corpses for burial in the central Iranian town of Sedeh, where gravestones from the 12th century stand alongside recent ones from the Iran-Irak war. One day, Esfandiari suddenly feels ill when making prepar ...
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India 2004 | 161 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Anurag Kashyap
BLACK FRIDAY When fanatical Hindus destroyed the Babri
Mosque in Ayodhya in northern India in 1992, battles ensued between Hindu and Moslem communities all over India. Only three weeks later, a series of bombings put Bombay into a state of emergency ...
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United Kingdom 2003 | 92 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: John Furse
Two men in a prison cell, day and night. Based on the true story of an Irish teacher and an English journalist who were kidnapped and held hostage by Lebanese terrorists and forced to share a cell for four years. As they live through darkness and lig ...
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USA 2003 | 75 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Jamie Johnson
„One day my uncle took me into Grand Central Station and said: This is yours,“ says a young man, clearly embarrassed. This interview film by Jamie Johnson, millionaire heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, looks at the problems of th ...
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Turkey 1973 | 97 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Lütfi Ömer Akad
It is said that Istanbul’s streets are paved with gold. Sufficient reason for a poor family to move from Anatolia to the capital. The young son becomes ill, but the money an operation would cost is needed for their new shop. The boy dies ...
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Denmark 2004 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Susanne Bier
Michael (Ulrich Thomsen) has his life under control: an army career, a wife (Connie Nielsen), two daughters. His younger brother, Yannik (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), however, is a drifter. When Michael is reported missing on a UN mission to Afghanistan, Yanni ...
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Argentina 2004 | 94 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Leonardo Di Cesare
BUENA VIDA DELIVERY Leonardo Di Cesare’s directorial debut
is a parable about the survival of the increasingly impoverished middle classes in Argentina. The story of Hernan, a courier, who thinks he has found a nice new girlfriend, only to end up ...
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USA 2004 | 80 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Michael Paradies Shoob, Joseph Mealy
He is barely known, but everything he says is likely to be of consequence for the whole world: Karl Rove, conservative strategist and US-President Bush’s chief advisor, or „Bush’s Brain“. Based on the book by reporters James C ...
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United Kingdom 2003 | 5 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: David Sethi
Animated cans of soup are used to explore issues of prejudice and intolerance.
Shows that we all end up in the same melting pot! ...
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Argentina 2003 | 108 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Gastón Biraben
Having worked for years as a sound editor in Hollywood, Gastón Biraben’s directorial debut takes him back to his home country of Argentina. 15-year-old Cristina is taken from her Catholic boarding school to discover that her parents were left- ...
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France 2004 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Maurice Barthélemy
A burlesque, fast-moving „mockumentary“
about Casablanca Driver, the world’s worst boxer in 1969, when the film is set. A chain of unfortunate circumstances leads to the fi ghter at the bottom of the world rankings having to take o ...
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Czech Republik 2004 | 83 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Marek Najbrt
A village pub on the German-Czech border. A handful of people meet up to watch the World Ice Hockey Championships. Marek Najbrt’s grandiose directorial debut is a fi lm about missed opportunities and post-Communist traumata, reminiscent of the ...
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Slovenia 2003 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Branko Djurić
Actor Branko Djuric, known to an international audience through his performance in Kusturica’s „Time of the Gypsies“, makes a powerful and emotional debut as screenwriter and director.
The unemployed Bosnian, Bozo, lives with his S ...
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Czech Republik 2004 | 81 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Marek Dobeš
„Choking Hazard“ is described by director Marek Dobeš and screenwriter Stepan Kopriva as the „first Czech zombie
comedy“. Participants in the „Meaning of Life“ seminar at the remote Halali Hotel really are in ...
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USA 2004 | 94 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Pieter Jan Brugge
Wayne (Robert Redford) and Eileen (Helen Mirren)Hayes have raised two children and run a successful business – but have lost sight of each other. When Wayne is kidnapped by the unemployed Mack (Willem Dafoe), their relationship faces a major te ...
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France 2004 | 88 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Eléonore Faucher
When 17-year-old Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers that she is pregnant, she decides to keep it a secret. She finds a place to stay with the Armenian embroidress, Madame Melikian (Ariane Ascaride). As Claire’s pregnancy advances, a singular fri ...
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Peru, Spain, Chile, Cuba, Argentina 2003 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Alberto Durant
THE CON GAME looks at the urban Peruvian middle classes in
late 2000, caught up in a political climate of resignation, fear and hysteria. A film-maker, a pianist, a real-estate agent, an accountant and an interior designer, all unemployed, fall prey ...
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Philippines 2003 | 111 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Mark Meily
CRYING LADIES Mark Meily’s debut, a major box-offi ce hit in the Philippines, is an hilarious comedy centred on three women from Manila’s Chinatown – one is a thief, the next a strict Catholic having an affair with a married man, an ...
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Argentina 2003 | 83 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Atilio Perin
Four pensioners from Venado Tuerto, a small town in the province of Santa Fe in Argentina, meet regularly to play truco or boccia. The desolate state of the country’s economy leads them to come up with the idea of kidnapping an industry magnate ...
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Albania, Germany, France 2004 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Gjergj Xhuvani
Following the success of „Slogans“, Gjergj Xhuvani’s new film delves deeper into his home country’s history. It tells the true story of the director’s grandfather, who became friendly with a German officer du ...
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Peru 2003 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Alvaro Velarde
Ana is a rich housewife. To her annoyance, her husband rents out her garden to a soap-opera production and then disappears on a business trip. Erring on to the set, she gets mistaken for an actress and is given a part in the series. The boundaries be ...
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Turkey 2002 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan not only writes and directs his fi lms, but produces and edits them himself as well. „Uzak“ received the Grand Jury Award at the 2003 Cannes Festival. Mahmut, a photographer, lets his unemployed cousin Yusuf stay w ...
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Finland 2004 | 104 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Markku Pölönen
Markku Pölönen’s latest film is set in the
early 1950s. Merti (Peter Franzén) has been retarded since receiving a head wound in the war, and is lost in the uncertainties of post-war Finland.
Hearing about a dog a friend left behind, ...
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Germany 2004 | 87 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Vivian Naefe
On holiday in Africa, Emma (Senta Berger) leaves her husband after an argument and ends up on an ostrich farm run by the gruff German emigrant, John (Götz George) and his daughter (Jeanette Hain). Emma, whose life has been held together by middle-cl ...
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Germany 2004 | 95 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Ayse Polat
They are both outsiders: Alice (Maria Kwiatkowsky),
handicapped by her hypersensitive hearing, and Kurdish refugee Berivan (Pinar Erincin) meet in a home for girls. Berivan misses her home country, while Alice has a complicated relationship to her y ...
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Portugal 2003 | 101 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Luís Galvão Teles
Luís Galvão Teles’ latest film is a life-affirming crime comedy with new faces: the Portuguese Amadeu (European Shooting Star Ângelo Torres) and the Brazilian Leonardo (Danton Mello) are small-time criminals whose motto is „Crime means ...
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USA 2003 | 70 min | German Version | FF 2004
Regie: Don Oriolo
Christmas is coming, and Felix will have his paws full if he is to save it. A bit of snow is all very well, but this much can only be an obstacle to Santa. To make sure he’s able to deliver his presents, Felix and his smart friend Pointdexter set o ...
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United Kingdom 2004 | 90 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Nick Love
THE FOOTBALL FACTORY Nick Love’s big-screen debut is a
controversial fi lm on British football hooligans. Tommy (Danny Dyer) is a Chelsea fan who spends every Saturday in a cloud of tear-gas, punch-ups, drugs and alcohol. Before the game aga ...
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Sweden, Denmark 2004 | 192 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Tomas Alfredson
A 192-minute epic with surprising visual effects, which presents Sweden as a universally valid human nightmare. Four storylines are interwoven: a successful man meets his fate in the form of a small wooden fi gure; a father and son bury a pet; a grou ...
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Germany 2004 | 78 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Thomas Schlottmann, Andreas Geiger
The painter Steve Keene is a rebel on the international art scene, mass-producing works which he sells for a few dollars each. „Buying one of my paintings should be like buying a CD. It’s cheap, it’s art and it can change your life. But it’s ...
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Iran 2004 | 70 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Saman Salur
Two young brothers in an inhospitable
region in the Iranian steppes survive by doing „dirty“ jobs – feeding opium to camels carrying smuggled goods across the desert, stealing oil and petrol from the trucks at the near-by salt mine ...
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France 2004 | 80 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
In „Microcosmos“ (1996), we were shown the world through
the eyes of a dragonfl y. Now biologist-directors Nuridsany and Pérennou take us back to the origins of life on earth. The story of the blue planet and a mystic African shaman (Sotigui Ko ...
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Germany 2004 | 85 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Peter Hüls, Oliver Gieth
First came the Miracle of Bern, then the Bundesliga. Its
first ten years (1963 to 1974) are the subject of this comprehensive documentary by Oliver Gieth and Peter Hüls. The debut directors spent two years researching in archives, bringing to ligh ...
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Turkey 1977 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Atif Yilmaz
Aysa is married to Ilya,
a truck driver who is an alcoholic. He loses his job and Aysa’s love. She starts a new life with Cemsit. Years later, Ilya appears on her doorstep and Aysa has to choose between the two men. Atif Yilmaz poses existenti ...
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China 2003 | 89 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Zhang Yuan
Every time she has a date with a man, the student
Wu Fong (Zhao Wei from „Shaolin Soccer“) reads his tea leaves. Chen, a cynical macho, makes life hard for her – he drinks coffee. But then Chen meets the seductive Langlang (Zhao We ...
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USA 2004 | 78 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Bill Plympton
Probably the most popular independent American animator,
Bill Plympton’s latest work contains his usual sex and violence in what he terms „a gothic high-school comedy with a ‘Carrie’-like story.“ Cherri and Rod are the ...
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Hungary 2003 | 99 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Fazekas Csaba
Budapest music teacher András is turning
30, but has none of the things he always felt he should have at that age: no wife, no car, no house, no children. Instead, he lives with his mother and walks everywhere… With a whirlwind of visual idea ...
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Spain 2004 | 105 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Garcia Querejeta
Following the death of his mother, 16-year-old Héctor ends up with his aunt in an impoverished apartment on the outskirts of Madrid. When his wealthy father appears and offers him the chance to live a life of luxury in Mexico, Héctor is faced with ...
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Croatia 2003 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Zrinko Ogresta
Six stories, seemingly unrelated. A dozen fi gures drifting along, their lives touching each other, moving apart again. A pensioner, an exsoldier, a junkie – all people on the fringes of society, stuck in hopeless
situations with an uncertain ...
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USA 2004 | 96 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Michael Mayer
An ode to life, love and the family. In this case, however, the family consists of the gay chef, Bobby (Colin Farrell), the journalist, Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) and their friend Clare (Robin Wright Penn). Broadway director Michael Mayer’s @ ...
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Singapour 2003 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Jack Neo
Because of a stupid mishap the boy Ah Kun loses his little sister’s only pair of shoes. The desperation is enormous: How is Seow Fang supposed to go to school without them? There is no replacement for them in sight and their poor parents must n ...
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100 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Yilmaz Güney
HOPE „Hope“ is undoubtedly one of the milestones of Turkish cinema.
In brilliantly composed black and white images, Güney shows shocking perspectives of hopeless poverty. The film tells the tale of the poor horsecab driver, Cabbar (played ...
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USA 2004 | 89 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Harry Thomason, Nickolas Perry
"The Hunting Of the President" examines the campaign waged by the conservative press in America against former president Bill Clinton, from the initial attacks on his election as Governor of Arkansas in 1990 to his downfall over the L ...
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Netherlands 2004 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Joram Lürsen
To play in the orange jersey of the Dutch national soccer team one day! Remco is crazy about soccer and dreams of being selected for the Dutch U12-team for young players under the age of 12. His father and coach Erik shares this dream of his 11-year- ...
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USA 2004 | 90 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Susan Emshwiller
In this social satire inspired by sci-fi movies of the 50s, the USA is hit by a major new epidemic, MOODS (Maternal Organic Operating Dysfunction Syndrome). Milk products from genetically-modifi ed cows turn mothers into murderers.
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Turkey 1997 | 110 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Zeki Demirkubuz
After being released from prison, Yussuf gets to know the singer, Ugur, her husband, Bekir, and their daughter. Bekir takes his own life when he realises that Ugur is in love with another man. Shortly after, Ugur disappears. Yussuf sets out to ᤙ ...
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USA 2004 | 123 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Katja von Garnier
„Iron Jawed Angels“ tells the story of the American suffragettes Alice Paul (Oscar-winner Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O’Connor), who resorted to radical means such as hunger strikes to fight for women’s right to vote ...
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Germany 2004 | 89 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Jürgen Flimm
Theatre director Jürgen Flimm has revamped Heinrich von Kleist’s „Käthchen von Heilbronn“ (1810) into a modern-day mixture of a corporate crime thriller and love story. The story: 16-year-old Käthchen stalks successful entrepreneur Strahl an ...
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USA 2003 | 90 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Paul Lynch
In Paul Lynch’s psycho-thriller, „The Keeper“, Dennis Hopper once again plays a convincing role as a dark character. He abducts a stripper (Asia Argento), then keeps her in captivity with the aim of putting her back onto the straight and narrow ...
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Sweden 2004 | 91 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Teresa Fabik
13-year-old Sofie and her best friends Emma and Amanda have made it: They are finally attending high school and will thus enter the realm of cool parties, new friends and cute boys!
As a matter of fact, the three manage to get invited to the coolest ...
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Finland 2003 | 92 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Ilkka Vanne
A Finnish romantic comedy bursting with passion, laughs and vices. To fi nd out how foreigners are treated in Finland, Tuomas (Ville Haapasalo is more popular in Russia than in his home country of Finland) borrows the identity of his friend Omar, fro ...
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Germany 2004 | 123 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Wim Wenders
A portrait of a traumatised nation: America after 9/11. Having witnessed a crime, the idealist Lana (Michelle Williams) and her uncle, Paul (John Diehl), a Vietnam vet, join forces to see that justice is done. Their quest becomes a journey into the n ...
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Philippines 2003 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Joel Lamangan
Archaic myths, Catholicism and 50 years as
a US colony have made for a unique mixture in the Philippines. In Joel Lamangan’s latest drama, a false priest triggers a wave of religious fanaticism with fake miracles on an island. Overnight, the p ...
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United Kingdom 2004 | 90 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Peter Howitt
Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore
star in this romantic comedy as two rival divorce lawyers whose clients are a womanizing British rockstar (Michael Sheen) and his gaudy designer wife (Parker Posey). The case takes the quarrelsome lawyers to Ireland ...
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Argentina 2004 | 70 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Fernán Rudnik
Like his debut, „El nadador inmóvil“, Fernán Rudnik’s latest fi lm does not tread conventional paths. It is set on the remote beach of Pueblo Chico, which foreign investors would like to develop. The mayor opposes the plans, but o ...
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Iran 2004 | 115 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Kamal Tabrizi
A commercial comedy from Iran, which did exceptionally well at the box-offi ce there before being withdrawn. Reza (Parviz Parastouie) is known as Lizard because he can run up walls – a talent which serves him well when he breaks out of pr ...
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France 2004 | 110 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Agnès Jaoui
20-year-old Lolita (Marilou Berri) battles for her father’s love while dreaming of a career as a singer. But her father (co-author Jean-Pierre Bacri), a vain writer with an appetite for younger women, shows little interest in his daughter. Thin ...
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Japan 2003 | 111 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Kensaku Watanabe
„If you had to choose, who would you want to kill you?“ the girl asks the contract killer. „Someone who hates me,“ he replies. There is no lack of candidates in this fast-moving drama about life, love, death, crime and punishm ...
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Spain, Chile, France, United Kingdom 2003 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Andrés Wood
Chilean director Andrés Wood tells the story of an exceptional friendship set against the backdrop of the 1973 military coup in Chile: Gonzalo and Pedro are eleven years old – one of them is from a wealthy district, the other from an illegal p ...
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USA 2004 | 6 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Chel White
A first love is corrupted as a man recalls his affair with a beautiful
circus contortionist in this stop-motion animation of wooden manikins.
At its heart, "Magda" is an off-center parable about lost innocence and
the corruptibility of huma ...
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USA 2004 | 90 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Andrew Gurland, Huck Botko
Documentary filmmaker Andrew Gurland helps a New York concierge pay a marriage agency’s fees on condition that he can film what happens from then on. Mail-order wife Lichi’s dreams of a better life are shattered on her fi ...
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India 2004 | 179 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Farah Khan
Bollywood at its best – and a huge hit at the
Indian box-offi ce. Shahrukh Khan stars as army commando Major Ram, ordered to pose as a high-school student to protect Sanjana (Amrita Rao), a general’s daughter. But the classroom hol ...
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Germany 2004 | 93 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Miguel Alexandre
It’s been a year since Kate (Lisa Martinek) and her friends Inge and Malise drowned their psychopathic neighbour (Axel Milberg) in a forest pond. Kate and Malise have moved into a new house; Kate is now romantically involved with police inspector L ...
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Germany 2004 | 75 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Silke Schütze, Armin Plöger
„1929 marked the advent of sound in films and thousands of musicians were made redundant!“ Manya was 18, and a cellist. She switched to the accordeon and the varieté stage, then entertained the troops during the war. In the 50s she found ...
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Portugal, France 2004 | 96 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Mario Barroso
Mario Barroso’s romantic melodrama is set in 1917. In the village of Fatima, the
Virgin Mary appears to three shepherd children, calling for world peace.
Salomé is a young prostitute who still dreams of creating a better world and fi n ...
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Sweden 2003 | 83 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Linus Torell
After the death of her mother Misa stays with her grandmother up in the Northern tip of Sweden. In the dense forests she not only finds comfort and refuge but also becomes friends with a female wolf. When Misa learns that poachers are roaming about t ...
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France, Belgium 2003 | 73 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Benoît Mariage
L’Autre tells the story of Clair (Dominique Baeyens) and Pierre (Philippe Grand’Henry). Learning that she is pregnant with twins, Clair feels she will be incapable of loving two children and decides to have one of the 12-week-old embryos ...
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Germany 2004 | 89 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Matti Geschonneck
Inspector Anton Glauberg (Heino Ferch) and his East-German colleague, Paula Reinhardt (Nadja Uhl), are investigating a mysterious murder case in Husum. Recent German history forms the backdrop to this cross between political thriller and love story, ...
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Turkey 1987 | 145 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Yavuz Turgul
Mushin Bey, played by Turkish superstar Sener Sen, is an unsuccessful music producer. Obsessed with classical Turkish folk music, he rejects any modern „Arabesques“. No wonder, then, that he is
constantly at loggerheads with Ali (Ugur Y ...
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Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom 2004 | 96 min | German Version | FF 2004
Regie: Peter Timm
When the family comedy ‘Rennschwein Rudi Ruessel” (translates as ‘Rudy the Racing Pig’) hit the big screen in 1995, thousands of children turned vegetarian over night. Director Peter Timm seems to have a penchant for cute four-legged friends, ...
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Germany 2004 | 82 min | German Version | FF 2004
Regie: Michael Johnson, Tatjana Ilyina
Once upon a time, there was a little, spoiled prince, who lived with his humble servants and his uncle Drosselmeier – a real magician – in a legendary castle. The naughty prince had everything one could wish for or purchase but no compass ...
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Ecuador 2003 | 87 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Víctor Manuel Arregui
„Six out of ten Ecuadorians live in extreme poverty,“ says director Victor Manuel Arregui. The rich hide themselves away behind walls in „ciudadelas“, where beggars and day labourers are not tolerated. Ten per cent of the country’s populati ...
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Denmark 2004 | 93 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Hella Joof
Liebe, Glaube und Musik! Mit einem schwungvollen Feel-Good-Movie eröffnet Filmfest Hamburg. Oh, Happy Day ist die Geschichte des US-Priesters und Gospelmusikers Jackson (Malik Yoba aus Smoke), der nach einem Busunfall in der dänschen Provinz strand ...
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Israel, France 2004 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Keren Yedaya
17-year-old Or is trying to get her mother, who works as a prostitute, off the streets. Or does everything she can to avoid her mother’s fate, which fi lm-maker and political activist Keren Yedaya describes as „the
worst form of sl ...
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Netherlands 2003 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Robert Jan Westdijk
Phileine is self-confi dent, bitchy and
jealous. And saying sorry is simply not her thing. Secretly pursuing her actor boy-friend Max to New York, she finds him, as Romeo, having sex on stage with Juliet, and disrupts the performance ...
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USA 2003 | 13 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Miha Mazzini
In this truly demented comedy,
a singing orphan beloved by all Slovene mothers reproduces exponentially
and must be stopped! ...
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Mexiko 2004 | 100 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Beto Gómez
The young boxer Jimmy Morales’ dreams of a golden
future are shattered when he is witness to a horrible murder and recognises the perpetrator as being the contract killer, Germán Corona. A relationship develops between the gangster and the bo ...
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Germany 2004 | 2 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Martin Enlen
An opulent two-part TV drama based on the life of the geologist, Hans Merenksy. Born and raised in South Africa, Hans (Tim Bergmann) moves to Berlin in the 1910s when his father dies. After university, he returns to Africa, to fi nd it overrun ...
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France 2004 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Yann Moix
Claude François was the French Gary Glitter – a 70s pop sensation. True to his legendary status, he lectrocuted himself in the bath. Bernard Fréderic (Benôit Poelvoorde) is the world-best Claude François imitator, and aims to win the title in t ...
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Finland, Sweden 2004 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Aleksi Salmenperä
Psychologist Venla (Minna Haapkylä)
works at a clinic specialising in artificial insemination and desperately longs for a child of her own. Her fi ancé, however, is determined not to become a father. Venla decides to have artifi ...
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United Kingdom 2004 | 85 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Richard Jobson
A martial arts film from Scotland, set in the near future. Gangs rule the inner cities, leaving other gangs in peace under the terms of a national truce. Power-hungry Moses (Kevin McKidd) wants to unite the gangs as an all-powerful confederatio ...
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Switzerland, Germany 2003 | 88 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Mike Eschmann
The first ever Swiss teen
military comedy! Snatched from the wedding altar by military police to do his military service, Antonio (European Shooting Star Michael Koch) is prepared to go to any lengths to get himself thrown out of the army and ...
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Argentina 2004 | 103 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Pablo Trapero
31-year-old director Pablo Trapero’s work draws comparisons to Roberto Rossellini for his naturalistic but poetic
style. Trapero’s own grandmother plays the lead role of an 85-year-old who sets off in a camper, accompanied by her extended family ...
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Italy 2003 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Andrea Manni
The story of Massimo Carlotto, one of Italy’s greatest legal scandals. In 1976, aged 19 and extremely left-wing, Carlotto was falsely convicted of having murdered a woman. Andrea Manni tells the tale of his
fi ght for justice as a grippi ...
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USA 2003 | 95 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Christian Johnston
In July 2002, US journalist Don Larson
(George Calil) travels to Afghanistan to document the hunt for Bin Laden. Accompanied by translator and guide, Wali (producer Wali Razqi), he enters the war zone. On September 3, Larson’s tapes are found ...
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Republic of Korea 2003 | 135 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Woo-Suk Kang
An action drama seen by over 10 million Koreans, more than saw „Titanic“ or „Lord of the Rings“. On government orders, 31 men on death row are trained as killing machines for a suicide mission. Shot in CinemaScope,
it is base ...
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Austria 2004 | 86 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Michael Glawogger
„A playful sex comedy,“ is how director Michael Glawogger describes his latest fi lm. Three student drop-outs from Graz take up the offer of shooting an amateur porno fi lm, hoping for plenty of money, sexual
adventure and fu ...
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Austria, Germany 2004 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Arash T. Riahi
A filmmaker comes across an unknown hobby film-maker’s Super-8 fi lms at a fleamarket and sets out in search of the man who made them. In the process, he slips deeper and deeper into the world of amateur filmmakers, who have their own sub-cultu ...
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New Zealand 2004 | 93 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Geoff Murphy
Based on Ian Wishart’s best-seller, „The Paradise Conspiracy“, and directed by Geoff Murphy („Goodbye Pork Pie“), who was second unit director on „Lord of the Rings“, „Spooked“ is a taut conspirac ...
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Germany 2003 | 89 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Stephan Wagner
Imprisoned by the Stasi (State Security
Police) for trying to escape from East Germany, Stein endures years of torture. Bought out by the West in the early 70s, he runs an organisation helping others flee the GDR - so successfully that the Stasi se ...
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Iran 2004 | 83 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Hassan Yektapanah
A bus with darkened windows drives through the
Iranian mountains into border country. Two men hand over money and get on board, joining masked illegal refugees hoping for a better life beyond the border. The new passengers are a director and cameram ...
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Iran 0 | 93 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Marziyeh Meshkini
Kabul. They are called „night prisoners“. When the sun goes down, the two children are allowed to share their mother’s cell. But a new warder puts a stop to it: „Prisons aren’t orphanages, they’re for criminalsR ...
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Germany 2004 | 96 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Torsten Wacker
23-year-old Elvis (Denis Moschitto) comes up with a crazy way of making the 30,000 euros he has to repay his uncle – „Süperseks“, the first Turkish-speaking telephone sex hotline. It is an immediate success. But then his girl ...
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Japan 2004 | 120 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Gen Sekiguchi
„This film is made like a commercial,“
says award-winning advertising director and feature-fi lm debutant Gen Sekiguchi. „My aim is to show all audiences that there are strange films in Japan!“ A woman survi ...
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Turkey 2004 | 88 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Reis Çelik
Reis Çelik’s original docu-drama takes us to a remote village in Eastern Anatolia. One day, the village’s
horse-drawn sleigh fi nds itself faced with exotic competition: a small, red bus. Knowing that the bus cannot take the short-cut a ...
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Germany 2004 | 89 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Christiane Balthasar
Police inspector Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler) is faced with a mystery about love, guilt and revenge, deep in the „Fairytale Forest“, where a young man has been shot from behind. Was the dead man wanted for robbery?
Was the shot meant ...
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Germany 2004 | 88 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Torsten C. Fischer
Inspectors Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär) are on a puzzling case. An entrepreneur has stepped on a mine in the Cologne woods. The dead man had business links to Africa, where he met
his wife (Sheri Hagen). Her frie ...
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Germany 2004 | 89 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Claudia Garde
Police Inspector Borowski (Axel Milberg) is faced with the biggest challenge of his career. A serial killer, whose motto is „Die and Live On“, has already claimed two victims, found embalmed. Then a third body is discovered. When a young boy disa ...
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Germany 2004 | 89 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Daniel Helfer
The murder of a 14-year-old girl takes Hamburg police inspector Casstorff (Robert Atzorn) and his team (Tilo Prückner, Julia Schmidt) into the city’s social troublespots. The suspects are as young as the victim:
lost daughters, cold-hearted girls ...
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Denmark 2004 | 78 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Stefan Fjeldmark, Thorbjørn Christoffersen
TERKEL IN TROUBLE Anarchic humour combines with topquality
3D-animation from Denmark in this mixture of motion capture,
traditional CG animation and brilliant compositing. The fi lm’s hero is 11-year-old Terkel. His classmates make fun of h ...
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Sweden 2004 | 97 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie: Peter Lindmark
The introverted police inspector Klara investigates a series of brutal bank robberies and finds herself involved in a case of life and death. When she attempts to rescue a child caught up in the crossfire, memories of her own child’s de ...
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USA 2004 | 128 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Steven Spielberg
While he is on a trip to the USA, Viktor Navorski’s (Tom Hanks) Eastern European home country is wiped off the map by a war.
His passport is thus invalid and he is unable to depart from the airport or enter the USA. So he makes his home in the ...
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Spain 2004 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Manuel Gómez Pereira
Manuel Gomez Pereira’s erotic thriller, „Between Your Legs“, received rave reviews. Now he gives love another chance. Unemployment offi ce worker, Hortensia (Ana Belén), falls head-over-heels in love with unemployed Jorge (Eduard Fernández). ...
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USA 2003 | 85 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Scott Ziehl
Based on a pulp novel by Gil Brewer, Scott Ziehl’s film is a cocktail of lust, blackmail and murder. Small-time criminal Lew (Dominic Purcell) gets wind of a million-dollar kidnapping plan and is determined to get a piece of the action. But h ...
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Israel, France 2004 | 97 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
Ronit Elkabetz, who also stars in „Or“, has three parts to play here: as main actress, screenwriter and director, the latter two in conjunction with her brother, Shlomi. Vivian and her husband, Eliyahoo, are looking divorce in the eye. Vi ...
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China, Hongkong, Taiwan 2002 | 103 min | OV with English ST | FF 2004
Regie: Peter Pau
Cinematographer Peter Pau from Hong Kong was responsible for the visual magnetism of „Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon“. „The Touch“, also a major martial-arts action spectacle, is both photographed and directed by Pau. Tong and Yin are a broth ...
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140 min | OV with German ST | FF 2004
Regie:
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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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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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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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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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 2004 | 92 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: Andreas Senn
Sophie, an employee at a fi rst-class hotel, takes the shirt-sleeved man in the hotel lobby for Hannes, a temporary waiter who is late for work. In actual fact, he is the hotel’s owner, and he immediately falls for Sophie. In
true romantic c ...
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Germany 2003 | 92 min | OV | FF 2004
Regie: René Heisig
Ina (Barbara Rudnik) and Klaus (Götz Schubert) can’t wait for their children to go away on horseriding holidays. Two weeks for just the two of them! The way it used to be. But is it really possible to turn the clock back? All too quickly, they ...
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