Sept 26 - Oct 5, 2013
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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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