France 2007 | 108 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Jacques Nolot
Pierre (Jacques Nolot) is gay, has been HIV-positive for 24 years, and is approaching his 60th birthday. After the premiere of Before I Forget at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes, Variety magazine wrote: If you ever wondered how to order a r ...
A black comedy reminiscent of The Trouble with Harry. Achim, a junior shipping tycoon, is biking through the Swiss Alps when he literally bumps into Willi, unemployed. They find refuge in the mountain hut of bank employee Sven, when another accident ...
China, Hongkong 2007 | 102 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Li Yang
Bai is a student looking for a summer job. Travelling through the Szechuan province, she is kidnapped and sold to a childless peasant. All attempts to escape fail - she is beaten, raped, and kept as a slave. This is reality in the remote areas of Sou ...
Mexiko 2007 | 98 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Ernesto Contreras
Employee Marina (Cecilia Suárez) wins a ten-day dream voyage for two to the paradisiacal island of Playa Salamandra. As she is single, she decides to take her old school-friend Victor (Enrique Arroela), as introverted and lonely as she is herself. B ...
Brazil 2006 | 82 min | OV with English ST | FF 2007
Regie: Cláudio Assis
A young girl lives with her grandfather in a sugar cane plantation in the bogs of Brazil. Here she is kept naked as a slave for men to abuse. Women are worth nothing, even to the educated men. There is no hope for the girl in this oppressive social s ...
Bruno Manser lived with the Penan tribe in Sarawak (Borneo). He learned their language and defended their rainforests, creating international awareness for ecological and humanitarian disasters and making powerful enemies in the process. In 2000 he d ...