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Germany 2008 | 90 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Stefan Paul
On his quest for the myth of Rio Reiser, Stefan Paul has unearthed previously unpublished photographs and long-forgotten live recordings. He interviews the band members of “Ton, Steine, Scherben”, Corny Littman, Udo Lindenberg, Achim Reichel, Ste ...
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Netherlands 2008 | 83 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Froukje Tan
Dexter is in his mid-thirties and questions his own sanity. Although he drives straight ahead, he rams other cars. His new colleague looks like his girlfriend, his boss inexplicably puts him on leave, he is arrested by the police. In a clinic, he is ...
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Poland, Germany 2008 | 15 min | OV with German ST | FF 2008
Regie: Fabian Daub, Andreas Gräfenstein
In Walbrzych miners dig for coal despite the pit being shut-down. Merchant Slawomir makes a living off the metal left behind in the pit.
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Germany 2007 | 89 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Florian Gärtner
On his last ever shift on a lightship, captain Freytag (Jan Fedder) takes his son Fred (Tobias Schenke) aboard to talk things out. At sea, they rescue three castaways,
who turn out to be armed and dangerous criminals under the leadership of Dr. Casp ...
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Germany 2008 | 89 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Andreas Senn
When their boss dies, the girls agree that Lily (Anna Loos) should take over the bordello. Lily refuses to pay protection money pressed by two corrupt policemen.
Then a childhood friend pops up unexpectedly: Monte (Janek Rieke), brother of her puppy ...
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USA 2008 | 65 min | OV | FF 2008
Regie: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger
Linguists have estimated that half the c 7000 languages existing today will have disappeared by the end of the century. On average, one language becomes extinct
every fortnight. Directors Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger followed th ...
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Greece 2007 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Olga Malea
In 1963, 11-year-old Alex is sent from the Greek mainland to a christening on the island of Crete, where he must stand in for his father as godfather and politician. Because he is so rhetorically skilled, he must pacify two feuding villages and win v ...
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Vietnam 2007 | 90 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Thanh Van Nguyen
17-yeart-old Mai (Do Nguyen Lan Ha) - awarded the Vietnamese Film Prize for this role) is glad to escape the poverty of her village in central Vietnam. But instead
of working the factory job she was promised in Saigon, she is forced into prostitution ...
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Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain 2008 | 84 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Lisandro Alonso
Sailor Farrel (Juan Fernandez) asks his captain for land leave in the Argentine harbour of Ushuaia to find out if his mother is still alive. Farrel has been at sea for 20 years, is an alcoholic, pays for sex and has no friends. Besides his mother, he ...
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Iran 2008 | 82 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Mershad Karkhani
7 million people live in Teheran today, on an area of 716.9 square kilometres. Two farmers who work at the meat market must goad a cow from the city’s south to the north through a jungle of streets, alleys, bridges, underpasses and crossroads. On f ...
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China 2008 | 95 min | OV with English ST | FF 2008
Regie: Zhang Yibai
A bizarre car accident unites three lonely souls: Li, widow of the deceased driver, accommodates Su-dan, a nightclub dancer and the accident’s only survivor, in her house. Xiao-chuan, Li’s traumatized adolescent son, subsequently falls in ...
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Germany, Austria 2007 | 85 min | OV with German ST | FF 2008
Regie: Jan Schütte
Possibly the oldest romantic hero at Filmfest Hamburg: love and lust are still very prevalent in the life of writer Max Kohn (Otto Tausig), almost 80 years old. Austrian emigrant Max is a gentle character who inadvertently stumbles into women’s arm ...
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Germany 2007 | 21 min | | FF 2008
Regie: Rike Holtz
Lui, a little boy and storyteller, definitely needs a fur cap since all
his friends got one for Christmas. But fur caps are very expensive and
Lui´s birthday is in August. A movie about a boy developing a very
strong will that he doesn’t under ...
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