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An Arabic tale that takes place in Scandinavia. About ancient religious hatred, about love, punishment, guilt and redemption, about being responsible for one’s own actions and refusing a path of violence. Jamil stands in the middle. He is fighting the war of his life; a war within himself.Read More »

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A devoted father whose life is shattered by a single tragic mistake, pushing his marriage and his will to live to the brink. Facing a long prison sentence, he begins to realise that his failure may be rooted deep in the architecture of the human mind.Read More »

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Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. When he dies unexpectedly the family fortune, one flash car, remains with the mistress. Despite all his betrayals, Lucia sides with her father. Desperate and destitute in a country she doesn’t like or understand, Lola’s quest for revenge begins. Caught in the tempests of begrudging love, revenge, sibling rivalry, jealousy and passion, fourteen year old Lucia must find the strength to survive on her own terms. Aided to break free of her mother by her eccentric Aunt Manolo she struggles to find her own identity and her own quest for justice puts her on a collision course with her mother.Read More »

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Ornette: Made In America captures Ornette Coleman’s evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983 as a famed performer and composer, documentary footage, dramatic scenes and some of the first music video-style segments ever made, chronicle his boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent emergence as an American cultural pioneer and world-class icon. Among those who contribute to the film include William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Buckminster Fuller, Don Cherry, Yoko Ono, Charlie Haden, Robert Palmer, Jayne Cortez and John Rockwell.Read More »

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Leary and Sanchez-Gijon play “romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers” who get involved in a caper.Read More »

This was a big surprise when it hit cinemas in 1995 – Claudio Fragasso could direct a decent action film, with great acting and a really tense atmosphere! This from the man who gave the world the incredible Troll 2…Read More »

“What’s for dinner?” – “Nothing.” A bombshell at the Eberhofer farm: Grandma is on strike. After what feels like 2000 cakes and even more roast pork, bread dumplings and cabbage, Grandma decides to stop caring for the family. Pure chaos. Papa Eberhofer, Franz, Leopold and Susi should finally learn to look after themselves. Now, of all times, Susi temporarily takes over Niederkaltenkirchen’s town hall as deputy mayor and uses her newfound power to reduce Franz’s position to half-time so that he can look after his son Pauli in the future. This action touches Eberhofer’s masculinity. Fortunately, it doesn’t take long before a crow picks up a human ear and a missing person case that was actually stuck unexpectedly develops into a complicated murder case that brings Franz and Rudi together again as a dream team of investigators in top form.
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Shinjiro is the owner of a struggling small factory desperately in need of fresh capital to stay afloat. Hoping to secure a crucial bank loan, he deposits all his life savings at a bank — but at that very moment a robbery takes place. In a misguided attempt to stop the thief from escaping with all the money, Shinjiro helps by gathering up the remaining cash. Despite his intentions, the robber still makes off with Shinjiro’s savings, and Shinjiro impulsively follows him, trying to change his mind. Unfortunately, onlookers assume Shinjiro is an accomplice to the crime, and he suddenly finds himself on the run alongside the thief in a case of tragic misunderstanding. Read More »

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Harun Farocki was born in Novi Jicín in 1944 in what is today the Czech Republic. He studied at the German Cinematic and Television Academy (DFFB) in Berlin, from which he was expelled in 1968 for political reasons. In addition to writing theoretical texts, he has scripted numerous films and television productions. His work has been shown in international retrospectives and has received many awards.Read More »