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Taboor
The basic tone is science fiction, but there are also nods to Bela Tarr and David Lynch in this dream of a film about a lonely pest control officer, who wanders around the streets of Teheran in his aluminium suit.
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The ABCs of Death
26 short films, one for each letter of the alphabet, directed by 26 of today's most talented, innovative and experimental genre directors. From beautiful experimental films to splatter and all possible combinations of taste and total lack thereof.
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The Angels' Share
Ken Loach has made a kind of 'Sideways' with Scottish highland whisky about a small group of socially challenged good-for-nothing small-time crooks, who come together to do community service. Under the protective wings of their social worker, the youths' hidden whisky tasting talents are awakened, and they see a possible way out of their social deroute.
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The Attack
One can't resort to the convenience of prejudice in Ziad Doueiri's terrorist drama 'The Attack' about an Israel-based Palestinian doctor, whose life is turned upside down when his wife turns out to be a suicide bomber.
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The Beaver Trilogy
Notorious indie-film about the Olivia Newton John impersonator Groovin' Gary - in three incarnations. First we meet the real, crazy Gary in a short documentary portrait, which the director Trent Harris subsequently remade twice, first with Sean Penn in the role of Gary, and then with Crispin Glover in the role of Sean Penn. Together, the three films constitute the crazy yet hilarious 'Beaver Trilogy'.
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The Broken Circle Breakdown
Love, grief, sex and bluegrass are the potent ingredients of this succinct drama, which won the audience award at this year's Berlin Film Festival. A 6-year-old girl is suffering from incurable cancer, and through flashbacks we follow her parents' turbulent relationship, ups and downs, and spellbinding joie de vivre against all odds.
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The Color Wheel
A black-and-white road trip through a world where all people hate themselves as much as they hate each other. But the misanthropy has a meaning and a sense of humour in the story about the awkward meetings of two adult siblings with their ex-partners, ex-friends and finally with each other. An anti-drama with a relentless dialogue, where screwball meets mumblecore.
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The Dream and the Silence
A perceptive film, wonderfully shot in black-and-white Cinemascope. Oriol and Yolanda are a Spanish couple living in Paris with their two young daughters. They are hit by a double tragedy: an accident and the father's subsequent memory loss. Enigmatic and yet shimmeringly light direction by Jaime Rosales.
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The Fourth Dimension
Three films in one, on the trail of the fourth dimension! Harmony Korine opens the festivities with Val Kilmer as a surreal self-help guru in a microcosmic job centre, before the time travel continues to a Russian apartment block and ends in the company of four Polish hipsters who are alone in the world, moments before it goes under. Crazy shit.
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The Girl From Nowhere
A beautiful young woman turns up battered and bloody outside the doorstep of a retired mathematics professor (played by the director himself), who takes her in. The mystery is soon followed by inexplicable and supernatural phenomena. Intellectual low budget horror with erotic French sensitivity.
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The Interval
An abandoned factory is the setting of an intimate and intense (hostage) drama, where distrust turns into trust between two youths, who are both heading into a fatal existence. He is a henchman of a local gang, and she has flirted with the wrong man and is now waiting to receive her punishment.
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The King
A fresco of weather-beaten faces and harsh rocky landscapes, shot in Sardinia with amateurs in all roles. The Passion of Christ has been told before on film, but with all four gospels acting as a reference, 'The King' becomes a dark, down-to-earth interpretation, with roots in both 'Rashomon' and Pasolini.
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The Land of Hope
In the eccentric director Sion Sono's Fukushima drama, we follow the inhabitants of a fictional town after a nuclear spill. The film is harsh realism with glimpses of poetry, but nonetheless a subdued disaster drama by the otherwise so feisty Japanese.
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The Landlords
A sunburned film noir from Italy. The brothers Elia and Cosimo have gone to Tuscany, where the local star crooner has hired them to renovate his villa, while he prepares his comeback concert. Highly eager to do a good job, they inadvertently cause turmoil in the small village society.
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The Last Elvis
Carlos is a middle-aged Elvis impersonator and fanatic, who is struggling with his marriage and fighting a tough battle to make ends meet. A touching film, which, with plenty of the King's music and free from sentimentality, tells about the consequences of trying to be somebody else.
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The Liability
An ice-cold contract killer is facing his last hit in the British action thriller 'The Liability', where the plan ends up being ruined by a young girl who witnesses the crime.
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The Lords of Salem
The horror rocker Rob Zombie takes a step back from grindhouse antics and delivers one of his most personal and spaced-out films to date with the psychedelic witch horror 'The Lords of Salem'.
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The Pact
Granted, 'The Pact' is maybe not this year's most original horror film, but its classic virtues and effective blend of haunted house, poltergeist and repressed family secrets delivers thrills that make you wish you had taken your adult diapers with you to the cinema.
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The Paperboy
Flanked by a surprising Nicole Kidman, the three actors Zac Efron, John Cusack and Matthew McConaughey have rarely been better than in 'Precious'-director Lee Daniels's energetic, atmospheric crime story about lust, love and betrayal in 1960s Florida.
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The Plague
The people on the fringes of Spanish society are given a voice in an understated and authentic everyday drama from a Europe in decay.
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The Rambler
If you imagine David Lynch, Werner Herzog and Monte Hellman teaming up to remake 'Evil Dead II' as a road movie on peyote, then 'The Rambler' is roughly what you end up with.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The fact that you can't escape where you are from becomes frighteningly clear to Changez, a Pakistani whose life is totally turned upside down in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in this finely crafted political thriller.
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The Science of Sleep - Version B
The daydreaming love story 'The Science of Sleep' by the ever so playful Michel Gondry is revisited by the director himself. 'Version B' is made entirely of scenes that didn't make it to the finished film, but is also an independent film with its own plot, which turns up the creative fun while toning down the melodrama. Shown here for the first time outside of France - and on the big screen.
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The Stolen Man
Matias Piñeiro's first feature 'The Stolen Man' is a seductive story about a group of young people working at a historical museum, from where they steal antiques while embarking on complicated romantic entanglements.
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The Strange Little Cat
Distanced, but warm, and incredibly funny without trying to be so. If the hardest thing is to make things look easy, then this minimalist gem is pure magic. Three generations of a family (and an orange cat) meet for a dinner in a small apartment in Berlin.
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The We and the I
French whiz kid Michel Gondry is back in New York City - this time in the company of a school bus filled with hormone-stricken teenagers on their way through the Bronx on their last school day. Infatuations, bullying and brawling energy. A real-life-comedy played in real-time, about finding oneself.
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The Weight of Elephants
11-year-old Adrian does not have many bright moments in his life. His parents have left him, he lives with his grandmother and sick uncle, and he is being bullied at school. But in spite of the almost unbearable reality, Daniel Borgman's debut is filled with a sensitivity, poetry and visual zest that is rarely seen in Danish cinema.
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Thérèse Desqueyroux
Audrey Tautou is excellent in the title role of Claude Miller's grand costume drama 'Thérèse Desqueyroux' about a woman who is trapped in a loveless marriage, but gets a tantalising glimpse of what passion is like.
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They All Lie
In a masterfully executed juggle with the past and the present, the young Argentinian director Matias Piñeiro seduces us into a strange universe filled with intrigue and mystery. A group of young artist types has settled into a house in the country, where they become part of a network of romantic entanglements and mysterious conspiracies.
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Thy Womb
An ageing midwife can not have children herself, and therefore she helps her husband look for an extra wife. With 'Thy Womb', the Philippine film industry's foremost frontrunner returns to what he's best at: quirky everyday stories, told with a great humanistic flair and ingenuity.
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To the Wonder
Only two years after Terence Malick took the film world by storm with the Golden Palm winner 'Tree of Life', he is back in the same, cinematically overwhelming style, but this time with his legs planted firmly on American soil.
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