New International Cinema

Singapore Dreaming (Mei man ren sheng)
Director: Woo Yen Yen/Colin Goh, SGP 2006, 105 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, German premiere!
Actors: R. Low, A. L. Cheng Peng, Dick Su, Yeo Yann Yann, Lim Yu-Beng


"Singapore Dreaming" is a story about a family with big dreams, living on a small island. It follows six lives as they struggle with their desires and expectations, set against the twin backdrops of globalization and tradition. It captures poignant yet darkly humorous today‘s rapidly changing life.




Die Band von Nebenan / The Band's visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret)
Director: Eran Kolirin, IL/F 2007, 85 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Actors: Ronit Elkabetz, Sasson Gabai, Saleh Bakri


A film full of humour with a firework of gags and expert timing. Eight members of an Egyptian Police band find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere in Israel - in the desert. Their unusual night featuring even Chet Baker and Dr. Shivago is something to watch.




Control
Director: Anton Corbijn, GB 2007, 121 min, 35 mm, colour, OV
Actors: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara
Music: Joy Division, New Order


The final years of singer Ian Curtis of "Joy Division" - post-punk-band of the seventies - told in black and white with a remarkable camera work by Anton Corbijn. Epileptic fits and chaotic circumstances led to his suicide in 1980. The film features Ian Riley and German actress Alexandra Maria Lara.




My Brother is an Only Child (Mio fratello è figlio unico)
Director: Daniele Luchetti, I/F 2007, 105 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro, D.Fleri


Accio is the despair of his parents, constantly living life as if at war. Manrico is handsome, charismatic and loved by everyone. In the turmoil of 60s and 70s Italy the two brothers find themselves on opposite sides both because of their political beliefs and their rivalry over the love of a woman.




Summer Palace (Yihe yuan)
Director: Ye Lou, VR 2006, 140 min, 35 mm, colour, ES, German premiere!
Actors: Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Ling Hu


Many episodes of political turmoil and upheavals in China’s capital during a number decades form the vivid background of a passionate love story between two students. Both the political and personal aspect are revolving around and mirroring each other.




Daratt (Dry Season)
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, TCH 2006, 96 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Ali Barkai, Youssouf Djaoro, Aziza Hisseine


Atim, a young man from Chad in central Africa, goes looking for the man that killed his father in the civil war in order to get his revenge. This man is now working in his own bakery in N’Djamena, the capital. Atim manages to become an apprentice there. He has a gun in his luggage.




Tapas
Director: José Corbacho, Juan Cruz, E 2005, 94 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Á.de Andrés López - Lolo (Manolo), M. Galiana - Doña Conchi, E. Mínguez - Raquel Merino


A summer comedy from Spain – everyday stories about people from a Barcelona suburb: César and Opo, young supermarket workers, dream about getting girls on the beach; Lolo, restaurant owner, has a new cook (Mao); Raquel (40) has a internet relationship; and pensioner Conchi is a drug dealer.




The Pope's toilet (El bano del papa)
Director: Cesar Charlone/Enrique Fernandez, ROU 2006, 90 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Actors: Virginia Méndez, Virginia Ruíz, Mario Silva


A touching story of local people in rural Uruguay expecting the visit by Pope John Paul II, an event that will upset the lives of everyone in the small town of Melo. A sometimes humorous look at poverty, hope and craftiness of ordinary people in South America.




An ihrer Seite (Away from her)
Director: Sarah Polley, CDN 2006, 110 min, 35 mm, colour, GV
Actors: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis


Fiona has to face the fate of a growing number of old people: After fifty years of marriage she is suffering >from Alzheimer’s disease. A story about the different ways a couple is trying to cope with sickness and personal tragedy, told in warm, touching colours by Canadian director Sarah Polley.




Dialog mit meinem Gärtner (Dialogue avec mon jardinier)
Director: Jean Becker, F 2007, 109 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottençon


The story of a friendship coming to life before the background of rural France where an established painter having turned his back on Paris rejoins the garden of his youthful days. We will overhear conversations about vegetables, women, life and death, realizing that absurdity is part of existence.




Die zweigeteilte Frau (La fille coupée en deux)
Director: Claude Chabrol, F/D 2007, 115 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand, M. May


Gabrielle is a young pert weather girl working for a radio-station in Lyon. She is courted by two men: one is the young attractive temperamental millionaire’s son, Paul; the other, Charles, is an older embittered writer with weird sexual tendencies. Suddenly a murder occurs.




The Darjeeling Limited
Director: Wes Anderson, USA 2007, 91 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman


This road movie with an Indian background takes us across the subcontinent on an old train with three American brothers trying to overcome a lapse in their relationship while searching for their mother. A Magical Mystery Tour with overtones of slapstick and tragedy.




WWW - What a Wonderful World
Director: Faouzi Bensaïdi, MA 2006, 99 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Faouzi Bensaïdi, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Faouzi Bensaïdi


Kenza, a traffic policewoman in Casablanca, earns a little money on the side by renting out her mobile phone – to the prostitute Souad, for instance, one of whose clients is the professional killer Kamel. When one day Kenza answers the phone instead of Souad, Kamel falls in love with her voice…




Armin
Director: Ognjen Svilicic, HR/D 2007, 82 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Emir Hadzihafisbegovic, Armin Omerovic-Muhedin, Jens Münchow


14-year-old Armin travels from Bosnia to a casting in Zagreb, accompanied by his father Ibro. When it turns out that he is too old for the role, Armin is deeply disappointed. His father, however, keeps fighting for his son’s career. Then the film crew make Armin and Ibro an unexpected offer...




You, The Living (Du levande)
Director: Roy Andersson, S 2006, 95 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Fred Anderson, Björn Englund, Robert Grundström


Roy Anderson’s new masterpiece deals with nothing less than the "glory of life" with all its ups and downs, marvels and sorrows. Various humorous episodes show us absurd, banal or tragic comic scenes from the everyday lives of different people. A moving, hilarious comedy about human inadequacies.




The Hottest State (Hin und weg)
Director: Ethan Hawke, USA 2006, 117 min, 35 mm, colour, OV, German premiere!
Actors: Marc Webber, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ethan Hawke, Laura Linney, Michelle Williams


In his autobiographical film "The Hottest State", actor and director Ethan Hawke tells us the chaotically romantic love story of William, a moody young actor, and the good-looking Sarah. The two are passionately in love at first, but when Sarah wants to leave him, William refuses to accept this…




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