2005
Germany
DigiBeta / 65min / Orig. Language: German /
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| Turkish wedding and circumcision ceremonies are traditionally rural. Since no rustic structure organizes such ceremonies in Germany, this work is carried out by professionals.
In the heart of Neuk?lln - a former industrial area in Berlin characterized by ruins of car garages, paintshops and warehouses lies the "Prestige-Wedding-Hall". The owner of this hall offers a whole service package.
In this context, Turkey, the village, the countryside, and the big families are but backgrounds and clichés printed on blinds in the studio. |
- Production: Harun Farocki Filmproduktion, Aysun Bademsoy, Lausitzerstr.39, 10999 Berlin/Germany, tel.: +49 (0) 30 / 618 25 98, aysunbademsoy@web.de
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Heavy Metal in the country |
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Heavy Metal a la campagne |
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2005
German
DigiBeta / 60min / Orig. Language: German /
Subtitles: English
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Donzdorf, a village in Southern Germay on the edge of the Swabian mountains, appears to be just like any other - except it is the seat of "Nuclear Blast Records", one of the world's most successful independent heavy-metal record companies.
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village pub, where the offerings are commented on by the regulars as critically as any international journalist.
The film takes a look at the occasionally comical interaction of the tranquil village inhabitants with the rather crude hard rock scene. |
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- Production: filmtank hamburg GmbH, Lippmannstr.53, 22769 Hamburg, Germany, tel.: +49 (0) 40 / 431 861, fax.: +49 (0) 40 / 431 861 11
filmtank@filmtank.de, www.filmtank.de
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2005
Greman
31min / BetaSP / PAL / original Serbian / English subtitles |
| This documentary portrays Romany teenagers who have a hard time trying to adapt to their new life after having been deported from Germany to Belgrade, a place they have only experienced through television. As members of a discriminated minority and unable to speak the language, the breakdancing scene presents their only hope for recognition and a possible future. |
- Production: Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf" Cristina Marx, Sales&Distribution Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11 14482 Potsdam, Germany, tel.: +49 (0) 331 / 62 02-564, fax: +49 (0) 331 / 62 02-569, distribution@hff-potsdam.de, www.hff-potsdam.de
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2005
German
30min / DigiBeta / 16:9 / stereo / original Polish version with English |
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Stasio's life is marked by the so-called "uncivilized capitalism" which has been spreading across Poland over the past several years. The eleven-year-old is one of countless Polish children who have taken to panhandling on the streets to support their unemployed parents. |
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Stasio is clever, has a terrific sense of humour, a passion for horror films, is a fantastic liar and a love his mother.
Stasio would be ashamed to be called a beggar, and prefers to consider himself a "businessman".. |
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- Production: Stanislaw Mucha Schloss Gumpertsreuth 95185 Gattendorf, Germany, tel.:+49 (0) 9281/47 77 28, fax: +49 (0) 9281 / 47 77 31, st.mucha@t-online.de
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2005
German
DigiBeta / 52min / Italian, English or German version (voice over)
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2005
German
51min | Digi Beta | original German/English/Arabic version with German or English subtitles |
| Lost in Bremerhaven is the story of an Iraqi freight ship "Al-Zahraa" (The Rose) that has been lying in Bremerhaven harbour for the last 15 years, stuck fast and rotting. Adel |
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| and Abdullah, two men who come from Iraq to Bremerhaven in August 2002 to watch over the ship for six monthly toursof duty. As the USA invade Iraq, Adel and Abdullah watch the bombing of Baghdad on TV and their home country falling into chaos. With absolutely no contact with their families,their job becomes torturous; the ship their prison. |
- Production: de facto medienagentur Kohlenstr. 204107 Leipzig, Germany, tel: +49 (0) 341 / 234 76 11, fax: +49 (0) 341 / 234 76 23, vetten@defactomedienagentur.de, www.al-zahraa.de
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| Mauvais temps.. Mauvais place |
2005
German
59min / DigiBeta /16:9 / original German version with English subtitles |
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The films of the PLO Media Unit - depicting a self-determined image of Palestinian reality – went missing during the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. In a "road-movie" from Palestine to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, director Azza El-Hassan follows the contradicting and confusing clues as to the whereabouts of the lost archive. The increasingly absurd search finally leads her to a martyr's graveyard, where the films are said to be buried – but no one really wants |
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While El-Hassan's search for lost images leads her down various dead ends, she is confronted with new clues and starts to construct her own story. |
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- Production: Deckert Distribution Peterssteinweg 13, 04107 Leipzig, Germany, tel.: +49 (0) 341 / 215 66 38, fax: +49 (0) 341 / 215 66 39, www.deckert-distribution.com
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Mitumba - The Second Hand Road |
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2005
German
Color / 35mm / 103min/ Orig. Language:Arabic/Subtitle: French
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A remote village somewhere in Tanzania. On a dusty road, a group of young boys play football. One of the players wears bright yellow football shirt. On closer inspection, the t-shirt bears the insignia of a football club in Northern Germany.
How did this t-shirt get from Western Europe to East Africa? What stages did it pass through on the way from the First World to the Third, from a first-hand to a second-hand item? |
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- Production: Via Ottaviano 9, 00192 Roma, Italy, tel: +39 06 3972 9989, fax: +39 06 3972 6129, alison@bbfilm.tv, www.bbfilm.tv, www.filmtank.de
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| In the summer of 2002 a murder in the small village in Potzlow, Brandenburg shocked Germany. Three teenagers, aged between 17 and 23 abused 16-year-old Marinus for several hours before they brutally killed him. Four months later, one of the murderers bragged about the killing. Since nobody believed him, he led two friends to the place where they had buried the body. The focus of national media attention for a short-while. |
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- Production: GAMBIT Film und Fernsehproduktion GmbH Alleenstr. 271638 Ludwigsburg, Germany, tel.: + 49 (0) 7141 / 974 39-0, fax: + 49 (0) 7141 / 974 39-58,
a.funk@gambit-film.de
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2005
German
84min | DigiBeta | 16:9 | original Spanish/Catalan version with English subtitles |
| A documentary about a very special group of elderly Spanish people who decide to spend the rest of their lives on the beaches of Barcelona. |
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- Production: Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf" Cristina Marx, Sales&Distribution Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 1114482 Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany, tel.: +49 (0) 331 / 62 02-564, fax: +49 (0) 331 / 62 02-569, distribution@hff-potsdam.de, mail@gop03.de
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