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Atlas (All the Weight of the World)
123' | Greece | International premiere
Complex, inventive and humane début film about eleven characters in a Greek town, linked together by the championship attempts of a weightlifter. Love -
L’attente des femmes
Naguel M. Belouad | 82' | Algeria | -
Styled like an old horror film, a sensual and grim feminist story set in the Algerian countryside in the 1920s. Childless potter takes a young… -
Aufzeichnungen aus dem Tiefparterre
Rainer Frimmel, Peter Haindl | 91' | Austria | -
Compilation of found home-movies, made by a Viennese hospital male nurse, offers an original and personal portrait of a political grouch and opportuni -
August Sun
Prasanna Vithanage | 108' | Sri Lanka | -
Beautifully made drama about quests for what was lost in the civil war in Sri Lanka, in three interwoven stories set at the time of… -
Away With Words
Christopher Doyle | 90' | Hong Kong | -
Directing début by brilliant cameraman Christopher Doyle (e.g. Chunking Express) about a man with a phenomenal memory. Any word he has ever heard, he -
Ayollar Saltanaty
Yusup Razykov | 68' | Uzbekistan | -
Uzbek morality play about the writer and professor Olim who promises his dying friend that he will look after the latter’s stunningly attractive wife -
Un banco en el parque
Agustí Vila | 82' | Spain | -
Juan has ended his relationship, but he cannot face life alone. So he spends his afternoons on a bench in the park, in the hope… -
Baran
Majid Majidi | 94' | Iran | -
Realistic and romantic Iranian drama that looks at the situation of Afghan refugees in Iran. On a building site in Teheran, a burly building labourer -
Barking Dogs Never Bite
Bong Joon Ho | 106' | South Korea | -
Tragi-comic study about loneliness, in which two people who have nothing to do keep themselves busy, one kidnapping the other finding dogs in their di -
Battle Royale
Fukasaku Kinji | 113' | Japan | European premiere
Violent variation on Survivor; as answer to youthful rebellion, every year a school class is put on a desert island and pitted against each other… -
Bàttu
Cheick Oumar Sissoko | 108' | France | -
When the minister of health decides to clean up the streets of Dakar, removing the homeless and tramps, he evokes unsuspected forces in society. A… -
Beat
David Verbeek | 75' | Netherlands | World premiere
Making a minimal low budget DV feature in Rotterdam. About a modern yuppy’s burn-out, urban alienation and other issues we mainly know from Asian cine