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	HEADHUNTERS (Dir. Morten Tyldum, Norway 2011) Save for a somewhat diminutive stature, Roger is a man who apparently has it all; he’s Norway’s most successful headhunter, he’s married to the exceedingly beautiful gallery owner Diana, has a far too expensive villa and must, to keep his head above water financially, steal a little too much art.
	LILLY THE WITCH 2 - THE JOURNEY TO MANDOLAN (Dir. Harald Sicheritz, Germany 2011) The big-screen success of LILLY THE WITCH continues. In the first film, Lilly became the new superwitch and saved the world from mischievous sorcerer Hieronymus together with her clumsy dragon Hector. Now a new adventure awaits: The journey to Mandolan!
	THE IMPORTANCE OF TYING YOUR OWN SHOES (Dir. Lena Koppel, Sweden 2011) Alex is an inveterate loafer with dreams of being in the theatre, who takes no responsibility for himself or those closest to him, and his life is anything but under control. When his girlfriend Lisa eventually gets fed up and chucks him out onto the street, Alex is forced to look for a job in order to survive.
	KLITSCHKO (Dir. Sebastian Dehnhardt, Germany 2011) Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko: two exceptional brothers, both icons, role models and heroes for many around the globe. The six-foot-six Ukrainian brothers emigrated to Germany to begin careers in heavyweight boxing in 1996, and the sport was never the same. After a 15-year reign over the ring, they made history in 2008, becoming the first brothers in the sport to hold world titles at the same time.
	KING OF DEVIL'S ISLAND (Dir. Marius Holst, Norway, France, Poland, Sweden 2010) Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys' home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom? Based on a true story.
	FREDDY FROGFACE (dir. Peter Dodd, Denmark 2011) FREDDY FROGFACE is the story about Victor and his friends that manage to outsmart the town bully and stand up for themselves in an imaginative, ingenuous and yet determined way. This movie is a funny and quirky must-see for the whole family!
	HAPPY, HAPPY (Dir. Anne Sewitsky, Norway 2010) Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys, and who refuses to have sex with her because she "isn't particularly attractive" anymore. Whatever. That's life. But when "the perfect couple" moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. Not only do these successful, beautiful, exciting people sing in a choir; they have also adopted a child – from Ethiopia! These new neighbors open a new world to Kaja, with consequences for everyone involved. And when Christmas comes around, it becomes evident that nothing will ever be like before – even if Kaja tries her very best.
	MELANCHOLIA (Dir. Lars von Trier, Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany 2011) Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland). Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth... Melancholia is described as a beautiful film about the end of the world, and the the story hinges on a large object from outer space approaching Earth that affects the planet's inhabitants.
	TWIGSON TIES THE KNOT (Dir. Martin Lund, Norway 2010) Get ready for action and romance with Junior and Twigson. Quite a few things get out of control when Mom has an accident: Twigson falls in love with Tiny - a very special birch wood twig. Tiny and Junior get into business and sell cookies in an attempt to solve a crime; Philip gets thrown into new and big responsibilities at home, Twigson learns to fly and Junior runs away from home. TWIGSON TIES THE KNOT is a warm and fun film with great animation in a playful, charming and rich universe. Children will be thrilled and adults will feel nostalgic.
	TWIGSON (Dir. Asleik Engmark, Norway 2009) The film Twigson tells the story of Junior a quick-witted boy, who has just moved from the city to the country side and not made any friends yet. One day he finds the wooden twig "TWIGSON" and the imaginary, but very good friendship begins…. When Junior’s mum gets work in a store while his Dad is out travelling as an underwear salesman, Junior has to manage on his own most of the day. With Twigson in his hand, he encounters a new everyday life filled with excitement and drama. But can a pine twig be a real friend – and can the family really afford to stay in the run-down house?“
	TIMETRIP - THE CURSE OF VIKING WITCH (Dir. Mogens Hagedorn, Denmark 2008) Trouble begins when siblings Valdemar and Sille are home alone and Valdemar crashes his dad´s brand new car. The next day he meets physicist Benedict who lurks Valdemar to test the time machine he has invented. Suddenly, Valdemar finds himself in the year 963, the time of Vikings in Denmark, where he learns that Benedict has become immortal after being enchanted by a witch. But eternal life is deprived of friends and love, and Benedict’s only wish is to live a normal life. To earn money for the car repairs, Valdemar and Sille travel back in time to unearth a cross that can lift the curse.
	BELOVED BERLIN WALL (Dir. Peter Timm, Germany 2009) 1989. The GDR is fading into oblivion, but its feared Secret Police has enough time on its hands to hound a young East-German border guard and his West-German girlfriend. Madcap adventures and political upheavals ensue on both sides of the Wall.
	MONSTERS (Dir. Gareth Edwards, UK 2010) Six years ago a NASA probe returning to earth with samples of an alien life form crashed over Central America. Soon afterwards new life forms began to appear, and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures"... The story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US Border.
	PLODDY THE POLICE CAR - MAKES A SPLASH (Dir. Rasmus V. Sivertsen, Norway 2009) The power cable that supplies the Norwegian town of Bodø with electricity, is blown down during a violent storm. Ploddy the Police Car takes charge and pulls a new cable across the mountain against the wind and rain, so that light and warmth can be once again restored to the town. But, after the job is done, Ploddy reverses into the fallen electricity cable. He receives a massive electric shock. But once again there is a miracle. Ploddy awakes – and now he is electric.
	HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (Dir. Bent Hamer, Norway 2010) In a small Norwegian town on Christmas Eve, several people struggle to make it home through the snow beneath the colorful Northern Lights. An eclectic mix of townsfolk cross paths in several interwoven stories of humour and tragedy, tenderness and desperation, forgiveness and hope, birth and death.
	BURIED (Dir. Rodrigo Cortes, Spain 2010) Paul Conroy, truck driver and family man, wakes up BURIED ALIVE in an old wooden coffin. Not knowing who might have put him there or why, his only chance to escape from this nightmare is a cell phone. Poor reception, battery and lack of oxygen are his worst enemies in a race against time: Paul has only 90 minutes to be rescued.
	Pettson & Findus IV - Forget Abilities (Dir. J. Lerdam, A. Sorensen, Sweden 2009) Sand in the machinery and an unfortunate accident kick off a new adventure with old man Pettson and his cat Findus. An old swimming machine, modified to work as a tile thrower, causes memory loss and suddenly good advice is hard to come by. Can the story about when Findus was just kitten and went missing help jog Pettson’s memory? Or perhaps the story about the treasure hunt the old man and his cat set off on one dark night not too long ago? The re-telling of a series of wacky escapades seems the only way to try and bring Pettson’s memory back.
	BALLS (Dir. Josef Fares, Sweden 2010) Three friends. Jörgen is afraid of being left alone, Juan's worried about his pet labrador, but Aziz is in top form. Good looking, he's also a brilliant cook and a man who knows what women want. Soon he's going to be the grandfather of a perfect little boy. He's certain of it. But when he sets out to find himself a nice grandmother, nothing really goes according to plan.
	THE SWIMSUIT ISSUE (Dir. Måns Herngren, Sweden 2009) After a wild bachelor party and an excruciating defeat in floor ball, Fredrik, an out-of-work, would-be athlete discovers his passion and talent for synchronized swimming. He soon dreams of competing with his friends for the gold as Sweden’s only male team at the world championship in Berlin. At first his old floor ball team thinks he’s gone off the deep end, but eventually he persuades them to join him. The only problem is that none of the guys swim well, neither do they know the first thing about performing. But with the world championship rapidly approaching, Fredrik is willing to do anything to win – even using his teenage daughter to whip the men into shape.
	THE HOUSE OF BRANCHING LOVE (Dir. Mika Kaurismäki, Finland 2009) Family therapist Juhani Helin, 35, and business trainer Paula Helin, 34, decide to divorce in a civilized manner and move to separate addresses after selling their common house. But when Paula invites her one night stand, Marco, to the house and Juhani takes revenge on her by hiring a prostitute, Nina, from his half-brother and a pimp, Wolffi, to play his new girlfriend in order to force Paula to leave the house, the box of pandora of their marriage flies open and releases the plagues of love and hate.
	LILLY THE WITCH (Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky, Germany 2009) Life has suddenly become much too exciting for the old witch Surulunda. The incredibly mean and nasty wizard Hieronymus has managed to sneak into her idyllic witch’s house yet again to get his hands on her well-protected Book of Spells. It’s lucky her small sized dragon with the large appetite, the somewhat overweight Hektor, is there at the right time. Surulunda has to do something: it’s time for her to find a successor. Hektor then sets off on the search for a worthy protector for the magic book and lands, together with the book and much commotion, in Lilly’s house! When she discovers the magic book the chaos really starts ...
	JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY (Dir. Ole Bornedal, Denmark 2007) During a holiday in Vietnam Julia meets the love of her life, the dangerous, irresistible and adventurous Sebastian. But something terrible happens to Julia in Hanoi, something indescribable, and she decides to flee back to Denmark. On her way back to visit her family – completely beside herself and scared out of her wits - she loses control of the car and has an accident…
	ANTICHRIST (Dir. Lars von Trier, Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland 2009) A grieving couple retreats to their cabin, ‘Eden’, in the woods, hoping a return to the woods will repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse…
	BEAUTIFUL BITCH (Dir. Martin Theo Krieger, Germany 2007) Bica lives in a run-down apartment in a big city, working with a gang of young pickpockets. She saves her share of the loot for a future life with her little brother. When Bica steals from a man at a shopping mall, his beautiful, rich and very spoiled daughter Milka, follows her. A friendship develops between the two girls, but when Milka and her friends discover Bica´s job and unbearable existence, they team together to help her ...
	FIGHTER (Dir. Natasha Arty, Denmark 2007) Aicha is a high school student and she's going to be a doctor - so says her father, first generation immigrant to Denmark from Turkey. But Aicha prefers martial arts to school homework. She defies her parents' ban and her Islamic upbringing and starts training with men prefessionally in a Kung Fu Club. The rules of life are not as simple as the rules of martial arts. Aicha's choice ends up bringing great consequences not only for herself but her whole family ...
	LEO (Dir. Josef Fares, Sweden 2007) Leo celebrates his 30th birthday. Surrounded by family and friends, he toasts to the future. But as the party ends and Leo and his girlfriend walk back home, something happens that will forever change their lives ...
	CHRISTMAS STORY (Dir. Juha Wuolijoki, Finland 2007) Have you ever wondered how Santa Claus grew up to be Santa? Discover the untold story of Santa’s life. Against breath-taking landscape and despite family tragedy and personal hardship is a big and pure heart filled with love for children around the world ...
	DRAGON HUNTERS (Dir. Steve Shimek, France, Germany, Luxembourg 2008) Here are the adventures of Lian-Chu and Gwizdo, two dragon hunters that are the heroes of the animated program bearing the same name ...
	THE SUBSTITUTE (Dir. Ole Bornedal, Denmark 2007) 6th grade has a new substitute teacher. She is very ambitious and wants to train the class to win an international competition for European schoolchildren in Paris. Evidently, this substitute is not, what they are used to – apparently she can read the children’s minds, and when she is alone with the pupils in class, she is downright malicious. The children immediately make a complaint about her, but she succeeds in convincing the parents, that she is fantastic – though the class claims, that she is an evil “alien” from a strange planet ...
	RAMBO (Dir. Sylvester Stallone, USA / Germany 2008) Rambo, who lives a solitary, simple life in the mountains and jungles fishing and catching poisonous snakes to sell, has long given up fighting. That all changes when a group of human rights missionaries search out the "American river guide" John Rambo. They ask Rambo to guide them up the Salween and drop them off, so they can deliver medical supplies and food to the local tribe. After initially refusing to cross into Burma, Rambo takes them...
	EASTERN PROMISES (Dir. David Gronenberg, UK, Canada, USA 2007) The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin (Mr. Mortensen) is a driver for one of London’s most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. Headed by Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl), whose courtly charm as the welcoming proprietor of the plush restaurant impeccably masks a cold and brutal core, the family’s fortunes are tested by Semyon’s volatile son and enforcer, Kirill (Vincent Cassel), who is more tightly bound to Nikolai than to his own father ...
	DARK FLOORS (Dir. Pete Riski, Finland 2008) Sarah is an autistic little girl whose father is worried about her health. Concerned for her, the father sees her removal from the hospital by force as the only option. An elevator breakdown prevents a smooth exit and leaves them trapped with others. Yet the incident is only the beginning of a descent into nightmare. As the doors open the hospital appears mysteriously deserted. When mutilated bodies are found, creatures from a dark world start a frightening attack. It soon becomes clear that the survival of the group may rest solely on the little girl ...
	20 CIGARETTES (Dir.Aleksandr Gornovsky, Russia 2007) Andrey is a Moscow yuppie working as a creative manager in a large advertising agency. That day he smokes out an entire pack of cigarettes. With each cigarette the storm of events and conflicts Andrey is involved in becomes more and more violent. Confronted to a situation in which his professional and personal future is jeopardized, Andrey must make the one and only right decision ...
	SNIEZINKA (Dir. Pavel Bardin, Russia 2007)
	MAN'S JOB (Dir. Aleksi Salmenperä , Finland 2007) A family man becomes a prostitute to support his family. Feeling ashamed about his failure and worried about his wife’s mental health, Juha decides to keep the fact that he got fired a secret. He spends his days on a remote service station thinking about a way out and the growing web of lies that he is slowly weaving.
	EXIT (Dir. Peter Lindmark, Sweden 2006) An edgy thriller filled with unexpected twists and turns takes us behind the scenes of the financial and upper-class world. Hunger for power and money but also loyalty, love and sacrifices are all questions that Thomas (Mads Mikkelsen), suddenly has to face, in a game of life and death.
	REPRISE (Dir. Joachim Trier, Norway 2006) Reprise is a playful film about friendship, madness and creativity, about love and sorrow, great ambitions and the often unpleasant clash between youthful presumptions and reality. With its somewhat un-Norwegian structure, REPRISE has a distinct style and narrative technique which moves the story forward in a rich and enthusiastic manner ...
	RUDY, THE RETURN OF THE RACING PIG (Dir. Peter Timm, Germany 2007) Up to now, Nickel (9) and his single dad Thomas have been managing very well together. Then Nickel goes on a school excursion and brings the little piglet Rudy back with him in his rucksack ...
	V2 (Dir. Aleksi Mäkelä, Finland 2007) Jussi Vares, temporary broke as always, gets a phone call from the city of Pori. On the horn is his old school-mate Jarkko Tienvieri who offers Vares a job for a private eye. The mission: to find out the real murderer and clean out the badly-tarnished reputation of a used-cars salesman.
	THE ROBBER HOTZENPLOTZ (Dir Gernot Roll, Germany 2005) 'I steal what I like, that´s what I´m known for', brags Robber Hotzenplotz, who willingly adds that he´s the biggest robber far and wide. If only he hadn´t stolen Grandmother´s beloved coffee mill ...
	FROZEN CITY (Dir. Aku Louhimies, Finland 2006) Abandoned by his wife, the man who has lost his family is convicted of manslaughter – an act of violence which, hopelessly drunk at the time, he can not remember committing.
	STORM (Dir. Mårlind / Stein, Sweden 2006) DD (Eric Ericson) is young. Cool. Knows where it's at. Or… thought he did. Until the night he meets Lova (Eva Röse) who is trying to escape someone. Or something.
	PAHA MAA / Frozen Land (Dir. Aku Louhimies, Finland 2005) is a hectic, fast-paced and realistic depiction of today´s Finland. It is full of dramatic and tragic events, a lot of action but also warmth and humor ...
	THE FIRST ON THE MOON (Dir. Alexej Fedortschenko, Russia 2005) While rummaging through state-security archives a documentary filmmaker makes a spectacular discovery. He unearths material which proves that the Russians landed on the moon long before the Americans. ...
	MATTI - Hell is for Heroes (Dir. Aleksi Mäkela, Finland 2006) Matti is a fictionalized drama about a man who loves ski-jumping so much that he rises to the top of his game and becomes the best in the world. But the fact that he jumps like an eagle flies, does not mean that he cannot crash-land in everyday life ...
	SOPHIE SCHOLL – THE FINAL DAYS (Dir. Marc Rothemund, Germany 2005) Munich, 1943. As Hitler wages a devastating war in Europe, a group of young people, mostly university students, resorts to passive resistance as the only effective way to cripple the Nazis and their inhuman war machine. The White Rose is formed, a resistance movement dedicated to the downfall of the Third Reich. Sophie Scholl is the only female member ...
	RANCID (Dir. Joakim Ersgård, 2004) Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. A personal tragedy has left him dispassionate about the world and his work and he lives his life in limbo. In the midst of this existential crisis he attends a high school reunion and meets three old friends ...
	VANITY FAIR (Dir. Mira Nair, England-USA 2004) The daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl, Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) is orphaned at a young age. Even as a child, she yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises ...
	IN GOOD COMPANY (Dir. Paul Weitz , USA 2004) Veteran ad salesman Dan's (Dennis Quaid) new boss Carter (Topher Grace) is half his age--a business school prodigy who preaches corporate Synergy. Dan has two teenage daughters and is shocked when his wife tells him she's pregnant ...
	ONE MISSED CALL / CHAKUSHIN ARI (Dir. Takashi Miike, Japan 2003) When several of Yumi’s friends meet violent deaths after receiving a mysterious phone message dated in the future, she teams up with stranger Hiroshi whose sister also have met an unnatural death to solve the puzzle ...
	HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (Dir. Zhang Yimou, China - Hong-Kong 2004) The year is 859AD and China’s once flourishing Tang Dynasty is in decline. Unrest is raging throughout the land, and the corrupt government is locked in battle with rebel armies that are forming in protest. The largest, and most prestigious of these is the ...
	THE CORSICAN FILE (Dir. Alain Berberian, France 2004) Remi Francois a.k.a. Jack Palmer, a hip Parisian private-eye who thinks he’s as irresistible to women as he is expert at his trade, finally agrees to take on the job given him by a small-time provincial notary: to find Ange Leoni, a Corsican who has inherited a tidy sum, but who has vanished into thin air ...
	AVIATOR (Dir. Martin Scorsese, USA 2004)
	2046 (rez. Wong Kar-Wai, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong 2004) He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention… to recapture their lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed ...
	COFFEE AND CIGARETTES (Dir. Jim Jarmusch, USA 2003) is a series of short films disguised as a feature (or maybe vice versa). Each sequence involves several characters just sitting around, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes and discussing subjects as diverse as caffeine popsicles, Abbott & Costello, Elvis conspiracy theories, the proper preparation of English tea ...
	HOTEL (Dir. Jessica Hausner, Austria-Germany 2004)
	NAPOLA (Dir. Dennis Gamnsel, Germany 2004) Germany, 1942. The Hitler regime is at the peak of its political and military power. Seventeen-year-old Friedrich Weimer, from the Berlin working-class district of Wedding, is a gifted boxer. Thanks to his talent, he receives an offer to study at an elite National-Political School, the Napola of Allenstein, which trains the future leaders of the German Reich ...
	MY BROTHER IS A DOG (Dir. Peter Timm, Germany 2004) There’s nothing that ten-year-old Marietta wants more for her birthday than a little dog. But what does she get instead. A silly old rock. Expect that this rock is special: it fulfills its owner’s greatest wish. And sure enough, one morning Marietta wakes up to find a little dog waiting to play with her ...
	SCHULTZE GETS THE BLUES (Dir. Michael Schorr, Germany 2003)