Portraits

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  Forever Young

  India | 2008 | 40/59/78min

  A look at the many facets of contemporary India through the eyes of 62-years-old musician Lou and his admiration for Bob Dylan. Read More

   
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  Young Freud in Gaza

  Sweden | 2008 | 58/90min

  “A million psychologists are needed in Gaza,” says Ayed, a 28-year-old Palestinian who works as a field psychologist at the Jabaliya refugee camp. A comic yet tragic film from the “secret rooms” of Gaza. Read More

   
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  Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline

  The Netherlands | 2008 | 78min

  This is Anna Politkovskaya’s life story, told in documentary scenes and in the words of friends and colleagues. Read More

   

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  My Brother, the Conductor

  Switzerland | 2007 | 58/64min

  Mario Venzago literally puts his livelihood on the line when he decides to conduct Othmar Schoeck's monumental opera "Penthesilea" for a one-off concert at the 1999 Lucerne Festival. During the highly demanding two-week rehearsals Mario is accompanied by his brother Alberto. Read More

   
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  Georg

  Germany / Italy | 2007 | 72min

  It is a story of loss, idylls, illusions and longing: a love that unites two worlds, an idyll to make up for what the war had destroyed, a struggle for an uncompromising art. Read More

   
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  Children. As Time Flies.

  Germany | 2007 | 86min

  What became of bus driver Jeanette’s dream? How are her children Tommy and Paul? Is life under control now? What does Jeanette’s little brother Tino mean by “mixing everything”? The snowman has no mouth. Life as it flows. Agitating. Read More

   

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  Lakshmi and Me

  India, Denmark, Finland, USA | 2007 | 59min

  LAKSHMI AND ME by Nishtha Jain is intimate and lovely, a universal film about modern womanhood. Read More

   
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  Dancing with Time

  Germany | 2007 | 103min

  Dancers over the age of sixty in a project of the Opera Leipzig, their lives, their dancing - the grace of age, beauty and power. Pas de deux instead of anti-aging cream! Read More

   
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  Sons

  Germany | 2007 | 107min

  A story about five sons and their lives. A German-Polish family story stretching from the post-war period to the present day. Read More