The Business of Being Born (Abby Epstein)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Sunday 30.September, 16:00 Uhr | USA 2007, Director: Abby Epstein, Producer: Abby Epstein, Amy Slotnick, Paulo Netto, Camera: Paulo Netto, Sound: Matthew Israel, Cut: Madeleine Gavin, Actors: Mayra, Jen, Dr. Michel Odent u.a., Farbe Giving birth is a natural occurrence in the life of a woman. However, giving birth is also «Big Business». Following the delivery of her own baby, the producer Ricki Lake engaged her friend and director Abby Epstein to document the way in which women bring their children into the world. In their film they show the difference between a birth at home, a hospital birth and a scheduled caesarean section. Epstein presents an informative exposition of the healthcare system in this critical account of the history of the birth-giving culture. Supporting Film: And The Colours Are Like Summer_Gabriel Tupinambá |
Midnight Express (Alan Parker)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (6) / Friday 28.September, 18:00 Uhr | USA 1978, Director: Alan Parker, Screenplay: Oliver Stone, Script: William Hayes, William Hoffer, Producer: Alan Marshall, David Puttnam, Actors: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Farbe Das Drama erzählt die fiktionalisierte Geschichte des real existierenden amerikanischen Studenten Billy Hayes. Dieser versuchte, Haschisch aus der Türkei zu schmuggeln, und wurde dafür zu 30 Jahren Haft verurteilt. Bei seinen Fluchtversuchen aus türkischer Gefangenschaft schreckte er vor keinem Mittel zurück. Oliver Stone erhielt für sein packendes Drehbuch im Jahr 1978 seinen ersten Oscar. |
Cocalero (Alejandro Landes)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Monday 01.October, 18:30 Uhr | Argentinien, Bolivien 2007, Director: Alejandro Landes, Producer: Alejandro Landes, Julia Solomonoff, Music: Leonardo Heiblum, Jacobo Lieberman, Camera: Jorge Manrique Behrens, Sound: Lena Exquenazi, Cut: Kate Taverna, Joge Manrique Behrens, Lorenzo Bombicci, Actors: Evo Morales, Leonilda Zurita u.a., Farbe Cocalero follows the presidential candidate Evo Morales at the end of 2005 on his election campaign through Bolivia. As the leader of the «Movimiento al Socialismo» party and an advocate for the rights of coca farmers, he gives his best to become the first indigenous president of Bolivia. With the well-organized coca union behind him – thousands of indigenous coca farmers, so-called Cocaleros – he succeeds in making the historical breakthrough. On January 22, 2006 he is endorsed as Head of State. Alejandro Landes’ debut film paints the portrait of an involved activist while simultaneously alluding to the present political upheavals in Latin America. Supporting Film: Say Can You See_Tony Caio |
Prostie vechi / Simple Things (Aleksei Popogrebsky)
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Alba) / Wednesday 03.October, 20:30 Uhr | Russland 2007, Director: Aleksei Popogrebsky, Screenplay: Aleksei Popogrebsky, Producer: Roman Borisevich, Actors: Sergei Puskepalis, Leonid Bronevoy, Svetlana Kamynina, Dinara Kutuyeva, Farbe Sergej Maslov, an anaesthesiologist from St. Petersburg, likes to take things easy – until life sets him a few challenges: His girlfriend causes no end of trouble, his daughter runs away from home and his wife announces she is pregnant. In addition to this, a private patient makes him an offer he would do better to refuse, or better not? It takes Maslov some time until he understands what the “uneasy lightness of being” actually means. At the centre of this optimistic story we find an ordinary guy with an inability to adapt to difficult situations. The great Sergej Puskepalis has received multiple awards for his convincing interpretation of Maslov in Alexey Popgrebsky’s second film. |
Tajnosti / Little Girl Blue (Alice Nellis)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Friday 28.September, 16:00 Uhr | Tschechien 2007, Director: Alice Nellis, Screenplay: Alice Nellis, Producer: Jan Sverak, Coproducer: Ceska Televize, Music: Buty, Camera: Ramunas Greicius, L. A. C., Sound: Viktor Ekrt, Marek Hart, Cut: Adam Dvorak, Equipment: Petr Fort, Costumes: Katarina Holla, Actors: Iva Bittova, Ivan Franek, Martha Issova, Miloslav König u.a., Farbe Under the direction of Alice Nellis and produced by the Oscar-winning Jan Sverák, Tajnosti tells of that day in the life of Julie after which everything was different. Julie has just moved into a smart new house together with her husband and her 17-year-old daughter. Finding out about the death of Nina Simone, her favourite singer, marks a turning point in Julie’s life. Confronted with death, she begins to question her future. A wonderful light comedy about a woman in her prime who has to discover for herself whether life with husband and daughter still makes sense. Supporting Film: The Soulmate_Nicolas Neuhold |
Izgnanie / The Banishment (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Alba) / Friday 05.October, 19:30 Uhr Trailer | Russland 2007, Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev, Producer: Dmitri Lesnevsky, Actors: Konstantin Lavronenko, Aleksandr Baluyev, Maxim Shibaev, Maria Bonnevie, Farbe Alex moves from the city taking his wife Vera and his two children back to his father’s house in the countryside. There, in the middle of a paradisiacal landscape and in the security of his childhood memories, he hopes peace of mind will return to his brother who was left by his wife and children. However, as Vera reveals a secret to Alex, which leads to a succession of misunderstandings and recriminations, the house becomes a foreboding place of banishment. |
Mars (Anna Melikian)
 Online Ticketkauf | Russland 2004, Director: Anna Melikian, Farbe On the run from himself and his past the famous and ‘invincible’ boxer Boris ends up in Mars, a small town on the island of Krim and also the name of the factory there that supplied the whole country with soft toys and provided jobs for most of its residents during the days of the Soviet Union. The combat sportsman from Moscow will spend one day in this small town – and this day will bring about a new turn in the life of the librarian Greta and her admirer Grigorij. In her feature film debut the young director Anna Melikian combines a bitter-sweet love triangle with references to the realities of today’s Russia. |
Immer Nie am Meer / Forever Never Anywhere (Antonin Svoboda)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Tuesday 02.October, 16:00 Uhr Trailer | Österreich 2006, Director: Antonin Svoboda, Screenplay: Christoph Grissemann, Dirk Stermann, Heinz Strunk, Antonin Svoboda, Jörg Kalt, Producer: Coop99 Filmproduktion, Martin Gschlacht, Jessica Hausner u.a., Camera: Martin Gschlacht, Sound: Dietmar Zuson, Cut: Oliver Neumann, Equipment: Katharina Wöppermann, Costumes: Katharina Wöppermann, Actors: Christoph Grissemann, Dirk Stermann, Heinz Strunk, Philip Bialkowski u.a., Farbe History professor Baisch, his depressive and pill-addicted brother-in-law Anzengruber and a manic cabaret artist suffer a crash on a lonely country lane following a party. They remain trapped between two trees, injured and with little chance of escape they await rescue. Their only provisions are a bowl of herring salad and sparkling white wine. Over-the-top joviality, desperate fits of tears, absurd conversations and moments of intimacy – the car becomes a prison from which there is no escape. At least not by one’s own doing. A dry Austrian grotesque with Heinz Strunk, Christoph Grissemann and Dirk Stermann. Supporting Film: Surprise |
Svobodnoe Plavanie / Free Floating (Boris Khlebnikov)
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Alba) / Sunday 30.September, 20:30 Uhr | Russland 2006, Director: Boris Khlebnikov, Screenplay: Boris Khlebnikov, Producer: Roman Borisevich, Camera: Shandor Berkeshi, Actors: Boris Petrov, Evgenii Sytyi, Darya Yakamasova, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Farbe Leonid, a young man from a typical Russian provincial town, is at the centre of this humorous melodrama. As a result of circumstances the children grow up there with little prospects as everything is practically preordained. One day the town’s factory closes down and Leonid becomes disoriented. For the first time in his life he is forced to make a decision and to think seriously about his future. |
Scarface (Brian De Palma)
 Online TicketkaufFrosch studio (1) / Friday 28.September, 20:30 Uhr | USA 1983, Director: Brian De Palma, Screenplay: Oliver Stone, Script: Armitage Trail, Producer: Martin Bregman, Camera: John A. Alonzo, Cut: Gerald B. Greenberg, David Ray, Actors: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Farbe Initially controversial because of its explicit scenes of violence, Scarface soon achieved cult-film status. Loosely based on the biography of Al Capone, Brian de Palma describes the story of the Cuban immigrant Tony Montana and his rise and fall as the most important gangster boss and cocaine dealer in 80s Miami. |
extended play 07 (Chris Shepherd, Ben Hibbon, Furi Furi, Ondrej Svedlana, Sam Morrison)
 Online TicketkaufTheater am Neumarkt (Theatersaal) / Sunday 30.September, 14:15 Uhr | Grossbritannien 2007, Director: Chris Shepherd, Ben Hibbon, Furi Furi, Ondrej Svedlana, Sam Morrison, Farbe a select international programme of critically acclaimed, digitally inflected short films and animations, which extend way beyond the boundaries of traditional storytelling and style. includes chris shepherd’s multi-award winning silence is golden as well as work from. |
Yella (Christian Petzold)
 Online Ticketkauf | Deutschland 2007, Director: Christian Petzold, Screenplay: Christian Petzold, Producer: Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber, Camera: Hans Fromm, Sound: Andreas Mücke-Niesytka, Martin Ehlers-Falkenberg, Cut: Bettina Böhler, Costumes: Anette Guther, Lotte Sawatzki, Actors: Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann, Burghart Klaussner, Farbe Yella breaks free of her old life in Western Germany and heads for the East leaving husband and destitution behind her. In a hotel on the outskirts of Hanover she meets Philipp who invites her to accompany him to a business meeting. Here she discovers the world of glass, wirelessly networked conference rooms and quietly purring hired limousines. Everything seems easy, a game with no losers. Proving suitable, Yella becomes Philipp’s assistant and she earns good money. When her husband turns up she is forced to decide between the old and the new life and fight for what she wants. With Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow and Hinnerk Schönemann, Yella brings together three outstanding actors from the New German Cinema to play the leading parts. |
4 Luni, 3 Saptamini Si 2 Zile / 4 Monate, 3 Wochen, 2 Tage (Cristian Mungiu)
 Online Ticketkauf | Rumänien 2007, Director: Cristian Mungiu, Screenplay: Cristian Mungiu, Producer: Oleg Mutu, Cristian Mungiu, Camera: Oleg Mutu, Actors: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alex Potocean, Farbe 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days have passed since Gabita became pregnant. The student shares a room with her friend Otilia in residential accommodation. She does not want to keep the child and decides on a termination. The illegal abortion is to be carried out by a certain Dr. Bebe, who she meets in a hotel together with Otilia using false names. The doctor, however, demands more than just money in return for his services. This drama, set in the Ceausescu era, was awarded the Golden Palm at Cannes. It convinces with its strong characters and illuminates a sensitive theme using realistic images. |
Running with Arnold (Dan Cox)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Monday 01.October, 21:00 Uhr Trailer | USA 2006, Director: Dan Cox, Screenplay: Dan Cox, Script: Jerry Decker, Producer: Mike Gabrawy, Jennifer Hughes, Music: Clifford J. Tasner, Camera: Alan Cibrian, Mobolaji Olambiwonnu, Donn Joseph Bialik u.a., Cut: Katina Zinner, Ron Frank, Rick Benavides, Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Clinton, Larry Flynt, Francis Ford Coppola u.a., Farbe In his documentary debut Running with Arnold, director Dan Cox delivers a humorous and multilayered portrait of one of the most famous and ambitious men of our time: Arnold Schwarzenegger. With his successful career from bodybuilder to Hollywood Star and on to governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger embodies the epitome of «The American Dream». But what is the downside of his fame? Cox examines Schwarzenegger’s political rise and sheds light upon the negative aspects of the «governator » – and the present American political landscape. The film is narrated by actor Alec Baldwin. Supporting Film: Shanghai Manners_Claudia Jucker |
Gewinner Nachwuchsdokumentarfilm / Winner New Documentary Film (Dan Cox)
 | USA 2006, Director: Dan Cox, Screenplay: Dan Cox, Camera: Alan Cibrian, Mobolaji Olambiwonnu, Actors: Larry Flint, Francis Ford Coppola, Farbe Winner in the category "New Documentary" is Running With Arnold by Dan Cox. |
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Untitled Documentary (David Hausen)
 Online Ticketkauf | USA Director: David Hausen, Producer: David Hausen, Rocky Ziegler, Camera: David Hausen, Peter Hawkins, Actors: Flea, John Frusciante, Anthony Kiedis, Chris Rock, Chad Smith, Farbe "Tell Me Baby", "Dani California", "Snow" or "Hump the Bump": In Red Hot Chili Peppers: Untitled Documentary the filmmaker David Hausen is right up close when the band members create their stylistically idiosyncratic music videos together with such directors as Tony Kaye, Valerie Dayton, John Faris and Chris Rock. Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante and Chad Smith tell in equal measure of their artistic collaborations with the music video directors and the beginning of their careers. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Untitled Documentary is an amusing portrait of one of the most famous contemporary bands that work with zest and enthusiasm. |
Bikur Hatizmoret / The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Sunday 30.September, 21:00 Uhr Trailer | Israel, Frankreich 2007, Director: Eran Kolirin, Screenplay: Eran Kolirin, Producer: Eilon Ratzkovsky, Ehud Bleiberg, Yossi Uzrad, Koby Gal-Raday, Guy Jacoel, Coproducer: Sophie Dulac Productions, Music: Habib Shehadeh, Camera: Shai Goldman, Sound: Itai Eloav, Cut: Arik Lahav Leibovitz, Equipment: Eitan Levi, Costumes: Doron Ashkenazi, Actors: Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour, Farbe Kitted out with blue ceremonial uniforms, black trolley cases and musical instruments, a police orchestra travels from Egypt to Israel. The members are invited to perform for the opening of an Arabian cultural centre. Neither chauffeur nor reception committee await them at the airport. A worker at a take-away stand finally adopts the eight hungry and unsheltered Arabs stranded in the Israeli desert. With painful humour, Eran Kolirin presents a little story about people from two different cultures, their dreams and worries, whose journey through life could not have crossed more coincidentally. A heart-warming comedy. Supporting Film: Apple & Ei_Ahmet Tas |
Gewinner Nachwuchsspielfilm / Winner New Fiction (Eran Kolirin)
 | Frankreich, Israel 2007, Director: Eran Kolirin, Screenplay: Eran Kolirin, Camera: Shai Goldman, Actors: Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Farbe In the category "Best New Fiction Film" Bikur Hatizmoret/The Band's Visit convinced the jury and won the "golden Eye", endowed with 10'000 Swiss Francs. For the fist time, Variety awarded the Variety's New Talent Award in the framework of the third Zurich Film Festival. Winner was again „The Band’s Visit" ("Bikur Hatizmoret") by Eran Kolirin. |
Odette Toulemonde (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt)
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Le Paris) / Tuesday 02.October, 21:15 Uhr Trailer | Frankreich 2006, Director: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Screenplay: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Producer: Gaspard de Chavagnac, Music: Nicola Piovani, Camera: Carlo Varini, Sound: Philippe Vandendriessche, Cut: Philippe Bourgueil, Equipment: François Chauvaud, Costumes: Corrine Jorry, Actors: Catherine Frot, Albert Dupontel, Jacques Weber, Fabrice Murgia, Farbe Odette Toulemonde has no reason to be happy, but she is. Balthazar Balsan, bestselling author, has every reason to be happy, but he is not. Odette works in the cosmetics section of a large department store and sews at home to earn extra money. She would like to thank her favourite author Balthazar Balsan, who she feels supplied the material for her to discover her optimism, her joie de vivre. Until, that is, she one day has the opportunity to meet him – and remains silent. A dreamy and amusing film about an unlikely couple that simply belong together but don’t really succeed in coming together. In the tradition of Amélie, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt tells a moving story using the least amount of material. In the presence of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt . |
Mechenosets / The Sword Bearer (Filipp Yankovsky)
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Alba) / Saturday 29.September, 20:30 Uhr | Russland 2006, Director: Filipp Yankovsky, Screenplay: Konstantin Syngayevsky, Script: Yevgeni Danilenko, Producer: Sergei Selyanov, Actors: Artyom Tkachenko, Chulpan Khamatova, Leonid Gromov, Aleksei Zharkov, Farbe Both the law enforcement officers and bandits are in hot pursuit of Sasha. But nobody knows he is in possession of special powers that enable him to destroy anything in his path. His encounter with Katya, who falls in love with him and shows no fear of his supernatural abilities, changes Sasha completely. Will he be able to safeguard something as fragile as love in such a brutal environment? In this fascinating mixture of mystery elements and thriller, Philipp Yankovsky tells the story of a society that turns a man into a monster and, as is the case with this man, how love gains the upper hand. |
New York City Serenade (Frank Whaley)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Thursday 04.October, 21:00 Uhr | USA 2006, Director: Frank Whaley, Screenplay: Frank Whaley, Producer: Rachel Peters, Music: Ed Harcourt, Camera: Ryan Samul, Sound: Fred Rosenberg, Lewis Goldstein, Cut: Miran Miosic, Equipment: Dara Wishingrad, Costumes: Virginia Cook, Actors: Freddie Prinze Jr., Chris Klein, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Heather Bucha u.a., Farbe Two friends, Ray a Rock’n’Roll band drummer and Owen, an aspiring film director, who have known each other since childhood must now discover what they expect from life and, above all, how their relationship should develop. Owen takes Ray to a film festival he has been invited to with his short film. As Owen attempts to give his life a new direction, Ray sabotages his intentions nonstop and becomes an impostor. As everything blows up, Owen sets his friend an ultimatum. A humorous and tender film with Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Wallace Shawn about the friendship between two men who, despite newly set aspirations, have to discover whether their friendship will remain stable. Supporting Film: Le Géneraliste_Damien Chemin |
Frei nach Plan / According to the Plan (Franziska Meletzky)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Friday 28.September, 21:00 Uhr | Deutschland 2007, Director: Franziska Meletzky, Farbe The three entirely different sisters Anne, Iris and Marianne attempt to make arrangements for their mother’s birthday party. Anne, the rebel and adventurer, stirs up the preparations when she falls for her younger sister’s husband and leaves the entire responsibility of the upcoming party to her older sister Iris. Accordingly, the preparations for the party are continually interrupted by minor and major interpersonal catastrophes. The absurd comedy and tragedy of life ensures that these birthday festivities do not turn out according to plan. Those of you who dread family celebrations will love this film. Supporting Film: Frog Jesus_Ben Peters |
wow+flutter 07 (Grant Orchard, Johnny Kelly, Richard Fenwick, Will Campbell, Tuyet Anh Vu u.a.)
 Online TicketkaufTheater am Neumarkt (Theatersaal) / Friday 28.September, 17:30 Uhr | aus aller Welt 2007, Director: Grant Orchard, Johnny Kelly, Richard Fenwick, Will Campbell, Tuyet Anh Vu u.a., Farbe the visual ideas lab for future moving image trends. presenting motion graphics, animations, enhanced digital and experimental works across disciplines spanning architecture, fashion, illustration, graphic design and beyond. showcasing works from both new creatives and acclaimed industry talent, from around the world. |
Klass / The Class (Ilmar Raag)
 Online Ticketkauf | Estland 2007, Director: Ilmar Raag, Screenplay: Ilmar Raag, Producer: Riina Sildos, Ilmar Raag, Music: Martin Kallasvee, Paul Oja, Timo Steiner, Camera: Kristjan-Jaak Nuudi, Cut: Tambet Tasuja, Actors: Vallo Kirs, Pärt Uusberg, Lauri Pedaja, Paula Solvak, Farbe In an Estonian school class Joosep is the obvious outsider. With nasty little games, humiliating taunts and hard beatings the boys celebrate their superiority while the girls look on with indifference. A quickly plotted drama with videoclip aesthetics on the indignity and violence of youths. |
4 (Ilya Khrjanovsky)
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Alba) / Monday 01.October, 20:30 Uhr Trailer | Russland 2005, Director: Ilya Khrjanovsky, Screenplay: Vladimir Sorokin, Producer: Yelena Yatsura, Actors: Shavkat Abdusalamov, Anatoli Adoskin, Aleksei Khvostenko, Andrei Kudriashov, Farbe A deserted Russian village and an all-night bar in the big city. A doll with a face molded from bread and genitals made of folded rags. Could this medieval shamanism create clones? These worlds are so disparate that the director Ilya Khrzhanovsky broke the taboos, rules and norms of the accepted cinematographic language and used two different editing rhythms, and two divergent concepts for both sound and visuals. However, closer examination reveals that these two worlds are but clones of each other, only duplicated in reverse reflections, like positive and negative film. Like the mirror and that which lays beyond. |
Reine Geschmacksache / Fashion Victims (Ingo Rasper)
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Le Paris) / Wednesday 03.October, 20:30 Uhr Trailer | Deutschland 2007, Director: Ingo Rasper, Screenplay: Tom Streuber, Ingo Rasper, Producer: Kristine Knudsen, Boris Michalski, Music: Martina Eisenreich, Camera: Marc Achenbach, Sound: Oliver Stahn, Cut: Patricia Rommel, Sylvain Coutandin, Equipment: Christian Strang, Costumes: Bettina Marx, Actors: Edgar Selge, Florian Bartholomäi, Roman Knižka, Franziska Walser, Farbe Wolfi is a sales representative selling classical women’s fashion and vehemently opposed to the funky cheap-price segment. He feels increasingly threatened by the modern collection of his archenemy Steven Brookmüller who, to make matters worse, sabotages his business dealings. Things are no better at home: His wife Erika has had just about enough of being treated like a servant by her husband and his son Karsten is unhappy that he cannot travel to Spain to attend a language school because he now has to chauffeur his father around from customer to customer. As Karsten falls in love a debacle seems unavoidable. Edgar Selge, Roman Knizka, Franziska Walser and Horst Krause star in an extremely entertaining and charming film. In the presence of Edgar Selge, Franziska Walser, Ingo Rasper. |
The Workshop (Jamie Morgan)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Thursday 04.October, 16:00 Uhr Trailer | Grossbritannien 2007, Director: Jamie Morgan, Screenplay: Jamie Morgan, Producer: Peter Martin, Piers Tempest, Music: Youth, Camera: Jamie Morgan, Sound: Daize Washbourn, Cut: Alex Moreno, Alex Soskin, Actors: Jamie, Laurel, Ryan, Maddy u.a., Farbe «What motivates me? What are my fears? What is my life actually about?» These questions led filmmaker Jamie Morgan to attend a seminar with Paul Lowe, a spiritual guru. The workshop challenges the participants with questions such as: Is there a less pretentious and better way to live? What is jealousy? Is monogamy rooted in nature? This provocative documentary film accompanies its protagonists, each in the search for their own self: Explored stark naked and without reserve, the participants reveal it all before the camera. And right in the middle we find Jamie Morgan, on his own journey to his inner self. Supporting Film: The Morning After_Casey Walker |
Chapter 27 (Jarrett Schaefer)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Friday 05.October, 18:30 Uhr | USA 2006, Director: Jarrett Schaefer, Screenplay: Jarrett Schaefer, Producer: Robert Salerno, Naomi Despres, Alexandra Milchan, Coproducer: Artina Films, Music: Anthony Marinelli, Camera: Tom Richmond, Cut: Andrew Hafitz, Jim Makiej, Equipment: Kalina Ivanov, Costumes: Ane Crabtree, Actors: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan, Judah Friedlander u.a., Farbe In the freezing cold, Mark David Chapman waits for John Lennon in front of the Dakota Building in New York. He wants an autograph. And he wants to kill the legendary Ex-Beatle. Having traveled alone from Hawaii and suffering from psychological delusions, he found consolation in J. D. Salinger’s cult classic «The Catcher in the Rye». In the firm belief of having recognized the protagonist Holden Caulfield in himself, he follows the scenes of the novel – and with that writes the next, the 27th chapter – with five fatal shots fired on John Lennon. A subtle study of the psyche of the assassin Mark David Chapman. Supporting Film_Surprise |
Gewinner Debütspielfilm / Winner Debut Feature Film (Jarrett Schaefer)
 | USA 2006, Director: Jarrett Schaefer, Screenplay: Jarrett Schaefer, Camera: Tom Richmond, Actors: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan, Judah Friedlander, Farbe Jarrett Schaefer won with Chapter 27 the "Golden Eye" in his category. |
Fuerte Apache (Jaume Mateu Adrover)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Friday 05.October, 16:00 Uhr Trailer | Spanien 2007, Director: Jaume Mateu Adrover, Screenplay: Mateu Adrover, Producer: Joume Roures, Enrique Gonzalez Macho, Coproducer: Alta Producción, Music: Óscar Maceda, Camera: Pancho Alcaine, Sound: Albert Manera, Cut: Eloy González, Goyo Villasevil, Actors: Juan Diego, Lolita Flores, Pep Tosar, Jordi Rico, Farbe Toni Darder is without all hope, useless at his job, burnt out. Nonetheless he wants to continue working at a home for minors with learning difficulties. One day the police delivers the young boy Tariq and the burnt out teacher fosters new hope. This is the last attempt Toni will allow himself. Tariq pushes Toni’s patience and trust to the limit – until there is a murder and Tariq has to flee. A moving film about children and adolescents, the hope of a new life and the psychological strain of teachers lacking the power to teach. Supporting Film: Kasting_Alyosha Saari |
Blackout (Jerry Lamothe)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (6) / Friday 06.October, 12:30 Uhr Trailer | USA 2006, Director: Jerry Lamothe, Screenplay: Jerry Lamothe, Producer: Judith Aidoo, Music: George J. Fontenette, Camera: Ben Wolf, Sound: Evan Benjamin, Cut: Tina Pacheco, Equipment: Kai Lee, Costumes: Icy Parks, Actors: Zoe Saldana, Jeffrey Wright, Melvin Van Pebbles, Saul Rubinek u.a., Farbe On August 14, 2003 New York was hit by the biggest blackout in American history – the city lay in total darkness for two days. Many of New York’s districts remained free of criminal incident and official voices commended the population’s level headedness. However, chaos broke out in one part of Brooklyn. While some assisted each other, others shamelessly exploited the extraordinary circumstances. With reference to actual facts, Jerry Lamothe demonstrates in Blackout how relationships and friendships can change in such crisis situations. A trenchantly told story in the tradition of Spike Lee. Supporting Film: Spegelbarn/Looking Glass_Erik Rosenlund |
Twelve in A Box (John McKenzie)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Sunday 30.September, 18:30 Uhr | Grossbritannien 2006, Director: John McKenzie, Screenplay: John McKenzie, Producer: Bruce Windwood, Music: Mark Revell, Camera: Nicholas JS Wise, Sound: Wayne Reay, Cut: Lewis Albrow, Actors: Brian Mitchell, Anjella Mackintosh, Kenneth Collard, Katy Wix, Farbe At a remote stately residence in England, twelve ex-students find themselves at a school reunion. The host does not appear but instead makes a tempting offer by way of a video message. Each person will receive one million pounds providing they all abide by the rules: For 96 hours nobody is allowed to make a telephone call or leave the premises. If anybody enters the property they must remain until the time is up. Despite these simple rules, complicated teammates and a series of absurd incidents means winning the prize money seems an increasingly distant reality. A magnificently crazy black comedy in the tradition of Shallow Grave with its typical dry British humour. Supporting Film: Und Erde_Carlotta Kittel |
Gewinner Audience Award / Winner Audience Award (John McKenzie)
 | Grossbritannien 2006, Director: John McKenzie, Screenplay: John McKenzie, Camera: Nicholas JS Wise, Actors: Brian Mitchell, Anjella Mackintosh, Kenneth Collard, Caty Wix, Farbe The winner of this year's Audience Award was „Twelve In A Box“ by John McKenzie (Grossbritannien, 2006). |
La Caja / The Wooden Box (Juan Carlos Falcón Rivero)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Tuesday 02.October, 18:30 Uhr Trailer | Spanien 2006, Director: Juan Carlos Falcón Rivero, Screenplay: Juan Carlos Falcón, Producer: Andrés Santana Quintana, Coproducer: Imanol Uribe, Antonio Chavarrías, José Mazeda, Music: Joan Valent, Camera: Gonzalo Berridi, Sound: Carlos Bonmatí, Cut: José Salcedo, Costumes: Lena Mossum, Actors: Ángela Molina, Elvira Mínguez, Antonia San Juan, Vladimir Cruz, Farbe Because there is no room for the storage of her suddenly deceased husband Don Lucio in the cramped little home of Eloisa, Doña Isabel offers up her home for use. However, it is not mourning but long nurtured hate that breaks out, and the presence of the dead brings to light uncomfortable truths, shamefully concealed secrets, fears, hidden desires and unfulfilled yearnings. While the widow enjoys her newly gained freedom her neighbors settle their drastic accounts with the dead, a denunciator and pursuer of Franco’s regime. This is a bitter, poetic tragicomedy about the attitudes of a fishing village on the Canary Islands in the 1960’s. Supporting Film: AlpTraum_This Lüscher |
Bis zum Ellenbogen (Justus von Dohnányi)
 Online Ticketkauf | Deutschland 2007, Director: Justus von Dohnányi, Screenplay: Justus von Dohnányi, Producer: Justus von Dohnanyi, Lars Büchel, Bernd T. Hoefflin, Camera: Matthias Schellenberg, Actors: Jan Josef Liefers, Stefan Kurt, Justus von Dohnányi, Luisa Lindner, Farbe Spiv Willi Kolb (Stefan Kurt) and Achim Delvental (Jan Josef Liefers) – junior chief of a shipping company – could not be more different. One holds his head above water by weaving in and out of various jobs, the other enjoys a life of luxury afforded by his position. A traffic accident brings the unlikely pair together – and to a lonely lodge in the Bernese Oberland and Sven, a sympathetic banker from Sylt. During one of their nightly drinking bouts Sven suddenly dies. Because neither Achim nor Willi feel completely without fault they decide to fulfil his last wish: a burial at sea off the Ellenbogen on the Island of Sylt. The three begin the absurd journey during the 2006 Football World Cup in Germany with a ludicrous plan up their sleeve. |
Naked on the Inside (Kim Farrant)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Saturday 29.September, 18:30 Uhr | Australien 2006, Director: Kim Farrant, Screenplay: Kim Farrant, Producer: Ian Walker, Camera: Andrew Commis, Sound: Jed Kurzel, Cut: Emma Hay, Actors: Dave Toole, Carré Otis, Marcus Van u.a., Farbe Never before were the inhabitants of the western world more concerned with the way they look than they are today. In her documentary film Naked on the Inside, director Kim Farrant investigates why this is so and questions who we are without our clothes. Six extraordinary people from around the world unveil their bodies for Farrant, reveal their secrets and resort to this unusual experiment in the search for their true selves. At first glance they appear entirely different but, through their intimate portrayal in front of the camera, their similarities gradually become visible. Supporting Film: Tricko/The T-Shirt_Hossein Fazeli |
Blue State (Marshall Lewy)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Monday 01.October, 16:00 Uhr | USA, Kanada 2007, Director: Marshall Lewy, Screenplay: Marshall Lewy, Script: Marshall Lewy, Producer: Andrew Paquin, Kyle Irving, Music: Nathan Johnson, Camera: Phil Parmet, Sound: Graham Timmer, Cut: Adam Stein, Equipment: Deanne Rohde, Ricardo Alms, Costumes: Bill MacInnis, Actors: Breckin Meyer, Anna Paquin, Adriana O'Neil, Joyce Krenz, Farbe The defeat of his idol John Kerry at the American presidential elections forces the enthusiastic campaigner John Logue to redeem a previous and openly made promise: To emigrate to Canada in the event of George W. Bush being re-elected. With an offer from ‘Marry-A-Canadian’ in his pocket, an introduction agency that has become specialised in homeland-weary Americans, the political romancer sets off together with his travel companion in the direction of Winnipeg. An ironic road movie with Anna Paquin (The Piano), that deals critically and entertainingly with the USA’s present political situation. Supporting Film: Fish Attack!_Nicolas Neuhold |
Bersten / Bursting (Michael Finger)
 Online TicketkaufCapitol (1) / Thursday 04.October, 18:30 Uhr Trailer | Schweiz 2007, Director: Michael Finger, Screenplay: Michael Finger, Producer: Prisca Aerne, Michael Finger, Music: Martin Ulrich, Camera: Tonio Krüger, Sound: Laurent Barbey, Jürg von Allmen C.A.S., Cut: Roman Weber, Equipment: Daniela Müller, Costumes: Denise Riss, Actors: Sonja Grüntzig, Doro Müggler, Kenneth Huber, Gabriela Brand, Roberto Guerra, Maurin Schulthess, Daniel Länger u.a., Farbe By a stroke of fate – and on the same day but unconnected – the young farmer Leachim, the doctor Biela and the single mother Elena all lose a loved one. None of them are able to deal with the situation. They have in common their lack of ability to accept their loss and deal with their pain, which at once threatens their closest relationships. The inner pressure and desperation they feel at their own inability to mourn gradually increases – until the situation becomes dangerously critical. Supporting Film: Going Home_Diana Rumjahn |
Sicko (Michael Moore)
 Online Ticketkauf | USA 2007, Director: Michael Moore, Screenplay: Michael Moore, Producer: Michael Moore, Megan O'Hara, Camera: Christoph Vitt, Actors: Michael Moore, Reggie Cervantes, John Graham, William Maher u.a., Farbe „If you want to stay healthy in America, don’t get sick“, so says the Oscar-winning Michael Moore about the American Health System. Moore’s new documentary film, built on the tradition of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, fathoms the American Health System: Here of all places, in the world’s most economically dominant nation, 48 million people live without health insurance. In his typical one-man approach, the charismatic lone warrior exposes the most alarming shortcomings in the US health insurance system. |
wavelength 07 (Michel Gondry, +Cruz / w+k Tokyo Lab, Geoff McFetridge u.a.)
 Online TicketkaufTheater am Neumarkt (Theatersaal) / Friday 28.September, 15:45 Uhr | Australien, Russland, USA, UK 2007, Director: Michel Gondry, +Cruz / w+k Tokyo Lab, Geoff McFetridge u.a., Unbekannt a fresh and exciting programme of innovative graphic and digitally progressive music videos by critically acclaimed directors alongside emerging breakthrough artists from around the globe including russia, australia, usa, uk, japan and france. includes rarely seen promos. features videos for beck, the horrors, cornelius, justice and the whitest boy alive. |
bjork music videos special (Michel Gondry, Chris Cunningham, Lars von Trier, Spike Jonze, Alexander McQueen u.a.)
 Online TicketkaufTheater am Neumarkt (Theatersaal) / Saturday 29.September, 17:45 Uhr | Grossbritannien, Frankreich, Dänemark 2007, Director: Michel Gondry, Chris Cunningham, Lars von Trier, Spike Jonze, Alexander McQueen u.a., Farbe as renowned for her strong visual style as her genre defying music, bjork’s videos pioneer new styles, featuring leading filmmakers, photographers and fashion designers as directors. |
Brando. (Mimi Freedman)
 Online Ticketkauf | USA 2007, Director: Mimi Freedman, Producer: Leslie Greif, Coproducer: Tom Brown, Actors: Marlon Brando, |