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The Albanian
Germany, 2010, 104 min.
An Albanian illegal immigrant in Berlin tries to earn the dowry demanded by the family of his pregnant beloved back home in this social-issues drama. Winner, Best Actor, Special Jury Prize, Moscow Film Festival.... more
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Colors in the Dark
Germany, 2010, 85 min.
Veterans Ganz and Berger are a delight in this intimate tale about aging and the bonds and boundaries of love. They play a long-married couple who react very differently to his diagnosis of prostate cancer… A heartfelt rumination on the nature of love and existence.... more
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David wants To Fly
Germany, 2010, 96 min.
This sprightly documentary about finding your own artistic inspiration follows German writer-director David Sieveking on his road to enlightenment, a journey that involves cult director David Lynch, various headquarters of the Transcendental Meditation movement and the icy source of the Ganges.... more
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Goethe
Germany, 2010, 102 min.
A lovingly made biography of the early years of Germany’s literary genius, when his romantic travails served as inspiration for his classic writings. A fine lead performance, sparkling cinematography, and gorgeous costumes and sets make this an engaging story of star-crossed love.... more
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Habermann
Germany, 2010, 100 min.
A gripping story of a Sudetenland village transformed through extraordinary events, vividly illustrating the ways in which the best and worst of human nature emerge in the face of war and its aftermath.... more
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Henry of Navarre
Germany, 2010, 153 min.
Protestants and Catholics at war in 16th-century France serve as the backdrop for this rousing epic—replete with bloody battles, bawdy sex, and delicious royal-court duplicity—tracing the rise of the protestant Henry, who went on to become the country’s beloved King Henry IV.
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Jane’s Journey
Germany, 2010, 107 min.
More than 20 years ago, primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, now 75, decided to give up her career, as well as her private life, in order to devote all her energy to saving our endangered planet. As The Boston Globe once put it: “To be with Jane Goodall is like walking with Mahatma Gandhi.”... more
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Kinshasa Symphony
Germany, 2010, 95 min.
A true ode to joy, this heartening, hopeful movie dispels European stereotypes about Africa. It shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra. Winner, Audience Awar... more
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The Poll Diaries
Germany, 2010, 134 min.
On the eve of World War I, a 14-year-old German girl returns to her home on the Baltic coast, a place uneasily shared by Germans, Russians and Estonians. While her morbid scientist father controls the family with a cruel hand, the passionate teen secretly nurses a wounded Estonian anarchist back to ... more
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The Silence
Germany, 2010, 119 min.
This highly-assured sophomore feature about two unresolved murder cases firmly establishes writer–director Baran bo Odar as a major international talent. More melodrama than thriller, it cleverly binds its disparate characters together through themes of loneliness, guilt and atonement.... more
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When We Leave
Germany, 2009, 119 min.
When a young Turkish-German woman can no longer stand her husband's ill treatment, she flees from Istanbul with her five-year-old son to her family in Berlin. But their love, affection, and loyalty soon become irrelevant as they struggle to reconcile her willful self-determination with the tradition... more
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Womb
Germany, 2010, 107 min.
In the near future, when cloning is possible, a woman makes an eerie decision: she chooses to become pregnant with her dead boyfriend’s clone, thereby becoming mother to her lover… A gorgeously shot, haunting piece of Freudian science fiction.... more
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