Saturday, 11 / 11 / 2006:
12:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 10
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Director: Amram Jacoby
Director is present .

60 Min. .



?Saba? is the story of one man?s relationship with his grandfather. The film is a journal that allows the voice of a remarkable man to finally be heard.
12:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 12
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Director: Bijan Daneshmand
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74 Min. .



A successful Iranian businessman returns to his homeland in the accompaniment of a Mullah where he rediscovers his own heritage. This film has been featured at more than thirty film festivals worldwide.
03:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 8
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Director: Dietmar Post & Luc?a Palacios
Director is present .

100 Min. .



?The Monks? tells the entertaining story of five American GI?s stationed in Germany during the Cold War who started an eclectic rock band, which they described as the ?anti-Beatles.?
03:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 10
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Director: Yonghi Yang
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107 Min. .



Searching for answers as to why her parents separated her from her brothers, Japanese-born North Korean Yonghi Yang engages her parents in a critical dialogue concerning their continuing love and devotion to their former country.
03:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 11
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Director: Baran bo Odar
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60 Min. .



A gripping film about growing up in the 1980?s set against the heat of a Los Angeles summer. ?Under the Sun? gently illuminates the dreams and fears of adolescence.
03:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 12
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Director: Stefan Westerwelle
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77 Min. .



A moving film about life?s transience centered on the tender relationship between the call-boy Sebastian and his reclusive admirer Georg.
05:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 8
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Director: Li Yu
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93 Min. .



When 16-year-old Xiao-Yun becomes pregnant she is ostracized and then abandoned by her boyfriend. Ten years later, her only real friend is a curious boy from across the dam. But Xiao-Yun must still face the prospect of forging a future from her unresolved past. ?Dam Street? is a deeply impressive social drama about one young woman?s struggles in the repressive social climate of a small Chinese town.
05:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 10
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Director: Grace Lee
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68 Min. .


The filmmaker, Grace Lee, decided to make the identity of American women of Asian descent the focus of her film. With cleverness and a decidedly unscientific approach, she examines the lives of Grace Lees who don?t meet the stereotypical standards.
05:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 11
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Director: Patrick Tauss
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88 Min. .


Fabo is a night owl and one of many: rambling aimlessly through the big city streets. Women and alcohol: can?t live with them, can?t live without them. Enter Tami, who brings his chaotic life back into shape...and then the accident....
05:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 12
Lech Kowalski Retrospektive
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Director: Lech Kowalski
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110 Min. .


The film-maker Lech Kowalski answers to his mother's deeply moving report about her deportation into a Soviet labour camp in North Russia at the beginning of World War II with a journey through time to the New York Underground of the 70s and 80s.
08:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 8
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Director: Santiago Amigorena
Director is present .

110 Min. .



September 1st, 2001: having received crucial information, the American secret agent Elliot decides to go into hiding. At the same time, he also wants to see his daughter, Orlando, again who he abandoned ten years ago. Together with Elliot's adopted son, David, his old friend Ir?ne seeks to organize a meeting in Venice. But she doesn't anticipate William Pound, an unscrupulous killer and occasional poet...
08:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 10
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Director: V?ctor Garc?a Le?n
Director is present .

90 Min. .



Santiago, a frustrated actor, has never played a lead role in anything, not even his own life. But things change dramatically when he invites his son Guillermo, a compulsive liar, to stay with him. ?Vete de mi? is a satiric and bitter comedy about losing a job, while gaining a son.
08:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 11
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Director: Henry Jaglom
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106 Min. .



?Going Shopping? is a film which deals with the often overlooked phenomenon of women?s addiction to shopping ? imbedded in the amusing personal ?chaos? of clothing designer and boutique-owner Holly.
08:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 12
Dennis Hopper
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Director: Satyajit Ray
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115 Min. .



?Aparajito? is the second part of the Apu-trilogy. Apu, now an adolescent, must stand his ground against several strokes of fate. A scholarship for the college in Kalkota seems to pave the way to a brighter future.
10:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 8
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Director: Yoon Jong-bin
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126 Min. .



Tae-jung, a sergeant, took Seung-young under his wing because he was an old classmate. Then Tae-jung is discharged and with it loses his safety net. Seung-young slowly starts to change?
10:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 10
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Director: Rodrigo Moreno
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93 Min. .


Bodyguard Rubens is responsible for shadowing the Minister?s every step. He is always present but seldom seen. But despite his insider?s view, Rubens experiences his work as if he were an outsider, observing his own life from a distance. When Rubens?s private life begins to decay, events are set into motion that can only lead to explosion.
10:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 11
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Director: Birgit Grosskopf
Director is present .

80 Min. .



During the doldrums between Christmas and New Year?s Eve, a clique of teenage girls roams the streets. Between dull apartment blocks, cheap motels and discount stores, the girls are waiting for something ? but it?s not the New Year.
10:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 12
Lech Kowalski Retrospektive
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Director: Lech Kowalski
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104 Min. .



Culled from more than five hundred hours of footage of a bizarre and colorful cast of characters the film is a unique chronicle of a time when underground New York was not just a fashion statement or a commercial sales gimmick but a vibrant explosion of rebellious energy