show movies
Thursday, 11 / 09 / 2006:
12:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 10
Unrequited Love
. Director: Chris Petit .
77 Min. . 
?Unrequited Love? is about stalking and its victims. New types of modern technology define urban stalkers as a new category of terrorist. The methods duplicate: irrational, but targeted -- a dark valentine.
12:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 12
Dear Pyongyang
. Director: Yonghi Yang . 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 8
Voices of Bam
. Director: Aliona van der Horst, Maasja Ooms . 90 Min. .
The town of Bam in Southern Iran has been nothing but rubble and ruins since the massive earthquake of December 2003. ?Voices of Bam? is a tender portrait to the once beautiful city of Bam and its people, whose hearts appear to have collapsed with their homes, but who are still able to muster the courage to stay and persevere.
03:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 10
Weekend Warriors
. Director: Alexa Oona Schulz Director is present . 93 Min. .
This documentary is not just a film about people playing a sport; it?s a film about a way of life, where the sport of American football serves as a metaphor. For the film?s German protagonists, American football represents a better, simpler world. ?Weekend Warriors? shows us what everyone can love, and share, about a truly international game.
03:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 11
Vineta
. Director: Franziska St?nkel . 92 Min. .
Sebastian F?rber, a workaholic architect with a heart condition, is called to a remote villa to help complete a project under the guidance of the mysterious Dr. Leonhard, who has set out to design the perfect city of tomorrow. But F?rber soon suspects that Leonhard and his colleagues are concealing their true motivations.
03:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 12 Kurzfilmprogramm 1
Tradition
. Director: Peter Ladkani . 9 Min. .
Tradition? is a gripping nine-minute film about courage and convention. During a festival, an apathetic young boy is honored, while his sister chooses love in defiance of her family. But then both siblings receive a gift that bears sinister consequences for the rest of their lives?
The Angelmakers
. Director: Astrid Bussink . 33 Min. .
?The Angelmakers? is the nearly forgotten story of a sleepy small town in Hungary and the group of local women who murdered their husbands there in 1929 spun against the background of timeless themes like life, death and the eternal battle of the sexes.
Interdom
. Director: Nasir Al-Jezairi Director is present . 52 Min. .
?Interdom? reflects the effect of global political events from a very personal perspective. Fourteen years after the fall of Soviet communism, former students of an elite academy meet at a reunion and discover how the collapse of communism altered the direction of their once predetermined fates
05:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 8
Hors les murs (Out of Bounds)
. Director: Alexandre Leborgne, Pierre Barougier Director is present . 82 Min. .
?Hors les murs? documents a unique penal system that offers new perspectives. Iwahig penal farm is run almost entirely by its inmates who are allowed to live relatively free and normal lives as long as they remina on the grounds.
05:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 10
Bokura Wa Mo Kaerenai (We Can't Go Home Again)
. Director: Fujiwara Toshi . 111 Min. .
In contemporary Tokyo, the paths of five young strangers cross. Sensitive portraits provide insight into each of their emotions as they search for the meaning of life.
05:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 11 Dennis Hopper
Viridiana
. Director: Luis Bu?uel . 90 Min. .
Regarded by many as his great masterpiece, Luis Bu?uel?s ?Viridiana? is a radical statement about Catholic morality. Banned in Spain and denounced by the Vatican, ?Viridiana? is as audacious today as ever.
05:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 12
The Grace Lee Project
. Director: Grace Lee . 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.
08:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 8
The Wind that shakes the Barley
. Director: Ken Loach Director is present . 127 Min. .
After the Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916, Damien joins with his brother and his allies to campaign
against the overpowering British throne. The peace pact with the British winds up pulling the brothers apart.
08:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 10
Brinkmanns Zorn
. Director: Harald Bergmann . 105 Min. .
In Harald Bergmann?s filmic portrait of the poet Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, documentary and biography merge into an cinematic work of art; one that in regards to authenticity and fascination is nearly unsurpassable.
08:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 11
Lunacy
. Director: Jan ?vankmajer . 118 Min. .
Early childhood experiences bestow frightful nightmares upon young Berlot. Aided by the Marquis, Berlot finally gets the chance to sort things out after his mother has died.
08:00 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 12 Lech Kowalski Retrospektive
Camera Gun
. Director: Lech Kowalski . 29 Min. .
Camera Gun, an enigmatic portrait of Aukai Collins, a white kid from San Diego whose jailhouse conversion to Islam led to his training for holy war with the Taliban, combat in Chechnya,
Diary of a Married Man
. Director: Lech Kowalski . 22 Min. .
But behind the deliberate desire to shake accepted standards of behaviour, another reality takes shape; the reality of America where the individual is overpowered by loneliness, boredom and work.
Walter and Cutie
. Director: Lech Kowalski . 25 Min. .
It is a compassionate comedy about a middle-aged couple whose lives are turned upside-down as a result of the news of an unexpected inheritance. An on-the-road movie in the sun of southern France, the couple?s often tragic adventures lead them to reassess their love for one another, rekindling their spirits.
10:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 8
Solange du hier bist
. Director: Stefan Westerwelle . 77 Min. .
A moving film about life?s transience centered on the tender relationship between the call-boy Sebastian and his reclusive admirer Georg.
10:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 10
Love
. Director: Vladan Nikolic Director is present . 93 Min. .
A classical love triangle occurring between a hit man, his former lover and her new police officer boyfriend set in wintry Manhattan. This stylish crime tale may remind many of Pulp Fiction.
10:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 11
The Presidents Last Bang (Directors Cut)
. Director: IM Sangsoo . 102 Min. .
History and political fiction meet in this truly masterful thriller. ?The President?s Last Bang? deals with the night of the murder of South Korean leader Generals Park Chung Hee. Sang-Soo Ims political thriller created significant controversy in South Korea, where the Supreme Court ordered four minutes of material to be removed from the film.
10:30 PM
CINESTAR METROPOLIS, CINEMA 12
Kahlschlag
. Director: Patrick Tauss . 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....