alaska.de
Esther Gronenborn, D 2000
The 16-year-old Sabine goes to live with her dad in a dreary high-rise estate on the outskirts of Berlin. At first, she finds it difficult to make friends with her peers whose free time consists of music, youth club billiards and petty crime.
Wed. March 28th, 11 h CineStar

Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn
Annie Sprinkle, USA 1999
Cult porn star Annie Sprinkle takes an entertaining look at her career using a wide array of film extracts which she comments on directly. The inimitable Annie talks about feminism, the genders, sexual education, censorship, art and lots of other things too.
Thu., March 29th, 21.30 h DKH

Baby, I will make you sweat
Birgit Hein, D 1995
A very personal, intimate travel journal in which - with great openness - Birgit Hein records her difficulties about getting older, her need for tenderness, her frustrations with being alone and her experiences in Jamaica.
Sun., April 1st, 14 h DKH

Belle of the Nineties
Leo Mc Carey, USA 1934
To this day, Mae West moulds our perceptions of the 1930s. The dialogues in her films were so fruity that she regularly had the clerics and other moral custodians up in arms against her. No exception is BELLE OF THE NINETIES in which she plays nightclub singer Ruby who falls in love with boxer Tiger Kid.
Sun., April 1st, 19.30 h DKH

Cine Mambembe
Laís Bodanzky, Luiz Bolognesi,
BR 1998
A couple of filmmakers in a journey to the interior of Brazil. Young director Laís Bodanzky has been developing the project CINE MAMBEMBE for more than three years, making itinerant projections of Brazilian films to a public that has no access into movie theaters.
Thu., March 29th, 19.30 h DKH

Das Glück
Agnès Varda, F 1964
A happily-married carpenter inadvertently falls in love with a young telefone company employee. As he explores his feelings in the joy of that relationship, he discovers that far from feeling alienated from his wife and child, the joy of his new realtionship actually intensifies his attachment to them as well.
Sun., April 1st, 15 h CineStar

Der Trinker
Gilda de Abreu, BR 1946
A respected doctor swaps identity with a tramp who has just been the victim of a car accident. By declaring himself dead, the medic wants to forget that his wife cheated on him and left him. As he slithers down the social ladder, only the helping hand of a priest prevents him from a life on the streets.
Fri. March 30th, 12.30 h DKH

Diva Dolorosa
Peter Delpeut, NL 1999
At the end of the nineteenth century, many artists were guided by the ideals of Black Romanticism. In the process, Beauty always coincided with Grief. Pleasure did not exist without Pain. Illness and Sensuality were paradoxical partners, and Love had made a firm pact with Death.
Fri. March 30th, 10.30 h DKH

Ein Fall für die Polizei
Carla Civelli, BRA 1956
A young woman, a detective story buff fascinated by any sort of crime, overhears a conversation between two strangers in a restaurant. Suspecting a murder plot, she decides to follow them and prevent a crime. But suddenly events begin to veer out of control.
Sat., March 31th, 15 h CineStar

Ein Himmel voller Sterne
Tata Amaral, BR 1996
A film that deals with social and human topics such as violence, the relationship between the sexes and the claustrophobia of a social class that doesn't accept itself. Dalva, a young hairdresser, wins a trip abroad and hopes it will be the chance to start a new life...
Sat., March 31th, 19.30 h DKH

Emporte-moi
Léa Pool, CDN1998
1963 is the year in which everything changes for the 13-year-old Hanna. Sitting in the back row of a darkened cinema auditorium at Mile End she is bowled over watching Anna Karina´s portrayal of Nana in Jean-Luc Godard´s film VIVRE SA VIE. She is utterly enthralled by the character Nana S., who she believes looks just like her own teacher, with whom she hopes to develop a special bond.
Thu., March 29th, 9 h CineStar

Engelein
Urban Gad, mit A. Nielsen, D 1913
When the rich uncle arrives from America, the 17-year-old Jesta (Asta Nielsen) takes on the role of a 12-year-old as part of an inheritance scam. She accompanies him to his country estate, continues to act the little girl but soon falls in love with him.
Thu, March 29th, 10.30 h DKH

Entre Nous
Diane Kurys, F 1982
Basically the biography of two women as they get to know one another and enter into a consuming friendship, the first part is set during the Second World War and the second part in the 1950s. Both women abandon their previous lives to start up together new.
Su, April 1st, 21.45 Uhr Camera

Erfüllung
Rosi S.M., D 2001
A filmessay that fits together like a puzzle. Armed with a camera in her bag, Rosi S.M. sets off to document her fiftieth year, in order to find out what is still there, but also, to discover if it was ever there at all. The very act of setting out expresses her willingness to open up, but it´s also good to be on the road.
Sat., March 31th 14.30 h DKH

fremd gehen. Gespräche mit meiner Freundin
Eva Heldmann, D 1999
On the search for sex and fun, my girlfriend Annette cruises clubs and US Army barracks in Frankfurt and district. The provocative directness of a women speaking about her sexual wants and the exhibitionism of a German woman academic "performing" at the side of American GIs shed new light on female desire.
Sun, April 1st, 14 h DKH

Gaijin - Streets of Freedom
Tizuka Yamasaki, BRA 1979
It's the turn of the century a hundred years ago in Japan. High unemployment and a spirit of adventure cause thousands of people to leave their homeland in a search for a better life. The veteran Yamada and the young Titoe also respond to the call of the wild. Since the emigration authorities prefer families, the two get married without knowing one another and travel to Brazil to work on a coffee plantation.
Thu. March 29th, 17.45 h Camera

Gigi, Monica ... and Bianca
Yasmina Abdellaoui, Benoît Dervaux, B 1996
The films shows the life of Gigi and Monica. They are in love and live with a gang of other street children in the district surrounding the Northern Station in Bucarest. It would be more to the point to say they survive, from day to day, doing small, pooly-paid jobs. They have learned to live with insecurity and marginalisation, yet enjoy their freedom with the carefree attitude of youth. Monica discovers she is pregnant and their precarious existence takes a sharp turn.
Fri., March 30th, 16.30 h DKH

Hotaru
Naomi Kawase, J 2000
When Ayako, a stripper, gets to know Daiji, a potter, it's love at first sight for both of them. Daiji has just lost his father whilst Ayako is still suffering from the hurt of a broken relationship and the effects of an abortion. Together they attempt to take control of their destinies and start a new life. Naomi Kawase allows herself - and her outstanding actors - the time and the space to narrate this wonderful film
Thu., March 29th, 15 h und
Sun., April 1st, 20 h CineStar

How nice to see you alive
Lucia Murat, BR 1988
How do brazilian political ex-prisoners who survived from torture and prison during military dictatorship live nowaday?
Lúcia Murat examines here the issue of torture, using both documentary footage and acted scenes. At the centre of this semi-documentary portrait are eight women who have survived torture and who are prepared to talk about it in front of the camera.
Sun., April 1st, 16.30 h DKH

It
Clarence Badger, USA 1927
Am Flügel: Popette Betancor
Clara Bow plays a clerk named Betty Lou Spence who is in love with her boss, Cyrus Waltham. During the ups and downs of their romance, the film captures something of contemporary New York life, with Bow in her working-class element.
Fri., March 30th, 19.30 h DKH

Jadviga's Pillow
Krisztina Deák, H 1999
The story is situated in Hungary during the 1910´s - a region populated mainly by Slovakians, but above all into a passionately painful marriage and the world of destructive love and sensual sufferings.
Nobody is happier than Ondris, who´s getting married to the girl of his dreams: he´s won his father´s foster-daughter, Jadviga´s heart.
Sat., March 31th, 17.45 h Camera

Jenseits von Tibet
Solveig Klaßen, D/Tibet/IND 2000
BEYOND TIBET is an unusual love story about German punk rocker Sandra H. and Tibetan lama and exile Ngawang Gelek. Fleeing a broken home, Sandra arrives in Berlin sometime in the 1980s. With the help of music and Buddhism, she manages to kick her drug habit.
Fri., March 30th, 15 h CineStar

Kin
Elaine Proctor, UK 1999
It is a modern love story set in an ancient place. Anna, a researcher specialising in elephants, lives with her brother, a priest, in the breathtaking Namibian Desert. But when an unknown American suddenly turns up, the brother-and-sister relationship begins to veer out of control.
Fri., March 30th, 20 h and
Sat., March 31th, 22 h CineStar

Kissed
Lynne Stopkewich, CDN 1996
Death holds a strange fascination for Sandra. Whilst other children preferred to play with dolls, she would devotedly celebrate ritual funerals - a proclivity that does not leave her later in adult life. This morbid fascination means that, when she becomes a student, she ends up working in a funeral parlour.
Fri., March 30th, DKH

L'Adolescente
Jeanne Moreau, mit Simone Signoret, D/F 1978
Summer 1939. A 12-year-old girl and her parents from Paris are spending their holidays in the countryside. However, the carefree days are occasionally clouded by the pangs of first love, family arguments and signs of the encroaching war. Jeanne Moreau succeeds in recreating an "intact" world on the brink of disaster.
Sun, April 1st, 17.45 h Camera

Love/Juice
Kaze Shindo, J 2000
A story about a heterosexual and a lesbian girl. Kyoko, who behaves as she pleases, and Chinatsu, who takes photographs as if she were keeping a diary. They live together in a red one-storey solitary house. Together they go clubbing, smoke dope, and take jobs as bunnies in a hostess club to pay the bills. Then Chinatsu falls in love with Kyoko.
Thu., March 29th, 21.45 h Camera

Painted Angels
Jon Sanders, Drehbuch: Anna Mottram, CDN 1996
PAINTED ANGELS deals with one of the biggest untold stories in the history of the Wild West: prostitution. Director Jon Sanders gives us the biographies of five women who could not be more different from one another but who all land up in Annie's brothel on the edge of civilisation. Meret Becker plays Katya, a young German with an eventful past. She will be appearing at the festival.
Thu., March 29th, 19 h CineStar

Stage Struck
Allan Dwan, USA 1925
Am Flügel: Ruth Bieri
Gloria Swanson is Jennie Hagen, a naïve young waitress who, whilst dreaming of an actress career, has got her eye on Orme the cook. He, however, fancies Lillian Lyons, a variety artiste, and never misses one of her shows. As the slightly gauche Jennie daydreams herself into the technicolour world of theatre, reality is not so easy to blend out and the everyday pulls her back repeatedly. Only at the end do things turn out all right: she takes to the stage and she gets her man!
Sun., April 1st, 11 h DKH

Summer or 27 Missing Kisses
Nana Djordjadze, D/Geor 1999
The summer of the eclipse, somewhere in the East. 14-year-old Sybilla arrives in a sleepy town to spend her vacation with Aunt Martha. One day she falls in love like never before: with Alexander, the astronomer who looks after the old observatory.
Opening: Wed., March 28th,
20 h and Fri., March 30th, 17 h CineStar

Swetlana
Tamara Staudt, D 1999
Swetlana und ihre Eltern sind Russlanddeutsche und leben in Duisburg. Die Eltern wollen sich in der neuen Heimat ein Leben aufbauen. Swetlana ist hin- und hergerissen zwischen Artur, Russlanddeutscher wie sie, und Said, ihrem marokkanischen Nachbarn.
Fri., March 30th, 9 h CineStar

The Love Light
Frances Marion, USA 1921
Am Flügel: Joachim Bärenz
Angela tends a ligthhouse in an Italian fisher village while her brothers are fighting at the front. She discovers a foreign sailor washed ashore, nurses him back to health and falls in love with him.
Sat., March 31th, 16.30 h DKH

The White Reindeer
Erik Blomberg, FIN 1953
Mirjami Kuosmanen is Pirita, a young Lapp girl with mysterious powers who can turn herself into a fabulous white reindeer. Driven by the loneliness of long nights without her husband, a reindeer herdsman, she begins (in transfigured form) to entice the men of the village into their undoing and dies on a spear thrown by her husband during a hunt.
Sat., March 31th, 21.45 h Camera

Tsatsiki - Mum and the Policeman
Ella Lemhagen, S, N, DK 1999
The 8-year-old Tobias - nicknamed Zaziki - lives with his mother, Tina, in Stockholm. He has never met his father, a Greek fisherman, which is why he dreams of Greece all the time.
Thu., March 29th, 11 h CineStar

Two Women
Tahmine Milani, IR 1999
Fereshteh begins to look back to find out what has happened to her during the last 15, while her husband is dying in hospital. Now that genius, beautiful, hard-working and bold scholar girl of 15 years ago has changed.
Fri., March 30th, 17.45 h Camera

Ventre Livre
Ana Luiza Azevedo, BR 1994
VENTRE LIVRE is a play on words and means "Free Womb". Ana Luisa Azevedo tells about the Right of Women to own their bodies und she poses some questions
Thu., March 29th, 12.30 h, DKH

Vergiss Amerika
Vanessa Jopp, D 2000
"Forget America" is the interesting story of three young people in Eastern Germany searching for love, work and a better life.
Mon, March 26th 11 h CineStar
Schoolprogramme

Zornige Küsse
Judith Kennel, CH 2000
Lea, a 15-year-old girl, is taken by her mother to a catholic boarding school. She begins to brood about getting revenge.
Fri., March 30th, 11 h CineStar