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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

(USA 2011) - original English version -

Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and his longtime trusted associate, Doctor Watson (Jude Law), take on their arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), with the help of Holmes's older brother Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) and a gypsy named Sim (Noomi Rapace).
[storyline taken from imdb.com]

Monday (February 27) and Wednesday (February 29) at 20:00
in the UCI cinema

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Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro - The Snows of Kilimanjaro

(France 2011) - original French version with German subtitles -

Michel is a blue collar worker at a company in the port of Marseille, and takes pride in his 'being good'. He has always tried to be a responsible citizen, and is one of the union representatives in his company. When the company has to lay off twenty workers, Michel proposes to organize a lottery and puts his own name on the list, although as a union man he is not obliged to. Michel loses his job, and soon afterward gets robbed in his own house. By coincidence, he learns the identity of the criminals, and they are arrested. The events connected with the robbery make him doubt his own 'goodness'. A confrontation with one of the robbers puts everything he thought to know in a different perspective: Michel recognizes that he has become 'bourgeois'. His supposed 'goodness' turns out quite differently than he thought.

This charming movie turns things upside down and asks interesting questions, but doesn't give clear cut answers. Michel is 'good', but not as good as he thought. And the thief is 'bad', but not as bas as it seems. The story zigzags nicely between the moral dilemmas, and never becomes heavy-handed. The overall tone is upbeat, and especially the end scenes are almost heartbreakingly optimistic.
[storyline taken from imdb.com]

Wednesday (February 29) at 20:15
in the Programmkino Ost cinema

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Don - The King is Back

(India/Germany 2011) - original Hindi version with German subtitles -

Having conquered the Asian underworld, Don (Shah Rukh Khan) now has his sights set on European domination. In his way are the bosses of the existing European underworld and all law enforcement agencies. The action shifts from Kuala Lumpur to Berlin as Don must avoid assassination or arrest, whichever comes first, in order for his plan to succeed.
[storyline taken from imdb.com]

Friday (February 24), Saturday (February 25), Monday (February 27),
Tuesday (February 28) and Wednesday (February 29) at 21:00
in the Kino in der Fabrik cinema

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The Ides of March

(USA 2011) - original English version -

Stephen Meyers is an idealist who's brilliant at communications: he's second in command of Governor Mike Morris's presidential campaign, and he's a true believer. In the middle of the Ohio primary, the campaign manager of Morris's opponent asks Meyers to meet: he offers him a job. At the same time, Morris's negotiations for the endorsement of the man in third place, a North Carolina Senator, hit a snag. A young campaign intern, Molly Stearns, gets Stephen's romantic attention. Republicans have a trick up their sleeves, Stephen may be too trusting, and Molly has a secret. What's most important: career, victory, or virtue?
[storyline taken from imdb.com]

Friday (February 24) through Wednesday (February 29) at 20:00
in the Thalia cinema

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Carnage

(France/Germany/Poland/Spain 2011) - original English version with German subtitles -

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the evening into chaos.
[storyline taken from imdb.com]

Friday (February 24) through Wednesday (February 29) at 18:15
in the Thalia cinema

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Empire Me

(Austria/Luxembourg/Germany 2011) - original English version with German subtitles -

Handmade utopias - a filmic search for the worldwide phenomenon of the micronation movement. Do-it-yourself states that have distanced themselves from the economic and political mainstreaming of globalization. A road movie covering land, water and the wildest realms of the imagination. Simultaneously creative documentary and pulsating cultural portrait, the film traces a new "unplugged" generation - their motives, their anxieties and their dreams. A film that shows how this generation realizes its escapist fantasies in new economic and political forms and how they collide with oppressive everyday realities.
[storyline taken from imdb.com]

Friday (February 24) through Wednesday (February 29) at 22:00
in the Casablanca cinema

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