François Ozon's latest comical outing, a bright and fluffy affair but ultimately charming. When a despotic owner of an umbrella factory falls ill at the unfortunate time of a strike by his workers his wife is forced to take over business affairs.

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One relationship blooms, the other slowly crumbles. Jack Goes Boating’s wonderful rhythm is incredibly New York, extremely contemporary and heartwarming. Bring a bottle of wine and a blanket.

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The well-known Fritz Lang film today looks almost like a documentary on surveillance and information gathering.

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Even though the spy film genre is practically dead, the issue is still relevant: WikiLeaks and Google Street View are simply modern forms of spying. A spy movie-genre celebration begins with a Romanian farce without dialogue from 1961.

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Part of The International Comedy Film Festival, a coming-of-age comedy about a teenage girl who realizes that she has a unique advantage when it comes to defending herself against male violence. Not suitable for kids, or insecure males.

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Set in the 1920s and released in 1959. Its pitch-perfect timing will make you forget the film is a whopping 120 minutes long. Part of the Billy Wilder retrospective running all through the second half of January and early February.

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What? You've never enjoyed Billy Wilder's movies on the big screen? His retrospective (until February 6) kicks off with his quintessential Berlin film, a furious farce starring James Cagney which defined German-American postwar relations.

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Schlingensief's work with the opera in Africa, featuring fragments of his last and unfinished film. Luckily we get English subtitles and members of the film team to moderate. Patti Smith and Schlingensief himself appear in the film.

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The third film in James Benning’s California trilogy focuses on natural images as they’re crossed with man-made sound in a series of still shots of exactly the same length. It may be a challenge, but worth the ride if you want to see something new.

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Ross McElwee premieres his newest film, which documents a trip to the tobacco plantations of his native North Carolina. Bright Leaves mixes past and present of tobacco farming and reflections on smoking together with Michael Curtiz-style melodrama.

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John Greyson investigates the legend of "Patient Zero", the first person diagnosed with AIDS in this documentary shown as part of the Berliner Aidshilfe's PositHIVe Screenings film festival.

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Gregg Araki tries to shock people. This low-budget road trip with a gay hustler and a film critic might just do it, as he follows their hedonistic journey with the motto "Fuck the world". Part of the Berliner Aidshilfe's PositHIVe Screenings.

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A film from Gérard Dépardieu in which a warm-hearted, under-educated man strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly lady who’s an avid reader. “My Afternoons with Margueritte" plays as part of the Französische Filmwoche.

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"I've Killed My Mother" is the sweeping directorial debut of 20-year-old Xavier Dolan, a Québécois who strikes an original note with his autobiographical depiction of a relationship between a gay teenager and his mother.

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Movies were born in the fairground, a novelty like bearded ladies and Siamese twins. The Cinémathèque de la ville de Luxembourg has collected a number of films from the source (made between 1895 and 1910) and turned them into a one-hour joyride of fairytale animation, slapstick and frisky eroticism from all over Europe. An extremely rare look at a bygone time, with live piano accompaniment.

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CineBRASIL's opening night includes this powerful drama about a hinterland community that tries to solve its sanitation problems by making a film about them.

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