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• When banana ruled / Quark & ARTE France present ; a film by Mathilde Damoisel ; un film écrit et réalisé par Mathilde Damoisel ; produit par Juliette Guigon & Patrick Winocour
  This film tells the story of the men who made bananas the most ubiquitous fruit in the world, through a multinational empire that dominated production and sales, overthrew governments, and created a business model still largely used by today's tech giants
• I wanna hold your hand / a Rose & Asseyev production ; written by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale ; produced by Tamara Asseyev & Alex Rose ; directed by Robert Zemeckis
  "On February 9, 1964, the Beatles made their first appearance on American television on The Ed Sullivan Show, ratcheting up the frenzy of a fan base whose ecstatic devotion to the band heralded an explosive new wave of youth culture. I Wanna Hold Your Hand looks back to that fateful weekend, following six New Jersey teenagers, each with different reasons for wanting to see the Fab Four, on a madcap mission to Manhattan to meet the band and score tickets to the show. With this rollicking first feature, director Robert Zemeckis and cowriter Bob Gale established themselves as a filmmaking team par excellence, adept and mining America's cultural memory for comedy and adventure with a winning mixture of sweet nostalgia and playful irreverence"--Container
• Japón / NoDream Cinema presenta, con la colaboración de Mantarraya Producciones, y con la participación de Solaris Film, Fondo Hubert Bals, Festival Internacional de Rótterdam, ZDF/arte ; guión y dirección, Carlos Reygadas C. ; producida por NoDream Cinema ; productores, Mantarraya Producciones, Carlos Serrano Azcona ; productor, Carlos Reygadas C
  "In this preternaturally assured feature debut by Carlos Reygadas, a man (Alejandro Ferretis) travels from Mexico City to an isolated village to commit suicide; once there, however, he meets a pious elderly woman (Magdalena Flores) whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires. Recruiting a cast of nonactors and filming in sublime 16 mm CinemaScope, Reygadas explores the harsh beauty of the Mexican countryside with earthy tactility, conjuring a psychic landscape where religion mingles with sex, life coexists with death, and the animal and spiritual sides of human experience become indistinguishable. A work of soaring ambition and startling visual poetry, Japón is an existential journey through uncharted cinematic territory that established the singular voice of its director"--Container
• Die Walküre / Richard Wagner ; a production of Unitel in co-production with ORF/3Sat and NHK in cooperation with Salzburg Easter Festival ; stage director, Vera Nemirova ; video director, Tiziano Mancini
  On the occasion of the 50th anniversary, the Salzburg Easter Festival presents a "Re-creation" of Die Walküre: of Herbert von Karajan's musico-theatrical vision of the 19th century masterwork, with which the legendary Maestro opened the very first Easter Fesitval in 1967
• The sleeping beauty : ballet in two acts / music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikkovsky ; libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Marius Petipa after the fairy tale by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm ; choreography, Marius Petipa ; new choreographic version, Yuri Grigorovich ; a production of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia ; a coproduction Bel Air Media, ARTE France, NHK ; producer, François Duplat ; filmed by Vincent Bataillon
  The Bolshoi Ballet performs Grigorovich's revision of Petipa's version of the ballet The sleeping beauty
• Elementarteilchen / Constantin Film zeigt eine Bernd Eichinger produktion
  Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, this movie focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. His pitiful life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. In the meantime, Michael meets Annabelle, the love of his youth, again ..
• Erie / Grasshopper Film ; photographed, written and directed by Kevin Jerome Everson ; produced by Kevin Jerome Everson, Madeleine Molyneaux
  Documentary comprising a mostly dialogue-free series of single-take, black and white, 16mm sequences filmed in and around communities near Lake Erie. Featured communities include Buffalo, Cleveland, Mansfield, and Niagara Falls. The film connects black migration from the South to North and also current economic hardships facing working class communities
• The magic flute / screenplay and directed by Ingmar Bergman
  A scintillating screen version of Mozart's beloved opera showcases Ingmar Bergman's deep knowledge of music and gift for expressing it cinematically. Casting some of Europe's finest soloists, the director lovingly recreated the baroque theater of Sweden's Drottningholm Palace to stage the story of the prince Tamino and his zestful sidekick Papageno, who are sent on a mission to save a beautiful princess from the clutches of evil
• Wanda / writer/director, Barbara Loden
  Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, the film takes up with a distant and soft-spoken woman, who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men, one being a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme
• Detour / produced by Leon Fromkess ; screenplay by Martin Goldsmith ; director, Edgar G. Ulmer
  As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run
• The kid brother / produced by Harold Lloyd Corporation ; screenplay by John Grey, Lex Neal, Howard Green ; director, Ted Wilde
  When a traveling medicine show rolls into town, it brings with it excitement, the possibility of love, and a chance for Harold to prove his mettle. Deftly balancing Lloyd's brilliant sight gags and thrilling set pieces, which include an epic, knock-down, drag-out fight aboard an abandoned ship, the film is a hilarious and heartwarming high-water mark of early screen comedy
• Jud Süss : Film ohne Gewissen / ein Film von Oskar Roehler
  A dramatic presentation of the rise and fall of actor Ferdinand Marian. He starred in the Nazi's notoriously anti-semitic film "Jud Süss", a propaganda historical costume melodrama based on a novel of the same title by Lion Feuchtwanger
• Going my way / Frank Butler ; Frank Cavett ; Leo McCarey ; Bing Crosby ; Barry Fitzgerald ; Frank McHugh ; James Brown ; Jean Heather ; Gene Lockhart ; Porter Hall ; Fortunio Bonanova ; Rise Stevens ; Jim Van Heusen ; Johnny Burke
  Father O'Malley is a young priest. He is new to an established but financially flailing parish. When his philosophies on how to relieve the parish's financial troubles come into conflict with those of crumudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon, the result is a timeless story of patience, compromise and understanding
• Moonlight / an A24 and Plan B Entertainment presentation ; a Plan B Entertainment/Pastel production ; produced by Adele Romanski ; produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner ; story by Tarell Alvin McCraney ; screenplay by Barry Jenkins ; directed by Barry Jenkins
  A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami