SAT. NOV. 8, 2014 - 3.00 PM

Part comedy, part mystery, this film for teens hails the adventures of a group of  friends.

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SAT. NOV. 8, 2014 @ 05.00 PM

Hip Hop alpine style… who wouldn’t love romance and dancing against the backdrop of  the Austrian Alps?

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SAT. NOV. 8, 2014 – 7.00 PM - WEST COAST PREMIERE

Snappy, mismatched-buddy action comedy that excels in all departments – stunts included.

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SAT. NOV. 8, 2014 - 09.00 PM

A vertiginous documentary about climbing one of  the remotest mountains in the rain forests of  South America.

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SUN. NOV. 9, 2014 - 3.00 PM - US PREMIERE

Coming–of–age drama for the younger set with all the ups and downs of  growing up and finding an identity.

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THE DOCUMENTARIES OF JEREMY JP FEKETE

ME-UDO...STARRING UDO KIER (ICH...UDO) - 43 min.

Plays with the shortfilm GRAF KARPATOVICZ AND THE BLONDE BITE - 3 min. - Directed by Klaus Wirbitzky

MOMENTS - THE PHOTOGRAPHER ROBERT LEBECK (IM BANN DES AUGENBLICKS -DER FOTOGRAF ROBERT LEBECK) - 27 min.

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SUN. NOV. 9, 2014   @ 7.00 PM

Drama about a Jewish boy escaping the Warsaw ghetto and surviving WWII in hiding. Based on a true story.

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MON. NOV. 10, 2014 @ 7.00 PM

Lola - Conceived as a homage to Josef Von Sternberg’s ‘The Blue Angel’, ‘Lola’ is a biting satire of capitalist greed starring Barbara Sukowa as the eponymous cabaret singer and call girl.

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Tues. Nov. 11, 2014 - 7.00 PM - US PREMIERE

The ambitious punk rocker Max (Tim Oliver Schultz) and the eco-activist Inge (Paula Kalenberg) cannot stand each other, ever since Max publicly exposed her by singing the offensive song "When Inge is Dancing" in front of the whole school.

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Bavaria, 1864: Just 18, Crown Prince Ludwig is a striking young man. Tall and good-looking, he is passionate about the grim, brooding works of Richard Wagner with every fiber of his heart and soul. When King Maximilian II unexpectedly dies, Ludwig is proclaimed King of Bavaria and cheered enthusiastically by his subjects, who have put all their hopes for a better future in him.

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Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, single mother (Nora Tschirner) wants to join the coolest gang in the area, the Vorstadtkrokodile (“Suburban ’Gators”). But the ‘entry test’ goes wrong and his life is saved by Kai, who is desperate to join too. But Kai is wheelchair bound and unable to even run away when things get hot.

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Dennis Gansel, director of the critically acclaimed THE WAVE, explores a seething dark side of Berlin in the WE ARE THE NIGHT.  Following a sect of seductive female vampires that hide out in the city's alternative clubs, enjoying the luxury and pleasures their attained immortality provides them and wreaking horror on a string of unsuspecting victims, the film is a brilliantly stylized vision of the classic vampire myth -- a sensual, charismatic thrill ride fascinated with all aspects of the night.

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Niko is in his late 20s and recently dropped out of college. He lives for the moment, drifting sleeplessly through the streets of Berlin, marvelling at the people around him. With a quiet curiosity, he observes how they cope with everyday life while failing to notice how he himself is becoming an outsider.

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When will little Wickie finally become a real Viking? This question is giving his father Halvar sleepless nights. But when Sven the Terrible kidnaps the chief of Flake, Wickie unexpectedly gets his big chance.

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The "Concordia" trading company in Würzburg is a secret headquarters of the MID, a secret service agency of the US Army. For years, espionage, sabotage, and diversion operations originated from here in order to undermine the German Democratic Republic.

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1936. The United States threatens to boycott the Berlin Olympics if there are no Jews in the German team. Still aiming to mislead the world about their true ambitions, the Nazis are forced to admit some Jewish athletes. Among them the leading female high jumper of the time - Gretel Bergmann.

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GOLD – YOU CAN DO MORE THAN YOU THINK is the emotional story about three outstanding personalities: Henry Wanyoike, a blind marathon runner from Kenya; Kirsten Bruhn, a paralyzed swimmer from Germany; and Kurt Fearnley, an Australian wheelchair racer.

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Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler.
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The world of grumpy taxi-driver Hartmut Mackowiak comes crashing down when he finds out his wife is leaving him after 30 years. Suddenly, he has to rethink his whole life – making him even more of a cranky loner.
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Whatever falls from heaven, you may keep. When astronaut Julie Mahé crash-lands with her small space capsule onto the Kazakh steppes, local radio operator Iskander (nicknamed 'Gagarin') finds her unconscious.
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Tom Sawyer has nothing but pranks and mischief on his mind – much to the distress of his aunt Polly, with whom he and his step-brother Sid live in the little town of St. Petersburg on the Mississippi.
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The young teacher Konrad Koch is hired to teach English at a strictly-run German school for boys in 1874. The reform-minded headmaster von Merfeld has hired Koch as one of the very first English teachers of all at a German secondary school in order to let a fresh new wind into his musty institution.
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Juliane's happiness seems perfect. She is head over heels in love and has just begun a new life with August. One morning, however, she wakes up to find that she has been mysteriously thrown back into her past.
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The summer of 1980. Barbara, a doctor, has applied for an exit visa from the GDR. Now, as punishment, she is transferred from the capital to a small hospital out in the country, far from everything.
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On the eve of World War I, 14-year-old Oda von Siering returns to Poll, her family home on the Baltic coast, a region uneasily shared by Germans, Russians and Estonians. With her are the mortal remains of her mother, who passed away in Berlin
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Until now, David Kern was a waiter and a decidedly nonliterary nobody. His only true passion is Marie, who loves literature and seems to be out of reach for him. When David finds the unpublished manuscript of a novel in a second-hand night table, it seems to be his only chance to get Marie's attention ..
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Vincent's mother has passed away, but Vincent vows to fulfill her last wish and let her see the sea one last time. The problem is how to get her ashes there, since Vincent suffers from Tourette Syndrome and has been packed off to a clinic by his father.
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The conniving wheeler-dealer Jaeckie Zucker is up to his neck in trouble – his wife wants a divorce, the court bailiff is threatening him with jail. The only hope left for the former GDR sports reporter is his mother's inheritance.
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The 5th Annual Portland German Film Festival takes place November 7 – 11, 2014 at  Cinema 21. Please check back for updates as the schedule will be released soon.  
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