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• The Wizard Of Oz
• Coraline
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Nowhere Boy
• Unmade Beds
• Crash

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The Wizard Of Oz

USA 1939, 101 minutes
Director: Victor Fleming
FSK: 0, recommended age: 8+

The all-time classic by Victor Fleming tells the story of 14 year old Dorothy who is transported from her home town in Kansas to the magical Land of Oz. To get back she has to follow the yellow brick road, defeat the Wicked Witch of the East and find the wonderful Wizard of Oz. A lion in search of courage, a scarecrow in search of a brain and a tin man in search of a heart help her to accomplish her difficult mission. Filmed in vibrant Technicolor the musical about Dorothy’s magical journey to herself was at the height of technical innovation in 1939. Seventy years later it has lost none of its charm.

Themes: friendship, family, fear, wishes, dreams and reality

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Coraline

USA 2008, 101 minutes
Director: Henry Selick
FSK: 6, recommended age: 10+

Since Coraline and her family moved into the old dreary house in the middle of nowhere, Coraline has been very lonely. Her parents work all day, the neighbours are weird, and there is nobody to play with apart from a strange boy called Wybie. But one fine day Coraline discovers a hidden door in her bedroom leading into another world. The other world is just like her own – only much nicer. The other mother has always time for her and the other father can play the piano. Slowly Coraline gets drawn ever deeper into the dangerous magic of the other world. A beautifully animated fairytale about the difference between what we wish for and what we get.

Themes: family, parents, wishes and dreams, friendship, courage, adventure, other worlds

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Slumdog Millionaire

UK/USA 2008, 120 minutes
Director: Danny Boyle
FSK: 12, recommended age: 14+

Jamal, an Indian street child, has reached the finals of the TV quiz show “Who wants to be a millionaire?” Just one more question and he will be rich beyond his wildest dreams. But the wicked quiz master suspects foul play and has Jamal interrogated by brutal policemen. Under questioning, Jamal tries to remember why he has been able to answer every single question so far. His answers reveal one by one the dark and adventurous story of his life – and why he can’t afford to loose the game. Here is an exuberant thriller-melodrama with a touch of Bollywood by one of Britain’s best-known directors.

Themes: Coming of age, poverty, violence, imperialism, love, India, the media

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Nowhere Boy

UK, Canada 2009, 98 minutes
Director: Sam Taylor-Wood
FSK: 12, recommended age: 14+

NOWHERE BOY by artist Sam Taylor-Wood tells a universal coming of age story based on the biography of John Lennon. Liverpool, 1950s: the teenager John Lennon is raised by his prudent aunt Mimi. He has no idea of his mother’s whereabouts, until he discovers her living just around the corner. John finds himself immediately attracted to Julia’s style and temperament. She seems everything that Mimi is not: she likes to party, shares his love for music and teaches him how to play the banjo. John is torn between his affections for Julia and Mimi. Eventually he realizes that he has to find his own way.

Themes: society, youth culture, coming of age, parents, music

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Unmade Beds

UK 2008, 120 minutes
Director: Alexis Dos Santos
FSK: 12, recommended age: 14+

They have all come to London to look for something. Axl, who has just arrived from Madrid, searches for a father he has never met. He shares a squat with Vera, a Belgian who is trying to forget her last boyfriend and find a new love, and Mike who dreams of flying. Dreamy days pass into drunken nights and back into days. Work and play, big feelings and small incidents, bodies and thoughts, dream and reality – all merge into Alexis Dos Santos’ film about a European youth between enthusiasm and melancholia.

Themes: love, friendship, family, freedom, metropolis, drugs, dreams, art, nouvelle vague

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Crash

USA 2004, 92 minutes
Director: Paul Haggis
FSK: 12, recommended age: 15+

Their paths cross again and again. They crash into each other and with each impact the vicious circle of violence escalates a little further. CRASH follows the lives of a dozen people from Los Angeles over a period of 24 hours. They come from all classes and races: an African-American TV producer and his middle class wife, a racist white policeman, an Iranian shopkeeper, an Hispanic craftsman, and his little daughter, a bored upper-class white woman and her Hispanic housekeeper … Each of them carries their own private worries and acquired prejudices. When they clash – for better or worse - their worlds collide.

Themes: violence, racisms, discrimination, prejudices, metropolis, vicious circle

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