Men in the City is back, alongside other new releases
After the success of Men in the City [+see also:
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This exciting new release isn’t alone. This week, Senator will try to win over audiences with Swedish director Daniel Espinosa’s thriller Easy Money [+see also:
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Besides Ulrike Ottinger’s Japanese-themed documentaryUnder Snow, RealFiction is launching a title shown in the latest Berlinale Panorama: Jan Schomburg’s Above Us Only Sky [+see also:
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The fifth German production in the line-up is Gereon Wetzel’s mouth-watering documentary El Bulli – Cooking in Progress [+see also:
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Finally, French cinema is well-represented this week on German screens with Cédric Klapisch’s comedy My Piece of the Pie [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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