Films We Saw at the 2010 Hamburg Film Festival
by the KinoCritics

(Title, director, country(ies)

1981, Ricardo Trogi, Canada (JM**)  
A Different Path, Monteith McCollum, USA (CG**1/2), (MW***), (NT***)           
A Useful Life, Federico Veiroj, Uruguay/Spain, (JM***)
Adrift, Bùi Thac Chuyên, Vietnam, (MH ****½), (BT***)
Ankunft der Beatles, Uwe Hanse, Germany (BT ****)
Armadillo, Janus Metz Pedersen, Denmark/Sweden, (BT****), (MW****), (SRS***)
Backbeat, Iain Softley, Great Britain, (BT***)
Balls, Josef Fares, Sweden, (NT)
Baus Grosser Traum, Garuda Di Dadaku, Indonesia  (NT****)
Beyond, Pernilla August, Sweden, (BT***), (BS***1/2)
Chicas, Yasmina Reza, France, (BT****)
Colony, Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell, Ireland, (MH***½), (BT***), (MW****), (NT***)
Curling, Denis Cotê, Canada, (BT***),  (MW**), (NT)
Cyrus, Jay and Mark Duplass, USA, (MW****)
Das Labyrinth der Wörter, Jean Becker, France, (BT****), (SRS***½)
December, Hilmar Oddsson, Iceland, (MH**½), (BT****), (JM***)
Die Ameise der Kunst, (Animals of Art), Peter Sempel, Germany (NT)
Die Kinder von Blankenese, Raymond Ley, Germany, (BT***)
Dreamland, Porfinnur Gudnason/Andri Snær Magnason, Iceland (MH***), (MW***), (SRS***)
Films we also saw were:
Foreign Parts, Verena Paravel/JP Sniadecki, USA/France,  (MH ½*), (JM**)
Gainsbourg, Joann Sfar, France, (NT), (BS****)
Geburtstagschaos unterm Dach, Jĩrĩ Barta, Czech Republic/Japan, (BS**), (NT)
Geliebtes Leben; Life, Above All, Oliver Schmitz, Germany/South Africa, (BS*****)
Gigola, Laurie Charpentier, France, (MH***3½), (NT)
Good Food Bad Food, Coline Serreau, France, (BT***), (MW***)
Haru’s Journey, Masahiro Kobayashi, Japan, (MH***½), (NT)
Heartbeats, Xavier Dolan, Canada (NT), (MH**), (BS***1/2), (BT***)
Home for Christmas, Bent Hamer, Norway/Germany, (BT****)
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, Tamra Davis, USA, (JM***)
Juan, Kasper Holten, Denmark, (MH****), (BT*****); (JM*****) , (BS*****), (NT)
Korkoro, Tony Gatlif, France, (MH***½), (MW***) 
Last Cowboy Standing, Zaida Bergroth, Germany/Finland, (BT***), (CG****), (MW*)
Lovelife of a Gentle Coward, Pavo Marinković, Croatia, (NT)
Man at Bath, Christophe Honoré, France, (NT)
Mao’s Last Dancer, Bruce Beresford, Australia, (JM****); (BT*****), (CG***1/2),  (BS*****), (MW****), (SRS***)
Mein Freund Knerten, Åsleik Norway,(BS****)
Messenger from the Sea, Amin Farajpour, Iran, (SRS***)
Miral, Julian Schnabel, Great Britain/France/Israel, (BS****), (JM****), (NT)
Mythos Amazonas, Christian Baumeister, Germany (SRS*****)
Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Wood, Great Britain/Canada, (BS****)
Ondine,  Das Mädchen aus dem Meer, Neil Jordan, Ireland,  (MH**½),(SRS***)
Pepperminta, Pippilotti Rist, Switzerland/Austria, (NT)
Pete the Heat, (Henrik) Henna Peschel, Germany (BT***), (NT)
Poetry, Lee Changdong, South Korea, (CG****), (NT)
Pulsar, Alex Stockmann, Belgium, (MW*)
Rouge Ciel, Bruno Decharme, France, (NT)
Running among the Clouds, Amin Farajpour, Iran (SRS ***1/2)
Schiffbruch,  Pedro Aguilera, Spain/Germany,(MH**)
Schlafenden Hunde, Michael O’Connor, Germany, (NT)
Shrouds, Shalom Hager, Israel (SRS***)
Silent Souls, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia,  (BS**)
Simple Simon, Andreas Öhmann, Sweden, (MW*****), (NT)
Spork, J.B. Ghuma, USA  (SRS****)
Sweet Evil, Olivier Coussemacq, France, (MH***), (BT***)
Tamara Drewe, Stephen Frears, Great Britain, (BT***); (JM***), (MH***½)
The Arbor, Clio Barnard, Great Britain, (JM**)
The Child Prodigy, Luc Dionne, Canada, (BT****), (MH*****)
The Extra Man, Robert Pulcini/Shari Springer Berman, USA,  (BT*****),  (BS****), (NT)
The First Beautiful Thing, Paolo Virzì, Italy, (MH****)
The Good Heart, Dagur Kári, Iceland, Denmark, USA, (BT*****)
The Green Wave, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Germany, (BT***), (NT)
The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia, Inna Sahakyan/Arman Yeritsyan, Armenia/USA/Japan, (NT)
The Lips, Ivan Fund, Santiago Loza, Argentina, (JM**)
The Reverse, Borya Lankosz, Poland, (BT****), (MH*****), (NT), (SRS****)
The Tiger Factory, Woo Ming Jin, Malasia/Japan, (MH*)
There Once Was an Island, Briar March, New Zealand, (BS****), (CG****), (NT), (MW****)
This Movie is Broken, Bruce McDonald, Canada, (BT***)  
True Noon, Nosir Sasidov, Tajikistan, (SRS ***1/2)  
Tuesday After Christmas, Radu Muntean, Romania, (BT***)
Turquaze, Kadir Balci, Belgium, (JM****)
Valerie, Joosef Rusnak, Germany, (BS***)
Vavien, Yagmur Taylan, Turkey, (NT),  (BT****),  (BS***),  (MH***)
Venice, Jan Jakub Kolski, Poland, (MH****),  (SS****)
Wagner and Me, Patrick McGrady, Great Britain, (MW****), (NT)
WebSiteStory, Dan Chisu, Romania, (MW*)
Womb, Benedek Fliegauf, Germany/Hungary/France, (BT***), (MW***)

See also www.awchamburg.org as well as this website for reviews of the following films which showed at the 2010 Filmfest Hamburg and will open mainstream in Hamburg:

Nov 4 Buried
Nov 25 Cyrus
Oct 14 Gainsbourg
Nov 25 The Good Heart
Dec 2 Home for Christmas
Oct 21 Mao’s Last Dancer
Nov 18 Miral
Dec 8 Nowhere Boy
Oct 21 Ondine
Dec 30 Tamara Drewe
Jan 6 La tête en friche
Jan 20 Good Food Bad Food