Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) 2012
10th Pune International Film Festival (PIFF)....
12 to 19 January 2012....
Watched most of the films of (or on) Werner Herzog....
And watched 4 films of Ashok Kumar in his Restrospective....
12 to 19 January 2012....
Watched most of the films of (or on) Werner Herzog....
And watched 4 films of Ashok Kumar in his Restrospective....
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- DirectorAngelo CianciStarsHippolyte GirardotMohamed FellagAymen SaïdiThis is not the way it was supposed to happen. Like every other morning, Christian Echeveria, huissier, should have been able to levy his daily distress in this Parisian suburb, before going back to his comfortable home. But that's not what destiny had planned for him, as he'll get to understand it when Salem Atelhadj, 17, takes him a hostage, under his father's desperate eyes, in the tower's twelfth floor which will soon be surrounded by policemen and anti-terrorists squads.AKA - Top Floor Left Wing
Section - Opening Film - DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPayman MaadiLeila HatamiSareh BayatA married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.Section - World Competition
On Torrent (BluRay) - DirectorFeliks FalkStarsUrszula GrabowskaSara KnotheStanislawa CelinskaDuring the Nazi occupation, a young woman whose husband disappeared at the war decides to keep hiding a small Jewish girl. To save the child, she gets into an affair with a German.Section - World Competition
On Torrent - DirectorJohannes NaberStarsNik XhelilajAmos ZahariaÇun LajçiHandsome Albanian villager Arben wants to marry Etleva, daughter of a neighboring clan, but her father has promised her to another man who is offering a 10,000 Euros bride price. But when it turns out Etleva is carrying Arben's child, the pressure is on for him to come up with the dowry before the baby is born -- and before her brothers take revenge for the dishonor he has brought their family. Fleeing to Berlin without papers, experience or knowledge of the language, Arben soon learns the ways of survival.Section - World Competition
On Torrent - DirectorAhmad Reza Mo'tamediStarsFaramarz GharibianMehdi HashemiMahtab KeramatiA story about Human beings and their relations which has a man in the center of it. Because of a car accident he has Alzheimer and must face a different new world.Section - World Competition
- DirectorYuri SchillerStarsDenis BabushkinKristina BabushkinaAleksandr KalashnichenkoThe story of a remote Siberian village, whose main treasure is beautiful horses. According to a local legend many years ago beautiful horses appeared in the village by miracle.AKA 'Sparrow'
Section - World Competition
On Torrent - DirectorSvetoslav OvtcharovStarsIvan BarnevKasiel Noah AsherKrassimir DokovThe end of the 70s. Anton Krastev, a DOP and his wife Diana are separated by the Iron curtain - she fled with their son Antoan to Western Berlin while he stayed in Bulgaria. She believes that Antoan can only be cured in Germany. But Anton can't live without his job. He works with the best film director who is a high ranking Communist. The State Security Services are keeping a zealous eye on Anton. His phone calls are being taped, his letters are being read. His close relations to the power people of the day make him even more suspicious. The State Security Services put an end to Anton's relation with his wife. Thorn apart, Anton and Diana go through love, alienation and hate. There comes a time though when the powerful friends of Anton lose their power and he loses everything that he's ever loved - his work, his wife and son. Thirty years later Anton shoots the story of his own life. But those who now direct the movie are the very same people who once persecuted him.Section - World Competition
- DirectorAntoni KrauzeStarsPiotr AndruszkiewiczJustyna BartoszewiczMagdalena BochanAntoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction of the dramatic events in Gdynia, ended a brutal pacification of demonstrators by troops and militia in 1970.Section - World Competition
- DirectorEva IonescoStarsIsabelle HuppertAnamaria VartolomeiGeorgetta LeahuWhen Hanah re-emerges in the life of her pre-pubescent daughter, she comes with a strange, yet attractive proposition: she needs her own girl to pose for her in ways that would later take by surprise the Parisian art world of the 1970s.Section - World Competition
- DirectorPaco TorresStarsMarian AraujoViviane AraujoRocío BorralloA mother's love can heal anything.
- DirectorBujar AlimaniStarsLuli BitriKarafil ShenaTodi LlupiConjugal visits unite two strangers visiting a prison to meet their incarcerated spouses. During these visits, Elsa and Spetim find the companionship missing from their lives. But a prisoner amnesty soon threatens their fragile bond in this contemplative drama. An official selection of the prestigious Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative. (Albanian w. English subs)Section - World Competition
- DirectorChi ZhangStarsCarlos Ernesto Koo AyalaCarlos Tin-Cheung KooCarl NgThe film adaptation of the novel by Macanese writer Lio Chi Heng marks the 10th anniversary of the transfer of the Portuguese colony of Macau to Chinese administration. The year is 1999 and Macau television ceaselessly informs the population of preparations for the upcoming handover. In the atmosphere of the changing society, when some submit to Chinese lessons and others consider emigration, the movie's protagonist begins to investigate his own identity. Now more than ever he senses his Portuguese- Macanese roots, which always prevented him from feeling at home with his stepfather and sister. The title character's pilgrimage opens up the theme of the search for personal and social identity on the threshold of post-colonial life; at the time of the transfer it represented a pressing issue for the majority of Macau's inhabitants. In long, austere sequences imbued with melancholy, the narration captures feelings of dispossession, but it also offers hope, an ineluctable element of every quest.Section - World Competition
- DirectorIlgar SafatStarsZuzu BejashviliMelissa PapelVaqif IbrahimogluThe story is set in Baku. A famous photographer has to choose between accepting a valuable job offer in Africa or marrying his fiancee - a young , talented sculptor inspired by images of ritual dances. The photographer decides to accept the job offer and - once again - postpones his wedding. During the ensuing quarrel, the photographer and his fiancee have a car accident along the road which leads to the ancient cave city. They later find themselves in a police precinct, where the photographer has to come to terms with his dread of women or he will not leave the precinct alive.Section - World Competition
- DirectorSomnath GuptaStarsAngana BasuBidipta ChakrabortyMithu ChakrabortyAn endearing love story in the time of cultural conflicts presenting the personal tragedy of the emigrant commoner caught in the crossfire of international wars.Section - World Competition
On Torrent - DirectorAndres VeielStarsAugust DiehlLena LauzemisAlexander FehlingWest Germany, early 1960s. Star crossed lovers Bern and Gudrun begin a life long affair in the stifling atmosphere of provincial Germany. Setting out to challenge the establishment they become part of the global uprising joining forces with leftist writers and political activists. By the late 60s Gudrun has joined the gang lead by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof and Bern risks his sanity to finally writing a novel to change the world. An emotional true story of an explosive era starring August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds (2009), A Hidden Life (2019), Salt (2010)).Section - World Competition
- DirectorSujay DahakeStarsAnshuman JoshiKetaki MategaonkarDilip PrabhawalkarSet in the 70's in rural India, four 9th grade kids were writing their destiny. Joshi (14) is madly in love with Shirodkar (14) a beautiful Indian looking girl. Both study in the same class. The age old question "What is love anyway?"Section -Marathi Feature Film Competition
- DirectorUmesh Vinayak KulkarniStarsNana PatekarDilip PrabhawalkarJyoti SubhashKeshya, a simple villager believes that god has arrived in his village but everyone disbelieves him. Later when the politics plays its part things take a drastic change.Section -Marathi Feature Film Competition
On Torrent - DirectorRavi JadhavStarsSubodh BhaveAnand AbhyankarSiddharth ChandekarStort tells Narayan shripad Rajhans aka Balgandharva struggle through poverty and riches.Section -Marathi Feature Film Competition
On Torrent - DirectorAjay SinghStarsAartis AthavleSiddhant BarveParth BhaleraoUpside Down is a metaphorical revelation about the ways and means of every day city life as seen through the eyes of a little village kid.Section -Marathi Feature Film Competition
- DirectorRoland ReberStarsChristoph BaumannMarina Anna EichJulia JaschkeTwo women are held hostage in a deep basement of an abandoned industrial site. They're chained to the wall, sharing a moldy mattress, some food and a bucket. From time to time their captor drops by in order to torture them, to drive them to the point of breaking. Unfortunately, early into the kidnapping, the captor has made a mistake by letting them know when exactly he is going to release them. On one hand, this gives hope to the women, on the other hand this creates the necessity for maximum cruelty on the captor's side as he wants to break them for that little project of his. The whole situation threatens to escalate when the captor's partner in crime suddenly shows up and makes new demands.
- DirectorBenjamin HeisenbergStarsBastian TrostMehdi NebbouLoretta PflaumA story of rivalry and treachery set in a triangle of love, science and politics
- DirectorChristophe HonoréStarsCatherine DeneuveLudivine SagnierChiara MastroianniIn London, a mother and daughter navigate their respective romances: Madeline rekindles an affair from thirty years earlier, while her daughter Vera is caught between a musician who cannot commit and her ex, who still pines for her.AKA 'Beloved'
Section - Global Cinema - DirectorDurul TaylanYagmur TaylanStarsEngin GünaydinBinnur KayaSettar TanriögenA reckless electrician, who is struggling with debt, decides to kill his wife and use her savings as a way out. His plan takes an unexpected twist when his loving wife, comes back from the dead to be with her family.Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorAditya AssaratStarsAnanda EveringhamSajee ApiwongCerise LeangAnanda has returned home from abroad. Unsure of his career plans, he accepts an invitation to act in a new movie for a famous director. During the filming in a small seaside town, Zoe, his American girlfriend from University, arrives for a week-long visit. But the change of country takes its toll and she soon becomes frustrated with the situation. Meanwhile, Ananda meets another girl on the beach.Section - Global Cinema
May come on torrent - DirectorRebecca DalyStarsOlwen FouéréSam KeeleyAntonia Campbell-HughesArlene lives in a small town in the midlands. One morning she wakes in the woods beside the body of a young woman, which is soon discovered. Suspicion spreads through the community and Arlene barricades herself in at night, afraid to sleep.Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorMike OttStarsAtsuko OkatsukaCory ZachariaRintaro Sawamoto"Littlerock" is a powerfully intimate drama that captures the fears and desires of a young Japanese woman lost in America.Section - Global Cinema
May come on torrent - DirectorPaula MarkovitchStarsPaula Galinelli HertzogLaura AgorrecaViviana SuranitiCeci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden from military repression in Argentina. Ceci asks herself: what must she say? What should she really believe and do in order to deserve the love of her mother and others?Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorZsolt PozsgaiStarsÁron ÖzeGábor KonczLászló GörögIt sometimes happens that you do not have to part with your hometown to find bliss and fame.
- DirectorLuca LuciniStarsLuca ArgenteroMoran AtiasDario BandieraNicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.AKA 'Just Married'
Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorRocco PapaleoStarsAlessandro GassmannPaolo BrigugliaMax GazzèA music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsJudita FrankovicIva MihalicIgor KovacA girl talks her boyfriend and her sister into traveling to the Lika backwoods. Their father, who abandoned the family years ago, lives there. Having found out that he is ill, this is the daughter's last chance to have a talk with her father about everything that happened in the past. In the isolated horizons of Lika, the once deeply hidden dark family secrets start being revealed...Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorMarteinn ThorssonStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonÞorsteinn BachmannHilmir Snær GuðnasonThe tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland. Boddi hates materialistic modern society in its entirety and on his blog-page he comically criticizes everything and everyone. Before long he has become an outlaw in his own hometown, just like his viking hero, Grettir. After a series of dramatic mishaps, he snaps and goes riding down south to the big city on his sturdy steed Nietzsche. He's got a gun in his pocket. He's ready for the revolution.Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorAnna KazejakStarsPawel MalaszynskiPiotr RoguckiOlga BoladzA member of a group of big football team fans gets a job as a cheer conductor for the enemy team.Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorRafael LewandowskiStarsBorys SzycMarian DziedzielMagdalena CzerwinskaPawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular "business trips", Pawel is shocked to discover his father's picture on the cover of a Polish tabloid newspaper. The headline "traitor" is written next to his name. Zygmunt is a genuine hero of the struggle against totalitarianism and a recognized member of the "Solidarnosc" labor movement of the 80s. But now, Zygmunt is suddenly accused by the paper of having acted as a secret informer called THE MOLE by the communist regime.Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent (BluRay) - DirectorGiambattista AvellinoStarsLuca ArgenteroPaola CortellesiPaolo RuffiniThree former school friends meet after twenty years and realize that they pursued a common enemy: the recommended. Max (Argentero Luke) is a reporter for talent in a local newspaper that was forced to round to write the most unlikely of magazines, came a step away from much needed employment is undermined by the daughter of a famous writer. Irma (Paola Cortellesi), despite being one of the most respected doctors of the hospital, lives with scholarships, and just when the contract is for the favorite is the new girlfriend of the primary.AKA 'Some Say No'
Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorMurali NairStarsRaghubir YadavSheila NaiduSaurab GharipurikarFarmer wakes up, rapes goat Climax:Goat no longer virgin.Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorFlorian SteinbissStarsSarah MühlhauseJon ChardietMilton WelshAn instant cult classic. The Return of The Neanderthal Man is a screwball comedy with a Freudian twist. The story of a young woman's quest to find the perfect mate, who is embodied in a 10,000 year old Neanderthal Man. A tongue in cheek look at relationships in our modern age, The Return of the Neanderthal playfully examines all of our preconceived notions about love and romance and turns them inside out and upside down. Part Woody Allen, part Ingmar Bergman, and a whole lot of fun.Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorN.R. AcharyaStarsLeela ChitnisAshok KumarV.H. DesaiBeena, a young village girl and Nirmal love each other. When Suresh decides to create rift between them, things begin to challenge both Beena and Nirmal.Section -Retrospective
- DirectorRuggero DipaolaStarsLaura MoranteRichard SammelGerasimos SkiadaressisAthens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer.AKA 'Apartment in Athens'
Section - Global Cinema - DirectorGianni CardilloDaniele De PlanoStarsSalvatore Li CausiBen GazzaraDiego GueciYoung Niccolo decides to help an old man with a videotaped message to send to his grand daughter who left for the United States to become an actress before he dies and discovers his love for the movies.AKA Here Right Here
Section- Global Cinema - DirectorKatell QuillévéréStarsClara AugardeLioMichel GalabruAnna a young teenager comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. She also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited teenager who cares little about God. Anna is preparing for her confirmation, but her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith. She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if it is to God, or something else?Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorRoman KhrushchStarsStanislav RyadinskiyDmitriy PodnozovIlya SherbininBased on the Russian classic novel. While maintaining all the main plot-lines of the novel, it follows the events not as they happen but as they are reflected in the mind of the dying hero. Thus make a chain of recollections about the life he had lived through, now seen as a series of irrevocable mistakes and interpreted anew: it is either reconsideration or repentance. Recollections make main hero torment himself over his own past pretenses that seem ridicules now agonize and despair over his perfect indifference to everything except himself, see the horrible aspect of killing his friend, a greenhorn and a show-off. The final action of an intelligent and outstanding man is judging oneself without mercy.Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorMiaoyan ZhangStarsMengjuan LiuDanhui MaoYingyingAn impoverished couple in a remote corner of China is forced to sell blood to raise money for their only daughter's education. Tragedy strikes when both husband and wife are infected with HIV virus.Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorSusanne RostockStarsHarry BelafonteSidney PoitierMarge ChampionMost people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorFrédéric ChoffatJulie GilbertStarsLucia ChoffatLuciaPatrick PasquierA young woman returns with her son to an isolated beach on the pacific coast in southern Mexico to find peace with her ghosts.Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorLuca MinieroStarsClaudio BisioAlessandro SianiAngela FinocchiaroOverwhelmed by his wife, a postal worker from Northern Italy feigns disability to request a transfer to Milan. When he's unmasked, he is sent to a tiny village near Naples for two years. He moves there alone, scared and full of the typical prejudice about the south. But he meets lovely people who quickly make him feel at home. Now the challenge is to explain this to his wife, so he chooses to make her believe that his life is hell. A remake of the French film "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis."Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorPhilipp StölzlStarsAlexander FehlingMiriam SteinMoritz BleibtreuAfter aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.Section - Country Focus - Germany
On Torrent - DirectorJacques DoillonStarsPascal GreggoryJulie DepardieuLouis GarrelA play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place.Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorSulev KeedusStarsTõnu OjaRain SimmulKetter HabakukkFilm about a man who was sent to fight in Afghanistan years ago, where he converted to Islam. He now returns home only to find himself facing another kind of war.The front line in the decrepit Estonian town runs between Eastern and Western culture, men and women, common sense and madness. Somewhere amidst these battles is his daughter, who Kirotaja has decided to find after all the years of absence. His only leads are the sound of his daughter crying, heard once on the telephone, and a dog-eared notebook full of letters addressed to her. But the town has other plans for him and the women running it seem to take him for their savior from the nagging feeling of emptiness that has enveloped them.Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorIvan GrbovicStarsAli AmmarJoseph Bou NassarSanda Bourenane-A young disabled Canadian of Arab origin tries to overcome his handicap and find his place in society.Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorSantosh SivanStarsPrithviraj SukumaranPrabhu DevaGenelia DeshmukhChirakkal Kelu Nayanar, a warrior in 16th century Kerala wants to avenge his father killed in a confrontation with Vasco da Gama and his troops and is assisted by his best friend Vavvali and warrior princess Ayesha.Section - Indian Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorEndre HulesStarsEndre HulesZsolt LászlóBea MelkviThere were two brothers - two dancers - in Communist Hungary. One defected, the other stuck it out. One gave his soul to commerce, the other to the Party. After twenty years, they meet again. And the dance begins.Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorAtsushi OgataStarsTôru MasuokaHiromi NagasakuMasahiko TsugawaAn actor, who always plays supporting roles and lives in the shadow of famous playwright father, falls in love with an energetic aspiring actress and rediscovers himself.Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorNadav LapidStarsYiftach KleinYaara PelzigMichael MoshonovA member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsGanjirô NakamuraSetsuko HaraYôko TsukasaThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.Section - Restrospective - Dir.- Yasujirô Ozu
On Torrent (BluRay) - DirectorDariush MehrjuiStarsAli MosaffaLeila HatamiMani HaghighiA young doctor whose name Shayan is got cancer. He decides to commit suicide but in the last moments something is happening that lead him to a remote village.AKA 'Beloved Sky'
Section - Global Cinema - DirectorCarlo MazzacuratiStarsSilvio OrlandoGiuseppe BattistonKasia SmutniakTo avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorRasoul SadrameliStarsPegah AhangaraniMajid HajizadehAkram MohammadiIn love with a teenage boy, Tadaei leaves home in the morning heading for school but decides not to go to school and instead starts wandering in the streets of Tehran. She makes up her mind not to return to home and run away with her lover, because of her parents' reaction to her having a boyfriend but meandering in the city, she gets into some troubles that make her change her mentality of love and inevitably her pathway.Section - Restrospective - Dir.- Rasul Sadr Ameli
On Torrent - DirectorRasoul SadrameliStarsTaraneh AlidoostiNegar JavaherianHossein MahjoubFifteen year old Taraneh, whose widowed father is in jail, refuses the unwanted attentions of carpet salesman Amir - until Amir's mother talks Taraneh into accepting Amir's marriage proposal. Within four months the couple realize that they are incompatible, they divorce and Amir emigrates back to Germany. When Taraneh discovers she is pregnant she decides against all advice and intense social pressure, to keep the baby.Section - Restrospective - Dir.- Rasul Sadrameli
- DirectorRasoul SadrameliStarsKhatereh AsadiSophie KianiShahrokh Foroutaniana name, a face, a word or a woman that suddenly and repeatedly emerges in 17-year-old Aida's mind. She tries to get rid of it, but it pops up again and tortures her. The image is that of a dark and remote and possibly not so bad character; she is a stranger who polishes her finger nail and dyes her hair in a blond hue, and leave Aida no peace of mind. But the woman's end is quite real and for the first time Aida consciously experiences doubt. She realizes that beauty and pain are two inseparable ingredients and finally Aida begins to focus on a hope which she has witnessed for one moment in her parents faces. Then she feels in herself the hope for a future whose nature she does not realize. She experiences a profound moment of comprehension and that seems to be sufficient.Section - Restrospective - Dir.- Rasul Sadrameli
- DirectorAlex Ross PerryStarsCarlen AltmanBob ByingtonKate Lyn SheilWhen a brother accompanies his estranged sister on a road trip, they rediscover how obnoxious they are together - and how much they might need each other.Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorPablo CésarStarsLeonel ArancibiaDalma MaradonaJavier LombardoAKA 'The Shores'
Section - Global Cinema - DirectorEgidio VeronesiStarsFrancesca BottiAugusto GattiPaolo LodiFour Italian friends chase their hopes and dreams at the dawn of World War II. But the tragedy and upheavals of the time bring changes that will affect all of them forever.AKA 'The Duck Hunter'
Section - Global Cinema - DirectorLéa FazerStarsNathalie BayePierre ArditiJocelyn QuivrinNewly wed couple, Clementine and Sebastien, are forced to welcome Sebastien's mother into their flat.AKA 'Together Is Too Much'
Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorBartosz KonopkaStarsMarcin DorocinskiKrzysztof StroinskiMagdalena PoplawskaFather-to-be Marcin reaches out to his estranged schizophrenic father in search for love and understanding.AKA 'Fear of Falling'
Section - Global Cinema - DirectorDavid BlancoStarsNeus AgullóJosé AliasBruno BergonziniClaudio, a homeless mentally handicapped man, comes to Barcelona and meets Pelé, an old ailing ex-hippie living on the street. Together they will start a special friendship by preparing a street show of Chinese shadows. Other beggars from the Raval neighborhood will accompany our protagonists.AKA 'The Shadow Of The Sun'
Section - Global Cinema - DirectorBouli LannersStarsZacharie ChasseriaudMartin NissenPaul BartelTwo teenage brothers spend summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their busy mother, and running low on cash. To make some money they rent out the house to a local drug dealer.AKA 'The Giant'
Section - Global Cinema - DirectorDragomir SholevStarsTzvetan DaskalovSilvia GerinaIrena HristoskovaThis is a story of a family and two intruders.Section - Global Cinema
- DirectorJK YounStarsKim Yoo-jungHa Ji-WonLee Min-kiA woman named Yeon-hee (Ha Ji-won) lives in Busan with her boyfriend Man-sik (Sol Kyung-gu) near Haeundae Beach. But, when they find out a tsunami will hit the city, They realize they only have 10 minutes to escape!Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorFrancesco PatiernoStarsDiego AbatantuonoValerio MastandreaValentina LodoviniMaroso Golfetto is a firm manager from Veneto who is always yelling at his employees, all either immigrants or Southern Italians. He regularly appears on the local TV channel where he keeps denouncing the evils of immigration and is very popular with everybody including with kids. His speech hits home better than that of Lucia, their anti-racist schoolmistress. And what will be will be : by dint of invoking the help of God to rid Veneto of its immigrants the miracle finally happens : one morning they have all disappeared. But is that really a blessing ?AKA 'Things From Another World'
Section - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorCihan InanStarsChristopher BuchholzSophie RoisMichael NeuenschwanderEarly evening - a big city. Two teenagers shyly flirt with each other, a housewife sits down to watch her daily soap, nurses in a hospital gossip before the nightshift starts, a trendy couple drives through rush hour, so excited they can hardly wait to get home - a man with a rifle enters a building seeking revenge. In the blink of an eye seemingly unrelated events turn upside down what were once secure, happy, 'normal' lives. Behind fear, beyond the unexpected, there is love and hopeSection - Global Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorUlrich KöhlerStarsPierre BokmaJean-Christophe FollyJenny SchilyA German doctor (Pierre Bokma) battling Sleeping Sickness in rural Cameroon fears that he will be a stranger in his own country as the end of his post draws near, and he prepares to move back home with his wistful wife, and their teenage daughter.Section - Country Focus - Germany
May come on torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogAnna HitchVissarionWhat is faith and religion to Russians after the fall of communism? We get the insight into the Russian Orthodox church as well as different folk and shamanic beliefs.AKA "Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia"
Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogJuliane KoepckeJuan Zaplana RamirezWerner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash there in 1971. They find the remains of the plane and recreate her journey out of the jungle.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsDieter DenglerWerner HerzogEugene DeatrickGerman-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U.S. naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many events for the camera.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsBrad DourifDonald WilliamsEllen BakerAn alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visits to Earth and Earth's man-made demise, while human astronauts attempt to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogThis film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogSteve LiptayScott McKainHerzog examines the world championships for cattle auctioneers, his fascination with a language created by an economic system, and compares it to the lifestyle of the Amish, who live nearby.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogJörg Schmidt-ReitweinEdward LachmanHerzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. Herzog catches the eeriness of an abandoned city, with stop lights cycling over an empty intersection.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorErwin KeuschChristian WeisenbornStarsBruno S.Eva MattesBurkhard Driest"I Am My Films - A Portrait of Werner Herzog" - Herzog is one of the most important German auteur filmmakers and certainly also one of the most passionate. For his film projects, he does not shy away from even the most extreme conditions and often leads himself and his team to the edge of physical and mental resilience.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogGraham DorringtonDieter PlageEngineers attempt daring journey above Guyanese rainforest canopy with airship prototype. Adventure fraught with risks, as previous expedition ended tragically. This is a unique story of exploring uncharted jungle from the air.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsMichael GoldsmithWerner HerzogAugustine AssematDocumentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsLotte EisnerWolfgang BüttnerManfred EigendorfFootage shot in and around the Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogReinhold MessnerLotte EisnerA self portrait documentary by Werner Herzog.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleThe love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorPeter BuchkaStarsWerner HerzogAKA 'The End - And then a Bit Further - Werner Herzog'
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Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsJake HessGene ScottWerner HerzogThe documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970's and 1980's, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show. Werner Herzog presents the man, his thoughts and also includes some of his uncharacteristic programs.Section - Country Focus - Germany
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsPetar RadenkovicMario AdorfHans TiedemannThe film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the first to appear, claims that he protects the horses from enthusiastic racing fans. He does not appear to be employed by the track, but seems to provide his services voluntarily. His protection from "fanatics" gives the film its title. The film is shot in a documentary style, but the sheer implausibility of the dialogue leaves the exact nature of the film ambiguous.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsLefteris DaskalakisAntonis PapadakisThe story of a solitary man who refuses to leave a Greek island (at one time a leper colony) is told by a strange variety of characters who don't have much to say except to repeat their tellings over and over again. But the person who has the final word on the matter, the lonely character himself, may not explain anything about his personal reasons for not abandoning the place.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsReinhard LichtenbergWeight lifting men who compete to achieve individual bodily perfection through muscle building.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsThe Dalai LamaLama Lhundup WoeserTakna Jigme SangpoWheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsPasquale D'OnofrioSalvatore CatoranoAngelo CarrabsWorks, legend and murders of Carlo Gesualdo, a notorious Italian composer and murderer from the 16th century.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogHerzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe's spectacular courtship rituals and 'beauty pageants', where eligible young men strive to outshine each other and attract mates by means of lavish makeup, posturing and facial movements.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsPeter BrummGeorg EskaKarl-Heinz SteffelFour guys break into an old castle and find uniforms and military equipment. They then prepare to defend it from an imaginary enemy.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWalter SteinerWerner HerzogA study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsReinhold MessnerHans KammerlanderWerner HerzogFilm-maker Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander as they attempt to climb the high altitude peaks of Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one expedition, seeking to reveal their inner motivation.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsFini StraubingerM. BaaskeElsa FehrerThrough examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogDenis ReichleStarsWerner HerzogDenis ReichleThe film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsHuie L. RogersThe reverend Huie L. Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn.Section - Country Focus - Germany
Documentaries of (or on) Werner Herzog
On Torrent - DirectorFranz OstenStarsDevika RaniAshok KumarMonoramaAn "untouchable" girl and a Brahmin boy fall in love, but the strict caste system and the gossip of the villagers threaten to keep them apart.Section - Retrospective - Ashok Kumar