IFFK 2011
International Film Festival of Kerala, 2011
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- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsXuejian LiTaishen ChengDongyu ZhouRomance sparks between a young woman and a young man from different economic backgrounds during China's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s.Section - Opening Film
On Torrent - DirectorSebastián HiriartStarsGabino RodríguezRogelio MedinaAlejandra EspañaA shepherd leaves behind his life in Mexico after coming across a mysterious key chain. Will the key chain lead him to his own paradise or will the journey be all for nothing?Section - Competition Films
- DirectorÖzcan AlperStarsGaye GürselDurukan OrduSarkis SeropyanSumru is doing music researches at a university in Istanbul. To work on her thesis on gathering and recording an exhaustive collection of Anatolian elegies she sets off for the south-east of the country for a few months. The brief trip turns out to be the longest journey of her life.Section - Competition Films
- DirectorPablo PerelmanStarsDaniel Giménez CachoVerónica SánchezJuan José SusacassaOn September 11, 1973, the day of the military coup in Chile, a child prodigy of art disappears. His friend, a man fond of his art, tells the short existence of who could be a major genius of painting, decades after his disappearance.Section - Competition Films
- DirectorHamid Reza AligholianStarsSaeed AlipourAbdollah AtashaniKasagha KeshparvarSection - Competition Films
- DirectorPrashant NairStarsVictor BanerjeeSiddharth BhardwajSidharth BhardwajWhen the money of an idealistic British traveler disappears in a nouveau-riche Delhi household, the staff are given twenty-four hours to replace it or face the consequences. Delhi In A Day is a darkly comedic portrayal of upper-class Delhi society, examining how the haves and the have-nots coexist in the context of the contemporary nouveau-riche Delhi home.Section - Competition Films
- DirectorCarlos César ArbeláezStarsHernán Mauricio OcampoNolberto SánchezGenaro AristizábalManuel, 9, has an old ball with which he plays football every day in the countryside. He dreams of becoming a great goalkeeper. His wishes seem set to come true when Ernest, his father, gives him a new ball. But an unexpected accident sends the ball flying into a minefield. Despite the danger, Manuel refuses to abandon his treasure... He convinces Julián and Poca Luz, his two friends, to rescue it with him. Amid the adventures and kids' games, the signs of armed conflict start to appear in the lives of the inhabitants of 'La Pradera'.Section - Competition Films
- DirectorCarlos SorinStarsLuis LuqueBeatriz SpelziniMaría AbadiLuis, a recognized university professor is out of the psychiatric clinic where he spent the last three years, hospitalized after a psychotic episode that led him to threaten his wife and assistant chair. Clinical believe he is healed, but a relapse is always possible. Upon arriving home, Luis is attacked by the pet cat. Soon after, his wife notices that the cat disappeared. Was Luis, ex-crazy, that ended the cat's life in a new psychotic attack of aggressiveness?Section - Competition Films
- DirectorMustafa NuriStarsHatice AslanHakan KurtasCengiz BozkurtLeyla and her boyfriend Yilmaz are in porn film sector for 25 years in Germany. While ago, they move to Istanbul and Yilmaz left her for another woman. Although they are separated, Yilmaz comes up with a last minute request:one last movie where Leyla meets 20 years old handsome but quite traumatic character Izzet.Section - Competition Films
- 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 - Competition Films
- DirectorTareque MasudStarsNurul Islam BabluRussell FaraziJayanto ChattopadhyayA family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.Section - Best of FIPRESCI
On Torrent - DirectorSteve JacobsStarsJohn MalkovichNatalie BeckerJessica HainesAfter having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.Section - Best of FIPRESCI
On Torrent - DirectorXavier BeauvoisStarsLambert WilsonMichael LonsdaleOlivier RabourdinUnder threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.Section - Best of FIPRESCI
On Torrent - DirectorLee Chang-dongStarsYun Jeong-hieLee Da-witKim Hee-raA sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.Section - Best of FIPRESCI
On Torrent - DirectorFlorian CossenStarsJessica SchwarzMichael GwisdekRafael FerroDuring a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown off course, she decides to interrupt her journey and wander through the unfamiliar city. On the phone to Germany, she tells her father, Anton, about her experience and the peculiar fascination the unfamiliar city has had for her. Two days later, Anton suddenly turns up at Maria's hotel with something to confess: Maria spent the first three years of her life in Buenos Aires during the military dictatorship at the end of the 1970s. The people she had always thought were her parents had adopted her and brought her to Germany. Father and daughter begin a journey in search of Maria's biological parents. Anton does everything he can not to lose his daughter.Section - Best of FIPRESCI
- DirectorClaudia LlosaStarsMagaly SolierSusi SánchezEfraín SolísFausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.Section - Best of FIPRESCI
On Torrent - DirectorSébastien PiloteStarsGilbert SicotteNathalie CavezzaliJeremy TessierMarcel Lévesque, a quick-witted car salesman nearing retirement, lives to sell. He has been salesman of the month for the last sixteen years at the dealership where he has spent his career, in a declining industrial town in Lac Saint-Jean, where it's cold enough to scare away the tourists and buying a car sometimes seems completely absurd. There's just one thing on his mind: getting his beloved Detroit rides off the lot. Marcel Lévesque is a salesman from a bygone era, a man who learned his trade by telling tales - "fibs dressed up with flowers" - and making his customers happy. But a tragedy will change everything for this peddler of dreams.Section - Best of FIPRESCI
- DirectorHelke MisselwitzStarsErika BanhardtHermann BusseMargarete BusseBefore GDR collapsed, Misselwitz interviewed diverse East German women who candidly reveal personal and professional stories, frustrations, hopes, aspirations to record a changing society against a backdrop of architecture and landscapes.Section - DEFA Films
- DirectorVolker KoeppWittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Volker Koepp came into the town in 1974 to interview women and girls about their work in the textile industry, their spare-time occupations, about their thoughts and feelings.Section - DEFA Films
- DirectorPeter KahaneStarsKurt NaumannRita FeldmeierJudith RichterThe architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with. This way, he reunites with former colleagues and friends - most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement. Together, they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic. However, their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors. As frustration grows, Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his family-life: his wife Wanda wants to leave for West-Germany.Section - DEFA Films
On Torrent - DirectorHajo BaumgärtnerStarsSusanne FluryRosemarie SchulzWerner BrehmSection - DEFA Films
- DirectorHeiner CarowStarsAngelica DomröseWinfried GlatzederHeidemarie WenzelPaul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life seems like a dream when they're together - but their short flights from the burdens of reality are once and again interrupted by Paul's ties to family and career.Section - DEFA Films
On Torrent - DirectorJosef MachStarsGojko MiticJirí VrstálaRolf RömerAlthough the Indians were assured their lands adjacent to the Black Hills by contract, the Whites want to expel them. Meanwhile, gold has been discovered there and the unscrupulous settler, Red Fox, demands of Mattotaupa, chief of the Bears Clan belonging to the Dakota tribe, to reveal to him the location of a cave with gold deposits. Mattotaupa refuses and is stabbed to death by Red Fox in the presence of his son Tokei-ihto. Lieutenant Roach orders Tokei-ihto to Fort Smith in order to negotiate. The son of the slain chief suspects that the Whites are planning an ambush, a fear that is confirmed when he encounters Red Fox there. Tokei-ihto refuses to move to a reservation in an infertile area with his tribe and is incarcerated. When the Dakota Indians have been defeated and resettled, he is released. Tokei-ihto learns of the murder of the senior chief Tashunka-witko. Tokei-ihto now wants to fulfill his legacy, escaping with the subgroup of his tribe to the fertile areas beyond the Missouri in Canada. While the members of the Bears Clan cross the border, Tokei-ihto encounters Red Fox, his father's murderer.Section - DEFA Films
On Torrent - DirectorFrank BeyerStarsManfred KrugKrystyna StypulkowskaJutta HoffmannA film about living and working conditions in the GDR of the 1960s, including a little love story, of course.Section - DEFA Films
On Torrent - DirectorChantal AkermanStarsStanislas MerharMarc BarbéAurora MarionThe tale of an Occidental merchant whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.Section - World Cinema
- 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 Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsYoussouf DjaoroDiouc KomaEmile Abossolo M'boPresent-day Chad. Adam, fifty-five, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N'Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels socially humiliated. The country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government. The authorities demand that the population contribute to the "war effort", giving money or volunteers old enough to fight off the assailants. The District Chief constantly harasses Adam for his contribution. But Adam is penniless; he only has his son....Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorAruna JayawardanaStarsDaya AlwisDimuthu ChinthakaThumindu DodantenneNikini Vassa is a film that touches life, death and expectations. One person's death fans the flame of expectations in another. The life that begins with that expectation ultimately ends in death. Loneliness, loss of social contacts and deceit are the underlying human conditions visible through this Film.Section - World Cinema
- 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.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorAhmed ImamovicStarsSadzida SeticNermin TulicEmina Minka MufticThe film deals with the tragedy of the women survivors of the Srebrenica genocide, or rather, the consequences of the horrors they experienced - it is about women whose sole purpose in life is to locate the bones of their loved ones and give them a decent burial. Fifteen years later, they still want just one simple thing - the truth. As a contrast, the film deals with trivialities of modern living, obsessed with different reality shows...Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorPaula van der OestStarsCarice van HoutenLiam CunninghamRutger HauerIn Apartheid-torn South Africa, poet Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten) struggles tragically in search of love and a sense of home.Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorKaz CaiAnocha SuwichakornpongJing WangStarsBeatrice ChienWang PinKamolluk PiyavittayanonHelmed by three female directors, this omnibus features three films set in China, Thailand and Singapore. Each story occurs at a specific meal-time, and seeks to interpret the frailties and complexities of love through different East Asian perspectives. All three stories are tethered with the question, "Will you marry me?" Mirroring the repasts themselves, Breakfast and Dinner are heavier in tone, while Lunch is light with a sprinkle of humor.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorMohamed DiabStarsNilli KarimBushraMaged El-KidwaniUnfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsXueqi WangBingbing FanHao QinLin, a sea captain, returns from a 6 month journey when he is told that his 25-year-old son Lin Bo has been gunned down by the police. In his quest to understand what happened, he realizes he knew very little about his own son. He starts a journey back to Chongqin, a city he once lived. He will understand the impact of his paternal repeated absence on the life of his child.Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorDanis TanovicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMira FurlanBoris LerA story set in the former Yugoslavia and centered on a guy who returns to Herzegovina from Germany with plenty of cash and hopes for a good new life.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorGeoffrey EnthovenStarsCharlotte TimmersRoos Van VlaenderenRobrecht Vanden ThorenThree guys in their twenties love wine and women but they are still virgins. Under the guise of a wine tour they embark on a journey to Spain hoping to have their first sexual experience. Jozef is blind, Philip is paralyzed from the neck down and Lars is in a wheelchair with a brain tumor, but they're not going to let anything stand in their way...Section - World Cinema
- 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 - World Cinema
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsGael García BernalLuis TosarKarra ElejaldeAs a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorM.L. Pundhevanop DhewakulStarsAnanda EveringhamLaila BoonyasakTeerapong LiaorakwongA young man strikes up an adulterous affair with his uncle's wife.Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorNegar AzarbayjaniStarsShayesteh IraniGhazal ShakeriHomayoun ErshadiRana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transgender man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsJohannes ZeilerAnton AdasinskyIsolda DychaukA despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.Section - World Cinema
May be on Torrent - DirectorBrigitte SyStarsRonit ElkabetzCarlo BrandtNoémie LvovskyBarbara is a filmmaker who has been working in the prison environment for a few years now. She is preparing a film written and directed by long-term inmates in a prison in the projects around Paris. Twice a week, Barbara goes to the prison where she shoots interviews with the inmates which will serve as a basis for the writing of their screenplay. But Barbara has encountered Michel, one of the inmates of the group. Their love affair will lead her to break the law.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorMohammad RasoulofStarsLeila ZareFereshteh Sadre OrafaiyShahab HosseiniStory of a young lawyer in Tehran in search of a visa to leave the country, which is what Mohammad Rasoulof did during the winter of 2010/11.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorNasiruddin YousuffStarsJaya AhsanFerdous AhmedShampa RezaCommon people struggle during independence war of Bangladesh.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsTôta KomizuHako OhshimaDurian SukegawaWoodwork artist Takumi moves to a small village Asuka.He then meets Kayoko,a woman who went to the same school as Takumi.Kayoko is fascinated with the color hanezu(crimson); lives with boyfriend Tetsuya.Soon,she falls in love with Takumi.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorMasahiro KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiEri TokunagaHideji ÔtakiHaru's Journey provides an insider's look at Japanese culture through its themes of acceptance, endurance and familial commitment. It tells the story of elderly fisherman Tadao and his granddaughter Haru, who live in a small fishing village in Hokkaido. When Haru's job disappears, she wants to take her stubborn grandfather to live in Tokyo where she will find more opportunities. But Tadao refuses to go to the capital, sparking a search for another family member who will share his life. Thus begins a road movie driven by family dynamics, as the two set out for Japan's main island, Honshu, to see if one of Tadao's siblings will look after him. First stop is his even more cantankerous older brother, Shiego, and their testy exchange reveals there's more to Tadao's selfishness than just old age. By contrast, selfless Haru takes on responsibility for the pair's dwindling finances so their pilgrimage can continue...Section - World Cinema
- 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 - World Cinema
- 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 Cinema
- DirectorBarbara SassStarsKatarzyna ZawadzkaAnna RadwanMarian DziedzielSisters, convinced of the teachings of Father Francis, cut off from the outside world and changing the way we profess their faith.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorAleksandr MindadzeStarsAnton ShaginSvetlana Smirnova-MartsinkevichStanislav RyadinskiyA group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorMichal AviadStarsEvgenia DodinaRonit ElkabetzSivan LevyTwo women meet by chance and discover they were both raped by the same rapist. Individually and together they must confront the past and finally integrate the long repressed trauma into their lives.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorIsrael CárdenasLaura Amelia GuzmánStarsJean Remy GentyYanmarco King EncarnaciónPaul Henri PresuméA Haitian man who recently lost his job as a French teacher begins a desperate search for work in Santo Domingo.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorGabriele MuccinoStarsStefano AccorsiVittoria PucciniPierfrancesco FavinoA look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorAvie LuthraStarsSihle DlaminiJayashree BasavarajJames NgcoboA 10-year-old South African orphan leaves his Zulu village to make his own life in the city... only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorSameh ZoabiStarsRazi ShawahdehLoai NofiBassem LoulouSection - World Cinema
- DirectorMarkus SchleinzerStarsMichael FuithDavid RauchenbergerChristine KainFive months in the life of a pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorBennett MillerStarsBrad PittRobin WrightJonah HillOakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsEmilija StojkovskaMilijana BogdanoskaDime IlijevTwo nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning women are found raped and strangled in a small town. The fiction slowly turns into a documentary.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorKiran RaoStarsPrateik Patil BabbarMonica DograKriti MalhotraThe lives of four people intersect in Mumbai: a washer-man who wants to become an actor, a banker-turned-photographer, a painter looking for inspiration, and a newly-married immigrant who journals her experiences on home video.Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsKen'ichi MatsuyamaRinko KikuchiKiko MizuharaToru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorPema TsedenStarsLocheyDrolma KyabTamdrin TsoA family on the Himalayan plains discovers their dog is worth a fortune, but selling it comes at a terrible price.Section - World Cinema
May be on Torrent - DirectorLeila KilaniStarsSoufia IssamiMouna BahmadNouzha AkelIn Tangier, Badia and Imane, two young Moroccan girls of around twenty, walk in line amongst an army of workers who fill up the city with their coming and going back and forth. They both work in a shrimp-packaging factory, a difficult and humiliating job, where the strong odor of shrimp seeps into the pores of their skin. Badia's hands are busy but her head is idle; she perfumes herself with lies to wash away the shrimp smell and pretends to be someone else. Badia can flap her wings as much as she likes but she'll never fly.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMuhammet UzunerYilmaz ErdoganTaner BirselA group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorKongdej JaturanrasameeStarsMargot ChungWeerasak GlunrawdNastnathakit IntarasutLek and Kong work side by side at the shopping mall. Lek is a lonely locksmith, and Kong is an aspiring writer. When Kong comes up with a plan to put Leks lock picking skills to good use, the two start breaking into other peoples homes, not to steal anything but just to bask temporarily in the lives of others. One day, Kong pries too deeply into someone elses life, and things grow rather complicated. Recalling Christopher Nolan by way of Wong Kar-wai, P-047 beautifully weaves together flashbacks, fantasy sequences and fragmented memories into a film that is part meditation, part multilayered mystery and utterly fascinating.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorAuraeus SolitoStarsAlessandra De RossiClifford BañagaleDax AlejandroA mythical drama that revolves around a young Palawanon's search for a healer to cure her sister and the strangers who helped them along the way.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorWim WendersStarsPina BauschRegina AdventoMalou AiraudoA tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorYung-Shing TengStarsHailu QinQun TangBin Bin LiHow far away can you go, for how long can you leave, before you begin to long for home?
- DirectorXiaoling ZhuStarsXiang ChuifenShi GuangjinWu ShenmingAKA Rice Paddy
Section - World 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 - World Cinema
- 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 - World Cinema
- DirectorJúlia MuratStarsSonia GuedesLisa FáveroLuis SerraEach citizen of Jotuomba plays an integral role in village life. Madalena is responsible for baking bread; each morning she stacks her rolls as Antonio prepares the coffee. The two share a morning ritual of arguments and insults, followed by an amicable cup of coffee on the bench outside Antonio's shop. At midday the church bells ring, summoning the villagers to mass. In the early evening, they all share a meal together. And so life proceeds in Jotuomba, the days languidly drifting into one another. The only variations seem to be in the weather. One day Rita arrives looking for a place to stay. She came upon the village while traveling through the valley, following the unused railroad tracks. She is a photographer, intent on capturing the village's special allure. Initially reticent, the townsfolk gradually open up to her, sharing their stories and allowing themselves to be photographed. Rita is comfortable with technologies old and new, and Madalena teaches her to knead dough by the light of an oil lamp. Only the village priest continues to find Rita's presence worrisome, especially when she begins asking about the locked cemetery.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorYa-chuan HsiaoStarsGwei Lun-MeiHan ChangZaizai LinWhat are you willing to give up in exchange for fulfilling your dreams?Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorMehdi KarampourDariush MehrjuiStarsAli AbediniKatayun Amir EbrahimiBorzou ArjmandThis movie is about a music group that want to have their first concert but the politics don't let them.The name of the episode is sime akhar.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorLeena ManimekalaiStarsJesuthasan AntonythasanMunusamy M.Leena ManimekalaiDhanushkodi, the Indo-Sri Lankan border town, is the crucible wherein History is brewing this concoction of defeated lives and exhausted dreams. Manimekalai, the filmmaker, Soori, a half-wit Sri Lankan Tamil Refugee, Munusamy, the fisherman, Rosemary, the social worker in Jesuit Christian Refugee Services, try hard to retain their sanity in this mad jumble. Their interactions with the dead or living refugees, their skirmishes with the Indian and Sri Lankan States, their personal lives overrun by external events - form the kernel of this narration. ,AKA The Dead Sea
Section - World Cinema - DirectorJustin ChadwickStarsNaomie HarrisOliver LitondoTony KgorogeThe story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau veteran who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorAndrzej BaranskiStarsRafal ZawieruchaMateusz ZajacMichal AniolSection - World Cinema
- DirectorSepideh FarsiStarsPournik KavoshMohamad-Reza BaboliHossein AlizadehMorteza, in his fifties and just out of jail, is suspected of being involved in the death of a drowned child. Taher, the police officer in charge of his case, first believes Morteza is guilty, like everybody else does, but then finds out that he knows Morteza. The two men's relationship goes back 30 years, with its roots lying under the cold waters of the lake... Soon convinced by Morteza's innocence, Taher decides to prove it despite everything.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorPierre SchoellerStarsOlivier GourmetMichel BlancZabou BreitmanTransport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile. Speed, power struggles, chaos, economic crisis... Everything follows in quick succession and clashes. Emergencies follow on each other's heels. What sacrifices are men prepared to make? Just how long will they hold up in a state that devours those that work for it?AKA The Minister
Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorDominik MollStarsVincent CasselSergi LópezJordi DauderMadrid, in the seventeenth century. Abandoned at the doorstep of a monastery, Ambrosio has been brought up by the Capucin Friars. After becoming a friar himself, he becomes an unrivaled preacher whose sermons draw crowds and earn him the admiration of all. Admired for his extreme rigor and absolute virtue, Ambrosio is certain he is safe from any temptation. But Satan has not said his final word...Section - World Cinema
On Torrent - DirectorChris KrausStarsPaula BeerEdgar SelgeTambet TuiskIn the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von Siering family home is a character in its own right, a hulking, neoclassical manor that hovers on stilts above the sea. Oda arrives there bearing her mother's coffin and a gift requested by her surgeon father: a jarred, two-headed fetus to add to his laboratory of gruesome curiosities. Ebbo von Siering (Edgar Selge) sees himself in his daughter when she calmly and expertly learns to suture the corpse of a cat. What he fails to recognize - and what Oda luckily understands - is that their interest in science is their only similarity. His dedication to experimentation is linked to an appalling obsession with power and destruction, while Oda is genuinely curious about life. Her quick, quiet intelligence complements her humanity and her lucid understanding of right and wrong. When she strays from a family picnic and discovers a badly wounded Estonian anarchist, she helps him without a second thought, smuggling him into her father's lab and putting her new surgical skills to good use. As their illicit friendship deepens, family turmoil escalates and war closes in. The safe haven of the community collapses, forcing Oda's family to make impossible choices.Section - World Cinema
- Saw in PIFF 2010
- 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- World Cinema
AKA The Prize - DirectorNatalia SmirnoffStarsMaría OnettoGabriel GoityArturo GoetzAn older housewife discovers she has a knack for solving puzzles.Section - World Cinema
- Saw in PIFF 2010
- On Torrent
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsCamila AmadoLuisa ArraesMilton GonçalvesIn "The Silver Cliff" Violeta (Alessandra Negrini) is a married dentist in a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the cell she enters in despair. The message of her husband, Djalma (Otto Jr.), said he was leaving her and going to another city.
- DirectorCatherine BreillatStarsCarla BesnaïnouJulia ArtamonovKerian MayanA young princess is the subject of a tug-of-war among witches, as each struggles to find the suitable antidote to a death sentence inculcated by an evil sister.Section- World Cinema
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- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsBrad PittSean PennJessica ChastainThe story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.Section - World Cinema
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- DirectorMojtaba MirtahmasbJafar PanahiStarsJafar PanahiIgiMrs. GheiratIt's been months since Jafar Panahi, stuck in jail, has been awaiting a verdict by the appeals court. By depicting a day in his life, Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb try to portray the deprivations looming in contemporary Iranian cinema.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorTom TykwerStarsSophie RoisSebastian SchipperDevid StriesowA Berlin-set drama centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man.Section - World Cinema
- Available on torrent - DirectorCéline SciammaStarsZoé HéranMalonn LévanaJeanne DissonA family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.Section - World Cinema
- Available on torrent - DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsFreida PintoRiz AhmedMita VashishtThe story of the tragic relationship between the son of a property developer and the daughter of an auto rickshaw owner.Section - World Cinema
- Available on torrent - 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 - World Cinema
- Available on torrent - DirectorDjo MungaStarsPatsha BayManie MaloneDiplome AmekindraRiva returns to his home town of Kinshasa to sell fuel, however the people whom he stole it from are close behind and when Riva tries to get with a girl her crime boss boyfriend isn't too happy about this.Section - World Cinema
- Available on torrent - DirectorDaniel CockburnStarsTracy WrightR.D. ReidAnand RajaramA fantasy about a reclusive woman who searches for meaning in the mysterious documents that keep appearing to her, turning her home into an archive. As realities collapse and intersect around here, she must make a final choice: is she a free agent, or just a tool of the archive?Section - World Cinema
- DirectorBarney Platts-MillsStarsMohamed ArderdourSaid BekkeurieHasne BoutaniDirector Barney Platts-Mills, Unanimously invited by Cannes Critics Week, Winner of the Golden Leopard & ScreenWriters Guild Award is back after 27 years with an love poem to Morocco. Official Selection for its World Premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR 2011) Zohra: A Moroccan Fairytale (2011), is a portrait of ZOHRA, a 14-year old village girl in Morocco who lives a simple rural life of routine. She is oblivious to an existence other than what she knows. But when she is pressured to marry an older wealthier man, Zohra starts questioning her desires. Soon she meets 17-year old runaway IBRAHIM, who is hiding in the village waiting to take an illegal boat to Spain. Ibrahim offers Zohra a dream that is everything: exciting, adventurous, romantic and unfamiliar. Stormy weather delays Ibrahim's voyage and the young couple share a fugitive love affair, dreaming of running away together before reality intrudes. This heavily influenced Neo-Realistic Oriental tale reflects on the conflicts between the older generation's traditions and young peoples' romanticism. The film also examines the immigration of Moroccan young people to Spain, who are lured with the prospect of living a better life. Weaving reality with youthful daydreams, veteran director Barney Platts-Mills brings to life a fairytale, which is very real.Section - World Cinema
- DirectorDjibril Diop MambétyStarsMoussa BaldéLissa BaleraAminata FallA girl sells copies of Soleil, the government paper.Retrospective - Djibril Diop Mambéty
- DirectorDjibril Diop MambétyStarsMagaye NiangMyriam NiangChristoph ColombMory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.Retrospective - Djibril Diop Mambéty
- DirectorDjibril Diop MambétyStarsMansour DioufAmi DiakhateMamadou Mahourédia GueyeDramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.Retrospective - Djibril Diop Mambéty
- DirectorDjibril Diop MambétyStarsDieye MaAminata FallDemba BâA broke and dopey musician, constantly harassed by his exasperated landlady, glues his lottery ticket to his door and when it turns out to be a winner must carry his door to the lottery office.Retrospective - Djibril Diop Mambéty
- DirectorDjibril Diop MambétyStarsLamine BaAl Demba CissChristoph ColombSarcastic look at Senegal's capital following the adventures of a somewhat immoral street urchin.Retrospective - Djibril Diop Mambéty
- DirectorDjibril Diop MambétyA somewhat-humorous look at the city of Dakar, its people, architecture, politics, social behavior, and even the white French tourists, and especially the influence of France's culture and its contrast with the indigenous culture of Senegal pre-colonization but still present in Dakar.Retrospective - Djibril Diop Mambéty
- DirectorDjibril Diop MambétyAKA "Tell us of Grandmother" (Documentary)
I also saw one documentary on Djibril-
NINKA NANKA LE PRINCE DE COLOBANE
(AKA "NINKI NANKA : THE PRINCE OF COLOBANE")
Director: Laurence Gavron
Film Genre: Documentary
Language: French + Wolof with French Subtitles
Length: 45 minutes
Producer: Laurence Gavron
Year: 1991
Retrospective - Djibril Diop Mambéty