2012 İSTANBUL FİLM FESTİVALİ
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- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsBrigitte LinMaggie CheungLeslie CheungA broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.
- DirectorKim Kyung-mookStarsPaul LeeHyun-Joon YeomKim Sae-byeokJun (Paul Lee) is an illegal immigrant from North Korea, working in a gas station under an exploitative and abusive boss. Hyeon (Yeom Hyunjoon) is the kept boy of a married businessman, who has set him up in a swanky apartment near the government's headquarters in Yeouido. Both young men are in trouble. Jun's lack of an official identity and papers limits him to dead-end jobs (the gas station, handing out flyers, and eventually male prostitution) and leaves him always in fear of arrest and deportation. Hyeon, who is supposed to be available whenever his sugar daddy "needs" him, stifles in his up-market "prison". These two finally find each other through an Internet site, with disastrous results. The sudden convergence of their opposite lives gives Kim the cues he needs for a series of reflections on the implications of "statelessness".
- DirectorMuzaffer ÖzdemirStarsKanbolat Görkem ArslanMuzaffer ÖzdemirMuhammet UzunerA pessimistic and neurotic architect, longing for his homeland, revisits the countryside of his childhood for the first time in many years. He quickly discovers that the tranquilly of familiar landscapes is fading in a technological age.
- DirectorUrsula MeierStarsLéa SeydouxKacey Mottet KleinMartin CompstonA drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsEngin GünaydinSerhat TutumluerNihal YalçinA man's life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness... Adapted from Dostoevsky's novel "Notes from Undergroud", Demirkubuz follows Muharrem as he gets himself invited to a party where he is not welcome, just to find himself disgusted.
- DirectorNikolaj ArcelStarsAlicia VikanderMads MikkelsenMikkel Boe FølsgaardA young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
- DirectorMorteza FarshbafStarsKiomars GitiSharareh PashaAmir Hossein MalekiA violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative,s house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but they do not bring along their son. Something terrible happens on their way...
- DirectorAndreas DresenStarsSteffi KühnertMilan PeschelTalisa Lilly LemkeFrank is diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor and given only a few months to live. He and his wife don't know how and when to tell their children about it. Meanwhile, Frank's health is getting worse with each day.
- DirectorVincent GarenqStarsPhilippe TorretonWladimir YordanoffNoémie LvovskyA family man battles to prove his innocence after being accused of a heinous crime.
- DirectorMurat SaraçogluStarsOsman SonantNesrin CavadzadeYavuz BingölA Turkish nationalist firefighter sets out on a life-changing journey in Diyarbakir.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsRichard ChamberlainGlenda JacksonMax AdrianPiano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexuality by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a nymphomaniac whom he cannot satisfy.
- DirectorJulia LoktevStarsGael García BernalHani FurstenbergBidzina GujabidzeAn engaged couple's backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains is derailed by a single misstep that threatens to undo everything the pair believed about each other and about themselves.
- DirectorBenito ZambranoStarsInma CuestaMaría LeónMarc ClotetJust after the Spanish war, Pepita leaves her village for the capital to be near her sister, who is in prison and pregnant. There she falls for a bourgeois who is keeping the fight alive in the hills.
- DirectorMichale BoganimStarsOlga KurylenkoAndrzej ChyraIlya IosifovChernobyl, 1986: a few hours before the disaster, Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsKaya ScodelarioJames HowsonSolomon GlaveA poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogRichard LopezMichael PerryConversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.
- DirectorBrillante MendozaStarsIsabelle HuppertKatherine MulvilleMarc ZanettaFollows the hostage crisis of the Dos Palmas kidnappings in the southern Philippines, the life of the hostages whose survivors were freed after an awful year in captivity.
- DirectorAndrei ZagdanskyStarsLeonid KuchmaVictor YanukovichViktor YushchenkoThey poisoned the opposition candidate. But he survived. They exerted full control over the media. But one rebelled. They stole the election. And streets erupted. This is the story of the Orange Revolution in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- 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.
- DirectorEmin AlperStarsTamer LeventReha ÖzcanMehmet ÖzgürWhen some people from the other side of the mountain invade the territory of a farming family, the family head tries to unite the family and fight back. But then problems within the family start to appear as well.
- DirectorGorô MiyazakiStarsSarah BolgerChris NothAnton YelchinA group of Yokohama teens look to save their school's clubhouse from the wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
- DirectorJohn McIlduffStarsAoife DuffinNigel O'NeillShaun Paul McGrathBehold the Lamb is darkly comic road movie that follows Eddie, a fifty year old overweight and depressed accountant and Liz, a young tearaway as they travel across Northern Ireland to pick up a lamb.
- DirectorStefano SavonaFrom Facebook thumbs up to the battle of stones, a history of hope, fear, despair, anger, pride and elation, the film is the real-time chronicle of the two most exciting weeks in the history of modern Egypt as lived by their protagonists. Since the 25th of January 2011, together with thousands of other Egyptian citizens, No ha, Ahmed and Essayed have been involved in a massive movement of street protest for political freedom. Day after day, sleepless night after sleepless night, until the capitulation of the defeated pharaoh, the film follows these young and unexpected heroes along their shattering fight to conquer their freedom.
- DirectorBelmin SöylemezStarsSanem ÖgeSenay AydinOzan BilenThe story of a young woman who is in search for her lost hopes. Like many in Turkish society, Mina is jobless, lonely, and unhappy. She wants to escape to the USA and start from zero; a familiar feeling to most of us. But how? She needs money, documents and a visa. She applies to a fortune-telling café, lying that she has experience.
- 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...