2014 İSTANBUL FİLM FESTİVALİ
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- DirectorFrancis GirodStarsCatherine DeneuveMichel SerraultJean-Louis TrintignantIn Paris, a women's bag, which contains an embarrassing letter from the french president, is stolen.
- DirectorGeethu MohandasStarsNawazuddin SiddiquiGeetanjali ThapaManya GuptaA mother and her daughter embarks on a desperate journey to find her missing husband. She met an guy who promised to help her for money. With limited money it become difficult to continue the search which leads to anxiety and despair.
- DirectorDavid MackenzieStarsJack O'ConnellBen MendelsohnRupert FriendEric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On his first day, he assaults another inmate and several guards. He's offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he be rehabilitated?
- DirectorSemih KaplanogluStarsNejat IslerSaadet AksoyUfuk BayraktarYusuf, who goes to town for his mother's funeral, meets his mother's friend Ayla. Ayla pressures Yusuf to fulfill her mother's vow.
- DirectorMorgan NevilleStarsDarlene LoveMerry ClaytonLisa FischerBackup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.
- DirectorReyan TuviThis documentary narrates how people from very diverse lifestyles and ideologies fought together to convert the Gezi Park-the only remaining green area in the center of the city- into a model of the world they dreamed of.
- DirectorGrigoriy AronovAleksey GermanStarsAndrei PopovAleksandr AnisimovGeorgiy ShtilThe film is set in St. Petersburg, Russia after the Russian revolution of 1917. Based on the eponymous book by Boris Lavrenev. Maj. General Yevgeni Pavlovich Adamov (Popov) was a lawyer in the Tzar's Army and a professor of law at the Military Academy before the Russian Revolution. In the fall of 1918 he was arrested on false accusations and suffered the loss of all his property and honors. During the turbulent times of Revolution he managed to use all his experience and professionalism to prove his innocence. He was released from prison and all charges against him were dropped. He became a free man, but the reality is changed, and his adaptation to the post-revolutionary life was not easy.
- DirectorKôji FukadaStarsFumi NikaidôMayu TsurutaTaiga NakanoAfter failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsSerdar GökhanNecla NazirBilal InciNotorious for being an immoral woman, Emine is sent to a village in the middle of nowhere as an attempt of rehabilitation.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsÇolpan IlhanSadri AlisikTurgut ÖzatayCaptain Ridvan falls in love with Guner but there is a huge obstacle between them. This is Ali who is a foreign exchange smuggler and bar owner.
- DirectorAnup SinghStarsIrrfan KhanTisca ChopraTillotama ShomeUmber Singh is a Sikh who loses everything during the separation of India in 1947 and is forced to leave his homeland. He obsessively wishes for a male heir. When his fourth daughter is born, he decides to wage a fight against destiny.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsRobert WieckiewiczAgnieszka GrochowskaIwona BielskaThe depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland's Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution.
- DirectorDonovan MarshStarsS'Dumo MtshaliPresley ChweneyagaeIsrael Matseke-ZuluAn undercover cop risks his career (and life) to settle a score.
- DirectorMartin ProvostStarsEmmanuelle DevosSandrine KiberlainOlivier GourmetViolette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives, a relationship based on the quest for freedom through writing for Violette and conviction for Simone to have in their hands the fate of an extraordinary writer.
- DirectorRobert LepagePedro PiresStarsFrédérike BédardLise CastonguayHans PiesbergenTriptych is a contemporary urban saga that tells the story of Michelle, a schizophrenic bookseller, her sister Marie, a singer and actress, and Thomas, a German neurologist and Maries future husband.
- DirectorNihat SevenStarsMehtap AnilDerin BebekBora CengizBelief is life's biggest gamble
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMuzaffer ÖzdemirMehmet Emin ToprakZuhal GencerAfter his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsJudi DenchSteve CooganSophie Kennedy ClarkA world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.
- DirectorTunç BasaranStarsOzan BilenNur SürerFüsun DemirelBaris, a 5 year-old little boy, has to stay in a prison with her mother during her detention period. Baris develops a special relationship with Inci, a young woman who also stays in prison. She promises him that the kite will fly someday.
- DirectorBatu AkyolStarsMaffy FalayEmin FindikogluIlham GencerA documentary exploring the condition, evolution and interaction of Turkish jazz music and its musicians, in parallel to Turkish history.
- DirectorMiguel GomesStarsPaolo ManeraJoão NicolauMariana RicardoIn 2005, a troubadour walks through St. Francisco of Assis' birth town, singing and playing his Canticle of all creatures. In 1212, we follow St. Francisco of Assis.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsHugh JackmanJake GyllenhaalViola DavisWhen Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.
- DirectorMaria BinderStarsEbru KiranciThousands of Trans*Women live in the big cities of Turkey. There has been an increase in the murder of Trans*. Crimes against Trans*Women are mostly not investigated. The perpetrators can usually rely on being exempted from prosecution. Ebru, a Trans*Woman from Istanbul, fights against the displacement and murder of her companions. She has experienced exclusion from state, society and family in her own life. For 25 years she has been active for LGBTQI rights. She wants to change Turkish society with humor, self-irony and political acumen. She meets Margarethe, a 85-year-old German retired nurse and mother of the film-maker, and establishes with her an old age home for Trans*. Urban transformation of Istanbul and the protests around the Gezi Park resonate throughout the film.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsXavier DolanPierre-Yves CardinalLise RoyA grieving man meets his lover's family, who were not aware of their son's sexual orientation.
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsJoaquin PhoenixPhilip Seymour HoffmanAmy AdamsA Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.