IFFK 2013 - 18th International Film Festival of Kerala
list of films included in IFFK 2013
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- DirectorAna GuevaraLeticia JorgeStarsNéstor GuzziniMalú ChouzaJoaquín CastiglioniAlberto, a divorced father, takes his two children for a vacation at a thermal resort in Salto. Things don't turn out as planned as the non-stop rain forces them to stay indoors, away from the pools and with no TV. Alberto's efforts to entertain his children are met with indifference by Federico, his youngest son, and Lucía, his teenage daughter.
- DirectorBoaz DebbySimon DolenskyTomás KratochvílStarsAkbar KurthaStefan LampadiusNili TserruyaThursday morning. Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague. Five people. Getting up. Going to work. In five cities-hives, like bees. Looking for the sweeter life then the one they are living now.
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsPierce BrosnanTrine DyrholmMolly Blixt EgelindA hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, finds out her husband is having an affair, travels to Italy for her daughter's wedding, and meets a widower who still blames the world for the loss of his wife.
- DirectorHiroshi TodaA cinema projectionist , Akio(aged 70) happens to meet his old classmate, Susumu, for the first time in 20 years. To renew their friendships, they go to the bar Susumu has known very well. At the bar, they are recommended by the lady that they should go to the 'rejuvenating' hot spring called 'Waka -no-yu.' They immediately get interested in her recommendation and decide to go to that place. Now they are driving into the forest, in the expectation that they can get back their youth again...
- DirectorJeffrey JeturianStarsNenita DeonosoKaren Leslie DemateraBoobsieThe movie follows a seemingly-usual day in the life of Loida Malabanan as she embarks on yet another shooting day of a soap opera as an extra. As the shoot goes on we get a glimpse of truth in the ruling system of the production as well as the exploitation of marginalized laborers like Loida.
- DirectorMiguel FerrariStarsGuillermo GarciaIgnacio MontesHilda AbrahamzFashion photographer, Diego suddenly needs to care for the teenage son he's not seen in years just as his boyfriend is put in a coma from a brutal assault. Father and son must grow to understand each others' worlds to face other problems.
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsSouleymane DéméAnaïs MonoryCyril GueïDespite a paralyzed leg, Grigris, 25 year old, dreams of being a dancer. A challenge. But his dreams are dashed when his stepfather falls critically ill. To save him, Grigris resolves to work for petrol traffickers.
- DirectorLaura AstorgaStarsValeria ConejoAura DinarteCarol SanabriaFamily is no longer a safe place to grow up.
- DirectorLucía PuenzoStarsAlex BrendemühlDiego PerettiGuillermo PfeningThe story of an Argentine family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all time.
- DirectorHarun FarockiStarsUlrike GroteHarun FarockiDocumentary examines the 'blind spot' of the evaluators of aerial footage of the IG Farben industrial plant taken by the Americans in 1944.
- DirectorFernando EimbckeStarsMaría Renée PrudencioLucio Giménez CachoDanae ReynaudHector and his young mother Paloma go on vacation. Out of season their hotel is deserted. They spend their days sitting on the edge of the swimming pool. Then attractive Jazmin arrives and we see how Paloma loses her son to a summer fling.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsEileen ThompsonJulian Tudor HartDai WaltersA documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
- DirectorAdilkhan YerzhanovStarsRauf KhabibullinTwo brothers and their little sister are thrown out of their flat because they haven't paid the rent. The orphans pack up their few possessions and go out to the country, where the family owns a small plot of land. The children set up camp, knowing they have to fend for themselves. But this solution is insecure, too: they are told, in no uncertain terms, that all plots will shortly pass to the state unless at least the foundations of a house have been laid. The threesome get down to work, making night-time visits to neighboring sites to 'borrow' tools and materials, then building by day. But no sooner are the foundation walls complete than an unsympathetic policeman ad...
- DirectorMira FornayStarsIrena BendováPatrik CzanikLadislav DirdaIn the absence of a true family, a young skinhead lets his life revolve around his cherished pit bull dog.
- DirectorIván VescovoStarsFederico D'ElíaGuadalupe DocampoArturo GoetzUlises gets up one day and discovers that his girlfriend Alma has disappeared. Thus begins an intense search that reveals hidden aspects of her life, and the intertwined memory of the moments they lived together leads him to inquire about his teacher and his obsession with a book by Borges. When Bianca, Alma's twin sister, appears, the circumstances that will lead him to commit a crime to find her again are accelerated.
- DirectorJoshua OppenheimerAnonymousChristine CynnStarsAnwar CongoHerman KotoSyamsul ArifinA documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
- DirectorIsabel Muñoz CotaStarsFlavio MedinaMaricela PeñalosaMontserrat ÁngelesIn the emergency room at a hospital, Lucia runs into Felipe, an ex-boyfriend who is hospitalized. She ends up taking car of him and finding closure to their unresolved relationship.
- DirectorTian-yi YangStarsSiyuan ZhaoJia FuPongpazroj DejFang Lei, a Beijing housewife, is leading a peaceful and affluent life with her husband and daughter. Life goes by until one day a man appears in her dreams. His appearance is unclear, but the touch of his body is awakening a woman Fang Lei didn't know she could be. This shadow slowly becomes the lover she can't live without. Afraid of starting to loose her mind, she turns to a Taoist Monk for help. But the separation with her inner ghost is too painful and she soon returns to him.
- DirectorSergio AndradeStarsBegê MunizFrancisco MendesÍtalo CastroSeduced by a new friend and the forest, Jonathas will undertake a journey full of discoveries and fatalities in which emotion will be his sole guide. Rio FF 2012
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyo IshibashiEihi ShiinaTetsu SawakiA widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
- DirectorKamaleswar MukherjeeStarsSaswata ChatterjeeAnanya ChatterjeeAbir ChatterjeeTo Ritwik Ghatak film was not merely a form of entertainment, but a weapon, a medium to portray struggle of common men. He was successful neither in his career nor he could he become a good family man or husband. Still he was an artist who never compromised for personal gain, fame or profit. The story of the film starts in 1969 and deals with Ritwik Ghatak's time spent in a mental asylum. It shows Nilkantha being admitted to mental asylum under the supervision of Doctor S. P. Mukherjee. S. P. Mukherjee learns that the Prime Minister of India knows Nilkantha and is fond of his works and may request the hospital authority to take special care of him. In the hospital a police officer sees Nilkantha and tells Doctor Mukherjee that he is a wasted drunkard. Another patient of hospital mocks Nilkantha as "disgraced intellectual". Even he was undergoing treatment in the hospitals, he writes a play and stages it with other asylum patients. The film shows how Durga (Nilkantha's wife) wants to leave him saying "separation is essential". Nilkantha witnessed partition of Bengal and its devastating effect and in his youth became attracted towards communism. Throughout the film Nilkantha's mental agony, struggles, inner contradictions, disappointments as well as financial troubles faced by him are shown. He clearly tells, it is not possible for him to make entertaining or commercial films. During a discussion Nilkantha asks Doctor Mukherjee that should a man perfome mujra at a time when the society is burning? He also tells Doctor Mukherjee that he is a "people's artist" and that is his job. The film also shows the atmosphere of Bengal during Tebhaga and Naxalite movements. A scene has been shown in the film where a book named "How to be a good communist?" is burning. This scene symbolises Ghatak's dissatisfaction with India's communist politics. When Durga tells Nilkantha that they don't have a single rupee to run the family, Nilkantha readily replies, it is not money but it is one's work which will remain forever.
- DirectorSantiago LozaStarsLisandro RodríguezEugenia AlonsoFidelia Batallanos MichelLiso, an upper middle class young man, has just finished a stay at a psychiatric institute. He goes to live at his parent's house where he is treated as if he were a child. He begins a relationship of mutual complicity with Sonia, the Bolivian maid, who takes care of him and protects him. Liso tries to recapture old loves but he is unable to pull his life together. Everything seems to be broken. The only things that seems to keep him going is his relationship with Sonia and the time he spends with his grandmother.
- DirectorMajid BarzegarStarsLevon HaftvanMahmoud BehrouzianHomeyra NonahaliParvis, a fifty-year-old man who has lived his entire life with his father and never held a job, is suddenly, kicked out from his home, as his father decides to remarry.
- DirectorLonesome SoloStarsAbdoul-Karim KonateMohamed BambaMamadou DiomandéAfter his father died, Tony was pulled out of school by his mother; and when she passed away, he made his way by selling cigarettes on Princess Street, famous in Abidjan for its exciting nightlife. Now 21 years old, Tony is bitterly convinced that his future has been sacrificed, and is desperate for a way out of the ghetto.
- DirectorDanesh EghbashaviStarsAbdoljabbar Eghba ShaviShahla Parvis MoradiJahangir MirshekariOn several occasions, on instructions from the shipbuilding company where he works, Hossein Moradi, a 60-year-old clerk from Abadan, has had to fire some of his colleagues. When he gets his latest downsizing order, however, Hossein tries to make the process more fair. He decides to have the workers themselves pick who is to be laid off by drawing lots. But one of the workers objects and gets into a fight with Hossein. A few days later, on the happy occasion of the birth of a grandson, Hossein's children give him and their mother two tickets to travel to India. A few nights after the celebration, two armed thieves break into the house and steal the cash and all the presents. Hossein and his family suspect the angry shipbuilding worker who had threatened them...
- DirectorPedro CostaManoel de OliveiraVíctor EriceStarsJudite AraujoMaria Fatima Braga LimaMarco CarreiraA feature film with four stories celebrating the city of Guimarães in the North of Portugal.
- DirectorJoão VianaStarsMamadu BaioFatu DjebatéImutar Djebaté
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMaruschka DetmersFederico PitzalisAnita LaurenziA sizzling, erotic thriller about a triangle between a teenage boy, an older woman an her fiance, an imprisoned terrorist, set in a world of intrigue, betrayal and erotic pleasure, from which may be no escape.
- DirectorSange Dorjee ThongdokStarsAnshu JamsenpaPhuntsu KhrimeTashi, a man in his early thirties is forced to come back to his village in the remote northeast region of india after eight years when he loses his job in the city. As he stays in the village waiting for news of any new job in the city to go back to, he begins to experience the life and culture of his native place and his people. He gradually begins rediscovering his roots, which he had never paid attention to earlier. He meet and falls in love with a girl, Anila, a school teacher in the village who helps him in the process. The experience in the village begins to slowly change him and he decides to finally stay back in the village and not go back even after he gets the news that he has found himself a new job in the city.
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsShahir Huda RumiChanchal ChowdhuryNusrat Imrose TishaAs a leader of the local community, Chairman Amin bans every kind of image in his water-locked village in rural Bangladesh. He even goes on to claim that imagination is also sinful since it gives one the license to infiltrate into any prohibited territory. But change is a desperate wind that is difficult to resist by shutting the window. The tension between this traditional window and modern wind grows to such an extent that it starts to leave a ripple effect on the lives of a group of typically colorful, eccentric, and emotional people living in that village. But at the very end of the film, Television, which he hated so much, comes to the rescue and helps Chairman Amin reach a transcendental state where he and his God are unified. A new twist to the story makes him embrace IMAGE and IMAGINATION
- 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.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsVincent LindonChiara MastroianniJulie BatailleMarco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy - though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.
- DirectorPawan KumarStarsSathish NeenasamSruthi HariharanAchyuth KumarA man suffering from insomnia is tricked into buying a drug, Lucia, that makes his desires come true in his dreams, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.
- DirectorAashiq AbuSiddharth BharathanShyju KhalidStarsDulquer SalmaanNivin PaulyFahadh FaasilA film comprising of 5 short stories by 5 directors. Each story is about a women.
- DirectorNalan KumarasamyStarsVijay SethupathiSanchita ShettyRadha RaviDas, with his team, kidnap Arumai, son of a politician, who has been planning his own kidnapping to extract money from his father. Problems arise, when an insane cop is brought to handle the case.
- DirectorKamalStarsPrithviraj SukumaranSreenivasanMamta MohandasThe story of J C Daniel, who made the first ever Malayalam film 'Vigathakumaran' in 1928, resulting in his exile and eventual downfall.
- DirectorRyôta NakanoStarsMakiko WatanabeElisa YanagiNanoka MatsubaraSawa asks her two daughters, Hazuki and Koharu, to visit their dying father whom she divorced long time ago. She wants them to take a picture of his face on his death bed and brings it back.
- DirectorEmir BaigazinStarsTimur AidarbekovAslan AnarbayevMukhtar AndassovLonely Kazakh teenager Aslan is bullied at his new school. He prepares himself for a bloody revenge on the school bully Bolat.