Kolkata International Film Festival 2016
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- DirectorMaria GovanStarsPetrice JonesGareth JenkinsAkil NickolasSet against the backdrop of Trinidad and Tobago's mystical Carnival, a gifted and struggling young man becomes the object of intrigue for an older, well-meaning businessman until their worlds collide.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorMirjana KaranovicStarsMirjana KaranovicBoris IsakovicJasna DjuricicA film about a woman who discovers her husband's war crimes and must decide how to respond.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorKadri KõusaarStarsTiina MälbergAndres TabunAndres NoormetsThis darkly comic crime mystery set in small-town Estonia centers on Elsa, the mother and full time caretaker of Lauri, a teacher who has been in a coma since being shot under shadowy circumstances. Attentive in her duties but at the end of her tether, Elsa receives Lauri's visitors-friends, students, his girlfriend, his boss, and others-who come to update the unconscious Lauri on their lives and unburden themselves of their troubles. But as the police inquiry into the crime progresses, some of his closest ties are called into question. Director Kadri Kõusaar cunningly navigates a script that slowly pieces together the truth behind Lauri's shooting through his visitors' confessionals to the comatose protagonist, cleverly building a web of motives among the tight-knit community. Bathed in the pastel tones of post-Soviet life, Mother is a smartly-crafted whodunit set in a small town where just about everyone is dreaming of something bigger and some are willing to do whatever it takes to get out.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorAlba González de MolinaStarsEmilio LinderSilvia MayaJuan Martín GravinaJulie suddenly decides to runaway, leaving all behind. Her escape will take her till far away lands where she believes she can hide from herself in a little remote village. But no one knows who Julie is. No one know who hides behind her evasive eyes.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorAnne Zohra BerrachedStarsJulia JentschBjarne MädelJohanna GastdorfAt work, Astrid is admired by her fans as a famous cabaret artist and privately a second child is on road to complete her family happiness.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorMahua ChakrabortyStarsAmrita ChattopadhyayToshana MukherjeeMousumi BhattacharyaTanzil is about maintaining a family and overcoming archaic beliefs, rituals and values.'Tanzil' is a woman we get to meet in our everyday life but we miss out the hidden life in them as they are influenced by the society more.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorDaniela FejermanStarsNora NavasFrancesc GarridoLarisa KalpokaiteA couple travels to a country in Eastern Europe to adopt a child, but the operation does not go as planned. Soon they find themselves in a hostile environment where corruption is rife and traffics in the future of children and parents hope. Thus, what began as a dream ends up becoming a nightmare.
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsAnna CastilloJavier GutiérrezPep AmbròsA girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorSoleen YusefStarsMina SadicSasun SayanMurat SevenHOUSE WITHOUT ROOF is about the journey of the siblings LIYA, JAN and ALAN who were born in the Kurdish area of the Iraq and grown up in Germany. The three of them want to fulfill their mother's last wish to bury her in her home village beside her husband who got killed in the war under the Saddam Hussein regime. On their nerve-wracking Kurdish-odyssey they are not only faced with their Kurdish extended family that does not accept the last wish of their mother but particularly with their own matters. In recent years they distanced from each other - everybody runs his own life - and whenever they are holding talks, they are mostly based on reproaches. In parallel with the run of their journey it is noticeably that in their home country the dimension of an awful conflict, that nobody can surmise, is heading for disaster.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorJihane ChouaibStarsGolshifteh FarahaniMaximilien SewerynFrançois NourHow do you come home when everything has changed? Through hidden memories, ambiguous fantasies and violent sensations. The story of a young woman searching for herself in Lebanon.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorThomas HennessyStarsJustin HartleyChrishell StauseJames KysonJust because a journey leads you somewhere you didn't expect, doesn't mean you ended up in the wrong place.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorHana JusicStarsMia PetricevicNiksa ButijerArijana CulinaWhen Marijana's dominant father falls seriously ill, she takes over the role as head of the family. The new power constellation also gives her new freedom that she has to find out a way to deal with.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
International Competition : Women Directors' Films - DirectorElisabeth SubrinStarsDagmara DominczykMaggie SiffJohn OrtizAn exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorMili Ben HaylTamar ShipponyStarsOfer AmramGili SaarBen ShellefGili dreams of becoming an independent woman. Noam, her husband, cannot possibly think of releasing his hold of her, he loves her to death. Their 8-year old son Assaf just wants a "normal family" but is used by his parents in order to get bits of information about each other. One day Gili starts working secretly, Noam is convinced she's cheating on him, but when he finds out things get quite extreme.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorTingting YaoStarsJingting BaiShutong GuoHongyi LiLin Tianjiao (Shutong Guo) is the top girl in her school. During one of her tests, she resorted to copying from notes, and is spotted by Gao Xiang (Jingting Bai), who is considered a wayward student. When the note was discovered by the teacher, Gao Xiang chooses to claim responsibility for trying to cheat. Lin Tianjiao feels apologetic towards Gao Xiang, and begins their friendship. Meanwhile, Lin Tianjiao's good friend, Lu Tiantian (Herun Wang) is courting Ou Xiaoyang (Guansen Ding). However, due to his poor academic standing, Lin Tianjiao ignores him completely. Classmate Huang Tao (Hongyi Li) is secretly in love with Lin Tianjiao, but is too shy to express it. As a result, he and his best buddy, Li Tao (Wenlong Zhao) are at loggerheads with Gao Xiang. The relationship between Lin Tianjiao and Gao Xiang develops, as she begins to understand Gao Xiang better. Knowing that she likes astronomy, Gao Xiang buys tickets for an Astronomy Exhibition and dates Lin Tianjiao. Lin Tianjiao's mother insists that Lin Tianjiao focuses on her school work, and does not allow her any time off, any allowance for friendship. As a result, Gao Xiang never gets to go on the date with Lin Tianjiao. Meanwhile, as an act of love for Lin Tianjiao, Gao Xiang steals into the Astronomy Exhibition at night to take photographs of the place. He is arrested and forced to quit school. Before he leaves, he and his band of friends from the local auto-shop steal into the school to paint astronomical images on to the walls and ceiling of the classroom that Gao Xiang and Lin Tianjiao studied in. At the award of the best student award to Lin Tianjiao, Huang Tao tells her that Gao Xiang is leaving town. Lin Tianjiao uses the opportunity of the award speech to tell of her selfishness as she sought the award. From ignoring the feelings of Lu Tiantian (and her relationship with Ou Xiaoyang) and her brother, Lin Ziao; as well as her good friend, Gao Xiang. She then declines the award, and leaves the auditorium to rush to the train station to bid farewell to Gao Xiang. Unfortunately, she misses Gao Xiang. She (plus her brother, Lu Tiantian and Ou Xiaoyang) run into Gao Xiang's friends from the auto-ship, and hitch a ride to the local radio station, where Lin Tianjiao uses the programming to say farewell to Gao Xiang (singing The Beatles ' song "Hey Jude"). After a few years, Lin Tianjiao is a famous astronomer. She gave up on her mother's plan for her to study finance in Tsinghua University, but decided to follow her own dreams of doing astronomy. She plans a trip to Africa, hoping to meet Gao Xiang in Africa. Meanwhile, the rest of the group meet at Huang Tao's wedding, with Li Tao as his best man. Lu Tiantian and Ou Xiaoyang are still courting, and Ou Xiaoyang is intending to propose to her.International Competition : Women Directors' Films
- DirectorKristina GrozevaPetar ValchanovStarsStefan DenolyubovMargita GoshevaAlexandra AngelovaA reclusive Bulgarian railway trackman finds millions of cash spilled on the tracks and turns them in to the police. When the transport ministry's head of PR Julia Staikova decides to use him as a diversion from a corruption scandal, his simple life falls victim to the grinder of bureaucracy.International Competition : Innovations in Moving Images
- DirectorIvan I. TverdovskiyStarsAleksandr GorchilinMasha TokarevaNatalya PavlenkovaMiddle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day - she grows a tail and turns her life around.International Competition : Innovations in Moving Images
- DirectorLukas Valenta RinnerStarsIride MockertAndrea StrenitzMartín ShanlyA housemaid, working in an exclusive gated community in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, embarks on a journey of sexual and mental liberation in a nudist swinger-club boarding the high security walls.International Competition : Innovations in Moving Images
- DirectorKivanç SezerStarsMenderes SamancilarMusab EkiciKubra KipSet against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a story unfolds of an aging construction worker who, unlike his peers, has to drop all plans for the future after being diagnosed with a malignant tumor.International Competition : Innovations in Moving Images
- DirectorDeep ChoudhuryStarsBaharul IslamJaya SealVictor BanerjeeAlifa is a saga of human-wildlife conflict competing with basic questions of love, hatred, dreams and desires as well as the frailties of human nature and wider social bonding.International Competition : Innovations in Moving Images
- DirectorYannis SakaridisStarsGiannis StankoglouMakis PapadimitriouVassilis KoukalaniA bitter Greek nationalist in Athens is horrified when his apartment building and local park become resting stops for refugees.International Competition : Innovations in Moving Images
- DirectorRazi MuhammedStarsDisney JamesSmitha AmbuSaritha KukkuManu is an artist in search of a new sky, from his troubled past, in a forest settlement. He meets Chelly, a tribal girl from a nearby settlement who bears the burnt from her own share of life.International Competition : Innovations in Moving Images
- DirectorJoshy JosephStarsThanga DarlongJohn DebbarmaSaslang JamatiaMusic is there in the wind of Tripura. Stories are there in the breath of that wind. "Tree of Tongues in Tripura" is about that very urge of human imagination-STORY TELLING.International Competition : Innovations in Moving Images
- DirectorBauddhayan MukherjiStarsAdil HussainRitwick ChakrabortyNayani DixitThe Violin Player is the story of one day in the life of a Bollywood session violinist who finds expression in an unlikely place. The day unfolds to reveal startling truths about music, art, life and survival.TARGET
Asian Select (NETPAC Award) - DirectorAdnan OsmanStarsRupak AbdulkadrZayar AbdullaDlzar KafroshiA Yezidi girl who is a victim of the Islamic State (ISIS) atrocities. After 11 months of captivity, she gives birth to an illegitimate child whose father is unknown. The girl is then saved by a human trafficker, but her illegitimate daughter causes social problems since no one in the community accepts them.Asian Select (NETPAC Award)