18th Chennai International Film Festival - CIFF 2021 - Film List
Movies missed in the below List:
1. Akka Kuruvi - Samy
2. That Night's train - Hamidreza Ghotbi
3. Labour - Sathyapathy
4. Endraavathu Oru Naal - Vetri Duraisamy
5. Window Seat - Bharathraj
6. Amala - Nishad Embrahim
7. Bridge - Kripl Kalita
8. Karakhanisanchi Wann - Mangesh Joshi
9. Kalira Atita - Nila Madhab Panda
1. Akka Kuruvi - Samy
2. That Night's train - Hamidreza Ghotbi
3. Labour - Sathyapathy
4. Endraavathu Oru Naal - Vetri Duraisamy
5. Window Seat - Bharathraj
6. Amala - Nishad Embrahim
7. Bridge - Kripl Kalita
8. Karakhanisanchi Wann - Mangesh Joshi
9. Kalira Atita - Nila Madhab Panda
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- DirectorMalou ReymannStarsKaya Toft LoholtMikkel Boe FølsgaardRigmor RantheEmma has a perfectly normal family until one day it turns out her dad, Thomas, is transgender. As Thomas becomes Agnete, both father and daughter struggle to hold on to what they had while accepting that everything has changed.
- DirectorPaula HernándezStarsErica RivasOrnella D'ElíaMarilú MariniTracking the tandem voyages of a mother and daughter into fraught emotional terrain, Argentinian director Paula Hernández examines the ways desire and expectation clash when familial pressures push women to their limits.
- DirectorStéphane DemoustierStarsRoschdy ZemChiara MastroianniMelissa GuersA teenager stands trial for murdering her best friend.
- DirectorGuillaume NiclouxStarsGaspard UllielGuillaume GouixLang Khê TranIndochina War, 1945: French soldier Robert is the only survivor of a massacre in which his brother has died. Blinded by revenge, he rejoins the forces in search of the assassins. But meeting the young Indochinese Maï disrupts his mission.
- DirectorFernanda ValadezStarsMercedes HernándezDavid IllescasJuan Jesús VarelaA mother travels across Mexico in search for her son whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States.
- DirectorTim SuttonStarsCosmo JarvisDela MeskienyarBarzin AkhavanThe destruction of his grandparents' home leads a young man to take revenge under a masked persona.
- DirectorJan Philipp WeylStarsAshenafi NigusuMikias WoldeJoseph Reta BelayIn Ethiopia, two men are running to achieve their dreams.
- DirectorAhmad BahramiStarsAli BagheriMahdie NassajFarrokh NematiLotfollah is a brick factory supervisor, acting as go-between for the workers and the boss. The boss wants to talk to the them about the shutdown of the factory. All matters now to Lotfollah is to keep Sarvar, the woman he loves, unharmed.
- DirectorSiamak EtemadiStarsMelika ForoutanShahbaz NoshirSofia KokkaliThe search of an Iranian mother, Pari, for her missing son in Athens will force her on a journey to the dark corners of the city as well as the hidden depth of her own self.
- DirectorMamadou DiaStarsAlassane SyAicha TallaSaikou LoA fight between an Imam and his powerful brother over their children's marriage. At stake: how a small community slowly drifts towards extremism.
- DirectorAtiq RahimiStarsAmanda MugabezakiAlbina KirengaMalaika UwamahoroA coming-of-age story about of a group of Rwandan schoolgirls at a Belgian-run Catholic boarding school.
- DirectorSilja HauksdóttirStarsKatla M. ÞorgeirsdóttirÞorsteinn BachmannBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonRannveig is experiencing burnout in all aspects of her mundane suburban life. She's stuck with a job she hates and a marriage that is slowly dying. On top of that, she's constantly fighting with her rebellious daughter, Agnes, and can't face the possibility of Agnes growing up and leaving her behind. When a new neighbor, Hreinn, shows up at their doorstep, Rannveig and family face new challenges that are beyond their control.
- DirectorJanis RafailidouStarsPenelope TsilikaDimitris LalosMichele ValleyIn a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species.
- DirectorMauro ManciniStarsAlessandro GassmannSara SerraioccoLuka ZunicThe son of a Holocaust survivor who lives in Trieste as a surgeon begins to doubt his actions of refusing to help a victim of a traffic accident that he encountered on his way home from work.
- DirectorBurhan QurbaniStarsWelket BunguéAlbrecht SchuchJella HaaseA man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.
- DirectorGjergj XhuvaniStarsAriton PollozhaniTristan HalilajVedran ZivolicMY LAKE, or "my movie", although it is a cinematic narrative in itself, is quite simply an ordinary story, natural for its extraordinary reality, unnatural for Albanian society. For about three decades this same leitmotif has continued played out in one form or another. Drug trafficking, money - Children are born and raised with an atypical moral code where making money to lift you out of poverty, by illegal means, somehow makes you a man. It makes you somebody.
- DirectorMicha LewinskyStarsMiriam SteinPhilippe GraberMike MüllerAround the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of thousands of people were spied on in Switzerland. Policeman Schuler goes undercover to reveal a possible political coup in the Zurich Schauspielhaus.
- DirectorErcan KesalStarsErcan KesalSelin YeninciInanç KonukçuErcan Kesal's debut feature, a one-day tragicomic story of doctor Kemal, who wants to become a candidate for Istanbul's Beyoglu district mayor. He is trying every way to become a candidate. Unexpected events will occur that night.
- DirectorPiotr DomalewskiStarsZofia StafiejKinga PreisArkadiusz JakubikOla, a seventeen-year-old, sets off to a foreign country on her own. It turns out to be the trip of her lifetime, where she tries to reconnect with her estranged father, comes to know a different world and changes her approach to life.
- DirectorRamin RasouliStarsAtefeh AminiNegin ParsaAmir Hossein SadeghiIn a remote area in Afghanistan, stories of the lives of a young shepherdess, a bird catcher boy and a mourning teacher are intertwined by the wounds of war which are still bleeding.
- DirectorDavid AlbalaStarsAlberto EllenaAmparo NogueraBenjamín VicuñaThis drama is inspired on a real event in 1990 when 49 political prisoners escaped from a tunnel that took 18 months to dig.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsPaula BeerFranz RogowskiMaryam ZareeUndine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
- DirectorFrancisco MárquezStarsElisa CarricajoMecha MartínezEliot OtazoCecilia is a sociology teacher. One night the son of her maid desperately knocks on the door of her house. She doesn't open. The next day, his body shows up murdered by the police. Cecilia begins to be haunted by the young man's ghost.
- DirectorZoltán NagyStarsErik MajorGábor MátéLulu BognárA coming-of-age story set in the contemporary Hungarian countryside, where teenager soloist Dávid decides to stand up for Nóri, 13, a cellist in their youth orchestra who is having a suspiciously close relationship with their 60-year-old conductor. While looking for the truth, Dávid's life soon starts to spiral out of control as he faces tough decisions and the adult society's negligence.
- DirectorChristos NikouStarsAris ServetalisSofia GeorgovassiliAnna KalaitzidouAmidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
- DirectorShahram MokriStarsBabak KarimiRazie MansoriAbolfazl KahaniOn a very ordinary day, four ordinary people decide to set fire to a cinema packed with people.
- DirectorErik SchmittStarsMarleen LohseJeremy MockridgeMax MauffCan Cleo turn back time? It seems that misfortune has been haunting her loved ones since she was born. A legendary treasure sounds like the solution to her problems, but Cleo will have to let go of the past.
- DirectorDanielle ArbidStarsLaetitia DoschSergei PoluninLou-Teymour ThionA mother falls into an addictive relationship with a Russian diplomat, with whom she has nothing in common.
- DirectorReza DormishianStarsFatemah Motamed-AriaNegar JavaherianParsa PirouzfarNo Choice is about three women who live in three different circumstances in Iran. Golbahar, a sixteen-year-old homeless girl who has been producing and selling babies since she was 11 years old is sold to a middle-aged man to give birth to his child, but Golbahar does not become pregnant after a month. She is threatened with death by a pimp if she does not become pregnant soon. After several tests, Golbahar finds out that her tubes have been tide, but she has no idea about such an event. She believes that the surgery may have been done while she was hospitalized some time ago due to an accident. In the meantime, Golbahar is being introduced by a social worker to a lawyer. The lawyer believes that what Golbahar is experiencing is the result of an unofficial national plan to euthanize the homeless people in Iran to control their population. The lawyer succeeds in finding the gynecologist who may have performed this surgery, the gynecologist, however, does not confirm such an event.
- DirectorChad BaragerKevin SpeckmaierStarsAndrea StefancikovaNick WittmanNatalia RyuminaA woman's inheritance leads her to Eastern Europe to uncover a dark and disturbing family secret.
- DirectorIlker ÇatakStarsAnne Ratte-PolleOgulcan Arman UsluGodehard GieseA touching love story that challenges stereotypes about the courage it takes to face the stranger, to take risks and to accept challenges.
- DirectorRaphaël BalboniAnn SirotStarsJo DeseureJean Le PeltierLucie DebayAlex and Noémie, in their thirties, would like to have a child. But their plans are turned upside down when Alex's mother, Suzanne, starts doing crazy stuff. It's because she has contracted 'semantic dementia', a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects her behavior. She spends lavishly, pays nightly visits to her neighbors to eat sandwiches, makes herself a fake driver's license with glue and scissors. Suzanne the mother goes to Suzanne the unmanageable-kid. A strange school of parenting for Noémie and Alex.
- DirectorAzita MoguieStarsBahram RadanMerila Zare'iPejman JamshidiIran and Spain are about to lunch a big project in the Hendurabi Island in the south of Iran. Meanwhile many companies are trying to win the rights of this project at it's auction. Engineer Saeed Parsa who has divorced his wife Roya is one of them and others are trying to win the auction too. But in the way to do so many obstacles and difficulties are ahead of all of them.
- DirectorAbbas AminiStarsAmirhossein FathiMani HaghighiBaran KosariAmir who has recently released from jail finds himself in a difficult problem when his father who works at a slaughterhouse calls him to help him cover a crime which has happened there.
- DirectorYolande ZaubermanStarsMenachem LangTalleen Abu HannaAfter 15 years of self-imposed exile, Menahem gets back to his ultra-orthodox home town of Bnei Brak, where he wants to face the traumatic childhood experiences of long-lasting sexual abuse within the Khasidic community.
- DirectorMurat ÇeriStarsNevzat YilmazHarun Reha PakogluFerda IsilTarik, 8 years old, lives in the city. He suffers a car accident with his father, who dies, and with his mother, who is in a coma in the hospital. Tarik suffers from memory loss. With no other relatives in the city, he is sent to a village to live with his grandparents.
- DirectorCatherine CorsiniStarsVirginie EfiraNiels SchneiderJehnny BethA chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father. WARNING: Contains High Impact Sex Scenes.
- DirectorAna RochaStarsLúcia MonizSophia MylesRuben GarciaIn the London suburbs, Bela and Jota face serious difficulties when "social services" raise concerns about the safety of their three children. The 7-year-old daughter's deafness triggers a process in the system that seems to go on forever.
- DirectorAttila SzászStarsTamás Szabó KimmelVica KerekesLevente MolnárShortly after the end of World War II, a con man on the run finds himself in a passionate love affair that may well cost him his life.
- DirectorKristóf DeákStarsEliza SodróZsófia SzamosiErnõ FeketeIn 1951 Communist-era Budapest, the secret police knock on the door of an ordinary family. Instead of arresting them, they decide to move in and hold the family captive in their own home, along with anyone who comes to visit them.
- DirectorIgnacio MarquezStarsGreyber RengifoRuper VásquezBrenda MorenoEspecial tells the story of Chúo. A student with Down Syndrome who wants to be treated as a normal person and his loving relationship with his father, a musician.
- DirectorMarie-Castille Mention-SchaarStarsNoémie MerlantSokoVincent DedienneBenjamin and Aude want to have a baby, but when they find out that it is not possible for Aude to conceive, Benjamin comes up with a plan to solve their dilemma.
- DirectorDavid GutnikStarsKate Lyn SheilJade EsheteLindsay BurdgeA closely observed psychological portrait of four women, whose lives are bound together by an incident on the New York City subway.
- DirectorAli ÖzelStarsElif AydinAsil BuyukozcelikMehmet CulaHarun returns to his hometown to convince his father to move. The two encounter with the issues of the past.
- DirectorEkwa MsangiStarsNtare Guma Mbaho MwineZainab JahJayme LawsonReunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome the distance between them.
- DirectorNisan DagStarsUshan ÇakirHayal KöseogluMüfit KayacanAn aspiring young rapper living in the Istanbul slum of Karacinar is addicted to a cheap drug, bonzai, which threatens his career ambitions and his relationship with an upper class DJ.
- DirectorAlejandro MorenoStarsMillaray LobosPaulina GarcíaAlfredo CastroMedea is expelled from the mining region in the Atacama Desert (Chile) and is given just one day to disappear. But in that single day, she comes up with a plan for revenge. In order to carry out this plan, which will culminate in her murdering her own son, Medea invokes her innermost strength, summoning the power of the female sex.
- DirectorJessica PaludStarsNiels SchneiderAdèle ExarchopoulosRoman Coustère HachezA man in his early thirties returns to the rural farm of his childhood and rejoins the family struggle to get by.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsIngvar SigurdssonÍda Mekkín HlynsdóttirHilmir Snær GuðnasonAn off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.
- DirectorMirlan AbdykalykovStarsTemirlan AsankadyrovRuslan OrozakunovMeerim AtantaevaTwelve-year-old Jekshen is an exceptional runner. Lonely Jekshen only has his girlfriend from school and his father's friends for support. They encourage him to take part in a big race that could change his life for the better.
- DirectorSuzanne LindonStarsSuzanne LindonArnaud ValoisFrédéric PierrotA 16 year old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes.
- DirectorSubhrajit MitraStarsSreelekha MitraSabyasachi ChakrabartyDitipriya RoyWith 'Avijatrik' (The Wanderlust of Apu) , by Subhrajit Mitra - the enduring and endearing character of 'Apu' is all set to return after 60 years. It is the sequel to the classic "Apu Trilogy", which were directed by Satyajit Ray.
- DirectorMadhumita SundararamanStarsMu RamaswamyNagavishalArpudhanandhamKD, an 80 year old villager overhears his children say that they want him dead to claim their inheritance. Realising he has never truly lived, he enlists the help of a young orphan boy Kutti. The pair head off on a road trip trying to complete KD's bucket list, rediscovering the meaning of life and friendship along the way.
- DirectorBose VenkatStarsChaya DeviSriram KarthikMurugadassKanni Maadam narrates the tale of a Madurai-based couple who runs for their life to Chennai as the relatives of the boy are quite enraged by their act. When both of them start a new life slowly and steadily, a tragedy hits them in the form of a road accident. Malar (Saya Devi) takes quite some time to come to terms with Kathir's (Vishnu) demise, but struggles hard to come up in life when she realizes that she is going to be a mother. Two auto rickshaw drivers, who live nearby her home, come he her rescue (Sreeram and Murugadoss). How she faces various challenges from different quarters form the rest of the story.
- DirectorSri SenthilStarsBharath SrinivasanSuresh Chandra MenonAadhav KannadasanA cop, who suffers from family issues, takes up a peculiar suicide case. The plot thickens as similar cases get reported within a span of a few days.
- DirectorKannanStarsMurugan GovindhasamyArvind JanakiramanAjith KoshyAn IT employee is kidnapped in a secluded room and his legs are locked in an immovable chair. Along him in the room are a dead body and a laptop with an internet connection. The room is locked and the key is hanging in the door.Meanwhile he also trying ways to escape ,the plot reveals the financial imbalance among the various sectors and their unethical growth in india post globalization.
- DirectorJegan RajshekarStarsAnanyaAshwanth AshokkumarLalDangerous Gangster Marudhu singam(Lal) comes to hunt down a whole family. Adhiyaman (Natty )and his wife Mithra (Ananya) and their son Arjun (Ashwanth) fights back to save their life.Nail biting intense action Drama .
- DirectorAttila HartungStarsYorgos GoletsasLászló PannaGergely BouquetGergö and his teenage friends are into three things: partying, sex, and their online following. One night, at a party, Lilla falls victim to the boys. A dare gets out of hand and the youngsters' world changes forever overnight.
- DirectorVaikarai BalanStarsNalinikanthRishaKundrai VaendenA group of seven senior citizens who are close friends goes to Chennai from their village to help realize one of their dreams. However, fate had other plans for them.
- DirectorSudha KongaraStarsSuriyaParesh RawalUrvashiNedumaaran Rajangam "Maara" sets out to make the common man fly and in the process takes on the world's most capital intensive industry and several enemies who stand in his way.
- DirectorJithin Issac ThomasStarsVishnu GovindhanAthira KallingalSreejithAn aspiring script writer narrating his plots over booze to his 4 flat-mates.
- DirectorSridhar VenkatesanStarsArun AadhityaSanthosh PrathapArun RagavA short-filmmaker who is about to begin the shoot of his debut feature film gets kidnapped. What do the kidnappers want?
- DirectorJayaprakash RadhakrishnanRavi KathiresanStarsPradeep DamodharanSindhu JayaprakashRavi KathiresanWhen Suresh springs a surprise on his friends by announcing that he is to be wedded, it is Suresh himself who is in for a surprise.
- DirectorJJ FredrickStarsJyotikaParthiban RadhakrishnanBhagyarajPonmagal Vandhal (Meaning: The Precious Princess has Arrived) is a courtroom drama that takes place in Ooty. Jyotika plays the lead in the film alongside various other veteran actors playing important roles.
- DirectorGjergj XhuvaniStarsAriton PollozhaniTristan HalilajVedran ZivolicMY LAKE, or "my movie", although it is a cinematic narrative in itself, is quite simply an ordinary story, natural for its extraordinary reality, unnatural for Albanian society. For about three decades this same leitmotif has continued played out in one form or another. Drug trafficking, money - Children are born and raised with an atypical moral code where making money to lift you out of poverty, by illegal means, somehow makes you a man. It makes you somebody.
- DirectorS.Hari UthraStarsAppukuttyDivya ElumalaiGajarajAfter the dumping of waste in their area causes the death of many due to mosquitoes and unknown viruses, a brave individual steps up to fight against the system and incite a change for the well-being of his people.
- DirectorP. VirumandiStarsAishwarya RajeshVijay SethupathiMunishkanthThe story is about politics surrounding land and the plight of farmers. It showed Vijay helping poor farmers in their fight against the industries that have acquired their lands.
- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsJasna DjuricicIzudin BajrovicBoris LerAida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.
- DirectorWei ZhangStarsXijuan Zhu
- DirectorSusant MisraStarsVictor BanerjeeSubrat DuttaSudarshan JuyalAn orphan with abandonment issues is sent away to another parish by his guardian. A missionary doctor. He returns a talented cook, but also an alcoholic. Despite attempts to help him, he starts spiraling in his forsakenness.
- DirectorNaghi NematiStarsYousef YazdaniGoli AlafarFarideh HalataeiYasha, a bird hunter, finds the dead body of a well-known man in a snowy day of a mountain town. He became involved in a 300 billion Tooman embezzlement after getting clues leading to finding the killers. He began to seek his benefit in this adventure.
- DirectorShivaram MonyStarsG. Suresh KumarAmeya MathewMeera NairCATARACT is the story of a seventy-year-old man's cataract related issues. It highlights the complications after his cataract surgery. The protagonist of the movie is a seventy-year-old, middle-class man, who earns his bread &butter by selling curry masalas to local shops. He is a male chauvinist who denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to men and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit. His disrespect towards women is deep-rooted from childhood itself. So, the title Thi.Mi.Ram or Cataract carries different layers of meaning. In other words, the title and movie itself is a metaphor. The female characters of the movie are the epitome of self-respect and women's integrity. Even though they have been suffering because of the protagonist's attitude, they cherish their self-respect. "Kannanu pennu or woman is the eye " is the tagline of the movie. It is the crux of the movie too. In short, the movie proclaims that respecting and celebrating womanhood is essential, along with women empowerment. Yes. It's a film with female integrity.
- DirectorRuthy PribarStarsAlena YivShira HaasTamir MulaDespite living together, Asia barely interacts with her daughter Vika. Their routine is shaken when Vika's health deteriorates rapidly. Asia must step in and become the mother Vika so desperately needs
- DirectorMichalis KonstantatosStarsYota ArgyropoulouDimitris LalosAlexandros KaramouzisA paranoid psychological thriller about a married couple trying to rebuild their life.
- DirectorPreetham ShettyStarsUsha BhandarySinchana ChandramohanGuruprasad HegdeTulu Naadu has a unique culture of people worshipping DAIVA/BHOOTA, more than worshiping God. Dalits are believed to have the ability of summoning spirits on to their bodies at will and hence are considered Godly/Divine, momentarily.
- DirectorNavid MahmoudiStarsMatin HeydariniaSadaf AsgariAli ShadmanA young Afghan couple is trying to leave Afghanistan and to exile to Europe from Afghanistan in a hope to find a better life. To execute this plan, they first illegally arrive in Iran by bus. He stays in the residence of another Afghan friend who is already in Tehran and is ready to move to Turkey. But finally, they realize that they need convincing reasons to move from Turkey to Europe and be recognized as refugees. Eventually, she tries to convert from Islam to Catholicism, but there are even greater problems and dangers.
- DirectorSuhrud GodboleVaibhav KhistiStarsNeha PendseSiddharth MenonKiran KarmarkarJune is a coming of age drama set in Aurangabad. Drawing from writer-producer Nikhil Mahajan's own childhood and of those known to him, June is a soaring portrait of two troubled people who help each other heal.
- DirectorKiran KondamadugulaStarsBhargava PoludasuRakesh GalebhePoojitha KuraparthiRishi and his girlfriend Adithi are on their way to visit Rishi's father and their car breaks down. A stranger offers them a stay at his house. What is Rishi's connection with the stranger, and how does they come out of the weird situation.
- DirectorGovind NihalaniWings or no wings one day I m gonna fly.
- DirectorPradeep KalipurayathStarsAnusreeAparna GopinathSiju WilsonShreya opens a Pandora's box of sexual abuse cases that point to a high profile celebrity. Amidst rising crime and violence, Arundhati, a Social Activist starts a public movement called SAFE to protect women, children and the aged.