MOVIES WATCHED IN PIFF 2014
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- DirectorNagraj ManjuleStarsSomnath AwghadeRajeshwari KharatSuraj PawarIt is about a teenager from a Dalit (Oppressed caste) family, who lives at the village fringe, and falls in love with an upper caste girl.Marathi movie "Fandry" gave me such an experience which I cant express with a few lines. The plot is about a lower caste adolescent innocent boy and his family in a remote village and the director portrays very intelligently and emotionally that, the caste system in our country is so severe and shameful. There are many Indian films with the same theme, but "Fandry" stands in a unique position, because of its courageous presentation at the final sequences were the protagonist throws a stone towards the camera and on our face. Each and every viewer turned their face during that well created final sequence. Still that wound created by that stone remains in my mind. Hats off to the director Nagraj Manjule for this fabulous, extraordinary movie which is not lesser than any world class cinema in our times. The crew was introduced before the screening and Nagraj Manjule was such a simple person and I never expected such an outstanding creation from him.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloCarlo VerdoneSabrina FerilliJep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsMarine VacthGéraldine PailhasFrédéric PierrotAfter losing her virginity, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
- 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.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsYuval ScharfYussuf Abu-WardaSarah AdlerA story about the life of Sagi Dash, a legendery guitar player.
- DirectorBahman GhobadiStarsBehrouz VossoughiMonica BellucciYilmaz ErdoganKurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.
- DirectorEva NeymannStarsNikolas AdamidisValeriy BasselVitalina BiblivA 8-year-old boy is travelling with his mother towards his grandfather, but their journey is stopped when the young woman dies of typhus in an unknown town, just as poor and in ruins as any other on the way. However, the boy is determined to go on. Eva Neymann's film is a visual journey into a country covered in snow and left poor by war. This is a place of beautiful, deserted landscapes and people overcome by both need and greed. The tranquil black-and-white images created by Lithuanian cameraman Rimmvydas Leipus masterfully evoke the atmosphere of the Second World War's penultimate year in the Soviet Union. The picture was based on motifs drawn from the autobiographical story of the same name by writer and screenwriter Friedrich Gorenstein, who also penned the script for Tarkovsky's Solaris.
- DirectorYousry NasrallahStarsMenna ShalabiBasem SamrahNahed El SebaïMahmoud was part of the armed groups coerced by the Egyptian Government which carried out attacks on protestors in Tahir Square the 2nd of February 2011. Since then, Mahmoud has lost his job, been subjected to humiliating treatment, and been ostracized by his own community that live close to the Pyramids. He and his family are close to despair when he meets Reem, a secular young Egyptian divorcee and modern-thinker who works in advertising. Reem is a fervent ecologist who lives in a wealthy neighbourhood of Cairo. This will be the encounter of two people but also of two different worlds.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsJeremy IronsMélanie LaurentJack HustonSwiss Professor Raimund Gregorius abandons his lectures and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself.
- DirectorMaria DouzaStarsMirto AlikakiMirjana KaranovicIlias LogothetisComing home to make amends with her estranged father, Eleni finds herself confronted with an unexpected kinship.
- DirectorEsteban LarraínStarsPatricio ContrerasSebastián AyalaRoberto FaríasThe real story of a young man who fooled a nation in the time of Pinochet.
- DirectorSandra NettelbeckStarsMichael CaineMichelle GoddetJane AlexanderHe's a widower in Paris who speaks no French. She's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?
- DirectorNina GrosseStarsSebastian KochSylvester GrothTobias MorettiAfter being released from prison, former RAF terrorist Jens Kessler spends his first weekend in freedom with friends from the past; among them are his former lover Inga and her husband. As the tension mounts, it takes only one spark to trigger an eruption of hostility.
- DirectorAlain MinierStarsOlivier MarchalSmaïnCatherine MarchalJo gets out of prison after 15 years after a big heist, and most is changed in his old neighborhood. New gangs and different lives. He's even got a son, which he didn't know about. He is back, and that stirs up the neighborhood.
- DirectorBodo KoxStarsWojciech MecwaldowskiPiotr GlowackiMagdalena RózanskaThree lonely next-door neighbours alienate themselves in various ways. Jacek seeks contacts online, his brother Tomek has a brain injury. Magda spends time alone in her apartment. What if they become friends?
- DirectorMarcel GislerStarsSibylle BrunnerFabian KrügerJudith HofmannLorenz Meran, (40) a successful gay author suffering acute writers' block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide care for his aged mother, Rosie. When he finds himself confronted with the fact that fun-loving Rosie refuses both outside assistance and a care home, he discovers that he is stuck fast in his small home town of Altstätten. But it is not only his mother's battle against being dictated to and losing her dignity that he is struggling with. It's also his own midlife crisis. And when long-kept secrets are suddenly revealed under the tensions of family dynamics, Lorenz almost fails to notice that love is knocking on the front door of his parent's house...
- DirectorHo-bin SeonStarsHyo Hun HoByun Joon-SukBong-seong KangAn motorcycle accident in the past left a girl dead and the breakup of childhood friends. Years later, Hyung-Myung is discharged from the army and returns to his old neighborhood.
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsJan HartlLibuse SafránkováMartin HubaAn opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter. A tale of love and disappointment, about music and passionate love-making and about people that live their lives in spite of the opera.
- 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.
- DirectorRoman RomanovskyStarsVladimir DanayVladimir FrolovKristina KazinskayaThe young scientist is trying to avoid military service in the chemical forces. He chooses alternative service and educates in the suburban orphanage, located in an ancient manor house. By coincidence, several people that worked in the office before him, died in a strange way. Soon the young man realizes that he is in this place not by a chance.
- DirectorJan-Ole GersterStarsTom SchillingKatharina SchüttlerJustus von DohnányiAn aimless university dropout attempts to make sense of life as he spends one fateful day wandering the streets of Berlin.
- DirectorK.R. ManojStarsChempil AsokanMunshi BaijuKrishnan BalakrishnanWhile weaving a gripping story around the transformation of an old movie theater into a church, Kanyaka Talkies (Virgin Talkies) delves deep into the matrix of body, desire, pleasure and guilt.