PIFF - 2015 MOVIES LIST
This List contains movies to be screened in 13th Pune International Film Festival to be held between 8-15th of January - 2015 in Pune, India.
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- DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsIbrahim AhmedAbel JafriToulou KikiA cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.This is Opening Movie.
- DirectorNariman TurebaevStarsAzamat NigmanovAinur NiyazovaWorking as a security guard, Marat is single and lives alone. He never breaks his daily routine as he carries on leading a lonely and boring life. However, one day, something unusual happens, a girl is seen standing in the street near his house and then she appears again the next day. When she enters Marat life by accident, his days remain the same but his nights are turned into adventures.Kazakhstan
- DirectorMariana RondónStarsSamuel Lange ZambranoSamantha CastilloBeto BenitesA nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.
- DirectorErnesto DaranasStarsAlina RodríguezYuliet CruzArmando Miguel GómezAging teacher Carmela has a special heart for pupils from broken homes and is challenged by the headmaster to follow up 12 year old Chala which is infatuated in Yeni. They are both poor, and has severe home troubles.
- DirectorOzan AçiktanStarsNehir ErdoganTardu FlordunIlker KaleliCenk has just arrived back to Istanbul from the United States. Suppressed love slowly begins to resurface after he encounters Ece, a woman whom he had a romantic relationship with in the past. Suddenly, there is a robbery attempt in a quiet and gloomy house, which results in a crime being committed.
- DirectorChaitanya TamhaneStarsVira SathidarVivek GomberGeetanjali KulkarniWhen an aging activist is arrested, the lives of the accused, the lawyers, and the judge intertwine to reveal bigotry that underscores the judicial system.
- DirectorAsif RustamovStarsNamig AgayevMekhriban ZekiAleksandra AndrzejewskaAli coaches a rowing team in a provincial town. The young squad also includes his son Ruslan, who finds it difficult to meet the demands Ali makes on him, and his father's frostiness and continual dissatisfaction are getting him down. Ali is experiencing a crisis of middle age, and only Ruslan is preventing him from leaving his wife Leyla, whom he criticizes for spoiling their son. He finds solace in his Polish lover Sasha, who'd rather have Ali for herself and dreams of starting a new life with him. Just before an important race, in the interests of the team's performance, Ali decides to replace Ruslan, who was originally chosen for the event. But when tragedy strikes that same day, Ali is overcome with emotions he doesn't know how to deal with.
- DirectorZeresenay MehariStarsMeron GetnetTizita HagereAbel AbebeA young lawyer travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.
- DirectorIrene Gutiérrez TorresJavier Labrador DeulofeuStarsJosefina PattersonJorge de Los Ríos VegaVivian PachecoDespite the building's imminent collapse, the last inhabitant of a once luxurious hotel refuses to leave: he remains convinced that treasures, hidden by the hotel's original owners, lie waiting within its walls.
- DirectorZdenek TycStarsJirí SchmitzerPetra SpalkováTatjana MedveckáThe end of summer in Like Never Before also means the end of a life. Painter Vladimír Holas (Jirí Schmitzer) is dying. He doesn't want to die in a hospital, so his country home in the middle of a beautiful landscape is his last resort. There are two women with him: Karla (Petra Spalková), younger and a painter like Vladimír, is a bohemian and doesn't flinch at using bad language. The older Jaruna (Tatjana Medvecká) is a nurse, the painter's former lover, and very different from Vladimír and Karla. All three fight useless battles against death, against themselves, and among themselves. A moving drama in which dying is no easy matter and caring for a dying person is an ordeal.
- DirectorElchin MusaogluStarsFatemah Motamed-AriaVidadi AliyevRamil ZeynalovAn elderly couple confront the ravages of war in their poverty-stricken village.
- DirectorJack Zagha KababieStarsLuis BayardoRodolfo GuerreroEduardo ManzanoThree octogenarians set out on a trip in order to fulfill the dying wish of a lifelong friend.
- DirectorErol MintasStarsFeyyaz DumanZübeyde RonahiNesrin CavadzadeA young Kurdish man is torn between his mother's nostalgic search of a song in her dreams and an uncertain future with his pregnant girlfriend.
- DirectorAleksandr KottStarsElena AnDanila RassomakhinKarim PakachakovA mischievous father and his gentle, beautiful daughter live a quiet life in a vast plain until two young men fall for the girl. The love triangle leads to a wholly unexpected turn of events in an astounding story that incorporates unimaginable beauty with a strong social message.
- DirectorArto HalonenStarsMartti SuosaloPamela TolaJanne ReinikainenEvery nation gets the heroes it deserves.
- DirectorEugenie JansenStarsMaarten BaesPearl DavernGaetano DebyserWhen Shay, a young Australian girl, loses her mother, she and her father Koen leave for his home country Belgium. There, Shay finds herself struggling with the new environment and the loss of her mother.
- DirectorVirág ZomboráczStarsMárton KristófZsolt AngerEszter CsákányiA heavily neurotic young man starts to see his father's ghost, and while he helps the spirit cross to the otherworld, something happens that they could never achieve in their common life: they finally understand each other.
- DirectorRobert GuédiguianStarsAriane AscarideJacques BoudetJean-Pierre DarroussinOn her birthday anniversary, the unhappy middle-aged celebrator, Ariane, finds herself abandoned by her family and winds up in a picturesque seaside café in sun-kissed Marseilles. Will she follow her heart to untangle her creative thread?
- DirectorIvan IkicStarsZeljko MarkovicNenad PetrovicAleksandar Pitulic"Barbarians" is a teenage drama about coming of age in a world where there is no opportunity. A portrait of a young generation growing up in a society of lost values. Luka is a young man on the verge of adulthood who leads a group of local second league football supporters, with his best friend Flash. Troubled by his parole, family problems and a secret relationship with a girlfriend of one of the football players, Luka desperately tries to fit in.
- DirectorMartin DubaStarsMalinská AlexandraDavid BonaventuraJirí DubaDue to suspicion of BSE (mad cow disease), a herd of cows from a small farmstead is sentenced to be killed. The animals revolt and try to escape. People try to hunt them down but the herd, led by Bella, manages to protect itself. Further failures of people increase their aggressiveness. The escalating battle has little in common with the original veterinary prevention. However, there are also people who try to help the cows, who desire nothing more than free life in the great outdoors, even if they are also forced to learn how to live and survive without anybody to feed them, milk them or fill them up with medicine. They learn all about hunger, cold, deprivation and pain. And the loss of loved ones...
- DirectorIgor KorablevGalina KrasnoborovaStarsDmitriy OgorodnikovAlyona PutinaAntonina StrelyaevaThere is only one young woman and two old women left of the whole nation. These old women are dreaming of something unattainable - of motherhood. One of the old women never had any children, the second old woman lost her newborn baby many years ago. And the abortion through the ritualistic suicide of the young pregnant woman reveals the most morbid corners of the souls of the old women, who were deprived of motherhood.
- DirectorErik NovákStarsZoltán PerjésGábor MátéZsolt NagyAfter a long night, Dj Feaky D loses a large sum of money on poker. When an old friend offers a "great opportunity of easy money", he calls up on his buddies locked away in a mental institution.
- DirectorVictoria TrofimenkoStarsMykola BerezaViktor DemertashYuri DenysenkovThe film is a psychological drama developing on the highlands of the Carpathian Mountains. Two helpless old men, brothers, desperately trying to keep up competition with each other in order to prolong their lives. Even though their bodies are decaying and both are sick the one still wants to outlive the other. But one day a woman enters their remote dwelling...
- DirectorRosa FriedrichStarsLaura Sophia BeckerWolfram SchorlemmerBuschow is a story about a relationship. It's an ideal relationship that doesn't match. Two people in their mid-twenties are on vacation in a summer cottage in the woods. They don't understand each other's feelings, so they try to speak about models of loving, about themselves, about love. Yet their different languages don't really allow them to meet, it's only through play that they can come together. Garden, house and forest are the playground for their fairy tale.
- DirectorBence MiklauzicStarsFerenc LengyelTibor SzervétKálmán SomodyAnyone can park wherever they like in the car park, except for one place; the spot where Legionaire, the owner of the lot, buries dead mourning doves. But then a man (Imre) appears who wants to obtain that exact place for his 1968 Ford Mustang - at any cost, and will do almost anything to win. But, who wins in the end?
- DirectorHüseyin KarabeyStarsTuncay AkdemirSelim BulutSabahettin DAGThis is the story of two women on opposite ends of a life-time, a very young, curious Jiyan and her life-weary but resistant grandmother Berfe, in order to save the person who links them to each other.
- DirectorDénes OroszStarsSándor CsányiKátya TomposGábor KaralyosThis is the story of present-day Hungary's most famous gay celebrity who openly admits his homosexuality and fights for gay rights in a society where so many alternative values are denied.
- DirectorZsombor DygaStarsZsolt AngerMónika BalsaiKata BartschIf couches could talk - they would tell stories about a childish man on a time-out; an anxious patient of a sexy psychologist; an inept loser preparing himself for a date on women's day; a neurotic couple speculating about a mysterious stain; the former and the new owner of a thrown away couch; French hippies or three naughty teenagers stretching the boundaries of friendship. Because anything could happen on a couch.
- DirectorTomislav MrsicStarsSasa AnocicZivko AnocicMatija AntolicEight outsiders are trying to create a theater play while breaking every rule of theater craft.
- DirectorPeter ThorwarthStarsMoritz BleibtreuAxel SteinJasmin GeratBank teller Till Reiners' life is torn out of a rut by a series of offbeat coincidences that ultimately lead him to find himself and realize his life isn't so bad after all.
- DirectorNatalie SaraccoStarsMylène JampanoïMarc RuchmannMathilde BissonJezebel is a nihilistic artist who hides her fragility by living a fast-paced, promiscuous lifestyle. After attending her father's funeral, the sultry temptress finds herself attracted to David, a handsome, earnest young priest. While David wrestles with the earthly desires elicited by this new temptress, jaded Jezebel tries to comprehend his deeply-rooted faith.