World Cinema Challenge - Part Three
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- DirectorMoustapha AkkadStarsAnthony QuinnOliver ReedRod SteigerIn 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasFrédéric AuburtinGurinder ChadhaStarsJuliette BinocheLeonor WatlingLudivine SagnierThrough the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented, and awakened.
- DirectorGytis LuksasStarsGiedrius KielaEgle MikulionyteOksana BorbatThe story of the generation who lived through the entire Soviet period is told through the main character: his childhood spent in a village, true friendship, work in Soviet Klaipeda, thrilling eroticism, and a final, fatal love.
- DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsPili GroyneBenoît PoelvoordeCatherine DeneuveDid you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?
- DirectorDavid DouglasStarsPatricia WrightMorgan FreemanHantanirina RasamimananaA documentary that follows Dr. Patricia C. Wright's mission to help lemurs, the highly evolved creatures who arrived on Madagascar millions of years ago as castaways but are now highly endangered.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsKatrin CartlidgeRade SerbedzijaGrégoire ColinThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
- DirectorGuy JenkinStarsJessica AlbaBrenda BlethynHugh DancyA young Englishman is sent to Malaysian Borneo in the 1930s to stay with a tribe as UK's colonial representative. A local woman (J.Alba) helps him understand local tradition and language. He falls in love with her etc. despite the taboo.
- DirectorAli ShifauStarsAli CezanFathmath Aflaz FaisalMohamed FaisalHussain (Ali Cezan) is an interior designer who lives in Male' with his wife and daughter. He was leading and happy and peaceful life until he meets Shaheen (Sheila Najeeb), a long lost friend. While his wife, Ainthu (Niuma Mohamed), and daughter, Sumakko (Aflaaz Faisal) are out of Male on a short holiday, Hussain has a short affair with Shaheen. Though he wanted to end the fling, she begins clinging to him and eventually he becomes her obsession.
- DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsAïssa MaïgaTiécoura TraoréMaimouna Hélène DiarraBamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes... Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights...
- 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.
- DirectorVincent ToiStarsAlvinio RoyRobbie BurkeSoon GujadarThe story of a young fisherman and his dreams of becoming a jockey in Mauritius.
- DirectorManolo CaroStarsLudwika PaletaLuis Ernesto FrancoLuis Gerardo MéndezThis comedy drama features two couples living in the same building, Lucas & Julia the catholics, Aaron & Nora the jewish and Lola the world traveler spanish. The story takes place at the arrival of a new renter the ex soccer player Felix; as soon as he's installed the neighbors gather for a dinner just to find out the problems between them; After this Lola reveals her couple problems, Julia and Aaron find themselves in love and Lucas tries to get Felix attention. The shocking sound of two gun shots sets all the neighbors in a suspicious crime scene.
- DirectorKirstin MarconStarsMatt WhelanRoxane MesquidaPana Hema TaylorA terminally-ill New Zealander steals the money raised for his cancer treatment to go on a trip to Europe, where he finds love with an enigmatic French drifter.
- DirectorByambasuren DavaaStarsBatchuluun UrjindorjBuyandulam DaramdadiNansal BatchuluunThe little Nansal finds a baby dog in the Mongolian veld, who becomes her best friend against all rejections of her parents.
- DirectorNikola VukcevicStarsMomcilo OtasevicGoran BogdanAna SofrenovicStory about two brothers: in the same night, older brother (30), is going to kill a man for a first time, and his younger (16) brother is going to make love for the first time. What seems to be easy - it is not at all at Balkans.
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsAbdelhakim RachidAbdelilah RachidHamza SouidekA fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003.
- DirectorSol de CarvalhoStarsEvaristo AbreuTimóteo MaposseMaria Amélia PanganeSofia, a young girl in Mozambique who is studying to be a doctor, finds that her professor wants more from her than hard work. An unwillingness to compromise her values and potentially her health, may cost her a place there.
- DirectorBrian PerkinsStarsShine Htet ZawKo Yin Saw RiKo Yin Than MaungStory of four young monks left alone in their remote monastery in Myanmar. Shot entirely in newly-opened Myanmar with non-actors, the film bridges spirit, cinema, and traditional Burmese storytelling to open a view onto an unseen world.
- DirectorBharat BalaStarsDhanushParvathy ThiruvothuSalim KumarA contract worker in Sudan is abducted by mercenaries and his lover in India awaits his return.
- DirectorRick McFarlandStarsRachel Hurd-WoodGunner WrightSuesha RanaWhen Laxmi, headmistress of a small orphanage in Nepal, is visited by a rich socialite attempting to fix her image through charitable acts, a chain of events is set in motion that affects everyone involved.
- DirectorBoudewijn KooleStarsRick LensLoek PetersCahit ÖlmezA young boy and his father have a difficult relationship, but are trying to reach each other. They need a catalyst to make that happen.
- DirectorJemaine ClementTaika WaititiStarsJemaine ClementTaika WaititiCori Gonzalez-MacuerViago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsDean StockwellAlan EsquivelCarmen BunsterAlsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
- DirectorChristopher KirkleyStarsFatimata FaloRhaicha IbrahimAhmoudou MadassaneA revolutionary story of guitars, motorcycles, cell phones, and the music of a new generation
- DirectorKunle AfolayanStarsWale AdebayoKate AdepegbaKunle AfolayanThe synopsis of The Figurine (Araromire) shows that it is a story of two buddies and a girl...all down on their luck have their lives changed when one of them discovers 'Araromire' a mysterious figurine in an abandoned shrine which, according to legend bestows seven years of good luck. But no one told them about the next seven years...