BIFFes 2016
List of movies selected for screening @ BIFFes 2016
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- DirectorJustin WebsterStarsJuan Gabriel VásquezIsidro AlvarezJon Lee Anderson'Gabo, The Magic of Reality' is a story about the incredible power of human imagination, which follows the interwoven threads of Gabriel García Márquez's life and work - "Gabo" to all of Latin America - with the narrative tension of an investigation.
- DirectorWalter SallesStarsZhangke JiaDocumentary of the life & filmmaking of Jia Zhang-Ke from the Brazilian Walter Salles. Reflections on transformation of Chinese society, towns, family, the cultural revolution and globalization ("americanization"). Insights of the actors and on the places of his movies.
- DirectorMakarand BrahmeThis documentary is our humble tribute to the excellence of two brother's classical music. Last 40 years they have been the only singing duo from India who have been performing all over the world. This documentary traces their musical journey of 50 years.
- DirectorOp SrivastavaLife in Metaphors journeys into the world of the master filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli with an urge to understand the language, grammar and the core purpose of story telling through the medium of cinema.
- DirectorEeshwar NivasStarsNikhil DwivediAmrita RaoMithun ChakrabortyRiya lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Mumbai and works as an Assistant Director for a movie producer, Bharucha. After the passing of her mother, she is consoled by a young man, Anthony Gonsalves, in the church graveyard. He introduces himself as the son of Jeffrey, who passed away during 1986, and works as a waiter in Jimmy's Pub, Bandra and wants to be a Bollywood actor. Thereafter she meets him again in the studios when he comes to audition for the part of Mark Anthony in a re-make of Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'. Both are attracted to each other and continue to meet. Little does Riya know that Anthony has lied to her, as he never had a father by the name of Jeffrey, and the real person who brought him up is a gangster and killer, Sikander, who is now a suspect in the sudden disappearance of Police Inspector Gupta.
- DirectorAvi LewisStarsNaomi KleinStacey Arwen RaabA look at seven communities around the world with the proposition that we can seize the crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
- DirectorAntoine BoutetFollowing the steps of the Nan Shui Bei Diao - South to North Water Transfer - the world's largest water transfer project, stretching between southern and northern China.
- DirectorDavid RosenthalWitnessing Death: a grandson's reflections on Alzheimer's (27 min) is a short video piece made by medical student David Rosenthal about the death of his grandfather Kurt Rosenthal from Alzheimer's disease.
- 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.
- DirectorEmin AlperStarsMehmet ÖzgürBerkay AtesTülin ÖzenAmid the intense political violence of Istanbul, Kadir is released on parole two years early on the condition that he become an informant for the police gathering terrorist informations, activities, and searching for bombs on trash cans.
- DirectorJon GarañoJose Mari GoenagaStarsItziar ItuñoNagore AranburuItziar AizpuruAne's life turns around when, week after week, she receives a bunch of flowers at home. Always at the same time and always without a senders note.
- DirectorMichel FrancoStarsTim RothSarah SutherlandRobin BartlettA home care nurse works with terminally ill patients.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPatricia Reyes SpíndolaNora VelázquezSilvia PasquelIn the small hours of the morning, two elderly hookers return to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not doing do. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and her cross-dressing husband, the other with her loneliness. But that night they have a date to celebrate the victory in the ring of two wrestlers, twin dwarves in masks. At the hourly hotel, in order to rob the tiny men of their earnings, they drug them with eye drops. But the doses prove fatal. Scared and confused, they decide to hide from the police and run away together to live, as they always have, on Bleak Street.
- DirectorRodrigo PláStarsJana RaluySebastián AguirreHugo AlboresWhen her insurance company refuses to approve the care her husband needs to survive, Sonia Bonet (Jan Raluy) takes things into her own hands. Up against an unyielding bureaucracy and disinterested workers, she is pushed to her breaking point: with her son in tow, she attempts to fight the system.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsTihana LazovicGoran MarkovicNives IvankovicThree different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers - and the enduring strength - of forbidden love.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsNina HossRonald ZehrfeldNina KunzendorfAfter surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
- DirectorSenem TüzenStarsEsra Bezen BilginNihal G. KoldasSemih AydinNesrin, an urban upper-middle class woman, goes back to her parents' old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and live out her dream of being a writer. When her conservative mother turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, Nesrin's writing stalls and her fantasies of village life turn bitter.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsAleksey SerebryakovElena LyadovaRoman MadyanovIn a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
- 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.
- DirectorGeorge OvashviliStarsIlyas SalmanMariam ButurishviliIrakli SamushiaThe river creates and the river destroys in an eternal cycle that even man can't escape.
- DirectorEmine Emel BalciStarsEsme MadraRiza AkinArda AktolgaSerap is a quite but hot-headed adolescent who is working long hours in a cramped clothing workshop as a runner. Fed up with her abusive brother-in-law and detached sister; the only thing that keeps Serap going is the hope of moving into an apartment with her father who is a long distance truck driver.
- DirectorSunny YuStarsChien-Ho WuChen-Ling WenLawrence KoPao-li is in 8th grade. When Pao-li comes to Jia-jia's rescue, they fall in love. Soon they move in together and have a daughter. However, Jia-jia gradually gets tired of the tedious life and begins an affair with a married man. When Pao-li's mother squanders his savings on gambling, Jia-jia decides to leave Pao-li. In order to win Jia-jia back, Pao-li takes a big risk.
- DirectorErmek TursynovStarsMikhail KarpovRoza KhayrullinaErzhan NurymbetYermek Tursunov (Kelin, The Old Man) completes his trilogy about Kazakh identity, in which an orphaned young boy takes to the mountains and lives among a pack of wolves in the days before WWII.
- DirectorShameera RanganaStarsDasun PathiranaSamanalee FonsekaVeena JayakodyRangana is a young musician from the working classes who dreams big. His aim is to rise above his station, even as he toils the low-rent barroom circuit with his band, playing night after night to under-appreciative crowds to make a frugal living. Tanya is the love of his life, the woman whom all this will be worth achieving. She is just finishing school. As he toils through the nights, his need of a mode of transport - a motor bicycle - becomes more and more apparent. He dreams of one day collecting enough money to buy one, finally buying a second hand motorbike despite his mother's great protest. He now wants to taste his new found freedom with his beloved Tanya, along the city streets of Colombo. As Rangana and Tanya embark on this motorbike journey across the city, questions about their present, challenges to their future and the very essence of their lives is brought to the fore, in "Motor Bicycle."
- DirectorYosef BarakiStarsFarzana NawabiHashmatullah FanaiQadir Aryaie12 year-old Mina cooks, sews, washes and works selling knick-knacks on the war-torn streets of Kabul to feed her neglectful father and senile grandfather. Nobody praises her. She spends her life walking without looking back or stopping.