PIFF 2014
Films showcased at the Pune International Film Festival 2014
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- 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.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsYuval ScharfYussuf Abu-WardaSarah AdlerA story about the life of Sagi Dash, a legendery guitar player.
- DirectorNina GrosseStarsSebastian KochSylvester GrothKatja RiemannAfter 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.
- 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?
- DirectorMirko LocatelliStarsFilippo TimiJaouher Brahim Ben FredjDragos Costantin TomaAntonio and his son Pietro, alone in Milan to face cancer. Jaber, just fifteen, in Italy with a group of fellow countrymen. They will meet each others in the hospital. The disease is the pretext for a meeting.
- 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?
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsWu JiangBaoqiang WangTao ZhaoFour independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
- 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.
- DirectorEsteban LarraínStarsPatricio ContrerasSebastián AyalaRoberto FaríasThe real story of a young man who fooled a nation in the time of Pinochet.
- 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.
- DirectorJoanna Kos-KrauzeKrzysztof KrauzeStarsJowita BudnikZbigniew WalerysAntoni PawlickiThe rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
- DirectorElvin AdigozelRu HasanovStarsFarid BahramovEmin SeyfullaElvin AdigozelNijat, an emotionally empty young man, visits his childhood town of Goychay after years of living abroad. Enigmatic about his occupation but clear about his financial distress, he seeks an old family friend's help to sell his deceased father's house.
- 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...
- DirectorSólveig AnspachStarsFlorence Loiret CailleDidda JónsdóttirÚlfur ÆgissonIt's early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. She has to get over her husband's death and return to her work as a film director. The unexpected arrival at her house of a couple of Icelanders, a sea lion and a neighbour that she has always desired yet never vanquished will give Agathe the strength to get her life back on track...
- DirectorWilliam DickersonStarsNeil HopkinsBrea GrantJohn ForestTrapped inside his car by a mudslide, smooth talking Jackson Alder suddenly finds himself in a situation he can't talk his way out of. With no hope of rescue, he must defy the odds; battling Mother Nature for his survival.
- DirectorChen-Hsi WongStarsNameera AshleyChengyue CaiHanisahDuring the monsoon season in Singapore, a young girl befriends an ostracized boy and embarks on a quest for independence to protect their secret and fragile world.
- 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.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsJanis AmanisInga AlsinaVilis DaudzinsA story about the Latvian basketball team, which won the first-ever European Championships in 1935 and its enthusiastic head coach Valdemars Baumanis.
- DirectorAntonio TublenStarsPatrik KarlsonIzabella Jo TschigPer LöfbergA man experimenting with sound discovers he can use it for mind control. He begins testing it on his neighbors, with increasingly unforeseen consequences.
- DirectorJose L CruzAku LouhimiesAdrian ManzanoStarsJessica GrabowskyEero AhoPirkka-Pekka PeteliusSingle mother name Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her news life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli come back from abroad, it open a window into her past that Pike want to put behind her.
- 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.
- DirectorNadine KhanStarsAyten AmerMuhammad FarragRamsi LehnerThis is the story of lost love in a controversial setting. Manal, Zaki and Mounir are in there twenties, living in a confined community where basic needs are met yet chaos and disorder brew. The two boys are in love with the same girl who finds herself being the bet for a football match between them; the winner marries Manal. This story reflects a football and play-station youth and how they deal with their emotions in a community that is increasingly closed off and isolated.
- DirectorJuan BarreroStarsLuz BarreroOle FaurschouGala Pérez IñestaBefore embarking on a long scientific expedition to the Pacific, Juan takes Gala, his girlfriend, to the town where he spent his childhood. During the visit, the couple talks about future plans and profound differences emerge. Five months later, when Juan returns from the Jungle, he discovers that his life is about to change forever.
- DirectorIliya KostovStarsVasil BanovDossio DossevNikolina HarizanovaA hundred-year-old church that periodically emerges only to be submerged again by the waters of a huge reservoir: this is the spot where the local priest is attempting to organize a gathering of the surviving, globally-scattered descendants of of the sunken village. An arrogant surgeon and politician, a vicar who is also an opera singer, a famous international journalist and an Italian student endure significant vicissitudes if life, from Rome to Vienna and Kandahar, only to discover it is fate that leads them back to their predecessors' roots.
- 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.