List of Films - 14th IFFK

The films selected for various sections of the 14th IFFK, 2009:

The films selected for the Competition Section of the 14th IFFK, 2009, are as follows:-

Competition Section
1
 Homero Manzi, A poet in the Storm/Un Poeta En la Torment
Dir: Eduardo Spagnuolo | Argentina/97min/2009
2
 (Un) Lucky/ Z’har
Dir: Zamoum Fatma Zohra | Algeria/Fr/78min/2009
3
 My Secret Skys /Izulu Lami
Dir: Madoda Ncayiyana | South Africa/97min/2009
4
 There/ Orada
Dirs: Hakki Kurtulus & Melik Saracogl | Turkey/96min/2009
5
 Fishing Platform/Jermal
Dirs: Ravi L Bharwani & Rayya Makarim | Indonesia/90min/2008
6
 The Absence/ L'Absence
Dir: Mama Keita | Senegal/81min/2008
7
 Birzhan Sal
Dirs: Doshan Zholzhaksynov & Rymbek Alpen | Kazhakstan/110min/2009
8
 True Noon/ Ghiyame Rooz
Dir: Nosir Siadov | Tadjikistan/83min/2009
9
 About Elly/ Darbare-ye Elly
Dir: Asghar Farhadi | Iran/119/2009
10
 A fly in the Ashes/ La Mosca en la Ceniza
Dir: Gabriela David | Argentina/98min/2009
11
 Masangeles
Director: Beatriz flores Silva
Belgium,Cuba,Uruguay/2008/color/123’/Spanish |
12
 Road to Confluence/ Road to Sangam
Dir: Amit Rai | India/141min/2009
13
 What the Sufi said/ Sufi Paranja Katha
Dir: Priyanandanan | India/125min/2009
14
 Midsummer/Madhyavenal
Dir: Madhu Kaithapuram | India/126min/2009

The Films selected to be screened in the Indian Cinema section are as follows:-

Indian Cinema Now
1
 Harishchandra’s Factory/ Harishchandrachi Factory
Dir: Paresh Mokashi | Marathi/95min/2008
2
 Calcutta My Love/ Kaalbela
Dir: Goutam Ghosh | Bengali/120min/2008
3
 Just one Chance (Last Chance Mumbai)/ Ek tho Chance
Dir: Saeed Akhtar Mirza |Hindi/100min/2008
4
 Smell/Gandh
Dir: Sachin Kundalkar | Marathi/90min/2009
5
 The Well/ Vihir
Dir Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni | Marathi/120min/2009
6
 Native Village / Sontha Vooru
Dir: P.Suneel Kumar Reddy | Telugu/100min/2009
7
 Maya Bazaar
Dir: Joydeep Ghosh | Bengali/120min/2009


The Films selected to be screened in the Malayalam Cinema section are as follows:-

Malayalam Cinema Today
1
 Kerala Cafe
Producer :Ranjith | 143min/2009
2
 Remember me/Orkuka Vallapozhum
Dir: Sohan Lal | 91min/ 2008
3
 Night Sky/Ramanam
Dir: M.P.Sukumaran Nair | 116min/2009
4
 Seasons/Ritu
Dir: Shyamaprasad | 130min/2009
5
 Stars in the day/Pakalnakshtrangal
Dir: Rajeev Nath | 110min/2008
6
 The Mother Earth/Bhoomi Malayalam
Dir: T.V.Chandran | 90min/2008
7
 Train in the tenth floor/Patham Nilayile Theevandi
Dir:Joshy Mathew | 102min/2009

The Films selected to be screened in the World Cinema section are as follows:-
World Cinema
1
 Sweet Rush/Tatarak
Director: Adrezej Wajda | Poland/2009/35mm/Colour/85’/Polish
2
 Scheherazade Tell Me a Story/ Ehky Ya Schahrazad
Director:Yousry Nasrallah Egypt/2009/35mm/Colour/134’/Arabic
3
 Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl / Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura
Dir:Manoel de Oliveira |
Portugal-Spain-France/
2009/35mm/Colour/64’/Portuguese
4
 Nothing Personal
Director: Urszula Antoniak
Ireland-Netherlands/2009/35mm/Colour/85'/English
5
 Bad Day to go Fishing
Director: Alvaro Brechner
Spain-Uruguay/2009/35mm/Colour/Spanish
6

Empty Nest / El nido vacío
Director: Daniel Burman
|Argentina, Spain, France- Italy
2008/35mm/Colour/91’/Spanish-Hebrew
7

Looking for Eric
Director: Ken Loach
UK, France,I taly, Belgium-Spain
2009/Colour/116’/English

8

Tales from the Golden Age/
Amintiri din epoca de aur
Directors: Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Maria Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu
|Romania-France/2009/35mm/Colour/155’/Romanian
9

The Time That Remains/ Le temps qu'il reste
Director: Elias Suleiman
|UK, Italy, Belgium, France/2009/35mm/Colour/109’/Arabic-Hebrew
10
 Shirin
Director:Abbas Kiarostami
|Iran/2008/HDcam/Colour/94’/Persian
11
 Storm/ Sturm
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
Germany, Denmark, Netherlands/2009/35mm/Colour/105’/English, German, Bosnian, Serbian
12
 A Year ago in Winter/ Im Winter ein Jahr
Director: Caroline Link
Germany/2008/35mm/Colour/128'/German
13
 Jerichow
Director: Christian Petz
Germany/2008/35mm/Colour/91’/German-Turkish
14
 The Blessing / Velsignelsen
Director: Heidi Maria Faisst
Denmark/2009/35mm/Danish
15
 Anti Christ
Director: Lars Von Trier
Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden-Italy/2009/35mm/Colour-B&W/104’/English
16
 Vision / Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen
Director: Margarethe Von Trotta
Germany/2009/35mm/Colour/111’/German
17
 Broken Embraces/ Los abrazos rotos
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Spain/2009/35mm/Colour/127’/Spanish-English
18
 Taking Woodstock
Director: Ang Lee
USA/2009/35mm/Colour/120’/English
19
 Katalin Varga
Director: Peter Strickland
Romania, UK, Hungary/2008/35 mm/Colour/84’/ Hungarian-Romanian
20
 Around a Small Mountain/ 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup
Director: Jacques Rivette
France-Italy/2009/35mm/Colour/84’/French
21
 Nucigen House/La maison Nucingen
Director : Raúl Ruiz
France, Chile/2008/35mm/Colour/94'/French-Alemany-Spanish
22
 Operation Danube / Operace Dunaj
Director: Jacek Glomb
| Poland,Czech Republic/2009/Colour/ Polish/Czech/Russian
23
 General Nil
Director: Ryszard Bugajski
Poland/2009/Colour/125’/Polish
24
 The Fish Child/ El niño pez
Diretor: Lucia Puenzo
Argentina , France, Spain/2009/35mm/Colour/96’/Spanish
25
 The Other Bank/ Gagma Napiri
Director: George Ovashvili
Georgia, Kazakhstan/ 2009/Colour/90’/Georgian-Abkhazian-Russian
26
 Be Calm and Count to Seven/ Aram Bash va ta haft beshmar
Director: Ramtin Lavafipour
Iran/2008/Colour/89’/ Farsi
27
 Qala / Fortress
Director: Shamil Najafzada
Azerbaijan/2008/83’/ Azeri,Russian
28
 Agrarian Utopia/Sawan baan na
Director: Uruphong Raksasad
Thailand/2009/35mm/Colour/122’/Thai
29
 Love Life of a Gentle Coward/ Ljubavni zivot domobrana
Director: Pavo Marinkovic
Croatia/2009/Colour/95’/Croatian
30
 The Long Night/ Al Lail Altaweel
Director: Hatem Mohammad Ali
Syria / 2009 / 94 min. / Color / 35 mm / Arabic / English
31
 Three Wise Men/ Kolme Viisasta miesta
Director: Mika Kaurismaki
Finland/2008/Color/98’/Finnish
32
 Lights in the dusk / Laitakaupungin Valot
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Finland,Germany France/2006/color/78’/ Finnish,Russian
33
 Tango Singer
Director: Gabriel Arregui
Argentina/ 2009/35mm/Colour/ 105’/Spanish
34
 A step into Darkness/ Büyük oyun
Director: Atil Inaç
Turkey/2009/Colour/ 120’/Turkish-Turkmen-Kurdish -Arabic
35
 Love in a wknd/Amor en fin
Director: Salvador Aguirre
Mexico/2008/color/100’/Spanish
36
 Eastern Plays
Director: Kamen Kalev
Bulgaria/2009/Colour/89’/Turkish,Bulgarian
37
  24 City/ Èr shí sì chéng jì
Director: Jia Zhangke
China/2008/Colour/112’/Mandarin
38
 Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja
Director: T.Hariharan
India/2009/color/ 194’/Malayalam
39
 Dev D
Director : Anurag Kashyap
India/2009/color/138’/Hindi
40
 Brave New Voices
Director: Russell Simmons
USA/2009/color/140’/English
41
 The Damned Rain/Gabhricha Paus
Director : Satish Manwar
India/2008/color/100’/Marathi
42
 Dream/Bi-Mong
Director : Kim Ki-Duk
South Korea/2009/color/95’/Korean,Japanese
43
 Whisper with the wind
Director: Shahram Alidi
Iraq/2009/color/77’/Kurdish
44
 Land of Scarecrows/ Heosuabideuleui ddang
Director: Roh Gyeong-Tae
|Korea/France/2008/35mm color/90’/
Korean, Tagalog
45
 Revisited /Rewizyta
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Poland/2009/color/90’/Polish
46
 Puska’s Hungary/Puskas: The Legend of the Magical Magyar
Director: Tamás Almási
Hungary/2009/color/118’/ Hungarian
47
 Witch Circle/Boszorkánykör
Director: Dezso Zsigmond
Hungary/2009/color/90’/Hungarian
48
 Twenty
Director: Abdolreza Kahani
Iran/2009/ color/88’/Persian
49
 Treeless Mountain
Director: So Yong Kim
USA, South Korea/2008/color/35mm/89’
50
 Long Street
Director: Revel Fox
South Africa/2009/color/96’
51 Pokkisham
Director:Cheran
India/2009color/137’
52
 Straight to the Heart /En Plein Coeur
Director : Stephane Gehami
Canada/2009/color/109’
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Mrinal Sen Retrospective
1
 Calcutta 71
1972/B&W/101'/Bengali
2
 In search of famine/Aakaler sandhane 1980/color/115’/Bengali
3
 The ruins/Khandhar
1983/color/106’/Hindi
4
 This is my land/Aamar bhuban 2002/color/107’/Bengali
5
 Mr. Shome/Bhuvan Shome
1969/B&W/96’/Hindi
6
 Suddenly one day/ Ekdin achanak 1989/color/105’/Hindi
7
 The Confined/Antareen
1993/color/91’/Bengali
8
 Ek Din Pratidin / A day like any other
1979 /color/95’/Bengali

Arturo Ripstein Retrospective
1
 Castle of Purity / El castillo de la pureza Mexico/1974/Colour/116’/Spanish
2
 The place without limits/ El lugar sin límites Mexico/1978/110’/ Spanish
3
 The Realm of Fortune/ El imperio de la fortuna Mexico/1985/ Colour/ 35mm/135’/ Spanish
4
 The beginning and the end/ Principio y fin Mexico/1993/35mm/Colour/188’/Spanish
5
 The Queen of the Night/ La reina de la noche Mexico, USA, France/
1993/ Colour/ 35 mm/ 120’/ Spanish
6
 Divine/ El Evangelio De Las Maravillas
Mexico, Spain, Argentina/1998/Colour/112’/Spanish
 7 The Ruination of Men /La Perdcion de los hombres
Mexico/Spain/2000/35mm/B&W/106’/ Spanish


Mikio Naruse Retrospective
1
 Her Lonely Lane/Hourou-ki
Japan/ B &W / Wide / 1962 / 123 min.
/ Takarazuka Eiga
2
 Husband and Wife/ Fufu
Japan /B & W / Standard / 1953 / 87 min / Toho
3
 Scattered Clouds/ Two in the Shadow /Midaregumo Japan/1967/35mm/colour/108’/Japanese
4
 The Echo
Japan/B & W / Standard/ 1954 / 95 min / Toho
5
 Mother
Japan/B&W / Standard/ 1952 / 98min / Shin Toho

Jacques Tati Retrospective
1
 Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday / Les Vacances de M. Hulot
France/1953/ Restored Version /114’/
French,English
2
 Festival Day/ Jour de fête
France/1949/Restored Version/70’/French
3
 Play Time
France/1967/ Restored Version/155’/French
4

My Uncle/Mon Oncle
Italy,France/1958/ Restored Version/117’/French

Lohithadas Retrospective
1
 Bhoothakanadi/ The Magnifying Lens
Director: Lohithadas
1997/color/35mm/115’/Malayalam
2
 Kireedom
Director: Sibi Malayil 1990/color/35mm
3
 Aadharam
Director: George Kithu 1992/color/35mm
4
 Thaniyavarthanam
Director: Sibi Malayil 1987/color/35mm
5
 Venkalam
Director: Bharathan 1993/color/35mm
6
 Aryangalude Veedu
Director: Lohithadas 2000/color/35mm

Francesco Rosi Retrospective
1
 I Magliari /The Weavers
Italy , France/1959/B&W/119'/Italian,German
2
 Le mani sulla città / Hands over the City
Italy, France/1963/ B&W/105'/Italian
3
 Il momento della verità /The Moment of Truth
Italy, Spain/1964/ Col/110'/Italian
4
 Tre fratelli /Three Brothers
Italy, France/1981/ Col/113'/Italian
5
 C’era una volta / More Than a Miracle
Italy, Spain/1967/ Col/104'/Italian
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Contemporary Master in Focus :
Raoul Peck
1
 Lumumba
France, Belgium, Germany/2000/116 Min/Color/French
2
 Man by the Shore/L'Homme sur les Quais France/Canada/ Haiti/1993/colour/105’/French
3
 Sometimes In April
USA/ Rwanda/2005/ 140’/colour/English
4
 Lumumba: Death of a Prophet
France/Switzerland/Germany/1992/69’/B&W,color
French,English
5
 Moloch Tropical
United States/ 2009/105’/Color/English, French
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Contemporary Master in Focus :
Penek Ratnaruang
1
 Invisible waves
Thailand, Netherlands, South Korea, HK /2006/Colour/118’/English, Japanese, Thai, Chinese
2
 Last life in the universe
Thailand, Japan/2003/Colour/35mm/112’/
Thai-Japanese-English
3
 Transistor Love Story /Monrak transistor Thailand/2001/35mm/Colour/ 115’/Thai
4
 Ploy
Thailand/2007/Colour/105’/Thai/English
5
 Nymph / Nang mai Thailand/2009/Colour/35mm/94’/Thai

African Contemporary Cinema
1
 Jeruslama
Dir: Ralph Ziman |South Africa/ 2008/Colour/120’/English
2
 From a Whisper
Dir: Wanuri Kahiu |Kenya/ 2009/B&W/79’
3
 Ezra
Dir: Newton I. Aduaka |France, Nigeria, USA,UK, Austria /2007/Colour /103’/ English
4
 Saint Louis Blues/ Un transport en commun
Dir: Dyana Gaye|
France /2009/color/48/ French & Wolof

Cuban Cinema in Focus
1
 City in Red/ Ciudad en Rojo
2009/35mm/colour/ Spanish |
Director: Rebecca Chavez
2
 Pages from Mauricio’s Diary/ Paginas del diario de Mauricuo
2006/35mm/color/135’/Spanish |
Director: Manuel Pérez Paredes
3
 Memories of Underdevelopment/Memorias del subdesarrollo
1968/ B&W/78’/Spanish|
Director: Tomas Gutierrez Alea
4
 The Last supper/ La Ultima cena 1976/color/120’/Spanish |
Director: Tomas Gutierrez Alea
5
 The Man from Maisinicú / El hombre de Maisinicu
1973/B&W/124’/Spanish |
Director: Manuel Pérez
6
 Viva Cuba
2005/35mm/Colour/80’/Spanish |
Director: Juan Carlos Cremata & Iraida Malberti Cabrera
7
 Lucia
1968/16mm/B&W/161’/Spanish |
Director: Humberto Solás
8
 Omerta
2008/35mm/color/86’/Spanish|
Director:Pavel Giroud
9
 The Silly Age/'La edad de la peseta'
2006/color/90’/ Spanish|
Director: Pavel Giroud

Homages
1
 Murali: Neyythukaran
2
 Rajan P Dev: Thommanum Makkalum
3
 Madhavikutty : Mazha
4
 Shobhana Parmesweran Nair : Murapennu
5
 Adoor Bhavani : Kadalpalam
6
 K.P.Thomas : Manimuzhakam


50 Years of French New Wave
1
 Pierrot Goes Wild/ Pierrot le fou
France-Italy/1965/35 mm/110’/French-English |
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
2
 Alphaville/ Alphaville, une etrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
|1965/35mm/B&W/99’/French |
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
3
 The Girl at the Monceau Bakery/La boulangère de Monceau |
1963/16mm/B&W/23’/French |
Dir: Eric Rohmer
4
 Handsome Serge /Le Beau Serge |
1958/35mm/ B&W/98’/French |
Dir: Claude Chabrol
5
 Cléo de 5 à 7/ Cleo from 5 to 7
1962/35mm/B&W-Colour/90’/ French |
Dir: Agnès Varda
6
 Jules et Jim/ Jules and Jim 1962/35mm/B&W/105’/French, German, English |
Dir: François Truffaut
7
 La Baie des anges /Bay of Angels 1963/35mm/B&W/90’/French |
Dir: Jacques Demy
8
 Ascenseur pour l'échafaud/Elevator to the Gallows
1958/35mm/B&W/88’/French-German |
Dir: Louis Malle

First Time Directors
1
 Enough! / Barakat!
Dir: Djamila Sahraoui | Algeria /2006 / Col / 92’/French
2
 In Mom’s head / La tête de Maman
Dir: Carine Tardieu |
France/2006 /Col/ 93’/French
3
 7 years / 7 Ans
Dir: Jean-Pascal Hattu |
France/ 2007 /Col / 82’/French
4
 13 square meter /13 M2
Dir: Barthelemy Grossmann |
France/ 2007 /Col/ 80’/French
5
 On the ropes / Dans les cordes
Dir: Magaly Richard-Serrano |
France/2007/Col/ 89’/French
6
 All is forgiven / Tout est pardonné
Dir: Mia Hansen-Löve |
France/2007/ Col /105’/French
7
 Water Lilies / Naissance des pieuvres
Dir: Céline Sciamma|
France/2007/ Col/ 85’/French
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