PIFF 2017 - Global Cinema Slection
These are the Movies that were screened in 15th Pune International Film Festival as part of "Global Cinema" section. The Festival is scheduled to be held on between 12th to 19th January, 2017.
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- DirectorEliza PetkovaStarsAnna ManolovaSnezhina PetrovaMihail StoyanovThe young girl Lora has to change her life to survive.
- DirectorAlexandra BalteanuStarsCorina MoiseIulia LumânareIulia CiochinaLidia grows pigeons and lives a mundane existence with a husband and two children. Denisa has a boyfriend that needs new sneakers. Vanesa dreams of finding a boyfriend with green eyes. Three different women share a workplace and voice their daily concerns to each other in conversations. You might think they are secretaries, who enjoy chatting about the banalities of life and have their daily coffee break together. Just a normal life, only that they are prostitutes in order to survive. The daily routine ends in a humiliating confrontation with the police and some ice-cream.
- DirectorOswaldo Díaz MedinaStarsJean Denis RömerKomet BernhardKenebert StanleyKenny (31) from Sri Lanka tries to further his career as a musician in Berlin. He rents a spare room from Rola (80) who lives alone in a big house on the outskirts of Berlin. In living together these two completely different individuals experience, besides all prejudgements, an unexpected magical connection.
- DirectorSérgio Da CostaMaya KosaStarsJoaquim SilvaAna MilãoSilva, an old drifter, arrives at a small and isolated Portuguese village where he meets the young Ana. They develop a relation in between friendship and initiation. Fascinated by that wondrous man, Ana progressively falls into his universe. A life populated by supernatural figures including her long lost friend Carolina. But strange fits weaken Silva, bringing him to the hospital, where a dozen women start inhabiting him. Will they save him?
- DirectorPeter MonsaertStarsSara VertongenWim WillaertEsra VandenbusscheTogether with her mother, Sylvie runs a brothel near the Flemish-French border. Eline, Sylvie's daughter, is intrigued by her mother's peculiar working place.
- DirectorJunfeng BooStarsFirdaus RahmanWan Hanafi SuMastura AhmadInevitably, a transfer to a maximum security prison will eventually challenge the integrity and ethics of a young correctional officer on his way to become a chief executioner.
- DirectorSoner CanerBaris KayaStarsAlen Huseyin GursoyYavuz GürbüzSeyda SozuerRauf hopes to win over his big crush, the older Zana, with the help of the colour pink. But what does pink really look like anyways, and will he even be able to find it in his snowy little Kurdish village up in the mountains? Meanwhile, disturbing rumours sweep in from the outside world.
- DirectorJacques Toulemonde VidalStarsJuana AcostaKolia AbiteboulBruno ClairefondAnna is a young Colombian woman living in Paris, daily struggling with her emotional frailty. She tries to spend more time with her ten-year-old son, Nathan, but Philippe, her former husband, doesn't trust her anymore and threatens her to take full custody of the child. Having no other choice, she convinces her boyfriend Bruno to help her, and the three of them fly away to Colombia. During this journey, Anna will strive to build a new family, and will face the difficulty of being a mother.
- DirectorAhu ÖztürkStarsAsiye DinçsoyNazan KesalDidem InselelNesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.
- DirectorLaila PakalninaStarsAntons GraudsVilis DaudzinsWiktor ZborowskiPropaganda story about a 'Young Pioneer' Pavel Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin's secret police and was in turn killed by his own family.
- DirectorUlrich ThomsenStarsRoss McCallKristen HagerUlrich ThomsenSean, a lone rider and drug dealer, is trapped in a world of sleaze-bags and easy women - until he meets Lilly - a mysterious beauty and soul mate. Yet, what was supposed to be a new beginning for them, turns out to be a fatal journey.
- DirectorMarília RochaStarsElizabete FranciscaFrancisca ManuelPaulo NazarethTwo young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Teresa is newly arrived; Francisca has been there a while.
- DirectorMatias MeyerStarsRaúl Silva GómezElizabeth MendozaIgnacio Rojas NietoYo is a young man with limited mental skills. He is told he is 15 years old, but appears older. Yo lives and works in his mother's restaurant located by a busy freeway. He loves his mother but hates her lover. One day he meets Elana, an eleven year old girl, who will change his life forever.
- DirectorRober CalzadillaStarsVicente QuinteroGiovanny GarciaVicente PeñaAt the end of the 80's, by the creeks of the Arauca river, near the Colombian-Venezuelan border, two men survived the brutality of a shooting in which 14 of their mates were killed. They claimed to be mere fishermen, but the Venezuelan army accused them to be guerrilla fighters, intimidating them in every possible way and even attempting to remove them from the cell where they were guarded by a policeman. Their neighbors prevented their transfer, but the pressure they faced to give in and submit the official version was overwhelming.
- DirectorEryk RochaStarsNelson Pereira dos SantosCarlos DieguesJoaquim Pedro de AndradeCinema Novo is a movie-essay that investigates poetically the most important movement of Latin America cinema, through the thoughts of its main auteurs: Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Glauber Rocha, Leon Hirszman, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Ruy Guerra, Walter Lima Jr., Paulo César Saraceni, among others.
- DirectorTomasz WasilewskiStarsJulia KijowskaMagdalena CieleckaDorota KolakPoland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.
- DirectorJan P. MatuszynskiStarsAndrzej SewerynDawid OgrodnikAleksandra KoniecznaThe story of a well-known artistic family: legendary painter Zdzislaw Beksinski, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a highly-praised music critic and translator. Their lives were far from being usual.
- DirectorSlávek HorákStarsAlena MihulováBolek PolívkaTatiana DykováDedicated home care nurse Vlasta lives for her husband Lada, her daughter, and her patients. But then one day things change and Vlasta comes to realize that she might need some care too.
- DirectorDiego LublinskyÁlvaro UrtizbereaStarsCamila RomagnoloAgustín ScaliseDavid SzechtmanHortensia's father is electrocuted with the refrigerator door; she is fired from work; she discovers that her boyfriend is cheating on her with her best friend. Desperate, follows the goals she wrote when was fourteen: "to marry a boy who is blond like my father and to design the most beautiful shoe in the world." Things will only get worse while she fails to listen to her true self.
- DirectorCristi PuiuStarsMara Elena AndreiMirela ApostuEugenia BosânceanuCenters around a family gathering on the anniversary of a patriarch's recent death.
- DirectorArnold GrossmanStarsChristopher LloydTekola CornetetJane KaczmarekAn embittered old mariner and an unwanted young orphan form an unlikely bond building a boat.
- DirectorGary T. McDonaldStarsHarry HamlinKristen KerrTom OhmerMovie star Aaron, busted for road rage assault, is sent by his lawyer to a meditation teacher, Rachel, for help. He undermines their sessions with seductive behavior. Falling for his charm, she has to stop seeing him. He's arrested again. When he's free he tries to convince her he's changed.
- DirectorBrad JayneStarsLorenzo James HenrieKristopher HigginsEddie HassellAn adventure of the soul. JOSEPH is a young, painfully shy writer in the waterlands of South Carolina. After robbing a rural juke joint with two lower-class buddies and joy-riding up the coast to Myrtle Beach, his journey becomes a quest for strength and courage.
- DirectorIzu OjukwuStarsRamsey NouahRita DominicChidi MokemeThe story is told from two points of view: that of a young pregnant woman, and that of her husband, a soldier accused of being involved in the failed 1976 military coup and assassination of General Murtala Mohammed, the Head-of-State of Nigeria.
- DirectorPetr KazdaTomás WeinrebStarsMichalina OlszanskaMartin PechlátKlára MelískováBased on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.