Watchlist: 20th MAMI Mumbai Film Festival (2018 Edition)
by TejasNair | created - 4 months ago | updated - 3 months ago | PublicGearing up for the festival starting 25 October 2018, here is a list of must-watch films at the 20th edition of Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star.
Curated by me based on hype, performance in other film festivals around, and sheer artistry.
For more updates and takes on the festival, check out my blog - http://www.nairtejas.com/.
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1. Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota (2018)
134 min | Action, Comedy
It is a story of a young boy Surya who has a rare condition of Congenital Insensitivity to pain meaning he can not feel pain, and he sets out to learn martial arts and hunt down muggers.
Director: Vasan Bala | Stars: Abhimanyu Dasani, Gulshan Devaiah, Radhika Madan, Mahesh Manjrekar
Votes: 144
Opening film
2. Roma (2018)
R | 135 min | Drama
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
Votes: 80,588
3. Balekempa (2018)
108 min | Drama
Kempanna, the bangle seller, roams the countryside adorning the hands and faces of women with beauty products. Yet he seems to have little time for his own wife, Saubaghya. Indeed, the only... See full summary »
Director: Eregowda
Votes: 16
4. Ottamuri Velicham (2017)
102 min | Drama
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful hilltop village surrounded by dense forest and a decaying tea plantation is the story of Sudha, an under privileged woman who reaches this village ... See full summary »
Director: Rahul Riji Nair | Stars: Vinitha Koshy, Deepak Parambol, Devaki Rajendran, Abhimanyu Ramanandan
Votes: 53
5. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
230 min | Drama
Four people in a Chinese city live through a complicated day as their lives intersect.
Director: Bo Hu | Stars: Yu Zhang, Yuchang Peng, Uvin Wang, Congxi Li
Votes: 1,153
6. Las herederas (2018)
98 min | Drama
Chela and Chiquita are both descended from wealthy families in Asunción and have been together for over 30 years. But recently, their financial situation has worsened and they begin selling... See full summary »
Director: Marcelo Martinessi | Stars: Ana Brun, Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova, Nilda Gonzalez
Votes: 1,435 | Gross: $0.05M
7. Wildlife (2018)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.
Director: Paul Dano | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Ed Oxenbould
Votes: 9,884 | Gross: $1.03M
8. Udalaazham (2018)
119 min | Drama
Director: Unnikrishnan Aavala | Stars: Indrans, Sajitha Madathil, Mani, Anumol K. Manoharan
9. Burning (2018)
Not Rated | 148 min | Drama, Mystery
Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood as him, who asks him to look after her cat while on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.
Director: Chang-dong Lee | Stars: Ah-in Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jun, Soo-Kyung Kim
Votes: 14,660 | Gross: $0.71M
10. Cold War (2018)
R | 89 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza
Votes: 24,823 | Gross: $3.79M
11. First Reformed (2017)
R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer, Victoria Hill
Votes: 27,860 | Gross: $3.45M
12. Shoplifters (2018)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama
A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda | Stars: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki, Mayu Matsuoka
Votes: 17,336 | Gross: $3.12M
13. The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.
Director: Desiree Akhavan | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Steven Hauck, Quinn Shephard, Kerry Butler
Votes: 9,971 | Gross: $0.90M
14. Ahlat Agaci (2018)
188 min | Drama
An unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father's deteriorating indulgence into gambling.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Dogu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yildirimlar, Hazar Ergüçlü
Votes: 9,538 | Gross: $0.02M
15. Mandy (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 121 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.
Director: Panos Cosmatos | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy
Votes: 37,833 | Gross: $1.21M
16. Kraben rahu (2018)
105 min | Drama
Near a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds an injured man lying unconscious in the forest. He rescues the ... See full summary »
Director: Phuttiphong Aroonpheng | Stars: Aphisit Hama, Wanlop Rungkumjad, Rasmee Wayrana
Votes: 184
17. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Six tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a traveling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and a perverse pair of bounty hunters.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Tim Blake Nelson, Willie Watson, Clancy Brown, Danny McCarthy
Votes: 72,711
18. Jiang hu er nü (2018)
137 min | Drama, Romance
A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Yi'nan Diao, Xiaogang Feng
Votes: 1,388
19. Pájaros de verano (2018)
125 min | Drama
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
Directors: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra | Stars: Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez
Votes: 2,181 | Gross: $0.04M
20. Yom Adaatou Zouli (2018)
94 min | Drama
In Syria in 2012 a mother ventures into a war zone to find a gas cylinder so she can prepare a meal for her son. She discovers that in the besieged area the people there have lost their shadows.
Director: Soudade Kaadan | Stars: Reham Alkassar, Sawsan Arshid, Samer Ismail, Oweiss Mkhallalati
Votes: 67
21. BlacKkKlansman (2018)
R | 135 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace
Votes: 111,296 | Gross: $48.69M
22. Leave No Trace (2018)
PG | 109 min | Drama
A father and his thirteen year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon, when a small mistake derails their lives forever.
Director: Debra Granik | Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Foster, Jeffery Rifflard, Derek John Drescher
Votes: 28,155 | Gross: $6.05M
23. Transit (I) (2018)
101 min | Drama
When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he possesses. Stuck in Marseilles, he meets a young woman desperate to find her missing husband - the very man he's impersonating.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman
Votes: 2,164
24. Ying (2018)
116 min | Action, Drama, History
Set during China's Three Kingdom's era (AD 220-280). The story of a great king and his people, who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it. The king, violent and ... See full summary »
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Chao Deng, Li Sun, Ryan Zheng, Qianyuan Wang
Votes: 1,584
25. Border (2018)
R | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.
Director: Ali Abbasi | Stars: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson, Ann Petrén
Votes: 5,349 | Gross: $0.77M
26. Gangbyeon hotel (2018)
96 min | Drama
It is the dead of winter and a poet invites his sons to join him at a hotel for a reunion. The hotel also hosts a newly single woman who has a friend keep her company and with whom she ... See full summary »
Director: Sang-soo Hong | Stars: Ju-bong Gi, Min-hee Kim, Hae-hyo Kwon, Seon-mi Song
Votes: 160 | Gross: $0.01M
27. In den Gängen (2018)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
Christian begins to work as a shelf stacker at a supermarket and finds himself in a new, unknown world: the long aisles, the bustle at the checkouts, the forklifts.
Director: Thomas Stuber | Stars: Sandra Hüller, Franz Rogowski, Peter Kurth, Henning Peker
Votes: 2,180
28. Di qiu zui hou de ye wan (2018)
110 min | Drama, Mystery
A man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.
Director: Gan Bi | Stars: Wei Tang, Jue Huang, Sylvia Chang, Hong-Chi Lee
Votes: 890
29. Oiktos (2018)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he's willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
Director: Babis Makridis | Stars: Evdoxia Androulidaki, Georgina Chryskioti, Yannis Drakopoulos, Makis Papadimitriou
Votes: 986
30. Sorry to Bother You (2018)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.
Director: Boots Riley | Stars: LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick
Votes: 34,214 | Gross: $17.49M
31. Kona fer í stríð (2018)
101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Halla, a woman in her forties, declares war on the local aluminum industry to prevent it from disfiguring her country. She risks all she has to protect the highlands of Iceland-but the ... See full summary »
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson | Stars: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada, Jörundur Ragnarsson
Votes: 1,707
32. A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
TV-MA | 122 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we... See full summary »
Director: Álvaro Brechner | Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín, Alfonso Tort, César Troncoso
Votes: 3,630
33. Rajma Chawal (2018)
117 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
An internet-rookie father attempts to use social media to enhance his faltering relationship with his millennial son.
Director: Leena Yadav | Stars: Amyra Dastur, Rishi Kapoor, Sheeba Chaddha, Aparshakti Khurana
Votes: 1,094
34. High Life (2018)
R | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, Mia Goth
Votes: 1,287
35. Madeline's Madeline (2018)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A theatre director's latest project takes on a life of its own when her young star takes her performance too seriously.
Director: Josephine Decker | Stars: Helena Howard, Molly Parker, Miranda July, Okwui Okpokwasili
Votes: 2,021 | Gross: $0.18M
36. Diamantino (2018)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Diamantino, the world's premiere soccer star loses his special touch and ends his career in disgrace. Searching for a new purpose, the international icon sets on a delirious odyssey where ... See full summary »
Directors: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt | Stars: Carloto Cotta, Cleo Tavares, Anabela Moreira, Margarida Moreira
Votes: 628
37. Climax (I) (2018)
R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Music
French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile
Votes: 13,713
38. Tarde Para Morir Joven (2018)
110 min | Drama
Democracy comes back to Chile during the summer of 1990. In an isolated community, Sofía (16), Lucas (16) and Clara (10), face their first loves and fears, while preparing for New Year's ... See full summary »
Director: Dominga Sotomayor Castillo | Stars: Demian Hernández, Antar Machado, Magdalena Tótoro, Matías Oviedo
Votes: 236
39. In Fabric (2018)
118 min | Comedy, Horror
In Fabric is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences..
Director: Peter Strickland | Stars: Gwendoline Christie, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Caroline Catz, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Votes: 497
40. Thunder Road (2018)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.
Director: Jim Cummings | Stars: Jim Cummings, Kendal Farr, Nican Robinson, Jocelyn DeBoer
Votes: 5,952
41. House of My Fathers (2018)
100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Two Sri Lankan villages - one Tamil, one Sinhala - have been at war with each other for decades. When, on both sides, villagers become infertile, they receive a message from the gods. A ... See full summary »
Director: Suba Sivakumaran | Stars: Steve De La Zilwa, Dharshan Dharmaraj, Bimal Jayakodi, Dasun Pathirana
Votes: 16
42. In My Room (2018)
119 min | Drama
A bored man suddenly realizes everyone around him has disappeared though he isn't sure what happened.
Director: Ulrich Köhler | Stars: Hans Löw, Elena Radonicich, Michael Wittenborn, Ruth Bickelhaupt
Votes: 207
43. Jonaki (2018)
90 min | Drama
While Jonaki, an 80-year-old woman, searches for love in a strange world of decaying memories, her lover, now old and grey, returns to a world she is leaving behind.
Director: Aditya Vikram Sengupta | Stars: Ratnabali Bhattacharjee, Lolita Chatterjee, Sumanto Chattopadhyay, Jim Sarbh
Votes: 62
44. The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain (2018)
Mystery
Director: Ridham Janve | Stars: Lokendra Gurung, Arjun Pant
Votes: 11
45. Mehsampur (2018)
99 min | Drama
A desperate filmmaker drives a neurotic actress and an aging musician to a village of trauma.
Director: Kabir Chowdhry | Stars: Lal Chand, Devrath Joshi, Navjot Randhawa, Jagjeet Sandhu
Votes: 18
46. Widows (2018)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki
Votes: 45,554 | Gross: $42.40M
Closing film
47. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
R | 114 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black
Votes: 11,821 | Gross: $1.44M
48. Double Lives (2018)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing industry and their wives.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne, Christa Théret
Votes: 846
49. Boy Erased (2018)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama