World Cinema Watched by Me in 28th KIFF
Watched 31 films including The Warm Blues, Samaresh Basu Projapati, First Snow and The Ocean Angel not available in IMDb.
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- DirectorLukas DhontStarsEden DambrineGustav De WaeleÉmilie DequenneThe intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.
- DirectorMejbaur Rahman SumonStarsChanchal ChowdhurySariful RazzNasir Uddin KhanMiracles about the life story of fishermen.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsJafar PanahiVahid MobasseriBakhtiyar PanjeeiTwo parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.
- DirectorAlejandro RojasJuan Sebastián VasquezStarsAlberto AmmannBruna CusíBen TempleA couple is flagged by a border agent and forced to endure an invasive probe into their lives.
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsYana KolsSeydulla MoldakhanovZhanel SergazinaAnticipation of Love has settled in a heart of a young lady. The borders between dream and passion are very elusive. Life is full of physical deprivations and sensual pleasures and the deep meaning of that all is Love of course. The deeper the feeling the more intense emotions. Each girl dreams to meet her love one day.
- DirectorSuman MukhopadhyayStarsTanmay DhananiaIndira TiwariNazarband is a 'love story' in its essence. Vasanti comes out from the prison after five years in the megalopolis of Kolkata to realize that her husband has not come to receive her. She waits in trepidation when Chandu approaches, who also got his release today. Chandu, a seasoned fraudster, offers to help and also has a vile purpose. Although not very comfortable with this weird man, Vasanti takes his support to find the way to her slums. But when they reach the place, she finds that a dazzling mall and few multi-storied buildings have replaced the slums. Without any clue about the whereabouts of his husband or her seven-years-old son, Vasanti is in complete despair. Chandu sticks with this stubborn woman in a journey that goes through the labyrinth of the city in search of her family. Political goons, flesh traders, police, real estate mafia get entangled in the narrative. It reveals the past of these two, who were unknown to each other until today morning. And they delve into the deeper crevices of their emotions and insecurities as they move erratically. It is a strange journey entwined in plethora of emotions: anxiety, distrust, dependence, hatred, care, greed, frustration and necessity. They run amok through the city of Kolkata, disappears into religious carnival and finally reaches the coalfields of Bihar. After fanatical, sometimes fatalistic, turns of events they reach the climactic moment that opens up multiple possibilities in Chandu and Vasanti's lives.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsAnna KarinaJean-Claude BrialyJean-Paul BelmondoAn exotic dancer is desperate to become a mother and accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.
- DirectorTarik SalehStarsTawfeek BarhomFares FaresMohammad BakriAdam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the center of power of Sunni Islam. Adam becomes a pawn in the conflict between Egypt's religious and political elites.
- DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsThobias ThorwidHarris DickinsonCharlbi DeanA fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsEnrique IrazoquiMargherita CarusoSusanna PasoliniThe life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
- DirectorCornel GheorghitaStarsMircea AndreescuFiruta ApetreiVictor ApetreiIn the Carpathians mountains, in a remote village, Irina lives with her brother, both orphans. They help their adoptive parents with the household chores. The young woman, born deaf-mute, has only one friend in the village: old Ciorsak, the church bell ringer. As often as she can, Irina retreats in nature, among wild animals that roam through the surrounding forests. In this idilic setting, suspended in time, a french crew arrives to make a documentary film about local traditions and customs, baptism, wedding and funeral. Martin, the cameraman, falls madly in love with Irina, who accepts his love. As the film confronts the beliefs and superstitions of the villagers, their love gradually turns into a macabre ritual.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsSong Kang-hoGang Dong-wonBae DoonaWhen a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsBrendan FraserSadie SinkTy SimpkinsA reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
- DirectorAleksandr KhantStarsIgor IvanovJenia VinogradovaOlga SakhanovaSasha and Danny, both 15, have sex for the first time. When Sasha's parents find out she has lost her virginity, all hell breaks loose. Her policeman stepfather forbids her to set foot outside the family home. Sasha has no intention of obeying. Danny and she run away together in protest against their parents and society as a whole. Their sudden freedom goes to their heads. Danny, who is normally quiet and unassuming, runs wild. Sasha's stepfather takes command of the search efforts. Once he catches the couple, he is determined to put Danny in juvenile prison. A harmless adventure escalates into an operation to arrest armed criminals.
- DirectorAntonio AmaralStarsJulien DarneyMahamat Amine BenrachidElisabeth MbakiThey are here, among us, grafted to humans. Everything goes wrong. They have seven days to leave Earth or they will be trapped here forever. Why does one of them keep delaying the moment of departure?
- DirectorSaim SadiqStarsAli JunejoRasti FarooqAlina KhanThe youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
- DirectorMano KhalilStarsJay AbdoSherzad AbdullahAbdeslam Suleiman AbedWith a fine sense of humor and satire, the film tells of a childhood, which, between dictatorship and dark drama, also has its light moments. How much friendship, love and solidarity are possible in times of repression and despotism?
- DirectorAlbert LewinStarsGeorge SandersHurd HatfieldDonna ReedA corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
- DirectorWissam CharafStarsClara CouturetZiad JalladRifaat TarabayBeirut, Lebanon. An impossible love story between an Ethiopian housemaid and a Syrian refugee whose body is witnessing mysterious changes.
- DirectorShahriar GalibStarsAnikMd EmonErfan SouravIn a dystopian world where AI already took over the world, A young man is searching for a mythological village where the dwellers living like old times.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsEmilio SakrayaMona PirzadKardo RazzaziCapturing the life of German hip-hop rapper, entrepreneur, and ex-convict Giwar Hajabi.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPaolo BonacelliGiorgio CataldiUberto Paolo QuintavalleIn World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
- DirectorPhilip ScheffnerStarsSadya BekkoucheThomas BlanchardThierry CantinZohra has received a French residence permit for medical reasons, but when her health improves, she is supposed to leave the country. In the summer heat of her small town, dreams and everyday life merge into a shimmering narrative.
- DirectorErnesto ArditoVirna MolinaStarsIsadora ArditoFidela CarrascoVictoria Lombardero CóIt's 1961 in the remote Argentinean Patagonia. A family of Nazi fugitives arrives at teen Frida's house looking for refuge, wanting to live a normal life with total impunity. How will this affect the youngest members of these two families?
- DirectorAlberto RodríguezStarsMiguel HerránJavier GutiérrezJesús CarrozaA young accountant, awaiting trial in 1977 for embezzlement with a possible 20 years sentence, joins a group of prisoners demanding amnesty.