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13th Bengaluru International Film Festival- Official Catalogue

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Murina Murina

2021 / Croatia, Brazil, ªÀÄÄjãÁ
USA, Slovenia /
Croatian, English / Tensions rise between a restless teen-
92 min. ager Julija and her oppressive father
Ante when an old family friend arrives
Director: at their Croatian island home. As Ante
Antoneta Alamat attempts to broker a life-changing
Kusijanović deal, their tranquil yet isolated exist-
Producer: Danijel ence leaves Julija wanting more from
Pek, Rodrigo Teixeira this influential visitor, who provides a
Editor: Vladimir taste of liberation over a weekend laid
Gojun bare to desire and violence.
Writer(s): Antoneta
Alamat Kusijanović, PÉÆæöAiÀiÁ ¢éÃ¥ÀzÀ°ègÀĪÀ ªÀÄ£ÉUÉ ¥sÁå«Ä° ¥sÉæAqï
Frank Graziano DUÀªÀÄ£ÀªÁUÀÄwÛzÀÝAvÉAiÉÄà C¸ÀªÀiÁzsÁ£À¢AzÀ PÀÄ¢AiÀÄÄwÛzÀÝ
DOP: Hélène ¨Á®Q dÄ°Ãd ºÁUÀÆ CªÀ¼À ¹qÀÄPÀ vÀAzÉ DAvÉ E§âjUÀÆ
Louvart (afc), Zoran DvÀAPÀ ±ÀÄgÀĪÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ. ¸ÀzÁ ªÀÄUÀ¼À£ÀÄß ¤AiÀÄAvÀætzÀ°èlÄÖ
Mikinčić-Budin PÉƼÀî¨ÉÃPÉA§ ºÀoÀ«gÀĪÀ vÀAzÉAiÀÄ£ÀÄß ©lÄÖ PÀÄlÄA§zÀ
Sound: Julij Zornik ²æêÀÄAvÀ ¸ÉßûvÀ£À eÉÆvÉ ºÉÆÃUÀ®Ä dįÉÃd ¤zsÀðj¸ÀÄvÁÛ¼É.
Music: Evgueni ¸ÀévÀAvÀæ fêÀ£ÀPÁÌV ºÁvÉÆgÉAiÀÄÄvÁÛ¼É.
Galperine, Sacha
Galperine
Cast: Gracija Fili-
povic, Danica Curcic,
Cliff Curtis, Leon
Lucev

Nominations Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Haifa IFF 2021-
Nominee Best De- She was born in Dubrovnik and is
but Film / Sarajevo based in New York. She has an MA
FF 2021- Nominee from the Academy of Dramatic Arts
Best Film / Sao Pau- in Zagreb and an MFA in screenwrit-
lo IFF 2021- Nomi- ing and directing from Columbia
nee Best Film
University. As a writer and director, her short films
Awards include NONINA (13), EYE FOR AN EYE (15), IF WE
Cannes FF 2021- MUST DIE (16), and INTO THE BLUE (17). MURINA (21)
Winner Golden is her first feature.
Camera

World Sales: 149
The Match Factory

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Tres Out of Sync

2021 / Spain, Lithua- Omï D¥sï ¹APï
nia, France /
Spanish, Catalan, C. is a talented sound designer, pas-
Galician / 104 min. sionate about her work. After deliv-
ering a few sound mixes with clear
Director: defects of synchronization, her em-
Juanjo Giménez ployers believe she is going through a
Producer: phase of psychological instability and
Luisa Romeo cannot trust her with new projects.
Editor: She will then realize that her brain pro-
Cristóbal Fernán- cesses sound later than images, just
dez like a film with a faulty soundtrack.
Writer(s): As the time-lapse extends, day after
Pere Altimira, Juanjo day, she will face hardships, be forced
Giménez to give up her job and reconsider her
DOP: whole life.
Javier Arrontes
Sound: ¥Àæw¨sÁªÀAvÀ ¸ËAqï JAf¤AiÀÄgï, r¸ÉÊ£Àgï DVgÀĪÀ `¹’ UÉ
Marc Bech, Oriol PÉ®¸ÀzÀ°è C¥ÁgÀ D¸ÀQÛ. PÉ®ªÀÅ zsÀé¤ «Ä±Àæt PÉ®¸ÀUÀ¼À£ÀÄß CªÀ¼ÀÄ
Tarragó ªÀiÁr ªÀÄÄV¹zÁUÀ zÀȱÀå¨sÁUÀUÀ¼ÀÆ, ±ÀæªÀå ªÀiÁzsÀåªÀĪÀÇ KPÀPÁ®PÉÌ
Music: ºÉÆAzÁtÂPÉ DV®è¢gÀĪÀÅzÀÄ PÀAqÀħgÀÄvÀÛzÉ.CªÀ¼ÀÄ ªÀiÁ£À¹PÀ
Domas Strupin- ¹ÜgÀvÉ PÀ¼ÉzÀÄPÉÆArgÀĪÀÅzÀ£ÀÄß ¸ÀA¸ÉÜAiÀĪÀgÀÄ UÀªÀĤ¸ÀÄvÁÛgÉ.
skas CzÉà jÃw CªÀ¼ÀÄ F »AzÉ EzÀÝ ¸ÀܼÀzÀ°è CªÀ¼À C£ÀÄ¥À¹ÜwAiÀÄ°è
Cast: £ÀqÉzÀ WÀl£ÉUÀ¼ÀÄ, ªÀiÁvÀÄPÀvÉ PÉüÀ¯ÁgÀA©ü¸ÀÄvÀÛªÉ. F jÃwAiÀÄ
Marta Nieto, Miki ªÀiÁ£À¹PÀ ¹Üw EgÀĪÀ EªÀ½AzÀ ªÀÄÄA¢£À AiÉÆÃd£ÉUÀ½UÉ
Esparbé vÉÆAzÀgÉAiÀiÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ ºÁUÀÆ CªÀ½UÉ dªÁ¨ÁÝj ªÀ»¸ÀĪÀÅzÀÄ
PÀµÀÖªÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ JAzÀÄ CªÀ¼À ¸ÀA¸ÉÜ AiÉÆÃa¸ÀÄvÀÛzÉ. ¹¤ªÀiÁUÀ¼À°è
Nominations ¸ËAqï mÁæöåPï PÉÊPÉÆlÖAvÉ, zÀȱÀåUÀ¼ÀÄ §AzÀÄ ºÉÆÃzÀ £ÀAvÀgÀ
Venice FF 2021- vÀ£Àß «ÄzÀļÀÄ zsÀé¤AiÀÄ£ÀÄß UÀ滸ÀÄwÛzÉ JA§ÄzÀÄ CjªÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ.
Nominee Giornate ¢£ÀUÀ¼ÉzÀAvÉ F ¥Àj¹Üw ©UÀqÁ¬Ä¸À¯ÁgÀA©ü¹zÀAvÉ CªÀ¼ÀÄ
degli Autori Award vÀ£Àß PÉ®¸ÀªÀ£ÀÄß ©qÀ¨ÉÃPÁzÀ MvÀÛqÀPÉÌ ¹®ÄPÀÄvÁÛ¼À®èzÉ, vÀ£Àß
/Palm Springs IFF Erà fêÀ£ÀzÀ ªÀÄÄA¢£À zÁjAiÀÄ §UÉÎ D¯ÉÆÃa¸À¨ÉÃPÁzÀ ¹Üw
2022- Nominee §gÀÄvÀÛzÉ.
Best Ibero-Ameri-
can Film Juanjo Giménez

Awards He was born in Barcelona. His last
Goya Awards 2022- short film, TIMECODE (2016), won
Winner Best Sound the Palm d’Or at Cannes for the
(Mejor Sonido) 2017 European Film Award for Best
Short Film. It was nominated for the
World Sales:
LE PACTE Academy Award for Best Short Film and the Goya in
the same category. In all, it has won more than 100
awards at film festivals the Juanjo Giménez - direc-
tor world over. Giménez has also directed the fea-
ture film NOS HACEMOS FALTA (TILT 2003), which
premiered at the Rotterdam FF, and two documen-
taries, CONTACT PROOF (2014) and ESQUIVQR Y
PERGAR (2010), as well as several other awarded
short films.

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Persischstunden Persian Lessons

2020 / Russia, Ger- ¥À¶ðAiÀÄ£ï ¯É¸É£ï
many, Belarus /
German, French, Ital- An unconventional friendship grows
ian, English, Persian. between the German chef of a con-
/ 127 min. centration camp kitchen Klaus Koch
and the young Belgian Jew Gilles. The
Director: latter falsely claims to be Persian to
Vadim Perelman survive a mass shooting and is now
Producer: obliged to teach Klaus a language he
Rauf Atamalibekov. only pretends to know.
Timur Bekmambetov,
Pavel Burya, Murad JgÀqÀ£Éà ªÀĺÁAiÀÄÄzÀÞzÀ ¸ÀªÀÄAiÀÄzÀ°è dªÀÄð£ï AiÀiÁvÀ£Á
Osmann, Vadim ²©gÀzÀ°è £ÀqÉAiÀÄĪÀ PÀvÉ. ¸ÁªÀÄÆ»PÀºÀvÉå¬ÄAzÀ vÀ¦à¹PÉƼÀÄîªÀ
Perelman, Ilya Stew- ¸À®ÄªÁV AiÉĺÀÆzÀå AiÀÄĪÀPÀ V¯Éè¸ï, vÀ£Àß vÁ¬Ä ¨É°ÓAiÀÄA
art, Ilya Tsofin ¤ªÁ¹ ºÁUÀÆ vÀAzÉ EgÁ¤ DzÀÄzÀjAzÀ £À£ÀUÉ ¥À¶ðAiÀÄ£ï
Editor: ¨sÁµÉ §gÀÄvÀÛzÉ JAzÀÄ ¸ÀļÀÄî ºÉüÀÄvÁÛ£É. EzÀ£ÀÄß £ÀA©zÀ qÉ¥ÀÄån
Vessela PÀªÀiÁAqÀgï £À£ÀUÉ ¥À¶ðAiÀÄ£ï ¨sÁµÉ PÀ°¸À¨ÉÃPÉA§ µÀgÀvÀÄÛ
Martschewski «¢ü¸ÀÄvÁÛ£É. ¥À¶ðAiÀÄ£ï ¨sÁµÉAiÀÄ MAzÀÄ ¥ÀzÀ PÀÆqÀ CjAiÀÄzÀ
Writer(s): V¯Éè¸ï CzÀ£ÀÄß M¦àPÉƼÀÄîvÁÛ£É. CqÀÄUÉ ªÀÄ£ÉAiÀÄ°è V¯Éè¸ïUÉ
Ilja Zofin, Wolfgang PÉ®¸À ªÀ»¸À¯ÁVgÀÄvÀÛzÉ. C°è ªÀÄ»¼Á ¸ÉʤPÀ ¹§âA¢AiÉÄà ºÉZÀÄÑ.
Kohlhaase PÀÆægÀªÁV ªÀwð¸ÀÄvÁÛgÉ. dªÀÄð¤AiÀÄ ªÀÄÄRå ¨Át¹UÀ£ÉƧâ£À
DOP: £ÉgÀ«¤AzÀ UÉÆwÛ®èzÀ ¨sÁµÉ PÀ°AiÀÄ®Ä ªÀÄÄAzÁUÀÄvÁÛ£É V¯Éè¸ï.
Vladislav Opelyants
Sound:
Javier Valdés, Boris
Voyt
Music:
Evgueni Galperine,
Sacha Galperine
Cast:
Nahuel Pérez Bisca-
yart, Lars Eidinger,
Jonas Nay, Leonie
Benesch

Nominations Vadim Perelman

Belarusian entry- He made his directorial debut in
Best International 2003 with HOUSE OF SAND AND
Feature Film at FOG. The film, starring Jennifer Con-
the 93rd Academy nelly and Ben Kingsley, was nom-
Awards / Golden inated for three Academy Awards
Rooster Awards
2021- Nominee and marked his first screenplay credit. His second
Best Foreign Lan- feature, THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES, starred Uma
guage Film / Beijing Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. He also estab-
IFF 2020- Nominee lished himself as an innovative director of commer-
Best Film cials (his clients included Microsoft, Panasonic, Nike
and Coors) and award-winning music videos.
Awards

Transatlantyk
Festival: Lodz
2020- Winner Best
Film

World Sales:
Memento Films
International

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Noche de fuego Prayers for the Stolen

2021 / Mexico, Ger- ¥ÉæAiÀÄgï ¥sÁgï ¢ ¸ÉÆÖî£ï

many, Brazil, Qatar /
Spanish / 110 min.

Director: In a solitary town nestled in the Mex-
Tatiana Huezo ican mountains, the girls wear boy-
Producer: ish haircuts and have hiding places
Nicolás Celis, Jim underground. Ana and her two best
Stark friends take over the houses of those
Editor: who have fled and dress up as women
Miguel Schverdfinger when no one is watching. Magic and
Writer(s): joy abound; meanwhile, their moth-
Tatiana Huezo ers train them to escape from those
DOP: who turn them into enslaved people
Dariela Ludlow or ghosts. But one day, one of the girls
Sound: doesn’t make it to her hideout in time.
Lena Esquenazi They were liberally adapted from Jen-
Music: nifer Clement’s eponymous 2014
Jacobo Lieberman novel.
and Leonardo
Heiblum ªÉÄQìPÉÆÃzÀ ¥ÀªÀðvÀ±ÉæÃtÂAiÀÄ°ègÀĪÀ ¤dð£À £ÀUÀgÀzÀ°è AiÀiÁªÀÅzÉÃ
Cast: AiÀÄÄzÀÞ ©üÃw¬Ä®è. ºÀ¢ºÀgÀAiÀÄzÀ ªÀÄƪÀgÀÄ ºÀÄqÀÄVAiÀÄgÀÄ
Ana Cristina Ordóñez ºÀÄqÀÄUÀgÀAvÉ PÉñÀ ±ÉÊ° §zÀ°¹PÉÆAqÀÄ CqÀUÀÄ vÁtzÀ°èzÁÝgÉ.
González, Marya ¸ÉʤPÀgÀ PÁlPÉÌ ºÉzÀj ¥ÀgÁjAiÀiÁVgÀĪÀ d£ÀgÀ ªÀÄ£ÉUÀ¼À°è ªÁ¸À
Membreño, Mayra ªÀiÁqÀÄvÁÛ, vÀªÀÄäzÉà dUÀwÛ£À°è PÀ£À¸ÀÄUÀ¼À£ÀÄß PÀnÖPÉƼÀÄîvÁÛgÉ.
Batalla ¸ÉʤPÀgÀ PÉÊ ¹PÀÄÌ zÁ¸ÀåPÉÌ M¼ÀUÁUÀĪÀÅzÀ£ÀÄß vÀ¦à¸À®Ä ºÀÄqÀÄVAiÀÄgÀ
vÁAiÀÄA¢gÀÄ ºÉtÄÚªÀÄPÀ̽UÉ vÀgÀ¨ÉÃw ¤ÃqÀÄvÁÛgÉ. DzÀgÉ MAzÀÄ
Nominations ¢£À ºÀÄqÀÄVAiÉƧâ¼ÀÄ CqÀUÀÄvÁtPÉÌ ¸ÀjAiÀiÁzÀ ¸ÀªÀÄAiÀÄzÀ°è
§AzÀÄ ¸ÉÃgÀĪÀÅ¢®è. eɤߥsÀgï PÉèªÉÄAmïì 2014 gÀ°è §gÉzÀ PÀÈw
Zurich FF 2021- DzsÀj¹zÀ avÀæ.
Nominee Best In-
ternational Feature
Film / Haifa IFF
2021- Nominee Best
International Film

Awards Tatiana Huezo
Cannes FF 2021-
Winner Un Certain Born in 1972 in El Salvador, Tatia-
Regard Award
- Special Mention na Huezo moved to Mexico City at
/San Sebast¡n age five. She is a graduate of the
IFF 2021- Winner prestigious Centro de CapacitaciÃ
Horizons Award,
TVE Otra Mirada Cinematografica (CCC), the Gucci/
Award
Ambulante award recipient, a grant established
World Sales: Mubi
in 2007 to support new and established Mexican
documentarians. Huezo has taught documentary

film at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
THE TINIEST PLACE is her first feature-length doc-
umentary.

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Bembeyaz Pure White

2021 / Turkey / ¥ÀÆågï ªÉÊmï
Turkish / 97 min.

Director: Vural’s life is the epitome of mundan-
Necip Caghan ity. Born and raised in a pious family,
Ozdemir he performs his duties as a father to a
Producer: young boy, a breadwinning husband,
Mustafa Karadeniz, and a caring son to his sick father.
Ahmet Berk Ozdemir, He runs a photography shop across
Necip Caghan the American Consulate in Istanbul.
Ozdemir Continuing the family traditions, he
Editor: preaches the lessons of the righteous
Ali Aga life to his son. Yet, Vural has a secret,
Writer(s): Necip a minor transgression of his faith: An
Caghan Ozdemir affair with Sonay, a young woman who
DOP: visits his shop for passport pictures
Hayk Kirakosyan she needs to apply for a visa to the US.
Sound:
Mustafa Bolukbasi, ªÀÇgÀ¯ï zsÀªÀÄð±ÀæzÉÞAiÀÄļÀî PÀÄlÄA§zÀ°è d¤¹zÀ PÁgÀt CªÀ£ÀÄ
Furkan Utku Gerçik, ¤AiÀÄwÛ£À ªÀÄ£ÀĵÀå JAzɤ¹PÉÆArzÁÝ£É. CªÀ£ÀÄ ¥ÀÄlÖ ¨Á®PÀ£À
Gunes Uyanik vÀAzÉAiÀiÁV, PÀÄlÄA§ ¥ÉÆõÀuÉUÉ zÀÄrzÀÄ vÀgÀĪÀªÀ£ÁV,
Music: C£ÁgÉÆÃUÀå¢AzÀ ºÁ¹UÉ »r¢gÀĪÀ ªÀÈzÀÞ vÀAzÉUÉ vÀPÀÌ
Tamer Ciray ªÀÄUÀ£ÁV vÀ£Àß PÀvÀðªÀå ¤ªÀð»¸ÀÄwÛzÁÝ£É. E¸ÁÛA§Ä¯ï£À°è
Cast: CªÉÄjPÀ PÁ£ÀÄì¯Émï PÀZÉÃj §½ ¥sÉÆÃmÉÆÃUÀæ¦ü ¸ÀÄÖrAiÉÆÃ
Mert Firat, Ece ElÄÖPÉÆAqÀÄ fêÀ£À ¤ªÀðºÀuÉ ªÀiÁqÀÄwÛzÁÝ£É. ¸ÀA¥ÀæzÁ¬ÄPÀ
Çesmioglu, Inanç PÀÄlÄA§¢AzÀ §AzÀªÀ£ÁzÀ PÁgÀt ¥ÀÄvÀæ¤UÀÆ ¸À£ÁäUÀðzÀ
Konukçu, Riza Akin, §Ä¢ÝªÀiÁvÀÄ ºÉüÀÄwÛgÀÄvÁÛ£É. ªÀÇgÀ¯ï PÀÆqÀ MAzÀÄ gÀºÀ¸ÀåªÀ£ÀÄß
Kubilay Tunçer §aÑnÖzÁÝ£É. CªÉÄjPÁPÉÌ vÉgÀ¼À®Ä «Ã¸Á ¥sÉÆÃmÉÆà vÉUɹPÉƼÀî®Ä
¸ÀÄÖrAiÉÆÃUÉ §A¢zÀÝ ¸ÉÆ£ÁAiÀiï JA§ AiÀÄĪÀwAiÀÄ eÉÆvÉ
Nominations ¸ÀA§AzsÀ ºÉÆA¢gÀĪÀÅzÀÄ CªÀ£À ¤µÉ×UÉ «gÀÄzÀÞªÁzÀ £ÀqÀªÀ½PÉ.
Sao Paulo IFF 2021- ¨ÉÃgÉÆAzÀÄ zÉñÀPÉÌ vÉgÀ½ CzÀȵÀÖ ¥ÀjÃPÉë ªÀiÁqÀĪÀ vÀ£ÀßzÉÃ
Nominee Best D¯ÉÆÃZÀ£ÉAiÀÄ°ègÀĪÀ ¸ÉÆ£ÁAiÀiï, ¨sÁªÀ£ÁvÀäPÀªÁV ªÀÇgÀ¯ï
Film / Shanghai eÉÆvÉ ªÁUÁézÀQ̽AiÀÄÄvÁÛ¼É. vÀ£Àß J®è £ÀA©PÉUÀ¼À£ÀÄß zÀÆgÀvÀ½î
IFF 2021- Nominee ªÀÇgÀ¯ï PÀpt ¤zsÁðgÀªÉÇAzÀPÉÌ §gÀ¯Éà ¨ÉÃPÁVzÉ.
Best Film
Necip Çağhan Özdemir
Awards
Malatya IFF The filmmaker resides in Los An-
2021- Winner Best geles, California. After his political
Actress / Antalya science and international relations
Golden Orange FF graduation at Bilkent University in
2021- Winner Best Turkey, Çağhan moved to the Unit-
Film
ed States, where he studied film and theatre. He
made the short movie HAPPINESS (2017). PURE
WHITE is his debut feature.

World Sales:
ArtHood Entertain-
ment GmbH

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Rickshaw Girl Rickshaw Girl

2021 / Bangladesh, jPÁë UÀ¯ïð
United States,
Germany / Daring and determined teenage girl Naima
English, Bengali / longs to earn money for her poor Bangla-
102 min. deshi family; however, her unrivalled artis-
tic talent is useless. When her father grows
Director: gravely ill, Naima feels she has no choice but
Amitabh Reza to leave her small village for the bright lights
Chowdhury of Dhaka. Naima finds the same econom-
Producer: ic, societal, and gender pressures faced by
Eric J. Adams, most young girls in Bangladesh in the big
Ziauddin Adil, Faridur city. She cleverly disguises herself as a boy
Reza Sagar and takes the difficult job of a rickshaw pull-
Editor: er. When her gender is revealed, and her
Navnita Sen livelihood vanishes, Naima finds an uncon-
Writer(s): ventional solution to her problems. Based
Naseef Amin, Mitali on the acclaimed novel by Mitali Perkins.
Perkins, Sharbari Z.
Ahmed ¨ÁAUÁèzÉñÀzÀ ºÀ¢ºÀgÀAiÀÄzÀ £ÉʪÀiÁ, avÀæPÀ¯ÉAiÀÄ°è wêÀæ D¸ÀQÛ
DOP: ºÉÆA¢gÀĪÀ ºÀÄqÀÄV. vÀ£Àß vÀAzÉAiÀÄ DPÀ¹äPÀ ¸Á«£À £ÀAvÀgÀ
Niclas Ribbarp, Tuhin ¸ÀA¸ÁgÀzÀ dªÁ¨ÁÝj ºÉÆgÀ¨ÉÃPÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ. ¨ÉÃgÉ zÁj E®èzÉ
Tamijul zÀÄrªÉÄUÁV qsÁPÁPÉÌ §gÀÄvÁÛ¼É. C°è£À ±ÉÆõÀuÉUÉ £ÉÆAzÀÄ
Music: Debojyoti ªÀÄgÀ½ ªÀÄ£ÉUÉ §gÀÄvÁÛ¼É. ¸ÀA¸ÁgÀzÀ dªÁ¨ÁÝj ºÉÆvÀÛ ªÉÄïÉ
Mishra ¸ÀĪÀÄä£É PÀĽvÀgÉ DUÀĪÀÅ¢®è. DzÀgÉ ºÉuÁÚVgÀĪÀÅzÀjAzÀ §zÀÄPÀÄ
Cast: ¸ÁUÀĪÀÅ¢®è J£ÀÄߪÀÅzÀ£ÀÄß ªÀÄ£ÀUÁtÄvÁÛ¼É. ºÀÄqÀÄUÀ£À ªÉõÀ
Novera Rahman vÉÆlÄÖ vÀ£Àß vÀAzÉAiÀÄ ªÀÈwÛAiÀiÁzÀ jPÁëUÁr J¼ÉAiÀÄĪÀ ªÀÈwÛ
Orishi, Naresh Bhu- DgÀA©ü¸ÀÄvÁÛ¼É. «ÄxÁ° ¥ÀQð£ïì PÁzÀA§j DzsÀj¹zÀ avÀæ.
iyan, Allen Shubhro
Games, Momena
Chowdhry, Gulshan
Champa

Awards Amitabh Reza Chowdhury

Mill Valley FF 2021- He has been directing film, tele-
Winner Audience vision and commercials in Dhaka
Award / Internation- and beyond for over 15 years. His
al Film Festival for
Children and Young most recent feature film, Anyabaji,
Audience SCHLiN- received eight international and na-
GEL 2021- Winner
SLM Top Award tional film awards. He has won numerous Bangla-
deshi Critics Awards, including Best Director for his
work EKTI PHON KORA JABE PLEASE and
SOMOYE, and Best Screenplay for SEI BHOBONEY
IN MERIL PROTHOM ALO.
A graduate of Pune University, Amitabh has also

studied film and the American film industry as a
guest of the United States government’s Interna-
tional Visitor Leadership Program.

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Las niñas School Girls/ The Girls

2020 / Spain / ¸ÀÆ̯ï UÀ¯ïìð
Spanish / 97 min.

Director: SCHOOLGIRLS is the story of Celia, an
Pilar
Palomero 11-year-old girl who studied at a nuns’
Producer: school in 1992. Celia is a good girl; she
Valérie Delpierre, is a responsible student and a consid-
Alex Lafuente erate daughter. The arrival of a new
Editor: classmate will open a little window
Sofia Escudé through which Celia will discover a
Writer(s): whole new world.
Pilar Palomero Together with her new friend and
DOP: some older girls, Celia will enter a new
Daniela Cajías stage of her life: adolescence, the stage
Sound: of first-times. Her body needs to ex-
Alejandra Molina, periment, try new things, and stop be-
Amanda Villavieja ing a little girl, even if that entails con-
Music: fronting her mother and everything
Carlos Naya that means comfort and security.
Cast: Andrea
Fandos, Natalia de
Molina, Francesca
Piñón

Nominations ºÀ£ÉÆßAzÀÄ ªÀµÀð ªÀAiÀĹì£À ¹°AiÀiÁ PÉæöʸÀÛ ¸À£Á幤AiÀÄgÀÄ
£ÀqɸÀÄwÛzÀÝ ±Á¯ÉAiÀÄ «zÁåyð¤. CvÀåAvÀ ªÀÄÄUÉÞAiÀiÁVgÀĪÀ
Berlin IFF 2020- ¹°AiÀiÁ ºÉÆgÀ ¥Àæ¥ÀAZÀzÀ C£ÀĨsÀªÀªÉà E®èzÉ, vÁ£Á¬ÄvÀÄ vÀ£Àß
Best First Feature, NzÁ¬ÄvÀÄ JAzÀÄ EzÀݪÀ¼ÀÄ. ±Á¯ÉUÉ ¨Á¹ð¯ÉÆäAiÀiÁzÀ ºÀÄqÀÄV
Best Film / Torino ºÉƸÀzÁV §AzÀÄ ¸ÉÃjzÀ £ÀAvÀgÀ CªÀ¼À ªÀÄÆ®PÀ ¹°AiÀiÁ
FF 2020- Best Fea- ºÉƸÀ ¥Àæ¥ÀAZÀPÉÌ ¥ÀæªÉò¸ÀÄvÁÛ¼É. vÀ£Àß fêÀ£ÀzÀ ºÀ¢ºÀgÀAiÀÄzÀ
ture Film WÀlÖzÀ°è vÀ£À߯ÁèUÀÄwÛgÀĪÀ zÉÊ»PÀ ¨É¼ÀªÀtÂUÉUÀ¼À°è vÀ£Àß zÉúÀªÀ£ÀÄß
¥ÀæAiÉÆÃUÀUÀ½UÉ MrØPÉƼÀÄîªÀ PÁvÀgÀzÀ°è ¹°AiÀiÁ ¸ÀéZÀÒAzÀ
¥Àæ¥ÀAZÀzÀ C£ÀĨsÀªÀªÀ£ÀÄß PÁtÄvÁÛ¼É.

Awards

San Sebast¡n IFF Pilar Palomero
2020 Winner-Dunia
Ayaso Award / Goya She was born in Zaragoza (Spain).
Awards 2021 Win- In 2013, Pilar began an MFA in film-
ner- Best New Di- making at Film Factory (Sarajevo)
rector, Best Original under the leadership of Hungarian
Screenplay, Best
Cinematography, filmmaker Bela Tarr. Before, she
Best Film /
Málaga Spanish worked for several years as a screenwriter and film
FF 2020 - Winner teacher. Her short films have been screened at the
Feroz Puerta Oscu- festivals such as Warsaw IFF, Sarajevo FF, DocLis-
ra Award - Best Film boa, St. Louis IFF, Festival de Cine de Huesca, Festi-
val de Malaga, Busan International Short FF, among
World Sales: Film others.
Factory

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Si le vent tombe Should the Wind Drop

2020 / France, Ar- ±ÀÄqï ¢ «Aqï qÁæ¥ï
menia, Belgium /
French, Armenian, Frenchman Alain, an international au-
English, Russian / ditor, has come to assess the airport in
100 min. a self-proclaimed republic in the Cau-
casus to approve its reopening. Edgar,
Director: a local boy, wanders around the air-
Nora Martirosyan port, involved in a strange trade. The
Producer: man and the child end up meeting
Sister Productions, one another.
Aneva Production,
Kwassa Films CAvÀgÀgÁ¶ÖçÃAiÀÄ «ªÀiÁ£À vÀAvÀædÕ C¯ÉÊ£ï, ¸ÀéAiÀÄA WÉÆövÀ
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Olivier Torres, Nora ¨Á®PÀ£ÉƧâ PÀtÂÚUÉ ©Ã¼ÀÄvÁÛ£É. ¨Á®PÀ£À PÉ®¸À PÀAqÀÄ
Martirosyan «¸ÀäAiÀÄPÉÆ̼ÀUÁzÀ D E£ïì ¥ÉPÀÖgï, ¨Á®PÀ£À£ÀÄß ¨sÉÃnAiÀiÁzÁUÀ Cw
DOP: aPÀÌ ¸ÀªÀÄÄzÁAiÀĪÉÇAzÀgÀ ºÉÆÃgÁlzÀ §zÀÄPÀÄ ©aÑPÉƼÀÄîvÀÛªÉ.
Simon Roca
Sound:
Anne Dupouy
Music:
Pierre-Yves Cruaud
Cast:
Grégoire Colin , Hayk
Bakhryan, Arman
Navasardyan, David
Hakobyan, Vartan
Petrossian, Narine
Grigoryan

Nominations

Armenian entry-
Best International
Feature Film at
the 94th Academy
Awards

Awards Nora Martirosyan

Tallinn Black Nights She is a graduate of the Art Acad-
FF 2020 Win- emy in Yerevan, Armenia, and the
ner- First Feature State Academy of Fine Arts, in Am-
Competition / Inter- sterdam. In 2010, she directed the
national Film Fes- documentary short LES COMPLIC-
tival and Forum on
Human Rights 2021 ES. SHOULD THE WIND DROP is her feature debut.
Winner- Special She currently lives and works in Montpelier, France.
Mention of the Jury

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A feleségem The Story of My Wife
története
¢ ¸ÉÆÖÃj D¥sï ªÉÄÊ ªÉÊ¥sï
2021 / Hungary,
France, Germany, Jakob Störr, a Dutch seasoned sea cap-
Italy / tain, makes a bet in a café to marry the
English, Dutch, first woman who enters the place. And
French, German, then in walks Lizzy.
Italian / 169 min.
eÁPÀÆ¨ï ºÀqÀUÉÆAzÀgÀ PÁå¥ÀÖ£ï. PÉ¥sÉAiÀÄ°è ¸ÉßûvÀ£ÉÆA¢UÉ
Director: PÀĽwgÀĪÁUÀ MAzÀÄ ¨Émï PÀlÄÖvÁÛ£É. F ¸ÀܼÀPÉÌ DUÀ«Ä¸ÀĪÀ
Ildikó Enyedi ªÉÆzÀ® ªÀÄ»¼ÉAiÀÄ£ÀÄß ªÀÄzÀĪÉAiÀiÁUÀĪÀÅzÁV ¨Émï PÀlÄÖvÁÛ£É. D
Producer: ¸ÀªÀÄAiÀÄPÉÌ ¸ÀjAiÀiÁV C°èUÉ °fAiÀÄ ¥ÀæªÉñÀªÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ. PÁzÀA§j
Monika Mécs, Ernö DzsÁjvÀ ¥ÉæêÀÄPÁªÀå.
Mesterházy, András
Muhi
Editor:
Károly Szalai
Writer(s):
Ildikó Enyedi, Milán
Füst
DOP:
Marcell Rév
Sound: Noemi
Hampel
Music:
Ádám Balázs
Cast:
Léa Seydoux, Louis
Garrel, Gijs Naber

Nominations

Cannes FF 2021-
Nominee Palme
d’Or

Awards Ildikó Enyedi

Otranto FF 2021- She was born in Budapest, where
Winner Best she studied economics and film-
Director making. Her feature films include
the Festival selections like MY
TWENTIETH CENTURY (89), MAGIC

HUNTER (94), SIMON, THE MAGICIAN (99), and ON
BODY AND SOUL (17). THE STORY OF MY WIFE (21)
is her latest film.

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Bashtata The Father

2020 / Bulgaria, ¢ ¥sÁzÀgï
Greece /

Bulgarian / 90 min.

Director: A day after Valentina’s passing, her be-
Petar Valchanov, reaved husband Vassil and son Pavel
Kristina Grozeva find out that she persistently keeps
Producer: trying to call the neighbour on the
Petar Valchanov, phone. A sucker for the supernatural,
Kristina Grozeva, Ko- Vassil sets out on a trip to meet a fa-
stantina Stavrianou, mous medium, forcing his estranged
Irini Vougioukalou son Pavel to tag along and make sure
Editor: his nutty old dad stays out of harm’s
Petar Valchanov way. The unhinged journey that fol-
Writer(s): lows will make them face the guilt
Petar Valchanov, they feel towards the one they lost and
Kristina Grozeva, rediscover their relationship.
Decho Taralezhkov
DOP: ªÁ¯ÉAn£Á ¸ÀvÀÛ ºÀ®ªÀÅ ¢£ÀUÀ¼À £ÀAvÀgÀ CªÀ¼À ¥Àw ªÁ¹¯ï ºÁUÀÆ
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Music: G£ÀävÀÛ ªÀÈzÀÞ vÀAzÉAiÀÄ «ZÁgÀuÉAiÀÄÆ £ÀqÉAiÀÄÄvÀÛzÉ. CªÀåªÀ¸ÉÜAiÀÄ
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Cast: PÀ¼ÉzÀÄ ºÉÆÃzÀ ¸ÀA§AzsÀUÀ¼À ¥ÀÄ£Àgï ±ÉÆÃzsÀ£ÉAiÀiÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ.
Ivan Barnev, Ivan
Savov

Nominations

Haifa IFF 2019-
Nominee Best
International Film
/ Sofia IFF 2020-
Nominee Grand Prix

Awards Petar Valchanov holds a degree

Karlovy Vary IFF in film and television from the
2019- Winner Best National Academy of Theatre and
Film / Golden
Rose 2019- Winner Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Best Actor Award,
Best Screenwriter Kristina Grozeva was born in
Award, Best Film
Sofia and holds a degree in jour-

nalism from the University of Sofia.

latest film.
Together they have directed, the documentary
PARABLE OF LIFE (10), THE SHORT JUMP (12), and
THE FEATURE THE LESSON (14), which played the
Festival. THE FATHER (19) is his latest film.

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Guled & Nasra The Gravedigger’s Wife

2021 / France, ¢ UÉæêï rUÀÎgïì ªÉÊ¥sï
Somalia, Germany,
Finland / Middle-aged Guled, a struggling
Somali / 83 min. gravedigger living in the slums of Dji-
bouti city, is working hard to make
Director: ends meet. His beloved wife Nasra,
Khadar Ayderus who suffers from a chronic kidney dis-
Ahmed ease, desperately needs a transplant.
Producer: An appropriate donor is found, but it’s
Robin Boespflug Vo- not the end of the struggle. In order to
nier, Martin Hampel, buy the kidney, Guled should be able
Misha Jaari, Thanas- to collect in only two weeks as much
sis Karathanos, money as a gravedigger normally
Mark Lwoff, Risto earns in a year.
Nikkilä, Stéphane
Parthenay rf¨ÉÆn £ÀUÀgÀzÀ PÉƼÀUÉÃj ¤ªÁ¹ UÀįÉÃzï, ¸ÀªÀiÁ¢ü
Editor: vÉÆÃqÀĪÀ PÉ®¸À ªÀiÁqÀÄvÁÛ §zÀÄPÀÄ ¸ÁV¸ÀÄwÛzÁÝ£É. Erà ¢£ÀzÀ
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DOP: ºÉÆA¢¸ÀĪÀÅzÁzÀgÀÆ ºÉÃUÉ? Erà ªÀµÀð ¸ÀªÀiÁ¢ü vÉÆÃqÀĪÀÅzÀ-
Arttu Peltomaa jAzÀ ¹UÀĪÀ ºÀtªÀ£ÀÄß F §qÀ UÀįÉÃzï JgÀqÉà ªÁgÀzÀ°è
Sound: ºÉÆA¢¸ÀĪÀÅzÁzÀgÀÆ ºÉÃUÉ?
Karri Niinivaara
Music:
Andre Matthias
Cast:
Yasmin Warsame,
Omar Abdi, Khadar
Abdoul-Aziz Ibrahim

Nominations Khadar Ayderus Ahmed

Palm Springs IFF He is a Finnish Somali writer-direc-
2022- Nominee tor born in Mogadishu. He has di-
FIPRESCI Prize /
Cannes FF 2021- rected several short films, including
Nominee Critics’ THE NIGHT THIEF (17). THE GRAVE-
Week Grand Prize, DIGGER’S WIFE (21) is his feature
Golden Camera
debut.
Awards

Toronto IFF 2021-
Winner Amplify
Voices Award / Afri-
can Movie Academy
Awards 2021- Win-
ner Best Film, Best
Actor in a Leading
Role

World Sales: 159
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The Man Who Sold The Man Who Sold His Skin

His Skin ¢ ªÀiÁå£ï ºÀÆ ¸ÉÆïïØ »¸ï ¹Ì£ï

2020 / Tunisia / Sam Ali, a young, sensitive and impul-
Arabic, English / sive Syrian left his country for Leba-
100 min. non to escape the war. To be able to
travel to Europe and live with the love
Director: of his life, he accepts to have his back
Kaouther Ben Hania tattooed by one of the World’s most
Producer: sulfurous contemporary artist. Turning
Nadim Cheikhrouha, his own body into a prestigious piece
Habib Attia, Thanas- of art, Sam will however come to re-
sis Kharathanos, alize that his decision might actually
Annabella Nezri mean anything but freedom.
Editor:
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Writer(s): ¹jAiÀiÁzÀ AiÀÄĪÀPÀ ¸ÁªÀiïC°, AiÀÄÄzÀÞ¢AzÀ ¥ÁgÁUÀ®Ä zÉñÀ
Kaouther Ben Hania vÉÆgÉzÀÄ ¯É§£Á¤UÉ vÉgÀ¼ÀÄvÁÛ£É. ¥ÀæªÁ¸À ºÁUÀÆ §zÀÄPÀ£ÀÄß
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Christopher Aoun ¸ÀªÀÄPÁ°Ã£À ªÀÄÆå¹AiÀÄA£À°è PÀ¯Á«zÀgÀ PÁå£Áé¹UÉ vÀ£Àß
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Amin Bouhafa PÁuÉAiÀiÁUÀÄwÛgÀĪÀÅzÀÄ CªÀgÀ UÀªÀÄ£ÀPÉÌ §gÀÄvÀÛzÉ. GzÉÝñÀ ªÀÄgÉvÀÄ
Cast: vÀ£ÀߣÀÄß vÁ£ÀÄ ªÀiÁjPÉÆArgÀĪÀÅzÀÄ CjªÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ.
Yahya Mahayni, Dea
LianeMonica, Bel-
lucciKoen De Bouw,
Wim Delvoye

Nominations

Academy Awards,
USA 2021- Nominee
Best International
Feature Film

Awards Kaouther Ben Hania
Venice FF- Winner
Venice Horizons She was born in Tunisia and studied
Award, Best Actor cinema in Tunis (EDAC). She has a
/Stockholm
FF- Winner Best Master’s in Film and Audiovisual
screenplay / El Studies from Sorbonne Nouvelle,
Gouna FF- Winner Paris. Her first feature CHALLAT OF
Best Arab film
TUNIS opened the Acid section at Cannes (2014).
World Sales: Her feature documentary ZAINEB HATES THE
BAC Films SNOW premiered at Locarno (2016), won Golden
Tanit at Carthage, and premiered at several IFF.
BEAUTY AND THE DOGS won Best Sound Crea-
tionin at Cannes (2017)

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Sheytan vojud na- There Is No Evil
darad
zÉÃgï F¸ï £ÉÆà E«¯ï
2020 / Iran,
Germany /
Persian / 152 min.

Director: Every country that enforces the death
Mohammad Rasoulof penalty needs people to kill other peo-
Producer: ple. Four men are faced with an un-
Mohammad Rasou- thinkable but straightforward choice.
lof, Kaveh Farnam, Whatever they decide will directly or
Farzad Pak indirectly corrode them, their relation-
Editor: ships, and their entire lives.
Mohammadreza
Muini, Meysam Muini AiÀiÁªÀÅzÉà zÉñÀzÀ¯ÁèzÀgÀÆ ¸Àj ªÀÄgÀtzÀAqÀ£É JAzÀgÉ M§â
Writer(s): ªÀåQÛ ªÀÄvÉÆÛ§â£À£ÀÄß PÉÆ®ÄèªÀÅzÉà DVzÉ. ¥ÀgÀ¸ÀàgÀ ¸ÀA§AzsÀ«gÀĪÀ
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DOP: ¤ÃqÀ¯ÁVzÉ. CªÀgɯÁè zÀéAzÀézÀ°èzÁÝgÉ. CªÀgÀÄ K£Éà ¤zsÁðgÀPÉÌ
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Sound: J®èªÀÇ CªÀgÀ£ÀÄß «£Á±ÀzÀvÀÛ vÀ¼ÀÄîªÀÅzÀÄ ¤²ÑvÀ.
Philipp Kemptner,
Hasan Mahdavi,
Music:
Amir Molookpour
Cast:
Ehsan Mirhosseini,
Shaghayegh Shouri-
an, Kaveh Ahangar,
Alireza Zareparast

Nominations

Valladolid IFF-

Nominee Golden

Spike / Asian Film

Awards- Nominee

Best Film

Awards Mohammad Rasoulof

Berlin IFF- Winner He was born in 1972 in Shiraz, Iran.
Golden Bear - Best His debut feature film is THE TWI-
Film, Prize of the LIGHT (GAGOOMAN). He won the
Ecumenical Jury, Best Director for GOODBYE (BE
Guild Film Prize / OMID-E DIDAR) at Cannes. MANU-
Valladolid IFF-
Winner Best Di- SCRIPTS DON’T BURN won the FIPRESCI Prize at
rector, Sao Paulo Cannes. A MAN OF INTEGRITY won the top prize in
IFF- Winner Best the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film
Foreign film Festival in 2017.

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Eyimofe This Is My Desire

2020 / Nigeria, USA / ¢¸ï F¸ï ªÉÄÊ r¸ÉÊgï
English / 116 min.
Set in Lagos, this movie follows the stories of
Director: Mofe, a factory technician, and Rosa, a hair-
Arie Esiri, Chuko dresser, on their quest for what they believe
Esiri will be a better life on foreign shores.
Producer: A passport, some photos and a visa form
Melissa Adeyemo, recurring elements. The characters’ misfor-
Arie Esiri, Chuko tunes are part of their everyday life while
Esiri they are sketching out the need to leave Ni-
Editor: geria. At the bottom of the socio-economic
Andrew Stephen Lee ladder, status, money, gender, skin colour
Writer(s): and family structures are inextricably con-
Chuko Esiri nected. The longing for another life is but
DOP: one thread in this complex mesh -- a prom-
Arseni Khachaturan ise that floats above things at once -- near
Sound: and far away.
Bryn Neuenschwan-
der ªÀÄzsÀå ªÀAiÀĹì£À J¯ÉQÖçPï JAf¤AiÀÄgï ªÉÆ¥sÉ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ ºÉÃgïqÉæ¸Àgï
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Lala Akindoju ºÀt °AUÀ, ZÀªÀÄðzÀ §tÚ ºÁUÀÆ PÀÄlÄA§zÀ »£Éß¯É EªÉ®èªÀÇ
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Nominations §zÀ°¹PÉƼÀÄîªÀÅzÀÄ CµÉÆÖAzÀÄ ¸ÀĮĨsÀzÀ ªÀiÁvÀ®è. DzÀgÀÆ F
Berlin IFF 2020- AiÀÄĪÀd£ÀvÉUÉ J¯ÉÆèà MAzÀÄ D±Á¨sÁªÀ.
Nominee Best First
Feature

Awards Arie Esiri Studying photography

Sao Paulo IFF in Paris, Arie honed his craft before
2020- Winner New returning to England where he
Directors Competi- worked in the camera departments
tion- Best Fiction / on several projects. He has a Mas-
San Francisco IFF
2021- Winner Best ter’s in Fine Arts from Columbia
Director / Seattle University in New York.
IFF 2021- Winner
New Directors Chuko Esiri, A law graduate, Chuko moved to
Competition
New York and interned at The Gersh Agency and In-
World Sales:
Pascale Ramonda novative Artists where he discovered film school. He
has a Masters in Fine Arts from NYU where he was
a Purple List Winner with THIS IS MY DESIRE script.

162 Cinema Of the World

13th Biffes

This Is Not a Buri- This Is Not a Burial, It’s a
al, It’s a Resurrec- Resurrection
tion
¢¸ï F¸ï £Ámï J §jAiÀįï,
2020 / Lesotho, Emïì J gÉøÀÄgÉðPÀë£ï
South Africa, Italy /
Sotho / 120 min. Amongst the pythonic mountains of
the land-locked Lesotho, an 80-year-
Director: old widow winds up her earthly affairs,
Lemohang Jeremiah makes arrangements for her burial
Mosese and prepares to die.
Producer: But when her village is threatened
Cait Pansegrouw, with forced resettlement due to the
Elias Ribeiro construction of a reservoir, she finds a
Editor: new will to live and ignites a collective
Lemohang Jeremiah spirit of defiance within her commu-
Mosese nity. In the final dramatic moments of
Writer(s): her life, Mantoa’s legend is forged and
Lemohang Jeremiah made eternal.
Mosese
DOP: zÀQët D¦üæPÁzÀ zÀlÖ ¥ÀªÀðvÀ±ÉæÃtÂAiÀÄ £ÀqÀÄªÉ EgÀĪÀ ¥ÀÄlÖUÁæªÀÄ
Pierre de Villiers ¯É¸ÉvÉÆzÀ°ègÀĪÀ JA§vÀÄÛ ªÀµÀð ªÀAiÀĹì£À «zsÀªÉ ªÀÄ£ÉÆÃlUÉ
Sound: §zÀÄPÀÄ ¸ÁPÁVzÉ. ¨Á¼ÀÄ PÉÆ£ÉUÁt¹PÉƼÀî®Ä ¤zsÀðj¹zÀ DPÉ,
Pressure Cooker vÀ£Àß CAvÀåQæAiÉÄAiÀÄ ¹zÀÞvÉUÀ¼À£ÀÄß ªÀiÁrPÉÆArzÁݼÉ. DzÀgÉ
Studios D UÁæªÀÄzÀ°è CuÉPÀlÄÖ PÀlÄÖªÀ ¸ÀPÁðgÀzÀ GzÉÝñÀ¢AzÁV vÀ£Àß
Music: ¥ÀÄlÖ UÁæªÀÄ ªÀÄļÀÄUÀĪÀÅzÀ£ÀÄß ºÁUÀÆ UÁæªÀĸÀÜgÀÄ ¨ÉÃgÉqÉ ªÀ®¸É
Yu Miyashita ºÉÆÃUÀ¨ÉÃPÁV §AzÀ ¸ÀÄ¢Ý w½zÀÄ DPÉ vÀ£Àß ¤zsÁðgÀ¢AzÀ
Cast: »AzÉ ¸ÀjAiÀÄÄvÁÛ¼É. vÀ£Àß ¸ÀªÀÄÄzÁAiÀÄzÀ G½«UÁV
Mary Twala, Jerry ºÉÆÃgÁlQ̽AiÀÄÄvÁÛ¼É. CªÀ¼ÉÆAzÀÄ ºÉÆÃgÁlzÀ QZÁÑV
Mofokeng, Makhaola §zÀ¯ÁUÀÄvÁÛ¼É.
Ndebele.

Nominations

Academy Awards

2021 Lesothos

nomination for the

Oscar

Awards Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Sundance IFF 2020
Winner- Special He is a self-taught filmmaker from
Jury Prize for Vi- Lesotho, and is based in Berlin. His
sionary Filmmaking film MOTHER won six awards at the
/ Taipei IFF 2020- Final Cut in Venice workshop and
Winner Grand went on to premiere at the 2019
Jury Prize /Haifa
IFF 2020- Winner Berlin IFF. He was one of three filmmakers select-
Carmel Competition ed for the Biennale College Cinema lab, with his

World Sales: feature film THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESUR-
Memento Films RECTION. Mosese is an alumnus of many programs,
International including Focus Features’ Africa First and Cin’fon-
dation’s L’Atelier.

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13th Biffes

Razzhimaya Unclenching The Fists
Kulaki
C£ï PÉèAaAUï ¢ ¦ü¸ïÖ÷ì
2021 / Russia /
Russian, Ossetian / High in the mountains of North Os-
97 min. setia, a small mining town of Mizur
nestles between the sheer cliffs. Fol-
Director: lowing certain dramatic events, Zaur
Kira Kovalenko moved his children Ada, Akim and
Producer: Dakko here. Zaur is a strict father who
Alexander Rod- values discipline above all and doesn’t
nyansky, Sergey know the difference between care and
Melkumov overprotection. His eldest son, Akim,
Editor: already escaped from his father to
Mukharam Kabulova, work in Rostov, the closest city to Mi-
Vincent Deyveaux zur. His younger brother, Dakko, is yet
Writer(s): to decide what he wants from life, and
Kira Kovalenko, An- their sister Ada is actively planning her
ton Yarush, Luybov escape. She is a grown woman but her
Mulmenko father still treats her like a baby. Ada
DOP: soon realizes how hard it is to escape
Pavel Fomintsev her father’s embrace and begin her
Sound: new life. The return of her older broth-
Rostislav Alimov er Akim will illuminate the family’s un-
Cast: spoken and unhealed traumas.
Milana Aguzarova, GvÀÛgÀ M¸ÁnAiÀiÁzÀ ¥ÀªÀðvÀ ±ÉæÃtÂUÀ¼À £ÀqÀÄªÉ ¸ÀtÚzÁzÀ UÀtÂ
Alik Karaev, Soslan £ÀUÀgÀ «ÄdÆgï, PÀrzÁzÀ ¥Àæ¥ÁvÀzÀ £ÀqÀÄªÉ EzÉ. £ÁlQÃAiÀÄ
Khugaev, Khetag ¨É¼ÀªÀtÂUÉAiÉÆAzÀgÀ°è eËgï, vÀ£Àß ªÀÄPÀ̼ÁzÀ CzÁ, CQÃA ºÁUÀÆ
Bibilov, Arsen qÁPÀÆ eÉÆvÉ C°èUÉ §AzÀÄ £É®¸ÀÄvÁÛ£É. ªÀÄPÀ̼À ¥Á°UÉ CvÀåAvÀ
Khetagurov, Milana ²¹Û£À vÀAzÉ. DvÀ JµÀÄÖ PÀptªÀÄ£À¹ì£ÀªÀ£ÁVzÀÝ £ÉAzÀgÉ DvÀ¤UÉ
Pagieva M®«UÀÆ, CwAiÀiÁzÀ gÀPÀëuÉUÀÆ ªÀåvÁå¸ÀªÉà UÉÆwÛ®è. DvÀ£À zÉÆqÀØ
ªÀÄUÀ CQÃA gÉƸÉÆÛêï£À°è PÉ®¸À ºÀÄqÀÄQPÉÆAqÀÄ vÀAzɬÄAzÀ
Nominations zÀÆgÀªÁVzÁÝ£É. ªÀÄvÉÆۧ⠥ÀÄvÀæ qÁPÀÆ J°è ºÉÆÃV £É¯É¸À¨ÉÃPÀÄ
Zurich FF 2021- J£ÀÄߪÀÅzÀ£ÀÄß E£ÀÆß ¤zsÀðj¹®è. DvÀ£À ¥ÀÄwæ CzÁ vÀ£Àß vÀAzÉAiÀÄ
Nominee Best In- »rvÀ¢AzÀ vÀ¦à¹PÉÆAqÀÄ ¥ÀgÁjAiÀiÁUÀ¨ÉÃPÀÄ JAzÀÄ ¤zsÀð-
ternational Feature j¹zÁݼÉ. CªÀ½ÃUÀ ªÀAiÀĸÉÌ DzÀgÀÆ DvÀ£À vÀAzÉ CªÀ¼À£ÀÄß
Film / Sao Paulo IFF ªÀÄUÀÄ«£À jÃw £ÉÆÃrPÉƼÀÄîwÛzÁÝ£É. EzÀjAzÀ ¨ÉøÀgÀUÉÆAqÀ
2021- Nominee Best CzÁ ¨ÉÃUÀ£É vÀAzÉAiÀÄ ©V »rvÀ¢AzÀ ¥ÁgÁUÀ ¨ÉÃPÀÄ JAzÀÄ
Film / San Sebast¡n ºÀA§°¸ÀÄwÛzÁݼÉ. F £ÀqÀÄªÉ CzÁ¼À zÉÆqÀØ CtÚ ªÀÄ£ÉUÉ ªÀÄgÀ½
IFF 2021- Nominee §gÀÄvÁÛ£É. PÀÄlÄA§zÀ°è ºÉƸÀvÀgÀ ¤jÃPÉë PÀAqÀħgÀÄwÛzÉ.
Zabaltegi-Tab-
akalera Prize

Awards Kira Kovalenko

Cannes FF 2021- Kira Kovalenko is a writer and di-
Winner Un Certain rector born in Nalchik, Russia. She
Regard Award / Eu- graduated from Kabardino-Balka-
ropean Film Awards ria State University. Her previous
2021- Winner Euro- films include the shorts MAREVO
pean Editor
(12), THE SKY SEEMED TOO HIGH (13), THEY ABAN-
DONED ME (14), and the feature SOFICHKA (16).
UNCLENCHING THE FISTS (21) is her latest feature.

World Sales: Cinema Of the World
Wild Bunch

164

13th Biffes

Neidentificat Unidentified

2020 / Romania / C£ïLqÉAn¥sÉÊqï

Czechia / Latvia /
Romanian / 123 min.

Director: An unsolved case. An unknown crimi-
Bogdan George nal. An obsessed cop. His investigation
Apetri plunges him into a world of darkness
Producer: and violence, pulling everyone around
Florin erban, Bogdan him into a web of destructive passion
George Apetri and revenge.
Editor:
Bogdan George EvÀåxÀðªÁUÀzÀ ¥ÀæPÀgÀt, C¥ÀjavÀ C¥ÀgÁ¢UÀ¼À£ÀÄß ü ¦Ãr¸ÀĪÀ
Apetri ¥Éưøï. MgÀl ¥sÉÆèÃj£ï gÀPÀ̹ÃUÀÄt¢AzÀ PÀÄSÁåvÀ£ÁzÀ
Writer(s): ¥ÀvÉÛÃzÁgÀ. CªÀ£À vÀ¤SÉUÀ¼ÀÄ »A¸ÁZÁgÀªÀ£ÀÄß ¥ÀæZÉÆâ¸ÀÄwÛzÀݪÀÅ.
Iulian Postelnicu, vÀ£Àß ¸ÀÄvÀÛ® J®è d£ÀgÀ£ÀÄß ¸ÉÃrUÁV §° vÉUÉzÀÄPÉƼÀÄîwÛzÀÝ.
Bogdan George E¯ÁSÉAiÀÄ ¨sÀæµÁÖZÁgÀ, d£ÁAVÃAiÀÄ ¨sÉÃzÀ¨sÁªÀªÉà CªÀgÀ UÀÄ-
Apetri jAiÀiÁVvÀÄÛ. F ¥ÉưøÀ£À ¥Á°UÉ £ÁåAiÀÄ JA§ÄzÉà EgÀ°®è.
DOP: CzÀÄ CªÀ£À GzÉÝñÀªÀÇ DVgÀ°®è.
Oleg Mutu
Sound:
Martis Rozentals, Jiri
Klenka
Music:
Frederic Chopin
Cast:
Bogdan Farca, Drago
Dumitru, Vasile Mura-
ru, Ana Popescu,
Olimpia Malai

Nominations

Thessaloniki FF
2020- Nominee
Meet the Neighbors
Competition

Awards Bogdan George Apetri

Warsaw IFF 2020- Born in February, 1976, Piatra Neam,
Winner
International Com- Apetri is a Romanian filmmaker
petition, Special based in New York. He has studied
Jury Award / Tran- Film Direction and Cinematography
silvania IFF 2021- at Columbia University. His first fea-
Winner
FIPRESCI Prize ture film, OUTBOUND won many awards at festi-
vals across the world. He teaches film directing at
Columbia University. UNIDENTIFIED is his second

feature film.

World Sales: 165
Wide Management

Cinema Of the World

13th Biffes

TU ME RESSEM- You Resemble Me

BLES AiÀÄÆ j¸ÉA§¯ï «Ä

2021 / France, Egypt, Cultural and intergenerational trauma
USA / erupt in this story about two sisters on
English, Arabic / the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings
90 min. are torn apart, the eldest, Hasna, strug-
gles to find her identity, leading to a
Director: choice that shocks the world. Director
Dina Amer Dina Amer takes on one of the darkest
Producer: issues of our time and deconstructs it
Dina Amer, Karim in an intimate story about family, love,
Amer, Elizabeth sisterhood, and belonging.
Woodward
Editor: ¥Áåj¸ï£À ºÉÆgÀ ªÀ®AiÀÄzÀ°è ªÁ¹¸ÀÄwÛzÀÝ ¸ÀºÉÆÃzÀjAiÀÄj§âgÀ
Keiko Deguchi ¸ÀA¸ÀÌøw ªÀÄvÀÄÛ vÀ¯ÉªÀiÁgÀÄUÀ½AzÀ PÁqÀÄwÛgÀĪÀ MAzÀÄ gÉÆÃUÀ
A.C.E., Jake Roberts G®ãt¹zÉ. ªÀÄPÀ̼ÀÄ ¨ÉÃgɨÉÃgÉ PÀqÉ ªÀ®¸É ºÉÆÃzÀ ªÉÄïÉ,
A.C.E. »jAiÀļÁzÀ ºÀ¸Àß vÀ£Àß ªÀÄÆ®ªÀ£ÀÄß ºÀÄqÀÄPÀÄwÛzÁݼÉ. CzÀÄ vÉÆÃ-
Writer(s): j¹zÀ ºÁ¢ «±ÀéªÀ£Éßà DWÁvÀUÉƽ¸ÀĪÀAvÀzÀÄÝ. PÀÄlÄA§ªÉÇAzÀgÀ
Dina Amer, Omar M¼ÀºÉÆPÀÄÌ C°è£À ¸ÀA§AzsÀUÀ¼À£ÀÄß ¥ÀÄ£Àgï gÀa¹, ¦æÃw,
Mullick ¸ÀºÉÆÃzÀjAiÀÄgÀ §AzsÀ£À ªÉÆzÀ¯ÁzÀ D¥ÀÛ ¸ÀA§AzsÀUÀ¼À£ÀÄß E°è
DOP: ¨É¸ÉAiÀįÁVzÉ.
Omar Mullick
Sound:
Carolina Santana,
Nicolas Becker, Tom
Paul
Music:
Saunder Jurriaans
and Danny Bensi
Cast:
Lorenza Grimaudo,
Ilonna Grimaudo,
Mouna Soualem

Nominations Dina Amer
Sao Paulo IFF 2021-
Nominee Best Film She is an award-winning filmmaker
/ Venice FF 2021- and journalist. She helped produce
Nominee Giornate the Oscar nominated and Emmy
degli Autori Award award-winning documentary THE
SQUARE, where the Egyptian Revolu-
World Sales: tion was chronicled from the frontlines.
The Match Factory
Growing up between the US and Egypt, her work has
focused on sharing nuanced, human stories with a glob-
al audience. Previous to her film work, Dina was a cele-
brated journalist. She was an on-air correspondent for
VICE, including THE BLACK MARKET Series, where she
uncovered the human trafficking of Syrian refugees and
explored the underground economy of illegal Egypt-
Gaza tunnels. Her written work has been published in
The New York Times, CNN and the Huffington Post. YOU
RESEMBLE ME is her directorial debut.

166 Cinema Of the World

Based on the recommendations of critics fraternity,
BIFFES has introduced a new section this year namely
Film Critics Week.

Critics
Week

13th Biffes

Okul Tirasi Brother’s Keeper

2021 / Turkey, §æzÀ¸ïð QÃ¥Àgï
Romania /
Kurdish, Turkish /
85 min.

Director: Yusuf and his best friend Memo are
Ferit Karahan Kurdish pupils at a boarding school
Producer: secluded in the Anatolian mountains.
Kanat Dogramaci When Memo falls mysteriously ill,
Editor: Yusuf is forced to struggle through the
Ferit Karahan, Haye- bureaucratic obstacles put up by the
deh Safiyari, Sercan
Sezgin school’s repressive authorities to try to
Writer(s): help him. When the adults finally un-
Gülistan Acet, Ferit
Karahan derstand the seriousness of Memo’s
DOP: condition and try to get him to the
Türksoy Gölebeyi hospital, the school is cut off from the
Sound: world by a heavy snowfall. With no way
Srdjan Kurpjel
Cast: out and now desperate to find help,
Samet Yildiz, Ekin teachers and pupils engage in a blame
Koç, Mahir Ipek game where grudges, feelings of guilt
and hidden secrets emerge, as time
ticks mercilessly on.

Nominations AiÀÄƸÀÄ¥sï ªÀÄvÀÄÛ CªÀ£À DwäÃAiÀÄ ¸ÉßûvÀ ªÉĪÉÆ
Giffoni FF 2021- C£ÁmÉÆðAiÀÄ£ï ¥ÀªÀðvÀUÀ¼À°è KPÁAvÀzÀ°ègÀĪÀ ¨ÉÆÃrAðUï
Nominee Best Film ±Á¯ÉAiÀÄ°è PÀÄ¢ðµï «zÁåyðUÀ¼ÁVzÁÝgÉ. ªÉĪÉÆ
¤UÀÆqsÀªÁV C£ÁgÉÆÃUÀåPÉÌ M¼ÀUÁzÁUÀ, AiÀÄƸÀÄ¥sï CªÀ-
Awards jUÉ ¸ÀºÁAiÀÄ ªÀiÁqÀ®Ä ±Á¯ÉAiÀÄ zÀªÀÄ£ÀPÁj C¢üPÁjUÀ¼ÀÄ
Berlin IFF 2021- ºÁPÀĪÀ C¢üPÁgÀ±Á» CqÉvÀqÉUÀ¼À ªÀÄÆ®PÀ ºÉÆÃgÁqÀ®Ä
Winner FIPRESCI MvÁ۬ĸÀ¯ÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ. ªÀAiÀĸÀÌgÀÄ CAwªÀĪÁV ªÉĪÉÆzÀ ¹ÜwAiÀÄ
Prize / Sarajevo FF UÀA©üÃgÀvÉAiÀÄ£ÀÄß CxÀðªÀiÁrPÉÆAqÁUÀ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ CªÀ£À£ÀÄß D¸ÀàvÉæUÉ
2021- Winner Audi- ¸ÉÃj¸À®Ä ¥ÀæAiÀÄwß¹zÁUÀ, ¨sÁjà »ªÀÄ¥ÁvÀ¢AzÀ ±Á¯ÉAiÀÄÄ
ence Award / Haifa ¥Àæ¥ÀAZÀ¢AzÀ ¸ÀA¥ÀPÀð PÀrvÀUÉÆArzÉ. AiÀiÁªÀÅzÉà zÁj¬Ä®èzÉ
IFF 2021- Winner ªÀÄvÀÄÛ FUÀ ¸ÀºÁAiÀĪÀ£ÀÄß ºÀÄqÀÄPÀ®Ä ºÀvÁ±ÀgÁV, ²PÀëPÀgÀÄ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ
Golden Anchor «zÁåyðUÀ¼ÀÄ zÀÆgÀĪÀ DlzÀ°è vÉÆqÀUÀÄvÁÛgÉ, C°è ¸ÀªÀÄAiÀĪÀÅ
Award - Special ¤µÀÌgÀÄuɬÄAzÀ GtÂÚzÀAvÉ zÉéõÀUÀ¼ÀÄ, C¥ÀgÁzsÀzÀ ¨sÁªÀ£ÉUÀ¼ÀÄ
Mention ªÀÄvÀÄÛ UÀÄ¥ÀÛ gÀºÀ¸ÀåUÀ¼ÀÄ ºÉÆgÀºÉƪÀÄÄävÀÛªÉ.

World Sales: Ferit Karahan
Intra Movies
Ferit Karahan was born in Mus in
1983, Turkey. He is a Kurdish film di-
rector living in Istanbul. He started
working as a first assistant direc-
tor on feature films. His short films

BEFORE THE FLOOD and YUSIV’S DREAM have
been screened at numerous festivals and have won
awards and honorable mentions. His feature debut
THE FALL FROM HEAVEN premiered at the Antalya
Golden Orange Film Festival and won Best Film
and also won Best first Film Prize at the Ankara In-
ternatioanal Film Festival. It was later screened at
more than 15 festivals and won more the 10 awards.
He took part in Berlinale Talents 2016.

168 Critics Week

13th Biffes

Otac Father

2020 / Serbia, ¥sÁzÀgï
France, Germany /
Serbian / 120 min.

Director: The story happens in a small town in
Srdan Golubovic Serbia. Nikola, a day laborer and father
Producer: of two, is ordered to give up his chil-
Jelena Mitrovic, dren to social services after poverty
Cedomir Kolar, and hunger drove his wife to commit
Alexander Ris, Marc a desperate act. Until he could provide
Baschet adequate conditions for their upbring-
Editor: ing, the children will be placed in fos-
Petar Markovic ter care. Despite Nikola’s best efforts
Writer(s): and several appeals, the head of the
Srdan Golubovic, social services centre refuses to return
Ognjen Svilicic his children and his situation seems
DOP: hopeless. But when Nikola discovers
Aleksandar Ilic the local administration may be cor-
Sound: rupt, he decides to travel across Ser-
Erik Mischijew, bia on foot and take his case directly
Corina Fleig to the national ministry in Belgrade.
Music: Against all odds and driven by love
Bruno Tarriere and despair, this father refuses to give
Cast: up on justice and his right to raise his
Goran Bogdan, children.
Boris Isakovic,
Nada Sargin, Milica ¸À©ðAiÀiÁzÀ ¥ÀÄlÖ £ÀUÀgÀzÀ°è ¤PÉÆ® ¢£ÀUÀÆ°. QvÀÄÛw£ÀÄߪÀ
Janevski §qÀvÀ£À. vÀ¤ß§âgÀÄ ªÀÄPÀ̼À£ÀÄß ¥ÉÆö¸À®Æ C¸ÁzsÀåªÁzÀ
§qÀvÀ£À¢AzÁV ¤PÉÆ®£À ¥Àwß CwgÉÃPÀzÀ PÀæªÀÄ vÉUÉzÀÄPÉÆAqÀÄ
Nominations D¸ÀàvÉæ ¸ÉÃjzÁݼÉ. E§âgÀÄ ªÀÄPÀ̽UÉ ¥ÉÆõÀPÀgÀÄ CUÀvÀå ¸ËPÀAiÀÄð
PÉÆqÀ®Ä ±ÀPÀågÀ®èzÀ PÁgÀt ¸ÀPÁðgÀ ªÀÄPÀ̽§âgÀ£ÀÄß C£Áx-
European Film Á±ÀæªÀÄzÀ ªÀ±ÀPÉÌ vÉUÉzÀÄPÉÆArzÉ. vÀ¤ß§âgÀÄ ªÀÄPÀ̼À£ÀÄß vÀ£Àß
Awards- Nominee, ¸ÀÄ¥À¢ðUÉ vÉUÉzÀÄPÉƼÀî®Ä ¤PÉÆ® ºÀ®ªÁgÀÄ ¨Áj «¥sÀ®
Minsk IFF- Nominee ¥ÀæAiÀÄvÀß ªÀiÁqÀÄvÁÛ£É. C£ÁxÁ±ÀæªÀÄzÀªÀgÀÄ ªÀÄPÀ̼À£ÀÄß ªÁ¥À¸ÀÄ
Grand Prix Golden PÀ¼ÀÄ»¸À®Ä ¤gÁPÀj¸ÀÄvÁÛgÉ. D ¸ÀAzÀ¨sÀðzÀ°è ¸ÀܽÃAiÀÄ DqÀ½vÀzÀ°è
Listapad, Best Film ¨sÀæµÁÖZÁgÀzÀ ªÁ¸À£É EgÀĪÀÅzÀ£ÀÄß ¤PÉÆ® UÀªÀĤ¸ÀÄvÁÛ£É. F
/ Zagreb FF- Nom- ¸ÀA§AzsÀ ¨É¯ïUÉæÃqï £À°ègÀĪÀ gÁ¶ÖçÃAiÀÄ ¸ÀaªÁ®AiÀÄPÉÌ zÀÆgÀÄ
inee The Golden ¤ÃqÀ®Ä ¤zsÀðj¹, §jUÁ®°è ¥ÀAiÀÄt ¨É¼É¸ÀÄvÁÛ£É. C®Æè
Pram - Best Film CªÀ¤UÉ £ÁåAiÀÄ ¹UÀĪÀÅ¢®è. vÀ£Àß ªÀÄPÀ̽UÉ vÁ£Éà GvÀÛªÀÄ ¨sÀ«µÀå
PÀ°à¸ÀĪÀ CªÀ£À D¸É PÀ£À¸ÁVAiÉÄà G½AiÀÄÄvÀÛzÉ.
Awards
Srdan Golubovic
Berlin IFF- Winner-
Panorama Audience Born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1972,
Award Fiction Film / Srdan studied theatre. While stud-
Trieste FF- Winner ying, he made several short films.
Audience Award, He co-founded the Bas Celik pro-
Best Feature length duction company with other young
Film
filmmakers. His debut feature film,
APSOLUTNIH STO, won a number of awards at sev-
eral international festivals. Apart from this, he lec-
tures in film and television directing at the Univer-
sity of Arts in Belgrade.

World Sales:
The Match Factory

Critics Week 169

13th Biffes

Jak Najdalaj Stad I Never Cry

2020 / Poland, L £ÉªÀgï PÉæöÊ
Ireland /
English, Polish /
100 min.

Director: Ola, a 17-year-old from a small city,
Piotr Domalewski sets off to a foreign country on her
Producer: own. It will turn out to be the trip of
Julie Ryan, Jan her lifetime, a trip into the unknown,
Kwiecinski on which she will try to reconnect with
Editor: her estranged father. In Ireland, she
Agnieszka Glinska will come to know a different world
Writer(s): and meet people who will change her
Piotr Domalewski approach to life.
DOP:
Piotr Sobocinski aPÀÌ £ÀUÀgÀzÀ ºÀ¢£ÉüÀgÀ ºÀgÉAiÀÄzÀ N¯Á vÀ£ÀßµÀÖPÉÌ vÁ£Éà ºÉÆgÀ
Jr. zÉñÀPÉÌ ºÉÆgÀl¼ÀÄ. EzÀÄ CªÀ¼À fëvÁªÀ¢üAiÀÄ ¥ÀæªÁ¸ÀªÁV
Sound: ºÉÆgÀºÉƪÀÄÄävÀÛzÉ, CeÁÕvÀPÉÌ ¥ÀæªÁ¸À, CzÀgÀ ªÉÄÃ¯É CªÀ¼ÀÄ vÀ£Àß
Kacper Habisiak, zÀÆgÀªÁzÀ vÀAzÉAiÉÆA¢UÉ ªÀÄgÀĸÀA¥ÀQð¸À®Ä ¥ÀæAiÀÄw߸ÀÄvÁÛ¼É.
Marcin Kasinski, L¯ÉAðqï£À°è, CªÀ¼ÀÄ «©ü£Àß dUÀvÀÛ£ÀÄß w½zÀÄPÉƼÀÄîvÁÛ¼É
Sebastian Kordasz ªÀÄvÀÄÛ fêÀ£ÀPÉÌ vÀ£Àß «zsÁ£ÀªÀ£ÀÄß §zÀ¯Á¬Ä¸ÀĪÀ d£ÀgÀ£ÀÄß
Music: ¨sÉÃnAiÀiÁUÀÄvÁÛ¼É.
Hania Rani
Cast:
Zofia Stafiej, Kinga
Preis, Arkadiusz
Jakubik, Dawid Tulej,
Cosmina Stratan

Nominations

San Sebast¡n IFF
2020- Nominee
New Directors
Award

Awards Piotr Domalewski
Arras FF- Winner
The Silver Atlas He is a film director, screenwriter,
Award, Best film actor and laureate of Munk Studio’s
direction / Winner prestigious “30 minutes” program
Golden Rooster which supports outstanding young
Awards 2021
winner- Best Inter- filmmakers. His short films have
national Director
/ Dublin IFF 2021- won awards at various festivals across Europe. His
Winner Michael feature film debut SILENT NIGHT (2017) won the
Dwyer Discovery Grand Prix in Gdynia and Best Film, Best Director,
Best Screenplay as well as the Discovery of the Year
World Sales: Award at Polish Film Awards.
Wide Management

170 Critics Week

13th Biffes

Sin senas Identifying Features
particulares
LqÉAn¥sÉʬÄAUï ¦ÃZÀgïì
2020 / Mexico,
Spain / Magdalena sets out on a journey in
Spanish / 97 min. search of her son, who disappeared
en route to the US border. Travelling
Director: through the desolate towns and land-
Fernanda Valadez scapes of Mexico she meets Miguel, a
Producer: young man recently deported from
Astrid Rondero, the US, who is making his way home.
Fernanda Valadez, The two accompany one another in a
Jack Zagha, Yossy territory where victims and aggressors
Zagha ramble together.
Editor:
Fernanda Valadez, AiÀÄÄJ¸ï UÀrUÉ ºÉÆÃUÀĪÀ ªÀiÁUÀðzÀ°è PÀtägÉAiÀiÁzÀ vÀ£Àß ªÀÄUÀ£À£ÀÄß
Astrid Rondero, ºÀÄqÀÄPÀ®Ä ªÀiÁåUÀذãÁ ¥ÀæAiÀiÁt ¨É¼É¸ÀÄvÁÛ¼É. ªÉÄQìPÉÆÃzÀ
Susan Korda ¤dð£À ¥ÀlÖtUÀ¼ÀÄ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ ¨sÀÆzÀȱÀåUÀ¼À ªÀÄÆ®PÀ ¥ÀæAiÀiÁt¸ÀĪÁUÀ
Writer(s): CªÀ¼ÀÄ «ÄUÀÄAiÉįï JA§ AiÀÄĪÀPÀ£À£ÀÄß ¨sÉÃnAiÀiÁUÀÄvÁÛ¼É, Ew-
Fernanda Valadez & ÛÃZÉUÀµÉÖà US ¤AzÀ UÀrÃ¥ÁgÀÄ ªÀiÁqÀ®àlÖ£ÀÄ. §°¥À±ÀÄUÀ¼ÀÄ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ
Astrid Rondero DPÀæªÀÄtPÁgÀgÀÄ MnÖUÉ ¸ÀÄvÁÛqÀĪÀ ¥ÀæzÉñÀzÀ°è E§âgÀÆ M§â-
DOP: jUÉƧâgÀÄ eÉÆvÉAiÀiÁUÀÄvÁÛgÉ.
Claudia Becerril
Bulos
Sound:
Omar Juarez
Music:
Clarice Jensen
Cast:
Mercedes Hernan-
dez, David Illescas,
Juan Jesus Varela

Nominations

Sundance FF- Nom-
inee Grand Jury
Prize

Awards Fernanda Valadez

San Sebastian She was born in 1981, Guanajuato,
FF-WInner Horizons Mexico. Graduate of Centro de Ca-
Award / Sundance
FF- Winner Audi- pacitacion Cinematografica. Her
ence Award, World graduation short film 400 MALE-
Cinema Dramatic TAS was nominated for the Silver
Special Jury Award
/ Zurich FF- Winner Ariel, Student Academy Award and also won many
Golden Eye - Best awards. She produced Astrid Ronder’s THE DARK-
International Fea-
ture Film EST DAYS OF US, a film supported by Tribeca Film
Institute, Berlinale Talents and Women in Film, was
nominated for two Silver Ariels

World Sales:
Alpha Violet

Critics Week 171

13th Biffes

Ringu Wandering Ring Wandering

2021 / Japan / jAUï ªÁAqÉÃjAUï
Japanese / 103 min.

Director: Sosuke lives in central Tokyo and aspires
Masakazu Kaneko to be a manga artist. He has reached a
Producer: dead end in his current work about a
Takashi Shiotsuki, battle between a hunter and a Japanese
Kazuhiko Konoike, wolf. One winter’s day at the construc-
Masakazu Kaneko tion site where he makes a living, Sosuke
Editor: finds an animal skull. He takes it home.
Masakazu Kaneko Could it be a Japanese wolf’s skull?
Writer(s):
Masakazu Kaneko, ¸ÉƸÀÄPÉ PÉÃAzÀæ mÉÆÃQAiÉÆzÀ°è ªÁ¹¸ÀÄwÛzÁÝgÉ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ ªÀÄAUÁ
Genki Yoshimura PÀ¯Á«zÀgÁUÀ®Ä §AiÀĸÀÄvÁÛgÉ. ¨ÉÃmÉUÁgÀ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ d¥Á¤£À
DOP: vÉÆüÀzÀ £ÀqÀÄ«£À AiÀÄÄzÀÞzÀ PÀÄjvÀÄ CªÀgÀÄ ¥Àæ¸ÀÄÛvÀ PÉ®¸ÀzÀ°è
Koichi Furuya CAvÀåªÀ£ÀÄß vÀ®Ä¦zÁÝgÉ. MAzÀÄ ZÀ½UÁ®zÀ ¢£ÀzÀ°è CªÀ£ÀÄ
Sound: ªÁ¹¸ÀĪÀ ¤ªÀiÁðt ¸ÀܼÀzÀ°è, ¸ÉƸÀÄPÉ ¥ÁætÂUÀ¼À vÀ¯É§ÄgÀÄqÉAiÀÄ£ÀÄß
Young-Chang Hwang, PÀAqÀÄPÉƼÀÄîvÁÛ£É. CªÀ£ÀÄ CzÀ£ÀÄß ªÀÄ£ÉUÉ vÉUÉzÀÄPÉÆAqÀÄ
Tsubasa Iwama ºÉÆÃUÀÄvÁÛ£É. EzÀÄ d¥Á¤£À vÉÆüÀzÀ vÀ¯É§ÄgÀÄqÉ EgÀ§ºÀÄzÉÃ?
Music:
Yuko Tomiyama
Cast:
Show Kasamatsu,
Junko Abe, Ken Yas-
uda, Reiko Kataoka,
Toru Shinagawa, Yoji
Tanaka, Hatsunori
Hasegawa

Awards Masakazu Kaneko

52nd IFFI- Winner Japanese film director, screenwriter
Best Film / 37th and editor born in Tokyo in 1978. He
Warsaw FF- Winner studied at the Film School of Tokyo.
Ecumenical Jury
Commendation Since then, he has directed six short
Award films while working in TV commer-

cials or films. In 2016 his first directed feature THE
ALBINO’S TREES was screened as an international
premiere in the Beijing International Film Festival

in China and was officially invited to more than
20 international film festivals in 15 countries and
achieved 20 awards worldwide. RING WANDERING

is his second feature film.

172 Critics Week

13th Biffes

Yuni Yuni

2021 / Indonesia / AiÀÄĤ
Indonesia, France,
Singapore, Australia
/ 95 min.

Director: Yuni is a teenage girl -- smart with
Kamila Andini big dreams of attending university.
Producer: When two men she barely knows ask
Ifa Isfansyah to marry her, she rejects their propos-
Editor: als, sparking gossip about a myth that
Lee Chatametikool a woman who rejects three propos-
Writer(s): als will never marry. The pressure is
Kamila Andini, Prima building when a third man asks for her
Rusdi hand, and Yuni must choose between
DOP: the myth of a final chance at marriage,
Teoh Gay Hian or her dream of future happiness.
Sound:
Lim Ting Li AiÀÄĤ ºÀ¢ºÀgÉAiÀÄzÀ ºÀÄqÀÄV- «±Àé«zÁ央AiÀÄPÉÌ ¸ÉÃgÀĪÀ
Music: zÉÆqÀØ PÀ£À¸ÀÄUÀ¼ÉÆA¢UÉ ¸Áämïð. vÀ£ÀUÉ w½¢gÀzÀ E§âgÀÄ
Alexis Rault ¥ÀÅgÀĵÀgÀÄ CªÀ¼À£ÀÄß ªÀÄzÀĪÉAiÀiÁUÀ®Ä PÉýzÁUÀ, CªÀ¼ÀÄ CªÀgÀ
Cast: ¥Àæ¸ÁÛ¥ÀUÀ¼À£ÀÄß wgÀ¸ÀÌj¸ÀÄvÁÛ¼É, ªÀÄÆgÀÄ ¥Àæ¸ÁÛ¥ÀUÀ¼À£ÀÄß wgÀ¸ÀÌ-
Arawinda Kirana, j¸ÀĪÀ ªÀÄ»¼É JA¢UÀÆ ªÀÄzÀĪÉAiÀiÁUÀĪÀÅ¢®è JA§ ¥ÀÅgÁtzÀ
Kevin Ardilova, Dimas §UÉÎ UÁ¹¥ï C£ÀÄß ¥ÀæZÉÆâ¸ÀÄvÁÛ¼É. ªÀÄÆgÀ£Éà ªÀåQÛ vÀ£Àß
Aditya, Marissa Anita, PÉÊAiÀÄ£ÀÄß PÉýzÁUÀ MvÀÛqÀªÀÅ ºÉZÀÄÑwÛzÉ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ AiÀÄĤ ªÀÄzÀĪÉUÉ
Asmara Abigail CAwªÀÄ CªÀPÁ±ÀzÀ ¥ÀÅgÁt CxÀªÁ ¨sÀ«µÀåzÀ ¸ÀAvÉÆõÀzÀ
PÀ£À¸ÀÄUÀ¼À £ÀqÀÄªÉ DAiÉÄÌ ªÀiÁqÀ¨ÉÃPÀÄ.

Nominations

Indonesian
entry- the Best In-
ternational Feature
Film at the 94th
Academy Awards

Awards Kamila Andini

Toronto IFF 2021- Born in Jakarta in 1986. She studied
Winner Platform Sociology and Media Arts at Deakin
Prize University, Melbourne, Australia. Her
concern of social culture, gender
equality and environmental issue

lead her passion to make films with a distinctive
perspective of telling a story.

World Sales: 173
Cercamon World
Sales

Critics Week



Oscar Spectrum is a section BIFFES has introduced this
time.
The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars,
are awards for artistic and technical merit in the film
industry. They are regarded by many as the most pres-
tigious and significant awards in the entertainment in-
dustry worldwide. Given annually by the Academy of Mo-
tion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the awards are
an international recognition of excellence in cinematic
achievements, as assessed by the Academy’s voting
membership. There are variety of awards under different
categories.
BIFFes is presenting some selected movies which are
winners or nominations for Oscars. Interestingly the 1927
silent film SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (also
known as Sunrise) directed by the German filmmaker
F.W. Murnau the first film to win the Oscar at the first
Academy award ceremony instituted in 1929.

Oscar
Spectrum

13th Biffes

Sunrise: A Song Sunrise
of Two Humans
¸À£ï gÉʸï
1927 / United States /
Silent / 94 min.

Director: A sophisticated urban woman seduces
F.W. Murnau a farmer in the hopes that he will mur-
Producer: der his neglected wife and join her in
William Fox the city, but he soon finds himself re-
Editor: kindling his romance with the latter
Harold D. Schuster when she discovers their scheme.
Writer(s):
Carl Mayer, Hermann CvÁåzsÀĤPÀ £ÀUÀgÀ ¥ÀæzÉñÀzÀ ªÀÄ»¼ÉAiÉƧâgÀÄ gÉÊvÀ£ÉƧâ vÀ£Àß
Sudermann, Kath- ¤®ðPÀëåPÉÆ̼ÀUÁzÀ ºÉAqÀwAiÀÄ£ÀÄß PÉÆAzÀÄ DPÉAiÀÄ£ÀÄß £ÀUÀgÀPÉÌ
erine Hilliker, H.H. ¸ÉÃj¸ÀĪÀ ¨sÀgÀªÀ¸ÉAiÀÄ°è CªÀ£À£ÀÄß ªÉÆû¸ÀÄvÁÛ¼É, DzÀgÉ CªÀ¼ÀÄ
Caldwell vÀ£Àß AiÉÆÃd£ÉAiÀÄ£ÀÄß PÀAqÀÄ»rzÁUÀ CªÀ£ÀÄ vÀ£Àß ¥ÀætAiÀĪÀ£ÀÄß
DOP: ¥ÀÅ£ÀgÀÄfÓêÀ£ÀUÉƽ¸ÀĪÀÅzÀ£ÀÄß PÀAqÀÄPÉƼÀÄîvÁÛ£É.
Karl Struss, Charles
Rosher
Sound:
N/A
Music:
R.H. Bassett, Carli
Elinor, Erno Rapee,
Hugo Riesenfeld,
Willy Schmidt-
Gentner
Cast:
George O’Brien, Ja-
net Gaynor, Margaret
Livingston

Awards F.W. Murnau

First Academy F.W. Murnau, pseudonym of Frie-
Awards Winner, drich Wilhelm Plumpe. He is a Ger-
USA 1929- Best man motion-picture director who
Picture, Unique and revolutionized the art of cinematic
Artistic Production,
Best Actress in a expression by using the camera
Leading Role, Best
Cinematography subjectively to interpret the emotional state of a
character.

176 Oscar Spectrum

13th Biffes

La battaglia di The Battle of Algiers
Algeri
¢ ¨Áål¯ï D¥sï C°Îøïð
1966 / Italy, Algeria /
Arabic, French, Eng- Paratrooper commander Colonel
lish / 121 min. Mathieu (Jean Martin), a former French
Resistance fighter during World War
Director: II, is sent to 1950s Algeria to reinforce
Gillo Pontecorvo efforts to squelch the uprisings of
Producer: the Algerian War. There, he faces Ali
Antonio Musu, Yacef la Pointe (Brahim Haggiag), a former
Saadi petty criminal who, as the leader of the
Editor: Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale,
Mario Morra, Mario directs terror strategies against the co-
Serandrei lonial French government occupation.
Writer(s): As each side resorts to ever-increasing
Franco Solinas, Gillo brutality, no violent act is too unthink-
Pontecorvo able.
DOP:
Marcello Gatti ¥ÁågÁlÆæ¥Àgï PÀªÀiÁAqÀgï PÀ£Àð¯ï ªÀiÁåxÀÆå (fãï
Sound: ªÀiÁnð£ï), «±Àé ¸ÀªÀÄgÀ ¸ÀªÀÄAiÀÄzÀ°è ªÀiÁf ¥sÉæAZï ¥Àæw-
Omar Bouksani, gÉÆÃzsÀ ºÉÆÃgÁlUÁgÀ, C°ÓÃjAiÀÄ£ï AiÀÄÄzÀÞzÀ zÀAUÉUÀ¼À£ÀÄß
Alberto Barto- »ªÉÄänÖ¸ÀĪÀ ¥ÀæAiÀÄvÀßUÀ¼À£ÀÄß §®¥Àr¸À®Ä 1950 gÀ C°ÓÃjAiÀiÁPÉÌ
lomei PÀ¼ÀÄ»¸À¯Á¬ÄvÀÄ. C°è CªÀ£ÀÄ C°ÓÃjAiÀÄ£ï ¥sÀæAmï r °§gÉñÀ£ï
Music: £Áå±À£Éïï£À £ÁAiÀÄPÀ£ÁV ªÀ¸ÁºÀvÀıÁ» ¥sÉæAZï ¸ÀPÁðgÀzÀ
Ennio Morricone, DPÀæªÀÄtzÀ «gÀÄzÀÞ ¨sÀAiÉÆÃvÁàzÀ£Á vÀAvÀæUÀ¼À£ÀÄß ¤zÉÃð²¸ÀĪÀ
Gillo Pontecorvo ªÀiÁf ¸ÀtÚ C¥ÀgÁ¢ü C° ¯Á ¥Á¬ÄAmï (¨Áæ»A ºÁåVAiÀiÁUï)
Cast: £À£ÀÄß JzÀÄj¸ÀÄvÁÛ£É. ¥Àæw §¢AiÀÄÄ ¤gÀAvÀgÀªÁV ºÉZÀÄÑwÛgÀĪÀ
Brahim Hadjadj, Jean PËæAiÀÄðªÀ£ÀÄß D±Àæ¬Ä¸ÀĪÀÅzÀjAzÀ, AiÀiÁªÀÅzÉà »A¸ÁvÀäPÀ PÀÈvÀåªÀÅ
Martin, Yacef Saadi AiÉÆÃa¸À¯ÁUÀzÀÄ.

Nominations
Nominee- Academy
Awards, USA 1969,
Academy Awards,
USA 1967

Awards Gillo Pontecorvo

Winner- BAFTA Gilberto “Gillo” Pontecorvo was an
Awards 1972, Gold-
en Goblets, Italy Italian filmmaker. He worked as a
1967, Venice Film film director for more than a dec-
Festival 1966 ade before his best known film LA
BATTAGLIA DI ALGERI was released.

It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
in 1966.

Oscar Spectrum 177

13th Biffes

Quo Vadis, Aida? Quo Vadis, Aida?

2020 / Bosnia PÀÆåªÁ¢Ã¸ï LzÁ?
- Herzegovina,
Netherlands / Aida is a translator for the United Na-
Bosnian, English and tions in the small town of Srebrenica.
Dutch / 103 min. When the Serbian army takes over the
town, her family is among the thou-
Director: sands of citizens looking for shelter
Jasmila Žbanić in the UN camp. As an insider to the
Producer: negotiations, Aida has access to cru-
Damir Ibrahimovic, cial information that she needs to in-
Jasmila Žbanić terpret. What is at the horizon for her
Editor: family and people - rescue or death?
Jaroslaw Kaminski Which move should she take?
Writer(s):
Jasmila Žbanić ¸Éæ¨Éæ¤PÁ, ¨ÉÆùßAiÀiÁzÀ ¸ÀtÚ¥ÀlÖt. C°è LzÁ «±Àé¸ÀA¸ÉÜAiÀÄ
DOP: ¨sÁµÁAvÀgÀPÁwð. F £ÀUÀgÀªÀ£ÀÄß ¸É©ðAiÀÄ£ï ¸ÉãÉ
Christine A. Maier ªÀ±À¥Àr¹PÉÆAqÀ £ÀAvÀgÀ, LzÁ¼À PÀÄlÄA§ªÀÇ ¸ÉÃj ¸Á«gÁgÀÄ
Sound: £ÁUÀjPÀgÀÄ «±Àé¸ÀA¸ÉÜAiÀÄ ²©gÀzÀ°è D±ÀæAiÀÄPÁÌV ¥ÀgÀzÁqÀÄwÛzÀÝgÀÄ.
Igor Camo ¸ÀAzsÁ£À ¸ÀªÀÄAiÀÄzÀ°è wÃgÁ UÀA©üÃgÀªÁzÀ ªÀiÁ»wAiÉÆAzÀ£ÀÄß
Music: LzÁ ¸ÀܽÃAiÀÄ ¨sÁµÉAiÀÄ°è «ªÀj¸À¨ÉÃPÁzÀ ¸ÀAzÀ¨sÀð MzÀV
Antoni Komasa-La- §gÀÄvÀÛzÉ. vÀ£Àß PÀÄlÄA§ ºÁUÀÆ Hj£À d£ÀgÀ ªÀÄÆ®
zarkiewicz AiÀiÁªÀÅzÀÄ? PÁ¥ÁqÀĪÀÅzÉÃ? ªÀÄgÀtzÀAqÀ£ÉAiÉÄÃ? LzÁ¼À
Cast: ªÀÄÄA¢£À £ÀqÉ K£ÀÄ?
Jasna Duricic, Izudin
Bajrovic, Boris Ler,
Dino Bajrovic.

Nominations
Venice FF- Nomi-
nee Golden Lion /
Seville European
FF- Nominee Best
Film

Awards Jasmila Žbanić

Antalya Golden Or- Born in Sarajevo in 1974, Jasmila is
ange FF- Winner a graduate of Academy of Dramat-
Best Film / Jeru- ic Arts, Theatre and Film Directing
salem FF- Winner Department. GRBAVICA won Ber-
Best International linale Golden Bear. ON THE PATH,
Film / El Gouna FF
- Winner Best Film, FOR THOSE WHO CAN TELL NO TALES, LOVE IS-
Best Actress
LAND are her other films. She won the 2014 KAIROS
Prize which honors European artists whose work is
judged to have a major cultural and social impact.

World Sales: Oscar Spectrum
Indie Sales

178

13th Biffes

Druk Another Round

2020 / Denmark / C£ÀzÀgï gËAqï
Danish / 116 min.

Director: Four teachers who desperately want
Thomas Vinterberg a change in their professional lives, try
Producer: doing an experiment of testing differ-
Sisse Graum ent amount of alcohol levels in their
Jargensen, Kasper bodies and see what changes it leads
Dissing to in their lives. However, this unsur-
Editor: prisingly turns dark and changes their
Janus Billeskov lives for the better or the worse.
Jansen, Anne
Asterud PÀƥɣïºÉUÉ£ï£À fªÀiï MAzÀgÀ°è ²PÀëPÀgÁV PÉ®¸À
Writer(s): ªÀiÁqÀÄwÛgÀĪÀ ªÀiÁnð£ï, mÁ«Ä, ¦Ãlgï ªÀÄvÀÄÛ ¤PÀ¯ÉÆÃeï
Thomas Vinterberg, ¸ÀºÉÆÃzÉÆåÃVUÀ¼ÀµÉÖà C®è ¸ÉßûvÀgÀÆ PÀÆqÀ. AiÀiÁªÀÅzÉÃ
Tobias Lindholm GzÉÝñÀ,UÀÄj E®èzÀ «zÁåyðUÀ¼À eÉÆvÉ EzÀÄÝ F ¸ÉßûvÀjUÉ
DOP: fêÀ£ÀzÀ°è fUÀÄ¥Éì §A¢zÉ. EAvÀºÀ ¸ÀAzÀ¨sÀðzÀ°è ¤PÀ¯ÉÆÃeï£À
Sturla Brandth ºÀÄlÄÖºÀ§â CZÀgÀuÉUÉ CªÀgɯÁè MAzÉqÉ ¸ÉÃgÀÄvÁÛgÉ, ¥ÀæSÁåvÀ
Gravlen ªÀÄ£À±Á¸ÀÛçdÕ ¦ü£ï ¸ÁÌgÀØqïð£À §ºÀÄZÀaðvÀ ¹zÁÝAvÀªÉÇAzÀgÀ §UÉÎ
Sound: ZÀZÉð DgÀA¨sÀªÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ. ¦ü£ï ¸ÁÌgÀØqïð£À ¥ÀæPÁgÀ “ªÀÄ£ÀĵÀågÀÄ
Hans Maller, Jan ºÀÄlÄÖvÀÛ¯Éà §èqï D¯ÉÆÌúÁ¯ï ºÉÆA¢gÀÄvÁÛgÉ” F ºÉýPÉAiÀÄ£ÀÄß
Schermer ªÀÄ£À±Áå¸ÀÛçdÕ£Éà ¤gÁPÀj¹zÀgÀÆ «zÁéA¸ÀgÀÄ CzÀ£ÀÄß ©qÀzÉ ZÀZÉð
Music: £ÀqɸÀÄvÀÛ¯Éà EzÁÝgÉ. F UɼÉAiÀÄgÀÆ PÀÆqÀ F ¹zÁÞAvÀªÀ£ÀÄß
Mikkel Maltha UÀA©üÃgÀªÁV vÉUÉzÀÄPÉÆAqÀÄ ªÀÄzÀå¥Á£À ZÀl CAn¹PÉƼÀÄîvÁÛgÉ.
Cast: gÀPÀÛzÀ°è£À D¯ÉÆÌúÁ¯ï ªÀÄlÖªÀ£ÀÄß PÁ¥ÁrPÉƼÀî®Ä PÀÄrvÀ
Mads Mikkelsen, C¤ªÁAiÀÄð JAzÀÄ ªÁ¢¸ÀÄvÁÛgÉ. ¸ÁªÀiÁfPÀªÁV ºÁUÀÆ ªÀÈwÛ
Thomas Bo Larsen, §zÀÄQUÉ EzÀÄ ªÀiÁgÀPÀªÁUÀ¯ÁgÀzÀÄ J£ÀÄߪÀÅzÀÄ CªÀgÀ «avÀæªÁzÀ.
Lars Ranthe, Magnus qÁ夵ï AiÀÄĪÀPÀgÀ PÀÄrvÀ ºÀªÁå¸ÀªÀ£ÀÄß F avÀæ awæ¸ÀÄvÀÛzÉ.
Millang

Nominations
Goya Awards- Nom-
inee Best European
Film / San Sebast¡n
IFF- FIPRESCI Film
of the Year

Awards Thomas Vinterberg

93rd Academy He graduated from the National
Award winner- Best Film School of Denmark with LAST
International Fea- ROUND (SIDSTE OMGANG), which
ture Film / BAFTA won the jury and producers awards
2021- winner- Best at the Munich IFF of Film Schools,
Film Not in the and First Prize at Tel Aviv. This film
English Language / has won awards and accolades all over the world in-
César Award-win- cluding the International Short Film Festival in Cler-
ner-Best Foreign mont-Ferrand, and the Toronto FF. The film won
Film numerous nominations and awards, including the
Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes. However he won the
World Sales: Silver George for Best Director at the 27th Moscow
Impact Films IFF. His 2010 film Submarino was nominated for the
Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin IFF. In 2012, his film
THE HUNT competed for the Palme d”Or at the 2012
Cannes and was nominated for the Best Foreign
Language Film award at the 86th Academy Awards.

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13th Biffes

Verdens Verste The Worst Person In The World
Menneske
¢ ªÀ¸ïÖð ¥À¸Àð£ï E£ï ¢ ªÀ¯ïØð
2021 / Norway,
France, Sweden, Julie is almost 30 and has no idea what
Denmark / kind of life she wants to lead. Over-
Norwegian / 127 min. whelmed by all the possibilities, she
keeps changing her mind. She drops
Director: out of medical school to try her hand at
Joachim Trier psychology - or maybe photography. Her
Producer: confident 44-year-old boyfriend, Aksel,
Thomas Robsahm, a long-established comic book author,
Andrea Berentsen has always wanted them to have a child
Ottmar together, but Julie just isn’t ready. When
Editor: she meets the young and energetic
Olivier Bugge Coutta Eivind at a party one day, her life faces
Writer(s): another turning point. Director Joachim
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier presents a zeitgeist comedy about
Trier the Millennial generation and the diffi-
DOP: culty of making small and big decisions.
Kasper Tuxen A bittersweet film that conjures up both
Sound: exhilarating and melancholic moments
Gisle Tveito of truth on the big screen.
Music:
Ola Fiattum dÆ°UÉ ¸ÀĪÀiÁgÀÄ 30 ªÀµÀð ªÀÄvÀÄÛ CªÀ¼ÀÄ AiÀiÁªÀ jÃwAiÀÄ
Cast: fêÀ£ÀªÀ£ÀÄß £ÀqɸÀ¨ÉÃPÉAzÀÄ w½¢®è. J¯Áè ¸ÁzsÀåvÉUÀ½AzÀ
Renate Reinsve, An- vÀÄA© vÀļÀÄPÀÄwÛgÀĪÀ DPÉ vÀ£Àß ªÀÄ£À¸Àì£ÀÄß §zÀ¯Á¬Ä¸ÀÄvÀÛ¯ÉÃ
ders Danielsen Lie EgÀÄvÁÛ¼É. ªÀÄ£ÉÆëeÁÕ£ÀzÀ°è vÀ£Àß PÉÊAiÀÄ£ÀÄß ¥ÀæAiÀÄw߸À®Ä
CªÀ¼ÀÄ ªÉÊzÀåQÃAiÀÄ ±Á¯É¬ÄAzÀ ºÉÆgÀUÀĽAiÀÄÄvÁÛ¼É - Cx-
Nominations ÀªÁ §ºÀıÀB bÁAiÀiÁUÀæºÀt. DPÉAiÀÄ DvÀ䫱Áé¸ÀzÀ 44 ªÀµÀðzÀ
Academy Awards, UɼÉAiÀÄ, ¢ÃWÀðPÁ®¢AzÀ ¸ÁܦvÀªÁzÀ PÁ«ÄPï ¥ÀŸÀÛPÀzÀ
USA 2022- Nomi- ¯ÉÃRPÀ CPÉì¯ï CªÀgÀÄ AiÀiÁªÁUÀ®Æ MnÖUÉ ªÀÄUÀĪÀ£ÀÄß
nee Best Original ºÉÆAzÀ¨ÉÃPÉAzÀÄ §AiÀĸÀÄvÁÛgÉ, DzÀgÉ dÆ° ¹zÀÞªÁV®è. CªÀ¼ÀÄ
Screenplay, Best MAzÀÄ ¢£À ¥ÁnðAiÀÄ°è AiÀÄĪÀ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ ±ÀQÛAiÀÄÄvÀ F«AzÀ£À£ÀÄß
International Fea- ¨sÉÃnAiÀiÁzÁUÀ, CªÀ¼À fêÀ£ÀªÀÅ ªÀÄvÉÆÛAzÀÄ wgÀĪÀŪÀ£ÀÄß JzÀÄ-
ture Film / BAFTA j¸ÀÄvÀÛzÉ. ¤zÉÃð±ÀPÀ eÉÆÃQªÀiï mÉÊæAiÀÄgï ¸ÀºÀ¸ÀæªÀiÁ£ÀzÀ ¦Ã½UÉAiÀÄ
Awards 2022- Nom- §UÉÎ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ ¸ÀtÚ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ zÉÆqÀØ ¤zsÁðgÀUÀ¼À£ÀÄß vÉUÉzÀÄPÉƼÀÄîªÀ
inee Best Film Not PÀµÀÖzÀ §UÉÎ AiÀÄÄUÀzsÀªÀÄðzÀ ºÁ¸ÀåªÀ£ÀÄß ¥Àæ¸ÀÄÛvÀ¥Àr¸ÀÄvÁÛgÉ.
in the English Lan- zÉÆqÀØ ¥ÀgÀzÉAiÀÄ ªÉÄÃ¯É ¸ÀvÀåzÀ ºÀµÀðzÁAiÀÄPÀ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ «µÀtÚvÉAiÀÄ
guage, Best Lead- PÀëtUÀ¼À£ÀÄß PÀ°à¸ÀĪÀ PÀ»AiÀiÁzÀ ZÀ®£ÀavÀæ.
ing Actress
Joachim Trier
Awards
Cannes FF 2021- Joachim Trier is a Danish-born Nor-
Winner Best Ac- wegian film director best known for
tress, Palme d’Or / OSLO, AUGUST 31ST (2011), LOUD-
Chicago IFF 2021- ER THAN BOMBS (2015), THELMA
Winner Best Cine- (2017), and THE WORST PERSON IN
matography THE WORLD (2021).

World Sales: Oscar Spectrum
Mk2 Films

180

13th Biffes

Madres paralelas Parallel Mothers

2021 / Spain / ¥ÁågÀ®¯ï ªÀÄzÀ¸ïð
Spanish / 123 min.

Director: Two women coincide in a hospital
Pedro Almodóvar room where they are going to give
Producer: birth. Both are single and became
Agustan Almodóvar, pregnant by accident. Janis, mid-
Esther Garcia
Editor: dle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is
Teresa Font exultant. The other, Ana, an adoles-
Writer(s): cent, is scared, repentant and trau-
Pedro Alm- matized. Janis tries to encourage her
odóvar while they move like sleepwalkers
DOP: along the hospital corridors. The few
Josa Luis Alcaine
Sound: words they exchange in those hours
Laia Casanovas will create a very close link between
Music: the two, which by chance develops
Alberto Iglesias and becomes complicated, changing
Cast: their lives in a decisive way.
Penalope Cruz,
Aitana Sa¡nchez-Gi- E§âgÀÄ ªÀÄ»¼ÉAiÀÄgÀÄ CªÀgÀÄ ºÉjUÉUÉ ºÉÆÃUÀĪÀ D¸ÀàvÉæAiÀÄ
jan, and Milena Smit PÉÆÃuÉAiÀÄ°è ¸ÉÃjPÉƼÀÄîvÁÛgÉ. E§âgÀÆ MAnAiÀiÁVzÀÄÝ,
DPÀ¹äPÀªÁV UÀ©üðtÂAiÀiÁzÀgÀÄ. eÁ¤¸ï, ªÀÄzsÀåªÀAiÀĸÀÌ,
Nominations «µÁ¢¸ÀĪÀÅ¢®è ªÀÄvÀÄÛ CªÀ¼ÀÄ ºÀ¶ð¸ÀÄvÁÛ¼É. E£ÉÆߧâ, C£Á,
Academy Awards, ºÀ¢ºÀgÉAiÀÄzÀªÀ¼ÀÄ, ¨sÀAiÀÄ¥ÀqÀÄvÁÛ¼É, ¥À±ÁÑvÁÛ¥À¥ÀqÀÄvÁÛ¼É ªÀÄvÀÄÛ
USA 2022- Nomi- DWÁvÀPÉÆ̼ÀUÁVzÁݼÉ. CªÀgÀÄ D¸ÀàvÉæAiÀÄ PÁjqÁgïUÀ¼À GzÀÝPÀÆÌ
nee Best Actress, ¤¢æ¸ÀĪÀªÀgÀAvÉ ZÀ°¸ÀĪÁUÀ eÁ¤¸ï CªÀ¼À£ÀÄß ¥ÉÇæÃvÁ컸À®Ä
Best Original Score ¥ÀæAiÀÄw߸ÀÄvÁÛ£É. D UÀAmÉUÀ¼À°è CªÀgÀÄ «¤ªÀÄAiÀÄ ªÀiÁrPÉƼÀÄîªÀ
/ Golden Globes, PÉ®ªÀÅ ¥ÀzÀUÀ¼ÀÄ E§âgÀ £ÀqÀÄªÉ §ºÀ¼À ¤PÀl ¸ÀA¥ÀPÀðªÀ£ÀÄß
USA 2022- Nom- ¸ÀȶָÀÄvÀÛªÉ, CzÀÄ DPÀ¹äPÀªÁV C©üªÀÈ¢ÞUÉƼÀÄîvÀÛzÉ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ
inee Best Motion ¸ÀAQÃtðªÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ, CªÀgÀ fêÀ£ÀªÀ£ÀÄß ¤uÁðAiÀÄPÀ jÃwAiÀÄ°è
Picture, Best Origi- §zÀ¯Á¬Ä¸ÀÄvÀÛzÉ.
nal Score

Awards Pedro Almodóvar
Venice FF 2021-
Winner Best Ac- He is a Spanish film director, screen-
tress / Palm Springs writer and producer. He is arguably
IFF 2022- Winner the most successful and interna-
International Star
Award tionally known Spanish filmmaker
of his generation. His films, marked
World Sales:
Impact Films by complex narratives, employ the codes of melo-
drama and use elements of pop culture, popular
songs, irreverent humor, strong colors, glossycor
and LGBT themes. Desire, passion, family and iden-

tity are among his most prevalent themes. His films
enjoy a worldwide following and he has become a

major figure on the stage of world cinema.

Oscar Spectrum 181

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Doraibu Drive My Car

mai kâ qÉÊæªï ªÉÄÊ PÁgï

2021 / Japan / Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and di-
Japanese, Korean, rector is happily married to Oto, a
English, Cantonese, screenwriter. However, Oto suddenly
Mandarin, Tagalog, dies after leaving behind a secret. Two
Indonesian, German, years later, Kafuku, still unable to fully
Malaysian / 179 min. cope with the loss of his wife, receives
an offer to direct a play at a theater fes-
Director: tival and drives to Hiroshima with his
Ryusuke Hamaguchi car. There, he meets Misaki, a reticent
Producer: woman assigned to become his chauf-
Yamamoto Teruhisa feur. As they spend time together, Kaf-
Editor: uku confronts the mystery of his wife
Azusa Yamazaki that quietly haunts him.
Writer(s):
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, gÀAUÀ£Àl ªÀÄvÀÄÛ ¤zÉÃð±ÀPÀ AiÀÄĸÀÄPÉ PÀ¥sÀÅPÀÄ, avÀæPÀxÉUÁgÀ NmÉÆ
Takamasa Oe, Haruki CªÀgÀ£ÀÄß ¸ÀAvÉÆõÀ¢AzÀ ªÀÄzÀĪÉAiÀiÁVzÁÝgÉ. DzÁUÀÆå, MmÉÆ
Murakami gÀºÀ¸ÀåªÀ£ÀÄß ©lÄÖºÉÆÃzÀ £ÀAvÀgÀ EzÀÝQÌzÀÝAvÉ ¸ÁAiÀÄÄvÁÛ£É.
DOP: JgÀqÀÄ ªÀµÀðUÀ¼À £ÀAvÀgÀ, PÁ¥sÀÅPÀÄ, vÀ£Àß ºÉAqÀwAiÀÄ £ÀµÀÖªÀ£ÀÄß
Hidetoshi Shinomiya ¸ÀA¥ÀÇtðªÁV ¤¨sÁ¬Ä¸À®Ä ¸ÁzsÀåªÁUÀ°®è, £ÁlPÉÆÃvÀìªÀzÀ°è
Sound: £ÁlPÀªÀ£ÀÄß ¤zÉÃð²¸ÀĪÀ ¥Àæ¸ÁÛ¥ÀªÀ£ÀÄß ¹éÃPÀj¸ÀÄvÁÛ£É ªÀÄvÀÄÛ
Kadoaki Izuta CªÀ£À PÁj£ÉÆA¢UÉ »gÉÆöªÀiÁUÉ NqÀÄvÁÛ£É. C°è, CªÀ£ÀÄ vÀ£Àß
Music: ZÁ®PÀ£ÁUÀ®Ä ¤AiÉÆÃfvÀ¼ÁzÀ «Ä¸ÁQAiÀÄ£ÀÄß ¨sÉÃnAiÀiÁUÀÄvÁÛ£É.
Eiko Ishibashi CªÀgÀÄ MnÖUÉ ¸ÀªÀÄAiÀÄ PÀ¼ÉAiÀÄÄwÛzÀÝAvÉ, PÁ¥sÀÅPÀÄ vÀ£Àß ºÉAqÀwAiÀÄ
Cast: gÀºÀ¸ÀåªÀ£ÀÄß JzÀÄj¸ÀÄvÁÛ£É, CzÀÄ CªÀ£À£ÀÄß ¸À¢Ý®èzÉ PÁqÀÄvÀÛzÉ.
Hidetoshi Nishijima,
Masaki Okada, Toko Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Miura, Reika Kirishi-
ma, Park Yurim Born in 1978 in Kanagawa, Japan,
he is a director and screenwriter. He
Nominations graduated from the University of
Tokyo, and then worked in the com-
Academy Awards, mercial film industry for a few years
USA 2022- Nom- before entering the graduate program in film at To-
inee Best Motion kyo University of the Arts. His graduation film PAS-
Picture of the Year, SION was selected for the competition of the TO-
Best Achievement KYO FILMeX festival. The script for his film HAPPY
in Directing, Best AWÂ (HAPPY HOUR) received a special mention at
Adapted Screen- the Locarno FF. Hamaguchi’s films were screened
play, Best Interna- at international film festivals, such as Cannes FF
tional Feature Film and Locarno IFF.
/ César Awards,
France 2022- Nom-
inee Best Foreign
Film

Awards

Cannes FF
2021- Winner
Best Screenplay,
FIPRESCI Prize,
Prize of the
Ecumenical Jury /
Golden Globes, USA
2022- Winner Best
Motion Picture

World Sales:
Mubi

182 Oscar Spectrum

Located in the heart of an ex- In-colaboration with

ceptional garden city, the Alli-
ance Française de Bangalore,
was founded in 1970, is part of
the vast network of Alliance
Françaises in India and around
the world. In addition to its pri-
mary vocation which is to teach
the French language, the Alli-
ance Française de Bangalore
plays a central role in cultural
exchanges between India and France. Alliance Francaise has
always been very supportive to Bengaluru International Film
Festival and the Film society screenings. BIFFes feels happy
to associate with Alliance Francaise this year also.

Country 183

Focus-

France

Country Focus- France

13th Biffes

Les The Restless
intranquilles
gɸï֯ɸï
2021 / Belgium, Lux-
embourg, France / LES INTRANQUILLES is about Lei-
French / 118 min. la and Damien who love each other
dearly. Their family life is put to test by
Director: Damien’s mental problems. Despite
Joachim Lafosse being bipolar, Damien tries to hold on
Producer: to life with Leila and their son.
Anton Iffland Stet-
tner, Eva Kuperman, ¨É°ÓAiÀÄ£ï ¤zÉÃð±ÀPÀ eÉÆÃQªÀiï ¯Á¥sÉǸÉì CªÀgÀ ¯É¸ï EAmÁæAQé¯ïì
Jani Thiltges M§âgÀ£ÉÆߧâgÀÄ ¦æÃw¬ÄAzÀ ¦æÃw¸ÀĪÀ °Ã¯Á ªÀÄvÀÄÛ qÉëÄAiÀÄ£ï
Editor: §UÉÎ. CªÀgÀ PËlÄA©PÀ fêÀ£ÀªÀÅ qÉëÄAiÀÄ£ï£À ªÀiÁ£À¹PÀ
Marie-Hélène Dozo ¸ÀªÀĸÉåUÀ½AzÀ ¥ÀjÃPÉëUÉ M¼ÀUÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ. ¨ÉÊ¥ÉÇïÁgï DVzÀÝgÀÆ,
Writer(s): qÉëÄAiÀÄ£ï ¯ÉʯÁ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ CªÀgÀ ªÀÄUÀ£ÉÆA¢UÉ fêÀ£ÀªÀ£ÀÄß
Lou Du Pontavice, »r¢lÄÖPÉƼÀî®Ä ¥ÀæAiÀÄw߸ÀÄvÁÛ£É.
Juliette Goudot,
Joachim Lafosse,
Chloé Leonil, Anne-
Lise Morin, François
Pirot, Pablo Guarise,
Romain Versaevel
DOP:
Jean-François
Hensgens
Sound:
Dirk Bombey
Music:
Thomas Gauder
Cast:
Leïla Bekhti , Damien
Bonnard, Luc Schiltz

Nominations Joachim Lafosse
Cannes FF 2021-
Nominee Palme He graduated from the Institut
d’Or / César Awards, des Arts de Diffusion (IDA) in Lou-
France 2022- Nom- vain-La-Neuve with his short TRIBU
inee Best Actress, (2001), which was screened at many
Best Actor festivals and won several awards. He

World Sales: has written screenplays and theatre pieces and has
Lux Box Films
worked as an assistant director on multiple films.
His films have received nominations and awards at
multiple film festivals including Cannes, Venice and
Toronto. The White Knights (2015) was nominated
for Best Film and earned A La Fosse award for Best

Director at the San Sebastin film festival.

184 Country Focus- France

13th Biffes

Vortex Vortex

2021 / France, ªÉÇÃgï mÉPïì
Belgium /
French / 140 min.

Director: A quasi-documentary film about the
Gaspar Noé last days of a loving elderly couple
Producer: stricken by age and dementia.
Edouard Weil, Vin-
cent Maraval, Brahim ªÀAiÀĸÀÄì ªÀÄvÀÄÛ §Ä¢ÞªÀiÁAzÀåvɬÄAzÀ §¼À®ÄwÛgÀĪÀ ¦æÃwAiÀÄ
Chioua ªÀÈzÀÞ zÀA¥ÀwUÀ¼À PÉÆ£ÉAiÀÄ ¢£ÀUÀ¼À PÀÄjvÁzÀ CgÉ-¸ÁPÀëåavÀæ.
Editor:
Denis Bedlow,
Gaspar Noé
Writer(s):
Gaspar Noé
DOP:
Benoit Debie
Sound:
Ken Yasumoto
Music:
Steve Bouyer, Pascal
Mayer
Cast:
Dario Argento,
Françoise Lebrun,
Alex Lutz, Kylian
Dheret

Awards Gaspar Noé

San Sebastin IFF He is an Argentine filmmaker based
2021- winner Za- in Paris, France. He is the son of Ar-
baltegi-Tabakalera gentine painter, writer, and intellec-
Prize / Hamburg FF tual Luis Felipe Noa. He has directed
2021- Winner Crit-
ics Award seven feature films.

World Sales: 185
Wild Bunch

Country Focus- France

13th Biffes

Rouge Red Soil

2020 / France, Bel- gÉqï ¸Á¬Ä¯ï
gium /
French / 88 min.

Director: Nour, a young nurse, has just been
Farid Bentoumi hired at her dad’s chemical factory.
Producer: Taking care of the infirmary, she un-
Les Films Velvet & covers long hidden secrets and ar-
les Films du Fleuve rangements between the syndicates,
Editor: politicians and industry leaders, lies
Geraldine Mangenot, about polluting waste, employees be-
Damien Keyeux ing sick, and work accidents. Now the
Writer(s): young woman has to choose between
Farid Bentoumi & her Father or become a whistleblower
Samuel Doux
DOP: £ÀÆgï, AiÀÄĪÀ £À¸ïð, vÀ£Àß vÀAzÉAiÀÄ gÁ¸ÁAiÀĤPÀ PÁSÁð£ÉAiÀÄ°è
George Lechaptois £ÉêÀÄPÀUÉÆArzÁݼÉ. D¸ÀàvÉæAiÀÄ£ÀÄß £ÉÆÃrPÉƼÀÄîvÁÛ, CªÀgÀÄ
Sound: ¹ArPÉÃmïUÀ¼ÀÄ, gÁdPÁgÀtÂUÀ¼ÀÄ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ GzÀåªÀÄzÀ ªÀÄÄRAqÀgÀ
Olivier Le Vacon, £ÀqÀÄ«£À ¸ÀÄ¢ÃWÀð UÀÄ¥ÀÛ gÀºÀ¸ÀåUÀ¼ÀÄ ªÀÄvÀÄÛ ªÀåªÀ¸ÉÜUÀ¼À£ÀÄß
Ingrid Ralet, Luc §»gÀAUÀ¥Àr¸ÀÄvÁÛgÉ. vÁådåªÀ£ÀÄß ªÀiÁ°£ÀåUÉƽ¸ÀĪÀÅzÀÄ,
Thomas GzÉÆåÃVUÀ½UÉ C£ÁgÉÆÃUÀå, PÉ®¸ÀzÀ C¥ÀWÁvÀUÀ¼À §UÉÎ
Music: ¸ÀļÀÄîUÀ¼ÀÄ FUÀ AiÀÄĪÀwAiÀÄÄ vÀ£Àß vÀAzÉAiÀÄ £ÀqÀÄªÉ DAiÉÄÌ
Pierre Desprats ªÀiÁqÀ¨ÉÃPÁUÀÄvÀÛzÉ CxÀªÁ «¸ÉÆèâêÀgï DUÀ¨ÉÃPÀÄ
Cast:
Zita Hanrot, Sami
Bouajila, Celine
Sallette, Olivier
Gourmet

Nominations Farid Bentoumi

Sea IFF 2021- Nom- Farid Bentoum, is a Franco -Algerian
inee Le prix Vive le Screenwiter, Actor and Director. He
cinéma! has made several documentaries
and short films, which gained inter-
national recognition before making

his debut feature GOOD LUCK ALGERIA in 2015.

RED SOIL is his second feature film.

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WT Films

186

13th Biffes

Pierrot le Fou Pierrot The Fool

1965 / France, Itly / ¦AiÉÄgÀmï ¢ ¥sÀǯï
French, English, Ital-
ian / 110 min.

Director: Pierrot escapes his boring society and
Jean-Luc Godard travels from Paris to the Mediterrane-
Producer: an Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by
Georges de Beau- hitmen from Algeria. They lead an un-
regard, Dino De orthodox life, always on the run.
Laurentiis
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DOP:
Raoul Coutard
Sound:
René Levert, Antoine
Bonfanti
Music:
Antoine Du-
hamel
Cast:
Jean-Paul Belmon-
do, Anna Karina,
Graziella Galvani

Nominations

Venice FF 1965-
Nominee Golden
Lion

Awards Jean-Luc Godard

British Film Insti- Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss
tute Awards 1965-
Winner Sutherland film director, screenwriter, and film
Trophy critic. He rose to prominence as a
pioneer of the 1960s French New
Wave film movement and is argu-

ably the most influential French filmmaker of the
post-war era.

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Tout simplement Simply Black
noir
¹A¦è ¨ÁèPï
2020 / France /
French / 90 min.

Director: A politically-incorrect comedy about
John Wax, Jean-Pas- the role of black people in French so-
cal Zadi ciety.
Producer:
Sidonie Dumas ¥sÉæAZï ¸ÀªÀiÁdzÀ°è PÀ¥ÀÅà d£ÀgÀ ¥ÁvÀæzÀ §UÉÎ gÁd-
Editor: QÃAiÀĪÁV-vÀ¥ÁàzÀ ºÁ¸Àå.
Samuel Danési
Writer(s):
Kamel Guemra,
Jean-Pascal Zadi
DOP:
Thomas Brémond
Sound:
Bruno Seznec, Axel
Steichen, Mathieu
Leroy
Music:
Steve Bouyer, Pascal
Mayer
Cast:
Jean-Pascal Zadi,
Caroline Anglade,
Fary

Nominations

Montréal Festival of
New Cinema 2020-
Nominee Temps
Ø People’s Choice
Award

Awards

César Awards,

France 2021- Win-

ner Most Promising Jean-Pascal Zadi, born in 1980

Actor in Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis), is a

French director, actor and rapper.

He started out as a musician with

the group La Cellule, from Caen.

A true multi-talented artist, John Wax is a French

director and photographer based in Paris.

188 Country Focus- France

State
Focus-
North East

State Focus- Assam 189

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XOBDO NIXOB- Soul Of Silence
DO KOLAHOL
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2021 / India /
ASSAMESE / 83 min. The film is a triad of separate tales – The
Sound, The Silence, and The Dissonance.
Director: The first speaks of the marginalization of
DHANJIT DAS women – a wife with an abusive drunken
Producer: husband for whom she is a sex machine
Monita Borgohain and is destined for household chores.
Editor: When her carpenter husband brings an-
Simanta Das, Hirak- other woman home, she has to accept it.
jyoti Pathak The second story revolves around a deaf
Writer(s): stone quarry worker in his blissful silent
DHANJIT DAS world until his owner provides him with
DOP: an earpiece after nearly being run over
Chandra Kumar Das by a truck. After regaining his hearing, he
Sound: learns the true nature of his fellow work-
Janardan Patowary ers and how the world around him per-
Music: ceives him. The third and the final nar-
Himangshu Jaan rative speaks of the traumatic existence
Sarma, Priyam Gogoi of a migrant Muslim laborer couple who
Cast: lose their child and are unable to grieve
Anamika Sarania, for her, caught up in their daily chores. It
Jeet Baruah, Swaga- also spotlights the treatment of migrant
ta Bharali, Prasanta workers by a society indifferent to their
Kalita plight.
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DHANJIT DAS

He is a Colourist, and a director in
the Assamese film industry

190 State Focus- Assam

13th Biffes

Ïewduh Market

2019 / India / ªÀiÁPÉðmï
Khasi / 95 min.

Director: The film portrays the lives of everyday
Pradip Kurbah people with everyday stories, not dig-
Producer: nified as heroes, but as people who
Shankar Lall Goenka make the lives of each other better.
Editor:
Lionel Fernandes avÀæªÀÅ zÉÊ£ÀA¢£À PÀxÉUÀ¼ÉÆA¢UÉ zÉÊ£ÀA¢£À d£ÀgÀ fêÀ£ÀªÀ£ÀÄß
Writer(s): awæ¸ÀÄvÀÛzÉ, £ÁAiÀÄPÀgÁV WÀ£ÀvÉ ºÉÆA¢®è, DzÀgÉ ¥ÀgÀ¸ÀàgÀgÀ
Paulami Duttagupta fêÀ£ÀªÀ£ÀÄß GvÀÛªÀÄUÉƽ¸ÀĪÀ d£ÀgÀÄ.
DOP:
Pradip Daimary
Sound:
Amrit Pritam Dutta
Music:
Augustine Kurbah,
Anurag Saikia
Cast:
Albert Mawrie, Rich-
ard Kharpuri, Denver
Pariat

Pradip Kurbah

He is self-taught director who is a

pioneer filmmaker in Meghalaya.
He won the coveted National Film
Award in 2014 and 2016 for his pre-
vious features as Best Film In Khasi.

His films were RI (2013) and ONAATAH (2015). He has
produced a number of films in various dialects of
Meghalaya.

State Focus- Assam 191



In-collaboration with

The Goethe-Institut / Max Muel-
ler Bhavan Bangalore has been a
proud partner of the Bengaluru
International Film Festival (BIFFes)
right from the outset. Celebrating
its 13th edition this year, BIFFes
has become one of the most inspiring international festivals
for contemporary film in India. As Germany’s cultural insti-
tute abroad, we collaborate with the Artistic Director Mr. H.N.
Narahari Rao and his festival team to facilitate meaningful
exchange between the film scenes in Bangalore, India and
Germany.
This year, we will present the work of a seminal figure in
the German film arena: VOLKER SCHLÖNDORFF. He was
a member of the New German Cinema and won an Oscar
award for his film adaptation THE TIN DRUM (DIE BLECH-
TROMMEL). This is only one of six films that will be part of the
Volker Schlöndorff Retrospective at BIFFesthis year.

Retrospective

Volker Schlondorff
Dr. Bharathi
Vishnuvardhan

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Volker Schlöndorff

ªÉǼÀÌgï ¸ÀѯÉÆAqÁ¥sïð

Volker
Schlöndorff, (born
March 31, 1939,
Wiesbaden, Ger-
many), is a Ger-
man film director
and screenwriter
who was a lead-
ing member of the
postwar cinema
movement in West
Germany.

Schlöndorff stud-
ied filmmaking in
Paris, serving as
an assistant to di-
rectors Louis Malle,
Alain Resnais, and
Jean-Pierre Mel-
ville. After direct-
ing several pro-

jects for French television in the early 1960s, he returned to
West Germany and joined the burgeoning Junger Deutscher
(Young German) film movement. His first feature, DER JUN-
GE TÖRLESS (1966; YOUNG TÖRLESS), an adaptation of the
Robert Musil novella DIE VERWIRRUNGEN DES ZÖGLINGS
TÖRLESS, earned him instant recognition. This study of a
sensitive boy in a brutal German military academy exhibited
the cool, straightforward directorial style that would come
to distinguish Schlöndorff from his more idiosyncratic con-
temporaries, Werner Herzog and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Schlöndorff cowrote the screenplay for DE JUNGE TÖRLESS,
and contributed to the scripts for a number of his movies.

After a short period of rather poorly received efforts, Schlön-
dorff formed his own film company, the first production of
which BAAL (1970), starring Fassbinder, was an adaptation
of the Bertolt Brecht play. The following year, Schlöndorff
married an actress who had appeared in the film, Marga-
rethe von Trotta, with whom he collaborated profession-
ally through the mid-1970s and who later directed films of
her own. Notable among their collaborative works was DIE
VERLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM (1975; THE LOST
HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM), adapted from the Heinrich
Böll novel.

Working independently of his wife from the late 1970s,
Schlöndorff achieved critical and commercial success in Eu-
rope and the United States, winning the Palme d’Or at the
Cannes film festival and an Academy Award for best foreign
film with DIE BLECHTROMMEL (1979; THE TIN DRUM), his
adaptation of the Günter Grass novel. The film’s episodic
structure and expressionistic style marked a departure from
his earlier work. Schlöndorff’s other work included the film
DIE FÄLSCHUNG (1981; CIRCLE OF DECEIT), made on loca-
tion in war-torn Beirut; a television production of Arthur Mill-
er’s DEATH OF A SALESMAN (1985), starring Dustin Hoffman;
and well-received adaptations of novels by Marcel Proust
(SWANN IN LOVE, 1984) and MARGARET ATWOOD (THE
HANDMAID’S TALE, 1990).

Two of Schlöndorff’s later films invoke memories of Na-
zi-dominated Germany: DER UNHOLD (1996; THE OGRE),
about a Nazi prisoner of war who is commissioned to train
young boys for future government service, and DER NEUNTE
TAG (2004; THE NINTH DAY), the chilling tale of a priest’s time
in a Nazi concentration camp. Schlöndorff’s subsequent
films included STRAJK (2006; STRIKE), about a founders of
Poland’s Solidarity trade union, and the romantic drama
RETURN TO MONTAUK (2017).

194 Retrospective

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Der junge Törless

1966 / West Germany,
France /
German / 87 min.

Director:
Volker Schlöndorff

Young Törless

AiÀÄAUï vÉÆïïìð

At an Austrian boys’ boarding school in the early 1900s, shy,
intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow
students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate—
until the torture goes too far. Adapted from Robert Musil’s
acclaimed novel, Young Törless launched the New German
Cinema movement and garnered the 1966 Cannes Film Fes-
tival International Critics’ Prize for first-time director Volker
Schlöndorff.

Deutschland im
Herbst

1978 / West Germany
/ German / 123 min.

Director:
Alf Brustellin,
Bernhard Sinkel,
Volker Schlöndorff
and others

Germany in Autumn

dªÀÄð¤ E£ï DvÀÄA£ï

Nine fictitious documentaries and films that reflect the
mood of Germany in the late 1970s, particularly the two
month period in 1977 when a businessman was kid-
napped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap or-
chestrated the release of the original leaders of the RAF,
also know as the Baader-Meinhof.

Die verlorene Ehre
der Katharina Blum

1975 / West Germany
/ German / 106 min.

Director:
Volker Schlöndorf,
Margarethe von
Trotta

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

¢ ¯Á¸ïÖ ºÁ£Àgï D¥sï PÀxÉÃj£À §ÆèªÀiï

A young woman’s life is scrutinized by police and tabloid
press after she spends the night with a suspected ter-
rorist.

Retrospective 195

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Die Stille nach dem
Schuss

2000 / Germany /
German / 103 min.

Director:
Volker Schlöndorff

The Legend of Rita

¢ ¯ÉeÉAqï D¥sï jÃvÀ

The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German
terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Sta-
si. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown,
until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unifi-
cation.

Mord und Totschlag

1967 / West Germany
/ German / 87 min.

Director:
Volker Schlöndorff

A Degree of Murder

D rVæ D¥sï ªÀÄqÀðgï

After accidentally shooting dead her ex-lover during a
fight, Marie enlists the help of a stranger, Gunther, and
his friend, Fritz, to dispose of the body while becoming
intimate with both men.

Die Blechtrommel

1979 / West Germany,
France, Poland / Ger-
man, Italian, Hebrew,
Polish, Russian, Latin
/ 182 min.

Director:
Volker Schlöndorf

The Tin Drum

¢ n£ï qÀæªÀiï

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Dan-
zig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops
growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

196 Retrospective

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Bharathi Vishnuvardhan

¨sÁgÀwà «μÀÄÚªÀzsÀð£ï

Bharathi
Vishnuvardhan
(born as Bhara-
thi on 15 January
1951) is an Indian
actress who has
performed in Kan-
nada, Hindi, Malay-
alam, Tamil, Telugu
and Marathi films.
She was most
seen as a leading
actress in the Kan-
nada film industry
during the late
1960s to 1980s.

She was born in
a Marathi-speak-
ing family in Kar-
nataka. She was
married to the leg-

endary actor of Kannada cinema, Dr. Vishnuvardhan on 27
February 1975 in Bangalore.

Bharathi ventured into the film industry with the 1964
Hindi flick GEET GAYA PATHARON NE. She ventured into
the Kannada film industry with the 1966 romcom LOVE
IN BANGALORE. Bharathi received critical accolades for
her flicks BANGAARADHA MANUSHYA, RUNA MUKTALU,
GANDONDU HENNARU, DOORADA BETTA, AVALUKEN-
DRU ORU MANAM AVALUKENDRU ORU MANAM , BAN-
GAARADA JINKE, AND BHAGYA JYOTI. BANGARADA
MANUSHYA in which Bharathi shared screen space with
Dr Rajkumar was a landmark in her career. BANGARADA
JINKE, GANDONDU HENNARU AND BHAGYAJYOTHI are
some other Kannada flicks which gained her recognition.

The serial JANANI aired in Kannada Doordarshan also
showcased her acting prowess. RUNAMUKTALU was
the film in which Bharathi worked after a long gap of 10
years. Bharathi feels that an artist will never be compla-
cent and yearns to achieve more.

Dilip Kumar , Dr. Vishnuvardhan, Dr. Rajkumar, Dr. NTR,
ANR, Dr. Sivaji Ganesan, M G Ramachandran, Manoj Ku-
mar, Gemini Ganesan, V Ravichandran, Krishna, Sobhan
Babu, Kalyan Kumar , Vinod Khanna and Dr. Ambareesh
are some of the popular actors with whom Bharathi
shared screen space. She is still remembered for her
character roles.

SURAJ, KHEL, PURAB AUR PASCHIM, IZZATDAAR, UTTAR
DAKSHIN, AAO PYAAR KAREN and KUNWAARA BAAP
are some of her hit flicks in Bollywood. Bharathi has been
in the film industry for over 5 decades. She is not both-
ered about the quantity of films she has acted in but in-
stead is happy that she has carved a niche for herself in
the hearts of the fans.

Retrospective 197

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Baale Bangara

2021 / India /
Kannada / 142 min.

Director:
Aniruddha Jatkar

Baale Bangara: Making of A Superstar

¨Á¼É §AUÁgÀ: ªÉÄÃQAUï D¥sï K ¸ÀÆ¥Àgï ¸ÁÖgï

Baale Bangara traces the journey of actress
Bharathi Vishnuvardhan.

Sri Krishna Deva Raya

1970 / India /
Kannada / 216 min.
Director:
B. Ramakrishnaiah
Panthulu

Sri Krishna Deva Raya

²æà PÀȵÀÚzÉêÀgÁAiÀÄ

The story revolves around the life of Sri Krishnadevaraya,
the greatest emperor of Vijayanagar, who was regarded
as the most revered king during his time.

Runamukthalu

1984 / India /
Kannada / 150 min.

Director:
S.R. Puttana Kanagal

Runamukthalu

IÄtªÀÄÄPÀÛ¼ÀÄ

The film is based on the novel Runa by Anupama Niran-
jana.

198 Retrospective


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