FESTIVALS 11/02-12 : THESSALONIKI International Film Festival
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- DirectorSally PotterStarsTilda SwintonBilly ZaneQuentin CrispAfter Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.33
- DirectorSotiris GoritsasStarsGerasimos SkiadaressisVasias EleftheriadisAndonis ManolasThis film follows a few men from Albania as they travel to Greece looking for a better life in Athens.34
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsXiaodong LiuYe LouHong YuThe Days is Wang Xiaoshuai's 1993 debut. Filmed in black-and-white, The Days follows the life of two married artists who have graduated from the Beijing Art Institute.35
- DirectorJianjun HeStarsYuanzheng FengDanni LiangJue ChenXiao Dou "Feng Yuanzheng" is a shy and naive mail worker. When a coworker is fired for reading people's correspondences he takes over the same mail route. He soon finds himself in the same curiosity, eventually developing an obsession.36
- DirectorUdayan PrasadStarsOm PuriPawan MalhotraAngeline BallAmir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.37
- DirectorSue BrooksStarsTony BarryVikki BlanchePaul ChubbOne of three cars carrying lady bowls players is overdue. Unsure about which car, who the occupants might have been, or what might have happened to them, the locals embark on a chaotic course of action to try to solve the mystery.38
- DirectorYôichirô TakahashiStarsRyûzô HayashiAyumi ItoNoriko Mayumi39
- DirectorYang ZhangStarsJiayi DuZheng FangBing HeA young wealthy businessman's icy attitude toward his working-class background is about to thaw as he is forced to reconnect with his elderly father and mentally challenged younger brother, who together run a public bathhouse.40
- DirectorPawel PawlikowskiStarsDina KorzunArtyom StrelnikovPaddy ConsidineWhen a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum.41
- DirectorFatmir KoçiStarsNevin MeçajErmela TeliRaimonda BulkuA film tells the story of a young couple in post-communist Albania, at the time when many Albanians left the country in search for a better life abroad. The protagonist is Nik, who lives in the capital of Albania, Tirana, along with his mother and father. He is in love with a beautiful girl named Klara, who wants to move to Paris to be a model. Nik makes his living with an old truck that belonged to his father, who is now sick, and seemingly dying. Amidst the criticisms of his mother, the confusion and desperation covering the country, and the desire of his girlfriend to leave, Nik is still unsure whether he wants to leave. The film explores the way Nik handles the events of his life.42
- DirectorHidenori SugimoriStarsUaTadanobu AsanoHikaruRyo personifies water, since whenever something important happens in her life, it rains. She inherits a bathhouse and meets a pyromaniac named Yusaku; and their confrontation leads to an inevitable union.43
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsKanokporn TongaramMin OoJenjira PongpasThe story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.43
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsPavel RomanovPyotr MerkurevAleksey DevotchenkoIn early winter of 1944, as the Nazi army flees the Soviet advance, two Germans, a doctor and a postmaster, wander as refugees in inhospitable territory, surrounded by the enemy, including rampaging partisans.44
- DirectorMohsen AmiryoussefiStarsYadollah AnvariAbbas EsfandiariDelbar GhasriFor forty years, Esfandiar has been unconcernedly preparing corpses for the journey to their final resting place. One day, whilst preparing a burial service, he's taken ill. Might he too be mortal ?45
- DirectorFien TrochStarsIna GeertsJohanna ter SteegeJohan LeysenA village outside Brussels in rocked by the hit-and-run killing of a child.46
- DirectorKim Tae-yongStarsMoon So-riKo Du-shimUhm Tae-woongMira is a shy, single woman who runs a small restaurant and tends her plants with love and care. Her life is thrown into mayhem when her brother Hyung Chul, shows up out of the blue after five years' absence, some of them spent in jail. Hyung-chul not only settles down at Mira's place but is soon joined by his new wife, Mu-Shin, a much older woman who smokes like a chimney - and Mira's a non-smoker. As if the house wasn't crowded enough, Mu-shin's young stepdaughter knocks at Mira's door one fine day, and moves in. The film's second part centers on Sun Kyung, who discovers that her mother - with whom she has a terribly difficult relationship - is seriously ill. Unhappy about her life, Sun Kyung decides to leave the country, but her plan is disrupted by her mother's death and by the presence of Kyung-Suk, her half-brother. Like threads neatly woven into the fine tapestry of a vivid family portrait, the intertwined lives of these characters come together years later in the third section of the film.47
- DirectorShangjun CaiStarsLu HuangYulai LüAnlian YaoA father and son meet after five years of the father's absence and they go on a trip to rebuild their relationship.48
- DirectorAbdolreza KahaniStarsMehran AhmadiDanesh EghbashaviFereshteh EshraghiA young married couple's disagreement over money delays the husband from traveling from Iran to the U.S. where he need to renew his green card.49
- DirectorScandar CoptiYaron ShaniStarsFouad HabashNisrin SiksikElias SabaAjami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.50
- DirectorBogdan George ApetriStarsAna UlaruAndi VasluianuIoana FloraA drama about a woman who seems able to overcome everything for freedom, except for her past mistakes.51
- DirectorAngelina NikonovaStarsOlga DykhovichnayaRoman MerinovSergey GolyudovMarina, an upper-class social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself after having been raped by three policemen.52
- DirectorTobias LindholmStarsPilou AsbækSøren MallingDar SalimThe crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen.53
- DirectorDiego Quemada-DiezStarsBrandon LópezRodolfo DomínguezKaren MartínezA road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.54
- DirectorJorge Pérez SolanoStarsGabriela CartolNoé HernándezMagda OrtizIt is laid out as a realistic film, with a screenplay based on the stories of hundreds of women that are forced to choose between their children and their mate in order to sustain their families.55